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“It’s not a laughingthe papers aside “If he’d still been in Russia when the first editions came out it would have been a completely different headline”

“Well, at least look on the bright side”

“There’s a bright side?”

“Therewhy Harry wasn’t in court supporting you Well, now they all knohich is bound to make an impression on the jury”

“Except that Virginia was brilliant in the witness box Farthan I was”

“But I suspect the jury will have seen through her by now”

“Just in case you’ve forgotten, it took you a little longer”

Giles looked suitably chastened

“I’ve just come off the phone with him,” said Emma “He’s been held up in Stockholreat deal He toldto land at Heathrow until around five this afternoon”

“Did he get his hands on Babakov’s book?” asked Giles

“His money ran out before I had time to ask him,” said Emma as she poured herself so to find out why it had taken hie in under four hours”

“And as his explanation?”

“Didn’t have one Said he’d tell ot ho, “There’s soes”

“I bet it has so to do with Babakov’s book”

“Damn that book,” said Emma “What possessed him to take such a risk when he’d already been threatened with a jail sentence?”