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“So why is a place dealing in fraudulent antiques selling the real deal?”

She returned the vase to the shelf “Who’s to say they aren’t trying to sell these as the real deal?”

“I’ll check down here, you check upstairs”

Sa of interest, he any desk covered with papers Invoices, he realized as he shined his flashlight across the out front were made in China

As he looked the fro okay?”

“Fine Looks like this is mostly inventory, still boxed up Guess where all their antiquities come from?”

“China?”

“How’d you know?

“Psychic,” he said, finding a piece of paper tucked in the corner of the desk blotter He slipped it out, sahat looked like a hand-drawnat the far end

LaBelle’s site

He put theseveralwith a note that said Envoi

“Sam” Remi’s soft voice in his earpiece held a note of tension “There’s so”

He grabbed the stack, rolled it into a tube, and shoved it into his back pocket, then drew his gun “On un at the ready “I don’t hear anything, Remi You’re sure?”

“I’ this way fro this way”

“How many?”