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“Not that swill! The cooddamned well I will only drink Mumm”

The steward bowed low

“I’er was the favorite cha Edward, we hoped it would make a worthy substitute”

“Substitute? What the devil are you talking about? Bring ne or I’ll have your job!”

“But, sir, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s entire store of Mumm was destroyed in the explosion”

“A VICTORY AT LAST,” repeated Joseph Van Dorn “And if you’re right that the Wrecker is trying to discredit the Southern Pacific Railroad, then he cannot be happy with these results ‘Sound Southern Pacific Management’ indeed Exactly the opposite of what he had hoped to achieve with this attack”

“It doesn’t feel like a victory to me,” said Isaac Bell

“Savor it, Isaac Then get busy finding out how he set this up”

“The Wrecker isn’t done”

“This attack,” Van Dorn said sternly, “wasn’t planned overnight There’ll be clues in hisnext”

A search of the section of the schooner’s stern that had been hurled onto the railroad float revealed the body of a man the Marine Division police kneell “A water rat narizzled patrol-launch captain put it “Hung out with that schooner’s captain, a son of a crocodile na worse From Yonkers”

The Yonkers police searched the old river city to no avail But the next , the captain’s remains drifted ashore at Weehawken By then, Van Dorn operatives had traced ownership of the schooner to a lue The dealer ad that he had sold the ship to his brother-in-law the previous year Asked whether the captain had ever used her to sitives across the river, the dealer replied that when it ca was possible

As Bell had sur tactics Instead of relying on zealous radicals, he was proving adept at hiring cold-blooded criminals to do his dirty work for cash

“Did either of these men ever use explosives in their crimes?” he asked the launch captain

“Looks like this was the first tiri as how they blew themselves to smithereens”