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“Broken?”

“No, no, no … Just cracked”

“What happened?”

“Bu”

“How do you have ti the Wrecker?”

“He paid them”

“Oh,” she said quietly Then she s close?”

“You remember Yes, it was the best news I’d had in a week … Mr Van Dorn thinks we’ve got him on the run”

“But you don’t?”

“We’ve got Hennessy’s lines heavily guarded We’ve got that sketch We’ve got good ’s bound to break our way Question is, does it break before he strikes again”

“Have you been practicing your dueling?” she asked only half jesting

“I got a session in every day in New York,” Bell told her “My old fencing ood Brilliant fencer Trained in France”

“Did you beat him?”

Bell slass “Let’s just say that Lieutenant Ash brought out the best in me”

JAMES DASHWOOD FILLED HIS notebook with a list of the blackses, and machine shops he visited with the lued, and weary of hearing about Broncho Billy Anderson, he telegraphed Mr Bell to report that he had canvassed every town, village, and haeles County, froton Park in the south No blacksnized the picture,a hook out of an anchor