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“Don’t be dense, Senator For not revealing that you hold a controlling interest in the Union Pier and Caisson Company of St Louis, Missouri”

The Wrecker concealed his astonishs knocked out from under him, and this time he couldn’t blame Emma Comden

“What gave you that idea?” he asked

“I got curious about as paying est bridge in the West ought to be worth a few bucks more if I kneho my bribes cae He took up banking when I took up engineering He explored a le, but ood He finally traced theh shares secretly, a controlling interest, in the coe”

It had to happen soht bleakly But it never occurred to him that disaster would come at him like a bad joke: tripped up by an orphan who

Kincaid surveyed his options Kill Soares, if not tonight, to the name of his confederate out of him before he died and kill bunkie, too Unfortunately, he needed Eric Soares, to continue concealing the truth about the piers Moould immediately replace hih review of Eric’s doctored reports, any coineer who took over his position would see that the piers were not strong enough to support the bridge when the river rose

Soares said, “You’re working for the Wrecker just like me”

“I suppose I should be grateful that you’re not accusingthe Wrecker himself”

“Don’t ot

too big a future as a senator Even president, if I don’t turn you in”

Hoht Kincaid In the clear

“How much do you want?”

“Triple what your Union Pier and Caisson Company pays me to look the other way”

Kincaid reached for his wallet “I think I can arrange that,” he said, not at all surprised by how small Soares’s dreams were

ISAAC BELL FINALLY TORE hiood Hennessy and hurried back to the staterooh Hennessy’s Nancy No 2 car, Lillian Hennessy lurched out of her staterooed out of her gown into a clinging robe and had re the s her shoulders, and her pale blue eyes ar from the ice bucket, the foil torn off But the wire muzzle still held the cork firmly in place