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“You can’t arrest me This is Germany”

“You’ll stand trial in the United States”

“Are your ears failing with age?” Kincaid overnment, I enjoy the full protection of the state”

Bell pulled handcuffs from his ski jacket “It would be easier foryou in alive So keep in mind what happened to your nose last time you tried to pull a fast one while I put the cuffs on you Turn around”

Covering Kincaid with his pistol, he clahtly above the elbow of his maimed arm He confir joint

The sound of the cuff locking seeaze dull, he asked Isaac Bell, “How did you do this to me? The German Geheime Staatspolizei intercept everyone that comes within twenty miles of my castle”

“That’s why I came alone The back way”

Kincaid groaned as he abandoned all hope

Bell looked his prisoner in the eye “You will pay for your crimes”

The music stopped abruptly, and Bell realized that it had not been a phonograph but an actual piano He heard a door open and a rustle of silk, and Elided into the apartment in a stylish, bias-cut dress that appeared sculpted to her curves Like Kincaid, her face revealed the years, but e that ravished his Her lines of age, her wrinkles and her crow‘s-feet, traveled the route of sht her dark eyes were somber

“Hello, Isaac I always knee’d see you one day”

Bell was taken aback He had always liked her, before he knew she had been Kincaid’s acco she had done for the Wrecker from the men he had murdered He said coldly, “Emma, fortunately for you I have roo with me, too”

She said, “Rest easy, Isaac You will punishhim from me And I will suffer for my crime in a way that only you could understand”

“What do you mean?”

“As you love your Marion, I love hiood-bye?”