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“We always ascribed their gunning down the teller and the custoh to rob the nearest bank to home?”

Grady Forrer stood up straighter

“What if they nized-even while wearing masks Maybe the witnesses knew theot a gun Remember their first note in blood? ‘Fear the Frye Boys’ ”

“So maybe they weren’t so stupid, after all,” marveled the research man “From then on everyone called them the ‘Frye Boys’ ”

“Just like they wanted us to Find a family near that East Brunswick bank with three brothers or cousins who suddenly disappeared Even two brothers and a next-door neighbor”

Bell wired the operatives sent to help Scully, and Scully hi them to head for East Brunswick

Merci, Mademoiselle Duvall!

And who else has been steering hts?

Which brought hiner’s suicide note He laid it next to the snapshot he had taken yesterday ner’s handwritten patent applications He pored over the for inconsistencies that ery He could see none But he was not an expert, which hy he had sue

Dr Daniel Cruson preferred the high-sounding title “graphologist” His white beard and bushy eyebrows fit acure” of Drs Freud and Jung He was also prone to stateht and nourishment,” which hy Bell avoided hiery So fine that Bell suspected that “Dr Graphology”up the occasional bank check

Cruson inspected the photograph of the suicide note with a lass, then screwed a jeweler’s loupe into his eye and repeated the process At last he sat back in his chair, shaking his head

Bell asked, “D

o you see inconsistencies in that handwriting that er?”

Cruson said, “You are a detective, sir”

“You know I am,” Bell said curtly to head off a windy discourse