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“Depending upon how much credence you put in that crackpot Cruson”
“And the other te have to investigate”
“All connected by battleships?” Van Dorn asked, still sounding incredulous
“Every victiram”
“If they’re all victims, who’s behind it?”
“I don’t know”
“I don’t suppose you knohy either”
“Not yet”
Van Dorn sighed “What do you need, Isaac?”
“Van Dorn Protection Services to guard Farley and Wheeler”
“To whom do I bill those services?”
“Put it on the cuff ’til we figure who the client is,” Bell answered drily
“Very a What else do you need?”
BELL ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS to the crew of operatives Van Dorn put at his call-temporarily, as his call with the boss had made clear Then he took the subway don and a trolley across the Brooklyn Bridge John Scully met him in a Sand Street lunchrooates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
The cheap restaurant was starting to fill up as day shifts ended at the yard and surrounding factories, and boilerers, tank testers, reamers, and patternmaker