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Bell turned it over “Lachesisdeadly venoe You know, the Cumberland Hotel is only ten blocks up Broadway I’ll bet I can talk irl on o see him”

Marion shuddered

When the chalass to her “I’m afraid I can’t say it better than Mr Rector Thank you for ent on the Great White Way”

“Oh, Isaac, it’s so good to see you”

They sipped the Muyptian quail, declaring she had never heard of such a bird, and Bell ordered a lobster They would start with oysters, “Lynnhavens fro ones sent up special for Mr Diamond Jim Brady If I may

recommend, Mr Bell, Mr Brady usually follows his lobsters with some ducks and a steak”

Bell demurred

Marion took his hand across the table “Tell me about your work Will it keep you in New York?”

“We’ve landed a spy case,” Bell answered in a low voice no one else could hear over the stir of laughter and ht race”

Marion, accustohts, replied in the same level tone “Rather different than bank robbers”

“I told Joe Van Dorn: international or not, if they kill people they are first and foreton, and he’s given me the New York office and carte blanche to dispatch operatives around the country”

“I presuner whose piano blew up”

“It’s looking more and more that it was not a suicide but a diabolical ed to appear to be suicide And in such a bizarre way as to discredit the poor un system he developed Of course, the hint of bribery taints everything he touched”

Bell told her his doubts about Langner’s suicide note, and his conviction that the Washington Navy Yard prowler seen by old John Eddison had indeed been Japanese He told her how the deaths of the arinally presumed to be accidents

Marion asked, “Did anyone see a Japanese man in the Bethlehem Iron Works?”