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“I have to hand it to Whiteway He is certainly persistent”

“I don’t think he sees ?”

“I believe he is still ht”

“I mean that Preston knows that I am not available”

“By now that should have sunk in,” Bell agreed “If memory serves, the last time he was in our company you threatened to shoot him When do you leave?”

“Not before the first of May”

“Good They’re launching the Michigan next week Captain Falconer will throw a big party I was hoping you could come with me”

“I’d love to”

“It’s ibbets in a rooht talk too much You’ll provide cover and a second pair

of eyes and ears”

“What do you suppose ladies wear to a battleship launching?”

“How about that hat rinned “Or you can ask Mademoiselle Duvall Even money, she’ll be there, too”

“I don’t like that she knows you’re a detective It could put you in danger if she really is a spy”

TEN BLOCKS UP BROADWAY, things were going like clockwork for Iceman Weeks

First, he ed to make it the four blocks fro spotted by anybody who’d squeal to Toht under the noses of Daley and Boyle-Central Office pickpocket detectives ere hurrying down to their regular station at the Metropolitan Opera-and they didn’t even notice hi on a Brooklyn fire escape