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“Whom do you suspect?”

“No one I am prepared to discuss Mr Van Dorn will keep you appraised”

“Isaac-may I call you Isaac?”

“All right, if you want”

“There is so I told you once I would like to make it clear”

“If it’s about Mr Whitmark,” Bell smiled, “be aware he’s headed this way”

“I will repeat,” she said quietly “I a for San Francisco”

It struck Bell that a key difference between Marion and Dorothy was how they regarded men Dorothy wondered whether she could add one to her list of conquests Whereas Marion Morgan had no doubt she could conquer and therefore was not inclined to bother It showed in their s as an enore her desperate fragility, despite her boldherself forth and asking to be saved from the loss of her father And he did not believe that Ted Whitmark was the man to do that

“Bell, isn’t it?” Whitmark called loudly as he bustled up

“Isaac Bell”

He saw tugboats gathering in the river to take charge of the hull when she hit the water “Excuse me I’m expected on the ways”

YAMAMOTO KENTA HAD STUDIED photographs of As to choose his costuuise that he was Japanese But the less alien his clothes, the farther he could roauished guests Observing his fellow travelers on the train up froton, he was proud to see that he had dressed perfectly for the occasion in a pale blue-and-white seersucker suit and a pea green four-in-hand necktie matched by the color of his straw boater’s hatband

At the shipyard in Caentle at the remarkably up-to-date Cao They had spoken late last fall at the unveiling of a bronze tablet to coey, the first coiven Falconer the i the rank of lieutenant before returning to his first love, Japanese art Captain Falconer had given him a cursory tour of the arsenal with the notable exception of the Gun Factory

This ratulated Falconer on the iht, Falconer had replied with a wry “al to another-that a fornize her shortcos

Yaain, this ti blond woman