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“Bringing rease the ways”

“Do you know him?”

“Can’t say that I do But here co him now”

Bell watched the Van Dorn intercept hiht red pass required to work under the ship Just as the detective stepped aside,for the man to continue, someone whistled, and the detective ran in that direction The man lifted the handles of his barrow and wheeled it toward the rails

“A regular patriot,” said the carpenter

“What do you mean?”

“Wearing that red, white, and blue bow tie A regular Uncle Sam, he is See you later, Mr Bell Stop by the work, “I’ me one of those bow ties for Independence Day The waiters earing them at the boss’s tent”

Bell lingered, studying thethe wheelbarroard the back of the ship A tall man, thin, pale, hair hidden under his cap He was the only , who crouched with his ram hundreds of feet away at the bow Coincidence that he wore a waiter’s bow tie? Did he get past the gates pretending to be a waiter until the ere cleared and it was time to make his h Even at this distance Bell had seen it was the proper color

He began hastily shoveling globs of tallow out of the barrow onto the flat rail So hastily, Bell noticed, that it lookedthe grease

Isaac Bell plunged down the stairs He ran the length of the ship at a dead run, drawing his Browning

“Elevate!” he shouted “Hands in the air”

The htened “Drop the shovel Put your hands in the air”

“What is wrong? I showed my red pass” His accent was German

“Drop the shovel!”

He was gripping it so tightly that tendons stood like ropes on the backs of his hands