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“He’s not that sure He talked a blue streak about his dreadnoughts Then suddenly his whole face changed, and he said, ‘There carown so heavy that knights had to be hoisted onto their horses with cranes Just about then, along canorant peasant could be taught how to kill a knight in a single afternoon And that,’ he said-patting my knee for emphasis-‘in our time could be the torpedo or the submarine’ ”

“Did he happen to hts at Kitty Hawk?”

“Oh, yes He’s been following the I asked what if instead of a passenger the airplane carried a torpedo? Lowell turned pale”

“There was nothing pale about his speech Did you see those senators bea?”

“I ner”

Bell returned her suddenly intense gaze “What did you think of her?”

“She’s set her cap for you”

“I applaud her good taste in men What else did you think of her?”

“I think she’s fragile under all that beauty and in need of rescue”

“That’s Ted Whitmark’s job If he’s up to it”

TWO CARS AHEAD on the same Pennsylvania Railroad express, the spy, too, he

aded for New York What soarded as a necessary counterattack Until today the Van Dorn Detective Agency had been more irritant than threat Until today he had been content to monitor it But today’s defeat of a well-laid plan to destroy the Michigancould be allowed to derail his attack on the Great White Fleet

When the train arrived in Jersey City, he followed Bell and his fiancée out of the Exchange Place Terminal and watched thee attendant had waiting for the He went back inside the terminal, hurried to the ferry house, rode the Pennsylvania Railroad’s St Louis across the river to Cortlandt Street, walked a few steps to Greenwich, and boarded the Ninth Avenue El He got off in Hell’s Kitchen and went to Co out instead of his fancy new joints uptown

“Brian O’Shay!” The gang boss greeted hihball?”

“What leads have you got on the Van Dorns?”