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“I presu safe in the torpedo barracks now?”

“Reluctantly And his girlfriends are hopping oes on and on, Joe We have to find the connections How did Yaster like Weeks in Hell’s Kitchen?”

“Borrowed him from Commodore Tommy Thompson”

“If so, how did a Japanese spy team up with the boss of the Gophers? We don’t know”

“Apparently you knew enough to shoot up his saloon,” Van Dorn observed

“I was provoked,” Bell replied blandly “But you see my point Who else do we not even know about yet?”

“I see it I don’t like it But I see it” Van Dorn shook his big head, stroked his red whiskers, and rubbed his Roranted his chief investigator a small smile “So now you want to brace the British Empire?”

“Not their whole e with the Royal Navy”

“What are you looking for?”

“A leg up”

Joseph Van Dorn’s hooded eyes gleae?”

“Yamamoto and his mob may call themselves spies, Joe But they act like criminals And we kno to nail criminals”

“All right Get to it!”

Isaac Bell went directly to the Brooklyn Bridge and joined Scudder S Smith had chosen for his watch the coe’s Manhattan pier Smith was one of the best Van Dorn shadows in New York A for upon who told the story-either for writing the truth or overe drunk before noon, he was intimate with every district in the city He passed Bell his field glasses

“They’ve been walking back and forth across the bridge pretending to be tourist snapshot fiends But somehow their Brownies are always pointed down at the navy yard And I don’t think those are real Brownies inside those Brownie boxes but soton-Westlake The terrific-looking woman is his wife, Lady Fiona”