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“Colbert, you say?” God bless the Van Dorn Research boys

“Ray arms is hardly a savory enterprise, it is actually a blind for Colbert’s sinister deeds… You are familiar with the Holland submarine?”

Bell nodded He’d had Falconer fill him in and borrowed a book

As the Naval Attaché wove his tale, Isaac Bell was struck with adton-Westlake’s cool nerve Faced with the threat of exposure, he was turning it into an opportunity to destroy thehis wife He rattled on a while about purloined architect drawings and a special gyro to keep the boat on course underwater Bell let him, until the door opened and a Van Dorn apprentice caly that the kid did not approach until Bell gave hi him the envelope

“As we speak, old boy, Colbert is en route to New York on a Conie Générale Transatlantique mail boat You can nab him the instant she docks at Pier 42 Don’t you see?”

Bell opened the envelope and riffled through the prints

Abbington-Westlake asked acidly, “A you, Mr Bell?”

“Not at all, Co fiction”

“Fiction? See here-”

Bell passed a print over their table “Here is a snapshot of you and the Lady Fiona and the Brooklyn Navy Yard-careful, the paper is a still damp”

The Englishhed, heavily “You make it abundantly clear that I am at your mercy”

“Who is Yamamoto Kenta?”

Bell was ga that, not unlike bank robbers and confidence men, the spies of the international naval race were aware of their rivals and fellow practitioners He saas true Even in the dileamed as if he suddenly saay out of the mess he was in

“Careful!” Bell warned “The instant I hear a breath of fiction this photograph goes to that gentle with copies to the British Eence Do we understand each other?”

“Yes”