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“Before you go, Commander?”

“What is it?”

“I have been dealing with you in ator As an Aain see or hear of you taking photographs of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, or any other shipyard in e and you after it”

ISAAC BELL HURRIED UPSTAIRS to the Van Dorn office A big case kept getting bigger and wider If Abbington-Westlake was telling the truth-and Bell bet he was-then Ya Hull 44 but only another of its ents Like the Ger fire-control expert off the cliff Who was the freelance? And whom did he serve?

Bell kneas at a crossroads He had to decide whether to arrest Yamamoto and squeeze what infor hiher up the chain of deceit There was risk in waiting How long would it take a seasoned professional like Yaround?

As Bell strode into the back rooht now, sir, just walked in,” and handed him the middle one “The boss”

“Where?”

“Washington”

“Yamamoto just hopped the train to New York,” Van Dorn said without prea your way”

“Alone?”

“Not if you count three of ourevery station the Congressional Limited stops at”

“I’ll watch the railroad ferry See who he’s come to meet”

YAMAMOTO KENTA HAD a choice of three different Pennsylvania Railroad ferries to cross the river froe Place Terressional Lied train shed, he could take a boat to 23rd Street, another to Desbrosses Street near Greenwich Village, or one that would land all the way don at Cortlandt Street There was even a boat to Brooklyn, and another went up the East River to the Bronx The ferry he chose would depend upon the actions of the Van Dorns following him

He had spotted two detectives in his railcar And he suspected that an older lican priest had shadowed hiton, DC, streetcar conductor He had considered ju the Van Dorns watching the platfor him in New York, he saw no need to inconvenience hi the journey early

It was afterfro less cover then he would have liked Still, the advantage was his The detectives did not realize that he knew they had been following him for a week A thin s? Or sia him had been born