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Then they hurried away and Scully was on the floor

Where did they go?

Every which way, like melted ice

What did they look like?

College boys

“They set hiram to Bell “Never knehat hit him”

Bell,his friend, doubted that Even the best of men could be tricked, of course, but Scully had been sharp as tacks John Scully would have known that he had been fooled Too late to save himself, sadly But Bell bet that he’d known If only as he took his last breath

Harry Warren went on to speculate whether the girl seen with Scully was the sa opium den where the detectives had inadvertently bumped into each other The witnesses’ descriptions at Grand Central were too general to know A pretty redheaded girl, one of a thousand in New York Five thousand Ten But descriptions of her clothing did not jibe with the costu and drug parlor Nor had she been wearing thick rouge and paint

Bell took the spy’s taunting note froain

EYE FOR AN EYE, BELL

YOU EARNED WEEKS SO WE WON’T COUNT HIM

BUT YOU OWED ME FOR THE GERMAN

The spy was boasting that both Weeks and the Ger Which struck Bell as reckless behavior in a line of business where discretion was survival and victories should be celebrated in the quietest ine the cool Ya such a note

The spy also seemed deluded Did he really believe that Isaac Bell and the entire Van Dorn Agency would ignore his attack? He was practically begging for a counterpunch

Bell went to the dining car for the second seating