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“And for whom? Who did you do it for, Louis?”

Louis Loh s will make me talk”

“We’ll find a way,” Bell promised “In New York”

Heavily aro Van Dorns backed up by railroad police transferred Louis Loh from the Overland Limited across LaSalle Station to the 20th Century Limited No one tried to snatch Louis or kill him, which Bell had half expected He decided to leave hiot to New York And Bell continued to stay out of Louis’s sight at Grand Central, where another squad of Van Dorns put Louis in a truck and drove him to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Lowell Falconer was on hand to sht in a Navy brig

Bell waited for the captain on his turbine yacht Dyname was e wooden barge attended by a seagoing tugboat On the barge, engineers were erecting a cage mast It was a full-scale rendition of the twelve-to-one scale n loft

High overhead, Hull 44’s stern filled the blue sky Hull plating was creeping higher up her fra the shape of a ship If she beca ship Falconer had envisioned and Alasdair MacDonald and Arthur Langner had labored to ht, then this view of the back of her was one the enemy would never see until their own ships were adrift and on fire

Falconer caot the prisoner settled He reported that Louis’s last words as they clanged the door shut were, “Tell Isaac Bell I will not talk”

“He’ll talk”

“I would not count on that,” Falconer cautioned “When I was in the Far East, Japs and Chinese virtually eviscerated captured spies Not a peep”

The Van Dorn detective and the Navy captain stood on the foredeck as Dyna with a smoothness that Bell still found eerie

“There is soer on what makes him different”

“Strikesfairly lon the totem pole”

“I don’t think so,” said Bell “He conducts himself with pride, like a man who has a mission”

“IT’S AN UP-AND-DOWN WORLD for the New York gangs,” said Harry Warren, and the handful of Van Dorn detectives who kept track of thehty, next they’re in the gutter”

The back rooar and cigarette s the rounds