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“Why didn’t Mr Riker leave you in the gutter with Billy Collins?”
“You’ve spoken with Billy? Of course How is he?”
“Still in the gutter Why didn’t Riker leave you there?”
“He was grieving for his son who had died of influenza He wanted another”
“And you were available”
“I was garbage I could barely read But he saw so in me no one else could see”
“And you repaid hi a murderer and a spy”
“I repaid hih
“You’re proud of being a murderer and a spy?” Isaac Bell asked scornfully
“You’re a privileged child, Isaac Bell There are things you can never know I repaid him I say it with pride”
“I say with equal pride that I arrest you for murder, Brian O’Shay”
Katherine Dee darted through the curtain that screened the back room, slid her arm around Marion’s throat, and pressed her thumb to Marion’s eye
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BRIAN TAUGHT ME THIS TRICK FOR MY TWELFTH BIRTHDAY He even gave old, see?” T
he sharpened metal fit her thumb like a claw