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“Did Ted tell you anything that helps?”

Bell answered carefully, “He believes that he did Tell me, how did Ted happen to find out about Farley Kent?”

“A letter fro, Isaac?”

“The spy is getting desperate,” was all Bell would say, but he had a powerful feeling that O’Shay had tricked Ted Whit him false information The spy wanted Bell to believe that he would attack from the land when in fact he intended to attack, somehow, from the water

Dorothy kissed his cheek and hurried down the grand stairway

“Mr Bell,” said the front-deskfor you”

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GOT SOME UNSAVORY TYPES AT THE FRONT DOOR,” THE Hotel Knickerbocker’s house detective reported “Claim they want to talk to you, Mr Bell”

“What are their names?”

“There’s a hairy oldster says he doesn’t have a na ones call themselves Jimmy Richards and Marv Gordon”

“Send ’em up”

“They don’t look right for the lobby, if you knohat I mean”

“Understood But they’re little Eddie Tobin’s cousins, so they’re coer I authorized it You ith thehten the ladies”

“OK, Mr Bell,” the house dick answered dubiously

The Staten Island scowmen Richards and Gordon intr