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Beiderbecke offered his hand, and Bell took it

“May I presentassociate, Clyde Lynds?”

Clyde Lynds threw Bell a mock salute Bell reached for his hand and looked hi and aze, and Bell saw a steadiness not immediately apparent

“Why did they try to kidnap you?”

The two exchanged wary looks Beiderbecke spoke first “We can only presuents of a munitions trust”

“What munitions trust?”

“A Gerswerk GmbH”

Bell took note of Lynds’s fluent pronunciation “Where did you learn to speak German, Mr Lynds?”

“My mother was German, but she married a lot I spent sorant father’s North Dakota wheat fare in New York City theaters ‘Mutter’ finally hooked a Viennese, which she wanted all along only didn’t know it, and I landed in Vienna, where the good Professor here took me in”

“Fortunate Professor, is the truth of the ues are still gnashing their teeth that he chose to work in my laboratory”

“That’s because I carinned

Bell asked, “Why would agents of a munitions company kidnap you?”

“To steal our invention,” said Beiderbecke

“What sort of invention?” asked Bell

“Our secret invention,” Lynds answered before the Professor could speak He turned to the older ree that secrecy was all”