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d Class gangould rise as soon as First Class had cleared the ship Third Class, Marion had told Bell, was dooer list couldn’t be found Miscounts were not uncorants and citizens alike, including thepicture people — would be held on the ship for officials to tally again Isaac Bell had to wonder whether thosehad been the Acrobat’s accoht in the s, too

“OK, Archie Go telephone Harry Warren I’ll get Clyde You grab Block and our PS boy When things settle doe’ll go off together from Second Class”

Bell hurried back toward Second Class He found Clyde Lynds in the embarkation vestibule and tipped the seauard hients, thanks”

Clyde, grip in hand, was anxiously studying the crowds

“See anyone down there you know?” Bell asked, watching for his reaction

“I doubt it,” Clyde answered, even as his eye locked on the knot of Gophers staring back in his direction “Been quite a while since I was in town”

“In the theater, you said?”

“My last stepfather, er”

“At what theater?”

“All over Don Fourteenth Street Then for a while on Broadway The Hammerstein”

“Did you live in that neighborhood?” Bell asked Blinky Arlasses exactly where he and Clyde were standing

“Around the corner on Forty-sixth Street”

“Isn’t that near Hell’s Kitchen?”

Clyde laughed, nervously “Fortunately, not too near”

But near enough, thought Bell, that a gang of Gophers just athered to welcome you ho Trust perhaps hired Gophers to grab hih the waiting room s, it appeared that the Gophers’ nu on the back of the ship They shoved through the crowd surrounding the foot of the Second Class ganghich was ascending