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“And who are they?”
“They live at the consulate”
Bell found hi his breath “Which consulate?”
“The German consulate”
Isaac Bell and Harry Warren walked quickly to the Third Avenue El and rode don to the tip of lower Manhattan They got off at South Ferry and strolled up Broadway Deep in conversation as they passed the handsolanced at the Hellenic Renaissance granite, white brick, and terra-cotta facade
Of the thirteen bays of s froht The White Star and American Line shippers, the naval architects, bankers, and lawyers who conducted business at the prestigious address were ho, both were on the ninth floor, which housed the offices of the Gereneral
“Cover the place,” Isaac Bell ordered “Try to pick up so more”
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“I heard that the agency had a protection contract with the Gereneral of New York City back in ’02,” said Isaac Bell, when he strode into Joseph Van Dorn’s walnut-paneled Washington, DC, headquarters office in the Willard Hotel, two blocks from the White House The boss spent theup business froress, and the Navy, and was intis of the capital city
Van Dorn laughed heartily “We did indeed, and I’ll never forget it”
Mirth reddened his face — a grand moon of an affair wreathed in robust red whiskers and splendid burnsides and topped by a shining bald crown — and his hooded eyes almost disappeared as their lid
s crinkled around thee, powerfully built uised a love of justice that e of criminals
“Prince Henry of Prussia was touring the country,” Van Dorn explained in a rich voice softened by the faintest of Irish accents “After all the assassinations in Europe, who knew if soht take a potshot at hients, of course, plus the Secret Service on loan fro with local cops, rail dicks to guard his trains, and soular Chinese fire drill: thirteen varieties of detectives were covering Henry, most blissfully unaware of one another’s identity He was lucky to get home alive before some sorry Pinkerton shot him by mistake”
“What did you ents’?”
“Foreign consulates import their secret police to shadow their country an eye on crio back to Europe and make trouble”