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“Wonderful! ’Frisco’s only five hours on the train We’ll meet in the middle”

Marion straightened his bow tie and pressed close “I don’t suppose there’s any chance we could travel together to California?”

Bell shook his head with a rueful smile “I e could”

“I love riding trains with you” She laughed “Now that we’re married, we don’t have to book two staterooms for propriety’s sake”

“Unfortunately, escorting Clyde, I’ed to double up with him to keep a close watch”

“Do you expect Krieg to try to kidnap him?”

“No, no, no Just to be on the safe side Don’t worry, after we eles office for a weekend, and you and I can rendezvous in Santa Barbara”

“And after I’ve seen eles to find some work”

The old Grand Central Station was no more Its classical facade and its six-hundred-and-fifty-foot glass train shed had just been razed, and now stea sixty feet into the Manhattan schist to make room for a neo-level Grand Central Terminal

Isaac Bell led Clyde Lynds into a te out of the Grand Central Palace, a convention and trade fair building around the corner on Lexington Avenue, and headed for the ate marked “20th Century Limited” The chaos of new construction had not persuaded the crack Chicago-bound express to lower its standards Temporary or not, its fath of the platform

“Hang on a minute,” said Bell “Loose shoelace” He planted his foot on a fire depart from a wall and busied his hands around his boot

“How can you have a loose shoelace?” asked Clyde “Your boots don’t have laces”

“Don’t tell anyone” Bell straightened up and headed for the telephones “I have to phone the office Stick close”

“I heard there’s a phone on the train”

“There will be a line of business to telephone their offices that they didn’t miss the train Stick close”