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“I iine she would like that I certainly would”

“In thePictures’”

They rode the elevator down to a staff co actors costumed as plutocrats, policemen, washerworease-painted with purple lips, green skin, and orange hair to show up in the chartreuse glow of the Cooper-Hewitts Irina sashayed as, and into an exquisite private dining room that looked like it had been removed board by board fro

Bell asked, “Did ClydePictures machine on the boat?”

“Just enough to make me think, when Mr Griffith telephoned, that it could be exactly whatfor”

Isaac Bell enjoyed a flirtatious lunch with Irina Viorets whileit clear he was a one-wo iht touches on his arm were more for show than intent

“I meant to ask on the ship, how do you happen to speak such interesting English? Sometimes you sound almost like a native-born American”

“Al It is a wondrous language”

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“How did you learn it?”

“In Petersburg my father played the piano at the A the children”

For soht Isaac Bell, that was a story he wanted Van Dorn Research to verify In fact, there was so a little false Perhaps it was just the incredible speed hich Irina’s good fortune had unfolded, or perhaps the detective’s nemesis, coincidence Orthat Irina’s story about fleeing the Okhrana changed with each glass of wine, though there was no wine at this lunch, e juice and water

“When was that?”

“Let o that was Bloody Nicholas hadn’t taken the throne”