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“Did he look like this man?”

Strone took wire-fra clothes and studied the copy of the salesman’s sketch “This man is older,” he said at last “Of course it’s been, what?”

“Nearly ten years,” said Archie “How far aas he?”

Strone looked across the , his eyes bleak

Archie and Lillian exchanged a glance Archie gestured for her to say nothing

“One thousand yards,” Strone answered at last “We thought ere safe froe and that we could ride closer And, of course, he was just one man alone… What made you come to me?”

“Isaac Bell had a feeling you weredeeper, we learned that you were decorated in that action”

Strone flushed angrily “Ruddy nonsense”

“What do you uished Service Order”

“I e he had mined with dynamite He sniped the wounded with rifle fire My DSO arded to the only man that murderous swine missed”

Isaac Bell rounded up Texas Walt Hatfield and Larry Saunders and a crew of Saunders’s handpicked men for a po

“Information from Art Curtis and his Berlin apprentice, expanded upon by Archie Abbott and the Research department, proves that the murderer we called the Acrobat, the drummer Fritz Wunderlich, and German Imperial Army General Major Christian Semmler are all one and the same In addition, Mr Van Dorn has established that General Major Christian Seent, but also a principal To put it bluntly, he hter

“Seht wind of our visits to his shops and ratulate ourselves on Wunderlich’s loss of a string of shops that gave hie around the continent, remember that the German consulates offer General Major SeetSe an ordinary criht enjoy it, we cannot sn nation’s consulates

“I had already expressed copies of this ‘Wunderlich’ picture to every field office covering a Gero, St Louis, San Francisco, and the vice-consul’s office here in Los Angeles Now I’ve informed them it’s a likeness of Semmler”