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Every detective in the room reached for his hat Bell was already at the door “He never came out? Are you sure?”

“I covered the front door, right across the street from my newsstand When I needed relief to come here, Patrolman Joe Thoot back”

“Come on, boys, let’s have a look”

They piled into two Ford autos and raced across town

Larry Saunders asked Bell, “Is there any e can get inside the consulate?”

“Not without setting off an international hullabaloo”

Bell ordered the cars stopped a block from the residence of the German vice-consul, who had been recently appointed by the San Francisco consul general “Wait here I don’t want the out theirat half the detectives in California”

He walked down the block and stopped at the “blind newsie’s” newspaper stand The cop, Patrol “Van Dorn,” said Bell, picking up the evening edition of the Los Angeles Ti the sketch “Have you seen this fellow come out of the consulate?”

“You just missed him,” said the cop “Lit out of there like the house was on fire”

“Isaac Bell will confront you,” Christian Semmler warned Irina Viorets “Be prepared”

“I am prepared”

“I would reco and fiercely defiant”

“I said I am prepared”

“I would play the J P Morgan card if I were you”