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Bell listened with so sympathy as she told him how her fiancé was locked in Semmler’s Army prison in Prussia “Seht His dreams are just I kno, that he was not ht I am his only hope”

“Irina, why are you telling me this?”

“Because maybe if you kill Semmler, perhaps, just perhaps, there will be no one else to order them to kill my prince”

“I’m a private detective, Irina I’m not a murderer”

“I know that, Isaac But if you confront Christian Semmler, only one will survive Call it what you want Self-defense I don’t care You are my only hope”

“To confront him, I have to find him”

“I will tell you how to find him There is a secret stairwell that rises from the basement to the penthouse He roams it He spies from it On the ninth floor he has his own hidden quarters Now you can find him”

“Where is the basement entrance?”

“Do you recall the life net that I showed you behind the building? For the actors to jump in?”

“Yes”

“There is a trapdoor directly under it”

“Why tonight?” Bell asked “Why did you tell ht?”

“Because I have done a terrible thing, and only you can save me from it”

“What?”

“Se tonight”