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“Interesting Any idea why?”

“To open that worthless ot a little crazy recently He obsessed over Little Angel Turned on friends and everything It happens soamble all their money away They can’t stop themselves Brewster was like that at the end”

Bell knew he’d gotten asmore suspicion, so he said, “Well, I thank you for your tie know that unless Brewster had a hidden stash ofpaid”

He and Tony Wickersham left the post office

“Isn’t iainst the law?” the young English

“It is,” Bell replied “But I didn’t impersonate anyone just now”

“Well, you gave him another man’s card and implied that you were Robert Northrop”

“I gave hi smile “That implied I am Robert Northrop He was the one who assuet angry when I pull this trick, but I’ve never been prosecuted for it”

It took the pair only a fewto the Dawson sisters, a pair of elderly spinsters who supported thee house left to the-dead parents There was a wide porch across the front of the clapboard house that would have a swing or chair in the sues of the downstairs s The roof was slate and appeared to be in good shape despite its age

Aout just as Bell and Wickersham mounted the porch

“Excuse me,” Bell said with a

friendly smile “Are the Dawson sisters in?”

“Oh, hi,” thesalesman In one hand was a leather sauess “Miss E expedition, as she calls it It appears that people get snowed in here quite often”

“We’ve heard,” Bell said, and thanked the man, who moved off down the street on his own business

Bell knocked at the door and waited only a few seconds before it was opened The wo, raven-haired, and beautiful She ser on Isaac Bell Her teeth were dazzlingly white “Well, hello there,” she said