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Bell’s first big break ca Massard on his first day of observation, so he wasn’t expecting to have lightning strike twice But it did He had no real interest in Yves Massard He wanted to trail the irlfriend or wife

There was no hard-and-fast rule about it, but in Bell’s experience identical twins, if they reether Marc and Yves Massard worked out of the same office, so it st

ood to reason they would live near each other and, by extension, the women in their lives would be close, possibly sisters or cousins, but not necessarily the case

A wo for the door She’d obviously been waiting for hilass She slid an arm around his waist and tilted her face for a kiss, which he dutifully delivered She then handed him an umbrella, which he opened and held lossy dark hair and was rather tall and slender

The couple started back the way Massard had come Bell didn’t react He was just another salaryman on the way home from work The woman wore a waterproof cape over her outfit that was buttoned up to her throat and she had on practical shoes rather than flat slippers or the increasingly popular heels Herher eyes, which were dark, and her lips, which were generous and strawberry red

With but a glance, Bell committed her face to memory Massard had no doubt heard of his brother’s death froram more than a week earlier, and Bell could tell the wo she said curled his lip into a srip around her waist Bell doubted they were visiting the Widow Massard tonight Tonight looked like a dinner date, so Bell continued on, leaving the pair in his wake To this wo Theresa Massard It was she who held Bell’s ulti a e to Joshua Brewster

Thinking back to what Colonel Patmore had said about Massard’s ruthlessness, it didn’t seem compatible with the tableau of do he’d witnessed tiator—you never understand anything about a person until you learn everything about that person

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From a convenient brasserie near the Massards’ apart—he’d watched her for three days and he felt tiht of her, did not work, so she spent much of her time in her own apartment On her occasional forays out into the continuously damp and chilly November air, she went mostly to a market for meal supplies, once to a café for tea with a woman as not Theresa Massard, and she’d spent part of one afternoon at a cine several one-reelers

Bell was frustrated that his plan to find Theresa through Marc’s twin’s asn’t panning out He now had to consider ahis hand to Gly, Massard, and the powers that ran the Société des Mines He could further jeopardize the ht

He couldn’t i the Aer The simple fact was they would never reach their destination once the seas iced over Theto reach Novaya Zeive the

The little eatery’s oell compensated for Bell’s use of the front table, so as a courtesy he kept the detective’s coffee topped off Bell nodded when the man offered to refill the bone china cup in its little saucer but then waved theToday was Friday If she had a standing date to visit her sister-in-laas the athered his coat and hat He let the wo the brasserie and giving casual chase She was dressed conservatively and her hair was up She usually wore it down to fraht bun pinned close to her skull She was purposefullyherself seeht the break he needed

As he’d predicted, the twin brothers lived just a couple of blocks fro on the corner of a busy street Cars and carriages jockeyed with one another for space on the congested route Even from a distance Bell could hear raised voices, horns, and the neighing of frightened draft horses He made a mental note of the address and retreated to a newspaper kiosk He bought a paper and moved to a spot where he was partially shielded fro wait but soon found hi with another woraph in his pocket to recognize Theresa Massard

Marc and Theresa were young enough in the picture to believe in a fairy-tale life together and were probably on their honey that most French are Catholic, divorce was out of the question and so they’d still be partners

He rong in thinking Mrs Yves and Theresa could be related They looked nothing alike