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The rear door opened, and a slender Asian girl with a rope of black hair dangling down her back ju souidly She was pretty but had tooShe had a cynic’s eyes in a schoolgirl’s face
“Min,” the captain yelled “Get up here and go to the cabin”
Two one sideways before it had even launched What were the odds of a second taxi arriving at the allotted ti?
The girl sca her a disquieting look Bell was frog-marched up after her Gly sported a Navy peacoat that looked like it had been fitted by tentmakers His shoulders and ar in the corner of his ainst the smoke
“Where’s the ore?” he asked, and stepped forward and raut it felt like Gly had punched the inside of his spine
Bell would have collapsed had the twolike a caged anis by taking agonizing sips of air
“Gone,” he finally wheezed
“What do you one?”
“What it sounds like, you ape” Bell straightened as best he could “Gone I was onto Vern Hall fro I fed him false information so he’d pass it on to you See that dark cloud way down the Channel? That’s the ship carrying the ore, Gly It left dock at noon as scheduled and should arrive in New York to much fanfare on the seventeenth”
A terrible blackness descended over Gly’s eyes as the realization struck home
Captain Bougainville sensed it and stepped forward “No killing on my ship, Gly” His accent was an oddelse “You want to tear each other apart, do it on the dock”
The huge Scot ignored him and ran at Bell with a full-throated roar of hatred Bell kicked both legs up since his ar supported by Gly’s henche The dyna Bell stagger back and lose their grip In the confusion of the sudden reversal, Bell lifted the 45 from its holster and shot the closest man
He swung right to line up on Gly, but the guard on his other side barreled into Bell at the last second and he was thrown against a tall, tuba-like air intake scoop He leveraged an elbow free and sla it
Joel Wallace ave hiway like a flying squad even as the echo of the single gunshot was fading to nothing
Boots and fists flew in a mad scrum Bell just saw flashes of it, like some stroboscopic effect Faces leered at hi where he could For each time he was shoved, he pushed back twice as hard All the whil