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"Brandy?" he offered

Skye laughed at the sight and shook her head "Well, what do you think?"

"Extraordinaire" He put the helmet back on the table and poured hiet this lovely objet dart?" "It was frozen into Le Dorlacier? Even more extraordinary"

"That's not half the story It was found near a body that was elacier less than a hundred years The e was found in the nearby lake"

Darnay poked his forefinger through the hole in the helmet "And this?"

"I think it's a bullet hole"

The antiquities dealer didn't see the helmet?" "Possibly"

"It's not a failed proof mark

"I don't think so Look at the hardness of that steel Musket balls would have bounced off the metal like peas The hole was made by a more modern firearm"

"So we have aan old heled "It see, but it all makes little sense

"Nothing about this whole affair makes sense"

She settled into a chair and told Darnay about Renaud's su rescue Darnay listened with furrowed brow

"Thank God you're safe! This Kurt Austin is an homme formidable Handsome, too, I suppose"

"Very

"I owe hihter, Skye I would have been devastated if anything had happened to you"