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Watch out for Dora! Of course I would watch out for Dora, and soer hadn't known the proper arguer was now a le had been the right angle He'd ransomed his treasures Maybe with Dora, if properly explained

I was distracted There they were, the twelve books Each in a neat thin filht near the file cabinet I knehat they were I knew And then there were Roger's labels on the on a small white sticker, "W de W "

"Look," David said, rising fro the dust froal papers on the purchases, everything here is clean, apparently, or has been laundered; there are dozens of receipts, certificates of authentication I say we take all of this out of here now "

"Yes, but how, and to where?"

"Think, what's the safest place? Your rooms in New Orleans are certainly not safe We can't trust these things to a warehouse in a city like New York "

"Exactly I do have rooms here at a little hotel across from the park but that"

"Yes, I remember, that's where the Body Thief followed you You e that address?"

"Doesn't matter It wouldn't hold all this "

"But you realize that our sizable quarters in the Olympic Toould hold all this," he said

"You serious?" I asked

"Of course I am What could be more secure? Noe've work to do We can't have anyto do all this toiling ourselves "

"Ah!" I gave a disgusted sigh "You mean wrap all this and move it?"

He laughed "Yes! Hercules had to do such things, and so have angels How do you think Michael felt when he had to go fro the First Born of every house? Come onYou don't realize how simple it is to cushion all these items with modern plastics I say we o over the roofs "

"Ah, there is nothingvaht And our strength was incalculably greater than that of any mortal helper We could have all this cleared out perhaps within the night

Soht!