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“Treegro’s a reforestry co it over”

She grunted “Figures I was thinking more of the Towers case”

“Cicely’s memorial service is scheduled for toh, to warrant St Patrick’s Cathedral”

“Will you go?”

“If I can reschedule a few appointments Will you?”

“Yeah” Thinking, Eve leaned back on the counter “Maybe her killer will be there”

She studied him as he scanned the monitor He should have looked out of place in her kitchen, she mused, in his expensive, meticulously tailored linen shirt and with the luxurious mane of hair swept back from that remarkable face

She kept waiting for him to look out of place there, with her

“Proble at him

“No Things on elini?”

“Marco?” Roarke frowned over so he saw on the monitor, took out his notebook, entered a h Normally a careful business his time in Italy, but his power base is here in New York Contributes generously to the Catholic Church”

“He stands to gain financially from Towers’s death Maybe it’s just a drop in the bucket, but Feeney’s checking it out”

“You could have asked me,” Roarke murmured “I would have told you Marco’s in trouble Not desperate trouble,” he amended when Eve’s eyes sharpened “He’s made some ill-advised acquisitions over the past year or so”

“You said he was careful”

“I said he was norious artifacts without having theot in the way of his business sense They were forgeries, and he’s taken a hard loss”