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“One level equals three flights”

“You’ll work off the cookies”

“They’re only a fond ht talk?”

“I figure he’s ready for soh the doors to the next level, headed left “He doesn’t knoe found Carvell or that we’ve identified Draco as Carly’s father We’ll see how he plays it before we clue him in”

She stopped at the door “Clark”

“Yes, sir”

“He have any visitors?”

“Not a soul He was sleeping it off until a fewfor you”

“Okay, take a fifteen-minute break”

“Thanks I can use it”

Eve reached for the door, pushed it open Then, with a curse, leaped inside She grabbed Stiles’s legs, hauled up and took his weight “Get him down!”

Peabody was already scra with the knot Clark pounded in behind her

“I’ve got him, Lieutenant” Hebody up another three inches

He’d hanged himself with a noose fashioned from his own bedsheets

“He’s not breathing,” Clark announced when the body collapsed on hi”