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He stiffened, his eyes frozen on her hidden hand. He licked his lower

lip. "V-very well." Slowly he picked up the leather case, removing the

pince-nez and screwing the loupe into one eye. He examined what was in

the case for ten seconds and reversed the motions, replacing it back

onto the scarred tabletop.

"Well?" she said.

"It is genuine." He settled the pince-nez back on his nose.

"I knew that, let's get on with it."

"Y-yes, certainly." From his coat pocket he produced an envelope and

gave it to her. She opened it and examined the contents in turn, pulling
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out one of the hundred-dollar bills from the center. A second later she

looked up and grabbed the leather case.

"You can tell Swafford it's in the fire," she said in a voice like

ground glass.

His eyes darted unhappily from the empty spot on the table to her veil.

"But why?"

"These bills are marked. If there's cops outside you're a corpse."

"No, please, I didn't know about this, please wait!"

She didn't look like she was ready to move, but the man was unnerved.

Behind him the big guy had shifted a hand to the inside of his coat,

which explained why she hadn't noticed him; there'd been no need to

notice her partner.

"I-I don't understand this. Mr. Swafford entrusted me to verify the