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"You know all my friends, Camilla," Kellner said. "But yes, I knew him." Why am I doing this, he wondered. I certainly never discussed my arrangement with David Milstein with anyone, let alone Camilla. She had no need to know. But had she known? He decided to test the waters a little further. |
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"I am troubled, Camilla," he said. "Charlie Fisk thinks we have a security leak in this office. Until today I would not accept that possibility? But we have staff in and out all day. Have you heard any talk, any gossip?" |
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"About us? Never, Vincent." |
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"I've put it off too long, but now I intend having the ferrets in. I have to be sure." |
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"Of course, I understand and agree," Camilla said. |
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Kellner waited, watching her. Over the years she had grown more sophisticated, more assured. She would never be a beautiful woman, but she had become the doyen of the NSC office. And she had grown impenetrable to his gaze. |
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"Was there anything else, Vincent?" she asked. |
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Speak to me, damn it, Kellner thought. Reassure me that all is as it should be, as it has been for all the years between us. "No,"he said wearily. "Enjoy the symphony." |
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Camilla Varig stood and crossed to the door, holding her hat and gloves. "I am sorry about your friend, Vincent," she said. |
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Camilla knocked softly on the door to the room on the second story of the Forest House in Cyrandell Valley. She had originally hoped and planned for a lover's meeting with Marina, but her conversation with Vincent had radically changed her intentions. |
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She was badly frightened and angry. It was, she had concluded on the drive from Washington, her own fault. She had been so loftily boastful, so full of herself and her special knowledge the last time she spoke to Marina. "A minister of the Russian government was an American spy" How could anyone wishing to be paid for valuable information be so dolt- |
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