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Lucas’s damaged Porsche,after some nimble paperwork by Edie Lamb, was paid for by the Marshals Service, somewhat to everybody’s surprise.
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A final noteon the story that began with the murder of Masha Sokolov came almost six months later, when Lucas took an early-morning call from Sherwood, who asked, “Did I wake you?”
“Yeah, you did. What’s up?”
“I thought you might like to know how things are working out. I’m in London, and I don’t want to put too many names or other stuff on the airwaves, so be careful about what you say.”
“Isn’t that a little paranoid?”
“No.”
“Okay…”
“I heard from my boss that some amazing information has come out of what we did. I don’t want to brag, but we are unacknowledged heroes. Actually, I’m an acknowledged hero with the right people in, mmm,my business, but you remain obscure. At least, you’re obscure unless you’ve been bragging around the office about what really happened.”
“Shelly and I skated around the precise circumstances. Edie knows, of course, she helped fix the written reports. She can keep her mouth shut. And I’ve always aspired to be an unacknowledged hero,” Lucas said.
“I thought you aspired to be an odd duck.”
“I’ll take both,” Lucas said. “Listen, when…”
His phone produced a whining sound, and Sherwood wasgone.
