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‘Have you checked with the emergency services? Was he involved in a car accident?’

‘Yes I checked everything but Arnold doesn’t drive.’

I sat back in my seat and took a long drink of beer.

‘I am sure it cannot be anything untoward and as soon as we find him we will let you know. Do we

have an address for you?’

She removed a notepad and pencil from her handbag and wrote down an address in Notting Hill.

I stood up and held out my hand. ‘Well thank you for coming Miss Morales, as I say, if we have
anything we will be in touch.’

She stood, straightened her skirt and left, leaving a Clive Christian perfumed haze in her wake. This
girl had expensive tastes.

Mex and I watched her pass by the window and disappear. Mex turned to me. I could tell he was
trying very hard to maintain his composure.

‘Bryant, you hardly asked her anything!’

‘Because she doesn’t know anything Mex. Tell me, how and where did you find her?’

‘We had nothing on Warner so I checked with FBI, they are looking for him for fraud and they also
had a cross file on the girl. They have been monitoring her. I got one of my people to go round and

pick her up. She was only too willing to help.’

‘Well thanks for the try Mex but I think our South American beauty has lost her meal ticket. Arnold
has had a good time and has moved on before the church bells start to ring out. By the way, where
is she from?’

‘Guatemala originally but she came to the States when she was sixteen. Sorry I don’t know anything
else about her, she’s tagged with the FBI, not us.’

We both stood to leave and shook hands and as we did so I caught a glimpse of the man in the
corner seat as he turned the page of his newspaper, it was Alfred Barker.

As we left the pub, Mex headed towards the Edgware Road to walk back to his Embassy and I

walked down the narrow lane beside the Bricklayers to the NCP car park and watched Barker leave.
He followed my route to the car park and I hid and watched him drive out in a Silver Volvo Estate.