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Page 52 In a moment you hear sirens. Two patrol cars arrive on the scene. Spotlight by a half dozen beams trained on the front door, your assailant comes out of the house, hands in the air. Later you confront him at police headquarters. The police identify their prisoner as Herman Nagar, a professional criminal wanted for bank robbery. Handcuffed and wearing a white bandage around his head, Nagar sits at a small steel table, flanked by two officers. Chief Ludhorn, half sitting on the edge of his desk, removes an unlighted cigar from his mouth and eyes his prisoner. “You know as well as I do, Nagar of your right to a lawyer and your right to be silent” Nagar grunts “Get on with it.” Ludhorn scowls. “First of all, what were you doing in the house?” “You know as well as I do Chief. I worked for Grimstone. The heat was really on him, and we all cleared out of the house. There had been talk of diamonds hidden there, and I came back to try to find them—simple as that.” “Simple as that, plus attempted murder,” the Chief says dryly. Turn to page 63