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"They're near Westminster Abbey."
"Near the ruins of the abbey?" said the
plump detective. "According to Miss Kearny, the Sands girl has a friend who's a member of
this particular gang. That friend's name in
the civilized world was Mary Elizabeth
Joiner. Now she's known as Silverhand Sally."
"Jillian Kearny told Dan that Nancy went to join this friend?"
Bairnhouse nodded. "She wanted him merely
to pass the information on to the
authorities or to you. So that a search could
be made for Nancy Sands. She apparently
doesn't trust the people the Sands girl is
living with, a couple named McCay. Your son,
however, chose to hunt for his missing friend
himself, it seems."
"That's like him, yeah."
"And like you, Cardigan," pointed out
Bairnhouse. "Let's continue with this
briefing, if you will. Here on the map you'll
notice Grosvenor Place. That's where, in the
shadow of what's left of Buckingham Palace,
the Tek Kids are headquartered."
"Tek Kids'?"
"Perhaps you haven't encountered them yet
in America, or perhaps they're called
something else." Bairnhouse rubbed at his
flat nose. "TKs are the unfortunate
offsprings of Tek-using mothers. They suffer
from the mutagenic effects that prolonged use
of Tek seems to have on a certain percentage
of addicts."
"I think I did see a couple of reports on
them," recalled Jake. "They tend to be extremely violent, amoral, vicious, and very
quick to anger."
"Right you are. Too restless for school and virtually untreatable in institutions," said Bairnhouse, his thick forefinger tapping on
the map. "What happens usually is that they gradually drift into the slums, ghettos, and
ruins of our big cities. They form packs, and
when they're not fighting amongst themselves,
they prey on other gangs and pull off raids
on the outside world. They unfortunately differ from other teen gangs in that a
certain percentage of them have psionic
powers. Some are teleks, others
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possess ESP powers. All of which makes TKs
very dangerous, not the sort of people for
either your son or yourself to become
involved with."
Jake was studying the map. "The TKs aren't
that far from the Westminsters."
"Exactly, and to reach Silverhand Sally
your son may try to cross the TKs' sacred
ground."
Jake grinned briefly. "I know, Arthur, that you're trying to discourage me from going in
alone after Dan," he told the detective.
"Your lecture, though, has the opposite
effect. I can't let Dan wander around in
there alone."
"I thought that would be your position,
Cardigan."
"There's no alternative, since I understand the police are reluctant to cross over into
that part of London."
"They make occasional trips," said
Bairnhouse. "We might be able to persuade
them to mount a search for your son and the
Sands girl."
"After considerable red tape and
circumlocution."
"They wouldn't undertake the job today, let us say."
"I'll do it alone."
From his desk Bairnhouse picked up a sheet
of faxpaper. "Here's a small list of people who can provide you information, and dire
warnings in some instances, about this part of London," he said, handing Jake the page.
"I've also included a couple of reliable
contacts who live in the gangzone."
Jake said, "Thanks, Arthur."
"We'll continue to work on this in our way, of course."
"Good. I'll continue to work on it in my
way."
Natalie Dent was sitting in a silvery control
chair in Briefing Room 2 of the Paris offices
of Newz, Inc. "Pay attention, Gomez," she urged. "Sit up straight."
He was slumped in a lower chair at her
right, more or less watching the wall in
front of them. It contained sixteen large
pixmonitor screens, laid out in rows of four.
"I've been drinking
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all this in, Nat," he assured her. "Hoping against hope that we'd soon get to the
point."
"Once a putz always a putz," observed
Sidebar. The robot cameraman was sitting in
a fat chair at the rear of the big, chill
room.
"What I've showed you thus far, which you
ought to have comprehended, Gomez, is all
important background material for what I'm
about to reveal," said the red-haired
reporter. "Is it perhaps that you're mooning over Mrs. Bouchon, who's not totally
unattractive for a woman of her advanced
years and "
"Madeleine hasn't advanced anywhere near as far as I have, chiquita. "
"I couldn't help noticing, and you don't
have to be a topflight investigative reporter
such as I am to have spotted it, that she was quite profusely demonstrative and
affectionate when you left her at that safe
house your detective agency arranged for
her."
"To a fiery Latin such as myself, Nat, a
chaste peck on the forehead isn't considered
the height of physical passion. Can we get to
what you know about Michel Chasseriau?"
"What we're leading up to, Gomez, is
exactly "
"What did the guy want to impart to Madeleine Bouchon?"
"Really, Gomez. You're as grumpy as a bear
with a sore nose."
"Paw."
"Beg pardon?"
"Sore paws are what, traditionally, make
bears grumpy."
Natalie sighed. "Look at Screen 5," she suggested. "That's some footage of Bram
Wexler, a Britisher who heads up the Paris
office of the International Drug Control
Agency." The smiling man on the monitor
screen was in his early forties,
conservatively dressed, strolling down a
bright springtime Parisian boulevard
completely unaware that he was being
photographed. "Wexler was Bouchon's boss, and in the course of investigating all aspects of
this story, I came across a tip that he may
have some connection with Bouchon's murder."
"Where does Chasseriau come in?"
"He's been avoiding the office since the
killing, uncertain as to
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what to do about the knowledge he has,"