“Closing the door, he leaned back against it to block all exit while lighting yet another of Madame Chevreul’s cigarettes. ‘A nothing monk, eh, Louis, who stinks to high heaven? Comes here hot on the heels of two detectives to have a look at them and see what’s up? Made sure our first victim had the eggs, milk, and cheese the child inside her needed yet helped her try to abort the mistake? Always brought the former Kommandant a little something to grease the wheels. Was full of juicy gossip that... he embellished for Colonel Kessler’s benefit. Ein Spitzel, ja?’ ‘Herr Kohler. . . ’ began Étienne. ‘It’s Herr Hauptmann Kohler to you, my fine one, or Herr Detektivinspektor Kohler, and don’t forget it.’ ‘As you wish, but what makes you think I wasn’t acting on Colonel Kessler’s requests? He was fully cognizant of Mary-Lynn’s mistake, as you put it, and that her health, as that of everyone herein, was in jeopardy. Could he not have asked me to do both?’ ‘Feed her and abort her without telling her he’d asked you to?’ ‘Hermann.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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