Triple Threat by Gwenda Bond

Author:Gwenda Bond [Bond, Gwenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 9781630790820;Lois Lane;Superman;Metropolis;DC Comics
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2017-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

I knocked at the study room door, and Maddy pressed it open.

“Password?” she asked.

“Josephine Baker,” I responded. I was learning not to be surprised at who turned out to have secretly been a spy; I’d thought Baker was just a singer. But Maddy had informed me she was a highly effective informant for the Allies during World War II, hiding messages in her sheet music. Who knew?

“Your memory is getting better,” Maddy said, and she swung the door open. James and Devin were already at the table, naturally having arrived before me. Maddy took her usual seat on top of the table. Her T-shirt read The Newsgirls, which gave me a sense of her priorities but not her emotional or relationship status.

“I have the memory of an elephant,” I said.

“For passwords, I meant,” Maddy said dryly.

“I don’t actually know whether elephants have good memories or that’s a myth,” I admitted.

“They do,” James said. “At least for some things—faces of other elephants, in particular. There’s a whole theory that they remember all sorts of knowledge their family needs. They’re matriarchal.”

“How do you know so much about elephants?” I asked James, unable to resist.

“We took a family safari when I was twelve.” James shrugged, almost as if he was embarrassed by it.

“You did?” Maddy asked, eyes big. “What animals did you see?”

“All of them,” he said. “It was kind of nuts seeing a lion just a little way in front of us… I don’t understand why people would want to go there to shoot them. Or shoot them, period.”

“It does make you wonder why humans get to be at the top of the food chain.” I pulled out a chair and dumped my bag on the table. I sometimes forgot what kind of wealth James had grown up surrounded by.

James put his elbows on the table. “I’ll show you guys pictures sometime if you want.”

“I want,” Maddy said.

Devin hadn’t said a word yet, but now he spoke up. “Fascinating as the animal kingdom is, do we want to get down to work?”

He had a troubled expression, and that made me instantly ready to focus. “Yes, please,” I said. I explained to James and Maddy, “We went to the library together yesterday to try to find info on the Contessa, since there’s nothing online. A librarian friend of Devin’s found us the title, but way back in the 1600s. We figured it must be fake.” I turned to Devin. “What’d you find after I left? Is she real? Or was Boss Moxie just messing with me?”

“For the first three hours of going through those old business journals, I thought that’s what was up too,” Devin said.

“First three hours?” I asked guiltily, thinking of how I’d been living it up at the ballgame.

“Of five total,” he said.

“Whoa,” Maddy said, impressed.

“What’d you turn up?” James asked.

Devin shook his head. “This is where it gets weirder. I eventually found a reference to her in a business journal that isn’t indexed online. It was from the late 1980s, and it mentioned the name of her company.

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