The Scarlatti Inheritance by Robert Ludlum

Author:Robert Ludlum [Ludlum, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Thrillers, Suspense, Espionage, Fiction, Historical, War & Military
ISBN: 9781409122180
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2010-02-24T13:30:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 21

Three-quarters of an hour later Canfield let himself quietly back into

Elizabeth Scarlatti's stateroom. The moment the old woman heard the key in

the latch she cried out apprehensively.

"Who is it?"

"Canfield." He walked in.

"Did you find him?"

"I did. May I sit down?"

"Please."

"What happened? For heaven's sake, Mr. Canfieldl What happened? Who is he?"

"His name was Boothroyd. He worked for a New York brokerage house. He

obviously was hired, or assigned to kill you. He's dead and his earthly

remains are behind us-I judge about three miles."

"Good Godl" The old woman sat down.

"Shall we start at the beginning?"

'-foung man, do you know what you've done? Therell be searches, inquiries!

The ship will be in an uproarl"

Oh, someone will be in an uproar, I grant you. But I doubt that there will

be more than a routine, and I suspect, subdued inquiry. With a grieving,

confused widow confined to her quarters."

"What do you mean?"

Canfield told her how he had located the body Dear Boothroyd's own

stateroom. He then touched briefly on the grimmer aspects of searching the

body and dispatching it overboard, but he described in fuller detail how he

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