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It was too dark to see the face of who it was tailing him; but checking with continual glances at adjacent glass surfaces as they were passed, told Frank that the guy’s pace, safe as it was at an ‘innocent’ distance, was too consistent with his own pace to be mere coincidence.
The watch-vendor thought it was all a great farce bellowing out his sales talk at the stream of passers-bye, whilst backing up his banter of bargains with a double-armed glittering array of ‘genuine’ Swiss watches, remarkably so, manufactured in and imported illegally from
Kowloon.
Ex-Lieutnant Hauter didn’t share the man’s mood and cursed as he continually dodged around people in his way, trying to keep track of his prey. The American was some yards ahead and didn’t seem aware, so far, that he was being tail
