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«Complicated, isn't it?» said Blade drily.
«Rather,» said J, in the same tone. Then, more cheerfully, «I have some genuinely good news for once. My sources tell me that Scotland Yard has closed the file on the 'Mystery Hero' affair. So there's no one from the Yard going to be on the lookout for you any more.»
Blade looked as if he wanted to jump up and down and cheer. Instead he merely rose, a broad smile on his face, and shook J's hand. «That is good news, sir. I think it calls for another drink.»
«Indeed it does,» said J, and turned to the sideboard. It was good to see Richard so happy, and the news was a great relief to him as well. Richard had saved more than a dozen lives in a train wreck a few months ago, and his reward had been to find Scotland Yard on his trail. He'd had to vanish from the scene of the wreck to avoid compromising the Project with the publicity, and the police promptly concluded that the «Mystery Hero» had vanished for some sinister reason. It had been most damnably inconvenient all around, and for a considerable time it had denied Richard some of the peace and quiet he so badly needed between trips into Dimension X.
Now it was over. A small victory, but sometimes it seemed there was no other kind.
The two men raised freshly filled glasses, and drank.