who operates the Ile de Joie—a nightclub of questionable reputation: but so far he has caused us no trouble in Tangier. In fact, Monsieur Stokey has been of assistance to us on a few occasions because he is familiar with the underworld of Tangier.”
North thanked him then courteously ushered the Inspector out, after which he immediately telephoned the United States Embassy. No. No cables were being held for him; that there were no signals of any kind from anyone would seem to argue that, thus far, the Russians still hadn’t discovered a way of controlling their runaway hydrogen satellite’s orbit.
Hugh North walked down into the Boulevard Pasteur and considered the latest oddity of this affair. The name Potin had given him belonged to a man who, as the Inspector readily had admitted, would be welcomed by jail-house wardens in any number of countries. “Sam Stokey?” Might he be an American? Or English or Irish or Canadian?
Maybe he’d be of assistance on this particular occasion? North hoped so. In this kind of assignment one took his friends as he found them, especially in Morocco.
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