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I pulled up a chair and sat. "Here's where it gets interesting. Because you decided to hire me on. Why?"
"Why do you think?"
"To keep tabs on the Knights," I said. "Or to distract them by making them try to keep me out of the search. Or maybe you thought I could really turn up the Shroud for you. Probably all three. No sense doing things for one reason when you can fit in a few ulterior motives for free. You even gave me a sample of the Shroud to make it more likely I'd find it." I leaned back in the chair. "That's where I started seeing something wrong. I talked to Marcone about his new thug gunning for me, and he blinked."
"I don't know what you are talking about," the snakeman said.
"Marcone was the buyer."
A cold laugh slithered out of the snakeman's mouth. "A mortal. Nothing more."
"Yeah, well, the mortal figured out that Father Vincent had been replaced, and he sent an assassin to kill you. The new guy wasn't shooting at me outside of Fowler's studio. He was after you."
"Impossible," the snakeman said.
"Pride goeth, legs. Marcone wasn't born yesterday."

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