Though he could, of course, be dealing with a whole room full of convincing liars.
‘I hardly know what to make of that,’ Konrad said to Tasha a short time later, when they had regained the street. ‘Were they sincere or not?’
‘About what?’ Tasha hunched her thin shoulders against the biting wind, and tightened her collar about her throat.
‘Everything. But especially about Shults. His scheme was very successful, after all, for quite some time. Surely it would appeal to a man like Twelve.’
‘A man like Twelve?’ Tasha echoed, grinning. ‘What kind of a man is that? He’s a respectable businessman. Owns a public house, you know.’
‘You know what I mean.’
‘He isn’t that stupid,’ said Tasha. ‘Look where Shults ended.’
‘But was it Shults’s scheme that got him killed or some arrangement gone wro
