“Who is blackmailing you and why?”“When I moved to Shanghai, it was for a fresh start. I opened a quaint little tea shop near the marketplace wi...h money saved up from a previous enterprise I ran in the alleyways of Suzhou. I wanted to distance myself from that life and make a living honorably,” she said almost wistfully.“What was so dishonorable about your business in Suzhou?” I asked, curious to know about this dame’s lurid past.“I was a prostitute,” she admitted, “a damn good one. My services. Her's sure did. "She's dead."Of course Mr. Duplaine already knew that. That's why he called us--the police that is. We normally don't get called out to a place like the one run by Duplaine or, if we did, it was to take a few envelopes of cash in order to look the other way. Duplaine and his high-roller clients didn't like attention. They came here, as they saying went, 'to get away from it all.'"I'm afraid we know that, Detective..." Max. Thomas Max. Sergeant Detective, actually." Yes, well,. ..I was....I didn't.... I wasn't..." I justtrailed off."It's ok," Sara said "it was pretty much the first thing that I did afterI changed. How did you like it? Good huh?" I didn't touch my vag...I wasn't....I don't think I finished," Istammered.We stood in silence for a moment. I became aware of the breeze on mydrying flesh. My hand flew to cover my crotch as I span around to grab atowel. I was so embarrassed I thought I would die on the spot."Oh for fuck sake," I moaned. "I'm sorry. You must. The vehemence in her eyes should have told me she was a vengeful sort. We should have Dispatched her and Neil Farnsworth that first night at the Base Camp house. The message would have been clear to our American Cousins we will not be tolerating their "Mucking About" in our operations." Cecil said in a composed anger. "And all of us would have had a hand in it! We have all taken an oath and live by our Rede and Three Fold Law, to do no harm to anyone or anything living. This armor that was.