The Trouble In Times Square Affair - Epilogue

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The Index of Chapters is below.  You can find the Epilogue to this grand adventure at the bottom of the page...

chapter1

chapter 2

chapter 3

chapter 4

chapter 5

chapter 6

chapter 7

chapter 8 

chapter 9 

chapter 10

chapter 11

chapter 12

chapter 13

chapter 14

It Ain't Over Til It's Over...

The round table was populated once more by the top agents of the Western World, and of course, their Chief.  Alexander Waverly could have done without this latest escapade landing squarely in the middle of his Christmas holiday.  His wife was highly annoyed by the entire episode, him being out late and vexed by yet another encounter with inexplicably difficult people.

As for the Old Man, he felt satisfied that now, after several grueling days of dealing with the Claibornes and the errant love affair of his agent, the newly incarcerated Collier Adams with the peculiarly seductive Marjorie Claiborne... devil have it, he never would figure out the human condition.

Napoleon and Illya sat side by side at the big table, their fellow agents, Mark Slate and April Dancer, opposite them and also waiting for Waverly to finish his mulling over of things.  The pipe was poised for action but, as yet, unlit.  There was a certain sense of comfort in the sameness of it, the anticipation but not the certainty that the pipe would be lit, and the smoke would rise to the ceiling.

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