Yeah fine it’s how I do. I am doing it the way Karenina taught me to I am finding friendships and connections and names and place I am finding Mrs. Van der Zee and here she is, O and there is Jort also this is his website but now we are looking where are we looking we are looking at…O here is the launch of VDZ-Hatterstadt-Klemp’s new housing project in Dresden how nice and the gang is all here that is to say this is Mrs. Van der Zee and who should be one of the contractors on that project but the young and thrusting firm of Schempp Kosterlitz AG and of course there is no Kosterlitz and only about ten percent of a Schempp they are a shell for another company and another and another all set up by a law firm in Bermuda for use by a firm run out of another shell in London which is owned out of an office in Martinique and la la la la and—

VoIP outgoing call ring ring.

“Hi this is Carla at Zebedee Bogotá Reception how may I help you today?”

“Hi Carla MY but that is quite some voice hello Carla gosh.”

“Hello sir that is charming of you to say I am sure.”

“Carla this is Jack Mahboubian I was there at the hotel a little while back it was a LOVELY stay.”

“Why thank you again sir.”

“Carla I have to ask you a question and I want a straight answer for which I will pay a great deal of money.”

“Oh—”

“No Carla listen I am not even slightly kidding I will give you a million dollars American for usable information and it is not even particularly secret it is just gossip but I need to be sure.”

“…Are you fucking with me Mr. Mahboubian?”

“Carla right now I am sending an email to the reception account with a number put that number into your browser window and you will find an account with your name on it with money in it. I will give you the access details the moment you tell me what I want to know.”

“I—”

“Carla are you aware of the existence of a rich old Dutch lady who smells like someone sexually molested a coffeepot with a violet cream?”

“O shit her yes sure she does not stay at the Zebedee but—”

“But she is so fucking rich every hotelier in Bogotá knows when she is in town.”

“Yes sir.”

“Million-dollar question Carla when was she last there?”