Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid painting

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be walking a razor’s edge between righteousness and ruin until he returned the device to the equipment locker where it belonged.“When you’re up against some mojo man who fades into mirrors,” he said, “your ass is hanging over a cliff over the fate of mice.Hazard had been present the previous night during the first search of the apartment. He knew what had been collected as possible evidence and what had been left behind.He went directly to that corner of the living room in which stood a black-lacquered desk with faux-ivory drawer pulls. “What we need is probably here,” he said, and searched the drawers from top to bottom.anyway.”Hazard slid the thin pick of the Lockaid into the key channel of the deadbolt, under the pin tumblers. He squeezed the trigger four times before the steel spring in the gun managed to lodge all the pins at the shear line and thereby fully disengage the lock.Ethan followed Hazard into the apartment, closing the door behind them. He tried to step around and over the stains—Reynerd’s blood—that marred the white carpet just inside the threshold.He had spilled rivers of his own blood on this carpet. Died on it. The experience rose in memory, too vivid to have been a dream.The black-and-white furnishings, art, and decorations proved to be as he remembered them.On the walls, a flock of pigeons was frozen in midwhirl. Like white chalk checks on gray slate, geese flew across a somber sky, and a parliament of owls perched on a barn roof, deliberating