And again Reich met D’Courtney face to face, closed with him, drew a deadly knife-pistol from his pocket and with the blade pried D’Courtney’s mouth open while the old man hung weak and unresisting. And again a door of the Orchid Suite burst open to reveal Barbara D’Courtney in a frost-white transparent dressing gown. And she and Reich feinted and dodged until Reich suddenly blew the back of D’Courtney’s head out with a shot through the mouth.