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With both Paulo and Anne critically hurt, their only hope is to delay long enough for Anne's transmitter to do its work. The Servant and the Soothsayer comes to its conclusion in the ward of a psychiatric hospital.

Anne and Paulo confront their
suspects. Anne can quickly get her evidence, but will either of them live long enough to get away? Paulo must confront Pendersly alone, someone is going to be shot, and Anne will face Pendersly in a duel of terror.

Paulo's mistake has fiery consequences. Paulo and Anne go into hiding, and Anne tells him what has become of the last two to call themselves her friends.

Paulo has discovered that
Anne's suspect in the murder of Councilor O'Rourke is the Police
Commissioner. Paulo tricks the police into believing he had been
hired by his old boss, Councilor De la Mer. Anne can tell that Paulo
thinks her servant Usha is pretty and that he enjoyed her company, so
they quarrel again. Then, Paulo makes a serious mistake.

Anne and Paulo quarrel over the way she hires her own domestic servant. Then he has to trust Anne to bail him out, as he surrenders himself to the police, in search of their suspect, the Ostrich. But Paulo is going to be there a long time without seeing anyone who could be the man.

Anne proposes to employ Paulo, but the price of her help is steep: he will be labeled a bad debt, he will have to get himself arrested, and if anyone realizes he is working for her, he may never see the light of day again.