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"As always, you are right. Stella", says Carl. "I also have my moments of error, you know." "Well, that would be news to me." "I have had to learn a lesson or two in humility since our time living by the canal in Amsterdam. I have been through some hard lessons myself." "How did you end up at the hotel last night." "I was already informed and briefed by, shall we say, headquarters. They told me you would be along in the early evening, so I camped out in the parking lot, waiting for my time to pounce." "What did you do to that desk clerk?" I ask. "He is a plant and he works for my twin sibling. I already knew all about what was going on, since, as much as my brother hates me, or seems to hate me, I always manage to get information out of him." "Your brother", says Carl. "Sven Lindstrom.