Erm... Well, I'm glad that Andrus thing was settled, whatever it was.
Mr. Wells,
Thank you for your sympathy and continued efforts.
I am indeed impressed with your diligence and foresight.
As for your time travels, I had assumed, given your extensive history with history and your past association with Andrus, that you were a licensed traveller. Perhaps that past association and your IDTT registration are still in your future. All this time travel can make things very confusing.
As for my carpet, it is, as I said, an Oriental. It's predominantly red and blue, with stylised bats hidden in the motif. It was a gift from Bruce Wayne, to thank me for rescuing one of his cargo ships. He informed me that bats are a symbol of luck in certain cultures.
Kathy,
I looked into some of your suggestions.
It seems that I know Mayson Drake as May Bass. She does work for the Metropolis DA's office. Her husband, Bobby, is a police informant and gourmet chef.
My trip to Paramus was enjoyable. Mrs. Snell is proud of her son, the lawyer-turned-diplomat, and assures me that he's "such a nice boy." She does wish, however, that he would settle down. , she's impatient to become a grandmother. Ultimately, I gained little useful information except that I now know that Mrs. Snell makes excellent oatmeal raisin cookies.
I also flew down to Washington, DC. I spoke with Mrs. Maksim at the DEA; she's in charge of collecting and analysing information from overseas agents, and is an expert on the Congo in particular. She was happy to cooperate with Superman, and even went out of her way to look up Dan Scardino.
Mr. Scardino, it turns out, was an officer on the Hawaii police force. Citing annoyance with the nickname "Dan-o," he transferred to Miami, where he was placed in the vice department. His actions there caught the attention of the DEA, but they decided he was too much of a loose cannon and so never recruited him. He and his wife, Jenna, now run an art gallery by the name of "Unidentifiable Ferrous Objects," which specialises in metallic sculptures and mobiles.
Mrs. Maksim also told me that there is currently a DEA agent in Brazzaville, Bernard Klien, but she couldn't tell me anything about his investigation except to note that he is working with an Interpol agent by the name of Claude DeLaChienne.
Clark
