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CHAPTER 3: DOLLAR'S DIAMONDS
The deafening roar of gunfire fills the hospital halls, and a spray of bullets tears across the wall, drawing a ragged line of death where Uri had stood just a second before. The magician, having dived to the floor at the last possible instant, rolls to face the direction of the gunfire and fires off two shots before he can even get a clear look at his assailant. A Thompson submachine gun clatters to the tiles and its owner, a Gun Moll, slides down beside it, her trench coat stained with blood. Uri reflects for a puzzled moment on the fact that he has been assaulted by two women in the same evening. [Uri wins this Challenge in one round, getting a lucky roll with his pistol against the Gun Moll's "Tommy Gun" ability].
Knowing that anyone in the vicinity would respond quickly to the sound of gunfire, Uri leaps through the doors to the operating theater in hopes of surprising any foes within, and finds himself face to face with none other than Boss Dollar, the notoriously vain and well-dressed kingpin of crime.
"When my work is done here, the only face you'll see on a ruble is MINE!" hollers Dollar, squeezing off a few shots from his gold-plated .45 into the plume of acrid smoke that billows where Uri stood an instant before. The overhead lights flicker and go black, plunging the room into darkness [Uri uses his special ability on the first round of the Challenge]
"Where'd ya go, Russkie?" shouts the kingpin.
Suddenly anxious, he pats his jacket, feeling for something that was just there am oment ago. "Hey! My rocks! MY ROCKS!"
Enraged, he starts firing blindly into the dark, turning the room into a deafening echo chamber.
Uri crouches down behind the printing press that takes up one half of the operating theater as bullets ricochet off of it. He hefts the fist-sized package purloined from Boss Dollar's vest pocket before slipping out the door on the far side of the theater.
Two mounted police officers clatter to a halt and dismount outside the hospital's front entrance on Liteinuy Street just as Uri dashes down the steps.
"Gentlemen," the magician says calmly, holding his hands in the air as the policemen reach for their sidearms, "If you move quickly and with care, you will find within the American embodiment of vanity and greed – a man driven tonight by these twin evils to perpetrate more than one crime against the pride of Petrograd!"
Uri opens his left hand, and dozen golden bullets cascade into the snow at his feet. A small burlap pouch appears suddenly in his right hand, and he tosses it towards the nearest policeman, who catches it.
"Luckily, he is now both out of ammunition and in need of funds for his enterprise."
Both officers, their eyes momentarily drawn to the thrown package, are shocked to see no trace of the stranger when they look back to the place where he stood only seconds before.
The officer with the pouch empties it into one gloved hand. Something sparkles in the light of the nearby streetlamp.
"What is it?" Asks the other policeman.
"Rocks. No… wait. Diamonds! Uncut Diamonds!"
Flakes of snow catch and dissolve on the cluster of stones in his hand.
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