Chapters 21-25 Summary

In London, Tracy meets Gunther Hartog who describes himself as a friend of Conrad Morgan. Hartog says Morgan has suggested they might be able to work together for some jewelry heists from Hartog's wealthy clients. Tracy flatly refuses, but Hartog persists and asks her to come to his country estate for a weekend getaway. Amid the party atmosphere, Tracy is introduced to the wealthy Europeans, and briefly does a mime of a nouveau riche Texan that Gunther says she can use to enact an elaborate scam. Posing as the Texan wife of a wealthy man identified as P.J. Benecke, Tracy goes into a jewelry store and asks to see the $100,000 in emeralds that P.J. wants to give her for a birthday present. She writes a check for $100,000 and the jeweler promises to deliver the stone the next day to...