A busy wine bar on Manhatten

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Le Pimpernel rose from his seat and extended his hand to the off duty police officer.

"Ah monsieur Brown," he said enthusiastically, "my old friend!"

Sitting down and beckoning for the man to join him, he stashed the dataslate away as a waitress arrived with the wine and two glasses.

"I am indeed Le Pimpernel monsieur," he said, pouring the wine and taking a sip.

He took a moment to savour the taste before continuing.

"Now I do not know how... involved you wish to get in my business but perhaps I should explain some things just so we are clear mon ami," said Le Pimpernel.

"You know already that I am a Gallian in a foreign land," he began, "and you know from our convosation in space that I deal in information.

He swilled his wine in the glass and took another sip.

"What I am trying to do in Liberty is to restart my business as it were," he continued, "I will not go into details but my business became, how do you say... unviable... in Gallia."

Taking out a cigarette, he lit it and blew a small smoke ring before continuing.

"No doubt you can see how you, as a police officer, may be useful to my purposes," he said, "I will of course pay you well for any relevant information you can provide to me and any... less than legal aspects of my business you can turn a blind eye to."

He sat with the cigarette in his mouth waiting for the officer to reply...

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True story...