Marathe at Ennet House

Under the veil, a textbook casing operation with a divided loyalty already built in. The locked Office door is "visible from this sitting"; Marathe recites the rehearsed legend ("I am addicted and deformed, seeking residential treatment for addiction, desperately," "I am Swiss") with a machine pistol "holstered securely to his right stump beneath the blanket," and memorizes everything "for both his reports" — the "both" already splitting his product between Fortier and Steeply (the double ledger 151/153 will formalize). He even reads the "metal people" paranoiac professionally, noting "the way with subtleness of looking all around himself which Marathe associated with intelligence professionals." The waiting room is an intelligence target and Marathe is a working operative inside it, cover legend running, weapon warm, loyalty already doubled.