1974 - So What Happens to Me by James Hadley Chase

Author:James Hadley Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I got to the cafe-bar twenty minutes before the others were due. I ordered a coke and sat in the shade on the veranda and waited.

While I waited, I thought about Mrs. Victoria Essex I knew she would be good, and that’s what she was. She acted like a woman who had been sexually starved most of her life. But why go into details? When it was finally over, she had got of the divan, had taken a shower while I lay there feeling as if I had been hit by a truck.

She had dressed while I still lay there.

“Lock up,” she said. “I have a car. Put the key under the mat,” and she was gone.

I waited until I heard her car drive away, then I dressed, locked up put the key under the mat and drove back to the hotel.

Well, I told myself you have laid one of the richest women in the world: what happens next? Would she tell Wes Jackson to get rid of me or did she want another session? It was a matter of waiting and seeing.

Olson’s Buick came down the sandy road and pulled up.

He, Pam and Erskine got out and joined me.

“Good trip?” I asked as the girl served cokes.

“The usual,” Bernie shrugged. “The boss got held up. We’ve only just got in.”

I didn’t tell him I knew this.

When the girl had gone, I said, “It looks all right. I’ve checked the runway. No problem. It’s raining like hell out there and the fly in could be tricky.”

I went on to give him a detailed description of my reception, how I had met O’Cassidy and what he had told me.

“I think he’s right: this is a political thing,” I concluded. “Not that it matters to us. The thing that does matter is to be sure Kendrick pays up. We don’t shift the kite until we get that bank receipt.”

“How do you react now about us getting knocked of once we deliver?” Erskine asked.

“I think if we do what we’re told and don’t make reasons for them to turn rough, we’ll be okay.” I had thought about this a lot. “You see, you two have to train their pilots. As we’ve delivered the kite the agreement is we get the full payment. So we’ll probably have to stay at the airfield for a couple of weeks while the pilots are being trained. It seems to me once we have done that, fulfilled all obligations, there is no reason for them to get rid of us. They can’t get their hands on the money once it has been paid into the bank so what’s the point in knocking us of?”

Erskine thought about this, then nodded.

“But. . .” I paused to look directly at Bernie, “Pam doesn’t fly with us.”

He stiffened, but before he could say anything, Pam snapped, “I’d like to see you stop me!”

I ignored her, looking directly at Bernie.

“The airfield is staffed with thugs, Bernie. There are no women there. With you two busy training their pilots, Pam could run into trouble.

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