Asimov's Science Fiction 2014 06 by Sheila Williams

Author:Sheila Williams [Williams, Sheila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, magazine, Amazon Purchases, Science Fiction, Fiction
Publisher: Penny Publications
Published: 2014-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

Six: The End of the Affair

Events took a speedy turn. Orphan barely had time to relieve himself before Fogg whisked him out of the building and into a waiting barouche-landau with darkened windows. Orphan climbed in after Fogg and sat down, feeling light-headed. The barouche-landau pulled away and into the traffic.

"At last!" a booming voice said, and only then did Orphan register the man sitting opposite them.

It was Jules Verne.

"How tedious that man Dupin is!" He smiled, exposing teeth like jagged breakers on a stormy shore. "I must confess you had me worried there for a moment, Fogg. Or shall I say Fix?"

Fogg laughed. "Poor Fix," he said, "I'd love to see his face when they lock him up behind bars!"

"Forget Fix, it's Dupin's face I'd like to see when he realizes he got the wrong man!" Verne said.

Orphan stared at Verne. He had changed his clothes, and now wore a dark, velvet-lined cape and held a traveling-stick in his hand, a dark ebony cane capped with a silver skull.

"So who killed Hoffman?" Orphan said at last.

Verne chuckled. Fogg wore a thin smile like a cut from a blade.

"I did," he said. "Of course."

Orphan felt his hands tighten. "You bastard."

"Shut up, boy," Fogg said, the smile disappearing like a fencing blade unbending. "You work for the Bookman now. And what the Bookman does, and how he uses his pieces on the board, is up to only one man."

"The Bookman," Orphan said, and thought, he is no man.

"Correct," Fogg said.

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