Black Genesis: Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard

Author:L. Ron Hubbard [Hubbard, L. Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Thrillers, Espionage, Humorous, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Satire
ISBN: 9781592121199
Google: W6crtpQev90C
Publisher: Galaxy Press LLC
Published: 2003-06-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

At 7:10 New York time, there was a knock on Heller's hotel room door. A sloppy delivery boy with Gulpinkle's Delicatessen on his coat was handing Heller a bag.

Heller took it!

"That'll be two bucks and a four-bit tip," said the boy.

Heller made out that this was two dollars and fifty cents, paid him and closed the door. He opened the bag and found a plastic container of coffee and two jelly rolls.

No hotel like that ever had service like this! Was the stuff poisoned? Drugged?

Heller sniffed the coffee. He broke open a roll and sniffed it. Then the (bleeped) fool proceeded to consume them. He didn't pass out or drop dead, so I realized they had just been making sure he didn't leave his room or walk about to be seen.

He put on a clean baseball pullover. He finished dressing and combed his hair. He spin-brushed his teeth.

He arranged the room. He put the easy chair with its back to the window, put the side table against it to the

left hand. He put the straight-back chair in front of it, facing it. Then he took the two glass ashtrays and put them on the side table near the easy chair.

Then, possibly finding waiting heavy, he seemed to discover that the inside doorknob of the hall door was loose and he got a tool from his kit and worked at it. Then he unlocked the door completely.

He went over to the bed, made it and then opened both his suitcases on it, wide open!

He emptied the carryall and made a neat pile of the contents at the bed top.

The portable radio he had bought attracted his attention and he fiddled with it, getting a station or two. It seemed to amuse him that the music was not stereo. How could it be, with Earth electronics! The whole thing was made just to dangle from the wrist by a strap. He took it back to the easy chair and sat down. He listened to the morning news. Toys! All Fleet guys are crazy with toys. Here he was about to be hit and he was amusing himself with a toy. The muggings and murders and political corruption of New York aren't news.

It was getting close to eight. He got up and went to the window. He was looking down into the street, maybe watching for his caller to arrive.

But I saw something else! By peripheral vision, I saw a man come out of a door on that other roof! A man carrying a violin case!

Heller went back and sat down. The radio came to the end of the news.

The elevator door down the hall opened. Heller, possibly because his toy was new, had to do a lot of fiddling to get the radio off. He dropped it into the top of an open suitcase, stepped backwards and dropped into the easy chair.

There was a knock on the door. Heller called, "Come in. It's open."

In walked the perfectly groomed Wall Street lawyer. The type is legendary.

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