Keller's Fedora by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, Humour
ISBN: 9781985861183
Google: dc03tAEACAAJ
Goodreads: 38793840
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

IT WAS TUESDAY afternoon when he boarded the City of New Orleans, and no great surprise when Ainslie greeted him by name and gratefully accepted the customary twenty dollars. This time Keller had remembered to check his bag, but had held onto both his iPhone and the Pablo phone, along with something to read. He’d thought it might feel strange to be back on the train again, but all it felt was familiar, as if this was something he did all the time. Which, in a sense, it was.

He drank a cup of coffee, he looked out the window, he read for a while. He went to the diner and found something to order on the menu he’d long since memorized; back in his roomette, he had brief conversations with Julia and Jenny on the iPhone, and with Dot on the Pablo phone, and around ten he summoned Ainslie to make up the bed.

He slept deeply, and when he came back from breakfast Ainslie told him they were running late. “We were right on schedule,” he reported. “Got into Homewood at twenty minutes of eight, which made us a couple of minutes early, and then they held us there with no explanation, and now it looks like we’ll be an hour late getting to Chicago. I just hope you don’t have an early appointment.”

“No, I’m in no rush,” he said.

“Well, I’m glad to hear that, Mr. Edwards. I can now tell you the delay had nothing to do with this train. There was a southbound freight train way up ahead of us, not even on our track as it was heading south and we were heading north—”

“So it’s good it was on the other track.”

“Yes sir, you’re right about that. But don’t you know a fool in a white van went around the barrier? Now he’s dead, and the man driving that freight train’s got a few bad weeks in front of him, plus the nightmares he’s sure to be having. And all of us in another train entirely are an hour late getting to Chicago.”

“He wasn’t wearing a cowboy hat, was he?”

“How’s that, Mr. Edwards?”

“Oh, it’s nothing, Ainslie. Just thinking out loud.”

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