Longevity by S. J. Hunter

Author:S. J. Hunter [Hunter, S. J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: MJ Publishing
Published: 2012-02-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chp. 10 Pincer Movement (Thursday)

Chris held out his hand. “Your comu, please.”

They’d sprung for a High Speed compartment, figuring they’d want the extra privacy for discussing the case and making calls.

“What are you doing?” Livvy asked, watching him set their paired comus into visual communication mode.

“Yours goes into the corridor, hanging at one end of the car. I chose a center compartment for a reason. This way we can watch people coming into the car at either end, and we’ll have some warning,” Chris explained.

“I thought you said we’d be safe on the High Speed,” Livvy said when he’d gotten back to the car.

“I think I lied. It’s a death trap if someone finds us without warning,” Chris said. He sat opposite her in the small compartment, his eyes on the linked comu. “Bedford has been ahead of us the whole way. I suspect he still is. From now on we’re not safe, anywhere, anytime.”

“I understand that Bedford has gone into high gear: the bomb, Maas, Josephson and his notes, but I still can’t imagine why now?” Livvy asked.

A woman came down the corridor, moving steadily and ignoring the windows in the upper part of the doors into the compartments. Chris watched her traverse the length of the corridor and turn the corner that lead to the next vestibule.

“I don’t know why it’s happening now. Perhaps Josephson made some break-through discovery and his excitement overcame him. Or it’s something to do with Jesse. Something unexpected. I’m going to talk to Micaela next, to warn her. Perhaps she can tell us. Something has stressed Bedford’s timetable.

“In terms of getting leverage on Bedford, though, we need to know if Josephson has limits. Is Josephson’s cooperation with Bedford totally voluntary, or is there some coercion there? Either way, does he know enough at this point to give us some evidence on Bedford?” Chris asked.

“Paula didn’t need much time to figure it out. Once you started talking about Jesse, she knew,” Livvy said. “She didn’t even think about it that long, she just knew. Josephson knows. He’s been doing the research. He just doesn’t care. Maybe it’s too tantalizing an experiment for him, the creep. And of course, the money.”

Chris was watching a short, stocky man with a pleasant 21-year-old face turn the corner from the short corridor at the end of the car. The man advanced slowly down the corridor, glancing into each compartment or, if the blinds were closed, knocking and making an inquiry, all the while smiling apologetically as though he were looking for someone. There was a vaguely unnatural rigidity to his right arm and the angle of his right index finger.

Placing a finger on his lips briefly and then pointing towards the corridor, Chris took Livvy’s arm and guided her towards the compartment door. He crouched under the window that formed the upper half and then pulled her down in front of him, spoon-fashion, so that they were both pressed tightly against the door and jammed against each other in the narrow space.

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