Marvel Novel Series 09 - The Marvel Superheroes by Len Wein

Author:Len Wein [Wein, Len]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 0671820915
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1979-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

When he finished with his calls, she had calmed somewhat. As if to prove she would never lie to him, she confirmed what he already suspected. Every day she had been there for an appointment with Foggy; she had come primarily to observe. Her appointments were always in the morning, and sometimes she would be there early enough to help Miss Meyerson with the coffee. She had had ample opportunity to observe Foggy’s morning ritual at close range.

One morning, when Foggy had gone out to the reception area to take Miss Meyerson to task for some indecipherable message she had left, Carole had crossed around to the middle desk drawer and made wax impressions of two keys she found there: one of them wound the clock and the other opened the clock face, to reveal the delicate inner mechanism. She had not been able to find a key to the office itself.

Foggy was to have arrived at 9:15, begun winding the clock, and detonated a charge that would have been sufficient to reduce both his office and the reception area to smoking rubble.

Foggy arrived at 9:15 to find a tense Matt Murdock waiting for him in his office and a tearful Carole Lehrman sitting on his couch. Matt explained as best he could while they waited for the bomb squad and the arresting officer to arrive. If Foggy noticed any blood on Matt’s shirt, he didn’t mention it.

They were alone, the three of them, for almost fifteen minutes. Last night, Foggy had gone home refreshed, called Miss Meyerson at home, and fired her.

At 9:30, Foggy went into the largest room and met the seemingly unending stream of secretaries, paralegals, and 3-L’s as they arrived to tell them the office would be closed for the day. He was in there a long time, longer than he needed to be.

Alone with Carole, Matt found the strength to sit beside her. He took her hand in his. It was limp.

“I can refer you to someone who can give you a good defense,” he said.

“I want you,” she said.

“No you don’t. You’re not a complete fool, Carole. If you really wanted me, I finally would have a fool for a client.” He couldn’t tell how she reacted. “And if I took your case, you’d have a fool for a lawyer.” He wanted to hurt her with this play on her own words.

“I never meant it to turn out like this,” she said. “I loved you, Matt, in spite of myself. I wanted to love you. I wanted to take care of you.”

He stiffened. “It always comes down to that, doesn’t it?”

“And what’s wrong with it?” she said. “It comes out of love, isn’t that enough?”

He shook his head.

“I have to go,” he said, and as he stood up he knew it was truer than he realized. He needed to collapse, he would collapse. But most of all he wanted to lock a door behind himself somewhere and stay there for a very long time.

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