Story of Lola Gregg by Howard Fast

Author:Howard Fast
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

THE CHASE

LEFT alone, the silence was sudden and pervading land disturbing and comforting all at once, and Lola sank into a chair next to the telephone, lay back, and let her weariness press against half-closed lids. Until now, she had not really thought of Gregg in the circumstances that must surround him; she had resisted the thought and refused to dwell on it in much the same manner that a normal person resists the thought of death, knowing that for the luxury of contemplating the experience and enacting it with one’s imagination, a price must be paid.

But now, in terms of Gregg, she had to pay the price. She had to go with him, because she was bound to him and all he meant and was and would be; and in her present, subdued and tired state, she let her thoughts race as they would. She watched him climb through the window of the men’s room, a small window, too small for the broad-shouldered, long-limbed man of one hundred and ninety pounds and six feet and two inches of height, who was her husband—but his strength pulled him through. He never moved fast until he knew where he was moving, and as close as the danger might be, he would pause there, think the thing out, make sure that he was not walking into a dead end or a trap. Then he would move quickly and surely, through a littered back yard, through the back door of one of those ancient, long-halled apartment houses. Her heart sank as she looked out with him to the street. What do you do, take a taxi? A bus? The subways? But the subway was out of the question; public, guarded, forbidden. Perhaps the simplest thing to do would be to walk, make no contacts, see no one, be identified by no one. It would be dangerous for the first half-dozen blocks, but that would be the sort of a chance Gregg would take, and she walked with him, easily, unhurriedly, one block, two, three, four—he breathed more easily now—five, six, seven. Now he could relax, and now he would take a bus. Buy a paper first, she decided, buy a paper, Gregg, and I’ll sit in the bus and read it with you. Just read it, comfortably, easily, the way Schwartz had said, take it easy, easy, just a man going to work and reading his paper. The bus would go downtown, the logical direction for a man on his way to work, and that way the bus would be crowded. No one notices you on a crowded bus; everyone is as tired as you are. But how far? And when do we get out? When, Gregg? And when we get out, what do we do then? Walk again, blocks, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, walk and think, and on, my God Gregg, I don’t know what you’re thinking. It’s no use to plan this like a cheap movie, get

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