The Dance by Ira Nayman

Author:Ira Nayman [Dales, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Dragon Publishing

– So you were able to connect the equipment?

– Not a problem.

– Got the image captures?

Douglas had just finished rolling the elastic bands around his latest shoebox when he heard the alarms.

They must be on to me, thought Douglas. Just a matter of time, he supposed. Douglas did what he had always done when he was stealing artefacts: check that the elastics were holding the shoebox shut, zip it into his backpack and put the whole thing into his locker. Panic never helps.

The alarm was still blaring away. Douglas heard a few dozen pairs of boots racing up and down the corridor. For some reason, none of those boot-wearers had decided to enter the change room.

Whatever.

If those morons wanted him, they were going to have to make the effort and come and get him. Douglas didn’t see why he had to make any of this easy for them. He spun the dial on the padlock and headed towards the exit. Maybe this Purloined Letter method was going to hold up after all. As a contractor, i.e. “outsider,” it annoyed the silo-dwellers to pay too much attention to him. If any of the security staff actually asked to look inside his backpack when he was making his way towards the bicycle rack, they’d just see the shoebox and would conclude he’d been to the J.C. Penny and bought a pair of Pumas on his lunch hour.

Whereupon the staffers would make some snarky remark about how the Museum must be paying him too much and go back to ignoring him.

“Douglas Mace!” The alarm was interrupted by Hauptmann’s voice bellowing over the PA system: “Stop whatever you’re doing! Right! Now!”

Oh well, Douglas thought, I never really liked this job anyway. Being in jail or dead might be a drag.

“Go to the Beast!” That was not the message that Douglas was expecting.

“You are needed!”

Wow. Things must be pretty dire. No staffer would ever say something like that under normal circumstances. The alarm went back on, and Douglas had to sidestep to avoid colliding with some custodians in gas-masks pushing cleaning trolleys at high speed.

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