The Day of the Toymaker by Clay Moore

Author:Clay Moore [Moore, Clay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-18T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Protecting the Breach Loading Gun Plans

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THE DIRECTOR TOOK the gun belt and wrapped it around his nightshirt. He took the plans from Thomas as well. He put those in his briefcase. There was one place that was safer than even the Secret Service Secret Headquarters. He would have to store it in the White House. At least a company of Army Infantry was encamped on the White House lawn. He just had to live out the rest of this fight.

“How many more of these toys do you think are out there?”

“There is one man, and so far as we know he was the only one making these toys. I would say no more than ten or fifteen of the automata,” Thomas spoke with the authority of long consideration.

“You forget his daughter. She had the nimble fingers of youth. She could continue to build these toys while he handled the sales part.”

“I still don’t think much more than a dozen. I imagine that he expects to loose these toys. There is a capital outlay that he would have to recoup with his pay from the Confederacy.”

“You think he is a person who thinks slavery should be allowed?”

“Perhaps he is for state’s rights and couldn’t give a hang about slavery.”

“He is a foreigner who found a land that was ripe for his toys. He probably sells them through an ad in one of the boys and girls magazines. I think his nationality is German,” said William.

He grabbed a pair of medical pliers. He drenched the pliers in alcohol. Then he grabbed the spike and pulled out the way it had come in. As soon as William had pulled out the spike, the wound started bleeding. He drenched a cotton ball in the alcohol. William put it on the wound directly. Then he bandaged it to hold it in place.

“I can see why Rowena loved you so much, William.”

William looked down, and for the first time, he realized that he was naked. He blushed, and Gladys chuckled at his discomfiture.

“We got to put some clothes on,” said William. “You get your clothes on, Thomas. I’ll tend Gladys that leaves the Director and me as able bodied men and one wounded woman. Then you come back and I will get my clothes on. We do this until we all have our clothes on. Then we need to search the house.”

Thomas nodded. He went out and came back carrying clothing for them all.

“I thought this would be quicker,” explained Thomas.

He handed William his clothing and Gladys hers. Both people put on their clothes as quickly as they could. Though Gladys needed help from Thomas in raising her arm.

It seemed that the plans were the object of these strange toys. By placing themselves in this room, they were putting themselves in danger. That was the reason for their existence as an organization. They were in the protection racket. Why not protect plans as well as people?

William oversaw the construction of a barricade across the door. It would give them cover while also making an obstacle for the automata had to cross.

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