The Founding Treason by Jeremy Burns

Author:Jeremy Burns
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lou Aronica
Published: 2019-02-01T14:36:43+00:00

Chapter 53

Washington, DC

Chloe was still processing what the woman had told them back at the Jefferson Memorial as she and Jon walked north past the endless columns of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving’s western entrance.

“Do you think she’s for real?” Chloe asked.

“It sounds too outlandish for her to make up. So, at the very least, I think she believes in the legend.”

“It smells like a trap to me.”

“Still?” Jon asked. “Why?”

“Sure, they didn’t kill us at the Memorial, because that would be too public, raise too many questions. But on their own turf, when we’re breaking into the Society’s headquarters in the dead of night?”

“True. But if she just wanted to get us in the house so they could kill us, why go to all the trouble of the convoluted story? Why not just give us another key and tell us the proof of the Vanguard’s orchestrating the Kennedy assassination is hidden in one particular room? Then they’d know exactly where we’d be going in the house. Plus, the clearer directions would ensure we’d go straight there instead of making a detour somewhere to investigate Lafayette or Anderson’s history.”

Even with the present ruse, if that was what it was, they were not making a detour. At this late hour, public transportation within the city was closed for the night. Unlike many US cities of its size and import, Washington was not a nighttime city, with many of its businesses closed by seven, and even its shopping and restaurant districts typically shuttering by nine. So the demand simply wasn’t there for late-night subway service. Taxis and ride-sharing services left witnesses and a digital paper trail. So they were hoofing it back to Embassy Row.

“Probably to sell it to us better,” Chloe said. “If the answers came too easily, we wouldn’t trust them. If the need was so great and the proof was just sitting there behind a door to which she just happened to have the key, we’d wonder why she hadn’t exposed them herself.”

Even as she argued her points, she could hear how hollow her arguments were beginning to sound. But in her experience, paranoia wasn’t always irrational. The past year had taught her the dangers of trusting the wrong person. Too many people she cared about had died. That lesson was even more pronounced in the past twenty-four hours with their betrayal by and the subsequent murder of Vance Nicholson.

“The same could be said for Dr. Molyneux,” Jon argued. “He was cagey when we first mentioned the Kennedy connection, and only when we pushed did he open up. Like he wanted it to be our idea.”

“He was scared. Talking about the Kennedy assassinations in the Society’s headquarters is not a pleasant experience, I’m sure.”

She wasn’t sure why she continued to play devil’s advocate for Molyneux. In truth, she didn’t trust him further than she could throw him, but the circle of people who were not out to get her was shrinking by the hour, and, increasingly irrational though

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