The Freedom Factor by Gerald. N. Lund

Author:Gerald. N. Lund [GERALD N. LUND]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780875799612
Publisher: Deseret Book Company

CHAPTER 18

They were sitting in a small apartment in central Washington. In espionage parlance, this was what was known as a safe house, a place where people could hole up, find a place to stay overnight while on the run, or hold a meeting with people whom they weren’t sure about and whom they did not want to know where they really did their business—which was the reason the four of them sat in the safe house now. It was sweltering and stuffy, even though it was past ten o’clock, which left them all in short temper.

“Look,” Jessie finally said, with some asperity. “For the last five years, our group has been serving as a conduit to help you send people from the ASA north. We’ve taken great risks.”

The man they knew only as Lewis shook his head stubbornly. “I know that, and that is the only reason you are here right now. But that doesn’t change the fact that this man is an unknown.”

No one turned to look at Bryce, who sat on a hard-backed chair in one corner.

“You yourself admit he has been with you only for less than a week.”

“We have been through much together,” Neal snapped.

“In less than a week?” Lewis sneered. “Do you think the ISD is so foolish they wouldn’t have their agents appear authentic?”

Bryce laughed out loud at that. “Right. An ISD agent. That would about round out the picture.”

Jessie stood up abruptly. She looked at Bryce, then to her son, then finally back to Lewis. “I want to show you something.” She walked to where they had set their luggage in one corner.

Neal leaped to his feet. “Mom, are you sure?”

“I’m sure.” She knelt, took a small pocketknife from her purse, and began to slit the stitching on her suitcase. When the opening was big enough, she reached inside and withdrew the thin sheaf of typewritten pages. Then she stood and tossed them on the table in front of Lewis.

Curious, he leaned over, then his eyes widened. He looked up at her, shocked.

“Go on,” she said, “look at it.”

For the next several minutes the room was completely silent. Twice more he looked up at the others in the room, his face registering disbelief. Finally, he pushed the papers aside, turned slowly, and looked up at Jessie, who had stood over him the whole time. “Where did you get this?” he said in a low voice.

Jessie turned and pointed at Bryce. “He brought it to us.”

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