The Glass Man by Kenneth Robeson

Author:Kenneth Robeson [Robeson, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Pulp Action
Published: 2009-08-24T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIII - Ups and Downs of an Escape Artist

Werner Konrad was knitting. Dressed in his Madame Rosay attire, he sat rocking in a comfortable old chair in the parlor at the rear of the main art gallery.

On a hotplate a tea kettle had just begun to whistle. A buzzer sounded.

Setting aside the sweater he was working on, the actor went to the back door of the parlor. He adjusted his shawl and peered out the judas hole into the alley. The tiny orange bulb over the outside doorway showed him a nearly chinless young man in a loose-fitting gray suit.

Konrad pushed the door-release button, turned the knob, and invited, "Come in, Waxman."

Waxman entered the parlor. "Your place is closed, isn't it?"

Konrad lifted the tea kettle off the hotplate, nodding. "Yes, of course."

"Why are you still wearing that outfit then?"

"Never can tell who may drop in, young man," Konrad replied in his Madame Rosay voice. "What have you got for me?"

"Message from Dr. Coopersmith." Waxman drove one of the trucks which made deliveries to the Perseus Project. From his pocket he took a folded slip of paper.

Konrad had memorized all the codes, so he was able to translate the message without consulting a code book. "Ah, we have interesting days ahead of us," he said as he crumpled the note.

"Meaning what?"

"Dr. Coopersmith has learned that we can expect the Avenger himself to arrive here tomorrow," answered Konrad. "It seems that the vanishing of his associate, who at the moment reposes in our basement, has goaded him into action."

Waxman knuckled his negligible chin. "That's not so good," he said.

Konrad busied himself with pouring boiling water into a flowered teapot. "The Avenger can be taken care of," he said. "We know where and when he'll arrive."

"Don't underestimate him. I've heard that -- "

"Propaganda. You mustn't be taken in by it. We had very little trouble incapacitating his associate, Mr. Cole Wilson."

"Luck. Wilson no doubt had his mind on that redhead. Otherwise -- "

"Tut-tut, sonny." Konrad used the Madame Rosay voice again. "Mustn't be so gloomy. We'll take care of the Avenger and whoever else he drags along with him."

"What about those two down there?"

"I think we'd best move them," said Konrad. "We want to question them, and this isn't the ideal location for that. Now that you're here, you can help us transport them to the place in the desert."

"Wait, Konrad, I don't want to get mixed up -- " Konrad gripped Waxman's arm.

"You'll do exactly what I tell you," he said.

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