The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories (The Fredric Brown Megapack) by Fredric Brown

Author:Fredric Brown [Brown, Fredric]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: short stories, science fiction, space opera, sci-fi, pulp fiction
ISBN: 9781479409358
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

“What do you mean?”

Joad looked at him. He said, “You still look sleepy, Dyer. Lets have coffee. It’ll wake you up, and I can use some myself.”

“Fine,” Dyer said. He went into the kitchenette and pressed the button that would heat the coils of the coffee-tap. “Want it laced?” he called back.

“Of course.”

Within a minute he came back with two cups of steaming café royale. With obvious impatience he waited until they were seated comfortably and each had taken his first sip of the fragrant beverage before he asked, “Well, Joad?”

“When I say it’s unofficial, Dyer, I mean it. I can give you the full answer, but only with the understanding that you’ll forget it as soon as I tell you, that you’ll never tell another person, and that you won’t act upon it.”

Dyer Rand stared at his guest in amazement. He said, “I can’t promise that! I’m chief of police, Joad. I have my duty to my job and to the people of Chicago.”

“That’s why I came here, to your apartment, instead of to your office. You’re not working now, Dyer; you’re on your own time.”

“But—”

“Do you promise?”

“Of course not.”

Bela Joad sighed. “Then I’m sorry for waking you, Dyer.” He put down his cup and started to rise.

“Wait! You can’t do that. You can’t just walk out on me!”

“Can’t I?”

“All right, all right, I’ll promise. You must have some good reason. Have you?”

“Yes.”

“Then I’ll take your word for it.”

Bela Joad smiled. “Good,” he said. “Then I’ll be able to report to you on my last case. For this is my last case, Dyer. I’m going into a new kind of work.” Rand looked at him incredulously. “What?”

“I’m going to teach crooks how to beat the lie-detector.”

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