The High Flyer by Susan Howatch

Author:Susan Howatch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307417114
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

III

In the kitchen I found a ballpoint pen attached to a block of paper inscribed “SHOPPING LIST,” and scribbled on the top page: “Alice— Gone home to pick up some stuff. Back soon. Love, C.” Having attached the note to the door of the fridge with a butterfly magnet I then withdrew to the living-room to watch for Tucker.

The elderly white Ford trickled over the cobbles of Egg Street a few minutes later. Noiselessly I crept downstairs. I was worried in case there was an alarm which I would not know how to deactivate, but to my relief I discovered in the hall that Nicholas was already up, a fact which probably meant the alarm, if one existed, had been switched off. There was a light shining beneath the closed door of his study. What could he be doing at such an early hour? But perhaps the mysterious activity was part of some clerical routine.

Noiselessly easing the latch away from the lock I stepped outside and shut the front door behind me with only the smallest of clicks before I paused to glance at my watch.

The time was twenty minutes to seven.

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