The Lethal Sex by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mystery Writers of America
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Frank Nary was hiding out in a cottage at the end of town. Bill Holmgren, a big lunk with a lard brain who did errands for Porter involving no mental effort, was looking after him and keeping an eye on him. Neither of them knew me by sight, but I’d seen both of them.

I got there after dark. In my pocket was the letter Porter had had made for me—Frank Nary’s suicide note. I planned to use his own gun on him, but I had one of my own as a preliminary persuader.

Ed had let them know I was coming. The ostensible idea was that I was to take him to another, safer hiding place. But the little rat was suspicious and jumpy.

“Come on, fellows, let’s have a cup of hot coffee to brace us before we get going,” I said, once he was satisfied I was who Ed said I was. Holmgren was supposed to have doped his coffee already, but apparently he hadn’t had the sense to do it before I got there.

“I don’t want any coffee,” Nary said sullenly.

“Okay, then let’s have a drink to start out on. I could use one myself. Got anything here, Holmgren?” I winked at Holmgren, to indicate the switch in orders, but he was too stupid to catch on. Well, if I couldn’t get Nary sleepy and submissive, then I’d have to do it by force.

When we were finally on the road, he asked, “Where are you taking me? I was all right where I was.”

“Porter didn’t think so, and he ought to know. We’re going out of town.”

“Not—not to Dad’s shack?” He sounded scared.

“Certainly not—they’ll have that staked out.”

They would, at that; otherwise it would have been an ideal place—the criminal returning to the scene of his crime. I’d have taken him instead to the clump of trees where I’d dumped his old man’s body, but the newspaper stories had made that a point of interest to the local yokels, so I couldn’t take a chance on it.

“Why didn’t you bring Bill along?” he brought up now. “I can’t go out myself to buy stuff—Porter ought to know that.”

“He knows it. There’ll be somebody else where we’re going.” I headed toward the coast Driving down that way with Bonnie, I hadn’t noticed much of the scenery, but I had seen a straggling fishing village that ought to do. I’d told Ed about it and he thought it would be just right.

I stopped the car on the edge of the settlement and put out the lights. Anybody who wasn’t out fishing was asleep. It was after midnight.

“We walk from here,” I told Nary.

He didn’t make any protest and we started down a rough track to the beach.

“This is better than going through the town,” I said. “We’ll climb up again when we’re opposite the place.”

There was no moon, but we could see our way by starlight. The tide was low, the ocean far out. We walked where the incoming tide would wash away our footsteps later.

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