There are no spies by Granger Bill

Author:Granger, Bill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Devereaux (Fictitious character), Intelligence service
Publisher: New York, NY : Warner Books
Published: 1986-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

BILL GRANGER

and he has been committed against his will to an asylum. In Maryland. You have to get him out."

"But. I don't understand. Is he insane?"

It was the question Mrs. Neumann had pondered as well. Like an unfinished conversation, there was no answer. Let that conversation wait for a time.

"No," she said, without believing it. "The point is: He is very ill. He is very, very ill and I can't see him."

"Are you his friend?" she said.

"Yes," said Mrs. Neumann without thinking.

"Are you his lover?"

Mrs. Neumann laughed and both of them realized that laughter did not belong in this holy place full of holy things of a new age.

Margot Kieker tried on a smile approved by the company.

Mrs. Neumann responded. "No, dear, not his lover. I am . . . his friend." To say the word again, deliberately, seemed strange to her. She had never been in Hanley's home and he had declined all invitations to visit her and Leo. Hanley was the solitary man, enjoying his solitary nature. Or, at least, accepting it as a priest accepts the restraints on friendship and love in his vocation.

"That's very nice of you to be concerned about him," Margot Kieker said. It was the sweet butter sentiment of the prairies. Then her lips snapped shut like a purse. The sentimental visit was over. The workday was beginning and Margot Kieker was fresh and starched.

"You're not interested in a computer then?"

Mrs. Neumann blinked.

Margot stared at her, the mouth poised to register an emotion— if appropriate.

"Yes, I am interested in computers," said Mrs. Neumann, saying too much to a stranger. She felt angry and embarrassed. She had gone out of her way to save her "friend" and it was nothing more to this creature than if she had gone across the street to buy a newspaper.

Mrs. Neumann opened a paper file and pushed it on the desk. It was a computer printout that told most of the story of Hanley's life.

"Do you know what this is?"

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