Too Soon Dead by Donald Hamilton

Author:Donald Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: murder, suspense, espionage, crime
Publisher: Bluebook
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

8

THEY ROLLED down the wet street at a discreet 25 miles per hour. The girl sat half-turned in her seat to look through the rear window; but the gun was steady in her hand. Presently she drew a long breath, settled herself more comfortably in the seat beside McLane, and arranged her dress loosely over her knees so that, somewhat dampened by rain, it would not wrinkle too badly as it dried. At last she looked up.

“For a guy who doesn’t drive, you seem to be making out okay there, Professor,” she said, a little mockingly.

He glanced at her, startled, suddenly conscious of the steering wheel in his hands and the accelerator under his foot as strange objects with which he had had no dealings for a year. It had seemed quite natural to get behind the wheel and drive as he was ordered; and he had been more concerned with the problem of the threatening gun, and the more remote but very important question of what had motivated this abduction. Why would anyone want him badly enough to have him kidnapped like this, right under the eyes, apparently, of the F.B.I.?

He had no answer to this, but it still seemed quite natural to him to be driving. He might never have stopped—he might never have had an accident in his life—for all the emotion it aroused in him now. The realization made him feel a little ridiculous, as if a suspected attack of appendicitis, about which he had made a considerable fuss, had turned out to be nothing but a mild case of indigestion. He reminded himself, somewhat defensively, that it was not quite as if Pat were sitting beside him in the car. That was, after all, the reason he had not been able to make himself drive again right after the accident; a kind of terror at the thought of ever again putting himself in a position to cause the death of someone he loved. It was a reason that did not apply here.

“You’re doing swell, Professor,” Connie said “But move it along, will you?”

McLane increased the speed by five miles per hour. “Where are we going?” he asked. Instinct warned him to display all the expected reactions, even though neither fear nor curiosity were likely to gain him any immediate profit. “What was that telephone call, Connie? Why are you taking me—?”

“Never mind all the questions, Professor.”

He said experimentally, “You won’t get away with this. If the F.B.I. had a dictaphone in your room, as you seemed to think, it stands to reason they were also listening in on your telephone conversation, in which case they know exactly—”

The girl laughed. “If they check on everything they thought they heard over that phone, they’ll have a busy night. Didn’t you ever hear of a code? Now shut up and watch your driving. Left here. Take it easy going over the bridge; we don’t want to be caught speeding. Take the first right on the other side and keep going.

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