Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine 040111 by Dell Magazines

Author:Dell Magazines
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Dell Magazines
Published: 2011-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

Sam was trying to retreat deeper into his pillow.

“I let Millbank get to me, Jerry. All year, he’s been finding occasions to mention some property my father said he might donate to the school. Then he sends my dean after me, and he said they might have to look into my transfer credits, but hinted they wouldn’t if I could help hurry the donation along . . . the whole thing was bogus. They already looked at my records when I came last fall. There’s nothing wrong with any of them.”

“I thought that was a little underhanded, myself. You tell your dad about that?”

“I did. My dad told me he pretty much had Millbank figured out from the start. I guess the donation was to sort of grease the skids to get me enrolled here in the first place. I know he intends to do it, but what’s the hurry? I don’t know, maybe there’s complications in the title to the property, and straightening it out takes time.”

“So, what are we gonna do?”

Sam sat up again.

“Jerry, we may be carrying that solemn pact business too far. This is serious. There was nothing in the pact that said one of us had to go to jail rather than—”

“Are you saying we go and give ourselves up?”

“Yeah.”

“I wonder what Luke would say.”

“He’s probably saying ‘get me out of here!’”

“Cops’ll find out who really did it, and they’ll hav’ta let Luke go.”

“What makes you think they’re going to do any more looking? You said they’ve got a witness, and they’ve got Luke. They’ve got all they need. What are the chances they’ll keep looking unless we tell them where he was?”

“C’mon, Sam, the prank of the century, and you want to give it up already?”

“Maybe Luke’ll come to his senses and spill the beans . . . that’ll settle it. This morning, you were the one who thought we might have been too hasty with that oath.”

“I was half awake and that was sleepy talkin’.”

“Jerry, look, having a little fun with Millbank and his heritage is one thing, getting even for trying to pressure my father through me—well, that’s another thing, but this is serious. Somehow the pact doesn’t seem so important anymore. We can’t just let Luke hang out there like last week’s washing.”

“We do that, we’ll be out of here so fast we won’t even see the doorframe when it goes by.”

“I could leave you out of it. I’ll tell them it was just me and Luke. If I can’t get into another college, I’ll just have to go to work in the family business. All I’m going to college for, when it comes down to it, is to postpone that as long as possible.”

“Lissen, Sam. We can’t waste this. There’s gotta be another way. We can fix it.”

“I wish we could, but I sure don’t see it.”

“You’re the genius. You figured out how to get that cannon onto the roof.”

Sam and Jerry engaged in a little eye-contact jousting for a few seconds.

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