Any Woman He Wanted by Harry Whittington

Author:Harry Whittington [Whittington, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The chauffeur drove swiftly on the way back. He still kept his eyes straight ahead, but now he used the Cad like a hot-rod.

“I know now what it was that Tom wanted to tell me,” Carolyn said. She seemed unaware of the way the car jockey handled the Cad, unaware of anything outside her own thoughts.

“Yes,” I said.

She turned and looked at me. “Do you know, too, Mike? Have you figured it out?”

The funeral pennant on the fender was snapping in the wind. I nodded. “It was easy.”

He had been threatened. That was what he had wanted to say to me that afternoon in his library, what he almost said to Carolyn—his life had been in danger. But he had not been able to bring in the issue of his personal safety in a public campaign. That was the Flynn pride. He could plead with me to help him clean up a dirty town. But he could not ask anyone to save his life in that same connection.

“They threatened him, Mike,” Carolyn said. “They threatened to kill him, unless he stopped.”

“Yes.”

She pressed her hand against her mouth. “He thought—he thought he would be all right—if he could get you to help him.”

“Yes,” I said. “I guess he did. But believe me, Carolyn, I couldn’t have saved him. He helped make the police force in this town what it is today. He didn’t mean to, but he did. He was, in some ways, an outsider and he made mistakes. But he wasn’t wrong. Believe that.”

Carolyn nodded and then it was as if she went away from me. She sat beside me in the back seat of that swift moving car, but she seemed far away, out of reach.

I watched the fender pennant snap in the wind. The sound did not reach into the silence between us.

Big Fred Carmichael’s car was parked out front of her house when we got there. I did not even get out to go to the door with her.

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