Back Passage by James Lear

Author:James Lear [James Lear]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Mystery & Detective, Humorous, General, Erotica, Fiction
ISBN: 9781573442435
Google: K7Sxaz7X8gkC
Amazon: 1573442437
Barnesnoble: 1573442437
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2006-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

The secretary raised his eyebrows a little, but nodded. "Yes, Sir James is an excellent employer. I'm very lucky, as you say."

There was more to this than met the eye, and I remembered Burroughs's statement that everyone in the Eagle household had a secret. Why not this pale-faced, serious young man as well?

"I'd give anything to spend a couple of months in your shoes."

"Oh, would you indeed?" The secretary shot me a look in which sarcasm was mingled with embarrassment. Here was a man clearly not happy with his lot.

"Sure I would. Access to all that real stuff, the powers that be, you know, the things that we never read about in the papers. The stuff that matters."

This time the secretary couldn't contain himself, and let out a noise that is usually transcribed as "Pah!"

"Oh. I guess it's not as much fun as it looks, Mr.... sorry, we haven't been properly introduced.

I'm Edward Mitchell."

"I know who you are, Mr. Mitchell," he said, taking my extended hand rather gingerly, as if he'd much rather not. His hand was warm and dry, which encouraged me; I feared that, like many bookish men I'd met at college, he would incline to clamminess. "I'm West. Vincent West."

"Pleased to meet you, Vince."

He winced at this familiarity, but at least he was no longer so eager to get me out of the room.

"I'm sorry to disillusion you, Mr. Mitchell," he said, lowering his voice, "because I thought the very same thing when I was your age, about to come out of Cambridge and enter the civil service. I dreamed of stalking the corridors of power, as you say. Of influencing public life from behind the scenes. Well, it didn't quite turn out that way, as you can see."

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