Barker, Clive - The Age of Desire by Barker Clive

Author:Barker, Clive [Barker, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-06-11T16:51:53+00:00

Carnegie had been warned by his superiors that results were expected. He was now passing the verbal beating he’d received to those under him. It was a line of humiliation in which the greater was encouraged to kick the lesser man, and that man, in turn, his lesser. Carnegie had sometimes wondered what the man at the end of the line took his ire out on; his dog presumably.

“This miscreant is still loose, gentlemen, despite his photograph in many of this morning’s newspapers and an operating method which is, to say the least, insolent. We will catch him, of course, but let’s get the bastard before we have another murder on our hands”

The phone rang. Boyle’s replacement, Migeon, picked it up, while Carnegie concluded his pep talk to the assembled officers.

“I want him in the next twenty-four hors, gentlemen. That’s the time scale I’ve been given, and that’s what we’ve got. Twenty-four hours.”

Migeon interrupted. “Sir? It’s Johannson. He says he’s got something for you. It’s urgent.”

“Right.” Carnegie claimed the receiver. “Carnegie.”

The voice at the other end was soft to the point of inaudibility. “Carnegie,” Johannson said, “we’ve been right through the laboratory, dug up every piece of information we could find on Dance and Welles’s tests”

“And?”

“We’ve also analyzed traces of the agent from the hypo they used on the suspect. I think we’ve found the boy, Carnegie.”

“What boy?” Carnegie wanted to know. He found Johannson’s obfuscation irritating.

“The Blind Boy, Carnegie.”

“And?”

For some inexplicable reason Carnegie was certain the man smiled down the phone line before replying: “I think perhaps you’d better come down and see for yourself. Sometime around noon suit you?”

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