Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler

Author:Eric Ambler [Ambler, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780899684703
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1938-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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CORRISPONDENZA

FROM “N. Marinetti” to “J. L. Venezetti,” Poste Restante, Wagon-Lits-Cook, Milano.

MILANO,

April 9.

Dear Sir,

Further to our telephone conversation of yesterday, I enclose details of the past three months’ transactions and trust that this meets with your approval.

Yours faithfully,

N. Marinetti.

From “J. L. Venezetti” to “N. Marinetti,” Poste Restante, American Express, Milano.

MILANO,

April II.

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter and enclosure. I had expected only the details for the current month. The remaining material is, however, of value. I therefore enclose five thousand-lire notes instead of three as arranged in consideration of the extra material supplied. I also enclose the specifications and form of tender handed to me by Commendatore B. and trust that this business will go well. I look forward to your further communications.

Yours faithfully,

J. L. Venezetti.

From “N. Marinetti” to “J. L. Venezetti,” Poste Restante, Wagon-Lits-Cook, Milano.

MILANO,

April 12.

Dear Sir,

Your letter and enclosures safely received. I shall be writing to you again in three weeks’ time. With thanks.

Yours faithfully,

N. Marinetti.

From myself to Claire.

HOTEL PARIGI,

April 11.

Darling,

I’m afraid that I’m turning out a very bad correspondent, after all. It’s at least a week since I wrote to you, and to make it worse I had your letter this morning. It made me feel very guilty. But the fact is, my sweet, that I had a bit of an accident a day or so ago. Nothing serious. A few bruises only. But I had to spend a day in bed; and with the way things are at the office that has meant that I’ve had the devil’s own job catching up with the work that has accumulated. I’ve also had to waste to-day going to Cremona to see some people about a complaint—an additional complication. All of which is by way of being not only an apologia, but also a delicate preamble to what I really have to say.

Do you remember, darling, that when we discussed my taking this job originally, we decided that it should be a sort of stop-gap, something to tide over an awkward period? It was, we told each other, only for a little while, a few months at most, just until things got better in England.

Although it’s only a few weeks back that we said it all, it seems like years ago to me; and, just as if it were, indeed, years ago, I can look at the whole thing without too much prejudice. I can’t help wondering, my sweet, just how much we thought we were deceiving ourselves. Although neither of us said as much, I fancy that we were both afraid of facing the simple truth that, barring miracles, there was not a ghost of a chance of my being able to come home in anything like the near future—without going back to the point at which I started when Barnton Heath closed down on me.

So what? Simply this, darling. I have decided to come and take my chance again. I fancy that it was a little unwise of me to take on this job at all; but that is beside the point.

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