Mafia Fix by Warren Murphy

Author:Warren Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Williams, Remo (Fictitious character) --Fiction., Chiun (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
ISBN: 9781035998470
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

CHAPTER ELEVEN

IT WAS REALLY GETTING GOOD NOW.

There was no way out of it.

Vance Masterman simply had to tell Loretta that he could not marry her because she was his daughter. That would free her to turn in Professor Singbar Ramkwat as the thief of the lymph node cure and then Loretta could marry Bart Henderson and he would continue his research work. Not even Claire Wentworth, Loretta’s mother, could be dissatisfied with that, particularly since it gave her a clear field to Dr. Bruce Barton.

But it all hinged on Vance Masterman telling Loretta. In just minutes it had to happen and Chiun was more than happy. Happiness, he demonstrated by rocking slightly back and forth while sitting in his full lotus position on the floor of their East Side apartment. When he was really overjoyed, sometimes he hummed. Today, Chiun was rocking and humming. Ecstasy.

He turned up the volume on the television set so as not to miss a word and then he waited for the solution to the problems of an entire community.

Braaaawk.

It was the door bell.

Whoever it was would simply have to wait. There were only about eight minutes left in the show anyway. Chiun could tell.

Braaaaaaaaaaaawk.

This time, the loud insistent squawk of the door bell threatened to overwhelm the music, violins and organs, sobbing from the television set.

Let him wait.

Of course, one should never let a person wait at a front door. That was rudeness and Orientals did not believe in rudeness. On the other hand, eighty-year-old Koreans who had attained peace with themselves, did not get up and walk away from the great moment of a show that they had watched for seven years to coax to this point. Politeness or self-contentment?

Courtesy was a duty and in his eight decades on the planet, Chiun had never shirked his duty. He was ready to shirk now, ready to sit Vance Masterman through right until the end and if someone waited in the hall until his feet grew roots through the carpet, that was too bad. People should not come visiting when good shows are on.

The impasse, fortunately, was resolved by up organ music, slow dissolve, momentary silence and then the appearance on screen of a lady plumber belly-laughing the stains out of sinks in New York City.

Chiun jumped to his feet and began running. Out of the living room, through the dining room, down the hallway, his long brocaded white robe swirling about his ankles.

Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawk.

Chiun reached up and unlocked the door. Then he unlocked the safety dead bolt. Then he went to remove the safety chain, all of which he had been assured were absolutely necessary to keep fastened at all times if one wished to remain alive in New York City for the better part of an afternoon.

But the safety chain was stuck and did not pull off its slide. So Chiun held the chain in his left hand and with a silent expulsion of air, brought his right fingertips down against the offending chain, searing one link as if it had been sliced by a bolt cutter.

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