Nightmare Blue by Gardner Duzois
Author:Gardner Duzois [Duzois, Gardner]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-10-19T16:44:29+00:00
Chapter Six
âTo hell with the whole thing!â
Karl Jaeger smacked the silver head of his walking-stick angrily into his palms, then tapped it against the edge of his desk. âThis damn business has finally upset me. Iâm annoyed. I am very annoyed.â
Hans Weissmann fidgeted, looked concerned. âWas the damage to your apartment very great?â
âNo.â Jaeger made an impatient gesture. He had related to his friend most of the details of the events that had occurred the evening before. He had left out all mention of Nati, however, especially the disturbing fact of her forced employment by Schiller. Along with the entire Aensa situation and the problem of his own survival, Jaeger was faced with finding Nati a source of the blue drug. At the moment, all these things added together to make a circumstance too overwhelming for Jaeger to confront alone. But he had to work alone; he knew it and, with supreme reluctance, he accepted it. Still, he didnât have to like it.
âWell,â said Weissmann, âfor the record, and for the insurance claim, and for tax purposes, if you made an evaluationââ
Jaeger cut him off with a quick swipe of one hand. He could hardly believe that such things could be going on in the same world with the difficulties he was facing. âOne wall and the windows blown out,â he said. âSmoke damage to the furniture. My paintings and the books werenât badly damaged. The Dark Lightning was unhurt. It was really nothing. I spent the rest of the night with, ah, with a friend. Butââ
Weissmann smiled patiently at his friendâs tirade. âWhat did the SEPG have to say last night?â
âWasnât much they could say. I told them it was a malfunctioning solar accumulator that exploded; I canât get the SEPG involved in this business.â He laughed in rather nasty delight. âThey didnât think much of my story, but there wasnât much they could do about it; my name carries at least that much weight, these days. Besides, they couldnât really figure it out otherwise. Thatâs all right with me.â Jaeger smiled ruefully. âThatâs one of the reasons for my foul mood this morning. I hate to admit that this whole deal doesnât make sense yet. By now, I ought to be getting a clearer picture. But something or somebody is doing a very good job at holding me up. I keep hitting roadblocks, no matter which route I try.â He rubbed a finger along his nose and frowned, Why would Schiller first try to have him killed, and then try to have him interrogated? It ought to have been the other way around. No, it wasnât his imagination, thought Jaeger. There still wasnât any logic in it.
Herr Stahl entered, stood stoop-shouldered at the edge of the desk, and blinked. He looked down uninterestedly at Jaeger. The big man smiled back encouragingly and waited for Stahl to respond. Stahl said nothing. Jaeger shrugged his shoulders and handed Herr Stahl a folded piece of paper. Herr Stahl lazily unfolded the paper, glanced at it.
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