Nightmare by Aarons Edward S
Author:Aarons, Edward S. [Aarons, Edward S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Pulp
Publisher: Fiction House
Published: 1949-03-15T05:00:00+00:00
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Footsteps pounded up the slippery sidewalk, reached the lawn, and went on by. Nolly wriggled along on his elbows, hauled himself half erect on a sign staked into the lawn. A. M. Carlson, M.D. It was a little rectangular electric sign in black and white, but it wasnât working. The cottage was in equal darkness. Nausea pounded through him in great, spasmodic waves.
Other footsteps approached. Far down at the corner came a prowl car. The spotlight flickered like a probing finger over the dark lawn, touching the squat houses, prodding the shrubbery inquisitively, restlessly. Nolly roused himself and drew back deeper behind the oaks on the doctorâs lawn. But even here there was no protection from the approaching spotlight. And men were scouring the lawns farther down, inevitably drawing closer. He raised his head carefully and looked around. The effort sent new waves of pain down through his shattered shoulder. Across the street were two slickered patrolmen, searching the lawns with flashlights. As he looked at them, one turned away from his partner and came across the street through the rain, toward Nollyâs lawn. Nolly crawled back between the two houses, into deeper darkness. But there was no shrubbery here to protect him. Only a concrete garage driveway, and the wet brick wall of the bungalow.
He hugged the wall. He was on his hands and knees, and the effort to move was rapidly draining his strength. His left arm was useless. His body was wet, through and through, with rain and sweat. A flicker of light shot far down the areaway between the two bungalows and he flattened, trying to squeeze himself into the mortar between the brick. Astonishingly, the wall yielded to his frantic pressure. A narrow cellar window, half hidden in the autumn weeds, opened inward as his body leaned against it. From the sidewalk behind him came a manâs grumbling voice, and then-the beam of light began a methodical swing back and forth over the driveway.
Nolly pushed the window all the way in with his right hand and slid and wriggled and shoved his body inside. For a moment he thought he wouldnât make it. He couldnât get in. His wounded shoulder scraped on the wooden sill and blinded him with an indecent pain. His left hand left a dark imprint on the ground as he flexed his leg through. The flashlight slid by within inches of the spot he had just left. He forced his way all the way through and dropped into complete darkness. His outflung hand hit a bench, his knee cracked painfully on something solid and metallic. The bench partly checked his fall. He kept going headlong into the black, hit concrete with a sickening thud. Overhead, the window dropped back into place with a dull thump. For a moment it was illuminated by the copâs probing flashlight, then it went dark again.
It was warm and dry in the cellar, There was no sound of alarm from anywhere inside the house.
He lay still. He could hear the sound of his own breathing, gasping and rasping through the darkness.
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