Sandford, John - Kidd 04 - The Hanged Man's Song by Sandford John

Author:Sandford, John
Language: eng
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We found a grassy spot and from there watched Carp assemble the mountain bike behind the Corol a.

When he was done, he rode it once, in a practiced way, around the parking lot. He seemed too big for the machine, but he rode it with a confidence that suggested that Jimmy James Carp had talents we didn’t know of. A second later, the bike having been tested, he went back to the car, pul ed on a long-bil ed black fishing cap, then slammed and locked the door.

He didn’t have the briefcase with him.

“I’m gone,” LuEl en said. She’d try to stay with him. We both got up, both dusted the seat of our pants, and walked back to

the cars. She did a quick U-turn and then went down the street beside the church and did another, so she was pointing back toward the park. Whichever way Carp went, she could Page 81

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I watched Jimmy James pedal by, take a left, and head back to the street that had taken us up out of the park. LuEl en dropped in behind him, and I went after the Corol a.

› ON THEfront seat of my car, I had a plumb bob. Plumb bobs are one of the oldest surveying tools in the world, and were undoubtedly used to help build the pyramids. Basical y, the modern version is a slender brass cone, with a sharp stainless-steel point. A long piece of string attaches to the precise center of the blunt end of the cone, and when you let the plumb bob dangle, and the pendulum movement subsides, the string makes a perfect vertical line.

That’s useful if you’re making a pyramid foundation.

Which I wasn’t. I’d pul ed the string off and had thrown it away, leaving myself with a heavy brass cone with a sharp steel

point. I pul ed into a parking spot next to Carp’s car and cal ed LuEl en.

She came back, “He’s headed back into the park, down the hil . I’m not gonna get out of the car, but I could lose him… I can stil see him… Do the car now.”

“Doing the car,” I said.

I got out of my car, carrying the plumb bob. Stepping up to the driver’s-side window on the Corol a, I put the point of the plumb bob on the glass, just outside the inner door lock. I hit the blunt end of the plumb bob with the heel of my other hand, and the steel point poked easily through the glass with almost no sound at al , or obvious motion on my part.

I pul ed the plumb bob out of the hole, stuck my finger through the glass, popped the lock. Inside the car, I took a few seconds to find the trunk latch: found it, popped the trunk, took the briefcase out. I couldn’t help myself: I looked inside, and there, just where it was supposed to be, was an IBM

laptop.

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