Seven Years Dead - A World War 2 Espionage Thriller by Chuck Driskell

Author:Chuck Driskell [Driskell, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Autobahn Books
Published: 2016-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Journal Entry

By the time this journal is found, my plan will be easy to piece together. Put simply, I used my fluency in German, and a few flattering letters of recommendation from the professor and his acquaintances, to secure a job that would take me to Germany. The professor helped me gather together the information on the 101st SS Panzers, as well as dossiers on numerous SS personnel.

To this day, I have no idea how he got that information. Again, I have my suspicions, but it wouldn’t be fair to speculate.

In January of this year, shortly after I was hired by Day Construction down in Dallas, I received a phone call from a hospital in Oklahoma City. While lecturing at school, the professor had suffered a major heart attack and was in critical condition. He’d managed to tell the attending nurse to call me. It took her a few days to figure out how to reach me. Although I was in training, my new boss was fine with me leaving for a few days. I arrived three days after the professor had been rushed to the hospital. By the time I arrived, he’d improved enough to transition to a regular room. When I entered, he was flat on his back, reading a book that he held above him.

“Ahh, Mister Elder,” he said, sounding as if nothing happened.

“Are you okay?” I asked, for lack of anything better to say.

“I’m fine as long as I lie here perfectly still. Reading helps me pass the time.”

“Are you going to be alright?”

“That remains to be seen. My heart doctor, a fine young man from Oregon, seems quite concerned with my symptoms. Though he’s not yet leveled with me, I’ve a sneaking suspicion that I have a ticking time bomb in my chest.” He said this in the same tone he would use to tell me what he planned on cooking for dinner.

“Why do you think that?”

“It doesn’t matter, Mister Elder. What’s a hundred more days? What’s ten thousand more days? All of us must rejoin the basic elements of this sphere at some point. It’s as natural as childbirth and completely unavoidable, unless I’ve missed something along the way.”

I hated it when the professor contemplated such weighty matters academically. He was a history professor, not a damned philosopher. “You’re going to get better, professor.”

“Perhaps. Perhaps not. How’s the training in Dallas?”

I shrugged. “Lots of civil regulations to learn.”

“Sounds exhilarating.”

“Yeah,” I snorted. “A real gas.”

“Have they told you when you will depart for Germany?”

“Probably early summer.”

He nodded then shut the book, placing it beside him. Just that simple movement winded him, making him wheeze.

When he recovered, he turned his head as he spoke. “Mister Elder, I just want you to know I’ve enjoyed our time together. After this visit, I want you to return to your training and not concern yourself about me.” The professor saw me opening my mouth to speak. He silenced me with a shake of his head. “Other than our study and preparations, we’ve had a fine time together.

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