The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza : [A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery] by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2011-11-03T23:53:39+00:00

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Lawrence Block

The hell with it. I moved from the dimness of the foyer into the living room, where light streamed in through the windows. Near the window on the left I saw an outline in chalk, half on the burnished parquet floor and half on the oriental rug. The rug was a Sarouk and it was a nice one and the chalk marks didn’t do anything for it.

Looking at the outline, I could picture his body lying there, one arm outstretched, one leg pointing directly at the chair where I’d been sitting Tuesday night.

I didn’t want to look at the chalk marks and I didn’t seem able to keep my eyes away from them. I felt funny. I turned away from them and turned back again, and then I skirted the chalk marks and walked to the window and looked out over the park, out across the river.

And then I realized what had been bothering me in the foyer. It was an absence that I had been faintly aware of, as Sherlock Holmes had remarked on the dog’s not barking in the night.

The thrill was gone. That little boost I always get when I cross a threshold without an invitation, that little up feeling that comes on like coffee in a vein, simply wasn’t there. I had come as a burglar, had managed entry by means of my cleverness and my skills, yet I felt neither triumph nor anticipation.

Because it was my old friend’s place and he had lately died in it, and that took the joy out of the occupation.

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