The Devil's Deep by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: rus
Format: epub
Published: 2001-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen:

Chad’s left eyeball had turned into a torture device. Sometimes it felt like red hot ball bearing shoved into his eye socket. Other times, like someone scratched a shard of glass back and forth across his cornea. At its best, it was a spoonful of sand between his eyelid and eyeball.

With the pain, his ability to blink that eye disappeared. In the Chateau d’If of his mind, Chad curled in his prison cell, unable to move. From the other side of the wall, he sometimes heard the abbé cry out in pain, other times babble incoherently.

And then, relief. After Anne Wistrom met with Pardo—lying, twisted demon of a man—and the doctor pretended not to know what had caused the inflammation, he had let slip the method to relieve Chad’s suffering. She had given his eyes regular baths with artificial tears.

And the pain receded. His eye began to heal. He knew that his torturer would return, and this time, the pain would be worse, the damage, greater. The cycle would continue until blindness ended his hopes of escape.

Thursday night, Frank, the janitor, came into the room to talk to the temp, a girl named Kelly Ann. Temp or no, she was the perfect HT for Chad, talking to him continually as she dressed him for bed, and gentle in her touch. With the other employees, however, she turned self-conscious and shy, awkward in her short, chubby body.

As for Frank, he was a decent guy, but always into some scheme or other and not quite as smart as he considered himself. Tonight, he was talking about how he was going to set up a web site as a rival and companion of eBay. The hook was that his site would allow people to auction items they intended to purchase from eBay.

“So it’s like a reseller for eBay auctions,” Frank said. “You find a great deal and then make your money as the middleman. Kind of like those people who shop yard sales, buy the bargains, then hold their own sales to make a profit. And I take a very small cut of every transaction.”

“Wow, that sounds like a great idea,” Kelly Ann said.

Frank nodded. “All it takes is one percent of eBay’s users to come over to eBay-squared—that’s my site—and I’ll be rich beyond your dreams.”

Right, Chad thought. And why don’t the eBay-squared buyers just go to eBay in the first place? Get the good deal themselves?

Wasn’t that the point of eBay, to make the process completely transparent to bring together the highest paying customers and the lowest-price sellers? Not to mention that the real eBay would send Frank a cease and desist letter about twenty-four hours after he opened his site.

Frank continued with the ever-more preposterous details of his plan and next thing Chad knew Frank and Kelly Ann were making out.

Funny how they always choose my room.

The abbé’s voice came from the other side of the wall. “Doesn’t seem to bother you. In fact, I think you rather like it.

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