World of the Gods by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473204119
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2015-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

House of Anzar

IT was with mixed feelings that lieutenant Don Cameron stood before the door of the house atop the cliff. His single seater police patrol vehicle was a few yards behind him, with engine ticking over for immediate getaway if the opportunity presented itself. Or indeed if there should be any need for a getaway. He kept trying to tell himself that everything he had thought and suspected may be a complete fabrication. Why should there be anything secretive about Anzar? Why? Why should the man have anything to hide? He might be nothing more than a purely eccentric scientist who desired for personal reasons to conceal the date of his birth. Some middle aged men were still touchy about their age, even in this advanced century. He couldn’t see why they should be, but on the other hand, why shouldn’t they? It was no more than a whim or a fancy to which genius was entitled. It was certainly not a crime. Again, wrecking a road surface, interfering with everybody’s television, crashing an autocar, frightening the daylights out of the passengers in a hover craft, and projecting ghosts into the crypt of a Norman church, hardly ranked as practical jokes. But was Anzar responsible? Was it, after all, just a chain of coincidence?

As he stood listening to the slow, dragging footsteps approaching him, Lieutenant Don Cameron felt some of his self-confidence abating. Maybe he was all wrong.

What if the old scientist just pulled the innocent? He heard bolts being withdrawn.

There was a creaking, grinding sound, as the door opened. There stood the man who answered the description of Professor Anzar perfectly, in every detail. He was square as a biscuit tin, with an enormous barrel chest, short, powerful arms, sturdy legs, and an enormous disproportionate head; he looked like the caricature of a man produced by a distorting mirror.

“Excuse me,” said Don. “Are you Professor Anzar?”

“I am,” replied the other.

“Allow me to introduce myself,” said the police lieutenant. “My name is Donald Cameron, I’m a police officer. I’m afraid I have one or two routine inquiries to make, in connection with some television disturbance which has been reported down in Radville. Some flats at the north end of the town.…”

“Come in … come in!” the professor interrupted him. “I have a small electrical device here, which I have been operating lately, it may be the cause of the trouble. If so, I am terribly sorry. I had no idea…”

“Wonder if I was wrong,” thought Cameron. He stepped inside.

Then he knew that he had been right.

The slow dragging footsteps had been part of a build-up. It was quite obvious that the professor had seen him coming and there was nothing slow or dragging about the way that Anzar jumped into action now…

Like an uncoiled spring he hurled the police officer forward into the corridor, passed swiftly behind him, slammed the door and crashed home the heavy bolts.

“Now, my interfering Cameron—if that’s what your name is—I’ll show you that

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