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Chapter 35
Nathan’s reminiscence
It was nearing midnight, Halloween coming to a close. All the little kiddies were at home sifting through mounds of sweets in preparation of cavity orgies in the days to come. Most adult revelers were still partying or finding spots to nurse their binges.
Usually, I'd be home with a tumbler of Johnnie Walker Black in hand, microwave popcorn by my side, watching Halloween 1 & 2 back-to-back. It was a usual tradition since my teens, but now I sit in a corner booth at the waffle house, nursing my umpteenth cup of truck stop Java, waiting on him.It all started with my fascination of horror movies and urban folklore, but that little fascination turned into an obsession while poring through the library archives in the campus library.Two years ago, I was just a normal college sophomore on scholarship in a small college town near the TexRelated chapters
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Jane’s POVMy abduction took place on a Tuesday morning, after my shower, while coffee was brewing. I stepped outside to fetch the mail, clad only in my fluffy pink bathrobe and cottontail slippers. I was nibbling on a bagel with cream cheese, considering hitting the treadmill after making breakfast for my husband, and didn't notice anything unusual about the tan car that pulled into the driveway other than the fact that it shouldn't be there. I frowned, juggling an armload of junk mail and my bagel, assuming the driver had made a mistake and had the wrong house. I started walking back towards the door, flicking a glance behind me, watching the car back slowly towards the street. Simple enough, just someone misplaced, and not the first time it had happened. I reshuffled the mail, held the bagel with my teeth to free a hand for the door knob, and then staggered as a black garbage bag was drawn over
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“I think you were pretty tough on Lancelot,” commented Susan as they walked through the entrance Hall. Keeping her voice low.“You have certainly worked with me long enough to know I adapt my tactics to bring out information and obtain. They worked,” said Nathan. Susan scowled.“That was not some information which you could not have gotten by some other process. You need to think about the bigger picture as well. If you keeping scaring him and making him nervous as a tic then I doubt that he is going to reveal anything to us,” said Susan. Nathan looked at me and gave a tight smile. Just at the moment the phone rang in his pocket and he fished it out.Nathan stared at the name and then picked it up and then barked,” Frost.”“What? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WHEN THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN???&r
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When they entered the hall of the hotel again, Nathan glanced up the stairs. The man that they had rescued from prison, although Susan was not aware about it was descending from the stairs. But Nathan glanced quickly at the parlour and found that Lancelot was standing there waiting for someone and Nathan put up a hand at him asking him to wait. Following him in was Susan, who looked at the visitor’s area couch and found Lancelot. He was looking handsome in the clothes that he had chosen to wear.He jumped up and held out his hand and squeezed hers. Always smartly clad he was wearing a white suit, white jacket and the collar of his white shirt was open at the neck and no cravat. His ensemble was complete with two white leather shoes with brown toe-caps. Reluctantly, Susan admitted to herself that he was really very impressive and he did not know how to make that impression last in the mind of a woman.
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Suppressing her urge to dash out in the hall way just gazing at his face, Susan chose an armchair, sat very erect as he moved closer towards her. His motion reminded of what she had previously thought about Neville. He slithered into the arm chair.He no longer wore the disguise that he had used when he enjoyed her charms and had continuously duped her and did not even give a shit when she came to know everything about him .. All the truth…but Susan had no idea that why on earth was her past coming to haunt her in this way. Had she not been punished enough? Had she not suffered already in her life?He was dressed in a black suit. Black trousers, a long black jacket, black tie over a white shirt. He was very tall and thin and the black stressed the bloodless cadaverous face. If there had been any charm when they had last met each other then none of that was left at all now, his thin lips curved i
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Vermont looked at Nathan still confused and asked,” You want to know the real reason that has been going on so far in this place? I mean, I can tell you what else I have found out so far.”“Of course. I want to hear it,” said Nathan as he focused back on Vermont with a serious expression.“She picked me out of the list of private detectives because she liked, Eyes Only.. Don’t ask me why. I still have no clue about that. The mission was to locate the murderer of her sisters. She thinks that with her brother being implicated in the murder of these two women as well is in some kind of danger. I was not supposed to break the code and inform him about anything but I had to break the code and for that I am not going to take away the money that she is paying me,” said Vermont.“What else did she tell you? I mean, this is a ruse that the
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Susan knew that Nathan was never going to leave her alone in doing some detective work of her own but clearly he was busy with Vermont and they were talking business so this was the only chance that she would get to investigate the matters on her own. She was intrigued by what was going on in the Black Gorse Moor and the hidden tunnel underneath all that gorse. She had yet to tell Nathan about that. So it would be better if she did some digging on her own at first.She dressed up wearing two leather jackets and ankle boots and put a few essential items in the backpack. When she descended down she heard that there was a friendly and serious conversation going on inside the room where Frost was staying. That meant that the two men were talking business.In the hall, the landlord was describing the area in her map and was absorbed in doing that. The lady who was standing was quite elegantly dressed and sh
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Susan had dropped to her knees to explore the tunnel. When she risked shining her more powerful torch into the darkness the beam faded into blackness a few yards ahead. The tunnel must be endless. She just had entered the tunnel when the metal buckle on the top of her backpack scarped against the top of the tunnel. She was worried about the noise and hauled the pack off her back and dragged it along by the handle. It was not long before the pressure of the unknown crept in her mind. She gritted her teeth determined to discover the reason for the tunnel.The tunnel continued its gradual descent. Soon she would be deep under the Black Gorse Moor. And it was definitely not a pleasant thought. She was also worried that someone might have noticed that the lid of the tunnel had been removed. Since she had no partner this time and was doing this all by herself, her back was completely exposed and she might be attacked without being a
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When Acheson MacArthur was finally up, they lay there like that for a while, exercising limbs and recovering. Then Acheson squeezed Susan’s arm and slowly asked,” What next?”“We get out of this fiendish tunnel. I know the way. I will go first. Keep close behind me.”“Gal, I have to say, you have got guts,” he said.“What is that plastic canister in your pocket?” asked Susan.“That is a sample. Let’s start the crawl…it is going to take a long time…”As she eventually emerged from the tunnel, she could not recall experiencing such a frantic sense of relief. And now for the first time the moon had come out, illuminating the bowl as far as they could see. She screwed the lid back on in the position where it was over the entrance and sat on it. Mac
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