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pending/1607: Friend Detox your body while dropping pounds (pending) |
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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:16:28 -0600 (CST) |
>Number: 1607
>Category: pending
>Synopsis: Friend Detox your body while dropping pounds
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 10 23:16:28 -0600 2009
>Originator: "OrganicaLabs" <address@hidden>
>Release:
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<I sat down in an armchair and felt very sick. That lasted for maybe five
minutes, and was succeeded by a fit of the horrors. The poor staring white face
on the floor was more than I could bear, and I managed to get a table cloth and
cover it. Then I staggered to a cupboard, found the brandy and swallowed
several mouthfuls. I had seen men die violently before; indeed I had killed a
few myself in the Matabele War; but this cold blooded indoor business was
different. Still I managed to pull myself together. I looked at my watch, and
saw that it was half past ten.
An idea seized me, and I went over the flat with a small tooth comb. There was
nobody there, nor any trace of anybody, but I shuttered and bolted all the
windows and put the chain on the door. By this time my wits were coming back to
me, and I could think again. It took me about an hour to figure the thing out,
and I did not hurry, for, unless the murderer came back, I had till about six
oclock in the morning for my cogitations.
I was in the soup that was pretty clear. Any shadow of a doubt I might have
had about the truth of Scudders tale was now gone. The proof of it was lying
under the table cloth. The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found
him, and had taken the best way to make certain of his silence. Yes; but he had
been in my rooms four days, and his enemies must have reckoned that he had
confided in me. So I would be the next to go. It might be that very night, or
next day, or the day after, but my number was up all right.
Then suddenly I thought of another probability. Supposing I went out now and
called in the police, or went to bed and let Paddock find the body and call
them in the morning. What kind of a story was I to tell about Scudder? I had
lied to Paddock about him, and the whole thing looked desperately fishy. If I
made a clean breast of it and told the police everything he had told me, they
would simply laugh at me. The odds were a thousand to one that I would be
charged with the murder, and the circumstantial evidence was strong enough to
hang me. Few people knew me in England; I had no real pal who could come
forward and swear to my character. Perhaps that was what those secret enemies
were playing for. They were clever enough for anything, and an English prison
was as good a way of getting rid of me till after June 15th as a knife in my
chest.
Besides, if I told the whole story, and by any miracle was believed, I would
be playing their game. Karolides would stay at home, which was what they
wanted. Somehow or other the sight of Scudders dead face had made me a
passionate believer in his scheme. He was gone, but he had taken me into his
confidence, and I was pretty well bound to carry on his work.
You may think this ridiculous for a man in danger of his life, but that was
the way I looked at it. I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other
people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be
the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
It took me an hour or two to think this out, and by that time I had come to a
decision. I must vanish somehow, and keep vanished till the end of the second
week in June. Then I must somehow find a way to get in touch with the
Government people and tell them what Scudder had told me. I wished to Heaven he
had told me more, and that I had listened more carefully to the little he had
told me. I knew nothing but the barest facts. There was a big risk that, even
if I weathered the other dangers, I would not be believed in the end. I must
take my chance of that, and hope that something might happen which would
confirm my tale in the eyes of the Government.>
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