Darkness At Dawn : Early Suspense Classics (2014)
Darkness At Dawn : Early Suspense Classics
“They always break it to you that way.
“Yeah. I’m his brother.”
“Better come down and see him,” he said. I got my hat and went with him.
Eddie was in the emergency ward of the Mount Eden Hospital, he told me. He’d been found lying on his back on a lonely stretch of road out toward White Plains, slowly bleeding away.
“What is it, hit and run?” I cried, grabbing him by the sleeve.
He didn’t want to tell me at first. Then, just before we got there he said, “Well, you may as well... know now as later, I guess.” Eddie’s tongue had been torn out by the roots and all ten of his fingers had been cut off at the base, leaving just the stumps of both hands.
I went all weak at the pit of my stomach when I heard it. And then when I got the full implication of the thing, it was even worse. That poor kid. Just turned twenty. Yesterday with his life all before him.MoreLess
“Yeah. I’m his brother.”
“Better come down and see him,” he said. I got my hat and went with him.
Eddie was in the emergency ward of the Mount Eden Hospital, he told me. He’d been found lying on his back on a lonely stretch of road out toward White Plains, slowly bleeding away.
“What is it, hit and run?” I cried, grabbing him by the sleeve.
He didn’t want to tell me at first. Then, just before we got there he said, “Well, you may as well... know now as later, I guess.” Eddie’s tongue had been torn out by the roots and all ten of his fingers had been cut off at the base, leaving just the stumps of both hands.
I went all weak at the pit of my stomach when I heard it. And then when I got the full implication of the thing, it was even worse. That poor kid. Just turned twenty. Yesterday with his life all before him.MoreLess
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