The Avenger 19 - Pictures of Death
“The Marsden house was big but not especially elaborate when you remembered all the millions of dollars Marsden was supposed to own. It was set in a half block of lawn, with thick shrubbery. There was a high iron fence and a gate.
The gate was closed. Cole got out of his car and went to it. There was a buzzer in the stone pillar to the right. He pressed this and heard a click. He tried the gate, found it open and walked into the place.
The path led among well-kept bushes and cone-shaped ...evergreens. All beautiful enough. But Cole was like a trained soldier who does not look at landscape for beauty but for possible ambushes. He looked around here, and he didn’t like what he saw.
A dozen men could be hidden, even in daylight, in the thick clumps of shrubbery. Another dozen could keep the boles of thick trees between them and him. And the house itself, under shade of more trees, loomed dark and somehow mysterious. Its walls were thick—so thick that Cole’s first thought was how easy it would be to shoot a man and never have the shot heard outside.MoreLess
The gate was closed. Cole got out of his car and went to it. There was a buzzer in the stone pillar to the right. He pressed this and heard a click. He tried the gate, found it open and walked into the place.
The path led among well-kept bushes and cone-shaped ...evergreens. All beautiful enough. But Cole was like a trained soldier who does not look at landscape for beauty but for possible ambushes. He looked around here, and he didn’t like what he saw.
A dozen men could be hidden, even in daylight, in the thick clumps of shrubbery. Another dozen could keep the boles of thick trees between them and him. And the house itself, under shade of more trees, loomed dark and somehow mysterious. Its walls were thick—so thick that Cole’s first thought was how easy it would be to shoot a man and never have the shot heard outside.MoreLess
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