The Final Descent (The Monstrumologist)
“In retrospect, I should have taken my time.He was sitting against the same crate I had sat against, while Lilly tied a tourniquet above the wound in his calf. It was the purple bow from her hair. Warthrop’s face, shining with sweat, darkened as I stepped through the doorway.“Well?” he barked. “Where is it?”“He got away,” I gasped.I feared for an irrational moment that he was going to level the revolver at my forehead and pull the trigger. You could see the thought flicker through his mind like ...a swift-moving thunderhead. Instead he heaved himself to his feet.“What?” I asked, reflexively taking a step back. “You told me to give it to him.”“No,” he replied, his voice tight as a constrictor knot. “I told you to let him have it, which is something altogether different—in fact, altogether the opposite.”He was deathly pale, swaying on his feet. Lilly stepped to his side to offer herself as ballast, but he shrugged her off. “This is a calamity of the highest order, and you are our age’s Pandora, Mr.MoreLess
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