The Ghost Wore Gray
“I said, trying to sound casual.
“Shut up,” said Porter, “or your friend gets an air-conditioned brain.”
I shut up. I put the box at Porter’s feet as he directed. Then I climbed slowly out of the hole.
I was trying to think, but I was too frightened. I was even too scared to get mad. But I wanted to. Who did this guy think he was, to come and take the treasure after we had done all the work?
Besides, how did he think he was going to get away with it? He wasn’t even wearing a mask. We would just ...tell the police who had done it, and … I may be a little slow, but I’m not entirely stupid. It was about then that I realized Porter probably had no intention of letting us tell anything to anyone. Odds were, he did not intend to let either one of us live to see the morning.
“The thing is, how to do it,” he said as if he were reading my mind. “It’s a little like one of those problems where you have to get a fox, a goose, and a sack of grain across the river without anything getting eaten, even though you can only take one thing across at a time.MoreLess
“Shut up,” said Porter, “or your friend gets an air-conditioned brain.”
I shut up. I put the box at Porter’s feet as he directed. Then I climbed slowly out of the hole.
I was trying to think, but I was too frightened. I was even too scared to get mad. But I wanted to. Who did this guy think he was, to come and take the treasure after we had done all the work?
Besides, how did he think he was going to get away with it? He wasn’t even wearing a mask. We would just ...tell the police who had done it, and … I may be a little slow, but I’m not entirely stupid. It was about then that I realized Porter probably had no intention of letting us tell anything to anyone. Odds were, he did not intend to let either one of us live to see the morning.
“The thing is, how to do it,” he said as if he were reading my mind. “It’s a little like one of those problems where you have to get a fox, a goose, and a sack of grain across the river without anything getting eaten, even though you can only take one thing across at a time.MoreLess
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