The List of Adrian Messenger Page #4

seemed to make any sense.

This is important.

-Very.

-So, okay.

There is a way with my mind that l

sometimes use about remembering.

You wish me to have a shot?

Please.

He begins to speak.

His words, they are just words.

No sentences.

First he says his name,

many times.

Then he says,

''Jocelyn got me to tell.''

Two times, maybe three.

''Jocelyn got me to tell.''

Then he says, ''Photograph.''

Then there are two names,

''George, Emma's''.

Then they run together.

''George, Emma's photograph.''

Then there was a silence.

Then he shouts

something about brushes.

''Sweep clean, sweep clean.''

''Only one brush left.

Sweep clean, sweep clean.''

Then it was as if he had coughed.

But it was not a cough.

It was the end.

He was dead.

So, you have written all this.

-As best l could, yes.

-Does it help you?

l don't know yet.

Why are you asking these questions?

In the hopes of

finding Adrian's murderer.

Murderer?

It was because of Adrian that the

aircraft was blown out of the sky.

That's impossible. Adrian

didn't have an enemy in the world.

Are you sure? Is there anything

that you can tell me about him?

What could there be? He was one of

those creatures with no dark sides.

He had two passions.

Fox hunting and writing.

One other, his cat.

Clean.

Sweep.

Emma's.

My dear fellow, come in!

-l do not disturb?

-Most certainly not!

What the devil are you

doing out of your hospital bed?

l have been thinking.

Splendid, tell me about it.

lf you're up to it.

l do not walk on my arms,

or my ribs.

l have been thinking that l

too was blown out of the sky.

This offends me.

So, l am declaring

myself in on your hunt.

Welcome aboard.

This is

a big improvement from room 327.

-Whiskey?

-By all means.

It begins to make sense?

Well, perhaps,...

Thank you.

All one has to do is put

the words in the proper order.

Its a wheel job, actually.

You can begin anywhere.

It could be,

''Jocelyn got me to tell something''.

Or ''Someone got me

to tell something.''

Or ''Someone got me to do something.''

''Tell Jocelyn''.

Or ''Jocelyn got me two something''

Well, we both saw the same trap!

-Trap? Where is this trap?

-Phonetics.

You caught on that ''two''

could be T-W-O.

But it could also be T-O-O.

That...

That would give us...

''got me'',...

''too,''...

''Tell Jocelyn.''

It is a sentence. It makes sense.

Yes, it does make sense.

You mind if l pick your brain?

That trick memory of yours?

l have to go back into the cruel sea.

Okay, shoot ahead.

No, not quite yet.

What kind of voice came

out of Adrian Messenger?

What was its pitch? Its timbre?

Was he gasping?

Did he stammer? What

did he sound like?

It was not deep.

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