“Good Lord, their phones are intact Please, is...
“Good Lord, their phones are intact Please, is John there?”
“Yes, yes, of courseHe’s across the hall, I’ll fetch himWho shall I say—”
“ ‘Alex’ is good enough
“Just ‘Alex’?”
“Hurry, please!” Twenty seconds later the voice of John StJacques filled the line
“Conklin? Is that you?”
“Listen to meThey know Marie and the children flew into Montserrat
“We heard that someone was asking questions over at the airport about a woman and two kids—
”
“Then that’s why you moved them from the house to the inn
“Who was asking questions?”
“We don’t knowIt was done by telephoneI didn’t want to leave them, even for a few hours,
but I had a command appearance at Government House, and by the time that son-of-a-bitch Crown
governor showed up, the storm hitI talked to the desk and got this number
“That’s one consolation; the phones replica gucci bag are still workingIn weather like this they usually don’t,
which is why we suck up to the Crown
“I understand you’ve got guards—”
“You’re goddamned right!” cried St“The trouble is I don’t know what to look for
except strangers in boats or on the beach, and if they don’t stop and identify themselves
satisfactorily, my orders are to shoot!”
“I may be able to help—”
“Go ahead!”
“We got a break—don’t ask how; it’s from outer space but that doesn’t matter, it’s realThe man
who traced Marie to Montserrat used a judge who had contacts, presumably in the islands
“A judge?” exploded the owner of Tranquility Inn“My God, he’s there! Christ, he’s there! I’ll
kill that scum bastard—”
“Stop it, Johnny! Get hold of yourself—who’s there?”
“A judge, and he insisted on using a different name! I didn’t think anything about it—a sale tiffany jewelry couple
of whack-a-doo old men with similar names—”
“Old men? Slow down, Johnny, this is importantWhat two old men?”
“The one you’re talking about is from Boston—”
“Yes!” confirmed Alex emphatically
“The other flew in from Paris—”
“Paris? Jesus Christ! The old men of Paris!”
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“What ?”
“The Jackal! Carlos has his old men in place!”
“Now, you slow down, Alex,” said StJacques, his breathing audible
“There’s no time, JohnnyCarlos has an army—his army—of old men who’ll die for him, kill
for himThere won’t be any strangers on the beach, they’re already there! Can you get back to the
island?”
“Somehow, yes! I’ll call my people over thereBoth those pieces of garbage will be thrown into
the cisterns!”
“Hurry, John!”
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StJacques pressed down the small bar of the old rolex gmt telephone, released it, and heard the foreverpulsating
dial toneHe spun the numbers for the inn on Tranquility Isle
“We are sorry,” said the recorded voice“Due to weather conditions the lines are down to the
area you are callingGovernment is working very hard to restore communicationsPlease try your
call laterJacques slammed the phone down with such force that he broke it in two“A boat!” he
screamed“Get me a drug boat!”
“You’re crazy,” objected the aide to the Crown governor across the room“In these swells?”
“A sea streak, Henry!” said the devoted brother, reaching into his belt and slowly pulling out an
automatic“Or I’ll be forced to do something I don’t even want to think about, but I’ll get a boat
“I simply can’t believe this, chap
“Neither can I, Henry
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the great man who made all things possible
“There is an American attorney who calls himself a judge staying near you
“I know of no such person, monseigneur
“He is there, neverthelessOur hero rightfully complains of his presence, and a call to his home
in the city of Boston confirms that it is he
“His presence here is not desirable, then?”
“His presence there is abominable to meHe pretends to be in my debt—an enormous debt, an
event that could destroy him—yet his actions tell me that he’s ungrateful, that he intends to cancel
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