Sigegard Ainsworth, Chapter 8
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A mystery serial presented as a contemporary homage to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.
Chapter Eight: In which I inadvertently discover Sige’s conscience after Mrs. Ciminelli dies.
An excerpt:
“What are you talking about?” I said. “Your client is dead! I mean, now what?”
“The doctor has also already vaporized.”
“Vaporized?” I said. “How do you mean?”
“I suppose he also is dead or a long way from the arm of the American law,” Sige replied.
“I must admit that I’m terribly confused,” I said. “Just what in the devil happened?”
“Well, when they discovered that we discovered them, they decided the best course of action was to remove her in advance of her scheduled demise.”
My mouth gaped,[1] “You mean…”
“Yes,” Sige said, “She was scheduled for termination; that was the secondary reason for the weekly visits to the clinic: first, to get her away from her home so that they could examine it or dig on it or otherwise manipulate it or something within her view; second, to kill her when they were ready—I wasn’t going to allow it, of course. I never intended her to die—I never intended her to die, I mean.”
My blood ran cold, and I told him so.
He remarked, “This is the sort of thing into which I have involved myself. My usefulness to law enforcement is mainly a sort of preventive care, which, as you know, the Constitution forbids, and science fiction examines—”
I interrupted, “And anime.”
“Yes, and anime—you’re an anime connoisseur? Never mind that now. I have in this case failed my client, obviously, and law enforcement. Now my job, instead of intersecting with the police, now runs parallel to it, which I do not favor, but…” and he paused, searching for the word. “But circumstances now dictate.” He rubbed his forehead with the butt of the magnifying glass.
“Do you know why she was murdered?” I asked.
“Not a clue. That’s why I requested these maps. I am convinced it has something to do with what she possessed—and it seems like such a rushed error. They have committed an error of judgment, even after such careful planning. Why did they rush? Yet she texted me, revealing me to them.” He mused further, silently. “Throw me an apple, would you?” he asked. I did so. He continued, saying, “Yes, and revealing you to them, by extension. In a way, they have acted cleverly. But they are not from here, I do not think.”
I replied, “What makes you think that?”
[1] I still laugh when I recall the look on your face, as morbid as it may seem for me to do so. –SA.
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