As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
“Instead, as if in a trance, I watched as the inspector, with no more than a quick nod, vanished out the door.
Caught red-handed in an unauthorized Sunday invasion of the empty premises, he couldn’t get away quickly enough.
Which left me alone with the Rainsmiths.
I didn’t have many options. Since recent circumstances had resulted in my becoming a backslider in the fingernail-biting department, I had nothing to count upon for self-defense but my fists and my feet.
How I wished I had taken the time to pump Dogger for more details about the Kano system of jujitsu, which he once admitted he had studied for a time. One or two of the Deadly Blows would have come in handy just about now: a quick chop here and a clever thrust there, and it would be “nighty-night” to the abominable Rainsmiths.
But the sad truth is that I was so poleaxed at the thought of Dorsey Rainsmith—Dorsey Rainsmith!—being not only a doctor, but also the pathologist who had examined the body in the chimney, that my brain ...went into the kind of deep freeze that must have been experienced at the end by Captain Scott of the Antarctic.MoreLess
Caught red-handed in an unauthorized Sunday invasion of the empty premises, he couldn’t get away quickly enough.
Which left me alone with the Rainsmiths.
I didn’t have many options. Since recent circumstances had resulted in my becoming a backslider in the fingernail-biting department, I had nothing to count upon for self-defense but my fists and my feet.
How I wished I had taken the time to pump Dogger for more details about the Kano system of jujitsu, which he once admitted he had studied for a time. One or two of the Deadly Blows would have come in handy just about now: a quick chop here and a clever thrust there, and it would be “nighty-night” to the abominable Rainsmiths.
But the sad truth is that I was so poleaxed at the thought of Dorsey Rainsmith—Dorsey Rainsmith!—being not only a doctor, but also the pathologist who had examined the body in the chimney, that my brain ...went into the kind of deep freeze that must have been experienced at the end by Captain Scott of the Antarctic.MoreLess
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