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CHAPTER TWO
I Marcel came in with our lunch a few minutes later;
veal simmered in port wine with fresh tarragon. We
i took our time with the meal, going, over various angles
and possibilities connected with the assignment, and
then stayed for a couple of rounds of prewar Pernod.
It was late in the afternoon when I finally got out of
there. The Manhattan sky was gray streaked and hazy
with the accumulated fumes of a busy weekday's pollu-
tion—unacceptable, as the smog index would report in
the evening papers.
I stopped in a drugstore on Sixth Avenue and gave
Chris Howard a call. "No, she left here about twenty
minutes after you did," he told me. Then, with a
chuckle: "Say, Nick, was that the first time you've
come close to losing your head over a pretty girl?"
In no mood to think up a snappy comeback, I con-
tented myself with an unoriginal but highly explicit
suggestion about what he could do with that and all
forthcoming wisecracks. Tomorrow night, at any rate, I
would be thousands of miles from Chris's physical-con-
ditioning bit and temperamental young ladies wielding
sharp sabers. There's a good side to everything, some-
times.
A taxi sped by, and I waved at it. It pulled over in
the middle of the next block, waiting for me to catch
up. I gave the driver the address of my penthouse
apartment in the West 70s.
he nosed the cab into the insane stream of
rush-hour city traffic, I did some thinking about the job
ahead. Locating the girl was going to be no easy trick.
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CHAPTER TWO
I Marcel came in with our lunch a few minutes later;
veal simmered in port wine with fresh tarragon. We
i took our time with the meal, going, over various angles
and possibilities connected with the assignment, and
then stayed for a couple of rounds of prewar Pernod.
It was late in the afternoon when I finally got out of
there. The Manhattan sky was gray streaked and hazy
with the accumulated fumes of a busy weekday's pollu-
tion—unacceptable, as the smog index would report in
the evening papers.
I stopped in a drugstore on Sixth Avenue and gave
Chris Howard a call. "No, she left here about twenty
minutes after you did," he told me. Then, with a
chuckle: "Say, Nick, was that the first time you've
come close to losing your head over a pretty girl?"
In no mood to think up a snappy comeback, I con-
tented myself with an unoriginal but highly explicit
suggestion about what he could do with that and all
forthcoming wisecracks. Tomorrow night, at any rate, I
would be thousands of miles from Chris's physical-con-
ditioning bit and temperamental young ladies wielding
sharp sabers. There's a good side to everything, some-
times.
A taxi sped by, and I waved at it. It pulled over in
the middle of the next block, waiting for me to catch
up. I gave the driver the address of my penthouse
apartment in the West 70s.
he nosed the cab into the insane stream of
rush-hour city traffic, I did some thinking about the job
ahead. Locating the girl was going to be no easy trick.
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NICK CARTER: TüLLMASTER
I had no assurance that she was even still alive and no
idea of where to begin looking for her. The best move;
I decided, was to get the people who were holding hec
to start looking for me. The vague outlines of a plan
began to take shape in my mind.
The taxi let me off in front of the tree-shaded en
trance to the modern condominium complex. I was
halfway up the parquet marble steps, when a female
voice across the street called out "Nick!" loud enou
to turn a few heads on the sidewalk.
I swiveled at the sound of my name. The missing
Miss Boyer threaded her way through the sluggish traff
fic and ran up the steps. She grabbed hold of my arm,
as if she thought I would try to wiggle away.
"How did you find out where I live?" I asked.
"Don't be silly. I have a GA-6 security clearance."
"Well, I have a GA-I, and I don't even know your
first name."
"It's Maggie," she said. "Do you like it? Let's go in
side."
I stared hard into her enigmatic green eyes and let
my gaze roam unabashedly down her tall, slim body;
She was wearing an antelope suede jacket over a
cream-colored pantsuit that set off a necklace of ambek
beads hanging low beneath the curve of her breasts.
"l like it." I told her. "l also like the way your hair
looks when it's loose and brushed back that way, and I
like the outfit, and I like looking at you when you're
not all wrapped up in chain mail. But most of all I'd
like to know just what you had in mind by coming
here."
She laughed lightly; then her lips pouted in mock
reproach. "We had a date for lunch, remember?
Bastard."
I never did get an answer to my question. Not in
words, anyway. Later, much later, while our naked
bodies pressed close together in bed and my hands and
mouth began their slow, searching exploration of Mag-
gie Boyer's geography, I thought I understood part o
it.
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oyer s geography,
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There is a way in which a man and a woman stalk
each other like animals, and most of the time it takes
place on a very civilized, safe lcvel. It starts when
you're young and eagerly groping around at drive-in
movies, and evolves into a coy routine of invitations
and signals—to dinner, for a drink, to come up to your
place or mine. The rules of the game depend on the
players, but it's always the same game. Often, for the
woman, the extended pleasure of courting outweighs
the consummation of the act.
This was something different, though, and we both
knew it.
All the long hours spent in hacking away at each
other with the sabers, hardly speaking, testing and as-
sailing each other in the ancient rites of killing, had
brought us closer together than empty words or ges-
tures ever could. Don't some animals fight savagely as
a prelude to making love? Unknowingly, our feverish
duels had short-circuited the civilized, inbred defenses
that kept our basic animal desires in check. The near
miss that morning had provided the spark that brought
it out into the open. There was no other way to explain
it.
The tremendous urgency of that desire, suddenly let
loose, must have surprised her as much as it did me.
But if Maggie was having any second thoughts about
the matter, she didn't show them now.
Soft fingers traced a supple path along my back,
then stopped, clinging tightly. Her eyes flashed open,
huge and wide. "Nick. Nick, darling . . . ," she mur-
mured, nuzzling her moist lips along the light stubble
on my chin. I knew that it was a demand.
Taking her firm hips in my hands, I rolled her gently
onto her back. Her unfettered body enjoyed a last mo-
ment of complete sensuous repose. Then I brought my
knee up to graze her closed thighs, and they parted
willingly ahead of me. Her breath came out in hoarse,
maddened gasps as I eased my weight on her.
The taste of her tongue had the tang of sea salt as
settled against the creamy fullness of her breasts and
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it.
oyer s geography,
110%
I thought I understoo
PLOT FOR THE FOURTH RETCH
part o
31
There is a way in which a man and a woman stalk
each other like animals, and most of the time it takes
place on a very civilized, safe lcvel. It starts when
you're young and eagerly groping around at drive-in
movies, and evolves into a coy routine of invitations
and signals—to dinner, for a drink, to come up to your
place or mine. The rules of the game depend on the
players, but it's always the same game. Often, for the
woman, the extended pleasure of courting outweighs
the consummation of the act.
This was something different, though, and we both
knew it.
All the long hours spent in hacking away at each
other with the sabers, hardly speaking, testing and as-
sailing each other in the ancient rites of killing, had
brought us closer together than empty words or ges-
tures ever could. Don't some animals fight savagely as
a prelude to making love? Unknowingly, our feverish
duels had short-circuited the civilized, inbred defenses
that kept our basic animal desires in check. The near
miss that morning had provided the spark that brought
it out into the open. There was no other way to explain
it.
The tremendous urgency of that desire, suddenly let
loose, must have surprised her as much as it did me.
But if Maggie was having any second thoughts about
the matter, she didn't show them now.
Soft fingers traced a supple path along my back,
then stopped, clinging tightly. Her eyes flashed open,
huge and wide. "Nick. Nick, darling . . . ," she mur-
mured, nuzzling her moist lips along the light stubble
on my chin. I knew that it was a demand.
Taking her firm hips in my hands, I rolled her gently
onto her back. Her unfettered body enjoyed a last mo-
ment of complete sensuous repose. Then I brought my
knee up to graze her closed thighs, and they parted
willingly ahead of me. Her breath came out in hoarse,
maddened gasps as I eased my weight on her.
The taste of her tongue had the tang of sea salt as
settled against the creamy fullness of her breasts and
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a ene gasps as ease myweighton her.
The taste of her tongue had the tang of sea salt as r
settled against the creamy fullness of her breasts and
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NICK CARTER: KJLLMASTPR
felt the chafing of her hands on my back. Her entire
frame arched upward to meet me, contracting and en-
compassing me with its complementary rhythm. All my
actions were instinctive now. The long ascent began.
I knew nothing else, remembered nothing beyond
the rapture of closeness and motion we shared. My