Ron Goulart - The Curse of the Obelisk

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14 RON GOULART "You had another of your mystical hunches." "Indeed I did." He rubbed at his broad chest. "Most inconvenient it was, too, striking as it did whilst I happened to be sharing the opulently furnished private railroad car of an impressively amorous countess and demonstrating my fabled manual dexterity." He paused to cough into his gloved hand. "Of a sudden I was taken over with a most unsettling vision, my boy. What I saw was none other than yourself stretched out in what appeared to be a gaudy Egyptian sarcophagus, all swaddled with linen wrappings. The wrappings in question were splattered with blood and you, alas, appeared to be singularly defunct." "As sometimes happens, Lorenzo, you got your facts slightly garbled. But even so I—" "This strange and awesome power, if indeed I do possess it— and I make no claims— doesn't always work with the accuracy and dependability of the telegraph," said the plump magician, "included in the trance image was the address of this benighted institution, today's date and the warning that the traditional hour of midnight was the crucial one. I made arrangements to disembark from the Orlandia-Urbania Express and hastened here. An unfortunate altercation with my cabdriver over the sanitary habits of one of his steeds caused me to arrive a few moments beyond the witching hour. Yet I am pleased to observe that no serious harm has as yet befallen anyone." Harry took hold of his plump arm. "Step into the Egyptian wing," he invited. "Will you be okay for a few minutes, Jennie?" "As well as can be expected." She sank back into the chair. Frowning, the magician allowed Harry to escort him down a corridor and into the large room where the dead man was sprawled. "Ah, there is an approximation of the very bloody corpse I saw in my vision. Except it isn't you, Harry." "This guy's been sneaking in here evenings to scare off the watchmen." Puffing some and grunting, the Great Lorenzo knelt beside the mummy. "What precisely was his motivation?" "Never had the chance to ask him." "You were forced to shoot him to prevent his doing you and the fair Jennie bodily harm, eh? Well, that's understand—" "Jennie shot him." The magician's knees made small crackling noises as he got up. "I fail to detect a note of gratitude." "He was about to give himself up." The Great Lorenzo made a slow thoughtful circuit of the body. "There's something familiar about this lad," he muttered. "Know him?" "Not as a bosom friend, no. Yet I have the feeling I've encountered him sometime in the past," he replied. "Most likely during one of my many triumphal engagements here in this dazzling and wordly city."
THE CURSE OF THE OBELISK 15 "Somebody connected with the theater maybe." "Yes, that sounds . . ." The magician grimaced suddenly, clutched at his middle. "What's wrong?" "Jennie." He pivoted, starting trotting toward the foyer. Harry ran faster, reaching the young woman ahead of the magician. "You seem to be all right," he told her, puzzled. "No worse that I was a few minutes ago when you dragged Lorenzo off to view my handiwork." She was looking up into his face. "What were you expecting to find?" "He gave me the impression you were in danger." "She is, my boy." Panting, the Great Lorenzo halted beside the tufted armchair. "From the police you mean?" He bent and took both her hands in his. "Sometime within the last dozen hours, dear child," he informed her, "you were hypnotized. And for an evil purpose." "By whom?" asked Harry. "Alas, my latest vision failed to include that helpful kernel of information."
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