He carried a small canvas bag with Mace gas and anti-dog sprays, a coil of rope around his shoulder, and a long-barreled. He was driving a rented, dark-blue Matador, and he was dressed in a black, polo-neck sweater, black corduroy pants, and a charcoal-gray cap pulled down over his eyes. It was a few minutes after eleven Thursday night when he arrived outside the Semple mansion. "But it depends where it's directed, don't you think?" He listened again, holding his breath, but the Semple estate was silent. Low clouds were still obscuring the moon, and he had to blink a few times to accustom his eyes to the darkness. breath steamed as he climbed out of the car and gently clicked the door shut behind him.
The lighted window was now only two or three feet away, and he could hear voices more distinctly and the creak of floorboards as someone walked around in the room. He pressed on it with more weight, and then decided to try his luck and stand on it with both feet with his full 192 pounds. Further along it was rusted through, but from the verandah roof to the bay window it looked as if it was reasonably intact. "And what's wrong with that? It's about time there was more committed passion in life, anyway."Īt last he was able to reach out his left foot and cautiously test the guttering. Once he reached the bottom he paused again, his ears pricked up, hiding as deeply as he could in the dart shadow of the wall and the trees. Then he gently slithered off the top, swinging down to the ground with his feet scraping on the brick. When the rope was wound in, he positioned the aluminum rod on the other side of the spikes, and let the rope down on the Semple side of the wall. I'm only going to take a quick look around the grounds and maybe a fast check through the windows." Christ, Maggie, I'm not going to burglarize the place. Semples mistakenly took me for a prowler.
All I have to say is that I was paying her a visit, and that the.
"It won't do that, even if I'm caught red-handed. She thought for a moment longer, and then she stood up.
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