This dispassionate relation of events shocked me, and at the same time I felt something strange – a wild sense of satisfaction. Thanks to the greed of two simple workers, the only witness who could expose Terrel’s murderers survived, and that same witness was in my hands.
“Did Miss Munroe ask you about me?”
“She asked why I disregarded her orders.”
“What did you say?”
“I didn’t say anything. I didn’t know the answer to that question.”
“Hold on,” Sue said, “you get an order and don’t follow through with it. You take your own initiative. There had to be a reason for that, and not any other decision.”
Monty was silent for a moment.
“A person... with no vital functions,” he suddenly chanted in a mechanical way, different from before. “Another person... in danger. Red covering everything
