Chapter 9: Missing Pieces
After breakfast, Horst went out to do some shopping. I went and knocked on Ted’s bedroom door.
There was no answer, and when I opened the door, I saw that Sam had left. His pack was still there, however.
I extracted a pair of latex gloves from my pocket, and went to the closet, where I began to examine the oxygen cylinders, shifting each to do this. Again, I was struck with the size of the cylinders, thinking that Ted’s oxygen parties must use up a lot of the stuff. The cylinders being upright, I moved them one at a time by rotating it on its rounded lower end, sort of cork-screwing it along the floor, shifting them out of the closet and leaning them carefully against the wall of the bedroom.
There were six cylinders, each exactly the same except for a unit nu
