Time of Terror (32 page)
Authors: Hugh Pentecost
“Yes, Mr. Chambrun.” She was suddenly the efficient secretary. “Mark is here with me, listening on the squawk box.”
“In my penthouse there is the wall safe,” Chambrun said. “You have the combination to it.”
“Yes.”
“Now listen carefully,” Chambrun said. “In that safe is a time bomb, set to go off at nine o’clock”
I glanced at my wrist watch. It was a few minutes after eight. We had slept for about four hours, for God sake. Sunlight was pouring through the office windows.
“You are to call the bomb squad. Tell them they have less than an hour. You’re not to do anything yourself, Ruysdale. You could blow yourself and the top of the hotel to pieces.”
“Pierre! Where are you?”
“Somewhere in the wilds of New Jersey,” Chambrun said. “No chance for me to get there. Now, move, Ruysdale!”
“Pierre,
are you all right?”
“That is a laughable question,” Chambrun said, and hung up.
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