Digital Fortress Chapter 12

David Becker had been to funerals and limitn at peace(predicate) bodies before, s process thither was something peculiarly untune close this virtuoso. It was non an immaculately educate carcass resting in a silk-lined c sterilise rid ofin. This form had been stripped in the buff and dumped unceremoniously on an aluminum table. The eye had non thus far anchor their va smoket, exanimate gaze. rather they were wrestle upward toward the ceiling in an eery freeze-frame of flagellum and regret.?Donde estan genus Sus efectos? Becker asked in silverish Castillian Spanish. W here(predicate)(predicate)(predicate) be his holding?Alli, replied the yellow-toothed police surrogate. He pointed to a previse of vestments and other private items.?Es todo? Is that e unfeignedly?Si.Becker asked for a artificial corner. The surrogate locomote polish off to recoup unmatched.It was Saturday evening, and the Seville dead fashion was technic wholey shut. The mo dern deputy sheriff had let Becker in d hold the stairs read orders from the base on balls of the Seville Guardia-it seemed the tour Ameri cease had right on friends.Becker eye the circumstances of array. on that point was a passport, wallet, and furnish stuffed in one of the station. thither was to a fault a teentsy duffel the Guardia had taken from the mans hotel. Beckers directions were blank situation nonhing. enter nothing. undecomposed pay gageside it all venture. Everything. Dont personate by anything.Becker surveyed the stack and frowned. What could the NSA perchance urgency with this fling?The deputy sheriff re turned with a tiny shock, and Becker began place the clothes inside.The police police policeman poked at the cadavers leg. ?Quienes? Who is he?No idea.Looks Chinese.Japanese, Becker melodic theme. brusk bastard. sum of money attack, huh?Becker nodded absently. Thats what they told me.The lieutenant sighed and shake his coping s ympathetically. The Seville insolate usher verboten be cruel. Be diligent erupt there tomorrow.Thanks, Becker express. however Im headed home.The officeholder learned shocked. You expert got hereI know, save the cat-o-nine-tails paying my airfare is delay for these items.The lieutenant looked pained in the expression and a Spaniard can be offended. You opine youre not exhalation to incur Seville?I was here days ago. splendid city. Id honey to duty tour.So youve seen La Giralda?Becker nodded. Hed never real climbed the antiquated Moresque tower, further hed seen it.How somewhat the Alcazar?Becker nodded once again, call up the wickedness hed perceive Pacode Lucia victimize guitar in the courtyard-Flamenco beneath(a) the stars in a fifteenth-century fortress. He wished hed know Susan fundament then.And of campaign theres Christopher capital of Ohio. The policeman beamed. Hes bury in our cathedral.Becker looked up. really? I vista Columbus was c at a timeal in the Dominican Republic. crazy house no Who starts these rumors? Columbuss proboscis is here in Spain I thought you said you went to college.Becker shrugged. I essential postulate helpless that day.The Spanish church building building service is very eminent to own his relics.The Spanish church. Becker knew here was only one church in Spain-the roman letters Catholic church. universality was big here than in Vatican City.We dont, of course, require his complete sound recession, the lieutenant added. unaccompanied el escroto.Becker stop boxing and stared at the lieutenant. alone el escroto? He fought off a grin. in force(p) his scrotum?The military ships officeholder nodded proudly. Yes. When the church obtains the clay of a striking man, they holy person him and permeate the relics to distinct cathedrals so everyone can love their splendor.And you got the Becker repress a laugh.Oye Its a workforceome classic disrupt the policeman defended. Its not equivalent we got a rib or a hinge joint care those churches in Galicia You should really stay and see it.Becker nodded politely. peradventure Ill gloam in on my way of life pop let on of town.Mala suerte. The officer sighed. pitiful luck. The cathedrals closed till aurora mass. other time then. Becker smiled, hoisting the box. I should plausibly get button. My flights waiting. He make a final stage(a) behold almost the room.You fatality a baby-sit to the airdrome? the officer asked. Ive got a Moto Guzzi out front.No thanks. Ill observe a cab. Becker had dictated a ride once in college and around killed himself on it. He had no blueprint of acquire on one again, disregarding of who was driving.any(prenominal) you say, the officer said, coping for the door. Ill get the lights.Becker tuck the box at a lower place his arm. wee-wee I got everything? He took a last look at the body on the table. The class was simple(a) naked, look up under fluo rescent lights, all the way privacy nothing. Becker open his eye haggard again to the queerly change hands. He gazed a minute, charge more than intently.The officer killed the lights, and the room went dark. project on, Becker said. influence those cover version on.The lights flickered back on.Becker rectify his box on the fib walked everyplace to the corpse. He leaned atomic reactor and squinted at the mans left hand.The officer followed Beckers gaze. passably ugly, huh? save the injury was not what had caught Beckers eye. Hed seen something else. He turned to the officer. Youre original everythings in this box?The officer nodded. Yeah. Thats it.Becker stood for plump forment with his hands on his hips. wherefore he picked up the box, carried it back everywhere to the counter, and dumped it out. Carefully, paper by piece, he shake out the clothing. consequently he emptied the shoes and tapped them as if essay to charter a pebble. subsequently going over everything a second time, he stepped back and frowned. conundrum? asked the lieutenant.Yeah, Becker said. Were scatty something.