MysteryWriter
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Deacon's tool kit
When the Deacon left Eddie’s, he was feeling better than usual. It had been a long time since he had made a connection with anyone. He still didn’t know why the big silver haired stranger had helped. It didn’t matter. It was enough that he had. The Deacon wasn’t sure he had needed the help. Still he was glad someone showed there was still a sense of justice in the world.
Eddie had explained that the man was a writer in town to write about Maggie Evans. Maybe he would shake the town a little. If somebody turned the place upside down, his beloved Paris might fall out. If not, then at least he might find out what happened to her.
Paris had just disappeared one cold winter night. She left her house after speaking to Deacon on the phone. She went to the health food store in Huntington. He would have bugged the Police there except that here car was found behind a school building in STX. The sheriff presumed she met someone there and just left. Nobody else in STX came up missing that night, so it had to be a stranger, according to him.
After the world’s largest and longest binge, the Deacon began bugging everyone he could think of. He would have gotten the truth out of someone, if he had known who to ask ‘aggressively’. It was a new way of saying torture. Deacon knew how to torture men. He had done it before. The problem was he didn’t know who to torture.
He had this vague feeling that he did know, but just couldn’t bring it to the surface. He had a new plan. One devised when he saw the tough guy go head over heels. He planned to befriend the writer. If he could interest him in Paris, maybe they could find the person to ‘interrogate aggressively’.
He arrived at his shack just before one in the morning. He went to bedroom, then removed the plastic tackle box from beneath his bed. He placed it carefully onto the kitchen table. When the lid was opened, an array of tools became visible. The tools were chrome plated mechanic’s tools, mixed with an assortment of medical and dental tools. The tools had only one thing in common, when in the hands of accomplished ‘interrogator’, no one could resist talking. When the person on the business end of the tools ran out of truth, they began making up things.
The look on his face was not pleasure or anticipation. The look was pure revulsion. He had begun to assemble his tool kit after the sheriff refused to look for Paris. It was the only thing the Deacon knew to do. He closed the tackle box, lifted it, walked back to the bedroom, slipped it under the bed, then lay down to sleep. Only seconds later he began to snore softly. He slept peacefully in the knowledge that he might soon find his Paris.
When the Deacon left Eddie’s, he was feeling better than usual. It had been a long time since he had made a connection with anyone. He still didn’t know why the big silver haired stranger had helped. It didn’t matter. It was enough that he had. The Deacon wasn’t sure he had needed the help. Still he was glad someone showed there was still a sense of justice in the world.
Eddie had explained that the man was a writer in town to write about Maggie Evans. Maybe he would shake the town a little. If somebody turned the place upside down, his beloved Paris might fall out. If not, then at least he might find out what happened to her.
Paris had just disappeared one cold winter night. She left her house after speaking to Deacon on the phone. She went to the health food store in Huntington. He would have bugged the Police there except that here car was found behind a school building in STX. The sheriff presumed she met someone there and just left. Nobody else in STX came up missing that night, so it had to be a stranger, according to him.
After the world’s largest and longest binge, the Deacon began bugging everyone he could think of. He would have gotten the truth out of someone, if he had known who to ask ‘aggressively’. It was a new way of saying torture. Deacon knew how to torture men. He had done it before. The problem was he didn’t know who to torture.
He had this vague feeling that he did know, but just couldn’t bring it to the surface. He had a new plan. One devised when he saw the tough guy go head over heels. He planned to befriend the writer. If he could interest him in Paris, maybe they could find the person to ‘interrogate aggressively’.
He arrived at his shack just before one in the morning. He went to bedroom, then removed the plastic tackle box from beneath his bed. He placed it carefully onto the kitchen table. When the lid was opened, an array of tools became visible. The tools were chrome plated mechanic’s tools, mixed with an assortment of medical and dental tools. The tools had only one thing in common, when in the hands of accomplished ‘interrogator’, no one could resist talking. When the person on the business end of the tools ran out of truth, they began making up things.
The look on his face was not pleasure or anticipation. The look was pure revulsion. He had begun to assemble his tool kit after the sheriff refused to look for Paris. It was the only thing the Deacon knew to do. He closed the tackle box, lifted it, walked back to the bedroom, slipped it under the bed, then lay down to sleep. Only seconds later he began to snore softly. He slept peacefully in the knowledge that he might soon find his Paris.