The Will to Power
Suspense · January 9, 1947 · 29 min · 4,227 words
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sus Spanish. I walked over to the safe and began to dial the numbers. Before I snapped it open I turned round to look at him. He was leaning back in the easy chair at the end of the room. His greasy face was covered with a shrewd smile and he poured a revolver in his right hand.
Come on, get it open. That gun looked like a model they stopped making in 1900. A 22 with a two inch barrel. They were about 40 feet between the safe and where he was sitting.
Unless that guy was an anti-ochle, he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from that position. And with that gun... All right, let's start, open it! I snapped open a little safe, and there it was.
I could see... Special Super 38 Automatic. Stamped on the blue surface of the slide. The hammer was back just as I know the old man had left it. I picked up that beautiful precision instrument.
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