Night Man
Suspense · July 26, 1959 · 18 min · 2,320 words
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Nightman, starring Miss Marshall Hunt, a tale well calculated to keep you in. The road's impossible. This is a maximum security prison. We haven't had an escape in years. Well, you have one now, Warden. Tom Nixon.
How can you be sure? I saw him in New York City two days ago. Did you know him well? Well enough. He was my mother's starboarder for years. Why, I sat opposite him at the dinner table from the time I was a girl of fifteen... until he murdered her.
murdered her. And now somehow he's escaped from here and he's after me. Miss Rhodes, it's impossible, I say. Gordon Graves, ten years ago, when Mother was found murdered, I knew it couldn't have been anyone but Tom. I testified against him. I was the chief, were practically the only witness at the trial. And when they sentenced him here for life, he swore to kill me. He
swore in the open court to get even with me. For ten years I've lived in deadly fear of him. And now he's free. And where exactly did you see the prisoners' roads? That's just the point.
That's why I know he's after me. I saw him in the building where I live. Well, I don't feel. He has a job there running the elevator at night. I live all alone in a small three room penthouse on the 18th floor of an office building.
The other night, about a week ago, I came home alone from the movies after midnight. I was already in the elevator before I noticed that there was a new night man. of Tom. This hair had turned white and there was a stoop to his shoulders, but everything about him, the crook of his head, his high thin nose, hollow cheekbones, they were all
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