Five Firemen Carried Me Out, and Not One Will Put Me Down novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Lobby
I worked my first night back on a console from eleven on Sunday until seven on Monday morning, and I did not say one word that was not procedure.
My voice came out low and clear on the first call.
The center had missed it.
The day shift came in early to hear it, and the supervisor stood behind my chair at four and said nothing at all, which from her is a speech.
At five to seven the lobby buzzer sounded.
I looked at the camera on the monitor.
Gilles stood in the glass vestibule in his canvas coat, with his cap in both hands, alone.
I had been waiting for him for fifty hours and I still was not ready.
I walked out through the security door and met him at the front counter.
The glass was between us for one second, and then the clerk buzzed him through and there was nothing.
He stood there with the cap crushed in his fists.
He looked older than he had on Saturday.
"I read the Racicot report again last night," he said.
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