100% Compatibility novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Reading It
I took the folder to Marlborough Street that evening, because it was his before it was mine.
He opened the black door before I could lift the knocker.
He looked like a man who had slept in a chair.
I put the cream half sheet into his hand and said nothing.
He read it standing in the hall under the old lamp.
I watched him read it twice, and then a third time, slowly.
"Her handwriting," he said.
"Yes."
"My assistant told me at lunch, seven years ago."
"He was twenty-six and he looked sorry, and I thanked him."
"I thought he was a second witness."
"It was one witness wearing two faces."
He sat down on the third stair.
"You said hello to me in the elevator for six years," he said.
"I said hello back."
"I knew your name, and I knew where you worked, and I had the number in a drawer."
"Your father was dying in Dorchester."
"I was here, building a machine that could say a hundred, and not believing it."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of 100% Compatibility are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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