The Immortal Emperor Returns to Work the Museum Night Shift novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: I Know What You Are
Leland laid the photograph on my desk on Wednesday afternoon.
It was an old black-and-white print, mounted on grey card, the kind that curls at the corners.
The caption was inked in brown on the bottom edge.
Harcourt Museum Staff, June 1911.
There were thirty men in stiff collars on the front steps of the museum.
Three women in white blouses stood at the end of the row.
In the back, standing a little apart from the rest, was a night watchman in a long dark coat.
He had a shaved head and a short black beard.
He had grey eyes, and the camera had caught them, straight and tired.
It was Sam.
I did not need to look twice.
"Interesting, isn't it?" said Leland.
He was perched on the edge of my visitor's chair with his hands on his knees, and his comb-over had slipped.
"The Society sent me copies of everything from the family archive."
"This one was in a box of watchmen's papers."
"The same watchman signs the night book from 1911 to 1934."
"And then again this September, in the same hand."
"It's a family resemblance," I said, and my voice sounded fine.
"Dr. Vreeland."
"Descendants. It happens."
"The Society has a name for what he is," Leland said pleasantly.
"They've been waiting for him for a very long time."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of The Immortal Emperor Returns to Work the Museum Night Shift are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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