Chapter 56 BAD NEWS

It was Mr. Potter's face on the front page of the New Standard newspaper that caught my attention. It was the second day of my stay in the hospital, and I read the heading with a skipping heart. Four kidnappers killed, a Briton freed, it heralded. Mr. Potter's pink face covered a quarter of the front page while the picture of four corpses was inserted below his chest. The face of a police man was the fourth picture on the front page.

'Excuse me sir,' I said to the nurse holding the newspaper. 'Please can I see your paper? I just want to read the heading.'

'Sure,' he said, coming toward my bed. 'But it's stale; keep it if you want to.'

'Thank you, sir,' I said, and stretched my hand to collect the newspaper. The infusion set drew my hand back, but I manage to pull the paper back to me. My heart pounded and my throat felt dry.

'Be careful,' the nurse said.

He came over and pushed the metal pole holding the infusion set back to its legs. Then he dropped the newspaper on my lab.

'Like I
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