Chapters 33-34: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP719
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Episode GP719 Description
A seemingly angelic intervention gets Evan out of the clinic, assisted by Zip, who loans him a car and says he won't be responsible for what happens next. Rather than running back to the sheriff, Evan decides he'd better hide out for a while.
GP719 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 33 and 34 (26:40 minutes)
Chapter 33
Thursday Morning
Myerson Clinic
Perhaps the seventy-two hours had come and gone, because Evan’s head felt clearer, and his lethargy had lifted. The IV spike had been removed from his arm, and he was no longer hooked up to the heart monitor. Maybe there were risks to keeping him sedated, or for some reason he couldn’t guess, they’d changed their plan to hold him here.
By the way, who are they? Does Shackleton own this place? What do they hope to achieve? Keep me out of the way until the house is gone? If they knew the terms of the will, they’d realize that’s not enough.
As he sensed his vitality and strength returning, he wondered how he’d manage outside dressed in his flimsy pajamas and paper slippers. If they were intending to keep him, picking up the bedside phone wouldn’t be any use. It rang the receptionist, who placed any outside calls. When he had tried, he’d been politely informed that making calls and taking walks on the grounds were privileges to be earned in the program. For any urgent need, he should press the nurse-call button.
What would Travis McGee do? Maybe he’d recruit an accomplice who would sling him over his shoulder and carry him through the snow drifts to safety. James Bond would have a miniature device hidden in his mouth to summon a remote-controlled car. Philip Marlowe would guess there was someone in the clinic who could be tempted by the promise of a bribe, possibly Doc Wilmer.
If Evan were to remain true to character, he’d pray his way out of this mess.
But what to pray for?
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