Chapter Seventeen
A Note From A Friend
Nathaniel found his young prisoners now surprisingly
cooperative! It was almost as if they were relieved to have this
part of their life over. In a few hours of quiet conversation
Nathaniel had enough to deal with Peterson and all the agents of
both the Bureau and the Agency he had gathered around him, for
his own special purposes.
Nathaniel wanted to be there for the arrest, so he boarded a
plane and by the next morning was in Tubalo, Mississippi.
Peterson had finally shaken his pursuers but an anonymous phone
call had told the agency where to find him, and, several of his
friends.
Nathaniel waited early the next morning with forty well armed
agents from several different departments. They went in so fast
those in the house never even had time to get out of bed, but
were groggily put into handcuffs as they began to wake up.
Peterson was dragged out in the company of a sleazy looking
blonde.
Peterson angrily snapped at Nathaniel. "You've won this
time, but there'll be another time! The superior people will
endure!"
Nathaniel smiled. "I don't doubt it," he answered.
"But it's going to be awhile before your little Aryan nation
can be established. Its inhabitants have got a long stay ahead in
some federal facilities."
"I'm going to have plenty to say when I come to trial!"
Peterson snapped. "Plenty that's going to make some very
interesting articles and t.v. shows!"
"I'll give you some advice," Nathaniel snapped,
"don't even think about it! You'll live longer that
way."
Peterson just gave him an angry look as he was dragged off.
They all loaded up and headed for the nearest federal facility.
They were coming on to the main highway when ahead of them a semi
came crashing through the medium and drove into the middle of
their convoy going in the wrong direction. There was the screech
of breaks, and the scream of dozens of voices.
Somehow Nathaniel's van managed to get out of the way, ending up
half rolled over on the bank. All the other vehicles, save the
ones with the prisoners in it, also escaped collision, but by the
time Nathaniel and the rest of his party managed to exit their
vehicle the van and the tractor of the semi were a blazing
inferno. The two agents that had been with the prisoners had
somehow managed to be thrown clear. They were severely hurt but
would survive.
"Tried to tell him," Nathaniel muttered, "tried to
tell him!"
It took them several hours to retrieve the bodies and do all the
paperwork such an incident entailed. But finally Nathaniel caught
a plane back to Washington.
The next day he came into his office, sat down at his desk, and
looked at the mountain of paperwork that had accumulated in his
absence.
"Aw, the thrills of public service!" he muttered. He
picked up a stack of papers, plopped them before him, and began
to work his way through them. About half way down he found a hand
written note.
"Mr. Green," it said, "next time kindly do not
follow quite that close. You were almost a highway statistic! I
don't like my friends being statistics!"
Nathaniel looked at the note and began to laugh. He laughed so
hard his secretary came in. "Is something the matter, Mr.
Green?" she asked.
"No," Nathaniel answered, "just a little note from
a friend. Nothing of any importance."
He continued to chuckle as he continued on through the pile of
papers. He chuckled for white a while.
THE END
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