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TheBannister
The
Barrister wore a plaid wool dickey made of yellow yarn it was always
cleaned once a week the yardenor came to the manor at Penrose and
washed out the dickey with color indicator bleach the thing was
always on the Barrister swore rather loudly the day it was gone. WHO
he was cursing rather badly WHO has stolen my dickey prithee eye pray
thee please tell me WHO. He carefully started down the work roughened
Bannister the Barrister had had the bannister fixed to make it a non
slip grip for his aging hand to hold as he stepped rather gingerly
down the steps he put his full weight every time on every step as iff
it was supposed to be that way for an old man to walk but this time
was differant. He reached for the third step holding the bannister
and both feet leveled off into the thin air he grabbed with both
hands to the bannister there and found himself slipping in air the
bannister arm was greased like a greasy bannister arm with some sort
of slippery substance just out of reach on either side of the steps
was the lifeline that the yardenor left he felt the old man should
have something to grab in the event of a fall. The Barrister is
sliding down he grabs the line the line grows taught and fires a gun
the bullit hits the banisters arm as he falls just missing his heart.
His head lies near the last step of the bannister caught in the
blades that were spinning below when he slid in the hole near the end
of the stairwell his hands still clutching feebily at the bannister
sliding even further in the grease as post mortem evictus sets in the
blades release a gas of nitrous oxide onto the head when the
Detective came into the room to survey this doom he half expected the
roof to cave in on the Barristers dead head and hands on the
Bannister.