Dolly And The Cookie Bird - Dorothy Dunnett - Johnson Johnson 03 - Plot & Excerpts
He looked fearfully surprised, in a dazed kind of way, and then let me ease him down onto a stool. I can’t bear to see people hurt. It’s the retriever instinct, Daddy used to say. Then I remembered I wasn’t supposed to, and looked round at Mr. Lloyd and at Johnson. Johnson wasn’t hurt: he had just taken cover in time. There was a hole in his jacket pocket, and a gun with a long thing on its muzzle was still in his hand. Mr. Lloyd said, “Good God.” Then he said, “Put your gun down.” “Oh, dear,” said Johnson. He put down his gun. “Have I hurt you, Mr. Mandleberg? But really, you shouldn’t let your friends fire on people unseen. Mr. Lloyd might have killed me.” Austin Mandleberg’s voice had got very high. “He was doing me a favor,” he said. “Anyone is perfectly justified in defending his home against thieves.” “I’ve lost my pipe,” said Johnson, hunting. “Oh, there it is.” He picked it up and, fishing out tobacco, started to load it. Moving very quietly for a man of such bulk, Mr.
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