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Somerset looked in from the door. There was a terrible smell inside. SLOTH was written on the wall above the bed.
California lifted the sheets. The everyone could see that Dworkin wasn’t going to shoot. The body was tied to the bed. It was so thin that there seemed to be nothing but skin and bones. A bandage was tied over the eyes.
Somerset took out a photo of Dworkin. “Is it him?” Mills asked. “Yeah. It’s him.”
California pointed with his gun at the man’s right arm. The hand had been cut off at the wrist.
Mills kept shaking his head. He couldn’t believe what he saw. “Oh, no, no,” he was saying.
One of the policemen showed Somerset some photos pinned to the wall. They showed Dworking tied to the bed. Each one had the date written under it, and each one the body was thinner.
“There are fifty-two of them,” the policeman said. “I counted.”
Somerset pointed to the date on the first photo. “Exactly one year ago today,” he said. “What kind of man is this killer?”
Suddenly a loud noise came from the body. California jumped back and fell over a chair. “He’s alive!” he shouted.
Dworkin’s mouth was open and his lips moved a little. A strange sound came from his throat.
”He’s alive!” said California again. “Get an ambulance. Now!”
Somerset and Mills were back in the office that afternoon.
Somerset looked as if he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. It annoyed Mills. Somerset wasn’t the only cop on this investigation.
“I want to catch him too,” Mills said. “You know that. I want to hurt him.”
Somerset picked up some papers. “Did you read this?” he asked. “The money for Dworkin’s apartment was paid regularly. The killer planned and worked hard to keep Dworkin alive so long. Exactly a year to the day. And he paid for his apartment. He knows what he wants to do. And he’s patient.”
Somerset remembered the note he had found: Long is the way, and hard….And the seven deadly sins…? Somerset liked to read books. Perhaps the killer did too. That gave him an idea.
From Seven (ISBN 0582416930). Penguin Readers
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