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He forgot his father coer--and the fact that he was being used

"All right," he said Now his voice was flat-out hoarse "We’ll go by the tunnel"

She sht her lips to his and did things with her tongue that nearly made him climax on the spot Then she stepped back "That was a little pros to come!"

He nodded He couldn’t speak

He turned around On the screen, Dianna Breen was screayptian robe-cladher deeper and deeper into the h the audience chairs to the back He entered the old lobby, where wine and beer were sold, along with various forh-end movie snack food To the far left of the lobby were a few offices and conference roo room was a door, noh-tech spy adventure!" she said

"There’s nothing high-tech about it," he said as guilt clashed with the near-desperate desire she elicited "It’s aa door"

She was pressed to his back Desire won out over guilt

Alistair swept the canvas poster to the side, dug in his pocket and twisted the key in the lock, fuhts set into the steps that led down to the tunnel; on the days that the small museum was open, before and afterwould be ablaze with light But tonight, no one was expected

"Be careful," he warned Jenny

"Of course!" she said

Alistair walked slowly down the steps, ever aware of her sweet-s He’d never been here before when there was no illued the entire appearance of the place

The art sat at his desk while femme fatale Mary Astor leaned toward him and a creepy Peter Lorre hovered off to the side They were all caught in shadow, and even Bogie looked dangerous, ready to strangle Mary Astor Across from that tableau, Orson Welles as the title character in Citizen Kane stood by the breakfast table, angry after ignoring Ruth Warrick, who played his first wife The old mannequins, created in the mid-50s by the previous owner’s special-effects studio, had been works of love, and in the diht and shadows, Alistair could alrily, his patience finally snapping hie Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake were together next, in a scene from The Glass Key, and then there were Dana Andrews, Vincent Price and Gene Tierney in Laura The hall was long, and the exhibits were plentiful A slim wooden barrier separated the ay from the exhibits, and visitors could push buttons, which would let the with information about the actors, producers, writers and directors That night, to Alistair, all the characters looked as if they could speak without benefit of electronics

Bogie oodbye in front of the plane that would take her away Bogie gripped Ingrid by the shoulders, and the eood of the war effort, the sacrifice required--seemed palpable

Toward the end of the hallway, Alistair stopped

The scene was taken froht, Sayptian Museum

There was hard-boiled Sa just a little too late in the fictional museuus, and nearby, the man clad in the robes, his hands around the throat of femme fatale Dianna Breen, played by the equally ill-fated Audrey Grant Snakes--Egyptian cobras--abounded on the floor, and Sah the Dianna

Alistair stared at the scene and blinked; he could have sworn he saw one of the snakes ainst his back

"What?" Alistair asked, distracted He kept staring at the tableau

"The door is open The door to the studio is open!" she told hi softly

He turned to look down to the end of the hallway The door into the basement of the special-effects studio stood ajar He frowned; it should have been locked His father and upper-level ement were adalanced at Jenny For a moraced aplayed, he thought, really played Perhaps punked There could be cameras somewhere that he didn’t know about and other people ready to break into laughter Yes, he was a fool, ready to do anything for a woman’s touch And, as in sohim to his doom At least that was how it felt in his fearful and overheated iht, the way the tableau see his bones

He warned Jenny with a glance that he ise to the situation

But when he started through the door to the studio he heard Jenny scream

When he turned around, he was so stunned that at first his jaw just dropped

The robed killer--the evil priest, A seemed to have no face There was only blackness where a face should have been He, it, stood behind Jenny, and see at him, but it had no eyes…

"Hey!" He wanted to scream The sound came out like a croak

An act It had to be part of an act

A hand appeared, brandishing a long knife

It was a special-effects studio, for God’s sake! Soame, he told himself, maybe even at his father’s request Maybe his dad had suspected hiht with his girlfriend…