![]() ![]() His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin. ![]() The man Jack was, above all things, a professional, or so he told himself, and he would not allow himself to smile until the job was completed. That only left the little one, a baby barely a toddler, to take care of. He had left the woman in her bed, the man on the bedroom floor, the older child in her brightly colored bedroom, surrounded by toys and half-finished models. With his left hand he pulled a large white handkerchief from the pocket of his black coat, and with it he wiped off the knife and his gloved right hand which had been holding it then he put the handkerchief away. The street door was still open, just a little, where the knife and the man who held it had slipped in, and wisps of nighttime mist slithered and twined into the house through the open door. The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately. The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. The knife had done almost everything it was brought to the house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet. ![]()
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