General Brail stopped in front of the castle but did not come out of the car. He waited there for about two minutes and Sydney stayed still in the shrub waiting for him to come out. Then Sydney noticed that someone inside the compound was opening the gate from inside. The gate was opened and the person came out, yet Brail remained in the car. Sydney cursed. He noticed that the person that opened the gate was a lady, but that was all he could see of her.
Brail started the engine and drove inside. The lady closed the gate again, and Sydney then stood up. “Son of a bitch” he said to himself after hissing dejectedly.
That brief attempt to carry out the assassination had a lot of effect on Sydney. He had been thinking about how happy Louisa would be if she read it in the paper the following day that the General had been assassinated. How she would wish to see him again to say thank you. How beautiful Louisa was and how lovely it would be to have her as his girl. He suddenly decided that he would carry out the assassination. It came to his mind that if Brail could come alone, certainly the woman he was coming to meet would also be alone. If there was any security agent with her, he would be the one to open the gate. He knew what married men did when they were cheating.
Stealthily, Sydney walked closer to the building. The fence was tall, but that wasn’t much of a problem to him. By the time he got to the top of the fence, it was completely dark and nobody in the area could see him. He quietly jumped down.
There was light everywhere inside the compound but nobody was in sight. The whole compound was as quiet as a graveyard.
The house was a bungalow. He was sure the door would be locked and he had no skeleton key with him, so he did not waste his time going to the door. He went straight to the roof.
With a small metal in his pocket, he removed some nails and that gave him access to the ceiling. He crawled on the ceiling quietly keeping his ears close to the ceiling as much as possible to hear the sound coming from the house.
It did not take him a long time to locate where they were for they were talking loudly.
When Sydney was sure he was directly on top of them, he cut out a hole in the ceiling. It was a professional and a very difficult thing to do, but he had done it on many occasions before. He had to cut it and hold it to prevent it from falling down and it had to be done as quietly as possible to prevent them from looking up.
After cutting the hole successfully, he took out his gun and put it on the ceiling, and then he took a look at them so that he could determine how to adjust the nozzle. He didn’t want to shoot more than once. He had never missed a target before.
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