Memories of Midnight

chapter Twenty-nine
Confidential File

Transcript of Session with Wim Vandeen

A: How are you feeling today?

W: Okay. I came here in a taxi. The driver's name is Ronald Christie. License plate three-oh-two-seven-one taxi certificate number three-oh-seven-oh. On the way here we passed thirty-seven Rovers, a Bentley, ten Jaguars, six Austins, one Rolls-Royce, twenty-seven motorcycles, and six bicycles.

A: How are you getting along at the office, Wim?

W: You know.

A: Tell me.

W: I hate the people there.

A: What about Catherine Alexander?...Wim, what about Catherine Alexander?...Wim?

W: Oh, her. She won't be working there anymore.

A: What do you mean?

W: She's going to be murdered.

A: What? Why do you say that?

W: She told me.

A: Catherine told you she's going to be murdered?

W: The other one.

A: What other one?

W: His wife.

A: Whose wife, Wim?

W: Constantin Demiris.

A: He told you Catherine Alexander was going to be murdered?

W: Mrs. Demiris. His wife. She called me from Greece.

A: Who's going to murder Catherine?

W: One of the men.

A: You mean one of the men who flew in from Athens?

W: Yes.

A: Wim, we're going to end this session now. I have to leave.

W: Okay.