The Access

I had just entered the hallway when I thought about my money.  It was in my suit pants pocket.  The pants were still on the cot where I’d left them when I took them off. The money was all there, even the coins. My bag with its valuables was on the cot. Inside were the picture, the medal, the tie and the unused underwear and socks.

As I was putting the money into my coveralls pocket, there was an explosion. The long shade covering the window, tore away from where it was attached to the frame, and  fell to the floor, followed by a huge form!

At first I was too stunned to move.  Finally, getting the courage to check it out, I stepped around the cot until I could clearly see what it was.  There, face down on the floor, was a big man, with broken glass, and pieces of wood from the window scattered all around him.

“Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen!  Come here as quick as you can.  Someone’s in here!”

***

There was one big room, with a lot of steel panels piled against a wall. Two men were connecting a panel to another one that was already hinged to yet another panel. And, inside the place that they were closing up was a person! It appeared to be an old man, and he was down on the bare floor. When they finished connecting the front panel to those on each side, whoever was in there had no way of getting out. And there were at least a dozen more “rooms” that had been set up the same way!