He was making his way down the steps when he heard it.
It seemed to be surprisingly loud when he considered that he wasn’t even in the building. It had to be the security alarm from the shop. What could have set it off? Maybe something had fallen over, only moments after he left. As always, he’d been very careful when removing the glass panels from the jewellery display cabinets. Again, as always, he had filled his backpack quickly and taken great care not to disturb anything unnecessarily for the few minutes he was in there. Yes, something must have fallen. Still standing motionless on the step, he shrugged his shoulders, feeling the weight on his back. It was a good haul, much larger than he’d expected. Perhaps, with this stuff fenced off he could call it quits. Did he actually believe this? Could he actually do that?
He was thinking about all this when he heard the siren. It had to be a police car, and it was getting louder. He couldn’t return to his car, parked a couple of blocks away. He would have to leg it.
He was halfway down the fire escape when it came over him. There it was, in those few seconds, an epiphany.
At the bottom of the steps, he began running. At the end of the alley, he took the backstreets. Aware of the load on his back, he ran faster than he’d run in all his life. As he did, the sudden and amazingly powerful insight into the reality of where he was and what he was doing with his life, had come crashing in on him, during those few seconds back at the building.
As he raced through the darkened streets, making his way back to his apartment, his future plans were forming. Completely exhausted, he began walking as he entered his street. At the apartment block, he entered his flat as quietly as possible.
Dropping his backpack, he lay on his bed and finished his deliberations.
He wouldn’t use a fence this time, but fly to Amsterdam direct. He had the address of a small jewellery shop. He would get a better return there. Banking arrangements made; he’d fly to Madrid. He was there with an old girlfriend a few years back. His earlier experience, gained working on construction sites, would give him a start, not that he’d be short of money. After a while, he’d find something less physically demanding, maybe an office job…
A year later, he was waiting at tables in Salamanca, a changed man, going straight, giving time to charity work in his spare time. In other words, he was a new man.
Not many jewel thieves could do that!
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