The Secret Tunnel (35 page)

“But do you love me, Mitch?”

No, I was about to say—I love Vince. This time tomorrow, barring any further adventures on the train home, we would be reunited. What would I tell him of the adventure of the secret tunnel? And of all that had happened to me along the way—including this final strange moment with Morgan?

“Well?”

Morgan turned to face me, and we looked deep into each other’s eyes. My cock was stirring again, and suddenly tomorrow—and Scotland—seemed a very long way off.

James Lear was born in Singapore, expensively educated in England, and has worked in the theater and the British intelligence services. After a misunderstanding with the authorities, he has lived quietly in London, where he devotes his time to writing and helping local youth.
The Secret Tunnel
is his fifth novel. Other titles include
The Back Passage
(Cleis Press),
Hot Valley
(Cleis Press),
The Low Road
, and
The Palace of Varieties
(Cleis Press). Find out more at
www.myspace.com/jameslearfiction
.

Copyright © 2008 by James Lear.

 

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Published in the United States by Cleis Press Inc.,
P.O. Box 14697, San Francisco, California 94114.

 

 

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

eISBN : 978-1-573-44504-7

1. Gay men--Fiction. 2. Railroad trains--Fiction. 3. Murder--Fiction. 4. Great Britain--Fiction. I. Title.

 

PR6069.M543S43 2008
823’.914--dc22

2008019378