The Box Sent by the Devil chapter 5

The Price of Evil

There was no reaction. Nothing magical happened. Norma threw the button into the trash can, quickly changed her clothes and went to work.

In the evening, when Norma got home and was frying pork chops in the pan, the phone rang suddenly.

“Is this Mrs. Lewis? This is Lenox Hospital in New York. Your husband was pushed in front of a train by the crowded passengers on the subway on his way home from work. The train hadn’t stopped yet… We’re very sorry. It was too late when he was brought here…”

Norma’s mind went blank. She suddenly remembered that her husband’s company had bought a personal insurance policy for him. The insurance amount was fifty thousand dollars, with a double – indemnity clause. That was one hundred thousand dollars! So, she had killed her husband with her own hands!

Norma went crazy. She rummaged through the trash can to find the button. She desperately smashed open the wooden box with the button in it, not caring that her palm was cut and bleeding. But the wooden box was empty. There were no wires, no sensors, nothing. Was Arthur’s death just an accident?

The phone rang again, terrifyingly. It was Stand. “Is this Mrs. Lewis? Your one hundred thousand dollars is coming.”

It was she who had killed Arthur! Norma thought despairingly. She hysterically shouted at Stand, “You damned! Didn’t you say the dead person would be someone I didn’t know or understand?”

Stand was silent for a while, then said sinisterly, “Madam, you and your husband are two different people. Do you really think you understand his kind and honest heart? Evil always comes with a price.”

Later, Norma moved out of the low – cost rental house, and no one ever saw her again. A week later, a new tenant, Rona, found a strange box in front of her door after work. She took a look and carried the strange box into the house…