AN UNDERTAKING

Soon Lucy and her grandpa finished eating their meal and breakfast for them was over while the young lady cleared the table, carrying the empty plates back to Kitchen and left the two men alone to continue their at the dinner table.

"Max, there's something I want to you tell you and I'll try to be straight forward and fast about it so that you can get going to work",

"Go on. I'm all ears",

"Draw your attention closely and listen to me. Decades ago, I worked for a man in Paris. He was more of a lecturer to all of us who worked for him then and our job was guard some kind of coffin which would seem ridiculous for anyone safeguarding a casket in a warehouse",

"Yeah, it pretty much sounds dumb to me",

"That was my thought at first but I later found out from the man himself why we were hired to keep watch around his mansion",

"What did he say?",