015 - Doctor Who and the Daemons by Barry Letts

Author:Barry Letts
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-12T01:20:14+00:00

Large tendrils of ivy were reaching out to clutch Jo by the throat...

Once more the distant clanging of the bells of the church caught the attention of the group at the heat barrier, where Sergeant Osgood was desperately assembling various pieces of equipment into what seemed to him an electronic hotch-potch. It obviously had no chance at all of being any help in either getting them through the barrier, or in coping with this monster, whatever it was.

‘He’s going,’ mid the Doctor, frowning, ‘I’d better get back. His next appearance could mean disaster.’

‘We’ll be after you in two shakes of a billy goat’s tail,’

said the Brigadier.

‘Hm,’ grunted the Doctor, as he crossed to the motor-bike, ‘that might have been better put. The goat isn’t a particularly favourite animal of mine at the best of times, but at the moment...’ He kicked the engine into roaring life.

Sergeant Osgood stood up. ‘Er... Doctor...’ he said, hesitantly.

‘Surely you can get the thing working now, Sergeant,’

said the Doctor, suppressing his irritation with difficulty.

The Sergeant blinked his eyes, bleary with concentration, and rubbed the back of his aching neck.

‘Well...’ he began.

‘You’ll just have to,’ the Doctor interrupted, ‘we may have very little time left.’ He revved the engine impatiently.

‘Wait, Doctor,’ cried Osgood, ‘I still don’t understand how you lock the pulse-generator to the feed-back circuit.

They’ll never be in phase!’

‘Well, of course they won’t, that’s the whole point...’

‘How do you do it, then?’

‘Dear, oh dear, oh dear,’ sighed the exasperated Doctor.

‘You can tell him, can’t you, Lethbridge Stewart?’ A glance at the blank expression on the Brigadier’s face gave him his answer. ‘Oh very well then,’ he went on resignedly, ‘I’ll explain once more. And please listen this time...’

Mike Yates struggled to his feet as the ’quake died away.

‘Really,’ he said, ‘this is getting a bit monotonous.’

‘It’s no joking matter, Mr. Yates,’ said Miss Hawthorne, severely settling her pince-nez into their accustomed position.

‘Are you all right, ma’am?’ asked Sergeant Benton.

Miss Hawthorne’s eyes softened as they rested on her brave rescuer, her gentle knight, her Prince Charming.

‘Thank you, yes indeed,’ she trilled, ‘how too, too sweet of you to ask!’

Benton, blushing, turned to Mike. ‘Er... do you think we ought to check on Miss Grant, sir?’ he suggested.

‘According to Doctor Reeves she’d go on sleeping if the house collapsed around her, never mind an itsy-bitsy earthquake,’ said Yates. ‘Still, I take your point.’

‘I’ll go,’ said Benton eager to escape the embarrassment of Miss Hawthorne’s presence.

‘No, no, stay where you are.’ Mike ran lightly up the stairs, grinned at himself for knocking on the bedroom door —as if she could answer, anyway!—and went in.

‘The little idiot,’ he said to himself as, at a glance, he took in the empty bed and the curtains flapping gently in the May Day breeze. He hastened to the open window and looked out. It was at once clear how she’d got out of the room and down to the ground. ‘But where on earth could she have gone?’ he thought, ‘she surely wouldn’t try to get to the Doctor .

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