Albatross II by John Trethewey

Author:John Trethewey [Trethewey, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781524679842
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
Published: 2017-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

I didn’t hear Lakey return, but I heard the crunch of Frédérique’s car turning in the drive, and Simona heard it too. The bedside lamp was still burning, and she half sat up to check the time. I knew what time it was, the stupid clock downstairs had just announced a cheeky four ‘cuck-oos’.

‘He’s up late.’ she murmured, She wrapped both arms around me and held me close for a long moment. Soon afterwards she fell asleep. But sleep eluded me.

I’d used the intervening hours until Simona’s arrival working on the preliminary report for the Commissioner. After making a copy of the tape cassette I’d lifted from Reception, I’d played it several times. There was no doubt in my mind after that, that the calls purporting to be from Amex in Brighton were all made from “Medina”. There was no earthly reason why Amex should have called so frequently at that hour of the night merely to trace Lakey, and then have done nothing to follow it up. And the call to Lakey was unmistakably from some creature in “Medina”...

I had stupidly thought for a short while that I at last had proof positive of an illegal fraudulent action by Suri’s people, misrepresentation of identity to induce the police to reveal information to which they had no right. Then with an awful bitterness I had realised I couldn’t use the evidence, for I was the idiot who had given all the information away in my stupid answers. If the Commissioner ever got to hear that tape... In a moment of despair at the whole sordid business, I had thrown the cassette on the fire, and watched the plastic casing melt round the coiled tape. When I realised what I had done, destroyed police property holding material evidence, I had put away the cassette copy I had made in a locked drawer, so that I shouldn’t be tempted to do anything so stupid again.

After that I’d played the video tapes Oron had provided for me. They revealed no clue as to Scholl’s motives, but at least their clock readings made it possible to detail the exact timings of his first appearance West of the airport, and the subsequent movements of both aircraft. I didn’t know then of course the way Simona’s mind was working - I should have paid more attention to Le Comte, perhaps - and I didn’t want her to know I had those tapes, so I locked them away as well.

Finally I turned to the notes Oron had compiled on Scholl’s movements.

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