Dark Waters (Mephisto Club Series Book 1) by David Longhorn

Author:David Longhorn [Longhorn, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ScareStreet.com
Published: 2018-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: New Acquaintances

It took Dan a couple of weeks to recover from his injuries. After three days, he was sent home from hospital. The police interviewed him about the kidnapping, and he was straight about the Korochenko connection. However, when a young detective asked him why he was in the Salisbury Square area at that time, he simply said he was 'visiting a friend'. After a pause, the officer pointed out that people lie to detectives a lot, and criminal prosecutions sometimes ensued.

“Okay,” Dan had said. “Truth is I was looking for another job. I don't want my boss to know, so I'd be really grateful–”

The detective had waved Dan to silence and left. Later he was told that Korochenko had fled the country, while his henchmen were being charged with a range of offences. Dan would be contacted about the trial, which might not come to court for a year. In the meantime, the thugs were in custody.

“Win, win,” said Dan to himself in the bathroom. “Bad guys neutralized, and this good guy has his entree to the club. Kinda.”

He went back into the bedroom and reviewed the research he had done in hospital. 'Soray Treasure' had been vague, but a little Googling had revealed quite a lot. Soray was a medium-sized island in the Outer Hebrides, which Dan was surprised to find that it rhymed with cheese. The island lay in a rough arc off the Atlantic coast of Scotland, and was notoriously rugged.

“Wouldn't be a challenge if I just had to walk around the corner,” he sighed.

The treasure had proved tougher to pin down. Eventually he settled on two possibilities. One was a cargo ship sunk by a German U-boat near Soray in 1941. It was rumored to contain British gold bullion bound for the US to pay for machinery, food, and oil. However, according to most sources, the ship had gone down in very deep waters, and attempts to salvage the gold with advanced equipment had failed.

“Three failures by experts,” Dan added to himself. “No way could I do it. Not without a magic wand.”

There was, however, another possibility. A vague legend had spread in the seventeenth century that the folk of Soray had come into wealth, allowing them to build a fine new church, among other things. Nothing had come of this, except for one occasion in the 1740s when a Soray fisherman was said to have got drunk on the mainland. He had, it was claimed, tried to pay for his whiskey with an old Spanish coin. A suspicious tavern-keeper had given the coin to a local magistrate, who was also something of a scholar. The magistrate said the coin dated from the time of the Armada. The Soray man had vanished by then, and was never seen again.

This clue led Dan to check out the route of the Spanish fleet in 1588. Sure enough, after being defeated off the Dutch coast it had sailed home with the prevailing winds, which meant going right round the north of Scotland and then down past the Hebrides.

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