Hidden Mountain by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

9 The New Plan

Everything happened so fast that neither Frank nor Joe had time to register exactly what was going on—and then a third man appeared.

“Detective Kitimat!” Frank said. He looked at the two other men. “Who are these guys?”

“These are Agents Martin and Sims out of the Seattle, Washington, FBI office,” Detective Kitimat said as he pointed out each man. “We sort of ran into each other on the trail. I’ve known these two men for a long time.”

“What?” Frank and Joe said in unison. “You’ve got to be kidding!”

“What do you mean?” Agent Sims said.

“Could we see your identification, please?” Frank said.

Joe could tell that the two men thought this was a waste of time, but they didn’t say so and they quickly produced their FBI identification.

This time, both Frank and Joe scrutinized the badges very carefully.

“Well, I guess you really are who you say you are,” Frank said.

“Unlike that other Agent Martin and Agent Sims,” Joe added.

“Now what are you talking about?” Agent Martin asked.

Frank quickly told them the entire story of what had happened with the two phony FBI agents, from the time he and Joe encountered them in the Wilkersons’ cabin, to when they had escaped.

Agent Martin and Agent Sims looked at each other.

“The fact that they knew exactly who’d be coming for the Wilkersons means there’s a leak somewhere in this chain of command—and it explains a lot about what happened to us,” Agent Sims said. “We’ll have to find the leak quick and get it plugged.”

“What do you mean?” Frank asked. “How’d they get to the Wilkersons’ cabin before you guys?”

“We were driving into Hudson’s Hope when we were pulled over by the British Columbia Provincial Police,” Agent Martin said. “The whole thing’s smelled fishy from the very beginning, but we thought that maybe somebody out of Hudson’s Hope just didn’t get the message.”

“It’s happened before,” Agent Sims added. “Most of the time the law enforcement agencies of our two countries work very well together, but sometimes you have people in these little towns who get territorial and do everything they can to stymie your investigations.”

“They resent their own country’s agencies that are above them,” Agent Martin said, “and when you’re not even a member of a police force in their country, you can really run into a brick wall.”

“This particular officer had been ‘tipped off’ by someone,” Agent Sims said. “He kept telling us that some American FBI agents were coming into town, planning to take Canadian law into their own hands.”

“We’re working with the British Columbia authorities on this case,” Agent Martin told them. “We kept showing him the papers, but he wouldn’t listen.”

“Finally we convinced him to call a number in Victoria, and he did,” Agent Sims said. “Then he apologized, more or less—but of course by then we had been delayed enough that the Wilkersons were already gone when we got to their cabin.”

“But we could tell by the tracks leading away from the cabin that several people had headed into the woods,” Agent Martin said, “so we immediately started after them.

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