Merlin at War by Mark Ellis

Author:Mark Ellis [Mark Ellis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995566729
Publisher: London Wall Publishing
Published: 2017-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

The same café. The same time of day. The only difference this time was that Rougemont had not troubled to get himself a shoeshine. As before, there were only two other customers when the captain joined his spy.

“Nice day.”

“Some improvement. What do you have for me?”

“A couple of things. The British police visited Carlton Gardens yesterday.”

“Did they?”

“I don’t know who they met.”

“Don’t worry, I can find out.” The captain added some sugar to his tea. Normally he took it without but this morning he felt the need for something sweet. Probably something to do with the plentiful cheap champagne he had drunk with the commandant the night before. He had unwisely agreed to accompany Angers on a double date with his two English showgirls. After watching the girls in their revue, they had all gone on to a club in Soho. He had not taken to the girl Angers had allocated to him and had drunk too much in compensation. That was the first and last time he’d do that for the commandant. “What else?”

“I can give you the identity of the civilian your officers met in the park.”

“Yes?”

“A fellow called Vorster. Rupert Vorster. He was the man who met with Beaulieu, Dumont and Meyer.”

“And who is Vorster? How did you identify him?”

“Beaulieu is away, as you know, so…”

“I checked out his story by the way. He turned up at Oxford as planned. The fellow Beaulieu’s been visiting is whiter than white.”

“Very well. So the two other officers I’m tailing met up with Vorster again, this time for drinks in a St James’s pub. Another customer called out Vorster’s name. It was noisy but I could hear Vorster’s response. He has a South African accent – I shared digs with someone from Cape Town once and recognised it. I didn’t hear anything of particular interest. They seemed to be talking about mining companies and the stock market mostly. After a while, they all moved on to the Ritz. I followed but wasn’t really dressed for the place. I stood outside until 11 o’clock then called it a day. I did see one other thing, by way of coincidence.”

“Yes?”

“I saw your boss go into the Ritz as I was leaving.”

“Angers?”

“No, the colonel.”

“Aubertin?”

“You’ve never introduced me but I’ve seen him with you and Angers from afar. Yes, Aubertin.”

“Well, he likes to enjoy himself as much as the next man.”

“Perhaps he was meeting up with the other two?”

Rougemont frowned. Could that be possible? Would there really be anything wrong with that, if he did?

“Or perhaps he has decided to do a little investigating of his own?”

“Perhaps, Mr Harp, but probably meeting up with another friend, I should think. Anything else?”

Devlin shook his head. “I followed the two men in alternating blocks of four or five hours. Most of the time they were both at the office. Meyer went out somewhere around lunchtime yesterday but my time was allotted to Dumont then. Then there was the meeting with Vorster. Nothing else of note except that Dumont appears to have a girlfriend, who visited him in his digs on Wednesday night.

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