Sean Dillon 17 - The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins

Author:Jack Higgins
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2010-09-15T21:21:31+00:00

They spent two hours enjoying the simple meal and discovering each other. He was extolling the joys of Wharfedale in the West Riding of Yorkshire, she the beauty of the South Armagh countryside, and they vowed to exchange visits. It was ten o’clock when they left. The rain had stopped, but the streets were Sunday-night empty.

“If we walk back to my residence hall, I could call a taxi,” he said.

“Belfast taxis anytime of night cost a fortune, and that’s when you can get one. It’s not all that far to where I’m staying, fifteen minutes.” She laughed. “Well, maybe twenty.”

“Nothing at all,” he said, offered her his arm. They waited for a white van that had been parked across the street to start up and drive past them, and then they began to walk.

It began to rain again, and she got the umbrella up, laughing, and they hurried on, and there was only the odd car passing, and then nothing, as they turned into an empty street, its shops locked up, with their lights on, and bare of parked cars, a police regulation to discourage bombers. A white van—was it the same one?—eased out of a street behind them, passed, and then braked, the driver and his passenger wearing black hoods. The rear doors burst open, and two more men jumped out wearing hoods, one of them holding a revolver.

Rosaleen cried out, and Daniel closed in on the man holding the revolver, grabbing for it with one hand and, in the struggle, tearing off the hood, revealing Green. Daniel shoved him away, still trying to wrench the weapon from Green’s grasp, but another man had run around the van and grabbed him from behind.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Daniel shouted as he struggled, but Green, laughing madly, cried, “I’ll tell you what we’re doing, you fugger. We’re Red Hand Commandos, and we’re going to teach you and that Fenian bitch some manners.”

Behind him, Green struggled to force Rosaleen into the back of the van, and Daniel heard it and her cry of despair, and then Green reversed his grip on the gun and struck Daniel a heavy blow across the side of the head, and that was the end of it.

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