The Case of The Goodnight Gang by Angus McLean

Author:Angus McLean [McLean, Angus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Smoking Gun Publishing
Published: 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

At about the same time the gang were stealthily approaching the warehouse from the rear, having decided they needed to at least get close enough to find out where Jack was, even if they couldn’t actually rescue him.

They had stashed their bikes and found a way through a wire fence up to the railway fracks. Following that along, being careful to stay in the long grass to the side of the tracks, they found themselves at the back of the industrial sites, with the tracking device’s beeping getting louder.

Suddenly a loud rumbling came from behind them, and a blazing white light bore down on them.

“Train!” Jade cried.

They all dived to the side, seeking cover in the long grass as the train hurtled past. It was deafeningly loud, and seemed to go on forever, a long line of carriages snaking along behind it.

Finally it was past and they resumed their journey, their nerves a little frazzled by the near miss.

Soon they were at the high wire fence surrounding a large warehouse, and Windy signalled them to stop. They all crouched in the darkness, keeping their voices low.

“This is it,” he told them, “the beep’s strongest here.” He pointed at the warehouse lying in front of them, dark and silent. “He must be in there.”

Sam surveyed their surroundings critically.

“That fence is pretty high,” he observed, “and it’s got barbed wire on top of it. We’ll never get over it.” He pointed at a small black box on the corner of the fence. “And look at that, I bet it’s electric.”

Picking up a pebble from the ground, he tossed it at the fence, and was rewarded with a flash of sparks.

“The whole thing can’t be electric, can it?” Grace whispered, “isn’t that illegal?”

“I don’t think that’d worry these guys,” Sam replied darkly.

“Look.” Windy pointed to the fence. “It’s got four separate wires running along on the inside boundary of the fence. They’re the electric ones. If you push the main fence against them, like the stone did, you’ll get a shock.”

“So we can’t go through it, either,” Ella whispered despairingly.

“No choice then,” Sam said, “we’ve gotta go under it.”

They quietly searched around in the darkness for tools, then moved down the grassy bank to the fence-line. They found a slight dip and set to work.

Sam had found a crushed old tin and used it to scrape away the surface dirt from in the dip. Once that was cleared, he began digging furiously at the earth beneath, bending over and flicking the dirt between his legs like a dog.

“We need Nitro here,” he panted, and Grace had to stifle a giggle.

After several minutes he’d scraped a gap deep enough and wide enough to slip through without touching the wire.

Pausing to catch his breath, he wiped sweat from his brow and straightened up. Suddenly he ducked down again, holding a finger to his lips and pointing down the railway tracks

“The security guard’s coming!” he hissed urgently.

They all ducked down into the long grass again, hoping against hope that the phoney guard wouldn’t see them and the dog wouldn’t smell them.

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