The House Of The Bears by John Creasey

Author:John Creasey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The House of the Bears
ISBN: 9780755125531
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2013-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

Jefferson was a short, bald-headed man, wealthy, quiet and mellow; a man of influence behind the scenes, a banker, a philanthropist, a friend of kings. After dinner he led the others to a small room where liqueurs and brandy were served, and then unobtrusively left them.

Brett cracked a nut. ‘What’s troubling you, Palfrey?’ he asked.

‘You,’ said Palfrey, angry now with himself and yet still feeling justified. ‘You should have given us some warning. After a lot of trouble, I convinced Cartwright and Hardy that I was here in my private capacity. When they learned you were here, they didn’t believe me. I don’t blame them.’

‘What is really worrying Sap is the suspicion of McDonald,’ Drusilla said. ‘He liked McDonald; we both did.’ She had told Brett and Jefferson about that, for the conversation in the dining-room had been mainly about the Morne affair. ‘And there’s something else too,” she went on, smiling at her husband. ‘He feels like a fish out of water. There’s nothing he would like better than to plunge into this particular pool, but he can’t. He isn’t used to police restrictions.’

‘I want you to work on the Morne affair,’ said Brett.

‘So that is the game,’ murmured Palfrey. His heart was suddenly lighter. Brett would not be interested in the Mornes because of a murder or two; he was too highly placed in Government circles for that. Brett was the man who had conceived the idea of setting representatives of the United Nations to work together in a spy organisation called, for convenience, Z.5, and had controlled that organisation. And Brett was interested in the Mornes.

‘I was afraid of that,’ said Drusilla, but she was smiling.

Brett spread his hands out before the fire. ‘I don’t think I need beat about the bush, Sap. It was the police capture of Garth – yes, yes, I know how that came about – which started things moving in London. It sounded an alarm.’

‘Why?’ asked Palfrey.

‘Because Garth was at one time one of our atom bomb experts.’

There was silence in the room, a tense, electric silence.

‘Garth was in America during the first trials,’ said Brett, very softly. ‘He had been working on it for years, at the same time as Rutherford at Cambridge. He was brilliant. I knew him slightly then, and I’ve seen him this afternoon. Why do you think they have done that to him?’

‘Is it – starvation?’

‘You should know better than I. They have reduced him to a living skeleton. And that man, for some weeks, had the hospitality of Morne House.’

‘Yes,’ said Palfrey.

Brett said: ‘Garth worked on similar lines to the others, but believed that the manufacture could be done on a much smaller scale. Others agreed with him, but to find the method would have taken too long. The present American method was adopted. Garth helped with that. Whether he continued with his own experiments I don’t know. I think it likely that he did.’

He paused; the others did not speak.

‘Other things will occur to you at once,’ said Brett.

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