Unholy Crusade (Black Magic 08) by Wheatley Dennis

Author:Wheatley, Dennis [Wheatley, Dennis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Black Magic, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Novel, Occultism, Satan, Satanism, Fantasy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1967-01-26T03:00:00+00:00

11

The Stolen Honeymoon

Now that the die was cast, Adam put the future out of his mind and Chela’s happiness was unalloyed. Time drifted by unnoticed as they talked, laughed and delighted in one another. It was not until they felt hungry that they looked at the time and found it to be half past eight. Rather than dress and go out or to the restaurant, they decided to dine there and studied the elaborate room menu together. Chela collected her clothes from the floor and took refuge in the bathroom, while Adam rang for the floor waiter and ordered double portions of everything; which, as he towered over the man by a head and shoulders, did not seem to surprise him.

When the meal had been wheeled in, Chela put on one of Adam’s pyjama jackets which, tall as she was, came down to her knees. Giggling, they shared the glass and Adam cut up the food, feeding her with the fork. Replete with champagne, a truffled omelette, lobster and strawberries, they went back to bed; but as they had decided to make a fairly early start the next morning and Chela had to pack, she dressed before midnight and, after many kisses, left him.

At nine o’clock the following morning, Adam rang up the Enriquezes’ penthouse and, using an assumed name, asked for Ramón. His intention was to report that he had accepted the role of Quetzalcoatl with the object of finding out the conspirators’ plans, but Ramón had already gone out.

At ten o’clock Chela arrived in her car and they set off on their two-hundred-and-sixty-mile drive. The way out of the city lay through a seemingly endless suburb, towards the end of which Adam noticed that at the roadside the small houses and shops had numbers over five thousand. But, at last, they were clear of the built-up area and out on the fine motorway to the south.

It was the road on which lay both Cuernavaca and Taxco, but by-passes took them round those cities. By that time they had come down several thousand feet, it was much hotter and the vegetation gave ample evidence of the difference in temperature. They had left behind the almost barren mountain slopes upon which little but occasional groups of firs and casuarinas grew. The hillsides were now more thickly wooded, there were many palms and, here and there, clusters of spiky euphorbias, some looking in the distance like irregular patches of straight poles from twelve to fifteen feet in height and others like giant hands with many prickly fingers.

For the whole of the way from Mexico City to Acapulco the road was fenced on both sides, to prevent animals from straying on to it and becoming a danger to the traffic, and the surface was so good that, along straight stretches, they were able to travel at ninety miles an hour. Patches of cultivation were few and far between but, after Taxco, every half-mile or so beyond the wire fence there were groups

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