Am I Being Followed? by G. M. Hutchison

Author:G. M. Hutchison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

chapter sixteen

It was part of the arrangement I had made with Andy that I wouldn’t be told what was actually in the package and I knew that thinking about what it was would do more harm than good. I had agreed to deliver it, whatever its contents were, and I tried to put the question out of my mind.

Most of the cars that appeared behind me seemed to be following me, although I knew that they weren’t. One car, however, a blue Mondeo with two men in it, had been in my rear view mirror for far longer than any of the others and, as a precaution, I drew into a lay-by.

As the car approached I peered at a road map, not taking my eyes off its colourful contents until the vehicle had gone well past. I watched it turn off onto a narrow track which led up to a small cottage standing beside a wooded area on the edge of a field. It was a false alarm, obviously, but I nevertheless felt pleased with my vigilant response.

Later, I turned into the estate and had very soon found the pathway that led up to the canal. My first delivery was going to be easy, I felt. There was no-one in the residents’ car park and I could see that none of the windows in the adjacent houses directly overlooked it. Strolling up the pathway I turned every so often to check that no-one was following me.

Soon, the canal embankment came into view and, as I had still not spotted the chalk mark, I began to feel less sure of myself. What if I couldn’t find it? Having to take the package back to Andy and tell him that I had got lost was something that filled me with dread. Was I going to fall at the first hurdle? Heaven forbid! Fortunately, just as I was thinking I might have to retrace my steps I saw the mark, and very soon had the package snugly tucked up inside the hollow trunk. Confident again, my nervousness beginning to subside into a mere clammy feeling on my forehead and hands, I made my way back to the car.

Reflecting on what I had just done, I felt good about the smoothness of the procedure. As Andy had said, I had been able to see quite clearly that there had been no-one else on the pathway and that I wasn’t being followed. No outsider would have known I was going there and there was nothing to connect me to Andy’s people either, only Andy himself.

As I turned onto the motorway that would take me to Linda’s I experienced only one negative twinge, and I was aware that it had come rather late. No matter how indirect my relationship was with the criminals who must be behind this work, in practical terms I had become one of them. But what I had become had to be weighed against what I had been, I told myself, I had to keep a balanced view.

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