Biggles Takes a Hand by Captain W E Johns

Author:Captain W E Johns [Johns, Captain W E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure
Published: 2012-06-12T19:59:30+00:00

CHAPTER VIII

ALGY MEETS TROUBLE

BIGGLES and Ginger arrived home without mishap and as far as they were aware without being followed. Living in London they knew the ever-changing one-way streets which so often baffle visitors. They found Bertie and Anna in the sitting-room, a pot of tea and a plate of biscuits on the table.

“Jolly good,” congratulated Bertie, smiling at Ginger. “So you made it.”

“Just about,” returned Ginger. “There was a minute when things looked a bit sticky but the army came along and helped me out.”

“Tell us exactly what happened,” requested Biggles, when they had made themselves comfortable. “But first of all, how did you get on, Bertie? See anything of interest?”

“Not a bally thing. Nobody went to the house while I was there.”

“Algy came along to relieve you as arranged?”

“Dead on time.”

“Good. Now, Ginger, tell us all about it. Things seem to have got into a bit of a tangle so the first thing to do is to try to get some sort of picture of how matters stand at the moment.”

Ginger told the story, in the order of events, of all that had happened from the time of his arrival in Berlin.

“The woman you saw must have been our housekeeper, Gretchen,” informed Anna, when he had finished. “She is getting old and cannot really understand all that is going on in our country today. Poor Gretchen. It’s hard for the old people.”

“She knows enough to be suspicious of strangers, anyway,” asserted Ginger. “If it hadn’t been for your brooch I should have got nowhere with her. Here it is. You’d better have it back.” He passed it over.

“I should have made allowances for the possibility of the Professor following Anna to London,” muttered Biggles. “I imagined he might do that but wasn’t prepared for him to follow on so soon. Of course, he might have had another reason, apart from Anna, for getting out of Berlin. I wonder was he shadowed when he left the house. In view of what Ginger tells us the house was still being watched. I don’t like the sound of that. I can understand the anxiety of the enemy to catch up with the Roths, but what is their interest in your father, Anna? Does he know something, too?”

“Perhaps. It may be that they hope to learn from him where the Roths have gone. Or they may think the Roths will return to Berlin and go to the house.” Anna shrugged. “I don’t know.”

“If your father came here I’m afraid we’re going to have a job to find him. Our only chance is that he will go to Doctor Jacobs’ old house in Hampstead, if he hasn’t already been. I’m not very hopeful but we might catch him there.”

“I’d have thought he’d have gone straight to the house as soon as he arrived,” said Bertie.

“He hadn’t been when I called. For all we know he may have had a reason for not going near the house.”

“Such as?”

“He obviously wouldn’t go near it if he knew, or suspected, he was being shadowed.

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