Doctor Who: Virgin Missing Adventures [007] - The Ghosts of N-Space by Barry Letts

Author:Barry Letts
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426204343
Publisher: Doctor Who Books
Published: 1995-04-13T22:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

‘What do you reckon he meant by “You wait till tonight”?’ said Sarah, when she’d told the Doctor about her encounter with Pimple-face.

The Doctor hardly seemed to be listening. He was adjusting a calibrated scale on the shank of an odd-looking object which he said was his ‘sonic screwdriver’, which he had told her was useful for opening locks (among other things).

The door he intended to unlock was of course that of the alchemist’s workshop.

When Sarah had come out into the courtyard after Guido had left her, she had seen the Doctor apparently peeping into the little building in the corner through the small window. He noticed her at once and motioned to her to hide, as he did himself in the corner of the covered walkway.

Almost immediately, the door opened and Maximilian Vilmius emerged, grim-faced, followed by the monk figure.

It was difficult to believe that he was a ghost – one of the N-Bodies, as the Doctor called them.

Vilmius locked the door behind them with a heavy key and they walked across the grass in the centre of the courtyard, through the arch in the dividing wall and into the walled garden on the other side. After a moment, the Doctor stuck his head out and beckoned her over.

‘Glad to see you,’ he murmured to her. ‘Just as I hoped, he led me straight to where he’s hidden the original of that document you found. So you can keep watch while I take a look.’

But then he’d pulled out the thing that looked like a hi-tech tyre gauge and started an interminable series of minute adjustments, listening intently to its buzz (which sounded exactly the same every time).

Sarah had been rubbing her face where she’d been thumped. ‘What’s up?’ he’d said. So she told him.

‘What do you reckon he meant by “You wait till tonight”?’ she finished.

‘Mm? Oh, I expect the pages and the other lads all share the same bedroom – unless you all sleep in the kitchen of course.’

‘What!’

‘That should do it,’ he said, after another test buzz. He set off towards the doorway. ‘They’ve gone off to the library to check something in one of the Barone’s hermetic books. So we’ve a bit of time. You saw the way they went, so you can keep an eye open through the archway and tip me the wink if they come out of the house. Right?’

He grinned as he took in her appalled expression as she contemplated the delights of a night spent with Pimple-face and his buddies. ‘Don’t worry,’ he said. ‘Everybody will understand if the master insists that he wants his page to stay with him.

‘No, no,’ he added hastily. ‘I’m not suggesting that you should share my room. It’s the custom for the servant to sleep lying across the threshold.’

‘You mean, on the floor? Like a dog?’

‘Mm. My faithful hound.’

Sarah wasn’t quite sure whether to take this as a compliment. But before she could object some more, he turned to the door of the workshop and aimed the sonic screwdriver at it.

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