Doctor Who: World Game by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563486367
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2005-11-29T10:00:00+00:00

The Doctor handed Serena into the coach and climbed in beside her, and the carriage set off, jolting over the cobbles.

The Doctor reached up and pushed open the little trapdoor in the roof.

‘Rue Chantereine, please driver. Number six.’

The driver spoke over his shoulder. ‘I know where you’re going, Doctor.’

The voice seemed different somehow. Clearer – and younger this time. But how could that be?

Serena was looking out of the window. Now that they were out of range of the palace illuminations, there was little to be seen in the darkness of the Tuileries Gardens.

‘The route seems rather strange, Doctor.’

The Doctor looked out of the window and saw that instead of heading down the driveway that led to the road, they had curved around the palace, and were rattling through the huge dark gardens that were behind it.

‘Hey, driver!’ he called. ‘Where are we going?’

‘Short cut through the Tuileries Gardens,’ said the curiously altered voice. ‘Privilege of the Emperor’s guests.’

Again the Doctor and Serena had the feeling that he was laughing at them.

The carriage rocketed on at a reckless speed and soon they left the fountains and flowerbeds of the formal gardens and found themselves carried deep into a little wood. The carriage reached a clearing and pulled to a halt.

‘Out you get, Doctor,’ said the coachman. ‘This is as far as you go!’

‘See here, my man, I don’t know what you’re playing at,’

said the Doctor as he got out of the carriage.

The coachman jumped down from his box. ‘Don’t you, Doctor?’

Serena descended from the carriage and peered at the coachman’s face.

‘I thought, so. It’s him, Doctor – Valmont. The one who was waiting in the Countess’s carriage at Fort Carre. The one who carried the bomb to the Colonial Office.’

And indeed it was. The driver threw back his collar and swept off his broad-brimmed hat, revealing petulant, sulky features. ‘You’ll spoil no more of our plans!’

‘Won’t I?’ said the Doctor grimly. ‘And how do you propose to stop me?’

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