Not for Export by Coles Manning

Author:Coles, Manning [Coles, Manning]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781774642719
Amazon: B09L4YN11B
Goodreads: 59698085
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Published: 1988-02-16T08:00:00+00:00

9. TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE

"What were they saying?" asked Spelmann.

Hambledon told him. "You know this is really beginning to be quite interesting," he added. "Here is a Russian named Vadim Zolbin who is carrying Renzow's personal papers. He is being helpfully pursued by those two ornaments of hell ahead of us because, apparently, he is also carrying a large sum of money. What's the money for, Spelmann?"

"To buy the Renzow aircraft designs, of course."

"I think so, too. So the designs are somewhere in Berlin. This fellow Zolbin was going to meet somebody, no doubt. What a pity the police arrested him; if you'd been able to follow him home, we might have had the designs in our hands by now. It's rather odd, don't you think, that he was carrying Renzow's papers? How is Renzow?"

"Still unconscious, I heard today. But, since Zolbin thought himself safe in using Renzow's papers, the question I ask myself is: Where does he think Renzow is? I answer myself: Somewhere where he cannot protest. We can take it that he knows who Renzow is. Look out, they are looking back."

"Turn left," said Hambledon. "We can rejoin this road further on. Oh yes, Renzow is a famous man and you can bet the Russians know all about him, especially anyone with any connection with aircraft."

"But they can't know he's in hospital as a result of a murderous assault, or this man would not have attempted to impersonate him."

"No," said Hambledon slowly. "You are quite right there, Spelmann. It looks very much as though they thought he was dead."

"What—in hospital?"

"No, no. Listen. Renzow's personal papers have been in Russian territory. Who took them there?"

"One of Gruiter's gang," said Spelmann. "Or, more likely, whoever it was who employed them to steal the designs."

"I am not sure that anyone did. I think they went to Königswinter after the jewels and just took the designs as well on the chance they might be valuable. No, I don't mean what individual was it who went across the border with the designs and papers. I mean, what did he call himself?"

"Gustav Renzow, of course—of course! The papers would take him into the Russian zone all right. It was when this man Zolbin tried to use them in the British sector that he ran into trouble."

"Yes. I think the substitute Renzow who went over to the Russians must be dead. Or in a Russian jail, which is much the same thing."

"I think so, too. And all that money—" said Spelmann.

"There they are again," interrupted Hambledon. "Don't let them see us. They're stopping; take cover!"

Before them stretched a wide and empty road, on the right it was flat and open where ruined buildings had been cleared away and sites for new buildings laid out. In one place a start had been made, for hoardings surrounded a skeleton of steel framing. Across the road there was a row of houses in reasonably good condition; one of them was a police station with the door, as Ivanovich had prophesied, standing open.

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