The Blue and the Grey by Trow M.J

Author:Trow, M.J. [Trow, M.J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781780106229
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2014-11-06T08:00:00+00:00

Lafayette rested his back, glad the work was finished. It was unseasonably warm for a May evening, and his shirt was clinging to his back. ‘News from our friend, Lu,’ he said, swigging from his hip flask and pulling a crumpled telegram from his trouser pocket. ‘Captain Grand is taking in the sights of London, apparently. Hasn’t tipped his hand yet.’

‘Why’d you let him go, Laff?’ Luther asked. ‘If you think he’s involved?’

‘Why did we just bury John Wilkes Booth in the middle of the Anacostia?’ Lafayette chuckled. ‘Smoke and mirrors. Grand is a soldier and by all accounts a damned good one. If he ran wild in these United States of ours, we’d never find him. Over there, in a strange country, he’ll be off his guard. He won’t think we’re still watching.’

‘So it’s all down to our friend.’ Luther nodded, reaching for his coat.

‘And in this business,’ Lafayette said, ‘a man never knows who his friends are, does he?’

Grand knew he had to think fast, and so he let his military training take over. He put his head down and charged for the man behind the light. He knew deep down that he should really walk forward rationally, slowly, with his hands in the air, speaking clearly and explaining just what had happened. He knew that he should remain calm and not antagonize the Limey policeman; he became aware of another gap in his knowledge of England, and right at this moment it was a very important one. Are English policemen armed? Somehow, it had just never cropped up in any conversation he could remember having. He hoped that his hunch – that they carried nightsticks, no more – was right. To his surprise, the policeman at the top of the alleyway stepped aside and, taking advantage of the speed he had built up, Grand leaned hard to the left, swinging around the end of the alleyway and heading back the way he had come. He was aware that rattles were ahead of him, and he prepared to slip past them, using the element of surprise if he could. Not many people liked to stand in the way of over 200 pounds of Matthew Grand at a dead run.

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