The Terror Time Spies by David Clement-Davies

Author:David Clement-Davies [Clement-Davies, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Phoenix Ark Press
Published: 2012-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

As the adult secret agents wondered what they would see, what Nellie Bonespair had seen arriving in Paris, over six hours before the other Pimpernels, was that sleeping dragon, but very much awake.

As the oak barrels had passed unchecked through a different Paris gate, Spike had poked her head over the top, as her carriage came to a stop in the city of Paris. The place seemed to be thronging with people at every quarter.

Many were in those funny red caps, Spike rather liked, coloured sashes tied around their wastes too, and others dressed as fairly ordinary, respectable folk, although more discretely than you might have seen in London.

The last thing anyone wanted now was to be mistaken for an aristo.

Nor did it seem a place dedicated only to the terrible work of state execution, or the sombre purposes of men like Charles Couchonet. For people must work and live their lives, especially when threatened with their lives being rather shorter than they had first imagined, or hoped.

That is why, if Nellie had only known it, Paris currently contained sixty places to dance in, and twenty three theatres, open nightly, one of which Citizeness Merimonde was due to perform in, that very evening.

What Spike noticed too, with a sinking little heart, were the number of weapons everywhere. All the adults seemed armed, whether with staff or simple pike, pistols or muskets and swords. Spike thought, with a gulp, of what she had overheard Count Armande saying about only one thing waiting in Paris now – DEATH.

Yet, poking up her head all day, Nell had seen so many amazing things that she thought Paris and this silly Revolution were the most exciting things in the whole world. She noticed too that people were taking down street signs though, like the Rue St Jaques and L’Avenue St George. Spike realised that all the signs thy were removing were of funny Saint’s names, although she did not know what it meant. Even as the others raced after her though, Spike looked out to see a sign that said this:

HOTEL CRILLON

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