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Sorry I haven't been writing lately, work has been just overwhelming. I will try to get some done tomorrow morning.
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We do miss the stories, but we don't want MR to feel "overwhelming" and "have to do". Here, have a Zany Carter!
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Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah!
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The police car rattled into the cane field and stopped with a dusty screeching. Biggles slurped out of the passenger seat and moaned. The roads to the field were in sad need of repair, as was his head. And the heat was tremendous. Summers in Boston had been hot on occasion, but this was like opening the gates of Hell and inviting a couple of active volcanoes in for drinkies.
They walked up to the cluster of people standing around a sheet. He saw Wallbanger there and nodded in recognition. Stout fellow, that! Biggles was pretty sure that Harv had assisted in getting ghim back to his hotel room in more or less three pieces. "Ah. Mr Biggles!" said the very offical looking man in the suit, "Or should I say, Major Biggles? Don't look surprised, it doesn't go well with the shade of green on your face." Biggles remembered back to his Spy Academy training and followed the first rule of dealing with your cover being blown. Fortunately acting stupid came as a natural for him. "Right. What's all this, then? Having a bit of early morning tea?" "More of an early afternoon lineup. Would you care to comment on this?" The sheet covering Filthy Pierre was thrown back. Biggles, totally unprepared for the sight, promptly got heartily and enthusiastically sick. "What the blazes happened to that man?" "It appears he was frozen to death in the middle of a cane field in the middle of the tropics. Do you have any idea of how that may have happened?" "How would I bloody well know how something that bizarre happened?" "You were seen engaged with this man in a game of poker last night, in which you lost quite heavily." "Well, yes, he did win a tidy sum from me, and then promptly lost it all to a squid." Biggles paused as the incongruity of his last statement hit him. Contrary to expectations, however, this bit of news caused the police jefe to be more alarmed than incredulous. "Dios mios! Where the squid goes, disaster soon follows!" He gestured at two of his officers who ran to their motorcycles and buzzed off in great haste. |
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disaster ? that seems a bit strong, doesn't it ? after all, the poor squid can't help it if he keeps getting kidnapped and winding up embroiled in international plots. he seems like a very nice fellow. quiet, and all that.
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Chocolate Grasshopper ...
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incongruity !
seems obvious to moi .... |
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Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah!
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Bois Aussi and Slite continued to survey the Ice Plant. Nothing much had happened and they were coming to the conclusion that nothing would happen. A boy came running up to them out of breath.
"Senor, Bois Aussi! I have come from the Taxi Driver! She says that the American embassy received a message two days ago that 'the Frenchman is here'!" "What? I thought you were the Frenchman! We just got here yesterday." "So did I. What could this mean?" "We need to go. they will be making another run another day. This needs to be looked into!" "I agree, mon ami! Let us make haste!" The pair of spies beat a hasy retreat down the dusty lane. As they disappeared around the corner, three cars pulled up to the Ice Plant and disgorged passengers. |
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"a boy", hm ? seems suspicious to me. never trust a child.
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"Ice Plant" ?
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Rémi Nable was still in Leterrible’s wood shop, late in the evening, putting the last touch on a series of chairs to be delivered to a casino somewhere in South America. The chairs were made in a new kind of pressed wood that Leterrible mixed up himself. They were then carved and finished with twenty coats of a finishing product unknown to him and upholstered with fabric weaved in Llama nose hair; surely a rather unorthodox way of building furniture at the least.
Nable didn’t complain, weary of getting slapped behind the head again, as Leterrible would do, saying “Sorry!” as he did it. After all, he was well paid, very well paid for that stupid job, much more than any cabinet maker he knew! But Nable couldn’t help wondering what Leterrible was up to, especially since that cloaked customer appeared at the shop and left Leterrible wrapped in a frenzy of creative madness. Leterrible did not know that Nable was also an SCRS secret agent affected to his shop to find out what kind of mischief he would get started. But he never trusted any of his workers anyway, it has always been a tradition that an ébéniste kept his recipes secret and known only to himself. And to make sure his workers did not find his secrets out, he would fire the lot every three months. Nable was finishing wrapping the boxes containing the chairs plus one odd one, a box containing cans of maple flavoured bean dip!?! Those were the last orders issued by Leterrible before he left the country and Nable was left to comply or miss the only chance he had to find out what was going on. His bosses would not be pleased... |
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Yvan, you're back!
Quel plaisir!!! |
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Yes, and now the plot thickens...again!
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