BIGGLES
IN SPAIN
by Captain W.
E. Johns
IV. UNEXPECTED
DEVELOPMENTS (Pages
41 – 48)
Biggles says to his comrades “Trust us to
walk into something like this” and then he tells them the letter is in his
breast pocket. If anything happens to
him, they must get the letter at any cost and go on with it. They hear the “crash” of pistol shots and
Biggles says “I reckon they’ve got Frazer”.
Walking through the kitchen, where they are shouted at by a Spanish
woman, Biggles leaves by the back door where five men are waiting. “Looks as if we’re in for a rough house” says
Biggles quietly. Suddenly and
unexpectedly a saloon motor-car swings round the corner at speed and bares down
on them. The driver tells them to get in
and Biggles, Algy and Ginger all pile in.
Shots are fired at them as the car drives off. A man grabs the front door and Biggles kicks
him off. The driver of the car is middle
aged “and clearly a foreigner”. Biggles
thanks him, but the driver is strangely uncommunicative and when asked where
they are going just answers “you’ll see”.
The car draws up at what appears to be a large private hotel. Taken to a room on the fourth floor, Biggles
is astonished when the man pulls a gun on them!
“Give me that envelope” he says.