[MaC] The ARP warden arrives - and leaves

Allen Veazey veazeyae at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 21:06:54 EST 2004


> "I'll be off then," said the warden - unless you'd like me to have a look
> round ... "
> 
> "That will be all right," said Marty.  "Just tell us about this bomb."
> 
> The warden repeated his earlier warning and then took his leave, Marty
> Fitzroy escorting him to the lift - as though to make sure he'd really
> leave.
> 
> The lift was slowly clanking its way down ... and Marty returned.
> 
> "Now I need a drink," he announced.  "Hodges - a brandy and soda.  With not
> too much soda."
> 
> His mood seemed to have taken yet another turn for the worse.

"And bother again," Warren said. "Frightful things, unexploded bombs.
Have a habit of going off an hour or a week later. At the airfield, 
they've gotten into the habit of getting a sharpshooter and 
plinking at the thing from a distance... something wrong, Mister
Fitzroy?"



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