[MaC] The ARP warden arrives - and leaves
Mel Mason
goldfired at oxmust.co.uk
Fri Dec 24 21:10:20 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?"
>
Fitzroy was looking apoplectic. "You're not suggesting we do that 'ere, I
'ope?" he growled at Warren.
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