Mike Dixon

The girls burst out laughing and Humphrey managed to
slip the colonel up his sleeve while their attention was occupied
by The Rabbi and The Bishop. A short time later, Cap-
tain Slim went the same way. He wondered what the reaction
would be when it was noticed that they were missing.
„Okay! Where are they?‟
Tim stood on a bench and held up one of the photo-
graphs. He‟d spilt beer on his T-shirt and was far from sober.
„I‟ve got The Rabbi. Where‟s the rest?‟
Someone produced The Major but the others were miss-
ing.
Humphrey was reminded of the card game Happy Fami-
lies which his daughter, Elizabeth, liked to play. Tim had
The Rabbi and The Major. He had the colonel and the cap-
tain. That left The Bishop and The Sergeant. There could be
little doubt who had the last two cards.
anet adjusted the earpiece of her CD player. She was
J following along behind the Landcruiser driven by David
and carrying Humphrey and a drunken Tim. Like David, she
had confined her drinking to orange juice.
The CD player had been modified to act as a radio and
was standard issue – together with a service pistol, handcuffs
and other trappings of a drug enforcement officer. An-
other piece of equipment was in her dive bag on the seat
beside Humphrey. It contained a small microphone and was
transmitting conversations in the Landcruiser. She turned a
switch and activated a recording mechanism.
The conversation was interesting. What should she do
with it? A report had to be written but she wasn‟t going to
tell everything she‟d found out – to do that would be subservient.
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