Drink with the Devil. Jack Higgins
jetty Keogh said, ‘Reid can’t touch you once you’re back home with that transporter. All right, maybe your Army Council don’t like people going their own way and acting without orders, but you’ll be a bloody hero to them. They’ll welcome you with open arms when they hear about the bullion.’
‘Let’s hope so. It’s Reid I’m concerned about. Unless I miss my guess he’d like to have it all for himself.’
‘Well fuck him,’ Kathleen said angrily.
‘You mind your tongue, girl,’ Ryan told her.
‘But if he doesn’t know about Kilalla he isn’t a threat,’ Keogh said.
‘Not when we land, but later,’ Ryan shrugged. ‘Who knows? Anyway, let’s go back to the farm. I’ve got the Land Rover at the cottage.’
Mary Power provided a simple meal at one o’clock – vegetable soup, a cheese salad and the inevitable tea. Afterwards, as she cleared the table, she said to Benny, ‘Mind your chores now. The sheep in North Meadow need seeing to.’
He nodded eagerly, got his cap and went out. A moment later Keogh, standing at the window, saw him cross the yard, a sack across his shoulders against the rain, the dog at his heels.
‘He’s a worker, that lad, I’ll say that for him.’
‘And in the mind still a child,’ she said. ‘He has to be told everything.’
Ryan finished his tea and stood up. ‘I want to look at the ambush site again. We’ll go in the Ford van, me and Kathleen. You follow on the Montesa. I’ll give you one of the radios. When we get there you carry on up the road a mile or two then contact me. Use the call sign Eagle One, like I said. I’ll be Eagle Two.’
‘Fine by me,’ Keogh told him.
As the Ford turned into the track towards the road leading down Eskdale, the girl was at the wheel. She glanced at her uncle.
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