by Adam Hall
We stood at the corner of Bayshore and 22nd street, traffic going past, long hair blowing in open cars, the night still young under the bright Miami moon. There was a club just here, with music floating out across the sidewalk.
'We'll be going home,' I said, 'through the Bahamas, take it easy round the pool for a couple of days.'
He stood shivering, head down, buried in himself. God knew how long it was going to take them to straighten him out, but that'd be their problem, in London.
Then he said an extraordinary thing.
'I apologise.'
For making life so difficult for me, I suppose. Civil of him.
That's all right. Happens in the best of families. You know Monck, don't you, in Nassau?'
'Yes.'
'We'll be looking in on him while we're there.'
For major debriefing, the definitive debriefing on Barracuda. Then I'd drop those tapes on the table. I didn't think there'd be any trouble with Proctor, but one man's testimony wouldn't be enough to blow an organisation that size. They'd need first-hand evidence, recognisable voices, and that's what we'd got.
'Good club,' I said. 'Popular.'
Didn't answer, head on his chest, perhaps didn't hear.
Cabs pulling in, dropping people off at the marquee, some of them in fancy dress, some sort of gala. Then a car stopped by the kerb and Ferris got out and came across to us, people going by, a flurry of girls, giggling, covered in streamers, pretty dresses, silks and coloured plumes, a bit tiddly, I wouldn't wonder, one of them touching my arm as she trotted past – 'Oh boy, have you had a hard day last night!' A gust of laughter.
'Hello Proctor,' Ferris said, 'long time no see,' and we got into the car.
Elleston Trevor
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