Murder on the White Rose Express! Read online

  Prof. are you listening in yes, why is it so quiet, there should be some sort of background noise and yet there is nothing. I think we have been deliberately tuned out of what is actually taking place. Either they are tangled up with something, and they do not wish us to find out just exactly what is taking place!

  I am going to start wriggling these knobs and see what we can receive, Millie just promise me you will not be the one to release the Bomb! No Prof. I promise I will leave that for you!

  Now keep silent whilst I put this machine on, what was that bang for, someone must have shot someone! Oh right, in that case, get your gun out Prof. and come with me, we are going hunting without our hounds!

  Millie, Prof, are you listening yes both here, are you OK? Both fine, but there have been a couple of deaths, by you or from inside? A little of both actually, The Head of the Civil Service who act's as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office is now dead. They seem to have been above their station shall we say! You must mean they have been helping themselves to what they see as their personal items! Yes Millie right as usual!

  Now is there anything else that you can see within that particular Office because there should be, Also where is the Prime Minister at this time? No idea Millie, I would have thought he would be somewhere around here, but when we got here no lights were on in the two Departments!

  Well that cannot be right, there is something very wrong here, make sure all the lights are working, then go into all three areas, be very careful as Prof. and I think you may be in for a shock with what you could find in those areas. In fact both Prof. and I will slowly walk down towards where you should be.

  If you are going to do that Millie and in view of what we think and Prof thinks, Just make sure you Draw them before you set off, do you understand both of you, yes loud and clear! Just make sure we can hear each other just in case!

  Right Prof. are you ready for our walk, yes but I am telling you now you obey orders, only if I think it is safe to do so Prof! We have known these clowns for some years now!

  They try to be helpful, yes Professor Hall but it does not always turn out to be helpful does it! Remember when I had problems in Loch Torridon Area! I rest my case! Well it was dealt with in the end Millie, oh yes, in the end! All I will say is it is the waiting for it to actually end that was a pain in the bum!

  Calling Millie, now what are you all thinking of putting a call out on line? Because Millie we have heard something and neither you nor Professor Hall will be going back home by train, we are, we have tickets for the White Rose Express yes we know that, but as of now you will not be boarding the train!

  Look we have known each other for a number of years now, but I just think you get more and more daft! Is it that you have been having a wee dram for lunch? I wish Millie, I wish! We have had feed back that there will be a bomb on board in the hope that it will stop you and Prof! Oh charming it is nice to be surrounded by friends!

  How are we going back home, and more to the point how are we going to attempt to get the bomb off the train, At this very second Millie we have no idea where the bomb is nor where it could be! Well I had better let my husband know that we will not be going back on the train! Other wise when and if it does explode he will think I am in the middle of it all!

  In the meantime I have serious work to set off which means I am trying to see what I can achieve by having a dummy run within Porton Down. Just watch your back Millie, no that is your job there are two of you! Now I am starting the dummy run within the next half an hour, so keep listening, but I expect some sort of reaction from Whitehall, so just keep your ears working on overtime! Take care, both of you Millie, will do!

  This is Porton Down calling, we have two of the shafts unlocked and the locks are not working, anyone can enter via the main doors, and also the side door on the west side. We need assistance with the locks otherwise anyone could just calmly work around.

  Security cannot check everyone coming in via the central doors.

  This is Porton Down calling, we have two shafts unlocked and the locks are not working, anyone can enter via the main doors, and also the side door on the west side! We do need help with locks on the doors!

  This is Porton Down calling, all our locks seem to be out of commission, we do need our locks to be back to normal, at the moment Porton Down is completely open, are you receiving me, the Locks within Porton Down are not working, we need urgent help with our locking system!

  Millie, do not speak, just listen we are looking on screen and I think you have worked this well, we have two strangers on the premises, they have just walked over the grass now, heading towards Chemical, oh a third as joined them!

  You were spot on Millie, they are from the top of Whitehall, I would say they have a helicopter somewhere nearby, one of our men have slipped out to check and if so they will have keys missing when they get back to the 'copter! Send your message out again Millie, start now!

  This is Porton Down calling, all our locks seem to be out of commission nothing is locking, all doors and gates on Porton Down cannot be locked. Help is required, we need Porton Down to have all the locks functioning. Porton Down is wide open, no locks working.

  Porton Down calling, all the locks seem to be out of commission!

  Millie, job done, we have eight on site, two have gone to Chemical,three are in Biological and three are walking over to Nuclear. All our men have drawn and are following also more are already within the Departments.

  Keep listening Millie, and let Prof. know! Professor Hall I have a Gut Feeling about this, the start of it is too easy, there is something out of order.

  Hello, Millie what is wrong, get a camera on Salisbury Plain, it is not Porton Down they are looking into really, these are just dummies for want of a better word, Get all the attention onto Salisbury Plain Stat! That is what they are really after alert Salisbury Stat! Send two of the planes out of London Stat, and you need two warfare Helicopters now on Salisbury plain.

  Then fire to kill! Remind them Fire to Kill.

  You sure about this, yes as sure as I ever can be! Well Millie, it is all happening today!

  Job well done! All well on our side,we have now captured some around Porton Down and now we have some killed on Salisbury Plain and prisoners have been taken. No deaths on our side, one shot in the arm.

  Job well done, thank you all for that. Please make sure that our person with the shot in the arm is well looked after. Will do Millie, just look after yourself and Prof.

  Millie here, will you have a close look at the faces of the dead for me please, why Millie do you think you will know some of them, yes and you should also.

  You are serious Millie aren't you, of course I am, please have a look and if you can take a photo and send it by email without revealing anything to anyone else. Do you understand, this is Code 1! Well do give me time,No! I need them this second, in fact now. Right now!

  Millie, have you received them yes thank you; and were you right, yes unfortunately. Millie you are never satisfied, yes I am, but sometimes I wish I was not right in thinking that way! Anyway thank you for your help.

  Professor Hall, we were right all along, it was the New Prime Minister together with his top Civil Servant! What a complete Mess! They were just too greedy! There is something not right here because he should have been vetted in the first place so how come both MI5 and MI6 allowed this chap to stand for being the Prime Minister.

  Now what will happen? It is completely out of our hands now, everything left with MI6 and MI5, if you are listening thank you for all your help, but I have a feeling we shall be meeting very soon. Does that mean everything is done and dusted not quite because one of the Prime Minister's team is on the way home to Yorkshire, and as of now we do not know whether he is driving or flying up.

  Hey we are going back on the The White Rose Express, I think it would be funny if we had him on our train, don't you think so, No I do not! I am just wanting a very quiet journey home, I think you have had enough
fun today meeting up with all your workers down South! Some of them are fine, but some of them are as thick as ever, if they had been my students I would have sent them packing months ago!

  Taxi, come on we have just time to get on board, booked seats so that is OK! First of all they said there was a bomb on board then decided it was not on our train, do you think you can recognise the MP they said was coming on this train because I hope he does not sit near us, as they can talk for the world! I would like a nice quiet journey home!

  Millie I think the MP as just come on board and he is sitting two seats in front of us, but on the left hand side, is that him, I thought he would be a young one the way they spoke about him. Millie he is youngish! I bet he is in his late thirties; Just as long as he does not start talking on his 'phone otherwise I shall ask him to stop!

  All I want is for this journey to be quick and then I an get home to my husband and little girl, I have had enough of Whitehall to last me years, yes Millie I think today has been one of those days!

  Was it something I said? Even Prof. is snoring! Why does everyone fall asleep on trains, even that chap who is the young MP is asleep or at least pretending to be asleep!

  I think Prof. is wrong for once, this Member of Parliament is not so young, I believe he must be nearly forty. This chap is supposedly the number one to the new Prime Minister! In which case you would have thought he would have been with those two who have just been killed at Porton Down and Salisbury Plain, probably he found out what was going on and decided to run away and come home!

  I hate being on a long train journey without my husband being with me. The good news is he said he will be waiting at the station for me when the train gets in!

  How time flies when you are having fun, finally coming into our Station now, thank goodness, do you know that MP as never moved since he got on the train, I hope he is well, or not missed his Station Stop. Professor Hall, you know that young MP well since he sat down he has never moved at all, do you think he will be all right? He can't have been so tired, either there is something wrong with him or he is drunk! No one gets on a Train, sits down and then is so still! There is something else not quite correct in all this mess, You would have thought he would have been with the New Prime Minister, and his Personal Assistant, as he is the Personal Assistant, to the Prime Minister's Personal Assistant, did you understand all that, yes Millie just your normal way of telling me things!

  Now you mention it he has been in the same position for the last four hours or so, Millie

  you could never manage that could you? I have been very quiet sat here, well I had to be you were counting the Pigs! I do not snore ever Millie! Well in that case I should see your G.P. Professor Hall as you were certainly making strange noises! Millie one day you will go too far! No, don't think so Prof.

  When I am silent working in my room, you complain I am being quiet! Now I have been reading the paperwork from the Meeting, you accuse me of being quiet. I t is a good job I stopped trying to win many years ago with you!

  Now you are just being cruel! No just truthful! Prof. Do you think he looks all right, from here he looks to be at a funny angle! In other words you think I should go and take a look at him, yes I do because he has never moved at all even to go to the loo!

  If he turns around and tells me to go away I shall blame you Millie, that is fine because somehow I do not think he will say that Prof! I think he could be dead. Stop it Millie you read too much into things! Also have a look at the person opposite him, as they both look the same, how do you know Millie, where do you think I have just been? You said you were going to the Toilet, yes and I did and I walked up the train and in doing so I passed between them both!

  Well, are they both all right then? no I have pulled the cord for the Train to halt, whatever for, we are not far from our home Station, that it why I have pulled the cord, Millie. It looks like these two chaps have been murdered! Millie is right once more!

  Now who is seeing reds under the bed, how can that have happened in front of us. Well Millie they are most certainly dead, and I would say they have been dead a couple of hours, Was it a heart attack or something?Millie I have just told you he was murdered in front of our eyes and we never heard a thing!

  Professor Hall; yes I am here, can I have a word Sir, watch our bags Millie especially my briefcase! Go on, I have everything held. Don't worry!

  Now Sir, you are saying this young man has been murdered, yes. Do you have any proof, just the same proof that you can see. What do you mean by that? Look at the body do you see something that should not be there! Oh you mean a dirty mark on his shirt, that is not a dirty mark, it is bright red blood! Take another look can you see anything else, no Sir!

  Well I think you should certainly have your eyes tested! There is a Bullet in the middle of his forehead! That is full blown murder! Everyone of the passengers should be kept on this train until the Police have spoken with them! Do you understand, yes Sir, I will try and contact the Station now, please do!

  Also do not forget the body opposite, he looks to have been murdered by the same person, both bodies have a bullet in the forehead!

  I have already made a call direct to the Police who will be waiting for me on the Platform when we arrive! These bodies are to be taken to my Mortuary and I will carry out a full post mortem, later on!

  Good afternoon, Professor Hall, OH, thank goodness, someone we know, can we make sense in this Station please, and get the bodies away to the mortuary, yes Sir, that will be done straight away. Thank goodness we have people who know how to react! The Station staff have been completely clue less!

  I am extremely sorry Sir, for the lack of action by my Staff, I will certainly make sure that they have training for these accidents that can and do happen on the railways! It would certainly be appreciated if you could do something!

  You have my name and you know which Department I have at the University, yes Sir. All written down in my book, good. Then I will get on to the mortuary and see what happened to the poor chaps. Obviously the murderer came prepared because whoever it is they certainly used a Silencer!

  Millie can you come to the mortuary and when I have looked things over, I will take you up for your car. Yes fine, I will 'phone Phil and let him know what has happened!

  Hello, only me, we have had a slight problem coming home on the train so will be a bit late leaving, but don't worry,because Prof. will take me up for our car. I will see you at home. Millie calm down are you OK? Yes darling everything is fine, Millie you would say that if the Black Plague was in the middle of Yorkshire, it nearly was this afternoon! Perhaps I might but only if by then we were living in Scotland!

  Anyway we must go, should be home in half an hour, then I will reveal all! Hey I will look forward to that! Phil!

  Now get into your car Millie, do you have enough petrol in Millie, so you don't have to stop. Yes Prof. the tank is full, I should be home in half an hour. You set off the same time as me and if you have a problem let me know. Right set off now follow me out of the car park and

  then I know you have set off! Leave the line open just in case! Oh do stop fussing, but I will leave it open.

  Are you clear behind Prof. Why Millie, because I have a blue car following me and I saw two blue cars parked when I set off. Let me see yes Millie a blue car is the second one behind me!

  Follow me Prof. do not turn off as you would normally, just keep following me and I am making a call on the private line. Hoy you! Have you put a car tailing me home and if so what colour as there is also a car trailing Prof with the same colour of car. Well have you or not! This is serious we have already had one murder on the way home!

  Millie no cars are officially following you in the Yorkshire Area, well in that case fire off two unmarked Police Cars we need help stat! We are both on A65 out of Leeds, treat this as Mayday call, for God sake hurry, I think they have three cars following us, to hell with plain car, get all the Police in Leeds on our tale now!

  I have never
been in a situation like this before, Prof. are you OK. Yes but put your foot down now Millie and I will follow you, Everyone listen I am going to put the pedal right down, so get those Police cars here now, I cannot race ahead in this car, I am already doing nearly 70 in a 30 miles area, all I need now is some Police car to try and stop me, get it all out that Prof. and I are being chased by the Killers! For God sake hurry I can't keep this pace up much longer.

  Just Remember if we die, we shall come back to haunt you buggers!

  Hello Phil, no just had a slight delay, I will tell you everything when I am home, yes of course I am all right! Just put a glass out,Millie what have you done now? It is because I shall need it, I really will, and don't be stingy make it a double! Then all will be revealed!

  Prof are you going to turn off soon and let the Police escort you all the way Home? Yes Millie as you are doing the same, yes all right I will agree to that! Is there a Police car in front and one at the back, yes Millie! you are both having two cars one in front and one directly behind. Thank you all for that, I forgot you were both on line!

  Now listen both of you, in view of what has been going on today, you will also have police cars kept in your drives over night and could be in place for the next few days. Oh the family will love that I don't think!

  May be but your families would hate your deaths more! Now stop moaning; and in the meantime think of anyone who you have both stopped from doing something or you have caused some one to be sent down. Anything that you can think of. Well of course, we have in fact within the last few days. Well that is your answer and do not even breath the names on the airways.

  Just listen keep line 3 and 4 open all evening. The cars are all in place. I have to say Millie your husband is not best pleased with you, you told him you were fine! Well I am, I did not say my situation was! There is a difference! Millie you have been playing with words, yet again!

  All I will say is that Dr.Aveyard is furious with you! I think we should stay on line for you all night. No thank you, I am not in any danger from Dr. Aveyard, he loves me far too much for that!