The Sandbaggers, Matthew Peele, a 'ruin-bibber, randy for antique', G, 395 wordslost_spookJune 7 2016, 09:09:55 UTC
I wrote a small and frivolous ficlet for you, for which I should probably apologise, but here it is anyway:
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“I should have known,” said Neil, finding Wellingham back in the hotel, completely unharmed. “So, come on, how did you work out the man was a fake?”
Wellingham looked almost amused. “Not me this time, Neil - Matthew.”
“Well, how the hell did he know? The CIA only gave us the info half an hour ago.”
“Don’t ask that,” said Wellingham. “It’ll only encourage him - oh, damn!”
Neil didn’t need to turn around to know that meant Peele must have returned midway through his sentence.
“The fellow clearly wasn’t a tour guide,” said Matthew Peele, striding into the room, visibly at his most smug: chest inflated, head held high, and more than prepared to answer Neil’s question. “I made a few interested enquiries about Garchester Hall and first he said that the original manor house was Tudor, and then he had the gall to suggest that its famous Holbein was - even you will find this amusing, Neil - a Gainsborough. I mean, can
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Re: The Sandbaggers, Matthew Peele, a 'ruin-bibber, randy for antique', G, 395 wordslost_spookJune 7 2016, 19:49:35 UTC
Aw, good, I'm glad you liked it! (His moustache would indeed be quivering. I thought as soon as I'd posted it that something like that should have been mentioned, but I didn't quite manage it. :-D)
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“I should have known,” said Neil, finding Wellingham back in the hotel, completely unharmed. “So, come on, how did you work out the man was a fake?”
Wellingham looked almost amused. “Not me this time, Neil - Matthew.”
“Well, how the hell did he know? The CIA only gave us the info half an hour ago.”
“Don’t ask that,” said Wellingham. “It’ll only encourage him - oh, damn!”
Neil didn’t need to turn around to know that meant Peele must have returned midway through his sentence.
“The fellow clearly wasn’t a tour guide,” said Matthew Peele, striding into the room, visibly at his most smug: chest inflated, head held high, and more than prepared to answer Neil’s question. “I made a few interested enquiries about Garchester Hall and first he said that the original manor house was Tudor, and then he had the gall to suggest that its famous Holbein was - even you will find this amusing, Neil - a Gainsborough. I mean, can ( ... )
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