The Moses Legacy

Chapter 21

‘I still don’t like it,’ said Daniel, feeling self-conscious as they walked into Heathrow Airport from the car park.

‘Would you prefer that we just sat around doing nothing?’

‘I can’t help thinking I should be trying to clear my name instead of running off in pursuit of academic glory.’

‘And how do you propose to do that? Do you have the investigative resources of a police force? Their authority to arrest people? Access to a forensic lab perhaps? A computer to co-ordinate all the information?’

Daniel sighed. ‘No, but I can try and find out what Harrison was talking about… about the plague and the fiery snakes and all that.’

‘And how are you going to find out? Are you planning on consulting a medium?’

He looked at her in shock. She was being surprisingly cold and heartless considering that it was her uncle who was dead – the uncle with whom she had spent so many summers as a child and later as a teenager. But he sensed that she was using aggression to keep her grief at bay.

‘If I leave now I’m breaching my bail conditions. That’ll make me a more credible suspect in their eyes.’

Gabrielle was shaking her head.

‘I don’t think it’ll make a difference one way or the other.’

‘What if they stop me when I try and pass through to airside?’ he asked nervously.

‘You think they’ve got a list of everyone who is out on bail?’

‘In this day and age? It wouldn’t surprise me.’

‘Well, you can quit worrying. They may have a list of people who have jumped bail or people who have outstanding warrants against them. But they wouldn’t have a list of everyone on bail. If they did that, they wouldn’t have needed to hold on to your passport.’

‘I hope you’re right.’

‘I am right. Now stop worrying. Let’s check in and get airside. Then we can see if we can track down a copy of Uncle Harrison’s paper. If he sent it to an American journal, someone must know about it.’

What Daniel didn’t realize was that now that he had switched on his mobile phone, it was transmitting his location again. That meant that someone thousands of miles away was tracking him.