Blackstone And The Heart Of Darkness - Plot & Excerpts
‘That’s it,’ Drayman said almost mournfully, lowering his field glasses and turning to Blackstone. ‘That’s the Bluebell.’ Blackstone nodded. ‘So I see.’ ‘There’s still time to decide you’ve made a mistake.’ ‘I’ve made no mistake,’ Blackstone replied. And he believed what he was saying. It was unlikely that the Bluebell was carrying jewels, he admitted, since—as Drayman had so clearly pointed out—it had loaded up at the mine rather than the salt works. And though he himself had mentioned the possibility of gold bars, he’d done it mainly to pacify the local inspector and did not give much credence to that theory either—because gold didn’t grow on trees and there hadn’t been a major bullion robbery in England for years. But Bickersdale had to be up to something, or he’d never have had Tom killed and ordered an attempt on Blackstone’s own life. And if that ‘something’ didn’t involve the use of narrowboats, then why had he put Huggins in charge of one?
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