En Garde (Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective Book 17) - Plot & Excerpts
It took two hands for her to disconnect the plug. The minute it was detached, she groaned and slumped in relief. “Are you all right?” Paul Mourbiers asked her, frowning with concern. She reached up and pulled off her mask. Even in her distress, she was careful to fluff her short strawberry blond hair back into place. I stifled a gasp. I recognized her, all right—it was Una, the fencer DeLyn had faced in Tuesday’s disastrous bout. Even now, as she stripped off her doublet, I could see the gauze taped to her forearm where DeLyn’s foil had jabbed her. Mourbiers had the electronic scoring leash in his hand. He touched the metal prongs at the end. I was close enough to see that the copper wires were shining, exposed, below the plug. It looked as if someone had cut away the black rubber coating that insulated the wires leading to the plug! I had seen enough of the equipment at Salle Budapest to know how it worked. The electrical impulse distributed a mild current to the metallic threads in the lamé—enough to register a touch from a metal sword and send a signal to the scoring device.
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