According to Sligo’s ‘mission’ instructions Rufus was only to come looking for him after thirty minutes and not before, but Rufus needed to tell Sligo that he had just received a telephone call from Kevin Tranter and the family were on their way home. The idea that the Tranter family could be involved in some kind of sinister work just didn’t make sense. The dad still didn’t have much idea about gardening despite the tips that he’d given him and would never be able to grow a decent sized cucumber. Apparently the mother didn’t even mend her husband’s socks. The lad was bright enough, but hardly old enough to be recruited by some foreign power. Rufus would make sure that the big oaf hadn’t bumped his head on the low ceilings or had some kind of accident because there had been a several intermittent power cuts just after Rufus had left his house. Rufus never liked going inside the Tranter house because there had always been something spooky about it and Rufus would never forget the Tallacks’ who had lived there before Stanley Tranter.
