The Lost Treasure Map Series (105 page)

“
Whose
map was it?” he replied, determined to confirm things further, as
what had happened was too strange and fantastic now.

“
You
claimed it belonged to Rudolf Hess!” she replied.

Even though he
knew she was going to say it he could not grasp what was happening
somewhere. It was as though someone was playing games with him, to
a final conclusion.

She studied
his face and realized how deeply surprised he was.

Her
hand
automatically
reached into
her
handbag
and
pulled out some
cigarette
s
and
a
gold
en
lighter.

She
ignited
it and
mechanically drew in
and blew out
smoke,
showing him
she enjoyed it,
and
he
glared at the end of it
brightly
glowing
red,
with
smoldering
gray ash
falling over her and she picked up an ashtray, and she
created
long gray
wisps of smoke
swirling up
through the
air, while rushing up to the ceiling,
and he saw it dispersing into the
atmosphere
.

With one swift
movement
s
he switched on
her
television and
kept
changing
channel
s until she
saw something of interest
.

“
Well?”
he continued. “I was looking for the treasure after finding the
map!”

She seemed to
start over again and started checking his clothes, and asked, “You
look as though you’ve been living funnily!”

“
Did I
drink a lot of beer before?” he asked, curiously, trying casually
to answer another unanswered question.

“
As far
as I know you never! You must have picked up the habit somewhere!
There are some cans in the fridge!”

Cameron
gasped, feeling an intense thirst, and marched over and went into
her kitchen and got them out of her fridge, and rushed back with
them, and she smiled as he poured one down his throat ecstatically
until he had finished.

“
I found
somewhere I think there might be something!”

“
Whereabouts?” she asked, confused.

He was
determined to bring someone else into it, and never knew anyone
else to trust.

“
It’s in
an ancient cellar and I’m sure there might be more!”

She just
nodded in agreement, and wondered what he wanted to do, and knew he
had a plan and it might be worth going along with, and she nodded
again.

“
Have
you any objections of going down a sewage pipe?”

She laughed
and looked startled, and asked, “No! Is that where you ended
up?”

He nodded
firmly, and she examined him strangely.

“
You’re
still in the army?” she giggled, and laughed wildly. “How did that
happen? You must have really damaged yourself?”

“
I’m
still visiting an army psychiatrist ...”

She inhaled
some smoke and started laughing.

Chapter 15

The Cellar

Through plumes of
smoke
s
he resolutely
analyzed
him in the sewage pipe
, slightly startled, trying to put sense to
something
s
he
had
heard and
seen, while
trying to suppress
laughter
with blank and
confused faces, not knowing
entirely what they were doing
.

“
Well!
This is a magnificent treasure hunt?” she explained, and laughed at
the surrounding sewage pipe.

She stared at
him with astonishment, and looked at him at various angles and
shook her head, not fully confirming something, and quietly
announced, “You’ve a vague look of someone else! That I can’t
identify!”

Cameron
ignored it and eyed up her figure in her explorer gear, with her
backpack, and torch on her belt, and they began moving away from
the sewage pipe opening above.

He went first
with his bright torch examining how different it now looked in the
bright light.

Now he seemed to recognize the sewage pipe
but he was not being taken along it by himself, but he never knew
why, but as though his brain had stopped him receiving information
on what it was, and while he was thinking it over he decided to
start to move faster, and she joined in and they moved off
splashing through the sewage water, smelling the stink, and he
occasionally wondered if he had become mad in places.

He was surprised when he had a strange
feeling and turned and saw another sewage pipe going sideways, and
realized it was the route he had gone in and rushed along it, until
they eventually reached the sewage pipe going upwards and he
started climbing up its ladder.

He suddenly came to its top and examined all
of the small toilet pipes leading into it and gasped and turned and
quickly removed the sewage pipe cover on the side of the pipe lower
down and shifted into it.

They both walked about the cellar and
in the bright light he realized it was different now and it was
clearly not someone
’
s building and belonged to something he could
not grasp, and he examined the area around the old safe and
realized it never looked like the legal place he had
thought.

He watched Dory wander around and he
knew she could not grasp something and she started looking through
things trying to get something that would give her a clue to the
place
’
s
identity, and Cameron realized that it had to be somewhere
important and he wondered how he had originally found
it.

He swiftly removed his backpack and removed
a metal detector that he had bought that day, and she smiled at it,
and he started using it to examine objects everywhere that might
have things hidden in them and was surprised that it detected
something astounding from an area under the floor, and he believed
it was the exact place he should look, and he wondered why!

He removed two tools, a hammer and chisel,
and started smashing the concrete floor away, and was surprised
that it was crumbling and he started to reveal another floor
below.

“
That
’
ll take a long time to
do?
”
she
moaned, and looked up the stairs, wondering where she was, wanting
to see what they were under, and she left him and marched up the
stairs to the top.

Cameron decided it was a good idea and just
to finish his work some other time.

“
What do you think this place
is?
”
she
asked, seeking facts.

“
Let
’
s look!
”

Cameron removed the slab above the cellar
top and he entered the above cellar and he examined it trying to
see if anyone had been there, and looked through all the things,
and found seats and tables that might have belonged to an expensive
hotel.

“
What do you think this stuff is
for?
”
she
asked.

“
It
’
s a load of rubbish! Let
’
s try
upstairs!
”

She shrugged and followed him up the next
stairs.

At the top of the stairs they entered a long
entirely different modern corridor and Cameron listened for
anything and realized there was nobody there and marched along it
to a door at the end of it and stopped, and examined a complex
modern lock on the door, and spotted a set of keys with a key ring
hanging on a nail on the wall and he removed it, and he stood
examining numbers and passwords on the key ring and used one of the
keys that fitted the lock to unlock it, and kept the keys and
entered another corridor there.

They marched along it and climbed up
another set of stairs and came to a massive metal gateway, where he
removed the keys,
and
laboriously opened fifteen locks on the gateway.

They moved along another corridor and
up more stairs, from deep below the ground,
and came to a second gateway where he
undid two large locked bolts and they climbed another set of
stairs. He pressed twenty numbers, marked on the key ring, to
switch off the alarm systems of the third gateway, and opened
it.

After going up
large staircases and along three corridors they emerged at ground
level and went through a set of revolving doors and emerged at the
front of the building where they heard loud cheers and action
outside the building, and as they were about to look out a window,
before opening a door there, Dory gasped and laughed at something
next to her she recognized, and they looked out the window and
realized that they were in 10 Downing Street in central London, and
that they had been in hidden cellars.

Chapter 16

The Super Power

Cameron entered his
psychiatrist’s
wearing a
pristine expensive black business suit and his
psychiatrist examined it in glances over
the top of his glasses.

He
clearly
wondered what he had been doing and when he
asked he explained that he had been at a birthday celebration, and
one of Dory
’
s friends, where he had been partying,
listening to loud rock music, and it went on into the
night.

He had drank so much he had almost
collapsed, and he recalled looking like a model on a magazine, with
her incredible black dress, and they made their way home early in
the morning.

Everything was perfect, and even he could
not imagine anything going wrong, and it had been a great night but
what still annoyed him was that he did not know what she was doing
at times and it was as though part of his brain would not tell him
what he needed to know to grasp it, and he could not grasp what he
had thought of her before then, and what their relationship was,
but he was entirely glad he had told her what had happened when
they had met.

“
You should cut down on the amount of
drink you consume!
”
he finally told Cameron.

“
Why?
”
he replied, gasping, wondering if
he thought he was drunk, as he had only taken a few drinks that
morning
–
as he had drunk so much the night before.

“
Because!
”
he replied, writing
something.

“
Because!
”

“
Because you medical examinations
showed you had far higher levels of alcohol than all the other
people examined there put together for the entire
year!
”

“
Did they find anything
else?
”

“
You seem healthy enough and without
any other problems!
”

Cameron nodded in agreement.

“
The police seemed to have an interest
in you!
”
he
continued, and lifted a newspaper out of drawer and handed it over
to him, pointing at the front page.

Cameron read it with amazement and how
cheekily the writer was claiming a David Cameron look alike had
broken into
10 Downing
Street and had been removed and arrested by the police, and was
being questioned on the incident.

It was incredible and they had only
been caught as Dory had opened the door to wave at someone outside
that she knew, where the press and television news people were,
outside the door of
10
Downing Street.

The story was exaggerated as they were
not arrested and had only been kicked out of
Downing Street and they clearly thought
that they had been put there by people from one of the newspapers,
and he had been sure some people had thought that they were up to
something else in the building.

“
Do you take anything other than the
drink?
”
he
finally asked.

Cameron nodded, and replied,
“
No!
”

“
There
’
s a bottle of whisky and glasses
over there if you feel better with it!
”
and answered, and pointed over at
the top of a drink cabinet, where the whisky was shining in bright
rays of golden sunshine and the glasses were sparkling, and Cameron
rushed over and poured himself a drink and rushed back to his seat
and started drinking it.

“
There you
’
re happy now! That might help
you!
”

“
Yes!”
he replied, finishing the rest of the drink off, by pouring swiftly
down his throat.

“
Have
another drink if you want?” he replied, seeing Cameron sip the last
drop out the glass.