CHAPTER 14FRECKS TAKES CHARGE
From the narrow entrance in the cave Frecks had watched Worrals take off in the Messerschmitt 110. She realised perfectly well why she had done so, but it seemed to her, in that paralysing moment, that the remedy was as bad as the evil. As a matter of detail she had a shock which Worrals escaped, for in taking off one of the Messerschmitt’s wheels missed the forlorn little sheep by inches; had it struck the animal the machine might never have got off the ground. But a miss is as good as a mile, as the old saying is, and Worrals went off in ignorance of her narrow escape. At that critical moment the last thing she was thinking of was her woolly accomplice.
What Worrals would do Frecks could not imagine. Where would she go? How would she get back, and when? Th
