Chapter 5After their brief foray around the town, the three members of the Strata team made their way back to the guest house. The company van was parked in Mrs Cleveley's private car park at the rear of the building. Winston and Sally spent a couple of hours rechecking that all their equipment was in working order, while Cutler went up to his room to make a few phone calls. The final and most important one was to the fourth member of the Strata Survey team, the hub around which all of Cutler's tiny empire revolved, Mavis!
White-haired widow Mavis Hightower was fifty-eight years old, highly opinionated, remarkably efficient in every respect, and totally protective towards Joe Cutler. She'd worked in the office of Strata Survey Systems for the last three years and now basked in the highly
