Chapter One Part FourThe Waterloo DétenteWalk to the train station and watch the train as if waiting for someone. (Well, I am)
Find a patriotic Frenchmen (towards either England of France) and warn him of the threat Germany poses to France, and see if I can't convince him to help us recapture Napoleon von Junker.
[4] Finishing his tea at Waterloo, Wellington strolls over to the platform where Junker's train from Portsmouth is expected, looking very much as if he is waiting for someone to arrive. While he does so, his comrade in gentlemanliness, Winston Smith, searches around for a patriotic looking Frenchman or two. [3] He happens to find one - a smartly dressed chap carrying a bottle of wine who's somehow managed to find, in the small hours of the morning, two magnificent looking baguettes. He says he also has to meet someone arriving on the Portsmouth train, and that, as a true patriotic Frenchman, he would be honoured to help you. He says his father fought the Prussians at Gravelotte, and he is angry that they stole France's finest beer producing regions! He promises he will signal discreetly with his baguettes at the first German he sees. You both walk to Platform 4a where Wellington is waiting.
The train should arrive shortly.
The Dover AffairFind a few Scots that are patriotic towards Scotland and enlist them to help us, i mean which Scot wouldn't help a relative of William Wallace.
[6] Strolling at a gentlemanly pace around the centre of Dover, Thomas Wallace comes across a company of the renowned Black Watch, the distinguished regiment of Highlanders. Apparently they are on duty in Dover, protecting the South of England against the Europeans who are threateningly near. Their captain, Captain McWallace, is honoured to make the acquaintance of a gentleman related to that paragon of Scottish gentlemanliness William Wallace, and when you tell him of the terrible threat you are fighting he readily orders 6 of his soldiers to come and help your search! They are all armed with Lee-Enfield rifles with the traditional Scottish claymore bayonet attachment!
Play I see what you don't see while we're in the car. And what I'm seeing is an aerial transportation device. Once arrived, start chatting up a few locals about any exotic devices that they might have seen.
[3(+1)] While Wallace is enlisting the Scots, John Link spots a police constable on patrol in the wee hours.
He approaches him and explains the German threat, and the constable informs you that he happens to have seen a strange flying contraption resembling an enormous rugby ball with an attached biscuit box land a mile away by the coast that very afternoon. He gives you detailed directions and wishes you good night.
Follow Darvi around, and let him do the talking. Except for the polite conversation necessary for any gentleman of tact, of course.
[1] Von Fersen, descending from the car with the others, soon gets distracted when he passes a tobacconist's shop with a particularly fine and rare blend of pipe tobacco advertised in the front window. He's inspired to take out his pipe and have a quick smoke, and when he's finished preparing and lighting it he turns around to discover that he has lost his gentlemanly companions.
As he takes a calmly bemused puff on his finely crafted pipe, two men approach. They are very clearly Germans, and they ask you in a coarsely accented English what a fine gentleman like you is doing about in the streets of Dover on such a cold night? They don't seem very friendly, but then you have rarely met any Germans, especially recently, who do.
Search around the streets.
[3] Henry McGeenyton, meanwhile, searches around the streets, but it is very early on a snowy Friday morning, and no one is to be found.
The Joy of WaterlooStanding about at Waterloo, looking for all the world as if he was waiting for someone to arrive, which he is, Wellington hears the approaching sound of a magnicent British steam engine. As the train hoves into view, his heart is stirred by the tremendous feat of engineering that bears witness to the ingenuity of his countryfolk, as any British gentleman's heart would be.
The train slows in an explosion of steam and screeching brakes, to Wellington a symphony of exquisite Britishness, a sound signifying the triumph of the empire over the entire Earth! It is as if Apollo himself aimed his steam powered bow from the port of Portsmouth, willing it to land at Waterloo station precisely at 36 minutes past the hour of 1. It is a miracle in metallic form!
Mr Wellington's euphoric musings are interrupted when Smith nudges his elbow.
"I say," he says, "The Frenchie is waving his baguette!"
Wellington and Smith turn. The man they see descend from the foremost first class carriage is undeniably, inescapably German.
He steps off the train and looks around - particularly shiftily, as Winston Smith would later recollect. He is in a hurry, and is nervously carrying an attache case.
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