AMBUSH

AMBUSH

Less than twenty- four hours later, Fame was back at the frontier. Once again his car was thoroughly searched, but once again Rank and Silver found nothing. They did not even find the scratch on Fame's car. Fame told them he had covered it with paint.
Fame left the frontier and drove towards Darna. He was in no hurry and he decided to stop for a coffee on the way. He knew a small cafe nearby.
Fame parked his car outside the cafe and went in. He ordered a coffee and sat down at a small table. A radio was playing and Fame sat there, listening to the music.

This cafe was almost empty. The music on the radio stopped and a voice started to read the news. Fame had been out of the country for a day. He was interested in what had happened while he had been away.
Suddenly Fame sat up straight in his chair. The news on the radio was about Harker.
The radio said that the police had just found the body of a man called Harker. Fame listened.
The news said that Harker's body had been found in a hut in the forest. The police thought that Harker had been murdered. Fame finished his coffee quickly and left the cafe. So now Inspector Roland knew that Harker was dead. Don was still a hostage and now the Inspector would be looking for Fame. Fame decided to drive straight to Zara's house. So he hurried over to his car, got in and drove off towards Darna.

It was a beautiful day without a cloud in the sky. A slight wind moved the tops of the cypress trees along the straight white road. Fame began to forget his worries as he drove along under the cypress trees in the morning sun.
Fame didn't notice that there was a big blue car behind him. The blue car followed Fame for about a kilometre along the straight road.
Then, just before the road began to climb into the hills, the blue car pulled out and accelerated past Fame and disappeared round the bend in front.
Fame saw the blue car go past him, but he was only half looking at the road. Above him, hanging in the sky was a golden eagle. The eagle was hardly moving - its wings were spread and still. Fame slowed the car down and watched.

Suddenly the eagle dived towards the ground and disappeared behind the cypress trees.
Then there was a scream of a small trapped animal. The eagle had caught something - a hare perhaps, or a rat. Fame drove on.
The road was now climbing and turning through the hills. On the other side of the hills was the valley and the lake and the town of Darna. Near the highest point of the road, Fame saw a sign at the side of the road as he came round a corner. The sign had one word written on it.