![]() ![]() He leaves a few minutes later and catches a train. What reason was there for Intelligence to get involved? Vandam frowned and thought again. The Egyptian police force and the British Military Police would be investigating already in Assyut, and their collekgues in Cairo would, like Vandam, be learning the details this morning. ![]() A man answering the hitchhiker’s description had bought a ticket to Cairo at the railway station, but by the time the body was found the train had arrived in Cairo and the killer had melted into the city. The body had been discovered last night, almost as soon as the corporal’ti absence was noted, but several hours after the death. A patrol had picked up a hitchhiking European who had subsequently murdered a corporal with a knife. ![]() The report came from Assyut, three hundred miles south, and at first Vandam could not see why it had been marked for Intelligence. He sat down, lit a cigarette and began to read. ![]() There was an incident report on his desk when he arrived. Major Vandam’s office was at Gray Pillars, one of a group of buildings surrounded by barbed-wire fencing which made up GHQ Middle East.
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