BIGGLES FLIES NORTH

by Captain W. E. Johns

XI. AN UNPLEASANT SHOCK (Pages 126 – 134)

Angus has a cabin with a peat fire. He had heard the three shots “a universal summons for help” and set off, expecting to find Mose. Biggles tells Angus that Mose has been murdered and then tells him the whole story about Wilks’ aerodrome. “You reckon Brindle done the killin’?” asks Angus. “I’m pretty sure of it,” replied Biggles, “But that doesn’t mean that I could prove it,” he added. Angus tells them that Mose was a rich man – they had struck it rich on Eskimo Island. Biggles and Ginger sleep whilst Angus fetches the bear meat from the dead polar bear. When Ginger awakes, Biggles and Angus have gone to the aeroplane to get the food stores that Biggles had brought up. Ginger fries three large bear steaks to feed them all. The three men then make another trip to the aeroplane to get the rest of the food. Ginger finds that Biggles has cleared the snow off the machine. At the aeroplane, they hear the distant sound of an approaching aircraft and so start a signal fire. The plane arrives, but it is not Algy or Wilks in the Rockheed. It is McBain’s second Weinkel roaring low towards them.