BIGGLES AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

by Captain W. E. Johns

17. BONNEY HAS THE LAST WORD (Pages 182 – 184)

Biggles contacts London to let them know all is well. The following morning, Biggles makes inquiries and finds Mackay. “As quickly and as briefly as possible he told him what had happened on Bonney Island, what Collingwood has been doing there and how he had died”. Two months later, Biggles and Algy happened to be in the Royal Aero Club for lunch and they met a Flight Captain of Indian Airways. They ask about Mackay and they are told that he took time off to return to Bonney Island and disappeared. Planes had flown out to look for him but there was no one on the island. “What happened we don’t know, but it’s a safe bet that Mackay went down in the sea” says the Captain. When the Flight Captain has gone, Biggles says to Algy “I know what you are thinking. Don’t say it. Mackay may have gone looking for opal, but nothing will make me believe that that caused his engine to fail. The Arab who was grabbed by a shark would have died the same way had he been carrying a bag of nut. It's all a matter of coincidence. Let’s get back to the office”.