CHAPTER
FIFTEEN
Bond slept all the next day too, save for the time he
had to get out of bed to take some paracetemol to help stem his throbbing
headache, the time he had to get out of bed to drink about three pints of water
to quell his raging thirst, and the six times he had to get out of bed to go to
the lavatory for a pee because he’d drunk the three pints of water. It was
vicious circle time again. However by the following morning he was
comparatively fit and well again, and ready to continue the task he’d set
himself two days previously; but now, with the benefit of hindsight, he
wouldn’t have to risk going in any pubs. Ever resourceful, Bond had had a
brainwave that rendered the necessity of having to go into public houses
solely in order to relieve
himself a thing of the past.
Bond had already
visited Vernon Park, Bredbury Park and North Reddish Park on his previous
sortie. He had discovered that a wooden fence, a replica of the one being built
at Torkington Park, had already been completed at Vernon Park. At Bredbury Park
there had been no such fence. There was also a completed fence at North Reddish
Park. Continuing the chain of parks that formed a rough circle of Stockport
Bond now made for South Reddish Park. On arriving there he found that, as with
Bredbury Park, there was no fence round the bowling green. Before continuing to
Heaton Moor Park, the next link in the chain, Bond took time to consider the
facts he had gathered thus far. Torkington Park had definitely been taken over
by Goldnojaws and had a fence surrounding the bowling green. It was flagged
green. Vernon Park also had a fence round the bowling green but was flagged
red. North Reddish Park had a fence round it and it too was flagged red. South
Reddish Park didn’t have a fence and was flagged green. Bond would have
expected all the parks with a fence round their bowling green to be flagged
green and the others red, but this clearly wasn’t the case. He shook his
head, puzzled. There was neither rhyme nor reason to the pattern. He shrugged,
got back in the Lada and headed for Heaton Moor Park, maybe that would offer up
a clue?
