MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (36)

I am taking part in Mondays Finish the Story 10/08/2015, which is a challenge that provides a photo prompt and the opening sentence to your story. The rules indicate that the story you come up with must be between 100-150 words, not including the given opening sentence.

The link below takes you to Part Thirty-Five

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© 2015, Barbara W. Beacham

Finish the story begins with:

“Where did they go?”

Where did they go indeed, the lead- searcher thought sadly, as the wreckage of the crashed copter was painstakingly combed for clues.
The members of the search party were very puzzled at the lack of bodies. The helicopter had obviously crash landed and been abandoned hurriedly.
There was no evidence whatsoever to lead them in a likely direction.
Had they been captured by Dickus’s men?
Dr. Ferdinand, the villainous elder Dickus brother, sent a message to the Brigadier asking for a parley, that was when the second little bird helicopter
swooped into his complex and found nothing .
Meanwhile the squeezing of the infamous Maxwell Dickus continued unabated.

Marg was turning on the charm outrageously, to inveigle herself into his confidence, and for all his bragging he was cleverly revealing nothing.
Where was Dickus’s headquarters?
Where was he directing the operations from?
Then the news arrived, Don Fernando and his team ……….

(150 WORDS)

To be continued…….

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