Chapter 4It was almost dark as they neared Fez.
Just before they reached the town, Bing turned the car into a side road and stopped.
“What are you going to do?” Melina asked curiously.
“First I am going to change the number plates of the car,” he replied.
He stopped under an ancient tree standing by itself on the flat land. He opened the back of the car and she saw her two suitcases and nothing else. He put them down on the ground, touched some secret spring and a false back to the boot swung open and she saw inside that there were a number of items, including another suitcase.
“You are full of surprises,” she observed a little wryly.
For the moment she had the idea that he was just a charlatan, a wandering conjuror who was ready to bemuse gullible people like herself with a lot of m
