Beau Bowker - Chapter the First

Telegrammed by C P Wren via ouija board
Chapter the First: The new railway

'Good news Sergeant Dagineau, the Legionary Corps of Railway Engineers is to build a new line here to us at Fort Zinderneuf'.

'It is indeed good news, mon Capitan'

'Even better, sergeant, the Legionnaire in charge will be Colonel Bowker!'.

'Sapristy! Not Dicky 'Beau' Bowker! The living legend in the British railway industry'

'The very same, sergeant; but you know the rules of La Legion, never mention a fellow Legionnaire's past. Like many of us Beau Bowker has enlisted to forget'.

'Indeed, Mon Capitan, and he has much to forget, the Strategic Rail Authority, the National Express East Coast franchise bid and playing piano for Tony Blair's guitar hero fantasies'.

'Still, he now has a chance to redeem himself and one day he may be able to return to England'

To be continued...