Clandestine (2014)
“They opened when they wanted and closed soon afterward, this one at 1100 hours, with the customary two-hour lunch from 1230 to 1430. But they all even took the half-day holiday on Wednesday afternoons.
It was still dark. Fortunately a carriage entrance lay off the rue Volney, and having squeezed through it into the courtyard, van and Citroën were locked and left as they headed for the little blue wire-caged light above the tradesman’s entrance.
‘Me or you, Louis?’ ‘Both.’ All too soon a... throaty voice rebelled. ‘Merde alors, messieurs, even the roosters on the roof haven’t had time to crow! It’s also a Saturday and since when did banks ever open on such days?’ ‘As of right now. Gestapo and Sûreté, my fine one. Just let us in,’ shouted Hermann. ‘We’ve brought your president a little present.’ Something would have to be said to stall them until contact could be made, felt Olivier Gaudin, concierge and of some importance to the Crédit et Commercial.MoreLess
It was still dark. Fortunately a carriage entrance lay off the rue Volney, and having squeezed through it into the courtyard, van and Citroën were locked and left as they headed for the little blue wire-caged light above the tradesman’s entrance.
‘Me or you, Louis?’ ‘Both.’ All too soon a... throaty voice rebelled. ‘Merde alors, messieurs, even the roosters on the roof haven’t had time to crow! It’s also a Saturday and since when did banks ever open on such days?’ ‘As of right now. Gestapo and Sûreté, my fine one. Just let us in,’ shouted Hermann. ‘We’ve brought your president a little present.’ Something would have to be said to stall them until contact could be made, felt Olivier Gaudin, concierge and of some importance to the Crédit et Commercial.MoreLess
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