chapter2
When they were children, Clare and Andrew had been proud of the fact that grandfather had died while climbing a famous mountain in Switzerland. It gave a bit of excitement, a bit of mystery to their family that none of their friends could match. Clare had even been on a skiing holiday to Zermatt when she was in her twenties, and had stood at the foot of the Matterhorn and marvelled at the thought of her grandfather still up there, frozen in the ice. After lunch Clare took her mobile phone into the garden to ring her editor at the Daily News. next ten days or so, 'What's my schedule like for the Kevin?' Clare asked. "You probably know that better than I do why are you asking?" Kevin replied. said, "I've This'll make him jump, thought Clare as she got to go to Switzerland to pick up a body, and You what?" said Kevin. Whose body what are you talking about?' weekend, well the "You know I'm up at my mother's this Foreign Office rang at lunchtime today and announced, out of the blue, that my Grandpa Edward was just about to appear out of the bottom glacier in Zermatt and would of someone from the family go and collect him Clare couldn't resist making the whole thing sound rather light- She sometimes enjoyed trying to shock her unimaginative editor. "You make it sound as if you're going to pick something up from a Lost Property Office, said Kevin, surprised. Clare gave him the details of her grandfather's climbing accident in 1924, as far as she knew them. And then she asked to be away from the office for the next week or so. "This could make a great piece for the paper. It's not exactly something that happens every day, is it? And thered be the added interest of the article being written the granddaughter," said Kevin. "No way. You're not going to get my family history for everyone to read," replied Clare firmly. Nonsense," Kevin said. "It fits with the sort of things you've been doing recently the human interest stories. It'll be great read.' Clare changed the subject. They talked about who would replace her over the next week or so. She was concerned about the interview she'd only just managed to set up with Cherry Gaskell, the ex-wife of England's latest football star Although she wasn't particularly proud the kind of journalism she'd been doing in recent months, she didn't really want anyone else to do this particular interview. It was going to be a big story and she wanted the credit for it. we send "She'll probably cancel the whole thing if someone else to do the interview, said Clare. "I'll ring her and suggest another date. what you want. But let me 'OK, OK," said Kevin. "Do don't want to lose that know if there are any problems I story. And ring me when you've found out more about our Grandfather's reappearance too.