Vice-President Gertrude knew in spite of her warnings, the bodyguards would follow her so when she drove out of the house, she stepped hard on the accelerator, sending the car surging forward at top speed. When the guards sped out of the house, they found to their dismay that there was no sight of the Vice President’s vehicle. They could not tell the direction in which she had gone nor where she was going.
Six minutes later, she pulled up at the gate of the Presidency. The guards on duty recognized her car and opened the gates. She drove in and sped to the part of the building that housed her