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24 - Miss Pim's Camouflage by Dorothy Tennant · Miss Pims Camouflage

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  Speaker 1: Dorothy Stanley, chapter twenty four. Certainly miss Pim could not
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  Speaker 1: have found merkle Strass without a guide. When he stopped
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  Speaker 1: at the entrance of a narrow street, appearing the narrower
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  Speaker 1: for the loftiness of the buildings, Miss Pim thanked the
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  Speaker 1: old jew and put the mark in his hand. He
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  Speaker 1: took the money and disappeared instantly, as there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: more to be got. He felt no more interest in
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  Speaker 1: Miss Pim. He had no curiosity about anything which did
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  Speaker 1: not pay. Miss Pim could see no numbers, open doors
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  Speaker 1: showed steep flights going up, or steps leading down into
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  Speaker 1: dark pits. The street was perfectly quiet, and what was
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  Speaker 1: rather alarming to Miss Pim, there was no one in sight.
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  Speaker 1: To find yourself alone in a foreign street with an
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  Speaker 1: evil name on a dark night is decidedly unnerving. Miss
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  Speaker 1: Pim tried to reassure herself this was exactly where she
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  Speaker 1: wished to be, and surely it was better to find
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  Speaker 1: herself in a quiet street than in a place crowded
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  Speaker 1: by rowdy characters. She walked along steadily till she heard
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  Speaker 1: the flop flop of water and knew she had reached
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  Speaker 1: the end of the street. She crossed over and walked
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  Speaker 1: back on the other side. The tap tap of her
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  Speaker 1: footsteps echoed so that she repeatedly turned, thinking herself followed.
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  Speaker 1: When she reached the entrance of Marclestrassa, Miss Pimp felt
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  Speaker 1: a strong desire to fly anywhere away from this street
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  Speaker 1: with an evil name. Might not some one be following
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  Speaker 1: her at that very moment, crouching in the shadows, ready
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  Speaker 1: to leap out and stab her body could so easily
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  Speaker 1: be dropped in the sluggish river once more. I will
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  Speaker 1: walk to the spree and back, said Miss Pim, and
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  Speaker 1: if I see no one to ask, I will give
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  Speaker 1: it up. I cannot I dare not enter one of
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  Speaker 1: those awful houses to inquire. She had gone half way
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  Speaker 1: down Marcle Strasa when a man came out of a
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  Speaker 1: house and walked straight up to her. Seizing her by
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  Speaker 1: the arm, he swung her round and said, I have
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  Speaker 1: been watching you. Now clear out of the street, and
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  Speaker 1: never dare to show yourself here again. You have been
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  Speaker 1: walking up and down some time. We have a short
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  Speaker 1: way with spies. Miss Pim's nervousness quite disappeared. I am
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  Speaker 1: so glad to see someone, she said, quite simply. I
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  Speaker 1: was so afraid that, after finding markle Strasa with great difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: I should have to give it up. I mean give
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  Speaker 1: up finding number eight, I dared not inquire. And German
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  Speaker 1: houses are so oddly numbered. What do you want at
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  Speaker 1: number eight? Asked the man suspiciously. Miss Pym thought of
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  Speaker 1: mentioning quite Sick's name, but hesitated lest she be giving
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  Speaker 1: him away. The man saw her, hesitate you clear out,
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  Speaker 1: no more talk, Clear out of this. I hesitated only
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  Speaker 1: because it is dangerous to trust anybody these days, she answered.
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  Speaker 1: I came here because I was told by a friend
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  Speaker 1: that I should find safety at number eight. How runs
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  Speaker 1: the song, asked the man, carelessly looking towards the spree
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  Speaker 1: and pretending to be perfectly indifferent. The flaming dawn is breaking.
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  Speaker 1: How many have died to see? Said Miss Pim, looking
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  Speaker 1: the other way and unsuccessfully trying to appear indifferent. The
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  Speaker 1: man veered round. How terribly imprudent you are then hanging
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  Speaker 1: about in this way? Quick follow me? And grabbing pert
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  Speaker 1: it to Pym by the sleeve, he ran her into
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  Speaker 1: a house, tore up three steep flights of stone stairs,
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  Speaker 1: and hauled her into a large neat room, a typical
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  Speaker 1: German room of the well to do lower class, with solid,
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  Speaker 1: highly polished furniture, polished painted floor, dull varnished wall paper,
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  Speaker 1: clean muslin curtains, a puritan's parlor. Miss Pim, breathless, shaking
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  Speaker 1: in every limb, sank down on a hard, stiff backed chair.
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  Speaker 1: You are safe here for a time, said the man gravely.
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  Speaker 1: But I am not here on my own account, said
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  Speaker 1: Miss Pim in a low voice. The man turned on her, menacingly.
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  Speaker 1: You said that you sought safety. I ought to have
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  Speaker 1: said the safety of a friend. I have discovered a
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  Speaker 1: plot to kill Professor koit Sick. I know every detail
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  Speaker 1: of the plot, and I came here to night to
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  Speaker 1: warn him. He it was who told me of this
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  Speaker 1: sanctuary in case of danger. So I hoped either to
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  Speaker 1: find him here or else to get some friend of
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  Speaker 1: his to convey to him a warning of his imminent danger.
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  Speaker 1: The German looked at her fixedly, still doubting. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: know you think I am sent here to discover his
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  Speaker 1: whereabouts to betray him to the police. How can I
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  Speaker 1: convince you that I am quite Sick's friend, who is
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  Speaker 1: quite six friend? Said a mocking voice, and Miss Pim's
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  Speaker 1: heart really leapt when she saw him standing in the
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  Speaker 1: doorway leading from an inner room end of chapter twenty four.