Near him, her black form merged in the night, like a figure half chiselled out of a block of black stone. It was impossible to say what she knew, how deep she was involved with policemen and Embassies. But if she wanted to get away, it was not for him to object. He was anxious to be off himself. He felt that the business, the shop so strangely familiar to chief inspectors and members of foreign Embassies, was not the place for him. That must be dropped. But there was the rest. These savings. The money!
“ You must hide me till the morning somewhere,” she said in a dismayed voice.
“ Fact is, my dear, I can’t take you where I live. I share the room with a friend.”
He was somewhat dismayed himself. In the morning the blessed ’tecs will be out in all the stations, no doubt. And
