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Besides
,
if
I
told
the
whole
story
,
and
by
any
miracle
was
believed
,
I
would
be
playing
their
game
.
Karolides
would
stay
at
home
,
which
was
what
they
wanted
.
Somehow
or
other
the
sight
of
Scudder
's
dead
face
had
made
me
a
passionate
believer
in
his
scheme
.
He
was
gone
,
but
he
had
taken
me
into
his
confidence
,
and
I
was
pretty
well
bound
to
carry
on
his
work
.
You
may
think
this
ridiculous
for
a
man
in
danger
of
his
life
,
but
that
was
the
way
I
looked
at
it
.
I
am
an
ordinary
sort
of
fellow
,
not
braver
than
other
people
,
but
I
hate
to
see
a
good
man
downed
,
and
that
long
knife
would
not
be
the
end
of
Scudder
if
I
could
play
the
game
in
his
place
.
It
took
me
an
hour
or
two
to
think
this
out
,
and
by
that
time
I
had
come
to
a
decision
.
I
must
vanish
somehow
,
and
keep
vanished
till
the
end
of
the
second
week
in
June
.
Then
I
must
somehow
find
a
way
to
get
in
touch
with
the
Government
people
and
tell
them
what
Scudder
had
told
me
.
I
wished
to
Heaven
he
had
told
me
more
,
and
that
I
had
listened
more
carefully
to
the
little
he
had
told
me
.
I
knew
nothing
but
the
barest
facts
.
There
was
a
big
risk
that
,
even
if
I
weathered
the
other
dangers
,
I
would
not
be
believed
in
the
end
.
I
must
take
my
chance
of
that
,
and
hope
that
something
might
happen
which
would
confirm
my
tale
in
the
eyes
of
the
Government
.
My
first
job
was
to
keep
going
for
the
next
three
weeks
.
It
was
now
the
24th
day
of
May
,
and
that
meant
twenty
days
of
hiding
before
I
could
venture
to
approach
the
powers
that
be
.
I
reckoned
that
two
sets
of
people
would
be
looking
for
me
--
Scudder
's
enemies
to
put
me
out
of
existence
,
and
the
police
,
who
would
want
me
for
Scudder
's
murder
.
It
was
going
to
be
a
giddy
hunt
,
and
it
was
queer
how
the
prospect
comforted
me
.
I
had
been
slack
so
long
that
almost
any
chance
of
activity
was
welcome
.
When
I
had
to
sit
alone
with
that
corpse
and
wait
on
Fortune
I
was
no
better
than
a
crushed
worm
,
but
if
my
neck
's
safety
was
to
hang
on
my
own
wits
I
was
prepared
to
be
cheerful
about
it
.
My
next
thought
was
whether
Scudder
had
any
papers
about
him
to
give
me
a
better
clue
to
the
business
.
I
drew
back
the
table-cloth
and
searched
his
pockets
,
for
I
had
no
longer
any
shrinking
from
the
body
.
The
face
was
wonderfully
calm
for
a
man
who
had
been
struck
down
in
a
moment
.
There
was
nothing
in
the
breast-pocket
,
and
only
a
few
loose
coins
and
a
cigar-holder
in
the
waistcoat
.
The
trousers
held
a
little
penknife
and
some
silver
,
and
the
side
pocket
of
his
jacket
contained
an
old
crocodile-skin
cigar-case
.
There
was
no
sign
of
the
little
black
book
in
which
I
had
seen
him
making
notes
.
That
had
no
doubt
been
taken
by
his
murderer
.
But
as
I
looked
up
from
my
task
I
saw
that
some
drawers
had
been
pulled
out
in
the
writing-table
.
Scudder
would
never
have
left
them
in
that
state
,
for
he
was
the
tidiest
of
mortals
.
Someone
must
have
been
searching
for
something
--
perhaps
for
the
pocket-book
.
I
went
round
the
flat
and
found
that
everything
had
been
ransacked
--
the
inside
of
books
,
drawers
,
cupboards
,
boxes
,
even
the
pockets
of
the
clothes
in
my
wardrobe
,
and
the
sideboard
in
the
dining-room
.
There
was
no
trace
of
the
book
.
Most
likely
the
enemy
had
found
it
,
but
they
had
not
found
it
on
Scudder
's
body
.
Then
I
got
out
an
atlas
and
looked
at
a
big
map
of
the
British
Isles
.
My
notion
was
to
get
off
to
some
wild
district
,
where
my
veldcraft
would
be
of
some
use
to
me
,
for
I
would
be
like
a
trapped
rat
in
a
city
.
I
considered
that
Scotland
would
be
best
,
for
my
people
were
Scotch
and
I
could
pass
anywhere
as
an
ordinary
Scotsman
.
I
had
half
an
idea
at
first
to
be
a
German
tourist
,
for
my
father
had
had
German
partners
,
and
I
had
been
brought
up
to
speak
the
tongue
pretty
fluently
,
not
to
mention
having
put
in
three
years
prospecting
for
copper
in
German
Damaraland
.
