Step By Step by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-11-04T00:16:52+00:00

190 / L a w ren c e B lo ck

That didn’t help. We wandered some more, half-looking for a sign saying fletcher’s. You won’t be surprised to learn that we couldn’t find it. Another helpful local said the same curious thing, but chose to elaborate. “Flechas! Flechas amarillas! ”

“Fletchers again,” I said, “but yellow ones this time. I wonder what the hell he was trying to tell me.”

“I don’t know. What’s a f letcher, anyway?”

“In Spanish? Beats me. In English it’s one of those old occupa-tional surnames. I forget what a f letcher did. Fleisher means butcher in German, you know, as in f lesh, but a f letcher’s something else.

Oh, I remember. A f letcher is an arrowsmith.”

“It’s a rock band?”

“No, it’s a guy who makes arrows. I guess there used to be more call for that sort of thing, but—oh, fuck me with a stick.”

“Yellow arrows.”

“We’ve been seeing them all day,” I said. “Remember? We were trying to figure out if they were making some sort of political statement.”

“And what they were saying was, ‘Follow me.’ ” Flechas amarillas.

So that was a new word for us, and a useful one. The yellow arrows didn’t entirely eliminate the possibility of a wrong turn; there were often more turns than arrows, and some of them were so arranged as to lend themselves to more than one interpretation. And before long we learned another new Spanish word, senda, which means path.

It was easier to remember the word than to avoid straying from it, or to find it once it had been lost. And more than once Lynne sang: Return to senda

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