The Salzburg Connection by Helen Macinnes

Author:Helen Macinnes [MacInnes, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-78116-443-3
Publisher: Titan
Published: 2012-10-05T22:46:00+00:00

“We’ve plenty of time before seven,” Nield said as he got back into the car. “So we’ll continue the sight-seeing. Distances are short around here.” The car swung gently into the stream of traffic, and headed along the street, which had started to slope steadily downhill. Then Nield made a left turn into a modern but less brilliantly lighted street. No shops here, little traffic; a residential area of small houses and gardens. “We are on our way to Yates’s second place of business. Thought you’d like to see the house with that invaluable telephone number—the one that matched. Too bad we can’t go in and putter around on the second floor. I hear he had the very latest in sending and receiving equipment, together with a small developing laboratory, stores of objects all hollowed out to contain microfilm messages for his couriers to carry safely through customs. Ever seen those gadgets? Talcum powder cans with hidden spaces inside their caps, the same kind of tricks in pocket flasks, hollowed-out lipsticks that look perfectly normal and can still function for les girls, cuff links for the men, specially doctored shaving brushes to conceal film in their handles, hairbrushes that slide apart. Of course, nothing was left lying about; even the heavier equipment was dismantled and stowed away in hollow beams or under floorboards. The small stuff was found inside book ends, and also in the bottom roll of a large Chinese scroll hanging on one wall. It must have taken Yates several hours to get everything ready when he arrived there—two overnight stays a week, regularly—and longer to clear everything out of sight before he left. Only the small darkroom was left intact, supplied with absolutely innocent films and photographs.”

“And he risked telephoning from here?” So much care and evasion and trouble, and Yates had given his number to Anna Bryant? And Elissa, too, had handed it over to him? Mathison didn’t believe it.

“Not from his place. From the ground-floor section of that house, seemingly quite separate from Yates upstairs. A middle-aged woman lived there, never left it unattended. She seemed to have no connection at all with Yates. But she was the watchdog for the whole house, and in an emergency could put up any special visitor for the night. Yes, it was a very neat arrangement. Yates in the upstairs apartment as Herr Hase, whose job as a travelling salesman only allowed him a couple of nights at home each week. Downstairs, a widow called Dorothea Langenheim, whose pretty niece Eva visits her occasionally. A fine mess of lies, isn’t it?” Nield had been keeping the car’s speed down to a leisurely crawl so that now, as he pointed to a modest two-storey house with some trees and bushes cosying it away from the other neat little houses along this part of the dark street, he did not have to slow up in order to let Mathison have an adequate glimpse. He could see no aerial; but there was an outside staircase climbing up the side of the house to Herr Hase’s apartment.

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