The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham

Author:Michael Robotham
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780307455833
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2008-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

There is a pharmacy in the heart of de Walletjes, explains Sister Vogel. The pharmacist is a friend of hers. This is where she sent Zala. She was carrying a note.

Turning each corner I expect to see a flash of pink or her blue hijab coming toward me. I pass a greengrocer and catch the scent of oranges, which makes me think of Hassan. What will happen to Samira now? Who will look after her?

I turn into Oudekerksteeg. There is still no sign of Zala. A touch on my arm makes me turn. For a second I don’t recognize Hokke, who is wearing a woolen cap. With his light beard it makes him look like a North Sea fisherman.

“Hello, my friend.” He looks at me closely. “What have you done to yourself?” His finger traces the bruising on my cheek.

“I had a fight.”

“Did you win?”

“No.”

I look over his shoulder, scanning the square for Zala. My sense of urgency makes him turn his own head.

“Are you still looking for your Afghani girl?”

“No, a different one this time.”

It makes me sound careless—as though I lose people all the time. Hokke has been sitting in a café. Zala must have passed by him but he doesn’t remember her.

“Perhaps I can help you look.”

I follow him, scanning the pedestrians, until we reach the pharmacy. The small shop has narrow aisles and neatly stacked shelves. A man in a striped shirt and white coat is serving customers at a counter. When he recognizes Hokke he opens his arms and they embrace. Old friends.

“A deaf girl—I’d remember her,” he announces, breaking into English.

“She had a note from Sister Vogel.”

The pharmacist yells to his assistant. A head pops out from behind a stand of postcards. More Dutch. A shrug. Nobody has seen her.

Hokke follows me back onto the street. I walk a few paces and stop, leaning against a wall. A faint vibration is coming off me; a menacing internal thought spinning out of control. Zala has not run away. She would not leave Samira willingly. Ever.

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