A Child's Good Night Book by Margaret Wise Brown

Author:Margaret Wise Brown [Brown, Margaret Wise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Childrens
ISBN: 9780060210281
Google: YibKHhbAXdMC
Goodreads: 910548
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1943-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

that Popescu was on leave-and the frustration after three days was driving Kate out of hiding, if not ,actually to

the brink of insanity.

The Dacia started after much fiddling with the choke and they bounced out onto the bricks of Bulevardul Schitu

Magureanu along the west side of Cismigiu Gardens. Despite the fact that it was only the second week in

October, most of the trees bordering the street were bare of leaves. The icy rain pelted against the windshield

and only the wiper on the driver's side worked, squeegeeing back and forth with a screech of a single, long

fingernail against a blackboard.

"Tell me again about the Arab Student Union," said Kate.

Lucian glanced at her. His face was mottled with shadowstreaks from the occasional streetlight shining through

the rain-splattered windshield. There were few functional streetlights in Bucharest this autumn, but the Dacia

had come onto the wide Bulevardul Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and there was some light here. The avenue was

all but empty.

"The Arabs attend the university on full scholarship," said Lucian, "but almost none of them go to classes. They

spend their years here changing money and being brokers in the black market. The Arab Student Union is the

center for much of this."

Kate tried to peer out at the street, but the windshield in front of her was a shifting mass of icy rain. She glanced

at the dark canal on her right as they turned onto the even broader avenue of Splaiul Independenlei. The

incredible mass of the unfinished presidential palace was just visible across nibbled fields and behind tall

fences. There were one or two lights on in the huge structure, but these only served to accentuate the hopeless

and inhuman scale of the place. Kate shivered. "And the guy we're seeing might know something about

Joshua?"

Lucian shrugged. "My contacts say that Amaddi keeps tabs on the Nomenclature. He certainly serves their

needs when they deal with the black market. It may be worth our time talking to him . . ." Lucian glanced at her.

"It's foolish for you to come along though, Kate. I can-"

"I want to talk to him," said Kate. Her tone left no room for debate.

Lucian shrugged again. He pointed out the University Medical School as they drove past it and they turned

north again, past a row of dilapidated dormitories, then down a long alley lined with dark and decaying Stalinist

apartment blocks. Ragged curtains blew from shattered windows, and there were holes in the masonry large

enough for a person to step through. The rain had let up a bit and Kate could see large rats fleeing from the

beam of the headlights. The entrance to the building they stopped in front of had a torn steel mesh dangling

from the doorway.

"These are empty, aren't they?" asked Kate.

Lucian shook his head. "No, these are the Arab dormitories. "

Kate cranked down her window and could make out a feeble glow of what might be lantern light behind some

of the tattered curtains.

Lucian pointed toward a lower building with no windows, its walls and single doorway spray-painted with

graffiti. "That's the Student Union. Amaddi said that he would meet us there.

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