Chaperoned by Dora Heldt

Author:Dora Heldt [Heldt, Dora]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2012-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

It was only once I got back to the guesthouse that I realized I’d forgotten to buy the local paper. I had no idea why my father wanted to read it anyway; just because he’d gotten to know that hack didn’t mean he had to change his reading habits. I was just about to set off again when Marleen stormed over to the restaurant with a strange—but clearly not happy—expression on her face, clasping the very paper I needed in her hand.

“Stop! Marleen, wait.”

She stopped, and I pushed the bike over to her.

“Can I have that paper by any chance? Then I won’t need to…” Now that I was right in front of her I could see she was furious. “What’s wrong?”

Marleen waved the paper in the air. “What’s wrong? Come over to the restaurant with me and then you’ll find out. I’m either going to murder the great island expert or the ginger-haired ferret—it depends which one I catch first.”

I put the bike down and hurried to catch up. There was no way I wanted to miss this.

She flung the door open and stormed into the room, where she unfolded the paper and smoothed it out on the table. She looked around her.

“Everyone, I have something I want to read to you. Can you listen for a moment?”

Onno, Kalli, Dorothea, and Nils came over. I looked at my father, who was sitting comfortably on a chair with a smile of eager anticipation. Marleen threw him a look that was hard to decipher, then started to read:

PROMINENT SYLT TOUR GUIDE GIVES NORDENEY A HELPING HAND

Nordeney

Locals and tourists are sure to have been asking themselves of late what the untiring workers and helpers in the former local “Sea View” are actually up to. We now have an exclusive on the well-protected secret. Yesterday, our journalist GvM had the great pleasure of making the acquaintance of Heinz Schmidt, by trade one of the most well-known, if not the most well-known Sylt expert. “Of course, I know Sylt like the back of my hand,” Heinz told us with a mischievous smile, “and whoever knows an island understands everyone. So it was clear to me right away what Nordeney was missing.” The suntanned and youthful-looking seventy-something told GvM about the building plans. “I’m in charge of the renovations. The aim is to make a run-down old restaurant into a bar that would satisfy even Sylt standards.”

The plans show elegant sofa suites to replace the grimy old bar, and in the place of the scuffed old dining tables, guests will sit around chrome and glass. Instead of flowery wallpaper there will be murals, waves, and dunes in passionate rainbow colors. “Yes,” said the Sylt resident, his steel-blue eyes flashing, “we recruited the famous Hamburg artist Dorothea B. for the murals and painting; after all, we couldn’t get just any old housewife to do it.”

Instead of cheap linoleum the guests will find themselves gliding across brand-new parquet flooring, and instead of plastic flowers on the tables there will be lavish fresh bouquets.

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