Marnie Glockenspiel Took a Paper
addressed to her husband- Even your fingernails
- Nor am I trying to repay you with money
- I do not care to be hypnotized
- such a methodical revenge
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Marnie Glockenspiel took a paper out of a pocket of her nurse uniform. She explained to Heinrich and Svetlana that it was a letter addressed to her husband, which had arrived only after he disappeared. She read them a few lines, faltering over the strange syntax, then sobbed that the whole letter made no sense.
It was obviously in code, and in fact it was one I was fluent with. I could help Marnie figure out what her husband had been mixed up in.
But Svetlana kept badgering her about crawling under Heinrich’s clothes as a way to travel. “Even your fingernails won’t bother him, he has such a thick hide,” she assured Marnie.
“Look,” the erstwhile nurse said, “I do really appreciate the ride you already gave me. It’s gotten me this far, which is worth something. But I can’t become any more deeply indebted to you. Nor am I trying to repay you with money, for the simple reason that I have none. My mission is to find my husband, and I do not care to be hypnotized by the uncanny motion of your limbs. Besides, it’s impractical. I can’t travel as you do, because unlike you I am not a contortionist.”
“You’re overlooking one thing,” Heinrich put in. “Without us, you’re stuck here. There’s something in that letter about a bear, right? You think that’s a coincidence?”
Svetlana chortled.
Everything about Marnie’s situation clicked in my mind. Someone had kidnapped her husband, so that they could send a letter to him that she would read, which would take her to this place, and make her susceptible to the flimsy rationale of two criminals inside a bear suit. But who would trouble themselves to take such a methodical revenge on a nurse?
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