Then Fulmar let Peis’s body slide to the floor.
He bent over him, put his boot on his face, and pulled the baby Fairbairn from Peis’s skull. He wiped the blade on Peis’s jacket and sheathe the knife.
He looked at Gisella. She met his eyes for a moment, then turned her head.
Fulmar dragged the body into the living room, putting it where it would be out of sight of someone standing at the doog but making no other effort to conceal it. Then he straightened the rugs he’d put into disarray dragging the body.
“Did you have to kill him?” Gisella asked, very low.
“It was necessary,” he said, then thought that sounded a little too harsh.
He wanted her afraid of him, not hysterical.
“I knew him, you remember. He would have remembered me. I haven’t changed that much.” She laughed nastily at that.
“My God,” she said, “if they catch us, they’ll kill us.” Fulmar didn’t reply. He went to the window and looked down at Burgweg. There was a small, diesel-engined Mercedes parked by a No Parking sign.
“Does Peis have a driver?” he asked.
“No,” she said.
“Then as soon as your father gets here, we’ll take his car to Frankfurt and catch the Vienna train.”
“Why are we going to Vienna?” she asked. “It’s in the opposite direction.” Because it’s safer, he told her They were going to Budapest, but if they were caught on the way, it was better that neither she nor her father knew their ultimate
“My fathefs liable to have a heart attack when he sees Peis,” Gisella said It was not a cliche, she meant it Fulmar shrugged
“When you left Marburg, the last time,” she said, , , and he questioned me, he burned my breasts with lighted cigarettes The pain I should feel something now that you’ve killed him But I don’t I just can’t believe any of this is happening ” There was the sound of footsteps on the stairs, and a moment later, the sound of a key in the lock Professor Friedrich Dyer stepped into the room The door was not locked,” he said, and then he saw Fulmar “You have a guest, I see ” Fulmar motioned for him to close the door i’donxt go in the living room, Daddy,” Gisella said “Why not?” he asked, and walked across to the living room
“Did you do that? XX he asked Fulmar matter-of-factly “It was necessary,” Fulmar said Professor Friedrich Dyer leaned over Peis’s body and spat Then he turned to Fulmar -Who are you?” he
“Fm Erich von Fulmar” Dyer nodded, as if that too came as no surprise “What do you plan to do with that swine’s carcass?” Dyer asked -As soon as you throw a couple of things in a bag,” Fulmar said, we are going to take Peis’s car and drive to Frankfurt We will leave the body here It should be a day or two before it’s discovered Dyer looked at his daughter , “Are you all right, Liebchen?” She nodded He turned to Fulmar And what if we are stopped at a roadblock? sx “I have passports and travel authority for you,” Fulmar said And my SSSD identity card”
“Do we have time to go by my office?” Dyer said “No,” Fulmar said immediately
“Donvt answer that so quickly,” the old man snapped “I have given good deal of thought to why all this effort is being made on my behalf, and I have concluded it is my work that makes it worthwhile, not an old man Work?” Fulmar asked What kind of work?” “You wouldnxt understand, X’ Dyer said impatiently “Work on the molecular structure of metals Nothing was said to me about papers,” Fulmar said “I would like to either take them–some of the more important papers, not everything–or destroy them , ive are not going to the university, ” Fulmar said is Discussion closed Put a couple of shirts in a bag, Herr Professor [TWO] Organinalion Todt Bur au So-uchtw-rh, FEA Ho-ucht am IS ain, O-rmany fs40 Sourn SO January 1943 zguten Tag,” the caller said -Would you put me through to Fraulein von Handleman-Bitburg, please? is “Fraulein von Handleman-Bitburg does not work in this office, and she cannot be called to the telephone “I am calling for Generaloberst von Handleman-Bitburg, the caller said