but hunters and hunted never actually bumped into each other.
″It's a good thing I've learned to read so well,″ Momo remarked casually, ″isn't it?″
Instantly, the tortoise's shell flashed a warning: SSSH!
Momo couldn't understand the reason for this injunction, but she obeyed it.
Then she saw three dim, gray shapes flit past a few feet away.
They had now reached a part of the city where each building looked drabber and shabbier than the last.
Towering tenements with peeling walls flanked streets pitted with potholes full of stagnant water.
The whole neighbourhood was dark and deserted. At long last, word reached the headquarters of the Timesaving Bank that Momo had been sighted.
″Excellent,″ said the duty officer. ″Have you taken her into custody?″
″No, she disappeared before we could nab her - she seemed to vanish from the face of the earth. We've lost track of her again.″
″How did it happen?″ ″If only we knew! There's something fishy going on.″
″Where was she when you sighted her?″ ″That's the odd thing. She was in a part of the city completely unknown to us.″
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