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Chapter 5 Interview with Colonel Pikeaway
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Chapter 5 Interview with Colonel Pikeaway
Tommy drove through Regent’s Park, then he passed through variousroads he’d not been through for years. Once when he and Tuppence hadhad a flat near Belsize Park, he remembered walks on Hampstead Heathand a dog they had had who’d enjoyed the walks. A dog with a particularlyself-willed nature. When coming out of the flat he had always wished toturn to the left on the road that would lead to Hampstead Heath. The ef-forts of Tuppence or Tommy to make him turn to the right and go intoshopping quarters were usually defeated. James, a Sealyham of obstinatenature, had allowed his heavy sausage-like body to rest flat on the pave-ment, he would produce a tongue from his mouth and give every semb-lance of being a dog tired out by being given the wrong kind of exercise bythose who owned him. People passing by usually could not refrain fromcomment.
‘Oh, look at that dear little dog there. You know, the one with the whitehair–looks rather like a sausage, doesn’t he? And panting, poor fellow.
Those people of his, they won’t let him go the way he wants to, he lookstired out, just tired out.’
Tommy had taken the lead from Tuppence and had pulled James firmlyin the opposite direction from the one he wanted to go.
‘Oh dear,’ said Tuppence, ‘can’t you pick him up, Tommy?’
‘What, pick up James? He’s too much of a weight.’
James, with a clever manoeuvre1, turned his sausage body so that he wasfacing once more in the direction of his expectation.
‘Look, poor little doggie, I expect he wants to go home, don’t you?’
James tugged2 firmly on his lead.
‘Oh, all right,’ said Tuppence, ‘we’ll shop later. Come on, we’ll have to letJames go where he wants to go. He’s such a heavy dog, you can’t make himdo anything else.’
James looked up and wagged his tail. ‘I quite agree with you,’ the wagseemed to say. ‘You’ve got the point at last. Come on. Hampstead Heath itis.’ And it usually had been.
Tommy wondered. He’d got the address of the place where he was go-ing. The last time he had been to see Colonel Pikeaway it had been inBloomsbury. A small poky room full of smoke. Here, when he reached theaddress, it was a small, nondescript house fronting on the heath not farfrom the birthplace of Keats. It did not look particularly artistic3 or inter-esting.
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