The Gropes
“After a minimal lunch he finally felt able to leave the hotel and, realising that buying another ticket at the same travel agency might make even the dozy clerk there suspicious, he took a taxi to the most lawless part of London, near Docklands.
Deciding that he needed to better cover his tracks, he chose the nastiest second-hand clothing shop he could find and bought a shabby raincoat and a pair of thoroughly disreputable boots several sizes too big for him. Using the cover of a public lavator...y to change, he stuffed the bottom of some old and grubby trousers he’d had the foresight to bring from his gardener’s shed into them. By the time he emerged Horace was even more unrecognisable as a fugitive bank manager.
He then made his way by bus to Docklands itself. After a tortuous journey the bus stopped and, cursing his aching head, Horace walked up and down until he found a shipping office, where he paid – with considerable difficulty – for another ticket to Latvia.
‘Going back to your own country, are you?’ asked the clerk, who looked like an immigrant himself, when he’d read the printed request Horace presented him asking him for a boat ticket for Riga.MoreLess
Deciding that he needed to better cover his tracks, he chose the nastiest second-hand clothing shop he could find and bought a shabby raincoat and a pair of thoroughly disreputable boots several sizes too big for him. Using the cover of a public lavator...y to change, he stuffed the bottom of some old and grubby trousers he’d had the foresight to bring from his gardener’s shed into them. By the time he emerged Horace was even more unrecognisable as a fugitive bank manager.
He then made his way by bus to Docklands itself. After a tortuous journey the bus stopped and, cursing his aching head, Horace walked up and down until he found a shipping office, where he paid – with considerable difficulty – for another ticket to Latvia.
‘Going back to your own country, are you?’ asked the clerk, who looked like an immigrant himself, when he’d read the printed request Horace presented him asking him for a boat ticket for Riga.MoreLess
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