It was ten o'clock in the morning, a hot,humid city morning,and manuu flash had Jessica pronto in tow ever since leaving manuu's office a full half hour ago.

Now, in a side street off the teeming mercerie,a few blocks behind the kipchamba , manuu scouted the terrain ahead.it was as dangerous as no human's -land. At short intervals khaki-clad,armed local police,in pairs, passed in patrol, searching the faces of shopping pestrians.

'Its risk; Jessica pronto muttered. 'But I don't know what else to do;