It's been a month since the attack on the town of Karussell, and the situation is critical. A spy has been killed in the town, which means that the town is in danger of being overrun by enemy spies. The narrator explains that his job is to spy on those who are well-versed in the art of spying, but that spies will kill spies just as they would kill any other spy. This means that a spy who knows the identity of an enemy spy will kill the spy before she can report it to him. This is why it's so weird that the spy didn't tell the narrator about the attack until after she had already killed the enemy spy. He's shocked that the woman would kill a spy in a town like this, and he's even more shocked that she would send a message to him by regular post, instead of using the usual channels. He wonders why the woman didn' t tell him about the danger. He also wonders why she wouldn't send a letter to him instead of sending it by regular mail. He doesn't understand why she would kill another spy, and why she didn'T tell him of the danger before she did. He thinks that she killed herself to save her own life, and that's why he'd feel so bad for her. He asks the narrator to tell the border patrol about the armored train that came into town. He wants to know what's going on, and wonders if the soldiers in town are afraid of them. He tells the narrator that they're