CHAPTER TWELVE“We root out some funny stories, one way and another,” said Reeves to Macdonald. “This yarn of yours about Garstang intrigues me quite a lot: one of the underground boys in wartime Germany…and I wonder how much M.I.5 really knew about his mental processes. He was born in Germany—what’s bred in the bone…” he ended in characteristically cryptic fashion.
“We seem to be collecting the usual series of variations and either-ors,” commented Macdonald. “I’ve got a report from Fordworthy, who’s been checking up on Walter Burrow—Margie’s husband. He was away from home for three days altogether—Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Rumour has it that his wife’s absence at Moorcock was not unacceptable to Wally Burrow, and that he sought consolation with an old love. Which may be in character an
