Chapter Twenty-NineThe following day saw Dumas and Renaud busily carrying out a whole battery of tests on Arturo and Alexei. When she had the barn converted into their second home, Margherita Dumas had ensured that like the house in Ostend, this one had a fully equipped infirmary and separate laboratory. She had already, as Renaud suspected, carried out a full sequence of tests on the boys, and had called him in when she required his confirmation of what she'd discovered. She needed to ascertain whether he could offer additional help and expertise in diagnosing exactly what had gone wrong and in putting together a programme to reverse the process that had begun in the boys' bodies. Only she and Renaud had the intimate knowledge that surrounded the secret of the boys' conception, and theref
