My first port of call, when arriving at The Hall, was to visit Sir Michael at his home on the other side of York. The family"s solicitors had found no trace of any surviving relatives of Charlie, who had died leaving no dependants with no evidence of any marriage. The relationship between him and Percy Crow, which had been alluded to in Sir Michael"s first report, was central to everything. I hoped he had more. I was not disappointed.
I figured that Lord Maudlin Paterson could have first come across Percy"s name whilst reporting back to HM Government from Spain during his indelicate time in that country when Paulo was conceived. Percy had joined the Irish contingent of the International Brigade and fought alongside the Canadians in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, but although this could
