Chapter 30
OCTOBER 29th, 1888
‘AS MUCH AS I SYMPATHISE WITH YOU, COLLINGWOOD, the most I can do is issue a general instruction for all forces to look out for your daughter. We will take statements of course from the neighbourhood and put out a flyer with her description, but the one thing I cannot and will not do is raise any mention of the fact that it might; might be Sinistrari who has abducted her. In fact we do not know it was Sinistrari who has taken … er … Lucy’
Collingwood was in the office of Sir Charles Warren, seeking his support by allocating additional officers to hunt for Sinistrari.
‘But Commissioner, who else could it have been?’ He seethed with impatience and desperation, Warren was being of no assistance whatsoever, quite the contrary.
‘It could quite easily have been
