Chapter 30Lucius Doberman swept through the door to the bar of the Rowan Tree, his aura almost preceding his body into the room. Such was the presence of the man that Joe and the others seemed to sense his arrival even as his tall frame burst through the door, his long black coat flapping in his slipstream, revealing the rich red silken lining. Their heads turned in perfect synchronisation as the smiling professor of history held his arms out in greeting as though to encompass them all in a single hypothetical bear hug.
“My friends, my very good friends, please forgive me for not having been here upon your return, but I have indeed been busy on our behalf, and my news will, I'm sure, be a pleasant surprise to you all.”
Joe Cutler thought that almost everything to do with this quite remar
