“I suppose he has, but he"s never complained, and he always looked after me well enough. He worked hard until he got sick. Now he sort of lives with his memories and the TV. He likes to watch the racing, and sometimes asks me to go to the bookies to put a bet on for him. Never anything big, just a couple of quid now and then.”
“Does he ever talk about what happened in nineteen sixty-six?” Drake asked, trying to probe a little deeper into Albert the elder"s past.”
“No, never, at least not until those two girls were murdered recently. After the second one was killed, we were watching the news of TV at tea time when there was a report about the killings on, and he said, ever so quietly, “He"s back.” I asked him who was back, and he rambled on about the original killer having come back to fi
