Chapter Fifty-Seven
The train chugged along sluggishly. Denis recalled how Jean-Paul Mazenc had responded the day before, when Ferrand joined them in the room where the comatose Patient 232 was strapped in his bed. Denis briefed the director. When they had shown Mazenc the grey notebook in which The Mole penned his story, Jean-Paul forgot his fury and reacted almost euphorically. He exclaimed that he possessed the same ‘outpourings’, which he had stored away after his brother had discarded his manuscript. Ferrand subsequently decided that he and Denis would visit Mazenc’s house early in the morning to verify this contention. The director suggested that Mazenc spent the night in the asylum. Not only could Mazenc assure himself of a possible evolution in the condition of his alleged brother
