12/24 Then there was an accident--let me see, it must have been some six or seven years ago--and he had to have both his legs amputated. No one knows exactly how the accident happened, and there was always a certain amount of mystery connected with it. Since then he has buried himself in the country. I don't think, in fact, that he ever moves outside his place; but somehow or other he has managed to keep in touch with all the political movements of the day." "Fentolin," Hamel repeated softly to himself. "Tell me, whereabouts does he live ?" "Quite a wonderful place in Norfolk, I believe, somewhere near the sea. |