S2.7: Reflections
It is a little darker outside the den by the time that Lottie has finished her tale and they realise they will be eating a late supper in an empty breakfast area once they get back to the Potting Shed. (Breakfast being the only communal meal, and even that is more a matter of partially overlapping with others than a formal sitting, what might have been called a ‘dining’ area is not.) “So” pTravis begins, “You say that Alcock met Fabian before he came here - a fact that Lois confirmed - when they were fighting each other in Africa in the mid 1970s! That’s quite a thought! And that rule-loving Alcock implicitly disobeyed military orders so that Fabian would be merely extradited to Britain and then let go for lack of evidence, evidence that Alcock could have provided? And that is probably why he left the army and then formed this commune.” “Yep!” “And the reason that looking in back issues of the Racing Post , as both ’Gillo and I did when we thought he was an agent of the D...
