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where he’d actually hidden it, but hoped he would react to what I’d said. I couldn’t do much more. Maybe he already suspected something was going on between Calista and Chronos. Maybe he’d heard talk about it, or he’d already felt something untoward was going to happen. Anyway, I’d done my bit. It was up to him.

As it transpired he did do something.

I learned later he had kept his gold pieces in a number of stout linen bags behind loose bricks in a soak-away just outside the kitchen. It seems that he took them out that night and replaced them with similar bags full of broken mosaic tiles from the garden at the back of the house. Where he then hid his hoard instead I didn’t find out until after he died.

THE JOURNEY