WHILE HIS TROUBLES multiplied, Rafferty was comforted by the thought that at least he was still managing to avoid meeting the main witnesses. He didn’t know how much longer he would be able to achieve the trick, but fortunately, Llewellyn, who had at first kept harping on about it, had quickly resigned himself to doing the bulk of the interviews.
This acceptance had surprised Rafferty, but he was too grateful to question it. But, although he kept well away from anyone with any connection to the Made in Heaven dating agency, the nightmares pushed Rafferty into an even more assiduous study of all the reports and witness statements as they came in. He read them over and over as if they were Holy Writ, sure there must be something there that would start the grit in the oyster of his memory. H
