Hogarth was well used to the unexpected and so he asked no questions.
“I will see to it, Sir John,” he replied.
He went from the room, shutting the door behind him and Sir John lay down in the bed against his pillows.
‘So for God’s sake, Gavron,’ he said in his mind, ‘don’t die before I am with you! If you leave me now there is so much for me to carry on without you. Wherever you will be, I will need your help.’
Because everything to do with Gavron Murillo had always been so truly fantastic, John would not have been surprised if a star had fallen in through his window or the moon had suddenly lit the whole place with an unexpected glimmer of light.
But there was only the darkness of the night.
As he closed his eyes, he wondered what the future would hold and if wherever Gavron Muri
