Chapter 5: Three Men in a Boat
Lew
Lew’s plan was to talk to Kelly. After they left the flat, he had Alec drop him back at the paper to collect his ‘cycle and had made tracks for Camden.
He’d been going regularly over the winter and spring and now that summer was coming, there was no doubt that Kelly was very sick. The little terraced house still smelled of baking and early hollyhocks were now nodding in the tiny front garden. The rose still rambled round the door.
But inside, the old man was failing.
Mrs. Finn had moved his bed down into the front parlor as he was finding it impossible to manage the stairs. He lay in state, propped up on immaculate white pillows, the curtains drawn back as far as possible so that he could watch the comings and goings on the street. The fire was lit,
