Chapter 25: Coming Home, 1921It was getting late when they went back to Wapping. Alec fed a stoic Kelly and a nauseous-looking Lew sausages and mash in the staff dining room in an attempt to soak up some of the brandy and then tracked down Grant. He didn’t pass on Lew’s story to Grant, just told him they were going to have a chat with him and Kelly, to see if they had any more information about the animal they were hunting. Grant knew something was up, although he wasn’t windy about it. He was an astonishingly placid henchman, Alec always thought.
He installed them all in his office and started with the pleasantries. “Mr. Kelly. How are you now after last night’s excitement?”
“Better than I expected, lad.” Kelly looked at them shrewdly. “Has anything else happened?”
Tyler stifled a grim
