“Of course, these rumours were refuted, and fairly strongly—something that is not too surprising, considering how they step dangerously close to the truth. But they caught the imagination of many, and refused to be suppressed. If anything, they grow stronger as more pressure is applied.
“It appears that I had many more supporters than I was aware of, and with my disappearance that support has grown. I would put this down not to myself but to the ideas I believed in. When the time is right for a particular idea to come forth, it will, I believe, become evident to a great many at the same time. But I digress—the important point is that many others believed along similar lines to myself, and that I was becoming an absent figurehead for a movement,” and Leopold broke off to smile, and Gen
