Doctor Frigo 1974

Author:Eric Ambler
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-09-29T19:53:11+00:00

EVENING

Iwould have liked to tell Elizabeth what had happened today; but there was almost nothing I could properly have told her, except that she had been wrong about UnclePaco, and even then I couldn't have told her why. Nor could I have explained why I now found myself feeling slightly sorry for the poor, silly old man.

His obsessional efforts to protectVillegas from my presumed infection with the 'Florida virus' had been incredibly clumsy.

Who contrived the death of Jesus of Galilee? The Romans or the Jews? Pilate or Herod or Judas? The elders, the chief priests, the scribes, the captains of the temple or some other, yet more subtle, manipulators of the mob? All or only some? Who could tell for certain?

UnclePaco had taken no chances. As he had seen it, neither Simon the Cyrenian nor Joseph of Arimathaea had been beyond suspicion. But one thing had been clear. No man could be guilty unless he had been involved in the final decision-​making; no man could be guilty who had been absent and far away from Jerusalem at the time.

Villegas'own portrayal of himself as an Arimathaean Joseph returning from a business trip too late to change the course to which his fellow counsellors have committed him in his absence, but prepared to claim and wrap the body, is more convincing-​a little more.

Elizabeth is having another argument with the Franco-​Swiss hotel company over rent increases.

We played piquet for an hour with her eighteenth-​century pack. Find that the need to handle those valuable old cards with care inhibits thought. Believe she knows this. Lost nine francs.

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