The Leader And The Damned

3.

'There is no one here of that name,' the operator informed him. 'Who is calling.

'But there must be,' Stein insisted. 'Lieutenant Jock…'

'I said we have no one here of that name. Who is calling…'

Stein, frightened by this strange development, put down the 'phone and looked at his brother, then glanced towards the wall-safe.

'What are we going to do with the envelope? Carson doesn't exist…'

'Leave it there and mind our own business. These are troubled days,' answered David.

They had no way of knowing that as soon as he reached GHQ the previous day Carson had found waiting for him an urgent, immediate posting to Burma. When Stein called, he was already aboard a plane halfway to India. Army Records show a Colonel Carson of Military Intelligence was later killed in Burma.

Part Four

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