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I walked up Exhibition Road past all the museums to what was, perhaps, Willi’s university. I received a firm rebuttal from the student records office when I asked about Willi: if he was a student, they could not share his information with me. But they told me he couldn’t be studying nuclear engineering as that was a post-graduate program.
It had to be Mrs Henderson falsifying Willi’s information.
But why would Mrs Henderson tamper with Willi’s information? She hadn’t passed on my message either.
Lying in bed that night, I wondered about Lili’s death.
Was that Mrs Henderson as well – tying up loose ends?
Shards of violent, angry dreams accompanied my waking in the morning, with Mrs Henderson’s presence looming over them.
She wouldn’t arrange for Lili’s death – would she?
I sat in bed, thinking over everything I knew about Mrs Henderson – which was not much.
Had she been involved in the shooting during the rescue? She’d been icy calm and matter of fact in the car on the way to Lancaster.
Recalling our few meetings, she had shown the slightest hint of emotion but once – when she’d slapped my face. I concluded she could contemplate Lili’s death – but I doubted MI6 would allow it, let alone the erasure of a complete family. That she could think about arranging Lili’s death didn’t mean she had done it. What was that aphorism my history teacher quoted?
Never assign to malice, that which is adequately explained by coincidence.
Accidents happen.
But I had no answer to the fundamental question. Why is she hiding Willi from me?
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