Clare came down on the train two days later to collect some of my photographs. She was going to get work for me. I laughed. It was serious, she said.
I had no races that day. We were going to fetch Jeremy from the hospital and take him home. I phoned Lance Kinship and told him I had the copies of his photographs. Could I bring Them to his house that afternoon? fine, he said
Jeremy looked much better. He sat in the back of the car and we drove to Lance Kinship's house.
'Sorry about this,' I said. 'But it won't take long.'
They didn't mind.
It was a large house, with big gates. I picked up the packet of photographs and rang the front door bell.
'Come inside,' Kinship said. 'I'll pay you.'
'Ok. I must be quick, though. My friends are waiting.'
He looked at the car whee Clare and Jeremy were sitting. We went into a large sitting room, with black furniture and glass tables. I gave Him the packet of photographs.
'Look at them,' I said.
He pulled out the photographs. Th top photograph showed him wearing his hat.
'Turn it over,'I said
He turned it over and read what Mrs Jackson had written: 'This is the man from the water company...'
His face changed.
'Before you say anything,' I said, 'look at the other photographs.'
He looked at them-Dana's list, and the letter which I had found on the diazo paper. With angry fingers he dropped the photographs on the floor.
'She said that you didn't have the list... She said that you knew nothing...'
'You can see your name on her list.'
'I'll kill you,'he said.
'No,you won't. It's too late now. The gas didn't kill me.'
He said, 'It all went wrong. But I thought that it didn't matter, because you didn't have the list.'
'But I do have the list, and George's letter. And a copy of the letter is in an envelope in my bank. The bank will open the envelope if I die.'
Lance looked at the photographs on the floor. 'George's letter...'he said.
'When George telephoned you,'I asked, 'did he tell you his "other idea"?'
Lance Kinship began to grow angry. 'I'm telling you nothing.'
'Did George tell you to give money to the Injured Jockeys Fund? Did he tell you when he stopped here for a drink?'
Lance Kinship was silent.
'Did you put something into his whisky?'
'Prove it!' Kinship shouted.
I couldn't prove it, of course. 'I'm here now,' I said, 'not George.And I'm not asking for money.'
He stared at me.
'My mother died from drugs,' I told him.
He said wildly, 'But I didn't know your mother!'
'No, of course you didn't. But I don't like people who sell drugs.'
He stepped towards me. I thought that he was going to fight; but he stepped on one of the photographs and fell on to one knee. He looked up at me and I saw no anger,
only fear.
I said, 'I don't want money. I want you to tell me who sells the drugs to you.'
Slowly he stood up. 'I can't. I can't!'
'It can't be difficult,' I said quietly. 'You must know where you buy them.'
'You don't know...'Kinship was breathing with difficulty. 'I can't tell you. I'd be...dead.'
I shook my head. 'No one will know. I'm not going to tell anyone your name, but the name that you give me will go to the drugs police.'
'I can't,'he said desperately.
'If you don't,'I said, 'I'll tell the police about the man from the water company. first.'
He was trembling.
'Tell me the name,'I said. 'Of course, I expect you'll have to find a new contact then. So in a year or two, I'll ask you for another name.'
His face was grey. 'It will go no?'
'That's right. You killed George Millace. You tried to kill me. You nearly killed my friend., I took out a notebook and a pen. 'Write now ,' I said.
He sat down and wrote a name and address.
'And sign it.'
'Sign?'
'Of course. You name.'
He wrote: Lance kinship.
I picked up the notebook and put it in my pocket. I would photograph it nd keep the negative safe.
'that's all,' I said. 'For now.'
He didn't move.
I went outside and paused in the winter air. When George Millace was alive, I hadn't liked him. But now, I felt close to him I had discovered his secrets, I knew his plans. I had fired his guns.
I got into the car.
'Everything all right?' Clare asked.
'Yes,'I said.