A Stranger in the Family (2011)
“They, even the recent ones, seemed to be the product of border disputes in the distant past, not just facing north or south but anticipating trouble from one direction or the other. Leo Kappstein’s was surrounded by a low wall, had a large 24 on the gate, and lawns that rolled down from what was nearly a bungalow to the road below, five minutes from the centre of the town.
Nearly a bungalow because what had once been one now had an extension on the back: a two-storey, multi-windowed small b...lock which seemed designed to house records of some kind – files, reference books and newspapers, Kit guessed. It seemed that being keeper of the records was his host’s life work.
His host had been watching for him. As he approached, the front door opened and a small man walked across the brilliant-green lawn to the front gate. How had he recognised him?
‘I saw you once,’ he said, leaning over the gate to shake Kit’s hand, ‘when I shared a taxi with your father, after one of our numerous meetings of worthy groups with excellent intentions.MoreLess
Nearly a bungalow because what had once been one now had an extension on the back: a two-storey, multi-windowed small b...lock which seemed designed to house records of some kind – files, reference books and newspapers, Kit guessed. It seemed that being keeper of the records was his host’s life work.
His host had been watching for him. As he approached, the front door opened and a small man walked across the brilliant-green lawn to the front gate. How had he recognised him?
‘I saw you once,’ he said, leaning over the gate to shake Kit’s hand, ‘when I shared a taxi with your father, after one of our numerous meetings of worthy groups with excellent intentions.MoreLess
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