Sight Unseen
“Umber was not free to leave London, so there was no choice: it had to be Sharp. His excuse for keeping Umber in the dark was that it had spared him from lying to Hall. Umber reckoned it was more likely Sharp feared he might give the game away. Since he had not been entirely open with Sharp about his dealings with Marilyn Hall, however, he was in no position to complain.* * *With Sharp aboard the ferry to Jersey, due to dock in the late afternoon, Umber spent Monday morning at the British Librar...y. He ordered a further batch of books, which were certain to take several hours at least to be fetched, then worked his way through various entries in the Dictionary of National Biography in search of background information on what he now remembered referring to in his original researches as the Dayrolles Connection.* * *The known facts were tantalizingly meagre. Solomon Dayrolles was the nephew and heir of James Dayrolles, British Resident at The Hague for many years until his death in 1739. The date of Solomon Dayrolles's birth was unrecorded, but could hardly have been later than 1710 and was very possibly earlier, given that his first diplomatic appointment was as secretary to Lord Waldegrave, Ambassador to Vienna, a post Waldegrave held from 1727 to 1730.MoreLess
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