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It was still raining as he arrived. Mendel was in his garden wearing the most extraordinary hat Smiley had ever seen. It had begun life as an Anzac hat but its enormous brim hung low all the way round, so that he resembled nothing so much as a very tall mushroom. He was brooding over a tree stump, a wicked-looking pick-axe poised obediently in his sinewy right hand.
He looked at Smiley sharply for a moment, then a grin slowly crossed his thin face as he extended his hand.