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Avery sat in the aeroplane remembering the day when Haldane failed to appear. It was, by coincidence, the first of the month, July it must have been, and Haldane did not come to the office. Avery knew nothing of it until Woodford rang him on the internal telephone to tell him. Haldane was probably ill, Avery had said; some personal matter had cropped up. But Woodford was adamant. He had been to Leclerc’s room, he said, and had looked at the leave roster: Haldane was not due for leave till August.
‘Telephone his flat, John, telephone his flat,’ he had urged. ‘Speak to his wife. Find out what’s become of him.’ Avery was so astonished that he did not know what to say: those two had worked together for twenty years, and even he knew Haldane was a bachelor.