Chapter 12
AT THE ROSE AND CROWNA
T just about the same time as Richard was asking for Jeremy Hawker at Rolf’s Dump, the man who called himself by that name when it suited him was standing against the round bar in the Rose and Crown. This public house stands directly behind the old Royal Albert Music Hall, a famous vaudeville theatre before the war and later the home of lavish musical shows. On this particular evening Morris Moorhen was appearing there in ‘Bowl Me Over’. The performance had been on for forty minutes and the long interval was due in five.
Mr. Vick, who was standing next to Gerry, bright spots of colour on his cheekbones and his elegant black hat well on the back of his head, was having a much better time that anyone who merely saw the scene could possibly have supposed.
