MinervaChapter 3
A little later that day I was sitting in the west conservatory, accompanied by Jack Blake, reading a book. Jack is one of the two, long-term residential guests of the Cliff Head that I knew well, and actually liked. Jack Blake is an extremely well dressed gentleman of indeterminate age. Nearly all the staff, variously referred to him – behind his back - as Blakey, the Colonel, the Major or sometimes even the General. At the time I had no idea which rank he'd actually held in the army, if...