The Blog of Roon

For you Grand Ellipse junkies (and you know who you are), the London Times has some new articles up.

Shirley hasn’t gotten to Irkutsk yet to see them, but he is going to go absolutely ballistic. Selena Theopolis missing? Vroomfondel and Addison escaped? And how many more ways could Scotland Yard possibly bollix up this investigation?

Okay. The inevitable hypothesis: there’s a mole somewhere in Scotland Yard’s London office stealing papers and generally making a mess of things. Obvious corollary: Nicky Finnegan was murdered by this mole. If you read the article carefully, you get the impression the reporter asked this very question and had it brushed off.

The question I would sell my soul (such as it is) for the answer to is how extensively this mole has been in touch with Vroomfondel and/or Addison. This could explain why the sting set up with Shirley as bait didn’t go off as planned. I don’t see any point in positing more than one mole. That’s just paranoid.

I don’t see any way that Vroomfondel can actually be on his yacht by 8 May; too much land to cover between Irkutsk and anywhere he could board it. Therefore he must have sent it some pretty specific orders by telegraph once he got free in Irkutsk. I do dearly hope they didn’t involve murdering poor old Father Dean.

Dangerous game, the Ellipse, no question.

Update: I am an idiot. I am a big fat idiot. Of course Vroomy’s not on that yacht. Addison is. Duh.

And somebody better put a serious guard on Roland Carter. If I were the mole, he’d be next on my list, the more so because he is now entirely unnecessary and knows entirely too much.

And if the Wilcox inquest isn’t reopened, Shirley will want to know why. Could the modus operandi and motive between that and Finnegan be any more similar?

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