GREY SNOW 1. THOMSEN: FINDING EVERYTHING OUT Herr Thomsen:I want to ask you to do me a service, if you would. You remember Bohdan, the gardener? I’m told he has been arbitrarilly transfered to Stutthof.He is also said to have been involved in a very shocking incedent, resulting in the death of poor Torquil (the tortoise), and this seemed to me so utterly out of charecter, so impossible in relation to him, that I began to doubt the truth of the story I was being given. His name is Professor Bohdan Szozeck. He was a great favourite of the girls, and of course they’re inconsolible about their pet tortoise, as I think you saw tonight. I told them Torquil had just gone missing. They plan to get up at dawn tomorrow to search the garden.I’m sorry to burden you with this but to be frank there’s no one else I can ask.Every Friday I may be found by the sandpit at the Summer Huts between the hours of four and five.Thank you. Yours sincerley, Hannah DollPS. I apolagise for my spelling. They say I have a ‘condition’.
