![]() ![]() His next stop was Berlin, where he was arrested but talked himself out of custody, and then back to London, where he went to jail again." In Milan, he bilked a member of the old aristocracy out of thousands before he was discovered, and had to leave the city in the middle of the night. Then Vienna, where he worked as a waiter in a first-class hotel until he became a psychic counselor to the rich within a matter of weeks. After a series of odd jobs, including very menial work, he started some sort of a spiritualist church, swindled a widow out of her life savings, and was deported. "Same thing happened later in Oslo, more or less. "Wait just a minute, you can't ring off, I won't allow it, don't you realize-" Didn't come into his own until the fifties, in Paris, where he soon acquired an enormous following, then started bilking his clients in the most crude and obvious ways imaginable, and went to jail. Started dabbling in medium-ship even before his mother died. "He was highly educated, spent years at Oxford, though at times he had to live like a pauper. She said her brother had been destroyed when he was quite young, by their mother's death." She's deeply grieved over the death of her troublesome brother, but relieved he's gone. ![]() Her only daughter became a seamstress, still works for a bridal shop in London. Our real investigation took place after he'd gone." "He deceived us with elaborate fabrications and counterfeit records on a scale you wouldn't believe. He ended up dumping them on the black market for a pittance. He speaks eight languages, can invade any computer network, and possess other people's bodies long enough to loot their wall safes-he is obsessed with wall safes, by the way, hi an almost erotic fashion!-and yet he plays silly tricks on people and ends up with handcuffs on his wrists! The objects he took from our vaults were nearly impossible for him to sell. "Lestat, there is something positively stupid about this creature. I mean how did he become this wizard of sorts?" "David, you investigated him before he became a member of the order, did you not? What sort of man is he. He rises from the lowest employment to living in extravagant luxury, running up ludicrous accounts for fine clothing, motorcars, jet excursions here and there, and then it all collapses in the face of his petty crimes, treachery, and betrayal. "Ah, the photograph on the ship," I said. ![]()
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