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Malcolm meets Penelope Ashton at a dinner party

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He meets her at University Collague at a quarter past seven in the evening.

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they went to the theatre and had dinner afterward in a restaurant in Soho.

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Malcolm went to Marlow to meet Penelope's family one weekend.

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He went again to the Ashton's house to spend the weekend.

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Gillian went to Curch and Penelope, her father and Malcom sat to talk at the garden.

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Gillian screamed, and she was with acid on the face.

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Malcolm called 999

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Benson found out that someone parked his car and threw the acid into Gillian.

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The ambulance took Gillian and Penny to the hospital.

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Malcolm called the police

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The police arrived and Malcolm showed his special identity card to Detective Inspector Honnister.

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In Ashton's house, George offered Malcolm a better Job in Australia with Penny. He also asked and insisted to marry her that evening.

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Malcolm refuse it.

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On Monday, at Malcom's office, Malcolm searched in Nellie for George Ashton (The information was at level purple, and that section was very secret).

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Harrison and Ogilvie were reunited with Malcom.

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There was a short, fat person.

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They wanted to make Malcolm spy on George Ashton.

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Malcolm is assigned to investigate George and guard him and his daughter.

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In Ashton's house when George arrived. George told him that Gillian was blind.

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Penny and Malcolm went to the hospital, and there they found out that the suspect is a man, and that in the accident this man was bending over the car. He was like 40 years old, with pale skin.

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Malcolm says to Penny "It would be a good idea if we get married"

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They got married, but no until the "business with Gillian sorted out first".

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In Malcolm's office, Malcom gives Ogilvie a list of all the people Ashton was in contact with, with other things.

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Due to the fact that all the Ashtons' name was on the level purple, meaning top secret. Ogilvie gave him eight mans, he'll arrange for Ashton's telephones to be tapped, 2 guns.

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Ashton and Benson disapeared.

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When Malcolm was at Ashton's house, he found out that he wasn't there since the previous night. George also left 2 notes on his desk.

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Malcolm read the letter.

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Malcolm called Ogilvie

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Penny arrived to the house.

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Jack Brent was following her because Malcolm told him to be in charge of Penny.

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In George's study, Penny read the letter.

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Malcolm told her the truth about his real job.

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Malcolm also told her everything, in fact, more than he should have told her.

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Penny read also Malcolm's letter.

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Penny gave permission to search the house.

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By measuring the walls they discovered a small, secret strong room.

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Peter Michaelis reported that they found a model railway upstairs.

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Penny and Malcolm had their first big quarrel. This was because Penny didn't like the fact that her room was also searched.

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Malcolm met Ogilvie back in the office an hour later.

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Minister decided that Ashton was in Ogilvie's department. That means Malcolm's job.

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Since George was in Level Black, Ogilvie went through a door at the back of his office. Then he told Malcolm to follow him into a small room with a computer screen.

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Malcolm read about George Ashton's life for two and a half hours.

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He found out that George Ashton was actually called "Aleksandr Chelyuskin", he developed Russian weapons in the war of 1939-45. He diced to "kill himself". Then he arrived secretly in England and took the name of "George Ashton". He started a business with John Franklin, which was Benson.

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Back at Ogilvi's office, Ogilvie offered Malcolm a glass of whisky and sat down to talk about what Malcolm had seen.

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Malcom found out that Gregar's department helped Ashton escape from Russia after the war. Gregar wasn't Lord Gregar, his name was Pallton.

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At three o'clock Ogilvie rang Malcolm to say that they expected to unlock the strong room at Ashton's house later that afternoon.

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Malcolm arrived at the Ashton's house and met Lord Gregar in the hall.

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Gregar wanted to enter the secret room, but Ogilvie told Malcolm that only he could enter.

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Ogilvie spoke to Gregar with the telephone in the study.

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Gregar left the house a few minutes later, got into his car, and drove quickly away.

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Ogilvie rang Malcolm to tell him that Gregar must not be allowed into that strong room and he mustn't know what is inside.

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When Frank opened the door, he left, and Malcolm opened the door to the strong room.

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The room was empty

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Malcolm talked to Gillian, that was still in the hospital. There Gillian asked Malcolm if there is something wrong between him and Penny, but Malcolm denied it.

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Malcolm spoke to Michaelis, a member of Malcolm's team with the job of protecting Gillian.

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Malcolm left Michaelis and went back to London.

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Two weeks after Ashton had disappeared, Honnister rang Malcolm. Honnister told him that they got a suspect. It was a man in London, and he hired a car for the weekend when Miss Ashton was attacked. He was a suspect because acid had been split on the back seat. His name was Mayberry.

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Malcolm met Grammond, an inspector, that evening and they went to Finsbury in North London where Mayberry lived in a small flat.

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They knocked on the door, and a man in his forties, with pale, unhealthy skin, opened the door.

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Grammond started asking to see Mayberry's driving license. Later he asked "Do you ever hire a car?", and then Mayberry said "Not for some months", it was obviously a lie. On Saturday morning Mayberry went to Slough by train and hired a Ford Cortina car from Joliffe's garage.

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Grammond continued asking him things until he revealed "The biologists are breaking the laws of God. They are creating new forms of life, life that is not in the Bible, life that was not made by God". "She's godless. She's destroying the work of God and making monsters.", he was referring to Penny.

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When Malcolm told him that "You threw the acid in the face of Dr Ashton's sister." A kind of horror overcame Mayberry, and then he went unconscious, he was now lying on the floor, crying and making noises.

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They called an ambulance.

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Next morning, Malcolm told Ogilvie about Mayberry.

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Malcolm went along to the university to tell Penny. She was with Lumsden, her boss, but took Malcolm to her office.

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Malcolm told her that they found the man who threw the acid. He was a man called Peter Mayberry, he worked in an office in London, and he was a very religious man. Malcolm also told her that the acid wasn't intended for Gillian, it was intended for her.

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Malcolm called Professor Lumsden.

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Professor Lumsden came in.

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Malcolm asked him "Can you tell me something about your work here, Professor?, Lumsdem told him that he and Penny discovered ways of isolating some of the thousands of genes in the seeds of plants and animals."

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Malcolm drove Penny home.

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Malcolm and Penny relationship improved.

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Gillian's condition improved a little and the doctors managed to save about a quarter of her eyesight. She was able to leave the hospital and live at home.

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Gillian and Penny began to make plans to go to the United States where the doctors would try to repair the damage to her face.

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One evening, when Penny and I were having dinner, Penny told him that Gregar has been seeing Professor Lumsden and that the first time he came was just after Malcolm opened the strong room in our house.

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Ogilvie sent for Malcolm the next morning and showed him a photograph of a man wearing a heavy coat and a fur hat. This man was Fyodr Koslov. Then Ogilvie passed another photograph showing Benson. They were taken in Sweden.

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Malcolm went to Stockholm. He went to the British Embassy to ask for assistance, because there was only one man watching Benson and George, which was Henty.

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In the British Embassy, a man called Cutler shows up. At first, he refused to give Malcolm more men to watch Ashton. Then, Malcolm called Ogilvie.

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An hour later, Cutler suddenly appeared at Malcom's hotel and arranged for several men to help him. After that, they started to watch Ashton and Benson.

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One day, Henty discovered that they were not the only people who were watching Ashton. The next morning, Henty and Malcolm followed one of them, and they found out they were part of the Russian Embassy.

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Malcolm rang Ogilvie to tell him what they had discovered, and Ogilvie caught the next plane to Sweden.

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Malcolm made a plan with Ogilvie and Larry Godwin to make Ashton think that the Russians are watching him after thirty years so that he return back to England. Three days later they put it into operation.

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Two men from the British Embassy were looking in shop windows waiting for Ashton or Benson to come out. These two men were being watched by two men from Malcolm's department. When Ashton came out, everybody followed him, but Larry dropped a book and swore loudly in Russian, this made Ashton leave the shop immediately, and go to have lunch in a restaurant. Larry followed him into the restaurant and sat down at a table near ashton. Ashton went to his flat, and Larry also followed him.

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At ten to nine in the evening, Ashton and Benson left the flat, with bags. They were walking towards the taxis at the end of the streets. Benson took a taxi to the railway station by Ashton and went off in the opposite direction. Benson bought two tickets for Goteborg, but Ashton did not appear when the train went. Ashton got on the train at the first stop. They had jumped from the train when it stopped near a small country village. Malcolm went to Strangas an hour later and went into a hotel where Ashton and Benson were. Larry went to breakfast and made Ashton think that the Russians had succeded in following him.

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Ashton and Benson left the restaurant and a few minutes later they were outside the hotel. They left the road and started to walk out of town, towards the forest. Malcolm's team followed them into the trees until they had gone about three kilometers into the forest. Malcolm heard the sound of guns, they were the Swedish Army, and it was a training area.

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Malcolm said George to stop, he stopped and turned around, but Benson shot him. George pulled his hand from his pocket with a piece of paper and gave it to Malcolm. Ashton died. Benson also got shot by Henty, because he tried to shoot him too.

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A huge army vehicle appeared, and a Swedish officer climbed out.

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The piece of paper that George gave to Malcolm was a railway timetable for trains from Stockholm to Goteborg.

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The Swedish police took them to an army center where they kept them for the next three weeks. One morning, Malcolm was told to get dressed and was taken to Stockholm Airport. He arrived at Heathrow Airport in London and met Ogilive, who took him to his flat and told him to report to his office the next morning.

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Ogilvie told Malcolm that Pennt was away in Scotland, and put a piece of paper in his hand, which was a short article from a newspaper, where Ashton and Bensons' death was reported.

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In Ogilvie's office the next morning, Malcolm and Ogilvie talked about what happened.

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The next day, Malcolm attended a meeting with people from other departments, where Lord Gregar started interrogating him about Ashton's death because he thought that Malcolm's actions killed him.

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After the committee meeting, Ogilvie invited Malcolm to lunch. Ogilvie wanted Malcolm to continue to investigate the Ashton case.

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Malcolm went out to Marlow, to find out if Penny was back from Scotland. When he arrived, Peter Michaelis was just leaving the house, before that, he was playing with the model trains, which Miss Ashton gave him permission. When Penny arrived, they talked about George's death, and that she was going to America soon with Gillian, to try to repair the damage to her face, she also mentioned that the house is going to be sold.

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Malcolm asked Penny, what was she doing in Scotland?, and she explained that she was asked to advise on the building of a new laboratory, which was a P2 laboratory but needed to be P4, nevertheless it was very expensive so they only want to go to P3. They want to work with a bacteria called E. coli.

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Malcolm decided to investigate everything about Howard Benson, but somebody took Benson's records out of the computer. Malcolm discovered that Ashton and Benson left the British army on exactly the same day. He took Benson's army file to his home and read it very carefully. Malcolm noticed one strange point which was that Benson's departure was in March, but he left in January. This made Malcolm look at Benson's medical record in the army. When he called a friend of his who was a doctor, he found out that maybe Benson had heart disease. Later, Malcolm spoke to Benson's doctor in Marlow, and he said there was nothing wrong with Benson's heart. This means that the real Benson had suffered from a bad heart and died after 18 December 1946, and before 4th January 1947, a new healthy Benson took his place.

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It was time for Penny and Gillian to leave for America, but Penny hoped to be back after some weeks because she was then supposed to go back to visit the laboratory in Scotland.

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Malcolm went to Ashton's house, and Michaelis was there. The rooms were full of articles for sale. Lucas Hartman was there and wanted to buy the model railway. Michaelis told Malcolm that Ashton's timetables didn't fit, the pattern of Ashton's timetables doesn't seem to be like any normal system of railway timetabling.

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Malcolm spoke to the auctioneer, saying that couldn't sell the model railway upstairs, but it didn't work. Malcolm rang to his bank manager, to borrow £25,000 for a month. Then, Malcolm told Michaelis that he thought the model railway is a computer.

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They went back to the room where everything was being sold. The only two people crazy enough to spend so much money on a model railway were Hartman and Malcolm. The model railway was sold to Malcom for £31,000.