Sublime

THEO METCALFE SOON proved himself one of the most enthusiastic bounty hunters and hangmen. His desire for revenge seems to have continually grown ever since he reached the British camp at the end of his wanderings; and by October he even went so far as to erect a gallows in Metcalfe House.

He also enlisted Dr. Daniel Muñoz, an acclaimed forensic anthropologist who, in 1985, had helped to identify the remains of Josef Mengele, the Nazi fugitive, and who could help confirm the origins of any object they might find from Fawcett’s party: a belt buckle, a bone fragment, a bullet.

Au 2, Marienstrasse, l’étudiant travaillait d’ailleurs avec un acharnement digne en tous points de sa « philomathie » (son amour excessif de tout savoir), entrecoupant des heures studieuses en s’accordant quelques pauses dans les auberges au bord du fleuve ;