Sowerbutt's Secret

The Brigadier said: "I must ask you to keep all the events of the last few hours strictly to yourself. As a serving member of His Majesty’s Armed Forces, you are subject to all the provisions of the Official Secrets Act of 1911."

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Sowerbutt's Rules

Tipper snapped at the guard: “You can pace up and down, you can smoke, you can take a piss, but you will not leave your post.”

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Sowerbutt's Shave

 Sowerbutt slowly opened his razor-sharp clasp-knife and began shaving stubble from the shaking teacher’s face. 

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Sowerbutt's Trademark

Sowerbutt ran the needle-sharp point of the blade across the teacher’s exposed throat, leaving a thin red line in its wake. 

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Sowerbutt's Bath

The pink whale sank below the waves again. Seconds ticked by, then Churchill erupted again from the soapy water, spluttering and sending water splashing over the sides of the tub onto the thick towels.

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Sowerbutt's Hand

A khaki figure appeared out of the dark, puffing and swearing to himself. “Can’t see my bleeding hand in front of my face in this blackout,” Lance-Corporal Alf Duggett of the Hyde Home Guard muttered.

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Sowerbutt's Race

Shapiro watched goggle-eyed as Tipper lit a twist of cloth and tossed it towards a pool of paraffin not far from the sacks of fertiliser. Tipper later told Sowerbutt he was not sure who made the yard door first, he had never expected the fat little man to move so fast.

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Sowerbutt's History

 “The history of the British people must uplifting and glorious,” Churchill said. “All these murky messages, these dark secrets must be buried forever. Entomb them in your file, Brendan, and pray that they remain untouched by any future hand.”

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Sowerbutt's Blaze

The fire that Tipper lit under the gas pipe in the empty building had done the trick. A column of blue and yellow flames shot into the air.

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Sowerbutt's Air Raid

Luton, famous for its millinery and motor vehicles, suffered its first and its worst air raid on Friday, August 30, 1940. 

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Sowerbutt's Anger

Churchill growled: "Archie Wavell was given a direct order to attack the Eyeties at Sidi Barrani. Sitting targets and hopeless troops, deserting by the lorry-load. How does he reply? He’s busy training his army and building up his equipment. December is his earliest date for an offensive."

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Sowerbutt's Talks

Brendan Bracken said: “The messenger also brought a message from El Caudillo that he is prepared to fly to London to mediate an end to the war.”

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Sowerbutt's Discovery

The 55-year-old stopped, almost dropping his Boer War-issue Lee Enfield rifle. “Gawd’s sake, it’s a bleeding parachutist. Must be a Jerry invader.” 

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Sowerbutt's Rank

Churchill sat at the large table, strewn with maps. “Do they think they outrank me? The generals believe they are a law unto themselves and not subject to the will of His Majesty’s duly-elected Government."

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Sowerbutt's Resort

The Coronel smiled. “Benidorm will become the holiday capital of Europe. Your English factories are working again, as are the French and even the Germans with all their damned American money. The workers want their sun, their San Miguel and, above all, their sex.”

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Sowerbutt's Race

Shapiro watched goggle-eyed as Tipper lit a twist of cloth and tossed it towards a pool of paraffin not far from the sacks of fertiliser. He later told Sowerbutt he was not sure who made the yard door first, he had never expected the fat little man to move so fast.

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Sowerbutt's History

“The history of the British people must be uplifting and glorious,” Churchill said. “All these murky messages, these dark secrets must be buried forever. Entomb them in your file, Brendan, and pray that they remain untouched by any future hand.”

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Sowerbutt's Body

By the time the body hit the roadway with a sickening crunch, the letters and other papers secured in a calfskin pouch hanging around the dead man’s neck had burnt to ash.

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Sowerbutt's Blade

Sowerbutt ran the needle-sharp point of the blade across the teacher’s exposed throat, leaving a thin red line in its wake. 

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Sowerbutt's Truce

“You’ve broken the truce, Sorbay, you bastard. We’ll be after you ten-fold, we’ll sweep you Blackshirt bastards from the streets of Poplar like horse dung."

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Sowerbutt's Flames

The fire that Tipper lit under the gas pipe in the empty building had done the trick. A column of blue and yellow flames shot into the air.

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Sowerbutt's Whale

The pink whale sank below the waves again. Seconds ticked by, then Churchill erupted again from the soapy water, spluttering and sending water splashing over the sides of the tub onto the thick towels.

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Sowerbutt's Shave

 Sowerbutt slowly opened his razor-sharp clasp-knife and began shaving stubble from the shaking teacher’s face. 

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Sowerbutt's Warning

Tipper snapped at the guard: “You can pace up and down, you can smoke, you can take a piss, but you will not leave your post.”

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Sowerbutt's Newspaper

Sowerbutt buried himself in the Mirror, reading several letters calling for reprisal air raids against Berlin. “Teach the Jerries a lesson they won’t forget,” said one. “I want 100 dead Jerries to make up for my darling Peter,” said another.

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Sowerbutt's Blade

Sowerbutt ran the needle-sharp point of the blade across the teacher’s exposed throat, leaving a thin red line in its wake. 

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Sowerbutt's Bath

In the midst of the steaming bathwater, a bright pink whale was happily splashing around; a couple of wooden boats that Churchill had treasured since his childhood floating between the mountains of soapsuds.

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Sowerbutt's Execution

Churchill said: "Franco is a tough negotiator. We offered to pay him hard currency for a couple of his Republican prisoners, experts in murder and mayhem. He had them hung instead, just to spite us.”

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Sowerbutt's Coffin

A curious assortment of eyes watched the coffin being lowered into the grave at the cemetery, a stone’s throw from Mile End Road in London’s East End, still flattened after the recent war.

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Sowerbutt's Paperwork

The burial form, a typed foolscap sheet with the printed heading of Poplar Coroner’s Court giving details of the inquest and a cutting from the London Evening Standard reporting a fatal road accident on the East India Dock Road, together with a number of loose foolscap sheets and other material, were contained in a water-stained beige HMSO-issue file.

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Sowerbutt's Run

Shapiro watched goggle-eyed as Tipper lit a twist of cloth and tossed it towards a pool of paraffin not far from the sacks of fertiliser. He later told Sowerbutt he was not sure who made the yard door first, he had never expected the fat little man to move so fast.

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Sowerbutt's Banknotes

Inside the warehouse office, Tipper spotted the small bald man with a waxed moustache, known locally as Hercule Poirot, sweeping bundles of banknotes from an open safe into a Gladstone bag. 
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Sowerbutt's Body

By the time the body hit the roadway with a sickening crunch, the letters and other papers secured in a calfskin pouch hanging around the dead man’s neck had burnt to ash.
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