Guy Renton (48 page)

It was in the light of that final ‘nothing' that Renée would, he felt very sure, have wanted him to advise her son.

In making the central character of this book a Rugby footballer who was ‘capped' for England in the early twenties, I have falsified the facts of football history. The captain of the Harlequins in 1924–5 was my very good friend Howard Marshall who knows that no reference is intended to himself; nor is any reference intended to any of the forwards who played for Oxford at Queen's Club in 1919, or for England at Twickenham between 1921-3. Guy Renton is completely fictional.

There did, however, exist in the 1930s an organization called ‘The English Mistery'.

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