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Clarissa finds herself in a bizarre situation ... is she
being held as sort of a prisoner by a bunch of retired
soldiers, with an old woman as accomplice who was awarded
an O.B.E. and holds, undoubtedly, the status of a V.I.P.?
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... "We buried
him in a coat which didn't belong to him
... his own coat is hanging in the
passage out there ... since that night
when he was killed ..."
"... killed?" Clarissa gasps.
"But ... there were no clues for an
act of violence ..."
"Police didn't notice the label
inside the coat's collar either, four
letters: LCAA ... standing for Lance
Corporal Anthony Austin,
that's me ... you know, all our clothing
is marked like that, but one of my coat's
went missing that night when he was taken
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"... was taken? ... where from? ...
and why?"
"That is what we want you to find
out for us", says the Scottish lady.
"You and your friends ..." |
Clarissa comes to know
the background of this strange
meeting when the lady introduces
herself with a picture, taken
from her purse ...
Having risen to star status,
actress Annette Crosbie now
devotes her spare time to
rescuing retired greyhounds.
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She may have made her
mark on television playing repressed spinsters and
downtrodden wives, but in real live she's a feisty
firebrand. Just five feet tall, what she lacks in inches,
she makes up for in spirit. And nothing enrages her more
than cruelty to animals, especially dogs. The big passion
in her life is raising public awareness of the plight of
retired greyhounds ... and, she mobilised allies — a
couple of retired Scots Guards who used to sneak from the
sometimes boring environment of the Royal Hospital
Chelsea to the betting-grounds of dog-racing ... One day,
they witnessed a hostile exchange of arguments between
Annette and some owners of racing dogs. They came to her
rescue — and had found a new 'war' to get involved
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"Did you know that around
10,000 greyhounds are retired from racing every
year?" Annette asks. "The lucky ones
are put down by vets — others are chucked
off a pier with a brick round their necks."
"Only a fraction are rehoused. I don't
object to greyhound racing — just the way it
is run and why the profits that come out of it
never go back to the welfare of animals. The dogs
are exploited and nobody gives a damn what
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Lance
Corporal Anthony Austin says:
"We have come across race fixing and dog
doping within Britain's second biggest spectator
sport. We infiltrated the greyhound racing world
by posing as owners and trainers..."
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Clarissa
is flabbergasted — is this what it is boiling down
to? No international implications? No spider-web of
mercenaries and multinationals? Instead, everything gone
to the dogs? ...
... and, what did Annette Crosbie mean when she said:
"That is what we want you to find out for us ... you
and your friends ..."? |
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