Nico being held aloft by Barrie's chauffeur, Alpho

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Nico being held aloft by Barrie's chauffeur, "the splendid Alphonse" at Dhivach.

Peter wrote in the Morgue, " Also present [at Dhivach Lodge], having driven Mary Barrie and perhaps Madge Murray up from London in the new Fiat, was the merry French chauffeur Alphonse, today host of the Pilot Boatinn at Bembridge [Isle of Wight], who still enquires after ‘Neekolah" and speaks English as badly on purpose now as he did genuinely then. He knows a good deal that has never been made public, does the excellent Alphonse, having remained on at Black Lake Cottage until the final break up of the Cannan ménage, but he has the shrewdness and discretion of his race. His wife, one of the Black Lake maids, would I think be equally uncommunicative, though I have neve put her to the test. A photograph of the Fiat hangs on the wall behind Alphonse as he wields the beer-handle in the public bar.