Eight Impersonations

p. 61 Chapter Three: In which Stencil, a quick change artist, does eight impersonations

Herbert Stencil is inspired into dreaming by the memory of the last message he received in 1919 from Sidney Stencil which reads: "I feel old, and yet like a sacrificial virgin. Write and cheer me up. FATHER."

Each "impersonation" observes part of the plot for Under the Rose

• P. Aieul, a cafe waiter and amateur libertine [gelder] who observes Goodfellow discussing the assissination plot.
• Yusef, a factorum [person who performs many different tasks], serves drinks at the party at the Austrainian Consulate and listens to Victoia Wren.
• Maxwell Rowley Boyce (alias Ralph Burgess) watches Goodfellow, Victoria and Mildred Wren, Porpentine, Bongo-Shaftsbury have dinner and talk at the Fink Restaurant. Lepsius arrives.
• Waldetar the train conductor stamps tickets for Bongo-Shaftsbury and Porpentine.
• Gebrail/Gebel drives a cab for an Englishman with a gangenous face.
• Girgis, the montebank [thief], sees Porpentine fall off the side of a building.
• Hanne, a barmaid, hears Porpentine talk about the murderous plot and then Victoria saying she loves Goodfellow.
• The spot where the body falls.