An Innocent Masquerade. Paula Marshall

was interesting, thought Geordie clinically, how often Fred spoke of his lost past when he wasn’t attending to what he was saying. It was almost as though he blocked it off when he was fully conscious and awake. An odd thought that.

      So the brother who could fight had been a sailor, had he? On the Macao run? Geordie found this as difficult to believe as that he had been a boxer. He had his own ideas of what Fred might have been in his lost life, but it might be some time, if ever, if he discovered whether they were right or wrong. In the meantime, they had to get home before the police arrived.