Sunday 14 September 1930
Around two in the morning, Lin Tan sees a figure approaching the flat; he’s glowing with shine, perhaps as much as Kennedy-Cox’s body was, but not leaving any trail. He goes inside. Half an hour later, a lady is dropped off by a taxi three doors up; after it’s left, she walks along to the flat and lets herself in (the front door isn’t locked). She leaves at about five, escorted by Boswell to get a taxi on Piccadilly; Lin Tan follows by bicycle, and loses her on the way up Highgate Hill.
The team convenes at Audrey’s and visits Paton’s house in Portland Place; the curvature is down to 195°. Some poking around results in a small glowing lobster, six inches long and apparently made of fire like the fire-bugs; Gertrude finds a hurricane lantern, which it wraps itself around, and while it doesn’t like to be enclosed in a pot it’s happy to sit in an open container with a layer of coal on the bottom. This arrangement is put in a fireplace downstairs to keep it safe. The lobster seems to provide a bit more heat than combustion of coal alone would account for.
Playing jazz for an hour or so drops the curvature to 192°.