PART FIVE:- The Last Mantequero

Cornelius Wentworth Clissold had been doomed from the moment of his christening to be pale, thin and uninteresting. Only a very strong personality can survive a name like that. And Cornelius was not strong. He had been a sickly child, bullied mercilessly by his peers, and as he grew he became more and more unattractive. Fate dealt him the final lethal blow when at fourteen years old he developed virulent acne which ravaged his face, leaving him ...