There are books which you will have only read for the first time when you reread them.
You have been introduced to the impostors in the prologue which in reality is more like an epilogue to this palindromic storey. Don’t be fooled by their insouciance, their lightness. These are killers, after their prey whom they feel has stolen the gold Tiberius, a coin the only remaining of an issue struck to commemorate a great slaughter and thus imbued with a unique malignity. Though gold it is magnetised with great evil and thus apposite for the aims of the doctor who had set the hounds of hell after the young man with spectacles, whose hand, right hand is in a dripping parcel. “It comes from (the oozing) the right hand that took the gold Tiberius.” The Doctor will appreciate this grisly token for his museum.
Bear in mind that this coin draws its seekers and its finders into a reticulation. They must meet each unaware of the power that draws them together.
Dyson meets Wilkins:
The lies flow smoothly, glibly and with a malicious pleasure in their inner coherence. One might say that Dyson’’s epistemic fidelity was flawless. A liar sees only lies but might there be an occasional islet of truth in the sea of lies?
Who is Smith? Is he the Doctor muffled in fable? What was Smith’s mission in the Far West of the States? It seems to draw the hostility of the natives. “For every pound of gold upon the scales, a life.” This sounds like an occult Murder Inc. Who is availing of this service?
Remember that the prologue is more of an epilogue. The young man with the spectacles has been found and despatched with extreme prejudice quite as awful as was done in the States. That would refer to the story told by Mr. Wilkins. Note that Phillipps and Dyson are approaching the house where the torture has taken place as the Three Impostors have just left. They are likely to encounter them as they go on their way and thereby the spell of the gold Tiberius will be consummated.
Now read on:
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