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"Jesus," Stuart hissed, "I hope youse'll be alright
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As I drive away it suddenly occurs to me that Bunty had a certain magnetism for men … Stuart obviously found her attractive in some way, he wouldn’t have bothered seducing a lump of lard
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The princes of the house of Stuart sometimes employed the like means in order to influence some of the members of the parliament of England, and they generally found them equally intractable
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On the order of John Stuart Mill
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very banqueting house at Whitehall, Charles Stuart learned all too late
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Most images of Lee, Jackson, and Stuart as noble Confederate heroes can be traced back to the Lost Cause
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For the rest of the day John stayed with Stuart in that back room
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Later on that night, Stuart and John had a game of chess, at which John beat Stuart without trouble
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That is when Stuart realized John expected him to get further involved
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Before he had a chance to resist, he began to tell Stuart in detail what he had only heard from him vaguely
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Stuart did not give him very close attention
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Stuart reckoned that the Chinese President and the ‘Establishment’ affairs were none of his business
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There would be a decoy, Stuart gathered, to get the Chinese President out of the care of his guards
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That day Stuart went out to dinner with a few friends from work and came back about half-past ten
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Unexpectedly and abruptly, Stuart stopped panicking and now felt scared
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Stuart realised that he was in the shit
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If he made a clean breast of it and told the police everything, he had been told they would lock Stuart up
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Everything was against Stuart
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Stuart would be charged with murder, and the circumstantial evidence was strong enough to send him away for 8 years at least
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Few people knew Stuart in Edinburgh
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Stuart had no real friends who could come forward and swear to his character
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Besides, if Stuart told the whole story, and by some miracle was believed by the police
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Stuart wished John had told him more, and he had listened a little bit more closely to the little he had been told
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Stuart knew nothing but the barest of facts
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That would mean two groups would be searching for Stuart
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Most people that go on the run are picked up within 48 hours so it did not look good for Stuart
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Nevertheless, as Stuart looked up he saw that some cupboard shelves had been pulled out from the desk
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Then Stuart began to consider where he should go next
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Stuart got up at six in the morning and looked out of the window
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However, at eight o’clock, as Stuart knew from bitter experience, the bin men turned up with a great clatter of bins
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Stuart had seen the same bin men each week
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One these men Stuart decided he would stake all his hopes on escaping undetected
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Stuart went into the living room where the rays of morning light were beginning to creep through gaps in his curtain
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As he put his cornflakes away, Stuart noticed something hard in the cereal box
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Then Stuart hung about in the hall waiting for the bin men
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That was the worst part of it all, for Stuart was desperate to get out of the building and Edinburgh
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Stuart asked one of them if he could borrow their bright yellow and Black jacket and hat with the company’s logo on it
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Stuart offered him a crisp £50 note
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Stuart stuck on his woolly hat and his yellow and black jacket with his small rucksack on his back
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Stuart passed a plot of vacant land and walked past one of those Georgian flats that Edinburgh is famous for when a postal worker came round the corner
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Stuart leaped over the ticket block and sprinted to the train, jumping on before the doors closed
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Five minutes later, as the train was roaring through the various railway tunnels of Waverley Station an irate inspector asked Stuart for his ticket
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Stuart sat there in his seat looking around him
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Stuart paid by switch and he was handed his ticket to Milngavie
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Before he spoke to her, he checked off the map of the tenement and spotted that the flat belonged to a Mr Stuart Page
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This was just as Stuart left his flat for Milngavie
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Stuart sat comfortably in his train seat as the train pulled past Haymarket station and began to travel West towards Glasgow and his destination of Milngavie
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For Stuart that was the ultimate questions
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But Stuart knew that eventually he would be tracked down
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In actual fact, Stuart was not too sure if he believed it either
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Stuart began to ask himself why he had insisted on living in the city when all around him was the most beautiful countryside in the world
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Stuart was certain that Simon never did anything without a reason, and he was pretty sure that there was a cipher in all this
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Stuart had always had a head for things like chess and brainteaser, and he always felt that if required he would be pretty good at deciphering ciphers
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Stuart was sure that Simon would not have been content with anything so easy
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Therefore, Stuart focused in on the printed words to break down the sequence of the letters
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Stuart actually free
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At that moment, Stuart realised that turning himself in would be useless and the vast and open space before him offered his best path to freedom and working out a way to solve this mystery
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Stuart walked along the empty track whistling away to ‘The barber of Seville’
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Every mile walked by Stuart made him feel better and more at ease with what had been going on
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A few minutes later Stuart was fast asleep
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Stuart thought he had still a good bit of a start, for it would take some hours to fix the blame on him and several hours more to identify the men who got on board the train at Waverley station
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Despite all that had gone on Stuart felt surprisingly happy
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A few hours later Stuart came to a small village
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Stuart watched them carefully as he approached
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Stuart hoped they were not going follow him
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Stuart walked past the cars that the men sat in and soon realised that one of them was a police car
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The dog thinking that Stuart was about to leave with its master's belongings, started to bark, and all but got Stuart by the trousers
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Stuart was now in a wide semicircle of moorland, with a brown peaty river running down towards a massive lake as radius, and the high hills forming the northern circumference
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Yet, oddly enough, for the first time Stuart felt the terror of the hunt on him
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Nevertheless, Stuart started to run
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Stuart was not happy
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Stuart pulled himself up on the wall of the bridge and began to detect an ally
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A few minutes later as Stuart entered his tent, he heard from far off the beat of an aircraft engine
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When the Raptor passed and left to the north Stuart came out and finished off his food and drink
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Stuart spent some time trying to break Simon’s code
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So when he thought of the odd million words he might have used Stuart felt pretty hopeless
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Simon had said it was the key to the whole operation, and it occurred to Stuart to try it on his cipher
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Stuart watched from his tent that was hidden from their view as they stopped a walker on their way south
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‘That was close’ muttered Stuart
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Stuart then packed his tent up and started to walk north
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Stuart saw the same car come across some farmland from the opposite direction
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It passed Stuart and then stopped two hundred yards off in a shelter below a patch of wood
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Stuart noticed that its occupants carefully reversed it before leaving it
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The ex-cop, Stuart Langdon, sitting across from my co-adventurer, wasn"t exactly what I thought he would be like
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Within minutes, his search came back with a Stuart Page, owner of the property since 2011
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She walked back to her computer and did a run on credit card payments by Stuart
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Knowing she would have use for 28 hours, she ordered it to circumnavigate the Milngavie area in search of Stuart
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With this news, Susan looked up at her new team, and smiled with a warmth she did not feel glad to know that her new team would be hunting Stuart down
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With her speech finished, the team mounted into three black Range Rovers and they set off for the area around Loch Lomond from where they would begin their hunt for Stuart and the missing Simon Dunbar
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Stuart continued to ride his red and black bike as fast as he could
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Above the trail stood a row of trees that acted like a Chrysalis providing a protective covering for Stuart and blocking the two men’s view of him
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Stuart knew that the game was up and he needed to either fight or flight
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Their look on their faces was one, which told Stuart that they were relentless in their pursuit of him
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These men looked like they would rather die than return empty without Stuart
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Stuart stood still looking at the approaching men
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Stuart started to run as fast as he could
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Both men jumped into their vehicle and began to drive towards Stuart
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At that sound, Stuart looked up
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The car then pulled up to the almost dead Stuart
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There both men got out of the car and flung Stuart into the back of their Range Rover
