"Stop! Please do not be afraid." She said something back in her native tongue which he didn't understand. She still had not run away so he took a chan...e and made motions with his left hand as if he was eating and then patted his stomach.She said something more to him and when he looked at her with a puzzled look, she mimicked his motion of eating and he nodded his head; repeating, "Yes ... hunger ... yes." He patted his stomach with his left hand. She gave him a slight smile, nodded her head. I looked at her frowning face and offered an encouraging corner-of-the-mouth smile. ‘I thought that might be obvious,’ I said and pressed my fingers into her cool flesh. She shook her head. ‘Not tonight, Richard, if you don’t mind. I’ve got such a lot on tomorrow.’ ‘Not tonight?’ I said, my ire suddenly rising at yet another rejection. ‘You always say that: ‘not tonight.’ What night then? Tell me, so I can put it in my diary with a bloody great gold star to mark the momentous occasion.’ Clearly. One night as I was getting ready for bed, I went past him room and heard something that sounded like moaning. I thought he was sick or something, so I was going to knock on his door, and see if he was ok. But when I got to his door, I heard him louder, and it sounded like he saying someones name. I opened the door quietly and I saw him on his bed naked jerking off. I was taken aback, and then I heard him better and he was moaning my name as he was stroking his cock. I wasn't sure if he knew. .. substance abuse drying-out clinics, to put it bluntly. All were very thoroughly searched -- on more than one occasion, as I understand it – but no evidence of Minerva was found at any of them either.To my mind, the trail had gone cold, unless the authorities could come up with William Burgess.However eventually it appears that John's people had focused on a doctor ... a psychiatrist who had at one time worked in a French clinic that Burgess held a financial interest in. I have no idea of how.