Chapters 25-27 Summary

Dirk and Richard go to Reg's apartment at Cambridge. Dirk and Reg have a sympathetic connection, and Reg has avoided him because it's difficult to keep a secret from someone who shares such a connection. Dirk insists that Reg has the biggest secret on Earth and tells Reg that he's guessed what the secret is. Dirk prompts Richard to ask about the conjuring trick, and Reg confusedly explains the slight of hand.

Richard presses Reg as to how the salt cellar got into the two-hundred-year-old pot, and Reg explains that he got the man who made the pot to put it in. Richard is confused. Reg says he thought Dirk knew the secret. Dirk says that he does, but that Richard does not. Dirk notes that Reg needed the note Richard found to remind himself of the last thing he said...