![]() Father disowned him, was reinstated by Cunard before he died. Great scandal and disgrace not so many years ago, when James was also hired, thanks to the influence of his father, and promptly robbed one of the passengers of four hundred pounds in cash. "Father worked almost all his life for Cunard shipping, spending his last years as a cabin steward in first class on the Queen Elizabeth 2. His next stop was Berlin, where he was arrested but talked himself out of custody, and then back to London, where he went to jail again." In Milan, he bilked a member of the old aristocracy out of thousands before he was discovered, and had to leave the city in the middle of the night. Then Vienna, where he worked as a waiter in a first-class hotel until he became a psychic counselor to the rich within a matter of weeks. After a series of odd jobs, including very menial work, he started some sort of a spiritualist church, swindled a widow out of her life savings, and was deported. "Same thing happened later in Oslo, more or less. I mean how did he become this wizard of sorts?" "David, you investigated him before he became a member of the order, did you not? What sort of man is he. "And when you expelled him, he had wanted to sail on that very vessel back to America first class, of course." "But, Lestat, it's an endlessly destructive game." Look, if you meant to possess a mortal body for a while, I'd be dead against it, for that is diabolical and unnatural enough! But to give your body to this madman! Ye gods, will you please come here to London? Let me talk you out of this. You can't give your body over to him! And that is just what you mean to do. ![]() "Lestat, you must understand how destructive and vicious this individual can be. "Ah, the photograph on the ship," I said. It's the process that counts with him, more than anything else." That's why he cannot hang on to what he steals. ![]() This is a creature of compulsion and obsession. He ended up dumping them on the black market for a pittance. He speaks eight languages, can invade any computer network, and possess other people's bodies long enough to loot their wall safes-he is obsessed with wall safes, by the way, hi an almost erotic fashion!-and yet he plays silly tricks on people and ends up with handcuffs on his wrists! The objects he took from our vaults were nearly impossible for him to sell. "Lestat, there is something positively stupid about this creature.
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