It leaves myself with the very unpleasant thoughts about their “Good Faith” Services I received from them. Could you contact a new Company, Mr G M Tisdall and ask him if they have something to tell us.” 43. If Mr Trower was perturbed to receive this letter, he did not betray it in his brief reply dated 27 October: “I was naturally interested by your letter of 21 October and particularly the enclosure … I wonder if you have had time to consider the suggestion I made in my letter of 22 June and the specimen memorandum of association of a non-profit making company which I sent you.” 44. A few weeks later, on 17 November 1988, Bane read and cut out an article by Bernard Levin in “The Times” which evidently made a deep impression on him. The article was headed “Obsession called to account”, and described how an obstinate and immensely wealthy litigant, whom Levin dubbed “Ajax”, would not give in when let down by his advisers in an action for professional negligence, but wished to start a fresh action against them, and thus embark upon what Levin foresaw would be an endless series of ever more expensive cases against ever more incompetent professionals. To illustrate his thesis Levin used the metaphor of a man swallowed by a boa constrictor whose response to his plight was to ask for a larger boa to come and swallow the one in which he was being engorged. Levin’s advice to his “stiff-necked Ajax” was to give in, and not to throw good money after bad. Bane, however, regarded this as a piece of “scurrilous dysjournalism”, and saw himself in some way as an Ajax figure standing up to the “tandem conspiracy” of Boa (C) and Boa (Z). His manuscript annotations to the article include the sub-heading “Ajax-Reply” and beneath that “Truth and Justice called to account”. The Ajax in question is “Not Sophocles’ tragic hero – but “the cruiser” who sank Graf von Spee … with union jack flag in his hand, chanting: rather war than pact rather death than slavery”. The Boas “(C)” and “(Z)” can be elucidated by reference to a draft letter to Mr Trower (in the bundle at volume 8.3/265) as standing for Communism and Zionism respectively. 45. Bane eventually wrote to Mr Trower on 19 December 1988, but the letter had been through several earlier unsent drafts, all of which display his delusions, and what I can only describe as his general mental derangement, in an extreme form. The letter as sent, on 19 December, is too long to quote in full, but the following extracts will give its flavour: “Dear Mr Trower, Thank you for your letter of 27 October 1988. I am still meditating your suggestion to form The Association. I enclose [various photocopies, including the Bernard Levin article]. I know very well this noble and generous person called AJAX and I spent with Him many nights in my offices recently. He dictated me over 50 pages (real TRILOGY) ….