David McMillan

Anyway, that would do it.

And it did arrive in Michael's fine hand in this huge parcel with...

every imaginable exotic delicacy sent from... He must have trucked it over to the Melbourne Post Office to do it.

About $150 in postage or something.

And back then that meant something.

And he'd gone to the trouble of

It followed the recipe for this thing perfectly.

The scroll had dowel top and bottom, of which he had to use a radial arm saw to cut deep, but not too deep, into it to place the saw blades in aluminium foil, which blocks the x-rays.

Not that that really would have made a hell of a difference.

You could barely see the teeth.

Oh, and put gold-painted and lacquered knobs on the end of this thing.

But here it is.

This is a very important thing.

I might cast out a couple of cartons of cigarettes to keep the guard on side as he's poking through my stuff.

But I needed a guarantee that this parcel wouldn't be looked at too closely.

What could I do?

Any ideas there?

listeners you've got a parcel coming in you have somebody listless but nonetheless thorough in their own ways because they've got their own loathsome trustees to do the poking and shoving and sniffing you want to make sure all stops suddenly and no interest is taken in your castle what do you put in there you've got to put something in there that's going to stop them in their tracks yeah

Time's up.

Okay.