The conversation results in Charles’s decision to join a flying squad in London.Mulcaster remarks that he doesn’t think a lot of Anthony, and the two of them spend the night talking about the war. Because Mulcaster has prank called an alarm, two fire engines pull up just as he and Charles leave the nightclub.Since he’s come back to London, Sebastian’s mother has been badgering him to try and get in touch with her son. Anthony reveals that Sebastian and his friend went to French Morocco – he thinks they were in trouble with the police in Tangiers.Mulcaster, not entertained by the conversation, leaves to ring the fire alarm, so as to liven things up.Anthony wasn’t a fan, so he left them and came back to England alone. Mulcaster rejoins them and Anthony continues: he went to Tangiers with Sebastian and met his new friend, the German, who shot his foot to get out of the army.But Sebastian writes a bad check to the supplier of these activities and/or substances, which is bad news, in the mobster’s-coming-after-you sort of way.' (It’s unclear whether the man Anthony sends Sebastian to is a male prostitute or a drug dealer.) 'If you want to be intoxicated,' he says, 'there are so many much more delicious things. Anthony tried to help him with his alcoholism problem, it would seem, by getting him into other activities/substances instead.He drank all day long and even stole and pawned two of Anthony’s suits for cash for more booze. Anthony explains that Sebastian came to live with him in France after parting ways with Charles. Anthony takes Charles aside and they discuss Sebastian (like we said, nothing has changed).Anthony is taunting Boy, who’s considering going to the Old Hundredth later – in short, nothing has changed. That night he dines out with his new gang and bumps into Anthony Blanche and Boy Mulcaster.

His father is 'delighted' to have him back 'so soon,' though he’s been away fifteen months. Charles comes back to London in May of 1926.

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