Heknelt onto the famous Highbury turf and kissed it and a minute later Highbury was in ecstasy as news filtered through of West Ham's winner at Upton Park.
Heknelt by the stream and, pushing his automatic pistol around on his belt to the small of his back so that it would not be wet, he lowered himself with a hand on each of two boulders and drank from the stream.
Heknelt down and crawled from the switch rails to the frog of the crossover, sliding his hand along the running surface and the head of the rail and feeling for possible corrugations or dents, or burrs shaved off by the wheels of the locomotives.