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Police Captain Who Lived Double Life

In his novel Too Late the Phalarope, the South African writer Alan Paton described a man with a dark sexual secret, whose false self led to public disgrace and imprisonment. Here's how Paton described the man's double life:

He was always two men. The one was the soldier of the war, with all the English ribbons that his father hated; the Lieutenant in the police, second only to the captain; the great rugby player, hero of thousands of boys and men. The other was the dark and silent man, hiding from all men secret knowledge of himself, with that hardness and coldness that made men afraid of him, afraid even to speak to him.

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