Gerald Anstruther Vail, one of the Loamshire Vails, a nephew of Plug Basham, was at Harrow with Orlo Vosper. A writer of thrillers, in love with Penny Donaldson in Pigs Have Wings, where he lives in flat #33, Prince of Wales Mansions, Battersea Park Road, London S.W. Hired as Lord Emsworth's secretary in Pigs Have Wings. Sound on pigs; needs £2000 to set up a health-care establishment.

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