Who is Arthur? Dutton mentions Arthur and the Colonel in an opening scene of Dance of the Dead, when the doctor No.40 is attempting to gain information from No.6 and using No.42-Roland Walter Dutton in the process, who is speaking to No.6 on the telephone about it being a bore. There having been a suspected security leak. Apparently its not Dutton asking, its the Committee, who want a breakdown on everything they know, No.6, me {Dutton} Arthur, the Colonel. All the files he's seen, the projects he knows about, just headings, not details.
So I suppose Arthur is an assistant to the Colonel, in the same way as both Fortheringay during The Chimes of Big Ben, Thorpe in Many Happy Returns, and Potter of The Girl Who Was Death, who was possibly the most ineffective of the three, seeing as he was present at the untimely murder of the Colonel, but somehow unable to prevent it!
Of course Arthur could always have been 'Dear Arthur,' Mrs Butterworth's 'late' husband. Be seeing you.
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