I wonder why the Prisoner left that receipt for the photographic transparencies with his fiancee Janet? Couldn't he trust anyone else? And why was he shielding Professor Seltzman? Could the Prisoner see the medical application to the Seltzman machine, and didn't want anyone perverting the Professors discovery, as indeed the Village Administration had already done!
And of course there's Janet Portland to consider. What might have happened after the Colonel/Prisoner had given Janet that personal message? It had been a year since the disappearance of her fiance, and now here he was having returned, his mind wrongly housed in someone else's body! That would take some explaining on the part of the Prisoner. And I'm sure Janet would have many questions about his sudden disappearance, where he had been for a year. Did the Prisoner tell Janet all about the Village? And what did he tell her would happen next, seeing as who he looks like now? For example did he tell her that he would have to find Professor Seltzman to see if he had perfected the reversal process. And even if he had, what good would that be without the Prisoner's body which was in a medical room back in the hospital in the Village. There could be no doubt in the mind of the Prisoner, that to get his body back, he would have to once again return unhappily to the Village in order to achieve that. But then, if it had not been for the intervention of the chauffeur, and the Prisoner's subsequent abduction back to the Village. How might the Prisoner have found his way back on his own? Ah, perhaps I have the answer to that one. He would have the co-ordiantes of the location of the Village having located the Village by naviation at the end of 'Many Happy Returns!'
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