Chapters 5, 6, and 7 Summary

Chapter Five begins in Braunau, Upper Austria, August 1888. Alois and Klara Hitler have sexual intercourse and as Alois ejaculates Klara has a terrible vision of blood flowing out of a chapel. It is the moment of Adolf Hitler's conception. Later, Gull wakes and readies for the day. Later, Netley tells Gull that he has identified four friends of Crook. Gull tells Netley to find the women and mark them in some way by making a gift of clothing or some other token to them; then Netley is to return and fetch Gull in the early evening. Gull then calls upon Sir Charles Warren, a fellow Mason and the chief of Scotland Yard, and informs him that some murders will take place in Whitechapel. Warren is shocked but Gull is clearly ascendant in the relationship.

That evening Liz, Annie, and Polly sit...