WEDNESDAY 30th continued.

They have let Junior out of prison so I broke off to greet him

To contnue: at the Police station we reported the theft as a child was screaming and  voices were shouting and doors clanging. We noticed a woman sitting on a mat at the end of the corridor with a months old baby sleeping beside another to aged maybe  3 and 4. Her   1 year old was the one sceaming with hunger. Her husband had abandoned her and she wanted to return to her mother up in Pader , in the North. Sallie wanted tobring them back to the hotel but Robert persuaded her to send them food instead. We returned to the hotel to await the Police Dog. When he camewith his anler and 2 or 3 other policemen we went to my room and the dog was taken inside after licking me. He boundd off round the back to the staff quarters and stopped outside Junior's room The polce went in and arrested Junior. None of us could believe that Junior was the thief.We knew that his scent was in my room because, as housekeeper he had a key and had brought my laundry back  and put it in the wardrobe that evening. After Junior was arrested, one of the cooks came and told us that about 8pm he had raced out of the kitchen to pick up some samosas as he had run out of them and seen a man atanding smoking near my banda. And when he had returned that man was still there Then, Albina the receptionist came forward and  said that a brown man had booked and paid for the room next to mine but had barely stayed 3 hours around that time, dropping his key back at Reception. Francis the waiter said that he had seen the brown man talking to the other stranger in one of the open bandas.
We went back to the Police station with this new eveidence but they didn't ant us to tell them what to do.
Meanwhile, young Junior spent the night in Masindi Prison. Briefly Junior is a young sensitive graduate who has been sponsored by Astrid and is earning a bit by helping out at the hotel whilst Kaawa the regular Housekeeper is on sickleave.
This morning, we went back to the Police Station both to make  my statement and to get Junior out.
We saw the top men but were told to return in the afternoon.Sallie and Robert went  back - I had "withdrawn my charge" and "forgiven" Junior in the morning.
The poor boy is quite distraught but we have all told him that it was all a mistake.
Meanwhile I have had to apologise to Princess Elizabeth Bagaya with whom I was to have spent this evening but I will go to Kampala at 8am tomorrow in Wamani's taxi and spend the day with her before checking in at Entebbe at 10am.