 Heath headed to Worthing to see Yvonne, the girl he had proposed to, and spent a few days with her.Her parents were impressed with the supposed Lieutenant-Colonel, but he left when his name appeared in the newspapers in relation to Gardner's murder.He then went to Bournemouth and took a room at the Tollard Royal Hotel, under the alias "Group Captain Rupert Brook," an alias inspired by the war poet Rupert Brooke, who had been a frequent visitor to Bournemouth at the start of the century.