"My head began to ache as I shuffled through the french window into the garden. I flopped down among the knee deep grass on the lawn and rested my back against a towering acacia tree." (Chapter 2)
As the story goes, he fell asleep under that tree and woke up with Siegfried looking down at him in their first encounter. Looking back toward the house it's obvious that the acacia tree is no longer there, but it's easy to imagine that it might have been close to this statue, or even to the left where the brick building, which is a veterinary science museum, now stands.
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