after the collapse - or strictly speaking , non-materialisation - of garnets initial building venture and his subsequent self-imposed exile from new york , garnet had only seen the young lawyer on one occasion , when he had paid for drisdale to fly to zurich to read and ratify his tenancy agreement on the seefeldstrasse property , but he had maintained a regular communication by telephone , keeping the advocate updated on any changes in his personal and business affairs , something that drisdale was more than happy to continue , since his retainer fees were burgeoning so rapidly that he already had a fixed eye on a larger apartment , somewhere in the mid sixties .