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and the festive season should -- should smooth the way clear for you two to join

me. It --"here he crept back toward the abandoned pew and brought his own finger

perilously close to the monograph -- it does say that the author spent a night

inKingsfield before proceeding to Greater Ambrose."



"It doesn't say how much he drank that night," Olivia jibed. "If we err and

under-imbibe I'm afraid we won't be able to see Greater Ambrose at all. But
never mind, I'm game. I did say I'd like to meet your mum,Tilly . And if this is

a joke on your part, Vicar, at least you've the decency to get caught up in it

yourself."



"I do not consider the investigation of such practices asStilby -Nash hints at

to be any sort of joking matter." Father Herrick produced a primed and loaded

Meerschaum and sucked doggedly on the stem. "I have done some preliminary

research and learned that his lordship was a well-respected amateur ethnologist

in his day. A bachelor by choice after the death of his intended bride, he sunk

himself alternately in the study of English folklore and the doing of good works

for his parish. Therefore his unexpected and completevanishment from all public

ken shortly after the first of May, 1848, was remarked and lamented in the local

press and church records."



"What-- what happened to him?"Telemachus bit his thumb and made small,

inarticulate sounds of agitation thatcrescendoed in a bleat of dismay when

Father Herrick replied: