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Drummond's looks. I submit that you must also have been in error as to the age

you heard youngWensley claim, as well as the reason for his rejection from the

armed services. Perhaps he told them that he was sixty-five and clung to the

tale so zealously that they assumed the lad was daft and sent him packing?"



"Yes, I suppose that's one answer,"Telemachus admitted.



"Ah!"



"It's wrong, of course. I saw his baptismal certificate." For the first time

Olivia could recall seeing such a prodigy,Telemachus ' eyes sparkled with spunk

and triumph.



It was now Father Herrick's turn to sputter. He lacked practice and made a poor

showing of it. "What trumpery-- ? How gullible can you-- ? Did you never think--

?Telemachus , does the word/forgery suggest nothing to you?"



"I can tell a genuine baptismal certificate from a false, if that's what you

mean, Vicar,"Telemachus countered. "My chosen life's-work may not pay much in

coin -- Heaven knows, I've quite a comfortable little income to support me --

but it has earned me more than sufficient experience in researching church

records.WensleyBloodwell was born foursquare in the reign of Queen Victoria."



For once in his life,Telemachus Battle-Purfittspoke with a degree of
confidence and force capable of taking the wind from the sails of a whole fleet