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CHAPTER V: One of the other ways.
Truths, Half-truths and damned lies.
A RгSUMг AND CHRONOLOGY
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PART FIVE: Manse and Monastery: Aeries!
CHAPTER I: Bonnie Jean: Birthday Party. Harry: Getting in Shape, and Funding his Search.
CHAPTER II: Daham Drakesh-
Le Manse Madonie - Dead Silence
CHAPTER III: Humph, and others.
In the Vaults Beneath.
CHAPTER IV: The Pit-Thing -
The Climb - The Example
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PART SIX: Harry Keogh, Catalyst
CHAPTER I: The Calm Before the Storm CHAPTER II: 'It Begins ...'
EPILOGUE
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hristened 'Snaith' in Edinburgh in 1957, the infant Harry was the son of a psychic sensitive mother,
Mary Keogh (herself the daughter of a gifted expatriate Russian lady), and Gerald Snaith, a banker.
Harry's father died of a stroke a year later, and in the winter of 1960 his mother remarried, this time
to a Russian dissident, Viktor Shukshin. In the winter of '63 Shukshin murdered Harry's mother by
drowning her under the ice of a frozen river; he escaped punishment by alleging that while skating

she'd crashed through the thin crust and been washed away. Shukshin inherited her isolated
Bonnyrig house and the not inconsiderable monies left to her by her first husband.
Within six months the young Harry 'Keogh' had gone to live with an uncle and his wife at Harden
on the north-east coast of England, an arrangement that was more than satisfactory to Viktor
Shukshin, who could never stand the child.
Harry commenced schooling with the roughneck kids of the colliery; but a dreamy and
introspective sort of boy, he was a loner, developed few friendships - not with his fellow pupils,
anyway - and thus fell easy prey to bullying. Later, as he grew towards his teens, Harry's
daydreaming spirit, psychic insights and instincts led him into further conflict with his teachers.
His problem was that he had inherited his maternal forebears' mediumistic talents, which were
developing in him to an extraordinary degree. He had no requirement for 'real' or physical
companions as such, because the many friends he already had were more than sufficient and willing
to supply his every need. As to who his friends were - they were the myriad dead in their graves!
Up against the school bully, Harry defeated him with the telepathi-cally communicated skills of an
Kt-ex-Army physical training instructor, an expert in unarmed combat. Punished with maths
homework, he received extra tuition from an ex-Headmaster of the school. But here
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he required only a little help, for in fact he was something of a mathematician himself. Except
Harry leaned more towards the metaphysical; his intuitive grasp of numbers was lateral to the point
of sidereal; his numeracy was as alien to mundane science as his telepathic intercourse with the
dead was to speech.
In 1969 Harry gained entry into a technical college, and until the end of his formal (and orthodox)