Re: Stoatley

1. The local constabulary are concentrating all their enegries(sic) in keeping their knuckles from scraping the ground.

I fear you exaggerate their plight in an attempt to bolster your own superiority; besides, the national police may be called in, notably Scotland Yard. Best to be over- than under-prepared.

2. It is a far more probable and believable thing that the struggling intellect of Jim performed his actions by a misunderstanding than by our direction.

At last, a useful contribution. Very well: what could the original suggestion have been? Clearly, Persicue asked for SOME iron filings; may I humbly volunteer my original suggestion of the science experiment as a possibility? (The good Doctor's suggestion of needing vinegar to reconstruct a snipe skeleton can also be used.) Persicue, being a man of means, gave Jim a sizeable amount of money to cover all eventual costs, and told him to buy iron filings and vinegar; Jim, not realising that Persicue was expecting change, spends it ALL on iron filings and vinegar. The end result is Too Many Iron Filings etc. which Persicue then asks Jim to get rid of. The result is a ring around the church, for whichever reason only Jim knows.

3. The hunting accident does work as an excellent cover as I have suggested all along

Imitation is the best form of flattery.

It is truly a tragedy that the once good people of that village had become too infected for rehabilitation to be possible.

Agreed; they had to be killed for the sake of the village, the country, and ultimately all of humanity. Unfortunately, all our evidence burned up in the church.

Charles

Charles E Flitworth BA (Leeds), MA (Oxon)
Schoolteacher of Hambridge. No house calls. Demon-hunting a speciality.

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