TWENTY
AN ETERNAL ENTITY?
“How could I have been so stupid? I see it all now.”
I’d never seen Kate quite so crestfallen. She was usually so sure of herself but something she’d read on that decrepit page had quite clearly shaken her belief in herself.
“Come on Kate. Don’t be so hard on yourself. We’re all shooting in the dark, so to speak, aren’t we? After all none of us have ever encountered anything quite like this phenomenon of William’s before.”
“Yes, I know dear boy, but you see, I’d become so convinced in my mind that Jack the Ripper couldn’t have been behind all of this, that it must somehow be connected to the Cavendish family, through something that Burton did, that I was prepared to dismiss the obvious.”
“Will you please tell us what you found in your reading of the journal
