EIGHT
THE CONFESSION OF BURTON CLEVELAND CAVENDISH
“You must understand,” Forbes reminded me, “that what I’m telling you is the story as related to me by Jack Reid. I checked the facts surrounding the Jack the Ripper case of course, just to be sure they were accurate, and I can assure you they are. The next section of my story is the part we have to take on trust for the most part, as it relates to Reid’s recollection of the journal he says was bequeathed to him by his uncle, Robert Cavendish, and which he himself received in a similar fashion on the death of his father. The journal would appear to have become something of a Cavendish family rolling legacy of evil according to Reid, who, as Robert Cavendish’s nephew, became the first non-bearer of the Cavendish name to receive it.”
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