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THE CAVENDISH LEGACY
“I’ve no idea what happened to the journal between the time that Burton Cavendish read it and it’s re-surfacing years later when eventually passed on to his grandson, Doctor Robert Cavendish, his great grandson and Jack Reid’s uncle,” Forbes continued.
“From what I can deduce, the effects of the journal don’t seem to strike at every generation. Like I said, perhaps there is a gene within the recipient that makes them susceptible to the Ripper’s words. Who knows? I do know that Robert Cavendish was the last person before Jack Reid to have close contact with the journal, and although he appeared to be immune to the murderous aspects we’ve come to associate with Jack Reid, it’s certain that reading the journal had a profound and disturbing effect on him. He was in
