The drive happened because of Remy.
Specifically, because Remy needed a book that existed in one copy in a private collection forty minutes north of Harrowfield — a collection owned by a man named Aldous Greave who was ninety-one years old, largely reclusive, and who had, according to Remy, met Odessa on two occasions in the 1970s and kept meticulous records of both meetings.
The records, Remy said, might contain information about the further looking she'd mentioned after visiting the Caldwell house.
Remy himself could not go. He and Greave had a history — a single encounter, fifteen years ago, that had ended in a disagreement of sufficient magnitude that Greave had, according to Remy's characteristically understated account, "expressed a preference for not repeating the experience."
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