Daniel had recommended asking Diana to oversee the restoration, but only after they had done their best to decipher and copy, by hand, the parts that were legible. Grace had been very reluctant to disassemble the journal to get at the indecipherable pages, but Diana had to have the originals. No matter what Diana found, they could always explain it to her as the folksy ramblings of a demented ancestor. But Grace was still on edge about it and would be until the pages they had entrusted to Diana found their way home. Two of the warnings that had been legible on one of those pages could be discounted as good guesses by an intelligent woman with a scientific bent who could easily see the direction the world was heading in the early twentieth century. But there was one line that had disturb

