Chapter Nineteen ~ The Fugue
Knowledge is only to be gleaned… from what exists or is recorded on or in the earth of the work or remains of man…
(The Old Straight Track, Alfred Watkins)
When we got home Mum said Dad had turned up at her work. He knew exactly who he was and where to go. And she said that we weren’t to worry, and that Dad wouldn’t say or do anything weird and that we certainly weren’t to be frightened of him. Although he didn’t remember everything he’d done while he was away nothing bad had happened to him, and it had been a wonderful adventure and that when it was the right moment he would tell us all about it.
“Did you go ‘splorin’, Dad?”
“I did, Ben, that’s exactly what I did!”
And that was all we really heard of Dad’s adventures through tea time. He was much more in
