CHAPTER 26
A week had passed since young Evan Parkes and David Bradley had become the first victims of the Olney plague. To the beleaguered doctors and nurses who were fighting the battle to save the village from the ravages of the disease it felt more like a month. No matter how hard they’d tried, the search parties of RAF Regiment personnel, aided by the local knowledge of Police Constable Greaves and the ever willing volunteered assistance of Michael Sweeney had drawn a blank in discovering anything that might shed a clue as to the original source of the plague’s introduction to Olney. In the light of the ever-rising death toll, even the local poacher Billy Wragg had been persuaded by Sweeney to join in the hunt for anything unusual that might explain how the disease had infiltrated th
