Editing TheStarsAreRight:BaileySessionApril2008 (section)

=== Feb 15 ===

On the morning of the 15th, John Elwar was gone -- left in the night to go back to his home in San Francisco.  For a time, Carl and the others discussed his leaving and the question of making a deal with the Dark Pharoah.  Redland Jack is quite concerned over this, and is not yet discouraged from trying.  Rebecca and Henrik were much less sanguine about this, but did not immediately speak up.  

Boris had arranged with connections of his to have the patient Laura released, and the operations are underway.  

We visited the library to look up Lord Orinvale in books of the peerage.  We found that he was in Athens, now quite elderly.  We also researched the Answell estate, on whose grounds the asylum was.  We found it was a very old family, whose estate was in the hands of the family until 1912.  It passed to the government in 1921, with the family parents dead and their only heir or heirs killed in the war.  The asylum was founded in 1921.  The only remaining relative of the family was an elderly aunt living in Northern Scotland, Edna May Answell.  

We then sent telegrams to Lord Orinvale and Edna May Answell, asking for information on the whereabouts of the former groundskeeper and friend of the Answell's Donal.  We explained -- truthfully -- that his god-daughter was about to lose her means in 2 days.  That evening, we received replies to the telegrams.  

  From Athens, Greece  Lord Orenvale
  DONAL TRUSTED CARETAKER OF ESTATE UNTIL 1920 STOP 
  GODDAUGHTER LIVED LOCALLY LAST I KNEW STOP 
  DONAL LAST KNOWN TO LIVE NOT FAR FROM PENZANCE STOP
  MOST LOCALS KNOW HIM STOP 
  HOPE THIS IS HELPFUL END

Asking the innkeeper, we learned that Donal was indeed a known local, whose house is 2-3 miles north of town.  We went there at night in a rented car, and found the house empty, abandoned for around one year.  There were no signs of violence or abrupt departure except a big stain on the stone wall of the bedroom.  There was no sign of a struggle, but Boris suggested it was from a person presumably being killed.  Boris found the psychic residue of a non-human that regularly came to the house -- the last time being a few weeks earlier.  He said it felt like Theo's two servants -- outsiders that often appear as large black dogs.