Lya went to mass in the morning, while Nell, Alisa, and Rupert took a box lunch to Dan'l in the hospital. He told them that Dr. Keoghtom said he had made a miraculous recovery and would be released tomorrow. Dan'l confirmed that a police investigator had spoken to him and suggested that the assault had been a robbery attempt.
That afternoon, everyone attended the memorial service for Jackson Elias. Lya gave her card to Jackson's cousin Dahlia and asked her to call her if she found anything relating to the Carlyle expedition.
Rupert, Alisa, Lya, and Nell went to the funeral for Officers Clancy and O'Hara at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The funeral was closed-casket. They accompanied the procession to Shadyside Cemetery where the interment took place. Afterwards, they went by the hospital and picked up Dan'l.
Alisa made a contribution to the fund for the survivors of the two slain policemen.
Back at the Waldorf , they found that Alisa's effects had been sent over by the hospital. Neither she nor Dan'l had lost any money in the "robbery".
Lya sent a telegram to her friend Scott Theobald in Atlanta, inviting him to join the expedition and wiring him $40.
Professor Fairwether visited the Dean and informed him that he would be traveling to Europe to pursue his research into climatological pattern changes due to the Great War. The effect of prolonged artillery barrages has already had a significant influence on storm formation over Lille and Sedan, he stated. The Dean had no objection to Fairwether going on extended leave of absence.
Alisa called Erica Carlyle's office and set up an appointment for 9
AM the following day. She also called her travel agent and booked
passage on the Mauretania for
Saturday: first-class passage for Fairwether, Rupert, and herself,
and second-class passage for Lya, Nell, Niles, and Dan'l.
Rupert suggested that the group stay at his usual London hotel - Brown's
Hotel , on Dover Street in Piccadilly. Alisa agreed and requested
Thomas Cook to reserve five rooms. She then spent the rest of the
day practicing her marksmanship at the gun club.
Rupert went to the Office of Building Inspections and found the plans of the Ju-Ju House. The structure was built in 1882 on the site of an old Dutch farmhouse (Harlem had been farmland until after the Civil War). He then went out and purchased a pair of boots.
That evening the Opera Gala story appeared in New York Lies and Half-Truths. The best of Nell's photos appeared, but Lya's story had been rewritten to the point that she wondered if she had attended the same event.
Alisa went to Wall Street for her appointment with Erica Carlyle. She kept the conversation focused on business but managed to work in the fact that she was travelling to Europe and Africa. Erica took her to lunch at the Manhattan Club, where investment strategies were discussed.
Rupert drove by the ruins of the Ju-Ju House and saw that the city had posted "Danger - Keep Out" signs but no police guard.
Lya received a telephone call from Dahlia Elias, who said she had found something marked "Carlyle expedition" among Jackson's effects. Lya invited her to dinner that evening at the Waldorf.
Scott Theobald picked up the $40 and booked passage on a steamship to London. He then sent a telegram to Lya informing her that he will be joining them in London, by way of Liverpool.
That evening, Dahlia gave the group a small framed photograph labeled "Carlyle Expedition" with the date March 31, 1919 written on the back. The photo consisted of two men in their 50s (Penhew and Huston?), two younger men (Brady and Carlyle?), a young woman (Hypatia Masters?), and an image of a black woman. Nell was able to identify Roger Carlyle and Hypatia Masters from their newspaper photo in the society section. She was also able to determine that the black woman was not another portrait but had been physically present when the photo was taken.
Scott Theobald quit his drafting job at Martin Aircraft and prepared for the trip to London. Most of his possessions were left with his parents for safekeeping, with the exception of a few books dealing with the occult, which he carefully packed. Recognizing the potential danger, he decided to bring his Army revolver (from his short-lived days as a member of the Officer Training Corps at the Georgia School of Technology) and his pilot's gear. After withdrawing his meager savings from the bank, he purchased a second-class railroad ticket from Atlanta to Philadelphia. He considered writing a letter to Mickey Mahoney at the Scoop informing him of his arrival but then realized that it would likely arrive at the same time as he would. He left instructions with his parents, the Post Office, and Western Union to forward any communications sent him to the Scoop in London.
The clothing and luggage requested by Lya and Alisa finally arrived from Boston. Lya decided to purchase another pair of shoes.
Alisa contacted her secretary in Boston and arranged for a pair of antique, carved Malay daggers to be sent to one of her very good clients in London, with a note stating that they are a gift for his collection of Asian weapons. The secretary then phoned the client and asked him to hold the daggers for Alisa's arrival. She also intructed the secretary to ship a steamer trunk to Brown's Hotel in London via Boston with additional clothing and her appointment book.
Alisa also arranged to pick up a number of municipal bearer bonds and lines of credit from the firm's New York office, to be delivered to clients in Europe on behalf of her employer. Cities where these clients (several of which are newly-independent national governments) reside are: London, Glasgow, Manchester, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Geneva, Zürich, Basel, , Milan, Rome, Florence, Budapest, Stockholm, Helsinki, Kovno, Warsaw, Riga, and Tallinn.
Alisa then went shopping at Bloomingdales, purchasing a few traveling outfits, walking shoes, new evening and formal gowns, to be worn aboard ship and also when entertaining her clients overseas. She then went shopping in a variety of Fifth Avenue emporiums, purchasing small but tasteful items to be given as gifts to clients (or used as bribes).
Alisa then went back to the gun shop and purchased a replacement derringer and .32 Smith&Wesson semi-automatic, and ammunition. She spent the rest of the day improving her marksmanship at the pistol range.
Rupert went to the newspaper files and was able to identify Penhew, Huston, Masters, and Carlyle, with Jack Brady as the probable identify of the other man. The identity of the black woman remained a mystery.
Lya and Dan'l went to the Medical Affairs Board office on Park Avenue and 61st. Dan'l told the clerk that he was performing a building inspection and needed to check that the weight of the filing cabinets did not exceed the prescribed load. The clerk took him to the records room and showed him the (locked) filing cabinets. Dan'l persuaded him that he needed to determine the weight of an empty cabinet, which happened to be the one marked "H". The clerk obligingly emptied the contents of the cabinetand then accompanied Dan'l to another room, giving Lya the opportunity to frantically skim through the Huston files and make notes.
When she had a chance to study the file pertaining to Roger Carlyle, Lya was baffled by the strange symbolism and dream-images. She was certain that she now knew the name of the black woman - M'Weru or Anastasia.
That evening, Nell and Lya returned to Shadyside Cemetery. They
located the caretaker and tried to convince him that they wanted to do
a story for Enigma. The caretaker turned out to be a Swiss
immigrant who spoke limited English, but Nell was able to converse in German
with him sufficiently to perform the interview. Niles and Rupert
used this distraction to exhume the coffin of Officer Clancy. A cursory
examination of the body seemed to indicate that the policeman had not died
from fire or gunshot wounds.
