It took about a week for Carpenters private railcar to be returned and parked on the siding and he was most pleased. As comfortable as he was in the old monastery he preferred the safety of his car and Brother Sebastian had no problems continuing their discussions there. The oldest journals proved a real challenge for the Monk as he was unable to immediately recognize the language. He was forced to go through the weighty...
The man who had been Aunt Lilly was now Cousin Jasper Sloan. Shortly after he arrived at the hotel he combined two of the trunks he brought with him into one. Before switching disguises he contacted the desk clerk who arranged to have that one trunk taken to the train station where it would be shipped to the train station near his home to await being picked up. It was tall dapper looking gent that arrived on the Thursday...
Holly departed the following night leaving Carpenter to sit and ponder his next course of action. He had dealt with the hunters many times over the years and he had no qualms about killing if it meant survival, but this was the first really intelligent one he had ever encountered. Keeping a federal marshal as a partner was a brilliant move on his part so there could be no crude attack on him and everything had to be caref...
