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This letter arrived, with knowing you Cranston, you received the package, an hour ago, immediately open the box and have been doing lunges and Perry's in the nearest available sitting room. Only now that you've nearly broken a sweat, are you reading the correspondence from your beloved and beleaguered sister? You are quite ungrateful, you know. No, I also included father's old hood, just in case you decided to employ the full vigilance committee kit. It will gratify you to know that
you were right. The company is in much more capable hands with me at the helm than you. In fact, this little foray of yours might be the best thing that's ever happened to the company. I thank you. The shareholders. Thank you and mrs. Cote, thanks, you. Since you've been gone, not one secretary has shown up for work with a hangover and our dear had of the steno pool. Pool hasn't found a new gray hair in a week.
Now that the formalities are out of the way, do tell me more about this bodyguarding business, you're into. It sounds positively thrilling. I had Lucy run out and get me a copy of your rosamund's book. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but some of the girls in the steno pool have and according to Lucy, just reading some of the advice, their input more sweat, under her collar than her last three dates combined, which is Saying something coming from Lucy
pretty girl like her. You'd think men would put in some real effort. Then again, a girl can only be swept off her feet so many times before she starts thinking she can fly at any rate. I look forward to reading it. Now, Cranston your Rosamund sign wouldn't happen to be any relation of the Boston signs. Would she if she is, there might be more to this attempted kidnapping business than the perpetually bruised ego of the patriarchy.
There's a fellow running for Senate seat in Massachusetts by the name of Henry Sy. I met him some years ago and father and I were summering in Nantucket quite the chameleon that one. As I recall, he initially struck me, as the kind of man who regards the consumption of soda water, as a moral failing yet. Once we got him on the right subject, I half expected him to produce a snuffbox. He was quite the racing Hound. Once the proper rabbit was
loosed father. Disapproved of him as he's a socialist, but he also had some unkind things to say about Trotsky. So Who knows? Anyway, I've kept in touch with his daughter all girls together and that and he's been moving up in the world. A kidnapping might be a bit much for a Senatorial race. Even if socialists are involved, but I know Henry has a brother Benjamin and Benjamin is supposedly a member of the 0ff.
Perhaps, the whole family is there are rumors that the O FF and the red silk Society have been mutually plotting against each other. Mind, you militarizing a church group is in the modus operandi of the red silk. But I wouldn't put it past them to find some anti-social Protestants and set them up for a fall. Could be they are trying to kill two birds with one stone. You really should write to the Chamberlain.
It would look bad. If it were left to me to explain your absence at the next club meeting. And someone in the library might know more about the signs gather intelligence while you may Now, as for company, business things are going swimmingly and not only because none of the secretaries have needed, a bloody Mary and an aspirin. All I met with the gentleman from the st.
Moon corporation last week, they were typically reticent about dealing with a woman but I had your black book and took them to some of the places it recommends. That's settled their nerves. The bread. We started with dinner at Chez Germain and then cocktails at the rose bush. I brought Martin from the board along to make sure, no one got fresh at least, not with me.
I will admit to experiencing some nervous tension upon approaching the mermaid Club. I had this terrible fear of being directed to the side door, but I had my best suit on and walked up. Like, I was a wreck Hello man on the door Peter I think didn't show a hint of surprise at the arrival of a Woman by the customer entrance, I did make sure I was at the head of the pack less than mistake me for someone's chippy. Peter just smiled took my name and sent me up to your usual box.
The girls, there are absolute Delights. It goes without saying that, they're much Freer than my usual gang. But far from The Dizzy Dame's, I was expecting, they were proper weights. One of the saint Moon, boys, hog Bridge, the accountant got royally stitched by one of them. The sales director Clemen got a few razors, but the old boy wasn't bright enough to catch on, so they left him alone. I better tell you this before someone else does, because I'll not have you hearing it from
Martin? Not long after we arrived at the club, I could tell our guests were Keen to order some dances. The girls were advertising shamelessly but the furtive glances in my direction. Told me that the saint Moon. Boys weren't quite sure how good their manners needed to be in front of me. Not even Martin seemed clear on that point, not that I blame them. Of course, I was delighted to watch them squirm but such is not the prerogative of a hostess.
So I did the only decent thing under the circumstances and requested a dance for myself. They needed to see that I'm in business and paying for one of their dances wouldn't quite of signed the dotted line. I told the young woman who gave the name Pearl that I would need some guidance. I did so discreetly not wanting to show my hand Pearl clever. Girl, she is made a small production of reciting the code of conduct for the benefit of the whole box.
Gentlemen, she began this being your first time at the mermaid Club. I'll go through the rules just so we can all have a nice evening. Firstly, the preferred way we got to tip the Entertainer's is buying them, a drink in the menu there there's a whole list of drinks for ladies. One of them. Secondly Everyone likes a bit of encouragement. But we mermaids got delicate ears. So watch your language. Lastly gentlemen, You Gotta Keep Your Hands to yourselves. Of course.
Now she turned to me, you aren't exactly a gentleman Arya so I guess that last one don't apply to you. I want to embarrass you with the details but in my amateur opinion, mine was the best dance of the night. Cranston. No fear. I've not gone Sapphic or anything. In fact, the platonic nature of the dance was part of the font the way you can Jive someone endlessly. So long as they know you don't mean it all for that.
I walked out and much finer Spirits than the gentleman, the hounds having caught the scent of a fox but found no success in the chase. Now I must show the depth of naivety because I thought the girls names all A Little Too Thin Man. Medically and long. Do they use pseudonyms? Or is the mermaid Club simply Adept at locating entertainers? With aquatic moniker has at any rate, the saint Moon boys were hearty fellows. The next morning. We made excellent progress
towards finalizing a contract. There are a few Clauses they need to clear with their board of directors, but I think we can make concessions if needs be for the greater good. If things continue, as they all, will have operatives inside st. Moon by the end of the year, good luck and stay safe maybe in Walker. PS contact the Chamberlain. I mean it This episode of neon Jezebel will continue in just a moment. But first we want to hear from
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I think an ambitious Minx Ash is just the thing. In fact, you should talk to my Man chalk, he knows a girl who does the finest, embroidery on all King, Charles Island, and it would be a kindness to him. As a, two of them, have an understanding and any pretense to visit her would warm the chaps heart. It was a good job. Selecting the mermaid Club of all the burlesque's in the city, they are the most acquainted with female patrons. It's not at all uncommon for couples.
An evening of it to pop in before heading back to their hotels. It helps that the girls are discouraged from working after hours. It makes the atmosphere more as you say. Playtonic in future do stick, clear of the princesses Court. They really might send you to the employee entrance. I did receive the Canaan Hood Gramercy for that. I'm not quite of a mind to join a vigilance committee yet. So the hood is staying in the box. It is nice to have though totemic in some way.
Like Roman soldiers carrying Effigies of their house. God's knowing it's what father wore on his evening. Patrols inspires one to a certain minimum of Courage. Of course, you know, it was mother that got him into it, she and Uncle Arthur joined the vigilance committee as soon as they were old enough. Father, didn't Don the hood until after Uncle Arthur was killed.
I'll admit there is something in me that would like to see that Legacy. Revived father, took it over from Uncle, Arthur. I could take it over from father. It's a comforting notion at least in the abstract. However, I don't think I shall consider resurrecting mr. Smoke, until I've found myself a Miss mirror. All sounds well with Saint Moon. They were the first thing to give me. Pause about this little venture of mine, but I had a now Vindicated faith in your ability to handle them.
If we do go into phase three, With them, I will certainly need to make a return to public life. Not of course, as a reflection on your abilities merely because phase 3 will be an all-hands matter. Of course we might all get lucky and phase three will prove unnecessary. As for my present Venture the good miss syme and we her protectors have retired to a family estate near Lake Placid you're right but the family connection. The clan Hales generally from Massachusetts Doctor says I'm
rosamund's father purchased. This estate New York during a time when the state was Keen to develop its rural outskirts and good land was on the cheap, the estate. Now serves as his primary research lab, he funds the whole operation by running a kind of sanitarium for those suffering from extradimensional affective disorder and it is quite the complex. I've only glimpsed parts of it as dr. Simon thinks the site of bodyguards will trouble the patients.
Upon further reflection, it occurred to me that I may be known to some of the patients as well. It's just the sort of place, one of our set might come to convalesce. It would be more than a little awkward if I were to be identified from what I've seen. There are a number of Bungalows for those patients, merely in need of Peace, Quiet. And maybe an injection or two. There's a larger building further from the road with a
more. Seriously Afflicted us into all of that though, is well, away from where I've been staying, like most sanitariums, There's a fair bit of secrecy surrounding the place for the preservation of the delicate balance of the guests. Looky-loos are kept at Bay by every reasonable means with any such place. One cannot entirely trust the testimony of former guests as they are as likely as not to Omit any number of details.
However, there is a somewhat scandalous set of rumors surrounding this place in particular, in my last letter, I mentioned that much of rosamund's lecturing revolves around the importance of oxytocin. And Methods to increase one's General well-being by getting as much of it into your system as possible.
I don't know how far you've gotten by now and to rosamund's book, but one of his chief advisories is to pursue a thoroughly, satisfying, intimate life at this juncture Vivian, I feel I should assure you that what I'm about to say is both supported by dr. Simon's research.
And critical to understanding the reputation his retreat has among certain individuals in rosamund's lectures, she talks at length about the It's of the intimate Crescendo to well-balanced, oxytocin levels childbirth made live, extremely high levels of the stuff, but it's not exactly efficient. She has noted that for men, oxytocin is best achieved with a regular paramour. Merely stepping out with a floozy or a woman of the night does not produce notable levels
of oxytocin release to this. I can offer some anecdotal support during the war. Well, you know what? Soldiers, alike and France in particular. Particular is encouraging of that kind of behavior. There are a few chaps. I knew that had to be dragged from brothels to make morning parade on a regular basis yet they fared no better. When face-to-face with the pocket than the rest of us. It may shock you to learn that there was semi-permanent Paramore's among the men.
Trench warfare was a terrible thing days, sometimes weeks would pass where the only scenery was dirt walls in the Clear Blue Sky. The Hanan had machine guns watching our lines day and night. So even popping your head up for a glimpse could earn you a ticket to the Pearly Gates. When one hears of shell-shocked, one, always imagines, the unmitigated tear of an active Battlefield, and that was the worst of it.
However, those trenches afforded only the barest, reprieve from The Strain and a week of that unstable quiet. Do as much damage to a man's mind, as an hour of heavy combat under such conditions, there were more than a few of the Doughboys who resorted to finding relief in what became known as the Spartan method, you know your history, same as I do. So, I'm sure you can imagine at any rate, the more Spartan Among Us did manage their encounters with dimensional Pockets, with a
touch more grace than the rest. I think it worth noting here that these spot and activities were confined to the trenches once, That terrible pressure was lifted, the men went right back to their true. Red-blooded ways we may have had one confirmed bachelor in our midst, but for the rest, it was merely part of the war and they have continued such activities with the same frequency with which they continue bayonet, charges returning to rosamund's lectures.
Women seem to have the advantage when it comes to the intimate release of oxytocin where men require a regular paramour and get very little benefit from singing to their own. Implement women need merely to reach their Crescendo without regard to who is playing the piano with this in mind. Rosemond has some very Frank advice for women on how to secure those high notes for themselves.
I will admit that I was of the predisposition that playing one's own piano, was the jurisdiction of professionals, but Roseman recommends, it for her entire sex. A secondary benefit, she claims is that the more intimately acquainted with their own piano? They are the better. They can direct a company assists, which makes those high notes. All the more attainable, this
instruction is the main thing. That is scandalized Miss symes, two tractors, given that she makes such assertions under the pretense of a father's research. There are many who have come to believe that the same Retreat is little more than a host in ground for bacchanalia many have accused dr. Simon of creating such an out-of-the-way place.
So that the very rich and very debauched can engage in Pursuits of Crescendo at an orchestral level, my time at the retreat has provided, no substantiating evidence for any such claims. So if those rumors do reach or ears know that I'm being perfectly, chaste in my time here Lucian and I stay close to rosamund's Cottage. She has her own patients, as it. Turns out in the week, we've been here three, women of some Note have made lengthy visits to be counseled in person.
One of whom might certainly recognized me. Rosamund has also requested that Lucian and I stay out of sight and out of mind, as much as possible. While she sees her clients still, I've had to take measures I do hope you're sitting down. When you read this Vivian because my Alter Ego, the rough-and-ready Jackson
Edgewater now has a mustache. I know, I know it's terribly, Douglas Fairbanks of me but it goes farther than a pair of glasses would and it has proven necessary of the three clients that Rosamund has hosted in our time. Here I have encountered two of them through accidents entirely Beyond My Control. One of them as I said and whom I will I'll not name. Here is known to us.
She did not recognize me owing in part to the many years since we last saw each other and to the strangeness of the location, it's much harder to recognize someone when you encounter them in a place. You would not expect them to be. I know she did not recognize me because we were alone. I was patrolling the corners of the property and she came calling. After me in the hopes that I had a cigarette. We talked for a while and she made no sign of recognition whatsoever.
I have been using an affected accent with Rosamond for the duration of my employ and now with the Advent of my soup catcher, nothing is being left to circumstance. My identity is firmly hidden at this juncture. You may worry that your letters have arrived bearing. My name. Well, worry, not because chalk has been posting the letters in new envelopes addressed to Jackson Edgewater. He's got a real gift for
Espionage, my butler. Now, I mentioned that I had seen two of the three ladies to visit Miss. I'm the third one is a point in his whole matter where you may be of assistance, I know very little about the woman apart from her name. One missdella cane. When she arrived at the house, she came in a car with darkened windows, that was directed to the garage rather than the front drive. I observed this from the window of the adjacent staff Lodge, where Lucian and I are bunked.
After the car entered, the garage door closed, Then reopened not five minutes later and the car departed for the 30 or so hours, that Miss Cain was scheduled to be in the house Rosamond informed both Lucian and I that we would take our meals in the lodge When Miss Kane left. The same protocol was observed with the car, all of that was enough to stoke my curiosity, but Lucien has stoked. My concern. When Rosamund informed us that we would be forbidden from the house.
Lucien asked that. I excused them I did but I didn't go far. The walls do little to keep secrets. The two of them had a proper Rao of the visit. The first thing I gleaned was that Miss Cain is seeing Rosamund, as a result of some exposure to a pocket. She evidently has the most acute case of extradimensional affective disorder that Rosamund has ever encountered. I can only assume it is not severe enough to warn dr. Simon's attention.
But Rosamund made it sound just shy of life or death. It is possible that Miss canes cases tangential in some way. Perhaps she has loved one, who is Being treated by dr. Syme, but it really did sound like Miss Cain. Was the real patient rosamund's argument was that no one needed her Services more than Miss Kane.
It was critical that their sessions be undertaken with complete, secrecy for reasons that Rosamond herself refused to Lucien it was this very point that Lucien railed against he regards anything, that is so deserving of secrecy as a liability, at least for the time being There was much made of his needing to keep her safe and rosamund's insistence that Miss
Cain was harmless at one point. Lucien referred to miss Kane as one of your uncle's people, which could me in a great many things, there are went on for some time and frankly it sounded much more like a lover's quarrel, then a disagreement between employer and employee which makes me wonder if Lucian might not have some other motives here, he's not generally, the type for dissembling but Changes Us in
the most unpredictable ways. No surprise Lucian was tight lipped about Miss Cain when I asked about her later on. So I wonder if you could do a little digging, I don't know which of the uncle's Miss Kane is associated with, nor do I have any hint as to what that Association might be, if Benjamin syme is a member of the 0ff that could be it. However, that would mean Lucian is aware, not only of the 0ff in general, but in Uncle Benjamin's membership in particular.
How he would have come upon any of that information. Escapes Me entirely. If you could do a bit of digging, it would be appreciated. That's all for now, do remember to speak with chalk about that. Sash, it would do him good to have a reason to visit his embroiderer, and I rather expect you'd be setting, the new Vogue yours, harridan henpecked, Cranston Walker. P.s. I will write to the Chamberlain. Yeah, I'm Giselle. He's made by Zachary Westbrook. Vivian. Cranston is voiced by.
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