MD3PAD 10-12

[Toby G Levy]

Pages 10-12:

        Tenebrae challenges Wicks, and he readily admits it was not the
Tower of London, but some lesser jail.  Upon being sprung, he was told
he would either have to go to a mental institution or be sent abroad.
Opting for travel, he was booked for passage on a "small British
Frigate" named the Seahorse. This ship was to give him experience in war
at sea with the French.

        Page 12 begins chapter 2, which mainly consists of two letters,
one from Dixon to Mason and the other from Dixon to Mason. All of
Dixon's letter appears on page 12. Dixon wants to assure that as Mason's
"second" he is fully up to doing the job of observing the Transit of
Venus on the island of Sumatra and avid to do it. After they are well
acquainted Dixon tells Mason that he re-wrote the letter twenty times
while stone sober and wishing to finish it so he could go to his
neighborhood pub to drink.

Toby