MD3PAD 427-429

[Toby G Levy]

        Voam thanks Mason for the offer to join his crew, but Voam is
concerned that he may not be welcome due to his esoteric ideas.  Mason
disagrees.  Voam ponders on having his electric eel travel westward and
calls it "Rural Electrification."  He then invites Mason to come meet
his electric eel.

vw#98: Coprophagous - Feeding on excrement.

        As they walk out of the room, they are joined by Dixon who
emerges from a false wall panel carrying the tub.  They leave the castle
and head toward the gardens where Felipe the eel is being kept.

        Suddenly Mason is confronted by a female slave, the one Dixon
thought he recognized a few pages back.  She is clearly Austra from the
Vroom household in South Africa.  She gives a brief history of how she
came to Lepton Castle. She disappears behind a wall. Mason, Dixon and
Voam attempt unsuccessfully to find her. Instead they find a dutch rifle
with the inverted five pointed star on the handle, hanging above a
fireplace.

        LeSpark breaks into the story to say that he was in the room
sleeping when he awoke to hear Mason and Dixon debating the origin of
the rifle. LeSpark examines the rifle and tells them that it was made in
America and the star may have been added to the handle after it was
made.

        LeSpark asks them how far they were thinking of taking the
bathtub.

Toby