MD3PAD 355-357

[Toby G Levy]

        At first the two women who entered the coach in which Wicks was
riding maintained silence and avoided eye contact. Eventually Mr.
Edgewise asked them where they were going and was told they were going
to Philadelphia to engage the services of a lawyer.  Everyone in the
coach was shocked by this.  Mr. Edgewise said that perhaps they should
get help from the clergy instead.  They saw Wicks' collar and asked if
he was in the English Church.  Wicks stammered an inconclusive answer.

vw#81: interprebendary - not in the dictionary, but prebendary is
described as someone who receives a stipend from a cathedral or
collegiate church in England. Perhaps Wicks used this word because he
was receiving stipends from more than one church.

        Mr. Edgewise has a device from Italy which keeps a large
quantity of coffee hot. The mother drinks some of the coffee and soon
begins to open up and tell her story.  She is Frau Luise Redzinger. Her
daughter is named Mitzi.  She has a sister named Lisele who lives in
Bethlehem.  Luise is unhappy that her sister, who married a baker, is in
a church too close to Roman Catholic.  Mr. Edgewise advises her to
forgive her sister, but Luise is envious of her because her husband is
still alive.  But Luise's husband Peter "died" while bringing hops to a
cooling pit.  The pit was 20 feet deep and he "drowned" in them.

Toby