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What Strange Stars And Skies by Avram Davidson This story copyright 1963 by Avram Davidson. Reprinted by permission of Grania Davis. This copy was created for Jean Hardys personal use. All other rights are reserved. Thank you for honoring the copyright. Published by Seattle Book Company, . * * * The terrible affair of Dame Phillipa Garreck, which struck horror in all who knew of her noble life and mysterious disappearance, arose in large measure from inordinate confidence in her fellow-creatures-- particularly such of them as she might, from time to time, in those nocturnal wanderings which so alarmed her family and friends, encounter in circumstances more than commonly distressed. This great-hearted and misfortunate woman would be, we may be sure, the first to deplore any lessening of philanthropy, any diminution of charity or even of charitable feeling, resultant from her own dreadfully sudden and all but inexplicable fate; yet, one feels, such a result is inevitable. I am not aware that Dame Phillipa ever made use of any heraldic devices or mottoes, but, had she done so, Do what is right, come what may, would have been eminently appropriate. It is not any especial sense of competency on my part which has caused me to resolve that a record of the matter should and must be made. Miss Mothermer, Dame Phillipas faithful secretary-companion, to say nothing of her cousin, Lord FitzMorris Banstock, would each-- under ordinary circumstances-- be far more capable than I of delineating the events in question. But the circumstances, of course, are as far from being ordinary as they can possibly be. Miss Mothermer has for the past six months, next Monday fortnight been in seclusion at Doctor Hardestys establishment near Sutton Ho; and, whilst I can state quite certainly the falsehood of the rumour that her affairs have been placed in charge of the Master in Lunacy