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May 1898


The Seminary at Haworth


The Company Attend The Haworth Seminary

Back : Rev Michaels, Viscount Buffington, Prof Petri,
Dr Staunton, Brigadeer Fashman Front : Miss Agnew, Miss Massisi, Miss Rosetti, Mrs Hilda Petri

Friday 26th - Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th May 1898

The party had journeyed to Haworth at the invitation of Viscount Buffington and Reverend Michaels to discuss Company business and celibrate the birthday of Miss Rosetti in secluded surroundings.  The elements raged and there was much concern for the delay of the Petries carriage, also containing Brigadeer Flashman.  The weekend started convivially enough for the others, save a nervous Miss Massini, with a buffet supper and charades in the study of Haworth Seminary.  The gentlemen enacted an inspired “Life of Moses" (Rev. Michaels making a fine Pharaoh) while the ladies “Henry the Eighth” and "The Trojan War" were blood curdlingly represented. 

At breakfast on Saturday Hilda received a mysterious message from an old friend of Professor Wilson’s wife, begging to meet upon the morning Keighley train.  So, off the company set,  to admire the country air and the impressive achievements of steam.


The Company awaits the train at Haworth Station
Mrs. Farnham, the lady in question, joined the train at Oxenhope with a telegraph boy who was bearing letters for Buffy and one Professor Wilson. The boy was convinced to hand Wilsons letter into the Inspectors safe keeping by use of gyle and The Viscounts pocket watch, while the lady explained she was concerned at not having heard from her friend for some months.

The Reverend puts his life and his hat in his hands in aid of a superior view
Oxenhope, awaiting Miss Farnham
The Gentlemen enjoy refreshments on the platform

Mrs Hilda Petri examines the goods for sale in the Apothecary in Haworth village

When the party went up to the village for tea and cake they were alarmed to see Prof. Wilson striding into the Black Bull, in the company of Mr. George Dixon!  The Brigadier did his best to overhear their conversation; gathering abandoned scientific papers from their table.
Dr Staunton & The Brigadier

Professor Petrie & Miss Emerald


Miss Massini approached him face to face and inquired directly and yet unsatisfactorily about his wife; alerting the two gentlemen to the presence of The Petrie's in the town.
Miss Elaine Rosetti - Shopping
Joined by the Petrie’s cousin Amelia, and after a ripping  cod and chip supper, it was off to The Leeds Grande Theater to see Orpheus in The Underworld.  The Opera played to a packed house and was extremely well received by one and all, especially the can-can finale!  The Vicar was, however, most shocked at the rhyming of "scanties" with "bacchantes".


L to R : Dr Staunton, Bgd Flashman, Miss Agnew, Miss Vinca-Massini, Miss Rosetti, Rev Michaels, Miss Forsyth, Miss Amelia Petrie, Vis Buffington, Prof Petri

Once returned, however, drama rose when Katherine discovered her child was not with her mother at all and Athena discovered Buffy had shared the ladies secret with the other gentlemen, cumulating in a most unladylike fit of temper! 

Amelia left a glittering lip print upon her glass and left in the night.

After a sound nights sleep all met in the study to solve their differences and attempt to formulate a plan to rescue Katherine's child and recover Artie from his opium haze in Singapore.  Dr Staunton began struggling with formulae from Prof. van Waas's telegraph for the Wilson machine and Elaine undertook to write a company constitution. 

Several days later, Rev. Michael’s journeyed with the remains of the civil war lady from Skipton to the convent in Shropshire.  After locating the tomb of Captain Ravenswood in the crypt and placing the bodies together, Rev. Michaels performed a short ceremony, at the end of which the bodies crumbed into dust, laying the couple to rest forever.

The Petries, Hilda and The Professor, journeyed North to Whitby to discover Mrs Wilson alive and well and living in a lunatic asylum.  They were taken aback to find her attended at the time by her loving husband...

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