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With the preceding preachment I wish I might end the story. For what follows -- which is my own little part in the story of Felix Kennaston -- is that discomfortable sort of anticlimax wherein the key to a mystery, by unlocking unsuspected doors, discloses only another equally perplexing riddle.
Kathleen Kennaston died in her sleep some eleven months after her husband discovered the missing half of the sigil.