Monday 22 September 1930
Audrey considers astronomy from the Akashic record, and looks for suitable cycles: there’s nothing immediately obvious. Colluding with Gertrude, they think the dragon was describing something with about a sixty-year period, though clearly that can’t be the whole explanation.
Lin Tan finds that the sword has got shorter and broader, though still with a fancy hilt. She meditates.
Gertrude visits various low establishments looking for the Sisterhood, with the story that she has important information for them. This will take a while.
Millie goes out dancing with St John, and they discuss astrology: it’s been a factor in his researches into magic, but it doesn’t seem terribly consistent. He’s continuing to try to find things out, but not experimenting; he has some thoughts about things that might be tried with appropriate supervision. Millie also tries some mind-reading; it seems to work a little less than half the time.
Bessie goes through the archives of the Daily Mail looking for accounts of anarchist outrages, and particularly for names of groups; there’s no mention of the Sisterhood, and indeed the female anarchists who are mentioned at all are intellectuals rather than bomb-throwers. (Until she gets back to the suffragettes.)