A letter arriving from the Bishop set him thinking otherwise.
Venerable Brother,
Susan Pevensie of CSL's children's books is a real person. She claims to have really been to Narnia. Not a question of wanting to spread the word at all, she wants a quiet life, but ... is it from God or the devil? Should she be made to abjure?
Yours in Christ
NN NN + episc. LN*
And the first answer:
Your Highness,
Have you ruled out madness?
Yours in Christ NN Brown.
And the second:
Venerable Brother,
She is sane. She could have gotten illusions while in an epiletic fit, except that epilepsy does not fit her medicale state. She is as fit as a fiddle, and that includes total absence of epileptic symptoms - except this one, if it would have fitted.
Yours in Christ
NN NN + episc. LN
And Father Brown saw the adress:
Miss Susan Pevensie
Baker Street 221 B
London
"Hmm, didn't that use to be my secularist colleague Sherlock's abode? Though when I gave him the sacraments, it was in the office of his friend Dr Watson, of course. It won't be easy to miss the place, anyway!"
*NN=Nomen Nescio=Don't Know the Name
LN=Locum Nescio=Don't Know the Place
As for Fr Brown I do not know his baptismal name.
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