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‘Ves,’ added Milady. ‘You may wish to begin by consulting your book.’
‘Bill Two? By all means. He probably knows something about dappledoks.’
‘Ask him about the Spriggan Dells, too,’ Milady suggested. ‘Not just the ones in Cornwall. Spriggans spread much beyond the borders of that county some time ago, and it may be no accident that this pup turned up in East Anglia.’
Then again, it might. The cottage did, after all, have a habit of moving around a lot.
Val spoke up. ‘Something else you can ask Bill, Ves. Quite a lot of major artefacts have gone missing down the ages. Some of them have turned up again, some haven’t yet. I would be interested to hear what Bill knows about that, considering he’s spent time at the Library of Farringale.’ She frowned. ‘Or, his predecessor did. Does Bill
