April 24th, 2020
24 Apr 2020 · page 981 of 1306
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Jack O'Malley
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I mean... he's tagged... so probably not just someone with similar hair.
This American is interested in keeping tabs on his "investment".
Time to set up a decoy.
Set the dog on him!
Does this mean.... There will be train shenanigans???
[The best kind of shenanigans.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlVoZgM4fgI "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlVoZgM4fgI")
Maybe they could pull off something like Harry and Sid did here ( [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-26th-2011 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-26th-2011") ) to get the guy off their trail...
Ben, you have your strengths. Secret-agenting, it seems, might not be among them at present.
Has this person been following them all through their date? What scandalous rumors of Harry Barber romancing their assistant will spring up from this?!
Well... these rumors would still be true... just not... true... except maybe they would be?
...This story arc confuses me.
Well the current ratio of Barber/Assistant romantic encounters is 75% at the moment, a highly respectable numeric
As the only Henry Barber not romancing an assistant, Wolfe is too much of an outlier and should not be counted.
Wolfe sure looks like he is, though.
Wait, who's the fourth?
I think they’re counting Harry/Sid, Ben/Eliza, and Henry/Izzy.
Ah. I think I'll need to read up again on Henry/Izzy – I don't recall she was his assistant!
I'm not sure if she was officially his assistant the way Sid is for Harry, but she was definitely his adventuring companion.
In ch 3, Florrie told Harry "Even Grandad had a partner!", clearly implying that Sid should become one for Harry. ( [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-9th-2012-kickstarter-at-94 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-9th-2012-kickstarter-at-94") )
Harry replied, "Grandma's different", though.
Perhaps he was hers...
Train shenanigans! We haven't had those since (IIRC?) chapter 1!
Oh, but we can't REALLY have train shenanigans here. After all, they aren't really being followed, because Americans don't really exist.
Am American, can confirm. We're just some sort of nebulous thought experiment of the void over here. :P
You'd think they'd have noticed if mustache walked the whole way too
He's probably wearing comfortable shoes. Bastard.
It's actually just the guy who owned the meatlocker trying to track down who stole all his sausages.
As per the platform sign, Eliza's noted that Jack is getting on the train back to Widdershins.
Now that they know not only where he's going, but that he's going home, time to throw the tail off the scent.
(For all the walking they did to the next town over, they're probably still only one train stop away.)
(And a possible stretch goal for the book - "The Purple Hippo's Very Much Fun Train Adventure with The O'Malley" - all the resultant chaos from PHoH's perspective? 😇)
You see? I told you they had a chaperone.
...And then the train stalls out on a bridge.
Elodie had that same pose. Is this some sort of tradition when you're surreptitiously following someone?
Look at that hat!
Obviously an American.
Will you look at that...he decided to stop running. Good man. Now, once he gets back, he just needs to figure out how to Bend Widdershins like that Witch does the Island and this should be fine.