Letter to the editor

The following was submitted to the Tattler on stationery known to be the personal one used by Dr. Guenivere D’Avalon, head of “Our Lady of Mercy” Charity Hospital.

Tunnel Man, or whatever you will call yourself! This is the second time you have targeted my residence and place of business! The first time, you nearly totaled the Cup and Harp! Now, you target my Hospital, one that has recently enjoyed a fine debut! I know not if I am merely in your way, or if the idea of a Hospital run and patronized by some of the more prominent women in this city offends your little English sensibilities! Frankly, I do not CARE. You have offended me, and risked the lives of those I care for! Were it not for the heroics of Mirri Rosca, Jimmeh Obolensky, and RMarie Beedit, I might have been buried under a grave!

Allow me to make this interesting, by offering a fine reward to whoever delivers you to me! I will gladly settle for a corpse, though I assure you I would know what to do with you if you were in my tender mercies! Just because I have been well respected in this town does not mean I do not enjoy certain reputations, and you being what you are, you might know how to ask! Do yourself a favor, walk right up to Sheriff Pazzo Pestana, and beg him to take you, because even a noose or jail cell is warm comfort compared to what you would face at my hands! In my own way, I am every bit the monster you are. I am cleaner, yes, more civilized, yes, but if my enemies could talk, you would learn I am no less deadly! This city has softened me—indeed, perhaps saved me from myself—but if and when you end up in my claws, you will learn personally that there are forces and powers far more frightening than you!