Walk on The Wild Side

* Signe wakes to the soft ringing of bells at 0630. It’s breakfast time!
** She orders something chocolate based for Martha (a chocolate croissant)
** She wakes Martha and Wila up, there is much outfit planning.
*** She is impressed by the croissant. 
* After breakfast we plan on investigating around the grounds of the Refugium then head to the mill.
* The exterior of the house is kept very clean. It’s built with shingles, no lattice.
** There would be no place to climb down from a window
* We then go to the mill, it’s a long walk.
* We meet the miller, his name is Jacob Jensen
** He’s carrying a sack of not bodies over his shoulder. 
** He seems like a very nice man who cares about his employees (liveable wage, anyone?)
** He says he participated in the search for the missing men but he didn’t find anything. 
** He tells us the milkmaid is Mable Lauren. 
* Signe motions to the others that she’d like to speak to Mr. Jensen alone.
** She pretends to have a letter for Miss Mable from Mr. Burroughs.
** Mr. Jensen is concerned his letter will make her cry again. 
** Signe “confides” in Mr. Jensen that Burroughs made passes at her and that she’s embarrassed he may have been stringing her along. He was so handsome afterall and she was smitten! Teehee
* Mr. Jensen says he knows another woman was involved that came between Burroughs and Mable, and now he suspects Signe is that woman.
** Signe is red faced. For shame! Men!
* Signe meets back up with the group and we go find Mable in the fields. 
** We find her with a bucket and stool in a cow pasture. 
** Cyrus and Signe talk to her while Martha and Wila look for clues, and Alec and William try to look natural. 
* Martha and Wila find all manner of things in the meadow: hoof prints, boot prints, regular shoe prints.. She thinks one set might be Mables’. It’s a well traveled place. 
** Martha remembers when she scrutinized Mr. Burroughs’ fashion sense back in his room. His hiking boots would have had heavy treads, and these here do not match (confirm this is accurate). 
* Mable we discover has an abhorrent sense of fashion, with the shoes of a scrub. 
** She’s no match for the fashion prowess of Martha. 
** Martha notes that her scrub shoes don’t match the set she found. 
* Meanwhile, Cyrus and Signe talk to Mable.
** She calls Burroughs a two-timing liar.
** He had a lady in New York, was courting her (Mable), and told her there was *another* one, too. 
** This other woman had won his heart about a week and a half ago but doesn’t know who she is. 
** He was coming to the mill and talking to Mr. Jensen, mentioning that the mill “helped him think”. 
** Sometimes they would go for walks on the moor. 
** The breakup came out of the blue. 
** She says Burroughs had been to the beach twice, and typically strolled through the moors. 
** She doesn’t know the other two men who vanished. 
* After talking with Mable we decide to head back by way of the moor. 
** We find Burroughs’ footprints!
** It circles the area, takes several hours (four), and leads back to the Refugium. 
** The path doesn’t stray, and it’s only one set of prints. 
** There is a group of boulders, the tracks don’t go anywhere near those
* We return to the Refugium
* Alec asks Mr. Sommerland for a map of the island, and asks him to mark on it the places that were searched for the missing men. 
** Blue = Julian Archer
** Pink = Frederick August
** Green = Thomas Burroughs 
* There is a brief discussion if William should be used as bait. 
* We talk to Jefferey about the short history of this Refugium.
** It was built 2 years ago, and the first guest was Mr. Sorin. 
** He didn’t disappear, but stayed a couple months before winter. 
** He also took walks. 
** Mr. Archer was the first guest in the spring. 
** Jefferey doesn’t know much about Sorin, but says he can ask some of the other staff members who interacted with him. 
** Sorin was an artist. 
** He definitely didn’t send a thank you note afterwards (not the type to).
** He was an arrogant man, a fan of the ladies. 
** The house is staffed mostly from the mainland; only one girl and the groundsman is local.