Summary

“Beatrice Dunn Takes Flight” starts with a collection of newspaper articles about the Egyptian monument, Cleopatra’s Needle, which was being transported from Alexandria to New York City. At the chapter starts in earnest, Beatrice said goodbye and leaves to go to New York City to interview at Tea and Sympathy. She arrived at the train station only to discover that all the passenger trains are delayed. Beatrice snuck into a freight train and hid in a boxcar full of potatoes. The train took off, but was delayed by another train that was transporting Cleopatra’s Needle. A strange man allowed Beatrice to look at the monument, and she was struck by its power. On her way back to the train, she fell. A demon named Gideon Palsham watched Beatrice from afar.

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