Episode Five - Vagrants Preaching Dissension

The situation Rico and the Professor found themselves in in 1897 was proving more alarming at every turn, if not positively menacing.

The local rector considers them nothing less than emissaries of Satan and takes action that proves prejudicial to their future well-being. 

In the grim surrounds of the Magistrates’ Court the two are charged under the Vagrancy Act and of propagating views of an extremely revolutionary and godless nature among the townsfolk.

Placed on remand by an incensed magistrate, the pair found themselves a causes célèbres. As the Professor remarks…

“Could it be this was a point in history when rebellion was in the air? At any rate there is certainly an underlying pool of resentment against the people in authority.”

Awaiting trial in the local gaol, their ultimate salvation must lie with Theta and his powers.