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is sent instead. When he returns triumphant, the accolades go instead to John Courtenay Boot, who did nothing to deserve them, allowing William Boot to return to his peaceful life writing articles about the British countryside.
40:, she is asked to find employment for a novelist by the name of John Courtney Boot, and arranges for him to be sent as a journalist to cover a revolution in Africa. Due to a mixup, the distantly related and quite hapless 36:
Mrs. Stitch appears as a "fixer", a well-connected member of British, and especially London society, who can make things happen for people. This activity is known to all as "The Stitch Service". In
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trilogy, Mrs. Stitch appears briefly helping Guy Crouchback recover from his ordeal in Africa.
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