To
       CHARLES and PATRICIA, with  love.

         What a glorious holiday that was! It seem almost
         blasphemy to place a story of murder in such a setting.
  Some time ago, Mr H. L. Douch, BA, the curator
         at the Truro museum, gave me the Old Cornish text used
         by the Federatioin of Old Cornwall Societies as their
         watchword:

             "Cuntelleugh an brewyon us gesys na vo kellys travyth."

         "Gather ye the fragments tht are left,
         that nothing be lost."

The motto for a good detective, I think.
                                     Your affectionate sister,
                                     G