The Paths of Destiny
Appendix 3

Interview Results, Lineage and Comment

Personal observations and recommendation by interviewer, Nicholas Storm, Investigations:

Subject is a very shrewd person. He thinks like a criminal and that has been in his favor based on the number of cases he has single handedly solved in his two and half years as a civilian detective. However, there is nothing in his background to indicate he has taken part in any criminal activity. He is also quite talented and appears to have the ability to mentally multi-task. He almost seems to know what you are about to say or do well in advance. A quality one might replace in a master chess player almost on the level of some of the great Historic military leaders. We didn’t have a chance to play, but I think he could give me a run for my money. His knowledge of the supernatural is astounding. I have read some of his books on the subject and some of the fiction he wrote appears as if he had actually lived them. Considering the reason for the interview, I would venture a guess that he really did live them. My recommendation would be to recruit subject post haste - the Section can only benefit in both the short and the long run.

Briony -- I’m seriously considering him as my successor when I step down -- and we haven’t even got him yet .... N.

Historical Research Department, Marcus M. Welby, PhD.:

Subject’s middle name clicked something in my memory and I took the liberty of contacting an acquaintance of mine in the British National Archives. It would seem this particular candidate has familial ties to British nobility. Namely a Sir Roger Bixby, Earl of Flamstead and Maidstone. It turns out that Robert Bixby Parker is the great-great-grandson of Sir Roger.

The name reminded me of some stories passed down to me from my grandmother who was the daughter of one of Sir Roger’s companions who escaped some pirates off the coast of Saudi Arabia with Sir Roger. Many of the stories told to me seemed pretty farfetched at the time. However, it would seem that Sir Roger was one of the founders of an organization, created by Queen Victoria, that investigated rumors and such which dealt with the supernatural and mythological. That organization however was disbanded a few years after Queen Victoria passed. No reason given. Records show however, that Sir Roger’s youngest daughter, Jasmine Georgena, and her husband, William Brooks Hampton, formed a private organization here in the United States, financed by Sir Roger’s widow, Lady Jasmine. They continued to investigate such matters but it folded not long after the passing of Lady Jasmine in 1931. It would appear Jasmine Georgena’s eldest brother, Robert Malcolm Bixby, 2nd Earl of Flamstead and Maidstone, felt the money could be used elsewhere and cut all ties with his sister.

Note: Earl Robert Malcolm’s great-grandson, William Howell Bixby, current Earl of Maidstone and Flamstead, I doubt will ever have any issue to pass the title. He is openly homosexual, and has no living siblings. In fact, it appears as if each generation in the line of Earl Robert Malcolm Bixby down to the present Earl, yielded only one heir, all male. Thus, keeping the title under the Bixby surname. Since the rest of Sir Roger Bixby’s children had no issue, the title, if I remember how inherited peerages works, will fall to Robert Bixby Parker, the only living relative, or his heirs, upon the death of the present Earl. If that happens, and Mr. Parker is in the fold that should be of benefit to us in regards to future British relations.

Lineage of Robert Bixby Parker:

Sir Roger Bixby - Jasmine Georgena Bixby – Martin Bixby Hampton – Janet Bixby Hampton – Robert Bixby Parker