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AUNT THEODORA AND DAPHNE

AUNT THEODORA AND DAPHNE     In the Lancer household, there were three wildly divergent opinions regarding the current whereabouts and general condition of  Aunt Theodora.     Murdoch Lancer optimistically believed she had boarded a train bound for her home in Boston and arrived safely, where she was at that very moment settled into her normal routine, driving her house staff crazy with her demands and general looniness, and entertaining any number of noteworthy Boston names.    At least in her mind.   Scott Lancer, somewhat less optimistically, fretted over the fact that there was no way to verify his aunt’s whereabouts and that therefore she was most likely wandering all alone on the streets of San Francisco, or somewhere in the  very  Wild   West.    Or Zanzibar.   Johnny Lancer, perhaps least optimistically of all, was sure she’d been shanghai’ed and there was therefore no point in discussing it further because th...