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A Windham Minister and the Mystery of Mrs Bancroft
Reverend Gilbert Bancroft arrives as Windham’s new pastor and stirs a village of teatable matchmaking. After six months he quietly marries a woman who never fully appears, then resigns to pursue a larger church. A hidden wax-wife reveals a plan to fund the new church, exposing a town’s farcical pursuit of marriage and charity.
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Gilbert Bancroft
Windham
Ladies’ Society
Mr. Bancroft
Emily Kimbal
Nan
Kimbal
Bancroft
Saxton
Rey
Mrs. Bancroft
Wir
Ce Eason
North Walpole
Milly Saxton
Ezra
Deacon Saxton
Milly
Em'ly Kimbal