“All the country knows the name of Eaglethorpe Buxton and it knows that he is not one to harm children or ladies, nor old people or the infirm.  Rather he is a friend to those who are in need of a friend and a protector to those who are in need of a protector and a guardian to those who are in need of a guardian.”

“So long as it is not a pie that needs guarding,” said he.

Unlike my other stories, I don’t plot Eaglethorpe Buxton.  I just let it go.  Some may think that’s obvious.  So, I never expected as I was first writing the story that pie would play such a huge part, but after the first story, there just had to be pie in all the others.