Soon after Freddie went to live at the asylum, and while his sister Muriel was living in the U.S. with the first of her many husbands, Cyril Knight was still living at home with his two younger sisters and their parents. The whole family was busy with music lessons, sports and studying, and their father's schedule was crammed with teaching, writing, committee-work, travel and science experiments.
"I have oiled the thing on the roof," Cyril wrote to him, "but you didn't tell me how to make out the report."
Cyril was a third-year geology student. He was also the captain of the Queen's University hockey team, which had recently won the American intercollegiate championship. But in August 1903, just as the team was looking ahead to an exciting new season, something extraordinary happened to Cyril.
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