His Own Appointed Day Author:D. M. Devine A lobby is active to oust Dr. Haxton from his job at Hardgate University. He is said to have cooked the accounts of the summer school to his own advantage. The beautiful Lucille Provan is a principal in the movement to get rid of him. Haxton defends himself with threats: he will expose the real truth of a university scandal some years earlier, w... more »hen a young girl had died as the result of an abortion. It is Haxton's threat which re-creates the tension and drama of an old crisis, and leads to murder.« less