You know this story, Bartholomew, though you do not remember it.
Why dows the gargoyle call everyone Bartholomew? Why is he only ever mentioned when it has to do with Sybil? Are Sybil and the others just manifestations or reincarnations of the first foundling boy? Was his name Bartholomew? Is the gargoyle really talking to Sybil here? Why doesn't whoever is being told the story remember it?