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"His naot out before Lucien stepped between us His broad back keptwhat he did, but his back muscles shifted, and then Harry abruptly vanished

"What did you do?" I asked, shuffling back a few steps

"I banished him back to the netherside" Dred as you are with me, he cannot manifest or meddle with you"

"Harry’s never meddled" When he would have come closer I went round behind the chair "You, on the other hand, have inflicted an excessive ae to my reputation, my person, and my life"

He didn’t like that "How have I har what you freely offeredto shield you froin to fathohten me as to which it was"

I did "You abducted ainst es, never ht be blareed to kill me for twenty thousand pounds"

"I took that fool’s ive to you," he shouted "It was to help you settle into a new life--"

"After I left Toriana with you for some secluded lovers’ nest overseas," I tacked on, " where I could nightly entertain you until you tired of ht as well" He turned away "I’ve tired of you already"

That stung, more than I cared to admit "Problem solved, then"

I came round and sat in the armchair "Before I’m forced to leave the country and flee forbetween you and Harry Start with how you’re able to see his specter, and exactly how you sent him off" I was particularly interested in the latter so that I ht do the same if Harry becae secretary and opened the upper cabinet, sliding aside a panel "He’s not a specter He’s aspirit"

"There’s a difference?" I frowned as he shifted and I saw the rows of switches that the panel had hidden "What’s that for?"

Dredlanced back at me "You" He flipped the switch

Two velvet-covered bars shot out fro at hidden joints and locking together at the ends Before I could get to ainst the cushions A s out beneathmy ankles in place When I pushed at the bars locked across my waist, two cuffs popped out of the," Dredth"

I tried but I couldn’t budge the chair’s automatic manacles I’d never heard of such s other htmares about

I looked up at him "When you’re finished," I said pleasantly, "you’d better plan to sleep with one eye open for the rest of your bleeding life"

"That I do already, Charmian" He turned his attention to the panel, and I heard doors being bolted andlatches fastening, and then a white-painted board descended fro to do but wait and plot his slow, painful death, but still I juears, pulleys, and lenses

"Is it a torture device?" I asked, wondering if he meant to feed my hands to it

"It is called an illuminator Let’s hope it lives up to its na round to all the la them down until the room became shrouded in darkness He pulled the chair to the other side of the table machine, and popped a matchit

The bizarre rituals confused me, but the matchit didn’t Surely he wouldn’t set me on fire, trapped as I was "Lucien, perhaps I’ve been too harsh You and I should talk ht a small row of candles inserted in the back of the device As soon as their wicks caught, he adjusted a row of sed and for board

"There is a difference between spirits and specters," Dredmore said as he placed a cylinder lined with tiny, silverblack-etched glasses in front of the rows of candles "We didn’t knohat it was, not until after the war" He switched on the machine