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Private Ogilvie has little Recollection of specific Nae that Bonnet was of Interest, and mentioned the Matter to me only as a curious Piece of Information One Name mentioned was "Butler," he says, but he is uncertain whether this Naht to do with Bonnet Another nailvie does not knohether this pertained to a Woman or perhaps to a Ship

A Warehouse which he supposed to be a particular Building indicated in the Conversation--though he freely adreat Distance froence, I took it uponits Ownership The Building is owned jointly by two Partners: one Ronald Priestly and one Phillip Wylie I have no Infor either Man at Present, but will continuelearned the Above, I haveBonnet in the local Taprooms, but to little Effect I should say that the Name is known, but feish to speak of him

Your most obedient servant,

Archibald Hayes, Lieutenant

67th Highland Regiment

All the normal noises of the house were still around us, but Bree and I seeether in a small, clear bubble of silence, where time had abruptly stopped

I felt reluctant to put down the letter, for that wouldmust at that point be done At the same time, I wanted not merely to put it down but to throw it into the fire, and pretend neither of us had seen it

Then Jean to cry upstairs, Brianna jerked in response and turned toward the door, and things began to ain

I set the letter down in a space by itself, and returned to the rest of the s tidily aside for Ja the newspapers and periodicals into a neat stack, untying the string round the parcel; as I had supposed, it was a book--Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Hu and tucked it into my pocket, while all the time a small "Nohat, nohat" beat in the back ofJemmy, as red and creased from his nap, and obviously in that state of mind where one rouses from sleep to a dazed irritation at the intrusive demands of consciousness I sympathized

She sat down, pulled down the neck of her shift, and put the baby to her breast His cries ceased like ic, and I had athat immediately effective for her As it was, she looked pale, but co

"I am sorry, sweetheart," I said "I tried to stop him--Jamie, I mean I know he didn’t mean you to know about it To worry about it"

"That’s okay I already knew" Reaching across one-handed, she slid one of the ledgers out of the stack Ja it by the spine, shook out a folded letter She nodded over Jeone with the militia"

I read Lord John’s account of the duel between Bonnet and Captain Marsden, feeling a coldness gather beneathBonnet’s character, but I hadn’t known that he had that erous crihta casual question for Da--but I guess not What do you think?" Bree asked Her tone was cool, al my opinion of a hair-ribbon or a shoe-buckle I looked up at her sharply

"What do you think?" It was Brianna as important in this--or that was lancing off the letter, then fastening themselves on the curve of Jemmy’s head

"Oh, the price of tea in China, for starters," I said, with so on promptly to the topic of Stephen Bonnet, if you like" It felt oddly shocking to say the name out loud; we had all avoided it for months, by unspoken consent

Her teeth were fastened in her lower lip She kept her eyes fixed on the floor for a htly

"I don’t want to hear about him, or think about hiht justjust" She shuddered violently, then looked up atwith him?" she cried "How could he do this?" Her clenched fist struck her thigh, and Jean to wail

"Your father, youJeitation, and was squir hi his back in automatic comfort Bree’s hands, left empty, fastened on her knees, crumpled the cloth of her skirt

"Why couldn’t he leave Bonnet alone?" She had to raise her voice to be heard above the baby’s wailing, and the bones of her face seeht-drawn over thehlander," I said "‘Live and let live’ is not in their vocabulary" Milk was dripping slowly from her nipple onto the fabric of her shift; I reached out one-handed and tweaked the cloth up to cover her She put a hand over her breast and pressed hard to stop the h? If he finds him"

"When he finds him, I’oing to stop looking until he does As to what he’ll do thenwellthen he’ll kill him, I suppose" It sounded oddly offhand, put that way, and yet I didn’t see any other way of putting it, really