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Her eyes focused on hi She tapped her lovely lips with a thumb "What does Delacey have planned next?" she finally asked "You said he was going to have one of reed yet to ith hih his brother’s notes and pieced together the extent of what Jas still in motion, his brother had told hiht those few things unimportant

Miss Marshall leaned forward "Arowl at the back of her throat as if she were aher cubs

"Not that I know of" Edward frowned "He wants Stephen Shaughnessy"

She blinked and sat back "Stephen? He writes one column a week It’s purely for amuseain "Shaughnessy is an excellent target because so many dislike him"

Her jaw squared "Only idiots dislike hireat many idiots," Edward told her, "and he inspires sofun of men He’s Catholic He’s Irish He doesn’t kno to keep his h that his own classmates pelted him with dye"

Miss Marshall winced "That was one of his classreat many who are primed to believe the worst of him And Delacey knows him--his father was a servant on his family’s estate There’s sohnessy, he could explain the details"

She didn’t nod Instead, she set her chin evento do to hi to remove a fa Shaughnessy’s belongings"

Her expression grew dark indeed He s to let her see the fury he still felt at that

Having Stephen charged with theft, and likely removed from school, hat his brother had diss, ones that need not concern either of them overly much

Miss Marshall considered this "What do you propose to do about it?"

"I’ll follow the man in, take the item, hide it somewhere outside," Edward said "I could do all that without you But it would be best if Shaughnessy had an unassailable alibi for the evening I trust you can et hiree hand "Not yet I still don’t trust you, Mr Clark For all I know, you’re planning to arrange the particulars of this as soon as you’ve gained o alone, there will be nobody to gainsay your word about what you discover Convenient for you"

That sense of exciteest instead?"

She gave hihout the day You’ll be a guest who never leaves, who interacts with no one else That way, I’ll know you’ve not sent any "