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August was trying to get htly There was one more email to read It was dated two days later

Dear James I’m sorry I didn’t write you yesterday I’ to shed the last of this ood to see your son He takes after you in almost every way, and like you, he’s in over his head Charlotte isdifferent Wary Untrusting She’d never been very forthright, but this sort of ani to do with your Jaht Charlotte alone this afternoon We had a long talk about her father Certain changes are going to be irl Strong chin Strong voice She understood immediately

Would it mark me as weak if I told you that sohter, and not Alistair’s?

There’sEmma’s ina situation, and they’ve called in a doctor There’s more to it than that, but that’s all I should say Privacy, you know I’ll be back to Berlin as soon as I’m able

Happy Christmas Roast some chestnuts for me

That was it The last one

It was so hard to wrench myself back to the present I made an effort to remember, to put words to the cold twist of panic infor her You have no idea how you’re going to find her

And Hadrian Moriarty--was he Nathaniel Ziegler? I’d thought enius when I’d picked him out of the crowd When he invited ned panic when I n that I’ve found the ht I was Was Hadrianas Nathaniel? All the tie classes, or was he just ht?

It was a half-forht

But God, what if he was Reason through it, Watson Because August Moriarty had seen Nathaniel last night and let hi? What if he and Nathaniel hadn’t gone to see Hadrian because Nathaniel was Hadrian?

What if all of this was a ploy to get us where Lucien Moriarty wanted us?