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"I believe it has sos to the vaold streamers? And which vampires would that be?"

"Westminster Hive"

"And you can prove it how?"

Curses, we shouldn’t have pushed Monique overboard "Oh, well, we accidentally tossed the evidence But I can assure you it does not belong to this aze of pure honesty

The duke said, "This is preposterous You can’t possibly take her word against one now," pointed out Captain Niall

"True, but we could catch it easily enough," answered the dewan, speaking of their supernatural speed

Sophronia brightened "Oh, could you? Good Lady Kingair is on board"

"What!" Neither the dewan nor Captain Niall was pleased to hear that

Sophronia said, "Why do you think we snuck on in the first place? The train was headed north and she wanted to go home I know she isn’t furry, my lord, but she considers herself a olf That’s her fa up to reprimand, and she wants to be with theet her there"

Captain Niall recovered from his embarrassment and actually chuckled at that stateirls Unless you lock Lady Kingair up, she’ll keep trying"

The dewan looked inquiringly at Sophronia

Sophronia nodded "And we’ll keep helping her"

"Why?" demanded the dewan

"Because she’s our friend"

The deas frustrated with the whole mess He looked at Soap "And what have you to do with any of this?"

"Oh," lare of such a rich and powerful man, "I’m only a sootie"

Sophronia said, stalwart, "Who else do you suggest we get to drive the train?"

"This is all quite ridiculous!" stated the duke "They’re feckless h much lower in rank, took offense at that accusation "Your Grace, Madeood, but mischief for eniuses, after all, that’s Bunson’s sphere"

The dewan looked back and forth between Sophronia and the duke "I aree with the captain These two have a satisfactory explanation as to why they are involved with a train On the other hand, if there was so valuable of yours on that train, Your Grace, ere you firing a cannon at it? Your explanation see Either you want the train destroyed because of what it contains, or you are after these two And since you let the train go and stayed with these scamps, I must suppose it is theht Sophronia

The duke still had his gun and was staring hard at Sophronia She had not revealed his plot to the olves She hadabout arding his evil plans, whatever those plans were Did he trust her to keep the because the whole thing sounded preposterous? She was trained to know that the best explanation was always the siirls, worried about their unhappy friend, made a plausible excuse A countrywide Pickle did not

But what could the duke say to counter her, without revealing that plot hi as quick as she

The duke glared "My boy should have warned me about you sooner"