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"Do not be so negative, Phoebe We will make calls Use Hamish’s connections And Leonard is outside He will drive us where we need to go" Ysabeau looked unconcerned

"My connections?" Haroaned "This could take weeks I iven all the coffees I’ to have with people"

"It won’t take weeks, and you don’t need to worry about your caffeine intake" I put the paper inoverthe table in the process

"Lord bless us, Auntie You get bigger by the hour"

"Thank you for noticing, Gallowglass" I’d e myself between a coatrack, the wall, and my chair He leaped up to extricateas doubtful as Phoebe

Wordlessly I held up et Diana home," Ysabeau said "I do not think the proprietor would appreciate having a dragon in his restaurant anyone in my house"

"Put your hands in your pockets," Sarah hissed They really were rather bright

I was not yet at the waddling stage of pregnancy, but it was still a challenge to h the close tables, especially with my hands jahter-in-law," Ysabeau said i Men stood, pulled their chairs in, and fawned as she passed

"My husband’s step her fork like a weapon She was appropriately disturbed by the notion that I had nant by hi to have children older than that "Second er wife You kno it is"

"Soin," Hamish muttered "Every creature in W1 will know that Ysabeau de Clerlass?"

"Control Granny?" Gallowglass roared with laughter and slapped Hahtmare," Hamish said as more heads turned He reached the front door "See you tomorrow, Ada Hamish his u car and headed back to his office in the City Leonard tucked me into the rear of the Mercedes with Phoebe, and Ysabeau and Fernando took the passenger seat

Gallowglass lit a cigarette and a ht of hilass indicated through a series of silent gestures that he was going in for a drink

"Coward," Fernando said, shaking his head

"Nohat?" Sarah asked after ere back at Clairh the front parlor was co spot was e of furniture, including a stool that I was certain had been in our house in the Blackfriars, which made the room feel as if it had been lived in rather than decorated

"Noe find T J Weston, Esquire, whoever she or he e-blackened Elizabethan stool with a groan, letting the war bones

"It will be like finding a needle in a haystack," Phoebe said, allowing herself the sic it won’t," Sarah said confidently

"Magic?" Ysabeau’s head swung around, and her eyes sparkled

"I thought you didn’t approve of witches?" My s on thisof ht not like witches, but she’s got nothing except adhty fine line, Ysabeau," Sarah said with a grilass had returned, unnoticed, and was standing in the hall shaking therun in the e Moat

"A candle spell can hen you’re searching for a lost object," Sarah said thoughtfully She was so of an expert on candle spells, since Es all around the house--and Madison

"I remember a witch who used some earth and a knotted piece of linen," Ysabeau said Sarah and I turned to her, arded us with hauteur

"You need not look so surprised I have known a great nored Ysabeau and spoke to Phoebe instead "You said one of the addresses for T J

Weston was in Denland and one in Northern Ireland," Phoebe said "In England the addresses were all in the south--Devon, Cornwall, Essex, Wiltshire"

"Do you really need to lass looked concerned "Surely there’s a way for Nathaniel to use his computers and find this person Did you write the addresses down, Phoebe?"

"Of course" She produced a crulass looked at it dubiously "I couldn’t very well take a notebook into the file room It would have been suspicious"

"Very clever," Ysabeau assured her "I’ll send the addresses on to Nathaniel so he can get to work on the as I can figure out what spell to use," I said "I’ll need so visual I’m better with visuals than with candles"

"What about a ested "Matthew must have a o around to Hatchards and see what they’ve got" He had only just returned, but Gallowglass was clearly eager to be outdoors in the frigid downpour It was, I supposed, as close to the weather in the ht work--if it were big enough," I said "We’ll be no better off if the spell is only able to pinpoint that T J Weston’s location is in Wiltshire" I wondered if it would be possible for Leonard to drive me around the county with a box of candles

"There’s a lovely h he were personally responsible for its location "They "

"What will you need besides the map?" Sarah asked "A compass?"