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He was so patently sarcastic that Hyacinth could do nothing but scowl
“The library, you say,” Garetha moment to enjoy Hyacinth’s distress “It makes perfect sense My father’s father was no intellectual”
“I hope that means he didn’t possess very many books,” Hyacinth said with a frown “I suspect that she left another clue tucked into one”
“No such luck,” Gareth said with a griht not have been fond of books, but he did care a great deal about appearances, and no self-respecting baron would have a house without a library, or a library without books”
Hyacinth let out a groan “It will take all night to go through an entire library of books”
He gave her a sy fluttered in her stomach She opened her mouth to speak, but all she did was inhale, and she couldn’t shake the oddest feeling that she was surprised
But by what, she had no idea
“Perhaps, once you see what’s there, so will suddenlyas he steered the happens to me all the time Usually when I least expect it”
Hyacinth nodded in agreeht-headed sensation that had just washed over her “That’s exactly what I’ve been hopingherself to reaffix her focus onto the matter at hand “But Isabella was rather cryptic, I’m afraid Or…I don’t know…perhaps she wasn’t deliberately cryptic, and it’s just because I can’t translate all the words But I do think that we may assume that ill find not the diamonds but instead another clue”
“Why is that?”
She nodded thoughtfully as she spoke “I’m almost certain that we must look in the library, specifically in a book And I don’t see how she would have fit diaes”
“She could have hollowed the book out Created a hiding spot”
Her breath caught “I never thought of that,” she said, her eyes widening with exciteh I’m not certain—that the book will be one of a scientific topic”
He nodded “That will narrow things down It’s been some time since I was in the library at Clair House, but I don’t recall there being much in the way of scientific treatises”
Hyacinth screwed up her mouth a little as she tried to recall the precise words in the clue “It was so to do ater But I don’t think it was biological”