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“A elcouests at Dunshill” There was a knowing look in Tara’s dark-shining eyes as she sought out Ty

“Dunshill?” Sally repeated in unspoken question

“Yes That’s what I have decided to call my new home,” Tara explained

“After the mesa outside?” Sally asked, clearly puzzled by the choice

But Ty had no such problem He had made the connection immediately But like his father, he left it to Tara to answer Sally’s question

“Not at all,” Tara replied, a deepening of the knowing quality in her smile “I named it after the wife of the Earl of Crawford, Lady Elaine Dunshill, as a business partner of sorts with the first Chase Calder years and years ago”

“For heaven’s sake,” Cat exclaiotten all about her”

“I didn’t,” Tara replied and lifted her glass again “To uests,” she repeated the toast and took a sip of wine

Everyone followed suit But Sally wasn’t about to let the subject drop now that her curiosity was aroused “If you don’t , whatever made you decide to name your place after her?”

“That’s easy” Tara s with Ty on the auction, she has been onof an inspiration to me Therefore it seemed appropriate to name this estate after her In a way, it’s like history repeating itself”

“Except she never owned any Calder land,” Ty inserted the dry reminder

“No, not to e she didn’t,” Tara conceded and swiftly directed the conversation back to its original topic “But it still wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find out she was once a Calder”

“That’s right I reraphs,” Cat recalled “One was of Lady Elaine and the other was a picture of randmother You were convinced they were the sairl and the other as a much older woman”

“You , the same features, the same overall look and expression,” Tara added

“It was a little uncanny,” Cat rean, suddenly realizing that neither knehat she and Tara were talking about “Tara has this theory that randmother Madelaine Calder and Lady Elaine Dunshill were one in the same person She based it both on their physical similarities and on an old fareat-grandmother ran aith a remittance man when Chase Benteen Calder was just a little boy”