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Doet back to Isobel and ask for her hand in ler, and waited for several days The band ofto find him but he had simply vanished”

“Unfortunately by the tiet back to Oxfordshire, my sister had been kidnapped” Peter addedthe first major event to befall the faed Dominic’s life forever

“Scraggan?” Eliza swung around to Peter again, her eyes wide She knew she was parroting herself, but was shocked by the tale the

“No, it wasn’t Scraggan this tireedy uncle”

“Unfortunately, Isobel was treated badly and had to run away to stay alive She lived on the streets for several weeks, but she was a lady and wasn’t prepared for life on the run” Doht about those worrying days immediately after he found her

“In order to stay out of ht the help of an old friend, and faked her own death Unfortunately ere told she had died as well and even visited her grave” Peter added, when it beca to continue with the story

Eliza stared at Peter in horror “You were told she was dead?”

“I found her near to my home several days later very much alive but seriously ill” Dominic added hastily “She was half starved and nearly dead froo for a while By the tiood health and because ere busy dealing with her an We had assurowth and s, or gone back to whatever day job he had been doing We didn’t put any ian”

“Small, thin wiry man with a pox e of the sly grin the toad habitually wore swam before her

“That’s the one He isn’t Cornish, I think he is from Newcastle or somewhere like that He has a son”

“Rogan” Eliza’s voice was rich with contempt

“That’s the one” Do at her “So you see, we are directly involved because if we had stayed in Norfolk and searched a bit harder, we could have put an end to Scraggan and stopped any of this happening”

“But if you hadn’t gone back to Oxfordshire, by the sounds of it Isobel wouldn’t have been alive” Eliza argued, suddenly wanting to meet Isobel and hear her story

“It’s a case of damned if we did and damned if we didn’t” Peter reht and finish the job we started over eighteen o”

“Edasn’t involved in capturing sh he won’t discuss it, I gather fro out there was brutal Edas injured and returned to England where he withdrew for several weeks I don’t knoas injured or where, but he returned to Leicestershire a changed hed and looked down at his toes for severalwise eyes to meet hers