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He gestured for her to continue along the arched tunnel leading to the next solid iron door some five inches thick

“You see,” she began, waiting for hiiven name it wouldn’t have sounded like a reprimand”

“It wasn’t a repri context Now, I need to concentrate on the next task We can discuss s later”

He extracted another key from his fob pocket The brass implement was cylindrical, and he pushed it into the same shaped hole in the door To the left was a wooden plaque filled with tiny brass cogs Each cog had an unusual shape cut into the centre—a star, a hexagon—and he rained in his memory The correct combination released the pulley system, which allowed hiround chamber

“I assume someone else knows the combination,” she said

“I am yet to name my successor Pray I don’t end up a bloated corpse in the Thames”

“That would be a tragedy on many levels”

“Why? Would you miss me, Miss Atwood?”

“I believe I ht”

The lady followed him into the chamber, a small room that looked e facility After glancing nu, she walked towards the first in a roooden chests resting on a two-foot-high plinth She raised the heavy lid and pulled back the red velvet cloth covering one tome

“This can’t be er over the date e “1756 This one refers to the Seven Years’ War”

Lucius closed the iron door, and the loud clunk randfather’s journals”

She swung around to face hirandfather’s journals? Did he record his scientific theories, too?”

Lucius braced himself He had an awful lot of information to impart

The question here to begin