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“Then I shall come with you You can sneak around Sir Melrose’s abode, and I shall entertain Lord Newberry” She ht discover the real reason the lord had asked her to take a drive around the park “The Cavanaghs will play chaperone Afterwards, ill return here, to Bronygarth, and discuss our findings”

“No”

“No? Sir, I have lived alone for the best part of twelve er—”

“And I have thwarted numerous attacks on your person How do you think I know about the broken kitchen ?”

The revelation caught her unawares “I presu for bread”

“That’s what I wanted you to believe The thief was looking for the journals The unnaentleman who hired him told him to search the drawers in your father’s study And while we’re on the subject of threats, you were supposed to give me the letters”

“Letters?”

“The ones you received de you find the journals”

“I—I can’t I threw them into the fire”

He frowned and cocked his head “Why would you do that?”

“Because I found the”

“Now I have no way of co with the examples I have of Newberry’s and Sir Melrose’s penhed “Can you recall what the blackguard wrote?”

She shrugged “Always the sa I am to obtain my father’s journals When I do, I a inn called the Black Swan on the Great North Road I’m to ask to rent room five and wait for the villain to make contact”

Mr Daventry shot to his feet so quickly the chair almost toppled over He threw his napkin onto the table “Devil’s teeth! Did you not think to mention this before?”

Sybil gulped “I’ve spent the last teeks doing nore the threats My only focus has been obtaining the journals so that I could understand the devil’s motives”