A Christmas Revelation by Anne Perry

Author:Anne Perry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

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But Squeaky did not sleep well, even though he was tired. What had he got himself into? He was probably going to discover that Eloise and her father were thieves, and he had been killed when they tried to take all of the money instead of sharing it. The whole story would end in a squalid mess. Poor Worm, and his lady with the light in her hair.

Could Squeaky make up something that sounded better? Almost anything was better than that.

Except that Worm smelled a lie as quickly as Claudine did, so then he would have lost Squeaky as someone he could trust. It would hurt him very much indeed. More than a lost dream of Eloise? Perhaps, because it was a real loss.

Was it? Squeaky was no one’s ideal of anything. Why did he care so much what Worm thought of him? It was ridiculous. Perhaps it was better anyway if Worm realized Squeaky was a scoundrel, and sometimes a thief. Or used to be! He was still a good forger, when needs called for it. Respectable on the outside now, but it was only as thick as a coat of paint.

You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.

He lay in the dark and stared at the ceiling he could not see. Did anybody really change? Could he be what Worm thought he was?

And what was that? Apart from someone who didn’t lie to him.

What was the truth about Eloise, anyway? Perhaps he should begin by finding out. He would decide what to say to Worm when he knew what the reality was. A good lie had to have some element of truth in it, if possible.

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