A Thief Before Christmas

Author:Jennifer McGowan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

No sooner had I resolved to go over to find out why young Henry Dobbs, productive member of the house of Dobbs, was hanging on to a minister’s conversation when a far different problem affronted me.

A cry of outrage rang out over the lot of us, accompanied by the thudding of panicked feet. Then the clutch of older churchgoers at the head of our gathered assembly parted suddenly with a fuss and a flurry just as the shifty jewel dealer Theodore Minsk ran smack into the center of our group, shouted out in a voice overloud for the small space that he had been cheated, he had been duped, he had been lied to, and above all else, he was not to blame!

Behind him, hard on his heels, were two magistrates I didn’t recognize, and one blustering nobleman I did. My fingers twisted in my skirts.

I remembered the fat lord specifically because I’d been the one to snip a jeweled cuff from his glove just yesterday morning, a cuff that had sported a large, nearly perfect amethyst cut into a rectangle, one of the prettiest stones I’d ever seen.

And, more important, it was also one of the stones we’d sold to Theodore Minsk, not eight hours after I’d stolen it.

My grudging worry of the past few days immediately burst into full flower: Theodore had been caught out!

Which meant, unless I acted very quickly, the Golden Rose would be as well.

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