Ghost of the Thames by May McGoldrick

Author:May McGoldrick [McGoldrick, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 2940012897268
Goodreads: 12027138
Publisher: MM Books
Published: 2011-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

“Tell me again,” John Warren snapped. “But I want it clear this time.”

Standing by the door of this private room above the Limehouse tavern where John Warren preferred to deal with this side of the business, Hodgson glanced around at the half-dozen assembled cutthroats. It had been a difficult week with the loss of Jack Slade, a reliable collector, and the trouble at one of the warehouses where they were keeping some boys. But neither of those amounted to anything compared to this . . .if the report of the Warren girl’s sighting were true.

“I’ll tell it,” a collector named Salmon said, cutting off one of the others. “The Gaali docker me and the boys was put on to says ’e saw ’er, clear as day. Quality, she was, and come out of a fancy rattler with two ’orses, just sitting on the West Indies quay, she did. He’s swearing it was ’er that yer looking for. Spoke to ’im in Gaali and all.”

Warren nodded slowly. “What else did the man say?”

“That’s all ’e could tell. Said a gaggle of jack tars dragged ’im off. Said they’d a served him out good if ’e ’adn’t piked it. Still took a thrashing, though, from the looks of ’im.”

Another ruffian that Hodgson knew as Butcher broke in. “If ye want ’im, Guv, I knows where ’e is. Potted out in a dusty poke up by the Pup and Ringer in Stepney, ’e is.”

“No,” Warren barked. “He can hang for all I care. What I want is the girl.”

“No need to growl,” Butcher replied coolly. “Just saying.”

Hodgson watched as the two men eyed each other. He could feel the tension in the air. The old man was not backing off, though, and finally Butcher looked away. Salmon spoke up again. “What is it ye be wanting, Guv?”

“I want to know where she is!” Warren bellowed. “Who is she staying with? If she is alive, as this man says, where has she been hiding?”

“We’ll keep our lugs open. As always.” Salmon straightened his jacket. Hodgson realized the cash carrier had started dressing more fashionably as he’d been moving up in the whore-mongering business along the docks.

“But have you asked around already?” Warren persisted.

“Aye, Guv. Nobody knows nothing of it. But our other boys never saw your niece ’afore, so they can’t rightly say if they saw a quality piece by any carriage. Some say yes. Some say no. Some say she could ’ave been any flash judy out on a lark.” Salmon shrugged. “Bottom’s up, nobody knows nothing worth telling.”

Hodgson watched Warren glare at the men over the tips of his steepled fingers. He knew the old man well enough to see the venom in the gaze. Warren wanted this situation resolved, and he wanted it done now. Considering the size of John Warren’s operations in the city, none of the other problems this week amounted to much more than a scratch. Catherine Warren, though, had the potential of being a major spoiler.

“I have three ships due to arrive over the next few weeks from Calcutta.

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