Locked in Pursuit by Ashley Weaver

Author:Ashley Weaver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Uncle Mick left after dinner for his rendezvous with the criminals. We hadn’t told Nacy much about the nature of what he would be doing, so she wasn’t as anxious as I was. Besides, she’d had many more years than I had to learn to be sanguine about Uncle Mick’s criminal forays.

I spent the evening with her in the parlor, Burglar curled up on my lap. As I had known she would, Nacy had muttered about the kitten being another mouth to feed and then commenced serving him prime scraps of meat from yesterday’s stew, minced into kitten-sized mouthfuls.

At last, she went off to bed. I remained in the parlor near the fireplace, waiting. The minutes ticked slowly by, an hour, then two. I had hoped the thieves didn’t intend to do any sort of job this evening, just to meet and discuss whatever they were plotting. It was a lucky thing for us that they’d needed a safecracker, but I did wonder what safes they intended to break into. The note we’d found in the ashtray in Anna Gillard’s hotel room had pointed us to Nico Lazaro, but the thieves hadn’t seen that note. So where did they intend to strike?

At last, the door opened, and Uncle Mick came in along with a burst of cold air.

“Ah, Ellie girl,” he said, pulling off his coat and gloves. “You haven’t been waiting for me, have you?”

I had been worried about Uncle Mick’s safety, but I had to have known that he would simply find the whole thing an enjoyable lark. His eyes were bright with amusement, and there was an energy about him that I hadn’t seen since the last time we’d been about to pull a job.

“It all went well, I take it?” I said.

“Right as rain, Ellie girl,” he said with a grin. “Those fellas took to me like a duck to water. I’ve been initiated into their gang of thieves, and we’re ready to pull a job.”

I knew I shouldn’t ask any questions, especially since Major Ramsey didn’t seem to want me included in this part of the mission. All the same, I was curious about the gang of killer thieves, and what they were after.

“Did they say what they’re looking for?” I asked, unable to help myself.

“I went to see Ramsey on my way home tonight,” he said. “He told me to send you his way tomorrow afternoon, and he’ll tell you everything you need to know. Now I’m off to bed. All that plotting makes a man bone weary.”

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