Montgomery 09 - The Duchess by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General
ISBN: 9780671689728
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 1991-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

"I cannot imagine," Trevelyan said softly. "Torture her in ways that even the worst tribes I have seen would not think of. She will break Claire's spirit as she has broken Lee's. Did you know that Lee was once a bit of a devil herself? She was the leader in some of the pranks that we—"

He broke off because Angus had stood and was now walking toward the door.

"Where are you going?" Trevelyan snapped.

"You said you had work to do, and I must go back to the girl. She gets cold easily and I must see to her."

"You left Claire alone in that horrid old place of yours? She could be murdered. She could—"

Angus was smiling at him. "This is Scotland and it's the safest place on earth. It's not the wilds of Africa or that city you looked for and couldn't find."

"I did find it."

"Nay, lad, you died." For a moment the two men locked eyes, then Angus looked away. "Now I must go back to her. You stay here and write your books. And when you're well you can go back to your strangers in those faraway lands. Leave this place to the likes of Harry and his wife and his mother. It's no concern of yours. You're not the duke. You're not the laird. You're not marryin' the girl. Stay up here with that man of yours and eat and sleep and write and stay out of it. It's no concern of yours."

With that he turned and started down the stairs.

Trevelyan immediately went back to the third table and picked up his pen. He was working on his book about Pesha. He was going to tell the world what it had been like to visit, in disguise, that secret city. After Jack Powell had told the world he was the one to have visited Pesha, thinking there was no one alive who could contradict him, Trevelyan was going to publish his book and tell the world the truth. Jack thought he had taken all of Trevelyan's notes on Pesha when he'd left him there to die, but Trevelyan had much more in his head that was not written down.

It was hours later when Oman quietly entered the room and handed Trevelyan a flat package.

"What's this?" he asked.

"The American lady gave it to me for you."

It took Trevelyan a moment to realize that Oman was calling Claire a

"lady"—high praise indeed. He frowned as he opened the package, but as he pulled out the first drawing, his eyes widened.

The drawings were crude, done by an unpracticed hand, but it was easy to see what they were meant to represent. They were drawings of him. She showed him as a highwayman about to be hanged. She showed him as a little boy standing outside a children's party, sneering, acting as though he didn't want to join the party, but his eyes were lonely. She showed him as a man sitting all alone in a tower.

When Trevelyan first saw them, he was enraged.

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