Ratcatcher; Resurrectionist; Rapscallion by James McGee

Author:James McGee [James McGee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

14

It was early morning when Hawkwood climbed the front steps of number 4 Bow Street and made his way up to the Chief Magistrate’s office on the first floor.

Twigg was at his desk in the ante-room, head bowed and scribbling, when Hawkwood entered. He looked up, peered through his spectacles, and frowned in mild annoyance. “Could’ve wiped your feet.”

Hawkwood glanced down at his boots. They were wet with slush from the melted snow that had fallen during the night. Looking behind him, he saw the tracks he’d left across the wooden floor.

“You’d have made someone a grand wife, Ezra,” Hawkwood said. He grinned at the clerk’s pained expression. “How about if next time I take them off and carry them upstairs with me?”

The corners of Twigg’s mouth drooped. “Oh, very droll, Mr Hawkwood. You ought to be on the stage.”

Hawkwood started to remove his coat, but Twigg shook his head. “He’s not here.”

Hawkwood raised his eyebrows in enquiry.

Twigg sighed and passed Hawkwood the note. “He left a message. You’re to attend him directly. Caleb’s waiting with his carriage downstairs.”

Hawkwood pulled his coat back on and the clerk muttered under his breath as yet more meltwater dribbled from the coat’s hem on to the floor beneath.

“Sorry, Ezra – I didn’t catch that.”

Twigg nodded towards Hawkwood’s feet. “If I were you, I’d clean my boots. Where you’re going, they won’t take kindly to mud on their carpet.”

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