Something Wicked This Way Comes by Hurn Roger

Author:Hurn, Roger [Hurn, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Published: 2015-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Twenty-Four

As soon as the bloods had removed Rasna, Will and Alice came hurrying up accompanied by one of the children from the barn.

‘This is Isobel,’ said Alice. The girl curtsied to Ezra and then stood there wringing her hands. ‘She has something to tell you.’

Ezra smiled at the terrified girl. ‘What is it?’ he asked.

The girl told him how, after Will and Alice had escaped, Rasna had taken her from the barn to wait on him and the Lady Celandine as they ate a meal in the farmhouse.

‘Yes, but I don’t see how this helps me to catch her. I already know she was here.’ Ezra spoke abruptly and his impatience was obvious. Isobel flinched as if he had slapped her and silent tears ran down her cheeks. Alice stepped forward and put her arm around the girl. ‘You’ve done well, Isobel,’ she said. ‘Now I will take up your burden and finish your tale.’

Alice looked disapprovingly at Ezra who mouthed the word sorry at both her and Isobel. ‘Hmm, said Alice. ‘Now hold your tongue and listen. The Lady was angry. She raged and barely touched her food. Then she jumped up to her feet.’ “Your brother is a fool and not to be trusted,” ‘she shouted at Rasna.’ “I can’t sit here idly waiting for his return. I’ll follow him and keep an eye on him.”

“You don’t have a pipe,” replied Rasna. “Or the skill to use one if you did.”

‘Isobel says the Lady screeched with laughter at this.’ “There is another way to enter the world of the half-lifes as you well know,” ‘she told him before sweeping out of the farmhouse and galloping off. Isobel says she did not return.’

The news that the Hooded Lady was now in Yarfleet was not well received by either Ritchie or Lizzie. Ezra however was not so concerned. ‘She is a danger to the Piper,’ he said. ‘Not to you.’

‘Only if he doesn’t steal the Crystal Beast. And what is that by the way?’

Ezra scratched his head. ‘I only wish I knew. Perhaps Rasna will break down under questioning and tell us but I doubt it. He is too afraid of Celandine.’

‘For this he is blameless,’ said Will. ‘The Hooded Lady is a she-devil.’

‘She is if she knows of a new way to enter your world.’ Ezra’s face was etched with worry. ‘This is another mystery for me to solve. And it’s not as if I don’t have enough on my plate already.’ He glanced across the farmyard to where the children of Francheville were standing looking bewildered.

‘Well, the first thing to do is get these kids something to eat and drink and then you can take them home to their own time.’ To Lizzie this course of action was as obvious as an elephant in a paddling pool and she thought it was typical that it took a woman to suggest it. She was shocked when Ezra told her that the children could never go back to their homes again.

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