The Inventor: An addictive and gripping historical mystery (A Penny Green Victorian Mystery Book 4) by Emily Organ

Author:Emily Organ [Organ, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Published: 2024-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

“If Father is still alive, I don’t quite know what we’re supposed to do about it,” said Eliza as we sat in a box at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane waiting for the performance of As You Like It to begin. We were located to the right of the stage in a position that afforded us a good view over the auditorium.

“How do we find him?” continued Eliza. “It would cost such a vast sum of money. We were so fortunate that Lizzie Dixie funded the first search. I cannot even begin to think where we might find the money a second time.”

“Do you think Father is still alive?”

“I like to hope that he is, Penelope. Don’t you?”

“I do and I don’t.”

“What’s that supposed to mean? You can be so terribly confusing at times.”

“If he is alive I can only guess that he has been unwell or in prison, and I don’t like the sound of either possibility.”

“Perhaps he simply doesn’t care about us any more.”

“Ellie!”

“But it could be true, couldn’t it? Maybe he hasn’t written because he doesn’t consider us to be important any longer. Perhaps he’s quite happy where he is and feels worried that if he contacts us we’ll beg him to come home against his will.”

“How could he be happy there? Surely he would rather be at home with his family.”

“You’d like to think so, wouldn’t you? I should also like to think that. But there is a possibility that he chose not to come back. We must be ready to cope with that eventuality, Penelope.”

“Wouldn’t it be wrong of us to go looking for him again if he has made that decision?”

“No, I don’t think it would be wrong. After all, I think he owes us an explanation, doesn’t he?”

“If he’s alive, that is. I’m not sure he can be. It isn’t the sort of thing Father would have done.”

“Maybe he suffered a blow to the head and forgot all about us,” suggested Eliza. “It happened once to my friend’s spinster aunt. She was found wandering about in Elephant and Castle, which is no place for a lady from Belgravia.”

“I’m not sure about this, Ellie. I don’t like having to consider all these possibilities when there is nothing to suggest that Father might still be alive. If Fox-Stirling hadn’t mentioned it we wouldn’t have found ourselves in this turmoil again. And what does he know, anyway? It’s just something he said in passing, and I wish he hadn’t because it took so long for us to accept that Father might not be alive any more. I don’t think it’s fair of him to have mentioned anything of the sort!”

“I disagree. I think he was quite right to say something. If he has the slightest suspicion that Father might be alive he should say so while we still have the time to do something about it.”

“But can we really find the funds to pay for someone else to travel to Colombia and find him? What

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