The Moria Pearls by Rosalie Oaks

Author:Rosalie Oaks [Oaks, Rosalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780645027822
Publisher: Parkerville Press

The walk to Deockley should have been pleasant. The rain had stopped, the wind was down, and the sea was a gentle dove grey. Tiny yellow flowers carpeted the fields, and bees and birds were busy. Yet Beresford and Elinor walked in awkward silence. In front of them, Seraphine regaled Perry with tales of her mysterious home. Elinor learned that Skerry was not one island, as she had first supposed, but several isles in a circle. Even more difficult to hide then, she thought, and fell to pondering the power of the Moria Pearls. The knowledge they contained must be valuable indeed. Someone might well be motivated to kill for them.

Who could that be? With a start, she remembered Mrs Marnie. If she was indeed a Musor, she might benefit from the knowledge contained in the pearls. Then Elinor sighed. She still had no proof Mrs Marnie possessed any magic other than her almond oil, and it scarcely seemed credible that the vicar’s wife would kill anyone.

Elinor cast a glance at Beresford’s inscrutable countenance. She wished she could discuss the matter with him. However, she was not going to unbend after his pathetic attempt at an apology. Her mother, after all, had advised Elinor to maintain her dignity, and that is what she would do.

When they reached Deockley, Seraphine stopped and plucked a few blue flowers from a bush. “Here, Miss Avely, let me put these in your hair. We want you looking your best.”

She artfully arranged a few in Elinor’s blonde curls, then placed some behind her own delicately shaped ear. “There, we are ready now.” Seraphine twinkled at Perry, ignoring Beresford’s glowering air of disapproval.

Elinor knew her conduct was perhaps less than dignified, but if it provoked a reaction in Beresford she was happy to play along. She patted the flower in her hair cautiously.

Perry interceded gallantly. “Quite charming. This fellow will tell us everything we want to know at once.”

“You won’t be there,” warned Seraphine. “Miss Avely and I will manage it alone.”

Beresford huffed. “You shall face down a possibly murderous fisherman all by yourselves?”

Seraphine smiled confidently. “You may both watch from a distance,” she allowed. “As long as you are not too apparent, my lord, with that gloomy countenance.”

Beresford looked highly unimpressed, but Perry was eager to play the watchdog. When they finally spotted Timothy Finch pulling his fishing boat in at the bay, Perry and Beresford retreated to the stone wall to lurk by the cottages.

Elinor and Seraphine picked their way down to the sand, approaching the water’s edge to wait for their victim.

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