Legacy of the Dead by Charles Todd

Author:Charles Todd
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Rutledge, Police Procedural, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Mystery & Detective, Scotland, Ian (Fictitious character), Psychological, General, Mystery fiction, Historical, Fiction, History
ISBN: 9780553583151
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2001-05-29T06:13:35.057677+00:00

AS HE DROVE toward London, Rutledge tried to set out in logical detail what he had learned from Mrs. Atwood and her servants.

Hamish said, “There’s still no name to put with the Gray woman’s companion.”

“No. But there’s a connection now between Eleanor Gray and Scotland. The wrong side of Scotland, but it’s a start.”

“Aye, but it would ha’ been better if there was no connection at all. If she’d gone to America.”

“We have to find this man Burns if we can.”

“Aye, but there’s no proof Eleanor Gray went to Scotland with him!”

“He may know the name of the man who did accompany her. He may have introduced them, he may have been a friend of both.” Rutledge thought about it. “She wasn’t traveling alone. But she went of her own free will. She was alive when she left London.”

“Ye canna’ know that!”

“But I do—she told Mrs. Atwood where she was going, and with whom. It was planned. It was something she wanted to do.”

Yet her mood had been unsettled. “I could die—” From happiness—or despair? Had this been just after Eleanor’s quarrel with Lady Maude?

Rutledge had asked Mrs. Atwood to put a date to that conversation. It was early in 1916. Spring. The timing fit. If Eleanor was pregnant, she could still conceal it. If her mother had refused to help her, she could still make other plans.

A small house in the Trossachs. A place to hide?

A place to start, most certainly.

Rutledge stopped long enough in London to pack another case. He didn’t contact the Yard.

But back on the road, heading north again, he decided it was time to report to Lady Maude Gray.

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