Sensation by Thea Devine

Author:Thea Devine [Devine, Thea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

More silence. "We could change your name." She shook her head. "No. That would raise more questions than we want."

More silence. Angilee could almost see the wheels turning, and Mrs. Geddes turning over every idea, every option, every possibility that would meet every expectation of propriety.

"Ah. I know. We'll just act as if you are still with your father and he has hired me as your companion. No one need know, because neither he nor your would-be fiance will tell. Not at first, at any rate. So we'll come to grips with that when we must. If we ever must. Meantime, we must make lists; we must make plans."

She stood up abruptly and held out her hand.

"This is a most delicious problem. Very interesting. I will help you, Miss Rosslyn. Oh, and my bags are right outside your door. Would you kindly bring them to my room ... ?"

The fog had lifted by the time he reached Town late that afternoon; the sun was shining, and it felt as if a new energy had been infused into the atmosphere.

It felt strange. It felt as if the crushing sorrow had lifted with the fog and the air was charged with movement. There were no longer knots of people clustered on the street corners, and the passersby seemed to move as if there was a purpose, a place to go, something to do.

The difference was stunning. What had happened between the time he'd left Town and this moment?

He headed toward the Livery and took care of that, and then set out on foot to Wyland's offices.

Something was different. The sun was lowering, but there was a brightness in the air, as if it had been cleansed of grief and mourning somehow. Something had changed--what?

A moment later he saw exactly what had changed. There were signs everywhere, and the signs held the promise:

Tony Venable's Message of Hope: "I LIVE"

Resurrection and life--? Well, hellfire--the body was gone, anything could be made of that to the willing and gullible.

Tony Venable's Message from Beyond the Grave: No, not the rebirth, not yet--it was too soon to give them his replacement.

No, this was just about the pledge, the one thing they yearned for: the restoration of the paternal Venable, the man who would

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