The Earl's Iron Warrant (The Duke's Pact Book 6) by Kate Archer

Author:Kate Archer [Archer, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2021-09-08T23:00:00+00:00

Daisy suppressed a smile, remembering that the staff in the London house used to refer to Mrs. Jellops as Mrs. Jellies, which they thought suited her ample frame far better than Jellops.

“We do not actually know that it is the name of a man,” Lord Dalton said. “It was never referred to as ‘Mr.’ or ‘sir,’ or any rank of service, only on its own or with the in front of it. As in, the Dagobert.”

“What was the nature of the discussion about Dagobert?” Miss Minkerton asked. “Was it an argument?”

“Not an argument, so much as a questioning,” Lord Dalton said. “There were very many letters between Lord Childress and Lieutenant Farthmore about where Dagobert was or who might know.”

Daisy shivered at the mention of the lieutenant. Of all people, why must he be brought into this?

“Is the lieutenant known?” Miss Minkerton asked.

“Unfortunately, he is,” Daisy said. “He was one of the worst people my father ever associated with and we have seen him since.”

“Wait,” Lord Burke said, “was he the fellow that…”

“That was thrown from the premises,” Daisy finished for him.

“A nasty piece of work, that one,” Mrs. Jellops said.

“He seems to be involved in this conversation with Lord Childress,” Lord Dalton said, “because Dagobert, whoever or whatever it is, returned to England on a boat coming back from the disastrous siege of Tarragona.”

“Perhaps Dagobert owed them a deal of money,” Miss Minkerton said.

“Perhaps,” Lord Burke said. “But there were some references that did seem to imply that Dagobert is a thing, not a person. Things like, whoever has possession of the Dagobert, and get the Dagobert back.”

“Well,” Mrs. Jellops said, “if it is some artwork or other, I cannot think what it might be. Lord Childress was never much of a collector, aside from those books he bragged of to all and sundry.”

“Books,” Lord Burke said. “Could that be why the library was sacked? Did not your father purchase the Palaskar collection?”

“Indeed he did,” Daisy said, “and talked about it everywhere. Though I never heard mention of a Dagobert book or collection. Had he acquired it, he would have advertised it had it the least amount of value. He liked people to know what he had.”

“If he acquired it through usual means he might advertise it,” Lord Burke said. “But if he did not…”

Lord Dalton sighed. “If we looked for a person, inquiries might be made with the navy. But if it is a thing, a thing we do not even know the sort of, I have no idea how we would identify it.”

“Though,” Daisy said, an idea having just come to her, “if it is a thing, it must be of some great value or there would not have been so many questions about it. Or someone to come looking for it in the dead of night, if that is what they were after.”

Lord Dalton nodded in a way that said she had just stated the obvious.

“Something of great value usually has a history and is known.

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