All Through the Night
“Driving rain sheeted her face, blinding her. She gouged her nails into soft, wet wood trying to arrest her fall. A foot from the edge of the roof she stopped. Laughed.Gasping for breathor was she sobbing?she scrambled to her knees and pitched herself up the steep incline. She patted the bag laced to her side and smiled in relief at the reassuring weight of tiara and bracelets and money purse and broaches and ear bobs . . . and Lady Dibbs’s necklace.Tell your friends, Lady Dibbs, thought Anne.... Tell them how you suspect someone from that dreadful nobody’s charity was using the donors’ list as a sort of criminal guidebook. Convince your peers to rescind on their pledges and turn their backs on their promises, because by tomorrow it will be too late. At least for you.Anne laughed again and lifted her face into the weather. The rain stung her chill cheeks and lips with icy needles. Lord, she was cold. Cold was good. Numb was better.Just a little farther and she’d be to the rain barrel where she’d stashed her clothes: an overlarge skirt that slipped easily over the thief’s close-fitting stockinette, a heavy coat that hid her soaking shirt, and a bonnet.The lightning rent the skies and heaven loosed its latest volley on her.MoreLess
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