“Rose set her rifle against the trunk of a cypress, settled tailor-fashion beside it, and uncorked her water-gourd as January slung the bundle of their food to the ground. “Could it? From the start? When did Burke replace the old overseer here?” It wasn't a thought that had occurred to January, and the scope of the scheme appalled him. “Raffin disappeared two days after Guifford's murder,” he said. “The day after Hesione LeGros was killed.” He frowned, trying to recall details Shaw had given...-details to which he had been paying less than close attention, owing to his own anger over the neglect of Hesione's murder. There's a lesson in there somewhere, he reflected dryly. And it's probably Don't mess in anything that doesn't concern you. “By Burke.” Rose shook her head. “So there was time for Mulm to get word that the old overseer-who appears to have contributed considerably to the climate of resent ment in the first place-was gone, and to send Burke here to take the man's place.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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