Castle Rouge
“I demanded.“Because it is Paris in the spring?” She paused in pinning on her hat to add with brittle emphasis, “Because it is the first time, the first place, where Our Enemy showed itself.”“You mean the pistol shots.”“Rifle shots, Buffalo Bill believes, which makes them much more interesting.”“Then they were not merely some usual afterdark danger of Paris?”“Knives and fists and the cancan are the usual afterdark dangers of Paris. Not rifles. I wish to reconsider the site, and the incident, by ...daylight.”“Should we be dallying to speculate with Nell and Godfrey gone missing?”“No, of course not! We should be charging to the rescue. But where? Where first? Verdun, an innocuous city on the fringe of France? If there is an Enemy, where does it hide? Come from? Go to? We must have some notion of the who, what, and whyfore before we rush off anywhere.”“And visiting Notre Dame will provide us with this greatly needed ‘notion?’”“I hope so.” Irene smiled tightly.“Is not Bram Stoker to act as our escort?”“Bram?MoreLess
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