The Isle of Devils

Authors: Janacek, Craig

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“Foster waiting for us in the entryway with a look upon her face that indicated either extreme agitation or excitement. “I have discovered something, Harry!” exclaimed the lady, and addressing Constable Dunkley by his given name, clearly forgetting in her eagerness that he was present on official business. “What is it, Elizabeth?” he responded in kind. Rather than immediately answering him, she led us into the dining room and indicated the dark iron fireplace. “I found it in there, when I w...as cleaning out the ashes from last night’s fire,” she explained. I recalled that during the prior evening a splendid log fire had blazed behind the iron screen throughout the long night in order to help ward off the chill from the great storm. “It must have slipped through the dog-grate, and therefore was not fully consumed.” She pointed to a small object lying before the fireplace that I had originally assumed was a large un-burnt wooden cinder. Dunkley bent down to examine it.MoreLess Read More Read Less