The Queene’s Christmas
“Then fry the cakes thin with sweet butter, make them brown, and so serve them up with sugar strewn upon them.THE QUEEN, WITH CECIL, HARRY, ANNE, JENKS, AND MEG in attendance, paced her presence chamber, trying to decide what to do next. She knew she must act, and not just continue to rant. On the table where she often took her meals lay the pieces of paper with the murderer’s mocking missives, which, she was certain, included Bane’s so-called suicide note. Cecil’s sketches of the boot print and the blow to Hodge’s head lay there. The box of flagons and the box of stones, gold leaf from Hodge’s death scene and from the beheaded fox’s snout, the stub of torch, and the dolls with the peacock feathers and ass’s ears also sat upon the table as if they could tell her who had used them to ruin lives and Christmas.“At least, I believe I know where our clever culprit got those ass’s ears,” the queen said as she turned to walk past her friends, who lined her path. “When Robin and I were out in ...the sleigh yesterday, we heard that the donkey for the Frost Fair mystery play had fallen through the ice and drowned.”“Amazing he wasn’t trapped under the ice,”MoreLess
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