The Stuart Sapphire (2013)
“She was alone and he rapped furiously on the pane to alert her attention.Turning briefly, she nodded and, although he mouthed ‘Wait!’ she hurried on. Exasperated, Tam rushed out of the front door and across the garden almost knocking over Townsend walking towards the entrance to the Pavilion, in deep conversation with a stranger.Hastily apologising, he noted that Townsend’s companion was the man he had seen briefly on the steps as he was leaving Creeve House. It must be very important business ...and a fast horse that had brought him so swiftly to Brighton, Tam decided, as he rushed on in his headlong pursuit of Gemma.He had to talk to her and he no longer cared who saw them together. Now that the Stuart Sapphire had been found and the marchioness’s death solved, he was well aware that his own death knell had sounded.He was expendable. Beneath the genteel splendour of the Pavilion, the executioner’s pistol was poised in readiness.Gemma was walking swiftly but he caught up with her and instead of slowing down she merely acknowledged his presence with an angry glance.MoreLess
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