The SubstitutionJack Diamond had needed someone to take his place in order to convincingly fake his death.
Jake Bower had spied on the Diamond Family and impersonated a Diamond Heir.
So when Jack’s oldest brother Cesare presented Mr. Jake Bower to him at the Prison, a man who actually resembled Jack in many a way, on the face of it this seemed reasonable.
But I’d known the man. I pictured Mr. Bower’s body burnt, only his shoes surviving.
And I put my face in my hands. Mr. Bower had deceived me, betrayed me, spied on me. Yet no man deserved this end!
I returned to Mr. Bower's letter, hands shaking:
I even went so far as to shave my head, dress like Master Jack Diamond, going to a widow outsider’s home, meeting her young son. It felt fun, daring even, to impersonate such a powerful man
