Chapter seventeen“But, cabbage, what did you do to the beastly man?”
As she spoke she laid the baby back in his cradle. I’d waited until his mother had finished feeding him before climbing in through the window. There had been no difficulty whatsoever in re-entering the villa, and now I intended to have a right royal heart-to-heart with Mevancy.
“I told him to steer clear of us. Apparently he did not heed the warning.”
“Oh, you! Did you expect him to?”
I wore my own face. I spoke in a suitably apologetic tone of voice that would have vastly amused some of my more disreputable friends.
“Well, I’d hoped—”
She sighed. “What am I to do with you? Anyway,” and her voice sharpened, “I doubt if you’ve the strength.”
“I see they found the baby they were looking for.”
“Oh, yes. And Leotes is
