Chapter Five
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After her short and miserable stay at the cloister, Lucy disappeared into the interior of the vast Asian continent. As it turned out, she was on loan as a draft pony to obscure, wealthy and despicable parties who were delighted to have her pulling four-wheeled haulage carts, in service to the owners and operators of a vast silver mine, deep in the mountains of Whateveristan.
Doctor Ernst von Holt, her father and a well known German industrialist who in his time had successfully dealt with blackmailers, extortionists, petty thieves and a cheating wife, was more convinced than the police that Lucy was the victim of some sort of crime, but he really had no evidence of it. However, his personal philosophy was that “with money, almost anything is possible” and he was wil
