"Hanger ‒"
"We have to at least talk to her, or we'll never know."
"You're drawing thin here, Constable. To question the Spadros Country House on the word of a messenger? And how will you find who she sent the mail to? Ask everyone there? The place must have near a hundred workers."
"If that's what it takes, I'm prepared to do it. And we must do it now. These scoundrels have killed anyone remotely involved with this case, and now, as you say, Stephen Rivers is gone. What if they target Miss Ogier? If she's taken it upon herself to search for the boy it's vital we find her before they do."
The Commander sighed. "Very well, Hanger. Go." He pulled out a quarter page form, made a few notes, signed it, handed it over. "Show this to the driver."
Permission to travel to the countryside. "Tha
