CHAPTER EIGHT
Escape!
“So, Jonathan,” Arthur Norbel continued the postmortems on the latest gathering of the ‘Braided Whip’, “is it the fair-haired hedonist or the lovely brunette that pleases you most?”
Jonathan almost looked disgruntled as he considered the question. “My original intention was to woo the little musician. She has a lively sort of disposition that particularly appeals to me.”
“But you think she can be turned?”
“As her sister has been?” He mulled the thought only briefly, since he already knew the answer to his friend’s question. “Not that easily. Lizzy already had a head start in depravity. A shopkeeper in town—a Mr. McGreevy—and I made an acquaintance a few months back and the subject of Lizzy Barton, maid to Harkins’, came up. He gave me enough information about the
