Chapter nineteen“I’d never have believed San Duven could’ve done these ’orrible murders,” said Dimpy.
I felt the shock. “Dimpy! You can’t really believe Duven is guilty!”
We crouched in a dark doorway. We’d thrown off that first pursuit and now we were getting our breaths back.
“We saw him! Didn’t we?”
“We saw a dark figure—”
“And the vegetable lady told us he’d gone down Cabbage Alley.”
“All the same—” I shook my head. “If the murders are not the work of Dokerty, then my guess was that Prince Ortyg had put some of his gang up to it. That way he’d hit directly at Khon the Mak who is a strong Dokerty supporter.”
Dimpy didn’t reply. He had a tough and resilient young mind and he’d seen plenty of unpleasant things in his seasons on Kregen. It was easier for him to believe in Duven’s gu
