Chapter ElevenVentura stared at the letters for a long time.
‘How could I have been so foolish as not to find them?’ she asked herself.
But she saw now that the secret drawer was well hidden and the tears came into her eyes as she stared at her mother’s writing in beautifully formed clear letters.
One letter was addressed to the Marqués de Torre Nueva and above his name was written,
“In case my father is dead or will not receive Ventura.”
‘She thought of everything,’ Ventura told herself with a little sob.
Then, gathering the letters in her hand, she stood in the sunshine holding them close against her breast.
Quite suddenly she saw how imperative it was for her to act cleverly. The one thing that she must not do was to embarrass Lord Lynke or place him in the false position of havi
