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The small restaurant was crowded come nine o’clock. It was filled with guests, staff, and other people who were either there because Constable Havers had requested their presence or because they were curious, but Nathan and Louisa found space at the bar.
Nathan didn’t mind being a little cramped for the position afforded him a view of most of the people in the restaurant. He could see the beefy gentleman he had noted that morning, and his wife, almost hidden by her husband’s bulk, and the librarian-looking Elizabeth Creek, who wore a pained expression, as though being around so many people in such a confined space was a trying experience for her. Another of the guests caught his eye as well, someone he hadn’t previously noted.
The gentleman Nathan’s eyes came to rest on, briefly, was
