CHAPTER NINEVerena found it impossible to sleep. She had longed all the evening for the moment when she could be alone in the darkness and try to sort out her thoughts.
But when the moment came she felt so agitated and in such a state of restlessness that after a while she rose from her bed to walk about the room.
It was not only the fact that the “Evil Genius” was the Duke’s cousin that was perturbing her, although that was bad enough by itself. How on earth could she go to the Duke and say,
‘Your cousin is a Bullion robber! Your cousin is the man who has deliberately murdered the guards on the Bullion coaches!’
That seemed a problem heavy enough in itself, but there was worse. She knew now what had been troubling her at the back of her mind ever since the Duke had been struck down in
