“But you asked him and – Giles to – stay at The Castle?”
“I wanted them here under my eye and I wanted you beside me,” the Duke answered. “I also had an idea that the old Mill was too convenient a place of hiding for them to ignore it. And Harry arranged everything else with his Colonel and the Officials at the Bank of England.”
The Duke paused and then he said,
“But I will never forgive myself, nor can Harry excuse himself, for overlooking the fact that a genuine movement of Bullion must have left the Bank this morning for another town. It was only when Assaye led us to the Mill that we realised what had happened.”
“It was for – Canterbury,” Verena answered.
“So, it was through my sheer stupidity I endangered your precious life,” the Duke exclaimed.
“I was afraid,” she said, her fac
