“What was he looking for? Did he get it open?”
“Do you want flowers or candles on the table?” Millie poked her head in through the swinging door.
“Whatever you would like will be just fine, dear.” Mrs. Dixon suppressed her irritation.
“Okay.”
“He did,” Mrs. Peabody confirmed after the door swung back shut. “But he looked rather displeased with what he had found.”
Mrs. Dixon popped up and ran to the safe, which was hidden behind the pans in the cupboard. Her employment contract was stored there, along with some of the family’s most expensive possessions: diamonds, deeds to the house in Chicago, the Mansion in Georgetown, jewelry, as well as a number of other important family documents including Mortimer’s birth certificate. “Did he take anything?”
“I don’t think so. I believe I ca
