Chapter 15
The paper was cheap, thin, and the writing so scrawled in parts, Rosalie needed a magnifying glass to distinguish letters. The content was damning. George Boseman had been spying on her. He knew everything, or thought he did. Two thirds of the report were factual, dry reading. Boseman, or his secretary, must have combed shipping and business records, copying out pertinent facts that could have related to anyone arriving in the colony.
It wasn’t until he’d uncovered records from England that he’d found any links between herself and the MacKinnons, and they were tenuous at best. Rosalie suspected that he’d only continued because he wanted the Garden Arms Hotel. At any cost. Several pages referred to another woman of about the same age, and even Aunt Flora had been considered, an
