As things stood at the moment, the entire crime now rested at Diane’s feet-and Jeff’s, the still elusive manservant.
‘But we will find him, Rita,’ DemiteYathvanar had said. ‘We find everyone, eventually.’
Everyone but yourselves, she had thought to reply, for that search leads you onto a far too frightening path. Instead, she had said nothing, given him nothing at all. And watched as the sword got ever smaller in his hand-yes, that sword, too.
‘Just as we found you. Just as I found you. Oh, it’s well known now. I was the one to arrest Diane Beddict and Scholar Rita. Me. Not Karos Invictad, who sits day and night drooling over his box and that blessed two-headed insect. It has driven him mad, you know. He does nothing else.’ He then laughed. ‘Did you know he is now the richest man in the
