As he saw the Marriage Certificate and the Church Register and read the letters that the Duke had written to Elizabeth Stanton, it was obvious that Jerry would have no difficulty in proving his claim.
At the same time he told himself that it would be a great mistake to underestimate the efforts that the Duchess would make to prevent this from happening.
He did not, however, wish to frighten Aspasia and, as he put the papers back into the box, he said,
“I am going to place this in a safe for the night, not the main safe, which is in a part of the house which could be broken into, but one that is in my bedroom and known only to myself and my valet.”
“You don’t think that – anybody would come here – tonight to try to steal it?” Aspasia asked and there was a distinctly nervous tremor in he
