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Grange House, 10 June 1870
On the day of the journey, Iris woke to a quiet house and the sense something had gone terribly wrong. Concern she'd forgotten something important had made her toss and turn until exhaustion claimed her.
But a different kind of anxiety had awoken her this time. With a sigh, she rolled out of bed to check everything one more time.
In the dim room, she touched her trunk, valise and reticule in turn, then moved toward her maid Sophie's luggage. Instead of leather-covered wood, air met Iris's questing hand, and she hurriedly lit a lamp to reveal that Sophie's trunk was gone. She ran into Sophie's room, a small bedroom off Iris's, and found it to be empty of Sophie and all of her things. Iris's sleep-fogged mind told her Sophie had been taken
