CHAPTER 12
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CHARLOTTE:
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“MONTROSE GROUP ACCOUNTS FROZEN BANKERS REFUSE JOINT SIGNATORY ACCESS PENDING YOUR AUTHORIZATION PLEASE SEND WITHOUT DELAY NICHOLAS MASTERSON”
“URGENT AWAITING REPLY SEND AUTHORIZATION POST HASTE NICHOLAS MASTERSON”
“CHARLOTTE YOUR TARDINESS IRRESPONSIBILITY PUTTING MONTROSE BUSINESS IN JEOPARDY SEND AUTHORIZATION AT ONCE NICHOLAS MASTERSON”
It was less easy to ignore or hide from Matthias.
The busy London social whirl did not keep me safe. I thought I had been careful to shake off his watchful eye since the night he cornered me at the Savoy and quizzed me about James Dorsey, Trevise-Fitzgerald, Hastings, and all his other imagined perils. Perhaps I had grown complacent. Matthias ambushed me one evening at the Hartleys’. After supper, the rad
