Chadwick saw Johann rush out of the townhouse and decided to follow him. They needed to talk with Amelie Lafitte. His instincts told him there was another aspect to the situation, but he didn’t know what to make of Marie’s tale of the spirit of the theatre, and he was still skeptical of the influence of the Eros Element. Part of it was not daring to hope, true, but he was a man of science, and all they had was anecdotal evidence thus far. There was the strange night when she had collapsed in her bed and had been impossible to wake.
He found Johann walking out of the hallway that held most of the dressing rooms, including Marie’s, preceded by one of the young actresses. Radcliffe had helped her with an upset stomach the month before, and she smiled shyly at him but had eyes only for the mu
