As soon as Miss Bedwen and her defenders left, Captain Briggs looked apologetically at the man known as Lieutenant Craen.
"It seems like it won't be possible to convict her for the murder of Captain Greggs," he said. "Before she had such a powerful master, it would have been possible, but now... I know Ansel Hurston; he's one of the top criminal lawyers in Kalmar and the best one in Ashford. If you don't count Professor Bedwen, that is."
"That's OK," Lieutenant Craen said. "Since she didn't do it anyway. She's hiding something, but she didn't kill Edward. Her story matches the evidence, and we know he died after her phone call. Somebody else did it."
"Then why are you going after her?" Captain Briggs asked. He usually preferred to stay out of the Intelligence Corps' business, but this t
