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He walked beside Malcolm towards the entrance to the Great Hall. The milling of soldiers in the courtyard thinned. Once inside, he noticed the Hall’s sconces were lit, but there was no one around. Duncan guessed that because he, as Laird of Ballinderry, was elsewhere, others who usually spent their time in the Hall found some place else to be, or something else to do. He stopped Miss Jenny, the maid that was in charge of his household, and asked that food from the evening’s meal be brought to the room behind the Great Hall.
As they neared the back of the Hall and the hallway that led to the door of the room Duncan used for his dealings with clan business, they slowed their steps as the door was ajar. Malcolm reached it first. He flattened himself against the wall and pushed the door o
