“Jack?” Mary was running from the house.
“He got away from me.” Jack smiled ruefully. “I can catch Pashtun tribesmen on the most volatile frontier in the world, but I can"t catch a single poacher in my own house.”
“Never mind,” Mary said. “Nobody"s hurt, and I doubt he"ll be back now we"re here.” She looked around with her eyes gleaming. “Right then, Captain Jack, we have a house to put to rights, servants to hire and a statue of Kali to find.”
Jack flinched. “Why the devil do we want a statue of Kali? She"s that Hindu goddess with a multitude of arms.”
“Exactly so,” Mary said. “And we"re going to put her on the most prominent place we can find, facing Wychwood Manor.”
“Why?” Jack shook his head. “You"re Christian, not Hindu.”
“I know that, and you know that,” Mary said, “but your be
