Chapter Twenty‘I bring greetings from Mrs Shauna O’Connell.’ I raised my hands above my head to show I was unarmed.
A second woman patted me down from behind, starting with my hair and sleeves and working her way down over my corset and onwards.
‘Enough!’ I said sharply, and turned to face them both before they discovered what I carried. ‘I am Emmeline Muchamore, and I have no intention of submitting to such indignity. Where is Mrs Dugdale?’
The first woman barked out a laugh and motioned the second away. She did not lower her gun. I sighed. That would have been too easy.
‘Come with me,’ she said.
‘Very well.’
I followed her into the house, knowing all the while that the second woman was only a couple of steps behind me.
We entered a room that was immediately recognisable as both a
