Her father stared at her.
“What are you talking about, my dearest?”
“I am telling you, Papa,” Dorina said in a frightened voice, “that Cousin Jarvis is using Black Magic to try to kill the Earl!”
The Vicar found it so incredible that it took Dorina a little time to explain what she had overheard and to persuade her father that she was not exaggerating what Jarvis was doing.
Then when she explained to him that the Earl had been poisoned, the Vicar said sharply,
“This sort of outrage must be stopped at once and Jarvis arrested for attempting such a crime.”
“I doubt if anyone would believe it, Papa, just as you are finding it hard to believe me now,” Dorina answered. “First things first. We have to try first to counteract Jarvis’s devilish scheming, so I want you to come with me to Yard
