‘I am leaving Hartley in the morning. I cannot stay here.’

‘I agree. It is too dangerous for you to remain in this town. Can you not leave now? There are times when I think the police are already onto us!’

‘Well, they are very suspicious of me, I give you that. I dare not go back to the inn, for certain. I will surely be arrested if they find me there, or anywhere, for that matter! I am more than a little surprised I was allowed to go free after my last visit to the police station.’

‘I presume it was Inspector Watson who interviewed you.’

 Sarah Anne Smith nodded. ‘I fed him just the correct amount of truth – or at least my truth - to make him go off in a different direction; the Rankinists march and the...

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