Contents

Chapter One

WHEN JOCELYN BRANDON DIED—AT A GREAT OLD AGE, as magicians tend…

Chapter Two

AIDAN CAIN GOT OFF THE TRAIN AT MELTON AND JOINED…

Chapter Three

ANDREW WAS ANXIOUS TO QUESTION AIDAN FURTHER, but he had…

Chapter Four

ANDREW DROVE OFF TO MELTON WITH HIS MIND FULL OF…

Chapter Five

AIDAN SPENT THE REST OF THE DAY EXPLORING THE house…

Chapter Six

AIDAN WENT TO BED, WHERE HE SLEPT SWEETLY.

Chapter Seven

MRS. STOCK HAD GONE HOME WHEN ANDREW AND AIDAN arrived back…

Chapter Eight

YOU GOT TO MELSTONE MANOR BY TAKING THE NARROW road…

Chapter Nine

HELPING STASHE, AIDAN DISCOVERED, INVOLVED A LOT OF running about.

Chapter Ten

TARQUIN HAD ARRIVED, IT SEEMED, IN HOPES THAT Andrew could…

Chapter Eleven

WHEN AIDAN CAME YAWNING DOWN TO THE KITCHEN that morning…

Chapter Twelve

IT RAINED ALL THAT AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AIDAN moodily went…

Chapter Thirteen

SHE WAS NOT STASHE, ALTHOUGH SHE WAS REMARKABLY like her.

Chapter Fourteen

AIDAN WAS STARTLED AND DEPRESSED TO LEARN THAT Andrew and…

Chapter Fifteen

BEFORE ANDREW COULD THINK WHAT TO DO, OR EVEN move…

Chapter Sixteen

THE DIM, HOT, GRASSY SPACE INSIDE THE TENT WAS lined…

Chapter Seventeen

AIDAN CONTINUED TO BE MISERABLE ABOUT GROIL, although Andrew kept…

 

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