Read India Black and the Gentleman Thief Online
Authors: Carol K. Carr
Tags: #Historical, #Mystery, #Romance
We were standing in a knot on the pavement trying to extract ourselves from the clutches of my employees when a comely young fellow with mild blue eyes walked up briskly and doffed his hat to me.
“Miss Black?”
I recognized the amiable face under the cloud of blond curls. “Mr. Brown, how nice to see you again.”
French detached himself from the spectacle and wandered over. “Hello, Brown.”
“Hello, French.”
It was no surprise the two knew each other as they both worked for the prime minister. I’d made Brown’s acquaintance a few weeks ago, when Dizzy had dispatched him to Lotus House to plant some information among the anarchists.
“What brings you here?” asked French.
“I’ve a packet from the prime minister for you.” Brown handed it to French and I looked over his shoulder as he opened it. He pulled out a handful of papers and thumbed through them. He glanced up at Brown.
“What is this?”
“They are tickets, sir, for Reverend Edward Campbell and his wife, Rachel, and for their ward, Vincent Smith. You’ll be sailing tonight on the Castle Mail Packet Company’s steamship, the
Dunrobin Castle,
bound for Durban, in South Africa.”
“I can see that they are tickets, Brown. I meant, what is this about?”
“In a word, sir? Zulus.”