Shadow Of The War Machine (The Secret Order) - Plot & Excerpts
I almost tripped over a gravestone behind me and lost my balance. I had to catch myself against a tree. “You should come away from there, dear,” an old woman’s voice said. “You wouldn’t want to be caught somewhere you shouldn’t be.” I staggered out of the graves and onto the path that passed in front of the tomb of Héloïse and Abelard. Hastily I tried to brush the dust off my skirt and tuck my loose hair back under the brim of my bonnet. “I apologize. I don’t believe we’ve met.” The thin woman stood slightly hunched. Her stark white hair had been done up in an older fashion beneath the brim of her hat. She reminded me a bit of Mrs. Brindle. She smiled at me and stepped closer on the path. “I haven’t seen you since you were a child. I was good friends with your grandmother. My, you have grown. You look just like your father, a Whitlock through and through.” The old woman had a sweet, round face and keen intelligence in her eyes. “You have made quite a name for yourself in the Order.
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