The gift came with a card signed SH. She smiled and put it on, hoping for inspiration, as she pondered who was lying. Was it Major Nash or Colonel Moriarty? Or were they conspiring together? If Nash was elected primus baro he could conceivably approve Moriarty’s entry into the Diogenes Club. It would be a huge step up for two penniless sons from fallen families. What a coup de grace for two young men to control all that went on behind the scenes of government: to decide the Irish Guards question, to decide on membership of the most exclusive club in London, to control the world’s bank. Ambition, indeed! Philip and Clement. King and Pope. They could easily have set the bombs. They were everywhere that night. Including in the dome room and then duelling down by the lake at just the right time. They could have strangled the studio photographer, then strangled the other one too, hidden him in the pump house and then dumped his body the following night when they met in the wood. And they might have broken into the house in Cheyne Walk to make sure no evidence pointed to them.
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