John did not make regular use of the private offices he kept in London. Leona learned that when her first visit resulted in no response to her rap on the door. She returned each of the next three days. Finally on the last one she met with success. A clerk opened the office to her, Tong Wei, and three of Easterbrook's footmen. He took her card away. She rehearsed her “almost lie” while she waited. She hoped that Mr. St. John would not examine it too critically. Tong Wei took a position near a window, looking out much as he had that day in the drawing room. He was always on alert now, despite the guards who crowded the house and garden. “What do you see?” she asked. “He still follows,” he said. “The rider on the brown horse. He does not even try to hide his presence now.” She peered over his shoulder. Down below in the street the rider in question, hat brim low over his eyes, boldly sat near the crossroad forty yards behind her carriage. “He wants me to see him. He wants me to be afraid.
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