A few minutes after Charlie emerged from the bedroom the door opened again and in came a very different woman from the one they all knew as Clare. Without making direct eye contact with any of them she declared,
"Tell me where to find the bastard. And what you need me to get."
Jack spoke first , pleading with her.
"You don't need to do this, drop it now and we'll find another way."
He knew in his heart though that his pleas were useless but he had to try if he wasn't to lose Clare for good.
"Twenty six Vermont Street, he lives there. We want irrefutable proof that he is selling secrets to foreign countries, good luck , you're going to need it."
Charlie told her the address and wished her luck, whereas George turned his back and ignored her although he really wanted to hold her and tell how sorry he was for what he had said.
The door closed and she was gone, no one spoke, an air of gloom hung over the room.
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Quintin Townsend was in an absolutely foul mood, his plans for the evening had been dashed when his young pretty secretary come mistress had informed him that she had to attend a party that evening so wouldn't be able to see to his considerable needs.
He sat ruminating on his career as a trusted civil servant, he had been loyal and trustworthy for twenty of his twenty five years but he kept being overlooked for a peerage. That hadn't sat well with him at all so he began selling snippets of information to foreign governments for which he had been well rewarded. He didn't consider this as betraying his country, it was the Establishment that had treated him so shabbily.
He heard the doorbell ring and waited for Thomas his butler and bodyguard to answer it. Just a few minutes later Thomas entered trying to hide a smirk.
"There's a young lady to see you Sir, says her name is Edison, Miss Cora Edison."
"Tell me where to find the bastard. And what you need me to get."
Jack spoke first , pleading with her.
"You don't need to do this, drop it now and we'll find another way."
He knew in his heart though that his pleas were useless but he had to try if he wasn't to lose Clare for good.
"Twenty six Vermont Street, he lives there. We want irrefutable proof that he is selling secrets to foreign countries, good luck , you're going to need it."
Charlie told her the address and wished her luck, whereas George turned his back and ignored her although he really wanted to hold her and tell how sorry he was for what he had said.
The door closed and she was gone, no one spoke, an air of gloom hung over the room.
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Quintin Townsend was in an absolutely foul mood, his plans for the evening had been dashed when his young pretty secretary come mistress had informed him that she had to attend a party that evening so wouldn't be able to see to his considerable needs.
He sat ruminating on his career as a trusted civil servant, he had been loyal and trustworthy for twenty of his twenty five years but he kept being overlooked for a peerage. That hadn't sat well with him at all so he began selling snippets of information to foreign governments for which he had been well rewarded. He didn't consider this as betraying his country, it was the Establishment that had treated him so shabbily.
He heard the doorbell ring and waited for Thomas his butler and bodyguard to answer it. Just a few minutes later Thomas entered trying to hide a smirk.
"There's a young lady to see you Sir, says her name is Edison, Miss Cora Edison."