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Few Hours Ago…
The city was a blur of hurried faces outside the carriage window, but Prescott saw none of it. His mind was a frantic storm of dead ends and missed opportunities. For a week, he had been looking for Baron Edgar. A whole week. And today was the day of the meeting, the day Augusta would make her final move to seize control of everything. If he did not find the Baron, all hope was lost.
He had searched everywhere. He had spent days checking every discreet boarding house, respectable inns and private hotel in the city and its surrounding towns, places where a man could be held quietly. He had sent discreet inquiries to private sanatoriums and asylums, places where an old man could be declared mad and forgotten. He had staked out the residences of men known to do Augusta's dirty work, watching for any sign of a high-value prisoner. He had even questioned servants, bribed informants, and followed a dozen false leads that all ended in disappointment. Nothing was found. The old Baron had vanished without a trace.
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