The Vagabond Duchess. Claire Thornton

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      Jack looked up. ‘Send him to Lord Swiftbourne,’ he said harshly.

      Bundle’s eyes widened briefly. ‘As you wish.’

      ‘I don’t like it, but it’s close,’ said Jack. ‘If he goes there, Swiftbourne can send a message to me at Putney. I’m going back there now. He wasn’t there this morning, but they hadn’t moved the prisoners then—’

      ‘Prisoners?’

      Jack quickly explained.

      ‘I’m proud to serve such a lively, gallant family,’ Bundle remarked.

      ‘You have an insolent gift for sarcasm,’ Jack said to the man who’d carried him as a three-year-old all the way from Sussex to France.

      ‘Since when has Jack Bow acquired a taste for tedious deference?’

      ‘After tonight, Jack Bow’s dead.’

      ‘What?’ Bundle sat up straighter.

      ‘That’s what you wanted, isn’t it?’ Jack tossed off the last of his coffee. ‘Or did I misunderstand all your hints that I should adopt a more regular style of living? I’ll become a paragon of respectability—but first, please God, I must find Jakob.’ He stood up. ‘I need a horse.’