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The Amber Rose Of The Amazon – Part 31

“What did Miss Stein pay you for your services?”

“That amount I now will keep in spite of a delay in execution. But its been a pleasure working for the Moriarty family.”

Even at his age Holmes still maintained the ability to slow his pulse and calm any emotional response. Not to say his mind wasn’t racing to very corner of his skull to weight out the danger those two words invoked. The Game had moved from a pleasant distraction to one of dire consequences. Had he known he would have been less caviler.

Slowly he moved to the right.

The Amber Rose Of The Amazon – Part 30

The undeniable click of a revolver sounded behind Holmes ear, a good 10 feet away.

“Yes Mr. Holmes why on earth would we carry such things,” said Mrs. Kane

“To give Mr. Adams there justification for shooting myself and my partner Dr. Watson. That is Mr. Adams gun is it not.”

“Not much escapes you, except this night. Sadly in the struggle our dear 3rd vice president expired.”

“Very tidy, and a pound of sorrow for Mrs. Ford.”

“Since I will be meeting my maker in moments, does a condemned man have a final request?”

A second trigger clicked “Ask.”

The Case of the Amber Rose of the Amazon – Part 29

The wall slowly parted exposing first the gun then the woman. Her bead on the doctor was one of an accomplish shooter and Watson doubled his focus on every move the 2nd stenography made.

“Confound you Mr. Holmes I have rewrite this outcome thrice because of your stumbling about our affairs. I pray this is the last amendment.”

“I am an agent of Mr. Grant, but age has made me slow of wit and I fully missed the connection between he and you. The secrets he kept of the firm caused secrets of his family to rise to the surface.

The Case of the Amber Rose of the Amazon – Part 28

The wall slowly parted exposing first the gun then the woman. Her bead on the doctor was one of an accomplish shooter and Watson doubled his focus on every move the 2nd stenography made.

“Confound you Mr. Holmes I have rewrite this outcome thrice because of your stumbling about our affairs. I pray this is the last amendment.”

“I am an agent of Mr. Grant, but age has made me slow of wit and I fully missed the connection between he and you. The secrets he kept of the firm caused secrets of his family to rise to the surface.

The Case of the Amber Rose of the Amazon – Part 27

The early death of Solomon Hill and in grief the passing of senior Hill, the mastership of the firm fell first to Mr. Ford and then to his widow.

No secret lies long in fallow earth. Senior Hill’s granddaughter Mrs. Brown learn the reason for her aunt’s spinsterhood and from fragments of fact learn from Mr. Jones also knew the falsehood engineered my the Magus Ford. In council she kept with her niece Mrs. Kane and they did mean righteous ruin.

“Is that not correct Mrs. Brown” said the detective gently directing the doctor to take aim at the wall.

The Case of the Amber Rose of the Amazon – Part 26

O but cupid’s arrow fell short as all were swept up in the tides of rising Romanic love Mr. Hill had set his sights on another. With this rebuff Miss Grant in one stroke restacked the deck dealt a harsh blow to the house of Hill

She by means sublet and untraceable made it known a particular piece of female apparel was in the possession of Evans. The engagement broken Miss Hill would never marry and in an act of selfless gentlemanly bravado Ford proposed to your grandmother.

Little love of that union would grow but purpose sought purpose gained.

The Case of the Amber Rose of the Amazon – Part 25

“The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men. Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy”

For Master Ford returning from same Oxford and in trio also with friends Jones and Evans did truly overturn the apple cart with love. Miss Hill fell madly in love with Mr. Evans and her sister’s heart went to Mr. Jones.

The Grants seeing an opportunity for speeding their family control of the firm offered Miss Grant’s hand to Mr. Hill the younger. To this new plan the senior Hill was agreeable seeing the end outcome as the same.

The Case of the Amber Rose of the Amazon – Part 24

“Good Mr. Adams I mean no slander. When all is heard you must be the judge of your grandmother’s virtue. Facts are facts and time may indeed lessen the force of the blow, but Miss Grant a blow did strike and its fruits may be your untimely end.”

It was Mr. Hill’s will his daughter Charity Hill be married to Maxus Ford and his son Solomon Hill to marry Temperance Ford. An affront to the Grants only appeased by a promise that their grandson would marry, producing a heir to their empire which locked the three powerful families as one