Money-Minded and Plot-Aware novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Rite Book
The black book lay open on Hadrian's library table, and it smelled like a damp cellar.
Betsy had carried it from the Hallowell trunk wrapped in three shawls.
"Mother's," she said. "I mean, my lady's mother's. I never dared open it."
"Neither did the old Rosamund, until she was desperate," I said.
I sat down with a lamp and a cup of tea I did not drink.
Hadrian pulled a chair beside me and opened the second volume of the realm's law, to check the rite's words against the old statutes.
The pages of the black book were not paper, but something thinner and yellower.
The ink was brown.
The title on the first leaf said only: The Exchange of Lives.
"She read this when she was alone and terrified," I said.
"I'm reading it with a Marshal and a bookkeeper. It's a better way to read dangerous things."
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