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Chapter 19: The Regent Falls
The Archivist opened the ledger on top of the laundry cart, in the lamplight.
Two hundred of the oldest creatures in Charleston stood around her in a ring.
"You will not read my papers," Manigault said, "in front of the Court."
"They are the Court's papers, Thaddeus," she said. "You merely kept them."
She turned a page with one dry finger.
"The fifth of October, six years ago. A second entry, below the one the girl has already seen."
Her voice carried to the parapet without effort.
"Disbursement from the Regent's privy account: four cans of gasoline, a locksmith's fee, and the wages of two men, to be paid after dark."
She looked up.
"Charged to the Court's treasury, and signed by the Regent himself."
The murmur began at the back of the roof and rolled forward.
"A fire is not a Court matter," said the woman in green silk, in a voice as calm as a spoon on china.
"It was a house on Calder Street," said the Archivist, "with two humans in it."
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