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“Lady Maira, are you all right?” asked Lady Ernestine, hurrying into the guard house with Morag and Branton right behind her.
“Lady Ernestine.” Maira rushed over to meet her. “That man, Jacob, who gave you the present was naught but a thief. He and his men robbed us.”
“I know,” she answered. “Morag told me she saw Jacob going up the guardhouse and that she thought something was wrong.”
“We’ve got to go after him,” said Maira, anxious to hunt them down.
“I can’t give that order,” said Lady Ernestine. “My garrison of soldiers is sparse since my husband took most of them to fight for the king. And I’ll need to send some of them to guard you and Morag on the way to Durham.”
“So, you’re just going to let the man get away with stealing from us?”
“He couldn’t have taken much,” said Lady Ernestine. “When my husband returns, he’ll address the issue. But at this time, there is nothing I can do about it.”
“That’s just not right,” said Maira, fingering the thief’s jewel-handled dagger, inspecting it as she spoke.
“What’s that?” asked Morag, being as curious as always.
“It’s the thief’s dagger,” Maira told her.
“Did he drop it?” asked Branton.
“Nay,” Maira said with a smile. “I lifted it from him when he was tying me up.”
“So ye stole it from him, just like he stole from us,” said Morag.
“Let’s just say this is payback for what he took from us.”
“You mean for the weapons he stole,” said Branton.
“Well, that, too,” she said, really talking about the kiss he stole from her that she had never meant to give him.
