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by Edward Marston


  ‘What are you doing in Amsterdam?’ she asked.

  ‘I was hoping that you’d be thrilled to see me, Amalia.’

  ‘I’m overjoyed.’

  ‘His Grace instructed me to deliver dispatches to The Hague,’ he explained. ‘I think he knew that I’d relish the opportunity of paying a brief visit to you.’

  ‘We were so happy to hear what happened at Oudenarde,’ she said, stepping back to look him up and down. ‘What makes me even happier is that you seem to have come through the battle unscathed.’

  ‘Good fortune attended me yet again.’

  ‘Did you have no injuries at all?’

  ‘None that prevented me from coming here,’ he said. ‘My horse was shot from under me and I collected a few painful bruises as I fell. Otherwise – thank God – I escaped unharmed.’

  ‘Tell me all about it, Daniel.’

  ‘I can’t do that.’

  ‘But I want to hear the details.’

  ‘Then you’ll have to find someone else who was there.’

  She frowned. ‘Why are you being so unhelpful?’

  ‘Because I don’t want to waste the little time we have together, talking about a battle. It was fierce, hectic and very bloody, Amalia. My sword gave me good service. That’s all I’m prepared to say.’ He picked her up in his arms and twirled her around a couple of times. ‘Let me forget about the army for once in my life.’

  ‘But you’ve just helped to conquer the French.’

  ‘The only conquest I’m prepared to discuss is you.’

  Face glowing, Amalia laughed with sheer joy.

  About the Author

  EDWARD MARSTON was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time writer for over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television and the theatre and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home writing children’s books or literary criticism, plays or biographies.

  www.edwardmarston.com

  By Edward Marston

  THE CAPTAIN RAWSON SERIES

  Soldier of Fortune

  Drums of War

  Fire and Sword

  Under Siege

  A Very Murdering Battle

  THE RESTORATION SERIES

  The King’s Evil

  The Amorous Nightingale

  The Repentant Rake

  The Frost Fair

  The Parliament House

  The Painted Lady

  THE RAILWAY DETECTIVE SERIES

  The Railway Detective

  The Excursion Train

  The Railway Viaduct

  The Iron Horse

  Murder on the Brighton Express

  The Silver Locomotive Mystery

  Railway to the Grave

  Blood on the Line

  The Stationmaster’s Farewell

  The Railway Detective Omnibus:

  The Railway Detective - The Excursion Train - The Railway Viaduct

  Copyright

  Allison & Busby Limited

  13 Charlotte Mews

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  www.allisonandbusby.com

  Hardcover published in Great Britain in 2009.

  Paperback edition published in 2010.

  This ebook edition first published in 2011.

  Copyright © 2009 by Edward Marston

  The moral right of the author has been asserted.

  All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent buyer.

  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  ISBN 978–0–7490–4085–7

 

 

 


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