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Rebel Cause - Chapter One




Rebel Cause

Chapter One
copyright 2004 by Sharon Green and ABCD Webmasters


Once Adair finished breakfast, she discovered two different things: eating did help
to get rid of a hangover, and it was a lot earlier in the day than she'd thought. The
servants were up and around, of course, but everyone else was probably still in bed
asleep. Which made the time perfect for picking up and walking out.

But first Adair found one particular necklace among her possessions and put it on
under her tunic. That way no one would see the necklace, not until she brought it
out for the jeweler she meant to sell it to. It was a very expensive necklace,
something her father's secretary had taken pains to tell her when she'd seemed
about to refuse the gift.

The gift had supposedly come from her father on her last birthday, but it had been
her father's secretary who had brought the necklace and given it to her. Her father
was "very busy" and therefore couldn't bring the gift himself, but she'd been
assured that her father would come to wish her a happy birthday as soon as he was
free. That occasion had been three months earlier, and oddly enough her father still
hadn't managed to free himselfтАж

Adair's first urge had been to throw the necklace back in her father's face, but then
she'd realized that doing so would have been stupid. That secretary had been so
upset at the thought of having to give the necklace back to his employer he'd
actually told Adair how much the jewelry was worth. If she sold the thing for half
of its true value she'd have enough gold to live on for quite some time, and few
jewelers would refuse a bargain like that.

So she'd taken the necklace with her when she'd left home, hiding the jewelry along
with another couple of pieces in some of her books. She'd made sure that those
books came to the palace with her, but now the arrangement had to be changed.
Walking around with a single book would look perfectly natural, but carrying two
or three books would certainly cause suspicion. For that reason Adair now wore the
necklace, the single book she meant to carry holding two smaller pieces of jewelry.

And now I'm ready to go, Adair thought with a smile as she headed for the door out
of her apartment. I'll be on foot and I'll be carrying a book, so anyone seeing me
will assume that I mean to stroll around for a while and then find a tree to sit down

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