Private Message to Dominic Selwyn

[alt_lucius]

Who or what is Madam Charlotte Smythe and why is she pretending to post as that traitor? I thought your people had discovered intelligence leading to the arrests of the authors of these patently specious posts.

I'm sure I do not have to point out that this sort of claim - now, when we await Our Lord's verdict on the very matter - may well be used as a reason not to discharge them.

Comments

[alt_selwyn]

We're looking back through logged entries by Smythe and there's been absolutely nothing prior to alert anyone to seditious thoughts. She seems to have rarely used her journal, and mostly to place owl orders, all with legitimate shops.

And you do not need to remind me, no. I'm all too aware.

[alt_selwyn]

Lucius, I just got an owl from St Mungo's. Apparently Charlotte Smythe is a patient there -- they say she came in last night after blowing up a cauldron in her kitchen. They seem quite convinced she's the victim of theft, rather than the perpetrator of sedition.

I'm sure MLE will be checking this claim. I'm going to drop a note to Barty to make sure he got the same owl.

[alt_lucius]

Barty's in the field to-day, and anyway it should go to Mordant Travers. Anything to do with the Grim Truth entries are his case.

Good to see Communications is moving so quickly toward successful identification. Or at least elimination of the possible suspects.

[alt_selwyn]

I had my clerk deliver a note to Travers, I thought that less likely to be lost in the shuffle than a journal entry.

[alt_selwyn]

We spent the last two hours trying to track down Higgs. It's not as if he informs us of his movements now that he no longer works in the office.

[alt_lucius]

Higgs? Is he connected to this Smythe woman?

[alt_selwyn]

Evidently not. But we thought it best to make sure, considering, so we brought him in to question him. He's still clearly a bit resentful of having been sacked, but we don't think he had anything to do with this affair.