My Elizabeth - Chapter 20

Thanks:  To DK and Capella for the beta (mistakes remain mine!), to Amy for the banner, to you for the feedback.  

 

Chapter 20

Union Station – Portland, Maine – Just past midnight

The train station certainly looked empty from the outside.  Not a light winking from even the most obscure window.  But someone was inside, for Miss Edith had told Dru of him (Miss Edith was never wrong).

“Just try the door by the alcove, Mummy,” her darling baby instructed from where she lay tucked under Dru’s arm.  Miss Edith was a little worse for wear following their voyage – her sausage curls now flattened and brittle.  But her eyes still shone with cruel intent.  
 

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