A Question of Honor (32 page)

I wondered what would happen to Corporal Caswell. With any luck the war would be over before he’d healed sufficiently to return to duty. He could start a new life anywhere in the world. My father told me that the Lieutenant didn’t want to return to the regiment. There was a new Colonel now, and most of the men he’d served with in India were dead.

Was I happy about the way this had turned out? Justice had been served, honor had been satisfied. Thomas Wade was no longer a hunted man. Still . . .

It was my mother who put it best in a letter she wrote soon after I’d reached France.

You went into this for your father’s sake, and the good name of the regiment. I was drawn in by the faces of those children. And Simon because in Wade’s boots, he would have stood fast and fought to clear himself. Sad, isn’t it, that no one was moved to seek justice for the Caswells? Hazel was the only child strong enough to withstand them, and in the end, even she was pushed too far by their greed, when it threatened her happiness. They decided their own fate, and in the end, it will cost Lady Campbell her life.

And, meanwhile, Simon was forced to buy a new pair of driving gloves. His had been entered into evidence.

About the Author

CHARLES TODD is the author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, the Bess Crawford mysteries, and two stand-alone novels. A mother-and-son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.

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By Charles Todd

The Ian Rutledge Mysteries

A Test of
Wills

Wings of Fire

Search the Dark

Legacy of the
Dead

Watchers of Time

A Fearsome Doubt

A Cold Treachery

A Long
Shadow

A False
Mirror

A Pale
Horse

A Matter of
Justice

The Red
Door

A Lonely
Death

The
Confession

Proof of
Guilt

The Bess Crawford Mysteries

A Duty to
the Dead

An Impartial
Witness

A Bitter
Truth

An Unmarked
Grave

A Question
of Honor

Other Fiction

The Murder Stone

The Walnut
Tree

Credits

Cover design by James Iacobelli

Cover photographs: woman © 2013 by Richard Jenkins; Golden Temple © by Ashok Sinha/Getty Images

Copyright

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are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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