Chapter 53

"Why do you say us?" said Gus petulant glare to the letter. "It's obviously just you he's talking about. He doesn't mention me once."

"And if you'd stayed quiet and acted like the wart you pretend to be whenever I leave the house, none of us would have been the wiser."

He opened his mouth to ask just what I meant by that, but Milly stuck her head out of the kitchen then with a mischievous cackle.

"It means I heard, and you've now got a date with little old me instead. Like hell I'm letting you get in the way of Lil' hook'n up with the son of a duke, ho boy! It's a tale for the ages!"

Gus looked like he had swallowed his own vomit.

I patted his head sympathetically.

"I assure you, I'm not going to be married when I come back."

That didn't seem to reassure him in the least.

Gus or not, I still got a free ticket out of the clutches of the bard poisoned inn.