Okay... so, in the last chapter there were 12 servants and Joshua. In this chapter the Marshall kills 10 instantly, 5 are left, and there's also Joshua. Ugh...
Distances, amounts of money, and the numbers of people are always so inconsistent in all these novels.
When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”
He paused.
“It's Zero Hour now.
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