She looked away as if I’d slapped her round the face. “I’m sorry,” I said. “I didn’t mean it was your fault or anything.” She timidly lo...ked up. “What happened?” “Someone burned my house down.” Her frown returned. “But you were covered for fire damage, right?” “There was enough evidence to show it was deliberate, but not enough to incriminate anyone. Therefore the company slapped a big fraud sticker on my file and saved themselves a quarter mil.” “Oh God, I’m sorry.” “Ha, like I’d burn all of. ’ A few keystrokes later, and presto, William Wallace had lost a fair amount of hair. ‘Oh, and a thin, debonair moustache.’ More keystrokes, and the image on her screen changed again. She blinked in disbelief. She taped M’s photo of W to the side of her computer screen, and her eyes switched from the computer-aged image of Walker, to the identical face in M’s photo of W, and back again. No doubt about it, Walker was W, and W was Walker. ‘Yee-ha!’ Jane shouted, obviously having seen one too many. Aar Renu haramzadee tao kam chodon baj meye noye. Ektu aage bolchilo je nijer ponder phutor seal ta biyer pore nijer borer laura diye phatabe. Aar ekhon ki hoye gelo?” Renu didi takhon nijer guude angul dhukiye narte narte bollo, “aare maa ami anek khon theke tomar ponder chodon dekhchee aar tomar pond marano dekhte dekhte amar ponder phutoteo chulkuni hochhe. Jakhon Bablu amar guuder seal ta phatiye che takhon Bablu amar ponder phutor seal tao phatabe. Tumi chup chap nijer pond ta marao aar. Bees are seekers, so beeswax helps reinforce the intentions of the spell I used to find my mirror back at Mary’s. Now that the connection between the mirrors has been forged, any kind of flame next to the mirror will do to activate it. We could install a couple of these wall lanterns and that would work the same way.”“Aye, lets make tha’ happen. Talk tae Mister North about it t’morrow,” Belita said.“Aye, aye, Captain,” Bella grinned.“Will, can ye fill the bucket in there from the tub an’ set it.