A.N. – Okay, so I'm back with chapter seven so I will not waste anymore of your time and give it to you! =)

Miro and Christine sat on the window sill of the stain glass window in the chapel. Jacque leaned on the wall behind Miro with a sketchbook, paper and pencil in hand. "Being the woman I am, I first want to congratulate you Madame DeChagny," Miro said with a small, giddy smile gracing her lips.

"Thank you, this is our first child and Raoul was overjoyed when I told him." Christine said with a happy smile, "So have you come up with any names at all?" Miro asked, still beaming. "Ugh, women," Jacque mumbled.

"Excuse him ma'm, he just doesn't have the patience when I try to strike up a lovely conversation before asking questions." Miro rolled her eyes as Jacque grumbled some more. Christine laughed a bit, "Well if it's a girl, we've chosen the name Vivian and if it's a boy his name will be Gustave." Miro smiled, "What lovely names. Now if you don't mind would you please tell your story of the incidents that occurred then?" Christine sighed and began her story of those events.

When she was finished Jacque put her story in the case file folder and opened his sketchbook. Miro began to ask the Viscountess some other questions, "What did this man look like?" Christine gave a very detailed description of the man who was once her angel. Jacque took in each aspect as he drew. The image was drawn without the legendary mask and when was finished he gave the sketchbook to Miro, she looked at it with great interest, "Madame DeChagny, is this what he looked like?" she asked as she turned the sketchbook so Christine could see the drawing. Her eyes visibly widened and she nodded.

Once the interviewing was over Miro was pinning the stories and image from the case folder onto the cork of the board with tacks. Then there was a knock upon the door, yet again. "Yeah?" Miro called, Jacque opened the door, "Monsieur Nadir has asked us if we want to go with him for lunch." He said, "I like that idea, get Chief and tell Nadir I'll meet you boys in the foyer." Miro told him as she walked to the wardrobe, "Very well Mon ami, meet you there!"

Once he was gone she grabbed a spring green, quarter sleeved jacket and matching skirt. Pulling the jacket on over her white blouse, she tied a frilly, blue satin, fashionable ribbon on under the collar and around her neck. The jacket also had ornate, gold painted buttons. She buttoned the first four from the bottom and put her hair up in a Gibson girl style. Miro grabbed her light brown boots with a slight heel with ivy and blue flowers on them, and with that she set off for the foyer to meet up with the rest of them. She would take some time later that afternoon to explore the secret passageway behind the mirror that both Christine and the case file had spoken of.
When they finally got to the café Nadir had told them about, it was a pleasant surprise to see Madame Giry and Meg there waiting for them at a table. They took their seats at their table which was close to the window, a waiter came and took their orders and once their orders came they conversed and ate. It was a rectangular table so Miro sat at one end and she sat across from Nadir, who sat next to Madame Giry who sat next Meg all on one side of the table. Next to Miro on her left sat Jacque who was facing Madame Giry and they were speaking of weather politics and the arts, Meg sat facing Chief who was telling her a story.

Miro was wearing her locket over her clothes; Nadir noticed the necklace and complimented her. Miro thanked him with a bashful smile, "May I have a look at it, if you do not mind my asking to do so mademoiselle?" he asked, Miro placed the locket in his hand with the chain still around her neck though it was long enough that she did not have to lean forward at all. He studied the detailed design upon the golden surface and then opened the locket, looking at the images inside. He looked at Miro who was also viewing the small portraits across from him with a smile that did not reach her eyes, "Who are these people in the portraits, if I may be so brave as to ask?" Nadir asked, Miro began to point to each person.

"These are my brothers Angus, Conan and Simion. That's my good friend Ramses who I met in Egypt. This man is Nikolai who worked in our detective unit back in Baltimore. And finally that lovely couple there is my parents, Hanka and Finnian Cu'Cullain." She finished, her eyes were sad but her smile bright. Nadir handed it back to her; she took it with a smile and a sigh. The waiter came over to Miro in quite a hurry with a peculiar note, saying that a man at a table across the room from them said to give it to Miro but of course not calling her by name. Miro took the note, thanked the waiter and dismissed him. She held the note in her hand, staring at the man reading a newspaper, she couldn't see his face. "Well he must have taken an interest in you if he sent the note, so read it aloud!" Meg said, giddy with girlish excitement. Miro opened it and began to read it to the rest of the group.

Detectives Cu'Cullain and Montague,

Sorry to have run off so soon after shooting done that dog and hopping on the boat across the pond, but I had places to go and people to see and being behind bars isn't exactly a advantage to traveling. Surprise, surprise, it's been too long since we've last seen each other, maybe we can catch each other again like last time. Hopefully everything will turn out the same as then. Till next we meet, if we do.

Sincerely,

Claudius Blud

Miro's face visibly paled, she looked to the table again but the man was gone. "Jacque," she began shakily, "We'll have to reopen that case again." He nodded solemnly; Miro excused herself, paid and headed back to the opera house with caution. Leaving Jacque behind to explain to the others, a figure that had been in the shadows watching headed back a secret way to the depths of the opera house.

A.N. – Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter and if you have any questions ask me and also as I always say, please check some of my other stories. Review here, review there and everywhere because I love hearing from you. =)