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Chapter Nineteen
Kenneth returned from Lord Rockgonie’s manor to meet Leonard waiting for him with a message. It was late in the evening and all he wanted to do was head to bed. He needed to stay awake for a bit so he could get a little work done.
“Welcome, My Lord,” Leonard said in the presence of other servants that traversed the house. “The last set of names on the list, have agreed to meet with you,” the valet said simply as he walked through the doors of the manor.
“That is wonderful news,” Kenneth responded, as he continued his walk into the house, on his way to the study.
Over the course of two weeks, since he received the list of names that were responsible for inciting an uprising, Kenneth tried scheduling meetings with all of them.
He met with some of the wealthy names on the list with ease. Most of them, however, had denied any knowledge of an uprising. The ones who hadn’t denied it outright, claimed to be really busy while proceeding to cut their meetings short.
Even though his efforts hadn’t met with success thus far, he pressed on, knowing that he was on the right path.
Leonard had eventually suggested that he meet with the brawn and muscles on the list instead of going after the ones with repute. He’d acceded and discharged his valet to go about trying to set up a meeting with the others, preferably together.
The news that Leonard had succeeded couldn’t have made his week any more perfect than it already was.
“What would I do without you, Leonard?” Kenneth exclaimed in glee.
“Apparently nothing,” Leonard replied in a sarcastic whisper as he walked behind Kenneth into the house.
“Oh, please!” Kenneth howled in laughter. “So when is the meeting?”
“Tomorrow, at noon.” Leonard replied.
“I beg your pardon?” Kenneth said as he came to a complete stop. The laughter had vanished from his lips.
“At noon tomorrow.” Leonard repeated, not sure Kenneth had heard him the first time.
“I heard you. Why noon? You know I won’t be available at that time.” Kenneth responded, obviously insinuating that he was going to be at Lord Rockgonie’s manor, just as he had been all week.
“It was the only time slot I could secure, Kenneth,” his valet whispered back. “Isn’t this important to you anymore?”
“Of course it is,” he fired back.
“Then one day away from your regular appointment is more than reasonable, don’t you think? Plus, you could still go down there after you are done.”
It was only a brief pause before Kenneth agreed.
“All right. I’m going to write a letter to her, though, just in case I don’t end up making it back in time.”
“As you wish.”
By the time they had made it through the house and into the study, the conversation had switched into strategies to employ for the meeting tomorrow.
This was going to be his last chance at nipping the whispers of uprising in the bud before it spun out of control. If he didn’t appeal to the sensibilities of the men he was meeting tomorrow, their planned uprising would become a reality.
“I still insist that I read the bill to them in its entirety. If they can understand that I am already fighting for them, they will most likely relent,” he retorted to an earlier comment from Leonard as he walked into the study.
“Read that bill, Kenneth, and I assure you that you will lose their attention same way you lost that of the Lords at the House. You need to lead with something else,” Leonard insisted.
He wasn’t offended by that statement as he knew Leonard wasn’t taking a cheap jab at him. The man was simply trying to offer an alternative solution that he thought would be more successful.
He dropped into his chair as the storm in his mind continued to rage.
“If I find something else to lead with and use the bill as an attachment to my speech, do you think that will be more successful?” he asked after a long moment of contemplation.
“I honestly believe so,” Leonard responded.
