Farrell MacClaren was coming across as being very human, she thought, and with a nature that had hints of devilish mischief every now and then. He seemed capable of being something of a scamp, but it was clear he had loved his Fiona.

And there was that intriguing bit about the Cira treasure. He had to be referring to the legend of the lost treasure that Cira, the founder of MacDuff’s family, had brought to Scotland when she had fled Herculaneum. But she knew Cira’s treasure had already been discovered, because she’d been involved when MacDuff had found it. She doubted if there could be two such treasures connected to MacDuff’s Run. Or could there have been? Legend or truth? And if there had been a second treasure, could it have surfaced back in Fiona’s time? What would Graeme have had to do with it? Interesting…

It took more than three hours for Jane to be sure that she had a fairly clean copy of MacClaren’s letter to Fiona. She copied it over and then just sat there going over it, thinking about it. Trying to probe the Cira possibilities that had come to light with MacClaren’s letter.

There was a soft knock on the door, but Caleb didn’t wait before he opened it and came into her room. “I thought you’d still be up. I’m glad, you needed something to distract you. I’d volunteer, but we can go into that later.” He crossed to the bed and sat down beside her. “Did you make any progress?”

“I think I did. They arranged to use the railroad to smuggle Fiona away from the property into England and from there to Dublin. And there may have been another reason that Graeme was so eager to find Fiona and MacClaren he’d even risk getting killed hunting them down. It might have had to do with the MacDuff family treasure. Remember that the MacDuff fortune was founded on a treasure brought from Herculaneum by the original founders of the MacDuff family. That was an actress, Cira, and her husband Antonio, and we thought we’d discovered all the treasure she’d hidden to protect it from thieves and robber barons. But there were always those rumors that Cira had divided the treasure and only the major part was hidden in that cave. That she was too smart not to have stashed a second treasure somewhere else to protect herself in case the first treasure trove was found. It was reasonable since she—” She broke off. She knew that expression and she wasn’t sure he was listening. She took a good look at him. “Your hair is damp; you’ve showered and changed. I thought you’d just come from working with MacDuff.”