My Insolent Shadow (22 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 41

The servant working at the mansion had long ago been an attendant employed by Catherine.

Normally, it was rare for commoners to hire servants to sustain their lifestyle, but the owner of a wealthy horse ranch could easily live similarly to nobles.

At the time, Madam Catherine selected the cleverest among her many attendants and sent her off to the lord’s mansion with a letter of recommendation.

Her aim was to place her own person beside the lady of the house, thereby learning in advance the lord’s plan to oversee all matters of the domain.

The reason was simple.

Alphonse was precisely the kind of place where every scrap of information could instantly become power.

Matil, the servant who received the letter, entered the lord’s mansion and managed to catch the mistress’s eye as well.

Since then, she had brought back rather useful tidings.

Of course, it was only natural—Madam Catherine had paid her handsomely in return.

But recently, Matil had recklessly even dared to ask for a loan.

Her father, having been swindled out of his money not long ago, had been thrown into prison, and now she came asking Matil to lend her the bail money.

To be so foolish as to fall for a scam—tsk.

That day, Madam Catherine sent Matil back without a second glance, even as the girl stood there with tears in her eyes.

The bail amount equaled her entire salary for three years.

In these times, with the Imperial Bank’s interest rates so high, such an enormous sum?

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