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Lemon-Poppy Seed Cupcakes with Strawberry Jam Buttercream from The Scottish Prisoner

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I CALLED HIM a murderer. That was the thought in his mind when he woke an hour later. I called him a murderer, he called me a sodomite…and yet it’s Fraser he called out. Why? Because Fraser accused him, point-blank and publicly, or treason. He had to challenge that; he couldn’t let the statement stand. An accusation of murder might be mere insult, but not an accusation of treason. And particularly not if there was any truth in it. Of course. He’d known that, really. What he didn’t know was what had possessed Fraser to make the accusation now, and in such a public manner. He got up, used the pot, then splashed water from the ewer over his face and, tilting the pitcher, drank most of the rest. It was nearly evening; his room was growing dark, and he could smell the luscious scents of tea preparing downstairs; fried sardines, fresh buttered crumpets, lemon sponge, cucumber sandwiches, sliced ham. He swallowed, suddenly ravenous. He can’t have done it for me. The thought carried some regret; he wished it were true. But he was a realist enough to know that Fraser wouldn’t have gone to such lengths merely to distract […]

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