Chapter 33: Tea and Subterfuge

Chapter 33: Tea and Subterfuge

Room 3, Old Seaside Tavern, Louisiana, New World....(1762)

Sir Alfred Remington did not know where to begin in his quest to retrieve his younger son. He had spent the better part of three days believing the worst had happened to his boy only to be assured via the local street urchin population that Alain had indeed been alive and in the clutches of women referred to as "witches" who seemed to occupy an old crumbling estate and an enormous foreboding manor on the far side of the seedy parts of the city surrounded via a swamp filled with snakes and alligators that acted as security and defense. He had not bothered to mention his folly in keeping the boy safe to his wife back in England lest she be on the next boat to rip him asunder. Still, he tried his best to keep up his spirits and possibly not assume the worst. If Alain had been in the company of these ladies, there was a chance they had only meant to provide him assistance as he'd been lost.