At nine sharp the next morning, Charles arrived at the Dunbar House. He was reaching for the door when it opened. A smiling face, with amazingly blue eyes filled with mischief, greeted him.
“Good morning, Mr. Banister!”
“Good morning Mr. McCauley,” "You are a rogue," thought Charles, with a bit of envy.
“Let me take your hat. Everyone is in Crow"s office.”
As they entered the office, four seated men, Crow, Earl, James, and Virgil, stood to greet them, they all shook hands and then sat down to business.
Crow said, “Charles has received information from Hong Kong that requires us to move our schedule ahead. There has been an attempt on another ship of the line. The captain managed to fight off the pirates and make it to port.”
“Excuse me, Jed, but do you have any idea why our line is b
