“I’ve managed to gain some interesting information,” Daniel said, “Mr. and Mrs. Schoen seem to have a network of informants in the area. They might be able to help us.” Daniel plucked his sack from the hook by the door and started looking through it. “I suspect the couple either harbors runaway slaves or provides information to assist them.”
“I wondered about that,” Keelan murmured. There’d been something about Landon’s familiarity with the couple and a comment he’d made about gleaning information from them that had her curious, but there hadn’t been an opportunity to ask for elaboration.
“Mrs. Schoen told me she’d heard Gampo wasn’t the man in charge of Hart’s cargo theft or the k********g,” Daniel said. “Gampo has a silent employer, but no one seemed to know his name.”
Keelan paced th
