As the day wore on and all the officers had made their reports, he took the time to question each in turn about what they knew of the late Whitehead clan and Master Bradbury. He also dispatched a message to General Hastings asking for all information about the Whiteheads and Silas Bradbury. He would have liked to have the reply to his message before he went to dine with the Bradbury’s, but it might take a week or two to get a reply from Brooklyn. The new frigate was due in from Maine on the morrow as HMS Unicorn was sailing to England on the out-going tide. She would be gone about six weeks and until she returned, the frigate, HMS Steadfast, would take over her duties of running up and down the coast from New York to Maine and back. Running troops, arms and supplies to the various forts, t
