Beyond the savage sea by Wendt JoAnn & Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Author:Wendt, JoAnn & Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance - Historical, Fiction, Romance: Historical
Publisher: New York : Popular Library/Warner Books
Published: 1990-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

174 I Jo Ann Wendt

As to the nature of your feelings for Mistress Crawford, I can only speculate. You are a vexingly private man, brother mine. Your letters reveal precisely what you wish them to and not one iota more. You never have welcomed my advice in the past, nor will you welcome it now. Nevertheless, I give it. You will do well to cherish your Mistress Crawford. She sounds like a sensible woman who would never give you problems or grief.

His mouth tightened. The last was an unsubtle echo of Verity's dislike for Anne that even Anne's death had not tempered.

"Bad news?" Edwinna asked.

"No. It is onlyjhat my sister can be a vexing woman." Engrossed in receiving his own letters, he'd given no thought to Edwinna's. "Any letters from Thomas and Harry?"

"No. Next month. They will surely write next month."

"Surely," he agreed, but he wanted to knock Thomas and Harry's ungrateful young heads together.

Still worried about a possible bond slave insurrection, the planters kept in touch with one another by letter. Believing Drake's story about what Drake had seen and heard, Mr. Drax had alerted the governor.

At the Planters Council, the planters had devised a means of rapid communication. If an insurrection seemed imminent on any plantation, that planter immediately would write to his three nearest neighbors; those three immediately would write to their three nearest neighbors, and so forth, until all the plantations on the island were covered.

Meanwhile, disquieting reports came in. There had been a fire in Dinny's boiling house that had had no explicable cause. A grinder on a St. Lucy's Parish plantation had been chopped to pieces. Worse, a bond slave had been found mysteriously slain in a St. Michael's Parish cane field, an X carved in his chest.

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