Witch Hunt by Casey Moores

Author:Casey Moores [Moores, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951768409
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Amazon: B09MDGQDS4
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Publisher: Three Ravens Publishing
Published: 2021-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

We followed her to a house which was, as described, on the square. Greene ordered Cash and Parker to remain outside as a guard. I briefly considered how scandalous it was to be two men calling on a house with two women at such a late hour.

Clarissa, we discovered, was a mouse of a woman who’d recently been widowed. She did not explain how, and we did not think it prudent to ask. The house seemed unnaturally cool to me, a sharp contrast to the warm air outside.

“So, Addy, how was your trip? You sure took your sweet time getting here,” Miss Beauregard said. Clarissa quietly brought some tea in for us, and I thanked her. She quietly floated back out to leave us alone with Miss Beauregard.

For no reason I could discern, I suddenly felt very light-headed. I thought the tea might help, but it was still too hot.

“Dammit, Ellie, just tell us what you know,” Greene replied, agitated. “Is she here? Or anything else that you find unusual?”

“Well, I will tell you one thing, you’re sure lucky that you didn’t show up before the other Union soldiers did,” she said, and began to blow softly on her tea to cool it.

“Why’s that?” Greene asked.

“The Saint Augustine Blues would have still been here, had you arrived first,” she said. “There’s almost a thousand of them, and they would have made short work of your company. But they all scampered as soon as they saw those other ships sniffing around the sandbars.”

“Huh,” I said. “Sir, Captain DuPont must have known that, maybe he was just trying to clear the way for us.”

“Well, regardless of his intentions, it’s left us nothing,” Greene grumbled. “Isn’t that right, Ellie? You’d have told me by now if there was anything for us to find here, and you haven’t.”

“There you go again, Addy, guessing at my ways,” Miss Beauregard said. “And I do believe she was here. The Brotherhood, too.”

Visions of the woman leapt into my mind unbidden. For the first time since I met her in the swamp, I could see her angelic face clearly. My dizziness worsened. I set my tea down to avoid spilling it.

“Was?” Greene said. “Dammit, out with it, Ellie, tell me everything.”

“Well, since you asked so nice. . . When I arrived, the Blues, that was the militia here, seemed awful worked up over something. They were in a big mess of running about, making all kinds of preparations. Turns out they were getting ready to up and leave, as they did.”

A soft buzzing noise developed from somewhere in the house. I looked to the others, but they did not comment on it. Miss Beauregard took a sip of her tea. I thought to do the same, but my stomach turned a little sour, and I decided to give it a moment to settle.

“That doesn’t mean anything, they could have just figured out the Union Navy would come down here eventually,” Greene said.

“Yes, but I heard tell around town, at just about the same time, people started talking about seeing ghosts here in Saint Augustine.

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