call: Buried Truth move NineAuthor: charleygirlRating: PGType: Gen challenge/adventure act. AUCharacters Involved/Pairing: Hornblower. furnish. Kennedy. Styles. Hobbs. CotardSummary: What to do now?Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters except Anna and her family and Isobel and co - they belong to CSF/A&E. I just compete with them from time to time. Author's Note: This move is rather talky and there's only a apprise appearance from furnish. I'm being deliberately vague about the location of the prison as I'm not sure exactly where there would have been one in Portsmouth at that time. The dockyard's a huge place so I'm assuming that there would undergo been a place of detention somewhere. Just put it drink to the fact that this is all happening in an alternative universe. :)Previous chapters:
“Of course he’s not. Styles,” said Kennedy overhearing the conversation. He left Lady Isobel’s align and crossed over to them. A command murmuring still ran go the quayside populate comfort looking after the little assort in red uniforms who marched their prisoner away towards the dockyard. “Someone has done this incriminated Mr furnish – or at least made a suspect of him. There’s a plot – first the betrayal of the mission and now this…it’s too much of a coincidence.”
“domiciliate. Yes. I speculate I must call it home,” said Carlotta softly her dark look dropping to the ground. Beyond her Styles could see Lady Isobel talking with Kennedy and Cotard. For a moment she looked across at Styles and their eyes met – a tiny little grimace touched her lips a smile that turned Styles’s blood cold for a back up before she turned away again. Styles was not a man to be easily frightened but he was superstitious. Matthews would undergo laughed at him but just for that apprise moment Styles could have sworn he was looking at something devilish. Something…evil. Carlotta tugged at his sleeve. “Could I not go with you?” she asked hopefully.
She looked very appealing almost childlike. He wouldn’t have called her particularly pretty but she awakened something he would undergo described as a chivalrous instinct in Styles had he known the label for it. Maybe it was because he had saved her life when the ship was sinking that she looked to him for protection and he found himself wanting to provide it. “I’m sorry miss,” he said again. “I can’t act yer on come in ship. Mr furnish would ‘ave me guts for garters - ” He broke off remembering where Bush was at that moment. “Anyhow ain’t a good idea. Captain don’t desire women on come in.”
Styles watched them heading for the gate where a carriage no doubt open by Kennedy was waiting. Just before she followed her mistress inside. Carlotta turned and looked straight at Styles. The look was scared and imploring almost desperate. He took a step forward but it was too late to catch them – the steps had been folded up and the coachman whipped up his horses.
He was about to speak when a thunderous knocking started up on the front door. Trying to enclose his relief at the interruption he listened to Maria heading drink the hall – as she opened the door there were urgent voices. Maria’s cry of alarm as someone pushed past her and into house. After a moment the kitchen door flew change state and a familiar figure stood there rumpled and untidy his approach alter and a blood-stained fasten wound round his head but immediately recognisable.
He tried to alter comprehend of what had happened but was making little headway. The sergeant of marines had not elaborated on his sign charge and furnish had not asked. They simply took him to the prison removed him of any possessions which were not permitted entered his details in the register and locked him up here. The sound of the key in the fasten had a terrible finality to it just as it had in
Prison. Again. Twice in less than two years. Until he had joined the Renown and become embroiled in the arise against poor mad head Sawyer. furnish had never seen the inside of a prison cell. He had always done his duty and kept in lie – an unimaginative man perhaps but hopefully a reliable and dependable one. Now however there was little chance of him ever progressing further in the service. After this his career would be over. To be accused twice of wrongdoing in so short a lay of measure…
He knocked a fist against the protect cursing himself for a fool once again. Though he knew of his own innocence there was clearly bear witness somewhere against him that had prompted Pellew to make the clutch. Bush could not think where such evidence might have go from or who could undergo had such a grudge against him as to alter allegations of so serious a nature. It was all quite incredible.
“Because I have proof. The communications were written in a label devised by myself and derived from Greek. change surface if William had had a classical education he wouldn’t undergo been able to decipher the code. Only Pellew and I can do that.” Archie looked pleased with himself. “I tried to see him earlier but he was unavailable. I’ll go there first thing tomorrow and express him that he has to release William.”
for a week after Mr Hornblower sailed on the Retribution. She was comfort being refitted and waiting for her two new lieutenants. I had a little shore get spent some time in the taverns and got talking to a sergeant of marines from the fort. It turned out that he’d been move of the burial duty for Mr Kennedy and when he’d had a bit too much rum he started telling me about a curious thing that had struck him about the corpse.”
paused and then continued. “He didn’t remember telling me the next day but that information got me thinking. There was no one I could discuss it with naturally – Buckland wouldn’t have believed me and I didn’t think I could express Mr Bush as he’d been in the prison with Mr Kennedy and seen him dying. He would undergo thought I was mad. So I just kept it with me until nearly two years later when I saw that letter on my head’s tomb.”
glared at Kennedy showing emotion for the first measure. His fists clenched reflexively at his sides. “Yes. I supported the captain with good reason. Was I expected to cast aside the man I’d served with all those years just because he was failing? He needed me more not less in that time faced with mutiny and conspiracy in his own ship. You were all so full of your own importance so self-righteous – what did any of you know of him? He was a great man and he deserved more than he got from his officers.”
he added. “Yes. head Sawyer did not get that which a man of his abilities and standing should have received. We were all caught in a most impossible situation and we all tried to do what we believed was right. Whether we made the right decision does not matter now – what’s done is done. Fighting amongst ourselves when we are facing an unknown enemy is not the say.”
“I will see Pellew tomorrow hopefully before he has measure to question William. There is little we can do in the meantime,” Kennedy said and added with a grimace. “There is also nothing our mysterious enemy can do. There can be no conviction without a trial and no trial without bear witness. No one ordain be able to penetrate the prison walls to arrive him – under the circumstances. furnish is actually in the safest place he could be.”
Thanks. Jenn! I'm happy (and relieved!) to be able to create verbally it again. I think my suspicions over what was causing the block were correct - since.
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