Scarlet Traces: Part 2 of 4
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While watching the construction of something massive at the Greenwich Observatory, Dr Spry is talking to the prime minister, a Sir John Cabal. Sir John asks whether the "incident" with the bodies has been dealt with, and how did it happen in the first place.
Spry says that the mortuary in their facility on the banks of the Thames flooded and the corpses were carried downstream, but they've installed an onsite incinerator and belayed the police and press by claiming that they were merely unearthed by accident during some construction work in a former workhouse graveyard. The Prime Minister compliments him for his swift handling for the incident, but orders that all traces of the "incident" disappear, especially as their Big Project is so near to completion, and Spry agrees...
Meanwhile, Autumn, Archie and Archie's brother are heading to Glasgow, having gone to investigate the place were Archie's niece claimed to have found work. There they discover a number of mysteries, such as how they building has apparently been abandoned for years despite space being a premium in the capital, have an abandoned building has new and oiled locks, and how it has no cobwebs but plenty of dust, which on further inspection appears to infact be a mixture of flour, soot and Fuller's Earth.
With this in mind, they're now heading back to Archie and Davy's hometown to look at the agency that supplied Davy's daughter with the London address in the first place. While back home in London, two men in the employ of Dr Spry called Peachy and Danny attempt to kill the mudlark who intially discovered the bodies with a bomb made from a modified heatray device.
Once the heroes arrive in Scotland, Autumn is baffled by the fact that people with the British mainland are having to live starving while under martial law considering the wealth and luxury avaliable in the South.
This, sadly, was pretty much the default response to protests in the British Empire, both at home and abroad.
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4309272.html
While watching the construction of something massive at the Greenwich Observatory, Dr Spry is talking to the prime minister, a Sir John Cabal. Sir John asks whether the "incident" with the bodies has been dealt with, and how did it happen in the first place.
Spry says that the mortuary in their facility on the banks of the Thames flooded and the corpses were carried downstream, but they've installed an onsite incinerator and belayed the police and press by claiming that they were merely unearthed by accident during some construction work in a former workhouse graveyard. The Prime Minister compliments him for his swift handling for the incident, but orders that all traces of the "incident" disappear, especially as their Big Project is so near to completion, and Spry agrees...
Meanwhile, Autumn, Archie and Archie's brother are heading to Glasgow, having gone to investigate the place were Archie's niece claimed to have found work. There they discover a number of mysteries, such as how they building has apparently been abandoned for years despite space being a premium in the capital, have an abandoned building has new and oiled locks, and how it has no cobwebs but plenty of dust, which on further inspection appears to infact be a mixture of flour, soot and Fuller's Earth.
With this in mind, they're now heading back to Archie and Davy's hometown to look at the agency that supplied Davy's daughter with the London address in the first place. While back home in London, two men in the employ of Dr Spry called Peachy and Danny attempt to kill the mudlark who intially discovered the bodies with a bomb made from a modified heatray device.
Once the heroes arrive in Scotland, Autumn is baffled by the fact that people with the British mainland are having to live starving while under martial law considering the wealth and luxury avaliable in the South.
This, sadly, was pretty much the default response to protests in the British Empire, both at home and abroad.
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