Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page132 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Wisely, Walker is keeping her distance. There are far too many of them for just her and Sergeant HoneyBucket to intervene.<\/p>\n (Picking up a tea cup<\/em>)<\/p>\n It all seems to be a storm in a tea cup. But judging by the noise you\u2019d think that The George Tavern had just sold the last bag of pork scratchings, and wouldn\u2019t have any more for a month!<\/p>\n Sergeant HoneyBucket points out that nobody seems to have been injured, but a crate with twelve bottles of rum has just mysteriously vanished from the dockside. \u201cYou buffoon Walker,\u201d he says, \u201cyou were too busy watching the impromptu wrestling match, when the real mischief was right behind us!\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, Walker is a little offended. Wasn\u2019t HoneyBucket also distracted? He seems to be full of something today, and it\u2019s not honey!<\/p>\n They never found out who did it, and they never found the missing rum. The thieves probably drank some, some more of it probably ended up on the black market. And some of it may have been hidden away for later.<\/p>\n SCENE 2<\/strong><\/p>\n (Williamson Park on the south eastern edge of the city.)<\/em><\/p>\n FRANKLIN <\/strong><\/p>\n (Gentle, calm voice, unrushed. Adopting a slightly slurred, intoxicated manner.)<\/p>\n That explains how, one day, Benet came to find a bottle of rum wrapped in an old cloth, and stuffed inside a hollow oak tree in Williamson Park.<\/p>\n (Using hand gestures to indicate drinking from a bottle.)<\/em><\/p>\n Naturally, Benet had to sample a little.<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page132 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page132 \u2013 Next Wisely, Walker is keeping her distance. There are far too many of them for just her and Sergeant HoneyBucket to intervene. (Picking up a tea cup) It all seems to be a storm in a tea cup. But judging by the noise you\u2019d think that The George Tavern had … Continue reading “Chapter 17 Hidden Treasure132”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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