Miami Docks April 1895The old tramp steamer made its way slowly up to the dock ramparts. Lady Victoria Skelton smiled condescendingly at the Captain as she made her way delicately forwards. A stately woman in her mid-forties she exuded the grace and confidence that came naturally to her English upper class upbringing. She had a trim figure and was dressed smartly in a light blue matching skirt and jacket. Her recently departed husband, Lord Harry Skelton, had been a British Diplomat serving in Buenos Aires. Unfortunately, he met with a sudden, violent death nearly a year ago during a hunting expedition in the jungle. They had been hunting for crocodiles when a small party of Argentinean natives had surprised and slaughtered them. It had been a tremendous shock to Victoria, not because of a
