The DeceptionAfter an hour of conferring with Tony and Sawbuck, I felt tired of sitting, so I took a brief walk and a smoke in the garden. Tony's men stood guard at intervals in the distance where the land rose to give them a better view. The ones closer by tipped their hats when I came outside. Bells chimed in the distance, marking noon, yet the sun barely shone for the clouds that covered it.
Sawbuck seemed to suspect everyone. I recalled our ride to the Kerr's home on New Year's Day, when Tony spoke of his older brother, the true Spadros heir, poisoned when Tony was two years old ...
"From the first time Ten learned about my brother, oh, I was two or three so he must have been eight, or perhaps nine. When he heard of it, he said he would watch over me, that he would never let anyone h
