"How awful." Well if it's Howe, they left New York, or more properly Jersey, so I've been told, a month ago so some of their mounts may have died alon...g the way. The winds have been contrary." Young Dulany adjusted his frilly stock and pulled down his straining vest. "Feast for the crabs, eh?"The girls' father nodded. "Philadelphia will fall and the war will be over, and we can all breathe freely again." He managed a seldom-seen smile."Do you really think so, Father?" asked Priscilla, her hand. "That's great. Oh, I think I found theportable device. I brought over the file on the laptop. Take a look.Will it help?"Pondering over the data, Sandra replied, "It just might work. If I canget it to reproduce last night's effect. Being a smaller device, theeffects might be harder to achieve. We'll test it on the three of us. Ifit works, we can then hopefully get the others back as well." Come on over to the Thomas' home." Dave explained to Sandra about thepool party with his, now her friends.. One of them leads the way out to the elevator. The other closes the door behind us. No words are said of what just happened between us, so I push the whole scene to the back of my mind. I resolve to placate them enough so when we return, I can easily slip away and head home. While we wait for the elevator, I glance out the corner of my eyes at the two of them. I am not surprised at the quality of their clothes or the designer name on their black wool trench coats. Once again, they are dressed. As well I shouted up to Tobias and his archers and ordered them to open fire. I certainly didn't have to tell them twice.The junk started to veer off to its starboard at that point, the crew rushing about in a panic as more projectiles dropped down on them and more fires sprung up. Amazingly the enemy crew got off a broadside as we skirted by them. Four small cannons opened up on us and one actually struck us. The ball smashed into a support post of our port railing, close to our aft-castle and.