Last Train from Perdition

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What Has Gone Before…

In the year 1886, in his lair of the Hotel Sanctuaire in New Orleans, the adventurer and gun-for-hire Trevor Lawson lets his services be known by a card that reads All Matters Handled and, below that, I Travel By Night.

On a night in July, he receives a visitor from Shreveport. The wealthy lumber merchant David Kingsley has brought Lawson a letter from a man he’s never met, named Christian Melchoir. In that letter, Melchoir states Your daughter is very beautiful, Mr. Kingsley. And worth money to you, I’m sure. To return her to you, I require gold pieces in the amount of six hundred and sixty-six dollars. She is being held in the town of Nocturne, which is reached from the hamlet of St. Benedicta. Inform only one man of this, and send him to me with the gold. His name is Trevor Lawson.

Kingsley wants to know what connection Lawson has with the abduction of his youngest daughter Eva, but Lawson doesn’t know any man named Melchoir…though he does believe Melchoir wants him and is using the girl as a device. Lawson agrees to take the job, and tells Kingsley he will do his best to “return your daughter in a whole state”.

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