Richard was right, of course. I had his jet black hair, just as wavy as his, though I let mine grow to my shoulders instead of his neat at the nap cut... The high cheek bones, the dark blue eyes, yes, much to my chagrin, I was every bit the Beaumont. His voice drew my eyes back to him. ‘I think they were afraid you would lean towards your mother’s side of the family.’ ‘Like my temperament?’ I held up my hand, to cut off his mock protest. ‘I don’t want to spar with you, Richard. Why am I here?’ He. She looked down at them for a moment before raising her head to again gaze at me. Then I evenly spaced eight more around the edge of her areola. She continued to stare at me. She couldn’t really feel them now…but she soon would.Then I pulled out the device. The large vibrator she so loved and so despised. Her eyes went wide, she shook her head no and tried to move, but she had nowhere to go. I turned it on high, and moved it in circles on her stomach. Her muffled giggles sounded. Four men wasn’t a problem, but I still warned our guards and the captain.Our next stop was Missouri City, and three more men came aboard without luggage. When two more men came aboard at the old site of Fort Osage, I alerted the captain again. I also awakened my guards.The next four small towns each produced two or three men boarding the boat with no luggage. For a while, I wondered how they knew which boat to board, but noticed one of the men, one I assumed was the leader, stood in the bow of. My initial thought would just have been a one-off attack. It was all the others who built it into the campaign it has become."And indeed Julia's idea has become a full campaign. To see how it was progressing I boarded a submarine for a journey out over the lake bottom. Through a porthole I could see the entrance to a water-filled tunnel sloping down into the bed of the lake. The tunnel was narrow, but the helmsman assured me that the automatics would keep us from crashing into the sides. Most.