The property tax on the fifteen thousand acres of swamp and bayou was sixty thousand dollars. I guess crawdads, gators, muskrat, and water moccasins a...ded value,” she added with a laugh.I wondered how the land was deemed private property. In Maryland it was the high tide mark - was Louisiana the same? It must be different there with the deeds listing the property as bayou.It was here that Andy asked where we were going to get all the extra men for this contract, the France raid, the Pact plus. “I’ve actually come to him for things outside of Lotus visits. He helped with my insomnia and that time I thought I should be a smoker.” As they entered the temple, Robyn stopped and turned back to Sean, standing behind her. “Do you do that with all the women you run into here?”“I’ve hooked up with some before, but I’ve never had that instantaneous connection with anyone.” She felt his hand resting on her hip.“Hmmm…” she hummed stepping into the dimly lit temple and making her way to one of the. Randy Clausen, for example. Randy is a politician. All DA’s are politicians, looking for an elected position. That makes them easy to predict. The only thing we need to worry about is if he gets froggy and tries to pull a rabbit out of the hat. I doubt if he will pull anything, he’s got a boy scout reputation.”“Next is Nigel St. Gaudens, the victim in this little drama. I don’t have much information about St. Gaudens. But I’ve got several excellent investigators working for me. They shouldn’t. ‘Nobody in the village knows of anywhere else but here. Where else could they run to?’ The quickest route to the deep water inlet that acted as harbour for the villagers’ rafts was across the fine sands of the beach, but the couple decided against allowing themselves to be so visible across such a distance and instead took a more circuitous route over some grassy sand hillocks and through a tangle of woodland. Demure reasoned that it was best for two women who were clearly on the run to attract.