A short time later, Butch and Thad approached The Wizard as he spliced into a fiber-optic phone line to send the Dixville imaging to Spectator News for Steve Morrison. The Wizard noticed them staring. He knew them from Max's deer camp and had regularly corresponded with the boys by E-mail. "Hi, boys. How is your Scout group holding up?"
"Good, but we want you to have this Scout book. We want you to help us expand the Ghost Pack in Boston." Butch handed his Scout book to the Black man. "The Oath and stuff is in there."
The Wizard stopped his task to receive the book. He could tell the boys were sincere. "Thank you." The Wizard looked bewildered. "So what do I do to recruit for your pack, read the book or something?"
"There's more to it than that. They have to hear the story of the Dixville Massacre to be a member of the Ghost Pack. Ya know, me and Thad are the last of the original Pack 220." The Wizard nodded his head; so he had heard. But Butch began telling the story of Dixville. Like a relay baton passing, the lore of the massacre was re-told. The legend passed on.
Gloucester, Massachusetts (March 18)
Tumult's heel stepped squarely on the back of the starfish, forcing the yellowy innards from its carcass oozing out around the edge of his shoe. "Piss! Where the hell are we anyway?" He felt the slippery goo underfoot. "Piss! I stepped in dog shit or something." He rubbed his heel off on a clean section of the beach. Fog enveloped everything, limiting visibility to a mere fifty meters, only the bluffs of the narrow beach could be seen beyond the immediate area.
He found out about his brother's escape from the city. A guard from the remaining attack packs under The Wizard had contacted one of Tumult's patrols and informed them of recent happenings. Tumult was irate on hearing that his brother left three fully geared attack packs under the command of an afro. He sent five packs back to recover the group but Tumult's Mountain Boys found them untraceable.
Tumult's injury ached as he scanned the shoreline; he held the dressing over what was left of his nose. Even with his facial wound he had led his men out of what appeared a hopeless situation. The man had tenacity. Following his brother's lead, Tumult had boarded his attack packs onto the USS Constitution and had commandeered the nation's oldest commissioned warship out to sea. A diesel engine in its stern had navigated the sailing ship into the deeper waters of Boston Harbor, through the narrow channel of President Roads, eventually merging into the vastness of the dark gray Atlantic.
The USS Constitution, known as Old Ironsides, veteran of numerous engagements with pirates, and victorious in multiple battles against the British in the War of 1812, was now wrecked on the rocks in view of Gloucester's Fishermen Lost at Sea memorial. On behalf of the cause, Tumult shipwrecked it.
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Indivisible: The United States' economy has tumbled after two decades of fighting terrorism worldwide. An Army helicopter lands on a remote New Hampshire mountain. Troops witness an unbearable sight: sixty Cub Scouts slain by an unmanned automatic weapon intended to catch smugglers. The President orders the soldiers to depart immediately -- and maintain absolute secrecy. Cover-up of the Dixville massacre begins. The brutality to New Hampshire's children ignites national support for a rebellion to instate government reform. (Kindle $2.99 at Amazon.Com.
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Blair Smith was born at home in the heart of Amish country in Holmes County, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Northern University majoring in Technology and Education, later obtaining a Masters in Technology Education from the University of Vermont. A writer for ten years, the author has completed six novels that range from Science Fiction, to Thrillers, to a Middle School Reader.NEWS 3E
