The Lost Chapters: A Venables & Luther Adventure

London, 1745
It is a time of political unrest, the British Empire is at its greatest and a young Captain of the 74th Regiment of foot, Walks through the streets of London in the dead of night. a young street urchin watchs him with large eyes as he strides purposely through the empty street the urchin watches and then starts following him. The Captain walks to an old abandoned warehouse, when a gruff voice calls out "password?", The urchin watches as a smile appeared on the Officers face. "Revenge" The Officer replied, the great doors of the warehouse opened and the officer walked through the doors, the urchin ran to the door to see what was going on inside the warehouse, and then he saw in the dim light of a latern, the Officer standing there with two figures in dark cloaks, "well did you get the blades?" one of the figures asked, "what do you think?" the Officer replied grimly, "hahahaha Ricky Venables never did fail his friends!" the figure replied laughing. the urchin watched as Venables Produced from his dress coat a long pointed dagger. "here, its the real thing" Venables said, "and the tree?" the other figure asked, "oh yes its there, Lord Beckett will have his eternal life" Venables replied, The Street urchin looked on in bewilderment and fright. "Alright, Lord Beckett told me to give you this letter" the Figure said grimly, the Figure passed the letter to Venables, "oh Thank you, Mr. Mercer" Venables replied. then the three men separated, The two figures disappeared into the night and Venables walked out through the door, getting a shock as he tripped up over the young urchin. "well well well, what do we have here?" he said smiling. "please don' hurt me, I was nae doing notin'" the urchin replied, "oh relax boyo, ill not harm ya." Venables Replied as he lifted the boy to his feet, "listen heres a shilling, now dont tell anyone of what you saw here theres a good lad!" the urchin grinned and the took the coin and ran off. Venables Smiled grimly and walked off into the night. The Quest for the Tree of Life had begun.

To Be Continued...