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London, 2 February 1892
It is early in the afternoon when Inspector Smythe calls on you at your St. James suites. He tells you that an injured man matching the description of Rufus Gladstone was reported boarding a ship, The Revenge, to Boston late last night. He was reportedly accompanying the body of his daughter for burial at their estate in America after a carriage accident.
Smythe's subsequent investigation discovered this morning that the body of Julia Gladstone went missing shortly after being taken to the morgue following the gunfight and explosion at New Dock. The orderly on charge admitted a man with a profound limp into the examination room for one last goodbye for his daughter. According to the orderly, an upstanding medical student, the old man bent over the body mumbling a prayer. Suddenly, they both vanished. Dumbstruck, the young student decided not to report the incident for fear of being kicked out of school for hallucinations.
Red in the face, Smythe confesses that, although the cabal of the Haunting Hand has been broken, his feels a certain degree of failure to capture the one man - Rufus Gladstone - who has filled his nightmares for years. Since Scotland Yard has no jurisdiction in America, perhaps you might be willing to take a commission on behalf of Her Majesty and investigate the happenings in Boston. A steamer leaves in the morning on the journey. If you leave immediately, there may be time to catch him before the trail goes cold…