Our stalwart heroes decided to continue the investigation in Boston for two reasons. They were interested in the documents mention of The American Preservation League and Dawson had ascertained that the dead investigator mentioned in the same document was none other than our good friend Shambles!
Taking the train to Boston, Kalabos using his own 'ticket', they quickly made their way to that Preservation Leagues address only to find that it was a rundown brownstone with apartments full of families. Ascertaining that the League obviously worked from their founders home address our investigators decided that the best thing to do would be to rent a room around the corner so they could watch any comings and goings. It was only after they were all safely ensconced in the boarding house, De'ath was staying uptown at the Boston Hilton of course, that Shambles brought up the fact that they had no view of the Leagues front door. Our experienced PI Dawson, who had chosen this building, seemed unfazed and stated that at least they shared the large backies and could sneak in the back of The Leagues building if necessary. A complicated plan involving mirrors to spy around the corner was briefly discussed before being rejected.
It's interesting to note that Shambles was very careful to check that the boarding house wasn't owned by a Mrs Wilmer and rejected constant attempts by Dawson to get them all to investigate factories in Boston.
Retiring to the local diner the investigators ran into none other than Fred Jahraus the head of the American Preservation League. A long discussion followed in which Jahraus convinced them all to sign up and talked at length about the foul practices of foreigners, Kalabos excepted as he was clearly one of the good dirty Mexicans, and how they were infiltrating America and would bring it down. He seemed a little delusional as he talked about seeing half-breed fish things when he was a merchant sailor, that Mexicans and Eskimos were trying to bring back ancient evil gods to destroy the world and that the British aristocracy were actually lizard people and they had agents in the US government. Our heroes listened politely then left as soon as possible.
It's interesting to note that when he signed up to join the League Shambles didn't want to give a real address so used the one of another boarding house up the road. The boarding house of a Mrs W Callahan.
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