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    In Two Places: At the Same Time
    In Two Places: At the Same Time
    In Two Places: At the Same Time
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    In Two Places: At the Same Time

    By David Andresen

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    Geoffrey Hunter IV carries on the family tradition of solving crimes and unmasking the guilty, but in this case his detective work must be carried out from a distance of 170 years!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781483586878
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      In Two Places - David Andresen

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      In Two Places

      At the Same Time

      My name is Geoffrey Hunter IV, scion of an old and distinguished Philadelphia family that traces its roots back to colonial times. I come from a line of long living and late marrying men who have loyally served the people of Philadelphia as constables, sheriffs, police commissioners, and military officers for nearly one hundred fifty years.

      The family’s American progenitor, Geoffrey Hunter, was King’s Constable for the Port of Philadelphia until 1775, when his age and a New Royal Governor joined hands to retire him from office. What with the events that were to soon envelop his Majesty’s 13 American Colonies, however, it was undoubtedly the best thing that could have happened to him.

      First of all, and despite his official office, he was a known sympathizer of those troublesome Sons of Liberty up in Boston, and an outspoken supporter of Thomas Paine (whom he would meet a few years later in Paris, but that’s another story). But what really was his unforgivable crime against the Crown, at least in the eyes of American Loyalists and British Parliamentarians, was his deep and abiding friendship with one of the Revolution’s greatest leaders, Benjamin Franklin.

      My grandfather once told me his father had told him as a boy that the highest and saddest honor he ever received in his life — and he had been recipient of many — was being asked to serve as the principal speaker at Franklin’s funeral on April 21, 1790.

      That would have been six years after Geoffrey Hunter had married Claire de Lune-Neuille, daughter of Le Comte Naubron de Perreux, Royal Counselor to his Majesty Louis XVI and Minister of Science. He first met and spoke to her in 1778, at one of Mademoiselle Fram Amentieres’ famous salons, to which Benjamin Franklin had been invited.

      He was in Paris at Franklin’s request, called across the Atlantic to serve as the diplomat’s trusted friend and counsellor as he maneuvered his way and America’s cause through the intrigues, dangers, and pitfalls that constituted life and work at the French court. Benedict Arnold’s great victory at Saratoga in 1777 had given Franklin all that he needed to convince the French king and his counselors to support the American colonists’ struggle against the perfidious English, and a Franco-American Treaty of Alliance was signed in 1778. Franklin had accomplished his original mandate — getting France to join the American War — but he was asked by his colleagues, governing as best (or as poorly) as they could from Philadelphia, to stay on as Ambassador to the Royal Court. It was then that he invited my great grandfather to join him, and the rest is history as they say.

      Geoffrey Hunter was 49 years old when he met the 23 year old French noble woman. She was beautiful, flirtatious, and well versed in the writings of French philosophers and Enlightenment thinkers. He was distinguished looking, sociable, and delightfully honest. Hunter didn’t wear a coonskin hat like Franklin did to amuse his audiences and accentuate la difference américaine, but there was something about him that said American to all he met. It was what had attracted Claire de Lune-Neuille to him in the first place, but it was only as their friendship grew and blossomed over the course of the next six years that mutual attraction became love, admiration respect,

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