A clash of wills

Sir Erald Barnsworth was of cause a very busy man he had a whole colony to run in the absence of the Real governor he was now the Acting Governor and his task was complicated more so by the large amount of piracy going on in the Cape of Goodhope waters offshore where anything was possible as the sheer manpower needed to patrol these waters was impossible to do. He did not have the manpower to patrol this waters out passed the Cape waters and this angered him so much so that he came up with a genius plan to either eradicate the pirates or do something to use them if he could. This was precisely the real reason he had his sights firmly plasted onto his very nervous son-in-law who was standing just outside his office door. The Captain knocked cordially and when he entered he shoved the skittish Eric Phantone into the waiting Govenors presence. The Governor knew he had to be very courteous and handle this situation with kid gloves as he was pondering his lecherous son-in-law who he knew to be the "King of pirates" he wanted to trap him and run a spear through his heart but what he had planned for him would be far worse. He sat there with his hands rubbed together and when he addressed the lad he said , "Son you look very tired and its only morning the day has not even started yet. Would you like some tea for a pick me up?" He knew he was baiting the younger man like a fish on a hook.

It was a strange sight seeing his Son-in-law sitting with a rather small cup of tea trying to hold the dainty cup with hot tea and not breaking the cup. Yes it's true the Governor knew how to irritate and stir up the anti with this. young man as he moves in for the kill so to say.

A weary Eric was not going to bite on the hook he was a clever chap or so he imagined himself to be as he quickly learned the hard way that he was outsmarted by this crazy Governor. The Governor's plan was a simple but genius one. Get this notorious Captain Phantone to have a child with his daughter then turn him into a respectable Count namely Count Eric Phantone 1 as he was now the first in this new branch of his growing family tree. When he has his full cooperation he will get the lad to use his pirates on there ship to patrol the Cape of Goodhope waters. Thus saving a ton of money and neutralizing a very great potential threat. These pirates will be of use to him and Cape of Goodhope colony would be better off if this plan works but so far the progress has been slow.... It was time for an intervention from his side.

They will also help to patrol the incoming ships docking from all parts of the world.

Two birds with one stone as the Acting Governor was a man who believes in manipulations in manipulations for the greater good is very necessary. He had no time to take care of his very opinionated daughter and oh lord could she become irritating. To the point where she was driving him nuts and he wanted to pull out his own hair just so she would stop pestering him.

He had given his daughter into the hands of his sister in England when he had been newly appointed Acting Governor but when his sis contacted him saying there was nothing she could do with his daughter he tried every trick even more money but his sister just said thank you for the money but told him it's impossible to go on as she has tried her best to no avail can she even communicate with Esme any longer and according to his sister his daughter knew all the tricks to fob off any potential attempt to get her a marriage partner. According to his sister Esme had run out of options were they were... How was that even possible as he found out threw rumours from England that a pirate was planning to get into his life by marrying his daughter and the wager was to be three bags of gold in a month or six months time. So far Eric has had 4 wasted weeks....

Now came the difficult part and that was to put the squeez on his son-in-law and ask him why he has not consummated the marriage.

He thought better not ask outright but to tell the chap he can have money when his daughter announced that she is pregnant. He needed to pressurize this young man into action as all the other tricks he had used had not worked. Even on board the ship all was done by his boddygaurd he had appointed to take care of his daughter had not got them together instead his daughter seemed to hate this young man.

He had to get Eric to do the job himself and being a very good-looking guy it should have been easy to get his daughter interested. The lad should apply the romantic side of himself to achieve this and that is why the Govenor had decided to "give him 5 bags of gold " when his daughter announced that she is pregnant.

Getting his son-in-law to get on with the job of romancing his daughter and producing offspring is becoming so much harder than what he thought as he had no news of this happening instead he is being pestered by his daughter to annul the wedding. This was not the carefully planned arrangement he had on his agenda. He needed this very slow romance to pick up the pace.

When he told the lad he could get the 5 bags of gold for the first child of their marriage he thought the lad would have had more enthusiasm but it looked like there seemed to be an apathy to the task. What was wrong why was his daughter not performing her womanhood and getting on with it...