This is a series of fiction written by myself and my good friend Silvara:

Silvara wrote the Lovejoy parts and I wrote the Cal parts.

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Did you ever wonder what happened to these two men; how and why they turned out the way they did? The following stories try to explore the characters of Cal Hockley and Spicer Lovejoy, by focusing on each in turn.

Each story offers more information about the personalities of these rather complicated and seemingly unsympathetic men.

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The year was 1901 and Spicer Lovejoy sat at his deck at the police station.

It had been a quiet day, most days were in this upper class section of Philadephia. He was sitting there and thinking about his options, Lovejoy's retirement from the police department was a few days away. Lovejoy knew he could not survive on the small retirement pension that was doled out by the city to its' employees.

Yesterday had proven to be an important day indeed. Spicer Lovejoy had a meeting with Caledon Hockley the elder, the steel tycoon; the most important man in Philadelphia. It seemed that Mr. Hockley needed a right hand man, no not a butler or anything like that. A man to take care of things, so to speak.

Mr. Hockley had a daughter and a bad tempered son, Cal. It was Cal however, that gave the elder Hockley the problems. Mr Hockley was a busy man and wanted "a man he could count on to get Cal out of his scrapes" with no publicity. Lovejoy might be that man, he had the right connections, he knew who to bribe, who would take bribes. It would pay well, not only would he have an apartment on the estate, but also an expense account, as well as an automobile with a driver at his disposal.

It was an offer that he could not turn down, he really didn't have a choice or anywhere to go -
Yes, Spicer Lovejoy would take this job.