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Trip to Paradise
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is a tale about two women: Liz Steele, 25, and her
73-year-old grandmother, Nellanor Doherty Steele.
An Irish immigrant at age 16, Nell Doherty worked as a maid for the wealthy
Steele family. Raped by the son of a rich neighbor, Nell, now pregnant, was
fired from her job. One of the Steele family's sons felt sorry for her and
married her, not realizing his enraged parents would then disown him. Not
long after that he died, leaving Nell to raise Charlie, her son from the
rape.
Charlie grew up, married and had five children. Then he and his wife
succumbed to the then-prevalent Tuberculosis, leaving Nell Steele to raise
her five grandchildren. However, four of her husband's siblings came to
town, each demanding one of the children. No one asked for the four-year-old
girl, Liz.
A bitter Grandma Steele raised Liz, but when she was 21, Liz moved to San
Francisco. When a brief but impassioned love affair ended, Liz returned to
her Grandmother's home for stability and nourishing. Liz asked about her
siblings, and decided to re-establish contact.
She traveled to Vancouver, Canada to visit with her brother Mark, a geologist
working for an aluminum firm. She attempted to meet with her brother Luke, a
banker in New York City. Liz contacted her sister, Margaret-Mary, who had
received a new name, Sister Therese, when she became a Carmelite nun.
Liz drove to Mystic, Connecticut to see her eldest brother, Matt, a
Harvard-trained economist. Disillusioned when his debutante wife divorced
him for a Duke, he quit his job and took odd jobs fishing, finally finding a
meaningful relationship with his second wife. From Mystic Liz drove down the
East Coast, determined to settle in Key West, Florida.
She continued down US Route#1, passing Miami and leaving the Florida
mainland, driving another 165 miles, over 22 bridges. The road ended in her
island paradise, quirky Key West. Liz found a job working for the local
newspaper.
She met Juan Robertson, who courted her. They became romantically involved
but Liz did not know that Juan was active in a covert group of secret agents,
Brothers Assisting National Defense. Their assignment was to get some
information to their contacts in Cuba. Chief Agent, Mr. Bill, manipulated
the editor of the newspaper to send Liz on a writing assignment in Cuba.
Then Mr. Bill told Juan he was to secrete certain microfiche into Liz'
belongings. She was not to be told anything.
While in Cuba, Liz gradually became aware of strange things happening to her,
as if she were being suspected of being a spy. When she returned to Key
West, Juan was not the attentive romantic he had been prior to her trip to
Cuba.
Her family met in Mystic, Connecticut for Christmas in the home of Matt and
Marian Steele. What happened there were several surprises.