The round table, a majestic slab of giant redwood anchored to a single pedestal at the center of Grandpa Risque's fabulous library. This giant slab was smuggled from the west along secret passage by thousands of willing Indians to the port city of St. Louis then overland upon the backs of thousands of African slaves all the way to Risque's. It is at this table that the SOB's (Sacred Order of Bloodlines) frequently hold meeting, all of them taking ritualistic turn reading tales of adventure and intrigue, one of them, a Mr. J. B. Ward, acting as secretary and recording the order's affairs in secret unintelligible scribe. Clay, Coles, Witcher, Jackson, Uncle Max, Uncle Buford, Uncle Morriss and his wife, Thomas J. Beale, and others no less distinguished, these are the Buffalo knights seated about this
bloodless round slab of cypress, a large bowl of opium and an assortment of pipes from China positioned at its center.
By secret decree they refer to themselves outside of this room as The Saint Louis Corporation, founded in 1817 through the Second Bank of America while they were visiting associates and familiar battle grounds in New Orleans, a single finger held above each ear and a series of deep short grunts their secret greeting. Modern man is just now beginning to understand all that they influenced throughout the years, hence the true source of the covert abbreviation, “ S.O.B.”
The only known expert on this secret order in all the whole wide world summarizes that a fictional novel for parlor entertainment published in 1885 is in reference to this secret order, all of the publication's characters being a part of the extended Risque bloodline, this even including the main character Thomas J. Beale of Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia, the only Thomas J. Beale of record during the period. One can only
speculate that this expert has sole access to all of the materials that were housed in grandpa Risque's fabulous library as he has yet to divulge his SOB sources, this perhaps, even including those secret unintelligible scribes of the secretary, Ward, the publication's acting
agent. Ahhhh, the lore and romance of it all. Makes one feel so cozy all over.