Friday, June 28, 1776
- Hear ye, hear ye! All are welcome to attend the public hanging of one Thomas Hickey, the near-assassin of General George Washington.
- That includes ye readers of this book, because Isabel, our narrator, is going.
- Actually, Isabel doesn't really want to see a guy die in public. She really is just hoping to connect with Colonel Regan so that he can live up to his end of the bargain and get her and Ruth the heck out of Dodge; unfortunately, though, he's nowhere to be spotted in the enormous crowd. Curzon comes over and says hello and even lifts Ruth up onto his shoulders so she can see the scaffold better.
- Hickey's sentence is pronounced and he's hanged for treason against the colonies. Isabel covers Ruth's eyes and closes hers so neither can watch.