Ragtime Chapter 25 Summary

  • Father has decided to go and talk to the Emerald Isle Engine Company, but before he can, Sarah tries to speak to Taft's Vice President, who is visiting New Rochelle.
  • At the hotel, the secret service mistake her for an assassin. She's struck with the butt of a rifle and taken to jail, where she spends the night coughing up blood.
  • The next morning Sarah is taken to the hospital. She develops pneumonia. Coalhouse is located and comes to her bedside, and in a few days Sarah is dead.