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Duncan spent another agonizing hour waiting for Brandt to appear, his heart heavy with the news of Robert Rogers. Patrick Woolford had written to Edentown months earlier with the welcome report that Rogers, hero of the frontier, had won command of the garrison at Michilimackinac, the British fort in the far northwest. Duncan and Woolford had both assumed that Rogers would be there for years, for it was the ideal location for the major to pursue his dream of discovering the elusive Northwest Passage to the Pacific. But now someone in the government had decided that Rogers, like Duncan, should hang. Duncan had only briefly met Rogers in an Albany tavern years earlier. Horatio Beck, who had gone to Ticonderoga to examine records of the St. Francis raid, had surely known of the charges aga
