Chapter 6
I will see the bones well stored on the London ship and then I return to Edentown! That was the bargain!” Duncan said to Charles Thomson for the third time that hour, and the loudest. “We are to be wed at the full of the moon! Mr. Franklin asked for the treasures to be accompanied by Dumont. I have important work on the frontier.” He longed to be back in the western forests, walking hand in hand with Sarah and sitting at Iroquois council fires.
Hercules Mulligan, who had just arrived in Thomson’s parlor, now cast an uneasy glance at Thomson and turned to Duncan. “These are difficult times, McCallum, requiring sacrifices by many. Do you not wish to avoid hostilities?”
“You really need to ask me that? No one wants war.” The Sons of Liberty had never spoken in favor of a violent
