Rebel in the SouthChapter 9 Gertrude
I told my captain that I wanted a week to take care of the lady's sister who lived up on the Hudson and was being harassed by some foul Tories. I said they would let me borrow two horses, and I would rejoin Greene's team down on the Chesapeake, no harm done. He looked dubious even after I showed him on the map, but he let me go, and gave me a written pass. At that time, I had a good bit of money, blood money for the most part, the coins of dead men. I went to the stable, said the madam had...