Chapter ONE - Weebly

Ethan couldn’t have been more surprised if the man
had said that he was being taken to the governor’s
mansion.
“Why?” he asked.
The sheriff didn’t answer, and they walked the rest
of the way in silence.
The people of Boston referred to the brick building
on King Street as the Second Town House. The first
structure built on the site had burned to the ground at
the beginning of the century. The Town House that
stood before Ethan now had also burned, back in the
1740s. The brick exterior survived, but everything
within its walls was gutted and had to be rebuilt yet
again.
Ethan had been in the Town House countless times
before. As a thieftaker he was often interested in the
proceedings that took place in the courtrooms at the
west end of the second floor.
That was where Greenleaf and his men led Ethan
now. They entered the building, crossed the great hall to
the nearer of two broad stone stairways, and began to
make their way up to the second floor. As they climbed