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Chapter
TWELVE
Ethan stepped onto the filthy, rain-slicked lane and
started back toward the center of the city. He needed
to return the brooch to Abner Berson and ask the
merchant if he wanted Ethan to continue his inquiry.
Ethan didn’t wish to end it before he found Jennifer’s
killer, but Berson hired him to find the brooch, as both
Yellow-hair and the ghostly girl, Anna, had reminded
him. He had done that. It was up to Berson to tell him
to continue or desist.
As he walked, he tried to think of what connections
might exist between the Richardson hanging, the Pope’s
Day parades, and the assault on Thomas Hutchinson’s
house. All three events had drawn large crowds, many
of them, no doubt, the “rabble” of which Hutchinson