Chapters 29-31 Summary

Mack goes to Fredricksburg with Pepper Jones. They talk about how runaways are treated. Pepper explains about going outside of the colonies. At the Ordinary, which is a tavern, Mack learns that Cora was spotted boarding a ferry for Falmouth. Mack leave to look for her and finds her at the church. She introduces him to a tobacco broker, Alexander Rowley, who is her husband.

In chapter thirty, Jay is in Williamsburg. He meets Hamish Drome, a relative of Sir George and his first wife Olive. Jay learns more of the family history from Hamish.

Jay receives the loan that Matthew Murchman arranged for him. He takes a hundred pounds to gamble with that night and had spent most of the loan money by the time he returned home.

Lizzie tells him about Sowerby learning. She wants Jay to fire Lennox...