Book 3, Chapters 10-14 Summary

Preparations for the beginning of the parade are still in progress. The parade mascots are from the Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment and one of them comments that he has the feeling that something is not right, as he had in Vietnam. Maureen is standing on the steps of the Cathedral with Sir Harold, the Cardinal and others. Maureen tells Baxter that she thinks an assassin will try to kill her today and he says there are probably a few that would like to kill him also.

Burke leans from Jack Ferguson that the Fenians recruited some members of the Boston IRA and that the man calling himself MacCumail wear a big ring. He also tells Burke that the man was once captured by British Intelligence. They will meet at the zoo at four thirty as planned and Jack will...