EpilogueAugust 16, 1804
Sitting atop the hill overlooking the small settlement of Queenstown in Natal Province, South Africa, contentedly puffing on a clay pipe, the tall man turned the page in the newspaper that had taken several weeks to reach his semi-isolated corner of the world. As he read of the death of his friend Alexander Hamilton, tears stung his eyes. Oh, poor Mrs. Hamilton, a widow, now nearly destitute, with children to raise on her own.
He shut his eyes and relived the events that led him to his current home. Dr. Solomon Bruckman, general practitioner to the inhabitants of Queenstown, a largely Jewish community some fifty miles from its nearest neighbor, remembered when he'd assumed another identity. The one-time Dr. Severus Black, knowing the law would soon be on his trail
