Chapter Nineteen
Manacles were placed on Duncan and Skanawati before they were escorted out of the jail the next morning. McGregor did not speak, and his men were equally grim as they flanked the doorway and motioned their prisoners forward. Skanawati took two steps and stopped so abruptly Duncan almost collided with him.
Duncan would never have guessed there were so many people in all of Bethlehem. They lined the pathway to the street on either side, they lined the street, past the new construction on the corner, lined the street all the way to the Gemeinhaus, scores of men, women, and children in the dark clothes of the Moravians. Mingled among them were nearly all of the teamsters of the convoy and several of Ramsey’s rough private guards, along with at least fifty Indians. What had R
