“I am sorry, Benjamin. I wasn’t sure that we were being followed. There is something important that you need to see.”
I looked at Percy with alarm and said, “Hold that thought, Percy!”
With that sentence, I ran out of the back door and around to the wagon. I pulled the basket of food from the wagon and hastily returned. I placed the basket within the spring house just off the kitchen. I then moved back to where Percy had sat.
“All right, Percy. What was it that I needed to see?” I asked.
Percy removed a wad of papers from his deeper jacket pocket and placed them on the table. He seemed to be a man in a hurry still as he wasted no time in announcing what they contained. “These papers contain much information! Your aunt had been tracked by the minister for years. He had received word tha
