Part I: Chapters XVI - XX Summary

Isabel stays with Ruth as she falls asleep. True to her character, Ruth hasn't complained about the massive lump on her head from the fall in the kitchen and hasn't shown any signs of understanding Madam's threats to sell her off. Isabel wants desperately to protect her sister's innocence, so when the house has fallen asleep, she sneaks upstairs into the library and quietly steals Lockton's list of accomplices. After her last encounter with Bellingham, Isabel fears that he may not have the authority to grant her freedom and the freedom of her sister, so Isabel decides to take her information straight to the Patriot leader, Colonel Regen. From the various conversations she's overheard in Lockton's library, she knows exactly where his army is positioned and she rushes there under the cover of...