Summary

I Am on the Track – Sam realizes, as he rushes toward Alice’s camp, that Frightful has been stolen from him, that the Longbridge impostor must be Bate, who sells birds to whoever Skri is, under the codeword of “hacking” whenever he has a bird to sell. What Sam doesn’t know is if Alice has been harmed or taken captive. At her cave, she has left a note on her pillow, asking Sam if he is having fun, and revealing that she has seen falconers who left the woods after a coyote killed one of their birds. She reveals she has good news for Sam, and will meet him at the Heldersberg Escarpment. Alice has left hickory nuts for Sam, has revealed the location of coyote pups under a rhododendron bush, and makes light...