Chapter 63

I couldn’t chance returning for the gold—I would have risked execution if I were captured—so I chose to leave it where it was and drew the map on the other side of this letter. It’s in a safe enough place.

General Shelby has retreated to Mexico. I plan to follow him and offer him this map. Perhaps one day we’ll be able to return and retrieve the gold. And then the South shall rise again!

“And all this was on the back of the map, Mother?”

“Yes.”

“I wonder if Alpheus ever recovered the gold.”