The PlayFinder™

THE STORY: Young Robin and his brother arrive in Boston from their frontier home in Deerfield to seek out their illustrious uncle, Major Molineux, a man of wealth and position and an avowed Royalist. In their backwoods innocence they are unaware of the ferment which as seized the people of Boston, and they are confused by the oblique and taunting replies which greet their request for information on their uncle. They accost, among others, a barber, a tavern keeper, a clergyman, a prostitute, and a man in a grotesque mask,—half red, half white—but all to no avail. When they do find the major’s house, the Union Jack has been ripped down and replaced by the Rattlesnake flag, and the major is nowhere to be found. Then their uncle is dragged, torn and bleeding before them, a fallen man now the prisoner of those he dominated. He dies, and the boys’ hopes for advancement would seem to expire with him. But the spirit of freedom has gripped them too, and they resolve to stay in Boston to fight for a new life which could bring greater rewards those their uncle might have provided.