Tabby Copley can't understand why, in the fall of 1773, her father
would suddenly want to move their whole family from their
comfortable house in a Massachusetts village to a lonely corn mill
in the country, where the nearest neighbors are a mile away. But on
the first night in their new home, Father shows Tabby and her
brother, Dan, the secret of the mill: Below the millstones, in a
hidden cellar, is a gunshop where Father and Dan will be making
muskets for the Minute Men.
The secret of the gunshop has to be kept at all costs-especially
from Tory spies, loyal to the king, and there are plenty of those
around during the years just before the American Revolution. The
question is-who are they?
Everyone suspects everyone else and sometimes the wrong people
are caught and punished by angry patriots. And when a wealthy
English family, suspected to be loyalist spies, builds a handsome
country house near the mill, Tabby is trapped between patriotism
and her friendship with the new neighbors. Can she remain friends
with Alice and Jack and still keep the crucial secret of the grist
mill?
"By making friends with Tories living nearby, Tabitha Copley
caused a crisis in her own family and great concern in the town.
This mystery of pre-Revolutionary days has a well-developed plot,
good characterization, and gives an authentic picture of divided
loyalties in a time of crisis."
--Library Journal (1962)
"More a portrait of the temper of the times and the way of life
in rural New England than a mystery as the title may imply, this
reveals an unusual spirit of friendship that prevails even in the
face of divergent political feelings. Good supplementary reading
for fifth and sixth graders studying this era."
--Kirkus Reviews (1962)
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