About this story
An American stranger, Amos Green, arrives claiming an old family trading tie and stays to back you with a frontier pistol when the dragoon captain lays hands on you and seizes the family Bible. The captain rides off promising twelve conversions by dawn, and before you can plan for that, a courier arrives summoning you to Versailles before sunrise.
How it opens
Evening pressed summer heat between the tall houses of the Rue St Martin.
Adele CatinatAmory, Father says soldiers may be quartered here before midnight.
You watched your cousin fasten shutters that had never stopped royal authority.
Theophile CatinatWe have paid every levy and disturbed no Catholic neighbor.
Choose
The coat may persuade them this house already serves the king.
A soldier's coat cannot cancel an order signed above his rank.