Chapter One H ansi Verin was a child of the sunrise. Ever since childhood, she would perch on her sacred rock, facing the Virginia mountains on the eastern horizon, and wait for the instant when light pierced the Ohio River forest. A few minutes later, as she knew very well, the night watch changed along the fort s high stockade walls, and ff she was lucky, she might catch a glimpse of the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Shelby Cameron. Newly arrived from the British command post at Fort Detroit, Shelby Cameron was the first true gentleman that she had ever seen. Across the clearing, in front of the heavy, palisaded gates, Hansi moved in the direction of the river to get a better view of the soldiers manning the towers and patrolling the corner lookouts. On this lovely spring morning in long minutes before the morning changing of the guard. Around her 1775, Hansi had to wait ten gun went off, signaling the the sun rose above the thick
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