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A Novel NNiigghhtthh aawwkkeerrss A n t h o n y T i a t o r i o © Copyright 2008 by Anthony D. Tiatorio All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author. For my wife, Judy t was very dark when Samuel led them along the Ipath he knew that circled around the town, a little below the canal, and back down to the river. It went through the briary thickets and was mostly unused, except for the fruit pickers. The marsh was thick with raspberries that time of year and they were all around them, plump, ripe and ready to eat, but the light from the canal boat nighthawker he carried was keenly focused and cut too narrow a swath through the sooty shadows for them to be seen. __________ Chapter One OSIAH HAMRICK WAS CERTAIN that John Quincy Adams would handily win reelection to the presidency in 1828. This J was how little he, and indeed most well-healed Bostonians, understood about the way America had changed in the barely fifty years since the Revolution, a revolution they had literally fashioned with their own fingers. For its first half-century the republic had been ruled by the educated few, the soft-handed children of refinement, the college educated heirs of tradition in public service. There was indeed a ruling class and it was widely assumed that, like any profession, ruling required breeding and experience; no one personified this idea more than John Quincy Adams, son of a former president and as close to a natural political aristocrat as any American could possibly come.
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