![]() ![]() Felker is not like the others Jane has helped, and everything about him is disquieting. Jane opens her door to find in her house an uninvited visitor named John Felker, the latest to run to her for sanctuary. Many of her clients have been innocent people whom the institutions of society have been too slow and cumbersome to protect, but an increasing number have been like the gambler Harry Kemple: people who aren't especially admirable but who aren't bad enough to deserve to die prematurely. Jane knows all the tricks in fact, she has invented several of them herself in the ten years she has been teaching fugitives to live with new identities. ![]() Still, the supply of runaways-and the need for a woman who will take great risks to save them-have never been greater. ![]() But the shaded forest paths her Seneca ancestors might have followed on such missions have all been converted to superhighways, and now the safest way stations are crowded urban buildings that offer the camouflage of anonymity. Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads solitary outcasts through hostile territory to escape the vengeance of their enemies. ![]()
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