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This is not a story about an old man in bifalcals at the center of a revolution, but rather another tale of mystery featuring a boy who had no idea he'd one day wind up $100 bill.

Hannah and I stood on the frozen part looking down at the body of Lord Billingsgate's man, Higgins floating under the ice beneath our feet.

Someone murdered Higgins. Perhaps someone who didn't want us to hear what he had to say. Someone who's still out there.

That wolf was not very far away. Honestly, right now I'm more worried about the other kind of wolf. The kind that holds a pistol. Come this way.

And let us deeper into the woods. I hoped that the snow was falling hard enough to cover our tracks.

We can hide beyond the big oak tree. This tree, who showed us me before, is where your father was laid to rest.

And where he taught me to read and write, just as he had taught himself.

I'm sorry I never met him, but I'm sure he would be very proud of you.

One day, I'll build my school name this spot. A school that will bear his name.

It'll make a fine location, and you, a fine teacher, if we live to see the day.

Shh, someone's coming.

You know me as Benjamin Franklin, statesman, inventor, founding father.

But back in the 1720s, as a teenager in New York, I was just playing band.

Inspiring printer, budding adventurer, dreaming, and frozen in the woods.

We hid behind Hannah's oak, standing as still as the tree itself, trying not to breathe.

Do you hear that? That doesn't sound like a wolf.

Unless it's the human kind.

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