MD3PAD 487-489

[Toby G Levy]

        The Rabbi of Prague cult followers tell Dixon that America is a
secret text to be studied like the Kaballah. They take interest in the
line that Mason and Dixon are creating, because the place that it ends
will have mystical significance.

        The cultists believe that the American revolution is propelled
by capitalists and greedy people and it will not be good if they
prevail.

        But one of the inn drinkers states that Ben Franklin and his
people stopped the Paxton boys outside Philadelphia. Others see Franklin
as a charismatic leader who takes the place of a bishop among the
nonbelievers.

        They keep quoting lines of poetry and Dixon asks who is the
author and they tell him it is Timothy Tox and his Pennsylvaniad.  It
turns out that Tox is there in the tavern but he tells Dixon he is
hiding out and travelling secretly because his writing is not
appreciated by the British.

Toby