Spy, or a story about neutral territory

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One evening, at the end of 1780, one of the many valleys of the county of West-Chester was rode a lone horseman. The thunderstorm was about to think about the night, but the local residents were apprehension with the strangers and not everyone let everyone out by the threshold. The North of America was covered by a war for independence, and many colonists wore a mask, afraid to go into the grave with the shameful stigma of the enemy.
In the next volume of "adventure masters" includes the famous novel by James Fenimor Cooper "Spy" - one of the first books of world literature, who told about the ambiguous fate of the hero of the secret war of the knights of the cloak and dagger