A Tree of Bones (Hexslinger 3)

“Thank the Lord, We Do Not Look To Hear From Them.”

December 14, 1867:

FRENZY AT THE WHITE HOUSE!

Marshals Baffled as President Johnson

Receives Contact, in Person,

From a Witchy Coterie of Hex City’s

all-Female Elected Emissaries:

Songbird Yu, Business-woman, late of San Francisco;

“The Night Has Passed,” Navaho Woman Chief (Federally Pardoned for Former Offences);

and Mrs. Sophronia Love (Widow, un-Hexacious),

Representing her Son, Gabriel.

December 20, 1867:

“A SPECIAL CASE”:

New Territorial Declaration and Constitution

Drafted for Hexicas

To Be Entered Into by Mutual Agreement —

Annexation Impossible, President Johnson Admits,

“Since the Territory in Question cannot

be Tracked, or Even Entered,

Without Express Permission from Its Inhabitants.”

Spokeswoman Mrs. Love Maintains “All Hexicans

Consider Themselves U.S. Citizens,”

Even Though some have Sought Refuge from

American Laws or Mores.

“We Embrace All, Refuse None, Hex or No.”

December 25, 1867:

FIRST HEXICAN NOEL!

Christmas Festivities to be Held Throughout the City-State,

Though Attendance of Religious Component is Hardly Mandatory.

Yr. Humble Correspondent, for One, Will be There.