![]() ![]() Grandfather tries to save Mattie, and ends up being killed when he flies back toward the stairs after shooting an old rifle at the thieves.Īfter this, Matilda is desperate and searches for Eliza, finding Nell, another fever orphan along the way. She had screamed, which woke her grandfather up. The next night, men broke in while Matilda was sleeping. They return to their house, to discover it was robbed by thieves. (They kept the sick out of other cities, and thought her grandfather ill because of his cough.) Matilda falls ill with the fever and is taken to a hospital by her grandfather. She and her grandfather try to flee to a family friend's home in the country, but they are left behind because of guards patrolling the path. ![]() First, many of her neighbors are infected, then her childhood friends, including Polly, their serving girl, then Matilda's mother. ![]() In 1793 yellow fever is spreading through Philadelphia. ![]() Matilda realizes she has to fight for her own life and her loved ones. When the yellow fever epidemic breaks out during the summer, people leave the city or die. Matilda ("Mattie") Cook is 14 years old with big dreams for her family's coffeehouse. Matilda Cook lives with her hardworking mother, grandfather, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and Eliza, a freed slave who works as their cook, in the apartment on top of their family coffeehouse in Philadelphia. ![]()
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