5/28/2023 0 Comments Running out of time haddixWhen she makes her way through the trapdoor, Jessie finds the Clifton tourist site and blends in by pretending to be a touring student. Her little sister, Katie, has recently become sick herself. Despite the risk of violent capture and punishment, Jessie agrees. She gives Jessie the number of a man named Isaac Neeley who Ma believes will help secure medicine and report the Clifton founders to the board of health. Ma asks Jessie to sneak out of Clifton through a rock which hides a trapdoor and find a payphone. Clifton is really a historical preserve where the villagers are not allowed to leave or receive modern medicine, while tourists watch them via hidden cameras and two-way mirrors. Ma then reveals that the year is actually 1996 and that the sick children have a disease called diphtheria. When Ma asks Jessie to secretly meet her the next night at a hidden rock, Jessie is suspicious. Many children have been getting sick lately. One night, she helps her mother, the village midwife, treat two sick children. Jessie Keyser lives in Clifton, Indiana, a small village on the American frontier in what she believes in 1840.
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