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During chapter 1, the book introduced all the characters.

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Learned about the Fever, and Polly died.

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The aftermath of Polly's death, and Matilda wanted to go and give Polly's family a meal.

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Many people at the coffee house were talking about the Fever and how it is spreading.

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Rumors started to spread about the deadly illness that was sweeping the city. People continued to get very sick.

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Matilda and he mother found some old clothes and went to tea with the Ogilvies.

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Mattie and her mom went to the Ogilvie mansion and were treated lavishly.

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The Ogilvie family, along with other affluent families, flees from the city as the fever spreads. Business at the coffeehouse almost completely vanishes.

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Mother gets sick and Matilda, Grandfather and Eliza bring her up to her bed. They then go and do their daily chores.

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Eliza and Grandfather find a Dr. Kerr and he says that Mother has the Fever.

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The farmer finds someone in an alley who appears to have the fever.

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Matilda and her grandfather went to Philadelphia but he felt quite ill and wanted to rest.

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Mattie wakes up and realizes she has the Yellow Fever and is laying in a hospital

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Mattie starts to hear rumors of this "fever epidemic" spreading all over the city.

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Grandfather is still ill and incapable to do anything. Mattie find food and water and makes a fire to keep

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Mattie is released from Bush Hill. She and her grandfather are loaded onto a wagon that will lead to the Orphan house and Philadelphia.

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Mattie and her grandfather go to the coffeehouse only to find that it has been VANDALIZED and looted. However, the thieves left the upstairs of the coffeehouse untouched.

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Mattie was awakened from a dream by 2 men climbing into the coffee house from a window. Mattie chased them off and sliced one guys shoulder.

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Mattie hears a corpse collecter walking down the street so he calls him in to take grandpa to the cemetary.

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Everyone started cleaning up the coffee house and Mattie found some cloths with the fever

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Mattie finds a girl named Nell, her mother recently died from the fever. Mattie takes her to Eliza's house.

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Mattie asks Eliza where her mother is, Eliza tells her the last time she saw her she recovered from the fever and was heading to the Ludington's.

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Mattie washes a cart with boiling vinegar to make it as sterile as possible. Then she and Eliza load the three sick children into the cart and transport them across town to the coffeehouse.

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Mattie and Eliza go and bring Nell to the orphan house but it is to full so Mattie can keep Nell.

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Eliza and Mattie take daily trips to the city. Food is getting very scarce so some people began to mix sawdust with flour to make bread.

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Silas wakes Mattie from sleep and she finds that October has brought frost, she gets exited that the fever might die down.

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Nathaniel calls Mattie every day of the week, while the nightly frost continues. More and more people come back to Philadelphia.

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October nears to November while the coffee house reopens and the city feels back to normal.

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Mattie rushes into her mother's arms. Mattie learns that her mother's health has been ruined by the prolonged fever, and she can no longer perform most physically strenuous activities.