Tryon’s most audacious feat of the season is to plant a mole at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia—a mole who can therefore deliver to him regular updates of the highest-level proceedings in all the colonies. Tryon accomplished this by somehow arranging for his own former servant to be hired by an oblivious congressman, James Duane from New York, to serve as the congressman’s valet and personal aide. While Duane employed the valet, Tryon simultaneously paid the young man to send him regular updates from the inside.
