kate warny, america's first professional female detective, is also down there. she presents herself and a genteel lady from montgomery, alabama. and so she's welcomed into the circles of the conspirators' wives and sisters. and as for pinkerton, he presented an office and opened up what he said was a stock brokerage firm and let it be known that he had strong southern sympathies. and soon he's in the pro-secessionist circles, too. at one point he's introduced to a man named cipriano ferendini, an immigrant from corsica, who had a barbershop in the basement of the barnum hotel. in spite of that background, he was a fire-breathing secessionist who declared out loud and at just about every opportunity, it seems, that the only way for the south to be free was for abraham lincoln to die. and the man that introduced pinkerton to him was george cane, who was the baltimore chief of police. so you have this partnership that i love. the chief of police and the loony corsican barber. and they're all out to get lincoln. and as pinkerton is putting all these pieces together