After chasing many false leads and the wrong suspects, Bushell and his associates arrive at Victoria (the nation's capital, on the south side of the Potomac River across from Georgestown, Maryland), and find "The Two Georges" an hour before the King arrives. They also uncover the true culprits: the Holy Alliance and Bushell's superior officer and covert fanatic Sons of Liberty sympathizer, Lieutenant General Sir Horace Bragg, whose family had formerly owned slaves. Bushnell then thwarts Bragg's attempts to assassinate the King, first by gunfire then by a bomb concealed in the frame of "The Two Georges". When Bragg is arrested and awaiting trial, he and Bushell argue over the outcomes of a potential war against the Holy Alliance and a resultant American separatist uprising caused by the theft of the painting. Later, Bushell and Stanley are both knighted by King Charles for their accomplishments.