Section: Literature and Composition

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What is the first clue that we get in PART TWO that "King George's men" are the antagonists?

1. They said no word to the landlord. They drank his ale instead.
2. But they gagged his daughter, and bound her, to the foot of her narrow bed.
3. They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest.
4. They had bound a musket beside her, with the muzzle beneath her breast!
5. “Now, keep good watch!” and they kissed her. She heard the doomed man say—

While each of the choices show antagonism on the part of King George's men, Answer 1 is the best choice because it's the first indication they are not there out of respect for the daughter or the inn-keeper. They move in and make the man's home their own without offering him so much as a word of appreciation.