George Washington asked Emily to do a dangerous mission.She was a volunteer.She was the messenger.She was eighteen years old.She had to leave at dawn.She has to destroy the paper if she gets caught.She now knows that her hosts are tories.She got  captured.They sent her to a farm house.She ate the paper.She got worried that the British would find the paper that is why she ate it.Also she got caught when she was riding a horse.