To ten-year-old Gus Croft, the city of New York in 1734 is an exciting place to be. The sensational trial of Peter Zenger, printer and publisher of The New York Weekly Journal, will take place soon. Zenger is in jail for printing scandalous opinions about His Majesty's governor. As a printer's apprentice, Gus watches every develpment closely, relieved that his master, William Bradford, is in Governor Cosby's good graces.