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gracious way, and the school teacher led them to a garden bench and begged them to be seated.
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"the day is lovely," she said, "and i always find my garden more cheerful than the house. grandfather's illness makes the house unpleasant for strangers, too."
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louise was surprised at this frank reference, and uncle john coughed to hide his embarrassment.
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"i--i hope the invalid is--is improving," he said, doubtful whether he should say anything on the delicate subject or not.
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"he is always the same, sir," was the quiet response. "i suppose they have told you that grandfather is a madman? our great trouble is well known in this neighborhood."
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"he is not dangerous. i suppose?" hazarded uncle john, remembering the brutal bellowing.
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"oh, not at all. he is fully paralyzed from his waist down, poor grandfather, and can do no harm to anyone. but often his outbreaks are unpleasant to listen to," continued the girl, deprecatingly, as if suddenly conscious that they had overheard the recent uproar.
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"has he been--this way--for long?" inquired louise.
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"his mind has been erratic and unbalanced since i can remember," answered ethel, calmly, "but he first became violent at the time captain wegg died, some three years ago. grandfather was very fond of the captain, and happened to be with him at the time of his sudden death. the shock drove him mad."
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"was he paralyzed before that time?" asked louise, earnestly.
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"no; but the paralysis followed almost immediately. the doctor says that a blood vessel which burst in the brain is responsible for both afflictions."
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the pause that followed was growing awkward when uncle john said, with an evident effort to change the subject:
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"this is a fine old homestead."
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"it is, indeed," responded ethel, brightly, "and it enjoys the distinction of being one of the first houses built in the foothills. my great-grandfather was really the first settler in these parts and originally located his cabin where the mill now stands. 'little bill thompson,' he was called, for he was a small, wiry man--very different from grandfather, who in his prime was a powerful man of over six feet. little bill hill and little bill creek were named after this pioneer great-grandsire, who was quite successful raising flocks of sheep on the plateau. before he died he built this house, preferring the location to his first one."
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"the garden is beautiful," said louise, enthusiastically. "and do you teach in the little brick school-house across the way?"
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"yes. grandfather built it years ago, without dreaming i would ever teach there. now the county supports the school and pays me my salary."
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"how long have you taught?"
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"for two years. it is necessary, now that grandfather is disabled. he has a small income remaining, however, and with what i earn we get along very nicely."
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"it was very good of you to assist in getting our house ready for us," said louise. "we might have found things in sorry condition but for your kindness."
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"oh, i enjoyed the work, i assure you," replied ethel. "as it is my vacation, it was a real pleasure to me to have something to do. but i fear my arrangement of your pretty furniture was very ungraceful."
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"we haven't altered a single thing," declared louise. "you must have found it a tedious task, unpacking and getting everything in shape."
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"tom and nora were good help, because they are fond of me and seem to understand my wishes; and peggy mcnutt brought me some men to do the lifting and rough work," explained ethel.
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"have you known hucks and his wife long?" asked uncle john.
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"since i can remember, sir. they came here many years ago, with captain wegg."
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"and has thomas always smiled?" louise inquired.
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"always," was the laughing reply. "it's an odd expression--isn't it?--to dwell forever on a man's face. but tom is never angry, or hurt or excited by anything, so there is no reason he should not smile. at the time of captain wegg's death and poor grandfather's terrible affliction, old hucks kept right on smiling, the same as ever; and perhaps his pleasant face helped to cheer us all."
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louise drew a long breath.
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"then the smile is a mask," she said, "and is assumed to conceal the man's real feelings."
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"i do not think so," ethel answered, thoughtfully. "the smile is habitual, and dominates any other expression his features might be capable of; but that it is assumed i do not believe. thomas is a simple-minded, honest-hearted old fellow, and to face the world smilingly is a part of his religion. i am sure he has nothing to conceal, and his devotion to his blind wife is very beautiful."
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"but nora--how long has she been blind?"
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"perhaps all her life; i cannot tell how long. yet it is wonderful how perfectly she finds her way without the aid of sight. captain wegg used to say she was the best housekeeper he ever knew."
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"did not his wife keep house for him, when she was alive?"
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"i do not remember her."
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"they say she was most unhappy."
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ethel dropped her eyes and did not reply.
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"how about cap'n wegg?" asked uncle john. "did you like him? you see, we're mighty curious about the family, because we've acquired their old home, and are bound to be interested in the people that used to live there."
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"that is natural," remarked the little school teacher, with a sigh. "captain wegg was always kind to me; but the neighbors as a rule thought him moody and bad-tempered." after a pause she added: "he was not as kind to his son as to me. but i think his life was an unhappy one, and we have no right to reprove his memory too severely for his faults."
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"what made him unhappy?" asked louise, quickly.
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ethel smiled into her eager face.
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"no one has solved that problem, they say. the captain was as silent as he was morose."
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the detective instinct was alive in louise. she hazarded a startling query:
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"who killed captain wegg?" she demanded, suddenly.
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another smile preceded the reply.
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"a dreadful foe called heart disease. but come; let me show you my garden. there are no such roses as these for miles around."
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louise was confident she had made progress. ethel had admitted several things that lent countenance to the suspicions already aroused; but perhaps this simple country girl had never imagined the tragedy that had been enacted at her very door.
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she cordially urged ethel thompson to spend a day with them at the farm, and uncle john, who was pleased with the modesty and frankness of the fair-haired little school teacher, earnestly seconded the invitation.
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then he thought of going home, and the thought reminded him of dan.
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"do you know," he inquired, "where i could buy a decent horse?"
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the girl looked thoughtful a moment; then glanced up with a bright smile.
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"will you buy one off me?" she asked.
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"willingly, my dear, if you've an animal to sell."
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"it's--it's our joe. he was grandfather's favorite colt when his trouble came upon him. we have no use for him now, for i always ride or drive my pony. and grandmother says he's eating his head off to no purpose; so we'd like to sell him. if you will come to the barn i'll introduce you to him."
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joe proved on inspection to be an excellent horse, if appearances were to be trusted, and ethel assured mr. merrick that the steed was both gentle and intelligent.
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"do you use that surrey?" inquired uncle john, pointing to a neat vehicle that seemed to be nearly new.
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"very seldom, sir. grandmother would like to sell it with the horse."
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"it's exactly what i need," declared mr. merrick. "how much for joe and his harness, and the surrey?"
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"i'll go and ask what grandmother wants."
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she returned after a few minutes, stating a figure that made uncle john lift his brows with a comical expression.
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"a hundred dollars! do you take me for a brigand, little girl? i know what horses are worth, for i've bought plenty of 'em. your joe seems sound as a dollar, and he's just in his prime. a hundred and fifty is dirt cheap for him, and the surrey will be worth at least seventy-five. put in the harness at twenty-five, and i'll give you two-fifty for the outfit, and not a cent more or less. eh?"
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"no, indeed," said ethel. "we could not get more than a hundred dollars from anyone else around here."
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"because your neighbors are countrymen, and can't afford a proper investment. so when they buy at all they only give about half what a thing is actually worth. but i'll be honest with you. the price i offer is a good deal less than i'd have to pay in the city--hutchinson would charge me five hundred, at least--and i need just what you've got to sell. what do you say, miss ethel?"
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"the price is one hundred dollars, mr. merrick."
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"i won't pay it. let me talk with your grandmother."
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"she does not see anyone, sir."
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louise looked up sharply, scenting another clue.
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"isn't she well, dear?" she asked in smooth tones.
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"she looks after grandfather, and helps aunt lucy with the housework."
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"well, come, louise; we'll go home," said uncle john, sadly. "i'd hoped to be able to drive this fine fellow back, but dan'll have to groan an' balk all the way to the farm."
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"better buy at my price, mr. merrick," she suggested.
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"tell you what i'll do," he said, pausing. "i'll split the difference. take two hundred and well call it a bargain."
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"but i cannot do that, sir."
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"it will help pay you for the hard work of fixing up the house," he rejoined, pleadingly. "your bill wasn't half enough."
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"my bill?" wonderingly.
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"the one i paid mcnutt for your services."
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"i made no charge, sir. i could not accept anything for a bit of assistance to a neighbor."
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"oh! then mcnutt got it, did he?"
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"i'm awfully sorry, mr. merrick. i told peggy i would not accept payment."
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"h-m. never mind. we're not going to quarrel, little neighbor. may i hitch joe to the surrey?"
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"if you like. i'll help you."
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uncle john led joe from his stall and together they harnessed the horse to the surrey. the girl knew better than the man how to buckle the straps properly, while louise stood by helplessly and watched the performance.
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then uncle john went for old dan, whom he led, rickety buggy and all, into the thompson stable.
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"i'll send hucks over to get him, although we might as well knock him in the head," he said as he unharnessed the ancient steed. "now then, louise, hop in."
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"you'll be sure to come over thursday, for the day, miss thompson?" asked louise, taking joe's reins from her uncle's hands.
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"i'll not forget such a delightful engagement, be sure."
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uncle john had his pocketbook out, and now he wadded up some bills and thrust them into the little school teacher's hand.
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"drive ahead, louise," he called. "good morning, my dear. see you on thursday."
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as the vehicle rolled out of the yard and turned into the highway, ethel unrolled the bills with trembling fingers.
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"if he has dared--!" she began, but paused abruptly with a smile of content.
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the rich man had given her exactly one hundred dollars.
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the lives of the saints.
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on wednesday afternoon mcnutt drove the sad-eyed sorrel mare over to the wegg farm again. he had been racking his brain for a way to get more money out of the nabob, for the idea had become a veritable passion with him and now occupied all his thoughts.
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that very morning an inspiration had come to him. among other occupations he had at one time adopted that of a book-agent, and by dint of persistent energy had sold numerous copies of "radford's lives of the saints" to the surrounding farmers. they had cost him ninety cents a copy and he had sold them at three dollars each, netting a fine profit in return for his labor. the books were printed upon cheap paper, fearfully illustrated with blurred cuts, but the covers were bound in bright red with gold lettering. through misunderstandings three of these copies had come back to him, the subscribers refusing to accept them; and so thorough had been his canvassing that there remained no other available customers for the saintly works. so peggy had kept them on a shelf in his "office" for several years, and now, when his eye chanced to light upon them, he gave a snort of triumph and pounced upon them eagerly. mr. merrick was a newcomer. without doubt he could be induced to buy a copy of radford's lives.
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an hour later mcnutt was on his mission, the three copies, which had been carefully dusted, reclining on the buggy seat beside him. arrived at the wegg farm, he drove up to the stile and alighted.
an__<label>__DET hour__<label>__NOUN later__<label>__ADP mcnutt__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON mission__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET three__<label>__NUM copies__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. which__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB been__<label>__VERB carefully__<label>__ADJ dusted__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. reclining__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET buggy__<label>__NOUN seat__<label>__NOUN beside__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON .__<label>__. arrived__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET wegg__<label>__ADJ farm__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON drove__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET stile__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ alighted__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
louise was reading in the hammock, and merely glanced at the little man, who solemnly stumped around to the back door with the three red volumes tucked underneath his arm. he had brought them all along to make his errand "look like business."
louise__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB reading__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET hammock__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ merely__<label>__PRON glanced__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ man__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. who__<label>__PRON solemnly__<label>__VERB stumped__<label>__VERB around__<label>__ADP to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET back__<label>__NOUN door__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET three__<label>__NUM red__<label>__NUM volumes__<label>__NOUN tucked__<label>__VERB underneath__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON arm__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB brought__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON all__<label>__VERB along__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT make__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON errand__<label>__NOUN "__<label>__NOUN look__<label>__VERB like__<label>__ADP business__<label>__NOUN ."__<label>__.
"where's the nabob?" he asked blind nora.
"__<label>__NOUN where__<label>__NOUN 's__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET nabob__<label>__NOUN ?"__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON asked__<label>__VERB blind__<label>__ADJ nora__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
"what's that, mr. mcnutt?" she inquired, as if puzzled. she knew his voice, as she did that of nearly everyone with whom she had ever been brought in contact.
"__<label>__NOUN what__<label>__PRON 's__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET ,__<label>__. mr__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. mcnutt__<label>__PRON ?"__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON inquired__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP if__<label>__ADP puzzled__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON knew__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON voice__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP she__<label>__PRON did__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET of__<label>__ADP nearly__<label>__VERB everyone__<label>__PRON with__<label>__ADP whom__<label>__VERB she__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB ever__<label>__PRON been__<label>__VERB brought__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP contact__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
"why, the nabob; the boss; mr. merrick."
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"oh. he's in the barn with tom, i guess."
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mcnutt entered the barn. uncle john was seated upon an overturned pail watching old hucks oil joe's harness. the agent approached him with a deferential bow.
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"sir," said he, "you'll 'scuse my comin' agin so soon to be a-botherin'; but i hev here three copies of radford's famis wucks on the lives o' the saints, in a edishun dee looks----"
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"a edishun dee looks, which means extry fine. it's a great book an' they's all out'n print 'cept these three, which i hain't no doubt many folks would be glad to give their weight in gold fer, an' some over."
"__<label>__NOUN a__<label>__DET edishun__<label>__ADJ dee__<label>__. looks__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. which__<label>__PRON means__<label>__VERB extry__<label>__DET fine__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__. it__<label>__PRON 's__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET great__<label>__ADJ book__<label>__NOUN an__<label>__ADJ '__<label>__NOUN they__<label>__PRON 's__<label>__VERB all__<label>__PRON out__<label>__PRON '__<label>__NOUN n__<label>__NOUN print__<label>__NOUN '__<label>__NOUN cept__<label>__. these__<label>__NUM three__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. which__<label>__PRON i__<label>__PRON hain__<label>__VERB 't__<label>__PRT no__<label>__ADJ doubt__<label>__VERB many__<label>__NUM folks__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB glad__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT give__<label>__VERB their__<label>__PRON weight__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP gold__<label>__DET fer__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. an__<label>__ADJ '__<label>__NOUN some__<label>__NUM over__<label>__ADP ."__<label>__.
"stand out of the light, mcnutt."
"__<label>__NOUN stand__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET light__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. mcnutt__<label>__NOUN ."__<label>__.
the agent shifted his position.
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"them books, sir----"
"__<label>__NOUN them__<label>__PRON books__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. sir__<label>__NOUN ----"__<label>__.
"oh, take 'em away."
"__<label>__NOUN oh__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. take__<label>__VERB '__<label>__PRON em__<label>__NOUN away__<label>__PRON ."__<label>__.
"i don't read novels."
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mcnutt scratched his head, perplexed at the rebuff. his "dee looks" speech had usually resulted in a sale. an idea flashed across his brain--perhaps evolved by the scratching.
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"the young lady, sir--"
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"oh, the girls are loaded with books," growled the nabob.
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the agent became desperate.
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"but the young lady in the hammick, sir, as i jest now left, says to tell ye she wants one o' these books mighty bad, an' hopes you'll buy it for her eddificationing."
"__<label>__NOUN but__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET young__<label>__ADJ lady__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET hammick__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. sir__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON jest__<label>__VERB now__<label>__PRON left__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. says__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT tell__<label>__VERB ye__<label>__NOUN she__<label>__PRON wants__<label>__VERB one__<label>__NUM o__<label>__NOUN '__<label>__NOUN these__<label>__NUM books__<label>__NOUN mighty__<label>__VERB bad__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. an__<label>__ADJ '__<label>__NOUN hopes__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON 'll__<label>__PRT buy__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON for__<label>__ADP her__<label>__PRON eddificationing__<label>__NOUN ."__<label>__.
"oh; she does, eh?"
"__<label>__NOUN oh__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON does__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. eh__<label>__NOUN ?"__<label>__.
"mighty bad, sir."
"__<label>__NOUN mighty__<label>__ADJ bad__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. sir__<label>__NOUN ."__<label>__.
uncle john watched thomas polish a buckle.
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"is it a moral work?" he asked.
"__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON a__<label>__DET moral__<label>__ADJ work__<label>__NOUN ?"__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON asked__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
"nuthin' could be moraler, sir. all 'bout the lives o'--"
"__<label>__NOUN nuthin__<label>__NOUN '__<label>__NOUN could__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB moraler__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. sir__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. all__<label>__NUM '__<label>__NOUN bout__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET lives__<label>__NOUN o__<label>__NOUN '--"__<label>__.
"how much is it?"
"__<label>__NOUN how__<label>__DET much__<label>__ADJ is__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON ?"__<label>__.
"comes pretty high, sir. three dollars. but it's--"
"__<label>__NOUN comes__<label>__VERB pretty__<label>__DET high__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. sir__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. three__<label>__NUM dollars__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON 's__<label>__VERB --"__<label>__.
"here. take your money and get out. you're interrupting me."
"__<label>__NOUN here__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. take__<label>__VERB your__<label>__PRON money__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ get__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON .__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON 're__<label>__VERB interrupting__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON ."__<label>__.
"very sorry, sir. much obleeged, sir. where'll i leave the book?"
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"throw it in the manger."
"__<label>__NOUN throw__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET manger__<label>__NOUN ."__<label>__.
mcnutt selected a volume that had a broken corner and laid it carefully on the edge of the oat-bin. then he put his money in his pocket and turned away.
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"morn'n' to ye, mr. merrick."
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"stop a bit," said uncle john, suddenly.
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the agent stopped.
the__<label>__DET agent__<label>__NOUN stopped__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
"i believe i paid you ten dollars for miss ethel thompson's services. is that correct?"
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"ye--yes, mr. merrick."
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mcnutt's heart was in his shoes and he looked guiltily at his accuser, the pale blue eyes bulging fearfully.
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"very well; see that she gets it."
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"of course, mr. merrick."
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"and at once. you may go."
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mcnutt stumped from the barn. he felt that a dreadful catastrophe had overtaken him. scarcely could he restrain the impulse to sob aloud. ten dollars!--ten dollars gone to the dogs as the result of his visit to the nabob that morning! to lose ten dollars in order to gain three was very bad business policy. mcnutt reflected bitterly that he would have been better off had he stayed at home. he ought to have been contented with what he had already made, and the severe manner the nabob had used in addressing him told the agent plainly that he need not expect further pickings from this source.
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in the midst of his despair the comforting thought that ethel would surely refuse the money came to sustain him; so he recovered somewhat his former spirits. as he turned the corner of the house he observed louise still reading in the hammock.
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in some ways mcnutt was a genius. he did not neglect opportunities.
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"here's my las' chance at these idjits," he muttered, "an' i'll learn thet nabob what it costs, to make marsh mcnutt stand out'n his light."
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then he hastened over to the hammock.
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"'scuse me, miss," said he, in his most ingratiating voice. "is yer uncle 'round anywheres?"
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"can't find him, high ner low. but he ordered a book of me t'other day--'radford's lives o' the saints'--an' perhaps you'll take it an' pay me the money, so's i kin go home."
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louise gazed at the man musingly. he was one of the people she intended to pump for information concerning the mystery of captain wegg, and she must be gracious to him in order to win his good-will and induce him to speak freely. with this thought in mind she drew out her purse and asked:
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"how much were you to be paid for the book?"
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"three dollars, miss."
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"here is the money, then. tell me--your name is mcnutt, isn't it?--how long have you lived in this place?"
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"all my life, miss. thank 'e, miss. good day to ye, miss."
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he placed the book in the hammock beside her.
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"don't go, please." said the girl. "i'd like you to tell me something about captain wegg, and of his poor wife who died, and--"
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"nuther time, miss, i'll be glad to. ye'll find me in my orfice, any time. jest now i'm in the dumdest hurry ye ever knew. good day to ye, miss," he repeated, and stumped quickly to the buggy awaiting him. next moment he had seized the reins and was urging the sorrel mare along the stony lane at her best pace.
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louise was both astonished and disappointed, but after a little thought she looked after the departing agent with a shrewd smile.
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"he's afraid to talk," she murmured, "and that only confirms my suspicions that he knows more than he cares to tell."
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meantime mcnutt was doing his best to get away from the premises before the discovery was made that he had sold two "lives of the saints" to one family. that there might be future consequences to follow his deception never occurred to him; only the immediate necessity for escape occupied his mind.
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nor were his fears altogether groundless. turning his head from time to time for a glance behind, he had seen mr. merrick come from the barn with a red book in his hand and approach the hammock, whereupon the young lady arose and exhibited a second book. then they both dropped the books and ran into the lane and began shouting for him to stop--the man's voice sounding especially indignant and imperative.
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but mcnutt chose to be deaf. he did not look around again, and was congratulating himself that he would soon be out of earshot when a sudden apparition ahead caused the mare to halt abruptly. it also caused the cold chills to run down the agent's back. beth and patsy had stepped into the lane from a field, being on their way home from their daily walk.
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"they're calling to you, sir," said patsy to the agent. "didn't you hear them?"
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"i--i'm a little deaf, miss," stammered mcnutt, who recognized the young ladies as mr. merrick's nieces.
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"i think they wish you to go back," remarked beth, thoughtfully watching the frantic waves of uncle john's chubby arms and louise's energetic beckonings. they were too far off to be heard plainly, but their actions might surely be understood.
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mcnutt with reluctance looked over his shoulder, and a second shudder went through him.
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"i hain't got time to go back," he said, as an inspiration came to him; "but i guess you kin do jest as well. this book here," picking up the last of the three from the seat, "i offered to sell yer uncle fer five dollars; but he wanted it fer four. i ain't no haggler, you understan', so i jest driv away. now mr. merrick has changed his mind an' is willin' to give five fer it; but there ain't nuthin' small about me. ef you gals'll jest give me the four dollars ye kin take the book to yer uncle, with my compliments; an' i won't hev t' go back. i'm in a drea'ful hurry."
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patsy laughed at the little man's excited manner.
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"fortunately i have some money with me," she said; "but you may as well take the five dollars, for unless uncle had been willing to pay it he would not have called you back."
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"i think so, myself, miss," he rejoined, taking the money and handing her the volume.
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uncle john and louise, glaring at the distant group, saw the third red book change hands, and in answer to their renewed cries and gestures patsy waved the "lives of the saints" at them reassuringly and came on at a brisk walk, followed by beth.
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mcnutt slapped the sorrel with the ends of the reins so energetically that the mare broke into a trot, and before the girls had come within speaking distance of their uncle, the agent was well out of sight and exulting in the possession of eleven dollars to pay for his morning's work. even if ethel accepted that ten, he reflected, he would still be a dollar ahead. but he was sure she would tell him to keep it; and he'd "jest like to see thet air nabob git a penny back agin."
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meantime uncle john's wrath, which was always an effervescent quality with the little gentleman, had changed to wonder when he saw his nieces approaching with the third red-and-gold book. louise was leaning against the rail fence and laughing hysterically, and suddenly a merry smile appeared and spread over her uncle's round face as he said:
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"did you ever hear of such an audacious swindle in all your born days?"
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"what will you do, uncle?" asked the girl, wiping the tears of merriment from her eyes. "have the man arrested?"
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"of course not, my dear. it's worth the money just to learn what talents the fellow possesses. tell me, patsy," he continued, as the other nieces joined them, "what did you pay for your book?"
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"five dollars. uncle. he said--"
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"never mind what he said, my dear. it's all right. i wanted it to add to my collection. so far i've got three 'lives of the saints'--and i'm thankful they're not cats, or there'd be nine lives for me to accumulate."
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the mystery deepens.
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ethel thompson came over the next day, as she had promised, and the sweet-faced, gentle school-mistress won the hearts of uncle john's three nieces without an effort. she was the eldest of them all, but her retired country life had kept her fresh and natural, and ethel seemed no more mature than the younger girls except in a certain gravity that early responsibility had thrust upon her.
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afterward they traced the stream down to a lovely glade a half mile above millville, where ethel informed them the annual sunday-school picnic was always held, and then trailed across the rocky plateau to the farm. by the time they reached home their appetites were well sharpened for mary's excellent luncheon, and the afternoon was devoted to rest under the shady pines that grew beside the house.
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it was now, when they felt thoroughly acquainted and at ease in one another's society, that the girls indulged in talks concerning events in their past, and ethel was greatly interested in the nieces' recital of their recent trip abroad with uncle john. they also spoke frankly of their old life together at elmhurst, where aunt jane, who was uncle john's sister, had congregated her three nieces for the purpose of choosing from among them one to inherit her vast estates. it seemed no source of regret to any of them that a boy, kenneth forbes, had finally succeeded to aunt jane's property, and this may be explained by the fact that uncle john had at that interesting juncture appeared to take charge of the nieces. it was quite evident that the eccentric but kindly old fellow had succeeded in making these three girls as happy as their dispositions would allow them to be.
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after the most interesting phases of their personal history had been discussed, the nieces began, perhaps unconsciously, to draw from ethel her own story. it was simple enough, and derived its interest mainly from the fact that it concerned their new friend. her parents had both passed away while she was young, and ethel had always lived with her father's father, big will thompson, a man reputed very well-to-do for this section, and an energetic farmer from his youth.
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old will had always been accused of being unsociable and considering himself above the neighboring farmers; and it was true that bob west, the implement dealer, was his only associate before captain wegg arrived. a casual acquaintance with the millville people might easily explain this.
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with the advent of the weggs, however, a strong friendship seemed to spring up between the retired sea captain and the bluff, erratic old farmer, which lasted until the fatal day when one died and the other became a paralytic and a maniac.
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"we have always thought," said ethel, "that the shock of the captain's death unsettled my grandfather's mind. they had been sitting quietly in captain wegg's room one evening, as they were accustomed to do, when there was a sudden fall and a cry. thomas ran in at once, and found grandfather raving over the captain's dead body. the old seaman had heart disease, it seems, and had often declared he would die suddenly. it was a great blow to us all, but especially to joe."
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her voice softened at this last remark, and patsy exclaimed, impulsively:
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"tell us about joe wegg. did you like him?"
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"yes," said ethel, simply; "we were naturally thrown much together in our childhood, and became staunch friends. grandpa often took me with him on his visits to the weggs, and sometimes, but not often, the captain would bring joe to see us. he was a quiet, thoughtful boy; much like his mother, i imagine; but for some reason he had conceived an intense dislike for his father and an open hatred for this part of the country, where he was born. aside from these morbid notions, joe was healthy-minded and frank and genuine. had he been educated in any other atmosphere than the gloomy one of the wegg household i am sure joe's character would have been wholly admirable, and i have never blamed the boy much for his peculiarities. captain wegg would not permit him to go to school, but himself attended to such instructions as joe could acquire at home, and this was so meager and the boy so ambitious that i think it was one cause of his discontent. i remember, when i was sent to school at troy, that joe sobbed for days because he could not have the same advantages. he used to tell me wonderful stories of what he would accomplish if he could only get out into the world.
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"when he implored his father to let him go away, captain wegg used to assure joe that he would some day be rich, and there was no need of his preparing himself for either a business or a profession; but that did not satisfy joe's ambition, as you may imagine. and, when the end came, scarcely a dollar of money could be found among the captain's possessions, and no other property than this farm; so it is evident he deceived his son for some selfish purpose.
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"joe was at last free, and the only thing i reproach him for is going away without a word to me or any of his friends. i heard, indirectly, of his working his way through a technical school, for he was always crazy about mechanics, and then he went to new york and i lost all further trace of him."
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"what do you suppose became of captain wegg's money?" asked louise.
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"i've no idea. it is a singular thing that most of my grandfather's savings disappeared at the same time. on account of his mental condition he can never tell us what became of his little fortune; but luckily the returns from the farm, which we rent on shares, and my own salary as teacher of the district school, enable us to live quite comfortably, although we must be economical."
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"why, it's really a romance!" cried patsy, who had listened eagerly.
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"there are many romances in real life," added beth, in her undemonstrative way.
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louise said nothing, but her heart was throbbing with excitement engendered by the tale, which so strongly corroborated the suspicions she had begun to entertain. when ethel had gone home louise still deliberated upon this fascinating mystery, and her resolve grew to force some sort of an explanation from the smiling lips of old hucks. for the sole available witness of that fatal night's tragedy, when one strong man died and another was driven mad, was thomas hucks. the old servitor was also in a position to know much of the causes leading up to the catastrophe, he having been the confidential retainer of captain wegg for many years. hucks must speak; but the girl was wise enough to realize that he would not do so unless urged by coaxing or forced by strategy. there was doubtless good reason why the old man had remained silent for three years. her plan was to win his confidence. interest him in joe's welfare, and then the truth must come out.
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the frankly related story of ethel had supplied louise with the motive for the crime, for that a crime had been committed she was now doubly sure. captain wegg had money; old will thompson had money; both were well-to-do men. in a retired country district, where there were no banks, it was reasonable to suppose they kept large sums of money on hand, and the knowledge of this fact had tempted some one to a dreadful deed. captain wegg had been killed and old thompson perhaps injured by a blow upon the head from which he had never recovered. any suspicion the fair young detective may have entertained that thompson himself had killed his friend was eradicated by the fact that he had been robbed at the same time.
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louise had originally undertaken her investigation through curiosity and a desire to amuse herself by unveiling the mystery. now she began to reflect that she was an instrument of justice, for a discovery of the truth might restore a fortune to poor joe wegg, now struggling with the world, and put sweet ethel thompson in a position where the necessity for her to teach school would be abolished. this thought added a strong impulse to her determination to succeed.
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sunday afternoon the girl took blind nora for a long drive through the country, taking pains to explain to her all the points of interest they came to, and delighting the old woman with her bright chatter. louise had been kind to nora from the beginning, and her soft, sympathetic voice had quite won the poor creature's heart.
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on the way home, in the delightful summer twilight, the girl dexterously led the conversation toward nora's past history.
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"was thomas a sailor when you married him?" she asked.
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"yes, miss. he were bos'n on cap'n wegg's schooner the 'lively kate,' an' i were livin' with miss mary, as come to be mrs. wegg arterward."
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"oh, i see. and were you blind then, nora?"
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"no, miss. i went blind arter our great trouble come to us."
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"trouble? oh, i'm so sorry, dear. what was it?"
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the old woman was silent for a time. then she said:
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"i'd better not mention it, i guess. thomas likes to forgit, an' when i gets cryin' an' nervous he knows i've been thinkin' 'bout the old trouble."
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louise was disappointed, but changed the subject adroitly.
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"and miss mary, who was afterward mrs. wegg. did you love her, nora?"
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"indeed i did, child."
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"what was she like?"
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"she were gentle, an' sweet, an' the mos' beautiful creetur in all--in--in the place where we lived. an' her fambily was that proud an' aristocratic thet no one could tech 'em with a ten-foot pole."
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"i see. did she love captain wegg?"
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"nat'rally, sense she married of him, an' fit all her fambily to do it. an' the cap'n were thet proud o' her thet he thought the world lay in her sweet eyes."
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"oh. i had an idea he didn't treat her well," remarked the girl, soberly.
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"that's wrong," declared nora, promptly. "arter the trouble come--fer it come to the weggs as well as to tom an' me--the cap'n sort o' lost heart to see his mary cry day arter day an' never be comforted. he were hard hit himself, ye see, an' that made it a gloomy house, an' no mistake."
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"do you mean after you moved here, to the farm?"
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"i hear captain wegg was very fond of ethel's grandfather," continued louise, trying to find an opening to penetrate old nora's reserve.
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"they was good friends always," was the brief reply.
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"did they ever quarrel, nora?"
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"never that i knows of."
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"and what do you suppose became of their money?" asked the girl.
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"i don't know, child. air we gettin' near home?"
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"we are quite near, now. i wish you would open your heart to me, and tell me about that great trouble, nora. i might be able to comfort you in some way."
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the blind woman shook her head.
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"there's no comfort but in forgettin'," she said; "an' the way to forgit ain't to talk about it."
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the unsatisfactory result of this conversation did not discourage louise, although she was sorry to meet with no better success. gradually she was learning the inside history of the weggs. when she discovered what that "great trouble" had been she would secure an important clue in the mystery, she was sure. nora might some time be induced to speak more freely, and it was possible she might get the desired information from old hucks. she would try, anyway.
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a dozen theories might be constructed to account for this "great trouble." the one that louise finally favored was that captain wegg had been guilty of some crime on the high seas in which his boatswain, old hucks, was likewise implicated. they were obliged to abandon the sea and fly to some out-of-the-way corner inland, where they could be safely hidden and their whereabouts never discovered. it was the knowledge of this crime, she conjectured, that had ruined sweet mrs. wegg's life and made her weep day after day until her guilty husband became surly and silent and unsociable.
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louise now began to cultivate thomas, but her progress was slow. patsy seemed to be the old man's favorite, and for some reason he became glum and uncommunicative whenever louise was around. the girl suspected that nora had told her husband of the recent conversation, in spite of her assertion that she wished to avoid all reference to their great trouble.
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three amateur detectives.
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puzzling her brain what to do next, louise suddenly decided to confide her secret to her two cousins. not that she considered them capable of a greater success than she could herself accomplish, but they might prove valuable assistants in the capacity of lieutenants. she had great respect for beth's calm judgment and keen intuitions, and patsy had a way of accomplishing difficult things with ease.
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the two girls listened to louise with expressions of mingled wonder and amusement while she confided to them her first suspicions that captain wegg had been murdered, and then the bits of information she had gathered to strengthen the surmise and assure her she was justified in her efforts to untangle the web of mystery.
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"you see, my dears," she explained, impressively, as the three lounged upon the grass in the shade of the right wing of the house, "there is a very interesting story about these people that ought to guide us directly to a solution of the puzzle. a roving sea captain marries a girl of good family in spite of the opposition of her relatives. his boatswain, a confidential servant, marries the girl's maid. the next thing we know is that a 'great trouble' causes them to flee--doubtless some crime committed by the captain. it may have been robbery, or perhaps piracy on the high seas; who knows? anyhow, he steals away to this forsaken spot, far from the sea or the railroads, and builds a fine house on a worthless farm, showing that he has money, but that retirement is his main object. here the weggs make no friends: but the wife cries her eyes out until she dies miserably, leaving a son to the tender mercies of a wicked father. so fearful is he of discovery that he will not allow the boy to go to school, but tries to educate him himself."
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"probably the captain's real name was not wegg, at all," suggested patsy, entering into the spirit of the relation.
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"probably not, dear. he would assume some name, of course, so that it might be more difficult to trace him," answered louise. "but now--mark me well, girls!--a nemesis was on the track of this wicked sinner. after many years the man captain wegg had wronged, or stolen from, or something, discovered his enemy's hiding place. he promptly killed the captain, and probably recovered the money, for it's gone. old thompson, ethel's grandfather, happened to be present. the murderer also took his money, and--"
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"oh, louise! that isn't reasonable," objected beth, who had been following the story carefully.
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"because you are making the wronged party as wicked as the man who wronged him. when the avenger found his enemy he might force him to give up his ill-gotten gains; i agree with you there; but he wouldn't be liable to rob old thompson, i'm sure."
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"beth is right," said patsy, stoutly.
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"but old thompson lost his money at the same time, you know; at least his money could never be found afterward. and i'm sure he was dealt some blow on the head that made him crazy," answered louise, positively.
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they thought that over.
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"i believe i can explain it, girls," said beth, presently. "the avenger found captain wegg, all right--just as louise has said--and when he found him he demanded a restitution of his money, threatening to send the criminal to jail. that would be very natural, wouldn't it? well, captain wegg had spent a good deal of the money, and couldn't pay it all back; so ethel's grandfather, being his friend, offered to makeup the balance himself rather than see his friend go to prison. that accounts for the disappearance of all the money."
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"if that is so," observed patsy, "i don't see why the man, having got his money back, should murder one and knock the other on the head."
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it way a puzzle, they all acknowledged, and after discussing the matter from every conceivable standpoint they were no nearer an explanation. that's the way with mysteries; they're often hard to understand.
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"the only thing that occurs to me as being sensible," said louise, finally, "is that after the money was paid over they got into a quarrel. then the avenger lost his temper and committed the murders."
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"this talk about an avenger is all guess work," asserted beth, calmly. "i don't believe the facts point to an avenger at all."
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"but the old crime--the great trouble--"
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"oh, we'll allow all that," returned beth; "and i don't say that an avenger wouldn't be the nicest person to exact retribution from the wicked captain. but avengers don't always turn up, in real life, when they ought to, girls; so we mustn't be too sure that one turned up in this case."
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"but now else can you account for the captain's murder?" objected louise.
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"well, some one else might know he had money, and that ethel's grandfather had money, too," was the reply. "suppose the robbery and murder had nothing to do with the old crime at all, but that the murderer knew this to be a deserted place where he could make a good haul without being discovered. the two old men sat in the right wing, quite unsuspicious, when----"
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"when in walks mr. murderer, chokes the captain, knocks his friend on the brain-box, and makes off with the money!" continued patsy, gleefully. "oh, girls, i'm sure we've got it right this time."
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louise reflected a moment.
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"this country is almost a wilderness," she mused, aloud, "and few strangers ever come here. besides, a stranger would not know positively that these two men had money. if we abandon the idea of an avenger, and follow beth's clue, then the murderer is still right here in millville, and unsuspected by any of his neighbors."
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"oh, louise!" with startled glances over their shoulders.
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"let us be sensible, reasoning girls; not silly things trying to figure out possible romances," continued louise, with a pretty and impressive assumption of dignity. "do you know, i feel that some angel of retribution has guided us to this lonely farmhouse and put the idea into my head to discover and expose a dreadful crime."
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"succotash!" cried patsy, irrelevantly. "you're romancing this minute, louise. the way you figure things out i wouldn't be surprised if you accused me, or uncle john, any time during the next half hour. adopting your last supposition, for the sake of argument, i'm interested to know what inhabitant of sleepy old millville you suspect."
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"don't get flighty, patricia," admonished beth. "this is a serious matter, and louise is in earnest. if we're going to help her we mustn't talk rubbish. now, it isn't a bad suggestion that we ought to look nearer home for the key to this mystery. there's old hucks."
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"to be sure. no one knew so well as he the money affairs of the two men who were robbed."
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"i'm ashamed of you," said patsy.
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"and the man's smile is a mask!" exclaimed louise.
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"oh, no!" protested patsy.
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"my dear, no person who ever lived could smile every minute, winter and summer, rain or shine, day and night, and always have a reason for the smile."
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"of course not," agreed beth. "old hucks is a curious character. i realized that when i had known him five minutes."
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"but he's poor," urged patsy, in defense of the old man. "he hasn't a penny in the world, and mcnutt told me if we turned thomas and nora away they'd have to go to the poorhouse."
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"that is no argument at all," said louise, calmly. "if we consider the fact that old hucks may be a miser, and have a craving for money without any desire to spend it, then we are pretty close to a reason why he should bide his time and then murder his old master to obtain the riches he coveted. mind you, i don't say hucks is guilty, but it is our duty to consider this phase of the question."
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"and then," added beth, "if hucks should prove to be a miser, it is easy to guess he would hide his wealth where he could secretly gloat over it, and still continue to pose as a pauper."
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"i don't believe it," said patsy, stoutly.
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"you'll never make a successful detective if you allow your personal feelings to influence you," returned louise. "i, too, sincerely hope that thomas is innocent; but we are not justified in acquitting him until we have made a careful investigation and watched his actions."
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"i'm quite sure he's connected with the mystery in some way," said beth. "it will do no harm to watch old hucks, as louise suggests."
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"and you might try to pump him, patsy, and see if you can get him to talk of the murder. some careless remark might give us just the clue we need and guide us to the real criminal. that would free thomas from all suspicion, you see."
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"but why do you ask me to do this?" demanded patsy. "thomas and i are good friends, and i'd feel like a traitor to try to get him to confess a murder."
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"if he is innocent, you have done no harm," said her eldest cousin; "and if he is guilty you don't want him for your friend."
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"he likes you, dear," added beth, "and perhaps he will tell you frankly all we want to know. there's another person, though, louise, who might tell us something."
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"who is that?"
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"the little man with the golf-ball eyes; mcnutt."
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"now, there's some sense in suspecting him," exclaimed patsy. "we know he's a robber, already, and a man who is clever enough to sell uncle john three 'lives of the saints' would stick at nothing, i'm sure."
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"he hasn't enough courage to commit a great crime," observed beth.
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"but he may be able to give us some information," louise asserted; "so i propose we walk over to the town tomorrow morning and interview him."
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this was promptly agreed to, for even patsy, the least enthusiastic detective of the three, was eager to find some sort of a solution of the wegg mystery. meantime they decided to watch old hucks very carefully.
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beth happened to be present when uncle john paid thomas his weekly wage that evening, and was interested to notice how the old man's hand trembled with eagerness as he took the money.
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"how much are you accustomed to receive?" uncle john had asked.
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"nothing 'tall, sir, since cap'n wegg died," was the reply. "we was glad enough to have a home, nora an' me, 'thout 'spectin' wages."
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"and there was no one here for you to serve," mused uncle john. "but in captain wegg's day, how much did he give you?"
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thomas hesitated, and his smile wavered an instant.
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"my old master was also my old friend," said he, in a low voice; "an' i ast him fer little money because my needs were little."
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"well, the conditions are now different," remarked uncle john, carelessly; "and while you are in my employ you shall have your wages regularly. will ten dollars a week be satisfactory?"
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"and five for nora."
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"you are too good, sir. i--i--"
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"never mind, thomas. if you want more at any time let me know."
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it was then, as the old man took the fifteen dollars extended to him, that beth noted a flash in the mild blue eyes and a trembling of the horny hands. hucks was very glad to get the money; there was little doubt of that.
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she spoke of this incident to louise, and the following morning they tested the man again. all three girls being present, beth tendered old hucks two dollars, saying it was intended as a slight mark of her appreciation of his attention. thomas demurred at first, but on being urged took the money with the same eager gesture he had before displayed. louise followed with a donation of a like sum, and patsy gave the old man still another two dollar bill. this generosity so amazed him that tears stood in his eyes as he tried to thank them all. it was noticed that the smile did not give way even to the tears, although it was tinged with a pathetic expression that proved wonderfully affecting. he concealed the offerings with a stealthy motion, as if ashamed of his weakness in accepting them, and then hurried away to his work.
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"well," said louise, when they were alone, "is thomas a miser or not?"
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"he clutched the money almost as if he loved it," observed beth, in a musing and slightly regretful tone.
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"but think how poor he has been," pleaded patsy, "and how destitute both he and nora are yet. can we blame him for being glad to earn something substantial at last?"
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somehow that did not seem to explain fully the old man's behavior, and the girl who had championed him sighed and then gave a sudden shiver as she remembered the awful suspicion that had fallen upon this strange individual. if the proof must be accepted that hucks had miserly instincts, had not beth accidentally stumbled upon a solution of the whole mystery?
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but patsy would not believe it. if thomas' open countenance lied, it was hard to put faith in any one.
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the baiting of peggy m'nutt.
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by this time the three nieces were so thoroughly impressed with the importance of the task they had undertaken that more ordinary things failed to interest them. louise longed to solve the mystery. beth wanted to punish the wrongdoers. patsy yearned to exonerate the friends whom she imagined unjustly accused. therefore the triple alliance for detective purposes was a strong one.
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by mutual agreement they kept the matter secret from uncle john, for they realized what a triumph it would be to surprise the old gentleman with proofs of their cleverness. to confide in him now would mean to invite no end of ridicule or good natured raillery, for uncle john had not a grain of imagination or romance in his nature and would be unable to comprehend the delights of this secret investigation.
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because he was in the dark the significant looks and unnatural gravity of his nieces in the succeeding days puzzled the poor man greatly.
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"what's wrong, girls?" he would ask. "aren't you happy here? do you miss anything you'd like? is it too quiet and dull at millville to suit you?"
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"oh, no!" they would exclaim. "we are having a splendid time, and would not leave the farm for anything."
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soon the three nieces made their proposed visit to mcnutt, their idea being to pump that individual until he was dry of any information he might possess concerning the wegg mystery. they tramped over to the village after breakfast one morning and found the agent seated on the porch before his little "office," by which name the front room of his cottage was dignified. he was dressed in faded overalls, a checked shirt and a broad-brimmed cheap straw hat. his "off foot," as he called it with grim humor, was painted green and his other foot was bare and might have been improved in color. both these extremities rested on the rail of the porch, while mcnutt smoked a corncob pipe and stared at his approaching visitors with his disconcerting, protruding eyes.
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"good morning, mr. mcnutt," said louise, pleasantly. "we've come to see if you have any books to sell."
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the agent drew a long breath. he had at first believed they had come to reproach him for his cruel deception; for although his conscience was wholly dormant, he had at times been a bit uneasy concerning his remarkable book trade.
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"uncle is making a collection of the 'lives of the saints.'" announced patsy, demurely. "at present he has but three varieties of this work, one with several pages missing, another printed partly upside down, and a third with a broken corner. he is anxious to secure some further variations of the 'dee looks' lives, if you can supply them."
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peggy's eyes couldn't stare any harder, so they just stared.
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"i--i hain't got no more on hand," he stammered, fairly nonplussed by the remarkable statement.
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"no more? oh, how sad. how disappointed we are," said beth.
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"we were depending so much on you. mr. mcnutt," added louise, in a tone of gentle reproach.
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mcnutt wiggled the toes of his good foot and regarded them reflectively. these city folks were surely the "easiest marks" he had ever come across.
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"ef ye could wait a few days," he began, hopefully, "i might----"
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"oh, no; we can't possibly wait a single minute," declared patsy. "unless uncle can get the saints right away he will lose interest in the collection, and then he won't care for them at all."
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mcnutt sighed dismally. here was a chance to make good money by fleecing the lambs, yet he was absolutely unable to take advantage of it.
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"ye--ye couldn't use any duck eggs, could ye?" he said, a sudden thought seeming to furnish him with a brilliant idea.
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"i got the dum-twistedest, extry fine lot o' duck eggs ye ever seen."
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"but what can we do with duck eggs?" inquired beth, wonderingly, while patsy and louise tried hard not to shriek with laughter.
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"w'y, set 'em under a hen, an' hatch 'em out."
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"sir," said beth, "i strongly disapprove of such deceptions. it seems to me that making a poor hen hatch out ducks, under the delusion that they are chickens, is one of the most cruel and treacherous acts that humanity can be guilty of. imagine the poor thing's feelings when her children take to water! i'm surprised you could suggest such a wicked use for duck eggs."
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mcnutt wiggled his toes again, desperately.
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"can't use any sas'frass roots, can ye?"
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"no, indeed; all we crave is the 'lives of the saints.'"
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"don't want to buy no land?"
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"what have you got to sell?"
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"nuth'n, jest now. but ef ye'll buy i kin git 'most anything."
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"don't go to any trouble on our account, sir; we are quite content with our splendid farm."
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"shoo! thet ain't no good."
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"captain wegg thought it was," answered louise, quickly seizing this opening. "otherwise he would not have built so good a house upon it."
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"the cap'n were plumb crazy," declared the agent, emphatically. "he didn't want ter farm when he come here; he jest wanted to hide."
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the girls exchanged quick glances of intelligence.
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"why?" repeated mcnutt. "thet's a thing what's puzzled us fer years, miss. some thinks wegg were a piret; some thinks he kidnaped thet pretty wife o' his'n an' took her money; some thinks he tried to rob ol' will thompson, an' will killed him an' then went crazy hisself. there's all sorts o' thinks goin' 'round; but who knows?"
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"don't you, mr. mcnutt?"
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the agent was flattered by the question. as he had said, the weggs had formed the chief topic of conversation in millville for years, and no one had a more vivid interest in their history than marshall mcmahon mcnutt. he enjoyed gossiping about the weggs almost as much as he did selling books.
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"i never thought i had no call to stick my nose inter other folkses privit doin's," he said, after a few puffs at the corncob pipe. "but they kain't hide much from marsh mcnutt, when he has his eyes open."
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patsy wondered if he could possibly close them. the eyelids seemed to be shy and retiring.
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"i seen what i seen," continued the little man, glancing impressively at his attentive audience. "i seen cap'n wegg livin' without workin', fer he never lifted a hand to do even a chore. i seen him jest settin' 'round an' smokin' his pipe an' a glowerin' like a devil on ev'ryone thet come near. say, once he ordered me off'n his premises--me!"
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"what a dreadful man," said patsy. "did he buy any 'lives of the saints?'"
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"not a life. he made poor ol' hucks fetch an' carry fer him ev'ry blessid minnit, an' never paid him no wages."
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"are you sure?" asked louise.
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"sure as shootin'. hucks hain't never been seen to spend a cent in all the years he's been here."
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"hasn't he sold berries and fruit since the captain's death?"
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"jest 'nough to pay the taxes, which ain't much. ye see, young joe were away an' couldn't raise the tax money, so ol' hucks had to. but how they got enough ter live on, him an' nora, beats me."
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"perhaps captain wegg left some money," suggested patsy.
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"no; when joe an' hucks ransacked the house arter the cap'n's death they couldn't find a dollar. cur'ous. plenty o' money till he died, 'n' then not a red cent. curiouser yet. ol' will thompson's savin's dis'peared, too, an' never could be located to this day."
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"were they robbed, do you suppose?" asked louise.
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"nat'rally. but who done it? not ol' hucks, fer he's too honest, an' hasn't showed the color of a nickel sense. not joe; 'cause he had to borrer five dollars of bob west to git to the city with. who then?"
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"perhaps," said louise, slowly, "some burglar did it."
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"ain't no burglers 'round these parts."
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"i suppose not. only book agents," remarked beth.
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"do ye mean as i did it?" he demanded, angrily. "do ye mean as i killed cap'n wegg an' druv 01' will crazy, an' robbed the house?"
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his features were fairly contorted, and his colorless eyes rolled fearfully.
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"if you did," said beth, coolly, "you would be sure to deny it."
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"i kin prove a alybi," answered the little man, calming down somewhat. "i kin prove my ol' woman had me locked up in the chicken-coop thet night 'cause i wouldn't split a lot o' cordwood thet were full o' knots." he cast a half fearful glance over his shoulder toward the interior of the cottage. "next day i split 'em," he added, mildly.
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"perhaps," said louise, again, "someone who knew captain wegg in the days before he came here followed him to his retreat and robbed and murdered him."
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"now ye've hit the nail on the head!" cried the agent, slapping his fat thigh energetically. "thet's what i allus claimed, even when bob west jest shook his head an' smiled sort o' superior like."
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"who is bob west?" asked louise, with interest.
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"he's our implement man, an' hardware dealer. bob were the on'y one o' the millville folks thet could git along with cap'n wegg, an' even he didn't manage to be any special friend. bob's rich, ye know. rich as blazes. folks do say he's wuth ten thousan' dollars; but it don't set bob up any. he jest minds his business an' goes on sellin' plows an' harvesters to the farmers an' takin' notes fer 'em."
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"and you say he knew captain wegg well?" inquired patsy.
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"better 'n' most folks 'round here did. once er twicet a year the cap'n 'd go to bob's office an' set around an' smoke his pipe. sometimes bob would go to the farm an' spend an' ev'nin'; but not often. ol' will thompson might be said to be the on'y friend the cap'n really hankered fer."
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"i'd like to meet mr. west," said louise, casting a shrewd look at her cousins. for here was another clue unearthed.
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"he's in his store now." remarked mcnutt, "last buildin' on the left. ye can't miss it."
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"thank you. good morning, sir."
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"can't use any buttermilk er dutch cheese?"
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"no, thank you."
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mcnutt stared after them disconsolately. these girls represented so much money that ought to be in his pockets, and they were, moreover, "innercent as turtle doves"; but he could think of no way to pluck their golden quills or even to arrest their flight.
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"well, let 'em go," he muttered. "this thing ain't ended yit."
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bob west, hardware dealer.
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a few steps down the little street brought the girls to the hardware store, quite the most imposing building in town. they crossed the broad platform on which stood samples of heavy farm machinery and entered a well-stocked room where many articles of hardware and house furnishings were neatly and systematically arranged.
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the place seemed deserted, for at that time of day no country people were at millville; but on passing down the aisle the visitor approached a little office built at the rear of the store. behind the desk bob west sat upon his high stool, gravely regarding his unusual customers over the rims of his spectacles.
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"good morning," said louise, taking the lead. "have you a stew pan?"
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the merchant left the office and silently walked behind the counter.
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"large or small, miss?" he then asked.
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the girls became interested in stew pans, which they were scarcely able to recognize by their official name. mr. west offered no comment as they made their selection.
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"can you send this to the wegg farm?" asked louise, opening her purse to make payment.
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"i have no means of delivering goods," said he; "but if you can wait a day or two i may catch some farmer going that way who will consent to take it."
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"oh. didn't captain wegg purchase his supplies in the village?" asked the girl.
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"some of them. but it is our custom here to take goods that we purchase home with us. as yet millville is scarcely large enough to require a delivery wagon."
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the nieces laughed pleasantly, and beth said:
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"are you an old inhabitant, mr. west?"
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"i have been here thirty-five years."
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"then you knew captain wegg?" louise ventured.
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the answer was so frank and free from embarrassment that his questioner hesitated. here was a man distinctly superior to the others they had interviewed, a man of keen intellect and worldly knowledge, who would be instantly on his guard if he suspected they were cross-examining him. so louise, with her usual tact, decided to speak plainly.
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"we have been much interested in the history of the wegg family," she remarked, easily; "and perhaps it is natural for us to speculate concerning the characters of our predecessors. it was so odd that captain wegg should build so good a house on such a poor farm."
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"and he was a sea captain, who retired far from the sea, which he must have loved."
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"to be sure."
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"it made him dissatisfied, they say, as well as surly and unsociable; but he stuck it out even after his poor wife died, and until the day of the murder."
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"murder?" in a tone of mild surprise.
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"was it not murder?" she asked, quickly.
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he gave his shoulders a quiet shrug.
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"the physician pronounced it heart disease, i believe."
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"eh? why, one who was fishing in the neighborhood for trout, and staying at the hotel. old dr. jackson was in huntington at the time, i remember."
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the girls exchanged significant glances, and west noted them and smiled again.
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"that murder theory is a new one to me," he said; "but i see now why it originated. the employment of a strolling physician would give color to the suspicion."
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"what do you think, sir?" asked patsy, who had been watching the man's expression closely.
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"i? what do i think? why, that captain wegg died from heart disease, as he had often told me he was sure to do in time."
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"then what made old mr. thompson go mad?" inquired beth.
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"the shock of his friend's sudden death. he had been mentally unbalanced for some time previous--not quite mad, you understand, but showing by his actions at times that his brain was affected."
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"can you explain what became of their money?" asked louise, abruptly.
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west gave a start, but collected himself in an instant and covered the action with another shrug.
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"i cannot say what become of their money," he answered.
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it struck both beth and louise that his tone indicated he would not, rather than that he could not say. before they had time to ask another questioned he continued:
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"will you take the saucepan with you, then, or shall i try to send it in a day or so?"
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"we will take it, if you please," answered louise. but as he wrapped it into a neat parcel she made one more effort.
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"what sort of a young man was joseph wegg?"
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"joe? a mere boy, untried and unsettled. a bright boy, in his way, and ambitious to have a part in the big world. he's there now, i believe."
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he spoke with an air of relief, and handed louise the parcel.
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"thank you, young ladies. pray call again if i can be of service to you," he added, in a brisker tone.
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they had no recourse but to walk out, which they did without further words. indeed, they were all three silent until they had left the village far behind and were half way to the farm.
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then patsy said, inquiringly:
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"we have progressed," announced louise, seriously.
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"in what way?"
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"several things are impressed upon my mind," replied the girl. "one is mcnutt's absurd indignation when he thought we hinted that he was the murderer."
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"what do you make of that?" queried patsy.
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"it suggests that he knows something of the murder, even if he is himself wholly innocent. his alibi is another absurdity."
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"then that exonerated old hucks," said patsy, relieved.
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"oh, not at all. hucks may have committed the deed and mcnutt knows about it. or they might have been partners in the crime."
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"what else have you learned, louise?" asked beth.
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"that the man west knows what became of the money."
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"he seems like a very respectable man," asserted patsy.
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"outwardly, yes; but i don't like the cold, calculating expression in his eyes. he is the rich man of this neighborhood. do you suppose he acquired a fortune honestly in this forsaken district, where everyone else is poor as a church mouse?"
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"seems to me," said patsy, discontentedly, "that the plot thickens, as they say in novels. if we interview many more people we shall find ourselves suspecting an army."
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"not at all, my dear," replied louise, coldly. "from our present knowledge the murder lies between the unknown avenger and hucks, with the possibility that mcnutt is implicated. this avenger may be the stranger who posed as a physician and said captain wegg died of heart disease, in order to prevent the simple people from suspecting a murder. his fishing was all a blind. perhaps mcnutt was his accomplice. that staring scarecrow would do anything for money. and then we come to the robbery. if hucks did the murder he took the money, and perhaps west, the hardware dealer, knows this. or west may have arrived at the house after the mysterious stranger committed the deed, and robbed the two men himself."
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"and perhaps he didn't," said patsy, skeptically. "do you know, girls, i'd like to find joe wegg. he could put us right, i'm sure."
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"yes. why don't we suspect him of something? or ethel; or old nora?"
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"do be sensible, patsy," said beth, impatiently.
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but louise walked on a way in silence. presently she remarked:
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"i'm glad you mentioned joe wegg. the boy gives me an idea that may reconcile many conflicting suspicions."
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"in what way, louise?"
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"i'll tell you when i've thought it out," she replied.
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the major is puzzled.
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ethel came frequently to visit the girls at the wegg farm, and at such times uncle john treated her with the same affectionate consideration he bestowed upon his nieces, and made her so cordially welcome that the little school teacher felt entirely at her ease. the girls did not confide to ethel their investigation of the wegg mystery, but in all other matters gave her their full confidence. together they made excursions to the falls, to the natural caves on the rocky hill called mount parnassus, or rowed on the lake, or walked or drove, as the mood seized them. but mostly they loved the shade of the pines and the broad green beside the quaint mansion captain wegg had built, and which now contained all the elements of a modern summer home.
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once louise asked ethel, casually, if she knew what "great trouble" had come to hucks and his wife in their early life, but the girl frankly answered that the old people had never referred to anything of the kind in her presence.
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finally a telegram announced the arrival of major doyle to join the party at the farm. patsy was in the seventh heaven of delight, and drove joe over to the junction to meet her father on the arrival of the morning train.
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the major was a prime favorite with all the party and his coming infused new life into the household. he was the type of educated, polished, open-hearted irish gentleman it is always a delight to meet, and uncle john beamed upon his brother-in-law in a way that betokened a hearty welcome. it was a source of much satisfaction to lug the major over the farm and prove to him how wise mr. merrick had been in deciding to spend the summer on his own property; and the major freely acknowledged that he had been in error and the place was as charming as anyone could wish. it was a great treat to the grizzled old warrior to find himself in the country, away from every responsibility of work, and he promised himself a fortnight of absolute rest, with the recreation of beholding his beloved patsy as often as he pleased.
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of course, the girl would tell her father about the wegg mystery, for patsy had a habit of telling him everything; therefore the cousins decided to take the major freely into their confidence, so as to obtain the benefit of his opinion. that could not be done the first day, of course, for on that day uncle john insisted on displaying the farm and afterward carrying the major a willing prisoner to watch him fish in the brook. but on the following morning the girls surrounded patsy's father and with solemn faces recounted their suspicions, the important clues they had unearthed, and their earnest desire to right the great wrong that had been done by apprehending the criminal.
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the major smoked his after breakfast cigar and listened attentively. the story, told consecutively, was quite impressive. in spite of his long experience in buffeting the world, the old soldier's heart was still as simple as that of a child, and the recital awakened his sympathies at once.
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"'tis evident, me children," said he, in his quaint way, "that you've shtumbled on the inside of a crime that doesn't show on the outside. many of the things you mention are so plain that he who runs may read; but i've remarked that it's just the things ye don't suspect in real life that prove to be the most important."
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"that is true, major," commented louise. "at first it was just to amuse ourselves that we became amateur detectives, but the developments are so startling and serious that we now consider it our duty to uncover the whole dreadful crime, in the interests of justice."
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"just so," he said, nodding.
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"but i'm sure old hucks is innocent!" declared patsy, emphatically.
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"then he is," asserted the major; "for patsy's always right, even when she's wrong. i've had me eye on that man hucks already, for he's the merriest faced villain i ever encountered. do you say he's shy with you girls?"
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"he seems afraid of us, or suspicious, and won't let us talk to him," answered beth.
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here was the sort of energetic confederate they had longed for. the major's assurance of co-operation was welcome indeed, and while he entered heartily into their campaign he agreed that no mention of the affair ought to reach uncle john's ears until the case was complete and they could call upon the authorities to arrest the criminal.
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"it's me humble opinion," he remarked, "that the interesting individual you call the 'avenger' was put on the trail by someone here--either thomas hucks, or the timber-toed book agent, or the respectable hardware man. being invited to come and do his worst, he passed himself as a docther on a fishing excursion, and having with deliberate intent murthered captain wegg, got himself called by the coroner to testify that the victim died of heart disease. a very pretty bit of scoundrelism; eh, me dears?"
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"but the robber--who do you think he was?" asked louise.
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"that i've still to discover. you inform me that hucks is eager for money and acts like a miser. i've seen the time i was eager for money meself, and there's not a miserly hair on me bald head. but exceptions prove the rule. i'll watch our smiling thomas and make a report later."
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within half an hour he was telling hucks a funny story and slapping the old man upon the back as familiarly as if he had known him for years. he found an opportunity that same day to give thomas a dollar in return for a slight service, and was amazed at the eagerness with which the coin was clutched and the earnestness of the thanks expressed. it really did seem as if the man was fond of money. but when the major tried to draw hucks into speaking of his past history and of captain wegg's singular life and death, the old fellow became reserved at once and evaded the inquiries most skillfully.
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that night, as the major strolled in the orchard to smoke his last cigar after all the others had retired to bed, he noticed hucks leave the back door of the lean-to with a parcel under his arm and pass hurriedly around the barn. after a little hesitation he decided to follow the man, and crept stealthily along in the shadow of the trees and buildings until he found himself at the edge of the berry-patch that was in the rear of the outbuildings. but there he paused irresolutely, for thomas had completely disappeared.
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the major was puzzled, but decided to watch for the man's return. so he took a position where he could watch the rear door of the house and smoked patiently for nearly an hour before hucks returned and let himself quietly in.
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he said nothing to the girls next day of this mysterious proceeding, but on the following night again took his station in the orchard to watch.
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sure enough, as soon as the house was quiet the old servant came out with a bundle underneath his arm; but this time he led his blind wife by the other hand.
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the major gave a low whistle and threw away his cigar. the night was so dark that he had little difficulty in following the aged pair closely enough to keep their shadowy forms in sight, without the risk of being discovered. they passed around the barn and along a path that led through the raspberry bushes back of the yard. there were several acres of these bushes, and just now they were full-leaved and almost shoulder high. the path wound this way and that, and branched in several directions. twice the major thought he had lost his quarry, but was guided aright by their soft footfalls. the ground dipped here and there, and as they entered one of the hollows major doyle was startled to observe the twinkle of a dim light ahead. a minute later he saw the outlines of a little frame building, and within this old hucks and nora presently disappeared.
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the man in hiding.
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cautiously the major approached the cabin, which seemed to have been built as a place for the berry pickers to assemble and pack their fruit. it was constructed of rough boards and had a little window in the side nearest the dwelling house and a door on the opposite side.
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creeping near to the window the major obtained a clear view of the interior. upon a dilapidated wicker settee, which had one end propped with a box, partially reclined the form of a man whose right arm was in splints and supported by a sling, while his head was covered with plasters and bandages. the man's back was toward the window, but from his slender form and its graceful poise the major imagined him young.
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old nora held the left hand of this mysterious person in a warm clasp, bending now and then to press a kiss upon it, while hucks busied himself opening the parcel he had brought and arranging various articles of food on a rickety stand at the head of the couch. the old man's smile was more benevolent and cheery than ever, and his actions denoted that strange, suppressed eagerness the major had marked when he had taken the money.
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the three spoke little, and in tones so low that the spy outside the window failed to catch them. soon the injured man began to eat, feeding himself laboriously with his left hand. but his hunger was quickly satisfied, and then he lay back wearily upon his pillows, while nora tenderly spread a coverlet over him.
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after this the old couple did not linger long. hucks poured some water from a jug into a tumbler, glanced around the little room to see that everything was in order, and then--after he and nora had both kissed the bandaged forehead--blew out the candle and retired.
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the major crouched low in the berry bushes until the couple had passed by; then he rose and thoughtfully followed after them.
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whatever patsy's father might have thought of the wegg farm mystery before, this adventure convinced him that the girls were not altogether foolish in imagining a romance connected with the place. and, notwithstanding patsy's loyal defense of old hucks, he was evidently tangled up in the affair to a large extent, and could explain if he chose much that was now puzzling the girl detectives.
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after careful thought the major decided to confide in uncle john, at this juncture, rather than in the nieces; since the latest developments were more fitted for a man's interference.
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by good fortune the girls had an engagement the next day, and set out together in the surrey to visit ethel thompson and lunch with her in the rose bower, which was the pride of the little school teacher's garden. as soon as they were gone the major hunted up uncle john and said:
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"come with me, sir."
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"i won't," was the brisk reply; "i'm going fishing, and whoever wishes my society must come with me."
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"you'll not catch anything fishing, but you're very liable to catch something if you follow my lead," said the major, meaningly.
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"what's up, gregory?"
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"i'm not sure what it is, john." and then he carefully explained his discovery that an injured man was occupying the cabin in the berry patch, and seemed to be the object of the hucks' tender care.
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"it's the secrecy of the thing that astounds me most, sir," he added. "if all was open and above board, i'd think little enough of it."
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uncle john's kindly interest was at once aroused, and he proposed that they go directly to the cabin and interview the man in hiding. hucks being at the time busy in the barn, the two men sauntered into the berry patch without being observed, and then walked briskly along the winding paths until they sighted the building.
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pausing at the window, they saw the man still reclining upon his cot, and holding in his left hand a book--one of patsy's, the major observed--which he was quietly engaged in reading. then they moved around to the door, which uncle john pushed open.
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without hesitation, the two men entered and stood gazing down upon the strange occupant of the place.
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"good morning," said mr. merrick, while the major nodded a greeting.
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the man half arose, moving stiffly.
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"pardon me, sirs," he said, rather startled at the interruption; "i regret that i am physically unable to receive you with more courtesy."
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the major gazed into the partially bandaged face with a glimmer of awakening recognition.
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"h-m! ha! if i'm not mistaken," said he, "it's joseph wegg."
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"oh; is it?" asked uncle john, looking upon the young man curiously. "what's happened to you, joseph?"
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"just an automobile accident, sir. the steering gear broke, and we went over an embankment."
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"are you mr. merrick, sir."
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"i owe you an apology for intruding upon your premises in this way, and beg you to forgive the seeming impertinence. but i've been rather unlucky of late, sir, and without this refuge i don't know what would have become of me. i will explain, if you will permit me."
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uncle john nodded.
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"after i had squandered the money you paid me, through major doyle, for this farm, in a vain endeavor to protect a patent i had secured, i was forced to become a chauffeur to earn my livelihood. i understand automobiles, you know, and obtained employment with a wealthy man who considered me a mere part of his machine. when the accident occurred, through no fault of mine, i was, fortunately, the only person injured; but my employer was so incensed over the damage to his automobile that he never even sent to inquire whether i lived or died. at a charity hospital they tried to mend my breaks and tinker up my anatomy. my shoulder-blade was shattered, my arm broken in three places, and four ribs were crashed in. the wounds in my head are mere abrasions of the scalp, and not serious. but it has taken me a long time to mend, and the crowded, stuffy hospital got on my nerves and worried me. being penniless and friendless, i wrote to thomas and asked him if he could find a way to get me to the old farm, for i never imagined you would yourself take possession of the deserted place you had bought.
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"thomas and nora have cared for me since i was born, you know, and the old man was greatly distressed by the knowledge of my sad condition. he did not tell me you were here, for fear i would hesitate to come, but he sent me the money you had given him and nora for wages, together with all that the young ladies had kindly given him. i was thus enabled to leave the hospital, which i had come to detest, and journey to my old home. i arrived at the junction on a night train, and thomas met me with your surrey, drove me here under cover of darkness, and concealed me in this out-of-the-way place, hoping you would not discover me.
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"i regret that i was thus foisted upon you, believe me, sir; but, being here, i have no means of getting away again. thomas hucks has had little worldly experience, and cannot realize the full extent of the imposition he has practiced. he feeds me from your table, and is hoarding up his money for me against the time i shall have recovered sufficiently to leave. i think that is the full explanation, mr. merrick."
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again uncle john nodded.
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"how are you?" he asked.
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"doing finely, sir. i can walk a little, and my appetite is improving. the doctors said my shoulder would never be very strong again, but i'm beginning to hope they were mistaken. my ribs seem all right, and in another ten days i shall remove the splints from my arm."
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"you have no medical attendance?"
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"not since i left the hospital. but i imagine this pure, bracing air is better for me than a dozen doctors," was the cheerful reply.
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"and what are your future plans?"
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the young man smiled. he was little more than a boy, but his questioner noticed that he had a fine manly face and his eye was clear and steadfast.
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"nothing further than to get to work again as soon as i am able to undertake it," he said.
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uncle john looked thoughtfully, and drummed with his finger upon the little table.
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"joseph," he remarked, presently, "i bought this farm at a price altogether too small, considering its value."
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the boy flushed.
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"please do not say that!" he exclaimed, hastily. "i am well aware that i virtually robbed you, and my only excuse is that i believed i would win my fight and be able to redeem the place. but that is over now, and you must not think that because i am ill and helpless i am an object of charity."
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"phoo!" said the little man; "aren't you accepting charity from old hucks?"
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"but he stands as a second father to me. he is an old retainer of my family, and one of my ambitions is to secure a home for him and nora in their old age. no; i do not feel at all embarrassed in accepting money or assistance from thomas."
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"young man," said uncle john, sternly, "one of the follies of youth is the idea of being independent of the good-will of your fellow-creatures. every person who lives is dependent on some other person for something or other, and i'll not allow you to make a fool of yourself by refusing to let me take you in hand. your brain is affected--"
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"it is not!"
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"you are mentally unbalanced, and need a guardian. that's me. you are helpless and cannot resist, so you're my prisoner. dare to defy me, dare to oppose my wishes in any way, and i'll have you put in a straight-jacket and confined in a padded cell. understand me, sir?"
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joseph wegg looked into the little man's round face until the tears filled his own eyes and blurred his vision.
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"won't you protect me, major doyle?" he asked, weakly.
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"not i," said the major, stoutly. "this brother-in-law of mine, who connected himself with me without asking permission, is a perfect demon when 'roused, and i'll not meddle with any opposition to his desires. if you value your life and happiness, joseph wegg, you'll accept mr. merrick as a guardian until he resigns of his own accord, and then it's likely you'll wish he hadn't."
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"i don't deserve----" began the young man, brokenly; but uncle john quickly interrupted him.
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"no one deserves anything," said he; "but everyone gets something or other, nevertheless, in this vale of tears. if you'll kindly remember that you've no right to express an opinion in the presence of your guardian, we'll get along better together. now, then, you're going to leave here, because the place is not comfortable. my guests fill every room in my house, so you can't go there. but the hotel in millville is a cheerful-looking place, and i've noticed some vine-covered windows that indicate pleasant and sunny rooms. major, go and tell hucks to hitch that groaning, balky daniel to the ancient buggy, and then to drive this young man over to the hotel. we'll walk."
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the major started at once, and uncle john continued: "i don't know whether this arrangement suits you or not, joseph, but it suits me; and, as a matter of fact, it's none of your business. feel able to take a ride?"
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the boy smiled, gratefully.
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"yes, indeed, mr. merrick," said he, and was shrewd enough not to venture a word of thanks.
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a matter of speculation.
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old hucks, still smiling, but dreadfully nervous over the discovery of joe, and mr. merrick's sudden activity in the boy's behalf, speedily harnessed daniel and induced the reluctant steed to amble down the path to the cabin. leaning on uncle john's arm, the invalid walked to the buggy and was assisted to mount to the seat beside thomas. then away they started, and, although dan obeyed hucks more willingly than any other driver, the major and uncle john walked 'cross-lots and reached the hotel a good fifteen minutes in advance of the equipage.
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the millville hotel depended almost entirely for patronage upon the commercial travelers who visited the place periodically to sell goods to the merchants, and these did not come too often, because trade was never very energetic and orders never very large. bob west boarded at the hotel, and so did ned long, a "farm hand," who did sundry odd jobs for anyone who needed him, and helped pay his "keep" by working for mrs. kebble when not otherwise engaged.
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mrs. kebble was the landlady, and a famous cook. kate kebble, a slatternly girl of sixteen, helped her mother do the work and waited on the table. chet kebble, the landlord, was a silent old man, with billy-goat whiskers and one stray eye, which, being constructed of glass, usually assumed a slanting gaze and refused to follow the direction of its fellow. chet minded the billiard-room, which was mostly patronized saturday nights, and did a meager business in fire insurance; but he was "so eternal lazy an' shifless," as mrs. kebble sharply asserted, that he was considered more a "hanger-on" of the establishment than its recognized head.
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the little rooms of the hotel were plainly furnished but maintained with exceptional neatness.
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the one in the east corner of the second floor met with the approval of uncle john and the major, and was promptly engaged. it was cheerful and sunny, with outlooks on the lake and the village, and contained a lounge as well as the bed.
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when the invalid arrived, he was assisted to this apartment and installed as its permanent occupant.
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"any baggage?" asked mr. merrick.
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"there's a small trunk lying at the junction," said joe; "but it contains little of importance."
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"well, make yourself at home, my boy, and get well at your leisure," remarked uncle john. "mrs. kebble has promised to look after you, and the major and i will stop in now and then and see how you progress."
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then he went out, engaged nick thorne to go to the junction for the boy's trunk, and selected several things at the store that he thought might be useful to the invalid. afterward he marched home again beside the major, feeling very well pleased with his morning's work.
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when the girls reached home late in the afternoon, they were thrown into a state of great excitement by the news, briefly related by their uncle, that joseph wegg had returned to millville "considerably smashed" by an automobile accident, and was now stopping at the village hotel for repairs.
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they refrained from making remarks upon the incident until they were alone, when the secret council of three decided to make joe wegg's acquaintance as soon as possible, to discover what light the young man might be able to throw upon the great mystery.
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"do you know, girls," said louise, impressively, "it almost seems as if fate had sent joe wegg here to be an instrument in the detection of the murderer and robber of his poor father."
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"if joe knew about it, why didn't he track the villain down himself?" inquired patsy.
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"perhaps he hasn't suspected the truth," said beth. "often those who are closely concerned with such tragedies do not observe the evidences of crime as clearly as outsiders."
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"where did you get that information?" demanded patsy.
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"from one of anna doyle oppenheim's detective stories," answered beth, seriously. "i've been reading up on such things, lately."
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"detective stories," said louise, reflectively, "are only useful in teaching us to observe the evidences of crime. this case, for example, is so intricate and unusual that only by careful thought, and following each thread of evidence to its end, can we hope to bring the criminal to justice."
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"that seems to me conceited," observed miss doyle, composedly. "detective stories don't have to stick to facts; or, rather, they can make the facts to be whatever they please. so i don't consider them as useful as they are ornamental. and this isn't a novel, girls; it's mostly suspicion and slander."
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"you don't seem able to be in earnest about anything," objected beth, turning a little red.
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"but i try to be." said patricia.
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"we are straying from the subject now under discussion," remarked louise. "i must say that i feel greatly encouraged by the sudden appearance of the wegg boy. he may know something of his father's former associates that will enable us to determine the object of the murder and who accomplished it."
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"captain wegg was killed over three years ago," suggested miss doyle, recovering easily from her rebuff. "by this time the murderer may have died or moved to madagascar."
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"he is probably living within our reach, never suspecting that justice is about to overtake him," asserted louise. "we must certainly go to call upon this wegg boy, and draw from him such information as we can. i am almost certain that the end is in sight."
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"we haven't any positive proof at all, yet," observed patsy, musingly.
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"we have plenty of circumstantial evidence," returned beth. "there is only one way to explain the facts we have already learned, and the theory we have built up will be a hard one to overthrow. the flight of captain wegg to this place, his unhappy wife, the great trouble that old nora has hinted at, the--"
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"the great trouble ought to come first," declared louise. "it is the foundation upon which rest all the mysterious occurrences following, and once we have learned what the great trouble was, the rest will be plain sailing."
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"i agree with you," said beth; "and perhaps joseph wegg will be able to tell us what the trouble was that ruined the lives of his parents, as well as of old hucks and his wife, and caused them all to flee here to hide themselves."
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it was not until the following morning that the major found an opportunity to give the confederates a solemn wink to indicate he had news to confide to them. they gathered eagerly on the lawn, and he told them of the finding of joe wegg in the isolated cabin, and how old thomas and nora, loving the boy as well as if he had been their own child, had sacrificed everything to assist him in his extremity.
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"so ye see, my avenging angels, that ye run off the track in the hucks matter," he added, smiling at their bewildered faces.
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patsy was delighted at this refutation of the slanderous suspicions that thomas was a miser and his smiling face a mask to hide his innate villainy. the other girls were somewhat depressed by the overthrow of one of their pet theories, and reluctantly admitted that if hucks had been the robber of his master and old will thompson, he would not have striven so eagerly to get enough money to send to joe wegg. but they pointed out that the old servant was surely hiding his knowledge of captain wegg's past, and could not be induced to clear up that portion of the mystery which he had full knowledge of. so, while he might be personally innocent of the murder or robbery, both beth and louise were confident he was attempting to shield the real criminal.
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"but who is the real criminal?" inquired patsy.
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"let us consider," answer louise, with the calm, businesslike tone she adopted in these matters. "there is the strolling physician, whom we call the unknown avenger, for one. a second suspect is the man mcnutt, whose nature is so perverted that he would stick at nothing. the third suspicious individual is mr. bob west."
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"oh, louise! mr. west is so respectable, and so prosperous," exclaimed patsy.
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"it's a far jump from mcnutt to west," added beth.
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"leaving out hucks," continued louise, her eyes sparkling with the delightful excitement of maintaining her theories against odds, "here are three people who might have been concerned in the robbery or murder. two of them are under our hands; perhaps joseph wegg may be able to tell us where to find the third."
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they pleaded so hard with the major to take them to call upon the injured youth that very day, that the old gentleman consented, and, without telling uncle john of their plans, they drove to millville in the afternoon and alighted at the hotel.
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the major went first to the boy's room, and found him not only very comfortable, but bright and cheerful in mood.
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"at this rate, sir," he said, smilingly, "i shall be able to discharge my guardian in quick time. i'm twice the man i was yesterday."
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"i've brought some young ladies to call upon you," announced the major. "will you see them?"
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joe flushed at first, remembering his plastered skull and maimed condition. but he could not well refuse to receive his callers, whom he guessed to be the three girls old hucks had praised to him so highly.
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"it will give me great pleasure, sir," he replied.
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an invalid is usually of interest to women, so it is no wonder that the three young ladies were at once attracted by the bright-faced boy, who reclined upon his couch before the vine-covered windows. they thought of ethel, too, and did not marvel that the girl grieved over the loss of this friend of her childhood.
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joe had to recount the adventure with the automobile, which led to his injuries, and afterward give an account of his life at the hospital. that led, naturally, to the timely assistance rendered him by the faithful thomas, so that louise was able to broach the subject nearest her heart.
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"we have been greatly interested in your old servants--whom we acquired with the farm, it seems--and all of us admire their simplicity and sincerity," she began.
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"nora is a dear," added beth.
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"and thomas is so cheerful that his smile is enough to vanquish any attack of the blues," said patsy.
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"the hucks are the right sort, and no mistake," declared the major, taking his cue from the others.
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this praise evidently delighted the boy. they could have found no more direct way to win his confidence.
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"nora was my mother's maid from the time she was a mere girl," said he; "and thomas sailed with my father many years before i was born."
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they were a little surprised to hear him speak so frankly. but louise decided to take advantage of the opening afforded her.
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"nora has told us that some great trouble came to them years ago--a trouble that also affected your own parents. but they do not wish to talk about it to us."
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his face clouded.
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"no, indeed," said he. "their loving old hearts have never recovered from the blow. would you like to know their history? it is a sad story, and pitiful; but i am sure you would understand and appreciate my old friends better after hearing it."
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their hearts fairly jumped with joy. would they like to hear the story? was it not this very clue which they had been blindly groping for to enable them to solve the mystery of the wegg crime? the boy marked their interest, and began his story at once, while the hearts of the three girls sang-gladly: "at last--at last!"
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joe tells of "the great trouble."
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"as a young man, my father was a successful sea captain," said the boy, "and, before he was thirty, owned a considerable interest in the ship he sailed. thomas hucks was his boatswain,--an honest and able seaman in whom my father became much interested. hucks was married, and his wife was an attendant in the employ of hugh carter, a wealthy ship chandler of edmunton, the port from which my fathers ship sailed. thomas had some difficulty in enjoying his wife's society when on shore, because old carter did not want him hanging around the house; so captain wegg good-naturedly offered to intercede for him.
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"carter was a gruff and disagreeable man, and, although my father had been a good customer, he refused his request and threatened to discharge nora, which he did. this made captain wegg angry, and he called upon mary carter, whose especial attendant nora had been, to ask her to take the girl back. mary was a mild young lady, who dared not oppose her father; but the result of the interview was that the sea captain and mary carter fell mutually in love. during the next two or three years, whenever the ship was in port, the lovers frequently met by stealth at the cottage of mrs. hucks, a little place thomas had rented. here my father and mother were finally married.
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"meantime nora had a son, a fine young chap, i've heard; and presently my mother, who had a little fortune of her own, plucked up enough courage to leave her father's roof, and took up her abode in a pretty villa on the edge of a bluff overlooking the sea. nora came to live with her again, bringing her child, and the two women were company for one another while their husbands were at sea.
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"in course of time my mother had two children, a girl and a boy, and because the hucks boy was considerably older than they, he took care of them, to a great extent, and the three youngsters were always together. their favorite playground was on the beach, at the foot of the bluff, and before young tom was ten years old he could swim like a duck, and manage a boat remarkably well. the wegg children, having something of their mother's timid nature, perhaps, were not so adventurous, but they seldom hesitated to go wherever tom led them.
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"one day, while my mother was slightly ill and nora was attending to her, tom disobeyed the commands that had been given him, and took his younger companions out on the ocean for a ride in his boat. no one knows how far they went, or exactly what happened to them; but a sudden squall sprang up, and the children being missed, my mother insisted, ill as she was, in running down to the shore to search for her darlings. braving the wind and drenched by rain, the two mothers stood side by side, peering into the gloom, while brave men dared the waves to search for the missing ones. the body of the girl was first washed ashore, and my mother rocked the lifeless form in her arms until her dead son was laid beside her. then young tom's body was recovered, and the horror was complete.
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"when my father arrived, three days later, he not only found himself bereaved of the two children he had loved so tenderly, but his young wife was raving with brain fever, and likely to follow her babies to the grave. during that terrible time, nora, who could not forget that it was her own adventurous son who had led all three children to their death, went suddenly blind--from grief, the doctors said.
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"my father pulled his wife back to life by dint of careful nursing; but whenever she looked at the sea she would scream with horror; so it became necessary to take her where the cruel sound of the breakers could never reach her ears. i think the grief of thomas and nora was scarcely less than that of my own parents, and both men had suffered so severely that they were willing to abandon the sea and devote their lives to comforting their poor wives. captain wegg sold all his interests and his wife's villa, and brought the money here, where he established a home amid entirely different surroundings. he was devoted to my mother, i have heard, and when she died, soon after my birth, the captain seemed to lose all further interest in life, and grew morose and unsociable with all his fellow-creatures.
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"that, young ladies, is the story of what thomas and nora call their 'great trouble'; and i think it is rightly named, because it destroyed the happiness of two families. i was born long after the tragedy, but its shadow has saddened even my own life."
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when the boy had finished, his voice trembling with emotion as he uttered the last words, his auditors were much affected by the sad tale. patsy was positively weeping, and the major blew his nose vigorously and advised his daughter to "dry up an' be sinsible." beth's great eyes stared compassionately at the young fellow, and even louise for the moment allowed her sympathy to outweigh the disappointment and chagrin of seeing her carefully constructed theory of crime topple over like the house of cards it was. there was now no avenger to be discovered, because there had been nothing to avenge. the simple yet pathetic story accounted for all the mystery that, in her imagination, enveloped the life and death of captain wegg. but--stay!
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"how did your father die?" she asked, softly.
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"through a heart trouble, from which he had suffered for years, and which had obliged him to lead a very quiet life," was the reply. "that was one of the things which, after my mother's death, helped to sour his disposition. he could not return to the sea again, because he was told that any sudden excitement was likely to carry him off; and, indeed, that was exactly what happened."
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"how is that, sir?" asked the major.
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"it is more difficult to explain than the first of the story," replied the boy, thoughtfully gazing through the window; "perhaps because i do not understand it so well. our simple life here never made much of an inroad into my father's modest fortune; for our wants were few; but captain wegg was a poor man of business, having been a sailor during all his active life. his only intimate friend--an honest, bluff old farmer named will thompson--was as childish regarding money matters as my father, but had a passion for investments, and induced my father to join some of his schemes. mr. thompson's mind was somewhat erratic at times, but keen in some ways, nevertheless. fearing to trust his judgment entirely, my father chose to lean upon the wisdom and experience of a shrewd merchant of millville, named robert west."
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"the hardware dealer?" asked louise, impulsively.
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"yes; i see you have met him," replied joseph wegg, with a smile at the eager, pretty face of his visitor. "bob west was a prosperous man and very careful about his own investments; so he became a sort of business adviser to my father and mr. thompson, and arbitrated any differences of opinion they might have. for several years, due to west's good offices, the two oddly mated friends were successful in their ventures, and added to their capital. finally west came to them himself with a proposition. he had discovered a chance to make a good deal of money by purchasing an extensive pine forest near almaquo, just across the border in canada. west had taken an option on the property, when he found by accident that the pierce-lane lumber company was anxious to get hold of the tract and cut the timber on a royalty that would enable the owners to double their investment."
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"howld on a jiffy!" cried the major, excitedly. "did i understand you to say the pierce-lane lumber company?"
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"that was the firm, sir. i used to overhear my father and will thompson talking about this matter; but i must admit my knowledge is somewhat imperfect, because i never was allowed to ask questions. i remember learning the fact that west had not enough money to swing his option, and so urged his friends to join him. relying upon west's judgment, they put all their little fortunes into the deal, although thompson grumbled at doing so, because he claimed he had another investment that was better, and this matter of west's would prevent him from undertaking it. the almaquo tract was purchased, and a contract made with the lumber company to cut the timber and pay them a royalty of so much a thousand feet. yet, although the prospects for profit seemed so good, i know that for some reason both my father and thompson were dissatisfied with the deal, and this may be accounted for by the fact that every penny of their money was tied up in one investment. west used to come to the house and argue with them that the property was safe as the bank of england, and then old will would tell him how much more he could have made out of another investment he had in mind; so that a coolness grew up between west and the others that gradually led to their estrangement.
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"i can well remember the evening when bob west's pretty financial bubble burst. thompson and my father were sitting together in the right wing, smoking solemnly, and exchanging a few words, as was their custom, when west arrived with a while face, and a newspaper under his arm. i was in the next room, lying half asleep upon the sofa, when i heard west cry despairingly: 'ruined--ruined--ruined!' i crept to the half-opened door, then, and looked in. both men were staring, open-mouthed and half-dazed, at west, who was explaining in a trembling voice that a terrible forest fire had swept through the almaquo section and wiped out every tree upon the property. he had the full account in the newspaper, and had begun reading it, when my father uttered a low moan and tumbled off his chair to the floor.
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"will thompson gave a wild cry and knelt beside him.
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"'my god! he's dead, bob,--he's dead!--and you've killed him with your good news!' he screamed, already raving; and then old hucks ran in just in time to prevent the madman from throttling west, for his fingers were even then twined around bob's throat. there was a desperate struggle, and i remember that, scared as i was, i joined thomas in trying to pull thompson off his prey. but suddenly old will threw up his arms and toppled backward, still raving like a demon, but unable to move his body from the waist downward. west helped us to put him in bed, and said he was paralyzed, which afterward proved to be the truth. also, his mind was forever gone; and i think it was father's death that did that, rather than the loss of his money."
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they were all staring, white-faced, at the speaker. most of the mystery was being cleared away; indeed, there was now little of mystery remaining at all.
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"west hurried after a doctor," continued joe, who was almost as much absorbed in his story as were his listeners, and spoke in a reflective, musing way, "and he succeeded in finding one who was stopping for a few days at the hotel. poor bob was very kind to us in our trouble, and i never heard him mention a word about his own losses, which must have been severe. after the funeral was over, and i found i had nothing to inherit but the farm, i decided to go to the city and make my way there, as i had long wished to do. west gave me a little money to start me on my way, and the rest of my story is not very interesting to anybody. major doyle knows something of it, after the time when i got through my technical school by working as a servant to pay for my instruction. i'm a failure in life, so far, young ladies; but if you'll not bear that against me i'll try to do better in the future."
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"good!" cried the major, approvingly, as he took the boy's left hand in both his own and pressed it. "you're developing the right spirit, joseph, me lad, and we'll think no more about the sadness of the past, but look forward to the joy of your future."
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"of course," said patsy, nodding gravely; "joe wegg is bound to be a great man, some day."
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the locked cupboard.
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louise and beth returned to the farm in dismal silence. every prop had been knocked from beneath their carefully erected temple of mystery. now there was no mystery at all.
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in a few words, joe wegg had explained everything, and explained all so simply and naturally that louise felt like sobbing with the bitterness of a child deprived of its pet plaything. the band of self-constituted girl detectives had been "put out of business," as patsy said, because the plain fact had developed that there was nothing to detect, and never had been. there had been no murder, no robbery, no flight or hiding on the part of the weggs to escape an injured enemy; nothing even mysterious, in the light of the story they had just heard. it was dreadfully humiliating and thoroughly disheartening, after all their earnest endeavor to investigate a crime that had never been committed.
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uncle john rallied his nieces on their somber faces at the dinner table, and was greatly amused when the major, despite the appealing looks directed at him, gave mr. merrick a brief resume of the afternoon's developments.
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"well, i declare!" said the little man, merrily; "didn't i warn you, louise, not to try to saddle a murder onto my new farm? how you foolish girls could ever have imagined such a carnival of crime in connection with the weggs is certainly remarkable."
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"i don't know about that, sir," returned the major, seriously. "i was meself inoculated with the idea, and for a while i considered meself and the girls the equals of all the pinkertons in the country. and when ye come to think of it, the history of poor captain wegg and his wife, and of nora and thomas as well, is out of the ordinary entirely, and, without the explanation, contained all the elements of a first-class mystery."
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"how did you say the weggs lost their money?" inquired uncle john, turning the subject because he saw that it embarrassed his nieces.
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"why, forest fires at almaquo, in canada, burned down the timber they had bought," replied the major. "and, by the way, john, you're interested in that matter yourself, for the pierce-lane lumber company, in which you own a lot of stock, had contracted to cut the timber on a royalty."
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"how long ago?"
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"three years, sir."
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"well, we've been cutting timber at almaquo ever since," said mr. merrick.
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louise dropped her fork with a clatter, disclosing, in this well-bred young lady, an unusual degree of excitement.
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"then there is something to detect!" she cried.
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"eh? what do you mean?" inquired her uncle.
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"if you've been cutting timber at almaquo for three years, the trees couldn't have burned down," louise declared, triumphantly.
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"that is evident," said the major, dryly. "i've had it in me mind, louise, to take that matter up for investigation; but you are so imbued with the detective spirit that there's no heading you off a trail."
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"before the dessert comes on," announced uncle john, impressively, "i want to make a statement. you folks have tried your hands at the detective business and made a mess of it. now it's my turn. i'll be a detective for three days, and if i don't succeed better than you did, young women, we'll mingle our tears in all humility. eh, major?"
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"put me in the bunch, sir," said the old soldier, "i was as bad as any of them. and go ahead in your own way, if ye like. it's me humble opinion, john, that you're no sherlock holmes; but ye won't believe it 'til ye satisfy yourself of the fact."
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next morning the loungers around sam cotting's store were thrown into a state of great excitement when "the nabob" came over from the wegg farm and held the long-distance telephone for more than an hour, while he talked with people in new york. the natives knew that their telephone, which was built into a small booth at one end of the store--next the post-office boxes--was part of a system that made it possible for one to talk to those in far away cities. often the country people would eye the mysterious-looking instrument with awe and whisper to each other of its mighty powers; but no one had ever before used it to telephone farther than the junction, and then only on rare occasions.
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"it'll cost a heap o' money, sam," said mcnutt, uneasily, while uncle john was engaged in his remarkable conversation. they could see him in the booth, through the little window.
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"it will, mac," was the solemn reply. "but the fool nabob may as well spend it thet way as any other. it's mighty little of his capital er surplus gits inter my cash-drawer; 'n' thet's a fact."
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uncle john came from the booth, perspiring, but smiling and happy. he walked across the street to see joe wegg, and found the youth seated in a rocking-chair and looking quite convalescent. but he had company. in a chair opposite sat a man neatly dressed, with a thin, intelligent face, a stubby gray moustache, and shrewd eyes covered by horn-rimmed spectacles.
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"good morning, mr. merrick," said joe, cheerily; "this is mr. robert west, one of the millville merchants, who is an old friend of our family."
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"i've heard of mr. west, and i'm glad to meet him," replied uncle john, looking at the other calmly, but not offering to shake hands. "i believe you are the president and treasurer of the almaquo timber tract company, are you not?"
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joseph looked startled, and then embarrassed, as he overheard the question. west, without altering his position of careless ease, glanced over the rims of his glasses at the speaker.
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"i am the humble individual you refer to, mr. merrick," he said, briefly.
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"but the almaquo timber all burned down." remarked joe, thinking an explanation was needed.
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"that's a mistake," returned mr. merrick. "my company has paid mr. west, as treasurer of his company, more than fifty thousand dollars during the last three years."
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west's jaw dropped.
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"your company!" he exclaimed, as if mystified.
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"yes; i own the controlling interest in the pierce-lane lumber company, which has the contract to cut your timber," answered mr. merrick.
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the hardware dealer slowly arose and glanced at his watch.
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"i must get back to my store," he said. "you are somewhat in error about your company, mr. merrick; but i suppose your interests are so large and varied that you cannot well keep track of them. good morning, sir. i'll see you again soon, joe. glad you're improving so rapidly. let me know if i can do anything to help you."
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with these quiet words, he bowed and left the room, and when he had gone, joe said, in a deprecating tone:
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"poor bob must be very unhappy about having lost my father's money in that speculation, for he advocated the plan very strongly, believing it was a good investment. i'm afraid your mistake about paying him all that money upset him. don't mind if he was a little brusque, sir. bob west is a simple, kindly man, whom my father fully trusted. it was he that loaned me the money to get away from here with."
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"tell me," said uncle john, thoughtfully, "did your father receive stock in the almaquo timber tract company in exchange for his money?"
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"oh, yes; i have seen it in the steel cupboard," replied joe.
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"where is that?"
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"why, it is the cupboard in the right wing of our house, which was the captain's own room. it was one of his whims, when he built, to provide what he called his 'bank.' you may have noticed the wooden doors of a cupboard built into the stone wall, sir?"
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"yes; i occupy the room."
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"behind the wooden doors are others of steel. the entire cupboard is steel-lined. near the bottom is a sliding-plate, which, when pushed aside, discovers a hidden drawer--a secret my father never confided to anyone but me. he once told me that if his heart trouble earned him off suddenly i ought to know of the existence of this drawer; so he showed me how to find it. on the day after his death i took the keys, which he always carried on a small chain around his neck and concealed underneath his clothing, and opened the cupboard to see if i could find anything of value. it is needless to say, i could not discover anything that could be converted into a dollar. the captain had filled the cupboard with old letters and papers of no value, and with relics he had brought from foreign lands during his many voyages. these last are mere rubbish, but i suppose he loved them for their association. in the secret drawer i found his stock in the timber company, and also that of old will thompson, who had doubtless left it with my father for safekeeping. knowing it was now worthless, i left it in the drawer."
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"i'd like to see it," announced uncle john.
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"i've lost the keys," he said.
"__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON 've__<label>__VERB lost__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET keys__<label>__NOUN ,"__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
"how's that, my lad?"
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"why, on the day of the funeral the keys disappeared. i could never imagine what became of them. but i did not care to look in the cupboard a second time, so the loss did not matter."
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mr. merrick seemed thoughtful.
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"i suppose i own that cupboard now," he remarked.
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"of course," said joe. "but without the keys it is not serviceable. if you drill through the steel doors you destroy their security."
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"true; but i may decide to do that."
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"if you do, sir, i'd like you to clear out the rubbish and papers and send them to me. they are family matters, and i did not intend to sell them with the place."
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"you shall have them, joe."
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"just underneath the left end of the lower shelf you will find the sliding steel plate. it slides toward the front. in the drawer you will find the worthless stock and a picture of my mother. i'd like to keep the picture."
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"you shall, joseph. how are you getting on?"
"__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON shall__<label>__PRT ,__<label>__. joseph__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. how__<label>__PRON are__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON getting__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP ?"__<label>__.
"don't overdo, sir. take it easy. there's a young lady coming to see you today."
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"ethel!" the boy exclaimed, his face turning crimson.
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"yes," returned uncle john, tersely. "you've treated that girl shamefully, joseph wegg. try to make proper amends."
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"i never could understand," said joe, slowly, "why ethel refused to answer the letter i wrote her when i went away. it explained everything, yet--"
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"i'll bet the farm against your lame shoulder she never got your letter," declared uncle john. "she thought you left her without a word."
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"i gave it to mcnutt to deliver after i was gone. but you say she's coming today?"
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"that is her intention, sir."
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joe said nothing more, but his expressive face was smiling and eager. uncle john pressed the boy's hand and left him, promising to call again soon.
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"now, then," muttered the little millionaire, as he walked down the street, "to beard the lion in his den."
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the den proved to be the hardware store, and the lion none other than robert west. mr. merrick found the merchant seated at his desk in the otherwise deserted store, and, with a nod, helped himself to the only other chair the little office contained.
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"sir," said he, "i am here to demand an explanation."
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"of what?" asked west, coldly.
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"of your action in the matter of the almaquo timber tract company. i believe that you falsely asserted to captain wegg and mr. thompson that the timber had burned and their investment was therefore worthless. the news of the disaster killed one of your confiding friends and drove the other mad; but that was a consequence that i am sure you did not intend when you planned the fraud. the most serious thing i can accuse you of is holding the earnings of the wegg and thompson stock--and big earnings they are, too--for your own benefit, and defrauding the heirs of your associates of their money."
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west carefully balanced a penholder across his fingers, and eyed it with close attention.
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"you are a queer man, mr. merrick," he said, quietly. "i can only excuse your insults on the grounds of ignorance, or the fact that you have been misinformed. here is the newspaper report of the almaquo fire, which i showed my friends the night of captain wegg's sudden death." he took a clipping from a drawer of the desk and handed it to uncle john, who read it carefully.
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"as a matter of fact," continued west, "you are not cutting that portion of the almaquo tract which this fire refers to, and which thompson and wegg were interested in, but the north half of the tract, which they had never acquired any title to."
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"i suppose the stock will show that," suggested mr. merrick.
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"of course, sir."
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"you will have some trouble doing that," he said.
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"wegg and thompson had transferred their entire stock to me before one died and the other went mad," was the quiet reply.
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"oh, i see." the lie was so evident that uncle john did not try to refute it.
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"i am rather busy, mr. merrick. anything more, sir?"
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"not today. bye and bye, mr. west."
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he marched out again and climbed into his buggy to drive home. the interview with bob west had made him uneasy, for the merchant's cold, crafty nature rendered him an opponent who would stick at nothing to protect his ill-gotten gains. uncle john had thought it an easy matter to force him to disgorge, but west was the one inhabitant of millville who had no simplicity in his character. he was as thoroughly imbued with worldly subtlety and cunning as if he had lived amid the grille of a city all his life; and mr. merrick was by no means sure of his own ability to unmask the man and force him to make restitution.
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the court'n of skim clark.
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by this time the summer was well advanced, and the rich people at the wegg farm had ceased to be objects of wonder to the millville folk. the girls were still regarded with curious looks when they wandered into the village on an errand, and mr. merrick and major doyle inspired a certain amount of awe; but time had dulled the edge of marvelous invasion and the city people were now accepted as a matter of course.
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peggy mcnutt was still bothering his head over schemes to fleece the strangers, in blissful ignorance of the fact that one of his neighbors was planning to get ahead of him.
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skim, her small son, helped her as far as he was able, and between them they managed things so frugally that at the end of eight years the widow still had her five hundred dollars capital, and the little store had paid her living expenses.
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skim was named after his uncle, peter skimbley, who owned a farm near watertown. the widow's hopeful was now a lank, pale-faced youth of eighteen, whose most imposing features were his big hands and a long nose that ended in a sharp point. the shop had ruined him for manual labor, for he sat hunched up by the stove in winter, and in summer hung around cotting's store and listened to the gossip of the loungers. he was a boy of small conversational powers, but his mother declared that skim "done a heap o' thinkin' that nobody suspected."
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the widow was a good gossip herself, and knew all the happenings in the little town. she had a habit of reading all her stock of paper-covered novels before she sold them, and her mind was stocked with the mass of romance and adventure she had thus absorbed. "what i loves more'n eat'n' or sleep'n'," she often said, "is a rattlin' good love story. there don't seem to be much love in real life, so a poor lone crittur like me has to calm her hankerin's by a-readin' novels."
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no one had been more interested in the advent of the millionaire at the wegg farm than the widow clark. she had helped "fix up" the house for the new owner and her appreciative soul had been duly impressed by the display of wealth demonstrated by the fine furniture sent down from the city. she had watched the arrival of the party and noticed with eager eyes the group of three pretty and stylishly dressed nieces who accompanied their rich uncle. once or twice since the young ladies had entered her establishment to purchase pens or stationery, and on such occasions the widow was quite overcome by their condescension.
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all this set her thinking to some purpose. one day she walked over to the farm and made her way quietly to the back door. by good fortune she found blind nora hemming napkins and in a mood to converse. nora was an especially neat seamstress, but required some one to thread her needles. mary the cook had been doing this, but now mrs. clark sat down beside nora to "hev a little talk" and keep the needles supplied with thread.
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she learned a good deal about the nieces, for old nora could not praise them enough. they were always sweet and kind to her and she loved to talk about them. they were all rich, too, or would be; for their uncle had no children of his own and could leave several millions to each one when he died.
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"an' they're so simple, too," said the old woman; "nothin' cityfied ner stuck-up about any on 'em, i kin tell ye. they dresses as fine as the queen o' sheba, tom says; but they romp 'round just like they was borned in the country. miss patsy she's learnin' to milk the cow, an' miss beth takes care o' the chickens all by herself. they're reg'lar girls, marthy clark, an' money hain't spiled 'em a bit."
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this report tended to waken a great ambition in the widow's heart. or perhaps the ambition had already taken form and this gossip confirmed and established it. before she left the farm she had a chance to secretly observe the girls, and they met with her full approval.
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at supper that evening she said to her hopeful:
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"skim, i want ye to go courtin'."
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skim looked up in amazement.
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"me, ma?" he asked.
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"yes, you. it's time you was thinkin' of gittin' married."
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skim held his knife in his mouth a moment while he thought over this startling proposition. then he removed the cutlery, heaved a deep sigh, and enquired:
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"who at, ma?"
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"who'll i go courtin' at?"
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"skim, you 'member in thet las' book we read, 'the angel maniac's revenge,' there was a sayin' that fate knocks wunst on ev'ry man's door. well, fate's knockin' on your door."
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skim listened, with a nervous glance toward the doorway. then he shook his head.
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"all fool fancy, ma," he remarked. "don't ye go an' git no rumantic notions out'n books inter yer head."
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"skim, am i a fool, er ain't i?"
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"'tain't fer me ter say, ma."
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"fate's knockin', an' if you don't open to it, skim, i'll wash my hands o' ye, an' ye kin jest starve to death."
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the boy looked disturbed.
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"what's aggrivatin' of ye, then?" he enquired, anxiously.
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"a millionaire is come right under yer nose. he's here in millville, with three gals fer nieces thet's all got money to squander an's bound to hev more."
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skim gave a low whistle.
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"ye don't mean fer me to be courtin' at them gals, do ye?" he demanded.
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"why not? yer fambly's jest as respectible as any, 'cept thet yer uncle mell backslided after the last revival, an' went to a hoss race. yer young, an' yer han'some; an' there's three gals waitin' ready to be won by a bold wooer. be bold, skim; take fate by the fetlock, an' yer fortun's made easy!"
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skim did not reply at once. he gulped down his tea and stared at the opposite wall in deep thought. it wasn't such a "tarnal bad notion," after all, and so thoroughly impressed was he with his own importance and merit that it never occurred to him he would meet with any difficulties if he chose to undertake the conquest.
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"peggy says marri'ge is the mark of a fool; an' peggy married money, too," he remarked slowly.
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"pah! money! mary ann cotting didn't hev but a hundred an' forty dollars, all told, an' she were an old maid an' soured an' squint-eyed when peggy hitched up with her."
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"i hain't seen nuthin' o' the world, yit," continued skim, evasively.
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"ner ye won't nuther, onless ye marry money. any one o' them gals could take ye to europe an' back a dozen times."
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skim reflected still farther.
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"courtin' ought to hev some decent clothes," he said. "i kain't set in the nabob's parlor, with all thet slick furnitur', in nick thorne's cast-off sunday suit."
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"the cloth's as good as ever was made, an' i cut 'em down myself, an' stitched 'em all over."
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"they don't look like store clothes, though," objected skim.
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the widow sighed.
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"tain't the coat that makes the man, skim."
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"i give nick thorne two dollars an' a packidge o' terbacker fer them clotlies, which the on'y thing wrong about was they'd got too snug fer comfert. nick said so himself. but i'll make a bargain with ye, skim. ef you'll agree to give me fifty dollars after yer married, i'll buy ye some store clothes o' sam cotting, to do courtin' in."
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skim frowned. then he smiled, and the smile disclosed a front tooth missing.
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"i'll dream on't," he said. "let ye know in the mornin', ma. but i won't court a minite, mind ye, 'nless i git store clothes."
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a lost cause.
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the boy's musings confirmed him in the idea that his mother's scheme was entirely practical. he didn't hanker much to marry, being young and fairly satisfied with his present lot; but opportunities like this did not often occur, and it seemed his bounden duty to take advantage of it.
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he got the "store clothes" next day, together with a scarlet necktie that was "all made up in the latest style," as sam cotting assured him, and a pair of yellow kid gloves "fit fer a howlin' swell." skim wasn't sure, at first, about the gloves, but capitulated when sam declared they were "real cityfied."
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in the evening he "togged up," with his mother's help, and then walked over to the wegg farm.
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beth answered the knock at the door. the living room was brightly lighted; uncle john and the major were playing checkers in a corner and patsy was softly drumming on the piano. louise had a book and beth had been engaged upon some fancy-work.
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when the door opened skim bobbed his head and said:
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"evenin', mom. i've come a-visitin'."
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beth conquered an inclination to smile.
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"won't you come in?" she said, sweetly.
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"thankee; i will. i'm skimbley clark, ye know; down t' the village. ma keeps a store there."
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"i'm pleased to meet you, mr. clark. allow me to introduce to you my uncle and cousins," said the girl, her eyes dancing with amusement.
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skim acknowledged the introductions with intense gravity, and then sat down upon a straight-backed chair near the piano, this being the end of the room where the three girls were grouped. uncle john gave a chuckle and resumed his game with the major, who whispered that he would give a dollar for an oil painting of mr. clark--if it couldn't be had for less.
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indeed, the decision did justice to his discretion. beth de graf was a rarely beautiful girl and quite outshone her cousins in this respect. louise might be attractive and patsy fascinating; but beth was the real beauty of the trio, and the most charming trait in her character was her unconsciousness that she excelled in good looks.
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so skim stared hard at beth, and answered the preliminary remarks addressed to him by patsy and louise in a perfunctory manner.
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"won't you take off your gloves?" asked louise, soberly. "it's so warm this evening, you know."
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the boy looked at his hands.
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"it's sech a tarnal job to git 'em on agin," he replied.
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"don't put them on, then," advised patsy. "here in the country we are allowed to dispense with much unnecessary social etiquette."
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"air ye? then off they come. i ain't much stuck on gloves, myself; but ma she 'lowed that a feller goin' courtin' orter look like a sport."
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a chorus of wild laughter, which greeted this speech, had the effect of making skim stare at the girls indignantly. he couldn't find anything funny in his remark; but there they sat facing him and uttering hysterical peals of merriment, until the tears ran down their cheeks.
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silently and with caution he removed the yellow gloves from his hands, and so gave the foolish creatures a chance "to laugh out their blamed giggle."
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but they were watching him, and saw that he was disconcerted. they had no mind to ruin the enjoyment in store for them by offending their guest, so they soon resumed a fitting gravity and began to assist the youth to forget their rudeness.
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"may i ask," said patsy, very graciously, "which one of us you intend to favor with your attentions?"
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"i ain't much used to sech things," he replied, looking down at his big hands and growing a little red-faced. "p'raps i hadn't orter tell, before the rest o' ye."
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"oh, yes; do tell!" pleaded louise. "we're so anxious to know."
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"i don't s'pose it's right clever to pick an' choose when ye're all by," said skim, regaining confidence. "but ma, she 'lowed thet with three gals handy i orter git one on 'em, to say the least."
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"if you got more than one," remarked beth, calmly, "it would be illegal."
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"oh, one's enough," said skim, with a grin. "peggy says it's too many, an' a feller oughtn't to take his gal out'n a grab-bag."
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"i should think not, indeed," returned patsy. "but here are three of us openly displayed, and unless you turn us all down as unworthy, it will be necessary for you to make a choice."
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"what foolishness are you girls up to now?" demanded uncle john, catching a stray word from the other corner while engaged in a desperate struggle with the major.
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"this is a time for you to keep quiet, uncle," retorted patsy, merrily. "we've got important things to consider that are none of your affairs, whatever."
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skim reflected that he didn't want this one, except as a last resort. she was "too bossy."
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"when i started out," he said, "i jest come a-courtin', as any feller might do thet wasn't much acquainted. but ef i've got to settle down to one o' ye--"
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"oh, you must really take one at a time, you know," asserted louise. "it's the only proper way."
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"then i'll start on thet dark-eyed one thet's a sewin'," he said, slowly.
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beth looked up from her work and smiled.
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"go ahead, mr. clark," she said, encouragingly. "my name is beth. had you forgotten it?"
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"call me skim," he said, gently.
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"very well, skim,--now look here, patsy doyle, if you're going to sit there and giggle you'll spoil everything. mr. clark wants to court, and it's getting late."
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"p'raps i've went fur enough fer tonight," remarked skim, uneasily. "next time they'll leave us alone, an' then----"
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"oh, don't postpone it, please!" begged beth, giving the boy a demure glance from her soft brown eyes. "and don't mind my cousins. i don't."
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"these things kain't be hurried," he said. "si merkle courted three weeks afore he popped. he tol' me so."
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"then he was a very foolish man," declared patsy, positively. "just look at beth! she's dying to have you speak out. what's the use of waiting, when she knows why you are here?"
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by this time skim had been flattered to the extent of destroying any stray sense he might ever have possessed. his utter ignorance of girls and their ways may have been partly responsible for his idiocy, or his mother's conviction that all that was necessary was for him to declare himself in order to be accepted had misled him and induced him to abandon any native diffidence he might have had. anyway, the boy fell into the snare set by the mischievous young ladies without a suspicion of his impending fate.
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"miss beth," said he, "ef yer willin', i'll marry ye; any time ye say. i agreed t' help dick pearson with the harvestin', but i'll try to' git ned long to take my place, an' it don't matter much, nohow."
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"but i couldn't have you break an engagement," cried beth, hastily.
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"oh, it wouldn't be right, at all. mr. pearson would never forgive me," she asserted.
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"no; not before harvest, skim. i couldn't think of it."
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"no; i've resolved never to marry after harvest. so, as you're engaged, and i don't approve of breaking engagements, i must refuse your proposition entirely."
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skim looked surprised; then perplexed; then annoyed.
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"p'raps i didn't pop jest right," he murmured, growing red again.
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"you popped beautifully," declared patsy. "but beth is very peculiar, and set in her ways. i'm afraid she wouldn't make you a good wife, anyhow."
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"then p'raps the gal in blue----"
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"no;" said louise. "i have the same prejudices as my cousin. if you hadn't been engaged for the harvest i might have listened to you; but that settles the matter definitely, as far as i am concerned."
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"ma'll be mad as a hornet ef i don't get any of ye," he remarked, sadly. "she's paid sam cotting fer this courtin' suit, an' he won't take back the gloves on no 'count arter they've been wore; an' thet'll set ma crazy. miss patsy, ef yo' think ye could----"
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"i'm sure i couldn't," said patsy, promptly. "i'm awfully sorry to break your heart, skim, dear, and ruin your future life, and make you misanthropic and cynical, and spoil your mother's investment and make her mad as a hornet. all this grieves me terribly; but i'll recover from it, if you'll only give me time. and i hope you'll find a wife that will be more congenial than i could ever be."
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skim didn't understand all these words, but the general tenor of the speech was convincing, and filled him with dismay.
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"rich gals is tarnal skeerce in these parts," he said, regretfully.
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then they gave way again, and so lusty was the merriment that uncle john and the major abandoned their game and came across the room to discover the source of all this amusement.
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"what's up, young women?" asked their uncle, glancing from their laughing faces to the lowering, sullen one of the boy, who had only now begun to suspect that he was being "poked fun at."
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"oh, uncle!" cried patsy; "you've no idea how near you have been to losing us. we have each had an offer of marriage within the last half hour!"
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"dear me!" ejaculated uncle john.
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"it shows the young man's intelligence and good taste," said the major, much amused. "but is it a mormon ye are, sir, to want all three?" directing a keen glance at skim.
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"naw, 'tain't," he returned, wholly disgusted with the outcome of his suit. "all three got as't 'cause none of 'em's got sense enough t' know a good thing when they seen it."
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"but i do," said the major, stoutly; "and i maintain that you're a good thing, and always will be. i hope, sir, you'll call 'round and see me in baltimore next year. i'll not be there, but ye can leave your card, just the same."
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"please call again, sir," added uncle john; "about october--just before snow flies."
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"i don't keer none," he said, defiantly. "it's all ma's fault, gittin' me laughed at, an' she won't hear the last of it in a hurry, nuther."
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"be gentle with her, skim," suggested beth, softly. "remember she has to face the world with you by her side."
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having no retort for this raillery, which he felt rather than understood, skim seized his hat and fled. then patsy wiped the tears from her eyes and said:
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"wasn't it grand, girls? i haven't had so much fun since i was born."
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the trap is set.
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uncle john was forced to acknowledge to his nieces that his boast to unmask bob west within three days was mere blustering. if he accomplished anything in three weeks he would consider himself fortunate. but he had no wish to conceal anything from the girls, so he told them frankly of his interview with the hardware merchant, and also what joe wegg had said about the stock in the locked cupboard. they were, of course, greatly interested in this new phase of the matter and canvassed it long and eagerly.
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"the man is lying, of course," said patsy, "for captain wegg and poor mr. thompson could not transfer their stock to west after that fatal night when he brought to them the news of the fire."
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"i believe the stock is still in this cupboard," declared uncle john.
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"unless west stole the keys and has taken it away," suggested louise.
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"i'm sure he did not know about the secret drawer," said her uncle. "probably he stole the keys and searched the cupboard; if he had found the stock he would have left the keys, which would then be of no further use to him. as he did not find the stock certificates, he carried the keys away, that he might search again at his leisure. and they've never yet been returned."
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"why, john, ye're possessed of the true detective instinct," the major remarked, admiringly. "your reasoning is at once clever and unassailable."
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"i wonder," mused beth, "if we could tempt mr. west to come again to search the cupboard."
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"he will scarcely venture to do that while we are here," replied uncle john.
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"i said 'tempt him,' uncle."
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"and what did you mean by that expression, beth?"
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"i'll think it over and tell you later," she returned, quietly.
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ethel thompson would have shown joe wegg how much she resented his leaving millville without a word to her, had she not learned from mr. merrick the boy's sad condition. knowing her old friend was ill, she determined to ignore the past and go to him at once, and uncle john knew very well there would be explanations to smooth away all the former misunderstandings.
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joe was now aware of the fact that his letter to ethel had never reached its destination, so, as soon as the girl had arrived and the first rather formal greetings were over, he sent kate kebble to mcnutt's to ask the agent to come over to the hotel at once.
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the girl returned alone.
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"peggy says as he can't come," she announced.
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"why not?" asked joe.
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"says he's jest painted his off foot blue an' striped it with red, an' it hain't dried yit."
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"go back," said joe, firmly. "tell peggy he's in trouble, and it's likely to cost him more than a new coat of paint for his foot if he doesn't come here at once."
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kate went back, and in due time the stump of mcnutt's foot was heard on the stairs. he entered the room looking worried and suspicious, and the stern faces of ethel and joe did not reassure him, by any means. but he tried to disarm the pending accusation with his usual brazen impertinence.
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"nice time ter send fer me, this is, joe," he grumbled. "it's gittin' so a feller can't even paint his foot in peace an' quiet."
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"peggy," said joe, "when i went away, three years ago, i gave you a letter for miss ethel. what did you do with it?"
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peggy's bulging eyes stared at his blue foot, which he turned first one side and then the other to examine the red stripes.
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"it wasn't to be sent through the post-office," said the boy. "i gave you a quarter to deliver it in person to miss ethel."
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"did ye, joe? did ye?"
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"of course i did."
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"cur'ous," said mcnutt, leaning over to touch the foot cautiously with one finger, to see if the paint was dry.
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"well, joe, there's no use gittin' mad 'bout it. thet blamed quarter ye giv me rolled down a crack in the stoop, an' got lost. sure. got lost as easy as anything."
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"well, what was that to me?"
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"oh, i ain't blamin' you," said peggy; "but 'twere a good deal to me, i kin tell ye. a whole quarter lost!"
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"why didn't you take up a board, and get it again?"
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"oh, i did," said mcnutt. cheerfully. "i did, joe. but the money was all black an' tarnished like, by thet time, an' didn't look at all like silver. sam he wouldn't take it at the store, so my ol' woman she 'lowed she'd polish it up a bit. ye know how sort o' vig'rous she is, joe. she polished that blamed quarter the same way she jaws an' sweeps; she polished it 'til she rubbed both sides smooth as glass, an' then sam wouldn't take it, nuther, 'n' said it wasn't money any more. so i drilled two holes in it an' sewed it on my pants fer a 'spender butt'n."
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"but why didn't you deliver the letter?"
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"did ye 'spect i'd tramp way t' thompson's crossing fer nuthin'?"
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"i gave you a quarter."
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"an' it turned out to be on'y a 'spender butt'n. be reason'ble, joe."
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"where is the letter?"
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"'tain't a letter no more. it's on'y ol' fambly papers by this time. three years is----"
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"where is it? by thunder, peggy, if you don't answer me i'll put you in jail for breach of trust!"
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"ye've changed, joe," sadly. "ye ain't no more like----"
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"where is it?"
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"behind the lookin'-glass in my sett'n-room."
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"go and get it immediately, sir!"
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"ef i hev to cross thet dusty road twic't more, i'll hev to paint all over agin, an' thet's a fact."
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"ethel," said joe, with the calmness of despair, "you'll have to telephone over to the junction and ask them to send a constable here at once."
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"never mind," cried mcnutt, jumping up hastily; "i'll go. paint don't cost much, nohow."
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he stumped away, but on his return preferred to let kate carry the soiled, torn envelope up to the young folks. the letter had palpably been tampered with. it had been opened and doubtless read, and the flap clumsily glued down again.
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but ethel had it now, and even after three years her sweet eyes dimmed as she read the tender words that joe had written because he lacked the courage to speak them. "my one great ambition is to win a home for us, dear," he had declared, and with this before her eyes ethel reproached herself for ever doubting his love or loyalty.
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when she rode her pony over to the wegg farm next day ethel's bright face was wreathed with smiles. she told her girl friends that she and joe had had a "good talk" together, and understood each other better than ever before. the nieces did not tell her of their newly conceived hopes that the young couple would presently possess enough money to render their future comfortable, because there were so many chances that bob west might win the little game being played. but at this moment ethel did not need worldly wealth to make her heart light and happy, for she had regained her childhood's friend, and his injuries only rendered the boy the more interesting and companionable.
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meantime uncle john had been busily thinking. it annoyed him to be so composedly defied by a rascally country merchant, and he resolved, if he must fight, to fight with all his might.
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so he wired to his agent in new york the following words:
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"what part of the almaquo timber tract burned in forest fire three years ago?"
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the answer he received made him give a satisfied grunt.
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"no forest fires near almaquo three years ago. almadona, seventy miles north, burned at that time, and newspaper reports confounded the names."
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"very good!" exclaimed uncle john. "i've got the rascal now."
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he issued instructions to the lumber company to make no further payments of royalties to robert west until otherwise advised, and this had the effect of bringing west to the farm white with rage.
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"what do you mean by this action, mr. merrick?" he demanded.
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"we've been paying you money that does not belong to you for three years, sir," was the reply. "in a few days, when my investigations are complete, i will give you the option of being arrested for embezzlement of funds belonging to joseph wegg and the thompsons, or restoring to them every penny of their money."
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"you are carrying matters with a high hand, sir," he sneered.
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"oh, no; i am acting very leniently," said uncle john.
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"neither joe nor the thompsons own a dollar's interest in the almaquo property. it is all mine, and mine alone."
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"then produce the stock and prove it!" retorted mr. merrick, triumphantly.
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at that moment louise interrupted the interview by entering the room suddenly.
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"oh, uncle," said she, "will you join us in a picnic to the falls tomorrow afternoon? we are all going."
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"then i won't be left behind," he replied, smiling upon her.
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"we shall take even thomas and nora, and come home late in the evening, by moonlight."
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"that suits me, my dear," said he.
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west stood silent and scowling, but as the girl tripped away she saw him raise his eyes and glance slyly toward the cupboard, for they were in the right wing room.
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"mr. merrick," he resumed, in a harsh voice; "i warn you that if your company holds up the payment of my royalties it will break the contract, and i will forbid them to cut another tree. you are doubtless aware that there are a dozen firms willing to take your place and pay me higher royalties."
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"act as you please, sir," said uncle john, indifferently. "i believe you are face to face with ruin, and it won't matter much what you do."
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west went away more quietly than he had come, and the girls exclaimed, delightedly:
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"the trap is set, uncle!"
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"i think so, myself," he rejoined. "that picnic was a happy thought, louise."
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early the next afternoon they started out with hammocks and baskets and all the paraphernalia of a picnic party. the three girls, nora and uncle john squeezed themselves into the surrey, while the major and old hucks rode after them in the ancient buggy, with dan moaning and groaning every step he took. but the old horse moved more briskly when following joe, and hucks could get more speed out of him than anyone else; so he did not lag much behind.
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the procession entered millville, where a brief stop was made at the store, and then made its exit by the north road. west was standing in the door of his hardware store, quietly observing them. when they disappeared in the grove he locked the door of his establishment and sauntered in the direction of the pearson farm, no one noticing him except peggy mcnutt, who was disappointed because he had intended to go over presently and buy a paper of tacks.
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when the village was left behind, uncle john drove swiftly along, following the curve of the lake until he reached a primitive lane that he had discovered formed a short cut directly back to the wegg farm. old thomas was amazed by this queer action on the part of the picnic party, but aside from blind nora, who had no idea where they were, the others seemed full of repressed eagerness, and in no way surprised.
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the lane proved very rocky though, and they were obliged to jolt slowly over the big cobble stones. so beth and patsy leaped out of the surrey and the former called out:
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"we will run through the forest, uncle, and get home as soon as you do."
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"be careful not to show yourselves, then," he replied. "remember our plans."
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"we will. and don't forget to tie the horses in the thicket, and warn thomas and nora to keep quiet until we come for them," said patsy.
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"i'll attend to all that, dear," remarked louise, composedly. "but if you girls are determined to walk, you must hurry along, or you will keep us waiting."
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the nieces had explored every path in the neighborhood by this time, so beth and patsy were quite at home in the pine forest. the horses started up again, and after struggling along another quarter of a mile a wheel of the surrey dished between two stones, and with a bump the axle struck the ground and the journey was promptly arrested.
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"what shall we do now?" asked uncle john, much annoyed, as the party alighted to examine the wreck.
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"send thomas back to the village for another wheel" suggested the major.
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"not today!" cried louise. "we mustn't appear in the village again this afternoon, on any account. it is absolutely necessary we should keep out of sight."
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"true," agreed uncle john, promptly. "thomas and nora must picnic here all by themselves, until nearly midnight. then they may drive the buggy home, leading daniel behind them. it will be time enough tomorrow to get a new buggy wheel, and the broken surrey won't be in anybody's way until we send for it."
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if old hucks thought they had all gone crazy that day he was seemingly justified in the suspicion, for his master left the baskets of good things to be consumed by himself and nora and started to walk to the farm, the major and louise accompanying him.
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"we mustn't loiter," said the girl, "for while west may wait until darkness falls to visit the farm, he is equally liable to arrive at any time this afternoon. he has seen us all depart, and believes the house deserted."
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but they were obliged to keep to the lane, where walking was difficult, and meantime patsy and beth were tripping easily along their woodland paths and making much better progress.
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"we're early," said beth, as they came to the edge of the woods and sighted the farm house; "but that is better than being late."
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then she stopped suddenly with a low cry and pointed to the right wing, which directly faced them. bob west turned the corner of the house, tried the door of uncle john's room, and then walked to one of the french windows. the sash was not fastened, so he deliberately opened it and stepped inside.
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"what shall we do?" gasped patsy, clasping her hands excitedly.
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beth was always cool in an emergency.
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"you creep up to the window, dear, and wait till you hear me open the inside door," said she. "i'll run through the house and enter from the living-room. the key is under the mat, you know."
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"but what can we do? oughtn't we to wait until uncle john and father come?" patsy asked, in a trembling voice.
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"of course not. west might rob the cupboard and be gone by that time. we've got to act promptly, patsy; so don't be afraid."
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without further words beth ran around the back of the house and disappeared, while patsy, trying to control the beating of her heart, stole softly over the lawn to the open window of uncle john's room.
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she could not help looking in, at the risk of discovery. bob west--tall, lean and composed as ever--was standing beside the cupboard, the doors of which were wide open. the outer doors were of wood, panelled and carved; the inner ones were plates of heavy steel, and in the lock that secured these latter doors were the keys that had so long been missing. both were attached to a slender silver chain.
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as patsy peered in at the man west was engaged in deliberately examining packet after packet of papers, evidently striving to find the missing stock certificates. he was in no hurry, believing he would have the house to himself for several hours; so he tumbled captain wegg's souvenirs of foreign lands in a heap on the floor beside him, thrusting his hand into every corner of the cupboard in order that the search might be thorough. he had once before examined the place in vain; this time he intended to succeed.
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presently west drew a cigar from his pocket, lighted it, and was about to throw the match upon the floor when the thought that it might later betray his presence made him pause and then walk to the open window. as he approached, patsy became panic-stricken and, well knowing that she ought to run or hide, stood rooted to the spot, gazing half appealingly and half defiantly into the startled eyes of the man who suddenly confronted her.
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so for a moment they stood motionless. west was thinking rapidly. by some error be had miscounted the picnic party and this girl had been left at home. she had discovered his intrusion, had seen him at the cupboard, and would report the matter to john merrick. this being the case, it would do him no good to retreat without accomplishing his purpose. if once he secured the stock certificates he could afford to laugh at his accusers, and secure them he must while he had the opportunity.
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so clearly did these thoughts follow one another that west's hesitation seemed only momentary. without a word to the girl he tossed the match upon the grass, calmly turned his back, and started for the cupboard again.
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but here a new surprise awaited him. brief as had been his absence, another girl had entered the room. beth opened the door even as west turned toward the window, and, taking in the situation at a glance, she tiptoed swiftly to the cupboard, withdrew the keys from the lock and dropped them noiselessly into a wide-mouthed vase that stood on the table and was partially filled with flowers. the next instant west turned and saw her, but she smiled at him triumphantly. "good afternoon, sir," said the girl, sweetly; "can i do anything to assist you?"
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west uttered an impatient exclamation and regarded beth savagely.
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"is the house full of girls?" he demanded.
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"oh, no; patsy and i are quite alone," she replied, with a laugh. "come in, patsy dear, and help me to entertain our guest," she added.
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patsy came through the window and stood beside her cousin. the man stared at them, bit his lip, and then turned again to the cupboard. if he noted the absence of the keys he did not remark upon the fact, but with hurried yet thorough examination began anew to turn over the bundles of papers.
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beth sat down and watched him, but patsy remained standing behind her chair. west emptied all the shelves, and then after a pause took out his pocket knife and began tapping with its end the steel sides of the cupboard. there was no doubt he suspected the existence of a secret aperture, and beth began to feel uneasy.
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slowly the man worked his way downward, from shelf to shelf, and began to sound the bottom plates, wholly oblivious of the fascinated gaze of the two young girls. then a sudden gruff ejaculation startled them all, and west swung around to find a new group of watchers outside the window. in the foreground appeared the stern face of john merrick.
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the scene was intensely dramatic to all but the singular man who had been battling to retain a fortune. west knew in an instant that his attempt to secure the certificates was a failure. he turned from the cupboard, dusted his hands, and nodded gravely to the last arrivals.
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"come in, mr. merrick," said he, seating himself in a chair and removing his hat, which he had been wearing. "i owe you an apology for intruding upon your premises in your absence."
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uncle john strode into the room angry and indignant at the fellow's cool impertinence. the major and louise followed, and all eyes centered upon the face of bob west.
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"the contents of this cupboard," remarked the hardware merchant, calmly, "belong to the estate of captain wegg, and can scarcely be claimed by you because you have purchased the house. you falsely accused me the other day, sir, and i have been searching for proof that the almaquo timber tract stock is entirely my property."
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"have you found such proof?" inquired mr. merrick.
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"and you say the stock was all issued to you?"
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"it was all transferred to me by captain wegg and will thompson."
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"does the transfer appear upon the stock itself?"
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"of course, sir."
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"in that case," said uncle john, "i shall be obliged to ask your pardon. but the fact can be easily proved."
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he walked to the open cupboard, felt for the slide joe had described to him, and drew it forward. a small drawer was behind the orifice, and from this mr. merrick drew a packet of papers.
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west gave a start and half arose. then he settled back into his chair again.
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"h-m. this appears to be the stock in question," said uncle john. he drew a chair to the table, unfolded the documents and examined them with deliberate care.
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the nieces watched his face curiously. mr. merrick first frowned, then turned red, and finally a stern, determined look settled upon his rugged features.
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"take your stock, mr. west," he said, tossing it toward the man; "and try to forgive us for making fools of ourselves!"
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mr. west explains.
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a cry of amazed protest burst from the girls. the major whistled softly and walked to the window.
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"i find the stock properly transferred," continued uncle john, grimly conscious that he was as thoroughly disappointed as the girls. "it is signed by both wegg and thompson, and witnessed in the presence of a notary. i congratulate you, mr. west. you have acquired a fortune."
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"but not recently," replied the hardware dealer, enjoying the confusion of his recent opponents. "i have owned this stock for more than three years, and you will see by the amount endorsed upon it that i paid a liberal price for it, under the circumstances."
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uncle john gave a start and a shrewd look.
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"of course you did," said he. "on paper."
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"i have records to prove that both captain wegg and will thompson received their money," said west, quietly. "i see it is hard for you to abandon the idea that i am a rogue."
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there could be no adequate reply to this, so for a time all sat in moody silence. but the thoughts of some were busy.
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"i would like mr. west to explain what became of the money he paid for this stock," said louise; adding: "that is, if he will be so courteous."
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west did not answer for a moment. then he said, with a gesture of indifference:
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"i am willing to tell all i know. but you people must admit that the annoyances you have caused me during the past fortnight, to say nothing of the gratuitous insults heaped upon my head, render me little inclined to favor you."
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"you are quite justified in feeling as you do," replied uncle john, meekly. "i have been an ass, west; but circumstances warranted me in suspecting you, and even joseph wegg did not know that the almaquo stock had been transferred to you. he merely glanced at it at the time of his father's death, without noticing the endorsement, and thought the fire had rendered it worthless. but if you then owned the stock, why was it not in your possession?"
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"that was due to my carelessness," was the reply. "the only notary around here is at hooker's falls, and mr. thompson offered to have him come to captain wegg's residence and witness the transfer. as my presence was not necessary for this, and i had full confidence in my friends' integrity, i paid them their money, which they were eager to secure at once, and said i would call in a few days for the stock. i did call, and was told the notary had been here and the transfer had been legally made. wegg said he would get the stock from the cupboard and hand it to me; but we both forgot it at that time. after his death i could not find it, for it was in the secret drawer."
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"another thing, sir," said uncle john. "if neither wegg nor thompson was then interested in the almaquo property, why did the news of its destruction by fire shock them so greatly that the result was captain wegg's death?"
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"i see it will be necessary for me to explain to you more fully," returned west, with a thoughtful look. "it is evident, mr. merrick, from your questions, that some of these occurrences seem suspicious to a stranger, and perhaps you are not so much to be blamed as, in my annoyance and indignation, i have imagined."
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"i would like the matter cleared up for the sake of ethel and joe," said mr. merrick, simply.
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"and so would i," declared the hardware dealer. "you must know, sir, that will thompson was the one who first led captain wegg into investing his money. i think the captain did it merely to please will, for at that time he had become so indifferent to worldly affairs that he took no interest in anything beyond a mild wish to provide for his son's future. but thompson was erratic in judgment, so wegg used to bring their matters to me to decide upon. i always advised them as honestly as i was able. at the time i secured an option on the almaquo tract, and wanted them to join me, will thompson had found another lot of timber, but located in an out-of-the-way corner, which he urged the captain to join him in buying. wegg brought the matter to me, as usual, and i pointed out that my proposed contract with the pierce-lane lumber company would assure our making a handsome profit at almaquo, while thompson had no one in view to cut the other tract. indeed, it was far away from any railroad. wegg saw the force of my argument, and insisted that thompson abandon his idea and accept my proposition. together we bought the property, having formed a stock company, and the contract for cutting the timber was also secured. things were looking bright for us and royalty payments would soon be coming in.
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"then, to my amazement, wegg came to me and wanted to sell out their interests. he said thompson had always been dissatisfied because they had not bought the other tract of timber, and that the worry and disappointment was affecting his friend's mind. he was personally satisfied that my investment was the best, but, in order to sooth old will and prevent his mind from giving way, wegg wanted to withdraw and purchase the other tract.
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"i knew there was a fortune in almaquo, so i went to new york and mortgaged all i possessed, discounting a lot of notes given me by farmers in payment for machinery, and finally borrowing at a high rate of interest the rest of the money i needed. in other words i risked all my fortune on almaquo, and brought the money home to pay wegg and thompson for their interest. the moment they received the payment they invested it in the bogue tract--"
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"hold on!" cried uncle john. "what tract did you say?"
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"the bogue timber tract, sir. it lies--"
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"i know where it lies. our company has been a whole year trying to find out who owned it."
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"wegg and thompson bought it. i was angry at the time, because their withdrawal had driven me into a tight corner to protect my investment, and i told them they would bitterly regret their action. i think wegg agreed with me, but will thompson was still stubborn.
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"then came the news of the fire at almaquo. it was a false report, i afterward learned, but at that time i believed the newspapers, and the blow almost deprived me of reason. in my excitement i rushed over to wegg's farm and found the two men together, whereupon i told them i was ruined.
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"the news affected them powerfully because they had just saved themselves from a like ruin, they thought. wegg was also a sympathetic man, in spite of his reserve. his old heart trouble suddenly came upon him, aggravated by the excitement of the hour, and he died with scarcely a moan. thompson, whose reason was tottering long before this, became violently insane at witnessing his friend's death, and has never since recovered. that is all i am able to tell you, sir."
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"the bogue tract," said uncle john, slowly, "is worth far more than the almaquo. old will thompson was sane enough when insisting on that investment. but where is the stock, or deed, to show they bought that property?"
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"i do not know, sir. i only know they told me they had effected the purchase."
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"pardon me," said the major. "have you not been through this cupboard before?"
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west looked at him with a frown.
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"yes; in a search for my own stock," he said. "but i found neither that nor any deed to the bogue property. i am not a thief, major doyle."
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"you stole the keys, though," said louise, pointedly.
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"if the deed to the bogue tract can be found, joe and ethel will be rich. i wonder what became of the paper."
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no one answered, for here was another mystery.
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peggy has revenge.
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joe wegg made a rapid recovery, his strength returning under the influence of pleasant surroundings and frequent visits from ethel and uncle john's three nieces. not a word was hinted to either the invalid or the school teacher regarding the inquiries mr. merrick was making about the deed to the bogue timber lands, which, if found, would make the young couple independent. joe was planning to exploit a new patent as soon as he could earn enough to get it introduced, and ethel exhibited a sublime confidence in the boy's ability that rendered all question of money insignificant.
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joe's sudden appearance in the land of his birth and his generally smashed up condition were a nine days' wonder in millville. the gossips wanted to know all the whys and wherefores, but the boy kept his room in the hotel, or only walked out when accompanied by ethel or one of the three nieces. sometimes they took him to ride, as he grew better, and the fact that joe "were hand an' glove wi' the nabobs" lent him a distinction he had never before possessed.
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mcnutt, always busy over somebody else's affairs, was very curious to know what had caused the accident joe had suffered. notwithstanding the little affair of the letter, in which he had not appeared with especial credit, peggy made an effort to interview the young man that resulted in his complete discomfiture. but that did not deter him from indulging in various vivid speculations about joe wegg, which the simple villagers listened to with attention. for one thing, he confided to "the boys" at the store that, in his opinion, the man who had murdered cap'n wegg had tried to murder his son also, and it wasn't likely joe could manage to escape him a second time. another tale evolved from peggy's fertile imagination was that joe, being about to starve to death in the city, had turned burglar and been shot in the arm in an attempt at housebreaking.
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"wouldn't be s'prised," said the agent, in an awed voice, "ef the p'lice was on his track now. p'raps there's a reward offered, boys; let's keep an eye on him!"
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he waylaid the nieces once or twice, and tried to secure from them a verification of his somber suspicions, which they mischievously fostered.
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the girls found him a source of much amusement, and relieved their own disappointment at finding the "wegg mystery" a pricked bubble by getting mcnutt excited over many sly suggestions of hidden crimes. they knew he was harmless, for even his neighbors needed proof of any assertion he made; moreover, the investigation uncle john was making would soon set matters right; so the young ladies did not hesitate to "have fun" at the little agent's expense.
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one of mcnutt's numerous occupations was raising a "patch" of watermelons each year on the lot back of the house. these he had fostered with great care since the plants had first sprouted through the soil, and in these late august days two or three hundreds of fine, big melons were just getting ripe. he showed the patch with much pride one day to the nieces, saying:
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"here's the most extry-fine melling-patch in this county, ef i do say it myself. dan brayley he thinks he kin raise mellings, but the ol' fool ain't got a circumstance to this. ain't they beauties?"
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"it seems to me," observed patsy, gravely, "that brayley's are just as good. we passed his place this morning and wondered how he could raise such enormous melons."
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"i'm sure they are finer than these," said beth.
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"well, i'll be jiggered!" peggy's eyes stared as they had never stared before. "dan brayley, he's a miser'ble ol' skinflint. thet man couldn't raise decent mellings ef he tried."
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"what do you charge for melons, mr. mcnutt?" inquired louise.
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"charge? why--er--fifty cents a piece is my price to nabobs; an' dirt cheap at that!"
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"that is too much," declared patsy. "mr. brayley says he will sell his melons for fifteen cents each."
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"him! fifteen cents!" gasped peggy, greatly disappointed. "say, brayley's a disturbin' element in these parts. he oughter go to jail fer asking fifteen cents fer them mean little mellings o' his'n."
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"they seem as large as yours," murmured louise.
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"but they ain't. an' brayley's a cheat an' a rascal, while a honester man ner me don't breathe. nobody likes brayley 'round millville. why, on'y las' winter he called me a meddler--in public!--an' said as i shot off my mouth too much. me!"
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"but that's dan brayley. my mellings at fifty cents is better 'n his'n at fifteen."
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"tell me," said patsy, with a smile, "did you ever rob a melon-patch, mr. mcnutt?"
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"me? i don't hev to. i grow 'em."
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"but the ones you grow are worth fifty cents each, are they not?"
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"sure; mine is."
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"then every time you eat one of your own melons you eat fifty cents. if you were eating one of mr. brayley's melons you would only eat fifteen cents."
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"and it would be brayley's fifteen cents, too," added beth, quickly.
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peggy turned his protruding eyes from one to the other, and a smile slowly spread over his features.
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"by jinks, let's rob brayley's melling-patch!" he cried.
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"all right; we'll help you," answered patsy, readily.
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"oh, my dear!" remonstrated louise, not understanding.
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"it will be such fun," replied her cousin, with eyes dancing merrily. "boys always rob melon-patches, so i don't see why girls shouldn't. when shall we do it, mr. mcnutt?"
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"there ain't any moon jest now, an' the nights is dark as blazes. let's go ternight."
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"it's a bargain," declared patsy. "we will come for you in the surrey at ten o'clock, and all drive together to the back of brayley's yard and take all the melons we want."
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"it'll serve him right," said peggy, delightedly. "ol' dan called me a meddler onc't--in public--an' i'm bound t' git even with him."
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"don't betray us, sir," pleaded beth.
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"i can't," replied mcnutt, frankly; "i'm in it myself, an' we'll jest find out what his blame-twisted ol' fifteen-cent mellings is like."
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patsy was overjoyed at the success of her plot, which she had conceived on the spur of the moment, as most clever plots are conceived. on the way home she confided to her cousins a method of securing revenge upon the agent for selling them the three copies of the "lives of the saints."
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"mcnutt wants to get even with brayley, he says, and we want to get even with mcnutt. i think our chances are best, don't you?" she asked.
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and they decided to join the conspiracy.
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there was some difficulty escaping from uncle john and the major that night, but patsy got them interested in a game of chess that was likely to last some hours, while beth stole to the barn and harnessed joe to the surrey. soon the others slipped out and joined her, and with patsy and beth on the front seat and louise inside the canopy they drove slowly away until the sound of the horse's feet on the stones was no longer likely to betray them.
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mcnutt was waiting for them when they quietly drew up before his house. the village was dark and silent, for its inhabitants retired early to bed. by good fortune the sky was overcast with heavy clouds and not even the glimmer of a star relieved the gloom.
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they put mcnutt on the back seat with louise, cautioned him to be quiet, and then drove away. dan brayley's place was two miles distant, but in answer to peggy's earnest inquiry if she knew the way beth declared she could find it blind-folded. in a few moments louise had engaged the agent in a spirited discussion of the absorbing "mystery" and so occupied his attention that he paid no heed to the direction they had taken. the back seat was hemmed in by side curtains and the canopy, so it would be no wonder if he lost all sense of direction, even had not the remarks of the girl at his side completely absorbed him.
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beth drove slowly down the main street, up a lane, back by the lake road and along the street again; and this programme was repeated several times, until she thought a sufficient distance had been covered to convince the agent they had arrived at brayley's. they way was pitch dark, but the horse was sensible enough to keep in the middle of the road, so they met with no accident more than to jolt over a stone now and then.
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but now the most difficult part of the enterprise lay before them. the girls turned down the lane back of the main street and bumped over the ruts until they thought they had arrived at a spot opposite mcnutt's own melon patch.
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"what's wrong?" asked the agent, as they suddenly stopped with a jerk.
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"this ought to be brayley's," said beth; "but it's so dark i'm not certain just where we are."
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mcnutt thrust his head out and peered into the blackness.
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"drive along a little," he whispered.
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the girl obeyed.
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"stop--stop!" said he, a moment later. "i think that's them contwisted fifteen-cent mellings--over there!"
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they all got out and beth tied the horse to the fence. peggy climbed over and at once whispered:
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"come on! it's them, all right."
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through the drifting clouds there was just enough light to enable them to perceive the dark forms of the melons lying side by side upon their vines. the agent took out his big clasp knife and recklessly slashed one of them open.
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"green's grass!" he grumbled, and slashed another.
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patsy giggled, and the others felt a sudden irresistible impulse to join her.
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"keep still!" cautioned mcnutt. "wouldn't ol' dan be jest ravin' ef he knew this? say--here's a ripe one. hev a slice."
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they all felt for the slices he offered and ate the fruit without being able to see it. but it really tasted delicious.
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as the girls feasted they heard a crunching sound and inquired in low voices what it was.
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mcnutt was stumping over the patch and plumping his wooden foot into every melon he could find, smashing them wantonly against the ground. the discovery filled them with horror. they had thought inducing the agent to rob his own patch of a few melons, while under the delusion that they belonged to his enemy brayley, a bit of harmless fun; but here was the vindictive fellow actually destroying his own property by the wholesale.
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"oh, don't! please don't, mr. mcnutt!" pleaded patsy, in frightened accents.
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"yes, i will," declared the agent, stubbornly. "i'll git even with dan brayley fer once in my life, ef i never do another thing, by gum!"
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"but it's wrong--it's wicked!" protested beth.
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"can't help it; this is my chance, an' i'll make them bum fifteen-cent mellings look like a penny a piece afore i gits done with 'em."
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"never mind, girls," whispered louise. "it's the law of retribution. poor peggy will be sorry for this tomorrow."
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the man had not the faintest suspicion where he was. he knew his own melon patch well enough, having worked in it at times all the summer; but he had never climbed over the fence and approached it from the rear before, so it took on a new aspect to him from this point of view, and moreover the night was dark enough to deceive anybody.
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if he came across an especially big melon mcnutt would lug it to the carriage and dump it in. and so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that survived the massacre.
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beth unhitched the horse and they all took their places in the carriage again, having some difficulty to find places for their feet on account of the cargo of melons. mcnutt was stowed away inside, with louise, and they drove away up the lane. the agent was jubilant and triumphant, and chuckled in gleeful tones that thrilled the girls with remorse as they remembered the annihilation of mcnutt's cherished melons.
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"ol' dan usu'lly has a dorg," said peggy, between his fits of laughter; "but i guess he had him chained up ternight."
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"i'm not positively sure that was brayley's place," remarked beth; "it's so very dark."
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"oh, it were brayley's, all right," mcnutt retorted. "i could tell by the second-class taste o' them mellings, an' their measley little size. them things ain't a circumstance to the kind i raise."
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"are you sure?" asked louise.
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"sure's shootln'. guess i'm a jedge o' mellings, when i sees 'em."
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"no one could see tonight," said beth.
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"feelin's jest the same," declared the little man, confidently.
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after wandering around a sufficient length of time to allay suspicion, beth finally drew up before mcnutt's house again.
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"i'll jest take my share o' them mellings," said peggy, as he alighted. "they ain't much 'count, bein' brayley's; but it'll save me an' the ol' woman from eatin' our own, or perhaps i kin sell 'em to sam cotting."
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he took rather more than his share of the spoils, but the girls had no voice to object. they were by this time so convulsed with suppressed merriment that they had hard work not to shriek aloud their laughter. for, in spite of the tragic revelations the morrow would bring forth, the situation was so undeniably ridiculous that they could not resist its humor.
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"i've had a heap o' fun," whispered mcnutt. "good night, gals. ef ye didn't belong to thet gum-twisted nabob, ye'd be some pun'kins."
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"thank you, mr. mcnutt. good night."
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and it was not until well on their journey to the farm that the girls finally dared to abandon further restraint. then, indeed, they made the grim, black hills of the plateau resound to the peals of their merry laughter.
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it was on the morning following this adventure that uncle john received a bulky envelope from the city containing the result of the investigation he had ordered regarding the ownership of the bogue tract of pine forest. it appeared that the company in which he was so largely interested had found the tract very valuable, and had been seeking for the owners in order to purchase it or lease the right to cut the timber. but although they had traced it through the hands of several successive owners the present holders were all unknown to them until mr. merrick's information had furnished them with a clue. a year ago the company had paid up the back taxes--two years overdue--in order to establish a claim to the property, and now they easily succeeded in finding the record of the deed from a certain charles walton to jonas wegg and william thompson. the deed itself could not be found, but uncle john considered the county record a sufficient claim to entitle the young folks to the property unless the ownership should be contested by others, which was not likely.
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uncle john invited ethel and joe to dine with him that evening, and mary was told the occasion merited the best menu she could provide. the young folks arrived without any idea of receiving more than a good dinner and the pleasure of mingling with the cordial, kindly household at the farm; but the general air of hilarity and good fellowship pervading the family circle this evening inspired the guests with like enthusiasm, and no party could be merrier than the one that did full justice to mary's superior cookery.
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one of the last courses consisted of iced watermelon, and when it appeared the three girls eyed one another guiltily and then made frantic attempts to suppress their laughter, which was unseemly because no one but themselves understood the joke. but all else was speedily forgotten in the interest of the coming ceremony, which mr. merrick had carefully planned and prepared.
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the company was invited to assemble in the room comprising the spacious right wing, and when all were seated the little gentleman coughed to clear his throat and straightway began his preamble.
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he recited the manner in which captain wegg and will thompson, having money to invest, were led into an enterprise which bob west had proposed, but finally preferred another venture and so withdrew their money altogether from the almaquo tract.
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this statement caused both joe and ethel to stare hard, but they said nothing.
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"your grandfather, ethel," continued the narrator, "was much impressed by the value of another timber tract, although where he got his information concerning it i have been unable to discover. this piece of property, called the bogue tract, was purchased by wegg and thompson with the money they withdrew from almaquo, and still stands in their name."
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then he recounted, quite frankly, his unjust suspicions of the hardware dealer, and told of the interview in which the full details of this transaction were disclosed by west, as well as the truth relating to the death of captain wegg and the sudden insanity and paralysis of old will thompson.
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joe could corroborate this last, and now understood why thompson had cried out that west's "good news" had killed his father. he meant, of course, their narrow escape from being involved in west's supposed ruin, for at that time no one knew the report of the fire was false.
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finally, these matters being cleared up, uncle john declared that the pierce-lane lumber company was willing to contract to cut the timber on the bogue property, or would pay a lump sum of two hundred thousand dollars for such title to the tract as could be given. he did not add that he had personally offered to guarantee the title. that was an unnecessary bit of information.
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you may perhaps imagine the happiness this announcement gave joe and ethel. they could scarcely believe the good news was true, even when the kindly old gentleman, with tears in his eyes, congratulated the young couple on the fortune in store for them. the major followed with a happy speech of felicitation, and then the three girls hugged the little school teacher rapturously and told her how glad they were.
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"i think, sir," said joe, striving to curb his elation, "that it will be better in the end for us to accept the royalty. don't you?"
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"i do, indeed, my boy," was the reply. "for if our people make an offer for the land of two hundred thousand you may rest assured it is worth much more. the manager has confided to me in his letter that if we are obliged to pay royalties the timber will cost us nearly double what it would by an outright purchase of the tract."
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"in that case, sir," began joe, eagerly, "we will--"
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"nonsense. the company can afford the royalty, joe, for it is making a heap of money--more than i wish it were. one of my greatest trials is to take care of the money i've already made, and--"
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"and he couldn't do it at all without my help," broke in the major. "don't ye hesitate to take an advantage of him, joseph, if ye can get it--which i doubt--for mr. merrick is most disgracefully rich already."
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"that's true," sighed the little millionaire. "so it will be a royalty, joe. we are paying the same percentage to bob west for the almaquo tract, but yours is so much better that i am sure your earnings will furnish you and ethel with all the income you need."
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they sat discoursing upon the happy event for some time longer, but joe had to return to the hotel early because he was not yet strong enough to be out late.
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"before i go, mr. merrick," he said, "i'd like you to give me my mother's picture, which is in the secret drawer of the cupboard. you have the keys, now, and ethel is curious to see how my mother looked."
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uncle john went at once to the cupboard and unlocked the doors. joe himself pushed the slide and took out of the drawer the picture, which had lain just beneath the almaquo stock certificates.
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the picture was passed reverently around. a sweet-faced, sad little woman it showed, with appealing eyes and lips that seemed to quiver even in the photograph.
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as louise held it in her hand something induced her to turn it over.
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"here is some writing upon the back," she said.
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joe bent over and read it aloud. it was in his father's handwriting.
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"'press the spring in the left hand lower corner of the secret drawer.'"
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"hah!" cried uncle john, while the others stared stupidly. "that's it! that's the information we've been wanting so long, joseph!"
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he ran to the cupboard, even as he spoke, and while they all thronged about him thrust in his hand, felt for the spring, and pressed it.
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the bottom of the drawer lifted, showing another cavity beneath. from this the searcher withdrew a long envelope, tied with red tape.
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"at last, joseph!" he shouted, triumphantly waving the envelope over his head. and then he read aloud the words docketed upon the outside: "'warranty deed and conveyance from charles walton to jonas wegg and william thompson.' our troubles are over, my boy, for here is the key to your fortune."
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"also," whispered louise to her cousins, rather disconsolately, "it explains the last shred of mystery about the wegg case. heigh-ho! what a chase we've had for nothing!"
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"not for nothing, dear," replied patsy, softly, "for we've helped make two people happy, and that ought to repay us for all our anxiety and labor."
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a knock was heard at the door, and old hucks entered and handed mr. merrick a paper.
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"he's waiting, sir," said he, ambiguously.
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"oh, tom--tom!" cried joe wegg, rising to throw his arms around the old man's neck, "i'm rich, tom--all my troubles are over--and mr. merrick has done it all--for ethel and me!"
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the ever smiling face of the ancient retainer did not change, but his eyes softened and filled with tears as he hugged the boy close to his breast.
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"god be praised. joe!" he said in a low voice. "i allus knew the merricks 'd bring us luck."
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"what the devil does this mean?" demanded uncle john at this juncture, as he fluttered the paper and glared angrily around.
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"what is it, dear?" inquired louise.
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"see for yourself," he returned.
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she took the paper and read it, while patsy and beth peered over her shoulder. the following was scrawled upon a sheet of soiled stationery:
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"john merrak, esquare, to marshall mcmahon mcnutt, detter.
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"to yur gals smashin' 162 mellings at 50 cents a one .....................$81.00 pleas remitt & save trouble."
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the nieces screamed, laughing until they cried, while uncle john spluttered, smiled, beamed, and then requested an explanation.
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patsy told the story of the watermelon raid with rare humor, and it served to amuse everybody and relieve the strain that had preceded the arrival of mcnutt's bill.
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"did you say the man is waiting, thomas?" asked uncle john.
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"here--give him five dollars and tell him to receipt the bill. if he refuses, i'll carry the matter to the courts. mcnutt's a rascal, and a fool in the bargain; but we've had some of his melons and the girls have had five dollars' worth of fun in getting them. but assure him that this squares accounts, thomas."
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thomas performed his mission.
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mcnutt rolled his eyes, pounded the floor with his stump to emphasize his mingled anger and satisfaction, and then receipted the bill.
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"it's jest five more'n i 'spected to git, hucks," he said with a grin. "but what's the use o' havin' nabobs around, ef ye don't bleed 'em?"
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this story is one of the delightful "aunt jane series" in which are chronicled the many interesting adventures in the lives of those fascinating girls and dear old "uncle john." the other volumes can be bought wherever books are sold. a complete list of titles, which is added to from time to time, is given on page 3 of this book.
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the man against the sky
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a book of poems
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by edwin arlington robinson
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to the memory of william edward butler
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several of the poems included in this book are reprinted from american periodicals, as follows: "the gift of god", "old king cole", "another dark lady", and "the unforgiven"; "flammonde" and "the poor relation"; "the clinging vine"; "eros turannos" and "bokardo"; "the voice of age"; "cassandra"; "the burning book"; "theophilus"; "ben jonson entertains a man from stratford".
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flammonde the gift of god the clinging vine cassandra john gorham stafford's cabin hillcrest old king cole ben jonson entertains a man from stratford eros turannos old trails the unforgiven theophilus veteran sirens siege perilous another dark lady the voice of age the dark house the poor relation the burning book fragment lisette and eileen llewellyn and the tree bewick finzer bokardo the man against the sky
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the man against the sky
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the man flammonde, from god knows where, with firm address and foreign air, with news of nations in his talk and something royal in his walk, with glint of iron in his eyes, but never doubt, nor yet surprise, appeared, and stayed, and held his head as one by kings accredited.
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erect, with his alert repose about him, and about his clothes, he pictured all tradition hears of what we owe to fifty years. his cleansing heritage of taste paraded neither want nor waste; and what he needed for his fee to live, he borrowed graciously.
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he never told us what he was, or what mischance, or other cause, had banished him from better days to play the prince of castaways. meanwhile he played surpassing well a part, for most, unplayable; in fine, one pauses, half afraid to say for certain that he played.
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for that, one may as well forego conviction as to yes or no; nor can i say just how intense would then have been the difference to several, who, having striven in vain to get what he was given, would see the stranger taken on by friends not easy to be won.
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moreover, many a malcontent he soothed and found munificent; his courtesy beguiled and foiled suspicion that his years were soiled; his mien distinguished any crowd, his credit strengthened when he bowed; and women, young and old, were fond of looking at the man flammonde.
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there was a woman in our town on whom the fashion was to frown; but while our talk renewed the tinge of a long-faded scarlet fringe, the man flammonde saw none of that, and what he saw we wondered at-- that none of us, in her distress, could hide or find our littleness.
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there was a boy that all agreed had shut within him the rare seed of learning. we could understand, but none of us could lift a hand. the man flammonde appraised the youth, and told a few of us the truth; and thereby, for a little gold, a flowered future was unrolled.
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there were two citizens who fought for years and years, and over nought; they made life awkward for their friends, and shortened their own dividends. the man flammonde said what was wrong should be made right; nor was it long before they were again in line, and had each other in to dine.
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and these i mention are but four of many out of many more. so much for them. but what of him-- so firm in every look and limb? what small satanic sort of kink was in his brain? what broken link withheld him from the destinies that came so near to being his?
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what was he, when we came to sift his meaning, and to note the drift of incommunicable ways that make us ponder while we praise? why was it that his charm revealed somehow the surface of a shield? what was it that we never caught? what was he, and what was he not?
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how much it was of him we met we cannot ever know; nor yet shall all he gave us quite atone for what was his, and his alone; nor need we now, since he knew best, nourish an ethical unrest: rarely at once will nature give the power to be flammonde and live.
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we cannot know how much we learn from those who never will return, until a flash of unforeseen remembrance falls on what has been. we've each a darkening hill to climb; and this is why, from time to time in tilbury town, we look beyond horizons for the man flammonde.
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the gift of god
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blessed with a joy that only she of all alive shall ever know, she wears a proud humility for what it was that willed it so,-- that her degree should be so great among the favored of the lord that she may scarcely bear the weight of her bewildering reward.
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as one apart, immune, alone, or featured for the shining ones, and like to none that she has known of other women's other sons,-- the firm fruition of her need, he shines anointed; and he blurs her vision, till it seems indeed a sacrilege to call him hers.
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she fears a little for so much of what is best, and hardly dares to think of him as one to touch with aches, indignities, and cares; she sees him rather at the goal, still shining; and her dream foretells the proper shining of a soul where nothing ordinary dwells.
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perchance a canvass of the town would find him far from flags and shouts, and leave him only the renown of many smiles and many doubts; perchance the crude and common tongue would havoc strangely with his worth; but she, with innocence unwrung, would read his name around the earth.
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and others, knowing how this youth would shine, if love could make him great, when caught and tortured for the truth would only writhe and hesitate; while she, arranging for his days what centuries could not fulfill, transmutes him with her faith and praise, and has him shining where she will.
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she crowns him with her gratefulness, and says again that life is good; and should the gift of god be less in him than in her motherhood, his fame, though vague, will not be small, as upward through her dream he fares, half clouded with a crimson fall of roses thrown on marble stairs.
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the clinging vine
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"be calm? and was i frantic? you'll have me laughing soon. i'm calm as this atlantic, and quiet as the moon; i may have spoken faster than once, in other days; for i've no more a master, and now--'be calm,' he says.
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"fear not, fear no commotion,-- i'll be as rocks and sand; the moon and stars and ocean will envy my command; no creature could be stiller in any kind of place than i... no, i'll not kill her; her death is in her face.
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"be happy while she has it, for she'll not have it long; a year, and then you'll pass it, preparing a new song. and i'm a fool for prating of what a year may bring, when more like her are waiting for more like you to sing.
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"you mock me with denial, you mean to call me hard? you see no room for trial when all my doors are barred? you say, and you'd say dying, that i dream what i know; and sighing, and denying, you'd hold my hand and go.
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"you scowl--and i don't wonder; i spoke too fast again; but you'll forgive one blunder, for you are like most men: you are,--or so you've told me, so many mortal times, that heaven ought not to hold me accountable for crimes.
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"be calm? was i unpleasant? then i'll be more discreet, and grant you, for the present, the balm of my defeat: what she, with all her striving, could not have brought about, you've done. your own contriving has put the last light out.
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"if she were the whole story, if worse were not behind, i'd creep with you to glory, believing i was blind; i'd creep, and go on seeming to be what i despise. you laugh, and say i'm dreaming, and all your laughs are lies.
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"are women mad? a few are, and if it's true you say-- if most men are as you are-- we'll all be mad some day. be calm--and let me finish; there's more for you to know. i'll talk while you diminish, and listen while you grow.
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"there was a man who married because he couldn't see; and all his days he carried the mark of his degree. but you--you came clear-sighted, and found truth in my eyes; and all my wrongs you've righted with lies, and lies, and lies.
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"you've killed the last assurance that once would have me strive to rouse an old endurance that is no more alive. it makes two people chilly to say what we have said, but you--you'll not be silly and wrangle for the dead.
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"you don't? you never wrangle? why scold then,--or complain? more words will only mangle what you've already slain. your pride you can't surrender? my name--for that you fear? since when were men so tender, and honor so severe?
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"no more--i'll never bear it. i'm going. i'm like ice. my burden? you would share it? forbid the sacrifice! forget so quaint a notion, and let no more be told; for moon and stars and ocean and you and i are cold."
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i heard one who said: "verily, what word have i for children here? your dollar is your only word, the wrath of it your only fear.
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"you build it altars tall enough to make you see, but you are blind; you cannot leave it long enough to look before you or behind.
"__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON build__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON altars__<label>__NOUN tall__<label>__VERB enough__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT make__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON see__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON are__<label>__VERB blind__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON cannot__<label>__PRT leave__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON long__<label>__ADJ enough__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT look__<label>__VERB before__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON or__<label>__CONJ behind__<label>__ADP .__<label>__.
"when reason beckons you to pause, you laugh and say that you know best; but what it is you know, you keep as dark as ingots in a chest.
"__<label>__NOUN when__<label>__ADP reason__<label>__NOUN beckons__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT pause__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON laugh__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ say__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET you__<label>__PRON know__<label>__VERB best__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP what__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON know__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON keep__<label>__VERB as__<label>__DET dark__<label>__ADJ as__<label>__ADP ingots__<label>__DET in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET chest__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
"you laugh and answer, 'we are young; o leave us now, and let us grow.'-- not asking how much more of this will time endure or fate bestow.
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"because a few complacent years have made your peril of your pride, think you that you are to go on forever pampered and untried?
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"what lost eclipse of history, what bivouac of the marching stars, has given the sign for you to see millenniums and last great wars?
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"what unrecorded overthrow of all the world has ever known, or ever been, has made itself so plain to you, and you alone?
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"your dollar, dove and eagle make a trinity that even you rate higher than you rate yourselves; it pays, it flatters, and it's new.
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"and though your very flesh and blood be what your eagle eats and drinks, you'll praise him for the best of birds, not knowing what the eagle thinks.
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"the power is yours, but not the sight; you see not upon what you tread; you have the ages for your guide, but not the wisdom to be led.
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"think you to tread forever down the merciless old verities? and are you never to have eyes to see the world for what it is?
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"are you to pay for what you have with all you are?"--no other word we caught, but with a laughing crowd moved on. none heeded, and few heard.
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"tell me what you're doing over here, john gorham, sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not; make me laugh or let me go now, for long faces in the moonlight are a sign for me to say again a word that you forgot."--
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"i'm over here to tell you what the moon already may have said or maybe shouted ever since a year ago; i'm over here to tell you what you are, jane wayland, and to make you rather sorry, i should say, for being so."--
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"tell me what you're saying to me now, john gorham, or you'll never see as much of me as ribbons any more; i'll vanish in as many ways as i have toes and fingers, and you'll not follow far for one where flocks have been before."--
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"i'm sorry now you never saw the flocks, jane wayland, but you're the one to make of them as many as you need. and then about the vanishing. it's i who mean to vanish; and when i'm here no longer you'll be done with me indeed."--
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"that's a way to tell me what i am, john gorham! how am i to know myself until i make you smile? try to look as if the moon were making faces at you, and a little more as if you meant to stay a little while."--
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"you are what it is that over rose-blown gardens makes a pretty flutter for a season in the sun; you are what it is that with a mouse, jane wayland, catches him and lets him go and eats him up for fun."--
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"sure i never took you for a mouse, john gorham; all you say is easy, but so far from being true that i wish you wouldn't ever be again the one to think so; for it isn't cats and butterflies that i would be to you."--
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"all your little animals are in one picture-- one i've had before me since a year ago to-night; and the picture where they live will be of you, jane wayland, till you find a way to kill them or to keep them out of sight."--
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"won't you ever see me as i am, john gorham, leaving out the foolishness and all i never meant? somewhere in me there's a woman, if you know the way to find her. will you like me any better if i prove it and repent?"
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"i doubt if i shall ever have the time, jane wayland; and i dare say all this moonlight lying round us might as well fall for nothing on the shards of broken urns that are forgotten, as on two that have no longer much of anything to tell."
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once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man; and something happened here before my memory began. time has made the two of them the fuel of one flame and all we have of them is now a legend and a name.
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all i have to say is what an old man said to me, and that would seem to be as much as there will ever be. "fifty years ago it was we found it where it sat."-- and forty years ago it was old archibald said that.
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"an apple tree that's yet alive saw something, i suppose, of what it was that happened there, and what no mortal knows. some one on the mountain heard far off a master shriek, and then there was a light that showed the way for men to seek.
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"we found it in the morning with an iron bar behind, and there were chains around it; but no search could ever find, either in the ashes that were left, or anywhere, a sign to tell of who or what had been with stafford there.
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"stafford was a likely man with ideas of his own-- though i could never like the kind that likes to live alone; and when you met, you found his eyes were always on your shoes, as if they did the talking when he asked you for the news.
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"that's all, my son. were i to talk for half a hundred years i'd never clear away from there the cloud that never clears. we buried what was left of it,--the bar, too, and the chains; and only for the apple tree there's nothing that remains."
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forty years ago it was i heard the old man say, "that's all, my son."--and here again i find the place to-day, deserted and told only by the tree that knows the most, and overgrown with golden-rod as if there were no ghost.
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no sound of any storm that shakes old island walls with older seas comes here where now september makes an island in a sea of trees.
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between the sunlight and the shade a man may learn till he forgets the roaring of a world remade, and all his ruins and regrets;
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and if he still remembers here poor fights he may have won or lost,-- if he be ridden with the fear of what some other fight may cost,--
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if, eager to confuse too soon, what he has known with what may be, he reads a planet out of tune for cause of his jarred harmony,--
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if here he venture to unroll his index of adagios, and he be given to console humanity with what he knows,--
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he may by contemplation learn a little more than what he knew, and even see great oaks return to acorns out of which they grew.
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he may, if he but listen well, through twilight and the silence here, be told what there are none may tell to vanity's impatient ear;
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and he may never dare again say what awaits him, or be sure what sunlit labyrinth of pain he may not enter and endure.
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who knows to-day from yesterday may learn to count no thing too strange: love builds of what time takes away, till death itself is less than change.
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who sees enough in his duress may go as far as dreams have gone; who sees a little may do less than many who are blind have done;
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who sees unchastened here the soul triumphant has no other sight than has a child who sees the whole world radiant with his own delight.
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far journeys and hard wandering await him in whose crude surmise peace, like a mask, hides everything that is and has been from his eyes;
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and all his wisdom is unfound, or like a web that error weaves on airy looms that have a sound no louder now than falling leaves.
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drawing-room and say how d'you do to god, mark was allowed to go to church in his ordinary clothes and after church to play at whatever he wanted to play, so that he learned to regard the assemblage of human beings to worship god as nothing more remarkable than the song of birds. he was too young to have experienced yet a personal need of religion; but he had already been touched by that grace of fellowship which is conferred upon a small congregation, the individual members of which are in church to please themselves rather than to impress others. this was always the case in the church of nancepean, which had to contend not merely with the popularity of methodism, but also with the situation of the chapel in the middle of the village. on the dark december evenings there would be perhaps not more than half a dozen worshippers, each one of whom would have brought his own candle and stuck it on the shelf of the pew. the organist would have two candles for the harmonium; the choir of three little boys and one little girl would have two between them; the altar would have two; the vicar would have two. but when all the candle-light was put together, it left most of the church in shadow; indeed, it scarcely even illuminated the space between the worshippers, so that each one seemed wrapped in a golden aura of prayer, most of all when at evensong the people knelt in silence for a minute while the sound of the sea without rose and fell and the noise of the wind scuttling through the ivy on the walls was audible. when the congregation had gone out and the vicar was standing at the churchyard gate saying "good night," mark used to think that they must all be feeling happy to go home together up the long hill to pendhu and down into twinkling nancepean. and it did not matter whether it was a night of clear or clouded moonshine or a night of windy stars or a night of darkness; for when it was dark he could always look back from the valley road and see a company of lanthorns moving homeward; and that more than anything shed upon his young spirit the grace of human fellowship and the love of mankind.
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one wild night in late october of the year before he would be thirteen, mark was lying awake hoping, as on such nights he always hoped, to hear somebody shout "a wreck! a wreck!" a different mark from that one who used to lie trembling in lima street lest he should hear a shout of "fire! or thieves!"
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and then it happened! it happened as a hundred times he had imagined its happening, so exactly that he could hardly believe for a moment he was not dreaming. there was the flash of a lanthorn on the ceiling, a thunderous, knocking on the vicarage door. mark leapt out of bed; flinging open his window through which the wind rushed in like a flight of angry birds, he heard voices below in the garden shouting "parson! parson! parson trehawke! there's a brig driving in fast toward church cove." he did not wait to hear more, but dashed along the passage to rouse first his grandfather, then his mother, and then emma, the vicar's old cook.
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"and you must get soup ready," he cried, standing over the old woman in his flannel pyjamas and waving his arms excitedly, while downstairs the cuckoo popped in and out of his door in the clock twelve times. emma blinked at him in terror, and mark pulled off all the bedclothes to convince the old woman that he was not playing a practical joke. then he rushed back to his own room and began to dress for dear life.
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"mother," he shouted, while he was dressing, "the captain can sleep in my bed, if he isn't drowned, can't he?"
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"darling, do you really want to go down to the sea on such a night?"
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"oh, mother," he gasped, "i'm practically dressed. and you will see that emma has lots of hot soup ready, won't you? because it'll be much better to bring all the crew back here. i don't think they'd want to walk all that way over pendhu to nancepean after they'd been wrecked, do you?"
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"well, you must ask grandfather first before you make arrangements for his house."
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"grandfather's simply tearing into his clothes; ernie hockin and joe dunstan have both got lanthorns, and i'll carry ours, so if one blows out we shall be all right. oh, mother, the wind's simply shrieking through the trees. can you hear it?"
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"yes, dearest, i certainly can. i think you'd better shut your windows. it's blowing everything about in your room most uncomfortably."
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mark's soul expanded in gratitude to god when he found himself neither in a dream nor in a story, but actually, and without any possibility of self-deception hurrying down the drive toward the sea beside ernie and joe, who had come from the village to warn the vicar of the wreck and were wearing oilskins and sou'westers, thus striking the keynote as it were of the night's adventure. at first in the shelter of the holm-oaks the storm seemed far away overhead; but when they turned the corner and took the road along the valley, the wind caught them full in the face and mark was blown back violently against the swinging gate of the drive. the light of the lanthorns shining on a rut in the road showed a field-mouse hurrying inland before the rushing gale. mark bent double to force himself to keep up with the others, lest somebody should think, by his inability to maintain an equal pace that he ought to follow the field-mouse back home. after they had struggled on for a while a bend of the valley gave them a few minutes of easy progress and mark listened while ernie hockin explained to the vicar what had happened:
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"just before dark eddowes the coastguard said he reckoned there was a brig making very heavy weather of it and he shouldn't be surprised if she come ashore tonight. couldn't seem to beat out of the bay noways, he said. and afterwards about nine o'clock when me and joe here and some of the chaps were in the bar to the hanover, eddowes come in again and said she was in a bad way by the looks of her last thing he saw, and he telephoned along to lanyon to ask if they'd seen her down to the lifeboat house. they reckoned she was all right to the lifeboat, and old man timbury who do always go against anything eddowes do say shouted that of course she was all right because he'd taken a look at her through his glass before it grew dark. of course she was all right. 'she's on a lee shore,' said eddowes. 'it don't take a coastguard to tell that,' said old man timbury. and then they got to talking one against the other the same as they belong, and they'd soon got back to the same old talk whether jackie fisher was the finest admiral who ever lived or no use at all. 'what's the good in your talking to me?' old man timbury was saying. 'why afore you was born i've seen' . . . and we all started in to shout 'ships o' the line, frigates, and cavattes,' because we belong to mock him like that, when somebody called 'hark, listen, wasn't that a rocket?' that fetched us all outside into the road where we stood listening. the wind was blowing harder than ever, and there was a parcel of sea rising. you could hear it against shag rock over the wind. eddowes, he were a bit upset to think he should have been talking and not a-heard the rocket. but there wasn't a light in the sky, and when we went home along about half past nine we saw eddowes again and he said he'd been so far as church cove and should walk up along to the bar. no mistake, mr. trehawke, he's a handy chap is eddowes for the coastguard job. and then about eleven o'clock he saw two rockets close in to church cove and he come running back and telephoned to lanyon, but they said no one couldn't launch a boat to-night, and eddowes he come banging on the doors and windows shouting 'a wreck' and some of us took ropes along with eddowes, and me and joe here come and fetched you along. eddowes said he's afeard she'll strike in dollar cove unless she's lucky and come ashore in church cove."
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"how's the tide?" asked the vicar.
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"about an hour of the ebb," said ernie hockin. "and the moon's been up this hour and more."
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just then the road turned the corner, and the world became a waste of wind and spindrift driving inland. the noise of the gale made it impossible for anybody to talk, and mark was left wondering whether the ship had actually struck or not. the wind drummed in his ears, the flying grit and gravel and spray stung his face; but he struggled on hoping that this midnight walk would not come to an abrupt end by his grandfather's declining to go any farther. above the drumming of the wind the roar of the sea became more audible every moment; the spume was thicker; the end of the valley, ordinarily the meeting-place of sand and grass and small streams with their yellow flags and forget-me-nots, was a desolation of white foam beyond which against the cliffs showing black in the nebulous moonlight the breakers leapt high with frothy tongues. mark thought that they resembled immense ghosts clawing up to reach the summit of the cliff. it was incredible that this hell-broth was church cove.
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"hullo!" yelled ernie hockin. "here's the bridge."
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it was true. one wave at the moment of high tide had swept snarling over the stream and carried the bridge into the meadow beyond.
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"we'll have to get round by the road," shouted the vicar.
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they turned to the right across a ploughed field and after scrambling through the hedge emerged in the comparative shelter of the road down from pendhu.
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"i hope the churchyard wall is all right," said the vicar. "i never remember such a night since i came to nancepean."
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"sure 'nough, 'tis blowing very fierce," joe dunstan agreed. "but don't you worry about the wall, mr. trehawke. the worst of the water is broken by the castle and only comes in sideways, as you might say."
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when they drew near the gate of the churchyard, the rain of sand and small pebbles was agonizing, as it swept across up the low sandstone cliffs on that side of the castle. two or three excited figures shouted for them to hurry because she was going to strike in dollar cove, and everybody began to scramble up the grassy slope, clutching at the tuffets of thrift to aid their progress. it was calm here in the lee; and mark panting up the face thought of those two princesses who were wrecked here ages ago, and he understood now why one of them had insisted on planting the tower deep in the foundation of this green fortress against the wind and weather. while he was thinking this, his head came above the sky line, his breath left him at the assault of the wind, and he had to crawl on all fours toward the sea. he reached the edge of the cliff just as something like the wings of a gigantic bat flapped across the dim wet moonlight, and before he realized that this was the brig he heard the crashing of her spars. the watchers stood up against the wind, battling with it to fling lines in the vain hope of saving some sailor who was being churned to death in that dreadful creaming of the sea below. yes, and there were forms of men visible on board; two had climbed the mainmast, which crashed before they could clutch at the ropes that were being flung to them from land, crashed and carried them down shrieking into the surge. mark found it hard to believe that last summer he had spent many sunlit hours dabbling in the sand for silver dollars of portugal lost perhaps on such a night as this a hundred years ago, exactly where these two poor mariners were lost. a few minutes after the mainmast the hull went also; but in the nebulous moonlight nothing could be seen of any bodies alive or dead, nothing except wreckage tossing upon the surge. the watchers on the cliff turned away from the wind to gather new breath and give their cheeks a rest from the stinging fragments of rock and earth. away up over the towans they could see the bobbing lanthorns of men hurrying down from chypie where news of the wreck had reached; and on the road from lanyon they could see lanthorns on the other side of church cove waiting until the tide had ebbed far enough to let them cross the beach.
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suddenly the vicar shouted:
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"i can see a poor fellow hanging on to a ledge of rock. bring a rope! bring a rope!"
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eddowes the coastguard took charge of the operation, and mark with beating pulses watched the end of the rope touch the huddled form below. but either from exhaustion or because he feared to let go of the slippery ledge for one moment the sailor made no attempt to grasp the rope. the men above shouted to him, begged him to make an effort; but he remained there inert.
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"somebody must go down with the rope and get a slip knot under his arms," the vicar shouted.
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nobody seemed to pay attention to this proposal, and mark wondered if he was the only one who had heard it. however, when the vicar repeated his suggestion, eddowes came forward, knelt down by the edge of the cliff, shook himself like a bather who is going to plunge into what he knows will be very cold water, and then vanished down the rope. everybody crawled on hand and knees to see what would happen. mark prayed that eddowes, who was a great friend of his, would not come to any harm, but that he would rescue the sailor and be given the albert medal for saving life. it was eddowes who had made him medal wise. the coastguard struggled to slip the loop under the man's shoulders along his legs; but it must have been impossible, for presently he made a signal to be raised.
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"i can't do it alone," he shouted. "he's got a hold like a limpet."
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nobody seemed anxious to suppose that the addition of another rescuer would be any more successful.
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"if there was two of us," eddowes went on, "we might do something."
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the people on the cliff shook their heads doubtfully.
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"isn't anybody coming down along with me to have a try?" the coastguard demanded at the top of his voice.
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mark did not hear his grandfather's reply; he only saw him go over the cliff's edge at the end of one rope while eddowes went down on another. a minute later the slipknot came untied (or that was how the accident was explained) and the vicar went to join the drowned mariners, dislodging as he fell the man whom he had tried to save, so that of the crew of the brig happy return not one ever came to port.
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it would be difficult to exaggerate the effect upon mark lidderdale of that night. he was twelve years old at the time; but the years in cornwall had retarded that precocious development to which he seemed destined by the surroundings of his early childhood in lima street, and in many ways he was hardly any older than he was when he left london. in after years he looked back with gratitude upon the shock he received from what was as it were an experience of the material impact of death, because it made him think about death, not morbidly as so many children and young people will, but with the apprehension of something that really does come in a moment and for which it is necessary for every human being to prepare his soul. the platitudes of age may often be for youth divine revelations, and there is nothing so stimulating as the unaided apprehension of a great commonplace of existence. the awe with which mark was filled that night was too vast to evaporate in sentiment, and when two days after this there came news from africa that his father had died of black-water fever that awe was crystallized indeed. mark looking round at his small world perceived that nobody was safe. to-morrow his mother might die; to-morrow he might die himself. in any case the death of his grandfather would have meant a profound change in the future of his mother's life and his own; the living of nancepean would fall to some other priest and with it the house in which they lived. parson trehawke had left nothing of any value except gould's birds of great britain and a few other works of ornithology. the furniture of the vicarage was rich neither in quality nor in quantity. three or four hundred pounds was the most his daughter could inherit. she had spoken to mark of their poverty, because in her dismay for the future of her son she had no heart to pretend that the dead man's money was of little importance.
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"i must write and ask your father what we ought to do." . . . she stopped in painful awareness of the possessive pronoun. mark was unresponsive, until there came the news from africa, which made him throw his arms about his mother's neck while she was still alive. mrs. lidderdale, whatever bitterness she may once have felt for the ruin of her married life, shed fresh tears of sorrow for her husband, and supposing that mark's embrace was the expression of his sympathy wept more, as people will when others are sorry for them, and then still more because the future for mark seemed hopeless. how was she to educate him? how clothe him? how feed him even? at her age where and how could she earn money? she reproached herself with having been too ready out of sensitiveness to sacrifice mark to her own pride. she had had no right to leave her husband and live in the country like this. she should have repressed her own emotion and thought only of the family life, to the maintenance of which by her marriage she had committed herself. at first it had seemed the best thing for mark; but she should have remembered that her father could not live for ever and that one day she would have to face the problem of life without his help and his hospitality. she began to imagine that the disaster of that stormy night had been contrived by god to punish her, and she prayed to him that her chastisement should not be increased, that at least her son might be spared to her.
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mrs. lidderdale was able to stay on at the vicarage for several weeks, because the new vicar of nancepean was not able to take over his charge immediately. this delay gave her time to hold a sale of her father's furniture, at which the desire of the neighbours to be generous fought with their native avarice, so that in the end the furniture fetched neither more nor less than had been expected, which was little enough. she kept back enough to establish herself and mark in rooms, should she be successful in finding some unfurnished rooms sufficiently cheap to allow her to take them, although how she was going to live for more than two years on what she had was a riddle of which after a month of sleepless nights she had not found the solution.
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in the end, and as mrs. lidderdale supposed in answer to her prayers, the solution was provided unexpectedly in the following letter:
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i have just received a letter from james written when he was at the point of death in africa. it appears that in his zeal to convert the heathen to popery he omitted to make any provision for his wife and child, so that in the event of his death, unless either your relatives or his relatives came forward to support you i was given to understand that you would be destitute. i recently read in the daily paper an account of the way in which your father mr. trehawke lost his life, and i caused inquiries to be made in rosemarket about your prospects. these my informant tells me are not any too bright. you will, i am sure, pardon my having made these inquiries without reference to you, but i did not feel justified in offering you and my nephew a home with my sister helen and myself unless i had first assured myself that some such offer was necessary. you are probably aware that for many years my brother james and myself have not been on the best of terms. i on my side found his religious teaching so eccentric as to repel me; he on his side was so bigoted that he could not tolerate my tacit disapproval. not being a ritualist but an evangelical, i can perhaps bring myself more easily to forgive my brother's faults and at the same time indulge my theories of duty, as opposed to forms and ceremonies, theories that if carried out by everybody would soon transform our modern christianity. you are no doubt a ritualist, and your son has no doubt been educated in the same school. let me hasten to give you my word that i shall not make the least attempt to interfere either with your religious practices or with his. the quarrel between myself and james was due almost entirely to james' inability to let me and my opinions alone.
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your affectionate brother-in-law,
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mrs. lidderdale would no doubt have criticized this letter more sharply if she had not regarded it as inspired, almost actually written by the hand of god. whatever in it was displeasing to her she accepted as the divine decree, and if anybody had pointed out the inconsistency of some of the opinions therein expressed with its divine authorship, she would have dismissed the objection as made by somebody who was incapable of comprehending the mysterious action of god.
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"mark," she called to her son. "what do you think has happened? your uncle henry has offered us a home. i want you to write to him like a dear boy and thank him for his kindness." she explained in detail what uncle henry intended to do for them; but mark would not be enthusiastic. he on his side had been praying to god to put it into the mind of samuel dale to offer him a job on his farm; slowbridge was a poor substitute for that.
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"where is slowbridge?" he asked in a gloomy voice.
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"it's a fairly large place near london," his mother told him. "it's near eton and windsor and stoke poges where gray wrote his elegy, which we learned last summer. you remember, don't you?" she asked anxiously, for she wanted mark to cut a figure with his uncle.
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"wolfe liked it," said mark. "and i like it too," he added ungraciously. he wished that he could have said he hated it; but mark always found it difficult to tell a lie about his personal feelings, or about any facts that involved him in a false position.
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"and now before you go down to tea with cass dale, you will write to your uncle, won't you, and show me the letter?"
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"it's so difficult to thank people. it makes me feel silly."
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"well, darling, mother wants you to. so sit down like a dear boy and get it done."
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"i think my nib is crossed."
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"is it? you'll find another in my desk."
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"but, mother, yours are so thick."
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"please, mark, don't make any more excuses. don't you want to do everything you can to help me just now?"
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"yes, of course," said mark penitently, and sitting down in the window he stared out at the yellow november sky, and at the magpies flying busily from one side of the valley to the other.
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my dear uncle henry,
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thank you very much for your kind invitation to come and live with you. we should enjoy it very much. i am going to tea with a friend of mine called cass dale who lives in nancepean, and so i must stop now. with love,
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your loving nephew,
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and then the pen must needs go and drop a blot like a balloon right over his name, so that the whole letter had to be copied out again before his mother would say that she was satisfied, by which time the yellow sky was dun and the magpies were gone to rest.
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mark left the dales about half past six, and was accompanied by cass to the brow of pendhu. at this point cass declined to go any farther in spite of mark's reminder that this would be one of the last walks they would take together, if it were not absolutely the very last.
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"no," said cass. "i wouldn't come up from church cove myself not for anything."
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"but i'm going down by myself," mark argued. "if i hadn't thought you'd come all the way with me, i'd have gone home by the fields. what are you afraid of?"
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"i'm not afraid of nothing, but i don't want to walk so far by myself. i've come up the hill with 'ee. now 'tis all down hill for both of us, and that's fair."
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"oh, all right," said mark, turning away in resentment at his friend's desertion.
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both boys ran off in opposite directions, cass past the splash of light thrown across the road by the windows of the hanover inn, and on toward the scattered lights of nancepean, mark into the gloom of the deep lane down to church cove. it was a warm and humid evening that brought out the smell of the ferns and earth in the high banks on either side, and presently at the bottom of the hill the smell of the seaweed heaped up in church cove by weeks of gales. the moon, about three days from the full, was already up, shedding her aqueous lustre over the towans of chypie, which slowly penetrated the black gulfs of shadow in the countryside until mark could perceive the ghost of a familiar landscape. there came over him, whose emotion had already been sprung by the insensibility of cass, an overwhelming awareness of parting, and he gave to the landscape the expression of sentiment he had yearned to give his friend. his fear of seeing the spirits of the drowned sailors, or as he passed the churchyard gate of perceiving behind that tamarisk the tall spectre of his grandfather, which on the way down from pendhu had seemed impossible to combat, had died away; and in his despair at losing this beloved scene he wandered on past the church until he stood at the edge of the tide. on this humid autumnal night the oily sea collapsed upon the beach as if it, like everything else in nature, was overcome by the prevailing heaviness. mark sat down upon some tufts of samphire and watched the stag light occulting out across st. levan's bay, distant forty miles and more, and while he sat he perceived a glow-worm at his feet creeping along a sprig of samphire that marked the limit of the tide's advance. how did the samphire know that it was safe to grow where it did, and how did the glow-worm know that the samphire was safe?
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mark was suddenly conscious of the protection of god, for might not he expect as much as the glow-worm and the samphire? the ache of separation from nancepean was assuaged. that dread of the future, with which the impact of death had filled him, was allayed.
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"good-night, sister glow-worm," he said aloud in imitation of st. francis. "good-night, brother samphire."
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a drift of distant fog had obliterated the stag light; but of her samphire the glow-worm had made a moonlit forest, so brightly was she shining, yes, a green world of interlacing, lucid boughs.
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let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.
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and mark, aspiring to thank god who had made manifest his protection, left nancepean three days later with the determination to become a lighthouse-keeper, to polish well his lamp and tend it with care, so that men passing by in ships should rejoice at his good works and call him brother lighthouse-keeper, and glorify god their father when they walked again upon the grass, harking to the pleasant song of birds and the hum of bees.
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when mark came to live with uncle henry lidderdale at slowbridge, he was large for his age, or at any rate he was so loosely jointed as to appear large; a swart complexion, prominent cheek-bones, and straight lank hair gave him a melancholic aspect, the impression of which remained with the observer until he heard the boy laugh in a paroxysm of merriment that left his dark blue eyes dancing long after the outrageous noise had died down. if mark had occasion to relate some episode that appealed to him, his laughter would accompany the narrative like a pack of hounds in full cry, would as it were pursue the tale to its death, and communicate its zest to the listener, who would think what a sense of humour mark had, whereas it was more truly the gusto of life.
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uncle henry found this laughter boisterous and irritating; if his nephew had been a canary in a cage, he would have covered him with a table-cloth. aunt helen, if she was caught up in one of mark's narratives, would twitch until it was finished, when she would rub her forehead with an acorn of menthol and wrap herself more closely in a shawl of soft shetland wool. the antipathy that formerly existed between mark and his father was much sharper between mark and his uncle. it was born in the instant of their first meeting, when uncle henry bent over, his trunk at right angles to his legs, so that one could fancy the pelvic bones to be clicking like the wooden joints of a monkey on a stick, and offered his nephew an acrid whisker to be saluted.
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"and what is mark going to be?" uncle henry inquired.
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"ah, we all have suchlike ambitions when we are young. i remember that for nearly a year i intended to be a muffin-man," said uncle henry severely.
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mark hated his uncle from that moment, and he fixed upon the throbbing pulse of his scraped-out temples as the feature upon which that dislike should henceforth be concentrated. uncle henry's pulse seemed to express all the vitality that was left to him; mark thought that our lord must have felt about the barren fig-tree much as he felt about uncle henry.
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aunt helen annoyed mark in the way that one is annoyed by a cushion in an easy chair. it is soft and apparently comfortable, but after a minute or two one realizes that it is superfluous, and it is pushed over the arm to the floor. unfortunately aunt helen could not be treated like a cushion; and there she was soft and comfortable in appearance, but forever in mark's way. aunt helen was the incarnation of her own drawing-room. her face was round and stupid like a clock's; she wore brocaded gowns and carpet slippers; her shawls resembled antimacassars; her hair was like the stuff that is put in grates during the summer; her caps were like lace curtains tied back with velvet ribbons; cameos leant against her bosom as if they were upon a mantelpiece. mark never overcame his dislike of kissing aunt helen, for it gave him a sensation every time that a bit of her might stick to his lips. he lacked that solemn sense of relationship with which most children are imbued, and the compulsory intimacy offended him, particularly when his aunt referred to little boys generically as if they were beetles or mice. her inability to appreciate that he was mark outraged his young sense of personality which was further dishonoured by the manner in which she spoke of herself as aunt helen, thus seeming to imply that he was only human at all in so far as he was her nephew. she continually shocked his dignity by prescribing medicine for him without regard to the presence of servants or visitors; and nothing gave her more obvious pleasure than to get mark into the drawing-room on afternoons when dreary mothers of pupils came to call, so that she might bully him under the appearance of teaching good manners, and impress the parents with the advantages of a haverton house education.
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as long as his mother remained alive, mark tried to make her happy by pretending that he enjoyed living at haverton house, that he enjoyed his uncle's preparatory school for the sons of gentlemen, that he enjoyed slowbridge with its fogs and laburnums, its perambulators and tradesmen's carts and noise of whistling trains; but a year after they left nancepean mrs. lidderdale died of pneumonia, and mark was left alone with his uncle and aunt.
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"he doesn't realize what death means," said aunt helen, when mark on the very afternoon of the funeral without even waiting to change out of his best clothes began to play with soldiers instead of occupying himself with the preparation of lessons that must begin again on the morrow.
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"i wonder if you will play with soldiers when aunt helen dies?" she pressed.
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"no," said mark quickly, "i shall work at my lessons when you die."
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his uncle and aunt looked at him suspiciously. they could find no fault with the answer; yet something in the boy's tone, some dreadful suppressed exultation made them feel that they ought to find severe fault with the answer.
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"wouldn't it be kinder to your poor mother's memory," aunt helen suggested, "wouldn't it be more becoming now to work harder at your lessons when your mother is watching you from above?"
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mark would not condescend to explain why he was playing with soldiers, nor with what passionate sorrow he was recalling every fleeting expression on his mother's face, every slight intonation of her voice when she was able to share in his game; he hated his uncle and aunt so profoundly that he revelled in their incapacity to understand him, and he would have accounted it a desecration of her memory to share his grief with them.
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haverton house school was a depressing establishment; in after years when mark looked back at it he used to wonder how it had managed to survive so long, for when he came to live at slowbridge it had actually been in existence for twenty years, and his uncle was beginning to look forward to the time when old havertonians, as he called them, would be bringing their sons to be educated at the old place. there were about fifty pupils, most of them the sons of local tradesmen, who left when they were about fourteen, though a certain number lingered on until they were as much as sixteen in what was called the modern class, where they were supposed to receive at least as practical an education as they would have received behind the counter, and certainly a more genteel one. fine fellows those were in the modern class at haverton house, stalwart heroes who made up the cricket and football teams and strode about the playing fields of haverton house with as keen a sense of their own importance as etonians of comparable status in their playing fields not more than two miles away. mark when everything else in his school life should be obliterated by time would remember their names and prowess. . . . borrow, tull, yarde, corke, vincent, macdougal, skinner, they would keep throughout his life some of that magic which clings to diomed and deiphobus, to hector and achilles.
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apart from these heroic names the atmosphere of haverton house was not inspiring. it reduced the world to the size and quality of one of those scratched globes with which uncle henry demonstrated geography. every subject at haverton house, no matter how interesting it promised to be, was ruined from an educative point of view by its impedimenta of dates, imports, exports, capitals, capes, and kings of israel and judah. neither uncle henry nor his assistants mr. spaull and mr. palmer believed in departing from the book. whatever books were chosen for the term's curriculum were regarded as something for which money had been paid and from which the last drop of information must be squeezed to justify in the eyes of parents the expenditure. the teachers considered the notes more important than the text; genealogical tables were exalted above anything on the same page. some books of history were adorned with illustrations; but no use was made of them by the masters, and for the pupils they merely served as outlines to which, were they the outlines of human beings, inky beards and moustaches had to be affixed, or were they landscapes, flights of birds.
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mr. spaull was a fat flabby young man with a heavy fair moustache, who was reading for holy orders; mr. palmer was a stocky bow-legged young man in knickerbockers, who was good at football and used to lament the gentle birth that prevented his becoming a professional. the boys called him gentleman joe; but they were careful not to let mr. palmer hear them, for he had a punch and did not believe in cuddling the young. he used to jeer openly at his colleague, mr. spaull, who never played football, never did anything in the way of exercise except wrestle flirtatiously with the boys, while mr. palmer was bellowing up and down the field of play and charging his pupils with additional vigour to counteract the feebleness of mr. spaull. poor mr. spaull, he was ordained about three years after mark came to slowbridge, and a week later he was run over by a brewer's dray and killed.
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mark at the age of fifteen was a bitter, lonely, and unattractive boy. three years of haverton house, three years of uncle henry's desiccated religion, three years of mr. palmer's athletic education and mr. spaull's milksop morality, three years of wearing clothes that were too small for him, three years of haverton house cooking, three years of warts and bad haircutting, of ink and aunt helen's confident purging had destroyed that gusto for life which when mark first came to slowbridge used to express itself in such loud laughter. uncle henry probably supposed that the cure of his nephew's irritating laugh was the foundation stone of that successful career, which it would soon be time to discuss in detail. the few months between now and mark's sixteenth birthday would soon pass, however dreary the restrictions of haverton house, and then it would be time to go and talk to mr. hitchcock about that articled clerkship toward the fees for which the small sum left by his mother would contribute. mark was so anxious to be finished with haverton house that he would have welcomed a prospect even less attractive than mr. hitchcock's office in finsbury square; it never occurred to him that the money left by his mother could be spent to greater advantage for himself. by now it was over £500, and uncle henry on sunday evenings when he was feeling comfortably replete with the day's devotion would sometimes allude to his having left the interest to accumulate and would urge mark to be up and doing in order to show his gratitude for all that he and aunt helen had conferred upon him. mark felt no gratitude; in fact at this period he felt nothing except a kind of surly listlessness. he was like somebody who through the carelessness of his nurse or guardian has been crippled in youth, and who is preparing to enter the world with a suppressed resentment against everybody and everything.
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"not still hankering after a lighthouse?" uncle henry asked, and one seemed to hear his words snapping like dry twigs beneath the heavy tread of his mind.
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"i'm not hankering after anything," mark replied sullenly.
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"but you're looking forward to mr. hitchcock's office?" his uncle proceeded.
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mark grunted an assent in order to be left alone, and the entrance of mr. palmer who always had supper with his headmaster and employer on sunday evening, brought the conversation to a close.
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at supper mr. palmer asked suddenly if the headmaster wanted mark to go into the confirmation class this term.
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"no thanks," said mark.
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uncle henry raised his eyebrows.
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"i fancy that is for me to decide."
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"neither my father nor my mother nor my grandfather would have wanted me to be confirmed against my will," mark declared. he was angry without knowing his reasons, angry in response to some impulse of the existence of which he had been unaware until he began to speak. he only knew that if he surrendered on this point he should never be able to act for himself again.
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"are you suggesting that you should never be confirmed?" his uncle required.
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"i'm not suggesting anything," said mark. "but i can remember my father's saying once that boys ought to be confirmed before they are thirteen. my mother just before she died wanted me to be confirmed, but it couldn't be arranged, and now i don't intend to be confirmed till i feel i want to be confirmed. i don't want to be prepared for confirmation as if it was a football match. if you force me to go to the confirmation i'll refuse to answer the bishop's questions. you can't make me answer against my will."
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"mark dear," said aunt helen, "i think you'd better take some eno's fruit salts to-morrow morning." in her nephew's present mood she did not dare to prescribe anything stronger.
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"i'm not going to take anything to-morrow morning," said mark angrily.
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"do you want me to thrash you?" uncle henry demanded.
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mr. palmer's eyes glittered with the zeal of muscular christianity.
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"you'll be sorry for it if you do," said mark. "you can of course, if you get mr. palmer to help you, but you'll be sorry if you do."
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mr. palmer looked at his chief as a terrier looks at his master when a rabbit is hiding in a bush. but the headmaster's vanity would not allow him to summon help to punish his own nephew, and he weakly contented himself with ordering mark to be silent.
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"it strikes me that spaull is responsible for this sort of thing," said mr. palmer. "he always resented my having any hand in the religious teaching."
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"that poor worm!" mark scoffed.
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"mark, he's dead," aunt helen gasped. "you mustn't speak of him like that."
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"get out of the room and go to bed," uncle henry shouted.
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mark retired with offensive alacrity, and while he was undressing he wondered drearily why he had made himself so conspicuous on this sunday evening out of so many sunday evenings. what did it matter whether he were confirmed or not? what did anything matter except to get through the next year and be finished with haverton house?
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he was more sullen than ever during the week, but on saturday he had the satisfaction of bowling mr. palmer in the first innings of a match and in the second innings of hitting him on the jaw with a rising ball.
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the next day he rose at five o'clock on a glorious morning in early june and walked rapidly away from slowbridge. by ten o'clock he had reached a country of rolling beech-woods, and turning aside from the high road he wandered over the bare nutbrown soil that gave the glossy leaves high above a green unparagoned, a green so lambent that the glimpses of the sky beyond seemed opaque as turquoises amongst it. in quick succession mark saw a squirrel, a woodpecker, and a jay, creatures so perfectly expressive of the place, that they appeared to him more like visions than natural objects; and when they were gone he stood with beating heart in silence as if in a moment the trees should fly like woodpeckers, the sky flash and flutter its blue like a jay's wing, and the very earth leap like a squirrel for his amazement. presently he came to an open space where the young bracken was springing round a pool. he flung himself down in the frondage, and the spice of it in his nostrils was as if he were feeding upon summer. he was happy until he caught sight of his own reflection in the pool, and then he could not bear to stay any longer in this wood, because unlike the squirrel and the woodpecker and the jay he was an ugly intruder here, a scarecrow in ill-fitting clothes, round the ribbon of whose hat like a chain ran the yellow zigzag of haverton house. he became afraid of the wood, perceiving nothing round him now except an assemblage of menacing trunks, a slow gathering of angry and forbidding branches. the silence of the day was dreadful in this wood, and mark fled from it until he emerged upon a brimming clover-ley full of drunken bees, a merry clover-ley dancing in the sun, across which the sound of church bells was being blown upon a honeyed wind. mark welcomed the prospect of seeing ugly people again after the humiliation inflicted upon him by the wood; and he followed a footpath at the far end of the ley across several stiles, until he stood beneath the limes that overhung the churchyard gate and wondered if he should go inside to the service. the bells were clanging an agitated final appeal to the worshippers; and mark, unable to resist, allowed himself to flow toward the cool dimness within. there with a thrill he recognized the visible signs of his childhood's religion, and now after so many years he perceived with new eyes an unfamiliar beauty in the crossings and genuflexions, in the pictures and images. the world which had lately seemed so jejune was crowded like a dream, a dream moreover that did not elude the recollection of it in the moment of waking, but that stayed with him for the rest of his life as the evidence of things not seen, which is faith.
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it was during the gospel that mark began to realize that what was being said and done at the altar demanded not merely his attention but also his partaking. all the services he had attended since he came to slowbridge had demanded nothing from him, and even when he was at nancepean he had always been outside the sacred mysteries. but now on this whit-sunday morning he heard in the gospel:
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hereafter i will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me.
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and while he listened it seemed that jesus christ was departing from him, and that unless he were quick to offer himself he should be left to the prince of this world; so black was mark's world in those days that the prince of it meant most unmistakably the prince of darkness, and the prophecy made him shiver with affright. with conviction he said the nicene creed, and when the celebrating priest, a tall fair man, with a gentle voice and of a mild and benignant aspect, went up into the pulpit and announced that there would be a confirmation in his church on the feast of the visitation of the blessed virgin mary mark felt in this newly found assurance of being commanded by god to follow him that somehow he must be confirmed in this church and prepared by this kindly priest. the sermon was about the coming of the holy ghost and of our bodies which are his temple. any other sunday mark would have sat in a stupor, while his mind would occasionally have taken flights of activity, counting the lines of a prayer-book's page or following the tributaries in the grain of the pew in front; but on this sunday he sat alert, finding every word of the discourse applicable to himself.
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on other sundays the first sentence of the offertory would have passed unheeded in the familiarity of its repetition, but this morning it took him back to that night in church cove when he saw the glow-worm by the edge of the tide and made up his mind to be a lighthouse-keeper.
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let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.
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"i will be a priest," mark vowed to himself.
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give grace, o heavenly father, to all bishops and curates that they may both by their life and doctrines set forth thy true and lively word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy sacraments.
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"i will, i will," he vowed.
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hear what comfortable words our saviour christ saith unto all that truly turn to him. come unto me all that travail and are heavy laden, and i will refresh you.
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mark prayed that with such words he might when he was a priest bring consolation.
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through jesus christ our lord; according to whose most true promise, the holy ghost came down as at this time from heaven with a sudden great sound, as it had been a mighty wind, in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the apostles, to teach them and to lead them to all truth;
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the red chasuble of the priest glowed with pentecostal light.
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giving them both the gift of divers languages, and also boldness with fervent seal constantly to preach the gospel unto all nations; whereby we have been brought out of darkness and error into the clear light and true knowledge of thee, and of thy son jesus christ.
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and when after this proper preface of whit-sunday, which seemed to mark to be telling him what was expected of his priesthood by god, the quire sang the sanctus, therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name; evermore praising thee, and saying, holy, holy, holy, lord god of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: glory be to thee, o lord most high. amen, that sublime proclamation spoke the fullness of his aspiring heart.
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mark came out of church with the rest of the congregation, and walked down the road toward the roofs of the little village, on the outskirts of which he could not help stopping to admire a small garden full of pinks in front of two thatched cottages that had evidently been made into one house. while he was standing there looking over the trim quickset hedge, an old lady with silvery hair came slowly down the road, paused a moment by the gate before she went in, and then asked mark if she had not seen him in church. mark felt embarrassed at being discovered looking over a hedge into somebody's garden; but he managed to murmur an affirmative and turned to go away.
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"stop," said the old lady waving at him her ebony crook, "do not run away, young gentleman. i see that you admire my garden. pray step inside and look more closely at it."
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mark thought at first by her manner of speech that she was laughing at him; but soon perceiving that she was in earnest he followed her inside, and walked behind her along the narrow winding paths, nodding with an appearance of profound interest when she poked at some starry clump and invited his admiration. as they drew nearer the house, the smell of the pinks was merged in the smell of hot roast beef, and mark discovered that he was hungry, so hungry indeed that he felt he could not stay any longer to be tantalized by the odours of the sunday dinner, but must go off and find an inn where he could obtain bread and cheese as quickly as possible. he was preparing an excuse to get away, when the garden wicket clicked, and looking up he saw the fair priest coming down the path toward them accompanied by two ladies, one of whom resembled him so closely that mark was sure she was his sister. the other, who looked windblown in spite of the serene june weather, had a nervous energy that contrasted with the demeanour of the other two, whose deliberate pace seemed to worry her so that she was continually two yards ahead and turning round as if to urge them to walk more quickly.
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the old lady must have guessed mark's intention, for raising her stick she forbade him to move, and before he had time to mumble an apology and flee she was introducing the newcomers to him.
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"this is my daughter miriam," she said pointing to one who resembled her brother. "and this is my daughter esther. and this is my son, the vicar. what is your name?"
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mark told her, and he should have liked to ask what hers was, but he felt too shy.
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"you're going to stay and have lunch with us, i hope?" asked the vicar.
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mark had no idea how to reply. he was much afraid that if he accepted he should be seeming to have hung about by the vicarage gate in order to be invited. on the other hand he did not know how to refuse. it would be absurd to say that he had to get home, because they would ask him where he lived, and at this hour of the morning he could scarcely pretend that he expected to be back in time for lunch twelve miles and more from where he was.
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"of course he's going to stay," said the old lady.
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and of course mark did stay; a delightful lunch it was too, on chairs covered with blue holland in a green shadowed room that smelt of dryness and ancientry. after lunch mark sat for a while with the vicar in his study, which was small and intimate with its two armchairs and bookshelves reaching to the ceiling all round. he had not yet managed to find out his name, and as it was obviously too late to ask as this stage of their acquaintanceship he supposed that he should have to wait until he left the vicarage and could ask somebody in the village, of which by the way he also did not know the name.
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"lidderdale," the vicar was saying meditatively, "lidderdale. i wonder if you were a relative of the famous lidderdale of st. wilfred's?"
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mark flushed with a mixture of self-consciousness and pleasure to hear his father spoken of as famous, and when he explained who he was he flushed still more deeply to hear his father's work praised with such enthusiasm.
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"and do you hope to be a priest yourself?"
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"why, yes i do rather," said mark.
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"splendid! capital!" cried the vicar, his kindly blue eye beaming with approval of mark's intention.
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presently mark was talking to him as though he had known him for years.
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"there's no reason why you shouldn't be confirmed here," the vicar said. "no reason at all. i'll mention it to the bishop, and if you like i'll write to your uncle. i shall feel justified in interfering on account of your father's opinions. we all look upon him as one of the great pioneers of the movement. you must come over and lunch with us again next sunday. my mother will be delighted to see you. she's a dear old thing, isn't she? i'm going to hand you over to her now and my youngest sister. my other sister and i have got sunday schools to deal with. have another cigarette? no. quite right. you oughtn't to smoke too much at your age. only just fifteen, eh? by jove, i suppose you oughtn't to have smoked at all. but what rot. you'd only smoke all the more if it was absolutely forbidden. wisdom! wisdom! wisdom with the young! you don't mind being called young? i've known boys who hated the epithet."
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mark was determined to show his new friend that he did not object to being called young, and he could think of no better way to do it than by asking him his name, thus proving that he did not mind if such a question did make him look ridiculous.
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"ogilvie--stephen ogilvie. my dear boy, it's we who ought to be ashamed of ourselves for not having had the gumption to enlighten you. how on earth were you to know without asking? now, look here, i must run. i expect you'll be wanting to get home, or i'd suggest your staying until i get back, but i must lie low after tea and think out my sermon. look here, come over to lunch on saturday, haven't you a bicycle? you could get over from slowbridge by one o'clock, and after lunch we'll have a good tramp in the woods. splendid!"
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then chanting the dies irae in a cheerful tenor the reverend stephen ogilvie hurried off to his sunday school. mark said good-bye to mrs. ogilvie with an assured politeness that was typical of his new found ease; and when he started on his long walk back to slowbridge he felt inclined to leap in the air and wake with shouts the slumberous sabbath afternoon, proclaiming the glory of life, the joy of living.
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mark had not expected his uncle to welcome his friendship with the vicar of meade cantorum; but he had supposed that after a few familiar sneers he should be allowed to go his own way with nothing worse than silent disapproval brooding over his perverse choice. he was surprised by the vehemence of his uncle's opposition, and it must be added that he thoroughly enjoyed it. the experience of that whit-sunday had been too rich not to be of enduring importance to his development in any case; but the behaviour of uncle henry made it more important, because all this criticism helped mark to put his opinions into shape, consolidated the position he had taken up, sharpened his determination to advance along the path he had discovered for himself, and gave him an immediate target for arrows that might otherwise have been shot into the air until his quiver was empty.
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"mr. ogilvie knew my father."
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"that has nothing to do with the case," said uncle henry.
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"i think it has."
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"do not be insolent, mark. i've noticed lately a most unpleasant note in your voice, an objectionably defiant note which i simply will not tolerate."
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"but do you really mean that i'm not to go and see mr. ogilvie?"
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"it would have been more courteous if mr. ogilvie had given himself the trouble of writing to me, your guardian, before inviting you out to lunch and i don't know what not besides."
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"he said he would write to you."
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"i don't want to embark on a correspondence with him," uncle henry exclaimed petulantly. "i know the man by reputation. a bigoted ritualist. a romanizer of the worst type. he'll only fill your head with a lot of effeminate nonsense, and that at a time when it's particularly necessary for you to concentrate upon your work. don't forget that this is your last year of school. i advise you to make the most of it."
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"i've asked mr. ogilvie to prepare me for confirmation," said mark, who was determined to goad his uncle into losing his temper.
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"then you deserve to be thrashed."
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"look here, uncle henry," mark began; and while he was speaking he was aware that he was stronger than his uncle now and looking across at his aunt he perceived that she was just a ball of badly wound wool lying in a chair. "look here, uncle henry, it's quite useless for you to try to stop my going to meade cantorum, because i'm going there whenever i'm asked and i'm going to be confirmed there, because you promised mother you wouldn't interfere with my religion."
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"your religion!" broke in mr. lidderdale, scornful both of the pronoun and the substantive.
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"it's no use your losing your temper or arguing with me or doing anything except letting me go my own way, because that's what i intend to do."
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aunt helen half rose in her chair upon an impulse to protect her brother against mark's violence.
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"and you can't cure me with gregory powder," he said. "nor with senna nor with licorice nor even with cascara."
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"your behaviour, my boy, is revolting," said mr. lidderdale. "a young mohawk would not talk to his guardians as you are talking to me."
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"well, i don't want you to think i'm going to obey you if you forbid me to go to meade cantorum," said mark. "i'm sorry i was rude, aunt helen. i oughtn't to have spoken to you like that. and i'm sorry, uncle henry, to seem ungrateful after what you've done for me." and then lest his uncle should think that he was surrendering he quickly added: "but i'm going to meade cantorum on saturday." and like most people who know their own minds mark had his own way.
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mark did not suffer from "churchiness" during this period. his interest in religion, although it resembled the familiar conversions of adolescence, was a real resurrection of emotions which had been stifled by these years at haverton house following upon the paralyzing grief of his mother's death. had he been in contact during that time with an influence like the vicar of meade cantorum, he would probably have escaped those ashen years, but as mr. ogilvie pointed out to him, he would also never have received such evidence of god's loving kindness as was shown to him upon that whit-sunday morning.
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"if in the future, my dear boy, you are ever tempted to doubt the wisdom of almighty god, remember what was vouchsafed to you at a moment when you seemed to have no reason for any longer existing, so black was your world. remember how you caught sight of yourself in that pool and shrank away in horror from the vision. i envy you, mark. i have never been granted such a revelation of myself."
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"you were never so ugly," said mark.
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"my dear boy, we are all as ugly as the demons of hell if we are allowed to see ourselves as we really are. but god only grants that to a few brave spirits whom he consecrates to his service and whom he fortifies afterwards by proving to them that, no matter how great the horror of their self-recognition, the holy ghost is within them to comfort them. i don't suppose that many human beings are granted such an experience as yours. i myself tremble at the thought of it, knowing that god considers me too weak a subject for such a test."
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"oh, mr. ogilvie," mark expostulated.
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"i'm not talking to you as mark lidderdale, but as the recipient of the grace of god, to one who before my own unworthy eyes has been lightened by celestial fire. mine eyes have seen thy salvation, o lord. as for yourself, my dear boy, i pray always that you may sustain your part, that you will never allow the memory of this whitsuntide to be obscured by the fogs of this world and that you will always bear in mind that having been given more talents by god a sharper account will be taken of the use you make of them. don't think i'm doubting your steadfastness, old man, i believe in it. do you hear? i believe in it absolutely. but catholic doctrine, which is the sum of humanity's knowledge of god and than which nothing more can be known of god until we see him face to face, insists upon good works, demanding as it were a practical demonstration to the rest of the world of the grace of god within you. you remember st. paul? faith, hope, and love. but the greatest of these is love. the greatest because the least individual. faith will move mountains, but so will love. that's the trouble with so many godly protestants. they are inclined to stay satisfied with their own godliness, although the best of them like the quakers are examples that ought to make most of us catholics ashamed of ourselves. and one thing more, old man, before we get off this subject, don't forget that your experience is a mercy accorded to you by the death of our lord jesus christ. you owe to his infinite love your new life. what was granted to you was the visible apprehension of the fact of holy baptism, and don't forget st. john the baptist's words: i indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than i. he shall baptise you with the holy ghost, and with fire: whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. those are great words for you to think of now, and during this long trinitytide which is symbolical of what one might call the humdrum of religious life, the day in day out sticking to it, make a resolution never to say mechanically the grace of our lord jesus christ, and the love of god and the fellowship of the holy ghost, be with us all evermore. amen. if you always remember to say those wonderful words from the heart and not merely with the lips, you will each time you say them marvel more and more at the great condescension of almighty god in favouring you, as he has favoured you, by teaching you the meaning of these words himself in a way that no poor mortal priest, however eloquent, could teach you it. on that night when you watched beside the glow-worm at the sea's edge the grace of our lord gave you an apprehension, child as you were, of the love of god, and now once more the grace of our lord gives you the realization of the fellowship of the holy ghost. i don't want to spoil your wonderful experience with my parsonic discoursing; but, mark, don't look back from the plough."
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uncle henry found it hard to dispose of words like these when he deplored his nephew's collapse into ritualism.
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"you really needn't bother about the incense and the vestments," mark assured him. "i like incense and vestments; but i don't think they're the most important things in religion. you couldn't find anybody more evangelical than mr. ogilvie, though he doesn't call himself evangelical, or his party the evangelical party. it's no use your trying to argue me out of what i believe. i know i'm believing what it's right for me to believe. when i'm older i shall try to make everybody else believe in my way, because i should like everybody else to feel as happy as i do. your religion doesn't make you feel happy, uncle henry!"
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"leave the room," was mr. lidderdale's reply. "i won't stand this kind of talk from a boy of your age."
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although mark had only claimed from his uncle the right to believe what it was right for him to believe, the richness of his belief presently began to seem too much for one. his nature was generous in everything, and he felt that he must share this happiness with somebody else. he regretted the death of poor mr. spaull, for he was sure that he could have persuaded poor mr. spaull to cut off his yellow moustache and become a catholic. mr. palmer was of course hopeless: saint augustine of hippo, st. paul himself even, would have found it hard to deal with mr. palmer; as for the new master, mr. blumey, with his long nose and long chin and long frock coat and long boots, he was obviously absorbed by the problems of mathematics and required nothing more.
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term came to an end, and during the holidays mark was able to spend most of his time at meade cantorum. he had always been a favourite of mrs. ogilvie since that whit-sunday nearly two months ago when she saw him looking at her garden and invited him in, and every time he revisited the vicarage he had devoted some of his time to helping her weed or prune or do whatever she wanted to do in her garden. he was also on friendly terms with miriam, the elder of mr. ogilvie's two sisters, who was very like her brother in appearance and who gave to the house the decorous loving care he gave to the church. and however enthralling her domestic ministrations, she had always time to attend every service; while, so well ordered was her manner of life, her religious duties never involved the household in discomfort. she never gave the impression that so many religious women give of going to church in a fever of self-gratification, to which everything and everybody around her must be subordinated. the practice of her religion was woven into her life like the strand of wool on which all the others depend, but which itself is no more conspicuous than any of the other strands. with so many women religion is a substitute for something else; with miriam ogilvie everything else was made as nearly and as beautifully as it could be made a substitute for religion. mark was intensely aware of her holiness, but he was equally aware of her capable well-tended hands and of her chatelaine glittering in and out of a lawn apron. one tress of her abundant hair was grey, which stood out against the dark background of the rest and gave her a serene purity, an austere strength, but yet like a nun's coif seemed to make the face beneath more youthful, and like a cavalier's plume more debonair. she could not have been over thirty-five when mark first knew her, perhaps not so much; but he thought of her as ageless in the way a child thinks of its mother, and if any woman should ever be able to be to him something of what his mother had been, mark thought that miss ogilvie might.
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"taking a quick walk by myself," she called out to him as they passed.
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no, she was certainly not dreary. but what was she?
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mark abandoned the problem of esther in the pleasure of meeting the reverend oliver dorward, who arrived one afternoon at the vicarage with a large turbot for mrs. ogilvie, and six flemish candlesticks for the vicar, announcing that he wanted to stay a week before being inducted to the living of green lanes in the county of southampton, to which he had recently been presented by lord chatsea. mark liked him from the first moment he saw him pacing the vicarage garden in a soutane, buckled shoes, and beaver hat, and he could not understand why mr. ogilvie, who had often laughed about dorward's eccentricity, should now that he had an opportunity of enjoying it once more be so cross about his friend's arrival and so ready to hand him over to mark to be entertained.
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"it isn't the angelus," said mark quietly. "it's the bell on that cow."
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but mr. dorward had finished his devotion before he answered.
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"i was half way through before you told me. you should have spoken sooner."
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"well, i spoke as soon as i could."
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"very cunning of satan," said dorward meditatively. "induced a cow to simulate the angelus, and planted a thistle just where i was bound to kneel. cunning. cunning. very cunning. i must go back now and confess to ogilvie. good example. wait a minute, i'll confess to-morrow before morning prayer. very good for ogilvie's congregation. they're stuffy, very stuffy. it'll shake them. it'll shake ogilvie too. are you staying here to-night?"
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"no, i shall bicycle back to slowbridge and bicycle over to mass to-morrow."
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"ridiculous. stay the night. didn't ogilvie invite you?"
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mark shook his head.
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"scandalous lack of hospitality. they're all alike these country clergy. i'm tired of this walk. let's go back and look after the turbot. are you a good cook?"
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"i can boil eggs and that sort of thing," said mark.
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"what sort of things? an egg is unique. there's nothing like an egg. will you serve my mass on monday? saying mass for napoleon on monday."
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"for whom?" mark exclaimed.
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"napoleon, with a special intention for the conversion of the present government in france. last monday i said a mass for shakespeare, with a special intention for an improvement in contemporary verse."
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mark supposed that mr. dorward must be joking, and his expression must have told as much to the priest, who murmured:
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"nothing to laugh at. nothing to laugh at."
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"no, of course not," said mark feeling abashed. "but i'm afraid i shouldn't be able to serve you. i've never had any practice."
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"perfectly easy. perfectly easy. i'll give you a book when we get back."
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mark bicycled home that afternoon with a tall thin volume called ritual notes, so tall that when it was in his pocket he could feel it digging him in the ribs every time he was riding up the least slope. that night in his bedroom he practised with the help of the wash-stand and its accessories the technique of serving at low mass, and in his enthusiasm he bicycled over to meade cantorum in time to attend both the low mass at seven said by mr. dorward and the low mass at eight said by mr. ogilvie. he was able to detect mistakes that were made by the village boys who served that sunday morning, and he vowed to himself that the monday mass for the emperor napoleon should not be disfigured by such inaccuracy or clumsiness. he declined the usual invitation to stay to supper after evening prayer that he might have time to make perfection more perfect in the seclusion of his own room, and when he set out about six o'clock of a sun-drowsed morning in early august, apart from a faint anxiety about the lavabo, he felt secure of his accomplishment. it was only when he reached the church that he remembered he had made no arrangement about borrowing a cassock or a cotta, an omission that in the mood of grand seriousness in which he had undertaken his responsibility seemed nothing less than abominable. he did not like to go to the vicarage and worry mr. ogilvie who could scarcely fail to be amused, even contemptuously amused at such an ineffective beginning. besides, ever since mr. dorward's arrival the vicar had been slightly irritable.
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while mark was wondering what was the best thing to do, miss hatchett, a pious old maid who spent her nights in patience and sleep, her days in worship and weeding, came hurrying down the churchyard path.
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"i am not late, am i?" she exclaimed. "i never heard the bell. i was so engrossed in pulling out one of those dreadful sow-thistles that when my maid came running out and said 'oh, miss hatchett, it's gone the five to, you'll be late,' i just ran, and now i've brought my trowel and left my prayer book on the path. . . ."
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"i'm just going to ring the bell now," said mark, in whom the horror of another omission had been rapidly succeeded by an almost unnatural composure.
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"oh, what a relief," miss hatchett sighed. "are you sure i shall have time to get my breath, for i know mr. ogilvie would dislike to hear me panting in church?"
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"mr. ogilvie isn't saying mass this morning."
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"not saying mass?" repeated the old maid in such a dejected tone of voice that, when a small cloud passed over the face of the sun, it seemed as if the natural scene desired to accord with the chill cast upon her spirit by mark's announcement.
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"mr. dorward is saying mass," he told her, and poor miss hatchett must pretend with a forced smile that her blank look had been caused by the prospect of being deprived of mass when really. . . .
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but mark was not paying any more attention to miss hatchett. he was standing under the bell, gazing up at the long rope and wondering what manner of sound he should evoke. he took a breath and pulled; the rope quivered with such an effect of life that he recoiled from the new force he had conjured into being, afraid of his handiwork, timid of the clamour that would resound. no louder noise ensued than might have been given forth by a can kicked into the gutter. mark pulled again more strongly, and the bell began to chime, irregularly at first with alternations of sonorous and feeble note; at last, however, when the rhythm was established with such command and such insistence that the ringer, looking over his shoulder to the south door, half expected to see a stream of perturbed christians hurrying to obey its summons. but there was only poor miss hatchett sitting in the porch and fanning herself with a handkerchief.
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mark went on ringing. . . .
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clang--clang--clang! all the holy virgins were waving their palms. clang--clang--clang! all the blessed doctors and confessors were twanging their harps to the clanging. clang--clang--clang! all the holy saints and martyrs were tossing their haloes in the air as schoolboys toss their caps. clang--clang--clang! angels, archangels, and principalities with faces that shone like brass and with forms that quivered like flames thronged the noise. clang--clang--clang! virtues, powers, and dominations bade the morning stars sing to the ringing. clang--clang--clang! the ringing reached up to the green-winged thrones who sustain the seat of the most high. clang--clang--clang! the azure cherubs heard the bells within their contemplation: the scarlet seraphs felt them within their love. clang--clang--clang! the lidless eye of god looked down, and miss hatchett supposing it to be the sun crossed over to the other side of the porch.
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clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang. . . .
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"hasn't dorward come in yet? it's five past eight already. go on ringing for a little while. i'll go and see how long he'll be."
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mark in the absorption of ringing the bell had not noticed the vicar's approach, and he was gone again before he remembered that he wanted to borrow a cassock and a cotta. had he been rude? would mr. ogilvie think it cheek to ring the bell without asking his permission first? but before these unanswered questions had had time to spoil the rhythm of his ringing, the vicar came back with mr. dorward, and the congregation, that is to say miss hatchett and miss ogilvie, was already kneeling in its place.
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mark in a cassock that was much too long for him and in a cotta that was in the same ratio as much too short preceded mr. dorward from the sacristy to the altar. a fear seized him that in spite of all his practice he was kneeling on the wrong side of the priest; he forgot the first responses; he was sure the sanctus-bell was too far away; he wished that mr. dorward would not mutter quite so inaudibly. gradually, however, the meetness of the gestures prescribed for him by the ancient ritual cured his self-consciousness and included him in its pattern, so that now for the first time he was aware of the significance of the preface to the sanctus: it is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, o lord, holy father, almighty everlasting god.
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"oxford," mr. dorward pronounced. "and then glastonbury."
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"glastonbury theological college."
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now to mark oxford was a legendary place to which before he met mr. dorward he would never have aspired. oxford at haverton house was merely an abstraction to which a certain number of people offered an illogical allegiance in order to create an excuse for argument and strife. sometimes mark had gazed at eton and wondered vaguely about existence there; sometimes he had gazed at the towers of windsor and wondered what the queen ate for breakfast. oxford was far more remote than either of these, and yet when mr. dorward said that he must go there his heart leapt as if to some recognized ambition long ago buried and now abruptly resuscitated.
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"i've always been oxford," he admitted.
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when mr. dorward had gone, mark asked mr. ogilvie what he thought about oxford.
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"if you can afford to go there, my dear boy, of course you ought to go."
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"well, i'm pretty sure i can't afford to. i don't think i've got any money at all. my mother left some money, but my uncle says that that will come in useful when i'm articled to this solicitor, mr. hitchcock. oh, but if i become a priest i can't become a solicitor, and perhaps i could have that money. i don't know how much it is . . . i think five hundred pounds. would that be enough?"
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"but i'm leaving school at the end of this year."
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the confirmation was held on the feast of the nativity of the blessed virgin. mark made his first confession on the vigil, his first communion on the following sunday.
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the pomeroy affair
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mark was so much elated to find himself a fully equipped member of the church militant that he looked about him again to find somebody whom he could make as happy as himself. he even considered the possibility of converting his uncle, and spent the sunday evening before term began in framing inexpugnable arguments to be preceded by unanswerable questions; but always when he was on the point of speaking he was deterred by the lifelessness of his uncle. no eloquence could irrigate his arid creed and make that desert blossom now. and yet, mark thought, he ought to remember that in the eyes of the world he owed his uncle everything. what did he owe him in the sight of god? gratitude? gratitude for what? gratitude for spending a certain amount of money on him. once more mark opened his mouth to repay his debt by offering uncle henry eternal life. but uncle henry fancied himself already in possession of eternal life. he definitely labelled himself evangelical. and again mark prepared one of his unanswerable questions.
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"mark," said mr. lidderdale. "if you can't keep from yawning you'd better get off to bed. don't forget school begins to-morrow, and you must make the most of your last term."
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mark abandoned for ever the task of converting uncle henry, and pondered his chance of doing something with aunt helen. there instead of exsiccation he was confronted by a dreadful humidity, an infertile ooze that seemed almost less susceptible to cultivation than the other.
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"and i really don't owe her anything," he thought. "besides, it isn't that i want to save people from damnation. i want people to be happy. and it isn't quite that even. i want them to understand how happy i am. i want people to feel fond of their pillows when they turn over to go to sleep, because next morning is going to be what? well, sort of exciting."
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mark suddenly imagined how splendid it would be to give some of his happiness to esther ogilvie; but a moment later he decided that it would be rather cheek, and he abandoned the idea of converting esther ogilvie. he fell back on wishing again that mr. spaull had not died; in him he really would have had an ideal subject.
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in the end mark fixed upon a boy of his own age, one of the many sons of a papuan missionary called pomeroy who was glad to have found in mr. lidderdale a cheap and evangelical schoolmaster. cyril pomeroy was a blushful, girlish youth, clever at the routine of school work, but in other ways so much undeveloped as to give an impression of stupidity. the notion of pointing out to him the beauty and utility of the catholic religion would probably never have occurred to mark if the boy himself had not approached him with a direct complaint of the dreariness of home life. mark had never had any intimate friends at haverton house; there was something in its atmosphere that was hostile to intimacy. cyril pomeroy appealed to that idea of romantic protection which is the common appendage of adolescence, and is the cause of half the extravagant affection at which maturity is wont to laugh. in the company of cyril, mark felt ineffably old than which upon the threshold of sixteen there is no sensation more grateful; and while the intercourse flattered his own sense of superiority he did feel that he had much to offer his friend. mark regarded cyril's case as curable if the right treatment were followed, and every evening after school during the veiled summer of a fine october he paced the slowbridge streets with his willing proselyte, debating the gravest issues of religious practice, the subtlest varieties of theological opinion. he also lent cyril suitable books, and finally he demanded from him as a double tribute to piety and friendship that he should prove his metal by going to confession. cyril, who was incapable of refusing whatever mark demanded, bicycled timorously behind him to meade cantorum one saturday afternoon, where he gulped out the table of his sins to mr. ogilvie, whom mark had fetched from the vicarage with the urgency of one who fetches a midwife. nor was he at all abashed when mr. ogilvie was angry for not having been told that cyril's father would have disapproved of his son's confession. he argued that the priest was applying social standards to religious principles, and in the end he enjoyed the triumph of hearing mr. ogilvie admit that perhaps he was right.
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"i know i'm right. come on, cyril. you'd better get back home now. oh, and i say, mr. ogilvie, can i borrow for cyril some of the books you lent me?"
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the priest was amused that mark did not ask him to lend the books to his friend, but to himself. however, when he found that the neophyte seemed to flourish under mark's assiduous priming, and that the fundamental weakness of his character was likely to be strengthened by what, though it was at present nothing more than an interest in religion, might later on develop into a profound conviction of the truths of christianity, ogilvie overlooked his scruples about deceiving parents and encouraged the boy as much as he could.
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"but i hope your manipulation of the plastic cyril isn't going to turn you into too much of a ritualist," he said to mark. "it's splendid of course that you should have an opportunity so young of proving your ability to get round people in the right way. but let it be the right way, old man. at the beginning you were full of the happiness, the secret of which you burnt to impart to others. that happiness was the revelation of the holy spirit dwelling in you as he dwells in all christian souls. i am sure that the eloquent exposition i lately overheard of the propriety of fiddle-backed chasubles and the impropriety of gothic ones doesn't mean that you are in any real danger of supposing chasubles to be anything more important relatively than, say, the uniform of a soldier compared with his valour and obedience and selflessness. now don't overwhelm me for a minute or two. i haven't finished what i want to say. i wasn't speaking sarcastically when i said that, and i wasn't criticizing you. but you are not cyril. by god's grace you have been kept from the temptations of the flesh. yes, i know the subject is distasteful to you. but you are old enough to understand that your fastidiousness, if it isn't to be priggish, must be safeguarded by your humility. i didn't mean to sandwich a sermon to you between my remarks on cyril, but your disdainful upper lip compelled that testimony. let us leave you and your virtues alone. cyril is weak. he's the weak pink type that may fall to women or drink or anything in fact where an opportunity is given him of being influenced by a stronger character than his own. at the moment he's being influenced by you to go to confession, and say his rosary, and hear mass, and enjoy all the other treats that our holy religion gives us. in addition to that he's enjoying them like the proverbial stolen fruit. you were very severe with me when i demurred at hearing his confession without authority from his father; but i don't like stolen fruit, and i'm not sure even now if i was right in yielding on that point. i shouldn't have yielded if i hadn't felt that cyril might be hurt in the future by my scruples. now look here, mark, you've got to see that i don't regret my surrender. if that youth doesn't get from religion what i hope and pray he will get . . . but let that point alone. my scruples are my own affair. your convictions are your own affair. but cyril is our joint affair. he's your convert, but he's my penitent; and mark, don't overdecorate your building until you're sure the foundations are well and truly laid."
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mark was never given an opportunity of proving the excellence of his methods by the excellence of cyril's life, because on the morning after this conversation, which took place one wet sunday evening in advent he was sent for by his uncle, who demanded to know the meaning of this. this was a letter from the reverend eustace pomeroy.
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my son cyril will not attend school for the rest of this term. yesterday evening, being confined to the house by fever, i went up to his bedroom to verify a reference in a book i had recently lent him to assist his divinity studies under you. when i took down the book from the shelf i noticed several books hidden away behind, and my curiosity being aroused i examined them, in case they should be works of an unpleasant nature. to my horror and disgust, i found that they were all works of an extremely popish character, most of them belonging to a clergyman in this neighbourhood called ogilvie, whose illegal practices have for several years been a scandal to this diocese. these i am sending to the bishop that he may see with his own eyes the kind of propaganda that is going on. two of the books, inscribed mark lidderdale, are evidently the property of your nephew to whom i suppose my son is indebted for this wholesale corruption. on questioning my son i found him already so sunk in the mire of the pernicious doctrines he has imbibed that he actually defied his own father. i thrashed him severely in spite of my fever, and he is now under lock and key in his bedroom where he will remain until he sails with me to sydney next week whither i am summoned to the conference of australasian missionaries. during the voyage i shall wrestle with the demon that has entered into my son and endeavour to persuade him that jesus only is necessary for salvation. and when i have done so, i shall leave him in australia to earn his own living remote from the scene of his corruption. in the circumstances i assume that you will deduct a proportion of his school fees for this term. i know that you will be as much horrified and disgusted as i was by your nephew's conduct, and i trust that you will be able to wrestle with him in the lord and prove to him that jesus only is necessary to salvation.
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yours very truly,
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the pulse in mr. lidderdale's temple had never throbbed so remarkably as while mark was reading this letter.
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"a fine thing," he ranted, "if this story gets about in slowbridge. a fine reward for all my kindness if you ruin my school. as for this man ogilvie, i'll sue him for damages. don't look at me with that expression of bestial defiance. do you hear? what prevents my thrashing you as you deserve? what prevents me, i say?"
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but mark was not paying any attention to his uncle's fury; he was thinking about the unfortunate martyr under lock and key in the limes, cranborne road, slowbridge. he was wondering what would be the effect of this violent removal to the antipodes and how that fundamental weakness of character would fare if cyril were left to himself at his age.
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"i think mr. pomeroy is a ruffian," said mark. "don't you, uncle henry? if he writes to the bishop about mr. ogilvie, i shall write to the bishop about him. i hate protestants. i hate them."
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"there's your father to the life. you'd like to burn them, wouldn't you?"
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"yes, i would," mark declared.
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"you'd like to burn me, i suppose?"
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"not you in particular."
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"will you listen to him, helen," he shouted to his sister. "come here and listen to him. listen to the boy we took in and educated and clothed and fed, listen to him saying he'd like to burn his uncle. into mr. hitchcock's office you go at once. no more education if this is what it leads to. read that letter, helen, look at that book, helen. catholic prayers for church of england people by the reverend a.h. stanton. look at this book, helen. the catholic religion by vernon staley. no wonder you hate protestants, you ungrateful boy. no wonder you're longing to burn your uncle and aunt. it'll be in the slowbridge herald to-morrow. headlines! ruin! they'll think i'm a jesuit in disguise. i ought to have got a very handsome sum of money for the good-will. go back to your class-room, and if you have a spark of affection in your nature, don't brag about this to the other boys."
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mark, pondering all the morning the best thing to do for cyril, remembered that a boy called hacking lived at the laurels, 36, cranborne road. he did not like hacking, but wishing to utilize his back garden for the purpose of communicating with the prisoner he made himself agreeable to him in the interval between first and second school.
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"hullo, hacking," he began. "i say, do you want a cricket bat? i shan't be here next summer, so you may as well have mine."
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hacking looked at mark suspicious of some hidden catch that would make him appear a fool.
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"no, really i'm not ragging," said mark. "i'll bring it round to you after dinner. i'll be at your place about a quarter to two. wait for me, won't you?"
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hacking puzzled his brains to account for this generous whim, and at last decided that mark must be "gone" on his sister edith. he supposed that he ought to warn edith to be about when mark called; if the bat was not forthcoming he could easily prevent a meeting. the bat however turned out to be much better than he expected, and hacking was on the point of presenting cressida to troilus when troilus said:
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"that's your garden at the back, isn't it?"
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hacking admitted that it was.
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"it looks rather decent."
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hacking allowed modestly that it wasn't bad.
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"my father's rather dead nuts on gardening. so's my kiddy sister," he added.
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"i vote we go out there," mark suggested.
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"shall i give a yell to my kiddy sister?" asked pandarus.
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"good lord, no," mark exclaimed. "don't the pomeroys live next door to you? look here, hacking, i want to speak to cyril pomeroy."
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"he was absent this morning."
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mark considered hacking as a possible adjutant to the enterprise he was plotting. that he finally decided to admit hacking to his confidence was due less to the favourable result of the scrutiny than to the fact that unless he confided in hacking he would find it difficult to communicate with cyril and impossible to manage his escape. mark aimed as high as this. his first impulse had been to approach the vicar of meade cantorum, but on second thoughts he had rejected him in favour of mr. dorward, who was not so likely to suffer from respect for paternal authority.
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"look here, hacking, will you swear not to say a word about what i'm going to tell you?"
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"of course," said hacking, who scenting a scandal would have promised much more than this to obtain the details of it.
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"what will you swear by?"
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"oh, anything," hacking offered, without the least hesitation. "i don't mind what it is."
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"well, what do you consider the most sacred thing in the world?"
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if hacking had known himself, he would have said food; not knowing himself, he suggested the bible.
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"i suppose you know that if you swear something on the bible and break your oath you can be put in prison?" mark demanded sternly.
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"yes, of course."
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the oath was administered, and hacking waited goggle-eyed for the revelation.
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"is that all?" he asked when mark stopped.
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"well, it's enough, isn't it? and now you've got to help him to escape."
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"but i didn't swear i'd do that," argued hacking.
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"all right then. don't. i thought you'd enjoy it."
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"we should get into a row. there'd be an awful shine."
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"who's to know it's us? i've got a friend in the country. and i shall telegraph to him and ask if he'll hide pomeroy."
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mark was not sufficiently sure of hacking's discretion or loyalty to mention dorward's name. after all this business wasn't just a rag.
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"the first thing is for you to go out in the garden and attract pomeroy's attention. he's locked in his bedroom."
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"but i don't know which is his bedroom," hacking objected.
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"well, you don't suppose the whole family are locked in their bedrooms, do you?" asked mark scornfully.
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"but how do you know his bedroom is on this side of the house?"
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"i don't," said mark. "that's what i want to find out. if it's in the front of the house, i shan't want your help, especially as you're so funky."
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hacking went out into the garden, and presently he came back with the news that pomeroy was waiting outside to talk to mark over the wall.
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"waiting outside?" mark repeated. "what do you mean, waiting outside? how can he be waiting outside when he's locked in his bedroom?"
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"but he's not," said hacking.
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sure enough, when mark went out he found cyril astride the party wall between the two gardens waiting for him.
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"you can't let your father drag you off to australia like this," mark argued. "you'll go all to pieces there. you'll lose your faith, and take to drink, and--you must refuse to go."
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cyril smiled weakly and explained to mark that when once his father had made up his mind to do something it was impossible to stop him.
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thereupon mark explained his scheme.
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"i'll get an answer from dorward to-night and you must escape to-morrow afternoon as soon as it's dark. have you got a rope ladder?"
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cyril smiled more feebly than ever.
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"no, i suppose you haven't. then what you must do is tear up your sheets and let yourself down into the garden. hacking will whistle three times if all's clear, and then you must climb over into his garden and run as hard as you can to the corner of the road where i'll be waiting for you in a cab. i'll go up to london with you and see you off from waterloo, which is the station for green lanes where father dorward lives. you take a ticket to galton, and i expect he'll meet you, or if he doesn't, it's only a seven mile walk. i don't know the way, but you can ask when you get to galton. only if you could find your way without asking it would be better, because if you're pursued and you're seen asking the way you'll be caught more easily. now i must rush off and borrow some money from mr. ogilvie. no, perhaps it would rouse suspicions if i were absent from afternoon school. my uncle would be sure to guess, and--though i don't think he would--he might try to lock me up in my room. but i say," mark suddenly exclaimed in indignation, "how on earth did you manage to come and talk to me out here?"
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cyril explained that he had only been locked in his bedroom last night when his father was so angry. he had freedom to move about in the house and garden, and, he added to mark's annoyance, there would be no need for him to use rope ladders or sheets to escape. if mark would tell him what time to be at the corner of the road and would wait for him a little while in case his father saw him going out and prevented him, he would easily be able to escape.
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"then i needn't have told hacking," said mark. "however, now i have told him, he must do something, or else he's sure to let out what he knows. i wish i knew where to get the money for the fare."
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"i've got a pound in my money box."
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cyril smiled his feeble smile, and mark felt inclined to abandon him to his fate; but he decided on reflection that the importance of vindicating the claims of the church to a persecuted son was more important than the foolishness and the feebleness of the son.
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"do you want me to do anything more?" hacking asked.
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mark suggested that hacking's name and address should be given for mr. dorward's answer, but this hacking refused.
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"if a telegram came to our house, everybody would want to read it. why can't it be sent to you?"
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mark sighed for his fellow-conspirator's stupidity. to this useless clod he had presented a valuable bat.
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"all right," he said impatiently, "you needn't do anything more except tell pomeroy what time he's to be at the corner of the road to-morrow."
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"i'll do that, lidderdale."
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"i should think you jolly well would," mark exclaimed scornfully.
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mark spent a long time over the telegram to dorward; in the end he decided that it would be safer to assume that the priest would shelter and hide cyril rather than take the risk of getting an answer. the final draft was as follows:--
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dorward green lanes medworth hants
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am sending persecuted catholic boy by 7.30 from waterloo tuesday please send conveyance mark lidderdale.
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mark only had eightpence, and this message would cost tenpence. he took out the am, changed by 7.30 from waterloo to arriving 9.35 and send conveyance to meet. if he had only borrowed cyril's sovereign, he could have been more explicit. however, he flattered himself that he was getting full value for his eightpence. he then worked out the cost of cyril's escape.
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the cab of course might cost more, and he must take back the eightpence out of it for himself. but cyril would have at least one and sixpence in his pocket when he arrived, which he could put in the offertory at the mass of thanksgiving for his escape that he would attend on the following morning. cyril would be useful to old dorward, and he (mark) would give him some tips on serving if they had an empty compartment from slowbridge to paddington. mark's original intention had been to wait at the corner of cranborne road in a closed cab like the proverbial postchaise of elopements, but he discarded this idea for reasons of economy. he hoped that cyril would not get frightened on the way to the station and turn back. perhaps after all it would be wiser to order a cab and give up the ginger-beer, or pay for the ginger-beer with the money for the telegram. once inside a cab cyril was bound to go on. hacking might be committed more completely to the enterprise by waiting inside until he arrived with cyril. it was a pity that cyril was not locked in his room, and yet when it came to it he would probably have funked letting himself down from the window by knotted sheets. mark walked home with hacking after school, to give his final instructions for the following day.
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"i'm telling you now," he said, "because we oughtn't to be seen together at all to-morrow, in case of arousing suspicion. you must get hold of pomeroy and tell him to run to the corner of the road at half-past-five, and jump straight into the fly that'll be waiting there with you inside."
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"but where will you be?"
"__<label>__NOUN but__<label>__ADP where__<label>__ADP will__<label>__PRT you__<label>__PRON be__<label>__VERB ?"__<label>__.
"i shall be waiting outside the ticket barrier with the tickets."
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"supposing he won't?"
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"i'll risk seeing him once more. go and ask if you can speak to him a minute, and tell him to come out in the garden presently. say you've knocked a ball over or something and will master cyril throw it back. i say, we might really put a message inside a ball and throw it over. that was the way the duc de beaufort escaped in twenty years after."
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hacking looked blankly at mark.
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"but it's dark and wet," he objected. "i shouldn't knock a ball over on a wet evening like this."
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"well, the skivvy won't think of that, and pomeroy will guess that we're trying to communicate with him."
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mark thought how odd it was that hacking should be so utterly blind to the romance of the enterprise. after a few more objections which were disposed of by mark, hacking agreed to go next door and try to get the prisoner into the garden. he succeeded in this, and mark rated cyril for not having given him the sovereign yesterday.
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"however, bunk in and get it now, because i shan't see you again till to-morrow at the station, and i must have some money to buy the tickets."
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he explained the details of the escape and exacted from cyril a promise not to back out at the last moment.
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"you've got nothing to do. it's as simple as a b c. it's too simple, really, to be much of a rag. however, as it isn't a rag, but serious, i suppose we oughtn't to grumble. now, you are coming, aren't you?"
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cyril promised that nothing but physical force should prevent him.
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"if you funk, don't forget that you'll have betrayed your faith and . . ."
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at this moment mark in his enthusiasm slipped off the wall, and after uttering one more solemn injunction against backing out at the last minute he left cyril to the protection of angels for the next twenty-four hours.
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although he would never have admitted as much, mark was rather astonished when cyril actually did present himself at slowbridge station in time to catch the 5.47 train up to town. their compartment was not empty, so that mark was unable to give cyril that lesson in serving at the altar which he had intended to give him. instead, as cyril seemed in his reaction to the excitement of the escape likely to burst into tears at any moment, he drew for him a vivid picture of the enjoyable life to which the train was taking him.
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"father dorward says that the country round green lanes is ripping. and his church is norman. i expect he'll make you his ceremonarius. you're an awfully lucky chap, you know. he says that next corpus christi, he's going to have mass on the village green. nobody will know where you are, and i daresay later on you can become a hermit. you might become a saint. the last english saint to be canonized was st. thomas cantilupe of hereford. but of course charles the first ought to have been properly canonized. by the time you die i should think we should have got back canonization in the english church, and if i'm alive then i'll propose your canonization. st. cyril pomeroy you'd be."
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such were the bright colours in which mark painted cyril's future; when he had watched him wave his farewells from the window of the departing train at waterloo, he felt as if he were watching the bodily assumption of a saint.
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"where have you been all the evening?" asked uncle henry, when mark came back about nine o'clock.
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"in london," said mark.
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"your insolence is becoming insupportable. get away to your room."
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it never struck mr. lidderdale that his nephew was telling the truth.
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the hue and cry for cyril pomeroy began at once, and though mark maintained at first that the discovery of cyril's hiding-place was due to nothing else except the cowardice of hacking, who when confronted by a detective burst into tears and revealed all he knew, he was bound to admit afterward that, if mr. ogilvie had been questioned much more, he would have had to reveal the secret himself. mark was hurt that his efforts to help a son of holy church should not be better appreciated by mr. ogilvie; but he forgave his friend in view of the nuisance that it undoubtedly must have been to have meade cantorum beleaguered by half a dozen corpulent detectives. the only person in the vicarage who seemed to approve of what he had done was esther; she who had always seemed to ignore him, even sometimes in a sensitive mood to despise him, was full of congratulations.
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"how did you manage it, mark?"
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"oh, i took a cab," said mark modestly. "one from the corner of cranborne road to slowbridge, and another from paddington to waterloo. we had some sandwiches, and a good deal of ginger-beer at paddington because we thought we mightn't be able to get any at waterloo, but at waterloo we had some more ginger-beer. i wish i hadn't told hacking. if i hadn't, we should probably have pulled it off. old dorward was up to anything. but hacking is a hopeless ass."
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"what does your uncle say?"
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"he's rather sick," mark admitted. "he refused to let me go to school any more, which as you may imagine doesn't upset me very much, and i'm to go into hitchcock's office after christmas. as far as i can make out i shall be a kind of servant."
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"have you talked to stephen about it?"
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"well, he's a bit annoyed with me about this kidnapping. i'm afraid i have rather let him in for it. he says he doesn't mind so much if it's kept out of the papers."
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"would you? i say, i am sorry. i never thought of you," said mark much disappointed at the lost opportunity. "you'd have been much better than that ass hacking. if you and i had been the only people in it, i'll bet the detectives would never have found him."
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"and what's going to happen to the youth now?"
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"oh, his father's going to take him to australia as he arranged. they sail to-morrow. there's one thing," mark added with a kind of gloomy relish. "he's bound to go to the bad, and perhaps that'll be a lesson to his father."
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the hope of the vicar of meade cantorum and equally it may be added the hope of mr. lidderdale that the affair would be kept out of the papers was not fulfilled. the day after mr. pomeroy and his son sailed from tilbury the following communication appeared in the times:
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sir,--the accompanying letter was handed to me by my friend the reverend eustace pomeroy to be used as i thought fit and subject to only one stipulation--that it should not be published until he and his son were out of england. as president of the society for the protection of the english church against romish aggression i feel that it is my duty to lay the facts before the country. i need scarcely add that i have been at pains to verify the surprising and alarming accusations made by a clergyman against two other clergymen, and i earnestly request the publicity of your columns for what i venture to believe is positive proof of the dangerous conspiracy existing in our very midst to romanize the established church of england. i shall be happy to produce for any of your readers who find mr. pomeroy's story incredible at the close of the nineteenth century the signed statements of witnesses and other documentary evidence.
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i am, sir,
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your obedient servant,
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president of the society for the protection of the english church against romish aggression.
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four years ago, my lord, i retired from a lifelong career as a missionary in new guinea to give my children the advantages of english education and english climate, and it is surely hard that i should live to curse the day on which i did so. my third son cyril was sent to school at haverton house, slowbridge, to an educational establishment kept by a mr. henry lidderdale, reputed to be a strong evangelical and i believe i am justified in saying rightly so reputed. at the same time i regret that mr. lidderdale, whose brother was a notorious romanizer i have since discovered, should not have exercised more care in the supervision of his nephew, a fellow scholar with my own son at haverton house. it appears that mr. lidderdale was so lax as to permit his nephew to frequent the services of the reverend stephen ogilvie at meade cantorum, where every excess such as incense, lighted candles, mariolatry and creeping to the cross is openly practised. the revd. s. ogilvie i may add is a member of the s.s.c., that notorious secret society whose machinations have been so often exposed and the originators of that filthy book "the priest in absolution." he is also a member of the guild of all souls which has for its avowed object the restoration of the romish doctrine of purgatory with all its attendant horrors, and finally i need scarcely add he is a member of the confraternity of the "blessed sacrament" which seeks openly to popularize the idolatrous and blasphemous cult of the mass.
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young lidderdale presumably under the influence of this disloyal protestant clergyman sought to corrupt my son, and was actually so far successful as to lure him to attend the idolatrous services at meade cantorum church, which of course he was only able to do by inventing lies and excuses to his father to account for his absence from the simple worship to which all his life he had been accustomed. not content with this my unhappy son was actually persuaded to confess his sins to this self-styled "priest"! i wonder if he confessed the sin of deceiving his own father to "father" ogilvie who supplied him with numerous mass books, several of which i enclose for your lordship's inspection. you will be amused if you are not too much horrified by these puerile and degraded works, and in one of them, impudently entitled "catholic prayers for church of england people" you will actually see in cold print a prayer for the "pope of rome." this work emanates from that hotbed of sacerdotal disloyalty, st. alban's, holborn.
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these vile books i discovered by accident carefully hidden away in my son's bedroom. "facilis descensus averni!" you will easily imagine the humiliation of a parent who, having devoted his life to bring the gospel of jesus christ to the heathen, finds that his own son has fallen as low as the lowest savage. as soon as i made my discovery, i removed him from haverton house, and warned the proprietor of the risk he was running by not taking better care of his pupils. having been summoned to a conference of missionaries in sydney, n.s.w., i determined to take my son with me in the hope that a long voyage in the company of a loving parent, eager to help him back to the path of truth and salvation from which he had strayed, might cure him of his idolatrous fancies, and restore him to jesus.
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these, my lord, are the facts set out as shortly as possible and written on the eve of my departure in circumstances that militate against elegance of expression. i am, to tell the truth, still staggered by this affair, and if i make public my sorrow and my shame i do so in the hope that the society of which your lordship is president, may see its way to take some kind of action that will make a repetition of such an outrage upon family life for ever impossible.
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believe me to be,
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your lordship's obedient servant,
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the publication of this letter stirred england. the times in a leading article demanded a full inquiry into the alleged circumstances. the english churchman said that nothing like it had happened since the days of bloody mary. questions were asked in the house of commons, and finally when it became known that lord danvers would ask a question in the house of lords, mr. ogilvie took mark to see lord hull who wished to be in possession of the facts before he rose to correct some misapprehensions of lord danvers. mark also had to interview two bishops, an archdeacon, and a rural dean. he did not realize that for a few weeks he was a central figure in what was called the church crisis. he was indignant at mr. pomeroy's exaggeration and perversions of fact, and he was so evidently speaking the truth that everybody from lord hull to a reporter of the sun was impressed by his account of the affair, so that in the end the pomeroy abduction was decided to be less revolutionary than the gunpowder plot.
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mr. lidderdale, however, believed that his nephew had deliberately tried to ruin him out of malice, and when two parents seized the opportunity of such a scandal to remove their sons from haverton house without paying the terminal fees, mr. lidderdale told mark that he should recoup himself for the loss out of the money left by his mother.
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"how much did she leave?" his nephew asked.
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"don't ask impertinent questions."
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"but it's my money, isn't it?"
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"it will be your money in another six years, if you behave yourself. meanwhile half of it will be devoted to paying your premium at the office of my friend mr. hitchcock."
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"but i don't want to be a solicitor. i want to be a priest," said mark.
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uncle henry produced a number of cogent reasons that would make his nephew's ambition unattainable.
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"very well, if i can't be a priest, i don't want the money, and you can keep it yourself," said mark. "but i'm not going to be a solicitor."
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"and what are you going to be, may i inquire?" asked uncle henry.
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"in the end i probably shall be a priest," mark prophesied. "but i haven't quite decided yet how. i warn you that i shall run away."
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"run away," his uncle echoed in amazement. "good heavens, boy, haven't you had enough of running away over this deplorable pomeroy affair? where are you going to run to?"
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"i couldn't tell you, could i, even if i knew?" mark asked as tactfully as he was able. "but as a matter of fact, i don't know. i only know that i won't go into mr. hitchcock's office. if you try to force me, i shall write to the times about it."
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such a threat would have sounded absurd in the mouth of a schoolboy before the pomeroy business; but now mr. lidderdale took it seriously and began to wonder if haverton house would survive any more of such publicity. when a few days later mr. ogilvie, whom mark had consulted about his future, wrote to propose that mark should live with him and work under his superintendence with the idea of winning a scholarship at oxford, mr. lidderdale was inclined to treat his suggestion as a solution of the problem, and he replied encouragingly:
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am i to understand from your letter that you are offering to make yourself responsible for my nephew's future, for i must warn you that i could not accept your suggestion unless such were the case? i do not approve of what i assume will be the trend of your education, and i should have to disclaim any further responsibility in the matter of my nephew's future. i may inform you that i hold in trust for him until he comes of age the sum of £522 8s. 7d. which was left by his mother. the annual interest upon this i have used until now as a slight contribution to the expense to which i have been put on his account; but i have not thought it right to use any of the capital sum. this i am proposing to transfer to you. his mother did not execute any legal document and i have nothing more binding than a moral obligation. if you undertake the responsibility of looking after him until such time as he is able to earn his own living, i consider that you are entitled to use this money in any way you think right. i hope that the boy will reward your confidence more amply than he has rewarded mine. i need not allude to the pomeroy business to you, for notwithstanding your public denials i cannot but consider that you were as deeply implicated in that disgraceful affair as he was. i note what you say about the admiration you had for my brother. i wish i could honestly say that i shared that admiration. but my brother and i were not on good terms, for which state of affairs he was entirely responsible. i am more ready to surrender to you all my authority over mark because i am only too well aware how during the last year you have consistently undermined that authority and encouraged my nephew's rebellious spirit. i have had a great experience of boys during thirty-five years of schoolmastering, and i can assure you that i have never had to deal with a boy so utterly insensible to kindness as my nephew. his conduct toward his aunt i can only characterize as callous. of his conduct towards me i prefer to say no more. i came forward at a moment when he was likely to be sunk in the most abject poverty, and my reward has been ingratitude. i pray that his dark and stubborn temperament may not turn to vice and folly as he grows older, but i have little hope of its not doing so. i confess that to me his future seems dismally black. you may have acquired some kind of influence over his emotions, if he has any emotions, but i am not inclined to suppose that it will endure.
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on hearing from you that you persist in your offer to assume complete responsibility for my nephew, i will hand him over to your care at once. i cannot pretend that i shall be sorry to see the last of him, for i am not a hypocrite. i may add that his clothes are in rather a sorry state. i had intended to equip him upon his entering the office of my old friend mr. hitchcock and with that intention i have been letting him wear out what he has. this, i may say, he has done most effectually.
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i am, sir,
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to which mr. ogilvie replied:
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dear mr. lidderdale,
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i accept full responsibility for mark and for mark's money. send both of them along whenever you like. i'm not going to embark on another controversy about the "rights" of boys. i've exhausted every argument on this subject since mark involved me in his drastic measures of a month ago. but please let me assure you that i will do my best for him and that i am convinced he will do his best for me.
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mark rarely visited his uncle and aunt after he went to live at meade cantorum; and the break was made complete soon afterward when the living of wych-on-the-wold was accepted by mr. ogilvie, so complete indeed that he never saw his relations again. uncle henry died five years later; aunt helen went to live at st. leonard's, where she took up palmistry and became indispensable to the success of charitable bazaars in east sussex.
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wych, a large village on a spur of the cotswold hills, was actually in oxfordshire, although by so bare a margin that all the windows looked down into gloucestershire, except those in the rectory; they looked out across a flat country of elms and willow-bordered streams to a flashing spire in northamptonshire reputed to be fifty miles away. it was a high windy place, seeming higher and windier on account of the numbers of pigeons that were always circling round the church tower. there was hardly a house in wych that did not have its pigeon-cote, from the great round columbary in the rectory garden to the few holes in a gable-end of some steep-roofed cottage. wych was architecturally as perfect as most cotswold villages, and if it lacked the variety of wychford in the vale below, that was because the exposed position had kept its successive builders too intent on solidity to indulge their fancy. the result was an austere uniformity of design that accorded fittingly with a landscape whose beauty was all of line and whose colour like the lichen on an old wall did not flauntingly reveal its gradations of tint to the transient observer. the bleak upland airs had taught the builders to be sparing with their windows; the result of such solicitude for the comfort of the inmates was a succession of blank spaces of freestone that delighted the eye with an effect of strength and leisure, of cleanliness and tranquillity.
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the rectory, dating from the reign of charles ii, did not arrogate to itself the right to retire behind trees from the long line of the single village street; but being taller than the other houses it brought the street to a dignified conclusion, and it was not unworthy of the noble church which stood apart from the village, a landmark for miles, upon the brow of the rolling wold. there was little traffic on the road that climbed up from wychford in the valley of the swift greenrush five miles away, and there was less traffic on the road beyond, which for eight miles sent branch after branch to remote farms and hamlets until itself became no more than a sheep track and faded out upon a hilly pasturage. yet even this unfrequented road only bisected the village at the end of its wide street, where in the morning when the children were at school and the labourers at work in the fields the silence was cloistral, where one could stand listening to the larks high overhead, and where the lightest footstep aroused curiosity, so that one turned the head to peep and peer for the cause of so strange a sound.
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mr. ogilvie's parish had a large superficial area; but his parishioners were not many outside the village, and in that country of wide pastures the whole of his cure did not include half-a-dozen farms. there was no doctor and no squire, unless will starling of rushbrooke grange could be counted as the squire.
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halfway to wychford and close to the boundary of the two parishes an infirm signpost managed with the aid of a stunted hawthorn to keep itself partially upright and direct the wayfarer to wych maries. without the signpost nobody would have suspected that the grassgrown track thus indicated led anywhere except over the top of the wold.
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"you must go and explore wych maries," the rector had said to mark soon after they arrived. "you'll find it rather attractive. there's a disused chapel dedicated to st. mary the virgin and st. mary magdalene. my predecessor took me there when we drove round the parish on my first visit; but i haven't yet had time to go again. and you ought to have a look at the gardens of rushbrooke grange. the present squire is away. in the south seas, i believe. but the housekeeper, mrs. honeybone, will show you round."
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it was in response to this advice that mark and esther set out on a golden may evening to explore wych maries. esther had continued to be friendly with mark after the pomeroy affair; and when he came to live at meade cantorum she had expressed her pleasure at the prospect of having him for a brother.
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"but you'll keep off religion, won't you?" she had demanded.
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mark promised that he would, wondering why she should suppose that he was incapable of perceiving who was and who was not interested in it.
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"i suppose you've guessed my fear?" she had continued. "haven't you? haven't you guessed that i'm frightened to death of becoming religious?"
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the reassuring contradiction that one naturally gives to anybody who voices a dread of being overtaken by some misfortune might perhaps have sounded inappropriate, and mark had held his tongue.
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"my father was very religious. my mother is more or less religious. stephen is religious. miriam is religious. oh, mark, and i sometimes feel that i too must fall on my knees and surrender. but i won't. because it spoils life. i shall be beaten in the end of course, and i'll probably get religious mania when i am beaten. but until then--" she did not finish her sentence; only her blue eyes glittered at the challenge of life.
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that was the last time religion was mentioned between mark and esther, and since both of them enjoyed the country they became friends. on this may evening they stood by the signpost and looked across the shimmering grass to where the sun hung in his web of golden haze above the edge of the wold.
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"if we take the road to wych maries," said mark, "we shall be walking right into the sun."
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esther did not reply, but mark understood that she assented to his truism, and they walked on as silent as the long shadows that followed them. a quarter of a mile from the high road the path reached the edge of the wold and dipped over into a wood which was sparse just below the brow, but which grew denser down the slope with many dark evergreens interspersed, and in the valley below became a jungle. after the bare upland country this volume of may verdure seemed indescribably rich and the valley beyond, where the greenrush flowed through kingcups toward the sun, indescribably alluring. esther and mark forgot that they were exploring wych maries and thinking only of reaching that wide valley they ran down through the wood, rejoicing in the airy green of the ash-trees above them and shouting as they ran. but presently cypresses and sombre yews rose on either side of the path, and the road to wych maries was soft and silent, and the serene sun was lost, and their whispering footsteps forbade them to shout any more. at the bottom of the hill the trees increased in number and variety; the sun shone through pale oak-leaves and the warm green of sycamores. nevertheless a sadness haunted the wood, where the red campions made only a mist of colour with no reality of life and flowers behind.
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"this wood's awfully jolly, isn't it?" said mark, hoping to gain from esther's agreement the dispersal of his gloom.
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"i don't care for it much," she replied. "there doesn't seem to be any life in it."
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"i heard a cuckoo just now," said mark.
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"yes, out of tune already."
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"mm, rather out of tune. mind those nettles," he warned her.
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"i thought stephen said he drove here."
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"perhaps we've come the wrong way. i believe the road forked by the ash wood above. anyway if we go toward the sun we shall come out in the valley, and we can walk back along the banks of the river to wychford."
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"we can always go back through the wood," said esther.
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"yes, if you don't mind going back the way you came."
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"come on," she snapped. she was not going to be laughed at by mark, and she dared him to deny that he was not as much aware as herself of an eeriness in the atmosphere.
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"only because it seems dark in here after that dazzling sunlight on the wold. hark! i hear the sound of water."
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they struggled through the undergrowth toward the sound; soon from a steep wooded bank they were gazing down into a millpool, the surface of which reflected with a gloomy deepening of their hue the colour but not the form of the trees above. water was flowing through a rotten sluice gate down from the level of the stream upon a slimy water-wheel that must have been out of action for many years.
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"the dark tarn of auber in the misty mid region of weir!" mark exclaimed. "don't you love ulalume? i think it's about my favourite poem."
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"never heard of it," esther replied indifferently. he might have taken advantage of this confession to give her a lecture on poetry, if the millpool and the melancholy wood had not been so affecting as to make the least attempt at literary exposition impertinent.
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"and there's the chapel," mark exclaimed, pointing to a ruined edifice of stone, the walls of which were stained with the damp of years rising from the pool. "but how shall we reach it? we must have come the wrong way."
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"let's go back! let's go back!" esther exclaimed, surrendering to the command of an intuition that overcame her pride. "this place is unlucky."
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mark looking at her wild eyes, wilder in the dark that came so early in this overshadowed place, was half inclined to turn round at her behest; but at that moment he perceived a possible path through the nettles and briers at the farther end of the pool and unwilling to go back to the rectory without having visited the ruined chapel of wych maries he called on her to follow him. this she did fearfully at first; but gradually regaining her composure she emerged on the other side as cool and scornful as the esther with whom he was familiar.
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"what frightened you?" he asked, when they were standing on a grassgrown road that wound through a rank pasturage browsed on by a solitary black cow and turned the corner by a clump of cedars toward a large building, the presence of which was felt rather than seen beyond the trees.
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"i was bored by the brambles," esther offered for explanation.
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"this must be the driving road," mark proclaimed. "i say, this chapel is rather ripping, isn't it?"
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but esther had wandered away across the rank meadow, where her meditative form made the solitary black cow look lonelier than ever. mark turned aside to examine the chapel. he had been warned by the rector to look at the images of st. mary the virgin and st. mary magdalene that had survived the ruin of the holy place of which they were tutelary and to which they had given their name. the history of the chapel was difficult to trace. it was so small as to suggest that it was a chantry; but there was no historical justification for linking its fortunes with the starlings who owned rushbrooke grange, and there was no record of any lost hamlet here. that it was called wych maries might show a connexion either with wychford or with wych-on-the-wold; it lay about midway between the two, and in days gone by there had been controversy on this point between the two parishes. the question had been settled by a squire of rushbrooke's buying it in the eighteenth century, since when a legend had arisen that it was built and endowed by some crusading starling of the thirteenth century. there was record neither of its glory nor of its decline, nor of what manner of folk worshipped there, nor of those who destroyed it. the roofless haunt of bats and owls, preserved from complete collapse by the ancient ivy that covered its walls, the mortar between its stones the prey of briers, its floor a nettle bed, the chapel remained a mystery. yet over the arch of the west door the two maries gazed heavenward as they had gazed for six hundred years. the curiosity of the few antiquarians who visited the place and speculated upon its past had kept the images clear of the ivy that covered the rest of the fabric. mark did not put this to the credit of the antiquarians; but now perceiving for the first time these two austere shapes of divine women under conditions of atmosphere that enhanced their austerity and unearthliness he ascribed their freedom from decay to the interposition of god. to mark's imagination, fixed upon the images while esther wandered solitary in the field beyond the chapel, there was granted another of those moments of vision which marked like milestones his spiritual progress. he became suddenly assured that he would neither marry nor beget children. he was astonished to find himself in the grip of this thought, for his mind had never until this evening occupied itself with marriage or children, nor even with love. yet here he was obsessed by the conviction of his finite purpose in the scheme of the world. he could not, he said to himself, be considered credulous if he sought for the explanation of his state of mind in the images of the two maries. he looked at them resolved to illuminate with reason's eye the fluttering shadows of dusk that gave to the stone an illusion of life's bloom.
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"did their lips really move?" he asked aloud, and from the field beyond the black cow lowed a melancholy negative. whether the stone had spoken or not, mark accepted the revelation of his future as a divine favour, and thenceforth he regarded the ruined chapel of wych maries as the place where the vow he made on that whit-sunday was accepted by god.
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"aren't you ever coming?" the voice of esther called across the field, and mark hurried away to rejoin her on the grassgrown drive that led round the cedar grove to rushbrooke grange.
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"it's too late now to go inside," he objected.
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they were standing before the house.
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"it's not too late at all," she contradicted eagerly. "down here it seems later than it really is."
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rushbrooke grange lacked the architectural perfection of the average cotswold manor. being a one-storied building it occupied a large superficial area, and its tumbling irregular roofs of freestone, the outlines of which were blurred by the encroaching mist of vegetation that overhung them, gave the effect of water, as if the atmosphere of this dank valley had wrought upon the substance of the building and as if the architects themselves had been confused by the rivalry of the trees by which it was surrounded. the owners of rushbrooke grange had never occupied a prominent position in the county, and their estates had grown smaller with each succeeding generation. there was no conspicuous author of their decay, no outstanding gamester or libertine from whose ownership the family's ruin could be dated. there was indeed nothing of interest in their annals except an attack upon the grange by a party of armed burglars in the disorderly times at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the squire's wife and two little girls were murdered while the squire and his sons were drinking deep in the stag inn at wychford four miles away. mark did not feel much inclined to blunt his impression of the chapel by perambulating rushbrooke grange under the guidance of mrs. honeybone, the old housekeeper; but esther perversely insisted upon seeing the garden at any rate, giving as her excuse that the rector would like them to pay the visit. by now it was a pink and green may dusk; the air was plumy with moths' wings, heavy with the scent of apple blossom.
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"well, you must explain who we are," said mark while the echoes of the bell died away on the silence within the house and they waited for the footsteps that should answer their summons. the answer came from a window above the porch where mrs. honeybone's face, wreathed in wistaria, looked down and demanded in accents that were harsh with alarm who was there.
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"i am the rector's sister, mrs. honeybone," esther explained.
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"i don't care who you are," said mrs. honeybone. "you have no business to go ringing the bell at this time of the evening. it frightened me to death."
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"the rector asked me to call on you," she pressed.
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mark had already been surprised by esther's using her brother as an excuse to visit the house and he was still more surprised by hearing her speak so politely, so ingratiatingly, it seemed, to this grim woman embowered in wistaria.
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"we lost our way," esther explained, "and that's why we're so late. the rector told me about the water-lily pool, and i should so much like to see it."
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mrs. honeybone debated with herself for a moment, until at last with a grunt of disapproval she came downstairs and opened the front door. the lily pool, now a lily pool only in name, for it was covered with an integument of duckweed which in twilight took on the texture of velvet, was an attractive place set in an enclosure of grass between high grey walls.
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"that's all there is to see," said mrs. honeybone.
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"mr. starling is abroad?" esther asked.
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the housekeeper nodded.
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"and when is he coming back?" she went on.
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"that's for him to say," said the housekeeper disagreeably. "he might come back to-night for all i know."
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almost before the sentence was out of her mouth the hall bell jangled, and a distant voice shouted:
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"nanny, nanny, hurry up and open the door!"
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mrs. honeybone could not have looked more startled if the voice had been that of a ghost. mark began to talk of going until esther cut him short.
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"i don't think mr. starling will mind our being here so much as that," she said.
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"you," he exclaimed. "you here!"
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by the way he quickly looked behind him as if to intercept a prying glance mark knew that, whatever the relationship between esther and the squire had been in the past, it had been a relationship in which secrecy had played a part. in that moment between him and will starling there was enmity.
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"you couldn't have expected him to make a great fuss about a boy," said esther brutally on their way back to the rectory.
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"i suppose you think that's the reason why i don't like him," said mark. "i don't want him to take any notice of me, but i think it's very odd that you shouldn't have said a word about knowing him even to his housekeeper."
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"it was a whim of mine," she murmured. "besides, i don't know him very well. we met at eastbourne once when i was staying there with mother."
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"well, why didn't he say 'how do you do, miss ogilvie?' instead of breathing out 'you' like that?"
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esther turned furiously upon mark.
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"what has it got to do with you?"
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"nothing whatever to do with me," he said deliberately. "but if you think you're going to make a fool of me, you're not. are you going to tell your brother you knew him?"
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esther would not answer, and separated by several yards they walked sullenly back to the rectory.
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st. mark's day
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mark tried next day to make up his difference with esther; but she repulsed his advances, and the friendship that had blossomed after the pomeroy affair faded and died. there was no apparent dislike on either side, nothing more than a coolness as of people too well used to each other's company. in a way this was an advantage for mark, who was having to apply himself earnestly to the amount of study necessary to win a scholarship at oxford. companionship with esther would have meant considerable disturbance of his work, for she was a woman who depended on the inspiration of the moment for her pastimes and pleasures, who was impatient of any postponement and always avowedly contemptuous of mark's serious side. his classical education at haverton house had made little of the material bequeathed to him by his grandfather's tuition at nancepean. none of his masters had been enough of a scholar or enough of a gentleman (and to teach latin and greek well one must be one or the other) to educate his taste. the result was an assortment of grammatical facts to which he was incapable of giving life. if the rector of wych-on-the-wold was not a great scholar, he was at least able to repair the neglect of, more than the neglect of, the positive damage done to mark's education by the meanness of haverton house; moreover, after mark had been reading with him six months he did find a really first-class scholar in mr. ford, the vicar of little fairfield. mark worked steadily, and existence in oxfordshire went by without any great adventures of mind, body, or spirit. life at the rectory had a kind of graceful austerity like the well-proportioned rectory itself. if mark had bothered to analyze the cause of this graceful austerity, he might have found it in the personality of the rector's elder sister miriam. even at meade cantorum, when he was younger, mark had been fully conscious of her qualities; but here they found a background against which they could display themselves more perfectly. when they moved from buckinghamshire and the new rector was seeing how much miriam appreciated the new surroundings, he sold out some stock and presented her with enough ready money to express herself in the outward beauty of the rectory's refurbishing. he was luckily not called upon to spend a great deal on the church, both his predecessors having maintained the fabric with care, and the fabric itself being sound enough and magnificent enough to want no more than that. miriam, though shaking one of those capable and well-tended fingers at her beloved brother's extravagance, accepted the gift with an almost childish determination to give full value of beauty in return, so that there should not be a servant's bedroom nor a cupboard nor a corridor that did not display the evidence of her appreciation in loving care. the garden was handed over to mrs. ogilvie, who as soon as may warmed its high enclosures bloomed there like one of her own favourite peonies, rosy of face and fragrant, ample of girth, golden-hearted.
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outside the rectory mark spent most of his time with richard ford, the son of the vicar of little fairfield, with whom he went to work in the autumn after his arrival in oxfordshire. here again mark was lucky, for richard, who was a year or two older than himself and a student at cooper's hill whence he would emerge as a civil engineer bound for india, was one of those entirely admirable young men who succeed in being saintly without any rapture or righteousness.
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mark said one day:
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"rector, you know, richard ford really is a saint; only for goodness' sake don't tell him i said so, because he'd be furious."
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the rector stopped humming a joyful miserere to give mark an assurance of his discretion. but mark having said so much in praise of richard could say no more, and indeed he would have found it hard to express in words what he felt about his friend.
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mark accompanied richard on his visits to wychford rectory where in this fortunate corner of england existed a third perfect family. richard was deeply in love with margaret grey, the second daughter, and if mark had ever been intended to fall in love he would certainly have fallen in love with pauline, the youngest daughter, who was fourteen.
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"i could look at her for ever," he confided in richard. "walking down the road from wych-on-the-wold this morning i saw two blue butterflies on a wild rose, and they were like pauline's eyes and the rose was like her cheek."
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"she's a decent kid," richard agreed fervently.
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mark had had such a limited experience of the world that the amenities of the society in which he found himself incorporated did not strike his imagination as remarkable. it was in truth one of those eclectic, somewhat exquisite, even slightly rarefied coteries which are produced partly by chance, partly by interests shared in common, but most of all, it would seem, by the very genius of the place. the genius of cotswolds imparts to those who come beneath his influence the art of existing appropriately in the houses that were built at his inspiration. they do not boast of their privilege like the people of sussex. they are not living up to a landscape so much as to an architecture, and their voices lowered harmoniously with the sigh of the wind through willows and aspens have not to compete with the sea-gales or the sea.
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so mark read greek with the vicar of little fairfield and latin with the rector of wych-on-the-wold, who, amiable and holy man, had to work nearly twice as hard as his pupil to maintain his reserve of instruction. mark took long walks with richard ford when richard was home in his vacations, and long walks by himself when richard was at cooper's hill. he often went to wychford rectory, where he learnt to enjoy schumann and beethoven and bach and brahms.
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"you're like three saint cecilias," he told them. "monica is by luini and margaret is by perugino and pauline. . . ."
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"oh, who am i by?" pauline exclaimed, clapping her hands.
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"isn't mark foolish?" pauline laughed.
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"it's my birthday to-morrow," said mark, "so i'm allowed to be foolish."
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"it's my birthday in a week," said pauline. "and as i'm two years younger than you i can be two years more foolish."
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mark looked at her, and he was filled with wonder at the sanctity of her maidenhood. thenceforth meditating upon the annunciation he should always clothe pauline in a robe of white samite and set her in his mind's eye for that other maid of jewry, even as painters found holy maids in florence or perugia for their bright mysteries.
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while mark was walking back to wych and when on the brow of the first rise of the road he stood looking down at wychford in the valley below, a chill lisping wind from the east made him shiver and he thought of the lines in keats' eve of st. mark:
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the chilly sunset faintly told of unmatured green vallies cold, of the green thorny bloomless hedge, of rivers new with spring-tide sedge, of primroses by shelter'd rills, and daisies on the aguish hills.
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the sky in the west was an unmatured green valley tonight, where venus bloomed like a solitary primrose; and on the dark hills of heaven the stars were like daisies. he turned his back on the little town and set off up the hill again, while the wind slipped through the hedge beside him in and out of the blackthorn boughs, lisping, whispering, snuffling, sniffing, like a small inquisitive animal. he thought of monica, margaret, and pauline playing in their warm, candle-lit room behind him, and he thought of miriam reading in her tall-back chair before dinner, for evensong would be over by now. yes, evensong would be over, he remembered penitently, and he ought to have gone this evening, which was the vigil of st. mark and of his birthday. at this moment he caught sight of the wych maries signpost black against that cold green sky. he gave a momentary start, because seen thus the signpost had a human look; and when his heart beat normally it was roused again, this time by the sight of a human form indeed, the form of esther, the wind blowing her skirts before her, hurrying along the road to which the signpost so crookedly pointed. mark who had been climbing higher and higher now felt the power of that wind full on his cheeks. it was as if it had found what it wanted, for it no longer whispered and lisped among the boughs of the blackthorn, but blew fiercely over the wide pastures, driving esther before it, cutting through mark like a sword. by the time he had reached the signpost she had disappeared in the wood.
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mark asked himself why she was going to rushbrooke grange.
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"to rushbrooke grange," he said aloud. "why should i think she is going to rushbrooke grange?"
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though even in this desolate place he would not say it aloud, the answer came back from this very afternoon when somebody had mentioned casually that the squire was come home again. mark half turned to follow esther, but in the moment of turning he set his face resolutely in the direction of home. if esther were really on her way to meet will starling, he would do more harm than good by appearing to pry.
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esther was the flaw in mark's crystal clear world. when a year ago they had quarrelled over his avowed dislike of will starling, she had gone back to her solitary walks and he conscious, painfully conscious, that she regarded him as a young prig, had with that foolish pride of youth resolved to be so far as she was concerned what she supposed him to be. his admiration for the greys and the fords had driven her into jeering at them; throughout the year mark and she had been scarcely polite to each other even in public. the rector and miriam probably excused mark's rudeness whenever he let himself give way to it, because their sister did not spare either of them, and they were made aware with exasperating insistence of the dullness of the country and of the dreariness of everybody who lived in the neighbourhood. yet, mark could never achieve that indifference to her attitude either toward himself or toward other people that he wished to achieve. it was odd that this evening he should have beheld her in that relation to the wind, because in his thoughts about her she always appeared to him like the wind, restlessly sighing and fluttering round a comfortable house. however steady the candle-light, however bright the fire, however absorbing the book, however secure one may feel by the fireside, the wind is always there; and throughout these tranquil months esther had always been most unmistakably there.
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in the morning mark went to mass and made his communion. it was a strangely calm morning; through the unstained windows of the clerestory the sun sloped quivering ladders of golden light. he looked round with half a hope that esther was in the church; but she was absent, and throughout the service that brief vision of her dark transit across the cold green sky of yester eve kept recurring to his imagination, so that for all the rich peace of this interior he was troubled in spirit, and the intention to make this mass upon his seventeenth birthday another spiritual experience was frustrated. in fact, he was worshipping mechanically, and it was only when mass was over and he was kneeling to make an act of gratitude for his communion that he began to apprehend how he was asking fresh favours from god without having moved a step forward to deserve them.
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"i think i'm too pleased with myself," he decided, "i think i'm suffering from spiritual pride. i think. . . ."
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he paused, wondering if it was blasphemous to have an intuition that god was about to play some horrible trick on him. mark discussed with the rector the theological aspects of this intuition.
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"the only thing i feel," said mr. ogilvie, "is that perhaps you are leading too sheltered a life here and that the explanation of your intuition is your soul's perception of this. indeed, once or twice lately i have been on the point of warning you that you must not get into the habit of supposing you will always find the onset of the world so gentle as here."
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"but naturally i don't expect to," said mark. "i was quite long enough at haverton house to appreciate what it means to be here."
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"yes," the rector went on, "but even at haverton house it was a passive ugliness, just as here it is a passive beauty. after our lord had fasted forty days in the desert, accumulating reserves of spiritual energy, just as we in our poor human fashion try to accumulate in lent reserves of spiritual energy that will enable us to celebrate easter worthily, he was assailed by the tempter more fiercely than ever during his life on earth. the history of all the early egyptian monks, the history indeed of any life lived without losing sight of the way of spiritual perfection displays the same phenomena. in the action and reaction of experience, in the rise and fall of the tides, in the very breathing of the human lungs, you may perceive analogies of the divine rhythm. no, i fancy your intuition of this morning is nothing more than one of those movements which warn us that the sleeper will soon wake."
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mark went away from this conversation with the rector dissatisfied. he wanted something more than analogies taken from the experience of spiritual giants, titans of holiness whose mighty conquests of the flesh seemed as remote from him as the achievements of alexander might appear to a captain of the local volunteers. what he had gone to ask the rector was whether it was blasphemous to suppose that god was going to play a horrible trick on him. he had not wanted a theological discussion, an academic question and reply. anything could be answered like that, probably himself in another twenty years, when he had preached some hundreds of sermons, would talk like that. moreover, when he was alone mark understood that he had not really wanted to talk about his own troubles to the rector at all, but that his real preoccupation had been and still was esther. he wondered, oh, how much he wondered, if her brother had the least suspicion of her friendship with will starling, or if miriam had had the least inkling that esther had not come in till nine o'clock last night because she had been to wych maries? mark, remembering those wild eyes and that windblown hair when she stood for a moment framed in the doorway of the rector's library, could not believe that none of her family had guessed that something more than the whim to wander over the hills had taken her out on such a night. did mrs. ogilvie, promenading so placidly along her garden borders, ever pause in perplexity at her daughter's behaviour? calling them all to mind, their attitudes, the expressions of their faces, the words upon their lips, mark was sure that none of them had any idea what esther was doing. he debated now the notion of warning miriam in veiled language about her sister; but such an idea would strike miriam as monstrous, as a mad and horrible nightmare. mark shivered at the mere fancy of the chill that would come over her and of the disdain in her eyes. besides, what right had he on the little he knew to involve esther with her family? superficially he might count himself her younger brother; but if he presumed too far, with what a deadly retort might she not annihilate his claim. most certainly he was not entitled to intervene unless he intervened bravely and directly. mark shook his head at the prospect of doing that. he could not imagine anybody's tackling esther directly on such a subject. seventeen to-day! he looked out of the window and felt that he was bearing upon his shoulders the whole of that green world outspread before him.
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the serene morning ripened to a splendid noontide, and mark who had intended to celebrate his birthday by enjoying every moment of it had allowed the best of the hours to slip away in a stupor of indecision. more and more the vision of esther last night haunted him, and he felt that he could not go and see the greys as he had intended. he could not bear the contemplation of the three girls with the weight of esther on his mind. he decided to walk over to little fairfield and persuade richard to make a journey of exploration up the greenrush in a canoe. he would ask richard his opinion of will starling. what a foolish notion! he knew perfectly well richard's opinion of the squire, and to lure him into a restatement of it would be the merest self-indulgence.
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"well, i must go somewhere to-day," mark shouted at himself. he secured a packet of sandwiches from the rectory cook and set out to walk away his worries.
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mark turned aside from the high road by the crooked signpost and took the same path down under the ash-trees as he had taken with esther for the first time nearly a year ago. spring was much more like spring in these wooded hollows; the noise of bees in the blossom of the elms was murmurous as limes in june. mark congratulated himself on the spot in which he had chosen to celebrate this fine birthday, a day robbed from time like the day of a dream. he ate his lunch by the old mill dam, feeding the roach with crumbs until an elderly pike came up from the deeps and frightened the smaller fish away. he searched for a bullfinch's nest; but he did not find one, though he saw several of the birds singing in the snowberry bushes; round and ruddy as october apples they looked. at last he went to the ruined chapel, where after speculating idly for a little while upon its former state he fell as he usually did when he visited wych maries into a contemplation of the two images of the blessed virgin and st. mary magdalene. while he sat on a hummock of grass before the old west doorway he received an impression that since he last visited these forms of stone they had ceased to be mere relics of ancient worship unaccountably preserved from ruin, but that they had somehow regained their importance. it was not that he discerned in them any miraculous quality of living, still less of winking or sweating as images are reputed to wink and sweat for the faithful. no, it was not that, he decided, although by regarding them thus entranced as he was he could easily have brought himself to the point of believing in a supernatural manifestation. he was too well aware of this tendency to surrender to it; so, rousing himself from the rapt contemplation of them and forsaking the hummock of grass, he climbed up into the branches of a yew-tree that stood beside the chapel, that there and from that elevation, viewing the images and yet unviewed by them directly, he could be immune from the magic of fancy and discover why they should give him this impression of having regained their utility, yes, that was the word, utility, not importance. they were revitalized not from within, but from without; and even as his mind leapt at this explanation he perceived in the sunlight, beyond the shadowy yew-tree in which he was perched, esther sitting upon that hummock of grass where but a moment ago he had himself been sitting.
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for a moment, as if to contradict a reasonable explanation of the strange impression the images had made upon him, mark supposed that she was come there for a tryst. this vanished almost at once in the conviction that esther's soul waited there either in question or appeal. he restrained an impulse to declare his presence, for although he felt that he was intruding upon a privacy of the soul, he feared to destroy the fruits of that privacy by breaking in. he knew that esther's pride would be so deeply outraged at having been discovered in a moment of weakness thus upon her knees, for she had by now fallen upon her knees in prayer, that it might easily happen she would never in all her life pray more. there was no escape for mark without disturbing her, and he sat breathless in the yew-tree, thinking that soon she must perceive his glittering eye in the depths of the dark foliage as in passing a hedgerow one may perceive the eye of a nested bird. from his position he could see the images, and out of the spiritual agony of esther kneeling there, the force of which was communicated to himself, he watched them close, scarcely able to believe that they would not stoop from their pedestals and console the suppliant woman with benediction of those stone hands now clasped aspiringly to god, themselves for centuries suppliant like the woman at their feet. mark could think of nothing better to do than to turn his face from esther's face and to say for her many paternosters and aves. at first he thought that he was praying in a silence of nature; but presently the awkwardness of his position began to affect his concentration, and he found that he was saying the words mechanically, listening the while to the voices of birds. he compelled his attention to the prayers; but the birds were too loud. the paternosters and the aves were absorbed in their singing and chirping and twittering, so that mark gave up to them and wished for a rosary to help his feeble attention. yet could he have used a rosary without falling out of the yew-tree? he took his hands from the bough for a moment and nearly overbalanced. make not your rosary of yew berries, he found himself saying. who wrote that? make not your rosary of yew berries. why, of course, it was keats. it was the first line of the ode to melancholy. esther was still kneeling out there in the sunlight. and how did the poem continue? make not your rosary of yew berries. what was the second line? it was ridiculous to sit astride a bough and say paternosters and aves. he could not sit there much longer. and then just as he was on the point of letting go he saw that esther had risen from her knees and that will starling was standing in the doorway of the chapel looking at her, not speaking but waiting for her to speak, while he wound a strand of ivy round his fingers and unwound it again, and wound it round again until it broke and he was saying:
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"i thought we agreed after your last display here that you'd give this cursed chapel the go by?"
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"i can't escape from it," esther cried. "you don't understand, will, what it means. you never have understood."
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esther had moved close to him, and now she put a hand upon his arm.
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"to you, will. not to me."
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"look here, essie," said her lover. "if you knew that you were liable to these dreadful attacks of remorse and penitence, why did you ever encourage me?"
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"how dare you say i encouraged you?"
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"now don't let your religion make you dishonest," he stabbed. "no man seduces a woman of your character without as much goodwill as deserves to be called encouragement, and by god is encouragement," he went on furiously. "let's cut away some of the cant before we begin arguing again about religion."
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"you don't know what a hell you're making for me when you talk like that," she gasped. "if i did encourage you, then my sin is a thousand times blacker."
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"oh, don't exaggerate, my dear girl," he said wearily. "it isn't a sin for two people to love each other."
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"i've tried my best to think as you do, but i can't. i've avoided going to church. i've tried to hate religion, i've mocked at god . . ." she broke off in despair of explaining the force of grace, against the gift of which she had contended in vain.
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"i always thought you were brave, essie. but you're a real coward. the reason for all this is your fear of being pitchforked into a big bonfire by a pantomime demon with horns and a long tail." he laughed bitterly. "to think that you, my adored essie, should really have the soul of a sunday school teacher. you, a bacchante of passion, to be puling about your sins. you! you! girl, you're mad! i tell you there is no such thing as damnation. it's a bogey invented by priests to enchain mankind. but if there is and if that muddle-headed old gentleman you call god really exists and if he's a just god, why then let him damn me and let him give you your harp and your halo while i burn for both. essie, my mad foolish frightened essie, can't you understand that if you give me up for this god of yours you'll drive me to murder. if i must marry you to hold you, why then i'll kill that cursed wife of mine. . . ."
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it was his turn now to break off in despair of being able to express his will to keep esther for his own, and because argument seemed so hopeless he tried to take her in his arms, whereupon mark who was aching with the effort to maintain himself unobserved upon the bough of the yew-tree said his paternosters and aves faster than ever, that she might have the strength to resist that scoundrel of rushbrooke grange. he longed to have the eloquence to make some wonderful prayer to the blessed virgin and st. mary magdalene so that a miracle might happen and their images point accusing hands at the blasphemer below.
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and then it seemed as if a miracle did happen, for out of the jangle of recriminations and appeals that now signified no more than the noise of trees in a storm he heard the voice of esther gradually gain its right to be heard, gradually win from its rival silence until the tale was told.
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"i know that i am overcome by the saving grace of god," she was saying. "and i know that i owe it to them." she pointed to the holy women above the door. the squire shook his fist; but he still kept silence. "i have run away from god since i knew you, will. i have loved you as much as that. i have gone to church only when i had to go for my brother's sake, but i have actually stuffed my ears with cotton wool so that no word there spoken might shake my faith in my right to love you. but it was all to no purpose. you know that it was you who told me always to come to our meetings through the wood and past the chapel. and however fast i went and however tight i shut myself up in thoughts of you and your love and my love i have always felt that these images spoke to me reproachfully in passing. it's not mere imagination, will. why, before we came to wych-on-the-wold when you went away to the pacific that i might have peace of mind, i used always to be haunted by the idea that god was calling me back to him, and i would run, yes, actually run through the woods until my legs have been torn by brambles."
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"madness! madness!" cried starling.
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"let it be madness. if god chooses to pursue a human soul with madness, the pursuit is not less swift and relentless for that. and i shook him off. i escaped from religion; i prayed to the devil to keep me wicked, so utterly did i love you. then when my brother was offered wych-on-the-wold i felt that the devil had heard my prayer and had indeed made me his own. that frightened me for a moment. when i wrote to you and said we were coming here and you hurried back, i can't describe to you the fear that overcame me when i first entered this hollow where you lived. several times i'd tried to come down before you arrived here, but i'd always been afraid, and that was why the first night i brought mark with me."
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"that long-legged prig and puppy," grunted the squire.
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mark could have shouted for joy when he heard this, shouted because he was helping with his paternosters and his aves to drive this ruffian out of esther's life for ever, shouted because his long legs were strong enough to hold on to this yew-tree bough.
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"he's neither a prig nor a puppy," esther said. "i've treated him badly ever since he came to live with us, and i treated him badly on your account, because whenever i was with him i found it harder to resist the pursuit of god. now let's leave mark out of this. everything was in your favour, i tell you. i was sure that the devil. . . ."
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"the devil!" starling interrupted. "your devil, dear essie, is as ridiculous as your god. it's only your poor old god with his face painted black like the bogey man of childhood."
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"i was sure that the devil," esther repeated without seeming to hear the blasphemy, "had taken me for his own and given us to each other. you to me. me to you, my darling. i didn't care. i was ready to burn in hell for you. so, don't call me coward, for mad though you think me i was ready to be damned for you, and i believe in damnation. you don't. yet the first time i passed by this chapel on my way to meet you again after that endless horrible parting i had to run away from the holy influence. i remember that there was a black cow in the field near the gates of the grange, and i waited there while mark poked about in this chapel, waited in the twilight afraid to go back and tell him to hurry in case i should be recaptured by god and meet you only to meet you never more."
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"i suppose you thought my old kerry cow was the devil, eh?" he sneered.
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she paid no attention, but continued enthralled by the passion of her spiritual adventure.
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"it was no use. i couldn't come by here every day and not go back. why, once i opened the bible at hazard just to show my defiance and i read her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much. this must be the end of our love, my lover, for i can't go on. those two stone maries have brought me back to god. no more with you, my own beloved. no more, my darling, no more. and yet if even now with one kiss you could give me strength to sin i should rejoice. but they have made my lips as cold as their own, and my arms that once knew how to clasp you to my heart they have lifted up to heaven like their own. i am going into a convent at once, where until i die i shall pray for you, my own love."
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the birds no longer sang nor twittered nor cheeped in the thickets around, but all passion throbbed in the voice of esther when she spoke these words. she stood there with her hair in disarray transfigured like a tree in autumn on which the sunlight shines when the gale has died, but from which the leaves will soon fall because winter is at hand. yet her lover was so little moved by her ordeal that he went back to mouthing his blasphemies.
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"go then," he shouted. "but these two stone dolls shall not have power to drive my next mistress into folly. wasn't mary magdalene a sinner? didn't she fall in love with christ? of course, she did! and i'll make an example of her just as christians make an example of all women who love much."
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the squire pulled himself up by the ivy and struck the image of st. mary magdalene on the face.
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"when you pray for me, dear essie, in your convent of greensick women, don't forget that your patron saint was kicked from her pedestal by your lover."
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starling was as good as his word; but the effort he made to overthrow the saint carried him with it; his foot catching in the ivy fell head downward and striking upon a stone was killed.
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mark hesitated before he jumped down from his bough, because he dreaded to add to esther's despair the thought of his having overheard all that went before. but seeing her in the sunlight now filled again with the voices of birds, seeing her blue eyes staring in horror and the nervous twitching of her hands he felt that the shock of his irruption might save her reason and in a moment he was standing beside her looking down at the dead man.
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"let me die too," she cried.
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mark found himself answering in a kind of inspiration:
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"no, esther, you must live to pray for his soul."
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"he was struck dead for his blasphemy. he is in hell. of what use to pray for his soul?"
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"but esther while he was falling, even in that second, he had time to repent. live, esther. live to pray for him."
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mark was overcome with a desire to laugh at the stilted way in which he was talking, and, from the suppression of the desire, to laugh wildly at everything in the scene, and not least at the comic death of will starling, even at the corpse itself lying with a broken neck at his feet. by an effort of will he regained control of his muscles, and the tension of the last half hour finding no relief in bodily relaxation was stamped ineffaceably upon his mind to take its place with that afternoon in his father's study at the lima street mission which first inspired him with dread of the sexual relation of man to woman, a dread that was now made permanent by what he had endured on the bough of that yew-tree.
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thanks to mark's intervention the business was explained without scandal; nobody doubted that the squire of rushbrooke grange died a martyr to his dislike of ivy's encroaching upon ancient images. esther's stormy soul took refuge in a convent, and there it seemed at peace.
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the encounter between esther and will starling had the effect of strengthening mark's intention to be celibate. he never imagined himself as a possible protagonist in such a scene; but the impression of that earlier encounter between his mother and father which gave him a horror of human love was now renewed. it was renewed, moreover, with the light of a miracle to throw it into high relief. and this miracle could not be explained away as a coincidence, but was an old-fashioned miracle that required no psychical buttressing, a hard and fast miracle able to withstand any criticism. it was a pity that out of regard for esther he could not publish it for the encouragement of the faithful and the confusion of the unbelievers.
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the miracle of st. mary magdalene's intervention on his seventeenth birthday was the last violent impression of mark's boyhood. thenceforward life moved placidly through the changing weeks of a country calendar until the date of the scholarship examination held by the group of colleges that contained st. mary's, the college he aspired to enter, but for which he failed to win even an exhibition. mr. ogilvie was rather glad, for he had been worried how mark was going to support himself for three or four years at an expensive college like st. mary's. but when mark was no more successful with another group of colleges, his tutors began to be alarmed, wondering if their method of teaching latin and greek lacked the tradition of the public school necessary to success.
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"oh, no, it's obviously my fault," said mark. "i expect i go to pieces in examinations, or perhaps i'm not intended to go to oxford."
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"i beg you, my dear boy," said the rector a little irritably, "not to apply such a loose fatalism to your career. what will you do if you don't go to the university?"
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"it's not absolutely essential for a priest to have been to the university," mark argued.
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"no, but in your case i think it's highly advisable. you haven't had a public school education, and inasmuch as i stand to you in loco parentis i should consider myself most culpable if i didn't do everything possible to give you a fair start. you haven't got a very large sum of money to launch yourself upon the world, and i want you to spend what you have to the best advantage. of course, if you can't get a scholarship, you can't and that's the end of it. but, rather than that you should miss the university i will supplement from my own savings enough to carry you through three years as a commoner."
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tears stood in mark's eyes.
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"you've already been far too generous," he said. "you shan't spend any more on me. i'm sorry i talked in that foolish way. it was really only a kind of affectation of indifference. i'm feeling pretty sore with myself for being such a failure; but i'll have another shot and i hope i shall do better."
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mark as a last chance tried for a close scholarship at st. osmund's hall for the sons of clergymen.
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"it's a tiny place of course," said the rector. "but it's authentic oxford, and in some ways perhaps you would be happier at a very small college. certainly you'd find your money went much further."
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the examination was held in the easter vacation, and when mark arrived at the college he found only one other candidate besides himself. st. osmund's hall with its miniature quadrangle, miniature hall, miniature chapel, empty of undergraduates and with only the principal and a couple of tutors in residence, was more like an ancient almshouse than an oxford college. mark and his rival, a raw-boned youth called emmett who was afflicted with paroxysms of stammering, moved about the precincts upon tiptoe like people trespassing from a high road.
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on their first evening the two candidates were invited to dine with the principal, who read second-hand book catalogues all through dinner, only pausing from their perusal to ask occasionally in a courtly tone if mr. lidderdale or mr. emmett would not take another glass of wine. after dinner they sat in his library where the principal addressed himself to the evidently uncongenial task of estimating the comparative fitness of his two guests to receive mr. tweedle's bounty. the reverend thomas tweedle was a benevolent parson of the eighteenth century who by his will had provided the money to educate the son of one indigent clergyman for four years. mark was shy enough under the principal's courtly inquisition, but poor emmett had a paroxysm each time he was asked the simplest question about his tastes or his ambitions. his tongue appearing like a disturbed mollusc waved its tip slowly round in an agonized endeavour to give utterance to such familiar words as "yes" or "no." several times mark feared that he would never get it back at all and that emmett would either have to spend the rest of his life with it protruding before him or submit it to amputation and become a mute. when the ordeal with the principal was over and the two guests were strolling back across the quadrangle to their rooms, emmett talked normally and without a single paroxysm about the effect his stammer must have had upon the principal. mark did his best to reassure poor emmett.
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"really," he said, "it was scarcely noticeable to anybody else. you noticed it, because you felt your tongue getting wedged like that between your teeth; but other people would hardly have noticed it at all. when the principal asked you if you were going to take holy orders yourself, i'm sure he only thought you hadn't quite made up your mind yet."
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"but i'm sure he did notice something," poor emmett bewailed. "because he began to hum."
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"well, but he was always humming," said mark. "he hummed all through dinner while he was reading those book catalogues."
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"it's very kind of you, lidderdale," said emmett, "to make the best of it for me, but i'm not such a fool as i look, and the principal certainly hummed six times as loud whenever he asked me a question as he did over those catalogues. i know what i look like when i get into one of those states. i once caught sight of myself in a glass by accident, and now whenever my tongue gets caught up like that i'm wondering all the time why everybody doesn't get up and run out of the room."
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"but i assure you," mark persisted, "that little things like that--"
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"little things like that!" emmett interrupted furiously. "it's all very well for you, lidderdale, to talk about little things like that. if you had a tongue like mine which seems to get bigger instead of smaller every year, you'd feel very differently."
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"but people always grow out of stammering," mark pointed out.
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"thanks very much," said emmett bitterly, "but where shall i be by the time i've grown out of it? you don't suppose i shall win this scholarship, do you, after they've seen me gibbering and mouthing at them like that? but if only i could manage somehow to get to oxford i should have a chance of being ordained, and--" he broke off, perhaps unwilling to embarrass his rival by any more lamentations.
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"do forget about this evening," mark begged, "and come up to my room and have a talk before you turn in."
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"no, thanks very much," said emmett. "i must sit up and do some work. we've got that general knowledge paper to-morrow morning."
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"but you won't be able to acquire much more general knowledge in one evening," mark protested.
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emmett hurried away up the staircase leading to his room and left his rival standing on the moonlit grass of the quadrangle. mark was turning toward his own staircase when he heard a window open above and emmett's voice:
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"i've found another whitaker of the year before," it proclaimed. "i'll read that, and you'd better read this year's. if by any chance i did win this scholarship, i shouldn't like to think i'd taken an unfair advantage of you, lidderdale."
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"thanks very much, emmett," said mark. "but i think i'll have a shot at getting to bed early."
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"ah, you're not worrying," said emmett gloomily, retiring from the window.
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the spell that oxford had already cast on mark, the glamour of the firelight on the walls and raftered ceiling of this room haunted by centuries of youthful hope, did not persuade him how foolish it was to surrender all this. on the contrary, this prospect of oxford so beautiful in the firelight within, so fair in the moonlight without, impelled him to renounce it, and the very strength of his temptation to enjoy all this by winning the scholarship helped him to make up his mind to lose it. but how? the obvious course was to send in idiotic answers for the rest of his papers. yet examinations were so mysterious that when he thought he was being most idiotic he might actually be gaining his best marks. moreover, the examiners might ascribe his answers to ill health, to some sudden attack of nerves, especially if his papers to-day had been tolerably good. looking back at the principal's attitude after dinner that night, mark could not help feeling that there had been something in his manner which had clearly shown a determination not to award the scholarship to poor emmett if it could possibly be avoided. the safest way would be to escape to-morrow morning, put up at some country inn for the next two days, and go back to wych-on-the-wold; but if he did that, the college authorities might write to mr. ogilvie to demand the reason for such extraordinary behaviour. and how should he explain it? if he really intended to deny himself, he must take care that nobody knew he was doing so. it would give him an air of unbearable condescension, should it transpire that he had deliberately surrendered his scholarship to emmett. moreover, poor emmett would be so dreadfully mortified if he found out. no, he must complete his papers, do them as badly as he possibly could, and leave the result to the wisdom of god. if god wished emmett to stammer forth his praises and stutter his precepts from the pulpit, god would know how to manage that seemingly so intractable principal. or god might hear his prayers and cure poor emmett of his impediment. mark wondered to what saint was entrusted the patronage of stammerers; but he could not remember. the man in whose rooms he was lodging possessed very few books, and those few were mostly detective stories.
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it amused mark to make a fool of himself next morning in the general knowledge paper. he flattered himself that no candidate for a scholarship at st. osmund's hall had ever shown such black ignorance of the facts of every-day life. had he been dropped from mars two days before, he could scarcely have shown less knowledge of the earth. mark tried to convey an impression that he had been injudiciously crammed with latin and greek, and in the afternoon he produced a latin prose that would have revolted the easy conscience of a fourth form boy. finally, on the third day, in an unseen passage set from the georgics he translated tonsisque ferunt mantelia villis by having pulled down the villas (i. e. literally shaved) they carry off the mantelpieces which he followed up with translating maeonii carchesia bacchi as the lees of maeonian wine (i.e. literally carcases of maeonian bacchus).
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"i say, lidderdale," said emmett, when they came out of the lecture room where the examination was being held. "i had a tremendous piece of luck this afternoon."
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"yes, i've just been reading the fourth georgics last term, and i don't think i made a single mistake in that unseen."
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"good work," said mark.
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"i wonder when they'll let us know who's got the scholarship," said emmett. "but of course you've won," he added with a sigh.
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"i did very badly both yesterday and to-day."
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"oh, you're only saying that to encourage me," emmett sighed. "it sounds a dreadful thing to say and i ought not to say it because it'll make you uncomfortable, but if i don't succeed, i really think i shall kill myself."
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"all right, that's a bargain," mark laughed; and when his rival shook hands with him at parting he felt that poor emmett was going home to rutland convinced that mark was just as hard-hearted as the rest of the world and just as ready to laugh at his misfortune.
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it was saturday when the examination was finished, and mark wished he could be granted the privilege of staying over sunday in college. he had no regrets for what he had done; he was content to let this experience be all that he should ever intimately gain of oxford; but he should like to have the courage to accost one of the tutors and to tell him that being convinced he should never come to oxford again he desired the privilege of remaining until monday morning, so that he might crystallize in that short space of time an impression which, had he been successful in gaining the scholarship, would have been spread over four years. mark was not indulging in sentiment; he really felt that by the intensity of the emotion with which he would live those twenty-four hours he should be able to achieve for himself as much as he should achieve in four years. so far as the world was concerned, this experience would be valueless; for himself it would be beyond price. so far as the world was concerned, he would never have been to oxford; but could he be granted this privilege, oxford would live for ever in his heart, a refuge and a meditation until the grave. yet this coveted experience must be granted from without to make it a perfect experience. to ask and to be refused leave to stay till monday would destroy for him the value of what he had already experienced in three days' residence; even to ask and to be granted the privilege would spoil it in retrospect. he went down the stairs from his room and stood in the little quadrangle, telling himself that at any rate he might postpone his departure until twilight and walk the seven miles from shipcot to wych-on-the-wold. while he was on his way to notify the porter of the time of his departure he met the principal, who stopped him and asked how he had got on with his papers. mark wondered if the principal had been told about his lamentable performance and was making inquiries on his own account to find out if the unsuccessful candidate really was a lunatic.
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"rather badly, i'm afraid, sir."
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"well, i shall see you at dinner to-night," said the principal dismissing mark with a gesture before he had time even to look surprised. this was a new perplexity, for mark divined from the principal's manner that he had entirely forgotten that the scholarship examination was over and that the candidates had already dined with him. he went into the lodge and asked the porter's advice.
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"ought i to explain that i've already dined with him?" mark asked.
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"are you in any what you might call immediate hurry to get away?" the porter asked judicially.
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"i'm in no hurry at all. i'd like to stay a bit longer."
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"then you'd better go to dinner with him again to-night and stay in college over the sunday. i'll take it upon myself to explain to the dean why you're still here. if it had been tea i should have said 'don't bother about it,' but dinner's another matter, isn't it? and he always has dinner laid for two or more in case he's asked anybody and forgotten."
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thus it came about that for the second time mark dined with the principal, who disconcerted him by saying when he arrived:
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"i remember now that you dined with me the night before last. you should have told me. i forget these things. but never mind, you'd better stay now you're here."
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the principal read second-hand book catalogues all through dinner just as he had done two nights ago, and he only interrupted his perusal to inquire in courtly tones if mark would take another glass of wine. the only difference between now and the former occasion was the absence of poor emmett and his paroxysms. after dinner with some misgivings if he ought not to leave his host to himself mark followed him upstairs to the library. the principal was one of those scholars who live in an atmosphere of their own given off by old calf-bound volumes and who apparently can only inhale the air of the world in which ordinary men move when they are smoking their battered old pipes. mark sitting opposite to him by the fireside was tempted to pour out the history of himself and emmett, to explain how he had come to make such a mess of the examination. perhaps if the principal had alluded to his papers mark would have found the courage to talk about himself; but the principal was apparently unaware that his guest had any ambitions to enter st. osmund's hall, and whatever questions he asked related to the ancient folios and quartos he took down in turn from his shelves. a clock struck ten in the moonlight without, and mark rose to go. he felt a pang as he walked from the cloudy room and looked for the last time at that tall remote scholar, who had forgotten his guest's existence at the moment he ceased to shake his hand and who by the time he had reached the doorway was lost again in the deeps of the crabbed volume resting upon his knees. mark sighed as he closed the library door behind him, for he knew that he was shutting out a world. but when he stood in the small silver quadrangle mark was glad that he had not given way to the temptation of confiding in the principal. it would have been a feeble end to his first denial of self. he was sure that he had done right in surrendering his place to emmett, for was not the unexpected opportunity to spend these few more hours in oxford a sign of god's approval? bright as the glimpses of eternity to saints accorded in their mortal hour. such was oxford to-night.
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mark sat for a long while at the open window of his room until the moon had passed on her way and the quadrangle was in shadow; and while he sat there he was conscious of how many people had inhabited this small quadrangle and of how they too had passed on their way like the moon, leaving behind them no more than he should leave behind from this one hour of rapture, no more than the moon had left of her silver upon the dim grass below.
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mark was not given to gazing at himself in mirrors, but he looked at himself that night in the mirror of the tiny bedroom, into which the april air came up sweet and frore from the watermeadows of the cherwell close at hand.
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"what will you do now?" he asked his reflection. "yet, you have such a dark ecclesiastical face that i'm sure you'll be a priest whether you go to oxford or not."
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mark was right in supposing his countenance to be ecclesiastical. but it was something more than that: it was religious. even already, when he was barely eighteen, the high cheekbones and deepset burning eyes gave him an ascetic look, while the habit of prayer and meditation had added to his expression a steadfast purpose that is rarely seen in people as young as him. what his face lacked were those contours that come from association with humanity; the ripeness that is bestowed by long tolerance of folly, the mellowness that has survived the icy winds of disillusion. it was the absence of these contours that made mark think his face so ecclesiastical; however, if at eighteen he had possessed contours and soft curves, they would have been nothing but the contours and soft curves of that rose, youth; and this ecclesiastical bonyness would not fade and fall as swiftly as that.
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mark turned from the glass in sudden irritation at his selfishness in speculating about his appearance and his future, when in a short time he should have to break the news to his guardian that he had thrown away for a kindly impulse the fruit of so many months of diligence and care.
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"what am i going to say to ogilvie?" he exclaimed. "i can't go back to wych and live there in pleasant idleness until it's time to go to glastonbury. i must have some scheme for the immediate future."
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in bed when the light was out and darkness made the most fantastic project appear practical, mark had an inspiration to take the habit of a preaching friar. why should he not persuade dorward to join him? together they would tramp the english country, compelling even the dullest yokels to hear the word of god . . . discalced . . . over hill, down dale . . . telling stories of the saints and martyrs in remote inns . . . deep lanes . . . the butterflies and the birds . . . dorward should say mass in the heart of great woods . . . over hill, down dale . . . discalced . . . preaching to men of christ. . . .
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in the morning mark heard mass at the church of the cowley fathers, a strengthening experience, because the gregorian there so strictly and so austerely chanted without any consideration for sentimental humanity possessed that very effect of liberating and purifying spirit held in the bonds of flesh which is conveyed by the wind blowing through a grove of pines or by waves quiring below a rocky shore.
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if mark had had the least inclination to be sorry for himself and indulge in the flattery of regret, it vanished in this music. rolling down through time on the billows of the mighty gregorian it were as grotesque to pity oneself as it were for an arctic explorer to build a snowman for company at the north pole.
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mark came out of st. john's, cowley, into the suburban prettiness of iffley road, where men and women in their sunday best tripped along in the april sunlight, tripped along in their sunday best like newly hatched butterflies and beetles. mark went in and out of colleges all day long, forgetting about the problem of his immediate future just as he forgot that the people in the sunny streets were not really butterflies and beetles. at twilight he decided to attend evensong at st. barnabas'. perhaps the folk in the sunny april streets had turned his thoughts unconsciously toward the simple aspirations of simple human nature. he felt when he came into the warm candle-lit church like one who has voyaged far and is glad to be at home again. how everybody sang together that night, and how pleasant mark found this congregational outburst. it was all so jolly that if the organist had suddenly turned round like an italian organ-grinder and kissed his fingers to the congregation, his action would have seemed perfectly appropriate. even during the magnificat, when the altar was being censed, the tinkling of the thurible reminded mark of a tambourine; and the lighting and extinction of the candles was done with as much suppressed excitement as if the candles were going to shoot red and green stars or go leaping and cracking all round the chancel.
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it happened this evening that the preacher was father rowley, that famous priest of the silchester college mission in the great naval port of chatsea. father rowley was a very corpulent man with a voice of such compassion and with an eloquence so simple that when he ascended into the pulpit, closed his eyes, and began to speak, his listeners involuntarily closed their eyes and followed that voice whithersoever it led them. he neither changed the expression of his face nor made use of dramatic gestures; he scarcely varied his tone, yet he could keep a congregation breathlessly attentive for an hour. although he seemed to be speaking in a kind of trance, it was evident that he was unusually conscious of his hearers, for if by chance some pious woman coughed or turned the pages of a prayer-book he would hold up the thread of his sermon and without any change of tone reprove her. it was strange to watch him at such a moment, his eyes still tightly shut and yet giving the impression of looking directly at the offending member of the congregation. this evening he was preaching about a naval disaster which had lately occurred, the sinking of a great battleship by another great battleship through a wrong signal. he was describing the scene when the news reached chatsea, telling of the sweethearts and wives of the lost bluejackets who waited hoping against hope to hear that their loved ones had escaped death and hearing nearly always the worst news.
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"so many of our own dear bluejackets and marines, some of whom only last christmas had been eating their plum duff at our christmas dinner, so many of my own dear boys whom i prepared for confirmation, whose first confession i had heard, and to whom i had given for the first time the body and blood of our lord jesus christ."
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he spoke too of what it meant in the future of material suffering on top of their mental agony. he asked for money to help these women immediately, and he spoke fiercely of the admiralty red tape and of the obstruction of the official commission appointed to administer the relief fund.
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the preacher went on to tell stories from the lives of these boys, finding in each of them some illustration of a christian virtue and conveying to his listeners a sense of the extraordinary preciousness of human life, so that there was no one who heard him but was fain to weep for those young bluejackets and marines taken in their prime. he inspired in mark a sense of shame that he had ever thought of people in the aggregate, that he had ever walked along a crowded street without perceiving the importance of every single human being that helped to compose its variety. while he sat there listening to the missioner and watching the large tears roll slowly down his cheeks from beneath the closed lids, mark wondered how he could have dared to suppose last night that he was qualified to become a friar and preach the gospel to the poor. while father rowley was speaking, he began to apprehend that before he could aspire to do that he must himself first of all learn about christ from those very poor whom he had planned to convert.
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this sermon was another milestone in mark's religious life. it discovered in him a hidden treasure of humility, and it taught him to build upon the rock of human nature. he divined the true meaning of our lord's words to st. peter: thou art peter and on this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. john was the disciple whom jesus loved, but he chose peter with all his failings and all his follies, with his weakness and his cowardice and his vanity. he chose peter, the bedrock of human nature, and to him he gave the keys of heaven.
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mark knew that somehow he must pluck up courage to ask father rowley to let him come and work under him at chatsea. he was sure that if he could only make him grasp the spirit in which he would offer himself, the spirit of complete humility devoid of any kind of thought that he was likely to be of the least use to the mission, father rowley might accept his oblation. he would have liked to wait behind after evensong and approach the missioner directly, so that before speaking to mr. ogilvie he might know what chance the offer had of being accepted; but he decided against this course, because he felt that father rowley's compassion might be embarrassed if he had to refuse his request, a point of view that was characteristic of the mood roused in him by the sermon. he went back to sleep for the last time in an oxford college, profoundly reassured of the rightness of his action in giving up the scholarship to emmett, although, which was characteristic of his new mood, he had by this time begun to tell himself that he had really done nothing at all and that probably in any case emmett would have been the chosen scholar.
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if mark had still any doubts of his behaviour, they would have vanished when on getting into the train for shipcot he found himself in an otherwise empty third-class smoking carriage opposite father rowley himself, who with a small black bag beside him, so small that mark wondered how it could possibly contain the night attire of so fat a man, was sitting back in the corner with a large pipe in his mouth. he was wearing one of those square felt hats sometimes seen on the heads of farmers, and if one had only seen his head and hat without the grubby clerical attire beneath one might have guessed him to be a farmer. mark noticed now that his eyes of a limpid blue were like a child's, and he realized that in his voice while he was preaching there had been the same sweet gravity of childhood. just at this moment father rowley caught sight of someone he knew on the platform and shouting from the window of the compartment he attracted the attention of a young man wearing an old siltonian tie.
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"my dear man," he cried, "how are you? i've just made a most idiotic mistake. i got it into my head that i should be preaching here on the first sunday in term and was looking forward to seeing so many silchester men. i can't think how i came to make such a muddle."
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father rowley's shoulders filled up all the space of the window, so that mark only heard scattered fragments of the conversation, which was mostly about silchester and the siltonians he had hoped to see at oxford.
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"good-bye, my dear man, good-bye," the missioner shouted, as the train moved out of the station. "come down and see us soon at chatsea. the more of you men who come, the more we shall be pleased."
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mark's heart leapt at these words, which seemed of good omen to his own suit. when father rowley was ensconced in his corner and once more puffing away at his pipe, mark thought how ridiculous it would sound to say that he had heard him preach last night at st. barnabas' and that, having been much moved by the sermon, he was anxious to be taken on at st. agnes' as a lay helper. he wished that father rowley would make some remark to him that would lead up to his request, but all that father rowley said was:
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"this is a slow train to birmingham, isn't it?"
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this led to a long conversation about trains, and slow though this one might be it was going much too fast for mark, who would be at shipcot in another twenty minutes without having taken any advantage of his lucky encounter.
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"are you up at oxford?" the priest at last inquired.
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it was now or never; and mark took the opportunity given him by that one question to tell father rowley twenty disjointed facts about his life, which ended with a request to be allowed to come and work at chatsea.
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"you can come and see us whenever you like," said the missioner.
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"but i don't want just to come and pay a visit," said mark. "i really do want to be given something to do, and i shan't be any expense. i only want to keep enough money to go to glastonbury in four years' time. if you'd only see how i got on for a month. i don't pretend i can be of any help to you. i don't suppose i can. but i do so tremendously want you to help me."
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"who did you say your father was?"
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"lidderdale, james lidderdale. he was priest-in-charge of the lima street mission, which belonged to st. simon's, notting hill, in those days. st. wilfred's, notting dale, it is now."
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"lidderdale," father rowley echoed. "i knew him. i knew him well. lima street. viner's there now, a dear good fellow. so you're lidderdale's son?"
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"i say, here's my station," mark exclaimed in despair, "and you haven't said whether i can come or not."
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"come down on tuesday week," said father rowley. "hurry up, or you'll get carried on to the next station."
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mark waved his farewell, and he knew, as he drove back on the omnibus over the rolling wold to wych that he had this morning won something much better than a scholarship at st. osmund's hall.
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when mark had been exactly a week at chatsea he celebrated his eighteenth birthday by writing a long letter to the rector of wych:
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st. agnes' house,
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st. mark's day.
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my dear rector,
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thank you very much for sending me the money. i've handed it over to a splendid fellow called gurney who keeps all the accounts (private or otherwise) in the mission house. poor chap, he's desperately ill with asthma, and nobody thinks he can live much longer. he suffers tortures, particularly at night, and as i sleep in the next room i can hear him.
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you mustn't think me inconsiderate because i haven't written sooner, but i wanted to wait until i had seen a bit of this place before i wrote to you so that you might have some idea what i was doing and be able to realize that it is the one and only place where i ought to be at the moment.
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this house is a most extraordinary place. it is an old congregational chapel with a gallery all round which has been made into cubicles, scarcely one of which is ever empty or ever likely to be empty so far as i can see! i should think it must be rather like what the guest house of a monastery used to be like in the old days before the reformation. the ground floor of the chapel has been turned into a gymnasium, and twice a week the apparatus is cleared away and we have a dance. every other evening it's used furiously by father rowley's "boys." they're such a jolly lot, and most of them splendid gymnasts. quite a few have become professional acrobats since they opened the gymnasium. the first morning after my arrival i asked father rowley if he'd got anything special for me to do and he told me to catalogue the books in his library. everybody laughed at this, and i thought at first that some joke was intended, but when i got to his room i found it really was in utter confusion with masses of books lying about everywhere. so i set to work pretty hard and after about three days i got them catalogued and in good order. when i told him i had finished he looked very surprised, and a solemn visit of inspection was ordered. as the room was looking quite tidy at last, i didn't mind. i've realized since that father rowley always sets people the task of cataloguing and arranging his books when he doubts if they are really worth their salt, and now he complains that i have spoilt one of his best ordeals for slackers. i said to him that he needn't be afraid because from what i could see of the way he treated books they would be just as untidy as ever in another week. everybody laughed, though i was afraid at first they might consider it rather cheek my talking like this, but you've got to stand up for yourself here because there never was such a place for turning a man inside out. it's a real discipline, and i think if i manage to deserve to stay here three years i shall have the right to feel i've had the finest training for holy orders anybody could possibly have.
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you know enough about father rowley yourself to understand how impossible it would be for me to give any impression of his personality in a letter. i have never felt so strongly the absolute goodness of anybody. i suppose that some of the great mediæval saints like st. francis and st. anthony of padua must have been like that. one reads about them and what they did, but the facts one reads don't really tell anything. i always feel that what we really depend on is a kind of tradition of their absolute saintliness handed on from the people who experienced it. i suppose in a way the same applies to our lord. i always feel it wouldn't matter a bit to me if the four gospels were proved to be forgeries to-morrow, because i should still be convinced that our lord was god. i know this is a platitude, but i don't think until i met father rowley that i ever realized the force and power that goes with exceptional goodness. there are so many people who are good because they were born good. richard ford, for example, he couldn't have ever been anything else but good, but i always feel that people like him remain practically out of reach of the ordinary person and that the goodness is all their own and dies with them just as it was born with them. what i feel about a man like father rowley is that he probably had a tremendous fight to be good. of course, i may be perfectly wrong and he may have had no fight at all. i know one of the people at the mission house told me that, though there is nobody who likes smoking better than he or more enjoys a pint of beer with his dinner, he has given up both at st. agnes merely to set an example to weak people. i feel that his goodness was with such energy fought for that it now exists as a kind of complete thing and will go on existing when father rowley himself is dead. i begin to understand the doctrine of the treasury of merit. i remember you once told me how grateful i ought to be to god because i had apparently escaped the temptations that attack most boys. i am grateful; but at the same time i can't claim any merit for it! the only time in my life when i might have acquired any merit was when i was at haverton house. instead of doing that, i just dried up, and if i hadn't had that wonderful experience at whitsuntide in meade cantorum church nearly three years ago i should be spiritually dead by now.
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this is a very long letter, and i don't seem to have left myself any time to tell you about st. agnes' church. it reminds me of my father's mission church in lima street, and oddly enough a new church is being built almost next door just as one was being built in lima street. i went to the children's mass last sunday, and i seemed to see him walking up and down the aisle in his alb, and i thought to myself that i had never once asked you to say mass for his soul. will you do so now next time you say a black mass? this is a wretched letter, and it doesn't succeed in the least in expressing what i owe to you and what i already owe to father rowley. i used to think that the sacred heart was a rather material device for attracting the multitude, but i'm beginning to realize in the atmosphere of st. agnes' that it is a gloriously simple devotion and that it is human nature's attempt to express the inexpressible. i'll write to you again next week. please give my love to everybody at the rectory.
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father rowley had been at st. agnes' seven or eight years when mark found himself attached to the mission, in which time he had transformed the district completely. it was a small parish (actually of course it was not a parish at all, although it was fast qualifying to become one) of something over a thousand small houses, few of which were less than a century old. the streets were narrow and crooked, mostly named after bygone admirals or forgotten sea-fights; the romantic and picturesque quarter of a great naval port to the casual glance of a passer-by, but heartbreaking to any except the most courageous resident on account of its overcrowded and tumbledown condition. yet it lacked the dreariness of an east end slum, for the sea winds blew down the narrowest streets and alleys, sailors and soldiers were always in view, and the windows of the pawnbrokers were filled with the relics of long voyages, with idols and large shells, with savage weapons and the handiwork of remote islands.
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when mark came to live in keppel street, most of the brothels and many of the public houses had been eliminated from the district, and in their place flourished various clubs and guilds. the services in the church were crowded: there was a long roll of communicants; the civilization of the city of god was visible in this chatsea slum. one or two of the lay helpers used to horrify mark with stories of early days there, and when he seemed inclined to regret that he had arrived so late upon the scene, they used to tease him about his missionary spirit.
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"if he can't reform the people," said cartwright, one of the lay helpers, a tall thin young man with a long nose and a pleasant smile, "he still has us to reform."
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"come along, mark anthony," said warrender, another lay helper, who after working for seven years among the poor had at last been charily accepted by the bishop for ordination. "come along. why don't you try your hand on us?"
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"you people seem to think," said mark, "that i've got a mania for reforming. i don't mean that i should like to see st. agnes' where it was merely for my own personal amusement. the only thing i'm sorry about is that i didn't actually see the work being done."
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father rowley came in at this moment, and everybody shouted that mark was going to preach a sermon.
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"splendid," said the missioner whose voice when not moved by emotion was rich in a natural unction that encouraged everyone round to suppose he was being successfully humorous, such a savour did it add to the most innutritious chaff. those who were privileged to share his ordinary life never ceased to wonder how in the pulpit or in the confessional or at prayer this unction was replaced by a remote beauty of tone, a plangent and thrilling compassion that played upon the hearts of all who heard him.
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"now really, father rowley," mark protested. "do i preach a great deal? i'm always being chaffed by cartwright and warrender about an alleged mania for reforming people, which only exists in their imagination."
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indeed mark had long ago grown out of the desire to reform or to convert anybody, although had he wished to keep his hand in, he could have had plenty of practice among the guests of the mission house. nobody had ever succeeded in laying down the exact number of casual visitors that could be accommodated therein. however full it appeared, there was always room for one more. taking an average, day in, day out through the year, one might fairly say that there were always eight or nine casual guests in addition to the eight or nine permanent residents, of whom mark was soon glad to be able to count himself one. the company was sufficiently mixed to have been offered as a proof to the sceptical that there was something after all in simple christianity. there would usually be a couple of prefects from silchester, one or two 'varsity men, two or three bluejackets or marines, an odd soldier or so, a naval officer perhaps, a stray priest sometimes, an earnest seeker after christian example often, and often a drunkard who had been dumped down at the door of st. agnes' mission house in the hope that where everybody else had failed father rowley might succeed. then there were the tramps, some who had heard of a comfortable night's lodging, some who came whining and cringing with a pretence of religion. this last class was discouraged as much as possible, for one of the first rules of the mission house was to show no favour to any man who claimed to be religious, it being father rowley's chief dread to make anybody's religion a paying concern. sometimes a jailbird just released from prison would find in the mission house an opportunity to recover his self-respect. but whoever the guest was, soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, apothecary, ploughboy, or thief, he was judged at the mission house as a man. some of the visitors repaid their host by theft or fraud; but when they did, nobody uttered proverbs or platitudes about mistaken kindness. if one lame dog bit the hand that was helping him over the stile, the next dog that came limping along was helped over just as freely.
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"what right has one miserable mortal to be disillusioned by another miserable mortal?" father rowley demanded. "our dear lord when he was nailed to the cross said 'father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' he did not say, 'i am fed up with these people i have come down from heaven to save. i've had enough of it. send an angel with a pair of pincers to pull out these nails.'"
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if the missioner's patience ever failed, it was when he had to deal with high church young men who made pilgrimages to st. agnes' because they had heard that this or that service was conducted there with a finer relish of romanism than anywhere else at the moment in england. on one occasion a pietistic young creature, who brought with him his own lace cotta but forgot to bring his nightshirt, begged to be allowed the joy of serving father rowley at early mass next morning. when they came back and were sitting round the breakfast table, this young man simpered in a ladylike voice:
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"oh, father, couldn't you keep your fingers closed when you give the dominus vobiscum?"
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"et cum spiritu tuo," shouted father rowley. "i can keep my fingers closed when i box your ears."
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and he proved it.
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it was a real box on the ears, so hard a blow that the ladylike young man burst into tears to the great indignation of a chief petty officer staying in the mission house, who declared that he was half in a mind to catch the young swab such a snitch on the conk as really would give him something to blubber about. father rowley evidently had no remorse for his violence, and the young man went away that afternoon saying how sorry he was that the legend of the good work being done at st. agnes' had been so much exaggerated.
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mark wrote an account of this incident, which had given him intense pleasure, to mr. ogilvie. perhaps the rector was afraid that mark in his ambition to avoid "churchiness" was inclining toward the opposite extreme; or perhaps, charitable and saintly man though he was, he felt a pang of jealousy at mark's unbounded admiration of his new friend; or perhaps it was merely that the east wind was blowing more sharply than usual that morning over the wold into the rectory garden. whatever the cause, his answering letter made mark feel that the rector did not appreciate father rowley as thoroughly as he ought.
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my dear mark,
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i was glad to get your long and amusing letter of last week. i am delighted to think that as the months go by you are finding work among the poor more and more congenial. i would not for the world suggest your coming back here for christmas after what you tell me of the amount of extra work it will entail for everybody in the mission house; at the same time it would be useless to pretend that we shan't all be disappointed not to see you until the new year.
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on reading through your last letter again i feel just a little worried lest, in the pleasure you derive from father rowley's treatment of what was no doubt a very irritating young man, you may be inclined to go to the opposite extreme and be too ready to laugh at real piety when it is not accompanied by geniality and good fellowship, or by an obvious zeal for good works. i know you will acquit me of any desire to defend extreme "churchiness," and i have no doubt you will remember one or two occasions in the past when i was rather afraid that you were tending that way yourself. i am not in the least criticizing father rowley's method of dealing with it, but i am a trifle uneasy at the inordinate delight it seems to have afforded you. of course, it is intolerable for any young man serving a priest at mass to watch his fingers all the time, but i don't think you have any right to assume because on this occasion the young man showed himself so sensitive to mere externals that he is always aware only of externals. unfortunately a very great deal of true and fervid piety exists under this apparent passion for externals. remember that the ordinary criticism by the man in the street of catholic ceremonies and of catholic methods of worship involves us all in this condemnation. i suppose that you would consider yourself justified, should the circumstances permit (which in this case of course they do not), in protesting against a priest's not taking the eastward position when he said mass. i was talking to colonel fraser the other day, and he was telling me how much he had enjoyed the ministrations of the reverend archibald tait, the leicestershire cricketer, who throughout the "second service" never once turned his back on the congregation, and, so far as i could gather from the colonel's description, conducted this "second service" very much as a conjuror performs his tricks. when i ventured to argue with the colonel, he said to me: "that is the worst of you high churchmen, you make the ritual more important than the communion itself." all human judgments, my dear mark, are relative, and i have no doubt that this unpleasant young man (who, as i have already said, was no doubt justly punished by father rowley) may have felt the same kind of feeling in a different degree that i should feel if i assisted at the jugglery of the reverend archibald tait. at any rate you, my dear boy, are bound to credit this young man with as much sincerity as yourself, otherwise you commit a sin against charity. you must acquire at least as much toleration for the ritualist as i am glad to notice you are acquiring for the thief. when you are a priest yourself, and in a comparatively short time you will be a priest, i do hope you won't, without his experience, try to imitate father rowley too closely in his summary treatment of what i have already i hope made myself quite clear in believing to be in this case a most insufferable young man. don't misunderstand this letter. i have such great hopes of you in the stormy days to come, and the stormy days are coming, that i should feel i was wrong if i didn't warn you of your attitude towards the merest trifles, for i shall always judge you and your conduct by standards that i should be very cautious of setting for most of my penitents.
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my mother and miriam send you much love. we miss you greatly at wych. esther seems happy in her convent and will soon be clothed as a novice.
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when mark read this letter, he was prompt to admit himself in the wrong; but he could not bear the least implied criticism of father rowley.
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my dear mr. ogilvie,
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i'm afraid i must have expressed myself very badly in my last letter if i gave you the least idea that father rowley was not always charity personified. he had probably come to the conclusion that the young man was not much good and no doubt he deliberately made it impossible for him to stay on at the mission house. we do get an awful lot of mere loafers here; i don't suppose that anybody who keeps open house can avoid getting them. after all, if the young man had been worth anything he would have realized that he had made a fool of himself and by the way he took his snubbing have re-established himself. what he actually did was to sulk and clear out with a sneer at the work done here. i'm sorry i gave you the impression that i was triumphing so tremendously over his discomfiture. by writing about it i probably made the incident appear much more important than it really was. i've no doubt i did triumph a little, and i'm afraid i shall never be able not to feel rather glad when a fellow like that is put in his place. i am not for a moment going to try to argue that you can carry christian charity too far. the more one meditates on the words, and actions of our lord, the more one grasps how impossible it is to carry charity too far. all the same, one owes as much charity to father rowley as to the young man. this sounds now i have written it down as if i were getting in a hit at you, and that is the worst of writing letters to justify oneself. what i am trying to say is that if i were to have taken up arms for the young man and supposed him to be ill-used or misjudged i should be criticizing father rowley. i think that perhaps you don't quite realize what a saint he is in every way. this is my fault, no doubt, because in my letters to you i have always emphasized anything that would bring into relief his personality. i expect that i've been too much concerned to draw a picture of him as a man, in doing which i've perhaps been unsuccessful in giving you a picture of him as a priest. it's always difficult to talk or write about one's intimate religious feelings, and you've been the only person to whom i ever have been able to talk about them. however much i admire and revere father rowley i doubt if i could talk or write to him about myself as i do to you.
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until i came here i don't think i ever quite realized all that the blessed sacrament means. i had accepted the sacrifice of the mass as one accepts so much in our creed, without grasping its full implication. if anybody were to have put me through a catechism about the dogma i should have answered with theological exactitude, without any appearance of misapprehending the meaning of it; but it was not until i came here that its practical reality--i don't know if i'm expressing myself properly or not, i'm pretty sure i'm not; i don't mean practical application and i don't mean any kind of addition to my faith; perhaps what i mean is that i've learnt to grasp the mystery of the mass outside myself, outside that is to say my own devotion, my own awe, as a practical fact alive to these people here. sometimes when i go to mass i feel as people who watched our lord with his disciples and followers must have felt. i feel like one of those people who ran after him and asked him what they could do to be saved. i feel when i look at what has been done here as if i must go to each of these poor people in turn and beg them to bring me to the feet of christ, just as i suppose on the shores of the sea of galilee people must have begged st. peter or st. andrew or st. james or st. john to introduce them, if one can use such a word for such an occasion. this seems to me the great work that father rowley has effected in this parish. i have only had one rather shy talk with him about religion, and in the course of it i said something in praise of what his personality had effected.
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"my personality has effected nothing," he answered. "everything here is effected by the blessed sacrament."
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that is why he surely has the right without any consideration for the dignity of churchy young men to box their ears if they question his outward respect for the blessed sacrament. even our lord found it necessary at least on one occasion to chase the buyers and sellers out of the temple, and though it is not recorded that he boxed the ears of any pharisee, it seems to me quite permissible to believe that he did! he lashed them with scorn anyway.
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to come back to father rowley, you know the great cry of the so-called evangelical party "jesus only"? well, father rowley has really managed to make out of what was becoming a sort of ecclesiastical party cry something that really is evangelical and at the same time catholic. these people are taught to make the blessed sacrament the central fact of their lives in a way that i venture to say no welsh revivalist or salvation army captain has ever made our lord the central fact in the lives of his converts, because with the blessed sacrament continually before them, which is our lord jesus christ, their conversion endures. i could fill a book with stories of the wonderful behaviour of these poor souls. the temptation is to say of a man like father rowley that he has such a natural spring of human charity flowing from his heart that by offering to the world a christlike example he converts his flock. certainly he does give a christlike example and undoubtedly that must have a great influence on his people; but he does not believe, and i don't believe, that a christlike example is of any use without christ, and he gives them christ. even the bishop of silchester had to admit the other day that vespers of the blessed sacrament as held at st. agnes' is a perfectly scriptural service. father rowley makes of the blessed sacrament christ himself, so that the poor people may flock round him. he does not go round arguing with them, persuading them, but in the crises of their lives, as the answer to every question, as the solution of every difficulty and doubt, as the consolation in every sorrow, he offers them the blessed sacrament. all his prayers (and he makes a great use of extempore prayer, much to the annoyance of the bishop, who considers it ungrammatical), all his sermons, all his actions revolve round that one great fact. "jesus christ is what you need," he says, "and jesus christ is here in your church, here upon your altar."
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you can't go into the little church without finding fifty people praying before the blessed sacrament. the other day when the "king harry" was sunk by the "trafalgar," the people here subscribed i forget how many pounds for the widows and children of the bluejackets and marines of the mission who were drowned, and when it was finished and the subscription list was closed, they subscribed all over again to erect an altar at which to say masses for the dead. and the old women living in father rowley's free houses that were once brothels gave up their summer outing so that the money spent on them might be added to the fund. when the bishop of silchester came here last week for confirmation he asked father rowley what that altar was.
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"that is the ugliest thing i've ever seen," he said. but when father rowley told him about the poor people and the old women who had no money of their own, he said: "that is the most beautiful thing i've ever heard."
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i am beginning to write as if it was necessary to convince you of the necessity of making the blessed sacrament the central feature of the religious life to-day and for ever until the end of the world. but, i know you won't think i'm doing anything of the kind, for really i am only trying to show you how much my faith has been strengthened and how much my outlook has deepened and how much more than ever i long to be a priest to be able to give poor people jesus christ in the blessed sacrament.
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gradually, mark found to his pleasure and his pride that he was becoming, if not indispensable to father rowley (the missioner found no human being indispensable) at any rate quite evidently useful. perhaps father rowley though that in allowing himself to rely considerably upon mark's secretarial talent he was indulging himself in a luxury to which he was not entitled. that was father rowley's way. the moment he discovered himself enjoying anything too much, whether it was a cigar or a secretary, he cut himself off from it, and this not in any spirit of mortification for mortification's sake, but because he dreaded the possibility of putting the slightest drag upon his freedom to criticize others. he had no doubt at all in his own mind that he was perfectly justified in making use of mark's intelligence and energy. but in a place like the mission house, where everybody from lay helper to casual guest was supposed to stand on his own feet, the missioner himself felt that he must offer an example of independence.
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"you're spoiling me, mark anthony," he said one day. "there's nothing for me to do this evening."
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"i know," mark agreed contentedly. "i want to give you a rest for once."
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"rest?" the priest echoed. "you don't seriously expect a fat man like me to sit down in an armchair and rest, do you? besides, you've got your own reading to do, and you didn't come to chatsea as my punkah walla."
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mark insisted that he was getting along in his own way quite fast enough, and that he had plenty of time on his hands to keep father rowley's correspondence in some kind of order.
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"all these other people have any amount to do," said mark. "cartwright has his boys every evening and warrender has his men."
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"and mark anthony has nothing but a fat, poverty-stricken, slothful mission priest," father rowley gurgled.
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"yes, and you're more trouble than all the rest put together. look here, i've written to the bishop's chaplain about that confirmation; i explained why we wanted to hold a special confirmation for these two boys we are emigrating, and he has written back to say that the bishop has no objection to a special confirmation's being held by the bishop of matabeleland when he comes to stay here next week. at the same time, he says the bishop doesn't want it to become a precedent."
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"no. i can quite understand that," father rowley chuckled. "bishops are haunted by the creation of precedents. a precedent in the life of a bishop is like an illegitimate child in the life of a respectable churchwarden. no, the only thing i fear is that if i devour all your spare time you won't get quite what you wanted to get by coming to live with us."
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he laid a fat hand on mark's shoulder.
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"please don't bother about me," said mark. "i get all i want and more than i expected if i can be of the least use to you. i know i'm rather disappointing you by not behaving like half the people who come down here and want to get up a concert on monday, a dance on tuesday, a conjuring entertainment on wednesday, a street procession on thursday, a day of intercession on friday, and an amateur dramatic entertainment on saturday, not to mention acting as ceremonarius on sunday. i know you'd like me to propose all sorts of energetic diversions, so that you could have the pleasure of assuring me that i was only proposing them to gratify my own vanity, which of course would be perfectly true. luckily i'm of a retiring disposition, and i don't want to do anything to help the ten thousand benighted parishioners of saint agnes', except indirectly by striving to help in my own feeble way the man who really is helping them. now don't throw that inkpot at me, because the room's quite dirty enough already, and as i've made you sit still for five minutes i've achieved something this evening that mighty few people have achieved in keppel street. i believe the only time you really rest is in the confessional box."
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"mark anthony, mark anthony," said the priest, "you talk a great deal too much. come along now, it's bedtime."
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one of the rules of the mission house was that every inmate should be in bed by ten o'clock and all lights out by a quarter past. the day began with mass at seven o'clock at which everybody was expected to be present; and from that time onward everybody was so fully occupied that it was essential to go to bed at a reasonable hour. guests who came down for a night or two were often apt to forget how much the regular workers had to do and what a tax it put upon the willing servants to manage a house of which nobody could say ten minutes before a meal how many would sit down to it, nor even until lights out for how many people beds must be made. in case any guest should forget this rule by coming back after ten o'clock, father rowley made a point of having the front door bell to ring in his bedroom, so that he might get out of bed at any hour of the night and admit the loiterer. guests were warned what would be the effect of their lack of consideration, and it was seldom that father rowley was disturbed.
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among the guests there was one class of which a representative was usually to be found at the mission house. this was the drunken clergyman, which sounds as if there was at this date a high proportion of drunken clergymen in the church of england; but which means that when one did come to st. agnes' he usually stayed for a long time, because he would in most cases have been sent there when everybody else had despaired of him to see what father rowley could effect.
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about the time when mark was beginning to be recognized as father rowley's personal vassal, it happened that the reverend george edward mousley who had been handed on from diocese to diocese during the last five years had lately reached the mission house. for more than two months now he had spent his time inconspicuously reading in his own room, and so well had he behaved, so humbly had he presented himself to the notice of his fellow guests, that father rowley was moved one afternoon to dictate a letter about him to mark, who felt that the missioner by taking him so far into his confidence had surrendered to his pertinacity and that thenceforth he might consider himself established as his private secretary.
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"the letter is to the lord bishop suffragan of warwick, st. peter's rectory, warwick," father rowley began. "my dear bishop of warwick, i have now had poor mousley here for two months. it is not a long time in which to effect a lasting reformation of one who has fallen so often and so grievously, but i think you know me well enough not to accuse me of being too sanguine about drunken priests. i have had too many of them here for that. in his case however i do feel justified in asking you to agree with me in letting him have an opportunity to regain the respect due to himself and the reverence due to his priesthood by being allowed once more to the altar. i should not dream of allowing him to officiate without your permission, because his sad history has been so much a personal burden to yourself. i'm afraid that after the many disappointments he has inflicted upon you, you will be doubtful of my judgment. yet i do think that the critical moment has arrived when by surprising him thus we might clinch the matter of his future behaviour once and for all. his conduct here has been so humble and patient and in every way exemplary that my heart bleeds for him. therefore, my dear bishop of warwick, i hope you will agree to what i firmly trust will be the completion of his spiritual cure. i am writing to you quite impersonally and informally, as you see, so that in replying to me you will not be involving yourself in the affairs of another diocese. you will, of course, put me down as much a jesuit as ever in writing to you like this, but you will equally, i know, believe me to be, yours ever affectionately in our blessed lord.
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"oh, i do hope he will agree," mark exclaimed.
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"he will," the missioner prophesied. "he will because he is a wise and tender and godly man and therefore will never be more than a bishop suffragan as long as he lives. mark!"
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mark looked up at the severity of the tone.
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"mark! correct me when i fall into the habit of sneering at the episcopate."
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that night father rowley was attending a large temperance demonstration in the town hall for the purpose of securing if possible a smaller proportion of public houses than one for every eighty of the population, which was the average for chatsea. the meeting lasted until nearly ten o'clock; and it had already struck the hour when father rowley with mark and two or three others got back to keppel street. there was nothing father rowley disliked so much as arriving home himself after ten, and he hurried up to his room without inquiring if everybody was in.
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mark's window looked out on keppel street; and the may night being warm and his head aching from the effects of the meeting, he sat for nearly an hour at the open window gazing down at the passers by. there was not much to see, nothing more indeed than couples wandering home, a bluejacket or two, an occasional cat, and a few women carrying jugs of beer. by eleven o'clock even this slight traffic had ceased, and there was nothing down the silent street except a salt wind from the harbour that roused a memory of the beach at nancepean years ago when he had sat there watching the glow-worm and decided to be a lighthouse-keeper keeping his lamps bright for mariners homeward bound. it was of streets like keppel street that they would have dreamed, with the stag light winking to port, and the west wind blowing strong astern. what a lighthouse-keeper father rowley was! how except by the grace of god could one explain such goodness as his? fashions in saintliness might change, but there was one kind of saint that always and for every creed spoke plainly of god's existence, such saints as st. francis of assisi or st. anthony of padua, who were manifestly the heirs of christ. with what a tender cynicism our lord had called st. peter to be the foundation stone of his church, with what a sorrowful foreboding of the failure of christianity. such a choice appeared as the expression of god's will not to be let down again as he was let down by adam. jesus christ, conscious at the moment of what he must shortly suffer at the hands of mankind, must have been equally conscious of the failure of christianity two thousand years beyond his agony and bloody sweat and crucifixion. why, within a short time after his life on earth it was necessary for that light from heaven to shine round about saul on the damascus road, because already scoffers, while the disciples were still alive, may have been talking about the failure of christianity. it must have been another of god's self-imposed limitations that he did not give to st. john that capacity of st. paul for organization which might have made practicable the christianity of the master who loved him. woman, behold thy son! behold thy mother! that dying charge showed that our lord considered john the most christlike of his disciples, and he remained the most christlike man until twelve hundred years later st. francis was born at assisi. st. paul, st. augustine, st. dominic, if christianity could only produce mighty individualists of faith like them, it could scarcely have endured as it had endured. and now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. there was something almost wistful in those words coming from the mouth of st. paul. it was scarcely conceivable that st. john or st. francis could ever have said that; it would scarcely have struck either that the three virtues were separable.
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keppel street was empty now. mark's headache had been blown away by the night wind with his memories and the incoherent thoughts which had gathered round the contemplation of father rowley's character. he was just going to draw away from the window and undress when he caught sight of a figure tacking from one pavement to the other up keppel street. mark watched its progress, amused at the extraordinary amount of trouble it was giving itself, until one tack was brought to a sharp conclusion by a lamp-post to which the figure clung long enough to be recognized as that of the reverend george edward mousley, who had been tacking like this to make the harbour of the mission house. mark, remembering the letter which had been written to the bishop of warwick, wondered if he could not at any rate for to-night spare father rowley the disappointment of knowing that his plea for re-instatement was already answered by the drunken priest himself. he must make up his mind quickly, because even with the zigzag course mousley was taking he would soon be ringing the bell of the mission house, which meant that father rowley would be woken up and go down to let him in. of course, he would have to know all about it in the morning, but to-night when he had gone to bed tired and full of hope for temperance in general and the reformation of mousley in particular it was surely right to let him sleep in ignorance. mark decided to take it upon himself to break the rules of the house, to open the door to mousley, and if possible to get him upstairs to bed quietly. he went down with a lighted candle, crept across the gymnasium, and opened the door. mousley was still tacking from pavement to pavement and making very little headway against a strong current of drink. mark thought he had better go out and offer his services as pilot, because mousley was beginning to sing an extraordinary song in which the tune and the words of good-bye, dolly, i must leave you, had got mixed up with o happy band of pilgrims.
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"look here, mr. mousley, you mustn't sing now," said mark taking hold of the arm with which the drunkard was trying to beat time. "it's after eleven o'clock, and you're just outside the mission house."
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"i've been just outside the mission house for an hour and three quarters, old chap," said mr. mousley solemnly. "most incompatible thing i've ever known. i got back here at a quarter past nine, and i was just going to walk in when the house took two paces to the rear, and i've been walking after it the whole evening. most incompatible thing i've ever known. most incompatible thing that's ever happened to me in my life, lidderdale. if i were a superstitious man, which i'm not, i should say the house was bewitched. if i had a moment to spare, i should sit down at once and write an account of my most incompatible experience to the society of psychical research, if i were a superstitious man, which i'm not. yes. . . ."
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mr. mousley tried to focus his glassy eyes upon the arcana of spiritualism, rocking ambiguously the while upon the kerb. mark murmured something more about the need for going in quietly.
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"it's very kind of you to come out and talk to me like this," the drunken priest went on. "but what you ought to have done was to have kept hold of the house for a minute or two so as to give me time to get in quietly. now we shall probably both be out here all night trying to get in quietly. it's impossible to keep warm by this lamp-post. most inadequate heating arrangement. it is a lamp-post, isn't it? yes, i thought it was. i had a fleeting impression that it was my bedroom candle, but i see now that i was mistaken, i see now perfectly clearly that it is a lamp-post, if not two. of course, that may account for my not being able to get into the mission house. i was trying to decide which front door i should go in by, and while i was waiting i think i must have gone in by the wrong one, for i hit my nose a most severe blow on the nose. one has to remember to be very careful with front doors. of course, if it was my own house i should have used a latch-key instanter; for i inevitably, i mean invariably, carry a latch-key about with me and when it won't open my front door i use it to wind my watch. you know, it's one of those small keys you can wind up watches with, if you know the kind of key i mean. i'd draw you a picture of it if i had a pencil, but i haven't got a pencil."
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"now don't stay talking here," mark urged. "come along back, and do try to come quietly. i keep telling you it's after eleven o'clock, and you know father rowley likes everybody to be in by ten."
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"that's what i've been saying to myself the whole evening," said mr. mousley. "only what happened, you see, was that i met the son of a man who used to know my father, a very nice fellow indeed, a very intellectual fellow. i never remember spending a more intellectual evening in my life. a feast of reason and a flowing bowl, i mean soul, s-o-u-l, not b-o-u-l. did i say bowl? soul. . . . soul. . . ."
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"all right," said mark. "but if you've had such a jolly evening, come in now and don't make a noise."
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"i'll come in whenever you like," mr. mousley offered. "i'm at your disposition entirely. the only request i have to make is that you will guarantee that the house stays where it was built. it's all very fine for an ordinary house to behave like this, but when a mission house behaves like this i call it disgraceful. i don't know what i've done to the house that it should conceive such a dislike to me. i say, lidderdale, have they been taking up the drains or something in this street? because i distinctly had an impression just then that i put my foot into a hole."
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"the street's perfectly all right," said mark. "nothing has been done to it."
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"there's no reason why they shouldn't take up the drains if they want to, i'm not complaining. drains have to be taken up and i should be the last man to complain; but i merely asked a question, and i'm convinced that they have been taking up the drains. yes, i've had a very intellectual evening. my head's whirling with philosophy. we've talked about everything. my friend talked a good deal about buddhism. and i made rather a good joke about confucius being so confusing, at which i laughed inordinately. inordinately, lidderdale. i've had a very keen sense of humour ever since i was a baby. i say, lidderdale, you certainly know your way about this street. i'm very much obliged to me for meeting you. i shall get to know the street in time. you see, my object was to get beyond the house, because i said to myself 'the house is in keppel street, it can dodge about in keppel street, but it can't be in any other street,' so i thought that if i could dodge it into the corner of keppel street--you follow what i mean? i may be talking a bit above your head, we've been talking philosophy all the evening, but if you concentrate you'll follow my meaning."
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"here we are," said mark, for by this time he had persuaded mr. mousley to put his foot upon the step of the front door.
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"you managed the house very well," said the clergyman. "it's extraordinary how a house will take to some people and not to others. now i can do anything i like with dogs, and you can do anything you like with houses. but it's no good patting or stroking a house. you've got to manage a house quite differently to that. you've got to keep a house's accounts. you haven't got to keep a dog's accounts."
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they were in the gymnasium by now, which by the light of mark's small candle loomed as vast as a church.
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"don't talk as you go upstairs," mark admonished.
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"isn't that a dog i see there?"
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"no, no, no," said mark. "it's the horse. come along."
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"a horse?" mousley echoed. "well, i can manage horses too. come here, dobbin. if i'd known we were going to meet a horse i should have brought back some sugar with me. i suppose it's too late to go back and buy some sugar now?"
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"yes, yes," said mark impatiently. "much too late. come along."
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"if i had a piece of sugar he'd follow us upstairs. you'll find a horse will go anywhere after a piece of sugar. it is a horse, isn't it? not a donkey? because if it was a donkey he would want a thistle, and i don't know where i can get a thistle at this time of night. i say, did you prod me in the stomach then with anything?" asked mr. mousley severely.
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"no, no," said mark. "come along, it was the parallel bars."
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"i've not been near any bars to-night, and if you are suggesting that i've been in bars you're making an insinuation which i very much resent, an insinuation which i resent most bitterly, an insinuation which i should not allow anybody to make without first pointing out that it was an insinuation."
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"do come down off that ladder," mark said.
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"i beg your pardon, lidderdale. i was under the impression for the moment that i was going upstairs. i have really been so confused by confucius and by the extraordinary behaviour of the house to-night, recoiling from me as it did, that for the moment i was under the impression that i was going upstairs."
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at this moment mr. mousley fell from the ladder, luckily on one of the gymnasium mats.
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"i do think it's a most ridiculous habit," he said, "not to place a doormat in what i might describe as a suitable cavity. the number of times in my life that i've fallen over doormats simply because people will not take the trouble to make the necessary depression in the floor with which to contain such a useful domestic receptacle you would scarcely believe. i must have fallen over thousands of doormats in my life," he shouted at the top of his voice.
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"you'll wake everybody up in the house," mark exclaimed in an agony. "for heaven's sake keep quiet."
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paper by mice at schloss lischnitz. and this was what it had come to, her "song of songs."
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it held out no message of hope now; it was no refuge for the future. no faithful eckart, no guide to dizzy golden heights. it was a mere derelict, used up though never used, a time-honoured bit of lumber that one drags about without knowing why--an extinguished light, a masterpiece of wisdom that had become meaningless.
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shrugging her shoulders, she hastily gathered together the disarranged rolls of paper and tried to thrust one inside the other, regardless of how they came--she was in such a hurry!
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"i can arrange them some time later," she thought, dimly conscious that she would never take the trouble.
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adele came with the box. she seemed to have been a remarkably long time getting it. her eyes kept wandering guiltily to the clock, and her answers were absent-minded. then she threw back the lid, and lilly threw the score into the bottom of the box. its yawning depths seemed to cry out for further booty. there lay the dresses spread out on the bed. her row of shoes stood by the washstand. hats, blouses, veils, lace wraps, silk petticoats--all were waiting as much as to say, "take us too!"
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for a moment she closed her eyes with a moan, remembering the one and only sacrifice he had asked of her. but it must be done--both their futures depended on it.
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"frau laue will hide them for me, and afterwards frau laue can keep them," she thought.
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then, with a rapid resolve, she made a dash at the clothes, and gathered up blindly anything and everything she could lay hands on. she seized even the gold-coroneted ivory brushes, the three-winged hand-mirror, the bromide, the recipe for the summer storage of her furs, and a dozen other little indispensable articles of the toilette.
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and jewels were not forgotten! "he may want money later," she thought.
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meanwhile adele had been sent out for a four-wheeler, and again it was ages before she came back. the porter helped to carry down the trunk, and adele held the hat-boxes in her free hand. one last caress of the bullfinch's grey-green wings, a kiss on the small monkey's velvety snout, and the door closed behind her for ever.
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"will not the gnädige frau leave an address?" adele inquired. how sly she looked!
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"later on i will write to you, dear adele, and i hope you may come and live with me again."
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"dear adele" did not respond, but glanced down the street expectantly.
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a few minutes afterwards, as lilly drove along the canal, she saw from the cab window a smart yellow-striped hired motor whiz past from the opposite direction. richard was inside. she recognised him as he flashed by. red as a lobster, his head slanting, he stared past her, with wild and searching glances, at the house that she had just left.
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she hurriedly directed her driver to turn into a side street, for she had no desire to meet him till her fate with regard to the world had been decided. but in a few minutes she heard, with a beating heart, the same clatter of wheels that had died away in the distance coming behind her, and drawing nearer and nearer. the yellow side of the motor had almost shot beyond her, when the word "stop!" brought it to a standstill, and at the same moment her cab drew up too.
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richard confronted her with his hand on the door-handle: "where are you going?"
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his voice rose to a feminine shrillness. above his high starched collar his throat worked up and down convulsively.
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she felt perfectly calm and mistress of the situation.
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he appeared to her now a poor, helpless shadow of a creature, he who so long had been her lord and master.
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"please let me drive on, richard," she said. "i have said good-bye to you by letter. i wanted a few things, and have been to fetch them. why should we annoy each other further?"
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"turn round!" he said, grinding his teeth. "turn round!"
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"why should i turn round?"
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"i say you shall! you know where your home is. i will not allow you to knock about the world by yourself any longer, god knows what mayn't happen to you. driver, turn round!"
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the driver, with his red face, looked inquiringly at his fare before obeying.
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"really, richard, i alone have the control of this cab, and of my future proceedings--as you have control of yours."
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"what rot! if you are thinking about the american heiress, she may go to the deuce for all i care. but you--you must come back. you must! you shall!"
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he grasped with both hands the hem of her skirt as if he would drag her out of the cab by her clothes.
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"i beg you to come back.... i can't sleep, i can't work.... i have got so used to you.... if it had come off, i should have joined you again directly the wedding was over. and everything in your rooms is as you left it that you have seen for yourself. peterle won't eat, adele says, and adele is moped. she says she simply can't exist without you. i'll give you twenty thousand--no, thirty thousand--marks a year for life. mother won't mind.... she understands ... for, you know, i've given up the idea of marrying for good; that need never worry you again.... and you may come to the office when you like.... and you shall have the carriage instead of a hired one. i'll have the telephone put on between your flat and the stable. or perhaps you'd prefer a motor-car? if so, you shall have one, ten thousand times better than this."
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he had played his trump-card. what dreams of earthly grandeur could exceed a motor-car? he paused and, kneeling on the step, stared hard into her face to see the effect of his speech.
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she saw clearly that she would never be free of him unless she told him the truth. she was sorry for him, but it was her duty.
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"look here, richard. all that you offer me is no good to me now, for i love another man who can give me far more than you can--far, far more!"
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"what! what! you've caught a young vanderbilt?" he exclaimed in jealous rage. "well, i must say i never suspected that side to your character."
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"no, dear richard; it's not a young vanderbilt. on the contrary, he is so poor that he lives from hand to mouth. but, all the same, he and i are engaged, and as his future wife i must ask you to leave me free to do as i like."
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his jaw dropped, his eyes grew round; he reeled back against the hind wheel of the yellow car.
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"drive on!" called lilly to the cabman.
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she leaned back in her corner with a sigh of relief, and yet with a slight sense of guilt at having got rid so lightly of the old love.
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the whole way she heard the puffing of a slowly progressing motor behind her, and when she descended from the cab, richard got out of his motor at a little distance, but near enough for her to see an expression in his eyes like that of a whipped dog.
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she ran up the four flights of stairs as if pursued by furies, forgetting all about her box. a moment afterwards the cabman came up, panting under its weight, and when she offered him his fare he declined to take the money.
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"the gentleman downstairs," he said, "has already settled everything."
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"uncle, this is lilly!"
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an old gentleman below middle height, with bow legs, and in an ill-fitting lounge-jacket and limp collar, came swaggering out of a private room and held out to her a broad fleshy hand, the skin of which was as loose and brown as a dog-skin glove. she cast a shy, scrutinising glance at this all-powerful person, whom she had pictured as a man of commanding presence and iron will, and who, after all, was only a shaky, corpulent, rather common-looking dwarf.
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then, as she told herself that her own and konrad's happiness depended on her conduct now and during the next hour or two, she felt the old paralysing nervousness which had not troubled her much of late years come over her. when suffering from these attacks she became as wooden as a doll, and could do nothing but smile inanely, and hardly knew how to pronounce her own name.
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the old uncle, too, seemed frozen into silence at the first sight of her. he scanned her from head to foot, and from foot to head, and nearly forgot to invite her into the private room.
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this room, with its gold japanese wall-paper, its carnation silk hangings, its blue persian rugs, and high-backed sofa, was as familiar to her as everything else in the place. many a festive midnight hour had she caroused away here with richard and his chance acquaintances at the time when it was still his ambition to hobnob with the crême de la crême of fast society.
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an immaculately shaved waiter took her brocaded evening coat and lace scarf, and measured her as he did so with an eye that seemed to say, "surely i must have seen you before?"
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that was an agonising moment.
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the old uncle, who had never ceased to regard her stealthily with awed but grim glances, pulled himself together and said:
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"well, now we are going to have a jolly time together, children ... cosy and friendly--eh? jolly cosy."
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her bow was a stiff enough inclination of the head, apparently, to increase the bandy-legged old gentleman's reverent esteem for her. he seemed puzzled and ill at ease, trampled restlessly about the room, toyed with the gold charms that dangled from his watch-chain, and nodded two or three times at konrad in solemn appreciation.
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then they seated themselves at the gleaming white table, which was a mass of glittering cut-glass and flowers. round the bronze lamp, with its claws and dainty iris stem--lilly remembered it well--hung a festoon of lilac orchids, which must have cost an immense sum. evidently this slovenly old rascal understood the art of good living.
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lilly saw herself reflected in a mirror as she sat in her place on the sofa, a radiant picture of composure and distinction. she had chosen a sunray pleated black liberty silk dress with a bodice of chantilly lace, which, despite its costliness, clung in the simplest lines gracefully about her neck and shoulders. an innocent masculine mind might easily believe that such a costume could be bought anywhere between san francisco and st. petersburg, or cape town and christiania, for two hundred marks.
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she had wisely left her jewellery at home. only the slender gold chain, which she generally wore with a low bodice, encircled in maidenly unpretentiousness her high transparent collar.
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she looked like a strictly reared young gentlewoman of quality making her first dêbut in the great world, full of shyness and curiosity.
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konrad occupied the chair on her right. the third place, nearest the door, his uncle had retained for himself.
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from the moment he sat down to table he seemed to be in his element. he growled and issued orders, and found fault with everything.
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intimidated by his bullying tone, the waiter was going off for another decanter, but konrad's uncle declared he couldn't spare the time, he must have a "starter" straight away.
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"i am still feeling a little stiff," he said apologetically, "i am unaccustomed to entertaining such very beautiful and at the same time stand-offish ladies."
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lilly felt a stab at her heart.
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her lover's eyes met hers with a glance full of reproach and encouragement which said: "you mustn't be so silent. you must try to be nice to him." and in the same mute language she answered humbly and deprecatingly: "i cannot; you talk for both of us."
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and then he began in his anxiety to converse as if he had been paid to entertain the company. he described the antiques which his uncle had collected in his castle on the rhine, referred to threatened american competition, passed on to italy and the evils of the lex pacca--goodness only knew what topic he didn't touch on.
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it was quite an illuminating little discourse, which his uncle appeared to follow with modified interest, as he squinted across at lilly and smacked his lips while he let morsels of tunny in oil slip down his throat.
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suddenly he said, "all very well, my son. highly instructive and proper. but i wonder if you could not be equally enlightening on the subject of what sort of whisky they provide here?"
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konrad sprang up to look for the bell, but his uncle pulled him back.
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"stop! stop! this is my private entertainment. the port wine is for you. and a beautiful woman, after all, is a beautiful woman, even when she is someone else's beautiful wife. so here's to the health of our beauty."
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that sounded very like sarcasm. was it his intention to make game of her before finally rejecting her claims?
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"permit me," he continued, "to give you my congratulations. you have worked wonders already with the boy.... he dances prettily to your piping--eh?"
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now she was bound to make some answer.
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"i don't pipe and he doesn't dance," she said, with an effort. "we are neither of us light-hearted enough for that."
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"ah, that's a nasty one for me," he laughed; but his laugh sounded cross and irritable.
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"lilly meant no harm," interposed konrad, coming to her rescue. "and certainly the time of stress that we are passing through at present is not easy. if it were not for the help she gives me daily with her understanding and kindness of heart, i am not sure that i could struggle on."
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"oh, that's what he wants, is it?" thought lilly; and she raised her glass to his, and sought to mollify him with a coquettish little shamefaced smile.
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it filled him with evident satisfaction. he twirled his pointed beard, and ogled her familiarly with his twinkling eyes, as if he wished to elicit a sign of secret understanding betwixt them.
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"thank god, perhaps he's not so very formidable after all!" she thought, and gave a sigh of deep relief that the ice was broken at last.
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when the waiter came back, a lively discussion ensued between him and konrad's uncle as to the brands of whisky the hotel boasted.... the debate ended in the manager of the establishment appearing on the scene, and offering to go down into the cellar himself to search for a bottle, which he thought he had somewhere, bearing the label of a certain celebrated firm, and the date of a certain famous year.
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not till this important matter was settled did the old gentleman again devote his attention to his fair future niece-in-law.
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"i am an old mud-lark," he said. "i have done business in guano, train oil, australian pitch, ship grease, and other such unclean things. so you can't wonder at my wishing to refresh myself for once in a way with an appetising object like yourself, dear ungracious lady. all i require is a little return of my interest."
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"ah well, then, i'll just be impudent," thought lilly. and aloud she said: "you know, herr rennschmidt, i am sitting here trembling in my shoes like a poor, unlucky candidate for an examination! i implore you"--she raised her clasped hands towards him--"don't play cat-and-mouse with me."
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now she had struck the right note and given him the opening he desired.
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"her lips are unsealed at last!" he exclaimed, beaming. "and i say, konrad, what pretty lips she has! i like those long teeth that make the upper lip say to the lower, 'if you won't kiss when i do, i'll have a separation.' do you see what i mean, konrad, you dullard?"
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lilly could not help laughing heartily, and at once they were on the best of terms. even konrad's dear, haggard face lighted up for a moment with a reassuring smile which did her heart good. for his sake she could almost have thrown herself under his uncle's feet, so dearly did she love him. and with a feeling of rising triumph she thought, "i'll just show him how awfully nice i can be to the old curmudgeon."
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it was not so difficult, after all. when she looked at his round, puckered, mischievous old face, with the keen shrewd grey eyes and the beautifully waved snow-white wig--it was actually a wig peaked on the forehead and brushed into two outstanding curls over his ears like a judge's--she felt more and more that he was a good and tried comrade, with whom she had often had good times in the past. and yet she had certainly never met him before.
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he had a masterful air of breeding about him, despite his plebeian exterior. his choice of the menu was simply admirable. the 'sixty-eight steinberger, which flowed into the crystal glasses like liquid amber, suited the blue trout to such perfection that it might have been their native element; and the sweet-bread patties à la montgelas were worthy accompaniments. neither richard nor any of his crew understood so well the gourmet's art.
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if only he had not drunk whisky so perpetually in between!
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"my brain has been so deadened by money-making," he said in justification, "i am obliged to give it a fillip now and then, or it would become completely dulled."
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with the punch à la romaine, a brief and vivacious debate arose as to the merits of certain american drinks, in which lilly, with her extensive knowledge of bars and beverages, scored. she even knew the exact ingredients of her host's speciality, the "south sea bowl," in which sherry, cognac, angostura bitters, with the yolks of eggs and château d'yquem, or, if necessary, moselle, contributed to make a fiery mixture. she went so far as to offer to prepare this curious mixture for him after dinner with the skill of an expert, so that he would have to confess he had never drunk anything more delicious between singapore and melbourne.
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konrad, who obviously had never suspected her genius in this direction, listened to her with an amazement that filled her with pride. she telegraphed to him one secret signal after the other, asking, "aren't you pleased? am i not being very, very nice to him?"
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but somehow he would not respond. he was silent and absent-minded, and it often seemed as if he did not belong to the party.
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"well, he may dream if he likes," she thought blissfully. "i'll look after our interests."
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thus every minute the friendship between her and the old worldling grew apace.
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by the time they had got to the wild-duck and the dark glowing burgundy, which slid down their throats like warm caresses, she had already begun to call him "dear uncle." he, on his side, declared over and over again that he was "totally wrapped up in his dear, dear little lilly."
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so this was the test, the cruel probation, which she had dreaded with all her soul, through which she had expected to come dissected and unmasked, with every rag of concealment rudely torn off!
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when she thought of how differently things were turning out, she could hardly contain herself for glee. there sat the mighty, dreaded peril, whose money-bags meant victory or defeat, a little wild beast tamed, who squeezed her fingers in his repulsive shrivelled hands and fawned on her for a smile.
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he was undoubtedly quite amusing, especially when he told good stories.
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what a lot of scandal he had gathered in the colonies! in one evening he told more anecdotes than she had heard for a year. there was, for example, the story of the german governor, herr von so-and-so--she had once met him herself at uhl's--who took up his duties abroad with a suite consisting of secretary, valet, and cook. in six months the cook came and said, "herr governor, i am----" he gave her two thousand marks and said, "here you are, but keep quiet." then she went to the secretary and said, "herr müller, i am----" he gave her three hundred marks and said, "not a word." then she went to the valet and said, "johann, i'm so far gone, we'd better marry." after three months the valet came to the governor and said, "your excellency, the hussy took us all in. the child is black!" and many another yarn followed of the same sort. in short, she nearly died of laughing.
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"konrad, why don't you laugh? laugh, dearest."
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and then he really did smile, but his eyes remained grave and his brow tense.
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when the champagne came, they drank each other's health again, and kissed. the touch of those thick sensual old lips was horrible, but to ensure her future happiness it had to be endured. she was going to give konrad a kiss too, but he declined it. still worse, he tried to prevent her drinking so much.
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"she ought to be more careful," he urged. "please, uncle, don't fill up her glass so often. we never drink so much as this."
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the other two laughed at him.
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"he always was a bit of a muff," jeered his old uncle, "and never knew what was good. he's not good enough for you, lilly; you ought to have a fellow like me--not a prig. he's like a mute at a funeral."
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but she saw no joke in this.
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"you shan't abuse my darling konni, you old wretch! go on telling your old chestnuts. allons! fire away!"
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no, not a word should be breathed against her dear, sweet konni!
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so uncle started telling good stories again. this time he related them in pigeon-english, that gibberish which the chinese and other interesting inhabitants of the far east use as a medium of communication with the white sahibs. "tom and paddy in the tea-house"; "the virtuous spinster miss laura"; "the guide and the bayadere." each was received with a box of the ears.
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"but we mustn't let konni hear any more, uncle dear. konni might be corrupted."
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so saying, she inclined her left ear very close to dear uncle's lips, and made with her hollowed hand between them a "whispering-tube," which was the custom of "the crew" when any of them wanted to flirt unheard, or do anything else particularly outrageous.
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it would be a sad mistake to suppose that she was in the least abashed or unequal to giving as good as she got. the general's "lullabies" were spicy enough, and she had learned from "the crew" much that was of unquestionable origin and questionable taste. for such an appreciative audience as uncle proved to be, it was worth while doing one's best. but the innocent konrad had to submit to his ears being stuffed up with the wadding on which the colville apples had been served.
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after the coffee, uncle challenged her to keep her promise about brewing the south sea bowl, her vaunted knowledge of which, of course, had been mere brag.
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she would show him! he shouldn't scoff at her a second time. a variety of bottles were brought; besides the sherry and the angostura, an old, sweet liqueur. it was a pity, uncle thought, to mix such good things, and he took two or three glasses of the latter neat, and she followed his example.
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the tiresome eggs broke at the wrong place, it was true, and emptied their contents on her dress and the carpet. but what did that matter? it merely increased the fun ... and dear old uncle was paying for everything. to make up for the eggs smashing, the blue flame of the alcohol-lamp leapt up merrily as high as the orchids, as high as the ceiling.... she would have loved to lick up the flames, as the witches did.
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"your luck, konni!--our luck, konni!"
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"don't drink it," she heard him say, and his voice sounded harder than usual. indeed, she hardly recognised it as his voice at all.
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"muff!" she laughed, and thrust out her tongue at him. "muff!"
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"don't drink it!" the warning voice said again. "you are not used to it."
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she not used to drinking! how dared he say so? this was an insult to her honour; yes, an insult to her honour.
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"how do you know what i am used to? i am used to plenty of things you don't guess.... here, on this seat where i am sitting now, i have sat more than once--more than ten times--and have drunk ten times more."
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"dearest heart, you don't know what you are saying. it isn't true."
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once more his voice sounded gentle and soothing, as if he were reproving a naughty child.
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he had started to his feet, his face rigid, and fixed his eyes in horror on the polished silver mirror of the lamp, on which was a jumble of scribbled hieroglyphics. he could not distinguish amongst them the l. c. for which he was looking till she came to his assistance. here, no; there, no. the letters swam into one another. it was like trying to catch hold of the goldfish in the aquarium.
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"now, do you see, konni, that i was right? now you won't mind how much i drink, will you, you dear, precious little muff?"
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utterly crushed by the proof, he sank back in his chair without a single word.
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his uncle and lilly went on drinking and laughing at him.
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at this moment she happened to catch sight of herself in the glass. through a billowy haze she beheld a flushed, puffy face with dishevelled hair falling about it from under a crooked hat, and two deeply marked lines running from mouth to chin. it was not a pleasing spectacle, and she was a little disturbed at it; but before she could distress herself further, the old uncle claimed her attention with a new joke.
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"do you know, lilly dear, how the chinese sing 'die lorelei'?"
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before she had heard a syllable she went into a fit of giggles. he crossed his bandy legs and played a prelude on the side of his foot as if it were a banjo, "ping, pang, ping"; and then he began in a cracked, nasal, gurgling voice, drawling his "l's."
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"o, my belong too much sorry and can me no savy, what kind; have got one olo piccy story, no won't she go outside my mind."
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when he came to the second verse:
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"dat night belang dark and colo"
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he heightened the effect by tearing the wig from his head, and now he looked for all the world like an old nodding mandarin, with his slits of eyes and his polished bare ivory skull.
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it was fascinatingly and overwhelmingly funny. never in her life had she seen such a mirth-provoking, side-splitting piece of clowning. you could have died of envy if you hadn't been lilly czepanek, the renowned mimic and impersonator, who, when the spirit moved her, had only to open her lips to rouse a tornado of applause.
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her incomparable repertoire had been growing rusty for too long. "la belle otéro" was not yet stale, and tortajada was dancing her ravishing dances, while matchiche was just becoming the rage.
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all you had to do was to tilt your hat a little further back, to raise your black skirt--the dessous was part of what had been brought away yesterday, and would not have disgraced a saharet--and then you were off!
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and she was off! off like a whirlwind over the carpet, slippery with the yolks of eggs that she had spilt. hop, skip--olé! olé! yes, you must shout "olé!" and clap your hands. "olé-é-é----"
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dear uncle bawled; the floor rocked in great waves.... lamps and mirrors danced with her. all hell seemed to be let loose.
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"konni, why don't you shout 'olé'? ... don't be so down ... olé!"
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"uncle, you will have this on your conscience!"
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what did he mean by saying that? why was he sobbing? why did he stand there as white as the tablecloth?
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towards noon lilly awoke in a rapture of joy.
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the formidable uncle had been won--the last obstacle cleared from her path--the future lay spread out at her feet like a land of milk and honey. the probation looked forward to with such anxiety and terror had turned out, after all, only a delightful spree. what a mountebank and buffoon that shrewd old man of the world was, who probably had ground women's hearts under his heel as indifferently as he crunched walnuts. when she tried, however, to review the events of the previous evening she felt a slight dismay at nothing emerging from her blurred memory but the sounds of song and uproarious laughter, just as it used to be in that other life when she had spent the night in mad revels with richard and his friends.
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as the mist lifted a little, she saw a deadly white face petrified by pained surprise, heard an exclamation that was half a sob and half a groan, and saw herself, sobbing too, kneeling before someone who pushed her away with his hands.
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had that happened, or had she dreamed it?
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and she had danced and sung so beautifully! she had exhibited her art at its best. could there have been anything displeasing in it? had she, perhaps, gone a little too far in her high spirits?
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her anxiety grew. she sprang out of bed, and her one thought was that she must go to him instantly.
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at twelve the bell rang.
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that was konrad; it must be konrad. but, when she flew to the lobby door to throw herself into his arms with a cry of joy and relief, she found that she was standing face to face with his uncle, who stood twirling his hat in his horrid fingers, and looked at her with a significant smile that she did not like at all.
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"is it to come all over again--the probation," she thought, "or is it now only coming off for the first time?"
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"how do you do?" died in her throat. she let him in without speaking. a sensation of faintness came over her, as if she were going to fall backwards through the wall into her room.
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it was the old man who opened the door and walked in, with the air of an acquaintance who knew his way about.
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"where is konrad?"
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"konrad?" he repeated, and scratched the silk band of his wig with his little finger. "i've something to say about konrad."
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he drew out his glittering watch, with its massive chain, and studied the hands.
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"i make it just ten minutes past twelve. by now he will be on his way to the station--most probably he has started."
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"is he ... going away?" she stammered, while her breath began to fail her.
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"yes, yes. he is going away.... we settled that last night.... he needs a change."
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"it's nonsense," she thought; "how can he go away for a change without me?"
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but she put a restraint on herself and asked casually, "where is he thinking of going so suddenly?"
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"oh! he's taking a little trip abroad hardly worth speaking about. it seemed a favourable opportunity. a double cabin was going begging on the steamer leaving--er--never mind where!... an outside cabin, you know; on the promenade deck; pleasantest position, you know; no splashing, and lots of air.... one wants plenty of air, especially during those four days in the red sea."
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then she was right. her suspicions that the probation of her character and intentions was only to begin seriously now were being verified.
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"what takes people to the red sea, uncle dear?" she asked, with her most ingenuous smile.
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"yes, what takes them to the red sea? four thousand years ago the ancient jews asked the same question, and everyone asks it to-day when he finds himself sweltering there. but still, if you want to go to india, you must pass through the red sea.... and i want to go to india once more. i've been quite long enough trotting about the pavements at home. and as our konrad is overworked--you'll admit he is, child--i have talked him into coming to travel with me a bit. for in cases like this i believe change of scene is the best remedy. do you see?"
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lilly felt a lump rise in her throat as if all the links of his gold watch-chain were choking her.
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"this joke isn't in the best of taste," she thought; "and god knows what he means by it."
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but whether she liked it or not, she had to play at the game. "konrad might have had the grace to come and say goodbye to me prettily," she replied, pouting a little, as if a journey to potsdam or dresden was in question.
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"well, you see, child, that's what he wanted to do, of course. but i said to him, 'look here, my boy, farewells are far too exciting and unnerving, and may bring on apoplexy.' he agreed, and left it to me to put matters straight with you."
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"well, by all means let us put matters straight," she answered, with the patronising smile that such a farce merited.
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"i shouldn't be surprised," she thought, "if he were not waiting outside in the cab for a signal to come in."
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"uncle" placed his smart panama hat beside him on the floor, leaned his short body back in frau laue's red plush arm-chair, and affected an expression of distress and sympathy.
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what an old clown he was! it mystified her more than anything that he seemed so absolutely to have forgotten the alliance they had entered into on the previous evening. but perhaps this was only part of the probation farce.
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"if it were only a question of me, my dear," he went on, "it wouldn't matter. i honestly confess i'm mad about you--'wrapped up,' as i said last night. i have met womenfolk in all parts of the globe, and it's as clear to me as palm-oil that you are made of the choicest materials it's possible to find. but there are people, you know, who take life seriously and cherish grand illusions.... people who have no notion that a human being must be a human being. they think they are something extra, and expect life to afford them extra titbits. and then come disappointments, of course ... reproaches, despair ... tearing of hair, wringing of hands. i'm blowed if he didn't try to thrash me last night!"
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"whom are you talking about?" asked lilly, becoming every moment more uneasy.
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"just as if i had led you on into the little overshooting of the mark! no, no ... that's not my way. i don't lay man-traps. and so i told him ten times over. the misfortune is, that you and i understood each other too well. you and i are in the same line of business.... we two are like two old colleagues."
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"we two ...? you and i?" gasped lilly in frigid amazement.
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"yes, you and i, my dear child. don't have a fit--you and i; you and i. it's true that you are a splendid beauty of twenty-five, and i am a damned old fool of sixty.... but life has tarred us with the same brush. how am i to explain it to you?... have you ever hunted for diamonds? i don't mean at the jeweller's. i'll lay a wager you know that way of hunting them. well, a diamond lies embedded in hard rock, in tunnels ... so-called blue ground. if you find a blue-ground tunnel, you may imagine what it is; you just sit in it. once i went diamond-hunting with a party of twenty, day and night, week after week. the blue ground was there all right, but the diamonds had been washed out of it. do you follow me? the fine ground is still in both of us; but what made it fine the devil has in the meantime walked off with."
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"why do you tell me all this?" lilly asked. tears of bewilderment sprang to her eyes, for this couldn't possibly have anything to do with the probation.
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"now, child, i'll tell you why.... there are people who when they have given their word think there is no going back on it. they must swallow whatever they've put in their mouths, even if it's a strychnine pill.... my opinion, on the contrary, is that no one ought deliberately to plunge into misfortune--neither he nor you. and since the quickest method is to wash the wool while it's on the sheep, i've come to you to make a little proposition. see, here's a cheque-book. you know what cheque-books are, i expect. on the right side are printed figures from five hundred upwards: all the figures that make the amount bigger than the sum inscribed on the cheque are cut off, in case a little swindler should take it into his head with one little stroke of the pen to cheat one out of a little hundred thousand. well now, look here. this cheque is signed and dated; the figures alone want to be filled in. i should never permit myself to offer you a certain sum, but i should like you to say what you think would be a decent provision for your future."
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he tore the cheque out and laid it on the table in front of her.
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"thank heaven," thought lilly, "i had nothing to be afraid of! my heart need not have misgiven me."
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who could be so blind as not to see through this clumsy trick whereby he intended to put to the test her unselfishness about money? so she did not send the old man about his business, as she might with justice have done, if such a proposal had been made to her seriously, but she took the cheque off the table, smiling, tore it carefully to atoms, and flipped them one after the other into his face.
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he fidgeted about in his arm-chair.
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"allow me," he said; "please allow me ..."
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"no! such scurvy little jokes i certainly will not allow, dear uncle," she replied.
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"but you are declining a fortune, my child. think what you are doing. we've upset the tenor of your life. we have, as it were, cast you on the gutter. that you shan't perish there is our responsibility. and if you think you will lower yourself in his eyes by accepting, i can swear to you he knows nothing about it; and never will, i'll swear too."
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she only smiled.
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his small slits of eyes grew bright and hard. suddenly they began to threaten her.
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"or ... is it your intention not to give up the good boy--to hang his promise like a halter about his neck?... are you one of that kind, eh?"
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"no. i am not one of that kind."
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her smile reached far beyond him. it flew to greet the beloved who soon, very soon now, would be ascending the stairs; for surely he couldn't have patience to wait there outside in the cab much longer.
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"his promise is his own. he's never given it. and if he had wanted to i would never have let him. and even if what you said just now was true, he might go away if he liked, and come back again, and i would not write to him or meet him, or remind him in any way of what he is and always will be to me as long as i live. but i know that it is not true. he loves me, and i love him. and take care, uncle, not to play so low down with his future wife as to offer her blank cheques and such disgraceful proposals. if i were to tell him, you would find yourself all at once a lonely old man whose fortune might go to endow a home for lost dogs."
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he was obliged to see at last what a blunder he had committed. he jumped from his seat, evidently annoyed at his mistake, and ejaculated an irritable "bah!" as he began to pace the room, jingling the charms on his watch-chain. once or twice he murmured something that sounded like "a hangman's job." but she couldn't have heard right.
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at last he seemed to arrive at a decision. he stopped close in front of her, laid his repulsive hands on her shoulders and said, suddenly becoming affectionate and familiar again:
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"listen, sweetheart, girlie, pretty one. something has to be done. we can't shirk the point. there must be a conclusion. if only i weren't such a damned mangy old hound and hadn't to consider the dear boy's feelings in the matter, things would be simple enough. i should merely say, 'come along with me to the nearest registry-office. but hurry up; i haven't time to waste!' don't stare! yes--me. i'd ask you to marry me. you wouldn't have reason to regret it. but konrad--you must see yourself it won't do--won't do. it would be a fatal mistake from beginning to end. he is a rising man. he wants to climb to the top; he is still blessed with faith, and you haven't any left. you fell too early into the great sausage-machine which minces us all sooner or later into average meat.... you wouldn't be happy with him long. you couldn't keep up to him. you'd drag on him like a dead weight, and would always be conscious of it. as for last night's revelation, which opened his eyes, i don't lay so much stress on that. it's not a question of what the coastline looks like--sand or palms, it's all the same--but it's the interior that counts. and there i see waste land, burnt-up scorched deserts; no birds flying across it; no ground in which confidence can strike root. child, creep into any shelter life offers you, cling to those who have brought you to this pass; but let the boy go. he is not made for you. be honest; haven't you long ago said so yourself?"
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ah, so this was what he meant! it was not a probation, but the end--the end!
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she gazed into vacancy. she seemed to hear steps growing fainter; one after the other they slowly died away, like his footsteps when at break of day he had softly stolen downstairs.
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but this was final. they had died away for ever.
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a dull sense of disappointment gnawed at her heart. that was all. the worst would come later, as she knew by experience.
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and then she saw a vision of herself dancing and yelling, laughing at foul jests, with her hat awry and her skirts held high--a drunken wanton! she, the "lofty-minded saint" with the "brow divine," a drunken wanton--nothing more and nothing less.
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now she knew why he had stood there with his face as white as the tablecloth--why that sobbing groan of pain had burst from his lips. and it was pity for him as much as shame of herself that made of this moment a boiling hell.
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"how is he bearing it?" she asked, stammering.
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"you can guess how," he replied, "but i believe i shall pull him through."
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"oh, uncle ... i ... didn't ... i didn't want to do it ..." she cried, sobbing.
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"i know, child; i know. he told me all."
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for an instant her wounded pride flamed up within her. she stooped, and gathering together a handful of the bits of torn paper, she held them out to him on her open palm.
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"and you dared to offer me that?"
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"what was i to do, my dear? and what am i to do with you now?"
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"pah!" and she struck at him with both hands, but the next moment she threw her arms round his neck and wept on his shoulder. perhaps her cheek touched the very place which konrad last night might have wetted with his tears!
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he began to reason with her again. he made suggestions for her future. he would help her to begin a new life, and provide tier with the means to cultivate her brilliant histrionic talents; she should come out on the stage or the concert platform. but she shook her head.
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"too late, uncle.... waste land--didn't you say so yourself?--ground where no confidence can take root. i might aspire to be a music-hall star, but honestly i don't think it would pay."
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"cursed hounds!" he growled.
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"who are cursed hounds?"
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"you know well enough, my child."
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she reflected a moment as to whom he could mean. then she said:
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"there was only one ... no, two, and then afterwards one more ... and then two more who didn't count."
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"well, that seems to me to be plenty, dear."
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he patted her cheeks and smiled kindly, and somehow she did not find his fingers repulsive any more.
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she felt that she must smile too, though she began crying again directly.
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konrad's uncle prepared to take his departure, and she clung on tightly to his shoulder. she couldn't bear to let him go. he was the last link with her vanished dream of happiness.
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"what message shall i take him?" he asked.
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she drew herself erect. her eyes widened. she wanted to pour out the full flood of her grief. her shattered and squandered love sought for winged words which should bear it to him, sanctified and hallowed anew. but no words came.
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she looked wildly round the room, as if from some quarter of it help must come. the portraits of defunct actors smiled down on her; once so eloquent, they were dumb now dumb as her own frozen soul. the specimen lamp-shade in its frame greeted her, presaging a future to be passed at frau laue's side.
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"i have nothing to say," she faltered. then she thought of something after all. "ask him ... ask him, please, why he didn't come himself to say good-bye. i know that he is not a coward."
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uncle made one of his queerest faces.
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"as you have been so astoundingly sensible, little woman, i'll tell you the secret. he wanted to come and say good-bye--most dreadfully, of course. and i promised him that i'd try and bring you to the station."
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in an instant she was making a dash for her straw hat.
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he had laid his hand on her arm. the short, squat figure seemed to grow taller.
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"you won't go."
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"what? konni is expecting me, wants to speak to me? and i am not to go?"
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"i say again, 'you won't go.' if you are the plucky girl i take you for, you will not spoil your work of sacrifice. for, depend upon it, if once he sees you again you'll hang on to each other for evermore."
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the straw hat slipped from her hand.
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"then ... tell him ... i shall always love him, always and always, that he will be my last thought on earth.... and ... i don't know what else to say."
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he silently made his way out of the room.
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and then she broke down.
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the world wagged on, calmly, merrily, busily, as if nothing had happened, as if nowhere on the ocean of life a lost happiness was drifting every minute farther and farther away, as if no forsaken and abandoned human child cowered in a corner, staring with despairing eyes helplessly at the floor.
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frau laue tapped at her lamp-shades, the fried potatoes frizzled in the fat-lined pan; the stove in the lobby smoked, and the frowsy poor-people's odour exhaled a welcome to all who came within its radius. she did not cry her heart out of her body, as she had done after her expulsion from the castle. she neither lapsed into a dazed apathy nor wrestled desperately with fate. instead, she felt that a grey yawning void stretched before her endlessly, the silence of which was broken now and then by a shrill cry of almost animal longing and despair, a sense of feeble submission to the inevitable, a consciousness of being incarcerated without hope of escape, a baffled slipping down into life's dark depths, a dreary death unmarked by grace or dignity.
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between to-day and to-morrow--the to-morrow that seemed to beckon from every corner--lilly's tearless eyes saw the railings of the bridge that her feet had tested on the way home from "rosmersholm." and, as she stared into space, she beheld the dark, purple-flecked waters rolling languidly on far below, and heard the iron chains clank under her feet.
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this sound grew into a perpetual sing-song that accompanied everything she did, floated over and swallowed up everything that the eventless days brought forth. it pierced her brain, hammered in her temples, and throbbed painfully in every nerve and pore of her body.
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only one word was set to this haunting melody, and that was "die." yes--die. what could be simpler? what more irresistible?
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die! not to-day; but to-morrow perhaps, or the day after. something might happen yet. a letter might come, or he himself. or if not this, who could know that fate was not holding some other miracle of good fortune up its sleeve?
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so it was worth while living to-day, to drag through its countless hours of deadly monotony.
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then one evening, a week after konrad's sudden departure, frau laue appeared in lilly's room at an unaccustomed hour. her manner denoted determination.
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"now look here, lilly dear," she began. "things can't go on like this. if you were crying your heart out i shouldn't say anything. but, as you are acting now, matters will never mend. there is only one sensible course that you can take; you must return to your herr dehnicke. if he had any inkling of how things were going with you here, trust him, he would have come and taken you away long ago. so i tell you plainly, either you sit down and write him a nice letter or i shall leave my work in the lurch and go straight off to his office to-morrow morning. he'll pay my expenses fast enough."
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lilly felt a strong impulse to turn the old woman out of the room, but she was too depressed to do more than turn away from her with impotent distaste.
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"i haven't too much time to spare now," frau laue continued; "the dozen must be completed before bedtime.... but you can make your mind easy as to one thing. if he is not here by ten o'clock to-morrow, he'll be here by twelve, for i shall have gone to fetch him. good-night, lilly dear."
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in melancholy scorn she sent a scoffing laugh after frau laue. this, then, was the stroke of good fortune which fate had in store for the morrow? once more she was to cringe to man's puerile supremacy, and live in enervating servitude--vegetate amidst fleeting and unprofitable pleasures in a perfumed lethargy, or be goaded by ennui and disgust to walk the streets.
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yet, if he came the next day, she knew she would not have the power to resist. richard would only have to look at her with that whipped-dog expression, which was something quite new for him, and the mere thought of which filled her with a shamefaced tenderness, and she would throw her arms round his neck and have a good cry on his shoulder.
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was it worth waiting another to-morrow for that? no; better to die to-day.
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to-day! a feeling of ecstasy came over her. she ran about the room, with folded hands, weeping and exulting. she would be a heroine like isolde, a martyr for her love.
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and there the railings of the bridge were waiting ready for her. how they would creak and groan when she set her feet on them!
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now the sing-song in her head was so loud that she thought it must kill her. the air resounded with a whirl of tones. the walls echoed them. the noise of the street, the capital's roar of traffic, all sang ... "die--die--die!"
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she pulled off her evening wrapper and dressed herself to go out. at first she thought of putting on one of the badly fitting dresses because they were connected with konrad, but her heart failed her.
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"die beautifully," hedda gabler had said.
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"if only i had his photograph that i might take a farewell look into his eyes," she thought. but she had nothing but his letters and a few verses. they should accompany her on her last walk.
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they lay at the bottom of the leather trunk, which was still concealed in frau laue's box-room, though there had long been no one from whom it was necessary to conceal it. as she rummaged in its depths to find the little packet, she put her hand by accident on the roll of old music manuscript.
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she looked tenderly at the yellow-stained sheet into which the rest was fitted. she was no longer vexed with her "song of songs," and did not despise it, as on that ill-fated morning when she had hunted it up again; the morning on which she had gone out to break her vow to konrad.
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now once more it was a dear, precious possession, not a guide, philosopher, and friend, not a miracle-working sacred relic, but just an old keepsake which we treasure and water with our tears because it is a bit of our own life.
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and a bit of our own blood!
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for there were still those dark stains on the paper. her blood had fallen on it when she set forth on life's journey, and now that the journey was ending the deep waters should wash the blood-stains away.
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with the score lying in her lap, she looked beyond it into the sorrowful past. it seemed to her as if mists were lifting and curtains were being drawn aside, and she saw the path that she had trodden winding backwards at her feet, like a clearly defined boundary.
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she had been weak and often stupid. her own interests and the main chance she had never considered. every man who had entered her life had been able to do what he liked with her. not once had she barred her soul, shown fight, or exercised to the full the sovereignty of her beauty. she had only been eager to oblige and to love and be kind to everyone. in reward, she had been hunted and bullied and dragged through the mud all her life long. even the one man who had respected her had gone away without saying good-bye.
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"but i've never hated anybody," she thought. "and no matter what i have suffered, or how i have transgressed, i have always been able to feel there was something in me out of the common, and this at the last seems as if it had been a gift from heaven."
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did it not really seem as if this "song of songs," which now lay before her, defaced, stained, and rotted, like her own career, had been all along blessing and absolving her the presiding genius she had believed it to be as a child, and fancied it afterwards during the rapture of her abandonment to her love for konrad?
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"yes, you shall come too," she said. "you shall die when i die."
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and she carefully wrapped the battered papers together. then she found the letters, and read them through two or three times, but without taking in what she read.
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since her flight to konrad that memorable night she had not been out alone in the streets so late. everything looked as if she saw it for the first time: the long rows of houses bathed in crude light, the trolleys of the electric trams in between, and the gliding figures of night-revellers.
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a numbing terror seized her. her legs felt wooden, as if stilts were screwed on to them, propelling her forward whether she would or not, without rest; and her heels tapped ceaselessly on the pavement, carrying her nearer and nearer her goal. whenever she met anyone she felt an impulse to hide herself, fancying that it would be noticed where she was going. for this reason she dived into dark back-streets, which were unevenly paved and where fading lime-trees scattered their drops of rain. she passed straggling brick buildings inhospitably shut in behind high back-garden walls; slaughter-houses and factories; and all the time her heels went tap-tap-tap, as if she had a pedometer attached to them, registering every inch which shortened her road.
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she tried to remember other short-cuts to her bridge, but couldn't find them, and gave up the attempt.
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"what thou doest, let it be done quickly," she had read somewhere. so she pressed forward with clenched teeth.
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the engelbecken was dark and deserted; yellow lights were reflected dimly in its unfathomable waters. "here it would be easier," she thought, breathless from the oppression at her heart. but, shuddering, she retreated from the grass slopes. the bridge must be somewhere over there to the north-west. fate had ordained that she should go to the bridge.
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it was still a long way off, quite an hour's walk. she came into more frequented ways. the rows of lights in front of the dancing saloons, where prostitutes caroused, cast their garish beams like finger-posts into the night. cabs were waiting there, and sounds of revelry came from within. forwards, forwards--always forwards! hot, garlic-laden fumes were wafted to her nostrils from a cellar-café that kept its doors open. when had she smelt something like that before? why, of course, when frau redlich was cooking the sausages for her son's farewell dinner.
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in front of her a hose as thick as her wrist sent a cleansing shower-bath over the street. what did that hissing, gurgling sound remind her of? why, of course, of old haberland watering the lawn with the old-fashioned sprinkler. and then all at once the thought shot through her brain: "none of this is really happening. i am lying in bed between the bookcases, and behind me the hanging lamp that i took down is smoking ... and this is all in an old novel that i am reading, while frau asmussen has luckily gone to sleep after taking her medicine."
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a growing tumult called her back to actual life. she had reached the heart of the city, the spot where the whirl of berlin's never-flagging nightly dissipations reaches its height. she came to the spittelmarkt, and onwards the huge leipziger strasse unrolled its chain of lights like a pearl necklace. buried in a mist of silver, dotted with the glimmering red lanterns of night cafés and cabarets, it was like a brilliant picture toned down with sepia.
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the numb feeling in lilly's legs increased. she walked, and was hardly conscious that she moved at all. she only felt the tremendous force of her heart-beats, which made her whole body vibrate like a mill.
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in the friedrichstrasse there were nearly as many people about as by day. young men pursued their smiling quarry, and the lamplight was reflected in the silk hose of the tripping grisettes.
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"once submerged in this sort of world," lilly thought with a gruesome envy, "and one is disturbed by no sense of wounded honour or suicidal impulses."
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ah! but on the other side of this bright, laughing, jostling crowd came peace and darkness again, in the shelter of which you might die unseen and unknown.
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through the noise she still heard her heels tapping. why shouldn't she go into some café, she asked herself? even if someone saw her, what did it matter? it would give her one miserable quarter of an hour's breathing space. lights, mirrors, velvet seats, blue cigarette-smoke, a clink of crystal, a pricking in her parched throat. just once--once more ... not a quarter ... but a whole hour, and one more poor little bit of life would be hers, which could do no one else any harm. but she could find no justification for such a cowardly action, and determined that her last walk should be disgraced by no such weakness. and she went on, on and on.
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the merry vortex of the kranzlerecke was left behind; the daggers of light stabbed her no more. lilly hardly knew where she was going. most likely she was in one of those quiet cross-streets which led to the north-west end. the middle of the deserted street glistened with puddles. the rainy autumnal wind came sweeping along between the houses, and the cold lamplight was reflected in their dark windowpanes. everything round her here seemed lifeless and extinct; only a human phantom glided forth at intervals, and cats chased each other noiselessly into obscurity.
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lilly shivered, and clasped the score tighter in her arms. as she tried to catch a sight of her reflection in the glass window of a florist's, the blinds of which were not drawn down, she started. there she saw stiff branches of evergreen laurels and cypresses encircling a bust of the kaiser; that recalled something strongly to her mind. what was it? ah! of course. they reminded her of the clytie which reigned on the pretentious private staircase of liebert & dehnicke's, smiling and dreaming. lilly czepanek would never now ascend that green-shaded stairway, either as a penitent or a triumphant sinner.
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she had chosen a better way, which led more directly to the great goal.
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she came to a bridge, and crossed it quickly. that other bridge, with the iron palisade, which sung her such alluring cradle-songs, was further away in the open, buried in darkness and silence.
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"you overflow with a superfluity of love ... three kinds of love: love emanating from the heart, the senses, and from compassion. one kind everybody has; two are dangerous; all three lead to ruin!"
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who had said that?
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why, to be sure, her first flame--that poor consumptive lecturer on the history of art, whom she and rosalie katz had clubbed together to send to the promised land, the land which she herself had never seen. he had spoken of the blue haze of the olives, of fields of shining asphodel, and the black sirocco sea.
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"fields of shining asphodel." what sort of fields could they be, fields of asphodel?
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the foreign word sounded strange, and oh, how full of enchantment! but her heels still went tap-tap, and the cradle-song of the palisade thundered in between.
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a man addressed her: "would she ...?"
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she shook him off as if he had been a reptile.
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then she remembered another warning that had been given her, also divided into three heads--whose was that? oh, now she recollected: dr. pieper's. it came back to her, every word and sentence of the pompous utterance sounding in her ears as clearly as if it had been spoken only yesterday, "there are three things to beware of: exchange no superfluous glances; demand no superfluous rendering of accounts; make no superfluous confessions."
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"if i had not exchanged superfluous glances i should have seen my promised land. if i had not superfluously demanded a rendering of account, i should never have been kicked out of lischnitz. and if i had not made superfluous confessions...."
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well, what then?
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"konni! konni!" she wailed. a shudder of yearning overwhelmed her painfully, and restrained her wandering thoughts.
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she walked on, staggering. fresh lines of street vanished in mist, and at one spot a grass lawn reared its unevenly clipped hedge.
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"what sort of fields could they be, fields of shining asphodel?"
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ah! here was the bridge. the bridge!
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like a thief in the night it loomed in the darkness, above the wide, deserted spaces, where the lights of thousands of street-lamps dwindled into infinitesimal sparks. somewhere in the dark sky shone the mild face of a full-moon. it was the illuminated clock of a railway station, the shadowy outline of which was swallowed up by the darkness. the hands pointed to half-past one.
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lilly saw it all dimly, as through a haze. she had sunk, paralysed with terror, against the corner of the wall, which she had intended to turn. her heart throbbed so convulsively that she thought she must fall down dead.
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"no; i can't do it!" she said to herself. and then came her own answer: "but i can--i will!"
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she tried to stagger a few steps further, on to the bridge where the railings seemed to be waiting for her in malice; but her legs refused to carry her. the singing in her head rose to a roar of thunder. she stood hesitating on the dark, forsaken spot; with both hands she struggled to tear the score and crumple it into a ball, but it would not yield. her "song of songs" was stronger than she was. then, all at once, her feet began to move as if of their own accord, and took her step by step beyond the lamp-post to the railings. yes, now the chains of the palisade were between her fingers. she could see nothing of the water below but a dark slimy shimmer. so murky was it that even the lamps were not reflected in it.
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now all she had to do was to jump--and it would be over.
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"yes, i'll do it! i'll do it!" a voice within her cried.
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but "the song of songs" must go first. it would be in the way, and hinder her climbing over the railings.
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she threw it. a white flash, a splash below, harsh and shrill, which made her shake in every limb, as if her face had been slapped. and when she heard it, she knew instantly that she would never do it. no, never! lilly czepanek was no heroine. no martyr to her love was lilly czepanek. no isolde, who finds in the will not to exist the highest form of self-existence. but she was only a poor exploited and plundered human creature who must drag on through life as best she could. she would not go back to the old round of degrading dissipations, however much richard might look like a whipped dog. of that she was determined; and she began forthwith to review the few possibilities left of her earning an honest living.
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perhaps all would come right in the end, though she could not disguise the fact that she had completely lost her zeal for work, and was never likely to find it again. all she asked was to be allowed to live in peace and the exercise of virtue. did not millions of human beings think there was nothing better?
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she cast one more searching glance at the sullenly rolling river in which "the song of songs" had found its grave, and then turned and walked away.
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in the business circles of berlin there was a flutter of surprise the following spring when the papers announced that herr richard dehnicke, senior partner of the well-known old firm of liebert & dehnicke, art bronze manufacturers, had married lilly czepanek, a notorious beauty of the demimonde. the announcement added that the pair had taken up their quarters temporarily in southern italy. those who knew her were not surprised--they said that they had always felt lilly czepanek was a dangerous woman.
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joseph smith as scientist
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a contribution to mormon philosophy
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john a. widtsoe, a. m., ph. d.
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copyright 1908 by john a. widtsoe.
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in the life of every person, who receives a higher education, in or out of schools, there is a time when there seems to be opposition between science and religion; between man-made and god-made knowledge. the struggle for reconciliation between the contending forces is not an easy one. it cuts deep into the soul and usually leaves scars that ache while life endures. there are thousands of young people in the church to-day, and hundreds of thousands throughout the world, who are struggling to set themselves right with the god above and the world about them. it is for these young people, primarily, that the following chapters have been written.
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this volume is based on the conviction that there is no real difference between science and religion. the great, fundamental laws of the universe are foundation stones in religion as well as in science. the principle that matter is indestructible belongs as much to theology as to geology. the theology which rests upon the few basic laws of nature is unshakable; and the great theology of the future will be such a one.
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"mormonism" teaches and has taught from the beginning that all knowledge must be included in the true theology. because of its comprehensive philosophy, "mormonism" will survive all religious disturbances and become the system of religious faith which all men may accept without yielding the least part of the knowledge of nature as discovered in the laboratories or in the fields. the splendid conceptions of "mormonism" concerning man and nature, and man's place in nature are among the strongest testimonies of the divine nature of the work founded by joseph smith, the prophet.
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this little volume does not pretend to be a complete treatment of "mormon" philosophy; it is only a small contribution to the subject. there is room for elaboration and extension in this field for many generations to come. the attempt has been made to sketch, briefly, the relation of "mormonism" to some features of modern scientific philosophy, and to show that not only do "mormonism" and science harmonize; but that "mormonism" is abreast of the most modern of the established views of science, and that it has held them many years--in some cases before science adopted them. the only excuse for the scant treatment of such an important subject is that it is as extensive as the duties of a busy life would allow. in the future, the subject may be given a fuller treatment.
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some readers may urge that "the testimony of the spirit," which has been the final refuge of so many christians, has received little consideration in the following chapters. this is due to the avowed purpose of the work to harmonize science and religion, on the basis of accepted science. "mormonism" is deeply and rationally spiritual; the discussion in this volume is confined to one phase of gospel philosophy.
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the majority of the following chapters were originally published in the improvement era for 1903-1904 as a series of articles bearing the main title of this book. these articles are here republished with occasonal changes and additions. the new chapters have been cast into the same form as the original articles. the publication as independent articles will explain the apparent lack of connection between the chapters in this book. the statements of scientific facts have been compared very carefully with standard authorities. however, in popularizing science there is always the danger that the simplification may suggest ideas that are not wholly accurate. those who have tried this kind of work will understand and pardon such errors as may appear. however, corrections are invited.
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my thanks are due and cheerfully given the management of the improvement era for the help and encouragement given. i am under especial obligations to elder edward h. anderson, the associate editor of the era, to whose efforts it is largely due that this volume has seen the light of day. i desire to render my thanks also to the committee appointed by the first presidency to read the manuscript, elders george albert smith, edward h. anderson and joseph f. smith, jr.
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this volume has been written in behalf of "mormonism." may god speed the truth!
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chapter i. joseph's mission and language
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the fundamental concepts of the universe.
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the constitution of the universe.
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chapter vi. the new astronomy chapter vii. geological time chapter viii. organized intelligence
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the laws governing the individual.
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chapter ix. faith chapter x. repentance chapter xi. baptism chapter xii. the gift of the holy ghost chapter xiii. the word of wisdom
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the destiny of earth and man.
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the region of the unknown.
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chapter xvi. the sixth sense
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the force of forces.
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chapter xvii. the nature of god
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chapter xxi. the testimony of the soil
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joseph's mission and language.
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"teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of god, that are expedient for you to understand;
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"of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land, and a knowledge also of countries and kingdoms,
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"that ye may be prepared in all things when i shall send you again to magnify the calling, whereunto i have called you, and the mission with which i have commissioned you."--doctrine and covenants, 88:78-80.
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"and verily, i say unto you, that it is my will that you should hasten to translate my scriptures, and to obtain a knowledge of history, and of countries, and of kingdoms, of laws of god and man, and all this for the salvation of zion."--doctrine and covenants, 93:53.
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scientific details are almost wholly wanting in the writings of joseph smith. had the prophet known the science of his day, his detailed knowledge would have been incorporated somehow in his writings. the almost complete absence of such scientific detail as would in all probability have been used, had the prophet known of it, is additional testimony that he did not get his information from books.
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finally, another important fact must be mentioned. men in all ages have speculated about the things of the universe, and have invented all kinds of theories to explain natural phenomena. in all cases, however, these theories have been supported by experimental evidence, or else they have been proposed simply as personal opinions. joseph smith, on the contrary, laid no claim to experimental data to support the theories which he proposed, nor did he say that they were simply personal opinions, but he repeatedly asserted that god had revealed the truths to him, and that they could not, therefore, be false. if doctrines resting upon such a claim can be shown to be true, it is additional testimony of the truth of the prophet's work.
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in the following chapters it will be shown, by a series of comparisons, that, in 1833, or soon thereafter, the teachings of joseph smith, the mormon prophet, were in full harmony with the most advanced scientific thought of today, and that he anticipated the world of science in the statement of fundamental facts and theories of physics, chemistry, astronomy and biology.
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the fundamental concepts of the universe.
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the indestructibility of matter.
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it was believed by the philosophers of ancient and mediaeval times, especially by those devoted to the study of alchemy, that it was possible through mystical powers, often of a supernatural order, to annihilate matter or to create it from nothing. men with such powers transcended all known laws of nature, and became objects of fear, often of worship to the masses of mankind. naturally enough, the systems of religion became colored with the philosophical doctrines of the times; and it was held to be a fundamental religious truth that god created the world from nothing. certainly, god could do what his creatures, the magicians, were able to do--that part of the reasoning was sound.
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in support of this doctrine, attention was called to some of the experiences of daily life. a piece of coal placed in a stove, in a short time disappear--it is annihilated. from the clear air of a summer's day raindrops start--created out of nothing. a fragment of gold placed in contact with sufficiently strong acids, disappears--it is destroyed.
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towards the end of the eighteenth century, facts and laws of chemistry were discovered, which enabled scientists to follow in great detail the changes, visible or invisible, to which matter in its various forms is subject. then it was shown that the coal placed in a stove unites with a portion of the air entering through the drafts, and becomes an invisible gas, but that, were this gas collected as it issues from the chimney, it would be found to contain a weight of the elements of the coal just equal to the weight of the coal used. in a similar manner it was shown that the raindrops are formed from the water found in the air, as an invisible vapor. the gold dissolved in the acid, may be wholly recovered so that every particle is accounted for. numerous investigations on this subject were made by the most skillful experimenters of the age, all of which showed that it is absolutely impossible to create or destroy the smallest particle of matter; that the most man can do is to change the form in which matter exists.
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after this truth had been demonstrated, it was a necessary conclusion that matter is eternal, and that the quantity of matter in the universe cannot be diminished nor increased. this great generalization, known as the law of the persistence of matter or mass, is the foundation stone of modern science. it began to find general acceptance among men about the time of joseph smith's birth, though many religious sects still hold that god, as the supreme ruler, is able at will to create matter from nothing. the establishment of this law marked also the final downfall of alchemy and other kindred occult absurdities.
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it is thus evident that from the beginning of his work, joseph smith was in perfect harmony with the fundamental doctrine of science; and far in advance of the religious sects of the world, which are, even at this time, slowly accepting the doctrine of the persistence of matter in a spiritual as well as in a material sense.
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mormonism has frequently been charged with accepting the doctrine of materialism. in one sense, the followers of joseph smith plead yes to this charge. in mormon theology there is no place for immateralism; i.e. for a god, spirits and angels that are not material. spirit is only a refined form of matter. it is beyond the mind of man to conceive of an immaterial thing. on the other hand, joseph smith did not teach that the kind of tangible matter, which impresses our mortal senses, is the kind of matter which is associated with heavenly beings. the distinction between the matter known to man and the spirit matter is very great; but no greater than is the difference between the matter of the known elements and that of the universal ether which forms one of the accepted dogmas of science.
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science knows phenomena only as they are associated with matter; mormonism does the same.
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the indestructibility of energy.
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it is only when matter is in motion, or in the possession of energy, that it is able to impress our senses. the law of the indestructibility and convertibility of energy, is of equal fundamental value with that of the indestructibility of matter. a great variety of forces exist in nature, as, for instance, gravitation, electricity, chemical affinity, heat and light. these forces may all be made to do work. energy, in fact, may be defined as the power of doing work. in early days these forces were supposed to be distinct and not convertible, one into the other, just as gold and silver, with our present knowledge, are distinct and not convertible into other elements.
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about the same time, it was shown that light can be converted into heat; and later it was proved that electricity may be changed into heat or light. in all these cases it was found that the amount of energy changed was exactly equal to the amount of energy produced.
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it need hardly be explained that energy cannot exist independently of matter; and that the law of the persistence of matter is necessary for the existence of the law of persistence of force.
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joseph smith was not a scientist; and he made no pretense of solving the scientific questions of this day. the discussion relative to the convertibility of various forms of energy was in all probability not known to him. still, in his writings is found a doctrine which in all respects resembles that of the conservation of energy.
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in short, the writings of the church clearly indicate that the various forces of nature, the energy of nature, are only manifestations of the great, pervading force of intelligence. we do not understand the real nature of intelligence any better than we understand the true nature of energy. we only know that by energy or intelligence gross matter is brought within reach of our senses.
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these quotations, and many others to which attention might be called, show clearly that joseph smith taught the doctrine that the energy of the universe can in nowise be increased or diminished, though, it may manifest itself in various forms.
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the great latter-day prophet is thus shown to be in harmony with the second fundamental law of science. it is not a valid objection to this conclusion to say that joseph smith did not use the accepted terms of science. words stand only for ideas; the ideas are essential. the nomenclature of a science is often different in different lands, and is often changed as knowledge grows.
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it is hardly correct to say that he was in harmony with the law; the law as stated by the world of science was rather in harmony with him. let it be observed that joseph smith enunciated the principle of the conservation of the energy, or intelligence as he called it, of the universe, in may, 1833, ten years before dr. joule published his famous papers on energy relations, and fifteen or twenty years before the doctrine was clearly understood and generally accepted by the learned of the world. let it be also remembered that the unlearned boy from the backwoods of new york state, taught with the conviction of absolute certainty that the doctrine was true, for god had revealed it to him.
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if god did not reveal it to him, where did he learn it, and whence came the courage to teach it as an eternal truth?
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the universal ether.
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the nature of light has been in every age a fascinating subject for study and reflection. descartes, the french mathematician and philosopher, advanced the hypothesis that light consists of small particles emitted by luminous bodies, and that the sensation of light is produced by the impact of these particles upon the retina of the eye. soon after this emission or corpuscular theory had been proposed, hooke, an english investigator of great note, stated publicly that the phenomena of light, as he had observed them, led him to the belief that the nature of light could best be explained on the assumption that light was a kind of undulation or wave in some unknown medium, and that the sensation of light was. produced when these waves struck upon the retina of the eye. this new hypothesis, known as the theory of undulations, after the great isaac newton had declared himself in favor of the corpuscular theory, was finally adjudged by the majority of students to be erroneous.
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about the year 1800, more than a century after the days of descartes, hooke and newton, an english physician, dr. thomas young, who had long experimented on the nature of light, asserted that the emission theory could not explain many of the best known phenomena of light. dr. young further claimed that correct explanations could be made only by the theory of waves of undulation of an etherial medium diffused through space, and presented numerous experimental evidences in favor of this view. this revival of the old theory of undulation met at first with violent opposition from many of the greatest scientific minds of the day. sometime after dr. young's publication, a french army officer, augustine fresnel, undertook the study of the nature of light, and arrived, almost independently, at the conclusion stated by dr. young. later, other investigators discovered light phenomena which could be explained only on the undulatory hypothesis, and so, little by little, the new theory gained ground and adherents.
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in brief, this theory assumes that a very attenuated, but very elastic, substance, called the ether, fills all space, and is found surrounding the ultimate particles of matter. thus, the pores of wood, soil, lead, gold and the human body, are filled with the ether. it is quite impossible by any known process to obtain a portion of space free from it. a luminous body is one in which the ultimate particles of matter, the atoms or molecules, are moving very rapidly, and thus causing disturbances in the ether, similar to the disturbances in quiet water when a rock is thrown into it; and, like the water wave, proceeding from the point of disturbance, so the ether waves radiate from the luminous body into space. when a wave strikes the retina of the eye, the sensation of light is produced. this new-found ether was soon used for the explanation of other natural phenomena.
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other recent discoveries have hinted at the possibility of matter itself being only the result of peculiar forms of this all-pervading substance, the luminiferous ether. the properties of the element radium, and other radioactive elements, as at present understood, suggest the possibility of a better understanding of the nature of the ether, and of its relation to the world of phenomena.
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the theory of the ether is one of the most helpful assumptions of modern science. by its aid the laws of energy have been revealed. there is at the present time no grander or more fundamental doctrine in science than that of the ether. the nature of the ether is, of course, far from being clearly understood, but every discovery in science demonstrates that the hypothetical ether stands for an important reality of nature. together with the doctrines of the indestructibility of matter and energy, the doctrine of the ether welds and explains all the physical phenomena of the universe.
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joseph smith, in a revelation received on december 27, 1832, wrote:
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true, the passage above quoted does not furnish detailed explanation of the prophet's view concerning the substance filling all space, but it must be remembered that it is simply an incidental paragraph in a chapter of religious instruction. true, also, the prophet goes farther than some modern scientists, when he says that this universal substance bears a controlling relation to all things; yet, when it is recalled that eminent, sober students have suggested that the facts of science make it possible to believe that matter itself is simply a phenomenon of the universal ether, the statement of the "mormon" prophet seems very reasonable. the paragraph already quoted is not an accidental arrangement of words suggesting an idea not intended by the prophet, for in other places, he presents the idea of an omnipresent substance binding all things together. for instance, in speaking of the controlling power of the universe he says:
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lest it be thought that the words are forced, for argument's sake, to give the desired meaning, it may be well to examine the views of some of the persons to whom the prophet explained in detail the meanings of the statements in the revelations which he claimed to have received from god.
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such quotations, from the men intimately associated or acquainted with the early history of the church, prove that joseph smith taught in clearness the doctrine that a subtle form of matter, call it ether or holy spirit, pervades all space; that all phenomena of nature, including, specifically, heat, light and electricity, are definitely connected with this substance. he taught much else concerning this substance which science will soon discover, but which lies without the province of this paper to discuss.
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by the doctrine of the ether, it is made evident all the happenings in the universe are indelibly inscribed upon the record of nature. a word is spoken. the air movements that it causes disturbs the ether. the ether waves radiate into space and can never die. anywhere, with the proper instrument, one of the waves may be captured, and the spoken word read. that is the simple method of wireless telegraphy. it is thus that all our actions shall be known on the last great day. by the ether, or the holy spirit as named by the prophet, god holds all things in his keeping. his intelligent will radiates into space, to touch whomsoever it desires. he who is tuned aright can read the message, flashed across the ether ocean, by the almighty. thus, also, god, who is a person, filling only a portion of space is, by his power carried by the ether, everywhere present.
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the ether of science though material is essentially different from the matter composing the elements. so, also, in mormon theology, is the holy spirit different from the grosser elements. in science there is a vast distinction between the world of the elements, and that of the ether; in theology, there is an equally great difference between the spiritual and material worlds. though the theology of joseph smith insists that immaterialism is an absurdity, yet it permits no overlapping of the earthly and the spiritual.
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it must not be overlooked that the broad statement of this doctrine was made by joseph smith, at least as early as 1832, at a time when the explanation of light phenomena on the hypothesis of a universal ether was just beginning to find currency among learned men; and many years before the same hypothesis was accepted in explaining the phenomena of heat and electricity.
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the idea of an influence pervading the universe is not of itself new. poets and philosophers of all ages have suggested it in a vague, hesitating manner, without connecting it with the phenomena of nature, but burdening it with the greatest absurdity of religion or philosophy, that of immaterialism. joseph smith said the doctrine had been taught him by god, and gave it to the world unhesitatingly and rationally. the men of science, to whom joseph smith appears only as an imposter, and who know nothing of his writings, have later discovered the truth for themselves, and incorporated it in their books of learning.
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had joseph smith been the clever imposter that some claim he was, he probably would not have dealt in any way with the theories of the material world, at least would not have claimed revelations laying down physical laws; had he been the stupid fool, others tell us he was, his mind would not have worried itself with the fundamental problems of nature.
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however that may be, it is certain that joseph smith, in the broad and rational statement of the existence of an omnipresent, material though subtle substance, anticipated the workers in science. in view of that fact, it is not improbable that at some future time, when science shall have gained a wider view, the historian of the physical sciences will say that joseph smith, the clear-sighted, first stated correctly the fundamental physical doctrine of the universal ether.
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the reign of law.
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"imagine a number of men living in an underground cavernous chamber, with an entrance open to the light, extending along the entire length of the cavern, in which they have been confined, from childhood, with their legs and necks so shackled, that they are obliged to sit still and look straight forward, because their chains render it impossible for them to turn their heads round; and imagine a bright fire burning some way off, above and behind them, and an elevated roadway passing between the fire and the prisoners, with a low wall built along it, like the screens which conjurers put up in front of their audiences, and above which they exhibit their wonders. also figure to yourself a number of persons walking behind the wall, and carrying with them statues of men and images of other animals, wrought in wood and stone and all kinds of materials, together with various other articles, which overtop the wall; and, as you might expect, let some of the passers-by be talking, and the others silent.
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"let me ask whether persons so confined could have seen anything of themselves or of each other, beyond the shadows thrown by the fire upon the part of the cavern facing them? and is not their knowledge of the things carried past them equally limited? and if they were able to converse with one another, would they not be in the habit of giving names to the objects which they saw before them? if their prison house returned an echo from the part facing them, whenever one of the passers-by opened his lips, to what could they refer the voice, if not to the shadow which was passing? surely such person would hold the shadows of those manufactured articles to be the only realities."
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with reference to our absolute knowledge of the phenomena of nature, this splendid comparison is as correct today as it was in the days of plato, about 400 b. c.; we are only as prisoners in a great cave, watching shadows of passing objects thrown upon the cavern wall, and reflecting upon the real natures of the things whose shadows we see. we know things only by their effects; the essential nature of matter, ether and energy is far from our understanding.
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in early and mediaeval times, the recognition of the fact that nature in its ultimate form is unknowable, led to many harmful superstitions. chief among the fallacies of the early ages was the belief that god at will could, and did, cause various phenomena to appear in nature, which were contrary to all human experience. as observed in chapter 4, a class of men arose who claimed to be in possession of knowledge which made them also able, at will, to cause various supernatural manifestations. thus arose the occult sciences, so called,--alchemy, astrology, magic, witchcraft, and all other similar abominations of the intellect. such beliefs made the logical study of nature superfluous, for any apparent regularity or law in nature might at any time be overturned by a person in possession of a formula of the black art or a properly treated broomstick.
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while such ideas prevailed among the majority of men, the rational study of science could make little progress. in the march of the ages as the ideas of men were classified, it began to be understood that the claims of the devotees of the mystical arts not only could not be substantiated but were in direct opposition to the known operations of nature. it became clear to the truthseekers, that in nature a given cause, acting upon any given object, providing all surrounding conditions be left unchanged, will always produce the same effect. thus, coal of a certain quality, brought to a high temperature in the presence of air, will burn and produce heat; a stick held in water at the right angle will appear crooked; iron kept in contact with moisture and air, at the right temperature, will be changed into rust; sunlight passed through a glass prism will be broken into rainbow colors; ordinary plants placed in a dark cellar will languish and die. no matter how often trials are made, the above results are obtained; and today it is safe to assert that in the material world no relation of cause and effect, once established, has failed to reappear at the will of the investigator. as this principle of the constancy in the relations between cause and effect was established, the element of chance in natural phenomena, with its attendant arts of magic, had to disappear. it is now well understood by intelligent persons that the law of order controls all the elements of nature.
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it is true that the cause of any given effect may, itself, be the effect of other causes, and that the first cause of daily phenomena is not and probably cannot be understood. it is also true that very seldom is the mind able to comprehend why certain causes, save the simpler ones, should produce certain effects. in that respect we are again nothing more than plato's cave prisoners, seeing the shadows of ultimate realities. however, the recognition of the principle of the invariable relation between cause and effect was a great onward stride in the intellectual development of the world.
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now, as men began to investigate nature with her forces, according to the new light, numerous relations of the forces were discovered--in number far beyond the comprehension of the human mind. then it was found necessary to group all facts of a similar nature, and invent, if possible, some means by which the properties of the whole group might be stated in language so simple as to reach the understanding. thus came the laws of nature.
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laws of nature are, therefore, man's simplest and most comprehensive expression of his knowledge of certain groups of natural phenomena. they are man-made, and subject to change as knowledge grows; but, as they change, they approach or should approach more and more nearly to the perfect law. modern science is built upon the assumption that the relations between cause and effect are invariable, and that these relations may be grouped to form great natural laws, which express the modes by which the forces of the universe manifest themselves.
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were it not for the sake of the completeness of the argument running through these chapters, it would be unnecessary to call attention to the fact that joseph smith in a very high degree held views similar to those taught by science relative to cause and effect, and the reign of law.
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this also is a clear, concise statement of law and its nature, which is not excelled by the definitions of science. there can be no doubt from these quotations, as from many others that might be made, that joseph smith based his teachings upon the recognition that law pervades the universe, and that none can transcend law. in the material world or in the domain of ether or spirit, like causes produced like effects--the reign of law is supreme.
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however, whatever else the prophet joseph smith was, he most certainly was in full harmony with the scientific principle that the universe is controlled by law.
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the constitution of the universe.
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the new astronomy.
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from the dawn of written history, when the first men, watching through the nights, observed the regular motions of the moon and stars, humanity has been striving to obtain a correct understanding of the relation of the earth to the. first it was believed that the sun, moon, and stars revolved in circles around the earth (which for a time was supposed to be flat instead of spherical). the great greek philosopher, hipparchus, after observing the movements of the heavenly bodies, suggested that the earth was not exactly in the middle of the circles. three hundred years later, ptolemy discovered a number of facts concerning the movements of the sun, moon and planets, which were unknown to hipparchus, and which led him to suggest that the sun and moon move in circles around the earth, but that the planets move around the earth in circles, whose centres again move around the earth. this somewhat complex theory explained very well what was known of astronomy in the days of the ancients. in fact, the views of ptolemy were quite generally accepted for 1300 years.
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about 1500, a. d., copernicus, a dutch astronomer, having still more facts in his possession than had ptolemy, concluded that the simplest manner in which the apparent movements of the sun, moon, and planets could be explained, was to assume that the sun is the center of the planetary system, and that the earth, with the moon and planets, revolves according to definite laws around the sun. this theory, supported by numerous confirmatory observations, was generally accepted by astronomers, and really did explain very simply and clearly many of the facts of planetary motion.
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fifty years after the death of copernicus, the celebrated astronomer, kepler, proposed extensions and improvements of the copernican doctrine, which made the theory that the planets revolve about the sun more probable than ever before. he suggested first that the planets move around the sun in closed curves, resembling flattened circles, and known as ellipses. by assuming this to be true, and assisted by other discoveries, he was also able to state the times required by the planets for their revolutions around the sun, and the velocity of their motions at different times of the year. later investigations have proved the great laws proposed by copernicus and kepler to be true; and from their days is dated the birth of modern astronomy.
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after the laws of the motions of the planets had been determined, it was only natural that men should ask themselves what forces were concerned in these motions. the ancient philosophers had proposed the idea that the sun attracts all heavenly bodies, but the suggestion had not been accepted by the world at large. however, after the discoveries of kepler, the english, philosopher newton advanced the theory that there is in the universe an attractive force which influences all matter, beyond the limits of known space. he further proved that the intensity of this force varies directly with the product of the attractive masses, and inversely, with the square of the distances between them--that is, the greater the bodies the greater the attraction; the greater the distance between them, the smaller the attraction. this law of gravitation has been verified by repeated experiments, and, taken in connection with the astronomical theories of copernicus and kepler, has made celestial mechanics what they are today.
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by the aid of the law of gravitation, many astronomical predictions have been fulfilled. among the most famous is the following incident:
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in the early part of the last century, astronomers noticed that the motions of the planet uranus did not agree with those derived from calculations based upon the law of gravitation. about 1846, two investigators, m. leverrier, of france, and mr. adams of england, stated, as their opinion, that the discordance between theory and observation in the case of the motions of uranus, was due to the attraction of a planet, not yet known, and they calculated by means of the law of gravitation, the size and orbit of the unknown planet. in the fall of 1846, this planet was actually discovered and named neptune. it was found to harmonize with the predictions made by the astronomers before its discovery.
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then, early in the nineteenth century, a new method of research began to be developed, which was destined to form a new science of astronomy. it had long been known that white light when passed through a glass prism is broken into a colored spectrum, with colors similar to those observed in the rainbow. now it was discovered that when white light passes through vapors of certain composition, dark lines appear in the spectrum, and that the position of the lines varies with the chemical composition of the vapors. by the application of these principles, it was shown, towards the middle of the last century, that the chemical composition of the heavenly bodies may be determined. later,it was discovered that by noting the positions of the dark lines in the spectrum, it could be known when a star or any heavenly body is moving, as also the direction and amount of its motion. these unexpected discoveries led to a study of the heavens from the spectroscopic point of view, which has resulted in a marvelous advance in the science of astronomy.
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such, then, is in very general terms the view of modern astronomy with reference to the constitution of the universe. most of the information upon which this view rests has been gathered during the last fifty years.
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joseph smith was doubtlessly impressed with the beauty of the starry heavens, and, in common with all men of poetical nature, allowed his thoughts to wander into the immensity of space. however, he had no known opportunity of studying the principles of astronomy, or of becoming familiar with the astronomical questions that were agitating the thinkers of his day. naturally, very little is said in his writings that bears upon the planetary and stellar constitution of the universe; yet enough to prove that he was in perfect harmony with the astronomical views developed since his day.
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the two revelations from which these quotations are made, were given to the prophet in 1832 and 1839 respectively, many years before the fact that all celestial bodies are in motion was understood and accepted by the world of science.
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while the idea that the planets and stars may be inhabited is not at all new, yet it is interesting to note that joseph smith taught as an absolute truth that such is the case. probably no other philosopher has gone quite that far.
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these brief quotations go to show that the doctrines of the prophet of the latter-day saints are in full accord with the views that distinguish the new astronomy. it is also to be noted that in advancing the theories of universal motion among the stars, and of great stars or suns governing groups of stars, he anticipated by many years the corresponding theories of professional astronomers.
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in various sermons the prophet dealt more fully with the doctrines here set forth and showed more strongly than is done in his doctrinal writings, that he understood perfectly the far reaching nature of his astronomical teachings.
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did joseph smith teach these truths by chance? or, did he receive inspiration from a higher power?
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god speaks in various ways to men. the stars, the clouds, the mountains, the grass and the soil, are all, to him who reads aright, forms of divine revelation. many of the noblest attributes of god may be learned by a study of the laws according to which omnipotent will directs the universe.
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nowhere is this principle more beautifuly illustrated and confirmed than in the rocks that constitute the crust of the earth. on them is written in simple plainness the history of the earth almost from that beginning, when the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters. yet, for centuries, men saw the rocks, their forms and their adaptations to each other, without understanding the message written in them. only, as the wonderful nineteenth century approached, did the vision open, and the interpretation of the story of the rocks become apparent.
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how the earth first came into being has not yet been clearly revealed. from the first, however, the mighty forces which act today, have shaped and fashioned the earth and prepared it for man's habitation. water, entering the tiny cracks of the rocks, and expanding as, in winter, it changed to ice, crumbled the mighty mountans; water, falling as rain from the clouds, washed the rock fragments into the low-lying places to form soil; the water in mighty rivers chiseled the earth with irresistible force, as shown by the grand canyon of the colorado. the internal heat of the earth, aided by the translocation of material by water, produced large cracks in the earth's crust, through which oceans of molten matter flowed and spread themselves over the land; the same heat appeared in volcanoes, through which were spurted liquid earth, cinders and foul gases; as the earth heat was lost, the crust cooled, contracted and great folds appeared, recognized as mountains, and as time went on, many of the mountains were caused to sink and the ocean beds were brought up in their stead. wonderful and mighty have been the changes on the earth's surface since the lord began its preparation for the race of men.
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in the beginning, it appears that water covered the whole earth. in that day, the living creatures of earth dwelt in the water, and it was the great age of fishes and other aquatic animals. soon the first land lifted itself timidly above the surface of the ocean, and formed inviting places for land animals and plants. upon the land came, first, according to the story of the rocks, a class of animals known as amphibians, like frogs, that could live both in water and on land. associated with these creatures were vast forests of low orders of plants, that cleared the atmosphere of noxious gases, and made it fit for higher forms of life. then followed an age in which the predominating animals were gigantic reptiles, a step higher than the amphibians, but a step lower than the class of mammals to which man belongs. during the age of these prehistoric monsters, the earth was yet more fully prepared for higher life. following the age of reptiles, came the age of mammals, which still persists, though, since the coming of man upon the earth, the geological age has been known as the age of man.
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this rapid sketch of the geological history of the earth does very poor justice to one of the most complete, wonderful and beautiful stories brought to the knowledge of man. the purpose of this chapter is not, however, to discuss the past ages of the earth.
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it is, of course, readily understood that such mighty changes as those just described, and the succession of different kinds of organic life, could not have taken place in a few years. vast periods of time must of necessity have been required for the initiation, rise, domination and final extinction of each class of animals. a year is too small a unit of measurement in geological time; a thousand years or, better, a million years, would more nearly answer the requirements.
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when these immense periods of time were first suggested by students of science, a great shout of opposition arose from the camp of the theologians. the bible story of creation had been taken literally, that in six days did the lord create the heavens and the earth; and it was held to be blasphemy to believe anything else. the new revelation, given by god in the message of the rocks, was received as a man-made theory, that must be crushed to earth. it must be confessed likewise that many of the men of science, exulting in the new light, ridiculed the story told by moses, and claimed that it was an evidence that the writings of moses were not inspired, but merely man-made fables.
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the war between the mosaic and the geological record of creation became very bitter and lasted long, and it led to a merciless dissection and scrutiny of the first chapter of genesis, as well as of the evidence upon which rests the geological theory of the age of the earth. when at last the din of the battle grew faint, and the smoke cleared away, it was quickly perceived by the unbiased on-lookers, that the bible and science had both gained by the conflict. geology had firmly established its claim, that the earth was not made in six days of twenty-four hours each; and the first chapter of genesis had been shown to be a marvelously truthful record of the great events of creation.
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in genesis 1:5 we read, "and god called the light day, and the darkness he called night. and the evening and the morning were the fist day." the corresponding period is discussed in the book of abraham 4:5 as follows: "and the gods called the light day, and the darkness they called night. and it came to pass that from the evening until the morning they called night; and from the morning until the evening they called day; and this was the first, or the beginning, of that which they called night and day."
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it is to be noted that in abraham's version names were given to the intervals between evening and morning, and morning and evening; but absolutely nothing is said about a first day: the statement is simply made, that this was the beginning of the alternating periods of light and darkness which they, the gods, had named night and day. according to this version, the first creative period occupied an unknown period of time.
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in genesis 1:8 it further says: "and god called the firmament heaven. and the evening and the morning were the second day."
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the corresponding passage in the book of abraham 4:8, reads, "and the gods called the expanse heaven. and it came to pass that it was from evening until morning that they called night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that they called day, and this was the second time that they called night and day."
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here it must be noted that nothing is said about a second day. it is said that it was the second time that they called day--which leaves the second creative period entirely indefinite so far as time limits are concerned.
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in genesis 1:13, it reads, "and the evening and the morning were the third day."
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in abraham 4:13, the corresponding passage reads, "and it came to pass that they numbered the days; from the evening until the morning they called night; and it came to pass, from the morning until the evening they called day; and it was the third time."
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here it is explicitly stated that the gods numbered the days; evidently, they counted the days that had passed during the third creative period, and it was the third time that the numbering had been done. again, the third creative period is left indefinite, as to time limits.
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gen. 1:19, reads, "and the evening and the morning were the fourth day."
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correspondingly, in abraham 4:19, is found, "and it came to pass that it was from evening until morning that it was night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that it was day; and it was the fourth time."
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this quotation from abraham, standing alone, would be somewhat ambiguous, for it might indicate that it was the fourth time that the periods between evening and morning, and morning and evening were called night and day. in the light of previous passages, however, the meaning of the passage becomes clear. certainly there is nothing in the verse to confine the fourth creative period within certain time limits.
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the fifth day in genesis closes as does the fourth; and the fifth time in abraham closes as does the fourth. the remarks made concerning the fourth creative period apply to the fifth.
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concerning the sixth creative period, gen. 1:31, says, "and god saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. and the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
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of the same period abraham says, "and the gods said: we will do everything that we have said, and organize them; and behold, they shall be very obedient. and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that they called night; and it came to pass that it was from evening until morning that they called day; and they numbered the sixth time."
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as in the previous periods, the sixth ended by the gods numbering the days of the creative period; the sixth period, like those preceding, being indeterminate as to time.
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now, then, we must remember that joseph smith made this translation long before the theologians of the world had consented to admit that the mosaic days meant long periods of time; and long before geology had established beyond question that immense time periods had been consumed in the preparation of the earth for man.
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standing alone, this fact might be called a chance coincidence, a result of blind fate. but recalling that it is one of many similar and even more striking facts, what shall be said, has ever impostor dared what joseph smith did? has ever false prophet lived beyond his generation, if his prophecies were examined? shall we of this foremost age accept convincing, logical truth, though it run counter to our preconceived notions? glorious were the visions of joseph the prophet; unspeakable would be our joy, should they be given to us.
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the student of the constitution of the universe must take into account living beings. plants, animals and men are essentially different from the mass of matter. the rock, apparently, is the same forever; but the plant has a beginning, and after a comparatively short existence dies. animals and men, likewise, begin their earthly existence; then, after a brief life, die, or disappear from the immediate knowledge of living things.
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man, the highest type of living things, differs from the rock, moreover, in that he possesses the power to exercise his will in directing natural forces. animals and even plants seem to possess a similar power to a smaller degree. the rock on the hillside is pulled downward by gravitation, but can move only if the ground is removed from beneath it by some external force. man, on the other hand, can walk up or down the hill, with or against the pull of gravity.
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modern science refers all phenomena to matter and motion; in other words, to matter and force or energy. in this general sense, matter includes the universal ether, and force includes any or all of the forces known, or that may be known, to man.
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to illustrate: the electrician develops a current of electricity, which to the scientist is a portion of the universal ether moving in a certain definite manner. when the vibrations of the ether are caused to change, light, or magnetism or chemical affinity may result from the electricity. in every case, matter is in motion. the ear perceives a certain sound. it is produced by the movements of the air. in fact, sounds are carried from place to place by great air waves. the heat of the stove is due to the rapid vibration of the molecules in the iron of the stove, which set up corresponding vibrations in the ether.
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by many it has been held that life and its phenomena transcend the ordinary explanations of nature. yet, those who have learned, by laborious researches, that the fundamental ideas of the universe are only eternal matter, eternal energy and the universe-filling medium, the ether, find it very difficult to conceive of a special force of life, which concerns itself solely with very limited portions of matter, and is wholly distinct from all other natural forces.
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to the student of science it seems more consistent to believe that life is nothing more than matter in motion; that, therefore, all matter possesses a kind of life; and that the special life possessed by plants, animals and man, is only the highest or most complex motion in the universe. the life of man, according to this view, is essentially different from the life of the rock; yet both are certain forms of the motion of matter, and may be explained ultimately by the same fundamental conceptions of science. certainly, such an idea is more beautifully simple than that of a special force of life, distinct from all other natural forces.
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it is argued by those who uphold this view, that the simple forces of nature are converted by living things into the higher forces that characterize life. for instance, to keep the human body, with its wonderful will and intelligence, in health, it is necessary to feed it. the food is actually burned within the body. the heat thus obtained gives to the man both physical and intellectual vigor. it would really appear, therefore, that heat, which is a well known, simple physical force, may be converted by the animal body into other and more complex forces, or modes of motion, such as the so-called life force.
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as to the origin of the special organization called life, science has nothing to say. science is helpless when she deals with the beginning of things. the best scientific explanation of life is that it is a very complex mode of motion occasioned by a highly complex organization of the matter and ether of the living body.
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there are still some students who prefer to believe in the existence of a special vital force, which is not subject to the laws that govern other forces. this view, however, is so inconsistent with the modern understanding of the contents of the universe that it has few followers.
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the view that life is a special organization by which the great natural forces are focussed and concentrated, so as to accomplish the greatest works, necessarily implies a belief in the modern laws of nature. since modern science is of very recent development it was quite improbable for such a conception of life to have been held clearly before modern times. in fact it is within the last thirty or forty years that these views have found expression among scientific investigations.
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the statement that man can receive a fullness of joy only when spirit and element are united, is of itself a scientific doctrine of high import. this is a world of matter; and a spiritual man, that is one made only of the universal ether, would not be able to receive fully the impressions that come from the contact of element with element. to enjoy and understand this world, it is necessary for the spirit to be clothed with matter. the ether or spirit world is not within our immediate view; and it is probable that the material world is far away from purely spiritual beings.
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men, beasts and plants--those beings that possess the higher life, differ from inanimate nature, so called, by a higher degree of organization. that is the dogma of "mormonism," and the doctrine of science. about 1831 joseph smith gave this knowledge to the world; a generation later, scientific men arrived independently at the same conclusion.
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in this chapter the intention has not been to explain fully the doctrines of joseph smith relating to the nature of man, but to call attention to the fact that the present scientific conception of the nature of living things is the same as that of "mormonism." that "mormonism" goes farther than science, and completes the explanation, is to the credit of the prophet.
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it must not be forgotten that in stating the doctrine that man is organized from the eternal elements and elementary forces of the universe, in such a way as to produce the phenomena of higher life, joseph smith anticipated the workers in science by nearly a generation.
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how wonderful was this boy-prophet of "mormonism," if all this was orginated within his own mind! at every point of contact, the sanest of modern philosophy finds counterpart in the theological structure of the gospel as taught by joseph smith. is the work divine?
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the laws governing the individual.
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nowadays, the young doubter who can not accept as the foundation of his religion "things which he has not seen," usually turns for comfort and future growth to the results of science. there he finds truths upon truths, glorious in their beauty and susceptibility to direct and unmistakeable proof; and soon he declares that in so-called natural science, there is no need of faith, for, if a person has only advanced far enough, every concern of science may be known through one, two or several senses.
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it is true that in the beginning of science no faith seems to be required; for every statement is based on experiments and observations that may be repeated by every student; and nothing is "taken on trust." as the deeper parts of science are explored, however, it is soon discovered that in science as in theology, a faith in "things that can not be seen," is an essential requisite for progress. in fact, the fundamental laws of the great divisions of science deal with realities that are wholly and hopelessly beyond the reach of man's five senses.
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an exposition of the fundamental conception of chemical science will illustrate the nature of scientific faith. a fragment of almost any substance may easily be divided into two or three pieces by a stroke of a hammer. each of the pieces may be broken into smaller pieces and this process of division continued until the powder is as fine as dust. still, each particle of the dust may be divided again and again, if we only have instruments fine enough to continue the process. a question which philosophy asked itself near its beginning was: is it possible to keep on dividing the dust particles forever, or is there a particle so small that it can not be divided again? neither science nor abstract philosophy has yet been able to answer this question fully. however, science has learned that if such a process of division occurs, in course of time a particle will be obtained which is so small that if it is divided or broken, the fragments will no longer be of the same nature as the original substance. these smallest particles in which the properties of the original substance inhere, are known as molecules. thus a molecule of sugar, when broken, falls into the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; of salt, into sodium and chlorine and of water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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the size of such a molecule can not be comprehended by the human mind; its smallness seems infinite. the mortal eye, though aided by the most powerful miscroscopes of modern days could not distinguish a sugar molecule or even a pile of thousands of them; placed on the tongue, there would be no sensation of sweetness; though it were hurled against our body with the velocity of lightning we should not feel the impact. to all our senses, the molecule is wholly unknown and no doubt shall remain so while the earth is as it is. yet, no fact is better established than the existence of the realities that we interpret as molecules. their relative weights and other properties have been securely determined. the existence of such a particle is as certain as is the existence of the sun in the high heavens.
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not only does science teach the existence of molecules; it looks within them and reveals their composition. for instance, a molecule of the sugar known as glucose, and used by candy makers, is made up of six particles of the element carbon, twelve of the element hydrogen and six of the element oxygen. the particles of carbon in the glucose molecule are so small that if one were divided it would no longer be carbon; the same with the particles of hydrogen and oxygen: if divided they would change into something else--into what is not yet known to man. these smallest particles are called atoms of the elements charcoal, hydrogen and oxygen. if instead of an atom of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, we write c, h, o, the composition of a molecule of glucose would be written c{6}h{12}o{6}. these are also indisputable facts of science. if the molecules are far beyond the range of our senses, the atoms are of course much further removed from the known world.
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but the chemist does not stop here. he is able to state accurately how the invisible, unsensed atoms are arranged within the unknowable molecule. in nature are found several glucose-like sugars, the molecules of which contain the same numbers of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. the varying properties of these sugars have been found to result from the different arrangements of the atoms within the molecules. the structure of the molecules of three of the most common sugars are as follows:
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referring to the above diagrams it will be observed that although each arrangement contains the same number of atoms, yet, because of the difference in arrangement, they are far from being identical. in fact, the difference in the properties of the sugars may be referred to the arrangement of the atoms in the molecules. this truth is one of the most splendid achievements of modern science. all the facts, here briefly outlined, are included in the atomic hypothesis, which is the foundation of the modern science of chemistry.
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science asks us to believe in the existence of particles, unknowable to our senses, the molecules; then to believe in still smaller particles, the atoms, which make up the molecules but whose relative weights and general properties have been determined. here, a faith is required in "things that can not be seen," and in the properties of these things. true, the scientist does not pretend to describe the atoms in detail, he does not need to do that to establish the certainty of their existence. he looks upon them as ultimate causes of effects that he may note with his physical senses. does theology require more? does any sane man in asking us to believe in god, for instance, attempt to describe him in detail?
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the scientist goes farther than this, however, for he asks us not only to have faith in the invisible, untasteable, unfeelable atoms, but also in the exact manner in which these atoms are arranged within the molecule. true, it is claimed, only, that the relative arrangement is known, yet the faith required still leads us far beyond the simple faith in atoms. has any man asked us to believe that he can describe the structure of god's dwelling? no principle taught by joseph smith requires a larger faith than this.
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not only in chemistry are such transcendent truths required. the fundamental conception of physics requires, if possible, a larger faith. the explanations of modern physics rest largely upon the doctrine of the universal ether. this ether is everywhere present, between the molecules and atoms; in fact the things of the universe are, as it were, suspended in the ocean of ether. this ether is so attenuated that it fills the pores of the human body without impressing itself upon our consciousness, yet some of its properties indicate that its elasticity is equal to that of steel. as shown in chapter 5, the most eminent scientists of the day declare that the existence of this world-ether is one of the few things of which men may be absolutely sure. yet the ether cannot be seen, heard, tasted, smelled or felt. to our senses it has neither weight nor substance. to believe the existence of this ether requires a faith which is certainly as great as the greatest faith required by mormon theology.
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numerous other illustrations might be cited, without greatly emphasizing the truth that the great fundamental doctrines of science require a great faith in realities that are beyond the reach of our senses.
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the great foundations of science have not come as a "great wakening light," but have come slowly, through a process of normal, guided growth. the first experiment was made, from which a simple conclusion was drawn; the second experiment furnished a second conclusion; the two results combined produced a third conclusion, and so on through thousands of experiments and conclusions, until the brilliant conceptions of modern science were attained. in short, the scientist works very simply by careful observation of nature, "the earth and its fullness," and by as careful reasoning from the observed facts. the mind builds noble structures of the materials the senses bring. the same method may be employed in gaining faith in the principles of theology; and the apostle paul tells us distinctly that the righteousness of god is revealed from "faith to faith," and that the eternal power of god and the godhead and "the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made." the scientist, likewise, begins with the things that are made and proceeds "from faith to faith," gaining "here a little, and there a little," until a faith is reached which, to him who has not followed its growth, may seem absurd in its loftiness.
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certainly, no man can progress in science unless he has faith in the great inductions of scientific men. faith is as indispensable for scientific progress as for theological advancement. in both cases it is the great principle of action.
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the second principle for the government of the individual, according to mormon theology, is repentance. so commonly has this principle been discussed from its relation to moral law that its counterpart in all human effort has often been overlooked.
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to repent is first to turn from old practices. thus, he who violates any of god's laws renders himself liable to certain punishment, but, if he repents, and sins no more, the punishments are averted. naturally, such a change of heart and action can come only after faith has been established. no man will change a habit without a satisfactory reason. in fact, all the actions of men should be guided by reason. repentance then is a kind of obedience or active faith; and is great in proportion to the degree of faith possessed by the individual. certainly, the repentance of no man can transcend his faith, which includes his knowledge.
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so it is in science. for centuries, wounds of the body were treated according to certain methods, assumed to be correct; and, especially in time of war, large numbers of the patients died. then it was found that low forms of life--the bacteria--infected the wounds, and caused the high mortality. this led to the antiseptic treatment in surgery, which destroys germ life, and leaves the wound absolutely clean. as a consequence the mortality from flesh and other wounds has diminished remarkably. the medical profession repented, or turned away, from its former methods, and the reward was immediately felt. however, before antisceptic surgery was finally and fully established, faith in the practice had to be awakened among the members of the profession. a chemist, making refined analysis may apply a certain factor, assumed to be correct in his calculations, but in reality incorrect. as a result, the determinations are wrong. when later, the correct factor is discovered, and applied, the results of the work become correct. repentance from the previous error, changes the chemist's work from wrong to right. in fact, in any department of knowledge, when it is discovered that a law of nature has been violated, it becomes necessary, if further progress is desired, to cease the violation. should a scientist persist in violation of a known law, he knows that the consequences, great or small will certainly follow.
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to repent is more than to turn from incorrect practices. it implies also the adoption of new habits. the man who has turned from his sins, may learn of a law, which he has never violated, yet which if obeyed, means progress for him. if he does not follow such a law, but remains neutral in its presence, he certainly is a sinner. to repent from such sin, is to obey each higher law as it appears. in the spiritual life, it is impossible for the person who desires the greatest joy to remain passive in the presence of new principles. he must embrace them; live them; make them his own.
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not only must the worker in science turn from scientific error; he must also accept new science as it is discovered. when the chemist, working with the best known analytical methods, learns that a more rapid or more accurate method has been found, he must adopt the new fact, in order to make the results of his work more accurate. when the chemists of a hundred years ago learned of the atomic hypothesis, it became necessary to adopt it, in order to insure more rapid progress in chemistry. those who failed to accept the new doctrine worked in greater darkness, and made no material progress. newton's doctrine of gravitation opened a new method of investigating the universe. those who did not adopt it were soon outdistanced by their more active colleagues.
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in every such case, the obedience yielded to the new knowledge is a kind of repentance. when a person, in religion or science, ceases to break law, he ceases from active evil; when he accepts a new law, he ceases from passive evil. no repentance can be complete which does not cease from both active and passive evil.
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viewed in this manner, then, repentance is obedience to law and is active faith. the law, before it is obeyed, must be understood--that is, faith must precede repentance. therefore, the obedience yielded can increase only with the knowledge or faith of the individual. as the prophet joseph smith stated it, "no man can be saved in ignorance" and "a person is saved no faster than he gains intelligence."
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repentance is as truly the second principle of action for individuals, in the domain of science as of theology.
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a repentant man turns from previous violation of law, and accepts every new law that may be revealed to him. repentance is obedience; and the repentant person is always ready to obey righteous laws.
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baptism is one of the laws of the kingdom of god. "except ye repent and be baptized ye can in nowise enter the kingdom of god." the repentant person must of necessity accept this law with the others with which he may be familiar.
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students of science, who agree that faith and repentance have a place in science, frequently assert that the equivalent of baptism is not found in external nature. this claim may be proved false by examining the nature of law.
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it must be noted that the scientist does not know just why acid added to metal produces hydrogen, or why a certain curved lens brings the stars nearer; or why certain chemicals destroy low forms of life or why wire wound in a certain way when rotated in the magnetic field will produce electricity. nature requires, without volunteering an explanation, that to produce hydrogen, see the stars, destroy germs and produce the electric current, certain invariable laws must be obeyed.
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baptism is essentially of the same nature. to enter the kingdom of god, a person must be baptized. just why baptism should be the ordinance that opens the door, no man knows. it undoubtedly has high symbolic value; but the symbolism might be expressed in many other ways. all that man can do is to obey.
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men say at times that they will do nothing which they do not fully understand, and therefore they will not be baptized. it would be as unreasonable for a man to say that because he does not fully understand why a certain winding of the wire is necessary to produce electricity he will not produce this wonderful natural force. all theology and all science contain laws that must be obeyed in order to obtain certain results, although the full reasons for the required combinations are not understood.
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he who is baptized, enters the kingdom of god. he who throws acid on metal enters the kingdom of hydrogen; he who grinds the lens right, enters the kingdom of the stars; he who uses antisceptics right, enters the kingdom of lower life, and he who winds the wire correctly, enters the kingdom of electricity. yielding obedience to any of these various laws, is a form of baptism, which gives entrance to a kingdom.
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the essential virtue of baptism is obedience to law. the prime value of any natural law is attained only after obedience has been yielded to it. baptism is conformity to certain details in entering god's kingdom. scientific baptism is conformity to certain details in entering the kingdom of science. only by baptism can a man attain salvation; only by using lenses of the right curvature can a man view the stars. religious success does not rest in the degree to which every law is explained; but rather in the degree to which all known laws are obeyed. scientific success does not rest upon the degree to which every law is explained; but rather in the degree to which every discovered law is obeyed and applied for man's advancement.
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in science and in theology man must be content "to see through a glass, darkly." until the essential nature of infinitude itself shall be understood, man must be content to learn to use unexplained laws. science is the great explainer, but she explains relations and not the absolute foundations of phenomena.
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after faith or knowledge has been obtained, the alpha and omega of religious or scientific progress is obedience. the cry of universal nature is, obedience!
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viewed rationally, therefore, the baptism taught in theology is an ordinance which has its counterpart in every department of science. joseph smith was strcitly scientific in classing baptism as the third great principle governing human action.
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the gift of the holy ghost.
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if the equivalents of faith, repentance and baptism are irrevocable laws for the individual who studies science, the question arises, is there also, a scientific equivalent for the gift of the holy ghost? even a superficial view of the matter will reveal such an equivalent. to use again the illustrations employed in the preceding chapter, if the chemist has obeyed natural law in producing hydrogen, that is, has been baptized into the kingdom of hydrogen, he may by the proper use and study of the gas obtained, add much to his knowledge. he may learn that it is extremely light; that it forms an explosive mixture with air; that it will destroy many vegetable colors, and will burn with an almost invisible flame. thus, the possession of the gas enlarges the knowledge and develops the intelligence of the scientist. is not this another form of the gift of the holy ghost?
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the man who is baptized into the kingdom of heavenly bodies by grinding the lenses right, is enabled to learn many new facts concerning the nature and motions of celestial bodies; and thus receives intelligence. he who obediently winds the wire correctly around the iron core, may generate a current of electricity with which many mighty works may be accomplished. do not these men, as their intelligences are expanded, receive a gift of the holy ghost, as a reward for their obedience to the demands of nature?
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it would be possible to carry the comparisons into every scientific action without strengthening the argument. in science, if a person has faith, repentance and is baptized, that is obeys, he will receive added intelligence, which is the equivalent of the gift of the holy ghost as taught in theology. the four fundamental laws for the guidance of the individual are identical in mormon theology, and in modern science.
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just why the laying on of hands should be necessary to complete the ordinance of baptism is not known, any more than the reasons are known for the results that follow the numberless relations that may be established by mortal man. however, the dogma of the gift of the holy ghost, is logically the fourth step in attaining scientific salvation.
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thus, each of the minor laws of mormonsim might be investigated, and be shown to have a scientific counterpart. for the purpose of this volume, however, a more extended consideration of the laws governing the actions of the individual, is unnecessary.
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the word of wisdom.
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it has already been remarked that the nature of the mission of joseph smith made it unlikely that references to scientific matters, and much less to isolated scientific facts, obtainable by proper methods of experimentation should be found in the writings of the prophet. nevertheless, in a revelation given march 8, 1883, statements are made that can now be connected with facts of science, not generally or not at all known, at the time the revelation was received.
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at the time this was written, many persons believed that the use of alcoholic drinks was injurious to human health; but more, especially among the uneducated classes, held quite the opposite opinion. since that day, the question concerning the value of alcohol in any form has been greatly agitated, and much new light has been obtained. this is not the place to examine this famous controversy, but a few quotations from authoritative books, which are not controversial in their nature, will show the coincidence between the position of science, and the doctrine of joseph smith, in respect to this matter.
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the recent newspaper statements that alcohol has been shown to be a food are based on a complete misunderstanding. the experiments demonstrated that alcohol is burned within the body--which is the simplest manner in which the body can rid itself of the alcohol.
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no more authoritative opinions on this subject can be found than those contained in the two volumes from which quotations have been made--and the strongest opinions are not quoted. in spite of the isolated claims made for alcohol, the fact remains that the knowledge of the world indicates that alcohol is a poison to the human system; that it is not "for the belly." however, the value of the external use of alcohol, for various purposes, has never been denied. on the contrary almost every up to date practitioner recommends the external use of alcohol, as for instance after baths for lowering the temperature of fever patients. in this matter, then, joseph smith was in perfect harmony with the latest results of science. it is strange that he, unlearned as he was, should have stated what is now known as truth, so clearly and simply, yet so emphatically, more than seventy years ago, before the main experiments on the effect of alcohol on the human organsim had been made.
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in the matter of the chemistry and physiological action of tobacco, then, the prophet, in 1833, was in full accord with the best knowledge of 1908. in the emphasis of his doctrine, he even anticipated the world of science.
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in the year 1821, several chemists isolated from coffee a bitter principle, of peculiar properties, which was named caffein. in 1827, the same substance was found to occur in tea. numerous analysis show that there are between one and two per cent of caffein in coffee, and between three and six percent in tea. later investigations have shown that caffein belongs to the vegetable poisons, and that its poisonous action is very strong.
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besides caffein, both tea and coffee contain an astringent known as tannic acid. in coffee this substance is present only in small quantity, but in tea from four to twelve per cent occurs. tannic acid is the substance found in oak bark, and has the property of making animal tissues hard--that is, makes leather of them. the habitual tea drinker subjects the delicate lining of the stomach and intestines to the action of this powerful drug.
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without going into further details, it is readily seen that the teachings of joseph smith, in 1833, in relation to the value of tea and coffee in human drinks, harmonizes with the knowledge of today. moreover, he was in advance, in the certainty of his expressions, of the scientists of his day. it is true that caffein had been found in coffee and tea a few years before the revelation of 1833, but the physiological action of the drug was not known until many years afterwards. besides, as in the case of tobacco, the church leaders in speaking against the use of tea and coffee did not mention the poisonous principle that had recently been discovered in them; thus revealing their ignorance of the matter.
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this doctrine, which seems self-evident now, also evidences the divine inspiration of the prophet joseph. at the time this revelation was given, food chemistry was not understood; and, in fact, it was not until about 1860, that the basis upon which rests our knowledge of food chemistry, was firmly established. we now know that every plant contains four great classes of compounds: mineral substances, fats, sugars and starches, and protein, or the flesh-forming elements. we further know that no plant can live and grow without containing these groups of nutrients. it is also well understood that these substances are necessary for the food of the animal body, and that animal tissues are, themselves, composed of these groups, though in different proportions. in short, it has long been an established fact of science that any plant that does not contain a poisonous principle, may by proper cooking be used as a food for man.
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when joseph smith wrote, this was a daring suggestion to make, for there was absolutely no fact aside from popular experience, upon which to base the conclusion. the qualifying phrase, "all wholesome herbs," undoubtedly refers to the existence of classes of plants like coffee, tea, tobacco, etc., which contain some special principle injurious to the health.
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the breadth of this doctrine lies in the fact that it is not absolutely forbidden to eat meat, as in all probability a fanatic, guided by his own wisdom, might have done; yet it must be observed, the implication is clear that it is possible for man to live without meat. vegetarianism had been taught and practiced long before the days of joseph smith; but there had been no direct, positive proof that plants contain all the substances necessary for the sustenance of life. as stated above, it is now known that every class of nutritive substance found in meat is also found in plants. this is in full harmony with the implied meaning of joseph smith in the statement regarding the abstaining from meat.
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a thoughtful reading of the above quotation clearly shows that joseph smith recognized the fundamental truth of food chemistry; namely, that while all plants contain the elements necessary for animal growth, yet the proportions of these elements are so different as to make some plants better adapted than others to a certain class of animals. that the "mormon" prophet should have enunciated this principle from twenty to thirty years in advance of the scientific world, must excite wonder in the breast of any person, be he follower or opponent of joseph smith.
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the discussion of the important statements made in section 89 of the book of doctrine and covenants, might be elaborated into a volume. the merest outline has been given here. the physiological teachings of the prophet concerning work, cleanliness and sleep, might also be considered with profit.
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to summarize the contents of this chapter: joseph smith clearly recognized and taught the physiological value of alcohol, tobacco, anticipated the tea and coffee, at a time when scientific world of science discoveries were just beginning to reveal the active principles of these commodities. the probability is that he knew nothing of what the world of science was doing in this direction, at the time the doctrine was taught. joseph smith clearly recognized and taught the fundamental truths of food chemistry, and the food relation of vegetable products to man, nearly a generation before scientists had arrived at the same doctrine. whence came his knowledge?
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the destiny of earth and man.
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the law of evolution.
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to every intelligence the question concerning the purpose of all things must at some time present itself. every philosophical system has for its ultimate problem the origin and the destiny of the universe. whence? where?--the queries which arise before every human soul, and which have stimulated the truth-seekers of every age in their wearisome task of searching out nature's laws. intelligent man cannot rest satisfied with the recognition of the forces at work in the universe, and the nature of their actions; he must know, also, the resultant of the interaction of the forces, or how the whole universe is affected by them; in short, man seeks the law of laws, by the operation of which, things have become what they are, and by which their destiny is controlled. this law when once discovered, is the foundation of religion as well as of science, and will explain all phenomena.
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it was well toward the beginning of the last century before philosophical doctrines rose above mere speculation, and were based upon the actual observation of phenomena. as the scientific method of gathering facts and reasoning from them became established, it was observed that in all probability the great laws of nature were themselves controlled by some greater law. while many attempts have been made to formulate this law, yet it must be confessed, frankly, that only the faintest outline of it is possesesd by the world of science.
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the sanest of modern philosophers, and the one who most completely attempted to follow the method of science in philosophical writings, was herbert spencer. early in his life, he set himself the task of constructing a system of philosophy which should be built upon man's reliable knowledge of nature. a long life permitted him to realize this ambition. though his works are filled with conclusions which cannot be accepted by most men, yet the facts used in his reasoning are authentic. by the world at large, the philosophy of herbert spencer is considered the only philosophy that harmonizes with the knowledge of today.
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while the law of evolution, as formulated by spencer and accepted by the majority of modern thinkers, is the nearest approach to the truth possessed by the world of science, yet there is no disposition on the part of the writer to defend the numerous absurdities into which spencer and his followers have fallen when reasoning upon special cases.
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this is not the place to enter into this famous controversy. the relation of the theory of natural selection to the law of evolution is not established; that man and the great classes of animals and plants have sprung from one source is far from having been proved; that the first life came upon this earth by chance is as unthinkable as ever. even at the present writing, recent discoveries have been reported which throw serious doubt upon natural selection as an all-sufficient explanation of the wonderful variety of nature. the true scientific position of the darwinian hypothesis is yet to be determined.
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the moderate law of evolution which claims that all normal beings are advancing, without asserting that one form of life can pass into another, is, however, being more and more generally accepted, for it represents an eternal truth, of which every new discovery bears evidence.
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were it not that the law of evolution is of such fundamental value in the understanding of natural phenomena, it would hardly be expected that the calling of joseph smith would necessitate any reference to it. besides, upwards of fifteen years elapsed after the martyrdom of joseph and hyrum smith before the world of science conceived the hypothesis. one of the leading doctrines of the church resembles the spirit of the law of universal growth so nearly that one is forced to believe that the great truth embodied by this doctrine is the truth shadowed forth by the law of evolution.
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the preceding quotations suffice to show that with regard to man, joseph smith taught a doctrine of evolution which in grandeur and extent surpasses the wildest speculations of the scientific evolutionist. yet joseph smith taught this doctrine as one of eternal truth, taught him by god. there can be no doubt that the truth behind spencer's law of evolution, and the doctrine taught by the "mormon" prophet, are the same. the great marvel is that joseph smith, who knew not the philosophies of men, should have anticipated by thirty years or more the world of science in the enunciation of the most fundamental law of the universe of living things.
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if, in common with men, animals and plants were created spiritually, it may not be an idle speculation that the lower forms of life will advance, in their respective fields, as man advances in his. however, a statement in the above quotation must not be overlooked, "it remaineth in the sphere in which i, god, created it." this would preclude any notion that by endless development a plant may become an animal, or that one of the lower classes of animals become a high animal, or a man. is not this the place where, perhaps, the evolution of science has failed? all things advance, but each order of creation within its own sphere. there is no jumping from order to order. the limits of these orders are yet to be found.
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finally, one other suggestion must be made. spencer, after a long and involved argument, concludes (or proves as he believes) that the great law of evolution is a necessity that follows from the law of the persistence of force. in chapter two of this series, the scientific conception of the persistence of force was identified with the operations of the holy spirit, as taught by joseph smith. this spirit is behind all phenomena; by it as a medium, god works his will with the things of the universe, and enables man to move on to eternal salvation, to advance, and become a god; every law is of necessity a result of the operation of this spirit. here, again, the "mormon" prophet anticipated the world of science; and his conceptions are simplier and more direct than those invented by the truth-seekers, who depended upon themselves and their own powers.
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marvelous is this view of the founder of "mormonism." where did he learn in his short life, amidst sufferings and persecution such as few men have known, the greatest mysteries of the universe!
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the plan of salvation.
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in the preceding chapter the law of evolution was shown to be the cementing law of nature, which explains the destiny of man. to live is to change, and (if the change is right) to grow. through all the ages to come righteous man will increase in complexity and will grow towards a condition of greater knowledge, greater power and greater opportunity.
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while the great law of evolution may be quite sufficient for the general survey, it does not explain the special conditions amidst which organized intelligences find themselves. man asks, why am i on earth? science is silent. up to the present time, many scientific men have not found it necessary to postulate an intelligent force behind the phenomena of nature, which would explain our earthly existence.
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the mormon answer to this question lies in the mormon doctrine of the plan of salvation. there can be no attempt to harmonize the mormon plan with that of science, for science has none; but, that the mormon plan of salvation is strictly scientific, and rests upon the irrevocable laws of the universe can certainly be demonstrated.
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fundamental, in the doctrines of joseph, is the statement that all intelligence is eternal; and that god at the best is the organizer of the spirits of men. the ether of science has been compared with the holy spirit of mormonism. the spirit body may be likened to an ether body of man, and is the condition of his original existence. from the original condition, at man's spiritual birth, under the law of evolution he has steadily grown in complexity, which means in power.
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for man's perfection, it then became necessary that his spiritual body should be clothed with a material one, and that he should become as familiar with the world of matter, as he had become with the world of spirit. god, as the supreme intelligence, who desired all other spirits to know and become mighty, led in the formulation of the plan, whereby they should obtain knowledge of all the contents of the universe.
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for the purpose of perfecting the plan, a council of the gods, or perfected intelligences was called. it was decided to organize an earth from available materials, and place the spirits on it, clothed with bodies of the grosser elements. an essential function of intelligence is free agency; and that the spirits might have the fullest opportunity to exercise this agency in their earthly career, they were made to forget the events of their spiritual existence. to learn directly the nature of grossest matter, the earth bodies of necessity were made subject to the process of the disintegration called death.
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to make possible the subjection of eternal, spiritual organized intelligences to perishable, material structures, certain natural laws would naturally be brought into operation. from the point of view of the eternal spirit, it might mean the breaking of a law directed towards eternal life; yet to secure the desired contact with matter, the spirit was compelled to violate the law. thus, in this earth life, a man who desires to acquire a first hand acquaintance with magnetism and electricity, may subject himself to all kinds of electric shocks, that, perhaps, will affect his body injuriously; yet, for the sake of securing the experience, he may be willing to do it. adam, the first man, so used natural laws that his eternal, spiritual body became clothed upon with an earthly body, subject to death. then in begetting children, he was able to produce earthly bodies for the waiting spirits.
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according to this doctrine, the socalled fall of adam was indispensable to the evolving of organized intelligences that should have a complete acquaintance with all nature, and a full control over their free agencies. if laws were broken, it was done because of the heroism of the first parents, and not because of their sinfulness.
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mormon theology does not pretend to say in what precise manner adam was able to secure his corruptible body; neither is science able to answer all the "whys" suggested by recorded experiences. the doctrines of joseph smith maintain, however, that the events connected with the introduction of organized intelligences on this earth, were in full accord with the simple laws governing the universe. that the mormon view of this matter, so fundamental in every system of theology, is rational, can not be denied.
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however, the bodies given to the spirits continued for only a few years; then they were disorganized in death. adam's work had been done well. after the death of the mortal body, the spirit was still without a permanent body of matter, that would complete his contact with the elements of the universe. therefore, it was necessary to bring other laws into operation, that would reorganize these dead material bodies in such a way that they would no longer be subject to the forces of disorganization, death and decay. the eternal spiritual body, united with this eternal material body, then constituted a suitable home for eternal intelligence, whereby it might be able, under the law of evolution to attain the greatest conceivable knowledge and power.
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the personage who directed the laws that cancelled the necessary work of adam, and made the corruptible body incorruptible was the savior, jesus christ. as adam, by his personal work, made the earth career possible for all who succeeded him; so jesus, by his personal work, made it possible for the spirits to possess immortal material bodies.
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conditions that may be likened to the atonement are found in science. suppose an electrical current, supplying a whole city with power and light, is passing through a wire. if for any reason the wire is cut the city becomes dark and all machines driven by the current cease their motion. to restore the current, the ends of the broken wire must be reunited. if a person, in his anxiety to restore the city to its normal conditions, seizes the ends of the wire with his bare hands, and unites them, he probably will receive the full charge of the current in his body. yet, as a result, the light and power will return to the city; and one man by his action, has succeeded in doing the work for many.
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the actual method by which jesus was enabled to make mortal bodies immortal, is not known to us. neither can we understand just why the shedding of the savior's blood was necessary for the accomplishment of this purpose. like the work of adam, the exact nature of the atonement is unknown. still, throughout this plan of salvation, every incident and accomplished fact are strictly rational. there is no talk of a god, who because of his own will, and in opposition to natural laws, placed man on earth.
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the presence of organized intelligences in earth is simply a link in the evolution of man. the plan of salvation is the method whereby the evolution of man is furthered. the intelligence who conforms to the plan, at last attains salvation, which means eternal life and endless development, directed by the free agency of an organized intelligence clothed with an incorruptible body of spirit and matter.
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can any other system of theology produce an explanation of the presence of man on earth, which connects earthly life with the time before and the time after, on the basis of the accepted laws of the universe?
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the region of the unknown.
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the sixth sense.
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the five senses are the great gateways through which all the knowledge why the natives fight shy of it; and they say there’s a lot of treasure buried there.”
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“i expect it’s being a ‘spooky’ place, as you say is one reason these men selected it,” commented mr. pauling. “they probably knew they would not be disturbed. but how do you account for the fact that they found a few natives there whom they killed according to smernoff’s story?”
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“most likely smugglers or political refugees,” replied rawlins, “every time there’s a row in santo domingo a bunch of the natives clear out to save their skins and a place like this would suit ’em first rate. and there’s always a crowd of smugglers knocking about. or they may have been fishermen or settlers from some of the others islands—from over porto rico or st. thomas way, who didn’t know the reputation of the cay.”
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“say,” said tom, who had been listening attentively as rawlins had been speaking. “if there’s treasure there perhaps we can find it. wouldn’t that be great?”
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his father laughed. “if there’s any treasure there it’s what the men we are after have brought there,” he declared. “and if any was there before they’ve probably found it. no, son, every island and cay in the west indies has treasure on it, if we believe the natives.”
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“well, some of ’em really do have and some of it’s been found,” said rawlins. “first time i was down here i was diving for a crowd who were searching for treasure.”
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“did they get it?” asked frank.
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“i’ll say they did!” replied the diver. “got it out of an old wreck—old galleon they said it was. i don’t know how much, but big piles of old gold and silver coins all stuck together with coral and old bronze bells and cannon. i’ve often wondered if they got it all. a storm came up so we couldn’t work and we had to clear out. they said they were coming back, but i don’t think they ever did, and i’ve been meaning to have another look myself, but never got around to it. it’s not far from here either. over close to the santo domingo coast.”
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“jehoshaphat!” exclaimed frank. “let’s go over and try for it now!”
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“this isn’t a treasure hunt, frank,” mr. pauling reminded him. “we’ve far more important matters on hand. uncle sam isn’t paying us to hunt old galleons.”
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“oh, hang it!” ejaculated tom in disappointed tones. “that’s what i call rotten. here we are with a submarine and a diver and suits and all and right near a sunken galleon with millions and millions of dollars on it for all we know, and we can’t even hunt for it. it makes me sick.”
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mr. pauling laughed. “you’ll never do for the service if you’re so easily sidetracked,” he declared. “of course i understand how fascinating such a story is to you boys, but business is business, treasure or no treasure.”
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“we’ll have to go up and take a squint now,” declared rawlins a moment later. “we don’t want to bump into the rocks.”
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with the engines stopped the submarine was slowly raised until her periscope broke through the surface and rawlins announced that the cay was within half a mile.
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“we can’t run into shoal water blind,” he said. “and if we go in with our eye out they’ll spot us perhaps. i’d like to wait until night, but then the old tramp wouldn’t be wallowing along to drown the sound of our screw. what shall it be, mr. pauling?”
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so, under half speed and with the slender periscope barely projecting above the water, the submarine edged slowly in towards the cay, until in about five fathoms of water, when rawlins brought her to a stop and let her slowly sink until she rested on the sandy bottom.
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“well, we’re here,” he announced cheerfully, “about three hundred yards from a nice smooth beach. now, how about going ashore?”
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“better wait until dark,” suggested mr. henderson. “a diver coming out of the sea is easily seen and would be helpless until he took off his suit. i would advise laying that copper communication wire and getting everything in readiness for a scouting party after dark.”
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all agreed that this was the wisest plan and so, donning his suit, rawlins entered the air-lock and carrying a coil of copper wire slipped into the sea, paying out the wire as he walked slowly towards the shore. he was strongly tempted to sneak to land among the rocks of a nearby point and have a look about on his own account, but knowing that if anything went wrong he would be to blame for having disobeyed orders, he regretfully refrained and having crawled as close to shore as he dared without showing himself above the surface he weighted the remainder of the coil with coral and returned to the submarine.
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before he had taken ten steps he halted in his tracks, listening half incredulously, every nerve and sense alert, for in his ears he had heard the rough, guttural voices he knew so well. for the time being he had forgotten that he wore the receiving set and the sound of human voices coming to him so unexpectedly and suddenly under water startled him.
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to be sure, the voices sounded faint and far away, but that they were voices and voices of men speaking in russian or some similar tongue there could be no doubt.
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“confound it!” he muttered to himself. “why the dickens didn’t i learn russian! wonder if they’re hearing it on the sub!”
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but he could not ask. he realized that if he could hear the others they might hear him if he attempted to speak to his friends and with this thought another flashed through his mind. suppose the boys should not hear the russians and should speak to him! or suppose, without stopping to think, they too should hear the voices and ask him if he did! in either case the enemy would be forewarned and on the alert. the only thing was to make all haste to the submarine and warn those upon it to listen and not to speak into the transmitters. without waiting to hear more, rawlins hurried as rapidly as possible to the submarine, climbed into the air-lock and soon reappeared among his friends.
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“did you hear them?” he asked the moment he entered the door.
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“no, hear who?” demanded mr. henderson.
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“those bolsheviks,” replied rawlins, “i heard ’em not five minutes ago. i didn’t dare call you or say anything for fear they’d hear me and i was nervous as a cat fearing you fellows might call into the transmitter and they’d hear.”
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“we’ve been right at the instruments and didn’t hear a thing,” declared tom. “gosh, but it’s funny you got ’em and we didn’t.”
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“they were pretty faint and far off,” said rawlins. “maybe they were out of your range.”
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“no, i guess it’s that same old effect of the sounds inside the helmet,” said tom. “remember, up in new york, we could always hear under water better than ashore.”
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“well, i don’t think it makes much difference,” declared mr. pauling, “but it proves they’re here or near here. you’d better take some one ashore with you to-night, rawlins. whom would you select?”
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“guess it’ll have to be smernoff,” replied rawlins. “i’ll need some one who can savvy russian more than anything else.”
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“do you think you can trust him?” asked mr. henderson. “you’re taking a risk with him alone on that cay in the dark and with his old-time friends and comrades there.”
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“sure, i’m taking a risk,” agreed rawlins with a grin, “but a diver’s always taking risks—been taking them ever since i was knee high—and a few more or less don’t cut any ice. anyway, i don’t believe smernoff will turn traitor. you see, he looks upon me as a sort of hero—saving his life and all, and besides, he’s as keen on evening up scores with this bunch as any of us. he’s got everything to win and nothing to lose by betting on us and my experience is that if it’s an even toss up with a fellow he’ll chip in with the side that he’ll gain the most with.”
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“that’s sound philosophy,” chuckled mr. pauling. “i don’t think there’s any danger with smernoff and of course there’s the advantage that he can use a diving suit.”
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the time dragged slowly until sundown and as soon as darkness fell rawlins summoned the russian and prepared to go ashore on his dangerous mission.
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“just as soon as you get ashore, or even before, try this wired wireless,” tom admonished him. “then we’ll know if it works. it’s too bad you can’t keep it fastened to your set while you sneak over the island, but that’s impossible.”
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then, showing rawlins how to snap the wire onto his set, the boys bade him good-by and the two men entered the air-lock. for a long time after they had left, those upon the submarine sat silent, the boys listening at their receivers, the men thinking deeply and in their minds planning their moves should rawlins locate the camp of the “reds.” at last, after what seemed an interminable time, tom heard rawlins’ voice rather thin and faint, coming in over the wire.
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“safe ashore,” he said, “and talking mighty low. can you get me all right?”
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“hear you finely,” replied tom. “we’ll stick right here. good luck!”
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minute after minute dragged by, the little clock upon the bulkhead ticked off an hour and no sound or word came from shore. what had happened? had rawlins found the camp? had he been seen and captured? was he even now struggling for his life? had smernoff betrayed him? the suspense was nerve-racking. it anything happened to rawlins, if he failed to return, their quest would come to an abrupt end. they depended upon him for guidance, for advice, for diving. never until now did any of them realize to what an extent everything depended upon him.
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“if he’s not back soon i’ll take a landing party ashore,” declared mr. pauling. “we’ve got arms and a dozen men and more. i can’t stand this uncertainty much longer. they’ve been gone an hour and a half. i’m sorry he took smernoff. i——”
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at that moment frank heard the long-hoped-for voice. “coming back!” was all it said.
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“well, he’s safe at all events!” exclaimed mr. pauling fervently.
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the fight with the octopus
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a few moments later rawlins appeared with smernoff close behind him.
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“gone!” rawlins announced before a question could be asked. “cleared out bag and baggage. we went over every inch of the cay and there’s not a living soul on it. just too late.”
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“jove, that’s too bad!” exclaimed mr. henderson. “looks as if they’re bound to be a jump ahead of us. lord alone knows where they’ve gone.”
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“you’re dead wrong there!” declared rawlins. “the lord’s not the only one knows. we know.”
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the others leaped to their feet. “are you serious?” cried mr. pauling, hardly able to believe rawlins’ statements. “what do you mean by that, rawlins?”
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“where are they?” demanded mr. henderson. “how do you know?”
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“you bet i’m serious,” declared rawlins. “heard ’em talking. last of ’em was just leaving and i had one devil of a time stopping old smernoff from running amuck and doing up the bunch single-handed. they’ve gone over to santo domingo where the grand panjandrum stops.”
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“well, for heaven’s sake, begin at the beginning and tell us what happened,” cried mr. pauling. “first you announce they’ve all gone and then you talk about hearing them and knowing their plans. make a sensible consecutive story of it, rawlins.”
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“all right,” grinned the diver, seating himself. “we got ashore all right and i called the boys and heard them—say you must have been shouting, tom—and then we took off the suits, tucked ’em out of sight among the brush and started overland, smernoff leading. found a nice spot overlooking the beach and there was a bunch of men standing by a pile of dunnage and jabbering away to beat the band. old smernoff wanted to butt right in and clean up the crowd, but i managed to stop him. thought he’d spoil the game by yelling or something. well, after i’d got him quieted down we sneaked in close—they were so blamed busy gassing away they wouldn’t have seen us if we’d walked in and said ‘how-de-do.’ got close enough so smernoff could understand them and told him not to try to translate, but just to take it all in and tell me later. i thought at first of coming back and reporting, but i could see they were just ready to clear out and knew they’d be gone before we could get over here and back and decided the talk was more important so hung on. pretty soon up bobs their sub—i could tell her by that smashed conning tower—and a boat comes ashore and takes off the bunch. then the sub clears out and we are alone.”
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“well, what did smernoff tell you?” demanded mr. henderson as rawlins concluded.
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“i was coming to that,” went on the diver. “there were so many talking at once he didn’t get it all, but he got enough. he says they had word this morning or this afternoon—he isn’t sure which—that their sub had been attacked and was being followed by a destroyer, and a sub, but that the sub—meaning us—had been done for. and they were talking a lot about him—i expect he was so busy listening to that part he couldn’t get all the rest—swearing vengeance on him for betraying them. they knew about his getting away and doing up a few ‘reds’ in new york—though how the dickens they got the news beats me, and one of the men from the sub—he’d come ashore in a diving suit to see if the coast was clear—was telling them how smernoff and his mate had betrayed the sub in the east river and the narrow escape they’d had. funny how they got the idea old smernoff did that when really they deserted him. anyhow they were mad as hornets when their nest’s been poked by a kid and at the same time they didn’t dare wait for the destroyer to come up, so all hands decided to pack up and go over to santo domingo. it seems they’ve a place all ready over there close to the big chief’s and had been planning to move for some time. now, just where that is i don’t know, but smernoff says they talked about a cave and i heard one of ’em say something about caña honda. over caña honda way there are lots of caves so i’ve got a hunch the whole shooting match are beating it for over that way.”
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“you’ve done a good night’s work, rawlins!” cried mr. pauling. “you did quite right in listening rather than notifying us. all we wanted of this crowd was information—it’s the head of the gang we’re after—and we’ve got what we want, or nearly what we want—without capturing or alarming them, which is a big point. always keep the other fellow guessing in this game is a good thing to remember—let him think he’s safe and he’ll be less careful. i imagine you are right about the locality, your hunches have proved very accurate so far, so let us get under way for caña honda.”
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“no hurry,” declared rawlins. “those chaps won’t be over there until morning and i don’t want to take any chances of bumping into them or a reef at night. we can get started and loaf along a little later, but we want to be dead careful or they’ll hear us. they think we’re at the bottom of the caribbean so we’ll let ’em keep on thinking so. if they are at caña honda we won’t have much trouble finding them. we can either pick them up by radio or spot them by smoke. they can’t cook without fire and where there’s fire there’s smoke. my plan would be to wait until nearly daylight and then start and take it easy and submerge before we get in sight of caña honda. then slip in, find a good hiding place and do our hunting in small boats or afoot after dark. a sub’s a mighty poor sort of thing to go moseying around with. if we locate them we can slip off, notify disbrow and corral the whole bunch.”
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for a few moments mr. pauling was silent, thinking deeply.
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“yes,” he assented at last. “that will be the best plan. no use in rushing matters to such an extent that we overdo it. and i quite agree with you in regard to tracing them. as you say, a submarine is too clumsy and large a craft for scouting—it’s too easily seen or heard.”
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everything being thus arranged, the submarine was raised to the surface, anchored securely and the occupants retired. the boys, however, got little sleep, for they were nervous and excited and filled with expectation of thrilling adventures to come.
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as soon as the first faint streaks of dawn showed upon the horizon, the anchor was hauled in and, swinging her bow towards the dim, black bulk that marked the mountains of santo domingo to the westward, the submarine slipped silently from trade wind cay.
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hour after hour they moved steadily across the calm blue sea and as they drew ever nearer to the big island the boys gazed upon it with wonder. they had never dreamed that an island could be so large. they had imagined, from the tiny dot that represented santo domingo in their geographies, that it would be a low, flat spot somewhat like the bahamas, but a little larger, and now before them, they saw what appeared to be a continent. as far as eye could see on either hand the forest-covered hills stretched away. inland and up from the shores rose tier after tier of mountains, the farthest nearly two miles in height and half-hidden in clouds, and between them were immense valleys, deep ravines and wide plateaus. and everywhere, from sea to topmost mountain peaks, the vivid green of forest and jungle, broken only by a few isolated patches of light-green sugar cane upon the lower hill slopes or in the valleys.
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“jiminy!” exclaimed tom. “that is an island!”
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“i’ll say ’tis!” agreed rawlins. “mighty fine one too.”
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“it’s beautiful—but awfully wild-looking,” declared frank. “is it full of indians and wild animals?”
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rawlins laughed heartily. “wildest animals are the natives,” he assured them, “and the old spaniards killed off the last poor indian over two hundred years ago.” then, a moment later, he continued: “by the way, speaking of spaniards, that old galleon i told you about is right over yonder. see that line of reefs? well, she’s just on the outer edge of those in about 20 to 25 fathoms.”
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“oh, gosh! why won’t dad let us stop and go down to it?” cried tom.
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“say, perhaps he will!” exclaimed frank jubilantly. “he wouldn’t before, but now he’s in no hurry—they can’t go in shore until dark—and i’ll bet he’d just as lief wait out here as anywhere else. let’s ask him.”
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at first mr. pauling refused to listen to the boys’ pleading, but when rawlins pointed out that they had time to kill and added that he personally would like to have a look at the old wreck, tom’s father yielded.
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“very well then,” he agreed, “but don’t waste any time. we’ll expect you to bring up a fortune, rawlins. let us know when you go down so we can see the fun.”
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“and for heaven’s sake take care of yourself,” added mr. henderson. “if anything happens to you where will we be?”
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“oh, i’ll be safe enough,” laughed rawlins. “i’m safer under water than on top any day.”
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“come on then!” cried tom, “let’s get our suits ready.”
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“oh, confound it all!” cried frank. “everything has to be spoiled. what’s the use if we can’t go down to the old wreck?”
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“you can look through the underseas ports and watch me,” rawlins reminded them. “honest, i’m sorry you’re disappointed, but this is real diving. i’ll have to use my regulation suit here too. too deep for those self-contained ones.”
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for a time the disappointed boys sulked, but presently, realizing that there were limits to what they could expect to do and also realizing that they were more than fortunate to be able to watch rawlins as he investigated the old galleon, their high spirits returned and they became as interested, excited and enthusiastic as ever.
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“it’s a heap easier now—with a submarine,” said rawlins, as he slid back the heavy metal cover to the thick glass port. “we can look about a bit and locate the wreck before i go down. last time it took us nearly a month to find it. you see, it’s too deep to see bottom from the surface and—look here, boys—ever see anything prettier than that?”
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the boys crowded to the small port and stared out it was like the sea-gardens at nassau multiplied and glorified a thousandfold. the submarine was now submerged and floating at a slight angle a few fathoms above the bottom and her powerful electric lights, such as rawlins used in his sub-sea photography, were casting a brilliant beam of soft greenish light upon the ocean floor and the marvelous growths which covered it. the boys, dry and safe within the submarine, could scarcely believe they actually were gazing at the bottom of the sea. it was more like some strange and marvelous painting or, as tom said, like the models on exhibition in the american museum. it was all unreal, weird, beautiful, unbelievable. on all sides was a dim, green void, with half-revealed forms, shadowy outlines and indistinct objects showing through it as through a heavy green curtain, while the beam of light, stabbing through the water gave the effect of the curtain being drawn aside to disclose the beauties and wonders behind it. back and forth in this light clear space flitted gaudy fishes; fishes of grotesque form; fishes with long, trailing opalescent-hued fins; fishes large and fishes small; and once the boys cried out in momentary alarm and drew quickly back from the glass as an ugly hammer-headed shark, six feet or more in length, bumped his clumsy-looking head against the port.
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“gosh! mr. rawlins, aren’t you afraid to go down among those fellows?” cried tom.
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“not in the least,” rawlins assured him. “they won’t touch a man in a diving suit—come up and rub their backs against him or stare at him, but never anything else. they’re a blamed nuisance at times—get in a man’s way, but we can drive ’em off by hitting them. look, there’s a moray!”
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as he spoke, an immense greenish, snake-like eel wriggled past so closely the boys could see his throbbing gills.
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“they’re worse than sharks,” rawlins told them. “bite anything and savage as tigers. good to eat though.”
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but the boys found the other wonders and beauties even more interesting than the fishes. gigantic cup-shaped sponges grew upwards for six or seven feet. immense sea-fans and sea-plumes formed a forest that might have been of futuristic palms. huge orange, green and chocolate domes of brain corals were piled like titanic many-colored fruits. there were great toadstool-like mushroom corals of lavender, pink and yellow and everywhere, above all, the wide-branching, tree-like madrepores or stag-horn corals of dull fawn-brown. back and forth among this forest under the sea darted schools of tiny jewel-like fishes; great pink conchs crawled slowly about; a little flock of butterfly squids shot past, gleaming like bits of burnished metal in the light; ugly long-legged giant spider crabs scuttled into their shelters among the corals and everywhere the ocean’s floor was dotted with huge starfishes, brilliant sponges, big black, sea-cucumbers and crabs and shells by hundreds.
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“jove, it’s the most wonderful sight i’ve ever seen!” declared mr. henderson who, with mr. pauling, was also gazing at this wonderland beneath the sea.
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“yes, simply marvelous!” agreed the other. “boys, i’m mighty glad i gave in. i wouldn’t have missed this for anything. no wonder you’re fascinated by a diver’s life, rawlins!”
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“but i want to see that wreck!” cried tom. “do you suppose it’s gone?”
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“ought to be pretty close to it by now,” said rawlins. “yes, there ’tis! see it, boys? look, over beyond that big bunch of sea-fans!”
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the boys strained their eyes in the direction rawlins pointed, but could see nothing that even remotely resembled a wreck.
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“no, i can’t see it,” admitted tom, at last.
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“neither can i,” said frank.
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“why it’s plain as can be,” declared rawlins. “can’t miss it.” then, an idea occurring to him, he burst into a hearty laugh. “why, i suppose you’re looking for a ship!” he cried. “masts and stern and rails and all! nothing like that, boys. this old hooker’s been down here a couple of hundred years and more. she’s just a mass of coral now. see that sort of mound there—that one with that lop-sided stag-horn coral growing out of one side?”
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“oh, yes, i see that,” declared tom. “is that the wreck?”
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“i’ll say ’tis,” rawlins assured him. “well, we’re near enough. too bad we can’t let the old sub down to the bottom, but it’s too rough. i guess she’ll be pretty steady here though—isn’t any current or those sea-rods would be waving.”
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“but i don’t understand how you can go down with life-lines and things when the submarine is under water,” said frank. “i thought we’d have to be on the surface.”
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“and i don’t see why it makes any difference about the suits, no matter how deep it is,” added tom.
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“oh, i understand,” declared frank, “but who’s going to tend the line for you?”
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“sam,” replied rawlins. “he’s worked with me before and he’s a wonderful diver and swimmer. you see the pressure in the air-lock is the same or even a little more than outside and it takes a chap who’s used to deep-sea diving to stand that. sam could go down here without a suit—but not for long of course—pressure’s too great. well, so long. keep your eyes on the wreck and you’ll see me out there among the fishes in a minute.”
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rawlins entered the air-lock with sam and presently the boys saw him—a grotesque, clumsy figure in the baggy diving suit and big round helmet—laboriously making his way along the bottom almost below them. turning, he waved his hand reassuringly and then resumed his way towards the coral-encrusted wreck.
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“doesn’t he look funny!” cried tom, “leaning way forwards and half swimming along, and aren’t those bubbles coming up from his escape-valve pretty? say, it must be fun to be way down there. gosh, i wish we could have gone!”
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“it takes years of practice to enable a man to stand that pressure,” his father informed him, “and even expert professional divers cannot keep it up long. if you boys should go down here you’d probably be terribly injured—your ear drums burst and perhaps your eyes ruptured. a diver begins in shoal water and gradually goes deeper and deeper and rawlins has been at it since he was a youngster.”
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“yes,” commented mr. henderson, “and some men never can dive. divers are born not made.”
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“well it’s the next best thing to be able to watch him,” said frank philosophically. “oh, look, tom, he’s nearly at the wreck!”
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rawlins was, as frank said, close to the mound of coral and sea-growth that he had told the boys was the wreck of the old galleon and a moment later they saw him stoop and begin working with the heavy crowbar he carried.
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breathessly the boys watched, thrilled with the idea of thus seeing a deep-sea diver at work and speculating on whether he would find treasure. then they saw rawlins suddenly start back, almost losing his balance and in recovering himself the crowbar dropped to the ocean’s floor. the next instant tom uttered a frightened, horrified cry. from among the mass of corals a long, snake-like object had shot forth and had whipped itself around rawlins’ body like a living rope. they saw rawlins grasp it, strain at it, and then, before the white-faced, terrified watchers in the submarine fully realized what was taking place, another and another of the livid, serpent-like things were writhing and coiling about the diver.
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“it’s an octopus!” cried mr. pauling.
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“oh, oh! he’ll be killed!” screamed frank. “oh, isn’t it terrible?”
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but they were helpless, powerless to aid. all they could do was to gaze fascinated and terror-stricken at the awful tragedy, the fearful struggle taking place there at the bottom of the sea before their very eyes.
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and now they could see the loathsome creature itself. its great pulpy body, now pink, now blue, now green; its huge, lusterless, unwinking eyes—an enormous creature whose sucker-clad tentacles encircled rawlins in a grip of steel, binding his signal line and making it useless, reaching about as if to grasp the air-hose, swaying like serpents about to strike before his helmet. madly the diver was fighting for his life, bracing himself against the corals, grappling with the slimy tentacles, wrenching his hands and arms free. then the terrified, breathless watchers gazing at the nightmare-like scene saw rawlins lift his arm and through the water they saw the blade of his sheath knife flashing in the beam of light. again and again he brought it slashing down, hacking, stabbing at the clinging tentacles. bits of the writhing flesh dropped off at the blows and a cloud of inky water that shot from the repulsive creature’s syphon for a moment obscured the scene. but the savage blows, the slashing cuts, the lopped-off tentacles seemed not to affect the giant devil fish in the least and slowly, steadily, inexorably rawlins was being drawn closer and closer to the cruel eyes, the soft toad like body and the wicked, parrot-like beak.
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the boys screamed aloud, the men muttered under their breath. members of the crew, attracted by the frightened cries, rushed to the port and peered horrified at the terrible scene being enacted under the sea.
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rawlins’ fate seemed sealed, he was now bound fast by the eight tentacles, even the hand with the knife was wrapped around by the relentless, sucker-armed things.
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and then, from below the submarine, a strange shape darted through the water—a dark form which, for an instant, the boys took for some huge fish.
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straight towards the struggling diver it sped and as the light fell upon it the boys shouted and yelled, the men cheered, for it was no fish but a man! a man, naked and black, swimming at utmost speed—sam the negro hurrying to rawlins’ aid!
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hardly had those at the ports realized it was sam before he was at the scene of battle. for a brief instant he poised motionless above the diver and his antagonist and then, quickly and gracefully as a seal, he plunged straight down at the octopus. there was a flash of steel in the light, the water was blackened with the polyp’s ink. through the thick, murky, discolored water only confused, rapidly moving forms were visible and scarcely breathing, those within the submarine gazed and waited. would sam be able to kill the creature? could he hold out long enough to win the battle? could he free rawlins?
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then as the water cleared and the light once more penetrated the depths, rousing cheers went up from the watchers, they laughed hysterically, tears rolled down their cheeks, for slowly, painfully but surely, sam was coming back, while behind him, half dragging himself along, but apparently uninjured, was rawlins. upon the bottom where he had stood a shapeless squirming, pulpy mass was all that remained of the octopus and about it, swarmed voracious fishes snapping at the dying, flaccid tentacles. the battle was over. rawlins was safe. sam had won. naked, armed only with a knife, he had attacked the monster of the sea, had literally hacked it to bits and had returned unharmed.
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“gosh!” cried tom. “gosh!” and unable to say another word, utterly overcome, he slumped down upon a cushioned seat faint from the strain he had undergone.
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frank swayed unsteadily and sank down beside his chum while mr. pauling and the others wiped their wet brows, licked their dry lips and grasped one another’s hands in silent thanksgiving, too overcome to speak.
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long before they had recovered from their fright, from the strain and the reaction, rawlins appeared, his face pale, but with its habitual cheerful grin and half-carrying sam.
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“i’ll say that was a close call!” he exclaimed, as he placed the negro on a seat. “say, get some brandy or whisky quick! sam’s all in.”
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as the others crowded about, laughing, congratulating, expressing their relief and joy at his escape and forcing liquor between sam’s blue lips, rawlins was busily chafing and rubbing the man’s cold body and limbs, slapping his chest and back and giving orders.
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“get some hot coffee,” he commanded, “and blankets. he’ll be all right soon. went to pieces in the air-lock—couldn’t help me off with the suit and had a devil of a time with it. bully boy, sam! there, old sport, how do you feel?”
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a sickly smile spread over sam’s haggard features.
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“ah’s all right, chief,” he whispered. “did ah finish tha’ sea-cat, chief?”
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“i’ll say you did!” cried rawlins. “cut him clean in two! blamed lucky for me too. here, take this coffee!”
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sam gulped down the steaming coffee and was wrapped in the blankets and slowly the color came back to his lips and he took deep, long breaths.
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“you’re all right now,” declared rawlins. “be fit as ever and ready for another scrap with an octopus before dinner. say, sam, i can’t——” rawlins swayed, his face went white as a sheet and he grasped wildly at a stanchion. willing hands seized him and carried him to a couch where, for five minutes, they worked feverishly over him before he opened his eyes and regained consciousness.
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“by jove, but you’ve got grit!” exclaimed mr. henderson. “nerviest thing i ever saw! imagine going through that horror and then bringing sam in and tending to him before you gave in! rawlins, old man, you’re a marvel!”
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rawlins grinned and rose to a sitting posture.
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“guess i was a bit knocked out and shaken,” he admitted. “i’ll say it’s no sport fighting a darned octopus!” and then, with a whimsical smile, “say, i’ll be able to make a corking film of an octopus next time. i thought that last one of mine was a peach, but it didn’t have enough pep to it. never thought when i invented that rubber beast i’d ever get in a scrap with a real one.”
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“oh, it was terrible!” cried tom. “how can you joke about it?”
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“easy to laugh as to cry,” replied rawlins. “all’s well that ends well, you know. i guess you’re glad you didn’t go down now.”
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“you bet we are!” declared frank. “gee! i don’t believe i’ll ever go down again. i’d imagine there were devil fish waiting for me everywhere. ugh!”
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“never had to tackle one before,” said rawlins, “and i’ve been diving for years. well, i guess i’m o.k. i’ll get busy on that wreck again.”
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“not for one minute!” said mr. pauling decisively. “you’ll just forget that wreck—at least as long as you are with me. if you feel all right we’ll get out of here as quick as we can and get some fresh air—i’m stifling and my heart’s still beating like a trip hammer.”
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“well, i suppose you’re the boss,” grinned rawlins, “but it’s a shame to clear out with that old galleon and a lot of loot so handy.”
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ten minutes later, the submarine was floating on the surface and standing in the bright warm sunshine on deck, with the placid blue sea about and the rich green island beyond, the boys could scarcely believe that they had really undergone such a frightful experience. it seemed like some unreal, horrible nightmare, but the round raw spots on rawlins’ hands where the creature’s suckers had gripped him were proof of the reality of the battle, and every time the boys thought of it they shuddered and cold chills ran up and down their spines.
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rawlins made little of it, joking and laughing as if such matters were of everyday occurrence, while sam, fully recovered from the effects of his daring rescue, refused to be considered a hero and was ill at ease and embarrassed whenever a word of praise or commendation was expressed.
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very soon santo domingo was so close that rawlins advised running submerged and, pointing out a low valley-like expanse extending far into the hills, declared it to be the entrance to caña honda bay. with the periscope just visible above the sea, and hugging the shores as closely as they dared, the submarine was run slowly into the narrow opening while the boys, stationed at their instruments, listened for the faintest hint of a whirring screw in their vicinity. but no sound broke the silence under the sea and no sign of another craft was seen.
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well up the bay and behind a densely wooded point the sub-sea craft was run into a smaller bay and then, emerging, rawlins piloted her through a crooked river-like channel until safely screened back of a low sandy beach covered with a grove of coconut trees.
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“we’re pretty safe here, i think,” he announced. “i came here once with a party of scientists and we camped here when we were on that trip looking for the wreck yonder. if the 'reds’ are hanging out near here they’ll be over the other side of the bay, i think. those hills over there are full of caves and it’s a wild country. just the place for such a gang. we can keep an eye on the entrance and the channel from here and go snooping around after dark and maybe pick up a radio message or see a fire or smoke.”
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“you’ve selected an ideal spot,” agreed mr. pauling. “safe harbor, fresh coconuts, a nice beach for bathing and safely hidden. i don’t know how we could get on without you, rawlins.”
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“well, if i hadn’t got the crazy idea of coming down here you wouldn’t have been here,” the diver reminded him. “so you couldn’t have been without me. but i’m mighty glad i’ve helped a little.”
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“how about fresh water?” asked mr. henderson. “ours is getting pretty low, you know.”
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“there’s a stream back on the mainland—just over by that point,” replied rawlins, “and there’s a sort of inner harbor here too—fine place for fishing and hunting, though of course we can’t hunt—and beyond that a big mangrove swamp that runs clean around to the opposite side of the bay. by going through that we could sneak over around the caves without being seen. devil of a place to get through, though—regular labyrinth. a man would get lost there in a jiffy without a compass.”
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it was now nearly sundown and preparations were at once made for the night.
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it was agreed that no time was to be lost. that as soon as darkness came rawlins and mr. pauling with one of the boys should go out in a boat carrying a receiving instrument and the resonance coil while the others remained in the submarine and listened for any sounds or messages which might come to them.
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“the trouble is we cannot communicate safely,” remarked mr. pauling. “that’s the one great shortcoming of this radio. any one within range can hear. i don’t know much about the technical end as you know, but i can see that the man who invents a method of communicating by wireless secretly, or so others can’t hear him, will make his fortune and revolutionize the science.”
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“you’re quite right,” agreed mr. henderson. “that’s why it will never take the place of wire telegraphy or telephone—that is, until such a discovery as you suggest is made. however, the very fact that it’s not possible to keep messages secret at present is to our advantage now. it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, you know.”
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“we’ll hope we don’t need to communicate,” said rawlins. “i don’t see why we should. if we hear anything and locate the gang we can come back here, slip away and call disbrow. we’re in no shape to make an attack by ourselves.”
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“i’d like to know why not?” demanded tom. “we could turn the gun on ’em and we’ve got rifles and pistols and everything.”
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“sure,” laughed rawlins. “i suppose we’d pick up that two-inch gun and lug it over in the small boat and dump it down in their front yard while they looked on. no, son, if they got wise to us being here they’d either clean out by their sub or scatter in the bush or go for us tooth and nail. a crowd that don’t hesitate to try to torpedo us isn’t going to stop at a scrap and the lord alone knows how many of ’em there are.”
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“rawlins is right,” declared mr. pauling. “if we locate them we must plan to make a concerted raid, surrounding them on all sides and with a large enough force to make resistance useless. the man we want may or may not be there, but we must be absolutely sure to get him if he is. if he gives us the slip our troubles will have just commenced.”
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“yes, i suppose that’s so,” admitted tom. “gosh, i hope we do find them.”
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everything was now in readiness, the night was inky black, not a glimmer of light showed upon the submarine and silently embarking in the small boat, rawlins, mr. pauling, tom and two of the crew pushed off and were instantly swallowed up in the darkness.
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sitting at his instruments and listening for any chance sound or message was dull work for frank and his mind was constantly on what tom and the others might be doing. once, very faint and far away, he thought he heard the whirring sound of a screw, but bancroft, who listened in at frank’s request, declared he did not believe it was.
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“at any rate,” he said, “if 't is, it’s a long way off. maybe some ship outside the bay.”
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then followed absolute silence. bancroft, at the regular instruments, picked up some dot and dash messages flying back and forth between passing ships and the big station at santo domingo city, but there was nothing suspicious, nothing that hinted of the proximity of the men they sought. slowly the time dragged on, hour after hour passed by. frank yawned and almost dozed while sitting at the instruments. would the boat never return? had they heard or seen anything? how, frank wondered, could rawlins find his way in such dense blackness? would they get lost in the swamp he had mentioned? suppose they never returned? perhaps they might be captured or killed by the outlaws. the thought startled him. it had not occurred to him before that there was any danger. but once that current of thought was started it ran riot in his brain. he grew nervous, excited, worried, and bancroft could not cheer him or disabuse him of the premonition that something serious had happened.
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“yes, i suppose you’re right,” admitted frank, “but just the same i’m worried.”
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then to his ears came a faint sound; before he could grasp its meaning he heard footsteps overhead and a moment later rawlins and tom descended the ladder with mr. pauling close behind them and mr. henderson, who had been keeping watch on deck, bringing up the rear.
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“gee, i’m glad you’re back!” cried frank. “i thought sure something had happened to you! did you find them?”
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“not a sign!” replied rawlins. “don’t believe they’ve got over here yet.”
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“gosh, but it was black!” exclaimed tom, “and weird. what did you think could happen to us?”
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frank, rather ashamed of his unwarranted fears, tried to explain, but rawlins laughed.
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“don’t you worry over anything of that sort,” he told him. “we can take care of ourselves.”
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“and, as bancroft said, if anything went wrong we’d let you know,” said mr. pauling. “remember, all of you, if you have trouble or are attacked or anything goes wrong don’t hesitate to call for help or give information. safety first is the rule and it’s better to lose the game by having the rascals hear us than to come to grief ourselves. i should never forgive myself if anything serious happened to any of us through lack of communicating with the means at hand, regardless of the results as far as catching the criminals is concerned.”
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“didn’t you hear anything on the detector?” asked tom.
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“nothing but the splash of your oars when you came and went and, yes, i heard something once i thought was a screw, but is was too faint to be sure and mr. bancroft didn’t think it was.”
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“funny,” commented mr. pauling. “of course we didn’t go very far—it was slow work getting about in the dark—and we had to turn back as the moon began to rise. they are either not here or else were not talking through their instruments. to-morrow night we’ll have an hour longer and can go farther.”
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“i think the very fact that they were not conversing by radio proves one of two things,” declared mr. henderson. “either the submarine has not 'come within speaking distance or else all are ashore together when there would be no need of talking by wireless. i imagine that, as they know the destroyer is looking for them, and are aware that we or those on the destroyer have some form of under-sea radio, they would be very cautious about using it and would do so only when absolutely necessary.”
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“yes, and they’ll lay low for a while too,” said rawlins. “they know about the raid in new york and about smernoff’s escape and they wont try any of their tricks for a time you can bet. they’ll just listen and say nothing and wait until the excitement blows over. it’ll be like stalking a deer to find ’em.”
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“yes, or like looking for a needle in a haystack,” agreed mr. pauling, “although i should not be surprised if they are occupying one of those caves you mention. our best plan will be to make a thorough search and trust to luck.”
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the night passed uneventfully and the boys awoke the next morning feeling as if the adventures of the previous days were all a dream. nothing could be done during the day and so, after breakfast, they paddled to the beach, had a splendid swim, gathered coconuts to their hearts’ content and came back to lunch with hearty appetites. in the afternoon they went with the two boats to the stream for fresh water and the boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves wandering about in the jungle while the men filled the casks. they had never been in a tropical forest before and they were filled with wonder at every turn. the enormous trees, with their wide-spreading buttress-like roots and the drapery of lianas; the great, broad-leaved air plants and gay orchids; the innumerable palms and brilliant flowers were fascinating. they exclaimed with delight at the gaudy butterflies, the tiny humming birds and bright-plumaged tanagers and were tremendously interested in the hosts of big busy ants carrying bits of leaves in their jaws and moving across the forest floor in an endless procession. rawlins told them these were “drougher ants” and stated that the scientists with whom he had visited the spot before said they used the bits of leaves for propagating a species of fungus in their nests—“sort of ants’ mushrooms” as he put it—on which they fed.
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once the boys were puzzled by a shrill, rather pretty song which seemed to issue from the sky and in vain they searched for the singer until frank’s sharp eyes spied a tiny atom perched on the topmost leaf of a tall palm—a very midget of a bird—a diminutive humming bird no larger than a bumblebee, whose fluttering wings and trembling throat proved him to be the singer. again, they were startled by harsh, discordant cries and were just in time to see a flock of green and red parrots winging swiftly away from a tree where they had been feeding. it was all very novel and strange and to the boys, who for so long had been confined to the submarine. it was a most delightful change, and even after the casks had been filled and the boats were ready to depart they insisted on remaining, telling the men to come back just before sundown.
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with nightfall, the small boat again started forth on its search, frank this time going with the party while tom remained on board, but once again they returned unsuccessful.
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the following day rawlins suggested going for a fishing trip and with the two boys rowed up through the narrow, winding channel to the inner harbor and for several hours caught fish as fast as they could bait their hooks and drop them into the dark water.
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then, with enough fish and to spare, rawlins rowed them into the dismal mangrove swamp among the maze of trunks, aerial roots and winding channels. this was another new and wonderful experience to the boys. it was low tide and between the densely growing mangroves the mud was exposed and with countless brilliant scarlet and yellow crabs scuttling about everywhere, across the mud, up and down the tree trunks, over the roots, even on the overhanging branches. many of the trees with their sprawling roots were overgrown with oysters and the boys gathered half a boatload of the bivalves. rawlins too showed them how the mangroves spread and grew by means of the roots descending from the branches, how the slender but tough cable like roots supported the trees and bound all together into a compact mass and how the trees, ever growing out into the water and accumulating mud and drift about them, formed land.
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“some day,” he declared, “this whole swamp will be dry land. after the mangroves come black-jacks and sea-grapes, then palms and other trees, and at last it will be all forest. i’ve seen lots of places like that.”
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there was bird life in plenty in the swamp too. green and blue herons, white egrets and scarlet-faced white ibis that flapped up at the boat’s approach and stared curiously at the intruders, uttering half-frightened, hoarse croaks like giant frogs.
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“say, it would be fine hunting here,” declared frank when, a little later, a flock of tree ducks whirred up and perched upon the trees within easy gunshot. “it’s too bad we can’t shoot. roast duck would go fine for a change.”
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“i’ll say it would,” agreed rawlins, “but a fellow could hear a gunshot miles off here and it would give us away in a minute.”
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night after night the boat left the submarine, ever going farther and farther in its search, but without results, and each day the boys amused themselves by exploring the adjoining woods and swamps, sometimes with rawlins, and sometimes by themselves.
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at first mr. pauling had objected to the two youngsters going off alone, but after they had promised always to carry a compass and to be very careful he consented, on the condition that they did not go far and always took along their radio set.
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“not only that you may use it in case of real need,” he explained, “but also as it is always possible that you may hear messages. remember and don’t use the set unless absolutely compelled to, but don’t hesitate if in danger or lost.”
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on their first two excursions they enjoyed themselves hugely. they had caught plenty of fish, explored a small island in the swamp and found a colony of egrets and herons and had even seen a few of the wonderful, pink, roseate spoonbills. also, they had been terribly startled when a big broad snout broke through the water a few yards from the boat and with a terrific bellow plunged out of sight.
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rawlins laughed heartily when they told of this. “just a manatee or seacow,” he said. “perfectly harmless creatures and usually very shy. i’ll bet he was more frightened than you two boys.”
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on the third day, hoping to again catch sight of a manatee, and intent on exploring another small island they had seen, the boys set forth in high spirits, taking along a lunch and planning to be away until afternoon. rawlins had planned to go with them, promising to show them an alligator’s nest, but at the last minute changed his mind and decided to tramp inland and ascend a high hill with the hopes of sighting smoke which might divulge the presence of the men they sought.
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for a time all went well with the boys. they paddled to the portion of the swamp they had already visited, took compass bearings and continued on their way. they found the island they had sighted and spent several hours exploring it and, finding a pleasant sandy beach on the farther side, decided to eat lunch there. returning to their boat they rowed around to the beach and, seated in the shade of the trees, ate their midday meal while laughing and joking over the clumsy pelicans diving and fishing in an open area of water a short distance away. suddenly, from beyond a thick grove of mangroves, came the startling bull-like bellow of a manatee.
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“come on!” cried tom. “let’s go and find him. he’s just back of that point. if we sneak up on him carefully we’ll see him!”
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hurrying to the boat they tumbled in and rowed as silently as possible to the point and peered beyond. there was no sign of a manatee, but ever-widening ripples on the calm water showed where some creature had been a few moments before and presently, from up a narrow lane of water, they heard a snort and a short bellow again.
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paying little heed to where they were going the two interested and excited boys, keen on their chase of the elusive manatee, paddled up the winding channel among the mangroves while ever just beyond, they could hear the snorts or the rumbling bellow of the creature they were following.
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“i’ll bet he’s in here,” declared tom. “let’s sit still and watch.”
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taking in their oars the boys sat motionless, gazing about the tranquil surface of the lagoon and watching for the expected appearance of the sea-cow.
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suddenly frank gripped tom’s arm. “look!” he whispered. “there he is. see, crawling up on that mud bank!”
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“gosh! that’s so,” agreed tom and fascinated, the two boys watched as a big, bulky, black creature emerged from the dark still water and slowly and with great effort drew himself onto the wet mud flat among the trees.
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“jimmy, isn’t he a queer beast!” exclaimed frank in an undertone. “looks like a seal; and what a funny head!”
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“i wish we were closer,” whispered tom. “don’t you suppose we could sneak nearer?”
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“well, we can try,” agreed frank. “we’ve seen all we can from here and if we do scare him we can see the way he dives. come on.”
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very cautiously, the boys slipped their oars into the water and silently edged the boat closer and closer to the unsuspecting creature.
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they had reached a point within a few rods of the manatee when the clumsy beast suddenly lifted his head, peered at them with his tiny eyes in a way which tom afterwards said reminded him of smernoff, and so quickly the boys could hardly follow his movements plunged into the water.
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“gosh!” exclaimed tom, “i didn’t suppose he could move so quickly. oh, say, here he comes! look!”
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the water where the manatee had drawn himself ashore was shallow and as he strove to reach deep water, frightened out of his few wits by the unexpected sight of the human beings, his broad back broke through the surface like the bottom of a capsized boat and to the boys’ excited minds he seemed headed directly for them.
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although rawlins had assured them that manatees were gentle harmless creatures, yet here, alone in the big, silent, mysterious swamp, the huge beast seemed fraught with danger to the excited boys and they were fully convinced that he was attacking them. grabbing the oars they strove frantically to get out of his way, but the boat was heavy and clumsy, the boys were frightened and in their mad efforts to avoid the oncoming sea-cow frank’s oar slipped from the rowlocks, he lurched backwards and before he could recover himself or cry out he plunged overboard. had tom not been so terribly frightened he would have roared with laughter at the sight, for as frank fell he pushed the boat aside and was now floundering about in water up to his waist, struggling madly to regain the boat while the manatee, absolutely crazy with fright at the splash and the appearance of the boy, tried to turn and escape in another direction and in his blind rush bumped into frank’s legs and knocked him yelling and screaming head over heels.
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but at the time there was nothing humorous in the situation to either boy. to frank, startled by the manatee in the first place and shocked and frightened at his unexpected plunge, the poor bewildered creature was a terrifying monster bent on destroying him, while to tom, equally scared, the manatee’s sudden turn and collision with frank appeared as a deliberate attack. but it was all over in an instant. the manatee gained deep water and disappeared and frank, covered with mud and dripping with the water, wallowed to the boat and pulled himself in.
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“whew!” he exclaimed as he caught his breath. “that was a narrow escape!”
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then for the first time tom became sensible. “say, i don’t believe he was after us at all!” he declared. “he was just frightened half to death. golly, but you look scared!”
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“so would you if you’d been overboard with that big beast in the water alongside of you knocking you down,” responded frank. “come on, i’ve had enough of this, let’s go back.”
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“all right,” agreed tom, “hello, where did we come in?”
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as he glanced about he realized for the first time that he was not sure of his bearings. a dozen and more openings showed among the mangroves and try as he might he could not tell which was the one by which they had entered the lagoon.
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for an instant frank looked about. “over there,” he declared positively. “i remember that funny-shaped tree.”
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“all right then,” replied tom, “i thought for a minute we were lost.”
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feeling sure they were right the boys pulled into the narrow channel, chatting and laughing over their adventure until suddenly tom stopped rowing and glanced about.
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“say, this isn’t the place we came in,” he declared. “we never passed here. look ahead—those stumps are right in the middle of the channel and we’d have seen them sure.”
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“golly, i believe you’re right!” agreed frank, “say, we’ll have to go by compass.”
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dropping his oars he reached into his pocket and slowly a strange expression of wonder, amazement, surprise and fright overspread his face.
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“it’s gone!” he said in an awe-struck tone. “it’s lost! gosh, tom, it must have dropped out of my pocket when i went overboard!”
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“jiminy, that’s too bad!” exclaimed tom. “but you needn’t be so frightened, we can go back and start over again.”
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“yes, but suppose we can’t find the right lead?” objected frank. “then we will be in a pretty fix!”
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“oh, we can find it,” declared tom reassuringly. “if necessary we can try every one until we get the right one.”
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turning their boat the boys pulled rapidly back to the lagoon and after a careful survey decided on another channel.
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“hurrah, this is right!” cried frank after they had rowed some distance, “i remember that clump of reeds. we’re all right.”
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but after they had rowed steadily for an hour the two boys began to have doubts.
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“we ought to be out by that island by now,” declared tom. “i’m beginning to think we’re wrong again.”
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“i was just getting that same way myself,” admitted frank. “say, if we don’t look out it’ll be dark before we get out of here.”
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“well we can use the radio,” suggested tom.
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“not unless we have to,” replied frank. “we still have time to go back and—hello, there’s the island now!”
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glancing over his shoulder tom saw that they had reached a bend in the waterway and beyond it loomed a wooded island. for a moment he gazed at it.
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“that’s not the island,” he announced. “look, it’s got palms on it.”
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“jehoshaphat, so it has!” exclaimed frank. “say, tom, we’re lost. we’ll have to use the radio.”
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“yes, i guess we will,” agreed tom, “if we go back to that lagoon now we’ll never get out until after dark and dad’ll be worried to death.”
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as he spoke, he uncovered the radio apparatus while frank got out the small portable aerial and erected it over the boat, dropping the ground wire over the side into the water.
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tom picked up the instruments, turned on the rheostat and was about to call into the microphone when his jaw dropped, his eyes seemed about to pop from his head and his hand shook.
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“what on earth’s the matter?” cried frank, alarmed at the strange expression which had come over tom’s face. “you look as if you’d seen a ghost.”
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“hssh!” whispered tom in a shaky voice. “i near them! i heard those russians! gosh, frank! they must be close by!”
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at tom’s astounding announcement frank sank limply onto a thwart. but the next instant he was up, and seizing the resonance coil, hastily connected it to the set in place of the aerial.
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“now signal or tell me when you get them,” he said, as, holding the coil horizontally, he commenced moving it in a wide circle. for a time tom was silent, motionless, listening with every sense and nerve taut; then, as the coil pointed to the right, he raised his hand.
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“there!” he whispered.
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presently he took off his phones. “it’s no use listening,” he declared “we can’t tell what they’re saying. oh, thunder, why isn’t smernoff here?”
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“well, we can call to the folks and tell them and they can let smernoff listen,” said frank.
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“well, what can we do then?” demanded frank. “if we call for help to get back, these fellows will hear us too. we’re in a nice fix just from chasing that confounded old manatee. first we get lost and then we hear this talking and can’t even tell about it.”
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“we might row along until we lose these fellows and then call the sub,” suggested tom, “if we get so far away we can’t hear them the chances are they can’t hear us. come on.”
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there seemed nothing else to do and so, choosing a channel that led away from the direction whence the sounds had come, the boys rowed steadily for some time. then they ceased rowing and picking up the coil frank held it while tom listened at the set.
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for a space no sounds came to his ears and then he started so violently that frank was almost upset.
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“gosh all crickety, frank!” he exclaimed. “something’s wrong. they sound nearer than ever.”
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puzzled and not knowing what to do, the boys sat motionless and speechless. they seemed to be surrounded by the voices coming from both directions.
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“hello,” ejaculated frank presently, “we’re moving. look at those trees!”
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“it must be the tide,” declared tom. “if ’tis we’ll be out of here soon and if we reach the bay——”
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“hurrah, there’s the bay now!” cried frank.
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a few hundred yards ahead they saw the sheet of open water through the trees and with light hearts grasped the oars and started to row forwards, but before they had taken a stroke tom uttered a smothered cry, grasped frank’s arm and pointed a trembling finger at the open water visible through a space between the mangroves.
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“look, frank! look!” he whispered
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less than two hundred yards distant, plainly visible and moored close to the edge of the swamp was a big submarine! no second glance was needed to verify tom’s first suspicions; the shattered conning tower left no doubt as to the craft’s identity.
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frank was too surprised and dumbfounded to speak and stood gazing with unbelieving eyes at the submarine so near to them and so totally unexpected.
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“quick!” whispered tom. “if we don’t watch out we’ll be drifting in sight on that open water. grab a root or a branch while i push the boat in.”
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seizing his oars, tom pushed and pulled, forcing the boat close to the trees until frank could grasp one of the swaying, descending roots and made the boat’s painter fast to it.
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“no wonder we heard ’em,” remarked tom when the boat was secured. “that creek must turn around a corner and we didn’t notice it. say, what are we going to do now? we can’t wait here all night and we don’t know where to go and we can’t call our folks without those fellows on this sub hearing us.”
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“and if we could call your father or mr. rawlins we couldn’t tell them where this submarine is because we don’t know ourselves,” replied frank.
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“it’s awful funny we should find it by getting lost after they’ve been hunting for it night after night,” said tom, “and now what good does it do? i don’t see but what we’ll have to go back the way we came and trust to luck.”
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“huh!” snorted frank, “and get lost worse than ever. if this sub came in here there must be deep water leading to sea and if we could sneak out we’d be sure to find the entrance to the bay and then we could call our people or hunt along the shore till we found that beach with the coconut grove.”
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“yes, and a swell chance we have of sneaking out!” tom reminded him. “just as soon as we went out of here they’d spot us, sure.”
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“well we’ll have to wait until dark, that’s all,” said frank resignedly. “of course they’ll worry, but like as not they’ll call for us and we may hear ’em. then if these chaps hear, it wont be our fault. i know your father said not to hesitate to use radio if we had to, but he didn’t think we’d be alongside this submarine when we needed to. it’s not going to hurt us to wait here a while and we may see something.”
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tom’s sharp “hisst!” caused frank to wheel about. a small boat was now beside the submarine and several men were climbing into it. presently they pushed off, the men took to the oars and to the boys’ horror and amazement the boat headed directly toward their hiding place.
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“gosh now it’s all up!” whispered tom in terrified tones, “if they spot us or our boat it’ll be good night for us!”
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breathlessly the boys crouched in their craft, shaking with fright, while nearer and nearer came the boat from the submarine. then, when the two trembling boys felt that their hour had come, that in another instant they must be seen, the other boat swung to one side and disappeared in a narrow channel among the mangroves not fifty feet from where the boys were concealed. in a few moments the sound of the oars and the voices of the men grew faint in the distance and the boys raised themselves and with relieved, fast-beating hearts exchanged glances.
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“did you see them?” exclaimed tom. “my, weren’t they a tough looking lot!”
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“regular pirates!” agreed frank. “did you see that big fellow with the red beard?”
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“you bet, and that thin one with the upturned blonde mustache! gosh, he looked like the crown prince of germany!”
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“that dark man was the worst,” declared frank. “that indian or nigger or whatever he was—the one with the earrings. gee, i’d hate to have them get us.”
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“i never knew russians were such ugly looking people,” said tom, “and i thought they were all light. that fellow with the earrings was almost as black as sam.”
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“they’re not all russians,” frank reminded him. “don’t you remember mr. henderson and your father saying they were ‘reds’ from every point of the world and that the big chief of the lot isn’t even a german although he worked for germany. and there was that man that died in new york, he was irish.”
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“yes, that’s so,” agreed tom, “but say, let’s get out of here now. they’re gone and maybe we can sneak away. i don’t believe any one’s aboard the sub.”
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“well, i do,” replied frank, “i vote we turn back and see if we can’t find another channel that leads out below here. we can tell the right way to go by the tide flowing.”
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“golly, that’s so,” assented tom. “all right, but we’ve got to be careful.”
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unfastening the boat, the two boys pulled slowly up the creek against the current, searching the mangroves on either side for an opening through which the tide was flowing. at last they sighted one and with elated minds turned into it. as they pulled along, tom noticed that the mangroves were giving place to other trees, that the soft mud banks had changed to sand and that the shores were getting higher.
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“we must be getting out of the swamp,” declared tom. “see! the banks are high and there are trees. we’ll soon be out.”
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the stream they were following was now running with quite a swift current and the boys noticed several side branches or smaller creeks flowing into it. they had just passed one of these and were about to turn a bend when with one accord they stopped rowing, their eyes grew wide with fright and they sat listening breathlessly. from ahead had come the sounds of human voices! just around the bend were men!
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to go on meant certain discovery. what should they do? for a brief instant they had thought it might be some of their own party, but the next second they knew better, for the words that came to them were in a harsh guttural tongue—the same tongue they had so often heard through their receivers.
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then, a sudden desire, an overwhelming curiosity to see the speakers, to learn where they were and what they were doing swept over tom. with signs he motioned to frank and an instant later they had run their boat into the side creek, had beached it noiselessly upon a narrow strip of soft earth and like snakes were wiggling silently up the bank among the trees. for some strange psychological reason they were no longer afraid; no longer did thoughts of the risk they ran enter their heads. their entire thoughts were centered on seeing these men, on learning what they could, for they realized instinctively that they had stumbled upon the secret of the gang’s hiding place, that they had found what their friends had been searching for night after night and that, did they ever regain their own submarine, their knowledge would be invaluable.
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but they were cautious. they had no intention of being either seen or heard and before they reached the summit of the bank they carefully raised their heads and peered between the bases of the trees beyond. they had no means of knowing what lay beyond that bank. it might be open land, it might be brush or woods or it might be water. they knew, however, that the men must be close at hand and yet, when they peered through, they could scarcely repress surprised exclamations at what they saw.
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within a dozen yards, a boat was lying beside the bank of the stream and just beyond, beneath a wide-spreading tree, two men stood talking.
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one was the big, red-bearded fellow the boys had seen in the boat as it left the submarine. the other, who half leaned upon a repeating rifle and who wore an immense automatic pistol at his belt, was tall, well-built and most striking in appearance. he was dressed in light, neat clothes and leather puttees; a broad-brimmed panama hat was on his head, his face was tanned but clean shaven, except for a small, sharply upturned, iron-gray mustache, and in one eye he wore a monocle.
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so totally unlike his companions was he that the boys almost gasped in astonishment. there was nothing about him, nothing in his appearance, that spoke of lawlessness, of a thug or a criminal. indeed, he was a most distinguished-looking gentleman, such a figure as one might expect to see at a meeting of scientists, at some state function, at a directors’ meeting in some bank or business house.
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but when he spoke the disillusionment was complete. his voice had the strangest sound the boys had ever heard. it was cold, grating, inexpressibly cruel and sent shivers down the boys’ backs as they listened. what he was saying they could not grasp, but that he was angry, that he was reprimanding the giant before him, the boys could tell by his tones, the hard reptilian glitter of his light gray eyes and by the expression of the red-bearded fellow.
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the latter, with hat in hand, fairly cowered before the other. his head was bent, his eyes downcast, his face and neck were flushed scarlet and his replies came in a low, humble, apologetic tone.
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those in the waiting boat were silent, only the two uttered a single word. for a space the boys watched, fascinated, and then it occurred to tom that they must get away, that somehow they had taken the wrong channel and that if they were to escape unseen they must leave at once, retrace their way to where they had seen the submarine and from there try to reach the entrance to the bay.
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touching frank’s arm, tom signaled for him to withdraw and as silently as they had come the two boys slipped down the bank, shoved their boat noiselessly into the water and crept into it.
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with fast beating hearts they paddled towards the larger stream and had almost reached it, when, without warning, a flock of white ibis flapped up before them and with harsh croaks of alarm perched upon the topmost branches of the trees.
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the boys’ blood seemed to freeze in their veins and their hearts to cease beating. would the men suspect something or somebody was near? would they sweep down on the boys?
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instantly, at the hoarse cries of the birds, the voices beyond the point had ceased and the boys knew the men were listening, straining their ears for a suspicious sound. to go on would be to court disaster. the least rattle of oars or squeal of rowlocks would be heard and even if no sound issued from the boat the slightest movement would again arouse the ibis overhead. there was nothing to do but wait, wait with panting, throbbing lungs and heart-racking fears for what might happen next.
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but the boys did not have long to wait. from beyond the intervening bank came the rattle of an oar, a sharp, gruff order, the splash of water. the men were coming! to remain where they were meant capture! there was but one thing to be done and that was to turn and pull as fast as they were able into the small creek in the one faint hope that the others might pass it by and look for the cause of the birds’ fright upon the main stream. quickly the boat was swung round and with deadly terror lending strength to their arms, the boys pulled frantically into the trees that formed an archway over the tiny waterway. but their ruse was in vain. the noise of the splashing oars had been heard. the disturbed water of the stream told the story of their flight to their enemies. scarcely a score of yards had been covered when the boys heard the other boat following, heard the rough slavic voices, and the frightened cries of the ibis. madly they pulled and then, so close that the boys could not avoid it had they wished, the creek came to an abrupt end in a mass of foliage.
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before the boys knew it was there they had bumped into it. frank’s hat was swept off by a branch, sharp twigs and thorns tore their flesh, the boat rocked and grated, and realizing they were trapped the boys screamed in terror. then, ere they grasped what had happened, their boat had shot through the screen of branches, they were in open water and looking back they saw the fallen trees which had spanned the creek. before them the stream turned sharply to one side. only a dozen strokes of the oars would bring them to the bend. they had almost reached it when shouts and curses came from beyond the fallen trees, they heard a crashing of the branches, the sharp reports of revolvers rang out and bullets whistled past the boys’ heads.
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the next moment the boat shot around the point and, driven to desperation, thinking only of outdistancing their pursuers, the boys rowed like mad, giving no heed to direction, no attention to their surroundings. then they suddenly realized that the sounds of their pursuers had ceased, that there were no shouts, no splashing of oars, no rattle of wood on wood. what had happened? why had the others abandoned the chase?
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and then it dawned upon frank.
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“gee christopher!” he exclaimed under his breath, “that fallen tree saved us, tom! their big boat couldn’t get through. we’re safe!”
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“gosh, i guess you’re right!” whispered tom while the two still continued to row. “but i’m not sure we’re safe. there may be another way in here and perhaps they’ve gone around to cut us off. say, we’ve got to row like the dickens and try to get so far they won’t find us!”
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“yes, but we’re lost!” declared frank. “we haven’t any idea where we are!”
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“i know it,” admitted tom, “but we can’t help that now. after we’ve gone farther we’ll stop and call our folks. those chaps back there can’t hear us and if their sub does, it won’t make any difference now. they know we’re here and we’ve got to get out.”
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“hurrah!” cried frank, “we’re back where we saw the manatee!”
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“golly, so we are!” agreed tom. “well, i’m going to use the radio now and see if we can get our people.”
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but all attempts to get their submarine proved fruitless. over and over again they called. hopefully and patiently tom listened while frank moved the resonance coil about, but not a sound came through the receivers.
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“it’s no use,” declared tom at last. “we can’t get them. what on earth will we do?”
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“all we can do is to go on,” replied frank in dejected tones. “it’s almost dark, we may find our way by luck.”
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“yes, i suppose so,” agreed frank who, now the excitement was over, felt utterly exhausted. “we’re as safe here as anywhere.”
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drawing in their oars the two lonely, tired and hungry boys threw themselves in the bottom of the boat and too weary even to talk lay gazing up at the stars. the boat rocked gently to the tiny ripples on the lagoon; from the swamps came the droning chant of frogs and insects; fireflies flitted by like tiny meteors; the water lapped soothingly against the boat’s planks and lulled by the sounds and the soft night air the boys slept.
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tom was the first to awake. for an instant he lay still, dazed, not remembering where he was and dimly aware of a strange, monotonous, resonant sound that somehow seemed to vibrate and throb through his brain, the boat and the night air.
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he nudged frank. “wake up!” he half whispered, “wake up! the moon’s out and we’ve got to be going on.”
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then, as frank sleepily opened his eyes and yawned, tom spoke again.
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“hear that noise?” he asked. “what is it?”
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“i—i don’t know!” he stammered. “it’s uncanny—perhaps it’s a frog or a night bird or something. say, where are we?”
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then, for the first time, tom noticed their surroundings. no longer were they on the lagoon. on either side, rose tall trees looming black and gigantic against the moonlit sky and by the glint of the light upon the ripples the boys could see that the narrow waterway ran swiftly.
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“crickey, we’ve drifted while we were asleep!” cried frank. “now we are lost.”
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“well, we’re drifting with the tide anyway,” said tom, trying bravely to be cheerful. “and it’s bound to take us out somewhere to open water.”
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“yes, only it may be coming in and not going out,” said frank. “what time is it? my watch stopped when i fell overboard.”
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tom pulled out his watch and examined it’s luminous dial. “gosh, it’s after eleven!” he exclaimed. “say, we must have slept four or five hours.”
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“there’s that noise again!” cried frank. “what on earth is it? it seems to come from all around and say—— gee, look there, tom! what’s that?”
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startled, tom glanced about. far ahead between the trees he could see a ruddy glow.
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“and the noise comes from there!” stammered frank. “it’s dreadful!”
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hurriedly grasping their oars the boys pulled, trying their utmost to swing the boat’s bow around, but it was of no use. the current was running like a millrace and despite their utmost endeavors they were being swept irresistibly towards the fire and that weird, uncanny, hair-raising sound.
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nearer and nearer they swept. now they could see the ruddy light upon the water ahead. they could even see the flames dancing among the trees and the resonant, throbbing boom rose and fell in terrifying cadence through the night. then, between the throbbing beats, the boys heard voices; but not the harsh guttural voices of the “reds.” it was even worse, for the sounds borne to the boys—frightened, terror-stricken and helpless in their drifting boat—savored of savages. they were high-pitched, yet musical, rising and falling; one moment dying to a low murmur, the next rising to a blood-curdling wail.
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absolutely paralyzed, the boys sat and stared at the light and the fire they were approaching. what was it? through their minds flashed stories of cannibals, visions of savage indians, and yet rawlins had assured them there were no indians upon the island. but surely these could be nothing else. those sounds—dimly, to tom’s mind came memories of a similar sound he had once heard—yes—that was it—an indian tom-tom at a wild west show. they must be savages! yes, now he could see them, wild, naked, dancing, leaping figures; whirling, gyrating about the fire now less than two hundred yards ahead and within fifty feet of the lank. frank had seen them also. he too knew they must be savages. would they be seen? would the dancing, prancing fiends detect them as they swept through that circle of light upon the water or were they too busy with their dancing to notice them? now the drum roared in deafening, booming notes, filling the surrounding forest with its echoes and the savage chant of the prancing figures sent chills over the cowering boys. just ahead was the expanse of water illuminated by the red glare. in a moment they would be in it. close to the bank the boys saw canoes drawn ashore, big dug-outs, crude primitive craft. yes, there were indians in santo domingo, rawlins must have been mistaken. now they were in the firelight. they held their breaths and then a moaning hopeless groan issued from the boys’ lips. their boat slowed down; before they realized what had happened they were caught in an eddy and the next instant their craft bumped with a resounding thud against one of the canoes.
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the boys’ senses reeled. they were wedged fast between the dugouts in the brilliant light from the fire and before a cry could escape them, before they could move, two half-naked, awful creatures, hideously painted and with threatening, waving clubs came dashing down the bank.
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the boys knew their last minute had come. the savages had seen them. resistance would be hopeless. they were too frightened, too frozen with mortal terror to move or even scream.
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the next second the naked fiends were upon them. powerful hands seized legs and feet and unresisting, limp, almost unconscious with dread thoughts of their fate, they were borne triumphantly towards the fire and the ring of terrifying figures.
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radio to the rescue
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as the sun dipped towards, the mountains to the west and the boys did not return, mr. pauling became worried.
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“oh, i wouldn’t worry yet,” replied the other. “they have their radio sets along and would call us if they had any difficulties. bancroft has been listening for the past hour and nothing’s come in.”
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“yes, i know,” rejoined tom’s father, “but if they don’t turn up soon i shall start after them.”
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rawlins, who had returned from his scouting trip and had reported that he had been unsuccessful in seeing a sign of smoke across the bay, now approached.
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“i hardly think they’re in trouble,” he said, “i i’d suggest calling them before starting a search, provided they don’t arrive. they can hear much farther than they can send and i don’t believe our messages could be heard by the gang in the sub. we’ve been several miles around the bay and know those rascals are not near.”
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“yes, we can do that,” agreed mr. pauling. “even if they should hear, it is of little consequence in comparison with getting word to the boys. i’m about ready to abandon the attempt to locate the men anyway. our information is too indefinite to rely upon.”
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as time slipped by and still there was no sign of the missing boys and no word came by radio, mr. pauling became terribly worried and even rawlins’ optimism became shaken.
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finally, as the afternoon shadows lengthened, tom’s father could stand it no longer and he told bancroft to call their names and see if he could get in touch with them. but when, after fifteen minutes, the operator reported that no response had been received mr. pauling grew frantic.
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“something’s happened,” he declared. “they’ve either gone too far to hear or to reply or they’ve been drowned or have met with some accident. we must set out on a search at once.”
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accordingly, the boat was manned, a radio set was placed in it and mr. pauling, rawlins and bancroft embarked, leaving mr. henderson, who was the only remaining member of the party who understood radio, in charge of the submarine. sam also went along, for, as rawlins explained, he had eyes like a cat and at mr. henderson’s suggestion smernoff was included.
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“you may hear those rascals talking,” he said, “and if you do you’ll need him.”
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rawlins remembered hearing the boys speak of the island they wished to explore and knew more or less the direction they had gone. it was no easy matter to find an island in the swamp largely by guesswork, but luck favored and just before dark they sighted the higher trees and firm land of the island where the boys had lunched. calling frequently, both by voice and by radio, the searching party pulled around the island and came to the beach. something white upon the sand attracted rawlins’ attention and landing they found the paper wrappings of the boys’ lunch.
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“they stopped here to eat,” announced the diver. “now the question is in which direction they went. they might have gone up any one of these creeks or they might have started for the mainland. it’s all guesswork.”
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it was now dusk and the swamp was black with impenetrable shadows, but as they circled around the swamp in vague hopes of finding some clue or of hearing the boys by the radio instruments, sam’s sharp eyes caught sight of a bunch of water plants.
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“tha’ boat parsed by here, chief,” he announced, pointing to the bruised and bent stems. “ah’m sure of that, chief.”
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rawlins examined the plants carefully. “yes, either their boat or some other,” he agreed. “we’ll follow up this channel.”
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by the time they reached the open lagoon it was pitch dark and their only hope lay in getting in touch with the boys by radio.
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“if we don’t look out we’ll get lost ourselves,” announced rawlins. “you watch the compass, quartermaster, and keep track of our course and the bearings.”
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“aye, aye, sir,” replied the old sailor, and once more the boat proceeded through the black swamp, rawlins peering ahead and occasionally shouting, bancroft constantly speaking into the instruments and listening at the receivers and mr. pauling, nearly mad with worry, fears and regrets.
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for hour after hour they continued, following waterway after waterway, traversing lagoon after lagoon, forcing their way through the dense swamps to the mainland of the island and even emerging on the broad calm bay.
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“if they’re lost and unable to get back they’ll probably camp,” said rawlins. “they have matches and can make a fire. in fact they’ve sense enough to think of making a fire for a signal. i believe it will be a good plan to go ashore; i’ll ascend a hill, and sam can climb a tree and look about. if there’s a fire anywhere in sight we should see it.”
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as he watched, the spot grew brighter, it took on a pinkish tint and seemed to spread, until at last, it was a distinct ruddy light which he knew beyond the shadow of a doubt was a fire. carefully taking bearings by the stars and the dark masses of the swamp, he slid to the ground.
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“tha’s a fire yonder, chief,” he announced. “ah’ seed it plain an’ clear, an’ it’s just started, chief. ah seed it fla’in’ up an’ a-makin’ brighter all the time. ah reckon tha’ young gentlemens ’s a-makin’ it fo’ a signal, chief.”
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“that’s blamed good news!” exclaimed rawlins. “you say it’s over on the other side of the bay and you’ve got its bearings. all right, we’ll get over there, but how the deuce those kids got across the bay without knowing it, stumps me.”
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reaching the boat, rawlins reported their success and with all possible speed the boat was pulled through the winding channels of the swamp in the direction sam indicated. but it is one thing to take a sight and bearings from a tree top on a hillside and quite another matter to follow those bearings and directions through a mangrove swamp filled with twisting, devious channels. how sam could manage to keep the general course at all was little short of marvelous, but as the boat turned bend after bend, doubled on its track, found its way blocked and made detours, the bahaman never missed his general sense of direction, and at last the searching party emerged from the swamp and on the broad expanse of the bay.
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sam glanced about, squinted at the stars and indicated the course to follow. as they rowed swiftly across the bay towards the opposite shores, rawlins spoke.
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“say!” he exclaimed. “it may not be the boys after all. i’ve been puzzling all along how they could get over there and i’m beginning to think it’s those chaps we’re after and not the boys.”
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“well, if they’ve touched those kids i’ll say there’ll be some rough-house work when we step into that trap,” declared rawlins, “and they’ll find they’ve bitten off a darned sight bigger hunk than they can swallow without choking. we’ve got arms, i slipped ’em in the boat, and we’re no crew of tenderfeet. sam’s some little scrapper and the quartermaster was champion middle-weight of the atlantic squadron, old smernoff’s itching for a fight with those whiskered friends of his, and i guess you and bancroft can take care of yourselves and i’m no quitter myself.”
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“yes, yes, rawlins,” replied mr. pauling, “but you forget that if they have the boys they can protect themselves by threatening harm to tom and frank. they can make their own terms and they are ruthless beasts.”
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“well, mr. pauling, don’t let’s cross our rivers till we get to ’em,” said the diver. “we don’t know if the boys are prisoners yet. we’ll go easy and find out how the land lays first. remember we can see their fire and what’s going on a long time before they can spot us. that’s the worst of a fire. the other fellow can see you, but you can’t see the other fellow.”
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“yes, but the great trouble is, if we call for the boys by radio we’ll warn our enemies instead,” mr. pauling reminded him.
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“if they are prisoners it won’t be any use hollering for them,” replied rawlins sagely. “i guess the best plan is just to lie low, keep quiet and sneak in. if the boys are alone and it’s their fire we’ll find them just as well without calling and if it’s the ‘reds’ fire and the boys are not there we’ll spring a surprise.”
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a few minutes later the boat had gained the shelter of the trees beyond the bay and, still guided by sam’s almost uncanny instinct or skill, they pushed into the nearest channel among the mangroves. on this side of the bay, however, there was much more open water; the trees were more scattered, and, instead of being made up of innumerable creeks flowing through dense masses of mangroves, the swamp consisted of large lake-like expanses dotted and interrupted by narrow belts and isolated clumps of trees.
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they had proceeded for an hour or more and felt that they must be approaching the spot where sam had seen the fire when they noticed that the darkness was less dense, that there was a subdued light upon the water, and that the clumps of trees were sharper and clearer.
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“hanged if the moon isn’t rising!” exclaimed rawlins. “crickey, it must be near midnight.”
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mr. pauling looked at his watch. “it’s after eleven,” he announced. “we’ve been searching for five hours.”
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“i’ll say those kids are some little travelers!” declared rawlins. “they must have thought they were rowing for a bet to get clean over here.”
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“ah 'spec’ tha’ tide made to help them, chief,” remarked sam. “it makes right strong an’ po’ful up these creeks.”
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“yep, that must have been it,” agreed rawlins. “hadn’t thought of it before, i’ll bet they got caught in a strong current and couldn’t pull against it. hello! what the——”
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instantly the men stopped rowing. from far away, as if from the air itself, came a low throbbing vibration, a sound felt rather than heard, and those in the boat stared at one another questioningly.
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“thunder!” suggested mr. pauling, in a low tone.
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rawlins shook his head. “nix,” he replied crisply. “thunder doesn’t keep up like that and it doesn’t throb that way. sounds to me more like a ship’s screw half out of water.”
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“some bird then,” suggested mr. pauling. “bittern or owl, perhaps.”
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“i’ll say it’s some bird—if ’tis a bird!” exclaimed rawlins. “what is it, sam?”
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the quartermaster spat into the water and before the bahaman could reply he remarked: “’course 'taint possible, sir; but if i was a-hearin’ o’ that 'ere soun’ an’ was in the south seas 'stead o’ here in the west injies—i’d say as how ’twas a tom-tom, sir—you knows what i means, sir—savage drum such as they uses for a-havin’ of a cannibal feast, sir.”
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“well we’re not in the south seas,” returned rawlins, “and there aren’t any cannibals here. say, what the devil’s the matter with you, sam?”
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it was no wonder rawlins asked. the bahaman was staring open-mouthed across the water, his eyes rolling, his face drawn and awful fear depicted upon his black features.
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“here, wake up! seen a ghost?” cried rawlins, shaking the negro roughly. sam’s jaws came together, he licked his dry lips and in terror-striken, shaking tones murmured, “voodoo!”
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something in his tones, in the way he pronounced the one word, sent shivers down his hearers’ backs.
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“voodoo?” repeated rawlins, recovering himself. “what in thunder are you talking about?”
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“ah knows it!” replied the negro, in a hoarse whisper. “tha’s the devil dance! yaas, sir, tha’s voodoo goin’ on!”
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“well, i’ll be sunk!” ejaculated the diver. “a voodoo dance! by glory! i didn’t think they had ’em over here. i’ve heard of 'em in martinique and haiti, but i never took much stock in the yarns. are you sure, sam?”
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the cowering negro had sunk to his knees in the boat. all the long-dormant superstition of his race, the soul-racking fear of the occult and supernatural which was the heritage of his african ancestors had been stirred into being by the throbbing pulsations borne through the night, and he was an abject, terror-stricken creature.
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rawlins jerked him to athwart. “brace up, you fool nigger!” he commanded. “no one’s hurting you yet! you’re a blamed coward, sam! what if ’tis voodoo? what in thunder are you scared of?”
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slowly the negro came back to his senses; shaking like a leaf, sickly ashen with fright, he steadied himself. “ah aint 'fraid,” he stuttered, his tones belying his words. “ah was jus’ flustrated, chief. but ah don’t mek to meddle with voodoo, chief. better go back, chief.”
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“you bet your boots we’ll go back—not!” declared rawlins. “i’d like right well to see a voodoo as you call it. and if there’s any folks around here—black or white, tame or savage, we’re out to find ’em and have a pow-wow with ’em. maybe the boys saw their fire and made for it, and maybe the fire’s nothing to do with the tom-tom, and more likely than all it’s not a devil dance at all but just those blamed bolsheviks having a vodka spree all on their own—celebrating the boys’ capture or something. come on, men, let’s get a move on.”
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“perhaps we’d better try to call the boys,” suggested mr. pauling. “your hint that they may have seen the fire, or that they may have heard the drum is reasonable, but they are cautious and might be near, hesitating to approach the fire or the sound. the noise of that drum—supposing it should be the ‘reds’ and not from a negro dance—would prevent others from hearing us.”
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“sure, that’s a good idea,” agreed rawlins. “maybe they’re near, right now.”
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as rawlins spoke, bancroft was adjusting his instruments and the next instant gave an exultant cry.
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“i hear ’em!” he announced.
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then: “tom! frank!” he called into the microphone. “can you hear me? it’s bancroft! we’re near! we can hear a drum and are making for a fire! where are you? can you see the fire or hear the noise?”
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faint and thin, but clearly distinguishable, now the throbbing rumble of the drum had ceased, bancroft heard tom’s voice.
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“we hear!” it said. “come quick! we don’t know where we are, but we’re here by the fire—we’re prisoners—a lot of savages have us!”
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bancroft, in a strained voice, repeated the words.
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“good lord!” cried mr. pauling, “they’re captives of those crazy devil-worshipers.”
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“attaboy!” yelled rawlins. “lift her, boys! pull for your lives!”
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the devil dancers
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perhaps the two terrified boys swooned, perhaps they were literally frightened out of their wits. neither could ever be sure, but whichever it was, everything was a blank from the moment when they felt the hands of the savage figures grasp them until they found themselves surrounded on every side by a ring of half-naked men and women in the full glare of a huge fire under immense trees.
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but they were unharmed, not even bound, and as they realized this their courage in a measure returned and they glanced about, still terribly frightened, shaking as if with ague, and marveling that they were still alive.
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then for the first time they realized that their captors were not indians. they were hideously daubed with paint to be sure, they were nearly nude, but they were not bedecked with feathers and their black skins and wooly heads left no doubt as to their identity. they were negroes, mostly coal black, but a few were brown or even yellow and the dazed, scared boys looked upon them with uncomprehending amazement. to them, negroes were civilized, harmless, good-natured people and why these blacks should be acting in this savage manner was past all understanding.
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and still more puzzling was the fact that they were talking together in a strange, unintelligible jargon. to the boys’ minds, all colored people spoke english—either with the broad soft accent of the american negro or the slurring, drawling dialect of the west indians, and yet here were blacks chattering shrilly in some totally different tongue.
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the boys felt as if they had been bereft of their senses, as if, by some magic, they had been transported to the middle of darkest africa and they wondered vaguely if their fears and worries had driven them mad and the whole thing was a hallucination.
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but at this moment four more blacks arrived and to the boys’ further amazement deposited their radio sets upon the smooth, hard-beaten earth beside them. these were real; they seemed somehow to link the boys with the outside world, with civilization, and at sight of them the boys knew they were not dreaming, were not mad.
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and the little cases with their black fiber panels and shining nickel-plated knobs and connections had a strange effect upon the circle of negroes also. with low murmurs and sharp ejaculations they drew a step farther from the boys and looked furtively at the instruments, while the men who had brought them from the boat leaped nimbly away the instant they had set them down as if afraid the harmless things might bite them.
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“gosh!” murmured tom, finding his voice at last. “they’re afraid of us!”
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“i believe they are,” responded frank, who, finding that the savage-looking crowd seemed of no mind to harm them, had regained confidence.
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scarcely knowing why he did so, tom reached forward, connected the batteries and turned the rheostat. the result was astounding. as the tiny filament in the bulb glowed at his touch an awed “wahii!” arose from the negroes, and with one accord they retreated several yards.
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“say, we’ve got ’em going!” exclaimed tom jubilantly. “they’re as much afraid of us as we are of them. it all gets me, frank. i wonder——”
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what tom wondered frank never knew, for at this moment the surrounding blacks uttered a weird wailing cry and flung themselves upon the ground.
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“gee!” ejaculated frank, “look there.”
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over the prostrated blacks, approaching through a lane between their bodies, came an amazing, fantastic, awful figure. naked, save for a loin cloth, painted to resemble a skeleton, with great horns bound to his head and with a cow’s tail dragging behind him, he came prancing and leaping towards the fire and the boys, shaking a rattle in one hand and waving a horse-tail in the other.
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speechless with wonder, the boys gazed at him. they realized that he was the leader of the crowd, a chief probably, and in his fantastic garb they recognized a faint resemblance to pictures they had seen of wild african tribesmen, but that such a being should be here—here in an island in the west indies and only a few miles from railways, cities, great sugar mills, wireless stations and even their own submarine, seemed incredible, monstrous, absolutely unbelievable—as dream-like and amazing as the savage-looking figures who had captured them.
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but they had little time to think. suddenly the tom-tom burst forth in thunderous sounds, deep, sonorous, blood-curdling, savage, wild, and to the deafening “turn—turn, turn, turn—turn—turn, turn, turn,” the huge horned figure pranced and danced about the two boys, chanting a wailing song, keeping time to his steps with his gourd-rattle and shaking and waving his horse-tail.
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nearer and nearer he circled, stooping low, leaping high, working himself into a frenzy; twisting, swaying, contorting, while, fascinated, almost hypnotized, the two boys watched speechless and rooted to the spot. then, so abruptly that the boys jumped, the drum ceased, the dancing figure halted as if arrested in mid-air, with one foot still raised, and then, with a wild yell, he darted towards the boys.
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with a startled cry they cowered away. surely, they thought, he was about to seize them, to kill them. but the next instant the man stooped, and grasping the shining copper resonance coil whirled it about, facing the ring of negroes and waving the coil about his head, while, upon the copper wire, the firelight gleamed and scintillated as though living flames were darting from it.
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and then a marvelous, a miraculous thing happened. as the gigantic negro slowly swung the coil, a great hush fell upon the others and clear and distinct in the silence a voice seemed to issue from the black box upon the ground.
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“tom! frank!” came the words.
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at the sounds, pandemonium broke loose. with a wild, terrified scream the horned man flung down the coil and with a tremendous bound burst through the circle of onlookers who, screaming and yelling, turned and fled in every direction. in a breath, the boys were alone. alone by the fire and their instruments while, crouching behind trees, flat on the ground, wailing like lost souls, the negroes watched from a distance with wildly rolling eyes and terror-stricken faces.
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but the boys at the time gave little heed to this. at the sound of their names from the receiver they had been galvanized to life and action. their friends were near, they were calling them! they were saved! leaping to the coil, frank grabbed it up and moved it slowly, until again to tom’s anxious ears came the sound of a human voice. “it’s bancroft!” came the words. “we’re near! we can hear a drum and are making for a fire. where are you? can you see the fire or hear the noise?”
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“can we?” muttered tom, his sense of humor coming to him even in his excitement. “i’ll say we can, as rawlins says.”
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then, scarcely daring to hope that he could send his voice through space by the coil, he adjusted the sending instruments and called into the transmitter.
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“we hear!” he cried. “come quick! we don’t know where we are, but we’re here by the fire—we’re prisoners—a lot of savages have us!”
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breathlessly tom listened. had they heard? would the resonance coil—that marvelous instrument which had worked the miracle—act as a sending antenna? tom wondered why they had never tried it, why they had been so stupid, why it had never occurred to them. had bancroft heard? would they come? all this flashed through his mind with the speed of light. and then came another thought. of course they’d come. even if they had not heard they would come. bancroft had said they were making for the fire. they would be there anyway and as tom realized this a tremendous load lifted from his mind. whether or not their coil had served to send the waves speeding through the ether, they were sure of being rescued. but the next instant a still greater joy thrilled him. again from the receiver came bancroft’s voice. “hold fast!” it said, “we’re coming! we hear you!” even frank had heard.
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the boys’ tensed strained nerves gave way. the coil dropped from frank’s hand, he staggered to tom’s side and, throwing their arms around each other, the two burst into wild hysterical laughter. suddenly they were aware of some one speaking near them. in their wild delight, the terrific reaction, they had forgotten their captors, had forgotten the weird dancer whose act had saved them. but at the low moaning voice close to them they came back to earth with a start and wheeled about. within a few paces, his head bobbing up and down against the ground, flat on his stomach, was the giant negro, and from his lips, muffled by their contact with the earth, came the pleading wail which had roused the boys.
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“what on earth does he want?” asked tom, who could make nothing of the words.
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“i don’t know, but he’s scared to death like all the others,” replied frank, “and i don’t wonder. that voice from the phones was enough to scare any savage. i think he’s begging forgiveness or something.”
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“gosh! i wish he understood english,” said tom, and then, in a louder voice, “here, get up!” he ordered. “can you speak english?”
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slowly and hesitatingly the man raised his wooly head and with wildly rolling eyes gazed fearfully at the boys. his lips moved, his tongue strove to form words, but no sound came from him. so abject, so thoroughly terror-stricken was his appearance that the boys really pitied him, but now, at last, he had found his voice again.
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“messieu’s!” he pleaded. “messieu’s! moi pas save. moi ami, beke. ah! ai! beke no un’stan’. moi spik eenglees liddle. moi mo’ sorry! moi fren’ yes! moi no mek harm messieu’s! ai, ai! moi mek dance, moi people mek fo’ voodoo! no mek fo’ harm beke! pa’donez moi, messieu’s!”
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whether the devil-dancer understood more than half of tom’s words is doubtful, but he grasped the meaning and with unutterable relief upon his black face he grinned and tearing off his fantastic headdress cast it into the flames and rose slowly to his feet.
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as he did so, his watching companions also rose and edged cautiously from their hiding places, but still keeping a respectful distance and eyeing the black radio sets with furtive, frightened glances. very evidently, to their minds, these white boys were powerful obeah men, they possessed magic of a sort not to be despised or molested, and with the primitive man’s simple reasoning they felt that to propitiate such powerful witch doctors was the only way to insure their own safety. although, to the boys, they had appeared savages yet, had tom and frank happened upon them at any other time, they would have found nothing at all savage about them. indeed, they would never have had reason to think them other than happy-go-lucky, good-natured colored folk, harmless and as civilized as any of the west indian peasantry, for they were merely french west indian negroes, and aside from the fact that they spoke only their native creole patois were indistinguishable from others of their race. but like the majority of the french negroes they were at heart firm believers in voodoo and obeah and when worked into a fanatical frenzy at one of these african serpent-worshiping orgies they became temporarily transformed to fiendish savages, reverting to all the wild customs and ways of their ancestors and drawing the line only at actual cannibalism.
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but of all this the boys knew nothing. they did not dream that such people or such customs existed, and they could not fathom the reasons or understand what to them were the mysterious and almost incredible sights they had witnessed.
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and of a far more important matter the boys were equally ignorant. had they but known, they would have thanked their lucky stars that they had stumbled upon the voodoo dancers and, had they been able to understand and speak creole and thus been able to converse with the negroes, they would have made a discovery which, would have amazed them even more than the savage dance and the remarkable results brought about by their radio instruments.
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but being unable to carry on any but the most limited conversation, the boys sat there by the fire waiting for the sound of the expected boat and surrounded by the colored folk who now had discarded their paint and fantastic garb and were clothed in calico and dungaree. even the chief, or rather the obeah man, was now so altered in appearance that the boys could scarcely believe he was the same being who had pranced and danced with waving horse-tail and rattlebox before them and when, timidly and half apologetically, he brought them a tray loaded with fruit and crisp fried fish with tiny rolls of bread wrapped in banana leaves, they decided that it must all have been some sort of a masquerade and that their imaginations had filled them with unwarranted and ridiculous fears.
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they were terribly hungry and never had food been more welcome; both boys ate ravenously.
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“he’s a good old skate after all!” declared tom, nodding towards the big negro who sat near. “i guess they were just trying to scare us.”
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“well, they succeeded all right,” replied frank. “say, i thought we were going to be roasted and eaten when they grabbed us.”
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“yes, but our radio scared them a lot worse,” said tom. “gosh! that was wonderful, the way the old boy grabbed up the coil and those words came in just right. i’ll bet dad’s worried though. we ought to call them and tell them we’re all right.”
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“golly, that’s so!” agreed frank. “i’d forgotten we hadn’t.”
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still munching a mouthful of food, frank rose to pick up the coil, but at that instant several of the negroes jumped up, their voices rose in excited tones and they turned wondering faces toward the waterside. at the same instant the boys distinctly heard the splash of oars.
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“they’re here!” yelled tom, and with one accord the two rushed towards the landing place.
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before they had reached it a boat shot from the shadows, its keel grated on the beach and mr. pauling and rawlins leaped out, each with a rifle in his hands, while behind them, armed and ready for battle, came sam, bancroft, the quartermaster and smernoff.
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but as the shouting, laughing boys dashed toward them, free and unharmed, the gun dropped from mr. pauling’s hand and clattered on the pebbles and the next instant he was clasping the boys in an embrace like a bear’s.
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behind the boys, gathered in little knots and chattering excitedly like a flock of parrots, the surprised negroes had gathered at the edge of the forest and as rawlins stared at them and then at the boys a puzzled expression was on his face.
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“say, what’s the big idea?” he demanded, as the boys capered and danced about, talking and laughing. “you said you were the prisoners of savages and here you are free as birds and no sign of a savage. just a bunch of ordinary niggers. it gets me!”
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“but we thought they were savages,” tom tried to explain. “and we were prisoners.”
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then in hurried, disjointed sentences the two boys related the gist of their story while the others listened in amazement.
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“hello!” cried rawlins. “is this the old bally-hoo coming?”
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as rawlins spoke, the big negro was approaching and with a rather sickly grin on his face he spoke to the new arrivals in his odd jargon of creole and broken english.
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“yep, i guess so!” grinned rawlins. “here you, sam. you’ve lived in the french islands. can you understand this bird?”
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sam, still suspicious and with the memory of voodoo and devil dancers’ tom-toms in his mind, stepped forward.
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“yas, sir, chief,” he replied, “ah can talk creole, chief.”
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“well, get busy and spiel then,” rawlins ordered him. “ask him what he says first and then we’ll give him the third degree for a time.”
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rapidly sam spoke to the other in martinique patois and at the sounds of his native tongue the other’s face brightened.
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“he says he’s sorry,” sam informed the waiting men and boys. “he says he’s a mos’ good friend an’ tha’ young gentlemen were safe from molestation, chief. he says he an’ his people were makin’ to have a spree, chief, an’ thought as how the young gentlemen were enemies, at the first, sir. he mos’ humbly arsks yo’ pardon an’ forgiveness, chief.”
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“all right,” said rawlins. “he’s forgiven. ask him if we can stop here for the night and if he has anything to eat. i’m famished and i’ll bet the others are. it’s nearly morning.”
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in reply to sam’s queries the negro, who sam now informed them was named jules, assured them that everything was at their disposal and with quick orders in patois he sent a number of the women scurrying off to prepare food. leading the way, he guided the party to a cluster of neat, wattled huts in a small clearing and told them to make themselves at home.
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then, the first excitement of their meeting over, the boys began to give an intelligible and sane account of their adventures.
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as they told of the submarine and their spying on the men mr. pauling uttered a sharp exclamation and rawlins made his characteristic comment.
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“i’ll say you had nerve!” he cried. “too bad they saw you though. now they know we’re here.”
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“not necessarily,” declared mr. pauling. “they may have seen that the boat contained merely two boys and they may have thought them natives or from some vessel. they probably know where the destroyer is and they imagine our submarine is lying at the bottom of the caribbean. in that case they would hardly connect tom and frank with members of the service. unless they have heard our calls tonight i doubt if the boys’ presence alarmed them.”
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“that may be so,” admitted rawlins, “and by the same token if they heard us to-night it wouldn’t scare ’em. they’d think ’twas some of the boys’ friends searching for ’em, same as ’twas. we didn’t say anything that would give them a hint and radio’s too common nowadays to mean much—as long as it’s not under-sea stuff. by glory! perhaps we can get ’em yet. can you find that place again, boys?”
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“i don’t see how we can,” replied tom. “we were too scared to notice where we went and we haven’t any idea where we drifted with the tide while we slept.”
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“that’s dead rotten luck,” commented rawlins. “but by the great horn spoon we can find ’em if they’re here! this swamp’s not so everlastingly big and a sub can’t hide in a mud puddle. i’ll bet my hat to a hole in a doughnut we find ’em!”
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“but who do you suppose that man on the bank was?” asked tom. “he didn’t look like a ‘red’ or a russian or a crook. he looked like a real gentleman.”
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mr. pauling hesitated a moment. “boys,” he said, lowering his voice, “that was the man that of all men we want. that was the head, the brains, the power of the whole vast organization. the man who has schemed to overturn nations and carry a rave of fire and blood around the world! he is the arch fiend, the greatest criminal, the most coldly cruel and unscrupulous being alive! he is the incarnation of satan himself!”
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the boys’ eyes were round with wonder. “gosh!” exclaimed tom. “gosh!”
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“jehoshaphat!” cried frank.
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smernoff pays his debt
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while the boys had been relating the story of their astonishing experience, sam had been talking with jules and other members of the village. now, as some of the women approached bearing trays of food for the strangers, he rose and, accompanied by jules, walked over to the hut where the boys and the others were seated.
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“ah been havin’ a extended conversationin’ with mr. jules,” the bahaman announced, in his odd stilted manner which invariably amused the boys, “an’ ah’s fo’med the opinion that th’ info’mation he’s imparted is mos’ highly important an’ wo’thy o’ consideration, chief.”
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“yes, well, what is it, sam?” inquired mr. pauling as he helped himself to the smoking viands.
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but at sam’s first words mr. pauling, and even the famished rawlins, forgot all about their hunger and the appetizing food before them, for the bahaman’s story was to the effect that jules and his fellow french west indians were just as keen on getting the “reds” as were mr. pauling and his party. according to jules’ tale, a number of their friends and members of their families had settled on trade wind cay and had been living a peaceful happy life, raising goats, fishing and cultivating tiny garden plots, when a party of white men had arrived and without warning or reason had butchered the west indians and burned their homes, exactly as smernoff had described when questioned in new york.
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it was not this story of cold-blooded massacre which was of such intense interest to the americans, but the fact that jules calmly informed them that he not only knew where the “devil boat” was hidden, but that he could actually lead them to the cave where the murderers lived.
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“phew!” whistled rawlins. “i’ll say you tumbled into the right camp, boys! so old frenchy here’s into their hangout! if that isn’t the all-firedest piece of luck! lead us to ’em, old sport, lead us to ’em!”
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“by jove! if it’s true everything is coming our way,” declared mr. pauling, “but let’s be absolutely sure first. ask him how he knows his friends were killed, sam. and why he has not complained to the authorities and demanded justice. ask him why, if it is true and he knows where these men live, he has not tried to avenge his friends’ death. ask him what they look like, tell him to describe some of them and the ‘devil boat’ as he calls it.”
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sam turned and began talking to jules and the others in patois.
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“well, true or not i’m going to have grub,” declared rawlins. “i don’t eat with my ears, though; i’m almost sorry i can’t, i’m that hungry.”
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for several minutes the negroes chattered and gesticulated, their voices often rising excitedly and vehemently. then, at last, sam seemed to be satisfied and addressing mr. pauling explained that jules said that two men had escaped from the cay. they had been fishing and when returning, saw the massacre and realizing resistance was hopeless got away from the place in their boats unseen. he then went on to state that jules had complained to the dominican authorities, but had been laughed at; strange negro squatters—in the minds of the dominicans—were of too little consequence to bother with and had no legal standing; and moreover, trade wind cay did not belong to santo domingo. in fact, it was a port of no man’s land claimed by haiti, santo domingo, the dutch and a british corporation and its real ownership had never been settled. jules and his followers had never avenged their friends merely because they feared to injure any white man knowing that summary arrest, a farcical trial and death would follow and so, as the next best thing, they had worked spells, had placed obeah and had danced voodoo in the vain hope of bringing disaster on their enemies. indeed, jules declared that their dance of that night had been for this purpose and that when the boys had first arrived the negroes had felt sure that their heathen gods had delivered their enemies into their hands, but that the “devil box” had spoken in english and they knew their enemies used another tongue.
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jules’ description of the submarine was too accurate to leave room for doubt that he had seen it and the boys, at least, were convinced that he had seen the “reds” when sam repeated jules’ description of the red-bearded giant, the dark man with the earrings, the thin fellow with the kaiser-like mustache, and several others.
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“i’ll say he’s got a line on ’em, all right!” declared rawlins, as sam finished his translation of jules’ description and statements, “and by glory! i’d hate to be in their shoes if these buckos ever get their hands on ’em. say, did you notice that one of the bunch he described would be smernoff to a ‘t.’ wonder if any of ’em recognized him?”
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“by jove!” ejaculated mr. pauling. “i hope not, i’d forgotten he was one of the murderers. if they see him and recognize him we’ll be looked upon as spies and enemies. better run down and warn him, rawlins. he’s in the boat, asleep probably. tell him to keep his face hidden or to daub it with mud; or anything and tell the quartermaster to see that he does it.”
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rising slowly and stretching himself as if nothing unusual had occurred, rawlins strolled off towards; the landing place while mr. pauling kept jules and his friends busy with questions and suggesting plans by which they could aid the americans.
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they were still discussing these plans and rawlins had almost reached the edge of the clearing when a shot rang out, there was a savage yell, and the next moment smernoff appeared at the edge of the trees, waving a pistol in his hand and backing away as if from an unseen assailant.
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the next instant, he leveled his pistol, there was a flash, another report and then, before the wondering onlookers could move, before they could utter a cry, a figure hurled itself from behind a tree. there was a flash of descending steel, a dull thud, and the russian plunged forward on the ground. standing over him, whirling his bloodstained machete about his head and yelling in fiendish glee was a huge gaunt negro.
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mr. pauling was the first to reach smernoff’s side. that the fellow was mortally wounded was evident at a glance. across neck and shoulder extended a deep, gaping gash that had almost severed the head, but the man was still breathing and mr. pauling bent over him.
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suddenly the russian’s piglike eyes opened and into them flashed a look of such malignant, unspeakable hatred that mr. pauling drew back. as he did so, the gasping, dying man hissed a curse between his blood-covered lips, and with a last superhuman effort drew up his arm, aimed the pistol at mr. pauling’s head and pulling the trigger dropped back dead. so close to mr. pauling’s face was the weapon that the blast of blazing powder singed his hair and filled his eyes with acrid, smarting smoke and burnt powder and with a hoarse, choking cry he reeled backward. but before the horror-stricken boys could cry out he was upon his feet, wiping his eyes, coughing, shaken, but unhurt. death had missed him by the fraction of an inch, by a split second. smernoff had waited a thousandth of a second too long to wreak his treachery; death had robbed him of his vengeance; life had flown from him at the very instant he had pressed the trigger and he had paid his debt without adding another to his long list of crimes.
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it had all happened in the twinkling of an eye. from the moment when smernoff’s first shot had startled them until he had breathed his last, not half a minute had elapsed and now all was over. the negro who had settled his score with the murderer of his family no longer resisted rawlins, but stood regarding the mutilated body of the russian with much the same expression that a hunter might wear when he has brought down a tiger or a lion. sam was trying to convince jules that smernoff was a prisoner who had escaped; bancroft and the boys were hovering about mr. pauling striving to make sure that he was not even scratched; and rawlins was explaining matters to the quartermaster who had come from the boat on the run at sound of the shots.
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“i’ll say he was a dirty skunk!” declared rawlins, “and i thought he was straight and reformed. guess once a ‘red’ always a ‘red.’ blamed if i ain’t sorry i didn’t let him drift. by glory! for all we know he’s been tipping his friends off by radio or something. well, that’s that for him.”
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then, turning towards the negro executioner, he gave that individual the surprise of his life by slapping him heartily on the back.
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“guess you saved us the trouble!” he cried to the amazed man who had expected nothing short of being summarily killed for taking a white man’s life. “here, shake!”
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although the negro understood not a single word, yet rawlins’ tones and gestures were unmistakable and with a surprised grin he seized the diver’s outstretched hand and pressed it firmly.
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“i guess he’ll be a good boy to have along with us,” rawlins commented, as he picked up smernoff’s pistol and pocketed it.
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“rum lot, them russians,” remarked the quartermaster as he spat contemptuously into the bushes and regarded smernoff’s body impartially. “i never trusted of him, sir, and i kept me weather eye on him. i’m thinkin’ he no more than got his reward, sir.”
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the boys, now that they were convinced that mr. pauling was unharmed, glanced at the dead russian and turned away with a shudder.
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“just the same i’m rather sorry for him,” declared frank. “of course he was a beast and tried to kill you, mr. pauling, but somehow it seems terrible to see a man cut down that way!”
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“death’s a terrible thing in any form,” said mr. pauling as he led the boys away. “but don’t waste pity on him, frank. he was a murderer many times over and would have ended on the gallows or in the electric chair if he had not met death here. he richly deserved his fate and you cannot blame the negro for killing him. i thank god that his dying effort to murder me was frustrated by his own violence.”
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sleep was out of the question after the exciting events and the final tragedy of the night, and now the first faint light of dawn was showing in the east.
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“we’ll start as soon as it’s light enough,” announced mr. pauling. “jules and a few of his men will go along. he’d like to send a crowd, but they’re of no use. they have no arms and i have no intention of taking any chances or undue risks. i wish to locate the submarine and the hiding place of these men. there is a remote possibility that we may take them unawares or find but a few there, but i trust mainly to locating them, then sending for disbrow and his bluejackets and attacking the rascals’ lair with an overwhelming force.”
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“well, of course you know best,” assented rawlins. “but personally, i’d like to take along this bunch of wild men and sail into those ‘reds.’ i’d back these bush niggers with machetes against any sneaking, bomb-throwing bolsheviks that ever grew whiskers.”
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“undoubtedly,” smiled mr. pauling, “but i’m not leading any party into peril with the boys along.”
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“yes, you’re dead right there,” agreed rawlins earnestly. “some one would most likely get hurt and we can’t risk the boys. well, any time you say the word, i’m ready.”
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half an hour later, the party set forth. jules with four men—among them the powerful negro who had cut down smernoff—led the way in a narrow dugout and rawlins chuckled as he noticed that every man carried a naked, razor-edged machete beside him and that two were armed with old muzzle-loading guns. unknown to mr. pauling, he had slipped jules the russian’s pistol and he felt confident that, should occasion arise, the martinicans would, as he put it, “give the ‘reds’ some jolt.”
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silently as ghosts, the west indians paddled through the waterways of the vast swamp, following, with unerring instinct, the channels and leads they knew, but leaving the white men hopelessly confused as to the direction in which they were traveling.
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they had proceeded steadily for more than two hours, the sun was high in the heavens and the boys were wondering how on earth they could have drifted so far while they slept, when jules’ canoe swung sharply to the left, his men ceased paddling and an instant later it grated upon a low clay bank with the boat close behind it.
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with a signal for silence and caution, jules stepped ashore, gave a few whispered orders to his men, and led the way up a narrow, almost invisible trail.
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close at his heels followed rawlins, mr. pauling, the two boys and sam, while the quartermaster and bancroft remained in the boat beside the canoe in which jules had left two of his men.
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“guess there won’t be any fighting just yet,” rawlins remarked to himself. “just a bit of scouting likely.”
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noiselessly as shadows the negroes slipped along the trail with the leather-shod white men striving to make as little sound as possible and ever climbing higher and higher up the steep hillside. finally, after ten minutes’ steady walking, jules halted, crouched down and crawled forward on all fours, signaling for the others to do the same.
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as they reached his side they found themselves at the summit of a high hill with a precipitous side facing the swamp and thus leaving an unobstructed view of all below and before them, while they were effectually hidden among the dense growth of ferns and broad-leaved plants.
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jules pointed and in a low whisper muttered “devil boat!” hemmed in by the labyrinth of mangroves and winding channels, and apparently completely surrounded by the swamps, was a large lagoon and towards the side nearest them a large dark object loomed above the placid water.
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all this they took in at a single glance. before them, there upon this hidden lagoon within the fastnesses of the mangrove swamps, was the long-sought submarine.
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“well, i’ll be jiggered!” exclaimed rawlins under his breath. “blamed if the darned sub isn’t sunk!”
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“sunk?” repeated mr. pauling inquiringly. “what do you mean?”
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“don’t you see?” muttered the diver. “she’s wrecked, sunk, on the bottom. look how she’s keeled over. must be full of water! look at that smashed conning tower; the hatch is open and the water’s half over it. say, i’ll bet that shot of mine bumped ’em more than i thought. must have ripped things loose. how the dickens they got in’s a puzzle to me. must have had emergency hatches or bulkheads or something. whatever ’twas the old sub’s done for now. say, they’re trapped! they can’t get away! i’ll say that’s luck! by glory, we’ve got ’em right by the neck!”
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“you’re right,” affirmed mr. pauling, after carefully scrutinizing the submarine. “she’s evidently deserted and useless. yes, they’re certainly trapped—that is, unless they clear out overland. as soon as we locate them we can summon disbrow and make the raid. they certainly cannot escape by water.”
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elated at the thought that luck was with them, that the “reds” were marooned, and that within a short time they would be on their way home with their prisoners, the party followed jules down the hill to the boats.
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“now for the big secret!” remarked rawlins as they embarked. “if old uncle tom here’s got the right dope we’ll be there in time to look in on ’em at breakfast. hope they’ll be at home.”
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jules grinned, chuckled, and significantly patted his keen-edged machete. only now and then could he grasp the meaning of an english word, but he knew, with the african’s primitive instinct, what the diver was talking about. he had proved the accuracy of his statements by showing them the “devil boat” and he rejoiced to think that he would soon see the murderers of his friends led away as captives to meet their just punishment.
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“you bet!” nodded rawlins as he noted jules’ gesture, “i’ll say you’d like to use that pig-sticker, old boy; but hold your horses. don’t go losing your head and rushing in where angels fear to tread and spilling the beans before they’re ready to serve. just make him savvy that, sam!”
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“he say he understand, chief,” replied the bahaman when he had, after some difficulty, translated rawlins’ speech into the limited vocabulary of martinique creole. “he say he mos’ careful an’ circum-spec’, chief. he quite assimilate the importance of carry in’ out yo’ comman’s mos’ precisely, chief. ah’ve impressed it upon he an’ he nex’ fr’ens. yaas, sir, ah’ni sure he quite comprehen’s, chief.” tom chuckled. “you are funny, sam!” he exclaimed. “if you use as big words in patois as you do in english i’ll bet he didn’t comprehen’ a bit.”
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but whether or not jules understood the importance of being cool-headed and obeying orders, it was certain that he had assimilated the necessity of proceeding with caution and in silence and his upraised hand and low “psst!” warned the boys that even whispers must cease. very slowly and carefully, avoiding the least splashing of paddles, bending low as they passed beneath overhanging branches, the negroes crept along the narrow channel—a slender ribbon of water scarcely wide enough to accommodate the boats—until, when it seemed as if they could go no farther, the canoe slipped into a mass of lily pads and reeds and jules, stepping into the shallow water, drew it silently upon a shelving bank. when all had disembarked, he turned, crouched low, squirmed through the fringe of underbrush and with the others at his heels came out into fairly open forest. once more he led them along a game trail, but this time the way led up a gently sloping ridge and in a few moments he came to a halt.
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creeping forward, he beckoned to the americans, while his negro companions melted into the shadows. before them was a narrow valley with a small stream flowing through the center and directly across from where they lay among the bushes was a conical hill, its farther side lapped by the waters of a small semicircular bay or estuary that cut deeply into the land. along the banks of the stream were cultivated lands; plots of banner-leaved plantains and bananas, small gardens of cassava, beans, yams and corn; numerous fruit trees and the dark foliage of coffee; while upon the sides of the hill were groves of coppery-tinted cacao trees with here and there lofty coconut palms towering over all. half-hidden in the greenery, the roofs fallen in and evidently deserted, were the remains of once large buildings; a stone bridge spanned the stream, and at the edge of the bay were the tumble-down remnants of a dock.
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evidently, at some former time, the place had been a well-kept and prosperous plantation, but now everything appeared abandoned and deserted, although the gardens were carefully cultivated and attended to.
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“humph!” muttered rawlins. “don’t look as if our friends lived there.”
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jules whispered a few words to sam.
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“he says as how tha’ men mek they abidin’ place in the hill yonder, chief,” interpreted the bahaman.
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“in the hill?” murmured mr. pauling. “ah, of course, in a cave! but where is the cave?”
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sam put the question to jules.
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“tha’s the entrance, chief, tha’ dark spot beyon’ tha’ clump of cabbage pa’m, chief,” announced sam in whispers.
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“well, i’d like to have a closer squint at it,” declared rawlins. “i vote we go over and say ‘howdy’ to ’em.”
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“odd that there’s no sign of life or smoke,” commented mr. pauling. “i don’t see a soul. surely they must have a boat.”
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“he says as how tha’ boat goes out an’ in tha’ cave by water, chief,” explained sam. “tha’s a’ openin’ on tha’ water side also, sir.”
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“you’ll never get there without being seen—that is, if there are any men about,” declared mr. pauling.
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“not down this way, i admit,” replied rawlins. “but we can sneak down around the head of the valley, keep back of those thick rose-apple trees that make that hedge above the yam field and work around the base of the hill until—— thunderation! what’s that?”
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from just beyond the brow of the hill, cutting through the clear water, leaving a tiny trail of bubbles behind it, a small object was moving swiftly from the land across the bay. the next instant it was gone.
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“shark!” declared mr. pauling.
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before any one could stop him, the diver had burst through the foliage and was tearing down the hillside and so contagious is excitement that, without stopping to think, mr. pauling dashed after him with the boys close behind, while jules and his men, thinking apparently that the signal for an attack had been given, sprang from their hiding places, and with waving, flashing machetes and blood-curdling shouts bounded down the slope with the quartermaster, blowing like a porpoise and crashing through the brush like a herd of elephants, bringing up the rear.
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the sudden appearance of the company, the flashing blades, the savage yells, the glint of sun on rifle and pistol would have proved most disconcerting to any one lurking in the valley or the caves, while the noise made by the two-hundred-pound sailor lumbering through the dense undergrowth must have sounded like the onslaught of a score of men. in fact, it was the sudden rush, the surprise, the reckless charge which rawlins had counted on to win the day, for he had seen the value of such tactics on the flanders battle front and on one occasion, with but two companions, had captured a german machine gun and crew without a scratch, by just such methods.
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to reach the bottom of the hill, dash across the valley, cross the bridge and rush up the short slope to the mouth of the cave took less time than to tell of it, but before the bridge was gained jules and his men were beside rawlins, mr. pauling was at his heels, and the boys were but a few paces in the rear. heedless of shots that might come from the cave at any instant, rawlins and the half-crazed negroes tore up the slope, dodged back of the palms, and with a yell leaped into the cavern with upraised blades and cocked weapons. but not a shot echoed through the rocky chamber, not a blow was struck, not a voice answered rawlins’ demand for surrender. the cave was empty, deserted, silent as the tomb!
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for an instant rawlins stood gaping about, while the negroes lowered their weapons, drew back a step as though afraid, and jabbered excitedly among themselves. then the diver grabbed off his hat, hurled it on the floor of the cave and swore volubly and vehemently.
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“of all the rotten luck!” he cried as mr. pauling and the others reached the cave panting and out of breath. “they’ve gone! vamoosed! cleared out! given us the slip! that was a sub we saw. another one. they were wise to us.”
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as he spoke, he strode into the cave and the next instant gave a shout. “look here!” he yelled. “regular hang-out! electric lights, beds, billiard tables, and by jiminy! even a phonograph and a piano!”
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it was perfectly true. just within the entrance of the cavern, a heavy curtain was hung across and beyond this the great, vaulted, subterranean chamber was furnished with every luxury and convenience. there were no partitions—merely draperies and curtains of rich tapestry, satin and plush, but no palace on earth could boast such a ceiling with its vast arches, its thousands of gleaming, snow-white and cream-tinted stalactites and no millionaire’s mansion ever had such walls of scintillating, multicolored dripstone that gleamed and sparkled like myriads of jewels in the light of the clusters of incandescent lamps.
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the floor, covered with upjutting stalagmites, had been chiseled and chipped smooth, leaving the shorter columns as supports for tables, stands for rare vases and beautiful statuary, while the great columns where stalactites and stalagmites joined were surrounded by luxurious cushioned seats and hung with pictures. at one side was a grand piano, in a corner was a victrola, and in two smaller chambers were brass beds and luxurious bedroom furnishings. at every step the boys and their elders exclaimed in wonder and admiration at the luxury and richness of the furnishings of the great cavern. beyond the first hall was a smaller, narrower chamber, equipped with a huge range and the latest cooking and kitchen devices; beyond this was a small connecting cave where a dynamo and gasoline motor were installed, while far overhead, in the most remote corner, was a tiny aperture in the roof. presently rawlins, who had been nervously and hurriedly searching everywhere in the hopes of routing out at least one member of the gang, gave a ringing cry which instantly brought the others to his side.
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“there’s the secret to the place!” he announced triumphantly, pointing down from a ledge of rock whereon he stood. “there’s their get-away. i’ll say, they’re clever!”
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at this spot, the floor of the cabin came to an abrupt end, dropping in a sheer precipice some fifty feet to a huge pool of dark blue water. but from the verge of the wall a slender ladder led down, its foot resting on a narrow ledge of rock in which several large ringbolts were set. scattered upon the ledge were coils of rope, tackle blocks, a broken oar, some wire cables and other boat-gear, while beyond, and so perfectly reflected in the glass-like pool that it appeared like a complete circle, was an arched opening with a sunlit strip of water visible through it.
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“get the idea?” asked rawlins, as the others gazed about. “there’s their dock and there’s where they came in and went out with their sub. but not with that big one that’s knocked galley west out in the lagoon. no, this old boy lived in some style i’ll say—didn’t practice all the socialist bolshevist stuff he preached, i guess—and had his own private sub, instead of a limousine, tied up handy at his back door. hello! there’s a paper down there! by crickey! perhaps they dropped something!”
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hurrying nimbly down the ladder, rawlins stooped, picked up the bit of paper which had caught his eyes and a mystified, puzzled look spread over his face. slowly and with an odd expression he climbed the ladder.
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“hanged if that don’t beat all!” he declared, as he gained the top and extended the paper towards mr. pauling. “it’s a letter, and i’ll be swizzled if it isn’t addressed to you!”
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“what?” exclaimed mr. pauling as he took the envelope. “by jove! this is amazing!”
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ripping open the envelope mr. pauling drew forth a single sheet of paper. one glance sufficed to read all that was upon it, for there was but a single line.
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“good luck in your search. sorry not home to receive you. remember mercedes.”
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there was no signature, but none was needed. the words were typewritten and the machine which had printed them was the one which had typed the inflammatory, revolutionary bolshevist propaganda which had flooded the states.
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once more the arch criminal had slipped through their fingers. but it had been a close shave.
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“no need to do that,” declared rawlins. “just tell jules and his gang here to help themselves and there won’t be much left for the bolsheviks, if they do come back. when they get through looting they can build a rattling big fire in here and that’ll finish it. it’s limestone and after it’s heated it’ll crumble to bits.”
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“good idea!” replied the other. “sam, tell jules that he and his men are welcome to anything they want in the cave. but make him promise to build a huge fire inside after they’ve taken what they want.”
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as sam interpreted this to jules, the latter’s eyes fairly bulged with wonder and a wide grin spread across his countenance as it gradually dawned upon him that the white man had made him a present of all these treasures. already, in his mind’s eye, he could picture the dusky belles of his village strutting about in gowns of silk and satin brocades, he could see their earthen jars and battered iron pots giving way to those shiny cooking utensils, he could imagine how dressed up his huts would be with those deeply cushioned chairs, the pictures and the statues.
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“i’ll say he’ll’ be heap big chief now,” chuckled rawlins, as he saw jules’ eyes roaming greedily over the furnishings as if at a loss what to seize first. “and say, won’t it be a scream when some chap comes along and finds a bunch of french west indian niggers all dolled out with billiard tables, grand pianos and marble venuses!”
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then, a sudden whimsical idea seized him, and grasping jules’ arm, he exclaimed, “here, old sport, come along and see what you think about this for a devil box.”
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as he spoke, he led the negro towards the victrola, but at the words “devil box” the black’s eyes took on a frightened look and he drew back.
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“oh, it’s all right!” rawlins assured him, “it won’t bite.”
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still hesitating, but somewhat reassured by the diver’s tones, and putting on a brave front, jules accompanied rawlins and stood silently watching as the latter wound up the machine, placed a record under the needle and set it in motion. but as the first sounds of a singer’s voice burst from the horn, jules uttered a frightened yell and leaped away.
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every one burst into a hearty roar of laughter and the negro, with a hasty terrified glance about, halted in his precipitate retreat, ashamed to exhibit his fear before the white men. then, with the odd, quizzical, half-puzzled, half-frightened and wholly wondering expression of an ape, he leaned forward, turning his head first to one side and then the other as he listened to the song, peering at the mahogany cabinet as if expecting to see the hidden singer step out at any moment. but finding that nothing happened and that the others seemed in no dread of the affair, he drew nearer and nearer, absolutely fascinated by this new form of witchcraft. never in his life had he beheld a phonograph, and while he realized that the “bekes,” as he called the whites, were capable of performing almost any miracle or of making most marvelous and incomprehensible things, yet this, he was sure, was something quite beyond their power and must be some most powerful form of obeah. but evidently the “devil” or whatever it contained was most securely imprisoned and compelled to serve the white men, and when he saw that sam was not in the least afraid, and even picked up and examined the flat, round objects that rawlins drew from the cabinet, he decided that this particular devil was even harmless to men of his own color. here indeed was a treasure. with this he would be truly a king and he could imagine what a sensation he would create when, in the light of the voodoo fire, he ordered the devil in the box to sing and talk and produce music.
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his fears had now completely vanished and, drawing close to the instrument, he stood absolutely fascinated as rawlins placed record after record in the machine.
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“tell him to try it himself, sam,” said rawlins, and very reluctantly and gingerly jules obeyed sam’s instructions, wound the crank, placed a record, and uttered a yell of mingled triumph and delight as he found the imprisoned devil obeyed him as readily as it did the american.
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“well, he’s all set up for life,” laughed rawlins. “all the rest of the whole shooting match can go to blazes as far as he’s concerned. he’ll wear the blamed thing out making it work overtime. but let’s be going. sam, tell jules he and his bunch’ll have to show us the way out of here. i’m all twisted and couldn’t find the bay in a month of sundays.”
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but jules absolutely refused to leave. he had no intention of giving his new acquisition any opportunity of getting away and, as the americans departed, following the other negroes whom jules had ordered to guide them to the bay, the old fellow was squatting on his haunches at the mouth of the cavern, a broad grin on his wrinkled black face while, from within, came the strains of the overture from faust.
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“pretty good ringer for old mephisto himself!” chuckled rawlins, as they scrambled down the hill towards the boats.
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pushing through the water plants and into the narrow channel, the canoe, followed by the boat, moved rapidly among the mangroves. soon a wider waterway was reached, and for a time this was followed, then they slipped into a small lagoon completely encircled by an apparently impenetrable barrier of trees, but, without hesitation, the negroes headed their craft across the little lake. with swinging strokes of their paddles they urged their craft forwards with redoubled speed and then, with a sharp cry of warning to the white men behind them, they crouched low in their dug-out. straight for the dense foliage shot the canoe, there was a swaying of low-growing branches, the negroes’ craft disappeared from sight and the next instant the boat had slipped through the screen of leaves and was floating on open water in a dark, tunnel-like passage through the trees. just ahead was the canoe, with the negroes again paddling forward.
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“well i’ll be hanged!” cried rawlins, “so this is their front gate, eh? wonder how the dickens they ever found it!”
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straight as a canal, the channel led and five minutes later a second wall of foliage blocked the way. but, as before, the canoe was urged ahead and crashed through the barrier followed by the boat. as the last branches swayed back into place behind them, the boys and their companions glanced about in surprise. they were floating upon the broad waters of the bay; an unbroken line of close-growing trees without a trace of opening stretched in their rear and far ahead they could see the row of palms upon the bar which marked the hiding place of their submarine.
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“well, i’ll be shot!” cried rawlins, as he swept his eyes about. “we’ve passed this place a dozen times and never knew it. no wonder we couldn’t find their hang-out. why, i thought that was all solid land!”
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a moment later they were pulling, across the open bay. the martinicans had vanished as if by magic in the dark green foliage and two miles away were their waiting friends.
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half an hour afterwards they were clambering aboard their sub-sea craft and regaling the amazed and wondering henderson with the story of their adventures, their discoveries and the escape of the men, while below, the quartermaster, surrounded by his mates, was relating a yarn which put the arabian nights to shame.
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“all gold an’ jools b’ cripes!” he declared. “with a gran’ pianner an’ a funnygraf an’ electric lights. aw, i ain’t yarnin’, ye can ask mr. rawlins—an’ statooary like them youse sees up to the art muse’ms, an’ velvet curtains. soak me if 'twan’t a reg’lar joint! fit fer a king that’s what ’twas, an’ i’ll be blowed if mr. pauling didn’t up an’ give the whole bloomin’ outfit to a bunch o’ wild frenchy niggers! struck me fair 'tween wind and water to hear him a-doin’ of it! blow me if it didn’t, an’ then up an’ tol’ ’em to burn the blessed place after they was done lootin’ of it! but say! you’d ’a’ bust your-sel’s laffin to a-seen that old gazooks of a nigger a-squattin’ on his black hams in his ragged dungarees a-grinnin’ like a bloomin gorilla an’ a-listenin’ to gran’ opery!”
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“aw, stow it, bill!” yawned one of the engineers. “tell that gaff to the marines. why didn’t ye cop some o’ them things if they was there?”
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the quartermaster snorted. “i aint no bloody thief o’ a greasy wiper!” he replied contemptuously. “think i’d a-got myself in dutch by a-swipin’ stuff under mr. pauling’s nose? but jes’ the same i did bring along a bit o’ a sooveeneer. look a-here, you sons o’ sea cooks!” fumbling in his blouse, the quartermaster drew forth a glittering object and placed it on the mess table triumphantly.
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“holy mackerel! stow me if 'taint a ring!” exclaimed one of the men. “an’ a reg’lar shiner in it! what youse goin’ to do with it, mate? give it to your best girl?”
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“none o’ your business,” retorted the quartermaster pocketing the ring. “an’ mind youse don’ go blowin’ the gaff neither. i picked her up ’longside o’ one o’ the beds an’ none the wiser. might as well be a havin’ it as one o’ them black monkeys.”
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while bill was thus entertaining the crew, the boys and their friends on deck were still talking, retelling their stories, putting and answering innumerable questions and gradually imparting a coherent account of all that had transpired to mr. henderson.
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presently rawlins grasped tom’s arm and pointed towards the hills across the bay.
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“look there!” he exclaimed. “there goes the last of the panjandrum’s palace!”
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the others turned at the diver’s words and saw a thick column of smoke rising in curling blue clouds against the green jungle.
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“guess old jules made quick work of looting it.” continued rawlins. “say, i can just see the old boy and his mates dancing and prancing around to the music of that phonograph and watching the place go up in smoke. must do their hearts good! wonder if they’ll learn to play billiards or hammer jazz music out of that piano!”
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“well, let’s get down to business,” suggested mr. pauling, when the laughter over rawlins’ quaint conceit had subsided. “i suppose we’d better notify disbrow and leave here. no use of delaying longer. the trail is blind now.”
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“i vote we all turn in early and light out to-morrow morning,” suggested the diver. “i’m dead tired myself and the boys must be all in. they haven’t slept since night before last, you know, and it’s pretty near sundown now. how about grub, too?”
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this seemed the wisest plan, and as bancroft sat at his instruments rapidly sending a cipher message to the destroyer the steward served a belated but hearty meal.
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“he’s received the message, sir,” announced the operator as he joined the others. “here’s his reply.”
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“h-m-m!” said mr. pauling, as he glanced over the apparently meaningless figures and letters. “he’ll stand in and wait for us in the morning. hasn’t seen any signs of a sub, or anything suspicious.”
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now that their appetites were satisfied and the excitement was over all realized how tired, exhausted and sleepy they were and gladly sought their bunks at an early hour.
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it seemed to rawlins that he had scarcely closed his eyes when he awoke with a start, the sound of a shout still ringing in his ears. for a brief instant he thought he had been dreaming and then, as the cry again echoed through the night, he realized it was no dream, that something was amiss, and wide awake leaped to the floor.
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the next instant he uttered a yell of shock and surprise. instead of landing on the rubber mat his feet had plunged into cold water!
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“get up! wake! hustle!” he screamed at bancroft who occupied the other bunk. “the boat’s full of water!”
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without waiting, he dashed from the room, shouting and yelling, switching on lights and starting the alarm gong as he plunged, splashing, through the water that covered the steel plates of the floors.
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instantly all was in an uproar. hoarse shouts and cries came from the crews’ quarters. the boys, with frightened faces and still rubbing dazed and sleep-filled eyes, rushed from their cabin with mr. pauling and mr. henderson at their heels and through the din of the clanging gong, the excited questions and warning shouts, rawlins, with the quartermaster by his side, hustled the men and boys up the ladder to the deck, checking them off one by one as they passed.
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“all up?” demanded rawlins as a drowsy oiler stumbled through the fast-rising water to the foot of the ladder.
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“aye, aye, sir!” responded the old sailor. “better be gettin’ aloft, sir.”
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the water was now up to the men’s hips and as they reached the outer air rawlins and the quartermaster found the waves lapping the edges of the deck. but perfect order prevailed. the two boats were manned and ready and as rawlins and the sailor sprang into them the men bent to the oars and a few moments later the boats’ keels grated on the sand beach under the ghostly palms.
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“i’ll say we’re lucky!” were rawlins first words. “wonder what in blazes burst loose!”
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but no one could offer an explanation. the man who had been on watch and whose cry had roused rawlins declared that the first thing he had noticed had been that the submarine was settling. the engineers insisted that no sea-cock or valve had been left open. there had been no blow, shock or explosion and, huddled together on the beach, shivering and shaken, the men and the boys waited for the dawn. presently a fire was started and the survivors, glad of its warmth in the chill night air, gathered close about it, discussing the disaster, surmising as to its cause and thanking their stars that they had all escaped and that help was not far away.
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“if we don’t turn up, disbrow will suspect something is wrong and send a boat in,” declared mr. pauling. “we won’t have to wait here many hours.”
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“perhaps we could call him,” suggested mr. henderson. “are those radio instruments still in the boats?”
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“one is.” replied rawlins. “i noticed it as we came ashore.”
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“but we haven’t any aerial,” said tom. “the resonance coil was on board the submarine.”
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“i don’t think it matters,” his father assured him. “disbrow’s sure to investigate.”
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“for that matter, we can row out and meet them,” suggested rawlins. “we’ve got perfectly good boats.”
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“of course,” agreed mr. henderson, “although it would be more risky than waiting here. disbrow might not sight us and then we’d be worse off.”
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“yes, we’ll wait here a reasonable time at any rate,” declared mr. pauling, “ah, i believe it’s getting lighter.”
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very soon the eastern sky grew bright and presently there was enough light to distinguish surrounding objects clearly.
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“there she is!” exclaimed rawlins, pointing towards the spot where their submarine had been moored. “didn’t go clear under. too shallow for her.”
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above the water, the top of the submarine’s conning tower was visible with the slender aerial wires faintly discernible in the soft morning light.
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“we’re all right!” declared the diver. “we can get that aerial off the sub, rig it up between a couple of these palms and get the destroyer here in double quick time. but i would like to know what sunk the old tub.”
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acting on rawlins’ suggestion, the boats rowed over to the wreck and the men busied themselves stripping the aerial from the submarine. by the time this was accomplished it was broad daylight and the warm sun was shining brightly upon the water and beach.
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“sam,” said rawlins, turning to the bahaman who, up to his waist in water on the submarine’s deck, was unfastening a wire. “what do you think of diving down and having a look around. i’m blamed anxious to know how the old sub got full of water.”
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“all right, chief,” grinned the negro, dropping the wire and stripping off his scanty garments. “ah’ll mos’ surely ascertain, chief.”
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“tha’s nothin’ wrong this side, chief,” he announced as he recovered his breath. “ah’ll go down tha’ other side an’ have a look.”
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presently he rose, felt his way along the deck with the water to his armpits and reaching a point near the bow again dove.
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again he reappeared near the stern and the satisfied grin upon his face assured rawlins that he had news.
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“yaas, sir!” he announced as he drew himself onto the boat. “ah foun’ it, chief. tha’ a big hole aft, chief. looks like it been bored in tha’ plates, chief.”
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“well, what in thunder!” cried rawlins. “come on, sam, i’m going to have a look. show me where ’tis. i’m no fish like you, but i can stay down long enough for that.”
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poising himself on the boat’s thwart with sam beside him, rawlins waited for the word and together the two figures, one white, one black, plunged into the sea.
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presently the two heads bobbed up side by side and breathing hard rawlins scrambled into the boat.
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“i’ll say it’s bored!” he exclaimed. “burned! cut clean through with an acetylene torch!”
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the others fairly gasped with amazement.
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“but how could any one burn a hole through steel,—under water?” cried tom.
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“easy!” retorted rawlins. “a good torch’ll burn as well under water as in air. used right along by divers. it’s those blasted, dumbfoozled ‘reds’! i can see it all now. they sneaked down here in that little sub of theirs, laid on the bottom, sent a diver out with a torch and burned the hole. thought they’d drown us like rats in a trap—blame their dirty hides!”
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“by jove! it doesn’t seem possible,” declared mr. pauling. “i’m surprised, they——”
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his words were cut short by a shout from rawlins. “look there!” he fairly screamed, leaping up, and pointing towards the bay. “look at ’em! the low down, sneaking swine!”
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all turned instantly towards the bay and at the sight which greeted them jaws gaped, eyes grew round with wonder and hoarse exclamations of anger, amazement and chagrin arose from a dozen throats.
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traveling swiftly seaward through the calm water was a small submarine, her deck just awash, and standing upon her superstructure and waving their hands in derisive farewell were two men. one was heavily built with a huge red beard, the other slender, immaculate in white flannels and with a stiffly upturned, iron-gray mustache.
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the next moment they disappeared in the hatch. an instant later only the conning tower showed above the water and ere the amazed onlookers could recover from their astonishment the placid bay stretched unbroken even by a ripple to the distant shores.
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mr. pauling and mr. henderson exchanged rapid glances.
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“it was!” muttered mr. pauling in a low voice.
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the other nodded. “absolutely!” he rejoined.
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rawlins, who for once had been rendered absolutely speechless with surprise, anger and chagrin now found his voice.
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“lively, men!” he shouted. “get that aerial up quick! we’ll nab those devils yet! get a message to disbrow to go for ’em! drop depth bombs or anything else! he can’t be far off.”
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at his bidding, thoroughly aroused to the necessity for action, the men fell to work. hastily the antennae from the submarine was rushed ashore. up the palms scrambled sam and a sailor and in an incredibly short space of time the slender wires were stretched between the lopped-off tops of the lofty trees and the boys adjusted their instruments. excitedly they called the destroyer and presently sharp, and clear, came back the answering call.
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“tell him to watch for a sub,” ordered mr. pauling. “don’t bother over cipher. give it to them in english. tell him she’s just slipped out. if he sights her sink her, disable her, anything! drop depth bombs if necessary!”
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then, as the boys hurriedly and excitedly flashed these orders to the destroyer and the “dee dee dee dah dee” (“we understand”) came back, mr. pauling continued. “now tell him our sub has sunk. have him send a cutter for us and tell him to hustle.”
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slowly the minutes slipped by. breathlessly, filled with excitement, those upon the beach beneath the palms listened, expecting each moment to hear the distant boom of a gun, the low rumbling roar of an exploding depth bomb. but no sound broke the low swish of the palm fronds and the soft lapping of the waves upon the sand.
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an hour went by and then, from the direction of the bay, came the faint staccato beat of a motor’s exhaust and a moment later a trim navy cutter came into view. shouting and waving their hands, those upon the beach attracted the cutter’s attention, it spun around, came swiftly towards them and ten minutes later was headed seaward leaving the sunken submarine deserted and alone.
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a mile or two offshore, steaming in great circles, was the lean, gray destroyer and as those in the cutter ran up the gangway and gained the decks disbrow met them.
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“seen anything of that sub!” demanded mr. pauling, ignoring the officer’s cheery greeting.
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“not a sign,” declared the commander. “had men aloft and been swinging in circles ever since we got your message. haven’t sighted a craft of any sort since daylight. only thing we’ve seen was an old dutch tramp over by trade wind cay.”
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rawlins, who had just reached the deck, sprang forward.
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“dutch tramp!” he cried. “what did she look like? did you board her?”
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“of course not!” replied disbrow icily. “why should we? ordinary tramp painted pea-soup color with bands two blue and one yellow, on her funnel.”
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“i’ll say she’s not an ordinary tramp!” exclaimed the diver. “if she is, what the blazes is she hangin’ around there for? she was there a week ago—we saw her—and dutch tramps or any other tramps don’t hang around trade wind cay for a week! rotten luck you didn’t board her!”
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“humph!” snorted disbrow. “i’d get myself in a pretty mess if i boarded every steamer i saw. it’s none of my business if a dutchman wants to kill time cruising about here. the sea’s free.”
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“yes, and i’m beginning to think some naval men are blamed idiots!” cried rawlins, overcome with excitement. “i know one that boarded a square-head fishing smack and didn’t think ’twas any of his business because she was a bahaman schooner. darned near finished us on account of it, too!”
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the commander flushed scarlet. “if you’re going to insult me!” he began; but mr. pauling interposed.
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“here, here, boys!” he exclaimed. “don’t get excited. we all make mistakes and we’re dealing with most elusive and resourceful scoundrels. rawlins has a hunch of some sort, disbrow, and his hunches are usually, right. now what it is, rawlins? the sooner we get to an understanding the quicker we can act.”
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“sorry, old man!” apologized the diver, extending his hand to disbrow who instantly grasped it. “was a bit jumpy, i guess. but that tramp’s got to be overhauled. i’ve an all-fired hunch she’s part of the game. they deserted a sub once and took to a schooner and i’ll bet my last dollar to a plugged cent that that tramp’s just waiting for ’em now.”
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disbrow wheeled and gave a crisp order and the next moment the destroyer, throbbing and shaking like a leaf, a huge wave rising high above her sharp bows, was tearing like an express train towards trade wind cay.
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as they neared the little islet and rounded its jutting point, rawlins gave a cheer. wallowing slowly along, her rust-streaked sides rising and falling to the ocean swell, was the tramp, with the flag of the netherlands fluttering at her stern and the blue and yellow stripes plainly visible on her funnels.
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up to the destroyer’s mast fluttered a string of bunting, but the dutchman paid not the slightest heed, continuing placidly on his course.
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“confound him!” exploded rawlins. “doesn’t mean to stop, eh?”
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“run alongside and hail him,” quietly ordered mr. pauling. “i’ll take all responsibility if there’s any trouble. but we’ll board that chap if we have to fire on him.”
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there was no need of any such drastic measures, however. as the destroyer came near and disbrow’s hail through the megaphone reached those upon the tramp, a huge, burly figure appeared upon the bridge, waved an arm in assent and a moment later the ill-kept vessel lay motionless, as the cutter from the destroyer bobbed alongside. over the tramp’s wall-like sides dangled a rope ladder and followed by rawlins and mr. pauling a white clad ensign ran nimbly up and leaped over the battered iron rails.
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at the break of the bridge-deck the ponderous man lounged upon the rail awaiting them, a big pipe projecting from an enormous yellow mustache, a weather-beaten cap upon his tow-colored hair and greasy, faded blue garments hanging loosely on his immensely fat figure. placidly, with pale, expressionless blue eyes, he watched the officer and the civilians approach and as they drew near slowly withdrew the pipe from his mouth.
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“vat you vellers vant?” he demanded in thick greasy tones. “vat vor you sthob mine shib?”
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the dutchman drew himself up in what was a ludicrous attempt at dignity. “yah, me der gapdain!” he rumbled. “but vat de deffil you vellers link? dondt you know dot der var vas over? vat vor you vant to see mine babers, eh?”
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“just as a matter of form, captain,” replied the ensign crisply. “won’t take a minute.”
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for a space, the fat skipper eyed the other suspiciously. “ach! all right,” he exclaimed at last. “gum on! dis vay an’ pe tarn qvick apout id!”
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rolling like a barge in a gale, the dutchman led the way across the deck and into his disorderly cabin under the bridge. then, rummaging among papers and letters, he drew out a package snapped together with rubber bands and handed it to the ensign.
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“seem to be all right,” commented mr. pauling, as he glanced over the officer’s shoulder with rawlins beside him. “‘steamship van doerck, 11,345 tons, general cargo, rotterdam for st. thomas, hirschfelt, master and owner.’ don’t see anything suspicious there, rawlins. last cleared from curacao. health and port papers o. k. guess your hunch was wrong this time.”
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rawlins scratched his head and looked sheepish, but there was still a questioning, puzzled expression in his eyes. “maybe,” he admitted, “but i’d like to have a look at his crew. just ask him to line ’em up on deck, ensign.”
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at first, the dutchman vehemently objected, but finally, with a muttered curse in his native tongue at the pigheadedness of the yankees, he ordered his second officer to summon all hands on deck.
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carefully rawlins, mr. pauling and the ensign went along the line of dirty faces, checking them off by name in accordance with the ship’s papers, but they were all there, no more, no less.
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“no use looking under hatches,” declared the ensign who began to feel that he had made a fool of himself. “they haven’t been up for a week, i’ll swear.” then, as an afterthought, he added sarcastically, “don’t suppose you’d care to search the engine room and bunkers?”
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“i’ll say i will!” exclaimed rawlins, and without another word hurried aft.
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a few minutes later he reappeared, grimy, perspiring and greasy.
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“nothing doing there!” he announced. “say, ask the old boy what he’s been hanging around here a week for.”
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reluctantly the ensign put the question.
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“none of your tamt pizness!” replied the skipper. “put id’s no segret. ve drobt a sbar offerboard in der night an ve been hunding vor id. ve vasn’t here vor a veek—id vas night before ladst ve gum pack.”
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rawlins raised his eyebrows. “all right, ensign,” he said. “guess it’s a false alarm. might as well be going.”
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the skipper’s only reply was a low, rumbling bellow from his chest and stumping up the ladder to the bridge he jerked the bell for “stand by.”
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no sooner were the boarding party again on the destroyer than rawlins beckoned mr. pauling aside.
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“you may think i’m an ass, mr. pauling,” remarked the diver. “but there’s something crooked about that dutchman. he’s a blamed liar in the first place, because you know as well as i do he was here six days ago. in the second place, can you imagine wasting even two days steaming along and hunting for a lost spar, and how the blazes could he lose a spar? the sea’s been like glass.”
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mr. pauling smiled. “you’re unduly suspicious, rawlins,” he declared. “i admit the tramp was here a week ago and we saw her, but he may have gone on and then come back two days ago searching for a spar or he may have lied just because he wouldn’t give us the satisfaction of telling us his business. no, i don’t think there’s anything wrong with him. if you suspect every ship we see we’ll have our hands full and every nation in the world will be after our scalps.”
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“what?” exclaimed mr. pauling. “how do you know? explain yourself, rawlins.”
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“jove!” ejaculated mr. pauling, beginning to be convinced that rawlins had grounds for his suspicions. “how do you know? i saw nothing wrong.”
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rawlins chuckled. “no, and the old guy didn’t expect you would. he or his friends are darned clever birds, but they slipped up on those papers. they’d changed the date under the signatures, but they forgot about the stamps—they were canceled with a rubber stamp and the date was ’21 not ’22!”
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“rawlins!” cried mr. pauling. “i’ll take it all back! you’re a wonder—told you you should be in the service. what’s your idea?”
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“well, i don’t know just where the dutchy comes in with those reds,” admitted rawlins, “but i’ll bet they’re cahoots somehow. i think we’d better follow the boys’ motto—hear everything, see everything and say nothing and keep the other fellow guessing—i’d suggest we trail the old porpoise and see if he does go to st. thomas. if he does, we’ll bob up there too. i’m ready to follow along his wake if he wallows round the world, but st. thomas is an american port and we can do pretty near anything we like there. if we hang around we may get a line on something. we’ve had pretty good luck all together and i’ve got a hunch we’re ‘hot’, as they used to say when we played hunt the thimble.”
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a few moments later mr. pauling was speaking to the commander in the privacy of the latter’s cabin.
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“you’ll make for st. thomas, disbrow,” he said. “keep that tramp within sight, but don’t let her think we’re following her. no, don’t ask questions, i don’t really know myself. rawlins has a hunch, and so far his hunches have come mighty near being right. i’m backing them to the limit.”
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by a. hyatt verrill
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the radio detectives the radio detectives under the sea the radio detectives southward bound the radio detectives in the jungle the deep sea hunters the book of the motor boat isles of spice and palm
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masterpieces in colour edited by - - t. leman hare
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“masterpieces in colour” series
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by a. j. finberg
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illustrated with eight reproductions in colour
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london: t. c. & e. c. jack new york: frederick a. stokes co.
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jean-auguste-dominique ingres was born on the 29th august 1778, at montauban. a stranger birthplace for a great artist could hardly be found. all the passion not absorbed in the material cares of life there turns to fanaticism. religious hatred runs high. the municipal elections are fought out on religious grounds. protestant and roman catholic hate but do not know one another. each family lives for itself and by itself. a visit is said to be considered as an indiscretion. and nature there does nothing to soften the heart or the manners of man. the soil is dusty on the surface and hard to dig. the local colour is sombre, the general aspect of things sad. in the cold, dull light the forms detach themselves without grace or sympathy. the people have squat, thick-set figures, with round heads and heavy jaws. their souls are as sombre and hard as their faces. they have ardour, but it is all concentrated and suppressed, burning within them like a brazier without flames. they show an extreme eagerness for work and gain; a silent obstinacy is the leading trait of their character. ingres’ mother belonged to these parts and to this race, and from her he seems to have derived a part of his stormy and inflexible, his unquiet and haughty genius.
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ingres’ father came from toulouse. little more than three miles separate toulouse from montauban, but the chain of little hills which throws off, to the left, the river garonne, and to the right the tarn and the aveyron, serves as the dividing line of two profoundly different regions and races. in contrast with the sterile and rocky regions of the north, the plains of languedoc, with their great river and verdant meadows, seem a land of joy and enchantment. it was at toulouse, with its courts of love, its floral fêtes, its contests of song and poetry, that ingres’ father was born. if we may judge from the portrait which ingres painted of him (it is preserved at the museum of montauban), his father must have been an uncommon man. as we see him in this portrait he has a fine forehead, with big black eyes, and a look full of frankness and penetration. the evidence of this portrait is confirmed by the following letter, written by ingres towards the end of his life, to a gentleman who had asked him for information about his father:--
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“sir,--jean-marie-joseph ingres was born at toulouse (in 1734): his father, whom i saw in my childhood, was a master tailor; he lived to a great age. my father when he was very young entered the academy of toulouse. he had as master, i believe, m. lucas, a celebrated sculptor, a professor of the said academy. later he went to marseille, then settled at montauban and married my mother, anne moulet, on 12th august 1777. he was very much loved and appreciated by the leading families of the city and by mgr. de breteuil, the bishop of montauban, of whom he made a large medallion in profile. this bishop employed my father a great deal at his palace and in his country house, situated near the city.
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“my father was born with a rare genius for the fine arts. i say the fine arts because he executed painting, sculpture, and even architecture with success. i saw him construct an important building in our principal street.
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“if m. ingres had had the same advantages which he gave his son, of going to paris to study under the greatest of our masters, he would have been the first artist of his time. my father, who drew perfectly, painted also in miniature. he also painted views of the country from nature....
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“nothing came amiss to him. in sculpture his work ranged from the sphinxes and figures of abbés reading, which were placed in gardens, to the colossal statues of liberty which he was forced to improvise in our temples for the republican fêtes. he made with the greatest facility ornaments of all kinds, with which he decorated most tastefully the buildings of his time.... finally, he attracted everybody by his lovable character, his goodness, his eminently artistic tastes. every one was anxious to enjoy his society.
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“he often went to toulouse, his native place, to renew his strength, so to speak, in that large and beautiful city, almost as rich then in monuments of art as rome, which it greatly resembles. he loved to find himself again with the friends of his youth, all distinguished artists. he took me often with him in these short journeys.
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“without being a musician, my father adored music, and sang very well with a tenor voice. he gave me his taste for music and made me learn to play the violin. i succeeded well enough with it to be admitted into the orchestra of the grand theatre of toulouse, where i played a concerto of viotti with success....”
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in this glowing eulogy of his father there is doubtless a certain amount of pious exaggeration. the man was a true toulousian, a fine singer, an occasional performer on the violin, an improviser in everything, with a natural gift for drawing and a plastic sense common among his compatriots. that he would have been “one of the first artists of his time” if he had had the advantage of studying in paris is manifestly absurd. his work shows a want of vigour, of originality, of invention. he had a certain correctness of eye and skill of hand, with some taste for arrangement and effect. that was sufficient for the plaster decorations with which he was mainly occupied, and even for the little portraits in miniature or red chalk which he undertook. but he could not go beyond this, and the only attempt to paint an important picture which he made marks clearly the limits of his talent. his private life was somewhat irregular. he was a great lover of the fair sex, and towards the end of his life his wife was compelled to leave his home.
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from the father, then, we may say, ingres inherited the penetrating vivacity of his sight, the agile suppleness and surety of his fingers, and a certain voluptuous tendency which is particularly noticeable in his nudes; while his immense powers of work, his obstinacy and pugnacity, came from his mother.
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at a very early age his father began to teach him drawing and music. he first achieved success as a violinist in the salon of the bishop, but he was at least equally precocious with his pencil. towards the age of twelve he was taken to toulouse. he was at first placed with the painter vigan, and worked under his direction at the académie royale. then he went to the atelier of roques, where he made rapid progress. it was in roques’s studio that ingres was converted to what he called “the religion of raphael.” roques had brought back with him from rome a number of copies of the works of the great painters of the renaissance, among them one of raphael’s “vierge à la chaise.” ingres was so impressed by the beauty of this work that he is said to have burst into tears before it. the instruction at the toulouse academy, with its insistence on minute accuracy of drawing, also had a great influence on his future career. at the end of his life ingres, when talking of his early studies at toulouse, was fond of affirming that he was still “what the little ingres of twelve years had been.”
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at the age of eighteen he was sent to paris, and had the good fortune--it was his own expression--to be admitted to the studio of louis david. he quickly gained the esteem of his master, and is said to have been employed to paint the accessories in david’s famous portrait of madame récamier. but their good understanding did not last long. ingres competed for the grand prix de rome in 1799, and david awarded the prize to granger, an older pupil of his, while ingres, to his great indignation, was only awarded the second prize. his picture was burnt during the commune. the following year ingres carried off the prize. the subject was “achilles receiving in his tent the envoys of agamemnon.” flaxman, the english sculptor and illustrator of homer, spoke so flatteringly of ingres’ picture that, according to m. delaborde, his master’s hostility was still further increased. this painting, which is still preserved at the école des beaux-arts, shows the young man’s power of vivid and accurate drawing and his respect for the teachings of his master. but under its external conformity to david’s principles it is possible to trace the germs of an originality which was soon to separate the pupil, almost in spite of himself, from the school of his master. for while david admitted the direct imitation of nature only in his portraits and studies of the nude, he insisted on giving the first place to the search for the grand style in his historical compositions.
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already in this picture we see that ingres was constitutionally incapable of sacrificing on any grounds his unconscious desire to imitate closely, of copying nature. in vain he tries to force himself to attain “style” in the group he has imagined. his group is not harmoniously arranged. it has no vital unity. each of the figures appeared detached from the others; but they are drawn individually with so much realistic exactitude that the whole has the bizarre aspect of a photograph of an assembly of artists’ models trying different poses in a studio.
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as m. de wyzewa has well said, the young painter had received from heaven at his birth a defect and a quality which remained intimately connected with each other. the defect was a total absence of imagination, invention, or aptitude to raise himself above the reality directly offered to the painter by the sight present to his eyes; and the quality--the very excess of which was the inevitable cause of the defect i have just denoted--the quality was a marvellous, an absolutely exceptional power of seeing, of understanding, and of reproducing that reality. no painter has ever had a more exact vision of the human figure, nor hands more skilful to fix in its entirety on the paper or the canvas what his eyes saw. a holbein even, with all the fidelity of his realism, was still troubled in his observation of the model by a shade of æsthetic idealism, by the preoccupation of an example to be followed, or by a new process to employ: between dominique ingres and his model, so long as he had this model in front of his eyes, no consideration of any kind could interpose itself. the painter was as possessed by his vision, as hypnotised by it, and he was forced to copy it without changing anything. he carried away, indeed, as the result of his stay in david’s studio, a body of doctrines to which he remained on the whole faithful all his life, but nature had given him gifts which were entirely different from those which were needed to put these doctrines into practice. and this explains why this great man, in the ignorance he always remained in of the real source of his originality and greatness, presents to us to-day the paradox of having been the most naturalistic of french painters, while obstinately attempting to make himself the most idealistic.
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having gained the much-coveted prix de rome, ingres ought to have started at once for italy. but the state of the public treasury was so miserable at this period of wars and internal crises that the young painter had to remain in paris for five years before the funds for his journey were forthcoming. he was allotted apartments, together with other artists, in a deserted capuchin convent in paris, where he resumed his studies and undertook any work that was offered to him. the only official encouragement he received was an order to paint two portraits of napoleon. the first of these portraits was finished in 1805--the “bonaparte, first consul,” for the town of lille; the second, of “napoleon, emperor,” for the hôtel des invalides, was finished in the following year. to those years of anxious suspense belong the first ideas of many of the works which were afterwards to make him famous. the dominant influences noticeable in his designs are said to be the works of flaxman and the paintings on antique greek vases. the neighbouring studio at the convent was occupied by de gros, who was engaged upon a series of immense canvases consecrated to the glory of napoleon’s campaign in egypt. it was filled with oriental bric-à-brac, damascened arms, costumes, persian rugs, turkish pipes, and hangings of gold and silk--everything, in short, which would help the artist to paint the accessories of his pictures. it was in this studio that ingres probably painted the studies of eastern carpets, mosaics, &c., which are still preserved at the museum of montauban, and which he used afterwards in the “odalisques.” but the real strength of his personality is best seen in the series of portraits ingres painted at this time. the first was a portrait of his father, who came to visit him in paris in 1801. as was his custom, he worked on this in the following years, which explains the date, 1804, inscribed upon the painting. it was exhibited at the salon in 1806, and is now at montauban. then he painted the portrait of himself which is now at the museum of chantilly. these were followed by the three portraits of the rivière family, now in the louvre. two of these, those of the mother and daughter, have been reproduced in the present volume.
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towards the end of 1806 ingres was at length supplied with the necessary funds to proceed to rome. once established in the villa medici fortune began to smile on him. he received several important official commissions. his talent also found private appreciators. the general miollis, a fanatical admirer of virgil; m. de norvins, m. marcotte; ladies like madame de lavalette, madame forgeot, and madame devauçay, gave him orders for portraits and pictures. joachim murat, then king of naples, also took an interest in the young painter who had been born in the same province as himself. he commissioned the “dormeuse de naples” and the “grande odalisque,” and invited him to his court to paint portraits of the members of his family.
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so flourishing did the young artist’s affairs look that he resolved to face the responsibilities of marriage. he authorised a friend, a m. loréal, an employé of the french government in rome, to find him a wife. m. loréal’s choice fell upon a mlle. magdaleine chapelle, a young frenchwoman of about the same age as the artist, who was then acting as cashier in a café at guéret. m. boyer d’agen has recently published a letter from the young fiancée to her sister announcing the approaching marriage. it is dated 30th august 1813. she starts by saying that just as she was beginning to despair of ever finding a suitable husband “they had written to her from rome saying they had found exactly what she wanted.” “you can judge of the pleasure the news gave me,” she exclaims quite frankly, “and it made me feel ten years younger, so that i now look only twenty years of age.” she promises to send her sister a portrait of her future husband on another occasion, but says that for the present she must be satisfied with a verbal description. “he is a good-looking young man. i always said my husband must be handsome.” “he is a painter--not a house-painter, but a great painter of history, a great talent. he earns from ten to twelve thousand livres a year. you see that with that we shall not die of hunger. he has a good character, and is very gentle. he is neither a drinker, a gambler, nor a rake. he has no faults. he promises to make me very happy, and i love to believe he will.”
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the writer of this charming letter was married to the artist about three months after it was written. the marriage was arranged entirely by the friends of the young couple. they had not set eyes on each other before ingres went to the city gates to meet his affianced bride. they met near the tomb of nero. it was there that ingres first took the hand of the partner who was to caress and console him during the next thirty-five years. this charming and laughing “fille à madame angot” turned out to be the admirable companion which every artist dreams of but so rarely possesses: one who will share all his hopes, but never his doubts; who believes and admires, smiles and is patient, and accepts all sacrifices for the glory of the one she loves.
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almost immediately after his marriage ingres’ luck changed. murat was overthrown in 1814. his successor refused all the pictures that had been commissioned from ingres, and those which had been finished were sold although the artist had not been paid for them. in a letter to his friend gelibert, dated 7th july 1818, ingres complains that he has been able to put nothing aside, that he has to live, as it were, from day to day. he admits he has several orders on hand for pictures, but “as i paint only to paint well, i take a long time over them, and consequently earn little.” his chief resource was the making of chalk or pencil portraits, for which his usual price was twenty-five francs. but after each portrait, as his wife told a friend in after years, ingres declared that he would not do any more, that he was a painter of history, not a draughtsman of the faces of the middle classes. “nevertheless,” she added, “it was necessary to live, and m. ingres took up his pencil again.” but as even this slender resource began to fail him at rome, he resolved to leave that city and take up his residence at florence, where his friend bartolini, the sculptor, was already settled.
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to this period of ingres’ first sojourn in rome (from the end of 1806 to 1820) belong some of the artist’s finest and most personal works. we must give the first place to his portraits. the delicious portrait of madame aymon, known as “la belle zélie” (now in the museum of rouen), was immediately followed by what is on all hands regarded as his most beautiful work of this kind. this is the “madame devauçay,” of the museum of chantilly. it is an admirable example of ingres’ wonderful power of concentration and absorption in the thing seen. disdaining the help of accessories, he draws all his inspiration from the face and figure of his model. he seizes the personality of his sitter with so much completeness and such perfect sympathy and understanding, and places it on the canvas with so much authority and power, that the portrait of the individual takes on all the scope of a permanent and absolute type. the portrait of “madame de sénonnes” (now in the museum of nantes), which was painted about 1810, has the same intensity of spirit as the “madame devauçay,” and the same exquisite perfection of modelling and design. it is also marked by greater ease and freedom of handling, a sign of the young master’s growing confidence in his own genius. it is generally regarded as ingres’ masterpiece of feminine portraiture.
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the well-known “œdipus and the sphinx” was painted in 1808, while the artist was still a pensioner of the school of rome. it is hard for us to understand the horror and dislike which this picture provoked among the leading spirits of the school of david. what seems to us a typical example of classic art struck the official representatives of classicism as the work of a revolutionary. in his report on this picture, m. lethière, the director of the school of rome, regrets that m. ingres, in spite of his talent, has failed to grasp the secret of the “grand and noble style of the great masters of the roman school.” to appreciate the originality and daring of this work, we must compare the figure of œdipus with that of the roman heroes in david’s “rape of the sabines.” david’s figures are all cast in the same mould. all the particularities of the individual model are ruthlessly eliminated. when we turn from the vague and empty generalisations of david, regnault, gérard and girodet, and look at the narrow forehead, the pugnacious upper lip, the prominent cheek-bones, the deep-sunk eye and the bushy eyebrows of ingres’ figure, we may begin to understand that the gulf which yawns between the two kinds of idealism--the abstract idealism of the davidian school and the concrete idealism of ingres--is quite as wide and impassable as that which separates them both from romanticism and naturalism.
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the “œdipus” was followed, in 1808, by the “seated bather” (now in the louvre); in 1811, by “jupiter and thétis” (now at the museum of aix), a curiously flaxman-like design; in 1812, by the “dream of ossian” (now at montauban); and in 1814, by a scene of real life, “the pope officiating among the cardinals in the sistine chapel” (now in the louvre). in this marvellous picture the artist has for once avoided the painful task of invention which he habitually imposed upon himself. he abandoned himself completely to the imperious suggestion of what was actually before his eyes. the truth, life, and richness of colour and tone of this little picture have led some of his recent admirers to speak of it as the most complete and perfectly balanced of all the artist’s works.
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the “grande odalisque,” exhibited at the salon of 1819, but painted in 1814, brought to a close for the time the admirable series of nude female figures which the artist had begun during his first years in rome. his wonderful sketches of the “venus anadyomene” and the “source” had already been painted, but the canvases remained unfinished in his studio, the first till 1848, the second till 1858.
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his love of female beauty reveals itself again in the principal figure of the picture he sent to the salon in 1819. this was the “roger delivering angelica,” a scene borrowed from the tenth song of ariosto’s “roland furieux.” the picture is now in the louvre. the young knight, mounted on a hippogriff, pierces with his lance a marine monster who was about to devour the beautiful young woman who is chained to the rocks. the figure of the young knight, his curious steed, and the strange monster which is being killed, provoked the anger and ridicule of the academic party. in its quaint details the influence of perugino and of the earlier florentine and tuscan painters was clearly noticeable. this was one of the first signs in nineteenth-century art of the gothic revival and of that stream of tendency which came afterwards to be described as pre-raphaelitism. the epithet “gothic” was freely used as a term of reproach against ingres’ picture. but the lovely figure of angelica was a distinct creation of the painter’s own genius.
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in the “francesca da rimini” of the same year (now in the museum of angers) the same pre-raphaelite tendencies are even more strongly pronounced. the figures of the two lovers might easily have been designed by rossetti or madox brown.
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in 1824 ingres was nominated chevalier of the legion of honour. in 1825 he was elected to the institute. charles x. commissioned him to paint his portrait in the royal robes, and to decorate one of the ceilings of the louvre. at the end of 1829 he was made professor at the école des beaux-arts.
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“the apotheosis of homer,” the subject chosen for the louvre ceiling, was begun and finished within the short space of a single year. the amount of work involved in making the preparatory studies and carrying through a work of such importance was enormous, and ingres had never before displayed so much energy and decision. the conception of the picture was a noble one. it was to represent the spiritual ties which bind one generation of human beings to the other; to insist on the debt which each worker in the field of art and thought owes to his predecessors; to celebrate the real immortality of genius by showing the incessant action which it exerts on all the individuals who are successively born and developed by its influence. we must confess that ingres has found a worthy plastic formula to express his highly abstract conception. he shows us the poets, painters, sculptors, philosophers, and great patrons of the arts grouped round the seat of the old blind poet. each individual face, each gesture and pose, has been studied and thought out patiently, and executed with masterly skill. the terrible problem of grouping together so many different personalities and so many costumes of widely differing periods has been faced and overcome. the whole produces an effect of incomparable simplicity and grandeur.
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in no part of the pictures are ingres’ marvellous powers of realisation more clearly displayed than in the three purely symbolical figures of the winged victory who places the crown of gold upon the forehead of the poet, and those representing the odyssey and the iliad who sit at his feet. what a distance separates these figures, full of feminine charm and of exuberant life, from the cold allegories of the other painters of his time! look at the queenly grace of the victory; the disdainful lips, the contracted nostrils of the proud woman, with hands nervously crossed upon her knee, who sits on the poet’s right; and the dreamer who sits on his left, with her mantle wrapped round her, her hand upon her chin, her half-closed eyes dreaming of the far-away adventures of ulysses.
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this picture remained in the place for which it was destined for about twenty years. then it was replaced by an excellent copy made by three of the master’s pupils, dumas and the brothers baize, and the original was hung in the louvre, where it could be better seen and admired by the public and more carefully studied by the painters.
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such a display of his powers disarmed even the many enemies which ingres had made. but the artist was never satisfied. he thought he had not attained the supreme and definitive expression of his genius. he thought he could do better, that he could express himself with more force, more persuasive energy and warmth, in his next work. this was a religious scene commissioned for the cathedral of autun--the “martyrdom of st. symphorian.”
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before this work was finished he painted yet another of those superb portraits which he himself professed to regard as a waste of time, but which posterity values more highly than the allegorical and religious subjects to which he devoted himself with such fierce energy and consuming ardour. this was the portrait of “bertin ainé,” which was exhibited at the salon of 1833, and is now in the louvre. the old man, with turbulent grey hair, with keen penetrating eyes, with wary mouth, seated so squarely in his chair with his hands on his knees--the whole bodily and spiritual presence of the man is placed so vividly upon the canvas that we seem to know him more intimately than we know our friends.
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after being repainted several times, the “martyrdom of st symphorian” was exhibited at the salon the year after the portrait of m. bertin had appeared there. instead of bringing ingres a more complete victory than his “homer,” it brought him an unexpected check. to us, living as we do in a perfect anarchy of taste, it is rather difficult to understand why this picture should have scandalised and alarmed the artists and public of the time. the artist was accused of exaggeration, of an abuse of power. since michael angelo they had never seen in painting such muscles as those of the arms and legs of the lictors who are taking the saint to his place of torture. the whole effect, ingres’ critics said, was forced and improbable. they did not understand that the artist had deliberately intended to force the contrast between the bestiality of the murderers and the moral superiority of their victim.
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in spite of its want of atmosphere and other shortcomings, the picture is a moving and impressive one. there is nothing vulgar in those too robust figures. the face of the young martyr, illuminated with faith, and the fanatical exaltation of the mother, form the two moral centres of the drama. between them the curiosity and emotion of the crowd are divided. some gaze in stupor at this woman who sends her son to torture. they do not understand that she sees him already in glory, crowned with celestial beatitudes. others are indignant with her, like the young man who picks up a stone to throw at her, or like the soldier behind the centurion who turns towards her a face full of astonishment and irritation. a young woman presses her child in her arms in shuddering protestation. others look at the man who is about to die for his faith. their sentiments oscillate between hostility, compassion, indifference, and horror. the women are grieved. an old man takes his head in his hands, confounded by such inconceivable folly. and, dominating them all, the centurion on horseback gives the order to march to the place of execution.
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the learned construction of such a crowded scene, the nobility and expressiveness of the figures, the fine treatment of drapery, the virile energy of the drawing, the sober and restrained colouring, and, above all, that indefinable beauty which genius stamps on all its creations, might well have silenced the adverse criticisms with which the artists and the public assailed this picture.
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ingres suffered from these criticisms to a quite unreasonable extent. “i do not belong to this apostate century,” he exclaimed. he could not understand people’s objections, nothing could console him, and he cursed his epoch and the injustice of the public. he swore he would never exhibit at the salon again. he wished to flee from paris. he accepted as a deliverance the appointment of director of the academy of france in rome, shut his studio, dismissed his pupils, and with an indignant and bitter spirit he quitted paris again for the eternal city.
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but if ingres doubted of human justice, he never doubted about his art. he devoted himself to it with renewed passion and enthusiasm. “the day i quitted paris,” he wrote to one of his friends, “i broke for ever with everything that has to do with the public. henceforth i will paint entirely for myself. i belong at last to myself, and i will belong only to myself.”
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but, as a fact, neither ingres’ influence nor prestige suffered from the want of success of his “st. symphorian.” as director of the french academy at rome he remained the guide, counsellor, and example of all the young talents of his time. his proud ideal could not fail to attract the enthusiasm of his younger contemporaries. his teaching and example were helpful to others besides the painters. what was essential in his doctrines was applicable to all the arts: to music, which moved him so profoundly; and to sculpture--for did he not use his pencil and brush like a chisel?
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official favour also followed him in his angry retreat. the duke of orleans ordered a small historical picture from him, which gave him an immense deal of trouble but was at the same time a source of glorious compensation. he produced “stratonice,” one of the most successful of his works.
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the tragedy of which stratonice was the heroine had haunted his imagination for years. he had meditated long on the subject, but had always conceived the picture on a large scale. unfortunately, the picture had to be the same size as paul delaroche’s “death of the duke of guise,” to which it was to serve as pendant, and ingres was constrained to transform his grandiose conception into a miniature. ingres took six years to paint what he called his “grand historical miniature.” and it is to be somewhat regretted that in his anxiety for archæological exactitude he invited the collaboration of the architect hittorf. hittorf was full of his rather excessive theories about the polychromatic architecture of the ancients. he imposed his ideas so completely on the unfortunate artist that he was permitted to paint the background of the picture. hence the debauch of local colour, of coloured mosaics and bronzes, which threatens almost to swamp the figures. and what is worse, later archæologists have not failed to discover flaws in the pedantic architect’s too insistent details--strange anachronisms like that of placing well-known pompeiian frescoes on the walls of the palace of antiochus, together with motives borrowed from greek vases at least four hundred years earlier in date. the example of this picture has had an important effect on the french school.
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but in spite of these defects, the picture imposes itself on the imagination. the hopeless tragedy of the situation is admirably expressed without a trace of theatrical exaggeration. we see a young man, suffering from a grave and mysterious malady, extended upon his bed of suffering. the physician called in by his despairing father stands beside him and examines him. the father himself, overcome with grief, bows his head over his son’s couch. at this moment in the chamber of death a young woman enters. she is young, charming, and melancholy. she is the second wife of the heart-broken father, the mother-in-law of the dying son. and as she walks through the room with languishing steps the physician guesses the horrible truth. the man on the bed is dying of love. by signs which cannot deceive him, the man of science has divined the dreadful passion of the son for his father’s wife. such was, in fact, the history of stratonice. the second wife of seleucus nicanor was loved by antiochus, the king’s son by his first marriage. the doctor, erasistratus, having surprised this secret, declared that the young man would certainly die if stratonice was not given to him, and his father’s love was great enough to enable him to make this sacrifice.
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another small picture, known indifferently as “the odalisque with the slave” or the “small odalisque,” was finished about the same time as the “stratonice.” this was painted for the artist’s friend m. marcotte, but is now in the louvre. in the “odalisque” as in the “stratonice” we find a profusion of the details dear to hittorf, but the figure of the beautiful circassian curled up on the rich carpet of the harem is a masterpiece of plastic form. in this lovely body the artist has symbolised something of that perverse melancholy, that dangerous voluptuousness, which has found such moving expression in some of baudelaire’s poems.
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in the spring of 1841 ingres returned to paris. he found his reputation increased by the success of the “stratonice.” his brother artists hailed him as their leader. a banquet was offered to him by all the artists present in the capital, painters, sculptors, and architects, the only prominent absentee being eugène delacroix, the leader of the romantics. delacroix did not wish to participate in the triumph of his rival, and this triumph, so unanimously accorded, only served to widen the breach between the two masters. henceforth the struggle between them became more bitter. each party pursued the other without mercy, neither disdaining to use any kind of weapon that came to hand.
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fortified by the homage offered to him, ingres returned to his work with renewed ardour. the king asked him to paint a portrait of the duke of orleans, and ingres, grateful for the duke’s kindness with regard to the “stratonice,” took much more pains over this portrait than he usually took with commissions of this kind. this was the last male portrait that ingres painted, with the exception of a small monochrome medallion of the prince jéròme napoléon, which he executed in 1855. but, on the other hand, he became the favourite painter of the exalted dames of the monarchy of july and of the second empire, though very much against his will, for he regarded portrait-painting as a waste of time, and wished to devote himself entirely to his grand historical and religious compositions. nevertheless, he painted some fine portraits of beautiful women--madame d’haussonville in 1845, madame frédéric reisat in 1846, madame james de rothschild in 1848, madame gonse and madame moitessier in 1852, the princess de broglie in 1853, a second half-length portrait (the first was a full-length) of madame moitessier in 1856, and finally, in 1859, that of his second wife.
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soon after the portrait of the duke of orleans was finished he received another royal commission, the “jesus among the doctors,” which the queen marie-amélie wished to present to the château de bizy. the work, badly conceived at the beginning, was still unfinished when the revolution drove from france the patroness who had commissioned it. it remained almost forgotten in a corner of the artist’s studio till 1862, when ingres decided to finish it and present it to the museum of his natal city. of all ingres’ productions, it is perhaps the only one where the inspiration and execution both seem feeble.
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while he had been still in rome, in 1839, ingres had received from the duc de luynes a commission to decorate the great room at the château of dampierre with two large mural paintings representing “the age of gold” and “the age of iron.” he was delighted with the commission, as he was always dreaming of reviving the great traditions of decorative painting. he made numberless studies for these subjects, many of them among the most beautiful of his drawings. but as the painting had to be done actually on the walls at dampierre, the work progressed very slowly. years flew by, and the artist’s enthusiasm cooled. the noble duke and the sensitive and proud painter could not get along well under the same roof. ingres thought himself slighted on one occasion (in 1850) and brusquely threw up the commission, leaving his work unfinished. there exists of this gigantic work only a sketch at dampierre, an infinite number of drawings at the museum of montauban, and a little painting executed from these drawings in 1862, a very feeble representation of what the definitive work would have been. as for “the age of iron,” we have only the preliminary studies.
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as if to revenge himself for the loss of his promised masterpiece, ingres now took up again a number of the works he had sketched in his youth and set himself to finish them or repaint them. he also busied himself painting replicas of others which had passed out of his hands but with which he was not entirely satisfied. he painted thus a repetition of the “apotheosis of homer,” adding a number of fresh figures and substituting others for some of the poets and artists of his first choice. after much anxious reflection and discussion with his pupils, he decided to banish shakespeare, as he had already banished goethe, from the group of the immortals. he also painted replicas of his “sistine chapel,” of “roger delivering angelica,” and variations of his “œdipus” and “stratonice.” he also painted four or five slightly different versions of the figure of the virgin in his early picture of the “vow of louis xiii.” one of these developed into a picture of “the virgin between st. nicholas and st. alexander”--a subject the emperor of russia had asked him to treat. we find another version of the same type in “the virgin with the host,” which forms one of our illustrations. in no other work of ingres is his passionate admiration of raphael more clearly displayed.
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one of the new works which caused the liveliest sensation was “the birth of venus” or “venus anadyomene.” this had been begun forty years before, at the time of the early “bathers” and “odalisque.” the beautiful white body of the goddess detaches itself from the harmonious blue of the sea and sky, and groups of amorini flutter round and caress her youthful form. one of these delicious attendants offers her a mirror, another kisses the feet of the young goddess, while a third embraces her knees. it would be difficult to imagine anything more graciously tender or more natural than the infantile figures.
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the “venus anadyomene” was finished in 1848; in 1851 ingres painted his “jupiter and antiope,” and two years later he painted his “apotheosis of napoleon i.,” a large subject for the decoration of one of the ceilings of the hôtel de ville, at paris. this was unfortunately destroyed by fire in the troubled days of the commune in 1871. in 1854 his “joan of arc assisting at the consecration of charles vii.” was painted for the gallery of versailles.
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we have now reached the last years of the artist’s laborious life. they were as busy as his earlier years, but they were crowned with honour and glory. in 1855 all europe flocked to paris to see the universal exhibition. the life-work of ingres was gathered together in a special gallery. it produced an immense impression. all criticisms of detail fell before the magnificent affirmation of the artist’s individual ideal. one of the grand medals was given to him by the unanimous votes of the artists, and the emperor made him an officer of the legion of honour.
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then, in the following year, as if to crown his career by the evocation of a supreme masterpiece, ingres finished the “source,” a subject which had been begun at the same time as the “venus anadyomene.” this beautiful figure was not a passing vision which had animated the brush of the aged painter; it was indeed the daughter of his dreams, an emanation of his own soul, the slow growth of long meditations, and which, at last, incarnated itself in an immortal form. this calm and adorable figure seems a souvenir of our long-lost innocence. that is perhaps why we love it so, and why we bless the artist to whom we owe this divine dream.
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ingres died in 1867. he had finished his task, had spoken the last word of his austere but profoundly human genius.
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ingres has been spoken of as an ancient greek lost and bewildered in our modern times. such a view of his character is misleading. like all the great creators, he expressed the aspirations of his race and his times. he was not only the child of his century and his country, but he represented them both in their classic reaction and in their impulse towards romanticism. but the two tendencies were so nicely balanced in his temperament that he offended the extremists of both parties. he paid in his lifetime for his detachment from parties, for his exalted aims and sublime courage, but he reaps his reward from posterity. the creator of the immortal figures of œdipus, the odalisque, angelica, stratonice, and the source to-day takes unquestioned rank among the great masters not only of french but of european art.
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the authoritative french accounts of ingres’ life and work (from which the foregoing sketch has been compiled) are:--
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comte henri delaborde.--ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).
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charles blanc.--ingres (1870).
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henry lapauze.--l’œuvre de ingres (in “melanges sur l’art français,” 1905).
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jules momméja.--ingres (“les grands artistes” series).
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t. de wyzewa.--l’œuvre peint de jean-dominique ingres (1907).
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boyer d’agen.--ingres d’apres une correspondence inédite (1909).
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the plates are printed by bemrose & sons, ltd., derby and london the text at the ballantyne press, edinburgh
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uncle wiggily in wonderland
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uncle wiggily series
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by howard r. garis
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uncle wiggily bedtime stories
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uncle wiggily in wonderland
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by howard r. garis
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author of "sammie and susie littletail," "dickie and nellie fliptail," "uncle wiggily's airship," the daddy series, etc.
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illustrated by edward bloomfield
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a. l. burt company publishers new york
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the famous bed time stories
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books intended for reading aloud to the little folks at night. each volume contains colored illustrations, and a story for every night in the month. the animal tales send the children to bed with happy dreams.
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bedtime animal stories by howard r. garis
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sammie and susie littletail johnnie and billie bushytail lulu, alice and jimmie wibblewobble jackies and peetie bow-wow buddy and brighteyes pigg joie, tommie and kittie kat charlie and arabella chick neddie and beckie stubtail bully and bawly no-tail nannie and billie wagtail jollie and jillie longtail jacko and jumpo kinkytail curly and floppy twistytail toodle and noodle flat-tail dottie and willie flufftail dickie and nellie fliptail
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uncle wiggily bedtime stories by howard r. garis
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uncle wiggily's adventures uncle wiggily's travels uncle wiggily's fortune uncle wiggily's automobile uncle wiggily at the seashore uncle wiggily's airship uncle wiggily in the country uncle wiggily in the woods uncle wiggily on the farm uncle wiggily's journey uncle wiggily's rheumatism uncle wiggily and baby bunty uncle wiggily in wonderland uncle wiggily in fairyland
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for sale at all bookstores or sent prepaid on receipt of price, 75 cents per volume, by the publishers
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a. l. burt company, 114-120 east 23rd street new york city
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copyright, 1921, by r. f. fenno & company
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uncle wiggily in wonderland
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uncle wiggily and wonderland alice
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once upon a time, after uncle wiggily longears, the nice bunny rabbit gentleman, had some funny adventures with baby bunty, and when he found that his rheumatism did not hurt him so much as he hopped on his red, white and blue striped barber pole crutch, the bunny uncle wished he might have some strange and wonderful adventures.
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"i think i'll just hop along and look for a few," said uncle wiggily to himself one morning. he twinkled his pink nose, and then he was all ready to start.
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"good-bye, nurse jane! good-bye!" he called to his muskrat lady housekeeper, with whom he lived in a hollow stump bungalow. "i'm going to look for some wonderful adventures!" he hopped down the front steps, with his red, white and blue striped crutch under one paw, and his tall, silk hat on his head. "good-bye, miss fuzzy wuzzy!"
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"good-bye!" answered nurse jane. "i hope you have some nice adventures!"
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"thanks, i wish you the same," answered uncle wiggily, and away he went over the fields and through the woods. he had not hopped very far, looking this way and that, before, all of a sudden, he came to a queer little place, near an old rail fence. down in one corner was a hole, partly underground.
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"ha! that's queer," said uncle wiggily to himself. "that looks just like the kind of an underground house, or burrow, where i used to live. i wonder if this can be where i made my home before i moved to the hollow stump bungalow? i must take a look. nurse jane would like to hear all about it."
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so uncle wiggily, folding back his ears in order that they would not get bent over and broken, began crawling down the rabbit hole, for that is what it really was.
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it was dark inside, but the bunny uncle did not mind that, being able to see in the dark. besides, he could make his pink nose twinkle when he wanted to, and this gave almost as much light as a firefly.
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"no, this isn't the burrow where i used to live," said uncle wiggily to himself, when he had hopped quite a distance into the hole. "but it's very nice. perhaps i may have an adventure here. who knows?"
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and just as he said that to himself, uncle wiggily saw, lying under a little table, in what seemed to be a room of the underground house, a small glass box.
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"ha! my adventure begins!" cried uncle wiggily. "i'll open that glass box and see what is in it."
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so the bunny uncle raised the cover, and in the glass box was a little cake, made of carrots and cabbage, and on top, spelled out in pink raisins, were the words:
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"ha! that's just what i'll do!" cried jolly uncle wiggily, and, never stopping to think anything might be wrong, the bunny gentleman ate the cake. and then, all of a sudden, he began to feel very funny.
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"oh, my!" exclaimed uncle wiggily. "i hope that cake didn't belong to my nephew, sammie littletail, or johnnie or billie bushytail, the squirrel brothers. one of them may have lost it out of his lunch basket on his way to school. i hope it wasn't any of their cake. but there is surely something funny about it, for i feel so very queer!"
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and no wonder! for uncle wiggily had suddenly begun to grow very large. his ears grew taller, so that they lifted his tall silk hat right off his head. his legs seemed as long as bean poles, and as for his whiskers and pink, twinkling nose, they seemed so far away from his eyes that he wondered if he would ever get them near enough to see to comb the one, or scratch the other when it felt ticklish.
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"this is certainly remarkable!" cried uncle wiggily. "i wonder what made me grow so large all of a sudden? could it have been the cake which gave me the indyspepsia?"
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"it was the cake!" cried a sudden and buzzing voice, and, looking around the hole uncle wiggily saw a big mosquito. "it was the cake that made you grow big," went on the bad biting bug, "and i put it here for you to eat."
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"what for?" asked the bunny uncle, puzzled like.
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"so you would grow so big that you couldn't get out of this hole," was the answer. "and now you can't! this is how i have caught you! ha! ha!" and the mosquito buzzed a most unpleasant laugh.
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"oh, dear!" thought uncle wiggily. "i wonder if i am caught? can't i get out as i got in?"
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quickly he hopped to the front of the hole. but alas! likewise sorrowfulness! he had grown so big from eating the magical cake that he could not possibly squeeze out of the hole through which he had crawled into the underground burrow.
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"now i have caught you!" cried the mosquito. "since we could not catch you at your soldier tent or in the trenches near your hollow stump with rivets for a wooden handle, and copper fish-hooks and net-weights.
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the ornaments were very numerous, the wealthy wearing bead-necklaces of agate and lapis-lazuli, the poorer contenting themselves with paste or shell, while silver finger-rings and copper arm-rings were not uncommon. a very typical class of grave-furniture consisted of palettes or colour-dishes, made of alabaster, often of graceful shape, and sometimes standing on four feet. there is no doubt as to their use, for colour still remains in many of them, generally black and yellow, but sometimes a light rose and a light green. since all other objects in the graves were placed there for the personal use of the dead man, we may infer that colour was employed at that period for painting the body.
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there is thus no doubt as to the racial character of the inhabitants of this early settlement. the discovery of a brick inscribed with the name of khaladda, patesi of shuruppak, proved that fâra was the site of the ancient city which later tradition regarded as the scene of the deluge. khaladda's inscription is not written in very archaic characters, and he probably lived in the time of the kings of sumer and akkad. we may thus infer that shuruppak continued to exist as a city at that period, but the greater part of the site was never again inhabited after the destruction of the early town by fire. we have described its remains in some detail as they are our most valuable source of information concerning the earliest sumerians in babylonia. until the objects that were found have been published it is difficult to determine accurately its relation in date to the earlier remains at tello. a few fragments of sculpture in relief were discovered in the course of the excavations, and these, taken in conjunction with the cylinder-seals, the inscribed tablets, and the pottery, suggest that no long interval separated its period from that of the earliest sumerians of history.
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such are the principal early sumerian mounds in the region of the shatt el-kâr and the shatt el-hai. other mounds in the same neighbourhood may well prove to be of equally early dates; but it should be noted that some of these do not cover sumerian cities, but represent far later periods of occupation. the character of the extensive mound of jidr to the east of fâra and abû hatab is doubtful; but the use of lime-mortar in such remains as are visible upon the surface indicates a late epoch. a number of smaller tells may be definitely regarded as representing a settlement in this district during sassanian times. such are dubâ'i, which, with two others, lies to the south of fâra, and bint el-mderre to the east; to the same period may be assigned menêdir, which lies to the north-east, beyond deke, the nearest village to fâra. this last mound, little more than a hundred yards long, covers the site of a burial-place; it has been completely burrowed through by the arabs in their search for antiquities, and is now covered with fragments of sarcophagi. the mounds of mjelli and abû khuwâsîj to the west of fâra are probably still later, and belong to the arab period.
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it will have been noted that all the sumerian mounds described or referred to in the preceding paragraphs cover cities which, after being burned down and destroyed in a comparatively early period, were never reoccupied, but were left deserted. lagash, umma, shuruppak, kisurra, and adab play no part in the subsequent history of babylonia. we may infer that they perished during the fierce struggle which took place between the babylonian kings of the first dynasty and the elamite kings of larsa. at this time city after city in sumer was captured and retaken many times, and on samsu-iluna's final victory over rîm-sin, it is probable that he decided to destroy many of the cities and make the region a desert, so as to put an end to trouble for the future. as a matter of fact, he only succeeded in shifting the area of disturbance southwards, for the sumerian inhabitants fled to the sea-country on the shores of the persian gulf; and to their influence, and to the reinforcements they brought with them, may be traced the troubles of samsu-iluna and his son at the hands of iluma-ilu, who had already established his independence in this region. thus samsu-iluna's policy of repression was scarcely a success; but the archaeologist has reason to be grateful to it. the undisturbed condition of these early cities renders their excavation a comparatively simple matter, and lends a certainty to conclusions drawn from a study of their remains, which is necessarily lacking in the case of more complicated sites.
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it will thus be seen that excavations conducted on the sites of the more famous cities of sumer have not, with the single exception of nippur, yielded much information concerning the earlier periods of history, while the position of one of them, the city of isin, is still unknown. our knowledge of similar sites in akkad is still more scanty. up to the present time systematic excavations have been carried out at only two sites in the north, babylon and sippar, and these have thrown little light upon the more remote periods of their occupation. the existing ruins of babylon date from the period of nebuchadnezzar ii., and so thorough was sennacherib's destruction of the city in 689 b.c., that, after several years of work, dr. koldewey concluded that all traces of earlier buildings had been destroyed on that occasion. more recently some remains of earlier strata have been recognized, and contract-tablets have been found which date from the period of the first dynasty. moreover, a number of earlier pot-burials have been unearthed, but a careful examination of the greater part of the ruins has added little to our knowledge of this most famous city before the neo-babylonian era. the same negative results were obtained, so far as early remains are concerned, from the less exhaustive work on the site of borsippa. abû habba is a far more promising site, and has been the scene of excavations begun by mr. rassam in 1881 and 1882, and renewed by père scheil for some months in 1894, while excavations were undertaken in the neighbouring mounds of deir by dr. wallis budge in 1891. these two sites have yielded thousands of tablets of the period of the earliest kings of babylon, and the site of the famous temple of the sun-god at sippar, which narâm-sin rebuilt, has been identified, but little is yet accurately known concerning the early city and its suburbs. the great extent of the mounds, and the fact that for nearly thirty years they have been the happy hunting-ground of arab diggers, would add to the difficulty of any final and exhaustive examination. it is probably in the neighbourhood of sippar that the site of the city of agade, or akkad, will eventually be identified.
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the brief outline that has been given of our knowledge concerning the early cities of sumer and akkad, and of the results obtained by the partial excavation of their sites, will have served to show how much still remains to be done in this field of archaeological research. not only do the majority of the sites still await systematic excavation, but a large part of the material already obtained has not yet been published. up to the present time, for instance, only the briefest notes have been given of the important finds at fâra and abû hatab. in contrast to this rather leisurely method of publication, the plan followed by m. de morgan in making available without delay the results of his work in persia is strongly to be commended. in this connection mention should in any case be made of the excavations at susa, since they have brought to light some of the most remarkable monuments of the early semitic kings of akkad. it is true the majority of these had been carried as spoil from babylonia to elam, but they are none the less precious as examples of early semitic art. such monuments as the recently discovered stele of sharru-gi, the statues of manishtusu, and narâm-sin's stele of victory afford valuable evidence concerning the racial characteristics of the early inhabitants of northern babylonia, and enable us to trace some of the stages in their artistic development. but in akkad itself the excavations have not thrown much light upon these subjects, nor have they contributed to the solution of the problems as to the period at which sumerians and semites first came in contact, or which race was first in possession of the land. for the study of these questions our material is mainly furnished from the sumerian side, more particularly by the sculptures and inscriptions discovered during the french excavations at tello.
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another distinctive characteristic, almost equally striking, may be seen in the features of the face as represented in the outline engraving and in the sculpture of the earlier periods. it is true that the sumerian had a prominent nose, which forms, indeed, his most striking feature, but both nose and lips are never full and fleshy as with the semites. it is sometimes claimed that such primitive representations as occur upon ur-ninâ's bas-reliefs, or in fig. 1 in the accompanying block, are too rude to be regarded as representing accurately an ethnological type. but it will be noted that the same general characteristics are also found in the later and more finished sculptures of gudea's period. this fact is illustrated by the two black diorite heads of statuettes figured on the following page. in both examples certain archaic conventions are retained, such as the exaggerated line of the eyebrows, and the unfinished ear; but nose and lips are obviously not semitic, and they accurately reproduce the same racial type which is found upon the earlier reliefs.
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two distinct racial types are thus represented on the monuments, differentiated not only by physical features but also by the method of treating the hair and by dress. moreover, the one type is characteristic of those rulers whose language was sumerian, the other represents those whose inscriptions are in the semitic tongue. two apparent inconsistencies should here be noted. on the stele of the vultures, eannatum and his soldiers are sculptured with thick hair flowing from beneath their helmets and falling on their shoulders. but they have shaven faces, and, in view of the fact that on the same monument all the dead upon the field of battle and in the burial mounds have shaven heads, like those of the sumerians assisting at the burial and the sacrificial rites, we may regard the hair of eannatum and his warriors as wigs, worn like the wigs of the egyptians, on special occasions and particularly in battle. the other inconsistency arises from the dress worn by hammurabi on his monuments. this is not the semitic plaid, but the sumerian fringed mantle, and we may conjecture that, as he wrote his votive inscriptions in the sumerian as well as in the semitic language, so, too, he may have symbolized his rule in sumer by the adoption of the sumerian form of dress.
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at the period from which these sculptures date it is not questioned that the semites were in occupation of akkad, and that during certain periods they had already extended their authority over sumer. it is not surprising, therefore, that at this time both sumerians and semites should be represented side by side upon the monuments. when, however, we examine what is undoubtedly one of the earliest sculptured reliefs from tello the same mixture of racial types is met with.
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man forms his god in his own image, and it is surprising that the gods of the sumerians should not be of the sumerian type. if the sumerian shaved his own head and face, why should he have figured his gods with long beards and abundant hair and have clothed them with the garments of another race? professor meyer's answer to the question is that the semites and their gods were already in occupation of sumer and akkad before the sumerians came upon the scene. he would regard the semites at this early period as settled throughout the whole country, a primitive and uncultured people with only sufficient knowledge of art to embody the figures of their gods in rude images of stone or clay. there is no doubt that the sumerians were a warrior folk, and he would picture them as invading the country at a later date, and overwhelming semitic opposition by their superior weapons and method of attack. the sumerian method of fighting he would compare to that of the dorians with their closed phalanx of lance-bearing warriors, though the comparison is not quite complete, since no knowledge of iron is postulated on the part of the sumerians. he would regard the invaders as settling mainly in the south, driving many of the semites northward, and taking over from them the ancient centres of semitic cult. they would naturally have brought their own gods with them, and these they would identify with the deities they found in possession of the shrines, combining their attributes, but retaining the cult-images, whose sacred character would ensure the permanent retention of their outward form. the sumerians in turn would have influenced their semitic subjects and neighbours, who would gradually have acquired from them their higher culture, including a knowledge of writing and the arts.
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in view of the absence of semitic influence in sumer during the earlier periods, it may be conjectured that the semitic immigrants did not reach babylonia from the south, but from the north-west, after traversing the syrian coast-lands. this first great influx of semitic nomad tribes left colonists behind them in that region, who afterwards as the amurru, or western semites, pressed on in their turn into babylonia and established the earliest independent dynasty in babylon. the original movement continued into northern babylonia, and its representatives in history were the early semitic kings of kish and akkad. but the movement did not stop there; it passed on to the foot of the zagros hills, and left its traces in the independent principalities of lulubu and gutiu. such in outline appears to have been the course of this early migratory movement, which, after colonizing the areas through which it passed, eventually expended itself in the western mountains of persia. it was mainly through contact with the higher culture of the sumerians that the tribes which settled in akkad were enabled later on to play so important a part in the history of western asia.
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the age and principal achievements of sumerian civilization
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considerable changes have recently taken place in our estimate of the age of sumerian civilization, and the length of time which elapsed between the earliest remains that have been recovered and the foundation of the babylonian monarchy. it was formerly the custom to assign very remote dates to the earlier rulers of sumer and akkad, and although the chronological systems in vogue necessitated enormous gaps in our knowledge of history, it was confidently assumed that these would be filled as a result of future excavation. blank periods of a thousand years or more were treated as of little account by many writers. the hoary antiquity ascribed to the earliest rulers had in itself an attraction which outweighed the inconvenience of spreading the historical material to cover so immense a space in time. but excavation, so far from filling the gaps, has tended distinctly to reduce them, and the chronological systems of the later assyrian and babylonian scribes, which were formerly regarded as of primary importance, have been brought into discredit by the scribes themselves. from their own discrepancies it has been shown that the native chronologists could make mistakes in their reckoning, and a possible source of error has been disclosed in the fact that some of the early dynasties, which were formerly regarded as consecutive, were, actually, contemporaneous. recent research on this subject has thus resulted in a considerable reduction of the early dates, and the different epochs in the history of sumer and akkad, which were at one time treated as isolated phenomena, have been articulated to form a consistent whole. but the tendency now is to carry the reaction rather too far, and to compress certain periods beyond the limits of the evidence. it will be well to summarize the problems at issue, and to indicate the point at which evidence gives place to conjecture.
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a second class of material, which is of even greater importance for settling the chronology of the later sumerian epoch, comprises the chronological documents drawn up by early scribes, who incorporated in the form of lists and tables the history of their own time and that of their predecessors. the system of dating documents which was in vogue was not a very convenient one from the point of view of those who used it, but it has furnished us with an invaluable summary of the principal events which took place for long periods at a time. the early dwellers in babylonia did not reckon dates by the years of the reigning king, as did the later babylonians, but they cited each year by the event of greatest importance which took place in it. such events consisted in the main of the building of temples, the performance of religious ceremonies, and the conquest of neighbouring cities and states. thus the dates upon private and official documents often furnish us with historical information of considerable importance.
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a third class of material for settling the chronology has been found in the external evidence afforded by the early historical and votive inscriptions to which reference has already been made, and by tablets of accounts, deeds of sale, and numerous documents of a commercial and agricultural character. from a study of their form and material, the general style of the writing, and the nature of the characters employed, a rough estimate may sometimes be made as to the time at which a particular record was inscribed, or the length of a period covered by documents of different reigns. further, in the course of the excavations undertaken at any site, careful note may be made of the relative depths of the strata in which inscriptions have been found. thus, if texts of certain kings occur in a mound at a greater depth than those of other rulers, and it appears from an examination of the earth that the mound has not been disturbed by subsequent building operations or by natural causes, it may be inferred that the deeper the stratum in which a text is found the earlier must be the date to be assigned to it. but this class of evidence, whether obtained from palaeographical study or from systematic excavation, is sometimes uncertain and liable to more than one interpretation. in such cases it may only be safely employed when it agrees with other and independent considerations, and where additional support is not forthcoming, it is wiser to regard conclusions based upon it as provisional.
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for smaller figures and statuettes a softer stone, such as white limestone, alabaster, or onyx, was usually employed, but a few in the harder stone have been recovered. the most remarkable of these is a diorite statuette of a woman, the upper part of which has been preserved. the head and the torso were found separately, but thanks to their hard material they join without leaving a trace of any break. here, as usual, the hands are crossed upon the breast, and the folds of the garment are only indicated under the arms by a few plain grooves as in the statues of gudea. but the woman's form is visible beneath the stuff of her garment, and the curves of the back are wonderfully true. her hair, undulating on the temples, is bound in a head-cloth and falls in the form of a chignon on the neck, the whole being secured by a stiff band, or fillet, around which the cloth is folded with its fringe tucked in.
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the art of inlaying was widely practised by the sumerians, who not only treated metal in this way, but frequently attempted to give more expression or life to stone statues by inlaying the white of the eye with mother-of-pearl or shell, and representing the pupil and iris by lapis-lazuli or bitumen. a similar method was employed to enrich votive stone figures of animals, and to give a varied and polychrome effect to vases carved in stone. the finest example of this class of work is a libation-vase of gudea made of dark green steatite, which was dedicated by him to his patron deity ningishzida. the vase has a short projecting spout running up from the base and grooved, so as to allow only a small stream of liquid to escape during the pouring of a libation. its scheme of decoration is interesting as it affords an excellent example of the more fantastic side of sumerian art, inspired by a large and important section of the religious belief. the two intertwined serpents, whose tongues touch the point where the liquid would leave the vase, are modelled from nature, but the winged monsters on each side well illustrate the sumerian origin of later babylonian demonology.
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from the earliest period at lagash fragments of shell were employed in place of ivory, and the effect produced by it is nearly the same. certain species of great univalves or conch-shells, which are found in the indian ocean, have a thick core or centre, and these furnished the material for a large number of the earliest cylinder-seals. small plaques or lozenges could also be obtained from the core by sectional cutting, while the curved part of the shell was sometimes employed for objects to which its convex form could be adapted. the numerous flat lozenges that have been found are shaped for inlaying furniture, caskets, and the like, and curved pieces were probably fitted to others of a like shape in order to form small cups and vases. each piece is decorated with fine engraving, and in nearly every instance the outline is accentuated by the employment of a very slight relief. the designs are often spirited, and they prove that even in the earliest periods the sumerian draughtsman had attained to a high standard of proficiency.
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the sumerians do not appear to have used complete shells for engraving, like those found on assyrian and aegean sites. a complete shell has indeed been recovered, but it is in an unworked state and bears a dedicatory formula of ur-ningirsu, the son and successor of gudea. since it is not a fine specimen of its class, we may suppose that it was selected for dedication merely as representing the finer shells employed by the workmen in the decoration of the temple-furniture. the sumerians at a later period engraved designs upon mother-of-pearl. when used in plain pieces for inlaying it certainly gave a more brilliant effect than shell, but to the engraver it offered greater difficulties in consequence of its brittle and scaly surface. pieces have been found, however, on which designs have been cut, and these were most frequently employed for enriching the handles of knives and daggers. the panels in the accompanying blocks will serve to show that the same traditional motives are reproduced which meet us in the earlier designs upon fragments of shell and cylinder-seals. they include a bearded hero, the eagle attacking the bull, a hero in conflict with a lion, the lion-headed eagle of lagash, a winged lion, a lion attacking an ibex, and a stag. even when allowance is made for the difficulties presented by the material, it will be seen that the designs themselves rank far below those found upon shell. the employment of mother-of-pearl for engraving may thus be assigned to a period of decadence in sumerian art when it had lost much of its earlier freshness and vigour.
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the above brief sketch of the principal forms and productions of sumerian art may serve to vindicate the claim of the sumerians to a place among the more artistic races of antiquity. much oriental art is merely quaint, or interesting from its history and peculiarities, but that of the sumerians is considerably more than this. its sculpture never acquired the dull monotony of the assyrian bas-reliefs with their over-elaboration of detail, intended doubtless to cloak the poverty of the design. certain conventions persisted through all periods, but the sumerian sculptor was never a slave to them. he relied largely on his own taste and intelligence, and even the earliest work is bold and spirited. after centuries of independent development fresh vigour was introduced by the nomad semitic races who settled in the north, but in the hands of the later semites the sumerian ideals were not maintained. for the finest period of babylonian art we must go back to a time some centuries before the founding of the babylonian monarchy.
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the earliest settlements in sumer; the dawn of history and the rise of lagash
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in their origin the great cities of babylonia were little more than collections of rude huts constructed at first of reeds cut in the marshes, and gradually giving place to rather more substantial buildings of clay and sun-dried brick. from the very beginning it would appear that the shrine of the local god played an important part in the foundation and subsequent development of each centre of population. of the prehistoric period in babylonia we know little, but it may be assumed that, already at the time of the sumerian immigration, rude settlements had been formed around the cult-centres of local gods. this, at any rate, was the character of each town or city of the sumerians themselves during the earliest periods to which we can trace back their history. at fâra, the most primitive sumerian site that has yet been examined, we find the god shuruppak giving his own name to the city around his shrine, and ningirsu of lagash dominates and directs his people from the first. other city-gods, who afterwards became powerful deities in the babylonian pantheon, are already in existence, and have acquired in varying degrees their later characters. enki of eridu is already the god of the deep, the shrine of enzu or nannar in the city of ur is a centre of the moon-cult, babbar of larsa appears already as a sun-god and the dispenser of law and justice, while the most powerful sumerian goddess, ninni or nanâ of erech, already has her shrine and worshippers in the city of her choice.
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by what steps the city-gods acquired their later characters it is impossible now to say, but we may assume that the process was a gradual one. in the earlier stages of its history the character of the local god, like that of his city, must have been far more simple and primitive than it appears to us as seen in the light of its later development. the authority of each god did not extend beyond the limits of his own people's territory. each city was content to do battle on his behalf, and the defeat of one was synonymous with the downfall of the other. with the gradual amalgamation of the cities into larger states, the god of the predominant city would naturally take precedence over those of the conquered or dependent towns, and to the subsequent process of adjustment we may probably trace the relationships between the different deities and the growth of a pantheon. that enki should have been the god of the deep from the beginning is natural enough in view of eridu's position on an expanse of water connected with the persian gulf. but how it came about that ur was the centre of a moon-cult, or that sippar in the north and larsa in the south were peculiarly associated with the worship of the sun, are questions which cannot as yet be answered, though it is probable that future excavations on their sites may throw some light upon the subject.
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in the case of one city excavation has already enabled us to trace the gradual growth of its temple and the surrounding habitations during a considerable portion of their history. the city of nippur stands in a peculiar relation to others in sumer and akkad, as being the central shrine in the two countries and the seat of enlil, the chief of the gods. niffer, or nuffar, is the name by which the mounds marking its site are still known. they have been long deserted, and, like the sites of many other ancient cities in babylonia and assyria, no modern town or village is built upon them or in their immediate neighbourhood. the nearest small town is sûk el-'afej, about four miles to the south, lying on the eastern edge of the afej marshes, which begin to the south of niffer and stretch away to the west. the nearest large town is dîwânîya, on the left bank of the euphrates twenty miles to the south-west. in the summer the marshes in the neighbourhood of the mounds consist of pools of water connected by channels through the reed-beds, but in the spring, when the snows have melted in the taurus and the mountains of kurdistan, the flood-water converts the marshes into a vast lagoon, and all that meets the eye are isolated date-palms and a few small hamlets built on rising knolls above the water-level.
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it is difficult to trace through all its stages the early growth of the city, but it would seem that the shrine in the centre of the town was soon raised upon an artificial mound to protect it during periods of inundation. moreover, as at fâra, the original settlement must have expanded quickly, for even below the mounds to the south-west of the shatt en-nîl, strata have been found similar in character to those under the temple-mound, as well as bricks and wells of the pre-sargonic period. in reconstructing the plan of the later areas occupied by the temple and its enclosure, considerable assistance has been obtained from an ancient plan of the temple, drawn upon a clay tablet that was found at nippur. from the form of the characters inscribed upon it, it does not appear to date from an earlier period than the first half of the second millennium b.c., but it may well be a copy of an older original since the form of its temple-enclose appears to agree with that in the time of narâm-sin as revealed by the excavations. in it the position of e-kur is marked at one end of a great enclosure surrounded by an irregular wall. the enclosure is cut by a canal or sluice, on the other side of which stood temple-storehouses.
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the position of gates in the wall are marked, and it will be noted that a large stream, labelled the euphrates, washes its upper side, while on its other sides are terraces and moats. these details are incorporated in the accompanying plan, but their suggested relation to the remains uncovered in the course of the excavations is largely conjectural. moreover the period in the temple's history represented by the tablet is not certainly established, and some of the details such as the ground-plan of the temple itself may reproduce its later form.
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the excavations on the site of nippur and its temple have illustrated the gradual increase in the size of a sumerian city, and the manner in which the temple of the city-god retained its position as the central and most important building. the diggings, however, have thrown little light upon the form the temple assumed during periods anterior to the dynasty of ur. in fact, we do not yet know the form or arrangement of an early sumerian temple; for on early sites such as fâra, surghul, and bismâya, the remains of no important building were uncovered, while the scanty remains of ningirsu's temple at tello date from the comparatively late period of ur-bau and gudea. on the latter site, however, a number of earlier constructions have been discovered, and, although they are not of a purely religious character, they may well have been employed in connection with the temple service. apart from private dwellings, they are the only buildings of the early sumerians that have as yet been recovered, and they forcibly illustrate the primitive character of the cities of this time.
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a still earlier building was discovered at a depth of five metres below that of ur-ninâ, but it is more difficult to determine the purpose to which it was put. it was built upon a solid platform (c), which has the same orientation as ur-ninâ's storehouse and rises above the ground level marked by the remains of a brick pavement (d). it is strange that the building itself is not in the centre of the platform and for some unknown reason was set at a slight angle to it. it consists of two chambers, each with a doorway, the smaller chamber (a) on a level with the platform, the larger one (b) considerably below it, from which it must have been reached by a ladder. at intervals along the surface of the walls were cavities lined with bitumen, which may have supported the wooden columns of a superstructure, or possibly the supports of an arched roof of reeds. it is possible that we here have a form of religious edifice, but the depth of the larger chamber suggests that, like ur-ninâ's building, it was employed as a sort of store-house or treasure-chamber.
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it is in the city of lagash that our knowledge of sumerian history may be said to begin. the excavation of the site has yielded an abundance of material from which it is possible to arrange her rulers for long periods in chronological order, and to reconstruct the part they played in conflicts between the early city-states. it is true that some of her earlier kings and patesis remain little more than names to us, but with the accession of ur-ninâ we enter a period in which our knowledge of events is continuous, so far at least as the fortunes of the city were concerned. with the growth of her power it is also possible to trace in some detail the relations she maintained with other great cities in the land.
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on the assumption that utug ruled in this early period, we may see in the fragments of his vase from nippur, evidence of the struggles by which the city of kish attained the position of supremacy it enjoyed under mesilim. for utug's vase was not carried to nippur as spoil from kish, but was deposited by utug himself in the temple of enlil, in commemoration of a victory he had achieved over the land of khamazi. we here learn the name of one of the enemies with whom kish had to fight in the early stages of its existence as an independent city-state, and we may conjecture that many more such battles had to be fought and won before its influence was felt beyond the boundaries of akkad by the sumerian cities in the south. the fact that after his victory utug deposited the vase at nippur as a thank-offering proves that in his time the shrine of enlil was already regarded as the central sanctuary of babylonia. zamama, the god of kish, had achieved the victory over khamazi, but enlil, as the supreme lord of the world, was entitled to some recognition and gratitude, and also probably to a share of the spoil. from one line of the inscription upon utug's vase we may perhaps infer that his father's name was bazuzu, but, as no title follows the name, he is not to be reckoned as a patesi of kish. we may thus conclude that utug did not succeed his father upon the throne. whether he was a usurper or succeeded some other relative, and whether he followed up his military successes by founding at kish a powerful dynasty to which mesilim may have belonged, are among the questions which may perhaps be answered as the result of future excavation in northern babylonia.
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of the deities of lagash to whose service ur-ninâ appears especially to have devoted himself, the goddess ninâ, whose name he bore within his own, was one of the most favoured. for one of the chief claims to distinction that he puts forward is that he built her temple at lagash; and although, unlike the later great builder gudea, he gives in his inscriptions few details of his work, we may conclude that he lavished his resources upon it. he also boasts that he made a statue of ninâ, which he no doubt set up within her temple, and one of his canals he dedicated to her. her daughter ninmar was not neglected, for he records that he built her temple also, and he erected a temple for gatumdug, ninâ's intercessor, and fashioned a statue of her. another group of ur-ninâ's buildings was connected with the worship of ningirsu, the city-god of lagash, whose claims a ruler, so devoted to the interests of his own city as ur-ninâ, would naturally not have ignored.
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wars of the city-states; eannatum and the stele of the vultures
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in the record of the war which eannatum himself has left us, we are furnished with details of a more striking character than those given in entemena's brief summary. in the latter it is recorded that the battle was waged at the word of ningirsu, and the stele of the vultures amplifies this bald statement by describing the circumstances which attended the notification of the divine will. on learning of the violation of his border by the men of umma and the plundering of his territory which had ensued, eannatum did not at once summon his troops and lead them in pursuit of the enemy. there was indeed little danger in delay, and no advantage to be gained by immediate action. for umma, from its proximity to lagash, afforded a haven for the plunderers which they could reach in safety before the forces of lagash could be called to arms. thus eannatum had no object in hurrying out his army, when there was little chance of overtaking the enemy weighed down with spoil. moreover, all the damage that could be done to gu-edin had no doubt been done thoroughly by the men of umma. in addition to carrying off mesilim's stele, they had probably denuded the pastures of all flocks and cattle, had trampled the crops, and had sacked and burnt the villages and hamlets through which they had passed. when once they and their plunder were safe within their own border, they were not likely to repeat the raid at once. they might be expected to take action to protect their own territory, but the next move obviously lay with lagash. in these circumstances eannatum had no object in attacking before his army was ready for the field, and his preparations for war had been completed; and while the streets of lagash were doubtless re-echoing with the blows of the armourers and the tramp of armed men, the city-gates must have been thronged with eager groups of citizens, awaiting impatiently the return of scouts sent out after the retreating foe. meanwhile, we may picture eannatum repairing to the temple of ningirsu, where, having laid his complaint before him, he awaited the god's decision as to the course his patesi and his people should follow under the provocation to which they had been subjected.
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it is not directly stated in the text as preserved upon the stele that it was within e-ninnû eannatum sought ningirsu's counsel and instructions; but we may assume that such was the case, since the god dwelt within his temple, and it was there the patesi would naturally seek him out. the answer of the god to eannatum's prayer was conveyed to him in a vision; ningirsu himself appeared to the patesi, as he appeared in a later age to gudea, when he gave the latter ruler detailed instructions for the rebuilding of e-ninnû, and granted him a sign by which he should know that he was chosen for the work. like gudea, eannatum made his supplication lying flat upon his face; and, while he was stretched out upon the ground, he had a dream. in his dream he beheld the god ningirsu, who appeared to him in visible form and came near him and stood by his head. and the god encouraged his patesi and promised him victory over his enemies. he was to go forth to battle and babbar, the sun-god who makes the city bright, would advance at his right hand to assist him. thus encouraged by ningirsu, and with the knowledge that he was carrying out the orders of his city-god, eannatum marshalled his army and set out from lagash to attack the men of umma within their own territory.
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the record of his victory which eannatum has left us is couched in metaphor, and is doubtless coloured by oriental exaggeration; and the scribes who drew it up would naturally be inclined to represent the defeat of umma as even more crushing than it was. thus the number of burial-mounds suggests that the forces of lagash suffered heavily themselves, and it is quite possible the remnant of umma's army rallied and made a good fight within the city. but we have the independent testimony of entemena's record, written not many years after the fight, to show that there is considerable truth under eannatum's phrases; and a clear proof that umma was rendered incapable of further resistance for the time may be seen in the terms of peace which lagash imposed. eannatum's first act, after he had received the submission of the city, was to collect for burial the bodies of his own dead which strewed the field of battle. those of the enemy he would probably leave where they fell, except such as blocked the streets of umma, and these he would remove and cast out in the plain beyond the city-walls. for we may conclude that, like entemena, eannatum left the bones of his foes to be picked clean by the birds and beasts of prey. the monument on which we have his record of the fight is known as the stele of the vultures from the vultures sculptured upon the upper portion of it. these birds of prey are represented as swooping off with the heads and limbs of the slain, which they hold firmly in their beaks and talons. that the sculptor should have included this striking incident in his portrayal of the battle is further testimony to the magnitude of the slaughter which had taken place. that eannatum duly buried his own dead is certain, for both he and entemena state that the burial-mounds which he heaped up were twenty in number; and two other sculptured portions of the stele of the vultures, to which we shall presently refer, give vivid representations of the piling of the mounds above the dead.
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eannatum then turns to ninkharsag, the goddess of the sumerian city of kesh, and in similar phrases invokes her wrath upon the men of umma should they violate their oath. he states that in his wisdom he has presented two doves as offerings before ninkharsag, and has performed other rites in her honour at kesh, and turning again to the goddess, he exclaims, "as concerns my mother, ninkharsag, who from among the men of umma by his word or by his ... will go back upon the word (that has been given), and will dispute it in days to come? if at some future time they shall alter this word, may the great net of ninkharsag, by whom they have sworn the oath, strike umma down!" enki, the god of the abyss of waters beneath the earth, is the next deity to be invoked, and before him eannatum records that he presented certain fish as offerings; his net eannatum has cast over the men of umma, and should they cross the ditch, he prays that destruction may come upon umma by its means. enzu, the moon-god of ur, whom eannatum describes as "the strong bull-calf of enlil," is then addressed; four doves were set as offerings before him, and he is invoked to destroy umma with his net, should the men of that city ever cross ningirsu's boundary, or alter the course of the ditch, or carry away the stele of delimitation. before babbar, the sun-god, in his city of larsa, eannatum states that he has offered bulls as offerings, and his great net, which he has cast over the men of umma, is invoked in similar terms. finally, eannatum prays to ninki, by whom the oath has also been taken, to punish any violation of the treaty by wiping the might of umma from off the face of the earth.
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a close analogy may thus be traced between the two scenes upon the front of the stele and the two upper registers upon the back. in the latter we have representations of eannatum on foot leading his warriors to battle, and also riding victoriously in a chariot at their head. on the front of the stele are scenes of a similar character in the religious sphere, representing ningirsu slaying the enemies of lagash, and afterwards riding in his chariot in triumph. it may also be noted that the composition of the scenes in the two registers upon the face of the stone is admirably planned. in the upper register the colossal figure of ningirsu with his net, upon the right, is balanced below on the left by his figure in the chariot; and, similarly, the smaller figure or figures above were balanced by the ass that drew ningirsu's chariot, and the small figure of a goddess who faces him.
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the sculptured representations of eannatum and his soldiers, which are preserved upon these fragments, are of the greatest importance, for they give a vivid picture of the sumerian method of fighting, and supply detailed information with regard to the arms and armour in use at this early period. we note that the sumerians advanced to the attack in a solid phalanx, the leading rank being protected by huge shields or bucklers that covered the whole body from the neck to the feet, and were so broad that, when lined up in battle array, only enough space was left for a lance to be levelled between each; the lance-bearers carried as an additional weapon an axe, resembling an adze with a flat head. from the second register, in which we see the army on the march, it is clear that no shield was carried by the rank and file for individual protection; the huge bucklers were only borne by men in the front rank, and they thus served to protect the whole front of an attacking force as it advanced in solid formation. in the scene in the upper register two soldiers are sculptured behind each shield, and in each gap between the shields six lances are levelled which are grasped firmly in both hands by the soldiers wielding them. the massing of the lances in this fashion is obviously a device of the sculptor to suggest six rows of soldiers advancing one behind the other to the attack. but the fact that each lance is represented as grasped in both hands by its owner proves that the shields were not carried by the lance-bearers themselves, but by soldiers stationed in the front, armed only with an axe. the sole duty of a shield-bearer during an attack in phalanx was clearly to keep his shield in position, which was broad enough to protect his own body and that of the lance-bearer on his right. thus the representation of two soldiers behind each buckler on the stele of the vultures is a perfectly accurate detail. as soon as an attack had been successfully delivered, and the enemy was in flight, the shield-bearers could discard the heavy shields they carried and join in the pursuit. the light axe with which they were armed was admirably suited for hand-to-hand conflicts, and it is probable that the lance-bearers themselves abandoned their heavy weapons and had recourse to the axe when they broke their close formation.
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two living figures are sculptured on the fragment, engaged in the work of completing the burial. they are represented as climbing the pile of corpses, and they seem to be helping themselves up by means of a rope which they grasp in their right hands. on their heads they carry baskets piled up with earth, which they are about to throw upon the top of the mound. in the relief they appear to be climbing upon the limbs of the dead, but it is probable that they began piling earth from below and climbed the sides of the mound as it was raised. the sculptor has not seen how to represent the sides of the tell without hiding his corpses, so he has omitted the piled earth altogether, unless, indeed, what appears to be a rope which the carriers hold is really intended for the side of the mound in section. it has been suggested that the carriers are bearing offerings for the dead, but the baskets appear to be heaped with earth, not offerings, and the record in the text upon the stele, that eannatum piled up twenty burial-mounds after his battle with the men of umma, is sufficient justification for the view that the scene represents one of these mounds in course of construction.
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according to this alternative we need assume the existence of no registers other than those of which we already possess fragments, and the conception and arrangement of the reliefs gains immensely in unity and coherence. on the obverse we have only two registers, the upper one rather larger than the one below, and both devoted, as we have seen, to representations of ningirsu and his attendant goddesses. the reverse of the stone, divided into four registers, is assigned entirely to eannatum, who is seen leading his troops to the attack, returning in his chariot from the field of battle, performing funeral rites for his dead soldiers, and deciding the fate of captives he has taken. thus the reliefs admirably illustrate the description of the war with umma, and we may conclude that the stele of the vultures was either the actual stele of delimitation set up by eannatum upon the frontier, or, as is more probable, an exact copy of its text, embellished with sculptures, upon a stone which eannatum caused to be carved and set up within his own city as a memorial of his conquest. indeed, we may perhaps make the further assumption that the stele was erected within the temple of ningirsu, since it commemorates the recovery of gu-edin, the territory that was peculiarly his own. the stele of the vultures, with its elaborate and delicate relief, would have been out of place upon the frontier of gu-edin, where, we may conjecture, the memorial stone would have been made as strong and plain as possible, so as to offer little scope for mutilation. but, if destined to be set up within the shelter of ningirsu's temple in lagash, the sculptor would have had no restriction placed upon his efforts; and the prominent place assigned to ningirsu in the reliefs, upon the face of the memorial, is fully in keeping with the suggestion that the stele of the vultures at one time stood within his shrine.
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in favour of the view that the monument was not the actual stele of delimitation we may note that towards the close of its text some four columns were taken up with lists of other conquests achieved by eannatum. but in all "kudurru-inscriptions," or boundary-stones, which were intended to safeguard the property or claims of private individuals, the texts close with a series of imprecations calling down the anger of the gods upon any one infringing the owner's rights in any way. now in general character the text upon the stele of the vultures closely resembles the "kudurru-inscriptions," only differing from them in that it sets out to delimit, not the fields and estates of individuals, but the respective territories of two city-states. we should therefore expect that, like them, it would close with invocations to the gods. moreover, the cone of entemena, the text of which was undoubtedly copied from a similar stele of delimitation, ends with curses, and not with a list of entemena's own achievements. but if the short list of eannatum's titles and conquests be omitted, the text upon the stele of the vultures would end with the series of invocations to enlil and other deities, to which reference has already been made. we may therefore conclude that the original text, as engraved upon the stele of delimitation, did end at this point, and that the list of other conquests was only added upon the memorial erected in ningirsu's temple.
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an indication that we are right in placing the southern conquests of eannatum before the war with umma may, perhaps, be seen in the invocations to deities engraved upon the stele of the vultures with which eannatum sought to protect his treaty. in the course of the invocations eannatum states that he has made offerings to the goddess ninkharsag in the city of kesh, to enzu, the moon-god, in ur, and to babbar, the sun-god, in larsa. these passages we may assume refer to offerings made by eannatum in his character of suzerain, and, if this view is correct, we must conclude that the conquest of these cities had already taken place. the invocation to enki perhaps presupposes that eridu also was in the hands of eannatum at this time, a corollary that would almost necessarily follow, if the three neighbouring cities of ur, erech, and larsa had fallen before his arms. accordingly, the list of gods by whom eannatum and the men of umma swore to preserve the treaty becomes peculiarly significant. they were selected on political as much as on purely religious grounds, and in their combined jurisdiction represented the extent of eannatum's dominion in sumer at the time. that a ruler should be in a position to exact an oath by such powerful city-gods was obviously calculated to inspire respect for his own authority, while the names of the gods themselves formed a sufficient guarantee that divine punishment would surely follow any violation of the treaty. the early successes gained by eannatum, by which he was enabled to exercise suzerainty over the principal cities of southern babylonia, may well have been the cause of his arousing the active hostility of kish and opis. when he had emerged victorious from his subsequent struggle with the northern cities, we may assume that he claimed the title of king, which he employs in place of his more usual title of patesi in certain passages in the text of his treaty with umma.
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from the preceding discussion of the campaigns of eannatum it will have been seen that during his reign a considerable expansion took place in the power and influence of lagash. from being a city-state with her influence restricted to her own territory, she became head of a confederation of the great sumerian cities, she successfully disputed with the northern cities the hegemony in babylonia, and she put a check upon the encroachments of elam, the hereditary foe of sumer and akkad alike. according to the view of eannatum's conquests which has been put forward, the first expansion of the city's influence took place southwards. the cities of ur, erech, larsa, kesh, and probably eridu, had already become her vassal states, before kish and opis attempted to curtail her growing power; and in the war which followed it is probable that we may see a struggle between the combined forces of sumer on the one hand, and those of akkad on the other. one of the most important episodes in this conflict was the war with umma, since the raid by the men of that city into the territory of lagash furnished the occasion for the outbreak of hostilities. the issue of the conflict placed lagash in the position of the leading city in babylonia. the fact that from this time forward eannatum did not permanently adopt the title of "king" in his inscriptions, may perhaps be traced to his preference for the religious title of "patesi," which emphasized his dependence upon his own city-god ningirsu.
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the military character of eannatum is reflected in his inscriptions, which in this respect form a striking contrast to those of his grandfather, ur-ninâ. while the earlier king's records are confined entirely to lists of temples and other buildings, which he erected or restored in lagash and its neighbourhood, the texts of eannatum are devoted almost exclusively to his wars. from a few scattered passages, however, we gather that he did not entirely neglect the task of adding to and beautifying the temples in his capital. thus he built a temple for the goddess gatumdug, and added to other buildings which were already standing in ur-ninâ's time. but his energies in this direction were mainly devoted to repairing the fortifications of lagash, and to putting the city in a complete state of defence. thus he boasts that he built the wall of lagash and made it strong. since ur-ninâ's time, when the city-wall had been thoroughly repaired, it is probable that the defences of the city had been weakened, for eannatum also records that he restored girsu, one of the quarters of the city, which we may suppose had suffered on the same occasion, and had been allowed to remain since then in a partly ruined condition. in honour of the goddess ninâ he also records that he rebuilt, or perhaps largely increased, the quarter of the city which was named after her, and he constructed a wall for the special protection of uru-azagga, another quarter of lagash. in fact, the political expansion, which took place at this period in the power of lagash, was accompanied by an equally striking increase in the size and defences of the city itself.
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during the reign of eannatum it is clear that the people of lagash enjoyed a considerable measure of prosperity, for, although they were obliged to furnish men for their patesi's army, the state acquired considerable wealth from the sack of conquered cities, and from the tribute of grain and other supplies which was levied upon them as a mark of their permanent subjection. moreover, the campaigns could not have been of very long duration, and, after the return of the army on the completion of a war, it is probable that the greater part of it would be disbanded, and the men would go back to their ordinary occupations. thus the successful prosecution of his foreign policy by eannatum did not result in any impoverishment of the material resources of his people, and the fertile plains around the city were not left untilled for lack of labour. indeed, it would appear that in the latter part of his reign he largely increased the area of land under cultivation. for in his longer foundation-inscriptions, after recording his principal conquests, he states: "in that day eannatum did (as follows). eannatum, ... when his might had borne fruit, dug a new canal for ningirsu, and he named it lummadimdug." by the expression "when his might had borne fruit," it is clear that eannatum refers to the latter part of his reign, when he was no longer obliged to place his army incessantly in the field, and he and his people were enabled to devote themselves to the peaceful task of developing the material resources of their own district in sumer.
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another canal, which we know was cut by eannatum, was that separating the plain of gu-edin from the territory of umma, but this was undertaken, not for purposes of irrigation, but rather as a frontier-ditch to mark the limits of the territory of lagash in that direction. there is little doubt, however, that at least a part of its stream was used for supplying water to those portions of gu-edin which lay along its banks. like the canal lummadimdug, this frontier-ditch was also dedicated to ningirsu, and in the inscription upon a small column which records this fact, the name of the canal is given as lummagirnuntashagazaggipadda. but this exceedingly long title was only employed upon state occasions, such as the ceremony of dedication; in common parlance the name was abbreviated to lummagirnunta, as we learn from the reference to it upon entemena's cone. it is of interest to note that in the title of the stone of delimitation, which occurs upon the stele of the vultures, reference is made to a canal named ug-edin, the title of the stone being given as "o ningirsu, lord of the crown ..., give life unto the canal ug-edin!" in the following lines the monument itself is described as "the stele of gu-edin, the territory beloved of ningirsu, which i, eannatum, have restored to ningirsu"; so that it is clear that the canal, whose name is incorporated in that of the stele, must have had some connection with the frontier-ditch. perhaps the canal ug-edin is to be identified with lummagirnunta, unless one of the two was a subsidiary canal.
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the phrase with which the well-inscription of eannatum ends may be taken as indicating the measure of prosperity to which the state of lagash attained under his rule. "in those days," it says, "did ningirsu love eannatum." but eannatum's claim to remembrance rests, as we have seen, in a greater degree upon his military successes, by means of which he was enabled to extend the authority of lagash over the whole of sumer and a great part of akkad. he proved himself strong enough at the same time to defend his empire from the attack of external foes, and it is probable that, after his signal defeat of the elamites, he was not troubled by further raids from that quarter. three times in the course of his inscriptions he states that "by eannatum, whose name was uttered by ningirsu, were the countries broken in the head," and it would appear that his boast was justified. the metaphor he here employs is taken from the heavy battle-mace, which formed an effective weapon in the warfare of the period. it may be seen in use in the scene sculptured upon the principal monument of eannatum's reign, where ningirsu himself is portrayed as breaking the heads of his foes. this representation of the city-god of lagash, one of the finest examples of early sumerian sculpture, in itself admirably symbolizes the ambition and achievements of the ruler in whose reign and by whose order it was made.
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the close of ur-ninâ's dynasty, the reforms of urukagina, and the fall of lagash
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it is probable that urlumma's object in breaking the treaty was not merely to collect spoil from the fields and villages he overran, but to gain complete possession of the coveted plain. at least, both entemena and urukagina record that the subsequent battle between the forces of umma and lagash took place within the latter's territory, which would seem to imply that urlumma and his army did not retreat with their plunder to their own city, but attempted to retain possession of the land itself. enannatum met the men of umma in ugigga, a district within the temple-lands of ningirsu, where a battle was fought, which, in urukagina's brief account, is recorded to have resulted in umma's defeat. entemena, on the other hand, does not say whether lagash was victorious, and his silence is possibly significant, for, had his father achieved a decided victory, he would doubtless have recorded it. moreover, urlumma continued to give trouble, and it was only in the reign of entemena himself that he was finally defeated and slain. we may, therefore, conclude that enannatum did no more than check urlumma's encroachments, and it is not improbable that the latter retained for the time a considerable portion of the territory which lagash had enjoyed for several generations.
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the installation of ili in the patesiate of umma was accompanied by some degree of ceremonial. it would appear that his appointment did not take place immediately after the capture of the town, but that a short interval elapsed between the close of the war and the inauguration of the new government. meanwhile, entemena himself had returned to lagash, and it was to that city that he summoned ili into his presence. he then set out with ili from girsu, and, when umma was reached, he formally installed him at the head of the government, and conferred on him the title of patesi. at the same time he dictated his own terms to the people of umma, and commissioned ili to see that they were duly carried out. in the first place he restored to lagash the territory to which she had always laid claim, and the ancient frontier-ditches, which had been filled up or had fallen in, he caused to be repaired. in addition to reasserting the traditional rights of lagash, he annexed new land in the district of karkar, since its inhabitants had taken part in the recent rebellion, and had probably furnished an important contingent for the army of urlumma. he gave directions to ili to extend the two principal frontier-ditches, dedicated to ningirsu and ninâ respectively, within the territory of karkar; and, with the large supply of forced labour which he exacted from his newly annexed subjects, he strengthened the defences of his own territory, and restored and extended the system of canals between the euphrates and the tigris. but entemena did not content himself with exacting land and labour only from the conquered city. he imposed a heavy tribute in corn, and it was probably one of ili's most important duties as patesi to superintend its collection and ensure its punctual transfer into the granaries of lagash.
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it is possible that the concluding paragraphs of the text were given in a fuller form upon the stone stelæ than we find them upon the cone; but, so far as the historical portion of the record is concerned, we have doubtless recovered the greater part, if not the whole, of entemena's record. the stelæ may have been engraved with elaborate curses, intended to preserve the frontier-ditch from violation, and, though these have been omitted in the shorter version of the text, their place is taken by the brief invocation and prayer with which the record concludes. entemena here prays that if ever in time to come the men of umma should break across the boundary-ditch of ningirsu or the boundary-ditch of ninâ, in order to lay violent hands upon the territory of lagash, whether they be men of the city of umma itself or people from the lands round about, then may enlil destroy them, and may ningirsu cast over them his net, and set his hand and foot upon them. and, should the warriors of his own city be called upon to defend it, he prays that their hearts may be full of ardour and courage. it was not many years before lagash was in sore need of the help which is here invoked for her by entemena.
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they turned back, interchanging companions. during the walk mrs. wyndwood suddenly asked matthew if his wife knew where he was: he said, “no”; sometimes his brother billy did; billy lived with her: his man forwarded all letters from his studio. after a long pause he added that practically he had been separated from his wife for years. eleanor murmured again, “poor woman,” and he was too shame-stricken to look her in the face, and to read that the sympathy was for him. they relapsed into silence, and indeed conversation was difficult.
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the night had grown wilder, the wind blew more fiercely, drenching their faces with salt spray, whirling them round and round and almost lifting them off their feet. but the clouds were driven off and the star-sprinkled heaven was revealed, majestic.
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near the house mrs. wyndwood and matthew strang stopped to admire the sublime spectacle, sheltering themselves from the gale in a niche in the cliff; the other two had already gone round the craggy projection which hid the house.
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they watched the mad cavalry charge of creaming billows; watched them break, thundering and throwing their spray heavenwards like a continuous play of white fountains all along the line of march. to the right, beyond the village whence they had come, where the cliff jutted out at its lowest level, a ghostly fountain leaped again and again sheer over the top of the cliff with a crashing and splashing that was succeeded by the long-receding moan of the back-drawn wave soughing through the rattling pebbles.
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her face, flushed with the passion of the storm, showed divinely in the dim starlight; beneath her wrap her bosom, panting from the walk in the teeth of the wind, heaved with excitement; the gale had dishevelled her hair. they scarcely spoke; the organ-roll of the sea crashed majestically like the bass in some savage symphony of the winds.
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now at last the moon leaped out, framed in a weird cloud-rack; the moonlight played on her loveliness and made it wonderful.
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she moved slightly forward. “the cliff is too damp to lean upon,” she murmured.
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audaciously he slipped a trembling arm against the rock and let her form rest against that. she scarcely seemed conscious of him; she was watching the rampant, seething waters, volleying their white jets skyward with a crash of cannon that outroared the wind; her scarlet lips were parted eagerly; the dreamy light had gone from her eyes; they flashed fire.
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“oh, i could dare to-night!” she cried.
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the wind blew her tresses into his face; the perfume of them stung his blood. her loveliness was maddening him. so close! so close! oh, to shower mad kisses upon her lips, her eyes, her hair! what did it matter, there on that wild beach alone with the elements! he had been so near death; who would have recked if he had been dead now, tossed in that welter of waters?
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the waves broke with a thousand thunders, the white fountains flew at the stars; they seemed alive, exultant, frenzied with the ecstasy of glorious living. oh, for life--simple, sublime--the keen, tingling, savage life of vikings and sea-robbers in the days before civilization, in the full-blooded days when men loved and hated fiercely, strenuously, wrenching through rapine and slaughter the women they coveted. ah, surely he had some of their blood; it ran in his veins like fire; he was of their race, despite his dreamings. he was his father’s son, loving the storm and the battle.
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the wind wailed; it was like the cry of his tortured heart, his yearning for happiness. it rose higher and higher. a bat flew between them and the moon. eleanor nestled to him involuntarily; her face was very near to his. it gleamed seductively; there was no abashment, only alluring loveliness; the fire in her eyes kindled him now not to the secondary life of art, but to the primary life of realities. could she not hear his heart beat? yes, surely the storm of the elements had passed into her blood, too. her face was ardent, ecstatic. his arm held her tight. oh, to stake the world on a kiss!
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the moon was hidden again; they were alone in the mad, dim night; the complexities of society were far away. they looked at each other, and through her eyes he seemed to see heaven.
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a star fell overhead. it drew her eyes away a moment to watch its fiery curve. he felt the spell was broken. the wind shrieked with an eldritch cry, like the mocking threnody of his thwarted hope. he had a shuddering remembrance of mad peggy. and straightway he saw her weird figure dashing round the crag in the darkness--a shawl over her head, and a lovely face, at once radiant and frenzied, gleaming from between its dusky folds. his heart almost stopped, a superstitious thrill froze his hot blood. never to be happy! ah, god! never! never! to thirst and thirst, and nothing ever to quench his thirst!
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mrs. wyndwood started forward. “oh, there you are, olive!”
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the figure threw passionate arms round her. “comfort me, darling; i am engaged.”
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for the happier herbert had spoken. and olive had listened shyly, humbly, with tears, full of an exquisite uplifting emotion, akin to the exaltation of righteousness, at the thought of giving herself to this man, of living her life with and for the one true soul in the world.
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they stood close to the hoary rim of the black welter; dusky figures, wind-rocked and spray-drenched, a little apart from each other, the shining house in the background.
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“and when did you begin to think of me--in that way?” she faltered.
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“i never thought of you in any other. but that night when matthew arrived, when you sat nid-nodding in the grandfather’s chair, you maddened me; you were adorable! the contrast was exquisite. to think of you--a wilful little misanthrope--to think of that glorious, wayward creature fading away till she suited the chair. oh, it was too--”
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he broke off. passion robbed him of words. he moved nearer--she drew back.
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“oh, but will you still”--she hesitated, shy of the word--”love me when i do suit the chair?”
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“i shall always see you as you were then.”
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she laughed with a half-sob.
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“and just then,” she confessed deliciously, fluttering even now like a bird in the net, “i was beginning to get frightened of you. i felt you growing upon me, shadowing the horizon like the roc in the arabian nights. and the pain of the world was outside--in the great black night--calling to me in my slough of luxury.”
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“you witch! veil those eyes or i shall kiss them.”
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“and why were you frightened of me?” he asked, tenderly.
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she said, humbly, in little shy jerks: “i felt like in the sea this morning--one little atom, and the whole world against me, and my own weakness most of all.... i had prided myself on my swimming, and here was i being dragged under ... just like other girls ... a victim to the same ridiculous passion.”
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“you delightful, candid creature! with me as the object?”
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“don’t be flippant now, herbert.” how delicious his name sounded; it made amends for the rebuke! “you do understand me. marriage is a second birth--voluntary, this time. it means accepting the universe, which was thrust upon one unasked.”
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“it means making the best of it.”
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“oh, surely it means more. it means passing it on to others. but i surrender. i cannot live without you.”
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he sprang to take her, but she eluded him. “look! the moon is covered up again.”
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“i only want to see your face.”
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“don’t talk like other men, though i have fallen like other girls.”
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“no, you are always yourself, olive--i have dreamed of this moment. i would not have it otherwise--except perhaps with you in the grandfather’s chair and a poke bonnet.”
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“now you are yourself. this is such a conventional ending to a holiday, we must preserve what originality we can.” she was recovering her spirits.
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“a conventional ending! why, it’s a most romantic incongruous match. it beats the comedy. i shall burn it.”
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“no, let’s produce it--it wouldn’t cost much.”
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“i am not worthy of you, olive,” he said, with a quiver in his voice. “i have nothing.”
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“oh! when you have my heart!”
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“my queen of girls! but what of your relatives?”
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a gleam of fun passed across her wet face. she had her droll look of mischief.
a__<label>__DET gleam__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP fun__<label>__ADJ passed__<label>__VERB across__<label>__ADP her__<label>__PRON wet__<label>__ADJ face__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON droll__<label>__ADJ look__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP mischief__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“you are all of them. i was of age long ago--i am awfully old, you know--you take me with your eyes open--”
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“i can’t; yours dazzle me.”
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“that’ll do for the comedy,” she laughed, gleefully. “still, if you do want me, there are only you and i to consider.”
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“only we two,” he murmured.
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“we two,” she repeated, and her eyes were suffused with tender moisture.
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there was a delicious silence. he tried to take her hand. this time she abandoned it to him; a wave of moral emotion lifted her to the stars.
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the wind wailed, the black sea crashed white at their feet, its whirling brine blinded their eyes as with salt tears.
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“isn’t it curious?” she said, as they moved back a little, hand in hand.
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“that you and i should be made happier by our common perception of the unhappiness of life?”
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“queer girl!” he thought. but he only squeezed her hand.
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“the catechism is right,” she went on, thoughtfully, proceeding to misquote it. “the waves are too strong. it’s no use fighting against your sex or your station. do your duty in that state of life in which it has pleased god to call you. but i would have that text taught to the rich exclusively, not to the poor. the poor should be encouraged to ascend; the rich should be taught contentment. else their strength for good is wasted fruitlessly.” and the electric current of love generated by those close-pressed palms flashed to her soul the mission of a life of noble work hand in hand.
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herbert scarcely heard her. the glow of her lovely face, the flashes of feeling that passed over it, the tears that glistened on her eyelashes--these absorbed his senses. her generalizations were only a vague, exquisite music. he lifted her hand and held it passionately to his lips. she murmured, beseechingly:
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“you will never disappoint me, herbert?”
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“my darling!” and he strove to draw her nearer and press his first kiss upon those bewitching lips.
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“oh! there’s a star falling,” she cried, and slipped from his hold, a beautiful diana, virgin as the white spray and tameless as the night.
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she had disappointed herbert. he was puzzled. but as she disappeared round the cliff in quest of the others, a smile of triumphant content curled round his boyish lips.
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“that’s the last touch of piquancy,” he murmured, as he chased her round the crag.
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two days after herbert’s engagement, matthew strang left devonshire on the plea of a death in the family.
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a letter from billy had indeed brought the news that rosina’s father was no more. matthew had never thought untenderly of old coble; the mountain of a man had acted generously after his lights, and now that his genial roar had passed into the eternal silence, the pathos of death softened his son-in-law towards his memory and towards the bereaved daughter. nevertheless, matthew’s plea was only a pretext. he had no intention of intruding upon rosina. after her recent reception of him he had no reason to suppose a visit would be welcome. the letter from billy had included no message from her, except a request, superfluously and irritatingly formal, that she should be allowed to give house-room to her aunt clara, who had gone to live with old coble when his daughter married. his reply to billy contained warmly sympathetic reference to the loss of old coble, and expressed his joy at the prospect of receiving miss coble.
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his real reason for fleeing from devonshire was his discovery of his real feeling towards mrs. wyndwood. when the frenzy of the stormy night had merged in the sober reflections of the mild morning, he shuddered to think how near he had gone to forfeiting her respect, to insulting her by the revelation of a dishonorable passion. to continue in her daily society would have been too great a torment, aggravated, as it must have been, by the sight of herbert’s happiness. perhaps the rude reminder of his domestic shackles contained in billy’s letter strengthened his resolve to tear himself away. courtesy compelled him to leave behind him an invitation to the ladies to take tea one day at his studio, which neither had ever seen. how could he snap abruptly the links he had forged with this delightful twain?
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he threw himself with ardor into work, trying to soothe his pain by expressing it in art, as a woman sheds it away in tears. he toiled at a symbolic picture to illustrate rossetti’s sonnet, “love’s fatality.”
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“love shackled with vain-longing, hand to hand.”
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when she at last came to see the picture, he was startled to find her alone, and the bearer of a message of apology from miss regan. his studio being, so to speak, a place of business, he was not unused to receive ladies in connection with commissions, but his poor, agonized heart--that had so ached to see her again--pulsed furiously with mad hope as her stately figure, clad in widow-like black that set off her beauty in novel lights, moved slowly about the great studio, admiring pictures which he would have hidden from her in the days when he thought of her more as a spiritual critic than a woman. now, even though she stood before him making remarks, he was too distraught to catch the purport of her criticisms. he followed her about in a haze, a dream, speaking, replying, and feeling all the while as if it was all part of a game of make-believe, and in a moment the thin pretence would be thrown off and she would be in his arms. but the moments passed, the haze cleared, and he realized that he was entertaining a fashionable, self-possessed lady, wrapped up in artistic interest, with no apparent relation to the woman who had flushed with the passion of the sea and the winds on that night of stress and storm.
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his mind flew back from her bodily presence to picture her leaning against his arm, and the memoried vision seemed incredible. she was unapproachably demure in her black-silk gown. over the shoulders she wore a short black-velvet cape embroidered in jet, with a beaded fringe, finished off with a filmy black lace reaching just below the waist. when she threw it back, matt saw the great puff sleeves of her gown and a turned-down collar that combined with them to give an old-world feeling. at her throat was a soft ruche of black chiffon. and from this monotone of black the blond skin of the throat and face rose dazzling, crowned by a small pink bonnet, of shamrock shape, entirely composed of roses, with a lace-and-jet butterfly fluttering over it. now and then she pointed out something with a long black-gloved forefinger. her left hand held a dainty little book, that looked--like herself--poetry. how far away she seemed, standing thus at his side! he was in a fever of chills and heats.
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she stopped longest before his unfinished picture of “love’s fatality.” he heard her approving his conception of
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“love shackled with vain-longing, hand to hand,”
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but, even as her ravishing lips spoke golden words of praise, his vain longing to kiss them admonished him how feebly his symbols expressed the heart-sickness he was feeling. the longer he heard the music of her lauding voice, the more those gray eyes kindled below the pink bonnet in adoration of his genius, the more his disgust with the picture grew; and when a chance word of hers reminded him that the subject had already been treated in the last academy, he determined to destroy his work the moment she was gone, though he had always been aware of the little skied picture which had drawn miss regan’s eccentric attention. the last vestiges of his hope of her love died as she discussed “love’s fatality,” with apparent unconsciousness that to him, at least, the picture stood for something personal; her aloofness was exacerbating. the heats of his fever died; only the chill was left.
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he gave her some tea, and became gradually aware that she was abnormally loquacious and vivacious. he remembered to ask after miss regan’s health, and was told that olive was bright and gay, with only rare reactions of pessimism. mrs. wyndwood wondered dolefully again what she would do when olive was married. his heart, bolder than his lips, beat “come to me. come to me.” but she did not seem to catch its appeal, though his eyes spoke, too. in his embarrassment he turned over the pages of the dainty little book she had laid down on the table. he started at finding it a new volume of harold lavender’s poems, and when on the fly-leaf he read “to eleanor” his face twitched noticeably.
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“ah, that was the book mr. lavender wrote about in the letter that primitiva lost,” she said, quickly. “it’s just out to-day.”
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“i see he calls you eleanor,” he observed, tonelessly.
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“yes,” she responded, smiling, “that is a poetic license. besides, it is a screen. there are so many eleanors.”
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that sounded true to his bitter mood. there were indeed so many eleanors, all in contradiction. he kept turning over the leaves in silent jealousy.
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“ah, that is a very pretty one you have there,” she said, lightly. “it might suggest a subject to you. read it aloud, it’s only ten lines.”
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fuming inwardly at the suggestion that the dapper poet of sugar-plums and the hero of the nougat, whom he mentally classed with roy as an interloper, could afford him any inspiration, and further incensed by the command to read the fellow’s verses, he gabbled through the little poem, which extended over two deckle-edged, rough, creamy pages.
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“rosalind reading an old romance
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“i watch her dainty rose-bud mouth, that trembles with the exquisite and wondrous tide that steals from it of song, redolent of the south; while o’er her april countenance, the music of the quaint romance, the sweeter for a sense of pain, sends sun and shade; and lost in dream, her sweet eyes softly flash and gleam with golden smiles and diamond rain.”
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“i hope she read it better than that,” laughed mrs. wyndwood, mirthfully.
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“well, she couldn’t make the fourth line scan anyhow,” he said.
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“oh, you mean ‘redolent.’ that’s another poetic license.”
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“and rosalind seems to be another,” he said, surlily.
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“oh no, i’m not rosalind. i haven’t a dainty rose-bud mouth. mine is a full-grown rose at least.” and her laugh showed the white teeth gleaming against the red lips.
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her arch laughing face so close to his across the little tea-table tantalized him intolerably.
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“it is a red, red rose,” he whispered, hoarsely, half rising and bending over as if to survey it.
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“beware of the thorn!” she laughed, nervously, drawing back involuntarily. “and to think that but for the coast-guard who found primitiva’s letter,” she rattled on hastily, “some other fair lady would have had the honor of the dedication.”
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“one of the other eleanors, perhaps,” he said, sulkily, sinking back into his chair.
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“poor primitiva!” she cried, in unabated hilariousness and intensified volubility. “oh, she’s been such fun. you know olive has brought her to london. she begged her away from her father, to the excessive joy of primitiva, who has become her devoted slave. the other night olive took her to the theatre with us and would have her in the box. she had been wrought up to a wild excitement, and when she got inside the theatre and looked round at the festive company she drew a deep breath of rapture. she said she liked it very much. long before the orchestra struck up, olive discovered that primitiva imagined she was already in complete enjoyment of the play, and that to sit in the theatre was all in all. only one thing marred primitiva’s pleasure. she was looking round furtively for your cousin, and at last asked where mr. herbert sat; not, it transpired, because of his position as olive’s fiancé, but because she had heard us talk of herbert as writing a play, and imagined he was an inseparable adjunct of the theatre. of course, she doesn’t know even now that there are more theatres than one. when the overture struck up she was surprised and delighted by this unexpected addition to the pleasures of the evening. the rising of the curtain was the climax of her astonishment and her transport. the action of the piece--a melodrama, purposely chosen for her behoof by our sportive friend, experimenting upon her freshness--seized her from the start, and kept her riveted. the fall of the first curtain, and the arrest of the innocent man for the murder, left her weeping bitterly. ‘it isn’t real, you little goose!’ olive said, to pacify her. ‘isn’t it?’ primitiva replied, opening her brimming trustful eyes to their widest. she gave a little sobbing laugh. ‘and i thought they was all alive!’ then she rose to go, and was astonished to hear that there was more. alas! it would have been better had she gone. when the hero’s wife, visiting the hero in prison, kissed him, primitiva inquired if the actor and actress were really married, and learning that they were not, was too disgusted to sympathize any further with their misfortunes. it revolted her,” concluded mrs. wyndwood, taking up her teacup with an air of preparing for the resumption of sips, “that a man who was not a woman’s husband should kiss her.” and her face gleamed more tantalizing than ever under the roses of her bonnet.
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his fingers dented the teaspoon they fidgeted with; it seemed intolerable that his life should be spoiled by acceptance of the moral stand-point of this simple creature. he with his artistic agonies and his complex sorrows and his high imaginings to be squeezed into the same moral moulds as primitiva! he refused to see the humor of her. the girl had no more interest for him than that irritating roy. it was maddening to have eleanor sitting there in cold blood, the honorable mrs. wyndwood, an irreproachable widow in black, talking abstractly of kisses. then the tense string of expectation snapped; the apathy that he felt in the presence of rosina invaded him--he stirred his tea listlessly, awaiting the moment of her departure. as she talked on, loquacious to the end, prattling of erle-smith and beethoven, and swinburne, his apathy quickened into impatience; he longed for her to be gone. his hidden fingers played a tattoo on the side of his chair. she bade him good-bye at last; she would not see him again for many months, unless he came to paris.
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“i always run over to do the salon,” he answered, indifferently.
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when he had seen her, stately and stiff, to her carriage, and his studio-door had shut him in again, he ripped up the canvas with his old sailor’s knife in a paroxysm of fury. his eye caught the silver regatta cup standing proudly upon the piano. he felt like dashing it down; then it occurred to him how fine and bitter a revenge it would be upon her and humanity at large to fill it with poison and drain it to the dregs. but he only threw himself upon a couch in a passion of sobs, such as had not shaken him since childhood. the great picturesque room, which the autumn twilight had draped in dusk, was ineffably dreary without her; his heart seemed full of dust, and tears were a blessed relief in the drought. they probably saved him from ending his empty life there and then.
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he rallied, and began other pictures, but he could do nothing with them. he refused commissions for portraits, hating the imposition of subject, and fearful of exposing his restlessness to a stranger’s gaze. the return of the world to town renewed social solicitations, but he felt he was wearing his heart on his sleeve, and declined to parade it through drawing-rooms. despite this gain of time, the weeks passed without any definite product. he was searching, but he could not find. one day he would sit down and fix in charcoal some rough suggestions for a greater symbolic picture than that which he had destroyed; but the next day he would be working up his recollections of devonshire night-scenery, trying by a series of tentative touches on a toned canvas to evolve the romantic mystery of those illumined villages niched in the cliffs, or of the moon making a lovely rippling path across the dark lonely sea, as eleanor had made across his life; while a day or so after he would discard these thinly painted shadowy night-pieces, and, painting straight from the shoulder, “impasto” his canvas with brutal blobs of paint that at a distance merged into the living flow of red sunlit water.
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and always this rankling, gnawing pain of unsatisfied and unspoken desire. no man could work with that at his breast. and her rare letters did not allay it, though they spoke no word of love, but were full of enthusiasm for the free student life in paris, the glorious camaraderie, the fun of dining occasionally for a few centimes in tiny crémeries, and going to the people’s theatre off the boulevard montparnasse, where they gave a bonus of cerises à l’eau de vie between the pieces. oh, if she had only been younger, less staled by life! if she could only begin over again. if she only had the energy of olive, who started work at the academy at the preternatural hour of eight a.m. but she had lost the faculty of beginnings, she feared, and she made but poor progress in sculpture. that was the undercurrent of these gay letters, the characteristic note of despondency.
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rosina held out no hand of reconciliation. his only contact with her was through billy, who paid him one visit to escort “aunt clara” over the studio. his wife had, it transpired, held forth so copiously and continuously upon its glories that the poor creature had plucked up courage to ask to see it, and rosina, who had evidently concealed the breach with her famous husband, had besought billy to convoy her. and so one day these two routed out the sick lion from the recesses of his den.
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the appearance of miss clara coble was as much a shock as a surprise to matthew strang. in the nine years or so since she had assisted at his wedding--an unimportant but not disagreeable personage, tall and full-blooded as her brother, she had decayed lamentably. she was now an ungainly old maid, stooping and hollow-eyed, with crows’ feet and sharpened features. she had a nervous twitch of the eyelids, her head drooped oddly, and her conversation was at times inconsecutive to the verge of fatuity. from the day of her birth to the day of his death coble had thought of her as his little sister, and he never realized the tragedy of her spinsterhood, of her starved nature, though under his very eye she had peaked and pined in body and soul.
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but it leaped to the painter’s eye at the first sight of her, and her image remained in his brain, infinitely pathetic.
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the ugliness that in earlier days would have averted his eyes in artistic disgust, drew him now in human pity. he grew tenderer to rosina at the thought that she was harboring this wreck of femininity. it rejoiced him to think how much “aunt clara” was enjoying this visit to his grandeurs; he listened with pleased tolerance to her artless babble--in her best days she had always had something of her brother’s big simplicity--as she told tale after tale out of school, repeating the colossal things her poor brother had said about his son-in-law’s genius and wealth, recounting how coble had thus become the indirect hero of the temperance bar, and unconsciously revealing--what was more surprising to the painter--the pride with which rosina had always written home (and still spoke to her aunt) about her husband and his fashionable friends and successes. and poor miss coble expanded in the atmosphere of the great man, which she had never hoped to breathe. her cadaverous cheek took a flush, she held her head straighter on her shoulders. he felt that, after all, it was worth while being famous if he could give such pleasure to simple souls by his mere proximity. the fame he had sold his body and soul for was a joyless possession; happy for him if it could yet give joy to others.
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billy told him that ruth hailey was in paris at the hotel windsor with mrs. verder, preparatory to the long antipodean tour, and suggested that he might call upon her when he went over to see the salon if she was still there. matthew wrote down the address, but said he didn’t think he should go over that year. billy looked disappointed; he had been about to suggest accompanying his brother. life at camden town, he intimated fretfully, had resumed its dead-alive routine, and he glanced towards miss coble as if to imply that her advent had not brightened the domestic table.
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when the visitors left, matthew put them into a cab and drove with them a little way to purchase presents for the children. there was a doll for clara and a box of animals for davie. to rosina he did not venture to send even a message. at a word from her he would have gone to her, but he had no stomach to cope with her tantrums.
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this new reminder of home left him more depressed than before. it was impossible to concentrate himself upon his work, even in the presence of models. they were an unprofitable expense, and he dismissed them and brooded over the ruins of his life. without eleanor art was impossible, he felt. true art he could not produce without her inspiration, and false art was falseness to her and a vile slavery.
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insomnia dogged his nights, and when he slept it was but to suffer under harassing dreams fantastically compounded of his early struggles. these dreams never touched his later life; many of them dealt oppressively with the bird-shop, and he had often to clean endless shades with chamois leather, smashing one after the other under the rebuking but agonizingly unintelligible “pop! pop! pop!” of “ole hey,” though he felt sure tommy, the young micmac errand-boy, had cracked them beforehand. and what added to the sleeper’s agony was that these breakages would have to be made good to the deacon from his scanty wage, or, worse, he would be discharged and unable to send the monthly subsidy to cobequid village. the anguish and anxiety were quite as harassing as though the troubles were real.
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he made one desperate excursion into society--it was the delightful dinner-party of a gifted fellow-artist whose cultured and beautiful wife had always seemed to him the ideal hostess. and a pretty and guileless girl, full of enthusiasm for art and nature and the life that was opening out before her, fell to his escorting arm; she was visibly overpowered by her luck and charmingly deferential; at first his responsive smile was bitter, but his mood lightened under her engaging freshness and the champagne he imbibed recklessly.
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but the next morning’s reaction, aggravated by the headache of indigestion, plunged him into more tenebrous glooms. but for the unkindly fates he might have sat with such a wife, host and hostess of such a gathering. he pictured eleanor receiving his guests, and in his factitious happiness he gathered the poor and the despised to his hearth. the images of suicide resurged. he saw it on the bills:--“suicide of a popular painter.” why not? the position was hopeless; were it not best to throw it up? how the world would stare! no one would understand the reason. rosina would still remain unknown, irrelevant to the situation. and his eyes filled with tears, in the bitter luxury of woe.
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but he did not commit suicide, and all that the world, or that minute portion of it which talks art, wondered at, was why matthew strang was unrepresented when the academy opened in may. it leaked out that he had been ill, and there were sympathetic paragraphs which were not altogether misinformed, for these sleepless or dream-tortured nights had brought on nervous prostration and acute headaches. that ancient blood-poisoning, too, had left its traces in his system, and when he was worried and overwrought his body had to pay again the penalty of unforgiven physical error.
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again, as in those far-off days, he thought of a sea-voyage to his native village; it dwindled down to crossing the channel. as the opening of the salon drew nearer and nearer, he felt more and more strongly that he must not miss the exhibition. it was part of a painter’s education. there was no need to see eleanor wyndwood; by remaining on the fashionable side of the river the chances were he would not even come across her casually in the few days of his stay. no, there was nothing to apprehend. and besides, it began to be increasingly borne in upon him that it was his duty to look up ruth hailey; she had called upon him at camden town, and etiquette demanded that he should return the call. what had she and rosina talked about? he wondered dully. if he did not go soon, she might be off to australia, and the opportunity of seeing his ancient playmate would probably recur nevermore.
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and so a bright may morning saw him arrive in the capital of art, breakfast hastily at the grand hotel, and--drive straight to the latin quarter. other climes, other thoughts, and the gayety of the boulevards, with their green trees and many-colored kiosks, had begun to steal into his spirit, and his gloomy apprehension of danger to dissipate in the crisp sunny air. why should he not see eleanor wyndwood?
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and then he discovered that he did not know her address, that she wrote from the english ladies’ art club; he hunted out the place, but the concierge told him she was not there, and gave him the address of the academy most of the ladies attended, but this was the hour of déjeuner, and monsieur would probably not find them there till the afternoon. he grew downcast again, and, dismissing the cab, he sauntered on foot towards the academy, trying to kill time. he dropped into a tiny restaurant close by to get a cup of coffee; it was decorated by studies from the nude, evidently accepted in payment for dinners; and the ceiling had a central decoration that reminded him of his own crude workmanship in the sitting-room of that hotel in new brunswick. he sat down at a little table facing the only lady customer, a dashing frenchwoman, the warm coloring of whose handsome model’s face showed between a great black-plumed hat and a light-blue bow, and who paused between her spoonfuls of apple-stew to chant joyously, “coucou, coucou, fal la, la, la, la.” a decadent poet with a leonine name sipped absinthe, a spectacled dane held forth intermittently on the bad faith of england towards denmark at the commencement of the century, a scotch painter discoursed on fly-fishing, and exhibited a box of trout-flies, and one or another paused from time to time to hum, “coucou, coucou, fal la, la, la, la,” in sympathy with the gay refrain. hens fluttered and clucked about the two sunlit tables, and a goat wandered around, willing to eat.
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matthew strang fed the hens and was taken by the humors of the quarter, into which he had scarcely penetrated before, knowing mainly the other side of the water. perceiving him looking at her pictures, the stout smiling proprietress, whose homely face, minus her characteristic smile, flared in paint on a wall, protruding from a scarlet-striped bodice, asked him in very loud tones if he would like to see her collection, and straightway haled him up-stairs to her salon, which was hung thickly with meritorious pictures, upon whose beauties she held a running comment, astonishing matthew by the intelligence of her criticisms. “this represents a hawthorn, monsieur, which blossoms in the spring. this was done by a dane who is dead. the king of denmark offered him a commission, but he would not work for him, because he was a revolutionary--in painting only, you understand, an impressionist. that is a copy of the one in the luxembourg. i paid two hundred francs to have it made, because i love the original so. oh yes, it is a very good copy. my landlord offered me four hundred for it, but i prefer to live in a little apartment, surrounded by my pictures. as you say, i am an amateur of pictures. there are more here in my bedroom,” and she ushered him in, apologizing for the bed not being made. then she told him her history. she was a widow with an only son, who was beau garçon. ah, she was beautiful herself when she had twenty years. her son was to be an artist. matthew strang feelingly hoped the boy would become a great artist; inwardly he wondered wistfully why he himself had not been blessed with an art-loving mother. and then in a curious flash of retrospective insight he recognized for the first time the essential artistic elements in his mother’s character, stifled by a narrow creed--her craving for the life of gay cities, her pagan anger at abner preep’s bow-legs! what a pity she had not been born in this freer artistic atmosphere, which indeed her ancestors must have breathed, though their blood had been crossed with german and scotch, as if to produce his own contradictory temperament. in london, he thought, artistic connoisseurship was the last thing one would look for in small shopkeepers. in a softer mood he repaired to the academy, which was entered through a pair of large folding doors that gave upon a stone corridor. he passed through this passage and came out under a sloping porch, with broken trellis-work at one side and an untidy tree. at the top of a flight of stone steps that descended thence, he was stopped by a block of young american fellows in soft felt hats, who motioned him to stand still, and, to his astonishment and somewhat melancholy amusement, he found himself part of a group about to be photographed by a pretty young lady student in the sunny, dusty court-yard below.
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the group she had posed stretched all down the steps, and consisted mainly of models--male and female. there were italian women, dusky and smiling, some bareheaded, some hooded, and a few pressing infants--literal olive-branches--to their bosoms. there was an italian girl of fourteen with a mustache, who was a flare of color in her green velvet apron and gorgeous trailing head-dress. there were frenchwomen with coquettish straw hats, and a child in a tam o’ shanter; there was a corsican in a slouch-hat, with coal-black hair and a velvet jacket to match, and a little spanish boy in a white hat. thrown in as by way of artistic contrast with all this efflorescence of youth was a doddering, pathetic old man with a spreading gray beard and flowing gray locks; and there were young lady students of divers nationalities--polish, greek, dutch, and american--curiously interspersed in the motley group which stretched right down the stone steps between the stone balustrades that terminated in stone urns spouting disorderly twigs. behind the pretty photographer were the terra-cotta walls of the sculpture atelier, which, high beyond her head, were replaced by long, green-glazed windows, into which a pink lilac-bush, tiptoeing, tried to peep; around her were stools, dumb-bells, damaged busts, a headless terra-cotta angel with gaping trunk and iron stump, nursing a squash-faced cherub, and dismantled packing-cases swarming with sportive black kittens; and facing her a great blackened stone head of medusa stared from a red-brick pedestal, awful with spiders’ webs across the mouth and athwart the hollow orbits and in the snaky hair covered with green moss; and towering over her head and dominating the court-yard stood a colossal classical statue, tarnished and mutilated, representing a huge helmeted hero, broken-nosed and bleared, sustaining a heroine, as armless but not so beautiful as the venus de milo, doing a backward fall. but the sun shone on the dusty litter and the mess and the lumber, and the lilac-bush blossomed beautifully, and over all was the joy of youth and art and the gayety of the spring. matthew strang felt an ancient thrill pass through his sluggish veins. to be young and to paint--what happiness! his eyes moistened in sympathy with the scene. the models were redolent of art--the very children breathed art, the babes sucked it in. art was a republic, and everybody was equal in it--the doughtiest professor and the meanest model, the richest amateur and the penurious youth starving himself to be there. there was nothing in the world but art--it was the essence of existence. there were people who lived for other things, but they did not count. oh, the free brave life! he was glad to be photographed as part and parcel of all this fresh aspiration; it revivified him; he had a superstitious sense that it was symbolic.
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the group scattered, dismissed by the “merci” of the pretty photographer; and matthew, descending the steps, asked her if mrs. wyndwood worked in her atelier. she did not know, but she guessed from his description it must be the aristocratic-looking lady who had dropped in once or twice in miss regan’s company. miss regan came regularly every morning at eight o’clock, but not at all in the afternoon, when she worked at home. miss regan’s own studio was in an impasse about ten minutes away; probably her friend lived with her. heartily thanking his informant, he betook himself thither. he found the impasse in a prosaic, grimy street, amid which the charming, if battered bass-relief of venus with cupids over its entrance, struck an unexpected note of poetry, which was intensified by the little ionic portico with classic bronze figures between its pillars that faced him as he passed through the corridor. leafy trees and trellised plants added rusticity to the poetry of the sunny, silent, deserted court-yard, so curiously sequestered amid the surrounding squalor. the windows of many studios gave upon it, and the backs of canvases showed from the glass annexes for plein air study. but as he passed under the pretty, natural porch of embowering foliage that led to the door of the studio he sought, his heart beat as nervously at the thought of again facing the hon. mrs. wyndwood as when, in his young days, he had first saluted the magnificent uncle whose name he bore. he had an inward shrinking: was it wise to expose himself to the perturbation of another interview with this cold, stately creature, the image of whom, passing graciously to her carriage, was still vivid to him? but he could not go back now. he knocked at the door.
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eleanor opened the door--a radiant, adorable apparition in a big white clay-smeared blouse with a huge serviceable pocket. he had never imagined her thus; he was as taken aback by her appearance as she by his presence. he stared at her in silence, as she stood there under the overarching greenery, with gold flecks of sunlight on her hair. but both recovered themselves in a moment; the sight of her in this homely artistic costume knocked her off the pedestal of fashion and propriety on which his mental vision had posed her; she became part of that brave young democracy of art he had just left; and there was a charming camaraderie in the gay laugh with which, withdrawing her long white hands beyond reach of his proffered glove, and exhibiting them piquantly clay-covered, she cried, “can’t shake.”
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the seriousness of the imagined meeting vanished in a twinkling. he looked at her dancing eyes, the sweet, red mouth smiling with a gleam of lustrous teeth: he had an audacious inspiration.
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“well, then there’s nothing for it but--” he said, smiling back, and finished the sentence by kissing her. instantly her eyelids drooped, half-closing; her lips responded passionately to his.
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they were withdrawn in a moment before he could realize what he had done, or the wonderful transformation in their relations.
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“in the open air!” she cried, horrified, and ran within. he followed her, closing the door; his heart beat tumultuously now. nothing could undo that moment. a wilderness of talk could not have advanced matters so far.
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through the tall glass roof of the airy studio the sun streamed in rays of dusty gold, dappling the imaginative clay models in their wet wrappings, the busts, fountains, serpents, rock-work, witches, that variegated the shelves, and lent an air of fantasy and poetry, extruding the tedious commonplace of plebeian existence, and harmonizing with the joyous aloofness of the scene in the court-yard its sense of existence in and for itself, by souls attuned to art and dedicate to loveliness.
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“imprudent creature! suppose olive had been in!”
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the great moment was taken in a livelier key than he had ever dreamed.
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“but you were out,” he said, trying to respond to her lightness, though he trembled in every limb. he made a movement towards her. she shrank back against the shelf.
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“don’t!” she cried, gayly, “you’ll spoil your gloves.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN don__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON cried__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. gayly__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT spoil__<label>__VERB your__<label>__PRON gloves__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
he dabbled them magnificently in a heap of plaster of paris and advanced nearer.
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“now you’ll spoil my blouse,” she cried, moving hastily away to dip her hands in a bowl of water.
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he tore off the gloves and threw them on the floor.
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“is that a challenge?” she laughed, drying her hands, but the laughter died in a gurgle. he had stopped her breath. she did not struggle, but lay in his arms silent like a tired, lovely child--at rest, at last, her happy face pressed to his. “oh, my dear,” she murmured, cooingly. “and all those months you never kissed me once!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET a__<label>__DET challenge__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON laughed__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. drying__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON hands__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET laughter__<label>__NOUN died__<label>__. in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET gurgle__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB stopped__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON breath__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON did__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT struggle__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__CONJ lay__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON arms__<label>__NOUN silent__<label>__VERB like__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET tired__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. lovely__<label>__ADJ child__<label>__NOUN --__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP rest__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP last__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. her__<label>__PRON happy__<label>__ADJ face__<label>__NOUN pressed__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT his__<label>__PRON .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN oh__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. my__<label>__PRON dear__<label>__NOUN ,âĢĿ__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON murmured__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. cooingly__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ all__<label>__NUM those__<label>__NUM months__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON never__<label>__PRON kissed__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON once__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“i did not dare,” he answered, with a pang of remorse. “you gave me no hint that you--that you cared for me.”
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a beautiful blush blossomed and faded on her face. “but you should have understood. i needed the touch.” and her face nestled closer against his.
a__<label>__DET beautiful__<label>__ADJ blush__<label>__NOUN blossomed__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ faded__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP her__<label>__PRON face__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN but__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON should__<label>__PRT have__<label>__VERB understood__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON needed__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET touch__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ her__<label>__PRON face__<label>__NOUN nestled__<label>__VERB closer__<label>__VERB against__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
even now it seemed dream-like that this marvellous happiness should be his; that this fastidious complex creature of fashionable london whom he had dared to love should be pillowing her perfumed head on the shoulder of the man who in his laborious and wretched youth had wheeled a bird-stuffer’s barrow through whitechapel. his life lay behind him like a steep, arduous hill rising to this celestial cloudland.
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“if i had only known,” he said, brokenly. “oh, how i loved you that night of the storm!”
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“and how i adored you,” she confessed deliciously. “you were so brave, so manly that day. you saved olive’s life, you saved her for me and for herbert. oh, how noble! we none of us thanked you, it was all laughter and badinage, but you were my hero, my true, great, strong, simple man.”
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and her lips sought his humbly, her eyes swimming in tears.
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“let me kiss you now for your brave deed. ah, how i was afraid when herbert, looking through his glass, cried out that something had happened to olive, that you had swum back for her. i felt my life growing dark. suppose i had lost you both.”
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and her mobile face grew tragic at the thought. he held her tighter.
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“eleanor! it is so good to be with you!” he articulated in a hoarse whisper that was half a sob.
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her tragic features lightened to a winsome, reproachful smile.
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“and when i came to your studio, matthew, you gave me ... tea!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ when__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON came__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT your__<label>__PRON studio__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. matthew__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON gave__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON ...__<label>__. tea__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“if i had only known, if i had only dared!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN if__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB only__<label>__PRON known__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. if__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB only__<label>__PRON dared__<label>__VERB !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“you must dare with a woman.”
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her arms had been resting on his shoulders--she threw them around his neck.
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“oh, my master--now and ever.”
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conscience slipped into paradise. he unwound her arms.
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“you forget my--secret.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON forget__<label>__VERB my__<label>__PRON --__<label>__. secret__<label>__ADJ .âĢĿ__<label>__.
she moved her chin bewitchingly upward.
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“you have sealed my lips.”
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he kissed them again. “and you can love me despite that? i am not worthy of such a sacrifice.”
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her bosom heaved beneath the blouse, her eyes kindled with the old spiritual fire, her voice rang passionately.
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“you are worthy! life has been too cruel to you--you need a woman’s heart to cherish you, you shall not be starved of the sunshine, you shall work in happiness. ah! that is what i have learned here in this happy, liberal air. art is the child of joyful labor--it is the sunshine of life. you are sad, miserable, and it harrows my heart. oh, if i can bring joy and peace to the soul of a man like you, if i can indeed inspire your art, my wretched life will not have been wasted. you have told me that i could, tell it me again.”
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“you, and you only, can bring me joy and peace.”
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she caressed his hair with a tender, protective hand. “my matthew!” she murmured.
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“and you, eleanor,” he faltered, tremulously; “i shall not make you unhappy?”
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“i shall be happier than i have ever been,” and her arms stole round him again in simple trust.
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“ah, i was forgetting. life owes you happiness, too. if i dared to think i could bring you forgetfulness of the past!”
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she shuddered. her arms unlaced themselves of their own accord. she dropped into a chair before the table and laid them across the moulding-dish, and buried her head in her hands. he stood by helpless, torn by emotions, waiting till the flood of bitter memories should have spent itself, watching her shoulders quivering, and the sunlight lying on her hair like a consecration.
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“oh, douglas!” she was moaning. “did i do you wrong? did i do you wrong? but i meant the best; i always meant the best, god knows. and you cannot chide me now you are dead and cold, and it is all so long ago.”
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he shivered nervously. truly women were incomprehensible, he thought. no man could follow the leaps and turns of their emotions. they were a higher, more ethereal order of being. but he reverenced her for her loyalty to the unworthy dead, her punctilious self-torture, even while he envied the man who had been privileged to call her “wife.”
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he touched her hair reverently--there where the sunshine rested.
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“don’t cry, dear eleanor.”
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a great burst of sobbing shook her. “oh, life is so difficult!” he bent down beside her, ineffably pitiful.
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“we are going to make it easier for one another,” he said, gently. his hair touched hers. she turned her tear-flecked face, and their lips met. “we are going to begin over again,” he murmured. she stifled her sobs like a soothed child, and sprang up with a smile struggling through rain-clouds.
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“yes, with you i can begin over again, master,” and she looked into his face with her naïve, beseeching trustfulness.
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“this is a new life already,” he said, touching her blouse. she gave a laugh of childish joy.
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“yes! yes! this is a new life--the past is dead--this is my neophyte’s robe. ah, it changes one, this paris, does it not? i am an artist, and you are my master. it is you who have awakened me to art! oh, i knew this would happen. that wonderful old woman! she’s a fortune-teller in bethnal green--the duchess of portsdown gave me her address--and after you were so cold to me when i came to your studio in london, i went to see her. such a queer, wrinkled hag, and such a dingy, wretched room, up such a dirty flight of stairs--oh, i was afraid! but she was marvellous! she knew i was a widow--that i had been married unhappily--that i was a fashionable lady--though i went in my oldest clothes, and hid my rings in my purse for fear of their being stolen. oh! by-the-way, where have i put them?” he found them and she slipped them on. “and she said i should love again and be loved. you should have seen her wicked old eyes as she spoke of love--they were like live coals. and then she predicted that i should marry again and lead a long and happy life with a dark man, distinguished and rich, who should inspire me to a new faith. isn’t it marvellous?” she took his hand and smoothed the wrist caressingly.
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“it is you who have inspired me to a new faith,” he answered, tremulously. “it is you who have awakened me to art. do you know what happened to me this morning when i went to seek you out? i, too, was reborn.”
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he told her the auspicious incident--how he had been photographed as part of the fresh young art-life.
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she clapped her jewelled hands.
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“it is providential--foreordained. we are to be happy.”
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“happy!” he shivered with sudden foreboding. “another prophetess declared i was never to be happy,” he said, sadly. “to thirst, and to thirst, and never to quench my thirst!”
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“oh, that is all superstitious nonsense!” she cried, vehemently. “you must be happy; you shall be happy; the world must not lose your art; i will save it.”
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her face was glorified.
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“but the cost to yourself,” he faltered.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN but__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET cost__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT yourself__<label>__PRON ,âĢĿ__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON faltered__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
“i will pay the price. you love me. for me to ruin your life--that would be sin.”
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she drew his head to her bosom and smoothed back the curly hair from his forehead.
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“my dear, my dear,” she murmured.
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he gulped back the lump in his throat. “no, this is not sin. you have redeemed me; i never felt so at peace with all things,” he said, in low, religious tones. “oh, we will shame the world--we will live high and true. our happiness shall radiate to all that sorrows and suffers. our home shall be the home of art. it shall stand open to all the young artists striving faithfully in poverty--it shall be a centre of blessing. suffering has made me morose, now i feel at one with my kind, longing to do my truest work. oh, god bless you, my dear.”
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a startled look of alarm had come into her face. she loosed her embrace of him.
a__<label>__DET startled__<label>__ADJ look__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP alarm__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB come__<label>__VERB into__<label>__ADP her__<label>__PRON face__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON loosed__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON embrace__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
“but, matt! we cannot have a home.”
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he had a chill of apprehension, which even the sweetness of that first clipping of his name could not counteract.
he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET chill__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP apprehension__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. which__<label>__PRON even__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET sweetness__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP that__<label>__DET first__<label>__ADJ clipping__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON name__<label>__NOUN could__<label>__PRT not__<label>__PRT counteract__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
“but we love each other!”
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she waved her hands agitatedly. “the world would spurn me--”
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“we will spurn the world.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN we__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT spurn__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“oh, but you are not thinking! who would come to the house? how is it to be a centre of blessing?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN oh__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON are__<label>__VERB not__<label>__VERB thinking__<label>__VERB !__<label>__. who__<label>__PRON would__<label>__PRT come__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET house__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. how__<label>__DET is__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET centre__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP blessing__<label>__VERB ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“we will win the world’s respect. what! you and i! are we not strong enough? you, with your noble past--i, who come from nothing and have won you.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN we__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT win__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN respect__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. what__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON and__<label>__CONJ i__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. are__<label>__VERB we__<label>__PRON not__<label>__VERB strong__<label>__ADJ enough__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. with__<label>__ADP your__<label>__PRON noble__<label>__ADJ past__<label>__NOUN --__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. who__<label>__PRON come__<label>__VERB from__<label>__ADP nothing__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ have__<label>__PRON won__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“you talk like a dreamer, a poet, and i love you for it. but you do not know the world--how it ignores the realities of things.”
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“oh, i know the canting hypocrisy that puts its faith in shows, and honors loveless marriage. i will teach it to respect a home of love, and the work that is its fruit. you are right, happiness is the mother of art. oh, how i shall work now, my dear!”
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“you may overtop raphael; you will never be a royal academician.”
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“what has my private life to do with art?”
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“nothing with art, but everything with english art. you will lose your r.a.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN nothing__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP art__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP everything__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP english__<label>__ADJ art__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT lose__<label>__VERB your__<label>__PRON r__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. a__<label>__DET .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“i shall gain you.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON shall__<label>__PRT gain__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
she shook her head.
she__<label>__PRON shook__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON head__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“why not gain both?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN why__<label>__PRON not__<label>__PRT gain__<label>__VERB both__<label>__PRON ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“ah, but you say it is impossible!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ah__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON say__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB impossible__<label>__ADJ !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“i do not say so. what need is there to wear our hearts upon our sleeves?” she touched his sleeve now, insinuating caressing fingers. “darling, don’t you see how hard it would be for me to bear--i am not a man. the worst of the scorn would be for me. society is very hard upon those who will not be unconventional in secret. i have not your courage and strength. you will not shame me.”
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“oh, i am thoughtless,” he said, and stood miserable, unconscious of the caressing fingers.
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then his brow lightened.
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“nobody knows i’m married. if we came back and set up house together, people would think we had been married abroad.”
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she put her hands to her face with a desperate gesture. “oh, but i could not bear olive to know.”
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his heart leaped. “has herbert told her i’m married?”
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“no, she doesn’t know.”
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“he is a fine fellow.”
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“but she would be sure to learn it one day--it would leak out.”
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“then she would keep the secret.”
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she shook her head. “you don’t know olive,” she said from between her palms. “she is hard on women. i would have sat to you ages ago, only i was afraid of her sneers. i wouldn’t have her know for worlds. i used to think her sexless.”
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“but now that she is to be married--”
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“she will be more conventional than ever.”
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he tossed back his hair, impatiently. “then we must dispense with olive.”
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for a long time she did not reply. he thought his harshness towards her friend had set her crying again. he gently forced her hands from her face. it was flushed and pain-stricken.
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“forgive me. i have hurt you,” he said, in contrition.
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“no, you do not understand. and olive has been so good to me. she takes charge of all my affairs--” she hesitated. “i don’t even know what my income is, or”--with a pathetic engaging smile--”whether i have an income at all. and i’m afraid i spend a great deal.”
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he straightened his shoulders. “i am very glad of that. i will work for you. i can wring gold from the world.” rapid calculations flashed through his mind--already he regretted his last year’s inactivity, the destruction of his picture.
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she was blushing adorably. “no, i could not take anything from you ... if we lived apart. no, no.”
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“not from me? oh, eleanor. then we must make our home together.”
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“but don’t i tell you that is impossible?” she said, almost pettishly, on the brink of tears. “the world would get to know the truth. there is that ruth hailey you spoke of, who knows your brother, and who through her connection with linda verder gets brought into contact with all sorts of people. and your wife would hear of it, too. unscrupulous persons would egg her on to move. there would be blackmailing, everything sordid and horrible.” she shuddered violently.... “oh, you do not know the world--you have lived with your eyes shut, fixed on inward visions.”
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he opened them now, startled to find himself lectured for want of worldliness by this ethereal creature. she dissipated his uneasy bewilderment by a swift transition, her face dimpled itself with reassuring smiles. she pulled the little curly lock at his forehead with a fascinating tug.
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“don’t be such a hot-headed quixote, dear. there is time enough to plan out the future. circumstances may change--” her face saddened. “the poor creature may be taken ... and your idea may seem more plausible when i have got used to it--you come with a rush and a crash--like those waves that night.” she smiled wistfully. “and i am only a woman, and timid. can’t you see i have been frightened to death all this last half-hour?”
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“frightened of me?”
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“no,” with a pathetic smile. “frightened of olive. twenty times i thought i caught her footsteps.”
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“what if she does come! she won’t be surprised to see me here.”
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“no, but i have a plan. it will be safest if she doesn’t know you’re in paris at all. you must leave me at once.”
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his heart sank. “but when do i see you?”
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“next sunday evening.”
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“a whole week?” the sunlight seemed gone.
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“on sunday morning olive goes to brussels for a few days--she’s only waiting to finish that statuette of fate, isn’t it weird? all those things there are olive’s handiwork; how clever she is! i only do the menial work of pouring in the plaster. it saves money, because--”
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“yes, yes,” he interrupted, impatiently. “and on sunday evening?”
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“you will call for me here--say about seven--you will take me to dinner, somewhere quiet in this great free paris.” she made a great circle with her arms, as if enjoying the elbow-room. “and then--” she smiled intoxicatingly, “then we can talk over the future.” her eyes looked heavenly promise. he caught her in his arms. this time she struggled away.
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“no, no! she may be back at any moment. i hear footsteps. you must go.”
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she pushed him towards the door.
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“mayn’t i write?”
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“no, olive would see the letter.”
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the footsteps passed by.
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he looked back in reluctant farewell, as he fumbled at the door-handle. she was close behind him.
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she opened her arms, and his head was on her breast again. “oh, my dear, my dear,” she murmured, “it is hard to wait.”
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then she pushed him outside, her face grown spiritual again in its anxiety, and she slammed the door, and he reeled like a drunken man.
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her last look haunted him--soulful, alluring, intoxicating. he was almost sobbing with happiness. heaven had been kind to him at last. the balmy air of the court-yard fanned his brow. he walked on aimlessly, in a beatific dream, past the beautiful ionic portico, through the corridor, into the street, no longer grimy, and so on to the boulevards.
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how happy the world was! how the sunshine streamed with its dancing motes! how gay the kiosks with their dainty posters and the piquant designs of great caricaturists laughing from the front pages of the illustrated journals! how light-hearted those bourgeois drinking red wine at the al fresco tables! what a jolly, bulbous-nosed old cabman that was who hailed him, not knowing he had quicksilver in his veins, and must needs give his limbs to lively motion. he sauntered on at random, buoyant, treading on sunbeams, a song at his heart, breathing in the sense of the spacious, airy city that sparkled in the spring sunshine, mother of nimble spirits; he crossed the river, glittering in a long sweep, with notre dame rising on its island in picturesque antiquity; the book-stalls on the quays thrilled him with a remembrance of the joys of reading; he strode on humming a merry tune, the bustle of traffic was a musical accompaniment to it; he stopped at a great leafy square, alive with pedestrians, to watch the limpid water leaping from a beautiful fountain; around him were the seductive programmes of theatres, eloquent of artistic acting, of fine comedy, of poetic tragedy. he strolled along, absorbing noble buildings, and churches, and splendid public monuments. how fair life was, how marvellously compacted! gladness was at the heart of all things.
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the city passed into his soul as never before; its radiant message of elegance, proportion, style, sanity, unity, lucidity, exquisite sensibility to the material, balanced by an æsthetic delight in ideas, and the spirit of gayety all over; henceforth, thanks to eleanor, he would be of it, following art for the joy of art, out of the happiness of the soul, sun-clear, without stagnant vapors of discontent, those fits of spleen bred of foggy, uncouth london; he would be fixed at last, swinging steadily on a pivot of happiness, a lover of life and a praiser thereof. all its sweetness had been diverted from him--it had passed to others. now at last he would be self-centred. he rambled on, he crossed the pont passy, and saw the old city rising quaint and steep in wooded terraces. oh, love and life! oh, life and love! why had people besmirched the creation with soilures of cynicism, plaguing the air with pessimistic laments, graceless grunts of swine nosing garbage?
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what good times he had had himself, he who had won fame and gold while still young! and how ungraciously he had accepted these gifts of the gods, mewling and whining like a sulky child. surely he deserved that hell allotted in dante for those who had wilfully lived in sadness. the gracious romance of life--that was what his art should henceforth interpret. he began to dream beautiful masterpieces, and they reminded him that he had come to see the salon. he retraced his steps towards the champs elysées, watching the endless procession of elegant equipages rolling steadily to and from the bois, with their panorama of luxurious women. he entered the salon; the pictures delighted him, the crowd enraptured him, a young girl’s face stirred him to a mood of paternal benediction; he met edward cornpepper, a.r.a., there, and felt the little man was his dearest friend. cornpepper introduced him to his newly-acquired wife, who said the exhibition was indecent.
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matthew shook his hand for the third time with unabated affection. what a clever fellow cornpepper was, and what a pretty wife he had got!
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he went to his hotel to dine. the court-yard was gay with lounging, lolling visitors, the fountain in the centre leaped and sparkled with changing colors, like an effervescence of the city. far into the night he sat out on the balcony of his gilt-skied, many-mirrored bedroom, gazing at the beautiful boulevards stretching serenely away in the moonlight between their gigantic edifices.
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how he lived through the rest of the week he never definitely remembered. he would have willingly given the days away, but, as they had to be filled up somehow, they left confused recollections of theatres and ballets, of rencontres with random acquaintances, of riding on tiny tram-cars to see the zoological garden in the bois de boulogne, of wandering in a rag-fair, of reading modern french poetry, of visiting the ateliers of french painters whom he knew, and sympathizing with their grumbles against the institute and the distribution of decorations, while wondering inwardly why these overgrown school-boys languished and died for lack of a bit of ribbon. what could a man want in life but to paint and to love? state recognition? bah! the artist was always an anarchist. he stood alone, self-centred.
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he hobnobbed with students, too, in his new sympathy with youth and art, and--a distinguished visitor--was taken through the great ateliers with their rainbow-colored dados of palette-scrapings and the announcements in every european language that new-comers must pay for drinks. he gladly accepted a ticket for a students’ ball on the saturday night; it had been postponed for a few weeks through the death of a beloved professor. he had heard much of these balls, but had never seen one, and he counted upon it to while away that last intolerable night between him and his happiness.
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several times during the week he had thought of going to see ruth hailey in accordance with the duty that on the other side of the channel had seemed so pressing, but he shrank instinctively from the raking up of memories of the old unhappy days at this joyous crisis; he was not in the mood for extraneous emotion. nevertheless on the saturday afternoon, partly for want of anything better to do, partly to keep up to himself the pretence that she was at least one of the motives that brought him to paris, and partly to ascertain if she had spoken to people in england about his wife, he set out to pay the long-projected visit. he would feel how the ground lay, discover if she had innocently betrayed him to anybody who might touch mrs. wyndwood’s circle--which might be awkward if in a possible compromise eleanor should ever decide to live with him in ostensible marriage.
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he had a dim, unformed idea of appealing to ruth for silence, but he did not really meditate invoking her sympathies; she was on the eve of departing for the antipodes--was perhaps already gone.
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he found her hotel--it was in the rue de rivoli. a waiter took up his name and forthwith brought back word that mademoiselle would see monsieur strang.
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his heart was throbbing curiously as he mounted the stairs and stood outside her door. the quick, irregular clack, clack of a type-writer responded like an echo. he was ushered into a large plainly-furnished sitting-room. his first vision was of a tall comely lady in a grayish gown, writing at a table opposite the door; but this was effaced by the slimmer figure of a younger woman approaching from the right, with a smile of welcome and an extended hand. a moment later her smile had faded, and her hand was on her heart, soothing its flutter. he was shaken to his depths; behind all the bodily changes he saw the little girl-friend of his childhood; and, indeed, the purity of her limpid, truthful gaze was undimmed.
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“ruth!” he cried in alarm, moving forward as if to sustain her.
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she drew herself up, rigid and frozen; then her face relaxed, suffused by a wan smile and a returning flood of carmine. she held out her hand with a nervous laugh.
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“how are you, mr. strang? i thought it was billy, and to see you instead startled me.”
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as he took the little hand and looked into her face, maturer than its years, though it had not lost its olden charm, especially in the complexion, which was marvellously pure and soft, registering every slightest change of thought and feeling in dainty flickers of rose across its delicate fairness, his soul was invaded by a rush of tender memories, incongruously jostling in his brain: the thrills and raptures of boyhood, the joys of coasting down the slopes, and snaring rabbits and shooting partridges; the glow of skating; the delicious taste of the home-made cakes; the songs and hymns of childhood, the firelight casting shadows on the dusky walls, while his mother read the bible; the drone of the fusty-coated preacher in the little wooden meeting-house; the thwacking of the dancers’ feet in the barn, the odors of hay and the lowing of cattle; the gleam of the yellow-tipped mullein by the wayside and the smell of the wild flowers in the woods; the note of the whippoorwill in the forest at twilight; the long cranes floating over the summer marshes; the buzz of fresh young voices in mctavit’s school-room. all these came back--dear and desirable, steeped in tears, softened by distance to a pensive beauty, like bawling choruses heard from afar across still water, inextricably interwoven with all the pieties of childhood, the simple sense of god and truth and honor and righteousness.
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he stood holding her hand, oblivious of the present, in a whirling chaos of ancient images that melted his soul to childish tenderness, and brought back to it the child’s clear, unquestioning perception of spiritual ideas which had grown shadowy in the atmosphere of salons and studios and fashionable churches, that stereoscopic vision of the saint and the child which sees the spiritual solid. but ruth disengaged her fingers at last, blushing under the kindly smile of the comely lady.
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“this is mr. matthew strang, linda,” she said. “mr. strang, let me introduce you to mrs. verder.”
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he bowed: “oh, i have heard of linda verder,” he said, smiling.
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“and i have heard more of matthew strang,” she replied, beamingly.
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“that is scarcely possible,” he murmured.
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she laughed with a bird-like trill. “oh, i wasn’t alluding merely to your public career, though our sweet ruth has gotten a whole album full of newspaper-cuttings about that. but it is of you yourself and your childhood that i have heard so much. so you see i have the advantage of you. but you will excuse me, i know; i have to go out. you needn’t bother about those letters, dear. we’re nearly through with them.” and with an affectionate nod to ruth and a beneficent smile to matthew, she left the room. he was reddening: he was beginning to feel uncomfortable under mrs. verder’s smiles, which in their insinuation of old sweetheartship made it certain that ruth had never mentioned his marriage to her friend even; to hear that the forgotten ruth had been following his career all those years gave him an odd pathetic shiver. she and billy--and heaven knew what others--were sunning themselves in the mere reflected rays of that fame which had left him cold.
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she stood away from him, shy and equally embarrassed, the blood ebbing and flowing in the pure, soft cheek.
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“won’t you sit down?” she said at last.
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“oh, thank you!” he replied, and took a distant chair.
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she sat down behind her type-writer, facing him. there was a silence. she was the first to break it.
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“i was so sorry to read you were ill.”
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“oh, it was nothing,” he murmured.
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“i am so pleased we hadn’t left--we are sailing next tuesday. it is so good of you to come and see me, with the many claims that you must have on your time.”
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“it is a pleasure to be reminded of old times. i was sorry i missed you the time you called at my house,” he said, awkwardly.
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“i was very sorry, too.”
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“but you know i work at my studio,” he explained, trying not to flush. “there is no room at home.”
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“yes, i know. but i didn’t care to call there and interrupt your work. billy showed me the little room where you used to work in the olden days. i thought it real nice of you to turn it into a study for him, and to take care of him as you are doing. he sent me a story of his. no; it wasn’t very good, poor fellow!” she added, seeing the question in his face. “rather too full of passionate love-making.”
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“no--in manuscript. i returned it to him type-written. he was enraptured. he said it was like seeing himself in print.”
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“ah! we are not so used to the type-writer as you americans.”
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“it is coming in fast, though; even into your slow, old country, if you consider it yours,” she added, slyly. “i am delighted to see how many offices the new-fangled machine has crept into; in two years it will be in every business office.”
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“why delighted? have you or mrs. verder shares in the patent?”
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“no, no,” she said, gently. “don’t you see it is a new occupation for women?”
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“ah, i remember. that’s your hobby.”
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“oh, not hobby, mr. strang, not hobby. it is my life-work. but i can’t expect you to sympathize with these sordid, practical things,” she said, smiling. “your life is devoted to the gospel of the beautiful.”
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“oh, but i do sympathize,” he cried, remorsefully. “i think it is very fine of you.”
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she shook her head, her smile fading.
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“you don’t--you can’t. you are outside the circle of the material worries of the poor; or, what is worse, the genteel. and nobody but a woman can know the tragic pettiness of the life-struggle for single girls--the stifled aspirations, the abortive longings, the tears in the night. christ would have understood. but he was not a man.”
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he saw the blur of emotion veil her eyes ere she turned her head hastily away. he felt his own sight growing dim; an understratum of his consciousness admired the flow of her language, and divined platform experiences. he had never before thought of her as clever.
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she recovered herself in a moment, and resumed, playfully:
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“no, if you were a black-and-white artist you would have sketched mrs. verder with corkscrew ringlets and crying for trousers. we do want the franchise and the right to dress as we please, but these are only incidental aspects of the movement for the independence of women, though they lend themselves most readily to caricature. the woman of the future is simply the working woman. all we really want is to make girls economically independent of marriage; able to choose their mates from love instead of selling themselves for a home.”
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he could not meet her frank eyes; he was suddenly reminded of his own marriage. what would this stainless soul think of him if she knew he had sold himself, or--worse--if she knew why he had come to her this afternoon? he murmured, surveying the carpet, that he knew life was hard for girls, but that he hoped she at least had not been unhappy.
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“i? oh! i’ve been as happy as the next girl, though i’ve had my trials,” she said, cheerily, between smiles and tears. “but i am grateful to god for them, else i should never have learned to sympathize as i do, and i should not have served the master. my life might have been wasted in mere happiness.”
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mere happiness! the phrase went through him like a sword.
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“but you had no need to work for a living,” he said, dubiously.
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“indeed i had! i had nothing.”
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“you had a father.”
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“of a kind. but i quarrelled with him. you heard that, of course.”
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he had heard of it, of course, but her affairs had made trivial dints upon his consciousness.
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“why did you quarrel with him?” he asked.
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her face became a crimson mask. she lowered her head.
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“oh--i beg your pardon,” he stammered in distress. “of course i had no right to ask.”
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she was silent, her fingers nervously picking out letters on the type-writer. then her eyes met his unflinchingly again.
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“no, in a way you have a right to ask,” she said, uneasily. “i don’t see why i shouldn’t tell you--it’s so long ago. you know i became the deacon’s book-keeper?”
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he nodded, wondering.
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“he made me keep all his accounts. i learned all about his affairs. well, one day, looking over the books, i made a discovery.”
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she hesitated. her face was still fiery. the image of the mumbling, quid-chewing deacon, with the roundabout methods of arriving at his point, rose vivid to his memory. he remembered his childish strain to understand “ole hey’s” good advice. pop! pop! pop! it was like the clack, clack, clack of the type-writer under ruth’s nervous, unconscious fingers. but what was this she was saying to the accompaniment of the erratic automatic music?
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“i discovered that he was cheating you, or rather your sister and abner preep, that he had always bamboozled your father, that the mortgage was more than paid off long before, aside from the work he had gotten out of your brothers and sisters.” she paused, then hastened on with a lighter tone. “so, of course, being a foolish, hot-headed girl, i wouldn’t stay any longer in his house unless he repaid you, and equally of course he refused, knowing i wouldn’t make a scandal, and so i went off to the only relative i had in the world--my mother’s sister in portland, maine. she was too poor to give me more than food and shelter. but my knowledge of book-keeping soon got me a place in a store. and ever since i have earned my own bread, heaven be thanked.”
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she was not looking at him now; her fingers were still lightly tapping the letters into combinations that spelled only embarrassment. “perhaps i oughtn’t to have told you--but you won’t take action now, will you?”
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“no, seeing that the money has been paid!” he cried, hoarsely, with a sudden intuition. he sprang up agitatedly. “you sent us all that money anonymously--from maine!”
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her head drooped lower. “oh, i felt i oughtn’t to say anything,” she cried in vexation.
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“but you did, didn’t you?”
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“it was such a trifle, anyhow,” she said, deprecatingly.
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“it was a fortune then--five hundred dollars!”
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“i could do no less. there was no other call for the money i earned in those first few years, while my aunt still lived. and i thought that perhaps--” he came towards her. “that perhaps--that perhaps it might help you in your career--my aunt corresponded with my poor mother’s friends in cobequid village--i knew how you were slaving and sending money to your folks.”
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“god bless you, ruth.”
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“i hope it was a little help to you, matt.” he thrilled under the name, spoken for the first time. “i have often liked to think it was--that i had a wee finger in the making of a great artist.”
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her words cut him to the heart. how could he tell her that her money had come too late? he was about to murmur something, but she stopped him.
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“no, don’t answer me for fear you should dispel my illusion. it has been such a joy to me when i read about your rapid rise to say to myself: ‘ah, perhaps we know something.’ but half the joy was in the secrecy; now you have found me out, don’t take away the relics of my pleasure.”
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“but why should you bother to read things about me?” he murmured, only half sincerely, for another and more agitating suspicion was fast germinating in his breast.
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she flashed a quick glance up at him as he stood over her, then looked down again indifferently, her sweet mouth quivering. “oh, why should i not be proud of knowing, if only in boyhood, the only great man our township ever produced?”
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but he had now been trained in woman’s looks. rosina and eleanor had taught him much, and the thought that was borne in upon him now--the conviction that ruth, too, loved him, that she had always cherished her childish affection, though his own had been swamped by his craving for art--was not the complacent conviction of a coxcomb. it was a chilling agony. it pierced his breast like a jagged icicle. he had an appalling sense as of responsibility for a ruined life. the image of “aunt clara” flashed suddenly before him--careworn, faded, broken-down, unlovely. was that to be the end of ruth--the sweet playmate, the great soul?
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“and you, too, have done something in life,” he said, as if to reassure himself, trying to curve his trembling lips to a smile.
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she looked up frankly at him. “in so far as i have been able to help linda to help other girls.”
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“and do you meditate--helping linda all your life?”
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“even,” he essayed to smile again, “even if you marry?”
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“oh, but i won’t marry,” she said, quickly, and kept her face bravely raised to his, though the tell-tale rose was coming and going on her transparent skin.
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“not even”--his smile was a ghastly caricature--”to spite the caricaturists?”
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she smiled a faint response. “not even for that. has not linda sacrificed herself on that altar? it’s true she’s a widow, but still--”
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he could not help asking the question: “but why won’t you marry?”
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“because i don’t want to. is that a woman’s reason?” and she smiled again.
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“ruth!” he cried, frenziedly, in a strange mixture of emotions. “i am not worthy to kneel to you!”
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she opened her eyes, wondering: “because i prefer celibacy? because my life is happy enough as it is; because, thanks to mrs. verder, it is sufficiently filled with activity and movement?”
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“oh, if it is, if it is!” he cried, almost hysterically.
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“certainly it is. you men are all so mistaken about women. marriage may be a necessity for some women, but not for all--oh, thank god! not for all. it may be harder for linda, who has known a husband’s love--but for me? oh, i am perfectly happy.” she rose and moved away from him, and began to walk restlessly up and down, talking rapidly. “it is perfectly absurd, this making marriage and happiness synonyms. novels end with marriage, and that is called a happy ending. good heavens! it is quite as often an unhappy beginning! if you had seen the things i have seen, heard the tales women have told me! even the women you would imagine the most enviable are full of worries. why, look at your own wife, mr. strang, who has everything to make her happy.” and her lips parted in a faint smile.
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he turned his face away. “did she also tell you tales of woe?” he said, with a forced laugh.
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“well, not precisely woe, but plenty of anxiety about the children, and about the dishonesty of her helps, and she seemed rather poorly, too. i hope you left her strong and well.”
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“thank you,” he murmured, flushing.
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“how proud she is of you,” ruth went on. “i was so glad to find that she really appreciated you. i had often wondered. and it isn’t only on account of your importance, matthew strang! she told me you were goodness itself, which, of course, i knew, and that you had long wished her to move to a better neighborhood, only she was afraid to put you to expense. what a good woman she must be! and so pretty too!”
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“do you think so?” he muttered. his face was still averted.
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“yes, and i seem to remember her in your earliest pictures. she’s the woman in ‘motherhood,’ isn’t she?”
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“i think she sat for the figure,” he said, hesitatingly. “i couldn’t afford models then. i wish you weren’t going so soon. i should so like to do a sketch of you--something to remember you by.”
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she shook her head. “we have so much to do this week. i shouldn’t have time.”
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“i am sorry. perhaps we shall never meet again,” he said in low tones. “i never even had a photograph of you--i could do a sketch from that.”
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“i don’t think i have any. you did a sketch of me once,” she reminded him, “but i’m not going to give you that. that’s precious--an example of your first manner.” the gay note in her voice sounded rather strained. “don’t you remember? you sent it me when you first went to halifax, please don’t remember how many years ago.”
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but he did remember. and he remembered, too, how he had sent it her as a slight return for the arabian nights. he had lost her gift (through the carelessness of jack floss) very soon after, but she cherished his still.
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“both public celebrities,” she said, with a little confused laugh. “i’ve never attained to the shop-windows, so naturally i am scarcer.” she continued her search, and at last turned up something. “ah, there’s an old one--or rather a young one. me at sixteen! goodness, to think i’ve still got that!”
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his flaccid nerves sent fresh moisture to his eyes as he gazed at the simple picture of the sweet, delicate, girlish face, with large eyes luminous with dreams, looking out shyly upon life in a sort of wistful wonder and expectation, unconscious, unprophetic of the blank years when eyes grow dim with sudden unsought tears.
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his voice was broken as he said: “thank you. this is the picture i would most have wished to have. henceforward i shall think of you, earnest, truthful, aspiring ... as you have thought of me all these years. and now i suppose i must not keep you any longer from your duties.”
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“oh, they are nothing. it is your time that is precious, i know. i am rejoiced to have had this glimpse of you in your fame and happiness. i shall always remember this afternoon. good-bye, mr. strang.” she held out her hand.
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he put his, with the portrait, behind his back. “no, i won’t,” he said, petulantly. “not if you call me that.”
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she dropped her hand with a sad smile.
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“you see i belong to the rejected, matt.”
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he quivered as at a thrust.
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“no, you are of the elect, of the saints of this earth.”
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her smile took on the wistfulness of her early portrait. they stood looking at each other in a tender embarrassment.
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“oh, by-the-way, matt, you will not mind my speaking of her ... she belongs to me a little as well as to you, you know ... i went to see your poor mother before i left for europe.”
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“did she recognize you?” he said, in a half-whisper.
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she shook her head. her face was drawn with the pain of the memory. “but she is quite gentle, except when she quotes texts. they give her simple housework to do--it provides a vent for her activity ... marriages are not always happy, you see.” a wan smile flitted across her features. “i shall go to see her again. poor creature! i forgot her when i called you happy. the thought of her must always sadden you.”
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he would not trust his voice to reply. he transferred the photograph to his left hand, and held out the right in silence. she put her hand into his.
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“good-bye, matt; perhaps forever.”
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he struggled to speak.
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“good-bye, ruth.” he bent nearer. “may i not kiss you ... for auld lang syne?”
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she withdrew her hand. her voice was tremulous and low. “we are not playmates now, matt.”
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he held up the photograph.
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“then i will kiss the girl i used to know.”
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he pressed his lips reverentially to it.
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she smiled sadly.
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“good-bye again, dear matt. god bless you.”
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he hurried from the room, overwhelmed with emotion. the door closed upon him, and he leaned against the balustrade for a moment to recover himself.
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clack! clack! clack! clack! clack!
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it was the steady, business-like clatter of determined work. she had taken up the burden of duty again.
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he half groped his way down the stairs. in this mist of tears all things were obscured, even the image of eleanor wyndwood.
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no, one thing was clear--the figure of the sweet puritan woman with her simple righteousness.
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he emerged into the rue de rivoli with its pretentious architecture, its glittering shop windows, its bustle of life; across the road the gardens of the tuileries stretched away in the sunshine; but the gentle figure stood between him and paris. he tried to shake her off, to think of the transcendent raptures that awaited him on the morrow; he tried to see eleanor’s face steadily, but it was all wavering lines like a reflection in storm-shaken water. he bethought himself of selecting the secluded restaurant and hiring the private room for the dinner, but the figure of ruth resurged, blotting eleanor’s out. he took out her photograph and kissed it again. “she’s a little angel,” he cried, aloud. and then, from that chaos of ancient memories, freshly stirred up, came like an echo mad peggy’s cry, “she’s a little angel....” a girl passing him laughed in his face, and he put away the portrait, flushing and chilled to the marrow.
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he told himself he must soak himself in paris and forget her. he walked towards the grand boulevards, trying vainly to absorb and assimilate the gayety of the streets. he returned to his hotel and dressed, and dined with dainty dishes and sparkling wines, such as herbert himself would have recommended. but the quivering roots of his being had been laid bare; his soul vibrated with intangible memories, and the image of ruth still possessed his imagination--the candid eyes, the pure skin. as ever his soul was touched through the concrete.
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after dinner he wandered about the gay city, adding the red of his cigar-tip to the feverish dusk athrob with a myriad stars above and a myriad lights below; the soft spring air was charged with the pleasurable hum of ceaseless pedestrians; the theatres and music-halls and dancing places blazoned themselves upon the night; the great restaurants flared within and without, their pavement tables thronged with light-hearted men and pretty women, gossiping, laughing, clinking glasses. women, everywhere women. they looked out even from the illustrated papers of the illumined kiosks. the shining city seemed to waft an incense of pleasure up to the stars; to breathe out an aroma of sinless voluptuousness that rose like a thank-offering for life. his heart expanded to all this happiness; he felt himself being caught up by the great joyous wave, and eleanor wyndwood’s face came back, radiant and seductive. but ruth hailey was still at his side, and ever and anon he saw her as in her later guise--stern, sorrowful, negativing; she stood out against the whole city.
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he seated himself before one of the innumerable little marble guéridons. he was at the cross-roads of the great arteries dominated by the fulgent façade of the opera house, where he could watch the perpetual currents of gladsome life. he observed the countless couples with emotion, striving to concentrate himself on the thought of his imminent happiness, when the love that sustained the world and made it sustainable should be his at last; when he should become as other men, living the natural life of the race and the sexes in sympathetic fusion. but the figure of ruth hailey stood firm amid the swirling crowds, and her pure eyes shamed his thought, and filled his breast with an aching tenderness for the poor human atoms he had deserted--for rosina, for billy, for “aunt clara”--for whom there was no happiness and no natural life. he fought against this obsession of ruth’s spirit, he struggled to fix his vision on the glitter and the gayety, but he had to see her standing like a rock or a tower, four-square against smiling, treacherous seas.
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but if he went back to rosina in honorable acknowledged union, then farewell to society! to take her about with him was out of the question; she would be more unhappy than he in those high glacial latitudes of humanity. well, what was society to him? he could shake it off as easily as the micmac of his childhood shook off the clothes of christendom. to be shut out from society were no privation for him. he had the advantage of his fellow-artists, who sacrificed at its shrine and were sacrificed to it. he could couch on fir boughs, he had lived on bread and water. this constant concern with wines and cookery, with couches and carriages; this gorging and gormandizing and self-pampering--did it add dignity to life? was it worth the hecatomb of hearts and souls offered up for it--this low luxury of the higher classes? was not simplicity the note of greatness--in life as in art? and howsoever simple the complex comfort of their lives might seem to those born to it, was it for artists to imitate this lowest side of the upper classes, especially if it frittered away their art? was it for bohemia to ape philistia, and for art--the last of the rebels against the platitudinization of life--to bow the knee and swear allegiance to the vulgar ideals of fashion? they had drawn him even from boyhood, these showy ideals; from the days when he had peered wistfully into the cricket-ground at halifax. but he was done with boyhood now.
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ah, but if he went back to rosina--and the new thought struck a chill as of graveyard damps--it was all over with his art. that, just beginning to revive under the inspiration of eleanor wyndwood, would be a sheer impossibility under the daily oppression of rosina with her kitchen horizon. his imagination would be clogged with the vapors of cabbage. and of the old bad work he had had enough. he would retire from art as from society, and the exhibitions should know him no more. he would go out of the business; that was all it was, he told himself with a bitter smile. his fame was a bauble, a bagatelle. for all it mattered to him it might have been his dead uncle, matthew strang, whose name was on the lips of strangers. there was still work in the world for an honest man to do; he remembered again that his hands could wield more than the brush; besides, he had a little capital now, rosina had still her income. perhaps they would go back to nova scotia and buy a farm. they would sow and reap, far from the glare of cities, and the sweet, simple sun and rain would bless the work of their hands. his life would be joyless, but perchance his soul would be at peace.
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yes, but to give up art! art, which was the meaning of his life! rosina’s life stood for nothing. it was out of all proportion to give up his for hers. had he not suffered enough? had he not already expiated his marriage, the hapless union he had entered into when distracted by illness and disgrace and hunger, when perhaps his whole future had hinged--such were the tragi-whimsical turns of life--on his reluctance to change his last two dollars?
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he rose and walked about restlessly through the glistening streets. everywhere restaurants, open-air tables, men, women. he wandered to montmartre. more restaurants, more couples, cafés, cabarets, queer entertainments: le chat noir, le rat mort, the red sails of the famous mill turning tirelessly, lights, gayety, women, always women, of all shades of prettiness and piquancy, with rosy cheeks and lips not always painted, and eyes that could shine without bismuth. he walked back through the grand boulevards--they were one flush of life.
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but the reasoning was inexorable. he had sacrificed rosina to his art; art had slipped through his fingers, but rosina remained none the less sacrificed. now his art must be sacrificed to rosina--the atonement was logical. that was not a surrender, he told himself angrily, to ruth hailey’s view of life--a view whose narrowness he and everybody around him had outgrown. he refused to recognize, in the face of this radiant paris, that each human soul came into the world to sacrifice its happiness to other human souls. that seemed to him a preposterous paradox rather than a solution; a world of reciprocal whipping-boys was an absurdity, and, at any rate, if such were the scheme of creation, it did not work at all with the gross run of mankind, to say nothing of animals. the only reason for going back to rosina must be honestly to fulfil his side of the bargain. she had done her part, he must do his. that his return to her meant the ruin of his life and his life-work was not her concern; these larger issues were too wide for her comprehension; she loved her husband and she desired him. that was enough. he owed himself to her, and to shirk his obligation was as dishonorable as to disown a debt. he had paid off the stasborough store-keeper, although absolved by bankruptcy; he must be equally honorable with rosina, though his life had been bankrupted. practically his art had always been sacrificed to her; it was her pettiness that had driven him to produce in haste for the market, so as to escape indebtedness to her; well, let the sacrifice be consummated.
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he had come to the place de la concorde--it seemed a fairy-land of romantic lights, a dance of fire-flies; it wooed him towards the calm and solitude of the river. he leaned on the parapet and saw the sombre, fire-shot water stretching away in marvellously solemn beauty, hushed and lonely, its many-twinkling perspective of green and red and yellow gleams palpitating in the air dim with a yearning poetry. he felt the presence of ruth hailey at his side; she looked like the photograph now; he held her little hand and gazed into her candid eyes. good god! this girl had loved him all those long years, and would be hopelessly faithful even unto death.
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but if he went back to rosina, what of eleanor wyndwood? would he spoil her life, too? and more culpably than he had spoiled ruth hailey’s? he sighed wearily; it was impossible to do wrong and have the result simple. life was so intercomplicated. but he had been honest with eleanor, thank heaven; she knew the truth about his life; he would be honest with her to the end. he would tell her the truth now. the same noble, uncalculating simplicity that had accorded him friendship, that had been ready to give him love, would bear her triumphantly through the new trial. he remembered her brave words: “if i did not suffer i should think i had not grown.” perhaps there would be consolation for both in the thought that she remained unsullied before the world.
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he crossed the river, and his mood changed. he got towards the latin quarter, and wandered into the “boule miche” amid the students’ restaurants, where young humanity sat in its couples again, amorous and gay; every place was full within and without, and there was the gurgle of liquids with the sounds of singing and laughter; he was back again amid the blithe, insouciant, easy-going life of the eternal undergraduate, with the local variation of bocks; rakish young men danced through the restaurants arm in arm in tipsy merriment; poets with lack-lustre visages and tumbled hair imbibed vermouth, clinking glasses with their mistresses; the smoky air vibrated with irresponsible gayety; it was full of invitations to careless happiness, joyous levity, forgetfulness of an austere view of life. puritanism seemed a form of dementia, asceticism a sunless folly. the atmosphere gained upon him. he tossed off a bock, then walked recklessly past mrs. wyndwood’s studio. the whole court-yard was in darkness, but he thought of to-morrow night, and it glowed as with bonfires of joy. he resolved to sup famously. he jumped into a victoria and drove to a fashionable restaurant. it was near midnight; the theatres had emptied, but the streets were only the fuller. he passed through rooms full of dazzling women in gorgeous evening costumes, sipping champagne; women, always women: the city blossomed with them like roses. he ordered some oysters and chablis, and forgot to eat; opposite him a self-conscious celebrity of the footlights, blazing with diamonds, held her court, surrounded by a bevy of dandies; behind him a black-eyed demi-mondaine in red playfully rapped her cavalier’s knuckles; at the next table the exuberant liveliness of a supper party diverted him; he drank, drank, listening greedily to the gay repartees. life should be joy, joy, joy, he thought. that was what modern life lacked, gray with problems, wrinkled with thought. these people lived--lived in splendid insolence under the midnight sun. there was a touch of bigness that appealed to him in their arrogant vitality. society was an organized insipidity, afraid of life.
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the figure of ruth hailey rose rebuking; he paid the bill and went out.
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but his heart cried, ached for happiness. ah, no! he could not give up so young; go into a living grave. he roved the boulevards again. the beautiful city solicited him, rouged and perfumed, clad in shining garments, with star-gemmed hair. but the virginal figure of ruth hailey, with sweet shy eyes, stood against the city. paris seemed garish beside her.
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he was fluctuating again. it seemed as if the simple girl would draw him away from all the joys of life. was there no means of ridding himself of her haunting presence? a grotesque mask looked out of a cab. ah! the fancy ball! he had forgotten. that would lay the ghost of his disordered imagination. he felt in his pocket and found the ticket; he hastened to the scene of revelry. a clatter of cabs and a blaze of lights--he had arrived.
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the first glimpse within was exhilarating, provoking, dazzling, overwhelming; he had a confused sense of a hall of a thousand lights and mirrors, reeking with scent and heat, reverberant with music and shrieks and laughter, white with the whirling gleam of semi-nude women, and motley with the rainbow hues and multiplied reflections of male masqueraders; a mad, joyous orgy, the diabolical medley of a glittering, tinselled pantomime and an opium-eater’s nightmare. ah, here was oblivion of ruth hailey at last, and he eagerly took up a position on a raised platform that ran along the side of the gigantic ball-room, trying to catch the contagion of the scene, and ready to rush into the heart of the devil-may-care jollity. the gleeful, palpitating pageant--a twisted, tangled kaleidoscopic rally of riotous color and flesh tones--tore past him, dancing, leaping, shrieking, wantoning, clowning, kissing, uncouth as the gargoyles of notre dame and brilliant as the midnight boulevard: japanese figures and demons, gladiators in cuirasses and bathing drawers, gallic warriors in skins, brawny barbarians in blankets, amazons with brass breasts, a savage in a girdle of fig-leaves, a real samoan girl with coal-black hair in the convoy of her russian lover in a tall white hat, a boy as a german girl, and an elderly woman as a gendarme with orange blossoms in her hair; one man with a helmet crowned by a black cat, and another with a mock broken head, reddened bandages, and a hideous stream of blood on his shirt-front. and women--always women; a few masked, but most bare-faced, shining with flowers and flesh; models of all sorts and conditions, some with artistic dresses designed by their favorite students, some with tarnished gaudery; blondes, brunettes of every nationality--french, english, greek, italian, creoles, negresses, diversely dowered; frail anæmic women, fervid gypsy-like women, saucily splendid women, soft sleepy women with languorous black eyes, sweet lily-like women, big blowzy women, tall febrile women, little demoniac women, all content to take life as a flash of leaping flame flickering out to an early darkness. and as they danced and laughed and romped and shouted, the fun rose to hysterical frenzy; four masked men bore the queen of the models, sinuous in complete fleshings, niched in an outspread gigantic fan; before it a druid and a bacchante danced backward; behind it seethed a vast picturesque procession of women mounted on their cavaliers’ shoulders, smoking cigarettes and waving lighted red and green lanterns; at its sides girls pirouetted frantically, foot in mouth; the brazen orchestra clanged--the procession defiled, frolicking, round and round the hall, roaring a students’ marching chorus; a wave of hysteria ran through the assembly, mighty, magnetic, compulsive; and matthew strang waved his arms and shouted and sang with the best. joy, joy, joy, this was your true artistic interpretation of life. away with this modern morbidity! he was one in soul with all the great artists, all the masters who had had their royal way in life. o royal eleanor! o rare eleanor! fit mate for a mighty artist! then supper came, and he fought for some in the balconies, amid the roar of voices, and the rattle of knives, and the shouts for the maddened waiters, and the indescribable exhalations of food and wine and smoke and hot air and scented flesh. the half-deserted dancing floor was littered with champagne capsules, bits of lanterns, ends of cigarettes, fragments of dresses, spangles, morsels of fur. after supper the frolic grew more intoxicating, the gayety more reckless; sweet demure-looking girls gave themselves to high-kicking and lascivious movement; they obliged with the danse du ventre; in a corner a woman turned somersaults from sheer light-heeledness, a bashi-bazouk trundled a hoop through the centre of the room, a band of fifty dancers with joined hands ran amuck among the yelling crowd. matthew strang’s senses ached with the riot of color and the rollick of figures and the efflorescence of femininity, and the tohu-bohu of this witches’ sabbath. and then a strange ancient thought struck him afresh--the same grotesque thought that after his father’s death had weighed upon his childhood: very soon all these scintillating, whirling figures would lie still and cold, frozen in death. they suddenly became nothing but marionettes in a clock-work mechanism destined to run down. and then the girlish form that had hovered mistily in his neighborhood throughout all the tumultuous hours grew clear again, and against this pandemoniac background the inexorable figure of ruth hailey rose, simple and virginal, with sweet shy eyes.
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when he came back to consciousness of the revellers, they had formed a human amphitheatre, an inner circle lying on the ground, and the next squatting, and the next kneeling, and the next half standing, and the last but one erect, and the last of all surmounted by shouldered girls, and in the centre of this human amphitheatre a beautiful young nude model with ruddy brown hair struck graceful attitudes. the cold blue light of dawn fell through a semicircular window overhead and mingled weirdly with the yellowish electric light, lending a strange, wan, unearthly hue to all these painted, perspiring faces.
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the atmosphere seemed unbearably mephitic. he sallied shamefacedly into the street. it was sunday morning, stainless and fresh and blue. the sunrise brooded over the sleeping gray-etched city in sacred splendor. the sun was like a gigantic bowl of pure gold with a refracted cover separated from it by a rift of cloud. around it the sky was dappled with lines and splashes and a ring or two of pale sulphur, ending to the south in a narrow gulf of green. and all this loveliness of color was spread on two amorphous islands of amber-gray in an ocean of pale-blue sky, across which a few fleecy clouds sailed swan-like.
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he had a perception of the divine, speaking through the silence of beauty. and the world was asleep or at riot.
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ah! this should have been the message of his art. each morn the sunrise spoke its flaming word unheard; it was the artist’s function to stir the world to the perception of the sublimity and poetry that lay all around unheeded; to uplift its eyes to the loveliness of realities, realities solid as rocks, yet beautiful as dreams; visionary and tangible; the great verities of sun and sea and forest, of righteousness and high thinking; beautiful and elemental.
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too late! too late! art was over now. not to his hand had the mission been given; once he had thought to feel the sacred fire in his bosom; but he knew now that the mission was not for him. he had failed.
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the great streets stretched under the blue dawn bathed in sacred freshness. the stir of night was passing into the stir of morning. the sleepy yawn of returning revellers was met by the sleepy yawn of early-risen artisans. two horrible hags of rag-pickers, first astir of parisians, were resting their baskets on a bench; he heard them rapturously recalling the excellence of the soup they had made from the bones, picked clean by dogs, that they had gathered from the citizens’ ash-pans.
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ah, not all the world was gay. he had been surveying only the sparkling bubbles and froth of paris. below flowed the sober, orderly, industrious civic life, with its bottom dregs of misery. all the great cities were full of dolorous figures, every by-way and alley swarmed with sickly faces, pale fruits of a congested civilization. he had always kept his eye on those happier than he; now he was reminded of how much more than the man in the street he had drawn in the lottery of the fates. he remembered the saying of a street scavenger he had come across in his days of destitution. “i’m neither hungry nor dry, so what have i to grumble about, mate?” what, indeed, had he, matthew strang, to grumble about? there did not seem to be enough happiness to go round. who was he, to be selected for a special helping? who was he more than his mate the scavenger, more than any other of the human souls he had met in his diversified career, more than his fellow-lodgers in the slums of holborn or halifax, or his fellow-passengers on board the enterprise, or the blind woman who caned chairs in the basement of the house of the rotherhithe bird-stuffer? why should he be happy?
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it was like a new thought, luminous and arrestive. and then it flashed upon him that all this glitter of gayety that had dazzled his covetous eyes, even if it were not half an illusion, was infinitely subdivided; each person could only have a minute share in the overwhelming total, and even this quantum of joy must be alloyed with the inevitable miseries of the human lot. this was the fallacy that in london, too, had added the sting of envy to his unhappiness; he had lumped together all the pleasure and splendor and happiness of the capital, forgetting that though it could all be lacked by one man, it could not be possessed by one. and to look at life from the outside was childish--it was like reading paragraphs about people in the newspapers. how happy he himself loomed in biographical summaries! poor rosina! poor aunt clara! poor billy! what happiness for these?
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they were foolish, fretful creatures, all of them; in the jargon of the drawing-rooms, bourgeois, vulgar, impossible, too low even for the stigma of “suburban”; but their lives were as important to them as his life to him. each soul was the centre of its own world. if he could understand them, and they could not understand him, the gain was to him. he was strong, therefore he must supplement their weakness; not because of any ethics or theology, simply because he was stronger. for sheer pity he must give up his life to theirs; sacrifice his art to their happiness. he must adapt himself to their points of view, since they could not adapt themselves to his; if for rosina the world turned on the price of beef, he must teach himself to be interested in the price of beef. he had found it easy enough on the day when they had gone a-marketing together at halifax. he saw her as then, buoyant, youthful, gay, even pretty; was it not he who had made her shrewish, sorrowful, unlovely? how nobly reticent she had been about his neglect of her! coble had died thinking her ideally happy, boastfully proud of his son-in-law. and after all, there was an excellent side to her economical instincts; she did not long for diamonds and dinner-parties like the wives of other artists; nay, wiser, perhaps, than he, she had known how to content herself with her own station. even tarmigan must have approved of her as an artist’s wife. yes, he must go back to her and his children, not out of any deference to the marriage-tie, but as individual to individuals.
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he arrived at his hotel. to his astonishment it was in full illumination; he heard the strains of dance-music from within. he peeped into the magnificent dining-room; it was become a ball-room, and sober couples were waltzing. women, always women; irreproachable this time; elegant in shimmering silks. the world of fashion was dancing there--dancing on behalf of a charity.
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he wavered again; this was the world he was leaving forever, the world of soft things, the world of thought and pleasant speech, the world of art and books and music, the caressing world that praised pictures, and the makers thereof: the world of eleanor wyndwood. but the fight was over; in every sense, he told himself, the fight was over. he must go to eleanor and tell her that happiness was not for either; she would be strong and fine, she would strengthen him in his obedience to the higher voice. but oh--and her face swam up vivid again--would not the very sight of her weaken him, shatter his resolve? and perhaps, too, the sight of him would weaken even her. no, they must never meet again; that was the simplest, the least painful for both.
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he gave instructions that he was to leave by the first morning train; he mounted to his room and packed up; then he wrote to eleanor.
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dearest eleanor,--forgive me that i must cause you pain. i can only hope it will prove to have saved you greater pain in the future. but, my dear, i must not pretend it is from any unselfish desire to save you from sacrificing yourself to my happiness, as you in your generous nobility have been ready to do, that i have resolved never to see you again. i am leaving paris at once. when i tell you the reason i know that it will ease your pain, and that your noble nature will approve and forgive. i am going back to my wife. i have thought it over and see that i have no option. i have been forgetting that in return for her helping me to art, i vowed to love, cherish, and protect her. if i cannot love her--if i can only love you, if the thought of you will always be like music to me, though i must never see you again in the flesh--i must at least do my best to make her happy. this is not only a farewell to you, it is a farewell to art. without you to inspire it, my art is dead. i retire from the long contest broken-hearted.
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yours so truly,
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he descended to the court-yard and dropped the letter into the box. then he sat outside on his balcony and watched the great gleaming boulevards as they woke to the new day.
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he was too early at the station, and the train tarried. the porters leisurely wheeled in the luggage. sleepy passengers straggled up, armed with gayly illustrated papers broad with gallic buffoonery.
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oh, the agony of that last quarter of an hour, when paris beckoned him with its finger of morning sunlight, when art cried to him from a thousand happy ateliers, calling him to come back and be happy in the great work he felt he had been about to do at last; when love shone like a purple haze veiling the world in poetic dream, and sang to him like an angel’s voice, and witched him back with the eyes and the hair and the lips of eleanor wyndwood!
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but the train was going at last, and he must take his seat in his first-class compartment. it was his second defeat, his second farewell to art, bitterer, crueller by a thousand-fold than the first, when he had sailed home again penniless, broken in soul and body. then, at least, home was a tender recollection. now--! and he had been so near the goal of happiness, the cup had been at his very lips. never to be happy--never, never! the sudden shriek of the engine sounded sardonic. the train moved on, bearing matthew strang from all the sweetness and savor of life. in the great ocean of existence wherein men struggle for happiness he had gone down--like his father.
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but, like his father, he had gone down wrapped in his flag.
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the stage of the world is not adapted for heroic attitudes, unless the curtain be dropped on the instant.
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to pass, after a tedious day-long journey, from the vivid boulevards to the gray dreariness of a poor london suburb on a sunday evening was already a chill to the artistic mind; to find that the wife into whose arms he had come to fall in dramatic contrition was not only out, but gone to church with aunt clara and little clara, was to be further reminded of the essentially inartistic character of life in general, and of its especial narrowness in church-going districts.
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but he stooped down to kiss little davie, who, by reason of the servant’s “sunday out,” had opened the door and explained these things to him. he saw that the child had a little wooden mannikin in his hand, and was sucking it.
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“don’t suck that, davie,” he said.
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“there ain’t no paint to spoil,” davie urged, gravely. “it’s all gone.”
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matthew carried both the little men down-stairs on his shoulder. in the kitchen he found billy moping by the fire--profiting by the absence of the servant to enjoy the only fire rosina’s economy permitted at this season of the year--but sunk so deep in a black reverie that he did not raise his head at the unwonted footsteps.
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a wave of protective love, almost paternal, flooded matthew’s soul; he laid his hand on poor billy’s head as in benediction. nevermore would they be parted, nevermore.
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“billy,” he said, softly.
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“i’ve come back, billy,” he said, tenderly.
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“so i see,” replied billy, ungraciously.
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he was stung to the quick, but he controlled his pain; he saw this was part of his atonement.
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“i’ve come to make it up with rosina. i’m not going away again,” he went on gently, his hand on billy’s shoulder.
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“and what’s the use of that?” billy snapped. “even if she makes it up with you, she’ll break out again in a few days. i know her.”
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he set down the child with a sigh, and drew a chair to his brother’s side. davie climbed trustfully on his knee. the kettle was singing, and a plump gray cat purred in the fender.
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“besides,” billy went on, “you’ve always said you couldn’t live here--it was necessary to live at your studio.”
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“i know; but i am giving up the studio.”
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billy turned whiter than usual.
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“what’s happened?” he cried in alarm.
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“nothing in particular.”
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“then i suppose you are going to turn me out of my workroom?”
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“no, no, billy. i am giving up painting altogether.”
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billy’s eyes dilated in horror, as on the night when his mother had dragged him out of bed to trudge the frozen fields.
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“are you mad?” he gasped.
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something of his awe sent a shiver through his brother.
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“perhaps i am,” said matthew.
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he fell silent.
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billy regarded him furtively. the minutes dragged on. matthew looked at his watch--getting on for seven. eleanor wyndwood would have been dressing for him--he saw her matchless loveliness. another few minutes, and his kisses would have been on her lips--those lips that had lain on his in what was already an enchanted, hazy dream rather than a waking memory.
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“perhaps i am mad,” he muttered again, as he sat waiting for rosina instead. and then he caught sight of the little figure davie was sucking, and began to laugh boisterously.
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billy was terrified.
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“you can have the studio back if you like,” he said, soothingly; the cripple’s tones became protective in their turn. “i can write anywhere--and, after all, what’s the use of my writing?--nobody will take what i write.”
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“i can write kisses,” interposed davie, looking up proudly.
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“what does he mean, billy?” said matthew.
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“oh, he used to put crosses at the end of the letter when rosina wrote to poor old coble--kisses to his grandfather, you know.”
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“he’s a angel now,” said davie, gravely.
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“what’s that you’re sucking?” billy responded, sternly. “you know you mustn’t.”
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he took it away, and davie set up a howl till pacified by a penny.
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“it’s an image of a preacher, matt,” billy explained. “i forget his name. he died last year--rosina used to go and hear him. she said he gave her great comfort. these images are sold in thousands. what a ludicrous thing popular religion is!”
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matthew laughed, but there was a tear for rosina in the laughter.
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“by-the-way,” he said, suddenly, “did old coble leave her any money?”
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“then rosina is keeping her?”
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“yes, i suppose so.”
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“how does she reconcile that with her economy?” he thought, with an added throb of tenderness. the kettle sang on; the cat purred; he had a flash of hope--he might grow to love her yet. but he thought of eleanor wyndwood, and the hope died. they would have been on their way now to their restaurant--sitting close together, driving through the flashing streets. oh, was he not mad to be here?
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“what are you doing all alone?” he thought. “my love, my first love and my last, you who believed in me, who were ready to sacrifice yourself to me?”
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“did you go to see ruth hailey?” asked billy, suddenly.
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eleanor’s face vanished. he put his hand to his breast-pocket, and drew out the portrait with the sweet, shy eyes.
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“yes,” he said, tremulously, “and she gave me this.”
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billy took the photograph and kissed it.
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“god bless you!” he said.
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davie pricked up his ears.
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“you’re not in love with her?” matthew asked, lightly, with a sudden apprehension.
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“i?--i know better than to be in love with any woman,” said billy, sadly, as he returned the portrait. “only in my stories can i love and be loved.”
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“it was she who sent us that mysterious money,” said matthew, and told him the story. billy listened in surprise and emotion.
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“god bless you, ruth!” he said again.
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“what is that god?” interrupted davie.
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the brothers looked at each other, embarrassed.
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“ask mummy; she’ll tell you,” said matthew, at last.
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“mummy did tell me, but i can’t ’derstand.” he sat there wondering. “when does god sleep?”
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the sudden blare and boom of a salvationist procession saved reply. the blatant clangor passed, died. they waited for rosina.
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“mummy, when does god go to sleep?” the persistent davie remembered to ask as she was leading him from the room.
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“god never sleeps,” replied rosina, sternly, and haled him to bed.
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matthew pondered the immense saying, so glibly spoken, as he waited for her to return. “aunt clara,” pouch-eyed and wan, her head nodding queerly with excitement at the great man’s presence, was laying the supper in the warm kitchen, where the servant would not resume possession till ten; little clara was at her task of bible reading. billy drowsed on his chair, exhausted. the fire glowed red; the cat was still stretched in the warmth. something in the scene thrilled him with a sense of restful kinship with it, half sweet, half sad; a sense of being more really at home than in delicate drawing-rooms; the old homely kitchen far away on the borders of the forest sent out subtle links, binding his childhood to the manhood that had come at last.
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this half-and-half-ness was typical of the new life which began that night, and which on the morrow was sealed and consecrated by the characteristically self-deceptive message from eleanor: “you are right. we have chosen the highest.” it was a life full of petty pricks and every-day worries. but if it was not so grandiosely heroic as he had intended, neither was the consequence to his art as he had foreseen.
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he has not given up art. neither rosina nor billy would permit that folly, and eleanor’s brief letter had a postscript of inspiring protest. he had meant to sacrifice art and happiness, but only the latter sacrifice was accepted. for unhappiness drove him back to his studio--where the “angelus” hung now like an inspiration. from the glooms and trials of the daily routine in this prosaic home, with its faithful but narrow-souled mistress, who knew not what was passing in her husband’s mind, nor at what cost he had made her happy, and who would not even agree to live in some beautiful country spot which would have softened life for him--from this depressing household, with its unsprightly children, its cheerless pensioner, its querulous cripple resenting the very hand that fed him, he escaped to the little whitewashed studio to find in his art oblivion of the burden of life.
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and now, at last, his true life--work was begun. removed from the sapping cynicism of the club conscience, from the drought of drawing-room disbelief, from the miasma of fashionable conversation, from the confusing cackle of critics; saved from the intrigue with mrs. wyndwood, that would have distracted his soul and imposed an extra need for money-making; withdrawn from the feverish rush of fashion and the enervating consumption of superfluous food and drink; exempted from keeping up a luxurious position purchased by scamped, soulless pictures; able to work without the whims of sitters or patrons, without regard to prices--for rosina’s income, augmented by her very considerable hoardings and by his balance, supplemented by the proceeds of the sale of his studio effects and
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ancient pictures, the whole doubled by rosina’s economic administration, was amply sufficient for every rational need--matthew strang began at last, without underthought of anything but art, in this homely environment to which his soul was native, to express his own inmost individuality, to produce faithfully and finely the work it was in him to do.
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solitary, silent, sorrowful, strong; not chattering about his ideas and his aims, indifferent to fame or the voice of posterity, striving for self-approbation and rarely obtaining it, touching and retouching, breaking the rules of the schools in obedience to his own genius, he toiled on in his humble studio, seeking the highest, with no man and no woman to inspire, encourage, or praise. he had been saved from love and happiness, and sent back into sympathy with all that works and suffers. and thus the note that had trembled faintly and then died out in his work was struck strong and sure at last--the note of soul. to his accurate science and his genius for the decorative, which are two of the factors of great art, was now added the spiritual poetry which is the last and rarest. for he was master of his soul at last.
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he had absorbed life sufficiently--he had toiled and hungered; he had feasted and made merry; he had sorrowed and endured; he had sinned and suffered; he had known the lust of life and the pride of the eye; he had known love--the love of the soul and the love of the senses; he had known the heartache of baffled ambition and the dust and ashes of achievement. what he had wanted he had not got; by the time he had got it he had not wanted it; whatever he had set out to do he had not done, and whatever he had done he had not foreseen. and out of all this travail of the soul was born his art--strong, austere, simple.
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in the five or six years since he died to the world he has finished as many big pictures, and has made studies for others, besides a host of minor things. he has not exhibited any of the larger pictures in the academy; three have been presented quietly to provincial and suburban galleries where the people comes. only one with some of the smaller things has been sold for money, and this but to appease rosina; it was one more sacrifice of his individuality to hers. it is true there are expenses for models and materials, and he has now two more children, but it jars upon him to ask money for work that expresses and conceals the tragic secrets of his inmost being. nor does he care to have his pictures shut away amid the other furniture of luxurious mansions. still, he has learned enough to know that life cannot be lived ideally. and, moreover, the event has taught him again the contrariety of life; for his eccentricity, leaking out slowly, has enhanced the fame to which he is indifferent, and, aided by a legend of mysterious saturnine seclusion, has raised his market value to such a point that he need only sell an occasional picture. one dealer in particular is anxious to give him his own price for a picture. matthew strang will probably part with one to him some day, but he does not know that the dealer is acting for lady thornton, the wealthy and celebrated society leader and convert, though he knows and is glad that eleanor wyndwood found both happiness and spiritual peace when, a few months after her friend olive regan’s marriage to herbert strang, that ever-charming and impressionable lady was led to the altar by the handsome and brilliant sir gilbert thornton, and went over with him to roman catholicism. with the same earnestness with which she had passed from her native orthodoxy to the socialism of gerard brode, and thence to the spirituality of dolkovitch, she had slid by a natural transition from the sensuous art atmosphere of matthew strang’s world into the sensuous spirituality of catholicism as soon as his influence had been replaced by the ascendency of another male mind. he was not asked to the wedding, and the invitation to olive’s, reaching him in the days when the first darkness of isolation was upon him, he had left unanswered.
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and just as he has given his art freely to the world, so, under the inspiration of tarmigan’s memory, he gives his services freely at grainger’s and other humble art-schools as encourager of every talent that aspires under discouragement; teaching it to be itself and nothing else, for the artist gives to the world and is not asked for, creating the taste he satisfies, and art is not truth nor beauty, but a revelation of beautiful truth through the individual vision. it is the artist’s reaction to the stimulus of his universe, whether his universe be our common world seen for itself or through antecedent art, or a private world of inward vision: for while the philosophers are quarrelling about abstract truth, the artist answers pilate’s question through his own personality. the beauty which matthew strang’s art reveals, though he experiments in many styles, with unequal results, is mainly tragic. for others the gay, the flippant, the bright--let those from whose temperament these things flow interpret the joyousness and buoyancy and airy grace of existence. for others the empty experimentation in line and color. it is all art--in the house of art are many mansions. he has come to the last of the three stages of so many artists, who pass from the fever to do everything, through a period of intolerance for all they cannot do, into a genial acceptance of the good in all schools. but, unassuming as he has always been, he is yet sometimes shaken by righteous indignation when he sees tawdry art--art that is the response to the stimulus of no universe but the artificial studio-universe of models and posings and stage-properties--enthroned and fêted at the banquet of life; and sometimes an unguarded word flashes out before his pupils, but he always repents of his railings, feeling it is his to work, not to judge; to do the one simple thing that his hand findeth to do.
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one of his pictures is of a woman looking out to sea with hopeless eyes; there is a mocking glory of sunset in the sky. this is called “the pain of the world.” the title was due to olive’s exclamation that night in devonshire. the figure is his mother’s, come back to him in his own solitude--the image of her standing thus in the asylum at halifax could not be effaced from his soul; it had to find expression in his art.
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as he worked at it, with the brutal aloofness of the artist, studying lights and shadows, values and effects, gradations and tones, he wondered whether the artist were a cold-blooded monster, or a divinely appointed alchemist sent to transmute the dross of the world’s pain to the gold of art for the world’s pleasure; a magician to cover up the rawness of life, as kindly nature covers up the naked earth with grass, or throws the purple light of dream over all that is dead--over the centuries that are past or our youth that is gone; a redeemer, whose beautiful perception of pathos and tragedy robs the grave of its victory, and plucks death of its sting, so that no man suffereth or travaileth without contributing to the raw stuff of life of which art is woven by the souls dowered with the pangs and privileges of over-consciousness. each man, it sometimes seemed to him, dimly, had to pay so much in sorrow and pain; and in return for that he drew from the common human fund the comprehension of life and the consolation of art, new sympathies and new delights, music and books and pictures, that only lived through the rich variety of human destinies; mystic atmospheres and minor scales, meaningless to souls that had not suffered or inherited the capacity to suffer. some--generally the stupid--paid little in pain and sorrow; and some--as in his own case--much. but so long as the account showed a balance to the general good, it was not for the soul that was sacrificed to complain. it was, perhaps, even a privilege to subserve the common good. life was so arranged that virtue could not be sure of personal reward, and this uncertainty was just what made virtue possible. under no other scheme of things could the soul enjoy the privilege of virtue. to have suffered, as he himself had done, by the institution of marriage, both as child and husband; to have been a victim to the general laws which safeguard human society; to have been cut in two by the flaming swords of the cherubim, which turn every way to keep the way of the tree of life--all this did not, he thought, give him the right to blaspheme existence. and the artist at least extracted a soul of good from all things evil.
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some such reflections--not clear, but all confused and blurred, for he was no syllogism-building philosopher, but an artist whose profoundest thought sprang always from the concrete image before him--came to him again when he was working at his famous picture “the persecutors,” inspired by an episode in billy’s life, though billy does not know. it is simply children tormenting an old man. the old man is one of the world’s wrecks; the children know not what they do. but the pathos of the picture is overwhelming; it purifies by pity and terror. this is the profit to the world of billy’s life.
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matthew strang knows, with the same secret assurance that sent him out to fight, and strengthened him in the long struggle, that this picture will live, that the gods have answered his boyish prayer for immortality. but at moments when billy is moping or in pain, or when the artist foresees the gabble of magazines and drawing-rooms about his work, the chatter of fashionable parrots, and the analysis of his “second manner” by glib, comfortable critics, he wonders whether the picture or the immortality is worth the price.
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but, stronger than those driven by their over-consciousness to express in artistic shapes the futility of life, he does not dwell eternally on the tears of things; and his picture simply entitled “a woman” is perhaps his masterpiece. for when he painted it that sunrise in paris was still vivid to him, and the light in ruth hailey’s eyes, and that fire of love in eleanor wyndwood’s; these things were in the eternal order, too, as truly as the ugliness and the sordid realities. the simplest human life was packed with marvels of sensation and emotion, haloed with dreams and divine illusions. to have been a child, to have sung and danced, to have eaten and played, to have seen woods and waters, to have grown to youth and to manhood, to have dreamed and aspired, to have labored and hoped--all this happiness had been his while he was looking for happiness, just as art had been his in nova scotia, while he had been struggling to get to it in england.
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and so to-day he yearns to paint the poetry of the real--not with the false romantic glamour which had witched his youth, though even his youth had had a hankering after the real, just as his maturity retains a love for the mystic. that gilded unreality to which his art would have gravitated, had he found happiness with the sentimental eleanor in her atmosphere of fashion, will be replaced by the beauty that even when mystic is based on truth. he needed no woman’s inspiration, nor the stimulus of cultured cliques. alone he faces the realities of life and death without intervening veils of charming illusion, no longer craving to filter the honest sunlight through stained cathedral windows or to tarnish the simplicity of the grave with monumental angels. aspiring now to paint london, he wanders through the gray streets, as in his days of hunger, but now the grotesque figures no longer seem outside the realm of serious art, or mere picturesque arrangements of line and color. to his purged vision, that still lacks humor, they touch the mysteries and the infinities, passing and disappearing like ghosts on a planet of dream: solitude has brought him a sense of the universal life from which they flow, and he fancies the function of art should be to show the whole in every part, the universal through the particular. and so he longs to paint the beauty that lies unseen of grosser eyes, the poetry of mean streets and every-day figures, to enrich and hallow life by revealing some sweep of a great principle that purifies and atones.
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in “the old maid” he has painted the portrait of “aunt clara” with davie on her knee, revealing the wistful, imprisoned, maternal instinct he detected one day in her sunken eyes as she fondled his little davie. what makes this presentation of ugliness art is not merely the breathing brush-work, but the beauty of his own pity which the artist has added to the nature he copied. with the falsely aristocratic in art or life he has lost sympathy: to him to be honest and faithful is to belong to the only aristocracy in the world--and the smallest. sometimes he dreams of some great common art--for all men, like the sky and the air, which should somehow soften life for all. and dreaming thus he somewhat frets against the many limitations of his own art--as once in his callow boyhood when he set out to write that dime novel--and against its lapsed influence in modern life, wishing rather he had been a great poet or a great musician. only music and poetry, he feared while toiling at the “old maid,” could express and inspire modern life; the impulse that had raised the cathedral had been transformed into the impulse that built the grand hotel, fitted throughout with electrical conveniences; in the visible arts landscape and portraiture alone seemed to find response from the modern mind, the one by its revelation of the beauty of the world, the other by its increasing subtlety of psychological insight. painting had begun with religion, religion had led to technique, then religion had drifted away from painting, and then technique had become a religion. but technique ought not to be thought of separately except by the student; to the artist the spiritual and the material came as one conception, as metre comes with the poet’s thought. the spirit must be brought back to painting--this modern accuracy of tones and forms was but the channel for it. but it could no longer be conveyed through the simple images of a popular creed to which all men vibrated: to-day there was no such common chord for the artist to touch. even this picture of “the old maid” might be unintelligible without its title, and risked denunciation as literary. and the greatest picture could be seen by but few.
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but repining is useless; there is only one thing he can do, and he must do it--a small thing in the span of the cosmos and the sweep of the ages, but to be done ere he goes down to the kindred dust. but before death comes he has doubtless other things to suffer--all these spiritual agonies have seared the body in which early privations and sickness had already left the seeds of premature infirmity. his children are growing up, too, bringing new fears and problems.
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and yet his life is not all unhappy--work is his anodyne, and there is an inner peace in the daily pain, because it is the pain that his soul has chosen, in willing slavery to its own yoke.
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but life is too long for ideals; the unending procession of the days depresses the finest enthusiasm. sometimes when the domestic horizon is dark, or when his body is racked with pain, he rebels against the rôle thrust upon him in the world’s workshop, and against the fate that mocked at his free-will, and made of him a voluntary instrument for the happiness of rosina and herbert, turning his every action to undreamed-of issues; and then he longs for the life that he had found so hollow, the life of gay talk, and rustling dresses, and wine, and woman, and song. and in such moments as these--when the natural human instinct for happiness, yearning sunward, breaks through all the strata of laborious philosophy and experience--he remembers that men call him “the master,” and then he seems to hear the sardonic laughter of mad peggy, as he asks himself what master he has followed in his sacrifice, or what master, working imperturbably, moulds human life at his ironic, inscrutable will.
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blacky the crow
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chapter i: blacky the crow makes a discovery
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blacky the crow is always watching for things not intended for his sharp eyes. the result is that he gets into no end of trouble which he could avoid. in this respect he is just like his cousin, sammy jay. between them they see a great deal with which they have no business and which it would be better for them not to see.
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now blacky the crow finds it no easy matter to pick up a living when snow covers the green meadows and the green forest, and ice binds the big river and the smiling pool. he has to use his sharp eyes for all they are worth in order to find enough to fill his stomach, and he will eat anything in the way of food that he can swallow. often he travels long distances looking for food, but at night he always comes back to the same place in the green forest, to sleep in company with others of his family.
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blacky dearly loves company, particularly at night, and about the time jolly, round, red mr. sun is beginning to think about his bed behind the purple hills, you will find blacky heading for a certain part of the green forest where he knows he will have neighbors of his own kind. peter rabbit says that it is because blacky's conscience troubles him so that he doesn't dare sleep alone, but happy jack squirrel says that blacky hasn't any conscience. you can believe just which you please, though i suspect that neither of them really knows.
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as i have said, blacky is quite a traveler at this time of year, and sometimes his search for food takes him to out-of-the-way places. one day toward the very last of winter, the notion entered his black head that he would have a look in a certain lonesome corner of the green forest where once upon a time redtail the hawk had lived. blacky knew well enough that redtail wasn't there now; he had gone south in the fell and wouldn't be back until he was sure that mistress spring had arrived on the green meadows and in the green forest.
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like the black imp he is, blacky flew over the tree-tops, his sharp eyes watching for something interesting below. presently he saw ahead of him the old nest of red-tail. he knew all about that nest. he had visited it before when red-tail was away. still it might be worth another visit. you never can tell what you may find in old houses. now, of course, blacky knew perfectly well that redtail was miles and miles, hundreds of miles away, and so there was nothing to fear from him. but blacky learned ever so long ago that there is nothing like making sure that there is no danger. so, instead of flying straight to that old nest, he first flew over the tree so that he could look down into it.
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right away he saw something that made him gasp and blink his eyes. it was quite large and white, and it looked--it looked very much indeed like an egg! do you wonder that blacky gasped and blinked? here was snow on the ground, and rough brother north wind and jack frost had given no hint that they were even thinking of going back to the far north. the idea of any one laying an egg at this time of year! blacky flew over to a tall pine-tree to think it over.
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“must be it was a little lump of snow,” thought he. “yet if ever i saw an egg, that looked like one. jumping grasshoppers, how good an egg would taste right now!” you know blacky has a weakness for eggs. the more he thought about it, the hungrier he grew. several times he almost made up his mind to fly straight over there and make sure, but he didn't quite dare. if it were an egg, it must belong to somebody, and perhaps it would be best to find out who. suddenly blacky shook himself. “i must be dreaming,” said he. “there couldn't, there just couldn't be an egg at this time of year, or in that old tumble-down nest! i'll just fly away and forget it.”
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so he flew away, but he couldn't forget it. he kept thinking of it all day, and when he went to sleep that night he made up his mind to have another look at that old nest.
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chapter ii: blacky makes sure
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“as true as ever i've cawed a caw that was a new-laid egg i saw.”
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“what are you talking about?” demanded sammy jay, coming up just in time to hear the last part of what blacky the crow was mumbling to himself.
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“oh nothing, cousin, nothing at all,” replied blacky. “i was just talking foolishness to myself.” sammy looked at him sharply. “you aren't feeling sick, are you, cousin blacky?” he asked. “must be something the matter with you when you begin talking about new-laid eggs, when everything's covered with snow and ice. foolishness is no name for it. whoever heard of such a thing as a new-laid egg this time of year.”
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“nobody, i guess,” replied blacky. “i told you i was just talking foolishness. you see, i'm so hungry that i just got to thinking what i'd have if i could have anything i wanted. that made me think of eggs, and i tried to think just how i would feel if i should suddenly see a great big egg right in front of me. i guess i must have said something about it.”
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“i guess you must have. it isn't egg time yet, and it won't be for a long time. take my advice and just forget about impossible things. i'm going over to farmer brown's corncrib. corn may not be as good as eggs, but it is very good and very filling. better come along,” said sammy.
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“not this morning, thank you. some other time, perhaps,” replied blacky.
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he watched sammy disappear through the trees. then he flew to the top of the tallest pine-tree to make sure that no one was about. when he was quite sure that no one was watching him, he spread his wings and headed for the most lonesome corner of the green forest.
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“i'm foolish. i know i'm foolish,” he muttered. “but i've just got to have another look in that old nest of redtail the hawk. i just can't get it out of my head that that was an egg, a great, big, white egg, that i saw there yesterday. it won't do any harm to have another look, anyway.”
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straight toward the tree in which was the great tumble-down nest of redtail the hawk he flew, and as he drew near, he flew high, for blacky is too shrewd and smart to take any chances. not that he thought that there could be any danger there; but you never can tell, and it is always the part of wisdom to be on the safe side. as he passed over the top of the tree, he looked down eagerly. just imagine how he felt when instead of one, he saw two white things in the old nest--two white things that looked for all the world like eggs! the day before there had been but one; now there were two. that settled it in blacky's mind; they were eggs! they couldn't be anything else.
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blacky kept right on flying. somehow he didn't dare stop just then. he was too much excited by what he had discovered to think clearly. he had got to have time to get his wits together. whoever had laid those eggs was big and strong. he felt sure of that. it must be some one a great deal bigger than himself, and he was of no mind to get into trouble, even for a dinner of fresh eggs. he must first find out whose they were; then he would know better what to do. he felt sure that no one else knew about them, and he knew that they couldn't run away. so he kept right on flying until he reached a certain tall pine-tree where he could sit and think without being disturbed.
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“eggs!” he muttered. “real eggs! now who under the sun can have moved into redtail's old house? and what can they mean by laying eggs before mistress spring has even sent word that she has started? it's too much for me. it certainly is too much for me.”
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chapter iii: blacky finds out who owns the eggs
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two big white eggs in a tumbledown nest, and snow and ice everywhere! did ever anybody hear of such a thing before?
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“wouldn't believe it, if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes,” muttered blacky the crow. “have to believe them. if i can't believe them, it's of no use to try to believe anything in this world. as sure as i sit here, that old nest has two eggs in it. whoever laid them must be crazy to start housekeeping at this time of year. i must find out whose eggs they are and then--”
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blacky didn't finish, but there was a hungry look in his eyes that would have told any who saw it, had there been any to see it, that he had a use for those eggs. but there was none to see it, and he took the greatest care that there should be none to see him when he once again started for a certain lonesome corner of the green forest.
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“first i'll make sure that the eggs are still there,” thought he, and flew high above the tree tops, so that as he passed over the tree in which was the old nest of red-tail the hawk, he might look down into it. to have seen him, you would never have guessed that he was looking for anything in particular. he seemed to be just flying over on his way to some distant place. if the eggs were still there, he meant to come back and hide in the top of a near-by pine-tree to watch until he was sure that he might safely steal those eggs, or to find out whose they were.
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blacky's heart beat fast with excitement as he drew near that old tumble-down nest. would those two big white eggs be there? perhaps there would be three! the very thought made him flap his wings a little faster. a few more wing strokes and he would be right over the tree. how he did hope to see those eggs! he could almost see into the nest now. one stroke! two strokes! three strokes! blacky bit his tongue to keep from giving a sharp caw of disappointment and surprise.
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there were no eggs to be seen. no, sir, there wasn't a sign of eggs in that old nest. there wasn't because--why, do you think? there wasn't because blacky looked straight down on a great mass of feathers which quite covered them from sight, and he didn't have to look twice to know that that great mass of feathers was really a great bird, the bird to whom those eggs belonged.
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blacky didn't turn to come back as he had planned. he kept right on, just as if he hadn't seen anything, and as he flew he shivered a little. he shivered at the thought of what might have happened to him if he had tried to steal those eggs the day before and had been caught doing it.
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“i'm thankful i knew enough to leave them alone,” said he. “funny i never once guessed whose eggs they are. i might have known that no one but hooty the horned owl would think of nesting at this time of year. and that was mrs. hooty i saw on the nest just now. my, but she's big! she's bigger than hooty himself! yes, sir, it's a lucky thing i didn't try to get those eggs yesterday. probably both hooty and mrs. hooty were sitting close by, only they were sitting so still that i thought they were parts of the tree they were in. blacky, blacky, the sooner you forget those eggs the better.”
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some things are best forgotten as soon as they are learned. who never plays with fire will surely not get burned.
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chapter iv: the cunning of blacky
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now when blacky the crow discovered that the eggs in the old tumble-down nest of redtail the hawk in a lonesome corner of the green forest belonged to hooty the owl, he straightway made the best of resolutions; he would simply forget all about those eggs. he would forget that he ever had seen them, and he would stay away from that corner of the green forest. that was a very wise resolution. of all the people who live in the green forest, none is fiercer or more savage than hooty the owl, unless it is mrs. hooty. she is bigger than hooty and certainly quite as much to be feared by the little people.
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all this blacky knows. no one knows it better. and blacky is not one to poke his head into trouble with his eyes open. so he very wisely resolved to forget all about those eggs. now it is one thing to make a resolution and quite another thing to live up to it, as you all know. it was easy enough to say that he would forget, but not at all easy to forget. it would have been different if it had been spring or early summer, when there were plenty of other eggs to be had by any one smart enough to find them and steal them. but now, when it was still winter (such an unheard-of time for any one to have eggs!), and it was hard work to find enough to keep a hungry crow's stomach filled, the thought of those eggs would keep popping into his head. he just couldn't seem to forget them. after a little, he didn't try.
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now blacky the crow is very, very cunning. he is one of the smartest of all the little people who fly. no one can get into more mischief and still keep out of trouble than can blacky the crow. that is because he uses the wits in that black head of his. in fact, some people are unkind enough to say that he spends all his spare time in planning mischief. the more he thought of those eggs, the more he wanted them, and it wasn't long before he began to try to plan some way to get them without risking his own precious skin.
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“i can't do it alone,” thought he, “and yet if i take any one into my secret, i'll have to share those eggs. that won't do at all, because i want them myself. i found them, and i ought to have them.” he quite forgot or overlooked the fact that those eggs really belonged to hooty and mrs. hooty and to no one else. “now let me see, what can i do?”
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he thought and he thought and he thought and he thought, and little by little a plan worked out in his little black head. then he chuckled. he chuckled right out loud, then hurriedly looked around to see if any one had heard him. no one had, so he chuckled again. he cocked his head on one side and half closed his eyes, as if that plan was something he could see and he was looking at it very hard. then he cocked his head on the other side and did the same thing.
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“it's all right,” said he at last. “it'll give my relatives a lot of fun, and of course they will be very grateful to me for that. it won't hurt hooty or mrs. hooty a bit, but it will make them very angry. they have very short tempers, and people with short tempers usually forget everything else when they are angry. we'll pay them a visit while the sun is bright, because then perhaps they cannot see well enough to catch us, and we'll tease them until they lose their tempers and forget all about keeping guard over those eggs. then i'll slip in and get one and perhaps both of them. without knowing that they are doing anything of the kind, my friends and relatives will help me to get a good meal. my, how good those eggs will taste!”
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it was a very clever and cunning plan, for blacky is a very clever and cunning rascal, but of course it didn't deserve success because nothing that means needless worry and trouble for others deserves to succeed.
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chapter v: blacky calls his friends
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when blacky cries “caw, caw, caw, caw!” as if he'd dislocate his jaw, his relatives all hasten where he waits them with a crafty air. they know that there is mischief afoot, and the crow family is always ready for mischief. so on this particular morning when they heard blacky cawing at the top of his lungs from the tallest pine-tree in the green forest, they hastened over there as fast as they could fly, calling to each other excitedly and sure that they were going to have a good time of some kind.
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blacky chuckled as he saw them coming. “come on! come on! caw, caw, caw! hurry up and flap your wings faster. i know where hooty the owl is, and we'll have no end of fun with him,” he cried.
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“caw, caw, caw, caw, caw, caw!” shouted all his relatives in great glee. “where is he? lead us to him. we'll drive him out of the green forest!”
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so blacky led the way over to the most lonesome corner of the green forest, straight to the tree in which hooty the owl was comfortably sleeping. blacky had taken pains to slip over early that morning and make sure just where he was. he had discovered hooty fast asleep, and he knew that he would remain right where he was until dark. you know hooty's eyes are not meant for much use in bright light, and the brighter the light, the more uncomfortable his eyes feel. blacky knows this, too, and he had chosen the very brightest part of the morning to call his relatives over to torment poor hooty. jolly, round, bright mr. sun was shining his very brightest, and the white snow on the ground made it seem brighter still. even blacky had to blink, and he knew that poor hooty would find it harder still.
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but one thing blacky was very careful not to even hint of, and that was that mrs. hooty was right close at hand. mrs. hooty is bigger and even more fierce than hooty, and blacky didn't want to frighten any of the more timid of his relatives. what he hoped down deep in his crafty heart was that when they got to teasing and tormenting hooty and making the great racket which he knew they would, mrs. hooty would lose her temper and fly over to join hooty in trying to drive away the black tormentors. then blacky would slip over to the nest which she had left unguarded and steal one and perhaps both of the eggs he knew were there.
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when they reached the tree where hooty was, he was blinking his great yellow eyes and had fluffed out all his feathers, which is a way he has when he is angry, to make himself look twice as big as he really is. of course, he had heard the noisy crew coming, and he knew well enough what to expect. as soon as they saw him, they began to scream as loud as ever they could and to call him all manner of names. the boldest of them would dart at him as if to pull out a mouthful of feathers, but took the greatest care not to get too near. you see, the way hooty hissed and snapped his great bill was very threatening, and they knew that if once he got hold of one of them with those big cruel claws of his, that would be the end.
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so they were content to simply scold and scream at him and fly around him, just out of reach, and make him generally uncomfortable, and they were so busy doing this that no one noticed that blacky was not joining in the fun, and no one paid any attention to the old tumble-down nest of redtail the hawk only a few trees distant. so far blacky's plans were working out just as he had hoped.
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chapter vi: hooty the owl doesn't stay still
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now what's the good of being smart when others do not do their part?
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if blacky the crow didn't say this to himself, he thought it. he knew that he had made a very cunning plan to get the eggs of hooty the owl, a plan so shrewd and cunning that no one else in the green forest or on the green meadows would have thought of it. there was only one weakness in it, and that was that it depended for success on having hooty the owl do as he usually did when tormented by a crowd of noisy crows,--stay where he was until they got tired and flew away.
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now blacky sometimes makes a mistake that smart people are very apt to make; he thinks that because he is so smart, other people are stupid. that is where he proves that smart as he is, he isn't as smart as he thinks he is. he always thought of hooty the owl as stupid. that is, he always thought of him that way in daytime. at night, when he was waked out of a sound sleep by the fierce hunting cry of hooty, he wasn't so sure about hooty being stupid, and he always took care to sit perfectly still in the darkness, lest hooty's great ears should hear him and hooty's great eyes, made for seeing in the dark, should find him. no, in the night blacky was not at all sure that hooty was stupid.
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but in the daytime he was sure. you see, he quite forgot the fact that the brightness of day is to hooty what the blackness of night is to him. so, because hooty would simply sit still and hiss and snap his bill, instead of trying to catch his tormentors or flying away, blacky called him stupid. he felt sure that hooty would stay right where he was now, and he hoped that mrs. hooty would lose her temper and leave the nest where she was sitting on those two eggs and join hooty to help him try to drive away that noisy crew.
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but hooty isn't stupid. not a bit of it. the minute he found out that blacky and his friends had discovered him, he thought of mrs. hooty and the two precious eggs in the old nest of redtail the hawk close by.
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“mrs. hooty mustn't be disturbed,” thought he. “that will never do at all. i must lead these black rascals away where they won't discover mrs. hooty. i certainly must.”
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so he spread his broad wings and blundered away among the trees a little way. he didn't fly far because the instant he started to fly that whole noisy crew with the exception of blacky were after him. because he couldn't use his claws or bill while flying, they grew bold enough to pull a few feathers out of his back. so he flew only a little way to a thick hemlock-tree, where it wasn't easy for the crows to get at him, and where the light didn't hurt his eyes so much. there he rested a few minutes and then did the same thing over again. he meant to lead those bothersome crows into the darkest part of the green forest and there--well, he could see better there, and it might be that one of them would be careless enough to come within reach. no, hooty wasn't stupid. certainly not.
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blacky awoke to that fact as he sat in the top of a tall pine-tree silently watching. he could see mrs. hooty on the nest, and as the noise of hooty's tormentors sounded from farther and farther away, she settled herself more comfortably and closed her eyes. blacky could imagine that she was smiling to herself. it was clear that she had no intention of going to help hooty. his splendid plan had failed just because stupid hooty, who wasn't stupid at all, had flown away when he ought to have sat still. it was very provoking.
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chapter vii: blacky tries another plan
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when one plan fails, just try another; declare you'll win some way or other.
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people who succeed are those who do not give up because they fail the first time they try. they are the ones who, as soon as one plan fails, get busy right away and think of another plan and try that. if the thing they are trying to do is a good thing, sooner or later they succeed. if they are trying to do a wrong thing, very likely all their plans fail, as they should.
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not one of his relatives had noticed that nest. they had been too busy teasing hooty. this was just as blacky had hoped. he didn't want them to know about that nest because he was selfish and wanted to get those eggs just for himself alone. but now he knew that the only way he could get mrs. hooty off of them would be by teasing her so that she would lose her temper and try to catch some of her tormentors. if she did that, there would be a chance that he might slip in and get at least one of those eggs.
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he would try it.
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for a few minutes he listened to the noise of his relatives growing fainter and fainter, as hooty led them farther and farther into the green forest. then he opened his mouth.
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“caw, caw, caw, caw!” he screamed. “caw, caw, caw, caw! come back, everybody! here is mrs. hooty on her nest! caw, caw, caw, caw!”
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now as soon as they heard that, all blacky's relatives stopped chasing and tormenting hooty and started back as fast as they could fly. they didn't like the dark part of the green forest into which hooty was leading them. besides, they wanted to see that nest. so back they came, cawing at the top of their lungs, for they were very much excited. some of them never had seen a nest of hooty's. and anyway, it would be just as much fun to tease mrs. hooty as it was to tease hooty.
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“where is the nest?” they screamed, as they came back to where blacky was cawing and pretending to be very much excited.
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“why,” exclaimed one, “that is the old nest of redtail the hawk. i know all about that nest.” and he looked at blacky as if he thought blacky was playing a joke on them.
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“it was redtail's, but it is hooty's now. if you don't believe me, just look in it,” retorted blacky.
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at once they all began to fly over the top of the tree where they could look down into the nest and there, sure enough, was mrs. hooty, her great, round, yellow eyes glaring up at them angrily. such a racket! right away hooty was forgotten, and the whole crowd at once began to torment mrs. hooty. only blacky sat watchful and silent, waiting for mrs. hooty to lose her temper and try to catch one of her tormentors. he had hope, a great hope, that he would get one of those eggs.
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chapter viii: hooty comes to mrs. hooty's aid
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no one can live just for self alone. a lot of people think they can, but they are very much mistaken. they are making one of the greatest mistakes in the world. every teeny, weeny act, no matter what it is, affects somebody else. that is one of old mother nature's great laws. and it is just as true among the little people of the green forest and the green meadows as with boys and girls and grown people. it is old mother nature's way of making each of us responsible for the good of all and of teaching us that always we should help each other.
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as you know, when blacky the crow called all his relatives over to the nest where mrs. hooty was sitting on her eggs, they at once stopped tormenting hooty and left him alone in a thick hemlock-tree in the darkest part of the green forest. of course hooty was very, very glad to be left in peace, and he might have spent the rest of the day there sleeping in comfort. but he didn't. no, sir, he didn't. at first he gave a great sigh of relief and settled himself as if he meant to stay. he listened to the voices of those noisy crows growing fainter and fainter and was glad. but it was only for a few minutes.
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presently those voices stopped growing fainter. they grew more excited-sounding than ever, and they came right from one place. hooty knew then that his tormentors had found the nest where mrs. hooty was, and that they were tormenting her just as they had tormented him. he snapped his bill angrily and then more angrily.
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he didn't finish. instead, he spread his broad wings and flew back towards the nest and mrs. hooty. his great wings made no noise, for they are made so that he can fly without making a sound. “if i once get hold of one of those crows!” he muttered to himself. “if i once get hold of one of those crows, i'll--” he didn't say what he would do, but if you had been near enough to hear the snap of his bill, you could have guessed the rest.
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all this time the crows were having what they called fun with mrs. hooty. nothing is true fun which makes others uncomfortable, but somehow a great many people seem to forget this. so, while blacky sat watching, his relatives made a tremendous racket around mrs. hooty, and the more angry she grew, the more they screamed and called her names and darted down almost in her face, as they pretended that they were going to fight her. they were so busy doing this, and blacky was so busy watching them, hoping that mrs. hooty would leave her nest and give him a chance to steal the eggs he knew were under her, that no one gave hooty a thought.
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all of a sudden he was there, right in the tree close to the nest! no one had heard a sound, but there he was, and in the claws of one foot he held the tail feathers of one of blacky's relatives. it was lucky, very lucky indeed for that one that the sun was in hooty's eyes and so he had missed his aim. otherwise there would have been one less crow.
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now it is one thing to tease one lone owl and quite another to tease two together. besides, there were those black tail feathers floating down to the snow-covered ground. quite suddenly those crows decided that they had had fun enough for one day, and in spite of all blacky could do to stop them, away they flew, cawing loudly and talking it all over noisily. blacky was the last to go, and his heart was sorrowful. however could he get those eggs?
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chapter ix: blacky thinks of farmer brown's boy
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“such luck!” grumbled blacky, as he flew over to his favorite tree to do a little thinking. “such luck! now all my neighbors know about the nest of hooty the owl, and sooner or later one of them will find out that there are eggs in it. there is one thing about it, though, and that is that if i can't get them, nobody can. that is to say, none of my relatives can. i've tried every way i can think of, and those eggs are still there. my, my, my, how i would like one of them right now!”
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of course, that was absolute foolishness, but he made himself believe it just the same. at least, he pretended to believe it. and the more he pretended, the angrier he grew. this is often the way with people who try to wrong others. they grow angry with the ones they have tried to wrong. when at last blacky had to confess to himself that he could think of no other way to get those eggs, he began to wonder if there was some way to make trouble for hooty and mrs. hooty. it was right then that he thought of farmer brown's boy. blacky's eyes snapped. he remembered how, once upon a time, farmer brown's boy had delighted to rob nests. blacky had seen him take the eggs from the nests of blacky's own relatives and from many other feathered people. what he did with the eggs, blacky had no idea. just now he didn't care. if farmer brown's boy would just happen to find hooty's nest, he would be sure to take those eggs, and then he, blacky, would feel better. he would feel that he was even with hooty.
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right away he began to try to think of some way to bring farmer brown's boy over to the lonesome corner of the green forest where hooty's nest was. if he could once get him there, he felt sure that farmer brown's boy would see the nest and climb up to it, and then of course he would take the eggs. if he couldn't have those eggs himself, the next best thing would be to see some one else get them.
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dear me, dear me, such dreadful thoughts! i am afraid that blacky's heart was as black as his coat. and the worst of it was, he seemed to get a lot of pleasure in his wicked plans. now right down in his heart he knew that they were wicked plans, but he tried to make excuses to himself.
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“hooty the owl is a robber,” said he. “everybody is afraid of him. he lives on other people, and so far as i know he does no good in the world. he is big and fierce, and no one loves him. the green forest would be better off without him. if those eggs hatch, there will be little owls to be fed, and they will grow up into big fierce owls, like their father and mother. so if i show farmer brown's boy that nest and he takes those eggs, i will be doing a kindness to my neighbors.”
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so blacky talked to himself and tried to hush the still, small voice down inside that tried to tell him that what he was planning to do was really a dreadful thing. and all the time he watched for farmer brown's boy.
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chapter x: farmer brown's boy and hooty
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farmer brown's boy had taken it into his head to visit the green forest. it was partly because he hadn't anything else to do, and it was partly because now that it was very near the end of winter he wanted to see how things were there and if there were any signs of the coming of spring. blacky the crow saw him coming, and blacky chuckled to himself. he had watched every day for a week for just this thing. now he would tell farmer brown's boy about that nest of hooty the owl.
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he flew over to the lonesome corner of the green forest where hooty and mrs. hooty had made their home and at once began to caw at the top of his voice and pretend that he was terribly excited over something.
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“caw, caw, caw, caw, caw!” shouted blacky. at once all his relatives within hearing hurried over to join him. they knew that he was tormenting hooty, and they wanted to join in the fun. it wasn't long before there was a great racket going on over in that lonesome corner of the green forest.
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of course farmer brown's boy heard it. he stopped and listened. “now i wonder what blacky and his friends have found this time,” said he. “whenever they make a fuss like that, there is usually something to see there. i believe i'll so over and have a look.”
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so he turned in the direction of the lonesome corner of the green forest, and as he drew near, he moved very carefully, so as to see all that he could without frightening the crows. he knew that as soon as they saw him, they would fly away, and that might alarm the one they were tormenting, for he knew enough of crow ways to know that when they were making such a noise as they were now making, they were plaguing some one.
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blacky was the first to see him because he was watching for him. but he didn't say anything until farmer brown's boy was so near that he couldn't help but see that nest and hooty himself, sitting up very straight and snapping his bill angrily at his tormentors. then blacky gave the alarm, and at once all the crows rose in the air and headed for the green meadows, cawing at the top of their lungs. blacky went with them a little way. the first chance he got he dropped out of the flock and silently flew back to a place where he could see all that might happen at the nest of hooty the owl.
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when farmer brown's boy first caught sight of the nest and saw the crows darting down toward it and acting so excited, he was puzzled.
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“that's an old nest of red-tail the hawk,” thought he. “i found that last spring. now what can there be there to excite those crows so?”
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then he caught sight of hooty the owl. “ha, so that's it!” he exclaimed. “those scamps have discovered hooty and have been having no end of fun tormenting him. i wonder what he's doing there.”
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“that's funny,” thought farmer brown's boy. “if i didn't know that to be the old nest of redtail the hawk, and if it weren't still the tail-end of winter, i would think that was hooty's nest.”
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chapter xi: farmer brown's boy is tempted
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when you're tempted to do wrong is the time to prove you're strong. shut your eyes and clench each fist; it will help you to resist.
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when a bird is found sitting on a nest, it is a pretty sure sign that that nest holds something worth while. it is a sign that that bird has set up housekeeping. so when farmer brown's boy discovered mrs. hooty sitting so close on the old nest of redtail the hawk, in the most lonesome corner of the green forest, he knew what it meant. perhaps i should say that he knew what it ought to mean.
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it ought to mean that there were eggs in that nest.
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but it was hard for farmer brown's boy to believe that. why, spring had not come yet! there was still snow, and the smiling pool was still covered with ice. who ever heard of birds nesting at this time of year? certainly not farmer brown's boy. and yet hooty the owl and mrs. hooty were acting for all the world as feathered folks do act when they have eggs and are afraid that something is going to happen to them. it was very puzzling.
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“that nest was built by red-tail the hawk, and it hasn't even been repaired,” muttered farmer brown's boy, as he stared up at it. “if hooty and his wife have taken it for their home, they are mighty poor housekeepers. and if mrs. hooty has laid eggs this time of year, she must be crazy. i suppose the way to find out is to climb up there. it seems foolish, but i'm going to do it. those owls certainly act as if they are mighty anxious about something, and i'm going to find out what it is.”
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he looked at hooty and mrs. hooty, at their hooked bills and great claws, and decided that he would take a stout stick along with him. he had no desire to feel these great claws. when he had found a stick to suit him, he began to climb the tree. hooty and mrs. hooty snapped their bills and hissed fiercely. they drew nearer. farmer brown's boy kept a watchful eye on them. they looked so big and fierce that he was almost tempted to give up and leave them in peace. but he just had to find out if there was anything in that nest, so he kept on. as he drew near it, mrs. hooty swooped very near to him, and the snap of her bill made an ugly sound. he held his stick ready to strike and kept on.
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the nest was simply a great platform of sticks. when farmer brown's boy reached it, he found that he could not get where he could look into it, so he reached over and felt inside. almost at once his fingers touched something that made him tingle all over. it was an egg, a great big egg! there was no doubt about it. it was just as hard for him to believe as it had been for blacky the crow to believe, when he first saw those eggs. farmer brown's boy's fingers closed over that egg and took it out of the nest. mrs. hooty swooped very close, and farmer brown's boy nearly dropped the egg as he struck at her with his stick. then mrs. hooty and hooty seemed to lose courage and withdrew to a tree near by, where they snapped their bills and hissed.
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then farmer brown's boy looked at the prize in his hand. it was a big, dirty-white egg. his eyes shone. what a splendid prize to add to his collection of birds' eggs! it was the first egg of the great horned owl, the largest of all owls, that he ever had seen.
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once more he felt in the nest and found there was another egg there. “i'll take both of them,” said he. “it's the first nest of hooty's that i've ever found, and perhaps i'll never find another. gee, i'm glad i came over here to find out what those crows were making such a fuss about. i wonder if i can get these down without breaking them.”
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just at that very minute he remembered something. he remembered that he had stopped collecting eggs. he remembered that he had resolved never to take another bird's egg.
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“but this is different,” whispered the tempter. “this isn't like taking the eggs of the little song birds.”
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chapter xii: a tree-top battle
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as black is black and white is white, so wrong is wrong and right is right.
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there isn't any half way about it. a thing is wrong or it is right, and that is all there is to it. but most people have hard work to see this when they want very much to do a thing that the still small voice way down inside tells them isn't right. they try to compromise. to compromise is to do neither one thing nor the other but a little of both. but you can't do that with right and wrong. it is a queer thing, but a half right never is as good as a whole right, while a half wrong often, very often, is as bad as a whole wrong.
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farmer brown's boy, up in the tree by the nest of hooty the owl in the lonesome corner of the green forest, was fighting a battle. no, he wasn't fighting with hooty or mrs. hooty. he was fighting a battle right inside himself. it was a battle between right and wrong. once upon a time he had taken great delight in collecting the eggs of birds, in trying to see how many kinds he could get. then as he had come to know the little forest and meadow people better, he had seen that taking the eggs of birds is very, very wrong, and he had stopped stealing them. he bad declared that never again would he steal an egg from a bird.
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but never before had he found a nest of hooty the owl. those two big eggs would add ever so much to his collection. “take 'em,” said a little voice inside. “hooty is a robber. you will be doing a kindness to the other birds by taking them.”
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“don't do it,” said another little voice. “hooty may be a robber, but he has a place in the green forest, or old mother nature never would have put him here. it is just as much stealing to take his eggs as to take the eggs of any other bird. he has just as much right to them as jenny wren has to hers.”
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“take one and leave one,” said the first voice.
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“that will be just as much stealing as if you took both,” said the second voice. “besides, you will be breaking your own word. you said that you never would take another egg.”
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“i didn't promise anybody but myself,” declared farmer brown's boy right out loud. at the sound of his voice, hooty and mrs. hooty, sitting in the next tree, snapped their bills and hissed louder than ever.
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“a promise to yourself ought to be just as good as a promise to any one else. i don't wonder hooty hisses at you,” said the good little voice.
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“think how fine those eggs will look in your collection and how proud you will be to show them to the other fellows who never have found a nest of hooty's,” said the first little voice.
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“and think how mean and small and cheap you'll feel every time you look at them,” added the good little voice. “you'll get a lot more fun if you leave them to hatch out and then watch the little owls grow up and learn all about their ways. just think what a stout, brave fellow hooty is to start housekeeping at this time of year, and how wonderful it is that mrs. hooty can keep these eggs warm and when they have hatched take care of the baby owls before others have even begun to build their nests. besides, wrong is wrong and right is right, always.”
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slowly farmer brown's boy reached over the edge of the nest and put back the egg. then he began to climb down the tree. when he reached the ground he went off a little way and watched. almost at once mrs. hooty flew to the nest and settled down on the eggs, while hooty mounted guard close by.
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“i'm glad i didn't take 'em,” said farmer brown's boy. “yes, sir, i'm glad i didn't take 'em.”
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as he turned back toward home, he saw blacky the crow flying over the green forest, and little did he guess how he had upset blacky's plans.
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chapter xiii: blacky has a change of heart
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blacky the crow isn't all black. no, indeed. his coat is black, and sometimes it seems as if his heart is all black, but this isn't so. it certainly seemed as if his heart was all black when he tried so hard to make trouble for hooty the owl. it would seem as if only a black heart could have urged him to try so hard to steal the eggs of hooty and mrs. hooty, but this wasn't really so. you see, it didn't seem at all wrong to try to get those eggs. blacky was hungry, and those eggs would have given him a good meal. he knew that hooty wouldn't hesitate to catch him and eat him if he had the chance, and so it seemed to him perfectly right and fair to steal hooty's eggs if he was smart enough to do so. and most of the other little people of the green forest and the green meadows would have felt the same way about it. you see, it is one of the laws of old mother nature that each one must learn to look out for himself.
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but when blacky showed that nest of hooty's to farmer brown's boy with the hope that farmer brown's boy would steal those eggs, there was blackness in his heart. he was doing something then which was pure meanness. he was just trying to make trouble for hooty, to get even because hooty had been too smart for him. he had sat in the top of a tall pine-tree where he could see all that happened, and he had chuckled wickedly as he had seen farmer brown's boy climb to hooty's nest and take out an egg. he felt sure that he would take both eggs. he hoped so, anyway.
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when he saw farmer brown's boy put the eggs back and climb down the tree without any, he had to blink his eyes to make sure that he saw straight. he just couldn't believe what he saw. at first he was dreadfully disappointed and angry. it looked very much as if he weren't going to get even with hooty after all. he flew over to his favorite tree to think things over. now sometimes it is a good thing to sit by oneself and think things over. it gives the little small voice deep down inside a chance to be heard. it was just that way with blacky now.
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the longer he thought, the meaner his action in calling farmer brown's boy looked. it was one thing to try to steal those eggs himself, but it was quite another matter to try to have them stolen by some one against whom hooty had no protection whatever.
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“if it had been any one but hooty, you would have done your best to have kept farmer brown's boy away,” said the little voice inside. blacky hung his head. he knew that it was true. more than once, in fact many times, he had warned other feathered folks when farmer brown's boy had been hunting for their nests, and had helped to lead him away.
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at last blacky threw up his head and chuckled, and this time his chuckle was good to hear. “i'm glad that farmer brown's boy didn't take those eggs,” said he right out loud. “yes, sir, i'm glad. i'll never do such a thing as that again. i'm ashamed of what i did; yet i'm glad i did it. i'm glad because i've learned some things. i've learned that farmer brown's boy isn't as much to be feared as he used to be. i've learned that hooty isn't as stupid as i thought he was. i've learned that while it may be all right for us people of the green forest to try to outwit each other we ought to protect each other against common dangers. and i've learned something i didn't know before, and that is that hooty the owl is the very first of us to set up housekeeping. now i think i'll go hunt for an honest meal.” and he did.
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chapter xiv: blacky makes a call
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judge no one by his style of dress; your ignorance you thus confess. --blacky the crow.
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“not at all,” peter hastened to say. “mrs. quack was just telling me of the troubles and clangers in bringing up a young family in the far north. how did you know the quacks had arrived?”
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blacky chuckled hoarsely. “i didn't,” said he. “i simply thought there might be something going on i didn't know about over here in the pond of paddy the beaver, so i came over to find out. mr. quack, you and mrs. quack are looking very fine this fall. and those handsome young quacks, you don't mean to tell me that they are your children!”
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mrs. quack nodded proudly. “they are,” said she.
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“you don't say so!” exclaimed blacky, as if he were very much surprised, when all the time he wasn't surprised at all. “they are a credit to their parents. yes, indeed, they are a credit to their parents. never have i seen finer young ducks in all my life. how glad the hunters with terrible guns will be to see them.”
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mrs. quack shivered at that, and blacky saw it. he chuckled softly. you know he dearly loves to make others uncomfortable. “i saw three hunters over on the edge of the big river early this very morning,” said he.
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mrs. quack looked more anxious than ever. blacky's sharp eyes noted this.
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“that is why i came over here,” he added kindly. “i wanted to give you warning.”
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“but you didn't know the quacks were here!” spoke up peter.
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“true enough, peter. true enough,” replied blacky, his eyes twinkling. “but i thought they might be. i had heard a rumor that those who go south are traveling earlier than usual this fall, so i knew i might find mr. and mrs. quack over here any time now. is it true, mrs. quack, that we are going to have a long, hard, cold winter?”
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“that is what they say up in the far north,” replied mrs. quack. “and it is true that jack frost had started down earlier than usual. that is how it happens we are here now. but about those hunters over by the big river, do you suppose they will come over here?” there was an anxious note in mrs. quack's voice.
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“no,” replied blacky promptly. “farmer brown's boy won't let them. i know. i've been watching him and he has been watching those hunters. as long as you stay here, you will be safe. what a great world this would be if all those two-legged creatures were like farmer brown's boy.”
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“wouldn't it!” cried peter. then he added, “i wish they were.”
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“you don't wish it half as much as i do,” declared mrs. quack.
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“yet i can remember when he used to hunt with a terrible gun and was as bad as the worst of them,” said blacky.
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“what changed him?” asked mrs. quack, looking interested.
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“just getting really acquainted with some of the little people of the green forest and the green meadows,” replied blacky. “he found them ready to meet him more than halfway in friendship and that some of them really are his best friends.”
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“and now he is their best friend,” spoke up peter.
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blacky nodded. “right, peter,” said he. “that is why the quacks are safe here and will be as long as they stay.”
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chapter xv: blacky does a little looking about
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do not take the word of others that things are or are not so when there is a chance that you may find out for yourself and know. --blacky the crow.
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blacky the crow is a shrewd fellow. he is one of the smartest and shrewdest of all the little people in the green forest and on the green meadows. everybody knows it. and because of this, all his neighbors have a great deal of respect for him, despite his mischievous ways.
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of course, blacky had noticed that johnny chuck had dug his house deeper than usual and had stuffed himself until he was fatter than ever before. he had noticed that jerry muskrat was making the walls of his house thicker than in other years, and that paddy the beaver was doing the same thing to his house. you know there is very little that escapes the sharp eyes of blacky the crow.
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he had guessed what these things meant. “they think we are going to have a long, hard, cold winter,” muttered blacky to himself. “perhaps they know, but i want to see some signs of it for myself. they may be only guessing. anybody can do that, and one guess is as good as another.”
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then he found mr. and mrs. quack, the mallard ducks, and their children in the pond of paddy the beaver and remembered that they never had come down from their home in the far north as early in the fall as this. mrs. quack explained that jack frost had already started south, and so they had started earlier to keep well ahead of him.
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“looks as if there may be something in this idea of a long, hard, cold winter,” thought blacky, “but perhaps the quacks are only guessing, too. i wouldn't take their word for it any more than i would the word of johnny chuck or jerry muskrat or paddy the beaver. i'll look about a little.”
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so after warning the quacks to remain in the pond of paddy the beaver if they would be safe, blacky bade them good-by and flew away. he headed straight for the green meadows and farmer brown's cornfield. a little of that yellow corn would make a good breakfast.
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when he reached the cornfield, blacky perched on top of a shock of corn, for it already had been cut and put in shocks in readiness to be carted up to farmer brown's barn. for a few minutes he sat there silent and motionless, but all the time his sharp eyes were making sure that no enemy was hiding behind one of those brown shocks. when he was quite certain that things were as safe as they seemed, he picked out a plump ear of corn and began to tear open the husks, so as to get at the yellow grains.
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“seems to me these husks are unusually thick,” muttered blacky, as he tore at them with his stout bill. “don't remember ever having seen them as thick as these. wonder if it just happens to be so on this ear.”
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then, as a sudden thought popped into his black head, he left that ear and went to another. the husks of this were as thick as those on the first. he flew to another shock and found the husks there just the same. he tried a third shock with the same result.
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“huh, they are all alike,” said he. then he looked thoughtful and for a few minutes sat perfectly still like a black statue. “they are right,” said he at last. “yes, sir, they are right.” of course he meant johnny chuck and jerry muskrat and paddy the beaver and the quacks. “i don't know how they know it, but they are right; we are going to have a long, hard, cold winter. i know it myself now. i've found a sign. old mother nature has wrapped this corn in extra thick husks, and of course she has done it to protect it. she doesn't do things without a reason. we are going to have a cold winter, or my name isn't blacky the crow.”
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chapter xvi: blacky finds other signs
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a single fact may fail to prove you either right or wrong; confirm it with another and your proof will then be strong. --blacky the crow.
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after his discovery that old mother nature had wrapped all the ears of corn in extra thick husks, blacky had no doubt in his own mind that johnny chuck and jerry muskrat and paddy the beaver and the quacks were quite right in feeling that the coming winter would be long, hard and cold. but blacky long ago learned that it isn't wise or wholly safe to depend altogether on one thing.
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“old mother nature never does things by halves,” thought blacky, as he sat on the fence post on the green meadows, thinking over his discovery of the thick husks on the corn. “she wouldn't take care to protect the corn that way and not do as much for other things. there must be other signs, if i am smart enough to find them.”
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“well, i never!” he exclaimed, as he spread his wings to regain his balance. “i never did!”
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“is that so?” piped a squeaky little voice. “if you say you never did, i suppose you never did, though i want the word of some one else before i will believe it. what is it you never did?”
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blacky looked down. peeping up at him from the brown grass were two bright little eyes.
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“hello, danny meadow mouse!” exclaimed blacky. “i haven't seen you for a long time. i've looked for you several times lately.”
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“i don't doubt it. i don't doubt it at all,” squeaked danny. “you'll never see me when you are looking for me. that is, you won't if i can help it. you won't if i see you first.”
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blacky chuckled. he knew what danny meant. when blacky goes looking for danny meadow mouse, it usually is in hope of having a meadow mouse dinner, and he knew that danny knew this. “i've had my breakfast,” said blacky, “and it isn't dinner time yet.”
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“what is it you never did?” persisted danny, in his squeaky voice.
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“that was just an exclamation,” explained blacky. “i made a discovery that surprised me so i exclaimed right out.”
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“what was it?” demanded danny.
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“it was that the feathers of my coat are coming in thicker than i ever knew them to before. i hadn't noticed it until i started to set them in order a minute ago.” he buried his bill in the feathers of his breast. “yes, sir,” said he in a muffled voice, “they are coming in thicker than i ever knew them to before. there is a lot of down around the roots of them. i am going to have the warmest coat i've ever had.”
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“well, don't think you are the only one,” retorted danny. “my fur never was so thick at this time of year as it is now, and it is the same way with nanny meadow mouse and all our children. i suppose you know what it means.”
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“what does it mean?” asked blacky, just as if he didn't have the least idea, although he had guessed the instant he discovered those extra feathers.
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“it means we are going to have a long, hard, cold winter, and old mother nature is preparing us for it,” replied danny, quite as if he knew all about it. “you'll find that everybody who doesn't go south or sleep all winter has a thicker coat than usual. hello! there is old roughleg the hawk! he has come extra early this year. i think i'll go back to warn nanny.” without another word danny disappeared in the brown grass. again blacky chuckled. “more signs,” said he to himself. “more signs. there isn't a doubt that we are going to have a hard winter. i wonder if i can stand it or if i'd better go a little way south, where it will be warmer.”
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chapter xvii: blacky watches a queer performance
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this much to me is very clear: a thing not understood is queer. --blacky the crow.
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blacky the crow may be right. again he may not be. if he is right, it will account for a lot of the queer people in the world. they are not understood, and so they are queer. at least, that is what other people say, and never once think that perhaps they are the queer ones for not understanding.
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but blacky isn't like those people who are satisfied not to understand and to think other people and things queer. he does his best to understand. he waits and watches and uses those sharp eyes of his and those quick wits of his until at last usually he does understand.
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the day of his discovery of old mother nature's signs that the coming winter would be long, hard and cold, blacky paid a visit to the big river. long ago he discovered that many things are to be seen on or beside the big river, things not to be seen elsewhere. so there are few clays in which he does not get over there.
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as he drew near the big river, he was very watchful and careful, was blacky, for this was the season when hunters with terrible guns were abroad, and he had discovered that they were likely to be hiding along the big river, hoping to shoot mr. or mrs. quack or some of their relatives. so he was very watchful as he drew near the big river, for he had learned that it was dangerous to pass too near a hunter with a terrible gun. more than once he had been shot at. but he had learned by these experiences. oh, yes, blacky had learned. for one thing, he had learned to know a gun when he saw it. for another thing, he had learned just how far away one of these dreadful guns could be and still hurt the one it was pointed at, and to always keep just a little farther away. also he had learned that a man or boy without a terrible gun is quite harmless, and he had learned that hunters with terrible guns are tricky and sometimes hide from those they seek to kill, so that in the dreadful hunting season it is best to look sharply before approaching any place.
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on this afternoon, as he drew near the big river, he saw a man who seemed to be very busy on the shore of the big river, at a place where wild rice and rushes grew for some distance out in the water, for just there it was shallow far out from the shore. blacky looked sharply for a terrible gun. but the man had none with him and therefore was not to be feared. blacky boldly drew near until he was able to see what the man was doing.
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then blacky's eyes stretched their widest and he almost cawed right out with surprise. the man was taking yellow corn from a bag, a handful at a time, and throwing it out in the water. yes, sir, that is what he was doing, scattering nice yellow corn among the rushes and wild rice in the water!
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“that's a queer performance,” muttered blacky, as he watched. “what is he throwing perfectly good corn out in the water for? he isn't planting it, for this isn't the planting season. besides, it wouldn't grow in the water, anyway. it is a shame to waste nice corn like that. what is he doing it for?”
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blacky flew over to a tree some distance away and alighted in the top of it to watch the queer performance. you know blacky has very keen eyes and he can see a long distance. for a while the man continued to scatter corn and blacky continued to wonder what he was doing it for. at last the man went away in a boat. blacky watched him until he was out of sight. then he spread his wings and slowly flew back and forth just above the rushes and wild rice, at the place where the man had been scattering the corn. he could see some of the yellow grains on the bottom. presently he saw something else. “ha!” exclaimed blacky.
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chapter xviii: blacky becomes very suspicious
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of things you do not understand, beware! they may be wholly harmless but-- beware! you'll find the older that you grow that only things and folks you know are fully to be trusted, so beware! --blacky the crow.
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that is one of blacky's wise sayings, and he lives up to it. it is one reason why he has come to be regarded by all his neighbors as one of the smartest of all who live in the green forest and on the green meadow. he seldom gets into any real trouble because he first makes sure there is no trouble to get into. when he discovers something he does not understand, he is at once distrustful of it.
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as he watched a man scattering yellow corn in the water from the shore of the big river he at once became suspicious. he couldn't understand why a man should throw good corn among the rushes and wild rice in the water, and because he couldn't understand, he at once began to suspect that it was for no good purpose. when the man left in a boat, blacky slowly flew over the rushes where the man had thrown the corn, and presently his sharp eyes made a discovery that caused him to exclaim right out.
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what was it blacky had discovered? only a few feathers. no one with eyes less sharp than blacky's would have noticed them. and few would have given them a thought if they had noticed them. but blacky knew right away that those were feathers from a duck. he knew that a duck, or perhaps a flock of ducks, had been resting or feeding in there among those rushes, and that in moving about they had left those two or three downy feathers.
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“ha!” exclaimed blacky. “mr. and mrs. quack or some of their relatives have been here. it is just the kind of a place ducks like. also some ducks like corn. if they should come back here and find this corn, they would have a feast, and they would be sure to come again. that man who scattered the corn here didn't have a terrible gun, but that doesn't mean that he isn't a hunter. he may come back again, and then he may have a terrible gun. i'm suspicious of that man. i am so. i believe he put that corn here for ducks and i don't believe he did it out of the kindness of his heart. if it was farmer brown's boy i would know that all is well; that he was thinking of hungry ducks, with few places where they can feed in safety, as they make the long journey from the far north to the sunny south. but it wasn't farmer brown's boy. i don't like the looks of it. i don't indeed. i'll keep watch of this place and see what happens.”
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all the way to his favorite perch in a certain big hemlock-tree in the green forest, blacky kept thinking about that corn and the man who had seemed to be generous with it, and the more he thought, the more suspicious he became. he didn't like the looks of it at all.
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chapter xix: blacky makes more discoveries
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little things you fail to see may important prove to be. --blacky the crow.
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one of the secrets of blacky's success in life is the fact that he never fails to take note of little things. long ago he learned that little things which in themselves seem harmless and not worth noticing may together prove the most important things in life. so, no matter how unimportant a thing may appear, blacky examines it closely with those sharp eyes of his and remembers it.
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the very first thing blacky did, as soon as he was awake the morning after he discovered the man scattering corn in the rushes at a certain place on the edge of the big river, was to fly over to the pond of paddy the beaver and again warn mr. and mrs. quack to keep away from the big river, if they and their six children would remain safe. then he got some breakfast. he ate it in a hurry and flew straight over to the big river to the place where he had seen that yellow corn scattered.
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blacky wasn't wholly surprised to find dusky the black duck, own cousin to mr. and mrs. quack the mallard ducks, with a number of his relatives in among the rushes and wild rice at the very place where that corn had been scattered. they seemed quite contented and in the best of spirits. blacky guessed why. not a single grain of that yellow corn could blacky see. he knew the ways of dusky and his relatives. he knew that they must have come in there just at dusk the night before and at once had found that corn. he knew that they would remain hiding there until frightened out, and that then they would spend the day in some little pond where they would not be likely to be disturbed or where at least no danger could approach them without being seen in plenty of time. there they would rest all day, and when the black shadows came creeping out from the purple hills, they would return to that place on the big river to feed, for that is the time when they like best to hunt for their food.
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dusky looked up as blacky flew over him, but blacky said nothing, and dusky said nothing. but if blacky didn't use his tongue, he did use his eyes. he saw just on the edge of the shore what looked like a lot of small bushes growing close together on the very edge of the water. mixed in with them were a lot of the brown rushes. they looked very harmless and innocent. but blacky knew every foot of that shore along the big river, and he knew that those bushes hadn't been there during the summer. he knew that they hadn't grown there.
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he flew directly over them. just back of them were a couple of logs. those logs hadn't been there when he passed that way a few days before. he was sure of it.
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“ha!” exclaimed blacky under his breath. “those look to me as if they might be very handy, very handy indeed, for a hunter to sit on. sitting there behind those bushes, he would be hidden from any duck who might come in to look for nice yellow corn scattered out there among the rushes. it doesn't look right to me. no, sir, it doesn't look right to me. i think i'll keep an eye on this place.”
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so blacky came back to the big river several times that day. the second time back he found that dusky the black duck and his relatives had left. when he returned in the afternoon, he saw the same man he had seen there the afternoon before, and he was doing the same thing,--scattering yellow corn out in the rushes. and as before, he went away in a boat.
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“i don't like it,” muttered blacky, shaking his black head. “i don't like it.”
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chapter xx: blacky drops a hint
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when you see another's danger warn him though he be a stranger. --blacky the crow.
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every day for a week a man came in a boat to scatter corn in the rushes at a certain point along the bank of the big river, and every day blacky the crow watched him and shook his black head and talked to himself and told himself that he didn't like it, and that he was sure that it was for no good purpose. sometimes blacky watched from a distance, and sometimes he flew right over the man. but never once did the man have a gun with him.
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every morning, very early, blacky flew over there, and every morning he found dusky the black duck and his flock in the rushes and wild rice at that particular place, and he knew that they had been there all night, he knew that they had come in there just at dusk the night before, to feast on the yellow corn the man had scattered there in the afternoon.
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“it is no business of mine what those ducks do,” muttered blacky to himself, “but as surely as my tail feathers are black, something is going to happen to some of them one of these days. that man may be fooling them, but he isn't fooling me. not a bit of it. he hasn't had a gun with him once when i have seen him, but just the same he is a hunter. i feel it in my bones. he knows those silly ducks come in here every night for that corn he puts out. he knows that after they have been here a few times and nothing has frightened them, they will be so sure that it is a safe place that they will not be the least bit suspicious. then he will hide behind those bushes he has placed close to the edge of the water and wait for them with his terrible gun. that is what he will do, or my name isn't blacky.”
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finally blacky decided to drop a hint to dusky the black duck. so the next morning he stopped for a call. “good morning,” said he, as dusky swam in just in front of him. “i hope you are feeling as fine as you look.”
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“quack, quack,” replied dusky. “when blacky the crow flatters, he hopes to gain something. what is it this time?”
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“not a thing,” replied blacky. “on my honor, not a thing. there is nothing for me here, though there seems to be plenty for you and your relatives, to judge by the fact that i find you in this same place every morning. what is it?”
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“corn,” replied dusky in a low voice, as if afraid some one might overhear him. “nice yellow corn.”
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“corn!” exclaimed blacky, as if very much astonished. “how does corn happen to be way over here in the water?”
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dusky shook his head. “don't ask me, for i can't tell you,” said he. “i haven't the least idea. all i know is that every evening when we arrive, we find it here. how it gets here, i don't know, and furthermore i don't care. it is enough for me that it is here.”
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“i've seen a man over here every afternoon,” said blacky. “i thought he might be a hunter.”
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“did he have a terrible gun?” asked dusky suspiciously.
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“no-o,” replied blacky.
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“then he isn't a hunter,” declared dusky, looking much relieved.
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“but perhaps one of these days he will have one and will wait for you to come in for your dinner,” suggested blacky. “he could hide behind these bushes, you know.”
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“nonsense,” retorted dusky, tossing his head. “there hasn't been a sign of danger here since we have been here. i know you, blacky; you are jealous because we find plenty to eat here, and you find nothing. you are trying to scare us. but i'll tell you right now, you can't scare us away from such splendid eating as we have had here. so there!”
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chapter xxi: at last blacky is sure
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who for another conquers fear is truly brave, it is most clear. --blacky the crow.
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it was late in the afternoon, and blacky the crow was on his way to the green forest. as usual, he went around by the big river to see if that man was scattering corn for the ducks. he wasn't there. no one was to be seen along the bank of the big river.
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“he hasn't come to-day, or else he came early and has left,” thought blacky. and then his sharp eyes caught sight of something that made him turn aside and make straight for a certain tree, from the top of which he could see all that went on for a long distance. what was it blacky saw? it was a boat coming down the big river.
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blacky sat still and watched. presently the boat turned in among the rushes, and a moment later a man stepped out on the shore. it was the same man blacky had watched scatter corn in the rushes every day for a week. there wasn't the least doubt about it, it was the same man.
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“ha, ha!” exclaimed blacky, and nearly lost his balance in his excitement. “ha, ha! it is just as i thought!” you see blacky's sharp eyes had seen that the man was carrying something, and that something was a gun, a terrible gun. blacky knows a terrible gun as far as he can see it.
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the hunter, for of course that is what he was, tramped along the shore until he reached the bushes which blacky had noticed close to the water and which he knew had not grown there. the hunter looked out over the big river. then he walked along where he had scattered corn the day before. not a grain was to be seen. this seemed to please him. then he went back to the bushes and sat down on a log behind them, his terrible gun across his knees.
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“i was sure of it,” muttered blacky. “he is going to wait there for those ducks to come in, and then something dreadful will happen. what terrible creatures these hunters are! they don't know what fairness is. no, sir, they don't know what fairness is. he has put food there day after day, where dusky the black duck and his flock would be sure to find it, and has waited until they have become so sure there is no danger that they are no longer suspicious. he knows they will feel so sure that all is safe that they will come in without looking for danger. then he will fire that terrible gun and kill them without giving them any chance at all.
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“reddy fox is a sly, clever hunter, but he wouldn't do a thing like that. neither would old man coyote or anybody else who wears fur or feathers. they might hide and try to catch some one by surprise. that is all right, because each of us is supposed to be on the watch for things of that sort. oh, dear, what's to be done? it is time i was getting home to the green forest. the black shadows will soon come creeping out from the purple hills, and i must be safe in my hemlock-tree by then. i would be scared to death to be out after dark. yet those ducks ought to be warned. oh, dear, what shall i do?”
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blacky peered over at the green forest and then over toward the purple hills, behind which jolly, round, red mr. sun would go to bed very shortly. he shivered as he thought of the black shadows that soon would come swiftly out from the purple hills across the big river and over the green meadows. with them might come hooty the owl, and hooty wouldn't object in the least to a crow dinner. he wished he was in that hemlock-tree that very minute. then blacky looked at the hunter with his terrible gun and thought of what might happen, what would be almost sure to happen, unless those ducks were warned. “i'll wait a little while longer,” muttered blacky, and tried to feel brave. but instead he shivered.
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chapter xxii: blacky goes home happy
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no greater happiness is won than through a deed for others done. --blacky the crow.
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blacky sat in the top of a tree near the bank of the big river and couldn't make up his mind what to do. he wanted to get home to the big, thick hemlock-tree in the green forest before dusk, for blacky is afraid of the dark. that is, he is afraid to be out after dark.
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“go along home,” said a voice inside him, “there is hardly time now for you to get there before the black shadows arrive. don't waste any more time here. what may happen to those silly ducks is no business of yours, and there is nothing you can do, anyway. go along home.”
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“wait a few minutes,” said another little voice down inside him. “don't be a coward. you ought to warn dusky the black duck and his flock that a hunter with a terrible gun is waiting for them. is it true that it is no business of yours what happens to those ducks? think again, blacky; think again. it is the duty of each one who sees a common danger to warn his neighbors. if something dreadful should happen to dusky because you were afraid of the dark, you never would be comfortable in your own mind. stay a little while and keep watch.”
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blacky was all ashake again, but this time it wasn't with fear of being caught away from home in the dark; it was with excitement. he knew that those ducks had become so eager for more of that corn, that delicious yellow corn which every night for a week they had found scattered in the rushes just in front of the place where that hunter was now hiding, that they couldn't wait for the coming of the black shadows. they were so sure there was no danger that they were coming in to eat without waiting for the black shadows, as they usually did. and blacky was glad. perhaps now he could give them warning.
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up the middle of the big river, flying just above the water, swept the flock with dusky at its head. how swiftly they flew, those nine big birds! blacky envied them their swift wings. on past the hidden hunter but far out over the big river they swept. for just a minute blacky thought they were going on up the river and not coming in to eat, after all. then they turned toward the other shore, swept around in a circle and headed straight in toward that hidden hunter. blacky glanced at him and saw that he was ready to shoot.
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almost without thinking, blacky spread his wings and started out from that tree. “caw, caw, caw, caw, caw!” he shrieked at the top of his lungs. “caw, caw, caw, caw, caw!” it was his danger cry that everybody on the green meadows and in the green forest knows.
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instantly dusky turned and began to climb up, up, up, the other ducks following him until, as they passed over the hidden hunter, they were so high it was useless for him to shoot. he did put up his gun and aim at them, but he didn't shoot. you see, he didn't want to frighten them so that they would not return. then the flock turned and started off in the direction from which they had come, and in a few minutes they were merely a black line disappearing far down the big river.
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blacky headed straight for the green forest, chuckling as he flew. he knew that those ducks would not return until after dark. he had saved them this time, and he was so happy he didn't even notice the black shadows. and the hunter stood up and shook his fist at blacky the crow.
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chapter xxiii: blacky calls farmer brown's boy
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blacky awoke in the best of spirits. late the afternoon before he had saved dusky the black duck and his flock from a hunter with a terrible gun. he wasn't quite sure whether he was most happy in having saved those ducks by warning them just in time, or in having spoiled the plans of that hunter. he hates a hunter with a terrible gun, does blacky. for that matter, so do all the little people of the green forest and the green meadows.
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so blacky started out for his breakfast in high spirits. after breakfast, he flew over to the big river to see if dusky the black duck was feeding in the rushes along the shore. dusky wasn't, and blacky guessed that he and his flock had been so frightened by that warning that they had kept away from there the night before.
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“but they'll come back after a night or so,” muttered blacky, as he alighted in the top of a tree, the same tree from which he had watched the hunter the afternoon before. “they'll come back, and so will that hunter. if he sees me around again, he'll try to shoot me. i've done all i can do. anyway, dusky ought to have sense enough to be suspicious of this place after that warning. hello, who is that? i do believe it is farmer brown's boy. i wish he would come over here. if he should find out about that hunter, perhaps he would do something to drive him away. i'll see if i can call him over here.”
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blacky began to call in the way he does when he has discovered something and wants others to know about it. “caw, caw, caaw, caaw, caw, caw, caaw!” screamed blacky, as if greatly excited.
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now farmer brown's boy, having no work to do that morning, had started for a tramp over the green meadows, hoping to see some of his little friends in feathers and fur. he heard the excited cawing of blacky and at once turned in that direction.
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“that black rascal has found something over on the shore of the big river,” said farmer brown's boy to himself. “i'll go over there to see what it is. there isn't much escapes the sharp eyes of that black busybody. he has led me to a lot of interesting things, one time and another. there he is on the top of that tree over by the big river.”
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as farmer brown's boy drew near, blacky flew down and disappeared below the bank. fanner brown's boy chuckled. “whatever it is, it is right down there,” he muttered.
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he walked forward rapidly but quietly, and presently he reached the edge of the bank. up flew blacky cawing wildly, and pretending to be scared half to death. again farmer brown's boy chuckled. “you're just making believe,” he declared. “you're trying to make me believe that i have surprised you, when all the time you knew i was coming and have been waiting for me. now, what have you found over here?”
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he looked eagerly along the shore, and at once he saw a row of low bushes close to the edge of the water. he knew what it was instantly. “a duck blind!” he exclaimed. “a hunter has built a blind over here from which to shoot ducks. i wonder if he has killed any yet. i hope not.” he went down to the blind, for that is what a duck hunter's hiding-place is called, and looked about. a couple of grains of corn just inside the blind caught his eyes, and his face darkened. “that fellow has been baiting ducks,” thought he. “he has been putting out corn to get them to come here regularly. my, how i hate that sort of thing! it is bad enough to hunt them fairly, but to feed them and then kill them--ugh! i wonder if he has shot any yet.”
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he looked all about keenly, and his face cleared. he knew that if that hunter had killed any ducks, there would be tell-tale feathers in the blind, and there were none.
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chapter xxiv: farmer brown's boy does some thinking
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farmer brown's boy sat on the bank of the big river in a brown study. that means that he was thinking very hard. blacky the crow sat in the top of a tall tree a short distance away and watched him. blacky was silent now, and there was a knowing look in his shrewd little eyes. in calling farmer brown's boy over there, he had done all he could, and he was quite satisfied to leave the matter to farmer brown's boy.
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“a hunter has made that blind to shoot black ducks from,” thought farmer brown's boy, “and he has been baiting them in here by scattering corn for them. black ducks are about the smartest ducks that fly, but if they have been coming in here every evening and finding corn and no sign of danger, they probably think it perfectly safe here and come straight in without being at all suspicious. to-night, or some night soon, that hunter will be waiting for them.
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“i guess the law that permits hunting ducks is all right, but there ought to be a law against baiting them in. that isn't hunting. no, sir, that isn't hunting. if this land were my father's, i would know what to do. i would put up a sign saying that this was private property and no shooting was allowed. but it isn't my father's land, and that hunter has a perfect right to shoot here. he has just as much right here as i have. i wish i could stop him, but i don't see how i can.”
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a frown puckered the freckled face of farmer brown's boy. you see, he was thinking very hard, and when he does that he is very apt to frown.
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“i suppose,” he muttered, “i can tear down his blind. he wouldn't know who did it. but that wouldn't do much good; he would build another. besides, it wouldn't be right. he has a perfect right to make a blind here, and having made it, it is his and i haven't any right to touch it. i won't do a thing i haven't a right to do. that wouldn't be honest. i've got to think of some other way of saving those ducks.”
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the frown on his freckled face grew deeper, and for a long time he sat without moving. suddenly his face cleared, and he jumped to his feet. he began to chuckle. “i have it!” he exclaimed. “i'll do a little shooting myself!” then he chuckled again and started for home. presently he began to whistle, a way he has when he is in good spirits.
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blacky the crow watched him go, and blacky was well satisfied. he didn't know what farmer brown's boy was planning to do, but he had a feeling that he was planning to do something, and that all would be well. perhaps blacky wouldn't have felt so sure could he have understood what farmer brown's boy had said about doing a little shooting himself.
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as it was, blacky flew off about his own business, quite satisfied that now all would be well, and he need worry no more about those ducks. none of the little people of the green forest and the green meadows knew farmer brown's boy better than did blacky the crow. none knew better than he that farmer brown's boy was their best friend. “it is all right now,” chuckled blacky. “it is all right now.” and as the cheery whistle of farmer brown's boy floated back to him on the merry little breezes, he repeated it: “it is all right now.”
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chapter xxv: blacky gets a dreadful shock
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when friends prove false, whom may we trust? the springs of faith are turned to dust. --blacky the crow.
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blacky the crow was in the top of his favorite tree over near the big river early this afternoon. he didn't know what was going to happen, but he felt in his bones that something was, and he meant to be on hand to see. for a long time he sat there, seeing nothing unusual. at last he spied a tiny figure far away across the green meadows. even at that distance he knew who it was; it was farmer brown's boy, and he was coming toward the big river.
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“i thought as much,” chuckled blacky. “he is coming over here to drive that hunter away.”
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the tiny figure grew larger. it was farmer brown's boy beyond a doubt. suddenly blacky's eyes opened so wide that they looked as if they were in danger of popping out of his head. he had discovered that farmer brown's boy was carrying something and that that something was a gun! yes, sir, farmer brown's boy was carrying a terrible gun! if blacky could have rubbed his eyes, he would have done so, just to make sure that there was nothing the matter with them.
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“a gun!” croaked blacky. “farmer brown's boy with a terrible gun! what does it mean?”
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nearer came farmer brown's boy, and blacky could see that terrible gun plainly now. suddenly an idea popped into his head. “perhaps he is going to shoot that hunter!” thought blacky, and somehow he felt better.
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farmer brown's boy reached the big river at a point some distance below the blind built by the hunter. he laid his gun down on the bank and went down to the edge of the water. the rushes grew very thick there, and for a while farmer brown's boy was very busy among them. blacky from his high perch could watch him, and as he watched, he grew more and more puzzled. it looked very much as if farmer brown's boy was building a blind much like that of the hunter's. at last he carried an old log down there, got his gun, and sat down just as the hunter had done in his blind the afternoon before. he was quite hidden there, excepting from a place high up like blacky's perch.
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“i--i--i do believe he is going to try to shoot those ducks himself,” gasped blacky. “i wouldn't have believed it if any one had told me. no, sir, i wouldn't have believed it. i--i--can't believe it now. farmer brown's boy hunting with a terrible gun! yet i've got to believe my own eyes.”
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a noise up river caught his attention. it was the noise of oars in a boat. there was the hunter, rowing down the big river. just as he had done the day before, he came ashore above his blind and walked down to it.
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“this is no place for me,” muttered blacky. “he'll remember that i scared those ducks yesterday, and as likely as not he'll try to shoot me.”
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blacky spread his black wings and hurriedly left the tree-top, heading for another tree farther back on the green meadows where he would be safe, but from which he could not see as well. there he sat until the black shadows warned him that it was high time for him to be getting back to the green forest.
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he had to hurry, for it was later than usual, and he was afraid to be out after dark. just as he reached the green forest he heard a faint “bang, bang” from over by the big river, and he knew that it came from the place where farmer brown's boy was hiding in the rushes.
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chapter xxvi: why the hunter got no ducks
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the hunter who had come down the big river in a boat and landed near the place where dusky the black duck and his flock had found nice yellow corn scattered in the rushes night after night saw blacky the crow leave the top of a certain tree as he approached.
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“it is well for you that you didn't wait for me to get nearer,” said the hunter. “you are smart enough to know that you can't play the same trick on me twice. you frightened those ducks away last night, but if you try it again, you'll be shot as surely as your coat is black.”
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then the hunter went to his blind which, you know, was the hiding-place he had made of bushes and rushes, and behind this he sat down with his terrible gun to wait and watch for dusky the black duck and his flock.
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now you remember that farther along the shore of the big river was farmer brown's boy, hiding in a blind he had made that afternoon. the hunter couldn't see him at all. he didn't have the least idea that any one else was anywhere near. “with that crow out of the way, i think i will get some ducks to-night,” thought the hunter and looked at his gun to make sure that it was ready.
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over in the west, jolly, round, red mr. sun started to go to bed behind the purple hills, and the black shadows came creeping out. far down the big river the hunter saw a swiftly moving black line just above the water. “here they come,” he muttered, as he eagerly watched that black line draw nearer.
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twice those big black birds circled around over the big river opposite where the hunter was crouching behind his blind. it was plain that dusky, their leader, remembered blacky's warning the night before. but this time there was no warning. everything appeared safe. once more the flock circled and then headed straight for that place where they hoped to find more corn. the hunter crouched lower. they were almost near enough for him to shoot when “bang, bang” went a gun a short distance away.
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instantly dusky and his flock turned and on swift wings swung off and up the river. if ever there was a disappointed hunter, it was the one crouching in that blind. “somebody else is hunting, and he spoiled my shot that time,” he muttered. “he must have a blind farther down. probably some other ducks i didn't see came in to him. i wonder if he got them. here's hoping that next time those ducks come in here first.”
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he once more made himself comfortable and settled down for a long wait. the black shadows crept out from the farther bank of the big river. jolly, round red mr. sun had gone to bed, and the first little star was twinkling high overhead. it was very still and peaceful. from out in the middle of the big river sounded a low “quack”; dusky and his flock were swimming in this time. presently the hunter could see a silver line on the water, and then he made out nine black spots. in a few minutes those ducks would be where he could shoot them. “bang, bang” went that gun below him again. with a roar of wings, dusky and his flock were in the air and away. that hunter stood up and said things, and they were not nice things. he knew that those ducks would not come back again that night, and that once more he must go home empty-handed. but first he would find out who that other hunter was and what luck he had had, so he tramped down the shore to where that gun had seemed to be. he found the blind of farmer brown's boy, but there was no one there. you see, as soon as he had fired his gun the last time, farmer brown's boy had slipped out and away. and as he tramped across the green meadows toward home with his gun, he chuckled. “he didn't get those ducks this time,” said farmer brown's boy.
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chapter xxvii: the hunter gives up
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blacky the crow didn't know what to think. he couldn't make himself believe that farmer brown's boy had really turned hunter, yet what else could he believe? hadn't he with his own eyes seen farmer brown's boy with a terrible gun hide in rushes along the big river and wait for dusky the black duck and his flock to come in? and hadn't he with his own ears heard the “bang, bang” of that very gun?
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the very first thing the next morning blacky had hastened over to the place where farmer brown's boy had hidden in the rushes. with sharp eyes he looked for feathers, that would tell the tale of a duck killed. but there were no feathers. there wasn't a thing to show that anything so dreadful had happened. perhaps farmer brown's boy had missed when he shot at those ducks. blacky shook his head and decided to say nothing to anybody about farmer brown's boy and that terrible gun.
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you may be sure that early in the afternoon he was perched in the top of his favorite tree over by the big river. his heart sank, just as on the afternoon before, when he saw farmer brown's boy with his terrible gun trudging across the green meadows to the big river. instead of going to the same hiding place he made a new one farther down.
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then came the hunter a little earlier than usual. instead of stopping at his blind, he walked straight to the blind farmer brown's boy had first made. of course, there was no one there. the hunter looked both glad and disappointed. he went back to his own blind and sat down, and while he watched for the coming of the ducks, he also watched that other blind to see if the unknown hunter of the night before would appear. of course he didn't, and when at last the hunter saw the ducks coming, he was sure that this time he would get some of them.
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but the same thing happened as on the night before. just as those ducks were almost near enough, a gun went “bang, bang,” and away went the ducks. they didn't come back again, and once more a disappointed hunter went home without any.
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the next afternoon he was on hand very early. he was there before farmer brown's boy arrived, and when he did come, of course the hunter saw him. he walked down to where farmer brown's boy was hiding in the rushes. “hello!” said he. “are you the one who was shooting here last night and the night before?”
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farmer brown's boy grinned. “yes,” said he.
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“what luck did you have?” asked the hunter.
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“fine,” replied farmer brown's boy.
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“how many ducks did you get?” asked the hunter.
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farmer brown's boy grinned more broadly than before. “none,” said he. “i guess i'm not a very good shot.”
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“then what did you mean by saying you had fine luck?” demanded the hunter.
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“oh,” replied farmer brown's boy, “i had the luck to see those ducks and the fun of shooting,” and he grinned again.
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the hunter lost patience. he tried to order farmer brown's boy away. but the latter said he had as much right there as the hunter had, and the hunter knew that this was so. finally he gave up, and muttering angrily, he went back to his blind. again the gun of farmer brown's boy frightened away the ducks just as they were coming in.
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the next afternoon there was no hunter nor the next, though farmer brown's boy was there. the hunter had decided that it was a waste of time to hunt there while farmer brown's boy was about.
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chapter xxviii: blacky has a talk with dusky the black duck
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doubt not a friend, but to the last grip hard on faith and hold it fast. --blacky the crow.
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“hello!” said blacky.
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dusky awoke with a start. “hello, yourself,” said he.
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“i've heard a terrible gun banging over here, and i was afraid you or some of your flock had been shot,” said blacky.
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“we haven't lost a feather,” declared dusky. “that gun wasn't fired at us, anyway.”
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“then who was it fired at?” demanded blacky.
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“i haven't the least idea,” replied dusky.
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“have you seen any other ducks about here?” inquired blacky.
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“not one,” was dusky's prompt reply. “if there had been any, i guess we would have known it.”
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“did you know that when that terrible gun was fired there was another terrible gun right over behind those bushes?” asked blacky.
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dusky shook his head. “no,” said he, “but i learned long ago that where there is one terrible gun there is likely to be more, and so when i heard that one bang, i led my flock away from here in a hurry. we didn't want to take any chances.”
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“it is a lucky thing you did,” replied blacky. “there was a hunter hiding behind those bushes all the time. i warned you of him once.”
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“that reminds me that i haven't thanked you,” said dusky. “i knew there was something wrong over here, but i didn't know what. so it was a hunter. i guess it is a good thing that i heeded your warn-ing.”
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“i guess it is,” retorted blacky dryly. “do you come here in daytime instead of night now?”
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“no,” replied dusky. “we come in after dark and spend the night here. there is nothing to fear from hunters after dark. we've given up coming here until late in the evening. and since we did that, we haven't heard a gun.”
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blacky gossiped a while longer, then flew off to look for his breakfast; and as he flew his heart was light. his shrewd little eyes twinkled.
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“i ought to have known farmer brown's boy better than even to suspect him,” thought he. “i know now why he had that terrible gun. it was to frighten those ducks away so that the hunter would not have a chance to shoot them. he wasn't shooting at anything. he just fired in the air to scare those ducks away. i know it just as well as if i had seen him do it. i'll never doubt farmer brown's boy again. and i'm glad i didn't say a word to anybody about seeing him with a terrible gun.”
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blacky was right. farmer brown's boy had taken that way of making sure that the hunter who had first baited those ducks with yellow corn scattered in the rushes in front of his hiding place should have no chance to kill any of them. while appearing to be an enemy, he really had been a friend of dusky the black duck and his flock.
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chapter xxix: blacky discovers an egg
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blacky is fond of eggs, as you know. in this he is a great deal like other people, farmer brown's boy for instance. but as blacky cannot keep hens, as farmer brown's boy does, he is obliged to steal eggs or else go without. if you come right down to plain, everyday truth, i suppose blacky isn't so far wrong when he insists that he is no more of a thief than farmer brown's boy. blacky says that the eggs which the bens lay belong to the hens, and that he, blacky has just as much right to take them as farmer brown's boy. he quite overlooks the fact that farmer brown's boy feeds the biddies and takes the eggs as pay. anyway, that is what farmer brown's boy says, but i do not know whether or not the biddies understand it that way.
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so blacky the crow cannot see why he should not help himself to an egg when he gets the chance. he doesn't get the chance very often to steal eggs from the hens, because usually they lay their eggs in the henhouse, and blacky is too suspicious to venture inside. the eggs he does get are mostly those of his neighbors in the green forest and the old orchard. but once in a great while some foolish hen will make a nest outside the henhouse somewhere, and if blacky happens to find it the black scamp watches every minute he can spare from other mischief for a chance to steal an egg.
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now blacky knows just what a rogue farmer brown's boy thinks he is, and for this reason blacky is very careful about approaching farmer brown or any other man until he has made sure that he runs no risk of being shot. blacky knows quite as well as any one what a gun looks like. he also knows that without a terrible gun, there is little farmer brown or any one else can do to him. so when he sees farmer brown out in his fields, blacky often will fly right over him and shout “caw, caw, caw, ca-a-w!” in the most provoking way, and fanner brown's boy insists that he has seen blacky wink when he was doing it.
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but blacky doesn't do anything of this kind around the buildings of farmer brown. you see, he has learned that there are doors and windows in buildings, and out of one of these a terrible gun may bang at any time. though he has suspected that farmer brown's boy would not now try to harm him, blacky is naturally cautious and takes no chances. so when he comes spying around farmer brown's house and barn, he does it when he is quite sure that no one is about, and he makes no noise about it. first he sits in a tall tree from which he can watch farmer brown's home. when he is quite sure that the way is clear, he flies over to the old orchard, and from there he inspects the barnyard, never once making a sound. if he is quite sure that no one is about, he sometimes drops down into the henyard and helps himself to corn, if any happens to be there. it was on one of these silent visits that blacky spied something which he couldn't forget. it was a box just inside the henhouse door. in the box was some hay and in that hay he was sure that he had seen an egg. in fact, he was sure that he saw two eggs there. he might not have noticed them but for the fact that a hen had jumped down from that box, making a terrible fuss. she didn't seem frightened, but very proud. what under the sun she had to be proud about blacky couldn't understand, but he didn't stay to find out. the noise she was making made him nervous. he was afraid that it would bring some one to find out what was going on. so he spread his black wings and flew away as silently as he had come.
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if out of sight, then out of mind. this is a saying which you often hear. it may be true sometimes, but it is very far from true at other times. take the case of blacky. he had had only a glance into that nest just inside the door of farmer brown's henhouse, but that glance had been enough to show him two eggs there. then, as he flew away toward the green forest, those eggs were out of sight, of course. but do you think they were out of mind? not much! no, indeed! in fact, those eggs were very much in blacky's mind. he couldn't think of anything else. he flew straight to a certain tall pine-tree in a lonely part of the green forest. whenever blacky wants to think or to plan mischief, he seeks that particular tree, and in the shelter of its broad branches he keeps out of sight of curious eyes, and there he sits as still as still can be.
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“i want one of those eggs,” muttered blacky, as he settled himself in comfort on a certain particular spot on a certain particular branch of that tall pine-tree. indeed, that particular branch might well be called the “mischief branch,” for on it blacky has thought out and planned most of the mischief he is so famous for. “yes, sir,” he continued, “i want one of those eggs, and what is more, i am going to have one.”
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he half closed his eyes and tipped his head back and swallowed a couple of times, as if he already tasted one of those eggs.
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“there is more in one of those eggs than in a whole nestful of welcome robin's eggs. it is a very long time since i have been lucky enough to taste a hen's egg, and now is my chance. i don't like having to go inside that henhouse, even though it is barely inside the door. i'm suspicious of doors. they have a way of closing most unexpectedly. i might see if i cannot get unc' billy possum to bring one of those eggs out for me. but that plan won't do, come to think of it, because i can't trust unc' billy. the old sinner is too fond of eggs himself. i would be willing to divide with him, but he would be sure to eat his first, and i fear that it would taste so good that he would eat the other. no. i've got to get one of those eggs myself. it is the only way i can be sure of it.
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“the thing to do is to make sure that farmer brown's boy and farmer brown himself are nowhere about. they ought to be down in the cornfield pretty soon. with them down there, i have only to watch my chance and slip in. it won't take but a second. just a little courage, blacky, just a little courage! nothing in this world worth having is gained without some risk. the thing to do is to make sure that the risk is as small as possible.”
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blacky shook out his feathers and then flew out of the tall pine-tree as silently as he had flown into it. he headed straight toward farmer brown's cornfield. when he was near enough to see all over the field, he dropped down to the top of a fence post, and there he waited. he didn't have long to wait. in fact, he had been there but a few minutes when he spied two people coming down the long lane toward the cornfield. he looked at them sharply, and then gave a little sigh of satisfaction. they were farmer brown and farmer brown's boy. presently they reached the cornfield and turned into it. then they went to work, and blacky knew that so far as they were concerned, the way was clear for him to visit the henyard.
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he didn't fly straight there. oh, my, no! blacky is too clever to do anything like that. he flew toward the green forest. when he knew that he was out of sight of those in the cornfield, he turned and flew over to the old orchard, and from the top of one of the old apple-trees he studied the henyard and the barnyard and farmer brown's house and the barn, to make absolutely sure that there was no danger near. when he was quite sure, he silently flew down into the henyard as he had done many times before. he pretended to be looking for scattered grains of corn, but all the time he was edging nearer and nearer to the open door of the henhouse. at last he could see the box with the hay in it. he walked right up to the open door and peered inside. there was nothing to be afraid of that he could see. still he hesitated. he did hate to go inside that door, even for a minute, and that is all it would take to fly up to that nest and get one of those eggs.
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blacky closed his eyes for just a second, and when he did that he seemed to see himself eating one of those eggs. “what are you afraid of?” he muttered to himself as he opened his eyes. then with a hurried look in all directions, he flew up to the edge of the box. there lay the two eggs!
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chapter xxxi: an egg that wouldn't behave
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if you had an egg and it wouldn't behave just what would you do with that egg, may i ask? to make an egg do what it don't want to do strikes me like a difficult sort of a task.
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all of which is pure nonsense. of course. who ever heard of an egg either behaving or misbehaving? nobody. that is, nobody that i know, unless it be blacky. it is best not to mention eggs in blacky's presence these days. they are a forbidden topic when he is about. blacky is apt to be a little resentful at the mere mention of an egg. i don't know as i wholly blame him. how would you feel if you knew you knew all there was to know about a thing, and then found out that you didn't know anything at all? well, that is the way it is with blacky the crow.
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if any one had told blacky that he didn't know all there is to know about eggs, he would have laughed at the idea. wasn't he, blacky, hatched from an egg himself? and hadn't he, ever since he was big enough, hunted eggs and stolen eggs and eaten eggs? if he didn't know about eggs, who did? that is the way he would have talked before his visit to farmer brown's henhouse. it is since then that it has been unwise to mention eggs.
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when blacky saw the two eggs in the nest in farmer brown's henhouse how blacky did wish that he could take both. but he couldn't. one would be all that he could manage. he must take his choice and go away while the going was good. which should he take?
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by fraud, backed up with consummate assurance, he obtained £70 at his port of landing, and came at once to london. a scheme for plundering his sister, who by this time had succeeded to her aunt's legacy of £25,000, then engaged his attention. he hatched a plot with a discharged footman, for that man to pose as a gentleman of fortune, and to make advances to her, and even to forcibly carry her off and marry her against her will, if needs were. some women servants were also in the plot, and were even given duly signed bonds in £500 and lesser sums, to lend their aid. the footman and parsons were, in the event of this scheme proving successful, to share the £25,000 in equal parts.
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by a mere accident, the plot was discovered in a milliner's shop in the west end, where a lady friend of miss parsons had pointed out to her a finely dressed gentleman, "who was going to marry miss parsons." this led to enquiries, and an exposure of the whole affair.
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the last resource of this thorough-paced scoundrel was the road. he chiefly affected the western suburbs and hounslow heath, and it was in a robbery on that widespreading waste that he was captured. he had obtained information that a servant, with a valise containing a large sum in notes and gold, was to leave town and meet his master at windsor; and so set out to lie in wait for him. but he had already been so active on the heath that his face was too well known, and he was recognised at brentford by a traveller who had suffered from him before. following him into hounslow town, this former victim suddenly raised an alarm and caused him to be seized. taken to the "rose and crown" inn, parsons was recognised by the landlord and others, as one who had for some time scoured the heath and committed robberies. his pistols were taken from him, and he was committed to newgate, and in the fulness of time tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. the efforts of his family connections were again used to save him from the gallows, and themselves from the stigma of it; but his career was too notorious for further leniency, and he was hanged at tyburn on february 11th, 1751.
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"there is always room on top" has long been the conclusive reply to complaints of overcrowding in the professions. however many duffers may already be struggling for a bare livelihood in them, there yet remains an excellent career for the recruit with energy and new methods. the profession of highwayman aptly illustrates the truth of these remarks. it was shockingly over-crowded in the middle of the eighteenth century, even though the duffers were generally caught in their initial efforts and hanged; and really it is wonderful where all the wealth came from, to keep such an army of "money-changers" in funds.
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william page, who for twelve years carried on a flourishing practice in the "stand and deliver!" profession, was one of those few who lived very near the top of it. his name is not so familiar as those of du vall, hind, maclean, or turpin, but not always do the really eminent come down to us with their eminence properly acknowledged. he was born about 1730, the son of a bargeman to a coal merchant at hampton-on-thames. the bargeman was unfortunately drowned at putney in 1740, and his widow was reduced to eking out a meagre livelihood by the distilling of waters from medicinal herbs. she is described as "a notable industrious woman," and certainly it was not from her example that william learned the haughty and offensive ways that would not permit him long to keep any of the numerous situations he took, after leaving the charity school at hampton, where he acquired what small education he had. he started life as tapster's boy at the "bell" alehouse, in his native town, and thence changed to errand-boy in the employment of "mr. mackenzie," apothecary. soon his youthful ambition took him to london, where he obtained a situation in the printing-office of woodfall, in little britain, who became in after-years notorious as printer of the "letters of junius"; but "that business being too great a confinement for his rambling temper, he left it, and went footboy to mr. dalrymple, scots holland warehouse in london."
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he rapidly filled the situations of footman to one mr. hodges, in lincoln's inn fields; porter to a gentleman in cork street, and footman to mr. macartney in argyle buildings. he then entered the service of the earl of glencairn, but left that situation to become valet to a certain captain jasper. frequently discharged for "his proud and haughty spirit, which would not brook orders from his masters," and prevented him, on the other hand, being on good terms with his fellow-servants, he at last found himself unable to obtain another place. this was a sad time for william page. in service he had learned extravagant habits, the love of fine clothes and the fascination of gambling; but his arrogant ways had brought him low indeed.
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"being by such means as these extremely reduced in his circumstances, without money, without friends, and without character, he could think of no better method of supplying his wants, and freeing himself from a servile dependency, than by turning collector on the highway. this he imagined would not only take off that badge of slavery, the livery he had always worn with regret, but would set him on a level with gentlemen, a figure he was ever ambitious of making."
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his first steps were attended with some difficulty, for he laboured under the disadvantage, at the moment of coming to this decision, of having no money in his pockets; and to commence highwayman, as to begin any other business or profession, it was necessary to have a small capital, for preliminary expenses. but a little ingenuity showed him the way. pistols and a horse were the tools of his trade, and pistols, of course, first. a servant of his acquaintance knew a person who had a brace of pistols to sell, and page took them, "to show a friend on approval." he then hired a horse for deferred payment, and with the pistols went out and immediately and successfully robbed the highgate coach. thus, with the £4 he in this manner obtained, he paid for the pistols and settled with the livery-stable keeper for his horse-hire. in another day or two he had touched the wayfaring public for a sum sufficient to purchase a horse of his own; and thus commenced his twelve-years' spell of highway adventure, in which, although he had many exciting experiences, he was arrested only once before the final escapade that brought him to the gallows.
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an early freak of his was the robbing of his former master, captain jasper, on hounslow heath. the captain was crossing the ill-omened place with a lady in a post-chaise, when page rode up, bade the postilion stop, and ordered the captain to deliver.
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"that may be, sir," retorted the captain angrily, "but not yet," and, pulling out a pistol, fired at him. his aim was not good, but he hit somebody: none other, indeed, than his own postilion, who was struck in the back, "and wounded very much."
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then said page, "consider, sir, what a rash action you have been guilty of. you have killed this poor fellow, which i would not have done for the world. and now, sir, i repeat my orders, and if you refuse any longer to comply, i will actually fire upon you."
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then page declared his ultimatum: "you must now surrender, or i absolutely will shoot you." whereupon the captain, having done all he possibly could, delivered up his gold watch and ten or eleven guineas. page then demanded his sword, but he quite rightly, as a soldier, demurred to such a humiliation.
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"you may see by my cockade i am an officer, and i would sooner part with my life and soul than with my sword," he bravely declared.
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page generously acknowledged his spirit. "i think myself," he said, "thou art the bravest fellow that ever crossed these plains, but thou art an obstinate fellow; and so, go about your business."
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he introduced some interesting novelties into the well-worn business. the chief of these was the distinctly bright idea of driving from london in a phaeton with a pair of horses and at some lonely spot disguising himself with a wig and another suit of clothes. then, saddling one of the horses and leaving the phaeton, he would carefully emerge upon the high road and hold up coaches, post-chaises, or solitary equestrians. this accomplished, he returned to his phaeton, harnessed the horse again, resumed his former attire, and drove back to town, like the gentleman of fashion and leisure he pretended to be. one day, pursuing this highly successful programme, he was nearly undone by the action of some countryfolk who, finding an abandoned phaeton and one horse strangely left in a coppice, went off with it. the simple people, making along the road with this singular treasure-trove, were themselves followed by some unlucky travellers whom page had just robbed, and violently denounced as confederates. page was fully equal to the occasion. nearly stripping himself, and casting his clothes down a convenient well, he returned to london in that plight and declared himself to have been treated like the man in the scriptures, who "fell among thieves"; although it does not appear that the traveller in question had a carriage. his phaeton had been stolen, and himself robbed and left almost naked.
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this precious story was fully believed, and the country people themselves stood in some considerable danger. they were flung into prison and would no doubt have been convicted had page appeared against them. this he, for obvious reasons, refused to do, and they found themselves at liberty once more, resolved to leave any other derelict carriages they might chance to see severely alone.
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page, in course of time, married a girl of his native town. she could not long remain ignorant of his means of livelihood, and earnestly begged him to leave the road and take to honest work. few, however, quitted the highway except for the "three-legged mare" at tyburn, and the one- or two-legged mares of other places; and he held on his way. now and again he would disappear for a time, after some particularly audacious exploit, to reappear when the excitement it had caused was over. on one of these occasions he shipped to barbados and antigua, stayed there for seven or eight months, and then returned to england, desperately in want of money. the line of least resistance indicated the road once more.
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his first exploit after this reappearance was the robbing of one mr. cuffe, north of barnet. the traveller, being driven along the road alone and unarmed in a post-chaise, had no choice but to surrender his purse, and held it out from the window at arm's length. but page's horse, not being used to this kind of business, shied violently, and page thereupon ordered the postilion to dismount and hand it him, which he did, and he then gracefully and at leisure retired.
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on his return to town, leading this high-mettled horse down highgate hill, page was followed by three men on horseback, who, having heard of this robbery down the road, suspected he might be the man. they immediately planned how they were to take him, and then, one of them riding quietly up, said, "sir, i have often walked my horse up highgate hill, but never down; but since you do, i will also, and bear you company."
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page readily agreed, without the least suspicion of any design against him, and so they entered into a very friendly conversation. after walking in this manner some little distance, the gentleman finding a fit opportunity, keeping a little behind, suddenly laid hold of his arms and pinioned them so tightly behind him that he was not able to stir; seeing which, the other two, then on the opposite side of the road, crossed over and secured him beyond any possibility of escape. they found in his pockets four loaded pistols, a powder-horn, and some bullets, a crape mask, and a curious and ingenious map himself had drawn, showing all the main roads and cross roads for twenty miles round london.
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they then took him before a justice of the peace at highgate, who put many searching questions, without gaining any information. he was, however, committed to clerkenwell bridewell, and was afterwards examined by none other than henry fielding, magistrate and novelist. sent from the old bailey to stand his trial at hertford assizes, he was acquitted for lack of exact evidence, although every one was fully satisfied of his guilt, for, however strange the times, they were not so strange that honest gentlemen carried such a compromising collection of things about with them on the roads.
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his narrow escape did not disturb him, and he was soon again on his lawless prowls. on hounslow heath he robbed a captain of one of the guards regiments, and was pursued into hounslow town by that officer, shouting "highwayman!" after him. no one took any notice. page got clear away, and afterwards boasted of having, the following night at a theatre in london, sat next the officer, who did not recognise him.
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an interlude followed in the activities of our high-spirited highwayman. he and an old acquaintance struck up a more intimate friendship over the tables of billiard-rooms in london, and there they entered into an alliance, with the object of rooking frequenters of those places. but their returns were small and precarious, and did not even remotely compare with the rich harvest to be gathered on the road, to which he accordingly returned.
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it was page's ill-fortune to meet with several plucky travellers, who, like captain jasper, would not tamely submit to be robbed, and resisted by force of arms. among them was lord downe, whose post-chaise he, with a companion, one day stopped at barnet. presenting his pistol, he issued the customary orders, but, to his surprise, lord downe himself drew a pistol, and discharged it with such excellent aim, that page was shot in the body, and bled very copiously. his companion's horse, alarmed at the shot, grew restive, and thus his friend was for a while unable to come to his aid. page, however, again advanced to the attack; but my lord was ready with another pistol, and so the highwaymen thought it best to make off. they hurried to london, and page sought a doctor, who found the wound so dangerous, that he refused to treat him without consultation. the other doctor, immediately on arriving, recognised page, and asked him how he came by the wound; to which page replied, that he had received it in a duel he had just fought.
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"i will extract the ball," replied the doctor; "but," he added significantly, "i do not wish to see your face again, for i believe you fought that duel near barnet."
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shortly after his recovery from this untoward incident, he and one ally, darwell, by name, an old schoolfellow, waiting upon chance on shooter's hill, met two post-chaises, in one of which was a "supercargo" belonging to the east india company, and in the other a person, who is simply described as a "gentleman."
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page's accomplice opened the encounter by firing a pistol, to which the supercargo replied in like manner; but with a better aim, for the bullet tore away a portion of his coat, under the armpit. a second shot from the highwayman was also ineffective. then page rode up and attacked the other chaise. a desperate fusillade followed; but the only damage done was that page's horse was slightly wounded. at last, the post-chaise travellers having expended all their ammunition, the two highwaymen compelled them to alight, and the postilions to dismount; and then, having bound the hands of all of them with rope, they ordered these unfortunate persons, on peril of their lives, to remain on that spot for one hour. they then returned to the chaises, removed the travelling trunks, and, carrying them off on horseback, hid them securely.
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then they hastened back to london. the next morning, in two chaises, they returned to the spot, and in security brought back the trunks, which contained, not only a large amount of money, but a mass of important documents belonging to the east india company.
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a reward of forty guineas was offered, by advertisement in the newspapers of the time, for the return of the documents, "and no questions asked." the advertisers themselves, by so doing, risked a fine of £50 for compounding a felony; but, in any case, the reward was never claimed, although page carefully returned the papers anonymously.
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the fact which at last cut the knot of william page's existence was the robbing of captain farrington in 1757, on blackheath. among other things the captain was compelled to render to this cæsar of the roads was a gold repeater watch. hotly pursued, page gave the hue-and-cry a long chase for it, and finally, arriving at richmond, had himself and his exhausted horse ferried across to twickenham.
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soon after, finding the south of england ringing uncomfortably with the fame of his doings, he took ship for scotland, but landed at scarborough, where, at the fashionable spa, he gambled heavily and strutted awhile as a man of considerable fortune. but he must have been at last really alarmed and prepared to consider turning over a new leaf, for he went north to see his former master, the earl of glencairn, who, he thought, would be able to recommend him to employment in the plantations. the earl, however, received him coldly, and he came south again, to resume his chosen profession, in company with darwell, whom he had by constant alternate threats and persuasions seduced from the reformed life he was leading and the respectable situation he held, to take up again this hazardous calling.
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together they scoured the road to tonbridge, darwell forming, as it were, a rearguard. page was pursued beyond sevenoaks by five mounted men armed with pistols, and a blunderbuss, who dashed past darwell, and after a struggle seized his leader, who presently escaped again. in their return, disappointed, they made a prisoner of darwell, who, suspecting something of the kind would happen, had already thrown away his pistols. in spite of his indignant protestations that he was a private gentleman, and would not endure such an outrage, he was searched and a part of captain farrington's watch was found upon him, with the maker's name and most of the distinguishing marks more or less carefully obliterated. questioned closely, he declared he had picked it up upon the road. as for the highwayman they had just now nearly captured, he knew nothing of him: had never set eyes on him before.
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but, in spite of these denials, darwell was taken off in custody and examined before a magistrate, who so plied him with questions, threats of what would happen to him if he continued obstinate, and promises of clemency if he would make discovery of his companion, that he at last turned king's evidence. during the interval, he was lodged in maidstone gaol.
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a fortnight later, page was arrested in one of their old haunts in london, the "golden lion," near grosvenor square. he was at first taken to newgate, but afterwards remitted to maidstone, and tried there for the robbery of captain farrington. convicted and sentenced to death, he was hanged on penenden heath, april 6th, 1758.
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isaac darkin, alias dumas
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isaac darkin was the son of a cork-cutter in eastcheap, and was born about 1740; too late to appear in the stirring pages of alexander smith or charles johnson, in which he would have made, we may be sure, an admired figure. all those who knew him, on the road or in the domestic circle, agreed that he was a handsome fellow; and travellers, in particular, noticed his taking ways. these were first displayed in 1758, when he robbed captain cockburn near chelmsford. no less taking, in their own especial way, were the police of the neighbourhood in that time, for they speedily apprehended isaac, and lodged him in springfield gaol. he was duly arraigned at the next assizes, and no fewer than eight indictments were then preferred against him. he pleaded guilty to the robbing of captain cockburn, but not guilty on the other counts; and was, after a patient trial, found guilty on the first and acquitted on the others. he was then sentenced to death, but was eventually respited on account of his youth, and finally pardoned on condition that he enlisted in the 48th regiment of foot, then serving in the west indies, at antigua. drafted with others aboard a ship lying in the lower reaches of the thames, presently to set sail for that distant shore, he effected his escape, almost at the moment of up-anchor, by dint of bribing the captain of a merchant vessel lying alongside, to whom he promised so much as a hundred pounds to help him out. he was smuggled aboard the merchantman, and so cunningly disguised that when a search-party, suspecting his whereabouts, boarded the ship, and searched it, even to the hold, they did not recognise him in a particularly rough and dirty sailor who was swearing nautical oaths among the ship's company on deck. so the transport-vessel sailed without him, and he, assuming the name of dumas, rioted all through the west of england, robbing wealthy travellers and gaily spending his takings on what he loved best: fine clothes and fine ladies. he was so attentive to business that he speedily made a name for himself, the name of a daring votary of the high toby. this reputation rendered it politic on his part to enlist in the navy, so that in case of being arrested for highway robbery, he could prove himself to have a respectable occupation, that would help to discredit the charge of being a highwayman.
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he soon became a valued recruit, and was promoted to midshipman; and it is quite likely that if he had been sent on active service he would have distinguished himself in a more reputable career than that in which he was so soon to die. but his duties kept him for considerable periods in port, and he seems to have had ample leave from them; for we find him hovering near bath and gaily robbing the wealthy real or imagined invalids going to, or returning from, the waters.
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on the evening of june 22nd, 1760, he fell in with lord percival, travelling by post-chaise over clarken down, near bath, and robbed him of twelve, thirteen, or fourteen guineas—my lord could not positively swear to the exact amount. he then made off in the gathering twilight, and galloped across country, to salisbury plain and the little village of upavon, where he was arrested in a rustic alehouse, and sent thence to salisbury gaol. at his trial he indignantly denied being a highwayman, or that he was an englishman. he declared his name was dumas, that he had lately come from guadaloupe, where he had taken a part in the late military operations; and said that the so-styled "suspicious behaviour" and damaging admissions he was charged with, when arrested at the inn, were merely the perplexities of a foreigner, when suddenly confronted by hostile strangers.
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this special pleading did not greatly deceive judge or jury, but the prosecution broke down upon a technical detail, and darkin was acquitted; not, however, without an affecting address to the prisoner from the judge, mr. justice willmott, who urged him to amend his ways, while there was yet time.
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it is thus quite sufficiently evident that, although the court was bound to acquit the prisoner, no one had the least doubt of his guilt. his narrow escape does not appear to have impressed darkin, or "dumas"; but he was anxious enough to be off, as we learn from a contemporary account of the proceedings, in which it is quaintly said: "he discovered great impatience 'till he had got off his fetters and was discharged, which was about five o'clock in the evening, when he immediately set out for london in a post-chaise."
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the fair ladies of salisbury sorrowed when he was gone. they had been constant in visiting him in prison, and had regarded him as a hero, and lord percival as a disagreeable hunks. the hero-worship he received is properly noted in the account of his life, trial, and execution, issued in haste from an oxford press in 1761, shortly after the final scene had been enacted. in those pages we read: "during mr. dumas' imprisonment at salisbury, we find his sufferings made a deep impression upon the tender hearts of the ladies, some of whom, having visited him in his confinement, his obliging manner, genteel address, lively disposition, and whole deportment so struck them that his fame soon became the discourse of the tea table; and at the happy termination of his affair with my lord percival, produced between them the following copy of verses:
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joy to thee, lovely thief! that thou hast 'scaped the fatal string, let gallows groan with ugly rogues, dumas must never swing.
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dost thou seek money?—to thy wants our purses we'll resign; could we our hearts to guineas coin those guineas all were thine.
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to bath in safety let my lord his loaded pockets carry; thou ne'er again shall tempt the road, sweet youth! if thou wilt marry.
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no more shall niggard travellers avoid thee—we'll ensure them: to us thou shalt consign thy balls and pistol; we'll secure 'em.
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yet think not, when the chains are off, which now thy legs bedeck, to fly: in fetters softer far we'll chain thee by the neck."
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but in the short space of six weeks from his acquittal at salisbury and his triumphal exit in a post-chaise for london, he was again arrested on a charge of highway robbery, this time for robbing a mr. gammon at nettlebed, on the road to oxford. committed to trial at newgate, he was transferred to oxford gaol, and tried there on march 6th. he had up to now been phenomenally fortunate, but things at this crisis looked a great deal more serious. he acknowledged "he had experienced many narrow scrapes, but never such a d—d one as this," and he was presently found guilty and condemned to death, this time without any extenuating circumstances being found.
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isaac darkin was what in our times would be called a "superior person." slang he disdained to use, bad language was anathema to him; and if he did, indeed, condescend to describe a person of mean understanding as "a cake," or "a flat," that was the most he permitted himself. his delicacy was so great that he never mentioned a "robbery," a "robber," or a "highwayman," but spoke instead of persons who had been "injured," or of "the injured parties." and as he was so nice in his language, so he was particular in his dress and deportment. as an eulogist of him said, not without a little criticism: "he was possessed of too great a share of pride for his circumstances in life, and retained more of it to the last than was becoming in a person in his unhappy situation. he had a taste for elegance in every respect; was remarkably fond of silk stockings, and neat in his linen; had his hair dressed in the most fashionable manner every morning; his polished fetters were supported round his waist by a sword-belt, and tied up at his knees with ribbon."
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although but the son of a cork-cutter, he had lived, in the estimation of his contemporaries, like a gentleman. like a gentleman he spent his last days, and if he did indeed seem to boast a little when, a few days before his execution, he declared he had been nine times in gaol, and seven times tried on a capital charge, that was merely a pardonable professional exaggeration. his claim to have gleaned over six hundred guineas from the road has, on the other hand, the look of an under-estimate. the rumbustious fellows of a hundred years earlier would have thought that very bad business; they often took much more in a single haul. but times were changing, and not for the better, from the highwaymen's point of view.
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isaac darkin died like a gentleman, without apparent fear, and without bravado, at oxford, on march 23rd, 1761, and was at that time, as himself remarked, without apparent pathos or truckling to weak sentiment, "not twenty-one."
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james maclaine, the "gentleman" highwayman
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the career of james maclean, or maclaine, shows that it was not really difficult to become a "gentleman" highwayman. born at monaghan in 1724, he was the second son of lauchlin maclaine, a presbyterian minister, who, although settled in ireland, was a scotsman of unmixed scottish blood, and of undoubted scottish sympathies. there are plenty of materials for a life of his son james, the highwayman, for the story of his career had a remarkable attraction for all classes of people at the time when he went to die at tyburn, in 1750; and consequently the "lives" and "memoirs" of him are numerous. there are also several portraits of him, most of them showing a distinctly scottish type of countenance, but not one solving the mystery of his extraordinary fascination for women. indeed, the full-length portrait of him engraved in caulfield's remarkable characters, in which he is styled "macleane, the ladies' hero," shows a heavy-jowled person, with dull, yet staring fish-like eyes; exactly the kind of person who might be expected to create an unfavourable impression. perhaps the artist does him an injustice, but none of the several artists and engravers who have handed down to us their respective versions of his features have succeeded in imparting the slightest inkling of good looks to him, and few of the portraits agree with one another. he was tall above the average, as the various prints show; and he wore fine clothes. it was these exceedingly fine feathers, and the fashionable resorts he affected, that gave him the distinction of "gentleman" highwayman; and it is to be feared that his exquisite dress, in larger measure than the quality of his manners, influenced the ladies of 1750, who wept over his fate just as the equally foolish women of 1670 had wept over the hanging of du vall.
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the ordinary of newgate saw nothing remarkable in maclaine. he speaks of him as "in person of the middle-size, well-limbed, and a sandy complexion, a broad, open countenance pitted with the small-pox, but though he was called the gentleman highwayman, and in his dress and equipage very much affected the fine gentleman, yet to a man acquainted with good breeding, and that can distinguish it from impudence and affectation, there was very little in his address or behaviour that could entitle him to the character."
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archibald, the elder brother of this fashionable hero, was an entirely respected and blameless person, who entered the church, and was pastor of the english community at the hague for forty-nine years, from 1747 to 1796.
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james, the future knight of the road, was intended by his father for a merchant; but that pious father died when james was eighteen years of age, and so the youthful "perfect master of writing and accompts," as he is styled, instead of proceeding, as intended, to a scottish merchant in rotterdam, received a modest inheritance, with which he immediately took himself off to dublin, where he lost or expended it all inside twelve months, in dissipation, after the example of the prodigal son in the scriptures.
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only, unfortunately for him, when the money was gone, and he would, given the opportunity, perhaps have returned, like that illustrious exemplar, from his husks and his harlots, to partake of the fatted calf, there was no father, no home, and no fatted calf to which he might return.
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but he had still some relatives left in monaghan, and he thought he might be received by them. in this he was altogether mistaken when he tried to put it to the proof, and was reduced almost to the point of starvation there, when he attracted the attention of a gentleman, who offered him a footman's place in his service. he did not keep this situation long. he was too impudent to his master, and too patronising towards the other servants. he was discharged, and for a time subsisted upon a scanty allowance from his brother.
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in this extremity he found a gentleman of cork, a "colonel f——n," who was confiding enough to engage him as butler. but he apparently did not make a good butler; and was, moreover, discovered making away with his master's property, and discharged. we next find him in london, thinking of joining the irish brigade in the french service; but abandoning the idea from conscientious scruples against being employed in popish surroundings. maclaine had a very tender conscience and a timid nature, and what with his religious scruples and the fear of being shot (to which he does not allude, but which was very vivid to him), he had to abandon the notion of wearing a fine uniform, which we may suspect had originally given him the impulse to a military life.
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maclaine did not at this period keep very reputable society; but was in 1746 again occupying a position with the forgiving "colonel f——n." the colonel seems to have, on this second occasion, found him an undesirable servant; whereupon, "being prepossessed with the perfections of his person," he proposed to enlist in lord albemarle's troop of horseguards. the colonel, as an old soldier, thought this, no doubt, the best thing, and, with an advance of ten pounds, bade him go where glory waited him.
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maclaine accordingly enlisted. he had visions of being seated on a prancing steed—"steed" being the superlative of "horse"—and, dressed in something with plenty of blue or scarlet and gold in it, taking part in ceremonial processions and escorts. unhappily, soon after he had enlisted, he heard that the troop was to proceed at once to flanders on active service, and hurriedly got, somehow, out of the dangerous position.
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he then made some attempt to settle down and live respectably, for he married the daughter of a mr. maclagen, a horse-dealer in the oxford road—the oxford street of to-day. his wife brought a small dowry of £500, and with this they set up business in the grocery and chandlery way in welbeck street. unhappily for any views he may have entertained of a settled life as a tradesman, his wife died in 1748. it appeared then that the business had not prospered, or that their style of living had been beyond their means, for the stock and furniture were then found to be worth only £85.
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maclaine's first idea after this domestic catastrophe was one very prevalent at that time: the notion of posing as a gentleman of fortune and of fashion, with the object of ensnaring the affections of some susceptible young lady of means and marrying her for her money. he accordingly realised all his effects, and, placing his two infant daughters in the care of his mother-in-law, burst upon the town as one of the elegants of the day.
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a needy neighbour, like himself a tradesman, plunkett by name, who had failed as a chemist, was induced by this hopeful widower to act a part as his footman, and together they frequented places of fashionable assemblage, both in london and at tunbridge wells, on the look-out for heiresses. but the game was shy, and meanwhile the small capital of £85 was fast melting away. fine clothes were ten times more expensive in that age than the finest clothes of to-day, and although it was possible to obtain a good deal on credit, it was not at all workable to visit vauxhall and such expensive places, and to cut a dash there, for any considerable time on so inconsiderable a capital.
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it was plunkett who at this stage of affairs, when their funds were nearly exhausted, suggested the road as a place where money might usually be had for the asking.
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"a brave man," said plunkett, "cannot want. he has a right to live, and need not want the conveniences of life. while the dull, plodding, busy knaves carry cash in their pockets, we must draw upon them to supply our wants. only impudence is necessary, and the getting better of a few idle scruples. courage is scarcely necessary, for all we have to deal with are mere poltroons." but when poltroon meets poltroon, when the timid traveller, ready to hand over his purse on demand, cannot do so because the coward highwayman dare not reach out and take it, what happens? it is an embarrassing moment, whose fortunes are (or were) determined only by chance.
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plunkett did not know the manner of man he had to deal with until they had taken the road together. he had always seemed a bold, swaggering fellow, and big enough in all conscience; but when it came to highway robbery he was a helpless companion.
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their first affair was with a grazier, going home from smithfield with the proceeds of his day's business in his pocket. plunkett, suddenly enlightened as to maclaine's want of nerve, took the conduct of the incident firmly in hand at once, or the results might have been disastrous for both. he took £60 from the grazier, while maclaine looked on and spoke no word, inwardly in greater fear than he, and ready, had there been any sign of resistance, to fly.
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their next attempt was to stop and rob a coach on the st. albans road.
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it was agreed that maclaine should stop the coachman and present his pistol on one side, while plunkett did the same on the other. but although he rode up several times, intending to challenge the jehu with the traditional cry of the bold and fearless fellows who did the like every night, his heart failed him; so plunkett had to carry it off as best he could, while maclaine sat shivering with cowardice in the background, in spite of the "venetian mask" that covered the upper part of his face and concealed his identity sufficiently well.
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but plunkett, as may have been already gathered, was a man with sufficient resolution for two, and although maclaine was quaking with terror on every occasion, he brought him in some fashion up to the scratch in a long series of robberies. they frequently hired or stabled horses at hyde park corner, and thence rode out for a day and a night upon hounslow heath, or elsewhere.
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"in all this while," we learn, he scarcely ever thought of his daughters, "and seldom visited his mother-in-law." o villain!
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when in town, he had lodgings on the first floor over a shop in st. james's street, and presented a gorgeous figure to morning callers. he was even more gorgeous in the evening, when he frequented places of public entertainment, and obtained the freedom of some fashionable houses. but the morning picture he presented will probably suffice. he then wore a crimson damask banjan, a silk shag waistcoat turned with lace, black velvet breeches, white silk stockings, and yellow morocco slippers.
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on one exceptional occasion, plunkett and maclaine went as far as chester, and did good business on the way; but their best haul was on shooter's hill, where they stopped and robbed an official of the east india company of a large sum.
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with his share of the plunder, maclaine took a little holiday on the continent, and visited his brother at the hague, probably astonishing that worthy man by his sudden magnificence. he then returned and rejoined plunkett.
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horace walpole wrote at different times several accounts of how he was once stopped by these brothers-in-arms. it was a moonlight night, in the beginning of november 1749, nearly a year before maclaine's career was brought to a close, that horace was returning from holland house, kensington, to london. the hour was ten o'clock, the place hyde park. what trifles, or what amount of money messrs. maclaine and plunkett took on this occasion we are not told; for walpole does not take his correspondents so completely and voluminously into his confidence over this affair as he generally did. he only tells them, and us, that the pistol of "the accomplished mr. maclean," as he calls him, went off—by accident, he is careful to say—and that the bullet passed so close as to graze the skin beneath his eye and stun him. the bullet then went through the roof of the carriage.
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the incident that so nearly brought the life of horace walpole to an untimely end, and might thus have left the world much poorer in eighteenth-century gossip, was conducted, as he tells us, "with the greatest good-breeding on both sides." he further adds that the reason of maclaine being out that night and taking a purse that way was, he had only that morning been disappointed of marrying a great fortune. it does not seem at all an adequate reason; but that was the eighteenth century and this is the twentieth, and perhaps we cannot see eye to eye on all these matters.
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but, at any rate, maclaine afterwards behaved very nicely about the articles he had taken; sending a note to walpole as soon as ever he had returned to his lodgings, in which he made his excuses, if not with the witty grace of a voiture, at least expressed in a manner ten times more natural and easily polite. he declared that, had the bullet found its billet in walpole's head, he would certainly have put one through his own. then, in a postscript, which, like the postscripts in letters written by feminine hands, contained the whole substance of and reason for the letter, maclaine added that he would be pleased to meet the gentleman at tyburn (o ominous tryst!) at twelve at night, where the gentleman might purchase again any trifles he had lost.
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there, if not particularly elsewhere, maclaine seems to have indeed proved himself, in one brief moment, a "gentleman" highwayman. you see the argument passing in his mind. the trifles were indeed trifles intrinsically, but they might have had some sentimental worth, of old or new association, that would have made the loss of them a grievous thing to their rightful owner. well, then, if that owner liked to ransom them for a trifling sum, here was his chance. a very considerate offer.
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but horace walpole did not accept the rendezvous. possibly he doubted the honour of a highwayman met at such a spot.
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the "gentleman highwayman" resented criticism, as will be seen by the following story: maclaine frequented button's coffee house, in russell street, covent garden, and paid particular attention to the barmaid there, daughter of the proprietor. the attentions of such a fine gentleman as he appeared to be were very flattering to the girl, and very noticeable to other frequenters of the house, one of whom, a certain mr. donaldson, knew maclaine, and took the opportunity of warning the girl's father of his real character. the father in his turn cautioned his daughter, and foolishly let slip the name of the person who had warned him; and she, of course, passed on the information to the engaging maclaine.
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on the next occasion when donaldson visited button's, and while he was sitting in one of the boxes, maclaine entered, and in a loud voice, and the pronounced irish brogue that was ever on his tongue, said: "mr. donaldson, i wish to spake to you in a private room."
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mr. donaldson, being unarmed, and naturally afraid of being alone with such a man as he knew maclaine to be, said that as there could not possibly be anything pass between them that the whole world was not welcome to know, he begged leave to decline the invitation.
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"very well," rejoined maclaine, "we shall meet again."
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a day or so later, as mr. donaldson was walking near richmond in the evening, he saw maclaine on horseback, approaching him; but fortunately at that moment a gentleman's carriage appeared, and maclaine rode after it; donaldson hastening into the protection that the streets of richmond town afforded. it is probable that, but for this timely diversion, maclaine would have shot the man who dared tell the truth about him.
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but the end of the alliance of maclaine and plunkett was now at hand. on june 26th, 1750, at two o'clock in the morning, they stopped the salisbury stage on turnham green. the courage of the coach passengers was at a low ebb at that unconscionable hour, and they suffered themselves to be robbed, without making the least resistance. they numbered five men and one woman. the men were bidden step out, and, doing so, were searched and robbed at leisure. a mr. higden had an exceptionally fine waistcoat, and had to part with even that to maclaine, who was a connoisseur in waistcoats. a mr. lockyer also was constrained to give up a wig. from the lady was taken "only what she chose to give." here, at any rate, is a faint sweet relic of an older courtesy.
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as an afterthought, maclaine went back for two or three of the portmanteaux stored away in the hoot.
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they then, riding off westward, met the earl of eglinton, travelling in his post-chaise. he had an escort of two mounted servants, but as they were over half a mile behind at the time, he might equally well have been travelling alone.
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maclaine, riding up to the postboy, threatened him with a pistol and told him to stop instantly; but, at the same time, was sufficiently cautious to so place himself that the occupant of the post-chaise would be unable to fire at him without hitting the postboy. the highwaymen were, as a rule, exceedingly well-informed persons; and maclaine knew perfectly well that lord eglinton carried a blunderbuss with him, and had the reputation of always being ready and willing to use it.
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but in the strategic position he had taken up, he was quite safe, and meanwhile plunkett had advanced from the rear and taken his lordship completely by surprise. he threatened, indeed, instantly to shoot him, if he did not throw the blunderbuss away; and my lord flung the weapon from him at once, as though it had been red-hot. plunkett then took seven guineas from him.
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maclaine was not behindhand, and seized his lordship's overcoat and the blunderbuss which was lying upon the heath. he was a frugal person, and in that particular did credit to his scots ancestry. a curious old print shows this robbery, famous in its day, and in it maclaine and plunkett do certainly look most awe-inspiring in their attitudes: maclaine, in particular, being apparently engaged in pushing his pistol through the postboy's head. but that is doubtless artistic licence.
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maclaine did a very foolish thing when he returned to his st. james's street rooms, early that same day. he sent for a jew dealer to come and make an offer for some clothes he wished to sell; none other, in fact, than those he had taken from the coach, and when they were shortly advertised as having been stolen, the mischief was done. as if that were not folly enough, maclaine's frugality had led him also to remove the gold lace from one of the stolen coats and to offer it for sale. he chanced to take it to the very laceman who had recently sold it. his arrest was then a matter of course. equally of course, he strongly protested against the indignity of a "gentleman" being arrested for theft, and then he broke down and wept in "a most dastardly and pusillanimous manner, whimpering and crying like a whipt schoolboy."
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maclaine declared that the absconded plunkett had left the clothes with him, in part satisfaction of a debt he owed, and that he, maclaine, was to have sold them for what they would fetch, as part liquidation of the debt.
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any so-called confession he might have made, he now declared impossible. what should a gentleman like himself know of highway robbery? "it is true enough that when first apprehended, the surprise confounded me and gave me a most extraordinary shock. it caused a delirium and confusion in my brain which rendered me incapable of being myself, or knowing what i said or did. i talked of robberies as another man would do in talking of stories; but, my lord, after my friends had visited me in the gate-house, and had given me some new spirits, and when i came to be re-examined before justice lediard, and was asked if i could make any discovery of the robbery, i then alleged i had recovered my surprise, that what i had talked of before concerning robberies was false and wrong, and was entirely owing to a confused head and brain."
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he called nine witnesses to character; among them lady caroline petersham, who is represented in a curious print of the trial at the old bailey, under examination.
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the elegant maclaine stands prominently in the dock handsomely attired, but, alas! heavily fettered, with his laced hat under his left arm. one hand holds his lengthy written defence, the other is affectedly spread over his breast, in gentlemanly protestation of his being an injured person. his is a tall, upstanding figure; but he appears, by the evidence of the print, to have had a face like a pudding: and the majority of the counsel seated at a table in front of him are shown regarding it with easily understood curiosity and astonishment.
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one of the dignified persons on the bench is represented addressing lady caroline: "what has your ladyship to say in favour of the prisoner at y^e bar?"
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with a dramatic gesture, she replies: "my lord, i have had the pleasure to know him well: he has often been about my house, and i never lost anything."
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in spite of this cloud of witness, our gentleman was convicted, and that with the utmost dispatch, for the jury returned their verdict of "guilty" without leaving the box.
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the time between his condemnation and execution was spent in an affectation of repentance, that does not read very pleasantly. he suddenly found himself a great sinner, and indeed revelled luxuriantly in the discovery. but there was not the true note of abasement and conviction in all this; for he went among his fellow-criminals like a superior person, and offered them consolation from the rarefied heights of his "gentility," that must have been excessively galling to them. their profanity and callousness shocked him profoundly. probably their behaviour was not less profane when he, condemned to die for misdeeds similar to their own, presumed to lecture them on the error of their ways. but preaching was in his blood, and would find expression somehow, and he found excuse for his almost consistent lack of courage on the road in the moral reflection that it was conscience made a coward of him. but conscience did not prevent him sharing in the swag when the enterprise was carried through.
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he said it was true that, since he had entered upon the highway, he had never enjoyed a calm and easy moment; that when he was among ladies and gentlemen they observed his uneasiness, and would often ask him what was the matter, that he seemed so dull. and his friends would tell him that surely his affairs were under some embarrassment; "but they little suspected," said he, "the wound i had within."
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he protested in a good cause he believed there was not a man of greater natural courage than himself, but that in every scheme of villainy he put plunkett on the most hazardous post. "there," said he, "i was always a coward—my conscience"——always that sickly, unconvincing iteration. but the insistence of conscience that plunkett should always be placed in the way of the bullets is at least amusing.
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walpole tells how maclaine had rooms in st. james's street, opposite white's club, and others at chelsea. plunkett, he says, had rooms in jermyn street. their faces were as well known in and about st. james's as that of any of the gentlemen who lived in that quarter, who might also be in the habit of going upon the road, if the truth were known about everybody. maclaine, he said, had quarrelled, very shortly before his arrest, with an army officer at the putney bowling green. the officer had doubted his gentility, and maclaine challenged him to a duel, but the exasperating officer would not accept until maclaine should produce a certificate of the noble birth he claimed.
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"after his arrest," says walpole, "there was a wardrobe of clothes, three-and-twenty purses, and the celebrated blunderbuss found at his lodgings, besides a famous kept-mistress." walpole concluded he would suffer, and as he wished him no ill, he did not care to follow the example of all fashionable london, and go to see him in his cell. he was almost alone in his thus keeping away. lord mountfield, with half white's club at his heels, went to newgate the very first day. there, in the cell, was maclaine's aunt, crying over her unhappy nephew. when those great and fashionable frequenters of white's had gone, she asked, well knowing who they were, but perhaps not fully informed of their ways, beyond the fact that they gambled extravagantly: "my dear, what did the lords say to you? have you ever been concerned with any of them?"
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"was it not admirable?" asks walpole; adding, "but the chief personages who have been to comfort and weep over their fallen hero are lady caroline petersham and miss ashe: i call them 'polly' and 'lucy,' and asked them if he did not sing: 'thus i stand like the turk with his doxies around'?"
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in that last passage, walpole refers to gay's beggar's opera, written in 1716 and produced in 1728; a play written around an imaginary highwayman, "captain macheath," who might very well have stood for maclaine himself. polly and lucy were two of macheath's friends in the opera.
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we have walpole's own authority for the otherwise almost incredible statement that three thousand people went to see maclaine in his cell, the first sunday after he was condemned. he fainted away twice with the heat of the cell. "you can't conceive the going there is to newgate, and the prints that are published of the malefactors and the memoirs of their lives and deaths, set forth with as much parade as marshal turenne's."
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the fatal october 3rd came at last, when he was to die. a curious etched print published at the time, at the small price of threepence, entitled "newgate's lamentation, or the ladies' last farewell of maclaine," shows the parting, and bears the following verses:
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farewell, my friends, let not your hearts be fill'd, my time is near, and i'll with calmness yield. fair ladies now, your grief, i pray, forbear, nor wound me with each tender-hearted tear.
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mourn not my fate; your friendships have been kind, which i in tears shall own, till breath's resign'd. oh! may the indulgence of such friendly love, that's been bestowed on me, be doubled from above.
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thus fortified, and giving his blessing, for what it might be worth, he went to tyburn diligently conning his prayer-book all the way, and not once glancing at the crowds.
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to the constable who had arrested him, and who now came to beg his forgiveness, he replied earnestly: "i forgive you, and may god bless you, and your friends; may he forgive my enemies and receive my soul." and then he was turned off, and died quite easily. there was a great sale for the many more or less truthful lives of him hawked round the gallows.
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john poulter, alias baxter
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the story of john poulter is one of the saddest that here present themselves to be recorded. he was born at newmarket, of poor parents, and was given a sufficient schooling for his station. at thirteen years of age he was taken into service in the stables of the duke of somerset, and remained there for six years, leaving with an excellent character for smartness and industry. he then went into the employ of colonel lumley, and was on three occasions sent to france, in charge of racehorses; always giving complete satisfaction. but this slight experience of foreign travel seems to have unsettled him, and he craved for adventures under alien skies. we next find him, accordingly, sailing on a bristol merchant ship and voyaging to the west indies, to the american colonies, and to newfoundland; seeing life in a humble but effective way.
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returning to england at last, and, sailor-like—or at any rate, like sailors of those times—falling at once into abandoned company, he met, at lichfield on february 1749, a dissolute set of persons living disreputably upon their wits; among them a certain john brown, alias dawson, who, with an experience of the highway trade, easily persuaded the adventurous poulter to join him and his associates.
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brown, poulter, and company, fully armed, then set out to prey upon all and sundry; devoting themselves more particularly to thefts from houses. at lichfield, while one diverted the attention of the landlord of the "george" inn, another rifled a chest and stole a sum of money and many valuable articles. at chester, poulter distinguished himself by stealing some black plush that he fancied might make him a fine stylish waistcoat; and sent off at once to a tailor, to call at the "black dog" inn, where he and the gang were lodging, that he might be measured, and enabled to appear forthwith as a person of elegance and distinction. we may here fitly pause a moment to admire, or to be astonished at, the child-like vanity and delight in fine clothes displayed by nearly all the highwaymen at that time. they could not resist seizing every and any opportunity that offered, of dressing themselves in the best that could be obtained.
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unfortunately, the manners of a highwayman were not exactly those of a gentleman. there was something overdone in the affected elegance of deportment, a certain exaggeration and a decided "loudness" that made reflective people suspicious. thus, the tailor to whom poulter sent for his stolen plush to be made up was not altogether satisfied with his strange customer, and when a pistol that poulter carried in his pocket went off accidentally during the process of measurement, he was convinced that a person who carried loaded firearms in this manner was not only a dangerous, but also a suspicious, person. the bullet had harmlessly sped into the ceiling, but the tailor was unnerved by the incident, and poulter, rather lamely apologetic, endeavoured to explain away this concealed armoury by accusing brown of putting crackers in his pockets. as for the tailor, he hurried off to the mayor with the story that a dangerous person, evidently a highwayman, had taken lodgings in the city, and was one of a queer gang, whose suspicious movements had already attracted attention. the mayor sent some trusty emissaries to examine poulter and his associates, but they had already taken the alarm, and had embarked at parkgate for ireland.
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poulter had already had enough of this criminal life, and, tired of adventure of all kinds, desired nothing better than to settle down to some business. he accordingly, in the name of baxter, took a small alehouse in dublin, and, entirely dissociating himself from his companions for a time, did a comfortable and fairly prosperous trade, averaging five barrels a week. here he might have continued, and would have been glad to do so, only for a most unfortunate circumstance.
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there were at that time a number of irish rogues in london, obtaining a hazardous livelihood, chiefly by picking pockets, but not disdaining any form of villainy that might promise to be profitable. general sinclair was robbed of a gold watch by one or other of this gang, as he was leaving a party at leicester house, and william harper and thomas tobin, two suspicious characters, were arrested for being concerned, and taken to the gatehouse at westminster, whence they were presently rescued by their gang, to the number of a couple of dozen; all of them making off to ireland.
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this affair would not appear to concern poulter in any way, engaged as he was at dublin in earning an honest livelihood; but it had a very tragical result on his fortunes. among the fugitives was one james field, who had known poulter in london; and he, as ill-fortune would have it, chanced one day to walk down that dublin street where poulter's inn was situated. by the accursed malevolence of fate, poulter himself happened at that moment to be standing at the door of his house. field immediately recognised him and stopped to enquire what his old confederate was doing. he drank there and wished him good day, but soon after brought all that escaped gang of scoundrels to the spot; and there, much to poulter's dismay, they established themselves, day by day, making his inn, once so respectable and well-conducted, a byword for riotous drinking, and the haunt of characters that it would be flattery to describe as merely "suspicious." field and others were actually taken into custody there. decent trade deserted the inn, and, despairing of being rid of the scoundrels, whom he dared not forbid the house, lest they should turn upon and denounce him, he absconded across ireland to cork, where he at first contemplated taking another inn. he at last, however, settled upon waterford, and took an inn there, remaining for six months, when he was induced to return to dublin by his former brewer, who, sorry to have lost a good customer by poulter's enforced flight, wanted him back.
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he eventually settled two miles outside dublin, at an inn called the "shades of clontarf," looking upon the sea; and became part innkeeper, part fisherman, and led a very happy, honest, and contented life, making, moreover, an average profit of £3 a week.
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but here he was found towards the close of 1751 by tobin, who foisted himself and a dissolute woman companion upon the unfortunate man. poulter generously received them, but earnestly implored tobin not to bring his evil associates into the neighbourhood. he wanted, he declared, to live an honest life, and to be done with the past. tobin assured him he would not appear in the neighbourhood again; but in a few days he was back at clontarf, with a select company of rascals, and from that time the unhappy poulter knew no peace. his determination to lead a respectable life they took as a direct challenge to, and slur upon, themselves. there is nothing that so greatly enrages the habitual criminal as the reclamation of one of his own kind, and it is doubtless the influence of hardened evil-doers that prevents many a criminal, really disgusted with crime, from reforming. these wretches set themselves deliberately to ruin poulter. they practically lived at his house, and, as had been done before, they soon changed the character of it from a decent alehouse to a thieves' boozing-ken, to which the police-officers came at once when they wanted to find some bad character, or to trace stolen property. poulter was a mere cipher under his own roof.
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but they were not content with wrecking his trade: they must needs blast that good character he had been so patiently acquiring. they did it by making him out a smuggler. six pounds of tea and twelve yards of calico and muslin placed secretly in his boat, and information then lodged with the revenue officers, was sufficient. poulter's boat was seized and condemned, and poulter himself, convinced that he would not be able to establish his innocence, fled from the scene and hurried aboard a vessel bound for bristol, where he landed penniless. there, in bristol streets, he met two early criminal acquaintances, dick branning and john roberts, and as there seemed to be no likelihood of being allowed to live within the law, he agreed to take part with them and a number of confederates, whose headquarters were at bath, in a campaign of highway and other robberies.
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their operations were of the most roving description. by way of trowbridge, they made for yorkshire, raiding the country as they went with all manner of rogueries. nothing came amiss. at halifax they netted twenty-five guineas from a clergyman by an eighteenth-century ancestor of the thimble-rigging fraud, called "pricking in the belt." at last they found themselves at chester: place of evil omen for poulter. there, at the house of a confederate, they heard on the evening of their arrival of a train of pack-horses laden with manchester goods, due to pass that night. watch had been kept upon them, said the confederate, and a man would point out to our friends which, among all the animals of the pack-horse train, was best worth robbing of his load. it would be best, he said, to do the work on the country road, and to take the horse into a field.
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as it happened, they pitched upon the wrong horse, and got only a load of calamancoes, fabrics woven of wool with an admixture of silk, popular in those times; but the pack contained over a thousand yards, and they cut it off after some difficulty in the dark, and got away safely with it; although greatly alarmed by the horse's loud neighing when he found himself separated from his companions.
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the robbers went off at once out of the neighbourhood, and that same night reached a village near whitchurch, eighteen or twenty miles distant. there they obliterated all distinguishing marks on the goods, and divided them.
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at grantham, which poulter and tobin next favoured with a visit, they relieved a credulous farmer of fifteen guineas by the "pricking in the belt" device. at nottingham several of the accomplices met, but they had bad luck, and poulter went on the sneak and stole a silver tankard, without a lid, from the "blackamoor's head" inn: and that was all the scurvy town of nottingham yielded them. they then made for yorkshire, where they remained for a considerable period, and then left, only because their widespread thefts of all kinds made a continued stay dangerous. york, durham, and the north, including newcastle, comprised a tour then undertaken.
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they then made their way to bath, the general rendezvous of the gang, and thence in what poulter calls "three sets," or gangs, moved independently and by easy stages into devonshire: attending the cattle-fair at sampford peverell, with marked success to themselves, and grievous loss to the farmers and graziers there assembled. thence they moved on to torrington and exeter, and so back again to bath, where twelve of them met at roberts's house.
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poulter and two confederates named elgar and allen then went into the north of england again, attending fairs, horse-races and cock-fighting matches on the sharping lay; winning about £30 or £40 at cards. returning to bath, and being looked upon with suspicion, living as they were with a number of riotous men in roberts's house, they hit upon the dodge of passing for smugglers, and thus at once explaining their association and enlisting public sympathy. every one, except the revenue officers, was in those times well-affected towards smugglers.
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they were not only at considerable pains, but at great expense also, to create this impression. "we used," says poulter, in his confessions, "to give seven shillings a pound for tea, and sell it again for four shillings and sixpence, on purpose to make people believe we were smugglers."
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while they were thus staying at bath, they would go now and then to a fair, and try "the nob," or "pricking in the belt." if that did not succeed, they would buy a horse or two, give iou's for the money and false addresses, and then sell the horses again. "this," says poulter, "is called 'masoning.'"
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this was followed by a raid into dorset. a visit of the gang to blandford races was highly successful. they attended numerously, and while some robbed the booths, others devoted their attention to the sportsmen, and yet others lightened the pockets of the crowds engrossed in watching the cock-fighting. they wound up a glorious day by dining in style at the "rose and crown," and there chanced upon the best luck of all those gorgeous hours: finding a portmanteau from which they took eighteen guineas, four broad pieces, and diamonds, jewels, and clothes to a great amount. many of these articles were taken to london by poulter, and sold there to jews in duke's place, aldgate, on behalf of self and partners. the proceeds were duly divided at roberts's house at bath.
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the next activities of these busy rogues were at corsham, near bath. they then appeared at farringdon in berkshire, and there robbed the coventry carrier. newbury and bristol then suffered from them. at last, they grew so notorious in the west of england that they judged it only prudent to alter their methods for a time, and to devote themselves exclusively to horse-stealing: an art they had not hitherto practised with any frequency.
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an amusing incident was that in which poulter robbed a man of £20. the foolish fellow, an utter stranger, had been rash enough to display his money to roberts one night in a country alehouse. it had just been paid to him, he said. "and it will presently be taken from you," roberts might truly have retorted. but he merely in a sly manner drew poulter's attention, who later followed the man and presenting a metal tinder-box to his head, roared out, "your money or your life." the tinder-box in the darkness looked so like a pistol that the money was meekly handed over.
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poulter then went off to trowbridge, in company with a new recruit, burke by name, an irishman, who had been confidential ostler to roberts, and was now advanced to full membership of this body of raiders. meeting a post-chaise near clarken down, burke proposed to attack it, but poulter would agree only on condition that no violence were used. poulter then led the attack, but in the darkness put his hand with accidental force through the window, and cut it severely. in doing so, his pistol went off, and burke thinking it was the occupant of the chaise who had fired, replied with his own firearms. fortunately, no one was hit.
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the chaise was occupied by dr. hancock and his little girl. poulter took up the child and kissed her, and then, setting her down, robbed the doctor of one guinea and a half in gold, six shillings, a gold watch, and some clothes: a booty not worth all the trouble, and certainly not by a long way worth the further trouble the affair was presently to bring.
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after seeing the post-chaise disappear in the darkness, poulter and his companion made their way to a neighbouring inn, and coolly displayed their takings to the landlord and his wife, who appear to have been, if not actual confederates, at least better disposed to self-revealed robbers than honest innkeepers should be. the landlady gave the highwaymen a bag for the clothes, and the landlord, when they lamented the fact of all their powder and ball being fired off, obligingly removed the charge from his loaded fowling-piece, and melted down two pewter spoons for casting into bullets. the landlady, when poulter and burke asked her if these preparations for arming did not alarm her, said: "no, they are not the first pistols i have seen loaded by night in this kitchen." evidently an inn that the solitary and unarmed traveller with money about him should avoid.
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she added thoughtfully that, after this robbery, they had better travel as far away as they could, that night from the spot. she would send them any news.
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they then left, and, taking a horse they chanced to see in an adjacent meadow, proceeded to exeter, where they sold the stolen articles to a receiver.
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it was not more than three weeks later when poulter was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of dr. hancock. he was thrown into ilchester gaol, brought to trial, and condemned to death. he made a full confession and disclosed the names of no fewer than thirty-one of his associates, their places of meeting, and their methods. he was not only anxious to save his life by thus turning evidence against the gang, but he was genuinely wearied of the manner of life into which he had been hounded.
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many members of the gang, he said, lived to all appearances respectably. their general meeting-place was bath. he added that it was on every account desirable that the messenger to the police at bath, entrusted with these disclosures, should keep all these things secret, except to the mayor; but some one had gossiped, for within one hour of his arrival those revelations were the talk of the town, and the names of those implicated in them were freely mentioned. the next day they were even printed, in accounts of the disclosures hastily struck off and sold in the streets. the very natural result was that most of the persons named escaped before justice could lay hands upon them. a list of nineteen not taken, and twelve in various gaols all over the country, is printed in the discoveries.
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dr. hancock's property was found and returned to him. his conduct was one of the most astonishing features in this amazing case, and reflected considerable discredit upon him; for although he visited poulter in ilchester gaol, before the trial, and assured the prisoner that although he was obliged to be a prosecutor, he would bear lightly upon the facts, and would in the event of a conviction use his best efforts to obtain the royal pardon, he treacherously used every effort to secure his being hanged. there seems to have been no motive for this double-dealing, except his own natural duplicity. his treachery was thorough, for he even used his influence with the judge to obtain a shortening of the period between sentence and execution.
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the trial and the revelations made by poulter excited keen and widespread public interest, and the lengthy pamphlet account of them, entitled "the discoveries of john poulter, otherwise baxter, apprehended for robbing dr. hancock on clarken down, near bath," had a large and long-continued sale. a copy of the fourteenth edition, issued in 1769, fourteen years later, is in the british museum library.
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he was respited for six weeks, in consideration of the further disclosures he was to make, or of any evidence he might be required to give, and in this time, so moving was his tale, and so useful was the information he had given, that the corporations of bath, bristol, exeter, and taunton, together with numerous private gentlemen of considerable influence, petitioned that he might be reprieved. it is probable that these efforts would have been successful; but poulter was an unlucky man, and at this particular crisis in his affairs happened in some way to rouse the ill-will of the gaoler, who was never tired, in all those days of suspense, of assuring him that he would certainly be hanged, and serve him right!
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it is not surprising that, under these circumstances, the unhappy poulter endeavoured to escape. with, the aid of a fellow-prisoner, committed to gaol for debt, he forced an iron bar out of a window, and the two, squeezing through the opening, broke prison at nightfall of sunday, february 17th, 1755. they intended to make for wales. all that night they walked along the country roads, poulter with irons on his legs as far as glastonbury, where he succeeded in getting them removed. when day came, they hid in haystacks, resuming their flight when darkness was come again. they next found themselves at wookey, near wells, much to their dismay, having intended to bear more towards the north-west. poulter was by this time in a terribly exhausted condition, and his legs and ankles were so sore and swollen from the effects of being chafed with the irons he had walked with for ten miles, that it was absolutely necessary he should rest. he did so at an alehouse until two o'clock in the afternoon, and was about to leave when a mason at work about the place entered, and recognised him. calling his workmen to help, he secured poulter, who was then taken back to ilchester. nine days of his respite were left, but a strong and murderous animus was displayed against this most unfortunate of men, and it was decided to hang him out of hand. the execution could not, however, take place earlier without a warrant from london, and the trouble and expense of sending an express messenger to the local member of parliament, then in town, demanding his instant execution, were incurred, in order to cut shorter his already numbered days. the messenger must have been phenomenally speedy, for he is said to have returned with the warrant within twenty-four hours; and poulter was at once taken out of his cell and hanged, february 25th, 1755.
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paul lewis, who was, like nicholas horner, the son of a clergyman, was born at hurst-monceaux, in sussex, and was originally put to the profession of arms, and became an officer of artillery. the usual career of gambling and debauchery, so productive of highwaymen, led him first into difficulties with his creditors, and then caused him to desert from the army. he left one service only to enter another, for he joined the navy, and rose from the rank of midshipman to that of lieutenant.
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none doubted his courage, nor, on the other hand, was there any mistaking his depravity. he robbed his brother officers of the small sum of three guineas, and made off with that meagre amount to begin the life of the road in the neighbourhood of newington butts. he levied contributions from a gentleman travelling in a chaise on this spot, but this, his initial effort, resulted in his capture. the plea of an alibi set up for him, however, secured his acquittal. later he was seized at night by a police-officer while in the act of robbing a mr. brown, whose horse he had frightened by discharging a pistol. mr. brown was flung violently to the ground, and lewis was in the act of going over his pockets when pope, the police-officer, who had been on the look-out for him, secured him, after a struggle.
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lewis was duly sentenced to death at the ensuing sessions.
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the newgate calendar, recounting all these things, says: "such was the baseness and unfeeling profligacy of this wretch that when his almost heart-broken father visited him for the last time in newgate, and put twelve guineas into his hand to repay his expenses, he slipped one of the pieces of gold into the cuff of his sleeve by a dexterous sleight, and then, opening his hand, showed the venerable and reverend old man that there were but eleven; upon which his father took another from his pocket, and gave it him to make the number intended. having then taken a last farewell of his parents, lewis turned to his fellow-prisoners, and exultingly exclaimed: "i have flung the old fellow out of another guinea!"
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lewis said he would die like a man of honour; no hangman should put a halter round his neck. he would rather take his own life. but this he had not, after all, sufficient courage to do. a knife he had secreted in his pillow fell out one day, either by accident or design, and was taken away from him. he was executed at tyburn on may 4th, 1763, aged twenty-three.
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the careers of george and joseph weston read like the imaginings of a romantic novelist, and, indeed, thackeray adopted some of the stirring incidents of their lives in his unfinished novel, denis duval.
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george weston was born in 1753, and his brother joseph in 1759; sons of george weston, a farmer, of stoke, in staffordshire. early in 1772, george was sent to london, where a place in a merchant's office had been secured for him, and there he was fortunate enough to be promoted to the first position, over the heads of all the others, upon the death of the chief clerk, eighteen months later. he was then in receipt of £200 a year, and on that amount contrived to take part pretty freely in the gaieties and dissipations of vauxhall and similar resorts. at this period he introduced his brother joseph to town, and also began a series of peculations in the office, in order to support the extravagances into which a passion for gambling and "seeing life" had led him. when he could no longer conceal his defalcations, he fled to holland, and joseph, suspected of complicity, was obliged to leave london.
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within three months george had returned to england in disguise. he made his way to durham and there entered the service of a devout elderly lady of the methodist persuasion. pretending to have adopted the religious convictions of george whitefield's followers, he affected the religious life, with the object of marrying the lady and securing her ample fortune. but he was recognised on the very eve of the wedding, and exposed. he then fled southward, with as much of the old lady's money and valuables as he could manage to secure at the moment.
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but he speedily lost nearly all his plunder in backing outsiders at york and doncaster races, and entered nottingham with only one guinea. there he fell in with a company of strolling players, managed by one james whiteley, who offered him the post of leading gentleman. he accepted it, and under the name of wilford, remained with them a little while.
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it was not a distinguished troupe, which perhaps accounts for his having been so promptly given a leading part in it. it consisted of two runagate apprentices, a drunken farrier, a stage-struck milliner, two ladies whose characters it were well not to study too closely, the manager's wife, a journeyman cobbler, a little girl seven years of age, and a stage-keeper, who alternated his stage-keeping with acting and barbering.
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the theatre was a decrepit and almost roofless barn, and the stage consisted of loose boards propped up on empty barrels; while the scenery and the curtains were chiefly dilapidated blankets. barn-storming in such pitiful circumstances did not suit our high-minded hero, who soon made his way to manchester, where he became a schoolmaster, and a leading member of a local club, where he read the papers and conducted himself with such a show of authority that the parson, the lawyer, and the apothecary, who had before his coming disputed for pre-eminence over their fellow-members, yielded before his masterful ways. he shortly became high constable, and soon began to abuse the position by blackmailing innkeepers and forging small drafts upon them. the more timid and easy-going submitted for a while to this, but others resented it in the very practical way of taking steps to secure his arrest. george then obeyed the instinct of caution and disappeared.
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about the year 1774 the brothers met at a fair in warwickshire, where joseph had been playing the game of "hiding the horse," and had hidden three so effectively from their owners that he was presently able to sell them, unsuspected, for over £70. they then had thoughts of purchasing a farm, and travelled to king's lynn, where, in the name of stone, they lodged some time with a farmer. pretending to be riders (i.e. travellers) to a london distiller, they wormed themselves into the confidence of the farmer and appointed him local agent for the non-existent firm, showing him tricks by which he would be able to water down the spirits he was to receive, and so cheat the retailers. on the strength of these confidences, they borrowed over a hundred pounds, and then decamped, leaving only their "sample bottles" of brandies and rums behind.
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they thought it wise to travel far, and so made their way into scotland, and in the name of gilbert took a small farm, where they remained for only a few months, leaving secretly and at night with all the movables, and with two geldings belonging to a neighbour.
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cumberland had next the honour of affording them shelter. in october 1776 they were apprehended on a charge of forgery at bishop's castle, shropshire, and must have received an altogether inadequate sentence, or perhaps escaped, for they are next found in ireland, in the following summer, at baltinglass, county wicklow. they were shortly afterwards at dublin, frequenting the clubs under the name of jones. there they met a noted plunger of that time, one "buck" english, and fooled him in the highest degree; cheating at hazard, and obtaining money from him in exchange for forged bills and drafts. at length, after a fierce quarrel with english, who fought with george in the dublin streets and wounded him in the right hand, the westons left for holyhead. landing there with plenty of ready money, they toured wales at leisure; joseph as "mr. watson," and george as his valet.
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in may 1778 they were at tenby. on leaving the inn, where they had stayed and run up a bill of £30, they paid the landlord with a forged cheque and departed grandly with the change, in a post-chaise and four. they then visited brecon and bideford; george now posing as master, in the name of clark, and joseph acting as smith, his valet. next they are found at sutton coldfield, then on the sussex and kentish coasts, where they purchased a vessel and became known to the fishermen of folkestone, deal, and dover as the "gentlemen smugglers," trading between those parts and dunkirk. they did very well, too, until an interfering revenue cutter chased them and forced them to run their craft ashore.
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after this exciting episode, they made their way to london, and led a fashionable life, strongly flavoured with gambling and forgery. george took a house in queen anne street, and the two "commenced gentlemen," as we are told; george passing for a wealthy squire of sporting tastes. hounds and whippers-in were almost daily at the door in the morning, and at night the rooms were filled with callow young men about town, attracted by the brilliant card-parties given—at which, it is scarcely necessary to add, they were thoroughly rooked.
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the brothers lived here in great style, on the proceeds of forgery and cheating at cards. they induced a lady next door to lend a sideboard full of valuable silver plate, on the pretence that their own had not arrived from the country, and sold it; and, advertising largely that they were prepared to purchase plate, jewellery, and annuities, did, in fact, make several such purchases, paying for them in worthless bills. a good deal of the property thus obtained was stored at a residence they had hired at beckenham, in the name of green.
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at length warrants were issued against them, and they fled to scotland. at edinburgh they posed as merchants trading with holland, and acted the part with such complete success that they secured a considerable amount of credit. after forging and cashing numerous acceptances, they left for liverpool, where, in the guise of "linen merchants," they repeated their edinburgh frauds; and then, transferring themselves to bristol, they became "african merchants." there they did a little privateering with one dawson, but that, being legalised piracy, did not appeal to these instinctive criminals, to whom crime was a sport, as well as a livelihood.
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london called them irresistibly, and they responded.
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riding up to town from bristol to bath, and then along the bath road, they overtook the postboy in the early hours of january 29th, 1781, driving the mail-cart with the bristol mails, between slough and cranford bridge, and bidding him "good night," passed him. arriving at the "berkeley arms," cranford bridge, they halted for refreshment, and then turned back, with the object of robbing the mail.
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george took a piece of black crape from his pocket and covered his face with it; and then they awaited the postboy.
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halting him, george ordered him to alight, and when he meekly did so, seized and bound him, and then flung him into a field. the two then drove and rode off to windmill lane, sion corner, and thence on to the uxbridge road, through ealing, and up hanger hill to causeway lane. there, in "farmer lott's meadow," they rifled the contents of the cart and took the bags bodily away.
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having disposed the mails carefully about their persons, they hurried off on horseback for london, to a house in orange street, near piccadilly, where they were well known. the bags proved to contain between ten and fifteen thousand pounds, in notes and bills.
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a clever plan for immediately putting a great part of the notes in circulation was at once agreed upon; and in the space of an hour or two, george left the house fully clothed in a midshipman's uniform, with joseph following him dressed like a servant. they went to the "white bear," in piccadilly, and, hiring a post-chaise, set out upon what was nothing less than a hurried tour of the length and breadth of england; tendering notes at every stage, and taking gold in exchange. by way of edgeware, they went to watford, northampton, nottingham, mansfield, chesterfield, sheffield, york, durham, newcastle, and carlisle. thence they returned, on horseback, by way of penrith, appleby, doncaster, bawtry, and retford, to tuxford, where they arrived february 1st. putting up for a much-needed rest there, with an innkeeper well known to them, they were informed that the bow street runners had only that day passed through, in search of them, and had gone towards lincoln.
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early in the morning, the westons resumed their express journey, making for newark, where they were favoured by some exclusive information from an innkeeper friend, which enabled them narrowly to escape the runners, who had doubled back from lincoln.
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thence, post-haste, they went to grantham, stamford, and huntingdon, to royston, halting two hours on the way at the lonely old inn known as "kisby's hut."
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at ware they took a post-chaise and four, and hurried the remaining twenty miles to london; arriving at the "red lion," bishopsgate, at eleven o'clock on the night of february 2nd. the officers of the law were not remiss in the chase, and were at the "red lion" only one hour afterwards.
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once in london, the brothers separated; joseph taking another post-chaise, and george a hackney-coach. they were traced to london bridge, but there all track of them vanished.
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meanwhile, the post office had issued a long and detailed notice of the robbery, and had offered a reward of two hundred pounds for the apprehension of the guilty person, or persons:
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"general post office, jan. 29th, 1781.
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"the postboy bringing the bristol mail this morning from maidenhead was stop't between two and three o'clock by a single highwayman with a crape over his face between the 11th and 12th milestones, near to cranford bridge, who presented a pistol to him, and after making him alight, drove away the horse and cart, which were found about 7 o'clock this morning in a meadow field near farmer lott's at twyford, when it appears that the greatest part of the letters were taken out of the bath and bristol bags, and that the following bags were entirely taken away:—
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pewsy. ramsbury. bradford. henley. cirencester. gloucester. ross. presteign. fairford. aberystwith. carmarthen. pembroke. calne. trowbridge. wallingford. reading. stroud. ledbury. hereford. northleach. lechlade. lampeter. tenby. abergavenny. newbury. melksham. maidenhead. wantage. wotton-under-edge. tewkesbury. leominster. cheltenham. hay. cardigan. haverfordwest.
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"the person who committed this robbery is supposed to have had an accomplice, as two persons passed the postboy on cranford bridge on horseback prior to the robbery, one of whom he thinks was the robber; but it being so extremely dark, he is not able to give any description of their persons.
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"whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the person who committed this robbery will be entitled to a reward of two hundred pounds, over and above the reward given by act of parliament for apprehending highwaymen; or if any person, whether an accomplice in the robbery or knoweth thereof, shall make discovery whereby the person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to justice, such discoverer will upon conviction of the party be entitled to the same reward of two hundred pounds and will also receive his majesty's most gracious pardon.
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"by command of the postmaster-general,
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"anth. todd, sec."
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it was soon ascertained that the westons were the robbers, and careful descriptions of them were at once circulated:
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"george weston is about twenty-nine years of age, five feet seven inches high, square-set, round-faced, fresh-coloured, pitted with small-pox, has a rather thick nose, his upper lip rather thick, his hair of lightest brown colour, which is sometimes tied behind, and at other times loose and curled; has much the appearance of a country dealer, or farmer. one of his thumb-nails appears, from an accident, of the shape of a parrot's bill, and he is supposed to have a scar on his right hand, from a stroke with a cutlass."
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the younger brother was just as closely described:
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"joseph weston is about twenty-three years of age, five feet nine inches high, slender made, of a fair and smooth complexion, genteel person, has grey eyes and large nose with a scar upon it; his hair is of a light brown colour, sometimes tied behind, at other times loose and curled; his voice is strong and he speaks a little through his nose; has a remarkable small hand and long fingers."
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while these descriptions were staring from every blank wall, george and joseph were hiding, in disguise, in the borough. they had a large amount of money, realised by their tremendous exertions over that long journey, and they added judiciously to their store by carrying on their business of lending money on plate and jewellery, and paying for the articles in the remaining notes stolen from the bristol mail. the famous "perdita" robinson was one of those victimised in this way; and, as a contemporary account says, "lost her diamond shoebuckles which a certain heir apparent presented her with."
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it was in october 1781, when paying for some lottery tickets in holborn, with stolen notes, that george and joseph became acquainted with two pretty girls, cousins, employed as milliners near red lion square. george gallantly bought some shares for them, and in the evening took them to vauxhall gardens. the delighted girls were told the two gentlemen were nabobs just returned from india; and, dazzled with the wealth they flung about, readily consented to go and live with them. they were soon, accordingly, all four in residence in a fine house near brompton; george adopting the name of "samuel watson," and joseph passing as "william johnson."
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they left brompton for a while and migrated to winchelsea, where they took the "friars," a fine house with beautifully wooded grounds. the foremost furnishers in london, messrs. elliot & co., of 97, new bond street, were given orders for furniture, cutlery, and a generous supply of plate, and from other firms they procured horses and carriages, finally establishing themselves at the mansion in december 1781. while in residence there the ladies conducted themselves with such propriety, and the gentlemen appeared so distinguished and so wealthy, that they soon moved in the best society of the neighbourhood. it did not, apparently, take long in those times, or in the neighbourhood of winchelsea, for strangers to obtain a footing in local society, for all this short-lived social splendour began in december, and ended in the middle of the following april. the last, sealing touch of respectability and recognition was when george was elected churchwarden of the parish church in easter 1782. from that pinnacle of parochial ambition, however, he and his were presently cast down, for messrs. elliot & co., growing anxious about their unpaid bills for goods delivered, sent two sheriff's officers down to winchelsea to interview the brothers. the officers met them at rye on horseback, and endeavoured to arrest joseph. when he refused to surrender, they tried to dismount him, but the two brothers overawed them by presenting pistols, and escaped; making their way back to winchelsea, and thence travelling at express speed to london, in their own handsome chariot. their identity with the westons and the robbers of the mail was revealed in that encounter with the sheriff's officers, one of whom had observed george's peculiarly distorted thumb-nail. information was thereupon given, and a redoubled search begun.
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george was then knocked down by a carpenter, with a piece of wood. the carpenter, we learn, "afterwards jumping upon him, kept him down till his pistols were taken away."
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meanwhile joseph had been vanquished in an equally unsportsmanlike way by a carrier, "who had a large stick, with which he beat him about the legs."
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george was then pitched neck and crop, and still struggling, into a hackney coach; but joseph, being more tractable, was permitted to walk to bow street, where, on being searched, he was found to have £240 in his pockets, all in bank-notes that had been stolen from the mail.
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on the day of their arrest they gave a bill of sale to one lucius hughes, who disposed of plate to the amount of £2,500, at the price of old silver; and jewels to the value of £4,000 were said to have been sold to a jew in st. mary axe.
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after a preliminary examination, the brothers were committed to separate prisons: joseph to tothill fields bridewell, and george to the new prison. they behaved with great insolence to the bench, and seemed to build much upon the postboy having died since the robbery. in court they actually told clark, who had arrested them, he was fortunate in still having his brains in his skull that morning. their coachman and footman, attending upon them in the court, in livery, made an imposing show. they were then remanded, and their wenches were in the meanwhile arrested at brompton, and appeared in court on the next hearing. no evidence being forthcoming against them, they were discharged; but the westons were duly committed for trial, which began on may 15th, 1782.
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they made a brave appearance in the dock, george being dressed quietly but fashionably, in black, with his hair finely curled in the latest style; while joseph, whose taste was not so subdued, was radiant in a scarlet coat with gold buttons, and hair "queued à l'artois."
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the trial was unexpectedly postponed, on the application of counsel for the prosecution, owing to the death of samuel walker, and the difficulty of collecting sufficient evidence; and so they were taken back to newgate. there they led a life typical of prison-life all over england in those days. they entertained their fellow-prisoners, gambled, and drank, and received their friends. they had plenty of money, and as newgate was then no ill place for those whose pockets were well furnished, they were provided with every luxury that money could buy. unfortunately, however, they were heavily ironed: the one circumstance that seared the souls of those gallant fellows. but, in spite of these encumbering circumstances, they dreamt of liberty, and a well-planned attempt to escape was made on july 2nd, the day before the opening of the new sessions.
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their faithful young women took breakfast with them that morning, and then left, whereupon one of the brothers called wright, the warder on duty at the time, and asked him to get a bottle of port and make a bowl of negus for some expected company. he then handed him a guinea.
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wright had no sooner gone about this business than they slipped off their fetters, which they had secretly and with much labour, filed through. then they calmly awaited the return of wright, with the bowl. it was too large to go through the hatch of their locked and bolted door, as they had foreseen, and wright was persuaded to unlock and open the door and bring it in. when he had done so, the jovial highwaymen hospitably invited him to take the first drink, and while he was engaged in thus pleasing himself and themselves at the same time, they made suddenly at him and pushed him violently over; then slamming the door and fastening it securely upon him.
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an old woman who sold porter and such-like plebeian drinks to the meaner prisoners, was at the head of the stone stairs up which they then rushed, and stood still with amazement at sight of them, whereupon they overset her and her cans, and then, by a short passage-way, came to the outer door. they were each armed with a pistol, which their thoughtful girls had smuggled into their cell. escaping with them were also one lepierre, a suspected spy, and a certain francis storey.
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the warder whose post was at this doorway was at that moment washing down the steps. at once the fugitives flung themselves upon him, and downed him as he shouted "stop thief!" the cry was heard, and by the time the westons had emerged upon the street, they were followed by a "runner," john owens by name. the brothers very cleverly separated; owens following george, who ran into newgate street, doubled into warwick lane, and made for newgate market. here, however, he was felled by the fist of a market-porter, but struggled again to his feet, and desperately resisted until owens and a crowd of excited spectators arrived and dragged him back to newgate.
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joseph was not more fortunate, and had only reached cock lane when his flight also was stopped by a market-porter, one john davis, who flung down a sack of peas in his path. this joseph easily avoided, but davis then laid hold of him by the collar.
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"let go!" said the highwayman, "or i will shoot you."
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the porter did not let go, and joseph fired and hit him in the neck. but davis held on until the crowd closed in, and joseph also was soon in his cell again.
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so, too, was lepierre, who was taken in newgate street. storey was more successful, and escaped altogether, although he had fetters on his legs. the crowd, seeing him calmly walking along, thought he was being re-conducted to gaol, and so did not interfere with him.
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the brothers were brought to trial on july 6th, 1782, charged with robbing the bristol mail near cranford bridge, on january 29th, 1781. over a hundred witnesses appeared for the prosecution, among them, people who had been given stolen notes by them. but the postboy, samuel walker, having died, the prosecution failed.
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they were then charged with forgery in respect of the notes and bills stolen: george being convicted and sentenced to death. joseph was acquitted, but was then charged in the third instance with maliciously wounding john davis, for which he was found guilty and condemned. they were executed at tyburn on september 3rd, 1782.
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clothed quietly but fashionably in black, they went to the place of execution in two carts, in company with several other condemned criminals, but held themselves haughtily apart, as "gentlemen" should. they refused the ministrations of the ordinary, declaring themselves to be roman catholics; and died firmly, and without any appearance of contrition.
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jack rann: "sixteen-string jack"
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john rann, better known as "sixteen-string jack," was born in the neighbourhood of bath, midway in the eighteenth century. as a boy he earned a meagre but honest living by peddling articles of everyday household consumption in the villages round about. he and his donkey were well remembered in after years, and aroused the envious anticipations of other small boys who, reckless of the appointed end of highwaymen, looked forward to some happy day when they too might perhaps blossom out from such obscure beginnings into such fame as his. he was but twelve years of age when his handsome face attracted the attention of a lady prominent in the neighbourhood. she offered him a situation, and he gratefully accepted. a little later we find him in london, occupied as a stable-helper in brooke's mews. from that he became a postilion, and then an officer's servant. about the year 1770 he was coachman to a gentleman living in the neighbourhood of portman square, and was at one time in the service of the earl of sandwich. in this situation he obtained the nickname of "sixteen-string jack," from the bunches of eight parti-coloured ribbons he gaily wore at the knees of his breeches; but by some intimates it was supposed that these "sixteen strings" were a covert allusion to his having been sixteen times arrested and charged, but on as many occasions acquitted. such were the legends that enwrapped the career of him whom dr. johnson described as "above the common mark" in his line.
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it was this love of finery that led to the undoing of jack rann, but before it sent him down into the company of those who lived by their wits, employed in unlawful enterprises, it raised him to better situations. for rann was a tall, smart fellow, and good clothes well became him.
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but flowered-satin waistcoats, and full-skirted damasked coats of silk, elaborately embroidered, are not paid for out of a coachman's wages, and rann soon found himself deeply in debt. and, moreover, of what possible use are brave costumes, but to flaunt and flourish about in? and when you do so flourish, you must needs go the pace altogether. there were excellent companions in those places to which rann most resorted, as a gentleman of fashion, at vauxhall, and elsewhere; and there were the card-tables, where he had a passing run of luck; and there were the women. in spite of being pitted somewhat with the small-pox, he was still a handsome fellow, and he played the very cupid with the girls.
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all these items totted up to a very costly sum-total, and the gaming-tables did not long stand him in good stead. at the moment when he was in the sorest straits, he became acquainted with three men: jones, clayton, and colledge (this last known as "eight-string jack"), in whose company he very speedily grew more and more reckless, and at last was dismissed from his situation with a long-suffering nobleman, and refused a character. thus turned adrift upon the world, he began, with those three companions, a career of pocket-picking, and thence drifted by easy stages into the society of highwaymen and of receivers of stolen goods.
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in these circles there moved at that time a certain eleanor roche, originally a milliner's apprentice, but who, from a somewhat unfortunate friendship with an officer of the guards, had declined upon the condition of "fence," and generally, the fair friend and ally of the nimble-fingered, and the speakers with travellers on the highways. jack rann was a free-lover. pretty faces, rosy lips, infallibly attracted him, and although he loved his nelly best, he scarce knew the meaning of faithfulness.
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but to ellen roche, "sixteen-string jack" was her own jack, her hero; and when once she had met him, she had eyes for none other.
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rann was first in custody in april 1774, at the old bailey, in company with two others, named clayton and shepherd, on a charge of robbing william somers and mr. langford on the highway. all three were acquitted, but on may 30th rann was at bow street, charged with robbing mr. john devall of his watch and money, near the ninth milestone on the hounslow road. it was the watch brought him there. the gallant rann had brought it back with him from the road—just as the hunter, home from the hill, returns with the day's spoil to his domestic circle. he handed it to ellen, who in turn sent out a certain catherine smith to offer it in pledge with the nearest pawnbroker. the pawnbroker, distrustful man, sent for the police, who, seeing at once that catherine smith was merely an intermediary, apprehended rann and ellen.
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"sixteen-string jack" made a proud, defiant figure in the dock before sir john fielding. he was dressed not only in, but in advance of the fashion. he was in irons, but the grimness of those fetters was disguised in the blue satin bows in which they were tricked out, and in his fine coat he carried a nosegay as big as a birch-broom. beside him, but not so collected as he, stood ellen, charged with receiving.
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ellen roche had, indeed, lost her nerve altogether when catherine smith deposed to having been told by her how rann was expected home that evening with some money; that he returned about ten o'clock, when roche told her he had brought ten guineas and a watch, and that she was sent out to pawn the watch. crying, and hardly aware of what she was doing, ellen at the first hearing owned that rann had given her the watch, and the two were thereupon committed.
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at the trial, after having had plenty of time for reflection, she stoutly declared that she never before had set eyes upon him, and that her former evidence was a mistake!
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jack himself carried it off bravely, and, indeed, insolently. "i know no more of the matter than you do," he replied to sir john fielding, and added impudently, "nor half so much, neither."
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the prosecution, on some technicality, broke down, and the pair were released. they celebrated the happy occasion by dining extravagantly and then spending the evening at vauxhall, where rann was the gayest of the gay, and returned home with two watches and three purses.
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an absurd burglary charge brought him into the dock again, that july. the watch discovered him half-way through the window of a house in which lodged one doll frampton, and not only hauled him out, but marched him off to prison; but it appeared that he was only keeping an appointment to supper with the weary doll, who, tired of waiting for him, had gone to bed. the bench, assured of as much by the shameless minx herself, dismissed the charge, and, in addition to some pertinent remarks about this unconventional method of entry, gave him some excellent advice on conduct. although rann had escaped so far, sir john fielding said, his profession was perfectly well known, and he urged the prisoner to leave his evil courses while yet there was time.
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so far from paying attention to this well-meant discourse, rann put in an appearance the next sunday, not with doll, but with ellen, at bagnigge wells, then a famous place for dining and drinking. they drove thither in a carriage and dressed—in the slang phrase—"up to the nines." jack was splendid in a scarlet coat, tambour waistcoat, white silk stockings, and a laced hat. of course there flew at his knees the already famous sixteen strings.
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he was by nature boastful, and when the drink was in him bragged without restraint or ordinary prudence. on this occasion he drank freely, and, with an oath, declared himself a highwayman. rather more of a pickpocket, perhaps. the company trembled: some sought the way out. "no fear, my friends," quoth he, "this is a holiday." then he fell to quarrelling, and presently lost a ring from his finger, and declared those present had stolen it. then again his mood changed. "'tis no matter," he exclaimed; "'tis but a hundred guineas gone, and one evening's work will replace it." then, growing more drunken and incapable, they threw him out, and he was not in a fit condition to resist. so, ellen—the gentle ellen—scratching the faces of the foremost, as they were put out, they drove back to their lodgings near covent garden.
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"fine treatment for a gentleman!" he hiccupped; and indeed a gentleman he considered himself. but his highwayman's takings, large though they occasionally were, did not keep pace with his gentlemanly expenses. debts accumulated, and sheriff's officers dogged his footsteps. he was arrested for a debt of £50, and thrown into the marshalsea prison; but so much of a hero had he already become among those of his calling that they clubbed together and liquidated the debt; and handsome jack was again free.
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still, in the course of this merry evening, the subject of the manner peculiar to bailiffs recurred to our jack and rankled. "you have not," he grumbled, "treated me like a gentleman. when sir john fielding's people come after me, they only hold up a finger, beckon, and i follow like a lamb. there's your proper civility!"
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it was soon after this that he visited barnet races, fashionably dressed; with waistcoat of blue satin trimmed with silver, and other finery to match. crowds followed him, eager to set eyes upon so famous a person. shortly afterwards, with perhaps some melancholic foreshadowing of approaching doom, he attended a public execution at tyburn. in spite of opposition, he thrust through the ring formed by the constables round the gallows. "for," said he, "perhaps it is very proper i should be a spectator on this occasion." why, he did not say, but the inference was understood by some of the crowd.
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in september 1774 he was arrested, together with one william collier, for a robbery on the uxbridge road, and brought the next wednesday before sir john fielding, when dr. bell, chaplain to the princess amelia, gave evidence that, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon of monday, when taking horse-exercise near ealing, he observed two men of mean (!) appearance and suspicious looks, who rode past him. presently, one of them—he thought it was rann—turned his horse's head and demanded his money. "give it me," he said, "and take no notice, or i'll blow your brains out!"
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dr. bell handed over one shilling and sixpence, all he had about him, and a common watch in a tortoiseshell case. so much tremendous bluster, so paltry a booty: so poor a thing for which to throw away a life. for that day's doings served to bring rann to the gallows.
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that evening, ellen roche and her servant took the watch to pawn with one "mr. cordy," in the oxford road, or, as we should now say, oxford street. cordy was a suspicious man. he communicated with the watchmaker, grigman by name, of russell street, covent garden, who had made it for dr. bell, who, when called upon, told how he had parted with it.
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the next day, jack rann and his doxy were arrested, and with them collier and ellen roche's servant, christian stewart. they all figured in bow street dock, and later appeared on trial at the old bailey.
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handsome jack was no less a dandy on this occasion than he had been on others, and he took the centre of the stage in his drama with a fine air. to be sure, there were none who envied him the principal part. he was dressed in pea-green coat and waistcoat, with unblemished white buckskin breeches, and again his hat was silver-laced. he stood there with every assurance of acquittal, and had taken thought to order a splendid supper, wherewith to entertain his friends that evening, to celebrate his release. but, as the grey day wore on, he grew less confident. dr. bell's evidence was again taken, and a mr. clarke told how, going to miss roche's lodging on that monday night of the robbery, he found two pairs of men's boots there, in a wet and dirty condition, having evidently been worn that day. a mr. haliburton also swore that he had waited at miss roche's lodgings that night until rann and collier arrived.
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william hills deposed that he was servant to the princess amelia. he had observed rann, whom he knew well by sight, ascend the hill at acton, about twenty minutes before the robbery was committed.
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this spot would be about where the police station now stands, in the main road: less troubled nowadays with highwaymen than with electric tram-cars.
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in the end, rann was found guilty and sentenced to die. collier was also found guilty, but recommended to mercy, and was afterwards respited. ellen roche was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation, and her servant was acquitted.
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thus the supper grew cold and was not eaten. the brave figure moved in pea-green glory to his prison cell, and hoped there for a rescue that never came. his last days were full-packed with the revelry the lax prison regulations of the age permitted, and on sunday, october 23rd, he had seven girls to dine with him in gaol; and he the gayest of the party. "let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die." or, at any rate, in a month's time. so, with an air and a jest, behold him on the fatal day, november 30th, 1774, the most admired figure in the three-miles' journey from newgate to tyburn. was it the cold november air made him shiver, or the shadow of death, as, ladies' man to the last, he raised his hat to the crowded windows lining holborn and thought how he would never come back? whatever it was, it was no more than involuntary: for, arrived at the fatal tree, he ended manfully in his finery and his famous sixteen strings.
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robert ferguson—"galloping dick"
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robert ferguson, who in after life became famous as "galloping dick," was a native of hertfordshire. his father, a gentleman's servant, proposed a like career for him, and had a mental picture of his son gradually rising from the position of stable-boy, in which he was placed, to that of coachman. in such respectable obscurity would robert have lived and died, had his own wild nature not pioneered a career for him. he had proved a dull boy at school, but proud, and out of school-hours showed a strange original spirit of daring, so that he was generally to be found captaining his fellows in some wild exploit.
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as a stable-boy, however, he proved efficient and obedient, and was found presentable enough to take the postilion's place when the regular man had fallen ill, on the eve of the family's journey to london in their chariot. he performed that task to the satisfaction of every one, but the other servant recovered, and the lad was obliged to return to his stables and work in shirt sleeves or rough stable-jacket, instead of titupping in beautifully white buckskin breeches, silk jacket, and tall beaver hat, on one of the leading horses that drew the carriage to town. the return to an inferior position through no fault of his own was a bitter disappointment, and he determined to seek another situation.
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oddly enough, at this juncture of affairs, a neighbouring lady who was in want of a postilion chanced to ask the family who employed young robert what had become of their smart young man, and, when informed of the situation, engaged him.
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at this time he was close upon twenty years of age. described as being by no means handsome, he was of a cheerful and obliging temperament, and might have long retained the post, had his employer not discovered him in a discreditable love-affair with one of the maid-servants. he was dismissed, but soon found another situation: but he never afterwards kept a place for any length of time. roystering companions unsettled him and made him undesirable as a postilion.
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coming up to london, he found employment in a livery-stable in piccadilly, but presently his father died and he found himself the owner of his savings, amounting to £57. alas! poor robert. he had never before possessed at one time the half of what he had now, and he acted as though the sum of £57 was an endowment for life. he threw up the piccadilly livery-stable, and came out upon the world as a "gentleman"; or in other words, ruffled it in fine clothes in fashionable places. he frequented theatres in this novel character, and seems to have impressed a number of perhaps not very critical people. amongst these was a dissolute woman whom he met at drury lane. she believed him to be a man of wealth, and sought to obtain a share of it. ferguson flung away all his money on her. it could not have been a difficult task, one would say, nor have occupied him long. and when all the money was gone, he went back, sadder possibly, but still not wiser, to his livery-stable situation in piccadilly, as postilion. it was in this employment that he observed the debonair gentlemen who had been his rivals in the affections of this woman calling upon her, and received, where he had been thrust forth with contumely when his money was at an end, and when she discovered that he was no man about town, but only one who got his living in the stables. false, perfidious nancy!
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it was some time before the true character of those visitors was revealed to him; but one day, acting as a postilion on the great north road, the chaise he was driving was stopped by two highwaymen, duly masked. one stood by the horses, while his companion robbed the occupants of the chaise. it was a windy day, and a more than usually violent gust blew the first highwayman's mask off. instantly ferguson recognised the man who stood by the horses as one of his nancy's visitors.
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seeing this, the unmasked robber perceived, clearly enough, that the situation was peculiarly dangerous, and, when he had galloped off with his companion, laid the facts before him. they agreed that there was nothing for it but to await ferguson's return at a roadside inn, and to bribe him to silence. there, accordingly, they remained until the chaise on its return journey drew up at the door.
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two gentlemen, said the landlord, particularly desired to see the postilion. he entered and accepted a price for his silence; further agreeing to meet them that night at supper in the borough. meeting there, according to arrangement, ferguson was persuaded to throw in his lot with the highway blades. his imagination took fire at the notion of riding a fine horse, and, dressed in handsome clothes, presenting a figure of romance; but his new-found friends were cool men of business, and had nothing of that kind in view for their fresh associate. to cut a fine figure was, no doubt, all very well, but the more important thing was to know which travellers were worth robbing, and which were not. if they could be reasonably well advised on that point, much useless effort, and a considerable deal of risk, would be avoided, in not stopping those whose pockets were so nearly next to empty as to be not worth "speaking to" on the road. their idea was that ferguson should continue in his employment of postilion, and, as a confederate, keep them well informed of the movements of his clients.
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ferguson was disappointed in not being allowed a spectacular part, but the profitable nature of the scheme appealed to him, and he agreed to this distinctly well-conceived plan. so a long series of unsuspecting travellers driven by him owed their extraordinary ill-luck on the road entirely to the agency of their innocent-looking postilion, who was so professionally interested in their movements, who was so obliging with the portmanteaus and valises, and who secretly kept a keen eye upon the contents of his customers' purses. quite often it would happen that a trace would be broken in some lonely situation, and then, strange to say, while it was being mended, a couple of highwaymen would infallibly appear, and threatening the postilion with horrid oaths when he pretended to show fight, would at their leisure ransack all the luggage and coolly request all money and personal adornments to be handed over.
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wine, women, and cards were ferguson's downfall. success in his new line of life brought reckless conduct, and he grew so impossible that the livery-stable, without in the least suspecting his honesty, dismissed him for general unreliability. he then took to the road for a while as a highwayman, and thus indulged his natural liking for finery.
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he was an excellent horseman, and daring to the verge—or beyond the verge—of recklessness. on one occasion, he and two companions "spoke to" and were robbing two gentlemen on the road to edgeware, but were interrupted by the appearance of three other well-mounted travellers, who gave chase. ferguson escaped, but his two companions were caught, brought to trial, and executed. it was this exploit that first procured him the name of "galloping dick," although his name was robert. complimented by admiring friends on his escape, he declared he would gallop a horse with any man in the kingdom.
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the name of "galloping dick" soon became well known, and was a name of dread. no clattering horseman could come hurriedly along the road without stirring the pulses of nervous travellers, who immediately fancied "galloping dick" was upon them. indeed, he soon became too well known for any reasonable degree of safety, and he would then for a while, for prudential reasons, find temporary employment as a postilion. frequently in custody at bow street, on various charges, he was many times acquitted, on insufficient evidence; but was at last arrested, at the beginning of 1800, on a charge of highway robbery, sent for trial to the lent assizes at aylesbury, convicted, and executed.
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the southern suburbs of london were haunted during the last quarter of the eighteenth century by a youthful highwayman of a very desperate kind. he was as successful as reckless, and captained a gang that made putney heath and wimbledon common places to be dreaded as much as were hounslow heath on the west, and finchley common in the north, and brought the name of "jerry abershaw" into exceptional prominence.
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the real name of this highwayman was louis jeremiah avershaw, and he was born in 1773, of the usual "poor but honest" parents. indeed, it would seem, in enquiring into the lives of the highwaymen, that they in general came of such stock, whose only crime was their poverty: although that, as we well know in this happy land of ours, is a very heinous offence, it being the duty of every english man and woman to pay rates and taxes to keep a constantly growing official class in well-paid and easy employment.
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we so rarely hear of a highwayman deriving from dishonest parents that, it would seem, even in the more adventurous centuries, ill-led lives were as a rule so short and sordid as to impress the children of those who led them with the idea that honesty was not only really, in the long run, the best policy, but that for evil courses there was no long run at all. otherwise, the life of the highwayman, if not by any means, as a general rule, so gay as usually it was represented to be, was sufficiently full of that spice of excitement which to the youthful makes amends for much danger and discomfort, and sons might often have succeeded fathers in the liberal profession of highway robbery.
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the boyhood of jerry abershaw has never been dragged from the obscurity that enwraps it. no slowly-budding flower he, but one that in one brief day flung open its petals. or rather, in less flowery language, we learn nothing of the first steps that led him to the highway, and find him at the very first mention of his doings already a cool and assured character, robbing with impunity, and making one place in especial a spot to be dreaded. this was the hollow of putney bottom, through which the portsmouth road runs on its way to kingston. the little beverley brook trickles by, to this day, in the hollow; and combe wood, whose thickets formed so convenient a lair for abershaw, and a rallying-place for his gang, is still very much what it was then.
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abershaw was not, of course, the first to see the strategic value of the heath, and of such woody tangles as these, bordering the road for quite three miles; for we read in ogilby's great book on the roads, published in 1675, of kingston hill, hard by as "not rarely infested with robbers"; and a gibbet long stood near at hand, to remind those robbers, and others who succeeded them, of their own probable fate. but, if by no means the first, or even the last, who practised here, he is easily the most famous, even though it be merely a pervasive fame, not crystallised into many anecdotes.
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the "bald faced stag," that then stood, a lonely tavern, by the roadside near the beverley brook, was a favourite meeting-place of abershaw and his fellows. it was afterwards rebuilt, as a superior hostelry, in the days when the growth of travel and of coaching had rendered the old roadside accommodation insufficient. this later house may still be seen, standing nowadays as a private residence, with imposing pillared portico, by the way.
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whether the landlord of the original "bald faced stag," was in league with abershaw and his gang, or not, is impossible to say. very generally, the tavern-keepers of that age were suspected, and rightly suspected, of a guilty acquaintance with the highwaymen, but it would be too much to assume that they were all of that character; and indeed we find in the sad story of one john poulter, otherwise baxter, who was hanged in 1754 for highway robbery, that the frequenting by highwaymen against his wish of an inn he kept in dublin first ruined his trade and compelled him in self-defence at last to seek a living on the road.
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an innkeeper situated like him who kept the "bald faced stag" in the days of abershaw would have no choice but to harbour the gang whenever they felt inclined to confer their patronage upon him; but, to be quite just, it would certainly appear that he was a willing ally, for, in the most outstanding among the few stories told of abershaw, it appears that once, when taken ill on the road, the highwayman was put to bed in the house and cared for while a doctor was procured. it was a dr. william roots who answered the call, from putney. the ailing stranger, whose real name and occupation the doctor never for a moment suspected, was bled, after the medical practice of the time, and the doctor was about to leave for home, when his patient, with a great appearance of earnestness, said: "you had better, sir, have someone to go back with you, as it is a very dark and lonesome journey." this thoughtful offer the doctor declined, remarking that "he had not the least fear, even should he meet with abershaw himself." the story was a favourite with abershaw: it afforded him a reliable criterion of the respect in which the travelling public generally held him.
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the notoriety abershaw early attained led to his early end. the authorities made especial efforts to arrest him, and, learning that he frequented a public-house in southwark, called the "three brewers," set a watch upon the place. one day the two officers detailed for this duty discovered him in the house, drinking with some of his friends, and entered to arrest him. but abershaw was on the alert, and, as they stood in the doorway, arose with a pistol in either hand, and, with a curse, warned them to stand clear, or he would shoot them. disregarding this threat, they rushed in, and abershaw, firing both pistols at once, mortally wounded one officer and severely wounded the landlord in the head.
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but he did not escape. he was tried at croydon assizes, on july 30th, 1795, before mr. baron penryn, for murder; the wounded officer, david price, having died in the interval. a second indictment charged him with having attempted to murder the other, by discharging a pistol at him.
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abershaw was taken by road from london to croydon, and passing kennington common, then the principal place of execution in surrey, he laughingly asked those in charge of him, if they did not share his own opinion that he would himself be "twisted" there on the following saturday. that was the conventionally callous way in which the highwaymen approached their doom.
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to prove the charge of killing price was naturally the simplest of tasks, and the jury, returning from a three-minutes' deliberation, duly found him guilty. prisoner's counsel, however, raising an objection on some legal quibble as to a flaw in the indictment, the point was argued for two hours—and not decided; the judge desiring to consult his learned brethren on the point. there is a certain grim humour about these proceedings; because, whatever the result of this was likely to be, there was yet the second indictment to be tried, and on that alone there could be no doubt of abershaw being capitally convicted. it was then proceeded with, and abershaw himself, seeing how he must inevitably be found guilty, and hanged, threw off all restraint. he insolently inquired of the judge, if he were to be murdered by perjured witnesses, and in violent language declared his contempt for the court. even at that solemn moment, when, having been found guilty on the second count, the judge, in passing sentence, assumed the black cap, he was not affected, except by rage and the spirit of mockery, and followed the action of the judge by putting on his own hat. the gaolers were at last compelled by his violence to handcuff him, and to tie his arms and legs. in that condition he was removed to gaol, to await execution.
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there he must soon have realised the folly of resistance; for he became quiet and apparently resigned. in the short interval that remained between his sentence and that appearance on kennington common he had accurately foreseen, he occupied himself with drawing rough pictures on the whitewashed walls of his cell with the juice of black cherries that had formed part of the simple luxuries his purse and the custom of the prison permitted. these idle scribblings represented his own exploits on the road. in one he appeared in the act of stopping a post-chaise and threatening the driver: the words, "d—n your eyes! stop!" appended. the remainder of this curious gallery pictured the other incidents common in a highwayman's life.
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the time then allowed convicted criminals between their sentence and execution was very short. on august 3rd he was hanged on kennington common; game—or, rather, callous—to the last. arrived there, he kicked off his boots among the great crowd assembled, and died unshod, to disprove an old saying of his mother's, that he was a bad lad, and would die in his shoes. he was but twenty-two years of age when he met this fate, not actually for highway robbery, but for murder. his body was afterwards hanged in chains in putney bottom, the scene of his chief exploits, and an old and nasty legend was long current in those parts of a sergeant in a regiment soon afterwards marching past firing at the distended body, by which (to make short of an offensive story) the neighbourhood was nearly poisoned. the sergeant was reduced to the ranks for this ill-judged choice of a target.
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the very general idea that the highwayman ended with the close of the eighteenth century is an altogether erroneous one, and has already been abundantly disproved in these pages. they not only continued into the nineteenth century, but were very numerously executed for their crimes. early among those who belong to that era were john beatson and william whalley. theirs is a sad tale of business failure and of a desperate recourse to the road, rather than the story of professional highwaymen.
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john beatson was a scotsman, who had in his youth been a sailor in the merchant service, and had made many voyages to india and other tropical countries. tired at last of the sea, he settled at edinburgh, where he established himself as an innkeeper at the "college tavern." there he carried on a successful business for many years, and only relinquished it at last in favour of his adopted son, william whalley beatson, who for some time carried it on happily and profitably with his wife. unhappily, his wife died, and when he was left alone it was soon seen, in the altered circumstances of the house, that it was she, rather than her husband, who had in the last few years kept the inn going. left alone, and incapable of managing the domestic side of the house, he was taken advantage of by the servants, who robbed him at every opportunity; and, in short, in every respect the "college tavern" declined and ceased to pay its way. he gave it up and went to london, with the idea of entering the wine and spirit trade there. arrived in london, he took a business in bedford street, covent garden, and, finding it uncongenial, sold it to a man and accepted six months' bills in payment. the purchaser went bankrupt within three months, throwing beatson himself into difficulties. at this juncture of affairs he consulted with his adopted father as to what was to be done, and the upshot of their long and anxious deliberations was that there was no help for it but to try and retrieve their fortunes by robbing upon the king's highway. their first essay in this new business was begun on july 18th, 1801, when they travelled from london to the "rose and crown" at godstone, surrey, staying there the night. the next morning they set off on foot, and at midday were at the "blue anchor," on the road to east grinstead. they dined there, and asked questions about the mail, and did not leave until six o'clock. between eight and nine o'clock they were seen on east grinstead common. half an hour after midnight, the postboy who drove the mail-cart was stopped by two men near forest row, south of east grinstead. they produced a pistol and threatened him with it if he refused to give up the bags. then, he unresisting, they led the horse into a meadow, where they took the bags and carried them off. it was afterwards found that they had walked no less a distance than six miles with them. they were afterwards found in a wheatfield near the village of hartfield, the letters strewn about in the corn.
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they had taken all the bank of england notes, and notes issued by country banks, and had left drafts and bills of exchange worth upwards of £9,500.
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the next morning the two beatsons appeared at the "chequers" at westerham, in a very exhausted condition, and had breakfast. with the excuse that they were deptford people, and under the necessity of reaching the dockyard there in a hurry, they hastily hired a horse and trap, paying for their refreshment with a £2 note, and for the hire with one for £5.
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the people of the "chequers" inn thought it strange, when their man returned, to hear that he had driven them, not to the dockyard at deptford, but to a coach-office in the town, where they had at once taken places in a coach for london.
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the fugitives did not hurry themselves when they reached town. on the evening of their arrival, it was afterwards discovered, the elder purchased a pair of shoes at a shop in oxford street, paying for them with a £10 bank of england note. they employed their time in london in a shopping campaign, purchasing largely and always tendering bank-notes, with the object of accumulating a large sum of money in gold, by way of change.
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at the end of this week they procured a horse and gig and left london, saying they intended to travel to ireland. meanwhile, the loss of so many bank-notes had been widely advertised and the good faith of persons who presented any of them for payment enquired into. the movements of the men who had stopped the driver of the mail-cart and robbed him were traced, and soon the holyhead road was lively with the pursuit of them.
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on the arrival of the mail containing the official notices of the robbery and descriptions of the two men concerned in it, the appearance of these two men with the gig seemed so remarkably like that of the robbers, that a post office surveyor was sent after them. they had already left knutsford, and had to be followed to liverpool, where they were discovered at an inn, and arrested.
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the mere hasty preliminary inspection of their travelling valise was sufficient to prove that these were the men sought for. bank-notes to the amount of £1,700 were discovered, wrapped round by one of the letters stolen; and the purchases of jewellery and other articles carried with them were valued at another £1,300.
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taken back to london, the prisoners were charged in the first instance at bow street, and then committed for trial at horsham. an attempt they made to escape from horsham gaol was unsuccessful, and they were found hiding in a sewer. their trial took place before mr. baron hotham on march 29th, 1802. no fewer than thirty witnesses were arrayed against them; chiefly london tradesmen, from whom they had made purchases and tendered notes in payment. there could hardly ever have been a clearer case, and the result of the trial was never for a moment in doubt.
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the affectionate efforts of the elder man to shield his adopted son drew tears from many eyes, but the readiness of that "son" to take advantage of them and to throw the guilt upon him excited, naturally enough, much unfavourable comment. two statements had been prepared and written by the prisoners, and both were read by the younger in court. the first was by john beatson, who declared himself to be guilty, but his "son" innocent. whalley's own statement, to the same effect, went into a detailed story of how his "father" had given him a large number of the notes, and had told him they were part of a large remittance he had lately received from india.
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the story was so clumsy and unconvincing, and the story told by the prosecution so complete in every detail, that both prisoners were speedily found guilty. they were condemned to death, and were hanged on saturday, april 7th, 1802, at horsham, before a crowd of three thousand people. the elder beatson was seventy years of age and the younger but twenty-seven.
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the careers of the highwaymen were, in the vast majority of cases, remarkably short, and they were, for the most part, cut off in the full vigour of their manly strength and beauty. the accursed shears of fate—or, to be more exact, a rope dangling from a beam—ended them before experience had come to revise their methods and fit them out with the artistry of the expert.
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the bags, turned inside out, were found, the next morning, with a heap of letters, torn open and fluttering in all directions across the fields. it subsequently appeared that the highwayman had secured a very considerable booty, one letter alone having contained £5 in notes. the postboy did not know the man who had terrorised him: only that he was a "big man"; but the simultaneous disappearance of snooks left no reasonable doubt as to who it was.
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this was snooks's first essay in the dangerous art, and it proved also his last. hurrying to london, he took up his abode in southwark, and presently had the dubious satisfaction of reading the reward-bills issued, offering £300 for his capture. after a while he thought himself comparatively safe, and was emboldened to make an effort at negotiating one of the notes he still held. afraid to do this in person, he thought he might see what would happen if he tried to pass one of the notes through the intermediary of the servant of the house where he was lodging, and accordingly sent her to purchase a piece of cloth for a coat, handing her a five-pound note. the tradesman evidently found something suspicious about the note thus tendered, and returned it, with the message that "there must be some mistake." whether the tradesman would have followed this up by communicating any suspicions he may have had to the authorities does not appear; but "the wicked flee when no man pursueth," and snooks hurried off to what was undoubtedly the most dangerous place for him. he fled to hungerford, his birthplace; yet, strange to say, he long evaded capture, and it was not until 1802 that he was arrested, on the information of a postboy who had been to school with him. he was in due course brought to trial at hertford assizes, found guilty, and sentenced to death. it was judged expedient, as a warning to others, that he should be executed on the scene of his crime, the selection of the spot falling to mr. page, who, besides being postmaster of berkhamstead, was high constable of the hundred of dacorum. as a further warning, and one likely to be of some permanence, it was originally proposed to gibbet the body of the defunct snooks on the same spot; so that, swinging there in chains on the moor, it might hint to others the folly of doing likewise. but the time was growing full late for such exhibitions; the inhabitants of the district protested, and this further project was abandoned.
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journeying from hertford gaol on the morning of the fatal march 11th, 1802, snooks, according to a surviving tradition, was given a final glass of ale at the "swan" inn, at the corner of box lane, and is said to have remarked to the rustics hastening to the scene of execution: "don't hurry; there'll be no fun till i get there."
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the usual large and unruly crowd, that could always be reckoned upon on such melancholy occasions, was present, and seemed to regard the event as no more serious than a fair. to those thus assembled, robert snooks, standing in the cart under the gallows, held forth in a moral address:
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"good people, i beg your particular attention to my fate. i hope this lesson will be of more service to you than the gratification of the curiosity which brought you here. i beg to caution you against evil doing, and most earnestly entreat you to avoid two evils, namely, 'disobedience to parents'—to you youths i particularly give this caution—and 'the breaking of the sabbath.' these misdeeds lead to the worst of crimes: robbery, plunder, bad women, and every evil course. it may by some be thought a happy state to be in possession of fine clothes and plenty of money, but i assure you no one can be happy with ill-gotten treasure. i have often been riding on my horse and passed a cottager's door, whom i have seen dressing his greens, and perhaps had hardly a morsel to eat with them. he has very likely envied me in my station, who, though at that time in possession of abundance, was miserable and unhappy. i envied him, and with most reason, for his happiness and contentment. i can assure you there is no happiness but in doing good. i justly suffer for my offences, and hope it will be a warning to others. i die in peace with god and all the world."
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a slow-moving feeling of compassion for the unhappy wretch took possession of some of the people of hemel hempstead, who on the following day procured a coffin, reopened the grave, and, placing the body in the coffin, thus gave it some semblance of civilised interment; but, those being the times of the body-snatchers, doubts have been expressed of the body being really there. it is thought that the body-snatchers may afterwards have visited the lonely spot and again resurrected it.
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two rough pieces of the local "plum-pudding stone" were afterwards placed on the grave, and remained until recent years.
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boxmoor is not now the lonely place it was. the traveller who seeks snooks's grave may find it by continuing northward from apsley end, passing under the railway bridges, and coming to a little roadside inn called the "friend at hand." opposite this, on the right-hand side of the road, and between this road and the railway embankment runs a long narrow strip of what looks like meadow land, enclosed by an iron fence, this is really a portion of boxmoor. at a point, a hundred and fifty yards past the inn, look out sharply for a clump of five young horse-chestnut trees growing on the moor. close by them is a barren space of reddish earth, with a grassy mound, a piece of conglomerate, or "pudding-stone," and a newer stone inscribed "robert snooks, 11 march, 1802." this has been added since 1905, and duly keeps the spot in mind.
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the decay of the highwayman's trade and its replacement by that of the burglar and the bank-robber is well illustrated by the career of huffum, or huffy, white, who was first sentenced for burglary in 1809. transportation for life was then awarded him, and we might have heard no more of his activities, had not his own cleverness and the stupidity of the authorities enabled him to escape from the hulks at woolwich. thus narrowly missing the long voyage to botany bay, he made direct for london, then as now the best hiding-place in the world. he soon struck up an acquaintance with one james mackcoull, and they proposed together to enter upon a course of burglary; but at the very outset of their agreement they were arrested. mackcoull, as a rogue and vagabond, was sent to prison for six months, and white was sentenced to death as an escaped convict, the extreme penalty being afterwards reduced to penal servitude for life.
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on january 20th, 1811, mackcoull was released, and at once, like the faithful comrade he was, set about the task of securing white's escape from the convict ship to which he had again been consigned. dropping overboard in the fog and darkness that enshrouded the lower reaches of the thames on that winter's evening into the boat that mackcoull had silently rowed under the bows of the ship, white was again free.
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an astonishing enterprise now lay before white, mackcoull, and a new ally: a man named french. this was nothing less than a plan to break into the premises of the paisley union bank at glasgow. arrived in glasgow, they at length, after several disappointments, succeeded in forcing an entry on a saturday night, selecting that time for the sake of the large margin it gave them for their escape, until the re-opening of the bank on the monday morning. their booty consisted of £20,000 in scotch notes: a large sum, and in that form an unmanageable one, as they were eventually to discover.
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the burglary accomplished, their first care was to set off at once for london, posting thither by post-chaise, as fast as four horses could take them. at every stage they paid their score, which they took care should be a generous one, as beseemed the wealthy gentlemen they posed as, with a £20 note: thus accumulating, as they dashed southward along those four hundred miles, a heavy sum in gold.
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on the monday morning the loss of the notes was of course at once discovered. information was easily acquired as to the movements of the men who were at once suspected, and they were followed along the road, and some days later white was arrested in london by a bow street runner, at the house of one scoltock, a maker of burglars' tools. none of the stolen property was found upon white, mackcoull having been sufficiently acute to place all the remaining notes in the keeping of a certain bill gibbons, who combined the trade of bruiser with that of burglars' banker.
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mackcoull himself went into hiding, both from the law and from his associates, he having had the counting and custody of the notes, and told white and french the amount was but £16,000.
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it now became quite evident to french, at least, that, so far as he and his friends were concerned, the remaining notes were merely so much waste-paper. their numbers were bound to be known, and they could not safely be negotiated. so he suggested to mrs. mackcoull that they should propose to return the paper-money to the bank, and save further trouble, on the understanding that they should not be prosecuted.
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mrs. mackcoull appears to have had an influential friend named sayer, employed in close attendance upon the king, and by his good offices secured a pardon for all concerned, on the conditions already named. unfortunately, she could not fully carry out the bargain agreed upon, for, on the notes being counted, it was discovered that only £11,941 remained.
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white, already in custody, was once more condemned to transportation for life. the procedure must by this time have become quite staled by familiarity, and we picture him going again to the hulks with an air of intense boredom.
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he, of course, again escaped, and was soon again on his burglarious career: this time at kettering among other places. but the exploit which concluded his course was the almost purely highwayman business of robbing the leeds mail-coach, on october 26th, 1812, near higham ferrers. he had as accomplices a certain richard kendall and one mary howes. white had booked an outside seat on the coach, and had, in the momentary absence of the guard in front, cleverly forced open the lock of the box in which the mail-bags were kept, extracted the bags, and replaced the lid. at the next stage he left the coach. the accomplices, who had a trap in waiting, then all drove off to london, white immediately afterwards making for bristol, where he was soon located, living with two notorious thieves, john goodman and ned burkitt. a descent was made upon the house, and the two arrested, but white escaped over the roof of a shed, and through the adjoining houses.
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he was traced in april 1813 to a house in scotland road, liverpool, where, in company with a man named hayward, he was meditating another burglary. the officers came upon them hiding in a cellar, and a desperate struggle followed; but in the end they were secured.
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richard kendall and mary howes, alias taylor, were already in custody, and white was arraigned with them at the ensuing northampton assizes, for the robbery of the leeds mail. witnesses spoke at this trial to having seen the men in the gig on the evening of october 26th, on the road near higham ferrers, and afterwards at the house of mary howes, who lived close by, and the keeper of the turnpike deposed to only one gig having passed through that evening. there were no fewer than forty witnesses, and the trial occupied fourteen hours.
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mary howes was acquitted, not from lack of evidence, but merely on a technical flaw in the indictment; her offence having been committed in another county. white and kendall were convicted and sentenced to death.
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white again came near to escaping. by some unknown means, a file had been conveyed to him, and on the night before the execution he filed through his irons, and then forced a way through several doors, being only stopped at the outer gate. the following morning, august 13th, 1813—unlucky date, with two thirteens—he met his fate with an unmoved tranquility. he declared kendall to be innocent. when the chaplain asked him earnestly if he could administer any comfort to him at that solemn moment, he replied: "only by getting some other man to be hanged for me."
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kendall was then brought to the gallows, declaring himself to be innocent, and a murdered man.
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mackcoull, the earlier associate of white, disappeared for years, but was arrested for a robbery in 1820, and died in prison soon after receiving sentence.
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printed and bound by hazell, watson & viney, ld., london and aylesbury.
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anthropological papers of the american museum of natural history
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vol. xxiv, part ii
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myths and tales from the white mountain apache
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pliny earle goddard
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myths and tales from the white mountain apache.
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by pliny earle goddard.
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these myths and tales are the free translations of texts recorded in the dialect of the white mountain apache. the texts themselves with word for word translations follow as part iv of the volume. they were recorded, with one exception, during the winter of 1910 as a part of the studies made in the southwest under the yearly grant of mr. archer m. huntington. the creation myth, secured from noze, differs in important incidents from the versions given above from the san carlos as well as from versions secured from other white mountain apache. it should not be assumed that these differences are tribal, it is more probable that they are individual, since forms from the san carlos and navajo are closely similar to each other.
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the greater number of the remaining narratives were secured from the father of frank crockett, the interpreter employed. several of these are ceremonial and religious in their character and probably would not have been given except for the son's influence. two of these were later secured from san carlos informants in more extended form but highly corroborative in their general agreement.
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the main purpose in recording these narratives was to secure sufficient and varied connected texts in the dialect of the white mountain apache. as a collection of mythology and folklore it is probably far from complete. it is assumed, however, to be fairly representative.
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pliny earle goddard.
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she went up the mountain on four successive days and four days after that, eight days altogether, she gave birth to a child. four days later, the child stood on its feet. his fingers and toes were webbed and he had neither eyebrows nor eyelashes and the hairs on his head were scattered, one in a place. his ears were round with only the openings. everyone said he did not look like a man. after four more days he walked well and played with the other children.
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the people were asking, “whose children are these going about?” they wanted to know who would make them like human beings. “who are the kin of the woman whose children are going about among us?” the mother had a sister who wondered why the people were saying these things, for the boys had a father who lived a long way off.
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the boys were eight days old and big enough to run about and were becoming intelligent. they asked their mother where their father was living. “why do you ask?” she said. “you cannot go to him.” “why do you say that? why do you hide our father from us?” the boys asked. “well, do you really want to go where your father lives?” she asked them. “why do you suppose we are asking?” the boys replied. “we will go where our father lives.” their mother told them that they were talking foolishly, that the distance was great, and that they would not be able to go. the boys insisted but were again discouraged by their mother. they finally said that it must be they had no father if they could not go to him. the mother then consented and said they three would go to the top of a great mountain. she cut a supply of meat and after four days, when it was near dawn, they started. they came to the top of the mountain when it was day and stood there facing the sun. the woman stood between the boys holding them by the hand. when the sun was rising she said: “look, your father is rising. observe well. his breath streams out from four sides. go towards the streaming out of his breath. there are dangerous things living in the east. what have you to go with?” she had a brown fly and she gave it to the boys, that it might sit by their ears. the fly was to show them the way and tell them where the dangerous ones lived.
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the eagle asked them where they were going, saying that he lived in a dangerous place. the boys indicated the direction they were going, saying they had been told their father lived there. eagle said it was true their father lived at that place and asked if they had heard about his house. the boys replied that their mother had told them that the sun was their father and that he lived over there. because she had told them this they were on their way to see him. eagle asked them by what means they intended to go, saying even he was in danger from the sun. the fly staying by the ear of one of the boys flew away and soon returned with the statement that the dangerous places did exist and that eagle, with whom they were sitting, was the one who knew and was in control of these dangerous places. before the house of the sun was ice, interlocked like fallen timber. eagle addressed the boys, asking if they had with them anything from the earth, meaning meat. they replied that they had and each of the boys took some from his pocket. eagle asked for some of it, which when it was given him he ate.
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the boys went forward until they crossed a shallow valley beyond which was the house, which had projections running out in four directions. when they walked with their eyes closed the house went out of sight, but when they opened their eyes the house settled down again. it did this four times and then it stood firmly. the two boys walked on and coming to the house, stood in front of the entrance. an old woman who was the wife of the sun sat there.
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she advised them to go on wherever they were intending to go, since a person of mean disposition was soon to arrive. the woman who spoke to them was really handsome but she sat there in the form of an old woman. the boys replied that they had been told that their father lived there, and that they had started to come that morning. the woman replied that she did not know who their father was. the boys said that the sun was their father and they had come to visit him. the woman then asked who had told them that the sun was their father. they said their mother had told them so. the woman told them that their father would soon return and asked them to be seated on a chair she indicated. when they were seated, the chair kept whirling around with them. when the chair would lift up the woman would make it come down again. when the woman saw the chair come down again she announced herself as nearly convinced they had spoken the truth.
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when the sun had finished eating he asked that those who said they were the sun's children should be brought in. he threw them into the place of danger. he pushed them in with lightning which had sharp spines. they turned into downy feathers and stood in front of him again. “it is true,” the sun said. he threw them in four times, pushing them down. each time they turned into feathers and came back in front of the sun as before. the sun then said he was convinced that they were his children. his wife said: “they told you they were your children, but you have treated them badly.” the sun replied: “they certainly are my children but i did not believe it before.” the sun asked his wife to prepare a sweatlodge as soon as they had eaten.
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the sun spoke to his wife, saying that these were his children but that if he went away with them to the earth she would be lonesome. only today there was a good sunset. “just now when you said 'no' your eye winked,” he said to her. “i am jealous of what is far away,” she said. the sun said he would not go, but would talk to his children.
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the sun then asked them for what they had come. they told him they had come for his horse, his saddle, his bridle, his halter, his rope, and his saddle blanket. the sun asked who had told them he had such property. the older one replied that their mother had told them what property he had and had told them that she would be happy if they brought it back to the earth. she said that he (the sun) would also be happy. the sun replied that he had no property, no horse, saddle, bridle, halter, rope, or saddle blanket. the fly had told them that the sun had these, but he looked around again and reported that the sun had them close by.
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they went to the house and ate a meal. their fly told them that the sun's horses were in the enclosure that had four doors. when they had finished eating they went to this enclosure which was a house with a roof having holes in it. it had spikes like irons, sticking up from it. it was closed and completely dark. “there are horses in there,” the fly told them. the sun said, “i told you it was useless.” one of the boys asked that they might look in. there was a door there which he opened. a little beyond it was another door, a little beyond another, and a little beyond that another, and still beyond that another. they now came to horses in the enclosure but could not enter. by standing on something they could see through a hole in the roof. they could not get in between the horses until they were caused to separate and to open up a passage. the sun then told them to catch the horse that they thought was his. the fly sitting by one of their ears told them they were to catch the horse with a rope which they should induce the sun to give them. when the sun again urged them to catch the horse without delay, they asked whether they should lead the horse by the mane or carry him out in their hands. the sun, with spotted ropes in his hand, went right through the door which he opened. he gave one of the ropes to each of the boys, telling them to catch the horses which were his. the animals were milling around in the enclosure. in the center was one which was not moving, a sorrel with a small white spot on its forehead. its mane reached the ground. when it raised its head one of the boys started toward it, the horses separating. he threw the rope and caught the horse which he led back. the sun then told the other boy to catch a horse, wanting to know who had told him which horse to catch. there was a stallion running around the outside of the herd. its mane reached the ground; he was acting wild but the fly told them that although he acted as if he were mean he was really gentle. he directed them to take both these horses from the sun. when the other boy started with his rope toward the stallion he was running around the outside of the herd and coming toward the boy. when he came close and saw the boy he stopped and then wheeled back. the boy lassoed it and immediately the horse trotted up to him, nosing his arm. he led the stallion up beside the sorrel horse which was a mare. the sun said: “there they are, ride them, take them with you to the earth.”
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“my boys, i will instruct you about the dangerous places you will come to. the horses know the dangerous places on the way back. my wife is pleased with you and treats you well. that is why you are to have these horses, one of which is hers. the other is mine and so is the saddle, bridle, halter, and saddle blanket. they are all mine. you will go back to your kindred. when you are near, hurry. i will give you something.”
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the sun gave the elder boy a weapon saying, “this will be called a 'blue sword.' you will use it against the monsters on the earth. because of that i gave you the name, naiyenezgani.” he gave the weapon to him saying, “that is all for you.” addressing the younger, he said, “now i give this to you, tobatc'istcini. you will use this which i give you against those who prey upon people. you are to help each other. i shall be near you watching you. whatever you do will be known to me. it will be well if you kill these evil ones. the people will live everywhere.” he gave him the bow with the injunction that he should draw the bow three times without releasing the arrow and then he should shoot the dangerous beings and they would fly apart. having said this, he proposed they should eat something. the sun's wife was still sitting in her accustomed seat. the men went to the table, well loaded with food prepared by some unknown agency, and began to eat. the sun's wife gave the elder one a spotted belt with a yellow fringe hanging from its border.
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they went with the sun until they came to the top of the ridge, where they stopped. the sun felt the horses all over. he felt of their legs, their feet, their faces, their ears, their manes, their backs, petting them. “goodbye, my horses,” he said, “travel well for my boys down to the earth. there is food for you on the earth the same as here.” he addressed the gray horse, telling him to be the leader on the way toward the earth since he knew the way. he told the boys not to look at the horses' feet nor to look behind them, but to keep their eyes fixed on the tips of their ears.
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before sundown on the fourth day the horses whinnied. they went to their horses and saddled them. they rode around among the camps until sundown and then rode them to a flat where four canyons came together. they hung a white saddle blanket toward the east, a black one to the south, a yellow one to the west, and a blue one to the north. their fly told them to hang the blankets in four places, making an enclosure of them. after four days they were to come and would find conditions different. he charged the boys not to miss doing just as their father had told them. they went back to the camp carrying the saddles, bridles, halters, and ropes. after two days had passed their fly flew away. he returned, reporting that there were many horses filling the place where the four canyons came together. the next day he reported that the horses were so thick one could walk on their backs. the next day (the fourth), about sunrise, the two boys went there with their ropes in their hands. when they came to the eastern canyon it was full of white horses, the southern one was full of black horses, the western was full of yellow horses, and the northern canyon with blue (gray) horses.
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when they led these two horses all the others followed. their fly told them all about the two horses, what they had done, and that they had made many horses for them. four days from now it would come about that the broad earth would be covered with horses. their fly flew to the sun's camp and the sun instructed him. “drive the horses over this way and put a halter on top of that mountain; put a rope on the top of this mountain to the south; put a halter on the top of the mountain to the west; and put a rope on the mountain to the north. your father says this,” the fly told them.
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the older of the brothers told the people that they should ride the horses and not think they were wild. “catch any of them and saddle them. when you have ridden your horses, then do not go near them for four days. keep away from the horses which are inside where the halters and ropes are lying. turn the horses loose in the space enclosed by the ropes and the halter. if they see you they may stampede. these horses will be of great value to you.”
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she kept her mind on the saddles during the night and in the early morning she went out to them. there were four saddles on the pole where there had been only two. she still kept her mind on the saddles and the next morning there were six lying there. “my child,” she said, “you spoke the truth. i kept my mind on the saddles and six are now lying there.” tobatc'istcini said, “very well, keep thinking about them all night and go to them early in the morning.” when she went out, there were eight saddles on the pole.
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naiyenezgani said he was going yonder and would be back by sunset. he went to the mountain top where the halter lay. the sun was standing there. “it must be my father,” he said. “i did not know you. i am glad you came down to me.” “well, my son,” the sun replied, “let us go around the horses.” “what time will it be when we get around them?” the son asked. leaving the place where the halters were lying they went where the ropes were. the space was level full of horses. “fine, my son,” the sun said to naiyenezgani, “with ropes and halters you made a fence so the horses cannot get out. you have this broad world for a corral.”
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he said that none of them should go out tomorrow, but that he himself would go out early. when he went out there in front of the yellow saddle lay a white saddle. behind that was a blue one. between them was a yellow saddle. the pole was full. there were ten saddles in a row. “i told you to put up a long pole, and you put up a short one,” he said to his mother. “you said dig one hole here and another there, my son,” she replied. “just these may well be our saddles,” he said. he called tobatc'istcini, saying they would go to catch the horses. “you go to the rope over there. i, too, will go to the other rope. hurry, we will catch the horses,” he said to him. he ran where one rope was, and the other one went where the other rope was. when they came to the two ropes, they circled around, driving the horses all towards each other. they could not find their own horses, the sun's horses. they went into the enclosure and walked around. even when they went around that way they could not find the horses. they looked for them again, going around among the other horses, but they could not find them. the horses touched each other, they were so thick.
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then tobatc'istcini said, “naiyenezgani, why do you act so? is your mind gone? you say you met your father yesterday and that you spent the day going around the horses. he took them out of the herd, and away from you.”
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the fly returned and reported: “your horse was standing behind him. he sat watching where the stallions were fighting each other. he kept looking at them and then he went a little way.”
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they told the people there were only seven saddles and that so many of the men might have saddles, but that the others must ride around bareback for the present. he told them that some time they might have saddles because the sun knew of their need and he himself knew it. he instructed them to tie out their horses close by. he said if they heard the horses nickering they would know that the stallions were covering the mares. they would also know the colts when they were foaled. if they turned their horses loose they might not know them. the ropes he said would guard their horses for them. they would now drive back the other horses while those who had received horses staked theirs out.
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when two days had passed two men came. there were many horses where they had passed. they reported that something was running around the other side of this large mountain. they did not know what it was, nor to whom it belonged. they wondered what was meant and sent their fly to find out. he flew away and came back almost immediately. he said it was true. on the ridge beyond the mountain he saw horse tracks and a trail with dust as fine as flour.
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one of the brothers asked his mother to cook for the men quickly. it was while they were eating that the fly reported. “fly back there,” he directed him. he told the visitors to remain, for they were no doubt tired. they went back where the bridle was lying. they took off the rope and hung it toward the east. they spoke to the bridle asking that the horses, wherever they went, should come back together during the night.
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the visitors were as the two brothers had been. they had no eyelashes or eyebrows. their ears were round and their heads were smooth. there were webs between their fingers and toes. when they were asked whence they came they replied that they had assumed there were people living somewhere. their own people had been killed off by something until only the two were left. they saved themselves at night by digging a trench and covering it with a large rock. when they started away, one of the brothers asked where they were going. they replied that they did not know where they were going but preferred not to stay where they were. they said they did not like to be with many peoples. they preferred staying there with their present hosts. naiyenezgani asked them to tell their story during the night.
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when night came, he called four men to come and listen to what the visitors were about to tell. he asked each of the four men to question the guests. “what is the country called where you live and what kind of thing is killing your people?” he asked. “tell us about it.”
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“the place where we live is called danagogai, plain. something has been killing our kinsfolk. it has been killing people everywhere on the earth. we do not know what to do,” one of them replied. naiyenezgani told another of the men to question them. he asked if it were really true that they had been living in that place, saying he did not believe what the other had said. one of the guests replied that it was true. he said they did not know how to tell untruths and that it was not right to do so. “while we are here in camp it will kill someone.” he added, “i have finished.” the second questioner said, “why did you tell us this? we are uneasy about it.” they replied that they were afraid of it and therefore came there where they intended to live with them.
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naiyenezgani called upon a third man to question them. “why did you leave a trail for them?” he inquired. “when your kinsfolk were all killed, why did you come to us leaving a trail?” the same man spoke again. he directed that the next day a sweatbath should be prepared that they should take a bath with the two visitors.
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“you said the horses had gone far away. i presume they have already come together again,” he said. “these some-kind-of-things you said were going away we call horses. that is all i have to say.” “these two will speak to you,” one of the company said.
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“i cannot promise that i will kill that thing which has been killing your people. hurry to build the sweatlodge he mentioned,” tobatc'istcini said. “make the sweatbath: we are going for the horses,” he added.
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during the night the horses had come together. one bridle was lying at the east and the other at the west. they told the horses they must all stay there together. when the brothers returned the sweatlodge was built and the stones were on the fire. tobatc'istcini directed that the men should stand in line while four of them should go into the bath four times. he said that when they had come out the fourth time the visitors would be like themselves. “you built this sweatbath, but it belongs to the sun,” he told them. when he (naiyenezgani) went in with them the fourth time he asked them where the thing was living which was killing them. the visitors replied that he lived down this way, pointing toward the west. “the one that has killed all of our people has something long for a weapon,” he added. naiyenezgani said, “well, he has been killing you.” when they came out the fourth time they all looked alike. they ate and after the meal the brothers told them all to remain there while they went to yonder white mountain ridge to look beyond. he looked at the sun.
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a man was walking in a valley without brush. he was the one who kills people. they sent their fly to look over the body of their enemy, to examine his ears, his eyes, and his mouth. the fly flew to the man and alighted on his ear. when he alighted on his nose the man said, “it is not just you. you smell like a man.”
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the fly reported that they could not come up to the man, for while he walked in one direction he could see behind because he had eyes in the back of his head. he had no eyes in front. “he has something long in his hand with which he kills people. when i sat on his nose he told me i smelled like people,” the fly reported. “he is the same sort of a person that you are.” the fly told them to go around to a certain gap in the ridge, where the monster was accustomed to pass, and stand side by side. he promised to let them know when the enemy approached. when the monster walked along, the fly came back where the brothers were standing side by side and said, “he is coming up here very close. if he stops here you must cut his head off. now, you shoot him,” he said. “if he sees anyone he makes a sweep with his long weapon and kills the person even a long way off.”
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tobatc'istcini spoke as follows, “my name is tobatc'istcini. our father gave us these things lying here. a being called naiye' was using that weapon over there to kill people. he had killed all the people except the two who are sitting over there. we killed him.” “you, naiyenezgani, speak to them again,” he said to his brother.
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the fly was sent again to find out from which point the monster could be attacked with the best chances for success. they saw him walking in the distance and then they saw him standing where he was accustomed to come up the ridge. the fly reported that was a good place for the attack. the brothers addressed each other. “what is the matter with you, tobatc'istcini?” naiyenezgani asked. “you are the leader and should speak first,” tobatc'istcini replied. “very well, you did not answer me. we will attack him. i will cause large hail with thirty-two points to fall on him. what are you going to do?” naiyenezgani asked. “i will cause hot rain to fall on him,” was the reply.
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they went to him where he was walking. the sky made a noise and it began to rain. the two brothers came toward him behind this rain. he put his hand to the top of his head. it was hot rain which was falling. they could see him, but he could not see them. “let him walk between you,” the fly directed. he was already exhausted with the hot rain and the hail. naiyenezgani stood here and tobatc'istcini there. the monster walked here saying, “it is a bad time. i, too, where i am, it is a bad place.” as he walked one of the brothers raised his bow and brought it down again, shooting. his companion cut off the monster's head. it came back immediately as it was before. they shot and cut his head off again. he fell three ways. they did the same thing to him the fourth time and he spread out like water. “there shall not be those who kill,” naiyenezgani said. “this is the way i do to naiye'. just let him float here in his blood. the people will live happily on the earth. i have done well by them. get ready, brother, we will go back. we will take the weapon with which he has been killing people.” he rolled this weapon up into a coil and put it in his blanket. “come, we will go back,” he said.
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when it was daylight their mother prepared a meal for them and they ate. “come back safely, my son, as the people said to you,” the mother said. “i am going, but i do not know when i shall come back,” tobatc'istcini replied. he started, telling them to watch for him on a certain mountain point. “i will be back about noon.”
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when they had finished, they asked the brothers which way they were going. they replied that they were going to drive their horses to the top of yonder mountain (bitsanldai). “take good care of your horses. look after them for twelve days and then they will be accustomed to you. now you may go. we are going also.” he drove his horses away saying, “none of you are going with us. i thought some of you would go with us. you are only giving us back our mother. go on, mother, let your horse lead.”
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his mother inquired which way she should lead them. “go on, go on, i tell you,” he replied. she rode towards the east. soon a little light was to be seen under the horse. they went higher and higher until they came to the mountain he spoke of. they rode their horses beside hers. “wait, mother,” he said and rode back. “keep on down this mountain. it is good country in this basin. we will live here,” he said. they talked together. “you unsaddle over there, you over there, and you over there. we will watch the horses.”
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told by a white mountain apache called noze, at rice, arizona, in january. 1910. noze was a native of cedar creek and came to the san carlos reservation when it was organized. he was for a long time the chief of a considerable band which in 1910 had greatly dwindled. he died some time between 1910 and the next visit in 1914.
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this mountain was said to be called tsidalanasi and to stand by the ocean at the south. this is a remarkable statement as east would have been expected and as is so stated in fact in a following paragraph.
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this makes the boys brothers in our use of the word. they are always so called in the navajo account according to which their mothers were sisters. matthews, 105.
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at the center of the sky.
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and therefore the boys were not seen by the sun.
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the sacred numbers are 4, 12, and 32.
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it is seldom that the apache conception of animism is so plainly stated. songs however abound in the designation of objects as “living.”
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when a youth went through an adolescence ceremony he did it with a definite career in mind. the normal myth of this type put the emphasis on the weapons secured and feats of warlike prowess in killing the monsters; that is, the warrior idea is uppermost. this version stresses the acquisition of horses and probably is a specialized myth for those who wish to be successful in acquiring and breeding horses.
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the house of the sun with the stable and corral, the furniture of the house, and many other references indicate the home of a european and such seems to be the conception.
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the two wives of the sun are often mentioned. the navajo account has esdzanadlehi go to the west where the sun visits her daily. here and there, especially in the songs, the moon is coupled with the sun, and is feminine in sex. that the moon and the earth should both be called the “woman who renews herself” is interesting. these conceptions are generally vague and implied rather than expressed.
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earth, literally “there on the earth.”
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the narrator said those mentioned at the beginning of the narrative were not real people but just like shadows. the other versions have only the one family existing at this time.
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the reference may be to moss, especially as rain falling on it is mentioned below.
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the narrator said it was true that horses would not pass a blanket so placed in a narrow canyon.
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this announcing of names is probably to be explained as ceremonial. ordinarily, it is improper, probably because immodest to call one's own name.
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the use of pollen for sacred purposes is a very important feature among the athapascan of the southwest. it is always preferred to the cornmeal used by the pueblo peoples.
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in the division of labor the women are supposed to saddle and unsaddle the horses.
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because he must use a white saddle, the informant explained.
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the whinneying was heard from the top of the sky.
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the conception of time passing while the sun stood still is fairly difficult for a people without timepieces.
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this method of traveling implies lightning, rainbow or a similar supernatural method, in this case said to be sunbeams.
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the name is naiye', “a dangerous monster,” and -nezgani, “he who kills.”
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it is said above that he had no eyes in front.
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“mountain, its child.”
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he did not mention his fly by name.
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probably means he can see people who are on the opposite side of a hill.
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these monsters are not those in the usual versions. the bringing of trophies and the narratives remind one of counting coup in the plains. the navajo versions also mention the bringing back of trophies.
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the dispersion of the tribes, a common incident in origin myths.
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the formula for the completion of a narrative.
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long ago the sun set and, there in the west, he became the son-in-law of toxastinhn (water-old-man) whose daughter he married. she, who was to become the wife of the sun, built a house with its door facing the sunrise. she sat in the doorway facing the rising sun from which the red rays streamed toward her. these rays entered her and since her period was about to occur she became pregnant as a result.
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when the child was born, its hands and feet were webbed. there was no hair on its head and it had no nose. when the boy was grown up he asked where his father lived. his mother replied that his father lived where one could not go, for the sun was his father. the boy asked again where he lived. his mother said he lived at the sunrise, but that one could not go there. the boy then said that he would go there and set out on the journey.
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when the sun set, he heard the noise of the sun's arrival. the sun came inside his house. “i do not see anyone,” he said, “but from the mountain where i go down some man had gone along.” “you tell me you do not have love affairs where you go around. this morning your son came here.” she went to the head of the bed, undid the lightning with which he was tied up and took the boy out. the sun saw it was his boy. there were twelve pipes in which tobacco was burned. the sun fixed a smoke for him in one of these. it was not the sun's proper tobacco, but a kind that killed whoever smoked it. the boy drew on the pipe just once and the tobacco was burned out. the sun prepared another pipeful, which was gone when the boy had drawn on the pipe twice. he filled a third pipe; this time the boy drew on it three times and the tobacco was consumed. the last time the pipe was filled, the boy drew four times before the tobacco was burned out.
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toward the east, there was a blazing fire of black yabeckon into which the sun threw the boy. he turned into a downy feather and landed in front of his father who expressed his surprise. there was a fire of blue yabeckon toward the south into which the boy was next thrown. he again turned into a feather and landed in front of his father. the fire toward the west was of yellow yabeckon from which the boy escaped in the same manner. finally, the boy was thrown into a white fire of yabeckon which blazed up in the north. he escaped in the same manner as before. each time when the boy was thrown in, the fire had been poked with lightning of the corresponding color.
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when the boy had successfully withstood this last test, the sun directed his wife to prepare a sweatbath. she did this by spreading four blankets of cloud: black, blue, yellow, and white. she put on the four blankets from the four sides in proper rotation. the sun went in with all his boys. while they were in the bath, the skin between the boy's fingers and toes was pulled back and joints made in his fingers. he was also provided with hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, nose, and ears. hair was placed on his body and nails supplied for his fingers and toes. counting this boy, the sun had twelve sons with whom he formed a line. he then asked his wife to find him in the line, but this she was unable to do because they all looked alike, she said.
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on one side, horses were being made and on the other deer. the one who was in charge of making these is named iltca'nailt'ohn.
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they put, for him, a light brown mountain, inside of which, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, mules, and donkeys were living. all these are the food of white people. in this mountain also were guns, blankets, and all kinds of metals.
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on the other side he put, for him, a mountain on which century plants were growing with their yellow flower stalks standing all around the edges. on this mountain, too, were sunflowers, yellow with blossoms, cactus, yucca, piñon, oaks, junipers, the fruit of all of which was perpetually ripe. all the other wild vegetable foods of the indians grew there also. the mountain was always yellow with flowers.
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the sun asked the boy which of these two mountains he would choose. he decided to take the one which was yellow with flowers where fruit was always ripe. he did not care for the light brown mountain which stood toward the east. he announced that the yellow mountain would be his and would belong in the future to the indians.
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they then opened a door in the side of the brown mountain and drove out cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, donkeys, and mules. these became the property of your white people's nation. the sun's son asked that some horses be given him. the sun reminded him he had asked for the other mountain, and wanted to know why he had not then asked for horses.
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from the east, mirage people rounded up some horses for him. the red dust of the round-up covered the ground. “there are no horses,” the sun said. the boy asked again for horses only to be told he should have asked before when he chose between the two mountains. he asked, that notwithstanding, he be given some horses. the sun took up a rope and led back a chestnut stallion from the east. he tied the horse which stood pawing the ground and nickering. the boy rode back on it to the place where i suppose toxastin and his grandmother lived. he rode back in a single day and tied his horse. the horse kept nickering and pawing the earth all the time; he would not graze and the boy was not satisfied. he rode back to the house of the sun, took off the rope; and the horse ran off toward the east kicking up his heels.
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the boy told his father, the sun, that the stallion he had given him was not satisfactory, and that he had come to ask for a different horse. his father went away and returned with two horses, a stallion and a mare. “these are what you want, i suppose,” the sun said, and gave the boy a rope, a halter, a saddle blanket, and a saddle.
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the boy led the horse back to the place where toxastin, his grandmother, and his mother lived. he led the horses back to a place called cottonwood-branches-hang-down. to the south, blue cottonwood branches hung down; to the west, yellow cottonwood branches hung down; to the north, white cottonwood branches hung down. the place was named the center of the earth. the saddle was placed at the east; the saddle blanket at the south; the halter, at the west; and the rope, at the north.
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in the dry stream bed to the east, black burdocks grew; to the south, blue burdocks grew; to the west, yellow burdocks; and to the north, white burdocks. he turned out the two horses here to the east. each time the sun's son came back there, he found the two horses playing. after four days, he drove the horses up the valley a little way four times. when he went the fourth day to see them he found the tracks of a colt.
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that cottonwood tree stood in the center. on the east side of it a black stallion stood; on the south side, a blue stallion; on the west side, a yellow stallion; on the north side, a white stallion. horses were walking around in the valleys to the east, south, west, and north. thus there came to be horses here on the earth.
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told by the father of frank crockett, february, 1910. frank's father was of the bissaxa clan and was about sixty years old in 1910. he was still a growing youth when he left the white river country.
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these in part are the obstacles mentioned in the navajo account. they are overcome in a different manner. matthews, 109-110.
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spider-woman is of considerable importance in the mythology of the hopi. voth, 2, 11. the navajo account (matthews, 109) omits the clothing-making episode. spider-woman is the originator of spinning, franciscan fathers, 222. she is sometimes said to be the mother of the sun and therefore naiyenezgani's paternal grandmother.
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an apache method of indicating time when the sun is near the horizon.
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the blanket was probably a cloud. the word caziz ought to mean “sun-sack.”
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had naiyenezgani taken the gun indians would have been armed as white men are.
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they did not put this large one (the earth) that lies here in place before my eyes.
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the wind blew from four directions. when there was no way to make the earth lie still, gopher, who lives under the earth, put his black ropes under the earth. here his black rope lies under it; here his blue rope; here his yellow rope; and here his white rope.
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over here (east) they made a black whirlwind stand with black metal inside of it. here (south) a blue whirlwind and blue metal were placed; here (west) a yellow whirlwind and yellow metal; and here (north) a white whirlwind and white metal. with these standing on all sides, the earth came to its proper place and was stable.
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“now that this is as it should be, what shall we do next?” said one of them. “to what purpose have we had such a hard time making this earth lie properly which otherwise would have been unstable?” then he began to pat it with his hand. “let a black cloud move about sprinkling,” he said.
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“there will be life from this; the world will be alive from the dampness,” he said. “they did well by us, what shall we do? now thank you,” they said.
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the people had nothing. the one who was in charge (the sun); that one only was walking around. “it will turn out well with him walking about,” they said. they looked well at the one they meant. “that one is the sun,” they said. “we did it in the presence of that one walking about.”
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then ests'unnadli said she would do something unseemly. thinking she would do it where the sun first shone in the morning, she seated herself there. she was doing this only that people might live. there were no people and she thought there should be many and she did it for that reason.
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she became pregnant. she and the one walking around were the only ones who understood about generation. she gave birth to a child there where she sat. she went back to the child early each morning for four mornings and on the fourth, the child walked back with her. he was entirely dressed as he walked back with her.
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“it is not good that there should be only this one,” she said. “it will be well for me to do an improper thing again.” she sat repeatedly where the water was dripping and became pregnant again. she gave birth a second time to a child. “i will do as i did before,” she said. she went to her child early each morning for four mornings. the fourth morning after he was born, the child returned with her. he was dressed in buckskin, shoes and all.
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a black water vessel by the door of the sun's house was flecked with sunshine. he caused dark lightning to dart under it from four directions. he caused it to thunder out of it in four directions. he caused it to thunder in four directions. he caused male rain to fall in four directions. he caused fruits to stand on the earth in lines pointing in four directions. “thanks,” they said, “he has treated us well.”
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a yellow water vessel by ests'unnadlehi's door was flecked with light. she caused yellow lightning to pass under it from four directions. she caused it to thunder from it toward four directions. she caused female rain to fall four times in four directions. she caused fruits to stand in lines converging from four directions. “thanks, she has treated us well,” they said. “because of her, things are well with us.” “she caused the wind to agitate the grass from four directions for us,” they said. “with no trouble for us it comes to its place. the earth will remain well for us,” they said. “it is still the same way for us that it was long ago. we are thankful yet.”
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“mother, where does our father live?” the boys asked. “do not ask, for he lives in a dangerous place,” ests'unnadlehi replied. “do not say he lives in a dangerous place but show us where it is, for we are going there,” they replied. “if you go you must travel only by night. during the day one must sit still,” she told them. she said this, for she meant for them to make the journey without being seen by the sun.
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they wondered why she told them to go only at night and resolved to travel by day. they came near where the ground was black with mosquitoes that had teeth of becdiłxił, and there was no way to pass through them. they caused a rain, yellow with sunshine, to fall on them and wet their wings so that they stuck to the trees. by this means, they passed beyond them. “this is why she said it is dangerous,” they said to each other. they came where the earth was crossed with a stripe of cactus which had spines of becdiłxił. a black whirlwind with a core of becdiłxił passed, twisting through the cactus; the boys got by it. “this was surely the bad place of which our mother told us,” they said. as they were going on toward their father's house, they came to sand which, if one stepped on it, rolled back with him. there was no way to get through it. a big black measuring worm having his back striped with a rainbow, bent himself over the sand for them and they crossed over. they were now approaching their destination when they found the house surrounded by thirty-two lakes which could not be avoided.
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they two went to the sack which was hanging on this side. it was filled with large blue tobacco which grew on stalks of becdoł'ije. he filled a pipe with thirty-two bowls and lighted it again. having drawn on the pipe, he passed it to them. he heard them draw on the pipe once and then the ashes fell out.
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the sun had domesticated animals in four corrals on four sides of his house. he had four kinds which were bad. they were bear, coyote, panther, and wolf, of which one is afraid. he led a bear from the eastern corral, remarking that this was probably the sort they meant, that it was his pet. the boys refused it, saying they had come for his horse. in turn he led animals from corrals at the south and west which were refused each time on the advice of the monitor that sat in the ear of one of the boys. the sun pretended he had no other horse, that he was poor. the monitor urged them to persist in their request, saying that the sun could not refuse. he finally led to them one of the horses which was walking around unconfined. he was just skin and bones. the rope also was poor. “did you ask for this one?” the sun said. “that is the one,” they replied. the sun told them the horse could not travel far, but the boys said that was the animal they wanted.
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told in 1910 by a very dignified man, c. g. 2, of about sixty years. he is a leader of the naiyenezgani songs used for adolescent girls.
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the lightning strikes with him, evidently a poetic name.
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it was explained that four was the real number, thirty-two being presumably a ceremonial or poetic exaggeration.
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“goes by day,” the sun.
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this fragment of the culture-hero story having been told, the narrator refused to proceed, perhaps because he knew it had already been several times recorded.
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the sun was the one who arranged the ceremony for unclean women. she (ests'unnadlehi) sat thus on her knees and the red light from the sun shone into her. she was living alone.
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when she becomes a woman they straighten her. the people stand in a line and sing while the drum is beaten. they dance four nights. they paint her with white clay that she may live a long time, and that her hair may get white on one side of her head. they put up a cane with a curved top for her around which she is to run. at one side a basket stands in which there is tobacco and on the other side a basket containing corn.
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when she has run around the cane in its first position, it is put up again farther away, where she runs around it again and returns to the line of singers. again, the cane and basket of corn are moved out and the girl runs around them. when she returns to the singers she dances, having a downy feather tied at the crown of her head. the cane is put up hungerford, and willoughby had brought in the south-country adherents of lancaster, those at least of them whom the fields of st. albans and northampton had left unharmed and unabashed. sir andrew trollope was there, with the remnant of the trained troops from calais who had deserted york at ludford in the previous year. but the bulk of the sixty thousand men who served under the red rose were the retainers of the northern lords. henry percy of northumberland appeared in person with all his following. the durham vassals of the elder house of neville were arrayed under john lord neville, the younger brother of ralph of westmoreland, though the earl himself was (now as always) not forthcoming in person. beside the neville and percy retainers were the bands of lords dacre, welles, roos, beaumont, mauley, and of the dead clifford--of all the barons and knights indeed of the north country save of the younger house of neville.
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the lancastrian position was very strong. eight miles north of ferrybridge the great north road is flanked by a long plateau some hundred and fifty feet above the level of the surrounding country, the first rising ground to the west that breaks the plain of york. the high road to tadcaster creeps along its eastern foot, and then winds round its northern extremity; its western side is skirted by a brook called the cock, which was then in flood and only passable at a few points beside the bridge where the high road crosses it. the lancastrians were drawn up across the plateau, their left wing on the high road, their right touching the steep bank of the cock. one flank was completely covered by the flooded stream, while the other, the one which lay over the road, could only be turned by the enemy if he went down into the plain and exposed himself to a flank attack while executing his movement. the ground, however, was very cramped for an army of sixty thousand men; it was less than a mile and a half in breadth, and it seems likely that the lancastrians must, contrary to the usual english custom, have formed several lines, one in rear of the other, in order to crowd their men on to such a narrow space.
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the yorkists at saxton lay just on the southern declivity of the plateau, within two miles of the lancastrian line of battle, whose general disposition must have been rendered sufficiently evident by the countless watchfires along the rising ground.
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although they knew themselves to be outnumbered by the enemy, warwick and king edward were determined to attack. each of them had a father to revenge, and they were not disposed to count heads. before it was dawn, at four o'clock on the morning of that eventful palm sunday, the yorkist army was drawn out. the king rode down the line bidding them remember that they had the just cause, and the men began to climb the gentle ascent of the towton plateau. the left wing, which was slightly in advance of the main body, was led by fauconbridge; the great central mass by warwick in person; the king was in command of the reserve. of the details of the marshalling we know no more, but the yorkist line, though only thirty-five thousand strong, was drawn up on a front equal to that which the sixty thousand lancastrians occupied, and must therefore have been much thinner. when norfolk and the missing right wing should appear, it was obvious that they would outflank the enemy on the side of the plain. warwick's plan, therefore, was evidently to engage the lancastrians so closely and so occupy their attention that norfolk should be able to take them in flank without molestation on his arrival.
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in the dusk of the march morning, with a strong north wind blowing in their faces, the clumps of yorkist billmen and archers commenced to mount the hill. no opposition was made to their approach, but when they had advanced for one thousand yards along the summit of the plateau, they dimly descried the lancastrian host in order of battle, on the farther side of a slight dip in the ground called towtondale. at the same moment the wind veered round, and a heavy fall of snow commenced to beat in the faces of the lancastrians. so thick was it that the two armies could only make out each other's position from the simultaneous shout of defiance which ran down each line. fauconbridge, whose wing lay nearest to the enemy, determined to utilise the accident of the snow in a manner which throws the greatest credit on his presence of mind. he sent forward his archers to the edge of the dip in the plateau, with orders to discharge a few flights of arrows into the lancastrian columns, and then to retire back again to the line of battle. this they did; the wind bore their arrows into the crowded masses, who with the snow beating into their eyes could not see the enemy that was molesting them, and considerable execution was done. accordingly the whole lancastrian line of archers commenced to reply; but as they were shooting against the wind, and as fauconbridge's men had withdrawn after delivering their volley, it resulted that the northeners continued to pour a heavy flight of arrows into the unoccupied ground forty yards in front of the yorkist position. their fire was so fast and furious that ere very long their shafts began to run short. when this became noticeable, fauconbridge led his men forward again to the edge of towtondale, and recommenced his deadly volleys into the enemy's right wing. the lancastrians could make little or no reply, their store of missiles being almost used up; their position was growing unbearable, and with a simultaneous impulse the whole mass facing fauconbridge plunged down into towtondale, to cross the dip and fall on the enemy at close quarters. the movement spread down the line from west to east, and in a few minutes the two armies were engaged along their whole front. thus the lancastrians, though fighting on their own chosen ground, had to become the assailants, and were forced to incur the disadvantage of having the slope against them, as they struggled up the southern side of the declivity of towtondale.
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at length the object for which warwick's stubborn billmen had so long maintained their ground against such odds was attained. the column under the duke of norfolk, which was to form the yorkist right wing, began to come up from ferrybridge. its route brought it out on the extreme left flank of the lancastrians, where the high road skirts the plateau. too heavily engaged in front to suspect that all the army of york was not yet before them, somerset and his colleagues had made no provision against a new force appearing beyond their left wing. thus norfolk's advancing columns were able to turn the exposed flank, open an enfilading fire upon the enemy's left rear, and, what was still more important, to cut him off from all lines of retreat save that which led across the flooded cock. the effect of norfolk's advance was at once manifest; the battle began to roll northward and westward, as the lancastrians gave back and tried to form a new front against the unsuspected enemy. but the moment that they began to retire the whole yorkist line followed them. the arrival of norfolk had been to warwick's men what the arrival of blücher was to wellington's at waterloo; after having fought all the day on the defensive they had their opportunity at last, and were eager to use it. when the lancastrians had once begun to retire they found themselves so hotly pushed on that they could never form a new line of battle. their gross numbers were crushed more and more closely together as the pressure on their left flank became more and more marked, and if any reserves yet remained in hand, there was no way of bringing them to the front. yet, as all the chroniclers acknowledge, the northern men gave way to no panic; they turned again and again, and strove to dispute every step between towtondale and the edge of the plateau. it took three hours more of fighting to roll them off the rising ground; but when once they were driven down their position became terrible. the cock when in flood is in many places unfordable; sometimes it spreads out so as to cover the fields for fifty yards on each side of its wonted bed; and the only safe retreat across it was by the single bridge on the tadcaster road. the sole result of the desperate fighting of the lancastrians was that this deadly obstacle now lay in their immediate rear. the whole mass was compelled to pass the river as best it could. some escaped by the bridge; many forded the cock where its stream ran shallow; many yielded themselves as prisoners--some to get quarter, others not, for the yorkists were wild with the rage of ten hours' slaughter. but many thousands had a worse fortune; striving to ford the river where it was out of their depth, or trodden down in the shallower parts by their own flying comrades, they died without being touched by the yorkist steel. any knight or man-at-arms who lost his footing in the water was doomed, for the cumbrous armour of the later fifteenth century made it quite impossible to rise again. even the billman and archer in his salet and jack would find it hard to regain his feet. hence we may well believe the chroniclers when they tell us that the cock slew its thousands that day, and that the last lancastrians who crossed its waters crossed them on a bridge composed of the bodies of their comrades.
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even this ghastly scene was not to be the end of the slaughter; the yorkists urged the pursuit for miles from the field, nearly to the gates of york, still slaying as they went. the hapless king henry, with his wife and son, were borne out of the town by their flying followers, who warned them that the enemy was still close behind, and were fain to take the road for durham and the border. only richard tunstal, the king's chamberlain, and five horsemen more guarded them during the flight.
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when warwick and king edward drew in their men from the pursuit, and bade the heralds count the slain, they must have felt that their fathers were well avenged. nearly thirty thousand corpses lay on the trampled snow of the plateau, or blocked the muddy course of the cock, or strewed the road to tadcaster and york; and of these only eight thousand were yorkists. the sword had fallen heavily on the lancastrian leaders. the earl of northumberland was carried off by his followers mortally wounded, and died next day. of the barons, dacre, neville, mauley, and welles, lay on the field. thomas courtney the earl of devon was taken alive--a worse fate than that of his fellows, for the headsman's axe awaited him. of leaders below the baronial rank there were slain sir andrew trollope, the late lieutenant of calais, sir ralph grey, sir henry beckingham, and many more whom it would be tedious to name. the slaughter had been as deadly to the northern knighthood as was flodden a generation later to the noble houses of scotland; there was hardly a family that had not to mourn the loss of its head or heir.
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the uphill fight which the yorkists had to wage during the earlier hours of the day had left its mark in their ranks; eight thousand had fallen, one man for every six in the field. but the leaders had come off fortunately; only sir john stafford and robert horne, the kentish captain, had fallen. so long indeed as the fight ran level, the knights in their armour of proof were comparatively safe; it was always the pursuit which proved so fatal to the chiefs of a broken army.
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the triumph of king edward
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on the evening of that bloody palm sunday, king edward, warwick, and the other yorkist chiefs, slept in the villages round the battlefield. next morning, however, they set their weary army on the march to reap the fruits of victory. in the afternoon they appeared before the gates of york, where the heads of york and salisbury, bleached with three months of winter rains, still looked southward from the battlements. the citizens had, as was usual in the time, not the slightest intention of offering resistance, but they must have felt many a qualm as edward's men, drunk with slaughter and set on revenging the harrying of the south by the queen's army, drew up before their walls.
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edward, however, had already fixed on the policy from which he never swerved throughout his reign--hard measure for the great and easy measure for the small. the mayor and citizens were allowed to "find means of grace through lord berners and sir john neville, brother to the earl of warwick"--doubtless through a sufficient gift of rose nobles. these two lords led the mayor and council before the king, who promptly granted them grace, and was then received into the town "with great solemnity and processions." there edward kept his easter week, and made every arrangement for the subjugation of the north. his first act was to take down the heads of his father and his uncle from over the gate, and provide for their reverent burial. his next was to mete out to his lancastrian prisoners the measure that york and salisbury had received. the chief of them, courtney earl of devon and the bastard of exeter, were decapitated in the market-place, and their heads sent south to be set up on london bridge. james earl of wiltshire--long salisbury's rival in the south--was caught a few days later, and suffered the same fate.
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the submission of the various yorkshire towns was not long in coming in, and it was soon ascertained that no further resistance was to be looked for south of the tees. the broken bands of the lancastrians had disappeared from yorkshire, and warwick's tenants from middleham and sherif hoton were now able to come in to explain to their lord how they had fared during the lancastrian ascendency at the hands of his cousins of westmoreland. in common with the few other yorkists of the north, they had received hard measure; they had been well plundered, and probably constrained to pay up all that the westmorelands could wring out of them, as arrears for the twenty years during which the yorkshire lands of neville had been out of the hands of the senior branch.
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a few days after easter, warwick and edward moved out of york and pushed on to durham. on the way they were entertained at middleham with such cheer as the place could afford after its plunder by the lancastrians. nowhere did they meet with any resistance, and the task of finishing the war appeared so simple that the king betook himself homeward about may 1st, leaving warwick with a general commission to pacify the north. john neville remained behind with his brother, as did sir robert ogle and sir john coniers, the only two yorkists of importance in the north outside the neville family. the king took with him the rest of the lords, who were wanted for the approaching festivals and councils in london, and with them the bulk of the army.
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the task which warwick had received turned out to be a much more formidable matter than had been expected. king henry, queen margaret, the dukes of somerset and exeter, lords hungerford and roos, with the other surviving lancastrian leaders, had fled to scotland, where they had succeeded in inducing the scotch regents--kennedy, boyd, and their fellows--to continue the policy of the late king, and throw themselves heartily into the war with the yorkists. the inducement offered was the cession of berwick and carlisle, and the former town was at once handed over "and well stuffed with scots." nor was it only on scotch aid that the lancastrians relied; they had determined to make application to the king of france, and somerset and hungerford sailed for the continent at the earliest opportunity. they were stayed at dieppe by orders of the wily louis the eleventh, who was averse to committing himself to either party in the english struggle while his own crown was hardly three months old; but their mission was not to be without its results. putting aside the hope of assistance from france and scotland, the lancastrians had still some resources of their own on which they might count. a few scattered bands of percy retainers still kept the field in northumberland, and the percy crescent still floated over the strong castles of alnwick, bamborough, and dunstanburgh.
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the problem which fell into warwick's hands was to clear the routed lancastrians out of northumberland, and at the same time to keep good watch against the inroads of the scotch and the english refugees who were leagued with them. defensive and offensive operations would have to be combined, for, on the one hand, the siege of the percy castles must be formed--and sieges in the fifteenth century were slow and weary work--while, on the other, the raids of the lords of the scotch border might occur at any time and place, and had to be met without delay. warwick was forced to divide his troops, undertaking himself to cover the line of the tyne and observe the northumbrian castles, while his brother john, who for his services at towton had just been created lord montagu, took charge of the force which was to fend off scotch attacks on the western marches.
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in june the scots and the english refugees crossed the border in force; their main body made a push to seize carlisle, which the lancastrian chiefs, the duke of exeter and lord grey de rougemont, promised to deliver to them as they had already delivered berwick. the town, however, shut its gates; and the invaders were constrained to content themselves with burning its suburbs and forming a regular siege. but as they lay before it they were suddenly attacked by montagu, who came up long before he was expected, and beat them back over the border with the loss of several thousand men; among the slain was john clifford, brother to the peer who had fallen at towton.
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almost simultaneously another raiding party, led by lord roos and sir john fortescu, the late chief-justice, and guided by two of the westmoreland nevilles, thomas and humphrey, slipped down from the middle marches and attempted to raise the county of durham. but as they drew near to the ancestral neville seat of brancepeth, they were fallen upon by forces brought up by warwick, and were driven back on june 26th as disastrously as the main army for which they had been making a diversion.
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these two defeats cooled the ardour of the scotch allies of the house of lancaster. moreover, trouble was soon provided for them on their own side of the border. there were always discontented nobles to be found in the north, and king edward was able to retaliate on the scotch regents by concluding a treaty with the earl of ross, which set a considerable rebellion on foot in the highlands and the western isles. by the time that the autumn came there was no longer any immediate danger to be apprehended on the borders, and warwick was able to relinquish his northern viceroyalty and come south, to pay his estates a flying visit, and to obey the writ which summoned him in november to king edward's first parliament at westminster.
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while warwick had been labouring in the north, the king had been holding his court at london, free to rule after his own devices. at twenty edward the fourth had already a formed character, and displayed all the personal traits which developed in his later years. the spirit of the fifteenth century was strong in him. cultured and cruel, as skilled as the oldest statesman in the art of cajoling the people, as cool in the hour of danger as the oldest soldier, he was not a sovereign with whom even the greatest of his subjects could deal lightly. yet he was so inordinately fond of display and luxury of all sorts, so given to sudden fits of idleness, so prone to sacrifice policy to any whim or selfish impulse of the moment, that he must have seemed at times almost contemptible to a man who, like warwick, had none of the softer vices of self-indulgence. still in mourning for a father and brother not six months dead, with a kingdom not yet fully subdued to his fealty, with an empty exchequer, with half the nobles and gentry of england owing him a blood-feud for their kinsmen slain at towton, edward had cast aside every thought of the past and the morrow, and was bearing himself with all the thriftless good-humour of an heir lately come to a well-established fortune. it seems that the splendours of his coronation-feasts were the main things that had been occupying his mind while warwick had been fighting his battles in the north. reading of his jousts and banquets and processions, his gorgeous reception by the city magnates, and his lavish distributions of honours and titles, we hardly remember that he was no firmly-rooted king, but the precarious sovereign of a party, surrounded by armed enemies and secret conspirators.
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in the lists of honours which edward had distributed after his return homeward from towton field, warwick found that he had not been neglected. the offices which he had held in 1458-59 had been restored to him; he was again captain of the town and castle of calais, lieutenant of the march of picardy, grand chamberlain of england, and high steward of the duchy of lancaster. in addition he was now created constable of dover and warden of the cinque ports, and made master of the mews and falcons, and steward of the manor and forest of feckenham. his position in the north, too, was made regular by his appointment as warden and commissary general of the east and west marches, and procurator envoy and deputy for all negotiations with the scots.
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nor had the rest of the neville clan been overlooked. john neville had, as we have already mentioned, received the barony of montagu. george neville the bishop of exeter was again chancellor. fauconbridge, who had fought so manfully at towton, was created earl of kent. moreover, sir john wenlock, warwick's most faithful adherent, who had done him such good service at sandwich in 1459, was made a baron. we shall always find him true to the cause of his patron down to his death at tewkesbury field. although several other creations swelled the depleted ranks of the peerage at the same time, the nevilles could not complain that they had failed to receive their due share of the rewards.
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nor would it seem that at first the king made any effort to resent the natural ascendency which his cousin exercised over his counsels. the experienced warrior of thirty-three must still have overborne the precocious lad of twenty when their wills came into contact. the campaigns of 1459-60, in which he had learnt soldiering under warwick, must have long remained impressed on edward's mind, even after he had won his own laurels at mortimer's cross and shared with equal honours in the bloody triumph of towton. so long as richard neville was still in close and constant contact with the young king, his ascendency was likely to continue. it was when, in the succeeding years, his duties took him for long periods far from edward's side, that the earl was to find his cousin first growing indifferent, then setting his own will against his adviser's, then deliberately going to work to override every scheme that came to him from any member of the neville house.
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we have no particular notice of warwick's personal doings in the parliament which sat in november and december 1461; but the language of his brother george the chancellor represents, no doubt, the attitude which the whole family adopted. his text was "amend your ways and your doings," and the tenor of his discourse was to point out that the ills of england during the last generation came from the national apostasy in having deserted the rightful heirs so long in behalf of the usurping house of lancaster. now that a new reign had commenced, a reform in national morality should accompany the return of the english to their lawful allegiance. the sweeping acts of attainder against fourteen peers and many scores of knights and squires which the yorkist parliament passed might not seem a very propitious beginning for the new era, but at any rate it should be remembered to the credit of the nevilles that the king's council under their guidance tempered the zeal of the commons by many limitations which guarded the rights of numerous individuals who would have been injured by the original proposals.
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moreover, the government allowed the opportunity of reconciliation to many of the more luke-warm adherents of lancaster, who had not been personally engaged in the last struggle. it is to warwick's credit that his cousin ralph of westmoreland was admitted to pardon, and not taken to task for the doings of his retainers, under the conduct of his brother, in the campaign of wakefield and st. albans. ralph was summoned to the parliament, and treated no worse than if he had been a consistent adherent of york. the same favour was granted to the earl of oxford, till he forfeited it by deliberate conspiracy against the king. sanguine men were already beginning to hope that king edward and his advisers might be induced to end the civil wars by a general grant of amnesty, and might invite his rival henry to return to england as the first subject of the crown. such mercy and reconciliation, however, were beyond the mind of the ordinary partisan of york; and the popular feeling of the day was probably on the side of the correspondent of the pastons, who complained "that the king receives such men as have been his great enemies, and great oppressors of his commons, while such as have assisted his highness be not rewarded; which is to be considered, or else it will hurt, as seemeth me but reason."
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whatever the partisans of peace may have hoped in the winter of 1461-62, there was in reality no prospect of a general pacification so long as the indomitable margaret of anjou was still at liberty and free to plot against the quiet of england. the defeats of her scotch allies in the summer of 1461 had only spurred her to fresh exertions. in the winter, while edward's parliament was sitting at westminster, she was busy hatching a new scheme for simultaneous risings in various parts of england, accompanied by descents from france and brittany aided by a castilian fleet. somerset and hungerford had got some countenance from the king of france, and margaret's own hopeful heart built on this small foundation a great scheme for the invasion of england. a scotch raid, a rising in wales, a descent of bretons upon guernsey and jersey, and a great french landing at sandwich, were to synchronise: "if weather and wind had served them, they should have had one hundred and twenty thousand men on foot in england upon candlemass day." but weather and wind were unpropitious, and the only tangible result of the plan was to cost the life of the earl of oxford, who had been told off to head the insurgents of the eastern counties. he had been taken into favour by king edward, and we need have small pity for him when he was detected in correspondence with the queen at the very time that he was experiencing the clemency of her rival. but it was an evil sign of the times that he and his son were executed, not after a regular trial before their peers, but by a special and unconstitutional court held by the earl of worcester as constable of england. for this evil precedent warwick must take the blame no less than edward.
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but margaret of anjou had not yet exhausted her energy. so soon as the storms of winter were over and somerset returned from france without the promised succours, she resolved to set out in person to stimulate the zeal of louis the eleventh, and to gather help from her various relatives on the continent. escaping from scotland by the irish sea, she rounded the land's end and came ashore with her young son in brittany. the duke gave her twelve thousand crowns, and passed her on to her father réné in anjou. from his court she went on to king louis, who lay at rouen. with him she had more success than might have been expected, though far less of course than she had hoped. louis was able to show that he had already got together a fleet, reinforced by some breton and castilian vessels, in the mouth of the seine. in return for an agreement by which margaret promised the cession of calais, and perhaps that of the channel isles, he undertook to engage frankly in the war, and to put at margaret's disposition a force for the invasion of england. the way in which louis chose a leader for this army was very characteristic of the man. he had in close confinement at the time a favourite of his father and an enemy of his own, peter de brézé, count of maulévrier and seneschal of normandy. de brézé was a gallant knight and a skilled leader; only a few years before he had distinguished himself in the english war, and among other achievements had taken and sacked sandwich. the king now offered him the choice of staying in prison or of taking charge of an expedition to scotland in aid of margaret. de brézé accepted with alacrity the latter alternative, as much, we are told, from chivalrous desire to assist a distressed queen as from dislike for the inside of the dungeons of loches. quite satisfied, apparently, at getting an enemy out of the country on a dangerous quest, louis gave him twenty thousand livres in money, forty small vessels, and about two thousand men, and bade him take the queen whither she would go.
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believing that the war was practically at an end, warwick now turned south, and rode up to london to lay the scotch proposal before the king. but he had not long left the border when the whole aspect of affairs was once more transformed by the reappearance of queen margaret on the scene.
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while montagu and warwick had been in the north, king edward had been sorely vexed by rumours of french invasion. seventy french and spanish ships were roaming the channel, and fauconbridge, who had set out to find them with a hastily-raised fleet, came home without success. a french force had mustered in picardy, and queen margaret lay all the summer at boulogne, tampering with the garrison of calais, who had fallen into mutiny on account of long arrears of pay. but calais failed to revolt, louis made no serious attempt on england, and the queen at last grew impatient and determined to start herself for england, though she could only rely on the assistance of peter de brézé and his two thousand men. setting sail early in october, she passed up the eastern coast, and landed in northumberland, expecting that all the north country would rise to her aid. no general insurrection followed, but margaret's arrival was not without effect. both alnwick and bamborough fell into her hands--the former by famine, for it was wholly unvictualled and could not hold out a week; the latter betrayed by the governor's brother. nor was this all; the presence of the queen moved the scotch regents to break off their negotiations with england, and denounce the truce which they had so recently concluded. all that the statesmanship of warwick and the sword of montagu had done for england in the year 1462 was lost in the space of a week.
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the moment that the unwelcome news of margaret's advent reached london, warwick flew to repair the disaster. only eight days after the fall of bamborough he was already at the head of twenty thousand men, and hastening north by forced marches. the king, ill-informed as to the exact force that had landed in northumberland, had sent out in haste for every man that could be gathered, and followed himself with the full levy of the southern counties.
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the nearer the yorkists approached to the scene of action the less formidable did their task appear. the approach of winter had prevented the scots from putting an army into the field, and the lancastrians and their french allies had made no attempt to push out from their castles. all that they had done was to strengthen the three strongholds and fill them with provisions. in alnwick lay peter de brézé's son and some of the frenchmen, together with lord hungerford. somerset, who had dropped his secret negotiations with warwick when his mistress returned from france, held bamborough; with him were lord roos and jasper earl of pembroke. sir ralph percy, the fighting-man of the percy clan--for his nephew the heir of northumberland was a minor--had made himself strong in dunstanburgh. meanwhile the queen, on the approach of warwick, had quitted her adherents and set sail for scotland with her son and her treasure, under convoy of de brézé and the main body of the french mercenaries. but the month was now november, the seas were rough, and off bamborough she was caught in a storm; her vessel, with three others, was driven against the iron-bound coast, and she herself barely escaped with her life in a fishing-boat which took her into berwick. her treasures went to the bottom; and of her french followers four hundred were cast ashore on holy island, where they were forced to surrender next day to a force sent against them by montagu.
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warwick had now arrived at newcastle, and king edward was but a few days' march behind him. though the month was november, and winter campaigns, especially in the bleak and thinly-populated north, were in the fifteenth century as unusual as they were miserable, warwick had determined to make an end of the new lancastrian invasion before the scots should have time to move. luckily we have a full account of his dispositions for the simultaneous siege of the three percy castles, from the pen of one who served on the spot.
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the army was arranged as follows. king edward with the reserve lay at durham, in full touch with york and the south. the duke of norfolk held newcastle, having as his main charge the duty of forwarding convoys of victuals and ammunition to the front, and of furnishing them with strong escorts on their way, to guard against any attempts made by roving bands of scots or percy retainers to break the line of communications, thirty miles long, which connected newcastle with the army in the field. the force under warwick's immediate command, charged with the reduction of the fortresses, was divided into four fractions. the castles lie at considerable intervals from each other: first, bamborough to the north on a bold headland projecting into the sea, a norman keep surrounded with later outworks; next dunstanburgh, nine miles farther south, and also on the coast; lastly, alnwick, five miles south-west of dunstanburgh, on a hill, three miles from the sea-coast, overlooking the river alne. dunstanburgh and bamborough, if not relieved from the sea, could be surrounded and blockaded with comparative ease; alnwick, the largest and strongest of the three castles, required to be shut in on all sides, and was likely to prove by far the hardest task. luckily for warwick the roman road known as the devil's causeway was available for the connection of his outlying forces, as it runs almost by the walls of alnwick and within easy distance of both dunstanburgh and bamborough. to each castle its own blockading force was attached. opposite bamborough, the one of the three which was nearest to scotland and most exposed to attack by a relieving army, lay montagu and sir robert ogle, both of whom knew every inch of the border. dunstanburgh was beleaguered by tiptoft earl of worcester and sir ralph grey. alnwick was observed by fauconbridge and lord scales. warwick himself, with the general reserve, lay at warkworth, three miles from alnwick, ready to transfer himself to any point where his aid might be needed.
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the forces employed were not less than thirty thousand men, without counting the troops on the lines of communication at newcastle and durham. to feed such a body in the depth of winter, in a sparsely-peopled and hostile country and with only one road open, was no mean task. nevertheless the arrangements of warwick worked with perfect smoothness and accuracy,--good witness to the fact that his talent for organisation was as great as his talent for the use of troops in the field. every morning, we are told, the earl rode out and visited all the three sieges "for to oversee; and if they wanted victuals or any other thing he was ready to purvey it to them with all his power." his day's ride was not less than thirty miles in all. the army was in good spirits and sure of success. "we have people enow here," wrote john paston, whose duty it was to escort norfolk's convoys to and fro, "so make as merry as ye can at home, for there is no jeopardie toward."
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a siege at christmastide was the last thing that the lancastrians had expected at the moment of their rising; they had counted on having the whole winter to strengthen their position. no hope of immediate aid from scotland was forthcoming, and after three weeks' blockade the spirits of the defenders of bamborough and dunstanburgh sank so low that they commenced to think of surrender. somerset, as we have already mentioned, had been in treaty with warwick six months before, with the object of obtaining grace from king edward. he now renewed his offer to warwick, pledging himself to surrender bamborough in return for a free pardon. ralph percy, the commander of dunstanburgh, professed himself ready to make similar terms.
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it is somewhat surprising to find that warwick supported, and edward granted, the petitions of somerset and percy. but it was now two years since the tragedy of wakefield, both the king and his cousin were sincerely anxious to bring about a pacification, and they had resolved to forget their blood feud with the beauforts. on christmas eve 1462, therefore, bamborough and dunstanburgh threw open their gates, such of their garrisons as chose to swear allegiance to king edward being admitted to pardon, while the rest, headed by jasper of pembroke and lord roos, were allowed to retire to scotland unarmed and with white staves in their hands. somerset and percy went on to durham, where they swore allegiance to the king. edward took them into favour and "gave them his own livery and great rewards," to somerset in especial a grant of twenty marks a week for his personal expenses, and the promise of a pension of a thousand marks a year. as a token of his loyalty somerset offered to take the field under warwick against the scots, and he was accordingly sent up to assist at the siege of alnwick. percy was shown equal favour; as a mark of confidence the king made him governor of bamborough which somerset had just surrendered.
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after the yielding of his chief adversary, king edward thought that there was no further need for his presence in the north. accordingly he returned home with the bulk of the army, leaving warwick with ten thousand men, commanded by norfolk and the earl of worcester, to finish the siege of alnwick. somerset lay with them, neither overmuch trusted nor overmuch contemned by his late enemies. warwick's last siege, however, was not destined to come to such an uneventful close as those of bamborough and dunstanburgh. lord hungerford and the younger de brézé made no signs of surrender, and protracted their defence till january 6th 1463.
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for once in his life warwick was taken by surprise. the scots showed in such force that he thought himself unable to maintain the whole of his lines, and concentrated his forces on a front facing north-west between the castle hill and the river. here he awaited attack, but nothing followed save insignificant skirmishing; angus had come not to fight, but only to save the garrison. when the english blockading force was withdrawn, a party of scotch horse rode up to the postern-gate of the castle and invited the besieged to escape; accordingly lord hungerford, the younger de brézé, sir richard tunstal, and the great majority of the garrison, hastily issued forth and joined the relieving force. then angus, to the surprise of the english, drew off his men, and fell back hastily over the border.
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warwick had been quite out-generalled; but the whole of his fault seems to have been the neglect to keep a sufficient force of scouts on the border. if he had known of angus's approach, he would have been able to take proper measures for protecting the siege. but the main feeling in the english army was rather relief at the departure of the scots than disgust at the escape of the garrison. "if on that day the scots had but been bold as they were cunning, they might have destroyed the english lords, for they had double their numbers," writes the chronicler. the thing which attracted most notice was the fact that the renegade somerset showed no signs of treachery, and bore himself bravely in the skirmish, "proving manfully that he was a true liegeman to king edward." henceforth he was trusted by his colleagues.
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some of the alnwick garrison had been either unwilling or unable to escape with angus. these protracted the defence for three weeks longer, but on january 30th they offered to surrender, and were allowed to depart unharmed to scotland. the castle was garrisoned for the king, and entrusted to sir john ashley, to the great displeasure of sir ralph grey to whom it had been promised. we shall see ere long what evils came from this displeasure.
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it seemed now as if the war could not be far from its end. no single place now held out for lancaster save the castle of harlech in north wales, where an obscure rebellion had been smouldering ever since 1461. we must not therefore blame warwick for want of energy, when we find that in march he left the indefatigable montagu in command, and came up to london to attend the parliament which king edward had summoned to meet in april. nevertheless, as we shall see, his absence had the most unhappy results on the border.
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we have no definite information as to warwick's doings in the spring of 1463, but we cannot doubt that it was by his counsel and consent that in april his brother the chancellor and his friend lord wenlock, in company with bourchier earl of essex, went over-sea to flanders, and contracted with philip duke of burgundy a treaty of commercial intercourse and a political alliance. philip then conveyed the english ambassadors to the court of louis of france, who was lying at hesdin, and with him they negotiated a truce to last from october 1st till the new year. this was to be preliminary to a definite peace with france, a plan always forward in warwick's thoughts, for he was convinced that the last hope of lancaster lay in the support of louis, and that peace between edward and the french king would finally ruin queen margaret's plans.
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but while george neville and the burgundians were negotiating, a new and curious development of this period of lingering troubles had commenced. once more the lancastrians were up in arms, and again the evil began in northumberland. sir ralph grey had been promised, as we mentioned above, the governorship of alnwick, and had failed to receive it when the castle fell. this so rankled in his mind that he determined to risk his fortunes on an attempt to seize the place by force and deliver it up again to the queen. in the end of may he mastered the castle by treachery, and sent for the lancastrians from over the border. lord hungerford came up, and once more received command of the castle which he had evacuated five months before. the news of this exploit of grey's was too much for the loyalty of sir ralph percy, the renegade governor of bamborough. when de brézé and hungerford came before his gates he deliberately surrendered the castle to them without resistance.
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the exasperating news that the north was once more aflame reached warwick as he banqueted with king edward at westminster on may 31st. with his customary energy the earl set himself to repair the mischief before it should spread farther. on june 2nd he was once more marching up the great north road, with a new commission to act as the king's lieutenant in the north, while his brother montagu was named under him lord warden of the marches. warwick's plan of campaign this time was not to reduce the castles at once, but to cut off the lancastrians from their base by forcing the scots to conclude peace. accordingly he left the strongholds on his right and made straight for the border. his first exploit was to relieve norham castle, on the english side of the tweed, which was beset by four thousand scotch borderers, aided by peter de brézé and his mercenaries. queen margaret herself was in their camp, and had dragged her unfortunate consort down to the seat of war. when the english appeared, the scots and french raised the siege and retired behind the tweed, where they set themselves to guard the ford called the holybank. but warwick was determined to cross; he won the passage by force of arms, and drove off its defenders. a few miles across the border he found de brézé's frenchmen resting in an abbey, and fell on them with such vehemence that several hundreds were taken prisoners, including the lord of graville and raoul d'araines, de brézé's chief lieutenants.
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one chronicler records a curious incident at this fight. "at the departing of sir piers de bressy and his fellowship, there was one manly man among them, that purposed to meet with the earl of warwick; he was a taberette (drummer) and he stood upon a little hill with his tabor and his pipe, tabering and piping as merrily as any man might. there he stood by himself; till my lord earl came unto him he would not leave his ground." warwick was much pleased with the frenchman's pluck, bade him be taken gently and well treated, "and there he became my lord's man, and yet is with him, a full good servant to his lord."
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now at last the civil war seemed at an end. with margaret over-sea, somerset a liegeman of york, the northumbrian castles cut off from any hope of succour, and the scots suing humbly for peace, warwick might hope that his three years' toil had at last come to an end. that, after all, the struggle was to be protracted for twelve months more, was a fact that not even the best of prophets could have predicted.
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after the raid which drove queen margaret away, and turned the hearts of the scots toward peace, we lose sight of warwick for some months. we only know that, for reasons to us unknown, he did not finish his exploits by the capture of the northumbrian castles, but came home in the autumn, leaving them still unsubdued. perhaps after the winter campaign of 1462-63 he wished to spend christmas for once in his own fair castle of warwick. his estates indeed in wales and the west midlands can hardly have seen him since the civil war recommenced in 1459, and must have required the master's eye in every quarter. his wife and his daughters too, now girls growing towards a marriageable age as ages were reckoned in the fifteenth century, must long have been without a sight of him.
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while warwick was for once at home, and king edward was making a progress round his kingdom with much pomp and expense, it would seem that queen margaret, from the retreat in lorraine to which she had betaken herself, was once more exerting her influence to trouble england. at any rate a new lancastrian conspiracy was hatched in the winter of 1463-64, with branches extending from wales to yorkshire. the outbreak commenced at christmas by the wholly unexpected rebellion of the duke of somerset. henry of beaufort had been so well treated by king edward that his conduct appears most extraordinary. he had supped at the king's board, slept in the king's chamber, served as captain of the king's guard, and jousted with the king's favour on his helm; yet at mid-winter he broke away for the north, with a very small following, and made for the garrison at alnwick. probably somerset's conscience and his enemies had united to make his position unbearable. the yorkists were always taunting him behind his back, and when he appeared in public in the king's company a noisy mob rose up to stone him, and edward had much ado to save his life. but whether urged by remorse for his desertion of lancaster, or by resentment for his treatment by the yorkists, somerset set himself to join the sinking cause at one of its darkest hours.
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his arrival in the north, where he came almost alone, for his followers were wellnigh all cut off at durham, was the signal for the new lancastrian outbreak. simultaneously jasper of pembroke endeavoured to stir up wales. a rising took place in south lancashire and cheshire, in which at one moment ten thousand men are said to have been in the field: a band set out from alnwick, pushed by the yorkist garrison at newcastle, and seized the castle of skipton in craven, hard by warwick's ancestral estates in the north riding; and norham on the border was taken by treachery.
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in march warwick set out once more to regain the twice-subdued north. the rising in cheshire collapsed without needing his arms to put it down, and he was able to reach york without molestation. from thence he sent to scotland to summon the regency to carry out the terms of pacification which they had promised in the previous year. the scots made no objection, and offered to send their ambassadors to york if safe escort was given them past the lancastrian fortresses. accordingly montagu started from durham to pick up his troops at newcastle, where lord scrope was already arrayed with the levies of the northern counties. this journey was near being montagu's last, for a few miles outside newcastle he was beset by his cousin sir humphrey neville, the earl of westmoreland's nephew, who fell on his escort with eighty spears as he passed through a wood. montagu, however, escaped by a detour and came safely into newcastle, where he took charge of scrope's force and marched for the scotch border.
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at hedgeley moor he found somerset with all the lancastrian refugees barring the way. there had mustered all the survivors of the campaigns of 1461-2-3, roos and hungerford, and tailboys lord of kyme, and the two traitors ralph grey and ralph percy. on april 15th their five thousand men fell on montagu, whose forces were probably about equal. the shock was sharp but short; and when ralph percy, who led their van, was struck down, the lancastrians dispersed. percy, if the tale be true, refused to fly with the rest, and died crying, "i have saved the bird in my bosom," meaning his loyalty to henry. he should have remembered his faith a year before, when he swore fealty to edward at durham.
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montagu was now able to reach scotland unmolested. he brought the scots commissioners back to york, and a fifteen years' peace was safely concluded, the scots promising to give no further shelter to the lancastrians, and the english to disavow the earls of ross and douglas whom they had armed against the scotch regency. "an the scots be true, the treaty may continue fifteen years," said the chronicler, "but it is hard to trust scots: they be ever full of guile and deceit."
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somerset and his followers were now without hope. their refuge in scotland was cut off and their northumbrian strongholds doomed to a speedy fall, for king edward had been casting all the winter a train of great ordnance such as england had never seen before, and the pieces were already on their way north. nevertheless the desperate adherents of lancaster hardened their hearts, gathered their broken bands, and made one last desperate stand for the mastery of the north. on the linhills, by the town of hexham, they arrayed themselves against montagu on may 13th. but when the yorkists came in sight the hearts of the followers of somerset failed them. all save five hundred melted away from their banners, and the small band that stayed to fight was broken, beaten, surrounded, and captured by montagu's four thousand men with perfect ease.
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the lancastrian lords had fought their last field; one and all were slain or captured on the hill a mile outside hexham town, where they had made their stand. montagu marked his triumph by the most bloody executions that had been seen throughout the whole war. at hexham, next day, he beheaded somerset, sir edmond fitzhugh, a moss-trooping captain called black jack, and three more. on the next day but one he slew at newcastle lord roos, lord hungerford, and three others. next day he moved south to his brother's ancestral seat of middleham, and executed sir philip wentworth and six squires. finally, he conducted to york and beheaded there sir thomas hussey and thirteen more, the remainder of the prisoners of rank who had come into his hands.
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for these sweeping executions warwick must take part of the blame. but there is this to be said in defence of montagu's stern justice, that somerset and three or four others of the victims were men who had claimed and abused edward's pardon, and that roos and several more had been spared at the surrender of bamborough in 1462. the whole body had shown that they could never be trusted, even if they professed to submit to york; and the practical justification of their death lies in the fact that with their execution ceased all attempts to raise the north in favour of the house of lancaster. public opinion among the yorkists had nothing but praise for montagu. "lo, so manly a man is this good lord montagu," wrote a london chronicler, "he spared not their malice, nor their falseness, nor their guile, nor their treason, but slew many, and took many, and let smite off their heads"!
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even before the battle of hedgeley moor king edward had set out to reinforce warwick and montagu. the news of their victories reached him on the way, but he continued to advance, bringing with him the great train of artillery destined for the siege of the northumbrian fortresses. this journey was important to king edward in more ways than one. how he spent one day of it, may 1st, when he lay at stony stratford, we shall presently see. if warwick had but known of his master's doings on that morning, we may doubt if he would have been so joyous over his brother's victories or so remorseless with his captured enemies.
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the king came up to york in the end of may, "and kept his estate there solemnly in the palace, and there he created john lord montagu earl of northumberland," in memory of his good service during the last few months, handing over to him, together with the percy title, the greater part of the great percy estates--alnwick and warkworth and langley and prudhoe, and many more fiefs between tyne and tweed.
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warwick now advanced northward to complete the work which his brother had begun in the previous month, while the king remained behind in yorkshire and occupied himself in the capture of skipton castle in craven. on june 23rd the earl appeared before alnwick and summoned the place. the lancastrians had lost their leaders at hexham, there was no more fight in them, and they surrendered at once on promise of their lives. dunstanburgh and norham followed the example of alnwick. only bamborough held out, for there sir ralph grey had taken refuge. he knew that his treachery at alnwick in the last year could never be pardoned, and utterly refused to surrender. with him was sir humphrey neville, who had so nearly destroyed montagu two months before.
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we happen to have an account of the siege of bamborough which is not without its interest. when the army appeared before the castle warwick's herald summoned it in form--
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offering free pardon, grace, body, and livelihood to all, reserving two persons, sir ralph grey and sir humphrey neville. then sir ralph clearly determined within himself to live or die within the place, though the herald charged him with all inconvenience and shedding of blood that might befall: saying in this wise: "my lord ensureth you upon his honour to sustain this siege before you these seven years so that he win you: and if ye deliver not this jewel, which the king our dread sovereign lord hath greatly in favour, seeing it marches so nigh unto his enemies of scotland, whole and unbroken with ordnance, and if ye suffer any great guns to be laid against it, it shall cost you a head for every gun shot, from the head of the chief man to the head of the least person within." but sir ralph departed from the herald, and put him in endeavour to make defence.
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warwick was therefore compelled to have recourse to his battering train, the first that had been used to effect in an english siege.
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so all the king's guns that were charged began to shoot upon the said castle. "newcastle," the king's greatest gun, and "london," the second gun of iron, so betide the place that the stones of the walls flew into the sea. "dijon," a brass gun of the king's, smote through sir ralph grey's chamber oftentimes, and "edward" and "richard," the bombardels, and other ordnance, were busied on the place. presently the wall was breached, and my lord of warwick, with his men-at-arms and archers, won the castle by assault, maugre sir ralph grey, and took him alive, and brought him to the king at doncaster. and there the earl of worcester, constable of england, sat in judgment on him.
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tiptoft was a judge who never spared, and grey a renegade who could expect no mercy. the prisoner was sentenced to be beheaded, and only spared degradation from his knighthood "because of his noble ancestor, who suffered at southampton for the sake of the king's grandfather, richard earl of cambridge." his head was sent to join the ghastly collection standing over the gate on london bridge.
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with the fall of bamborough the first act of king edward's reign was at an end.
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the quarrel of warwick and king edward
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with hedgeley moor and hexham and the final surrender of the northumbrian castles ended the last desperate attempt of the lancastrians to hold their own in the north. the few surviving leaders who had escaped the fate of somerset and hungerford left scotland and fled over-sea. philip de commines soon after met the chief of them in the streets of ghent "reduced to such extremity of want and poverty that no common beggar could have been poorer. the duke of exeter was seen (though he concealed his name) following the duke of burgundy's train begging his bread from door to door, till at last he had a small pension allowed him in pity for his subsistence." with him were some of the somersets, john and edmund, brothers of the duke who had just been beheaded. jasper of pembroke made his way to wales and wandered in the hills from county to county, finding friends nowhere. no one could have guessed that the cause of lancaster would ever raise its head again.
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king edward made no open opposition to warwick's plans. the project was mooted to king louis, safe conducts for the english embassy were obtained, and warwick and wenlock were expected at st. omer about october 3rd or 4th. but at the last moment, when warwick attended at reading on september 28th to receive his master's final instructions, a most astounding announcement was made to him. we have an account of the scene which bears some marks of truth.
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the council met for the formal purpose of approving the marriage negotiations. a speaker, probably warwick, laid before the king the hope and expectation of his subjects that he would deign to give them a queen.
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then the king answered that of a truth he wished to marry, but that perchance his choice might not be to the liking of all present. then those of his council asked to know of his intent, and would be told to what house he would go. to which the king replied in right merry guise that he would take to wife dame elizabeth grey, the daughter of lord rivers. but they answered him that she was not his match, however good and however fair she might be, and that he must know well that she was no wife for such a high prince as himself; for she was not the daughter of a duke or earl, but her mother the duchess of bedford had married a simple knight, so that though she was the child of a duchess and the niece of the count of st. pol, still she was no wife for him. when king edward heard these sayings of the lords of his blood and his council, which it seemed good to them to lay before him, he answered that he should have no other wife and that such was his good pleasure.
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then came the clinching blow; no other wife could he have--for he was married to dame elizabeth already!
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in fact, five months before, on may 1st, when he ought to have been far on his way to the north, king edward had secretly ridden over from stony stratford to grafton in northamptonshire, and wedded the lady. no one had suspected the marriage, for the king had had but a short and slight acquaintance with elizabeth grey, who had been living a retired life ever since her husband, a lancastrian knight, fell in the moment of victory at the second battle of st. albans. edward had casually met her, had been conquered by her fair face, and had made hot love to her. elizabeth was clever and cautious; she would hear of nothing but a formal offer of marriage, and the young king, perfectly infatuated by his passion, had wedded her in secret at grafton in the presence of no one save her mother and two other witnesses. this was the urgent private business which had kept him from appearing to open his parliament at york.
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the marriage was a most surprising event. lord rivers, the lady's father, had been a keen lancastrian. he it was who had been captured at sandwich in 1460, and brought before warwick and edward to undergo that curious scolding which we have elsewhere recorded. and now this "made lord, who had won his fortune by his marriage," had become the king's father-in-law. dame elizabeth herself was seven years older than her new husband, and was the mother of children twelve and thirteen years of age. the public was so astonished at the match that it was often said that the queen's mother, the old duchess of bedford, must have given king edward a love philtre, for in no other way could the thing be explained.
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warwick and the rest of the lords of the council were no less vexed than astonished by this sudden announcement. the earl had broached the subject of the french marriage to king louis, and was expected to appear within a few days to submit the proposal for acceptance. the king, knowing all the time that the scheme was impossible, had allowed him to commit himself to it, and now left him to explain to king louis that he had been duped in the most egregious way, and had been excluded from his master's confidence all along. very naturally the earl let the embassy drop; he could not dare to appear before the french king to ask for peace, when the bond of union which he had promised to cement it was no longer possible.
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but vexed and angered though he must have been at the way in which he had been treated, warwick was too loyal a servant of the house of york to withdraw from his master's council. he bowed to necessity, and acquiesced in what he could not approve. accordingly warwick attended next day to hear the king make public announcement of his marriage in reading abbey on the feast of st. michael, and he himself, in company with george of clarence the king's brother, led dame elizabeth up to the seat prepared for her beside her husband, and bowed the knee to her as queen.
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for a few months it seemed as if the king's marriage had been a single freak of youthful passion, and the domination of the house of neville in the royal councils appeared unshaken. as if to make amends for his late treatment of warwick, edward raised his brother george neville the chancellor to the vacant archbishopric of york, and in token of confidence sent the earl as his representative to prorogue a parliament summoned to meet on november 4th.
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but these marks of regard were not destined to continue. the favours of the king, though there was as yet no open breach between him and his great minister, were for the future bestowed in another quarter. the house of rivers was almost as prolific as the house of neville; the queen had three brothers, five sisters, and two sons, and for them the royal influence was utilised in the most extraordinary way during the next two years. nor was it merely inordinate affection for his wife that led king edward to squander his wealth and misuse his power for the benefit of her relatives. it soon became evident that he had resolved to build up with the aid of the queen's family one of those great allied groups of noble houses whose strength the fifteenth century knew so well--a group that should make him independent of the control of the nevilles. a few days after the acknowledgment of the queen, began a series of marriages in the rivers family, which did not cease for two years. in october 1464, immediately after the scene at reading, the queen's sister margaret was married to thomas lord maltravers, the heir of the wealthy earl of arundel. in january 1465 john woodville, the youngest of her brothers, wedded the dowager duchess of norfolk. this was a disgraceful match: the bridegroom was just of age, the bride quite old enough to be his grandmother; but she was a great heiress, and the king persuaded her to marry the sordid young man. within eighteen months more, nearly the whole of the family had been married off: anne woodville to the heir of bourchier earl of essex; mary woodville to the eldest son of lord herbert, the king's most intimate counsellor after warwick in his earlier years; eleanor woodville to george grey heir of the earl of kent; and catherine woodville, most fortunate of all, to the young duke of buckingham, grandson of the old duke who had fallen at northampton. to end the tale of the alliances of this most fortunate family, it is only necessary to add that even before queen elizabeth's marriage her eldest brother anthony had secured the hand of elizabeth, heiress of the lord scales who was slain on the thames in 1460. truly the woodville marriages may compare not unfavourably with those of the nevilles!
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while the king was heaping his favours on the house of rivers, warwick was still employed from time to time in the service of the crown. but he could no longer feel that he had the chief part in guiding his monarch's policy. indeed, the king seems to have even gone out of his way to carry out every scheme on a different principle from that which the earl adopted. in the spring of 1465, at the time of the queen's formal coronation in may--a ceremony which he was glad enough to escape--warwick went over-sea to conduct negotiations with the french and burgundians. he met the burgundian ambassadors at boulogne, and those of france at calais. it was a critical time for both france and burgundy, for the war of the public weal had just broken out, and each party was anxious to secure the friendship, or at least the neutrality of england. with the burgundians, whom warwick met first, no agreement could be made, for the count of charolois, who had now got the upper hand of his aged father duke philip, refused to make any pledges against helping the lancastrians. he was at this very time pensioning the exiled somersets and exeter, and almost reckoned himself a lancastrian prince, because his mother, isabel of portugal, was a grand-daughter of john of gaunt. warwick and charles of charolois were quite unable to agree. each of them was too much accustomed to have his own way, and though they held high feasts together at boulogne, and were long in council, they parted in wrath. there would seem to have been something more than a mere difference of opinion between them, for ever afterwards they regarded each other as personal enemies. king louis, whose ambassadors met warwick a month later, proved far more accommodating than the hot-headed burgundian prince. he consented to forget the matter of the marriage, and agreed to the conclusion of a truce for eighteen months, during which he engaged to give no help to queen margaret, while warwick covenanted that england should refrain from aiding the dukes of burgundy and bretagne, now in full rebellion against their sovereign.
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late in the summer of 1465 warwick returned home just in time to hear of a new stroke of fortune which had befallen his master. henry the sixth had just been captured in lancashire. the ex-king had wandered down from his retreat in scotland, and was moving about in an aimless way from one lancastrian household to another, accompanied by no one but a couple of priests. one of henry's entertainers betrayed him, and he was seized by john talbot of basshall as he sat at meat in waddington hall, and forwarded under guard to london. at islington warwick rode forth to meet his late sovereign, and by the king's orders led him publicly through the city, with his feet bound by leather straps to his stirrups. why this indignity was inflicted on the unfortunate henry it is hard to say; there cannot possibly have been any fear of a rescue, and warwick might well have spared his late master the shame of bonds. henry was led along cheapside and cornhill to the tower, where he was placed in honourable custody, and permitted to receive the visits of all who wished to see him.
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that warwick was not yet altogether out of favour with king edward was shown by the fact that he was asked to be godfather to the queen's first child, the princess elizabeth, in the february of the following year 1466. but immediately afterwards came the succession of events which marked the final breach between the king and the nevilles. in march edward suddenly dismissed from the office of treasurer lord mountjoy, a friend of warwick's, and gave the post to his wife's father lord rivers, whom he soon created an earl. the removal of his friend was highly displeasing to warwick; but worse was to follow. warwick's nephew george neville, the heir of his brother john, had been affianced to anne heiress of the exiled duke of exeter; but the queen gave the duchess of exeter four thousand marks to break off the match, and the young lady was wedded to thomas grey, elizabeth's eldest son by her first marriage. this blow struck the nevilles in their tenderest point; even the marriages which had made their good fortune were for the future to be frustrated by royal influence.
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the king waited a few months more, and then proceeded to put a far worse insult on his old friends and followers. in may 1467 he sent warwick over-sea, with a commission to visit the king of france, and turn the eighteen months truce made in 1465 into a permanent peace on the best terms possible. the errand seemed both useful and honourable, and warwick went forth in good spirits; but it was devised in reality merely to get him out of the kingdom, at a time when the king was about to cross all his most cherished plans.
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louis was quite as desirous as warwick himself to conclude a permanent peace. it was all-important to him that england should not be on the side of burgundy, and he was ready to make the earl's task easy. the reception which he prepared for warwick was such as might have been given to a crowned head. he went five leagues down the seine to receive the english embassy, and feasted warwick royally on the river bank. when rouen was reached "the king gave the earl most honourable greeting; for there came out to meet him the priests of every parish in the town in their copes, with crosses and banners and holy water, and so he was conducted to notre dame de rouen, where he made his offering. and he was well lodged at the jacobins in the said town of rouen. afterward the queen and her daughters came to the said town that he might see them. and the king abode with warwick for the space of twelve days communing with him, after which the earl departed back into england." and with him went as ambassadors from france the archbishop of narbonne, the bastard of bourbon (admiral of france), the bishop of bayeux, master jean de poupencourt, and william monipenny, a scotch agent in whom the king placed much confidence.
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warwick and the french ambassadors landed at sandwich, where they had a hearty reception; for the people of sandwich, like all the men of kent, were great supporters of the earl. posts were sent forward to notify their arrival to the king, and the party then set out to ride up to london. as they drew near the city the earl was somewhat vexed to find that no one came forth to welcome them on the king's behalf; but presently the duke of clarence came riding alone to meet him, and brought him intelligence which turned his satisfaction at the success of the french negotiations into bitter vexation of spirit.
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when warwick had got well over-sea, the king had proceeded to work out his own plans, secure that he would not be interrupted. he had really determined to make alliance with burgundy and not with france; and the moment that the coast was clear a burgundian emissary appeared in london. antony "the grand bastard," the trusted agent of the court of charolois, ascended the thames at the very moment that warwick was ascending the seine. ostensibly he came on a chivalrous errand, to joust with the queen's brother lord scales in honour of all the ladies of burgundy. the passage of arms was duly held, to the huge delight of the populace of london, and the english chroniclers give us all its details--instead of relating the important political events of the year. but the real object of the bastard's visit was to negotiate an english alliance for his brother; and he was so successful that he returned to flanders authorised to promise the hand of the king's sister margaret to the count of charolois.
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but bitterly vexed though he was at his sovereign's double dealing, warwick proceeded to carry out the forms of his duty. he called on the king immediately on his arrival, announced the success of his embassy, and craved for a day of audience for the french ambassadors. "when the earl spoke of all the good cheer that king louis had made him, and how he had sent him the keys of every castle and town that he passed through, he perceived from the king's countenance that he was paying no attention at all to what he was saying, so he betook himself home, sore displeased."
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next day the french had the audience. the king received them in state, surrounded by rivers, scales, john woodville, and lord hastings. "the ambassadors were much abashed to see him, for he showed himself a prince of a haughty bearing." warwick then introduced them, and master jean de poupencourt, as spokesman for the rest, laid the proposals of louis before the king. edward briefly answered that he had pressing business, and could not communicate with them himself; they might say their say to certain lords whom he would appoint for the purpose. then they were ushered out of his presence. it was clear that he would do nothing for them; indeed the whole business had only been concocted to get warwick out of the way. it was abortive, and had been intended to be so.
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the earl on leaving the palace was bursting with rage; his ordinary caution and affability were gone, and he broke out in angry words even before the foreigners. "as they rowed home in their barge the frenchmen had many discourses with each other. but warwick was so wroth that he could not contain himself, and he said to the admiral of france, 'have you not seen what traitors there are about the king's person?' but the admiral answered, 'my lord, i pray you grow not hot; for some day you shall be well avenged.' but the earl said, 'know that those very traitors were the men who have had my brother displaced from the office of chancellor, and made the king take the seal from him.'"
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edward went to windsor next day, taking no further heed of the ambassadors. he appointed no one to treat with them, and they remained six weeks without hearing from him, seeing no one but warwick, who did his best to entertain them, and warwick's new ally the duke of clarence. at last they betook themselves home, having accomplished absolutely nothing. on the eve of their departure the king sent them a beggarly present of hunting-horns, leather bottles, and mastiffs, in return for the golden hanaps and bowls and the rich jewellery which they had brought from france.
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warwick would have nothing more to do with his master. he saw the ambassadors back as far as sandwich, and then went off in high dudgeon to middleham. there he held much deep discourse with his brothers, george the dispossessed chancellor, and john of montagu the earl of northumberland. at christmas the king summoned him to court; he sent back the reply that "never would he come again to council while all his mortal enemies, who were about the king's person, namely, lord rivers the treasurer, and lord scales and lord herbert and sir john woodville, remained there present." the breach between warwick and his master was now complete.
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great ministers who have been accustomed to sway the destinies of kingdoms, and who suddenly find themselves disgraced at their master's caprice, have seldom been wont to sit down in resignation and accept their fall with equanimity. such a line of conduct requires a self-denial and a high-flown loyalty to principle which are seldom found in the practical statesman. if the fallen minister is well stricken in years, and the fire has gone out of him, he may confine himself to sermons on the ingratitude of kings. if his greatness has been purely official, and his power entirely dependent on the authority entrusted to him by his master, his discontent may not be dangerous. but warwick was now in the very prime of his life,--he was just forty,--and he was moreover by far the most powerful subject within the four seas. it was sheer madness in king edward to goad such a man to desperation by a series of deliberate insults.
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this was no mere case of ordinary ingratitude. if ever one man had made another, richard neville had made edward plantagenet. he had taken charge of him, a raw lad of eighteen, at the moment of the disastrous rout of ludford, and trained him in arms and statecraft with unceasing care. twice had he saved the lost cause of york, in 1459 and in 1461. he had spent five years in harness, in one long series of battles and sieges, that his cousin might wear his crown in peace. he had compassed sea and land in embassies that edward might be safe from foreign as well as from domestic foes. he had seen his father and his brother fall by the axe and the sword in the cause of york. he had seen his mother and his wife fugitives on the face of the earth, his castles burnt, his manors wasted, his tenants slain, all that the son of richard plantagenet might sit on the throne that was his father's due.
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warwick then might well be cut to the heart at his master's ingratitude. it was no marvel if, after the king's last treachery to him in the matter of the french embassy, he retired from court and sent a bitter answer to edward's next summons. after the open breach there were now two courses open to him: the first to abandon all his schemes, and betake himself in silent bitterness to the management of his vast estates; the second was to endeavour to win his way back to power by the ways which medieval england knew only too well--the way which had served simon de montfort, and thomas of lancaster, and richard of york; the way that had led simon and thomas and richard to their bloody graves. the first alternative was no doubt the one that the perfect man, the ideally loyal and unselfish knight, should have chosen. but richard neville was no perfect man; he was a practical statesman--"the cleverest man of his time," says one who had observed him closely; and his long tenure of power had made him look upon the first place in the council of the king as his right and due. his enemies the woodvilles and herberts had driven him from his well-earned precedence by the weapons that they could use--intrigue and misrepresentation; what more natural than that he should repay them by the weapon that he could best employ, the iron hand of armed force?
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hitherto the career of warwick had been singularly straightforward and consistent. through thick and thin he had supported the cause of york and never wavered in his allegiance to it. it must not be supposed that he changed his whole policy when his quarrel with the king came to a head. as his conduct in 1469, when his ungrateful master was in his power, was destined to show, he had no further design than to reconquer for himself the place in the royal council which had been his from 1461 to 1464. later events developed his plans further than he had himself expected, but it is evident that at first his sole design was to clear away the woodvilles. the only element in his programme which threatened to lead to deeper and more treasonable plans was his connection with his would-be son-in-law george of clarence. the handsome youth who professed such a devotion to him, followed his advice with such docility, and took his part so warmly in the quarrel with the king, seems from the first to have obtained a place in his affections greater than edward had ever won. but clarence had his ambitions; what they were and how far they extended the earl had not as yet discovered.
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warwick had now the will to play his master's new ministers an ill turn; that he had also the power to do so none knew better than himself. the lands of neville and montacute, beauchamp and despenser united could send into the field a powerful army. moreover, his neighbours, in most of the counties where his influence prevailed, had bound themselves to him by taking his livery; barons as well as knights were eager to be of his "privy council," to wear his ragged staff and ride in his array. the very aspect of his household seemed to show the state of a petty king. every one has read hollingshead's famous description, which tells how the little army of followers which constituted his ordinary retinue eat six oxen daily for breakfast.
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it was not only discontented yorkists that had taken the news of the quarrel between warwick and his master as a signal for moving. the tidings had stirred the exiled lancastrians to a sudden burst of activity of which we should hardly have thought them capable. queen margaret borrowed ships and money from louis, and lay in force at harfleur. sir henry courtney, heir of the late earl of devon, and thomas hungerford, son of the lord who fell at hexham, tried to raise an insurrection in the south-west; but they were caught by lord stafford of southwick and beheaded at salisbury. as a reward the king gave stafford his victim's title of earl of devon. in wales the long-wandering jasper tudor suddenly appeared, at the head of two thousand men, supported by a small french fleet. he took harlech castle and sacked denbigh; but a few weeks later warwick's enemy, lord herbert, fell upon him at the head of the yorkists of the march, routed his tumultuary army, retook harlech, and forced him again to seek refuge in the hills. herbert, like lord stafford, was rewarded with the title of the foe he had vanquished, and became earl of pembroke. while these risings were on foot, lancastrian emissaries were busy all over england; but their activity only resulted in a series of executions. two gentlemen of the duke of norfolk's retinue were beheaded for holding secret communication with the beauforts while they were in flanders, following the train which escorted the princess margaret at her marriage with charles of charolois, who had now become duke of burgundy. in london more executions took place, and sir thomas cooke, late lord mayor, had all his goods confiscated for misprision of treason. two of the lancastrian emissaries alleged, under torture, the one, that warwick had promised aid to the rising, the other that lord wenlock, warwick's friend and supporter, had guilty knowledge of the scheme; but in each case the king himself acknowledged that the accusation was frivolous--the random imagining of men on the rack, forced to say something to save their own bones. it was not likely that warwick would play the game of queen margaret, the slayer of his father and brother, and the instigator of attempts on his own life.
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the autumn of 1468 and the spring of 1469 passed away quietly. warwick made no movement, for he was still perfecting his plans. he saw with secret pleasure that the french, with whom peace would have been made long ago if his advice had been followed, kept the king fully employed. it must have given him peculiar gratification when his enemy anthony woodville, placed at the head of a large fleet, made two most inglorious expeditions to the french coast, and returned crestfallen without having even seen the enemy.
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meanwhile the earl had been quietly measuring his resources. he had spoken to all his kinsmen, and secured the full co-operation of the majority of them. george the archbishop of york, henry neville heir to warwick's aged uncle lord latimer, sir john coniers of hornby, husband of his niece alice neville, his cousin lord fitzhugh, and thomas "the bastard of fauconbridge," natural son to the deceased peer who had fought so well at towton, were his chief reliance. his brother john of montagu, the earl of northumberland, could not make up his mind; he did not reveal warwick's plans to the king, but he would not promise any aid. william neville of abergavenny was now too old to be taken into account. the rest of warwick's uncles and brothers were by this time dead.
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by april 1469 the preparations were complete. every district where the name of neville was great had been carefully prepared for trouble. kent, yorkshire, and south wales were ready for insurrection, and yet all had been done so quietly that the king, who ever since he had thrown off the earl's influence had been sinking deeper and deeper into habits of careless evil-living and debauchery, suspected nothing.
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in april warwick took his wife and daughters across to calais, apparently to get them out of harm's way. he himself, professing a great wish to see his cousin margaret, the newly-married duchess of burgundy, went on to st. omer. he there visited duke charles, and was reconciled to him in spite of the evil memories of their last meeting at boulogne. to judge from his conduct, the earl was bent on nothing but a harmless tour; but, as a matter of fact, his movements were but a blind destined to deceive king edward. while he was feasting at st. omer he had sent orders over-sea for the commencement of an insurrection. in a few days it was timed to break out. meanwhile warwick returned to calais, and lodged with wenlock, who was in charge of the great fortress.
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his orders had had their effect. in the end of june grave riots broke out in the neighbourhood of york. ostensibly they were connected with the maladministration of the estates of st. leonard's hospital in that city; but they were in reality political and not agrarian. within a few days fifteen thousand men were at the gates of york, clamorously setting forth a string of grievances, which were evidently founded on cade's manifesto of 1450. once more we hear of heavy taxation, maladministration of the law, the alienation of the royal estates to upstart favourites, the exclusion from the royal councils of the great lords of the royal blood. once more a demand is made for the punishment of evil counsellors, and the introduction of economy into the royal household, and the application of the revenue to the defence of the realm. the first leader of the rioters was robert huldyard, known as robin of redesdale, no doubt the same robin whom the earl had bidden in 1468 to keep quiet and wait the appointed time. john neville the earl of northumberland lay at york with a large body of men-at-arms, for he was still lieutenant of the north. many expected that he would join the rioters; but, either because he had not quite recognised the insurrection to be his brother's work, or because he had resolved to adhere loyally to edward, montagu surprised the world by attacking the band which beset york. he routed its vanguard, captured huldyard, and had him beheaded.
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but this engagement was far from checking the rising. in a week the whole of yorkshire, from tees to humber, was up, and it soon became evident in whose interest the movement was working. new leaders appeared. sir john coniers, the husband of warwick's niece, and one of the most influential yorkists of the north, replaced huldyard, and assumed his name of robin of redesdale, while with him were henry neville of latimer and lord fitzhugh. instead of lingering at the gates of york, the great body of insurgents--rumour made it more than thirty thousand strong--rolled southward into the midlands. they were coming, they said, to lay their grievances before the king; and in every place that they passed they hung their articles, obviously the work of some old political hand, on the church doors.
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king edward seems to have been taken quite unawares by this dangerous insurrection. he had kept his eye on warwick alone, and when warwick was over-sea he thought himself safe. at the end of june he had been making a progress in norfolk, with no force at his back save two hundred archers, a bodyguard whom he had raised in 1468 and kept always around him. hearing of the stir in yorkshire, he rode north-ward to nottingham, calling in such force as could be gathered by the way. as he went, news reached him which suddenly revealed the whole scope of the insurrection.
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the moment that his brother's attention was drawn off by the northern rising, the duke of clarence had quietly slipped over to calais, and with him went george neville the archbishop of york. this looked suspicious, and the king at once wrote to clarence, warwick, and the archbishop, bidding them all come to him without delay. long before his orders can have reached them, the tale of treason was out. within twelve hours of clarence's arrival at calais the long-projected marriage between him and isabel neville had been celebrated, in full defiance of the king. warwick and clarence kept holiday but for one day; the marriage took place on the 11th, and by the 12th they were in kent with a strong party of the garrison of calais as their escort.
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the unruly kentishmen rose in a body in warwick's favour, as eagerly as when they had mustered to his banner in 1460 before the battle of northampton. the earl and the duke came to canterbury with several thousand men at their back. there they revealed their treasonable intent, for they published a declaration that they considered the articles of robin of redesdale just and salutary, and would do their best to bring them to the king's notice. how the king was to be persuaded was indicated clearly enough, by a proclamation which summoned out the whole shire of kent to join the earl's banner. warwick and his son-in-law then marched on london, which promptly threw open its gates. the king was thus caught between two fires--the open rebels lay to the north of him, his brother and cousin with their armed persuasion to the south.
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even before warwick's treason had been known, the king had recognised the danger of the northern rising, and sent commissions of array all over england. two considerable forces were soon in arms in his behalf. herbert, the new earl of pembroke, raised fourteen thousand welsh and marchmen at brecon and ludlow, and set out eastward. stafford, the new earl of devon, collected six thousand archers in the south-western counties, and set out northward. the king lay at nottingham with lord hastings, lord mountjoy, and the woodvilles. he seems to have had nearly fifteen thousand men in his company; but their spirit was bad. "sire," said mountjoy to him in full council of war, "no one wishes your person ill, but it would be well to send away my lord of rivers and his children when you have done conferring with them." edward took this advice. rivers and john woodville forthwith retired to chepstow; scales joined his sister the queen at cambridge.
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meanwhile the northern rebels were pouring south by way of doncaster and derby. their leaders coniers and latimer showed considerable military skill, for by a rapid march on to leicester they got between the king and lord herbert's army. edward, for once out-generalled, had to follow them southward, but the yorkshiremen were some days ahead of him, and on july 25th reached daventry. on the same day herbert and stafford concentrated their forces at banbury; but on their first meeting the two new earls fell to hard words on a private quarrel, and, although the enemy was so near, stafford in a moment of pique drew off his six thousand men to deddington, ten miles away, leaving pembroke's fourteen thousand welsh pikemen altogether unprovided with archery.
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next day all the chief actors in the scene were converging on the same spot in central england--coniers marching from daventry on to banbury, pembroke from banbury on daventry, with stafford following in his rear, while warwick and clarence had left london and were moving by st. albans on towcester; the king, following the yorkshiremen, was somewhere near northampton.
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coniers and his colleagues, to whom belong all the honours of generalship in this campaign, once more got ahead of their opponents. moving rapidly on banbury on the 26th, they found pembroke's army approaching them on a common named danesmoor, near edgecott park, six miles north of banbury. the welsh took up a position covered by a small stream and offered battle, though they were greatly inferior in numbers. the northerners promptly attacked them, and though one of their three leaders, henry neville of latimer, fell in the first onset, gained a complete victory; "by force of archery they forced the welsh to descend from the hill into the valley," though herbert and his brothers did all that brave knights could to save the battle. the king was only a few hours' march away; indeed, his vanguard under sir geoffrey gate and thomas clapham actually reached the field, but both were old officers of warwick, and instead of falling on the rebels' rear, proceeded to join them, and led the final attack on herbert's position.
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it only remains to relate king edward's fortunes. when the news of edgecott fight reached his army, it disbanded for the most part, and he was left, with no great following, at olney, whither he had fallen back on july 27th. meanwhile warwick and clarence, marching from london on northampton along the roman road, were not far off. the news of the king's position reached their army, and george neville the archbishop of york, who was with the vanguard, resolved on a daring stroke. riding up by night with a great body of horse he surrounded olney; the king's sentinels kept bad watch, and at midnight edward was roused by the clash of arms at his door. he found the streets full of warwick's men, and the archbishop waiting in his ante-chamber. the smooth prelate entered and requested him to rise and dress himself. "then the king said he would not, for he had not yet had his rest; but the archbishop, that false and disloyal priest, said to him a second time, 'sire, you must rise and come to see my brother of warwick, nor do i think that you can refuse me.' so the king, fearing worse might come to him, rose and rode off to meet his cousin of warwick."
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the earl meanwhile had passed on to northampton, where he met the northern rebels on july 29th, and thanked them for the good service they had done england. there he dismissed the kentish levies which had followed him from london, and moved on to coventry escorted by the yorkshiremen, many of whom must have been his own tenants. at coventry the archbishop, and his unwilling companion the king, overtook them. the details of the meeting of warwick and clarence with their captive master have not come down to us. but apparently edward repaid the earl's guile of the past year by an equally deceptive mask of good humour. he made no reproaches about the death of his adherents, signed everything that was required of him, and did not attempt to escape. the first batch of privy seals issued under warwick's influence are dated from coventry on august 2nd.
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but the earl was proud and self-reliant; he determined to face the danger and release the king. no other alternative was before him, save, indeed, to slay edward and proclaim his own son-in-law, clarence, for king. but the memory of old days spent in edward's cause was too strong. clarence, too, though he may have been willing enough to supplant his brother, made no open proposals to extinguish him.
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edward was over a month in his cousin's hands. part of the time he was kept at warwick and coventry, but the last three weeks were spent in the earl's northern stronghold of middleham. the few accounts which we have of the time seem to show that the king was all smoothness and fair promises; the earl and the archbishop, on the other hand, were careful to make his detention as little like captivity as could be managed. he was allowed free access to every one, and permitted to go hunting three or four miles away from the castle in company with a handful of the earl's servants. warwick at the same time gave earnest of his adherence to the yorkist cause by putting down two lancastrian risings, the one in favour of the percies, led by robin of holderness, the other raised by his own second-cousin, sir humphrey neville, one of the elder branch, who was taken and beheaded at york.
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before releasing the king, warwick exacted a few securities from him. the first was a general pardon to himself, clarence, and all who had been engaged in the rising of robin of redesdale. the second was a grant to himself of the chamberlainship of south wales, and the right to name the governors of caermarthen and the other south welsh castles. these offices had been in herbert's hands, and the earl had found that they cramped his own power in glamorganshire and the south marches. the third was the appointment as treasurer of sir john langstrother, the prior of the hospitallers of england; he was evidently chosen as rivers' successor, because two years before he had been elected to his place as prior in opposition to john woodville, whom the king had endeavoured to foist on the order. the chancellorship, however, was still left in the hands of bishop stillington, against whom no one had a grudge; george neville did not claim his old preferment.
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by october the king was back in london, which he entered in great state, escorted by montagu, the archbishop, richard of gloucester, and the earls of essex and arundel. "the king himself," writes one of the pastons that day, "hath good language of my lords of clarence, warwick, and york, saying they be his best friends; but his household have other language, so that what shall hastily fall i can not say." no more, we may add, could any man in england, the king and warwick included.
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in february warwick was at warwick castle, montagu in the north, while clarence and king edward lay at london. all was quiet enough, when suddenly there came news of troubles in lincolnshire. riotous bands, headed by sir robert welles, son of lord willoughby and welles, had come together, sacked the manor of a certain sir thomas burgh, one of edward's most trusted servants, and were raising the usual seditious cries about the evil government of the realm. at first nothing very dangerous seemed to be on foot. when the king sent for willoughby, to call him to account for his son's doings, the old peer came readily enough to london to make his excuses, relying on the safe conduct which was sent him. but the riots were now swelling into a regular insurrection, and soon news came that sir robert welles had called out the whole shire-force of lincoln, mustered fifteen thousand men, and was bidding his troops to shout for king henry. edward at once issued commissions of array for raising an overwhelming force against the rebels. two of the commissions were sent to warwick and clarence, who were bidden to collect the men of warwickshire and worcestershire. their orders were dated march 7th, but before they were half carried out, the purpose for which they were issued had already been attained. edward, taking lord willoughby with him as a hostage, had rushed north with one of these astonishing bursts of energy of which he was now and again capable. leaving london on the 6th, he reached stamford on march 11th, with the forces of the home and eastern counties at his back. on the 12th he met the rebels at empingham near stamford, and when welles would not bid them disperse, beheaded his aged father willoughby in front of his army. the lincolnshire men fled in disgraceful rout before the fire of the king's artillery, casting off their cassocks with the colours of welles in such haste that the fight was known as lose-coat field. sir robert was caught and beheaded at doncaster a few days later, and the rising was at an end. on tuesday the 21st the king reviewed his troops: "it was said that never were seen in england so many goodly men, and so well arrayed for a fight; in especial the duke of norfolk was worshipfully accompanied, no lord there so well." warwick and clarence, with a few thousand men from the shires they had been told to raise, lay that day at chesterfield, converging, in accordance with their orders, on lincoln.
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suddenly edward announced to his army that he had learnt from the dying confession of sir robert welles that warwick and clarence were implicated in the rising. though welles had sometimes used king henry's name, it was now said that he had really been proposing to place clarence on the throne, and was acting with warwick's full approval. edward added that he had already sent to the duke and the earl, bidding them come to his presence at once and unaccompanied. they had refused to come without a safe conduct, so he now proclaimed them traitors, but would grant them their lives if they would appear before him in humble and obeisant wise within a week. the army was at once directed to march on chesterfield, but when the proclamation reached warwick and clarence they did not obey it, and fled for their lives.
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this is a curious tale, and suggests many doubts. if warwick wished to act again the comedy of last year, why should he send to a county where he had no influence, to a staunch lancastrian family (welles' grandfather fell in henry's cause at towton, and his father was the willoughby who tried to kidnap warwick in 1460) in order to provoke a rising? and if he had planned a rising in lincoln, why did he make no attempt to support it by calling out his own midland and south welsh retainers, or raising yorkshire or kent, where he could command the whole county? that the earl was capable of treasonable double-dealing he had shown clearly enough in 1469. but was he capable of such insane bad management as the arrangements for welles' insurrection show? last year his own relatives and retainers worked the plan, and it was most accurately timed and most successfully executed. why should he now make such a bungle?
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it is, moreover, to be observed that while welles puts everything down to clarence in his confession, warkworth and other chroniclers say that he bade his men shout for king henry, and all his connections were certainly lancastrian. is it possible that he was trying to put the guilt off his own shoulders, and to make a bid for his life, acting on edward's hints, when he implicated warwick and clarence in his guilt?
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it is certainly quite in keeping with edward's character to suppose that, finding himself at the head of a loyal and victorious army, it suddenly occurred to him that his position could be utilised to fall on warwick and clarence and take his revenge for the deaths of pembroke and rivers.
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whether this was so or not, the duke and the earl were most certainly caught unprepared when edward marched on chesterfield. they left a message that they would come to the king if he would give them a safe conduct, and fled to manchester. edward threw his army between them and york, where they could have raised men in abundance, and the fugitives, after vainly trying to interest lord stanley in their cause, doubled back on the midlands. with a few hundred men in their train they got to warwick, but apparently there was no time to make a stand even there. the king had sent commissions of array out all over england to trusty hands, and forces under staunch yorkists were closing in towards the midlands on every side. edward calculated on having an enormous army in the field by april; he himself was coming south with quite twenty thousand victorious troops, and he had called out the whole of the levies of shropshire, hereford, gloucester, stafford, wiltshire, devon, dorset, and somerset. when he heard that warwick was moving south, he sent to salisbury to order quarters and provisions for forty thousand men, who would be concentrated there if the earl tried to reach the montacute lands in that quarter.
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so unprepared was the earl for the assault that, packing up his valuables in warwick castle, and taking with him his wife and his two daughters, he fled for the south coast without waiting to be surrounded by his enemies. he quite outstripped the king, who had barely reached salisbury when he himself was at exeter. there the duke and earl seized a few ships, which they sent round to dartmouth; more vessels were obtained in the latter place, for the whole seafaring population of england favoured the earl. when edward drew near, warwick and his son-in-law went on board their hastily-extemporised fleet and put to sea. they ran along the south coast as far as southampton, where they made an attempt to seize a part of the royal navy, including the great ship called the trinity, which had lain there since scales' abortive expedition in 1469. but scales and howard occupied the town with a great hampshire levy; the earl's attack failed, and three of his ships with their crews fell into the enemy's hands. tiptoft earl of worcester, "the great butcher of england," tried the captured men, and a squire named clapham and nineteen more were hung and then impaled by him. this atrocious punishment sent a shock of horror through england, and tiptoft's name is still remembered rather for this abomination than for all the learning and accomplishments which made him caxton's idol.
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warwick made for calais, where his friend wenlock was in charge, expecting free admittance. but the king had sent galliard de duras and other officers across to watch the governor, and wenlock, who was somewhat of a time-server, dared not show his heart. when warwick appeared in the roads he refused him entry, and shot off some harmless cannon toward the ships. at the same time he sent the earl a secret message that "he would give him a fair account of calais upon the first opportunity, if he would betake himself to france and wait." while warwick lay off calais his daughter, clarence's wife, was delivered of a son. wenlock sent out for her use two flagons of wine, but would not give her a safe conduct to land--"a great severity for a servant to use towards his lord," remarks commines.
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repulsed from calais, though we hear that the majority of the garrison and inhabitants wished to admit them, warwick and clarence turned back, and sought refuge in the harbour of honfleur, where they trusted to get shelter from louis of france. on their way between calais and honfleur they made prizes of several ships belonging to the duke of burgundy, because they understood that he was arming against them. louis kept away from warwick for a time; but he sent his secretary, du plessis, to see him, and his admiral, the bastard of bourbon, gave the fugitives a hearty welcome. louis was still at war with england, and still dreading a descent by king edward on the french coast. he was delighted to learn that he could now turn warwick, whose abilities he had learnt to respect, against his master--anything that would breed trouble in england would keep his enemy occupied at home. the king's first orders to his officers were to allow warwick to fit out his ships, give him a supply of money, and send him off to england as quickly as possible. but the narrow seas were too well watched. charles the bold, irritated at warwick's capture of his merchantmen, had collected a great fleet of seventy sail, which swept the channel and watched the mouth of the seine.
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the enforced delay in warwick's departure allowed time for a new idea to ripen in the french king's restless brain. warwick had now broken hopelessly with king edward; they could never trust each other again. why therefore should not the earl reconcile himself to the cause of lancaster? no sooner was the idea formed than louis proceeded to send for queen margaret out of her refuge in the duchy of bar, and to lay his plan before her and the earl, when they all met at angers in the middle of july.
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the queen so pressed, and urged beside by the counsellors of her father king réné, agreed to pardon warwick. louis then broached the second point in his scheme. the new alliance, he urged, should be sealed by a marriage; the prince of wales was now seventeen and the lady anne, warwick's younger daughter, sixteen. what match could be fairer or more hopeful?
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one person alone was much vexed at the success of louis' scheme. the duke of clarence had no wish to see his father-in-law reconciled to the house of lancaster, for he had been speculating on the notion that if warwick drove out edward he himself would become king. but wandering exiles must take their fortune as it comes, and clarence had to be contented with queen margaret's promise that his name should be inserted in the succession after that of her son, when she and her husband came to their own again. the prince was a healthy promising lad, and the prospect offered was hopelessly remote; clarence began to grow discontented, and to regret that he had ever placed himself under warwick's guidance. at this juncture his brother sent him a message from england, through a lady attending on the duchess, praying him not to wreck the fortunes of his own family by adhering to the house of lancaster, and bidding him remember the hereditary hatred that lay between them. edward offered his brother a full pardon. clarence replied by promising to come over to the king so soon as he and warwick should reach england. of all these negotiations warwick suspected not a word.
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edward was so overjoyed by his brother's engagement to wreck the earl's invasion, that he laughed at charles of burgundy for squandering money in keeping a fleet at sea to intercept warwick, and declared that what he most wished was to see his adversary safely landed on english soil, to be dealt with by himself.
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he had his wish soon enough. in september the equinoctial gales caught the burgundian fleet and blew it to the four winds, some of the vessels being driven as far as scotland and denmark. this left the coast clear for warwick, who had long been waiting to put to sea. the earl had already taken his precautions to make his task easy. a proclamation, signed by himself and clarence, had been scattered all over england by willing hands. it said that the exiles were returning "to set right and justice to their places, and to reduce and redeem for ever the realm from its thraldom;" but no mention was made either of edward or henry in it, a curious fact which seems to point out that the lancastrian alliance was not to be avowed till the last moment. but more useful than many proclamations was the message which the earl sent into the north country; he prayed his kinsman fitzhugh to stir up yorkshire and draw the king northward, as he had done before, when he and coniers worked the rebellion of robin of redesdale.
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fitzhugh had no difficulty in rousing the neville tenants about middleham; and edward, as warwick expected, no sooner heard of this insurrection than he hurried to put it down, taking with him his brother richard of gloucester, scales, hastings, say, and many more of his most trusted barons, with a good part of the army that was disposable to resist a landing on the south coast. near york he was to be met by montagu, who had adhered to him for the past year in spite of his brother's rebellion. but the king had paid montagu badly for his loyalty. he had taken from him the percy lands in northumberland, and restored them to the young heir of that ancient house, compensating, as he thought, the dispossessed neville by making him a marquis, and handing him over some of warwick's confiscated northern estates. montagu complained in secret that "he had been given a marquisate, and a pie's nest to maintain it withal," and was far from being so contented as the king supposed.
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on september 25th warwick landed unopposed at dartmouth. in his company was not only clarence but several of the great lancastrian lords who had been living in exile--jasper of pembroke, oxford, and many more. they brought with them about two thousand men, of whom half were french archers lent by louis. the moment that the invaders landed, warwick and clarence declared themselves, by putting forth a proclamation in favour of king henry. devon and somerset had always been lancastrian strongholds, and the old retainers of the beauforts and of exeter came in by hundreds to meet their exiled lords. in a few days warwick had ten thousand men, and could march on london; the king was at doncaster, and his lieutenants in the south could make no stand without him. a little later warwick's own midland and wiltshire tenants joined him, the earl of shrewsbury raised the severn valley in his aid, and all western england was in his hands.
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edward rose in haste, drew up his bodyguard to defend the approach of the manor where he lay, and sent scouts to know the truth of the report. they met montagu marching against them, and fled back to say that the rumour was all too true. then edward with his brother gloucester, hastings his chamberlain, say, and scales, and their immediate following, took horse and fled. they reached lynn about eight hundred strong, seized some merchantmen and two dutch carvels which lay in the harbour, and set sail for the lands of burgundy. buffeted by storms and chased by hanseatic pirates, they ran their ships ashore near alkmaar, and sought refuge with louis of gruthuyse, governor of holland. king, lords, and archers alike had escaped with nothing but what they bore on their backs; edward himself could only pay the master of the ship that carried him by giving him the rich gown lined with martens' fur that he had worn in his flight.
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the expulsion of king edward had been marvellously sudden. within eleven days after his landing at dartmouth warwick was master of all england. not a blow had been struck for the exiled king. from calais to berwick every man mounted the red rose or the ragged staff with real or simulated manifestations of joy. on october 6th the earl reached london, which opened its gates with its accustomed readiness. it had only delayed its surrender in fear of a riotous band of kentishmen, whom sir geoffrey gate had gathered in the earl's name. they had wrought such mischief in southwark that the londoners refused to let them in, and waited for the arrival of warwick himself before they would formally acknowledge king henry. meanwhile all the partisans of york had either fled from the city or taken sanctuary. queen elizabeth sought refuge in the precincts of westminster, where she was soon after delivered of a son, the first male child that had been born to king edward.
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riding through the city warwick came to the tower, and found king henry in his keeper's hands, "not worshipfully arrayed as a prince, and not so cleanly kept as should beseem his state." the earl led him forth from the fortress,--whither he had himself conducted him, a prisoner in bonds, five years before,--arrayed him in royal robes, and brought him in state to st. paul's, the lord mayor and sheriffs, with all the common council, walking before him, "while all the people to right and left rejoiced with clapping of hands, and cried 'god save king henry!'" then the king, after returning thanks for his deliverance in the cathedral, rode down cheapside and took up his residence in the palace of the bishop of london.
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henry was much broken and enfeebled by his captivity. "he sat on his throne as limp and helpless as a sack of wool," says one unfriendly chronicler. "he was a mere shadow and pretence, and what was done in his name was done without his will and knowledge." all that remained unbroken in him was his piety and his imperturbable long-suffering patience. but his weakness only made him the more fit for warwick's purpose. his deliverance took place on the 6th, and on october 9th we find him beginning to sign a long series of documents which reconstituted the government of the realm. it was made clear from the first that warwick and his friends were to have charge of the king rather than the lancastrian peers. in the first batch of appointments warwick became the king's lieutenant, and resumed his old posts of captain of calais and admiral. george neville was restored to the chancellorship, and sir john langstrother, prior of the hospitallers, received again the treasury, which warwick had bestowed on him in 1469. the duke of clarence was made lieutenant of ireland, a post he had enjoyed under his brother till his exile in 1470. among the lancastrians, oxford was made constable, and pembroke joint-lieutenant under warwick. the rest received back their confiscated lands, but got no official preferment.
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oxford's first exercise of his power as constable was to try tiptoft earl of worcester, one of the few of king edward's adherents whom no one could pardon. oxford had to avenge on him his father and brother, whom the earl had sentenced to be drawn and quartered in 1462, while warwick remembered his adherents impaled in the previous april. the butcher of england got no mercy, as might be expected, and was beheaded on october 18th.
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a few days before summonses had been sent out in the king's name for a parliament to meet on november 26th, for warwick was eager to set himself right with the nation at the earliest opportunity. every care was taken to show that the new rule was to be one of tolerance and amnesty. the whole of the surviving peers who had sat in edward's last parliament were invited to present themselves to meet king henry--however bitter their yorkist partizanship had been--save six only, and of these four had fled over-sea--gloucester, scales, hastings, and say.
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the parliament met and was greeted by george neville the chancellor with a sermon adapted to the times, on the text from jeremiah, "turn, o ye back-sliding children." the proceedings of the session are lost, but we know that they were mainly formal, confirming the king's appointments to offices, ratifying the agreement made between queen margaret and clarence, that the latter should be declared heir to the throne failing issue to the prince of wales, and reversing the attainder of somerset and exeter and the other lancastrian lords, who were thus able to take their seats in the upper house.
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the most important political event of the restoration, however, was the conclusion of the treaty with france, which warwick had had so close to his heart ever since the first abortive negotiations in 1464. an embassy, headed by the bishop of bayeux, titular patriarch of jerusalem, appeared in london when warwick's power was firmly established, and a peace for twelve years and treaty of alliance was duly concluded. its most important feature was that it bound england to take the french king's side in the struggle with burgundy. when he heard that edward had been expelled and could no longer aid charles the bold, louis had at once attacked the towns on the somme, and taken amiens and several other important places. next spring his contest with the duke would begin in earnest, and he was overjoyed to know that the english power would be used for his aid, by one who had a strong personal dislike to the burgundian. warwick at once took steps to strengthen the garrison of calais, which was at this time entirely surrounded by the duke's territory, and began to make preparations for a campaign in the next spring.
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it is rather difficult to gauge with accuracy the feeling with which england received the restoration of king henry. the nation, however, seems on the whole to have accepted the new government with great equanimity if with no very marked enthusiasm. the lancastrians were of course contented, though they would have preferred to have won back their position by their own arms. of the yorkists it was supposed that most of the important sections held by the earl and not by king edward. this was certainly the case, as later events showed, with the commons in most parts of the country, and notably in yorkshire and kent, which had up to this time been so strongly attached to the cause of york. there were, however, classes in which the restoration was not so well received. it was disliked by such of the yorkist nobility as were not nevilles. the duke of norfolk and all the bourchier clan--essex, the archbishop, cromwell, and berners--had not been displeased when warwick chastened the queen's relatives, but had not wished to see edward entirely deposed. other peers, such as grey earl of kent, and the earl of arundel, had committed themselves even more deeply to edward's side, by allying themselves by marriage with the woodvilles. it was gall and bitterness to all those heads of great houses to have to seek for pardon and favour from their late enemies. what, for example, must have been norfolk's feelings when he was compelled, as the paston records describe, to sue as humbly to the lancastrian earl of oxford as his own dependents had been wont to sue to himself?
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another quarter where the restoration was taken ill was to be found among the merchants of london. the late king had been a great spender of money, and was at the moment of his exile deep in the books of many wealthy purveyors of the luxuries in which he delighted. all these debts had now become hopeless, and the unfortunate creditors were sulky and depressed. moreover, edward's courteous and affable manners and comely person had won him favour in the eyes of the londoners in whose midst he habitually dwelt, and still more so, unless tradition errs, in the eyes of their wives. few persons in the city, except declared lancastrians, looked upon the new government with any approach to enthusiasm.
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there was one individual, too, whose feelings as to the new government were likely to be of no mean importance. george of clarence, though he had followed warwick to london and taken a prominent part in all the incidents of the restoration, was profoundly dissatisfied with his position. even when he had been made lieutenant of ireland--an office which he chose to discharge by deputy--and presented with many scores of manors, he was in no wise conciliated. he was farther from the throne as the prince of wales' ultimate heir than he had been in the days of his own brother's reign. had the chance been given him, it seems likely that he would have betrayed warwick and joined king edward after his return to england. but events had marched too rapidly, and he had found no opportunity to strike a blow for york. during the winter of 1470-71, however, he put himself once more in communication with his brother. the correspondence was carried on through their sisters--the duchess of exeter on the english side of the channel and the duchess of burgundy over-sea. by this means clarence renewed his promises of help to edward, and swore to join him, with every man that he could raise, the moment that he set foot again in england. meanwhile warwick had no suspicion of his son-in-law's treachery. he trusted him to the uttermost, heaped favours upon him, and even got his name joined with his own and pembroke's as lieutenants for king henry in all the realm of england.
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for five months the earl's reign was undisturbed. there was no one in the country who dared dispute his will. queen margaret, whose presence would have been his greatest difficulty, had not yet crossed the seas. her delay was strange. perhaps she still dreaded putting herself in the hands of her old enemy; perhaps the king of france detained her till warwick should have made his power in england too firm to be troubled by her intrigues. but the earl himself actually desired her presence. he several times invited her to hasten her arrival, and at last sent over langstrother, the treasurer of england, to urge his suit and escort margaret and her son across the channel. it was not till march that she could be induced to move; and by march the time was overdue.
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meanwhile king edward had received but a luke-warm reception at the court of burgundy. duke charles, saddled with his french war, would have preferred to keep at peace with england. his sympathies were divided between lancaster and york. if his wife was edward's sister, he himself had lancastrian blood in his veins, and had long maintained somerset, exeter, and other lancastrian exiles at his court. but he was driven into taking a decided line in favour of edward by the fact that warwick, his personal enemy, was supreme in the counsels of england. if the earl allied himself to louis of france, it became absolutely necessary for duke charles to lend his support to his exiled brother-in-law, with the object of upsetting warwick's domination.
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edward himself had found again his ancient restless energy in the day of adversity. he knew that in the last autumn he could have made a good defence if it had not been for montagu's sudden treachery, and was determined not to consider his cause lost till it had been fairly tried by the arbitrament of the sword. he was in full communication with england, and had learnt that many more beside clarence were eager to see him land. the adventure would be perilous, for he would have to fight not only, as of old, the lancastrian party, but the vast masses of the commons whose trust had always been in the great earl. but peril seems to have been rather an incentive than a deterrent to edward, when the reckless mood was on him. he took the aid that charles of burgundy promised, though it was given in secret and with a grudging heart. after a final interview with the duke at aire, he moved off in february to flushing, where a few ships had been collected for him in the haven among the marshes of walcheren. about fifteen hundred english refugees accompanied him, including his brother of gloucester and lords hastings, say, and scales. the duke had hired for him three hundred german hand-gun men, and presented him with fifty thousand florins in gold. with such slender resources the exiled king did not scruple to attempt the reconquest of his kingdom. on march 11th he and his men set sail. they were convoyed across the german ocean by a fleet of fourteen armed hanseatic vessels, which the duke had sent for their protection. yet the moment that charles heard they were safely departed, he published, for warwick's benefit, a proclamation warning any of his subjects against aiding or abetting edward of york in any enterprise against the realm of england.
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however secretly edward's preparations were concerted, they had not entirely escaped his enemy's notice. warwick had made dispositions for resisting a landing to the best of his ability. a fleet stationed at calais, under the bastard of fauconbridge, watched the straits and protected the kentish coast. the earl himself lay at london to overawe the discontented and guard king henry. oxford held command in the eastern counties--the most dangerous district, for norfolk and the bourchiers were rightly suspected of keeping up communication with edward. in the north montagu and the earl of northumberland were in charge from hull to berwick with divided authority.
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as warwick had expected, the invaders aimed at landing in east anglia. on march 12th edward and his fleet lay off cromer. he sent two knights ashore to rouse the country ere he himself set foot on land. but in a few hours the messengers returned. they bade him hoist sail again, for oxford was keeping strict watch over all those parts, and edward's friends were all in prison or bound over to good behaviour. on receiving this disappointing intelligence, edward determined on one of those bold strokes which were so often his salvation. if the friendly districts were so well watched, it was likely that the counties where warwick's interest was supreme would be less carefully secured. the king bade his pilot steer north and make for the humber mouth, though yorkshire was known to be devoted to the great earl.
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that night a gale from the south swept over the wash and scattered edward's ships far and wide. on march 15th it abated, and the vessels came to land at various points on the coast of holderness. the king and hastings, with five hundred men, disembarked at ravenspur--a good omen, for this was the same spot at which henry of bolingbroke had commenced his victorious march on london in 1399. the other ships landed their men at neighbouring points on the coast, and by the next morning all edward's two thousand men were safely concentrated. their reception by the country-side was most discouraging. the people deserted their villages and drew together in great bands, as if minded to oppose the invaders. indeed, they only needed leaders to induce them to take the offensive; but no man of mark chanced to be in holderness. montagu lay in the west-riding and northumberland in the north. a squire named delamere, and a priest named westerdale, the only leaders whom the men of holderness could find, contented themselves with following the king at a distance, and with sending news of his approach to york.
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a less resolute adventurer than edward plantagenet would probably have taken to his ships again when he found neither help nor sympathy in yorkshire. but edward was resolved to play out his game; the sight of the hostile country-side only made him determine to eke out the lion's hide with the fox's skin. calling to mind the stratagem which henry of bolingbroke had practised in that same land seventy-two years ago, he sent messengers everywhere to announce that he came in arms not to dispossess king henry, but only to claim his ancestral duchy of york. when he passed through towns and villages he bade his men shout for king henry, and he himself mounted the lancastrian badge of the ostrich feathers. in these borrowed plumes he came before the walls of york, still unmolested, but without having drawn a man to his banners. hull, the largest town that he had approached, had resolutely closed its gates against him.
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the fate of edward's enterprise was settled before the gates of york on the morning of march 18th. he found the walls manned by the citizens in arms; but they parleyed instead of firing upon him, and when he declared that he came in peace, aspiring only to his father's dignity and possessions, he himself with sixteen persons only in his train was admitted within the gate. then upon the cross of the high altar in the minster he swore "that he never would again take upon himself to be king of england, nor would have done before that time, but for the exciting and stirring of the earl of warwick," "and thereto before all the people he cried, 'king harry! king harry and prince edward!'" satisfied by these protestations, the men of york admitted the invaders within their walls. edward, however, only stayed for twelve hours in york, and next morning he marched on tadcaster.
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this day was almost as critical as the last. it was five days since the landing at ravenspur, and the news had now had time to spread. if montagu and northumberland were bent on loyal service to king henry, they must now be close at hand. but the star of york was in the ascendant. northumberland remembered at this moment rather his ancient enmity for the nevilles than his grandfather's loyalty to lancaster. he gathered troops indeed, but he made no attempt to march south or to intercept the invaders. it is probable that he was actually in treasonable communication with edward, as the lancastrian chroniclers declare. montagu, on the other hand, collected two or three thousand men and threw himself into pontefract, to guard the great north road. but edward, instead of approaching pontefract, moved his army on to cross-roads, which enabled him to perform a flank march round his adversary; he slept that evening at sendal castle, the spot where his father had spent the night before the disastrous battle of wakefield. how montagu came to let edward get past him is one of the problems whose explanation will never be forthcoming. it may have been that his scouts lost sight of the enemy and missed the line of his flank march. it may equally well have been that montagu overvalued the king's army, which was really no larger than his own, and would not fight till he should be joined by his colleague northumberland. some contemporary writers assert that the marquis, remembering his old favour with the king, was loath that his hand should be the one to crush his former master. others say that it was no scruple of ancient loyalty that moved montagu, but that he had actually determined to desert his brother and join edward's party. but his later behaviour renders this most unlikely.
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montagu's fatal inaction was the salvation of edward. at sendal he received the first encouragement which he had met since his landing. he was there in the midst of the estates of the duchy of york, and a considerable body of men joined him from among his ancestral retainers. encouraged by this accession, he pushed on rapidly southward, and by marches of some twenty miles a day reached doncaster on the 21st and nottingham on the 23rd. on the way recruits began to flock in, and at nottingham a compact body of six hundred men-at-arms, under sir james harrington and sir william parr, swelled the yorkist ranks. then edward, for the first time since his landing, paused for a moment to take stock of the position of his friends and his enemies.
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at that very moment the invader had thrown off the mask he had hitherto worn. finding himself well received and strongly reinforced, he laid aside his pretence of asking only for the duchy of york, and had himself proclaimed as king. but his position was perilous still: warwick was gathering head in his front; montagu was following cautiously in his rear; oxford was about to assail his flank. the enemies must be kept apart at all hazards; so edward, neglecting the others for the moment, turned fiercely on oxford. he marched rapidly on newark with some five or six thousand men. this decision and show of force frightened the earl, who, though joined by the duke of exeter and lord bardolph, felt himself too weak to fight. when the vanguard of the yorkists appeared, he hastily left newark and fell back on to stamford in much disorder.
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having thus cleared his flank, edward turned back on nottingham and then made for leicester. here he was joined by the yorkists of the east midlands in great numbers; of the retainers of lord hastings alone no less than three thousand came to him in one body.
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warwick, who lay only two short marches from the invader, was straining every nerve to get together an army. his missives ran east and west to call in all the knights of the midlands who had ever mounted the ragged staff or the red rose. one of these letters was found in 1889, among other treasures, in the lumber room of belvoir castle. it was addressed to henry vernon, a great derbyshire landholder. the first part, written in a secretary's hand, runs as follows:
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then in the earl's own hand was written the post-script, appealing to vernon's personal friendship: "henry, i pray you ffayle me not now, as ever i may do for you."
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sad to say, this urgent appeal, wellnigh the only autograph of the great earl that we possess, seems to have failed in its purpose. vernon preferred to watch the game, and as late as april 2nd had made no preparation to take arms for either side.
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on march 28th warwick with six thousand men advanced to coventry, a strongly-fortified town facing edward's line of advance. on the same day his adversary, whose forces must now have amounted to nearly ten thousand, marched southward from leicester. next morning warwick and the king were in sight of each other, and a battle was expected. but the earl was determined to wait for his reinforcements before fighting. he calculated that montagu must soon arrive from the north, oxford from the east, clarence from the south-west. accordingly he shut himself up in coventry, and refused to risk an engagement. edward, whose movements all through this campaign evince the most consummate generalship, promptly marched past his enemy and seized warwick, where he made his headquarters. he then placed his army across the high road from coventry to london, cutting off the earl's direct communication with the capital, and waited. like the earl he was expecting his reinforcements.
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the first force that drew near was clarence's levy from the south-west. with seven thousand men in his ranks the duke reached burford on april 2nd. next day he marched for banbury. on the 4th warwick received the hideous news that his son-in-law had mounted the white rose and joined king edward. the treason had been long meditated, and was carried out with perfect deliberation and great success. a few miles beyond banbury clarence's array found itself facing that of the yorkists. clarence bade his men shout for king edward, and fall into the ranks of the army that confronted them. betrayed by their leader, the men made no resistance, and allowed themselves to be enrolled in the yorkist army.
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clarence, for very shame we must suppose, offered to obtain terms for his father-in-law. "he sent to coventry," says a yorkist chronicler, "offering certain good and profitable conditions to the earl, if he would accept them. but the earl, whether he despaired of any durable continuance of good accord betwixt the king and himself, or else willing to maintain the great oaths, pacts, and promises sworn to queen margaret, or else because he thought he should still have the upperhand of the king, or else led by certain persons with him, as the earl of oxford, who bore great malice against the king, would not suffer any manner of appointment, were it reasonable or unreasonable." he drove clarence's messengers away, "crying that he thanked god he was himself and not that traitor duke."
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although oxford had joined him with four thousand men, and montagu was approaching, warwick still felt himself not strong enough to accept battle when edward and clarence drew out their army before the gates of coventry on the morning of april 5th. he then saw them fall into column of march, and retire along the london road. edward, having now some eighteen thousand men at his back, thought himself strong enough to strike at the capital, where his friends had been busily astir in his behalf for the last fortnight. leaving a strong rear-guard behind, with orders to detain warwick at all hazards, he hurried his main body along the watling street, and in five days covered the seventy-five miles which separated him from london.
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meanwhile warwick had been joined by montagu as well as by oxford, and also received news that somerset, with seven or eight thousand men more, was only fifty miles away. this put him in good spirits, for he counted on london holding out for a few days, and on the men of kent rallying to his standard when he approached the thames. he wrote in haste to his brother the archbishop, who was guarding king henry, that if he would maintain the city but forty-eight hours, they would crush the invading army between them. then he left coventry and hurried after the king, who for the next five days was always twenty miles in front of him.
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such a force was obviously unequal to defending a disaffected city. next day, when the army of edward appeared before the walls, urswick the recorder of london, and certain aldermen with him, dismissed the guard at aldersgate and let edward in, no man withstanding them. the archbishop of york and king henry took refuge in the bishop of london's palace; they were seized and sent to the tower. george neville obtained his pardon so easily that many accused him of treason. it seems quite possible that, when he found at the last moment that he could not raise the londoners, he sent secretly to edward and asked for pardon, promising to make no resistance.
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the capture of london rendered king edward's position comparatively secure. he had now the base of operations which he had up to this moment lacked, and had established himself in the midst of a population favourable to the yorkist cause. next day he received a great accession of strength. bourchier earl of essex, his brother archbishop bourchier, lord berners, and many other consistent partisans of york, joined him with seven thousand men levied in the eastern counties. his army was now so strong that he might face any force which warwick could bring up, unless the earl should wait for the levies of the extreme north and west to join him.
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on maundy thursday london had fallen; on good friday the king lay in london; on saturday afternoon he moved out again with his army greatly strengthened and refreshed, and marched north to meet the pursuing enemy. warwick, much retarded on his way by the rear-guard which the king had left to detain him and by the necessity of waiting for somerset's force, had reached dunstable on the friday, only to learn in the evening that london was lost and his brother and king henry captured. he pushed on, however, and swerving from the watling street at st. albans threw himself eastward, with the intention, we cannot doubt, of cutting edward's communication with the eastern midlands, where york was strong, by placing himself across the line of the ermine street. on saturday evening his army encamped on a rising ground near monken hadley church, overlooking the little town of barnet which lay below him in the hollow. the whole force lay down in order of battle, ranged behind a line of hedges; in front of them was the heathy plateau, four hundred feet above the sea, which slopes down into the plain of middlesex.
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an hour or two after warwick's footsore troops had taken post for the night, and long after the dusk had fallen, the alarm was raised that the yorkists were at hand. on hearing of the earl's approach the king had marched out of london with every man that he could raise. his vanguard beat warwick's scouts out of the town of barnet, and chased them back on to the main position. having found the enemy, edward pushed on through barnet, climbed the slope, and ranged his men in the dark facing the hedges behind which the earl's army lay,
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much nearer than he had supposed, for he took not his ground so even in the front as he should have done, if he might better have seen them. and there they kept them still without any manner of noise or language. both sides had guns and ordinance, but the earl, meaning to have greatly annoyed the king, shot guns almost all the night. but it fortuned that they always overshot the king's host, and hurt them little or nought, for the king lay much nearer to them than they deemed. but the king suffered no guns to be shot on his side, or else right few, which was of great advantage to him, for thereby the earl should have found the ground that he lay in, and levelled guns thereat.
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so, with the cannon booming all night above them, the two hosts lay down in their armour to spend that miserable easter even. next day it was obvious that a decisive battle must occur; for the king, whose interest it was to fight at once, before warwick could draw in his reinforcements from kent and from the north and west, had placed himself so close to the earl that there was no possibility of the lancastrian host withdrawing without being observed. the morrow would settle, once for all, if the name of richard neville or that of edward plantagenet was to be all-powerful in england.
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the easter morning dawned dim and gray; a dense fog had rolled up from the valley, and the two hosts could see no more of each other than on the previous night. only the dull sound of unseen multitudes told each that the other was still before them in position.
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in the earl's army montagu and oxford, with their men from the north and east, held the right wing; somerset with his west-country archery and billmen formed the centre; warwick himself with his own midland retainers had the left wing; with him was his old enemy exeter,--his unwilling partner in the famous procession of 1457, his adversary at sea in the spring of 1460. here and all down the line the old lancastrians and the partisans of warwick were intermixed; the cresset of the hollands stood hard by the ragged staff; the dun bull of montagu and the radiant star of the de veres were side by side. we cannot doubt that many a look was cast askance at new friends who had so long been old foes, and that the suspicion of possible treachery must have been present in every breast.
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edward's army was drawn up in a similar order. richard of gloucester commanded the right wing; he was but eighteen, but his brother had already learnt to trust much to his zeal and energy. the king himself headed clarence's men in the centre; he was determined to keep his shifty brother at his side, lest he might repent at the eleventh hour of his treachery to his father-in-law. hastings led the rear-battle on the left.
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the armies were too close to each other to allow of manoeuvring; the men rose from the muddy ground on which they had lain all night, and dressed their line where they stood. but the night had led king edward astray; he had drawn up his host so as to overlap the earl's extreme left, while he opposed nothing to his extreme right. gloucester in the one army and montagu and oxford in the other had each the power of outflanking and turning the wing opposed to them. the first glimpse of sunlight would have revealed these facts to both armies had the day been fair; but in the dense fog neither party had perceived as yet its advantage or its danger. it was not till the lines met that they made out each other's strength and position.
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between four and five o'clock, in the first gray of the dawning, the two hosts felt their way towards each other; each side could at last descry the long line of bills and bows opposed to it, stretching right and left till it was lost in the mist. for a time the archers and the bombards of the two parties played their part; then the two lines rolled closer, and met from end to end all along gladsmore heath. the first shock was more favourable to warwick than to the king. at the east end of the line, indeed, the earl himself was outflanked by gloucester, forced to throw back his wing, and compelled to yield ground towards his centre. but at the other end of the line the yorkists suffered a far worse disaster; montagu and oxford not only turned hastings' flank, but rolled up his line, broke it, and chased it right over the heath, and down toward barnet town. many of the routed troops fled as far as london ere they stopped, spreading everywhere the news that the king was slain and the cause of york undone. but the defeat of edward's left wing had not all the effect that might have been expected. owing to the fog it was unnoticed by the victorious right, and even by the centre, where the king and clarence were now hard at work with somerset, and gaining rather than losing ground. no panic spread down the line "for no man was in anything discouraged, because, saving a few that stood nearest to them, no man wist of the rout: also the other party by the same flight and chase were never the greatlier encouraged." moreover, the victorious troops threw away their chance; instead of turning to aid his hard-pressed comrades, oxford pursued recklessly, cutting down the flying enemy for a mile, even into the streets of barnet. consequently he and his men lost themselves in the fog; many were scattered; the rest collected themselves slowly, and felt their way back towards the field, guiding themselves by the din that sounded down from the hill-side. montagu appears not to have gone so far in pursuit; he must have retained part of his wing with him, and would seem to have used it to strengthen his brother's hard-pressed troops on the left.
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but meanwhile king edward himself was gaining ground in the centre; his own column, as the yorkist chronicler delights to record, "beat and bare down all that stood in his way, and then turned to range, first on that hand and then on the other hand, and in length so beat and bare them down that nothing might stand in the sight of him and of the well-assured fellowship that attended truly upon him." somerset, in short, was giving way; in a short time the lancastrian centre would be broken.
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at this moment, an hour after the fight had begun, oxford and his victorious followers came once more upon the scene. lost in the fog, they appeared, not where they might have been expected, on edward's rear, but upon the left rear of their own centre. they must have made a vast detour in the darkness.
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warwick's wing still held its ground, but at last the earl saw that all was lost. his brother was slain; exeter had been struck down at his side; somerset and oxford were in flight. he began to draw back toward the line of thickets and hedges which had lain behind his army. but there the fate met him that had befallen so many of his enemies, at st. albans and northampton, at towton and hexham. his heavy armour made rapid flight impossible; and in the edge of wrotham wood he was surrounded by the pursuing enemy, wounded, beaten down, and slain.
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the plunderers stripped the fallen; but king edward's first desire was to know if the earl was dead. the field was carefully searched, and the corpses of warwick and montagu were soon found. both were carried to london, where they were laid on the pavement of st. paul's, stripped to the breast, and exposed three days to the public gaze, "to the intent that the people should not be abused by feigned tales, else the rumour should have been sowed about that the earl was yet alive."
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after lying three days on the stones, the bodies were given over to george neville the archbishop, who had them both borne to bisham, and buried in the abbey, hard by the tombs of their father salisbury and their ancestors the earls of the house of montacute. all alike were swept away, together with the roof that covered them, by the vandalism of the edwardian reformers, and not a trace remains of the sepulchre of the two unquiet brothers.
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thus ended richard neville in the forty-fourth year of his age, slain by the sword in the sixteenth year since he had first taken it up at the battle of st. albans. fortune, who had so often been his friend, had at last deserted him; for no reasonable prevision could have foreseen the series of chances which ended in the disaster of barnet. montagu's irresolution and clarence's treachery were not the only things that had worked against him. if the winds had not been adverse, queen margaret, who had been lying on the norman coast since the first week in march, would have been in london long before edward arrived, and could have secured the city with the three thousand men under wenlock, langstrother, and john beaufort whom her fleet carried. but for five weeks the wind blew from the north and made the voyage impossible; on good friday only did it turn and allow the queen to sail. it chanced that the first ship, which came to land in portsmouth harbour the very morning of barnet, carried among others the countess of warwick; at the same moment that she was setting her foot on shore her husband was striking his last blows on gladsmore heath. nor was it only from france that aid was coming; there were reinforcements gathering in the north, and the kentishmen were only waiting for a leader. within a few days after warwick's death the bastard of fauconbridge had mustered seventeen thousand men at canterbury in king henry's name. if warwick could have avoided fighting, he might have doubled his army in a week, and offered the yorkists battle under far more favourable conditions. the wrecks of the party were strong enough to face the enemy on almost equal terms at tewkesbury, even when their head was gone. the stroke of military genius which made king edward compel the earl to fight, by placing his army so close that no retreat was possible from the position of barnet, was the proximate cause of warwick's ruin; but in all the rest of the campaign it was fortune rather than skill which fought against the earl. his adversary played his dangerous game with courage and success; but if only ordinary luck had ruled, edward must have failed; the odds against him were too many.
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but fortune interposed and warwick fell. for england's sake perhaps it was well that it should be so. if he had succeeded, and edward had been driven once more from the land, we may be sure that the wars of the roses would have dragged on for many another year; the house of york had too many heirs and too many followers to allow of its dispossession without a long time of further trouble. the cause of lancaster, on the other hand, was bound up in a single life; when prince edward fell in the bloody meadow, as he fled from the field of tewkesbury, the struggle was ended perforce, for no one survived to claim his rights. henry of richmond, whom an unexpected chance ultimately placed on the throne, was neither in law nor in fact the real heir of the house of lancaster. on the other hand, warwick's success would have led, so far as we can judge, first to a continuance of civil war, then, if he had ultimately been successful in rooting out the yorkists, to a protracted political struggle between the house of neville and the old lancastrian party headed by the beauforts and probably aided by the queen; for it is doubtful how far the marriage of prince edward and anne neville would ever have served to reconcile two such enemies as the earl and margaret of anjou. if warwick had held his own, and his abilities and his popularity combined to make it likely, his victory would have meant the domination of a family group--a form of government which no nation has endured for long. at the best, the history of the last thirty years of the fifteenth century in england would have been a tale resembling that of the days when the house of douglas struggled with the crown of scotland, or the guises with the rulers of france.
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yet for warwick as a ruler there would have been much to be said. to a king of the type of henry the sixth the earl would have made a perfect minister and vicegerent, if only he could have been placed in the position without a preliminary course of bloodshed and civil war. the misfortune for england was that his lot was cast not with henry the sixth, but with strong-willed, hot-headed, selfish edward the fourth.
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the two prominent features in warwick's character which made him a leader of men, were not those which might have been expected in a man born and reared in his position. the first was an inordinate love of the activity of business; the second was a courtesy and affability which made him the friend of all men save the one class he could not brook--the "made lords," the parvenu nobility which edward the fourth delighted to foster.
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of these characteristics it is impossible to exaggerate the strength of the first. warwick's ambition took the shape of a devouring love of work of all kinds. prominent though he was as a soldier, his activity in war was only one side of his passionate desire to manage well and thoroughly everything that came to his hand. he never could cease for a moment to be busy; from the first moment when he entered into official harness in 1455 down to the day of his death, he seems hardly to have rested for a moment. the energy of his soul took him into every employment--general, admiral, governor, judge, councillor, ambassador, as the exigencies of the moment demanded; he was always moving, always busy, and never at leisure. when the details of his life are studied, the most striking point is to find how seldom he was at home, how constantly away at public service. his castles and manors saw comparatively little of him. it was not at warwick or amesbury, at caerphilly or middleham that he was habitually to be found, but in london, or calais, or york, or on the scotch border. it was not that he neglected his vassals and retainers--the loyalty with which they rallied to him on every occasion is sufficient evidence to the contrary--but he preferred to be a great minister and official, not merely a great baron and feudal chief.
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in this sense, then, it is most deceptive to call warwick the last of the barons. vast though his strength might be as the greatest landholder in england, it was as a statesman and administrator that he left his mark on the age. he should be thought of as the forerunner of wolsey rather than as the successor of robert of belesme, or the bohuns and bigods. that the world remembers him as a turbulent noble is a misfortune. such a view is only drawn from a hasty survey of the last three or four years of his life, when under desperate provocation he was driven to use for personal ends the vast feudal power that lay ready to his hand. if he had died in 1468, he would be remembered in history as an able soldier and statesman, who with singular perseverance and consistency devoted his life to consolidating england under the house of york.
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after his restless activity, warwick's most prominent characteristic was his geniality. no statesman was ever so consistently popular with the mass of the nation, through all the alternations of good and evil fortune. this popularity the earl owed to his unswerving courtesy and affability; "he ever had the good voice of the people, because he gave them fair words, showing himself easy and familiar," says the chronicler. wherever he was well known he was well liked. his own yorkshire and midland vassals, who knew him as their feudal lord, the seamen who had served under him as admiral, the kentishmen who saw so much of him while he was captain of calais, were all his unswerving followers down to the day of his death. the earl's boundless generosity, the open house which he kept for all who had any claim on him, the zeal with which he pushed the fortunes of his dependents, will only partially explain his popularity. as much must be ascribed to his genial personality as to the trouble which he took to court the people. his whole career was possible because the majority of the nation not only trusted and respected but honestly liked him. this it was which explains the "king-making" of his later years. men grew so accustomed to follow his lead that they would even acquiesce when he transferred his allegiance from king edward to king henry. it was not because he was the greatest landholder of england that he was able to dispose of the crown at his good will; but because, after fifteen years of public life, he had so commended himself to the majority of the nation that they were ready to follow his guidance even when he broke with all his earlier associations.
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but warwick was something more than active, genial, and popular; nothing less than first-rate abilities would have sufficed to carry him through his career. on the whole, it was as a statesman that he was most fitted to shine. his power of managing men was extraordinary; even king louis of france, the hardest and most unemotional of men, seems to have been amenable to his influence. he was as successful with men in the mass as with individuals; he could sway a parliament or an army with equal ease to his will. how far he surpassed the majority of his contemporaries in political prescience is shown by the fact that, in spite of yorkist traditions, he saw clearly that england must give up her ancient claims on france, and continually worked to reconcile the two countries.
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in war warwick was a commander of ability; good for all ordinary emergencies where courage and a cool head would carry him through, but not attaining the heights of military genius displayed by his pupil edward. his battles were fought in the old english style of edward the third and henry the fifth, by lines of archery flanked by clumps of billmen and dismounted knights. he is found employing both cannon and hand-gun men, but made no decisive or novel use of either, except in the case of his siege-artillery in the campaign of 1464. nor did he employ cavalry to any great extent; his men dismounted to fight like their grandfathers at agincourt, although the power of horsemen had again revindicated itself on the continent. the earl was a cool and capable commander; he was not one of the hot-headed feudal chiefs who strove to lead every charge. it was his wont to conduct his first line to the attack and then to retire and take command of the reserve, with which he delivered his final attack in person. this caution led some contemporary critics, especially burgundians who contrasted his conduct with the headlong valour of charles the rash, to throw doubts on his personal courage. the sneer was ridiculous. the man who was first into the high street at st. albans, who fought through the ten hours of towton, and won a name by his victories at sea in an age when sea-fights were carried on by desperate hand-to-hand attempts to board, might afford to laugh at any such criticism. if he fell at barnet "somewhat flying," as the yorkist chronicler declares, he was surely right in endeavouring to save himself for another field; he knew that one lost battle would not wreck his cause, while his own life was the sole pledge of the union between the lancastrian party and the majority of the nation.
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brave, courteous, liberal, active, and able, a generous lord to his followers, an untiring servant to the commonweal, warwick had all that was needed to attract the homage of his contemporaries: they called him, as the kentish ballad-monger sang, "a very noble knight, the flower of manhood." but it is only fair to record that he bore in his character the fatal marks of the two sins which distinguished the english nobles of his time. occasionally he was reckless in bloodshedding. once in his life he descended to the use of a long and deliberate course of treason and treachery.
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in the first-named sin warwick had less to reproach himself with than most of his contemporaries. he never authorised a massacre, or broke open a sanctuary, or entrapped men by false pretences in order to put them to death. in battle, too, he always bid his men to spare the commons. moreover, some of his crimes of bloodshed are easily to be palliated: mundeford and the other captains whom he beheaded at calais had broken their oath of loyalty to him; the bastard of exeter, whom he executed at york, had been the prime agent in the murder of his father. the only wholly unpardonable act of the earl was his slaying of the woodvilles and herberts in 1469. they had been his bitter enemies, it is true; but to avenge political rivalries with the axe, without any legal form of trial, was unworthy of the high reputation which warwick had up to that moment enjoyed. it increases rather than lessens the sum of his guilt to say that he did not publicly order their death, but allowed them to be executed by rebels whom he had roused and might as easily have quieted.
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but far worse, in a moral aspect, than the slaying of the woodvilles and herberts, was the course of treachery and deceit that had preceded it. that the earl had been wantonly insulted by his thankless master in a way that would have driven even one of milder mood to desperation, we have stated elsewhere. an ideally loyal man might have borne the king's ingratitude in silent dignity, and foresworn the court for ever: a hot-headed man might have burst out at once into open rebellion; but warwick did neither. when his first gust of wrath had passed, he set himself to seek revenge by secret treachery. he returned to the court, was superficially reconciled to his enemies, and bore himself as if he had forgotten his wrongs. yet all the while he was organising an armed rising to sweep the woodvilles and herberts away, and to coerce the king into subjection to his will. the plan was as unwise as it was unworthy. although warwick's treason was for the moment entirely successful, it made any confidence between himself and his master impossible for the future. at the earliest opportunity edward revenged himself on warwick with the same weapons that had been used against himself, and drove the earl into exile.
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there is nothing in warwick's subsequent reconciliation with the lancastrians which need call up our moral indignation. it was the line of conduct which forced him into that connection that was evil, not the connection itself. there is no need to reproach him for changing his allegiance; no other course was possible to him in the circumstances. the king had cast him off, not he the king. when he transferred his loyalty to the house of lancaster, he never swerved again. all the offers which edward made to him after his return in 1471 were treated with contempt. warwick was not the man to sell himself to the highest bidder.
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if then warwick was once in his life driven into treachery and bloodthirsty revenge, we must set against his crime his fifteen long years of honest and consistent service to the cause he had made his own, and remember how dire was the provocation which drove him to betray it. counting his evil deeds of 1469-70 at their worst, he will still compare not unfavourably with any other of the leading englishmen of his time. even in that demoralised age his sturdy figure stands out in not unattractive colours. born in a happier generation, his industry and perseverance, his courage and courtesy, his liberal hand and generous heart, might have made him not only the idol of his followers, but the bulwark of the commonwealth. cast into the godless times of the wars of the roses, he was doomed to spend in the cause of a faction the abilities that were meant to benefit a whole nation; the selfishness, the cruelty, the political immorality of the age, left their mark on his character; his long and honourable career was at last stained by treason, and his roll of successes terminated by a crushing defeat. even after his death his misfortune has not ended. popular history has given him a scanty record merely as the kingmaker or the last of the barons, as a selfish intriguer or a turbulent feudal chief; and for four hundred and ten years he has lacked even the doubtful honour of a biography.
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printed by r. & r. clark, limited, edinburgh.
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crown 8vo. cloth. with portraits. 2s. 6d. each.
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macmillan and co., ltd., london.
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crown 8vo. gilt tops. flat backs. 2s. net each.
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matthew arnold. by herbert w. paul. jane austen. by f. warre cornish. sir thomas browne. by edmund gosse. browning. by g.k. chesterton. fanny burney. by austin dobson. crabbe. by alfred ainger. maria edgeworth. by the hon. emily lawless. george eliot. by sir leslie stephen, k.c.b. edward fitzgerald. by a.c. benson. hazlitt. by augustine birrell, k.c. hobbes. by sir leslie stephen, k.c.b. andrew marvell. by augustine birrell, k.c. thomas moore. by stephen gwynn. william morris. by alfred noyes. walter pater. by a.c. benson. richardson. by austin dobson. rossetti. by a.c. benson. ruskin. by frederic harrison. shakespeare. by walter raleigh. adam smith. by francis w. hirst. sydney smith. by george w.e. russell. jeremy taylor. by edmund gosse. tennyson. by sir alfred lyall. james thomson. by g.c. macaulay.
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mrs. gaskell. by clement shorter. ben jonson. by prof. gregory smith.
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macmillan and co., ltd., london.
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english men of letters.
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edited by viscount morley
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library edition. crown 8vo. gilt tops. flat backs. 2s. net per vol.
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popular edition. crown 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d. sewed, 1s. each.
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macmillan and co., ltd., london.
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twelve english statesmen.
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edited by viscount morley.
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crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. each.
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william the conqueror. by edward a. freeman, d.c.l., ll.d.
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times.--"gives with great picturesqueness ... the dramatic incidents of a memorable career far removed from our times and our manner of thinking."
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henry ii. by mrs. j.r. green.
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times.--"it is delightfully real and readable, and in spite of severe compression has the charm of a mediæval romance."
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edward i. by prof. t.f. tout, m.a. history, the owens college, manchester.
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speaker.--"a truer or more life-like picture of the king, the conqueror, the overlord, the duke, has never yet been drawn."
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henry vii. by dr. james gairdner, c.b.
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athenæum.--"the best account of henry vii. that has yet appeared."
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cardinal wolsey. by bishop creighton, d.d.
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saturday review.--"is exactly what one of a series of short biographies of english statesmen ought to be."
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elizabeth. by e.s. beesly, m.a.
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manchester guardian.--"it may be recommended as the best and briefest and most trustworthy of the many books that in this generation have dealt with the life and deeds of that 'bright occidental star, queen elizabeth of happy memory.'"
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oliver cromwell. by frederic harrison.
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times.--"gives a wonderfully vivid picture of events."
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william iii. by h.d. traill.
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spectator.--"mr. traill has done his work well in the limited space at his command. the narrative portion is clear and vivacious, and his criticisms, although sometimes trenchant, are substantially just."
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walpole. by viscount morley.
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st. james's gazette.--"it deserves to be read, not only as the work of one of the most prominent politicians of the day, but for its intrinsic merits. it is a clever, thoughtful, and interesting biography."
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pitt. by lord rosebery.
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times.--"brilliant and fascinating.... the style is terse, masculine, nervous, articulate, and clear; the grasp of circumstance and character is firm, penetrating, luminous, and unprejudiced; the judgment is broad, generous, humane, and scrupulously candid.... it is not only a luminous estimate of pitt's character and policy; it is also a brilliant gallery of portraits. the portrait of fox, for example, is a masterpiece."
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peel. by j.r. thursfield, m.a.
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daily news.--"a model of what such a book should be. we can give it no higher praise than to say that it is worthy to rank with mr. john morley's walpole in the same series."
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chatham. by frederic harrison.
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st. james's gazette.--"it comes near the model of what such a book should be."
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macmillan and co., ltd., london.
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his adventures and strategies
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clarence b. kelland
clarence__<label>__NOUN b__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. kelland__<label>__.
w. w. clarke
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harper & brothers publishers new york and london
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clarence budington kelland
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mark tidd in egypt mark tidd in italy mark tidd mark tidd in the backwoods mark tidd in business mark tidd’s citadel mark tidd, editor mark tidd, manufacturer catty atkins, bandmaster catty atkins catty atkins, riverman catty atkins, sailorman catty atkins, financier
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copyright, 1913, by harper & brothers
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printed in the united states of america
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“go for batten. i’m right here, and i’ll look after bill”
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plunk and me was good and mad
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there, crouching on the brow, was the figure of a man
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“fellers, the guard’s got loose, and he’s waitin’ for us to come down”
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“just rung twice right under my nose”
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sammy grunted when he got the full weight of it
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he let out a yell as loud as a locomotive whistle
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“you git right out of here! g-g-git!”
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my name is martin—james briggs martin—but almost everybody calls me tallow, because once when i was younger i saw old uncle ike bond rubbing tallow on his boots to shine them, and then hurried home and fixed mine up with the stub of a candle and went to school. i guess it couldn’t have smelled very good, for everybody seemed to notice it, even teacher, and she asked me what in the world i’d been getting into. after that all the boys called me tallow, and always will, i guess.
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i tell you about me first only because i’m writing this account of what happened. mark tidd is really the fellow i’m writing about, and mark’s father and mother, and the engine mr. tidd was inventing out in his barn, and some other folks who will be told about in their places. i helped some; so did plunk smalley and binney jenks, but mark tidd did most of it. mark tidd sounds like a short name, doesn’t it? but it isn’t short at all, for it’s merely what’s left of marcus aurelius fortunatus tidd, which was what he was christened, mostly out of gibbon’s decline and fall of the roman empire, a big book that mr. tidd was so fond of reading that he never read much of anything else except the papers.
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“i hope he’s goin’ to live in wicksville,” says plunk, “’cause we won’t care then if a circus never comes.”
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a fat boy like that is a good thing to have in a town, so when things sort of slow down you can always go and have fun with him. at any rate, that was what we thought then. it seemed to us that marcus aurelius fortunatus tidd was a ready-made joke put right into our hands for us to fool with, but afterward we changed our minds considerable.
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mark’s father and mother got off the train after him, and his father said something to him we couldn’t hear. mark waddled across the platform to where uncle ike bond’s bus stood waiting, and plunk and me listened to hear what he would say.
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“d-d-do you c-carry p-p-p-passengers in that b-bus?” yes, sir, he said it just like that!
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well, plunk he looked at me and i looked at him, and he soaked me in the ribs and i smashed his hat down over his eyes, we were so tickled. if we had been going to plan a funny kid we couldn’t have done half so well. we’d have forgot something sure. but nothing was forgot in mark tidd, even to the stutter.
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old uncle ike looked down off his seat at mark, and his eyes popped out like he couldn’t believe what they saw. he waited a minute before he said anything, sort of planning in his mind what he was going to say, i guess. that was a way uncle ike had, and then he usually said something queer. this time he says:
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“passengers? what? me carry passengers? no. i’ve just got this bus backed up here to stiddy the depot platform. the railroad comp’ny pays me to do it.”
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mark tidd he looked solemn at uncle ike, and uncle ike looked solemn at him. then mark says, respectful and not impertinent:
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“if i was to sit here and hold down the p-p-platform could you drive my folks? i could keep it from m-m-movin’ much.”
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uncle ike blinked. “son,” says he, “climb aboard, if this here rattletrap looks safe to you, and fetch along your folks. we’ll leave the platform stand without hitchin’ for wunst.”
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at that me and plunk turned to look at the fat boy’s father and mother. mr. tidd was a long man, upward of six foot, i guess, and not very wide. his shoulders kind of sloped like his head was too heavy for them, and his head was so big that it was no wonder. his hair was getting gray in front of his ears where it showed under his hat, and he had blue eyes and thin cheeks and a sort of far-off, pleasant expression, like he was thinking of something nice a long ways away. he was leaning against a corner of the station reading out of a big book and paying no attention to anybody. afterward i found out the book was gibbon’s decline and fall, and that he always carried it around with him to read in a little when he got a spare minute.
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mrs. tidd wasn’t that kind of person at all. as soon as plunk and me looked at her we knew she could make bully pies, and wouldn’t get mad if her fat boy was to sneak into the pantry and cut a slice out of one of them in the middle of the afternoon. you could tell she was patient and good-natured, but, all the same, she wasn’t the kind you could fool. if you came home with your hair wet it wouldn’t do any good to tell her somebody threw a pail of water on it. she was looking around to see what she could see, and i bet she didn’t miss much.
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the fat boy he motioned to her to come to the bus, and she spoke to her husband. he looked up sort of vague, nodded his head, and came poking across the platform, holding his book in front of him and reading away as though he hadn’t a minute to spare, and clean forgot all about the valise he’d set down beside him.
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“jeffrey,” says mrs. tidd, “you’ve forgot your satchel.”
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he shut his book, but kept his finger in the place, and looked all around him. pretty soon he saw the satchel and nodded his head at it. “so i have,” he says, “so i have,” and went back to get it.
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then all of them got into uncle ike’s bus, and he stirred up his horses who had been standing ’most asleep, with heads drooping, and they went rattling and banging up the street. when uncle ike’s bus got started you could hear it half a mile. i guess it was all loose, for it sounded like a hail-storm beating down on a tin roof.
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“wonder where they’re goin’?” says plunk.
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“you got to do more’n wonder if you’re goin’ to find out,” i says, and started trotting after the bus. it wasn’t hard to keep it in sight, because uncle ike’s horses got tired every little while and came to a walk.
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they stopped at the old juniper house that had been standing vacant for six months, ever since old man juniper went to chicago to live with his daughter susy’s oldest girl that had married a man with a hardware store there. the yard was full of boxes and packing-cases and furniture all done up with burlap and rope.
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“they’re goin’ to live here,” plunk yells; and i was as glad as he was. the benefits of having a stuttering fat boy living near you aren’t to be sneezed at by anybody.
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we found a shady place across the street and watched to see what would happen. it’s always interesting to watch other folks work, especially if what they’re doing is hard work, and i guess carrying furniture and trunks and boxes is about as hard as anything.
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mrs. tidd was ready for work before anybody else. she came to the door with a big apron on and a cloth tied around her hair, and the way she sailed into things was a caution. it seemed like she jumped right into the middle of that mess, and in a minute things were flying. mr. tidd came next with his book under his arm and stood in the stoop looking sort of puzzled. mrs. tidd straightened up, and then sat down on a packing-box.
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“jeffrey tidd,” she said, not sharp and angry, but kind of patient and rebuking, “go right back into the house and take those clothes off. i knew if i didn’t stay right by you you’d get mixed up somehow. will you tell me why in the world you changed from your second-best clothes to that sunday black suit to move furniture?”
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mr. tidd he looked pretty foolish and felt of his pants as though he couldn’t believe they were his best ones.
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“that does beat all,” he said. “it does beat all creation, libby. i wonder how these clothes come to be on me?”
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“if you didn’t have ’em on under your others, which ain’t impossible, you must have changed into ’em.”
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“my best suit!” he said to himself, shaking his head like you’ve seen the elephant do at the circus, first to one side and then to the other. “my best clothes!”
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“maybe i’d better come along and see you get into the right ones this time,” mrs. tidd suggested.
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“i guess you don’t need to, libby. i’ll take these off and hang ’em in the closet, and i’ll hang my second-best ones up, too. then i’ll put on what’s left. that way i can’t go wrong.” he went off into the house, and mrs. tidd flew at the piles of stuff again.
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pretty soon the fat boy came around the side of the house with a quarter of a cherry pie in his hand and the juice dripping down faster than he could suck it off.
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“marcus,” his mother called, “take holt of this bundle of bed-slats and carry ’em up to the front room.”
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mark he grabbed them with one hand and hunched them up under his arm so that one end dragged on the ground, walking off slow and eating pie as he went. it took him quite a while to get back. i could see him look across the street at plunk and me as he came down the steps. he stopped a minute, sort of thinking.
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after a while mr. tidd came back again.
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“put the decline and fall down somewheres so you can use both hands, jeffrey,” his wife says. and he did it as meek and obedient as could be. between them they carried a hair-cloth sofa in after she had told mark to fetch along some medium-sized boxes.
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mark stooped over one, and we could hear him grunt.
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“hello, skinny,” plunk yells. “git your back into it and h’ist. that’s the way to lift.”
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the fat boy straightened up and looked at us quite a while. then he sat down on the box and called, “i bet the two of you can’t l-l-lift it.”
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“i’ll bet,” says plunk, “we kin lift it. i’ll bet we kin carry it from here to the standpipe and back without lettin’ her down wunst.”
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“braggin’ don’t carry no b-boxes.”
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the way he said it sort of made me mad. “come on, plunk,” i says; “lets show this here hippopotamus whether we kin carry it or not.” and we went running across the street.
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“where d’you want it put?” i says.
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“git holt,” i says to plunk. “now, mister what’s-your-name, where’s it go?”
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“up-stairs in the hall; but you b-b-better not try. it’s too heavy for you.”
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plunk and me took that box up-stairs a-flying and ran down again.
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“there,” i says. “now kin we carry it?”
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he stuck up what there was to his nose. “one ain’t nothin’. i carried the hull twelve out when we was movin’ in fifteen mum-minutes.”
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“if you did,” i says, “plunk and me can carry ’em in in twelve.”
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he just laughed.
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“doggone it,” i says, “we’ll show you, you’re so smart.”
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“can’t d-d-do it.”
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“you ain’t the only kid that can carry things,” plunk says, with a scowl.
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mark he pulled out a little silver watch and held it in his hand. “twelve m-minutes, was it? can’t do it. i’ll keep time.”
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well, plunk and me went at those boxes like sixty, and the way we ran them up-stairs was a terror to cats. when the last one was up we were panting and sweating and most tuckered out. mark looked off his watch when we came out with a sort of surprised expression. “you kids is stronger than i figgered. you did it in eleven minutes and a half.”
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“sure,” i says.
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“but them boxes wasn’t very heavy. you can’t carry that big box, by j-jimminy!”
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plunk and me was good and mad, and if anybody’d seen the way we hustled that big box in they wouldn’t have believed their eyes.
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“that’s perty good,” says mark. “wouldn’t thought it of you kids. must be stronger here in wicksville than over to peckstown where i come from.” he stopped a minute. “i can’t lift that big rockin’-c-c-chair myself.”
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“huh!” snorted plunk. “that’s a easy one.” and in we wrastled with the chair.
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we weren’t going to have any strange kid think we weren’t up to all he was, so we stayed right there all the afternoon, and i guess we proved pretty conclusively we could carry. and that wasn’t all: we proved we could last. i bet we carried two-thirds of the tidds’ furniture in. when it was all done we sat down on the fence to pant and rest. mark’s mother called him.
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“i got to go to s-s-s-supper,” he says. “come again when you feel s-s-strong.” and then he went into the house.
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plunk and me sat still quite a while. i began to think about it and think about it, and i could see plunk was thinking, too. in about fifteen minutes i looked over at him and he looked over at me.
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“how many things did that fat kid carry in?” i says.
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“i didn’t see him carry anythin’.”
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“neither did i.”
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we thought quite a spell more. then i said to plunk, “i guess maybe we better not do too much braggin’ about how much an’ how long we kin carry.”
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he grinned kind of sickly. “this here mark tidd,” he says, “ain’t nobody’s fool—leastways, not on mondays, which is to-day.”
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when we got better acquainted with mark tidd he read a book called tom sawyer to us. i guess he got his idea of making us work out of that; he was always taking schemes out of books.
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mrs. tidd was just the kind of person i thought she would be. she cooked lots of things and cooked them good; and, no matter how often mark wanted to eat, she never said a word. plunk and binney jenks and me got to going there a lot, and there was always cookies and pie and things. of course, we didn’t go specially to eat, but knowing we’d get something wasn’t any drawback. i liked mrs. tidd, and sort of admired her, too. she was always working at something and managing things and keeping track of mr. tidd and mark. i never heard her complain, and i don’t remember ever seeing her sit down except in the cool of the evening after supper.
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i don’t want you to get the idea that mr. tidd was lazy or shiftless, because he wasn’t. he was just queer, and his memory was as long as a piece of string, which is the way we have in wicksville of saying there was no knowing just how long it really was. lots of times i’ve seen mr. tidd start out to do a job of work and forget all about it before he got a chance to commence. he was sure to forget if mrs. tidd didn’t take the decline and fall away from him before he went out of the door. even that didn’t make it certain, because something to think about might pop into his head all of a sudden, and if it did he had to sit down and think about it then and there. he was a machinist complicated by inventions. every time he saw you doing anything he’d stop right there and invent a better way for you to do it; and mostly the new ways he invented wouldn’t work.
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it was an invention that had brought all the tidds to wicksville. mark told us about it. it seems like mr. tidd had been inventing a new kind of machine or engine or something that he called a turbine. he’d been working on it a long time, making pictures of it and figuring it out in his head, but he never had a chance to get right down to business and actually invent it till a little while before they came to our town. then an aunt of his up and died and left him some money. he quit his job right off and came to wicksville, where it was quiet and cheap, to finish up doing the inventing. when he got it done he wouldn’t need a job any more because it would make him rich. we used to go out in the barn, where he was tinkering away, and watch him for hours at a time, and he never paid any more attention to us than as if we weren’t there at all. but he was careful about other folks and wouldn’t let them step a foot inside of the door. he was afraid somebody would see what he was up to and go do it first, which would have been a mean trick.
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mr. tidd wasn’t what you call suspicious; he wasn’t always expecting somebody that he knew to do something to his engine, and i guess any man that had wanted to could have got into the workshop and looked it all over to his heart’s content by talking to mr. tidd for an hour or so and listening to him tell about the roman empire, and how it split down the middle and went all to smash. he was the kind-heartedest man in the world, i guess, and never could see any bad in any one—not in any one he really saw. he had a sort of far-away idea that there was bad folks, and that some of them might want to steal his invention, but if he had seen a man crawling through a window of the barn he’d have found some excuse for him. anybody could fool him—that is, they could have if mrs. tidd hadn’t been there; but she kept her eye on him pretty close and saw to it he didn’t let any strangers come fooling around. if everybody had been as careful as she was this story wouldn’t have happened.
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the real beginning of things didn’t look like anything important at all. it happened one afternoon when mark tidd and plunk and binney and me were hanging around the depot platform waiting for the train to come in. we didn’t expect anybody we knew to come, and there wasn’t any reason for our being there except that there wasn’t any reason for our being anywhere else. plunk and i sat on one of those baggage-trucks that run along straight for a while and then turn up a hill at the end; binney sat on a trunk; and mark was on the platform, because that was the safest place for him and wouldn’t break down. it was hot and sleepy, and we wished we were somewheres else or that something exciting would happen. it didn’t, so we just sat there and talked, and finally we got to talking about mr. tidd’s engine. we’d seen him tinkering around it, and he’d told us about it, so we were interested.
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“wouldn’t it be great,” says binney, “if it worked when he got it done! us fellers could say all the rest of our lives that we knew intimate a inventor that was as big as edison.”
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we never had thought about that part of it before; but what binney said was so, and we got more anxious than ever for things to turn out right.
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mark he didn’t say anything, because he was drowsy and his head was nodding.
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“mr. tidd says it’ll reverlutionize the world,” binney put in. “he says if them romans had had one of his gas-turbines the empire never’d have fell.”
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“if it goes, nothin’ else’ll be used to run automobiles. if mr. tidd sold a engine for ev’ry automobile in the united states i guess he could afford livin’ to the hotel. i’ll bet he could own a automobile himself.”
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“and they’ll use ’em in fact’ries and steamboats, ’cause they kin be run with steam same as with gasolene.”
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“and won’t be more’n a twentieth as big as engines is now.”
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we kept on talking and describing what we thought mr. tidd’s turbine would do and guessing how long it would be before he was ready to try it to see if it went. we was so interested we never noticed a man sitting a little ways off on a trunk. pretty soon we did notice him, though, for he got up deliberate like and stretched himself and looked around as if he didn’t see anything, including us. then his eyes lit on mark, and he kind of grinned. he lighted a cigar and came walking over toward us.
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“how about this train?” he asks, like he wasn’t much interested but wanted to talk to pass away the time. “is it generally much behind?”
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“not much,” i says. “i ain’t known it to be over a hour late for two weeks.”
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“live here?” he asks, with another grin.
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i nodded, but didn’t say anything out loud.
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“pretty quiet place for boys, isn’t it?”
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“it ain’t what most folks’d call excitin’.”
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after a minute he says: “i used to live in a little town like this when i was a boy, and i remember there wasn’t very much to do. i used to hang around the carpenter shop watching the carpenters work, and around the machine shop seeing how the machinists did things. it was pretty interesting. i suppose you do the same here.”
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“we-ell, it ain’t exactly a machine shop we hang around.”
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“oh,” he says, “what is it?”
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just then mark seemed to wake up sudden he grunted and interrupted what i was going to say, and then did the saying himself. “it’s a b-barn,” he says.
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“oh,” says the man, “a barn? what do you watch in the barn? the horses?”
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the man didn’t say anything for a spell. “i was always interested in machines when i was a boy,” he says, at last. “any kind of a machine or engine got me all excited. but we didn’t have as fine machines then as you do now. they’re making improvements and inventing new things every day. some day they’re going to invent something to make locomotives better—something along the turbine line, i expect. know what a turbine is?”
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i was just going to say yes, when mark woke up again. “yes,” he says, “a t-t-turbine is a climbin’ vine that grows over p-porches.”
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the man kind of strangled and looked away. “no,” he says in a minute, “i guess you got it mixed up with woodbine.”
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“maybe so,” says mark.
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we heard the engine whistle, and the man hurried off to see about his baggage. the train pulled in and pulled out again and left us sitting on the platform wondering what to do next. mark stood up slow and tired and yawned till it seemed like his head would come off.
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“fellers,” says he, “you gabble like a lot of geese. looked like that man was more’n ord’nary interested in engines.”
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“’spose he heard what we was talking about?”
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mark looked at me disgusted. “tallow,” says he, “don’t go layin’ down in no pastures, ’cause a muley cow ’thout horns’ll come and chaw a hunk out of your p-p-pants.”
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“i guess i ain’t so green,” i told him, but he only grinned.
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“let’s go swimmin’,” says binney.
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mark shook his head and looked solemn. “go ahead if you want to. no swimmin’ for me; it’s friday, and i stepped on a spider this mornin’.”
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plunk busted out laughing. “haw,” he says, “believin’ in signs. i ain’t superstitious.”
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mark looked at him and blinked. “i ain’t superstitious, but i don’t b’lieve in takin’ extra chances. probably there ain’t nothin’ in it, but you can’t never tell.”
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that illustrates better than i can tell what kind of a fellow mark tidd was—cautious, looking on all sides of a thing he was thinking of doing, always trying to figure plans out ahead so nothing disagreeable could happen. i don’t want you to think he was a coward, because he wasn’t, but he never ran his head into trouble that could be dodged ahead of time.
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we all started for the river, because it would be cooler there even if we didn’t go in, but on the way mark found a four-leaf clover, and a white cat ran across the road in front of us, so he figured it out that if there was any bad luck about friday and killing a spider those two good-luck signs had knocked the spots off it.
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mark tidd wasn’t given much to exercise, but that isn’t saying he couldn’t stir around spry if there was some good reason. he never wanted to play baseball or tag or anything where you had to run, and usually when a game was going on he’d be lying under a tree reading a book. he said it was a lot easier reading about a game than playing it, and more interesting than watching the kind we played. he read a good deal, anyhow, mostly, i guess, because you can sit so still to do it, and rest at the same time if you want to; and it was surprising the things he got to know about that were useful to us. seemed like almost everything we wanted to do mark would have read about some better way of doing it, and that’s how we came to get up the k. k. k., which stands for ku klux klan.
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we were all sitting in tidd’s yard where the shade of the barn fell, and nobody had said anything for quite a spell. i was beginning to want to do something, and it was easy to see that plunk and binney were wriggling around uneasy like; but mark he lay with his little eyes shut tight, looking as peaceful and satisfied as a turtle on a log. all of a sudden the idea popped into my head, and i yelled right out, “let’s git up a secret society.”
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mark opened one eye and sort of blinked at me, and plunk and binney sat up straight.
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“what’ll we call it?” binney wanted to know.
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“who’ll be officers?” plunk asked.
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“i dunno,” i says, sharp like, because they seemed to think i ought to have the whole thing planned out for them to do without their lifting a hand.
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mark rubbed his eyes and rolled over on his side. “what’s the main thing about a s-secret society?” he asks.
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“payin’ dues,” i says, quick.
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“havin’ somethin’ to eat,” binney guessed.
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“naw,” mark grunts, contemptuous. “the main thing about a secret society is the s-s-secret.”
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we could see in a minute that he was right about that.
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“so,” he went on, “if we’re goin’ to have a secret society the first thing is to git a s-s-secret to have.”
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“i don’t know no secret,” binney said, shaking his head hard.
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“nor me,” said plunk.
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i thought a minute, because i knew a couple of secrets, but they were secrets i didn’t calculate to tell anybody, least of all mark and plunk and binney; so i just shook my head, too.
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“we’ll make a secret,” mark told us.
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“how?” i wanted to know, because i didn’t see how you could go to work to make a secret, but i might have known mark would find a way.
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“did you ever hear of the k-k-k-ku k-k-k-klux k-k-k-klan?”
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“what?” i asked.
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he said it over again.
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“i didn’t git it that time,” i told him. “sounds like a tongue-tied hen tryin’ to cackle.”
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mark sort of scowled at me and did it all over, but not one of us could make a thing of it.
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“write it,” i said; “that’s the only way we’ll ever git it.”
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at first he wasn’t going to do it, but we argued with him that it wasn’t any use spoiling a good thing like a secret society just because he couldn’t mention plain a name he wanted to tell us; so at last he wrote it down on a piece of paper. what he wrote was ku klux klan.
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“it don’t make no sense,” binney said. “what language is it, anyhow? dutch?”
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“it ain’t no language. it’s a name.”
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“of the most p-p-powerful secret society that ever was.”
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“i reckon it was over in russia or somewheres. it sounds like it.”
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“it was right here in the united states.”
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“hum,” i said, because that name didn’t sound a bit like the united states to me.
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“it was after the war.”
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“the spanish war?”
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“no. the north and south war.”
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“oh.... that one. what was it for?”
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“for protection. they went ridin’ around at night rightin’ wrongs and scarin’ folks and runnin’ things in general. they wore white sheets over their heads.”
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“it’s in the histories.”
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“and it was secret?”
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“the most secret thing ever was. even men in it didn’t know who one another was.”
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“let’s have one,” plunk yelled, squirming around like he was sitting on an ant’s nest. “i kin git a sheet.”
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“who’s goin’ to b’long?” i said; and then we all looked at one another.
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“nobody but us four,” binney whispers, because he’s beginning to feel secret already. there wasn’t any argument to that, so we agreed to be a ku klux klan, and to have our secret meeting-place in a little cave up across from the island where the swimming-hole was. it wasn’t much of a cave. just a little round room dug out of the hill by somebody a long time ago. i couldn’t stand up straight in it, and when we four was all inside there wasn’t much room left—not with mark tidd taking up the space he did.
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well, each of us got a sheet and hid it there, and we kept potatoes to bake and an old frying-pan and a kettle and other things like that in case of emergency, for there was no knowing what might come up with an organization like ours, and we knew we had to be ready. mark made up passwords and grips and secret signs; and we had an alphabet all of our own that we could write letters to one another in, which was fine, even though there never seemed to be anything very secret to write. but there come to be later on, and there was a time when we was glad of the cave and the potatoes and the frying-pan. but that wasn’t until the next spring, and lots of things happened before then.
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i guess maybe it was a month after we organized the klan when the stranger came to town. we were cooking dinner up at the cave that day—a black bass, four perch, and a couple of blue-gills, with baked potatoes—and we were just scouring the dishes with sand when we looked down and saw uncle ike bond come ambling along the river. uncle ike drove the bus when it was necessary and fished the rest of the time, which was most of the time; and he caught fish, too; lots of them. i guess he got a good many on night lines.
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binney jenks yelled down at uncle ike, and he looked up to see who it was. when he recognized mark tidd he sat down sort of tired on a log and motioned for us to come. he was a great friend of mark’s since the day the tidds moved to town; and he let on to folks that mark was the smartest boy in wicksville, which i wouldn’t be surprised if he was.
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we all went down the hill, three of us running, and mark panting along behind and puffing and snorting.
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“expectin’ any visitors?” uncle ike asked of mark.
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“no,” said mark, and sat down.
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“um!” grunted uncle ike.
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mark didn’t answer anything or ask questions, because if you do uncle ike is apt to shut up like a clam and not tell you another thing. he waited, knowing ike’d tell on if there was anything to say. the old man puffed away for a spell and then asked:
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“father’s makin’ some sort of a whirligig, ain’t he?”
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“yes. he’s inventin’ a e-e-engine.”
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“um!” grunted uncle ike. “calc’late it’s wuth anythin’?”
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mark nodded yes.
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“feller come in on the mornin’ train that seemed tolerable int’rested in sich whirligigs,” said uncle ike. “he allowed to set onto the seat with me and asked was i acquainted in town—me! asked was i acquainted in town!” it was hard for me to tell whether this made uncle ike mad or tickled him. he was that way, and you never could make him out. sometimes when he was maddest he looked most tickled, and when he was most tickled he looked maddest.
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“i allowed as how i knowed a few of the citizens by sight and more’n a dozen to speak to,” uncle ike went on, “and then he up and begun wantin’ to know. when folks gits to the wantin’-to-know stage on short acquaintance i git to the don’t-want-to-tell stage, and mister man didn’t collect no amazin’ store of knowledge, not while he was a-ridin’ on my bus.”
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he stopped talking and looked at mark, and mark looked at him. then uncle ike winked at mark. “if i was a smart boy,” he said, “and a stranger feller come to town snoopin’ around and askin’ questions about whirligigs, i’d sorter look into it, i would. and if that stranger feller was askin’ about the i-dentical kind of a whirligig my father was makin’ in the barn and calc’latin’ to git rich out of i’d look into it perty close. and if my father was one of these here inventor fellers that forgits their own names and would trust a cow to walk through a cornfield i’d be perty sharp and plannin’ and keep my eye peeled. that’s what i’d do, and i ain’t drove a bus these twenty years for nothin’, neither. the place to git eddicated,” he said, “is on top of a bus. there ain’t nothin’ like it. there’s where you see folks goin’ away and comin’ home, and there’s where you see strangers and actors and travelin’-men, and everybody that walks the face of the earth. colleges is all right, maybe, for readin’ and writin’, but when it comes to knowin’ who you kin depend on and who you got to look out for the bus is the place.”
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“did he ask about f-f-father?” mark wanted to know.
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“he didn’t mention him by name,” said uncle ike, grinning. “but he says to me, says he, ‘this is a nice town,’ says he, ‘and a town that looks as if there was smart folks in it. it’s lettle towns like this,’ he says, ‘that inventors and other great men comes from,’ says he. ‘have you got any inventors here?’ he asks.
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“‘there’s pete biggs,’ i says. ‘he’s up and invented a way to live without workin’.’
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“‘is that all?’ he asks, kind of disappointed.
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“‘wa-al,’ i says, like i was tryin’ hard to remember, ‘i did hear that slim peters invented some kind of a new front gate that would keep itself shut. but ’twan’t no go,’ i says, ‘’cause slim he had to chop down the gate with a ax,’ i says, ‘the first time he wanted to go through it. it was a fine gate to stay shut,’ i says, ‘but it wa’n’t no good at all to come open.’
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“‘ain’t there anybody here tryin’ to make an engine?’ he put in.
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“‘engine?’ says i. ‘engines is already invented, ain’t they? what’s the use inventin’ when some other feller’s done it first?’
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“‘i mean a new kind of an engine,’ he says, ‘a kind they call a turbine?’
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“‘oh,’ says i. ‘i ain’t met up with no engines like that, not in wicksville. we ain’t much on fancy names here, and i guess if a wicksville feller had invented anythin’ he wouldn’t have named it that—he’d ’a’ called it a engine right out.’
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“‘umph!’ says the feller, like he was mad, and then got out at the hotel. i stopped long enough to see him talkin’ with bert sawyer, so it’s likely he knowed all bert did inside of ten minutes. and that’s all there was to it.” he looked at mark with his eyes twinkling.
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mark got up kind of slow, blinking his eyes and looking back at uncle ike.
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“i guess i’ll go home,” he said.
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uncle ike slapped his knee and laughed a rattling kind of laugh way down in his throat. “there,” he whispered, like he was talking confidential to binney and plunk and me, “what’d i tell you? hey? what’d i tell you? don’t take him long to make up his mind, eh? quicker’n a flash; slicker’n greased lightnin’!”
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we went off up the hill after mark, leaving uncle ike sitting on the log laughing to himself and slapping his leg every minute or so. he sat there till we were out of sight.
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mark was pretty quiet walking along, thinking hard what to do, or whether he had better do anything; but finally he seemed to make up his mind and hurried off faster than i ever saw him walk before. and it was a warm day, too. we turned into his yard, and as we went through the gate he jerked his thumb toward the back yard.
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“you w-w-wait there,” he stuttered. “i may want you.” then he went in the front door.
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as we walked by we looked through the window and saw the stranger sitting in the parlor talking to mr. tidd, and he was nodding and smiling and being very polite; or, anyhow, it seemed that way to me. i always was sort of curious, so i stopped close to the window and listened, while plunk and binney went on around the house. i guess it isn’t very nice to listen that way, but i never thought of that until it was all over.
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mr. tidd was talking.
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“yes, sir,” he was saying, “the world don’t hold another book like this. the title says it’s the decline and fall of the roman empire, but it’s about more than that. why, it’s about everything. it don’t matter what happens, you can find the answer to it in gibbon.... yes, sir, the decline and fall is the greatest book of ’em all.”
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“i agree with you entirely, mr. tidd, entirely. it has been some time since i read the book, sir, but i have been promising myself that pleasure—and profit—for several months. i shall read it again, sir, as soon as i get home.”
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somehow the stranger’s face seemed familiar to me, but for a while i couldn’t place him. then all of a sudden it came to me: he was the man we saw on the depot platform who asked about turbines. i almost yelled out loud to mark.
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i listened again and heard the stranger say:
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“i’m in the engineering business, mr. tidd, and that’s why i came to see you. i heard you were working on some sort of a machine, and, as my company always wants to keep in touch with the latest developments of mechanics and engineering, i dropped in to have a chat with you.”
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“yes, yes,” said mr. tidd; but it was plain he was thinking about something else.
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“it happens often,” said the stranger, “that men like yourself, who have valuable ideas, lack the money to carry them out. very frequently my company, if the idea seems all right, advances the money to carry on experiments.”
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“money,” said mr. tidd, vaguely. “oh yes, money. i don’t need money. no. i have all the money i need.”
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the stranger looked disappointed, but he didn’t say anything about it.
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“you’re fortunate,” he told mr. tidd, “but maybe there’s something else i could do for you.”
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“not as i know of. don’t seem like i needed a thing, but i’m much obliged, much obliged.”
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“what is the nature of the work you are doing?” asked the man. i didn’t think he liked to come right out with the question that way, but probably he couldn’t invent any other way to get at it.
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“it’s a turbine,” said mr. tidd, right off, and his eyes began to shine. “it’s a practical turbine for locomotives and automobiles and power-plants and what not. why, sir, this engine of mine will stand on a base no bigger than a cook-stove and develop two hundred horse-power; and it will be reversible. i have a new principle, sir, for the application of steam; a new principle, it is—” he stopped suddenly, shook his head, and said, with a patient sort of smile, “my folks don’t like to have me talk too much about it.”
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“of course,” agreed the stranger, who had been leaning forward and edging farther toward the front of his chair, with interest. “of course. it is never wise to discuss such things too freely. how far has your work progressed?”
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“not far, not far. in the experimental stages. i have something to show for my work—nothing to boast of, but enough. enough to make me sure.”
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“i should be very interested to look over your workshop,” suggested the stranger. “i always like to see how a thorough machinist has things arranged.”
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at that i ducked and ran around the house, and just a moment later mark came tiptoeing out of the kitchen door. he held up his finger for us to be still and then motioned for us to follow him to the barn.
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in the barn he grabbed up a lot of drawings and stuffed them into my hands.
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“here. take these and hide back of the f-f-fence.”
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then he gave binney and plunk some funny-looking pieces of steel to carry, and snatched some other things himself, and we all sneaked out through the back gate and crouched down behind the fence out of sight.
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“father’s goin’ to s-show him the shop,” whispered mark. “i guess the feller was fixin’ to git a squint at these things. if he was it’s all right, and if he wasn’t no harm’s done.”
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in about two shakes of a lamb’s tail mr. tidd and the stranger came out of the shop and went inside. we had our ears to the wall and could hear how mr. tidd was being taffied by the man, and we could tell by the way he answered back that he was getting to like the stranger more and more every minute. butter wouldn’t melt in that man’s mouth. he was as full of compliments as an old grist-mill is of rats.
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after a while we heard mr. tidd say:
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“i dunno’s there’d be any objection to your lookin’ at my drawin’s and patterns and stuff. ’twon’t do no harm, i calc’late.”
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the man didn’t say anything, and pretended he wasn’t paying attention. we could hear mr. tidd moving around, and then he stopped still, and i knew he was scratching his head, though i couldn’t see him, because he always scratches his head when he can’t figure out just what’s going on.
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“i swan,” he said, kind of vague and wondering, “i’d ’a’ bet i left them things right here; i’d ’a’ bet a cookie. but they ain’t here—not a sign of ’em. now, ain’t that the beatenist? i must ’a’ carted ’em off some place without thinkin’. um! hum!... where’n tunket could it ’a’ been?”
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“what seems to be the matter?” asked the stranger, and his voice sounded anxious to me. it did to mark, too, because he nudged me.
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“i’ve up and mislaid my drawin’s and things,” said mr. tidd, sounding like he was apologizing. “ain’t that the dumbest thing! i’m always a-layin’ things around and forgettin’ ’em.”
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“surely they must be in the shop some place,” suggested the stranger.
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again we could hear mr. tidd rummaging around, but it wasn’t any use. “no,” he said, “no, they ain’t here. i wonder if i could ’a’ left ’em down to the grocery.”
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“what would you be doing with them at the grocery?”
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“nothin’ that i know of, but i might have tucked ’em under my arm and gone just the same. like’s not i did. wa-all, i’m sorry i can’t show ’em to you, but maybe they’ll turn up to-morrow.”
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“i’ve got to leave on the late train,” said the stranger.
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“too bad,” said mr. tidd, his mind still wondering where his things were. “too bad.” and with that he forgot all about the stranger and went out of the barn and off up the street talking to himself and scratching his head. the stranger looked after him and bit his lips; then he grinned like the joke was on him, and he went, too.
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“well,” i asked mark, “what now?”
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“we’ll put ’em right back,” he said, grinning, “and dad won’t know but what he just overlooked ’em.”
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we fixed everything like it was, and then we went down-town to see what we could find out about the stranger.
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he was in the hotel when we got there, and it was easy to get out of bert sawyer all he knew about him. his name was henry c. batten, and he lived in pittsburg. he was a traveling man for the international engineering company, bert thought, and later we found out it was so, because he left one of his cards in his room and bert found it.
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we sat on the hotel steps until uncle ike bond’s bus rattled up to carry folks to the late train. the stranger squeezed through the door and sat down in a corner, looking as if he wasn’t pleased with things in general. uncle ike winked at mark.
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“how’d you make out?” he whispered.
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mark went up close and told him all about it, and uncle ike like to have fallen off the seat laughing.
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“what’d i tell you?” he chuckled to nobody in particular. “ain’t he a slick one? ain’t he? slicker’n greased pole i call him, eh?”
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then he gathered up the lines, but stooped over again to whisper, “if ever this thing gits where you need help from uncle ike bond just up and say so in his hearin’, and we’ll see what a eddication got on top of a bus is good for.”
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i didn’t see what good he could ever do anybody, but that just shows how you can be mistaken in folks.
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right up till snow was on the ground the ku klux klan used to meet in the cave. we would go up there saturday mornings, all coming by different roads, and when we met there would be passwords and signals and grips and all sorts of secret things. after a while we got so many signs that a fellow had to be pretty careful what he was up to so as not to be telling the other members he was in deadly peril, or that a secret meeting was called at once, or something else, because almost everything we did had a meaning. for instance, if i was to reach around and scratch my back when mark or plunk or binney were looking, that meant that i had to speak to them right away about something important; and if one of us shoved both hands in his pockets at once that meant to look out because enemies were watching. all our signals were simple things like that that wouldn’t be noticed. mark got most of them up, and i guess there were more than a hundred things to be remembered.
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we used to sit in the cave and wish there were some real wrongs being done that we could right, or that we had some kind of a powerful enemy, or that there was a mean, miserable whelp that we could visit at night with our white sheets on and tie him to a tree and frighten him into being a good citizen; but there weren’t any, and we had to take it out in making believe. but that was almost as much fun.
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we had one sign that was never to be used except when we were desperate and needed help and succor, and that was to untie your necktie and tie it up again. but the best one of all was the jack-knife sign, and it was a dandy, because there were so many ways of using it. if one of us met the other and said “lemme take your jack-knife,” that was one way; or if you sent a note by somebody else with the word jack-knife in it, or anything like that. but the best way was the one to be used if you were a captive, or if enemies were surrounding the cave and you wanted to have your comrades rally around you. nobody would ever suspect it. all you had to do was to meet somebody, a farmer or a man fishing or any one, and give him your knife and tell him please to give it to any one of the society. as soon as that one got the knife he had to collect the others and make for the cave as fast as he could. it worked bully. lots of times i’ve sent my little brother over to mark’s with my knife, and dozens of times mark or binney or plunk have sent their knives to me. once binney sent his by his father, who was going past my house. i don’t believe the real, original ku-kluxers had a better sign than that.
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the cave was up on the side hill like i told you, and looked down on the river. i told you, too, how uncle ike bond was always fishing when he could get time, which was most always, and he used to come past almost every time we were there. after a while it got so he’d stop to talk to us or we’d go down to talk to him. finally one day he grinned, knowing-like, and asked what we were doing there so much.
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we looked at one another, and then mark reached around and scratched his back. that meant, of course, that he had to speak about something important right away, so we got up and told uncle ike we’d be back in a minute. he grinned and nodded.
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we went off out of earshot, and mark tidd whispered:
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“uncle ike’s a pretty good f-f-friend, ain’t he?”
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we said yes, he was.
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“i think he’s catchin’ on that we’re up to somethin’.”
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“maybe so,” i said.
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“let’s make him a m-member. then he can’t give us away. besides, he’d be a pretty valuable one, anyhow.”
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we talked it over awhile, and it was decided unanimous to make him a ku-kluxer, so we went back to where he was sitting.
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“uncle ike,” says mark, “can you keep a secret?”
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“wa-all, i hain’t never been tempted very hard, but i guess i can keep one good enough for ordinary purposes.”
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“this is the secretest thing that ever was,” says binney.
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“um!” says uncle ike. “you don’t tell!”
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“we’re the ku klux klan,” says plunk, to save mark the trouble of stuttering so many k’s.
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“and we want you to join if you’ll take the oath.”
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“sure,” says uncle ike. “i’ve always hankered to b’long to somethin’ secret, but i hain’t never seemed to git around to it.”
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mark recited the oath, and uncle ike swore to it solemn as could be. he seemed real glad to be a member. after that we spent most of the afternoon teaching him our secret signs and tokens and things. he said he didn’t think he could learn all of them, but that a few dozen of the most important would do. he seemed particular delighted with the jack-knife sign.
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“but looky here,” he said, shaking his finger in our faces, “don’t go workin’ any of them signs on me unless you mean ’em in earnest. you young fellers kin fool with ’em as much as you want to, but don’t go sendin’ me no jack-knives till you git where you need my help and need it bad. i’m too old to go gallivantin’ around chasin’ wild geese.”
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after that he stopped to our meetings more often than ever, and pretty nearly every time he’d have a big bass, or maybe a nice mess of pan-fish for us to cook for our dinner. we were all glad we made him a member.
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all this while mr. tidd was working steady on his turbine, and it was getting nearer and nearer to being ready for a trial to see if the model would work and do what he thought it was going to do. he didn’t do anything else but work in the barn and read the decline and fall and forget things. i mean he didn’t have any job, but lived on money that he had in the bank. if it hadn’t been for that he’d have had to go on being a machinist all the rest of his life, and probably wouldn’t ever have had time to do any inventing.
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with all his forgetting and absent-mindedness and inventing he was one of the most patient men. i never heard him speak sharp, and, no matter what happened, good or bad, he took it just the same, not seeming much disturbed; and always simple and kind-spoken to everybody. he always would stop to answer questions or explain things or just talk to us boys if we came into the shop, and never told us to get out or quit bothering him. nothing bothered him. but mrs. tidd wasn’t that way. she’d worry and worry, and sometimes when she was flying around up to her ears in work she’d out with something cross, not meaning it at all, but letting it fly off the tip of her tongue. but she was never short with mr. tidd and never exasperated with him, no matter what he forgot or did wrong.
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all four of us—that is, mark and plunk and binney and me—went out to mr. tidd’s shop to ask if mark could come with us and camp friday night and saturday and saturday night and sunday at our cave. the rest of us had asked and could go if we wanted to. we wanted to, but we didn’t want to without mark.
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“you’ve got it tied around your neck,” binney told him.
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mr. tidd felt and found it where binney said. “well, well,” he sort of whispered. “however come that there?”
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“pa,” began mark, “can i go camping at the cave? the fellers are goin’.”
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“camping,” said mr. tidd; “camping at the cave? to be sure—at the cave. um! what cave?”
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“our cave,” we all said at once.
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we told him all about it, and he was as interested as could be, asking questions and nodding his head and smiling, just like he wanted to go to the cave himself.
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“can i go, pa?” mark asked, when we were through.
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“far’s i’m concerned you can,” said mr. tidd, “but you better ask your ma. she sort of looks after such things. i guess she looks after everything; and, mark, when you ask her see if she knows where my shoes are. i swan i couldn’t find ’em this mornin’ when i came out—couldn’t find hide nor hair of ’em. it does beat all how things get lost.”
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mrs. tidd was dusting the parlor when we went in, and had a cloth tied around her hair. she was just flying around, poking behind things and into corners and going as fast as if she had to have it all done in two minutes.
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“ma,” mark says, poking his head through the door, “can i go campin’ with the fellers?”
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“no,” says mrs. tidd, without turning her head. then she stopped a second and felt of her hair. “what’s that you say?”
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mark asked her again, and we chipped in and explained.
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“was ever such a boy!” she said to herself. “here i got all the cleanin’ and dustin’, and bread in the oven. will you be careful and cover up good at night and not get into any mischief?”
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“what you going to have to eat?”
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i told her we’d bake potatoes and have fish and one thing another.
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“you sha’n’t do no sich thing—gain’ without proper food!” and off she flew to the kitchen and got a basket in a jiffy. into it she put a big chunk of ham, and a loaf of bread and some butter, and a whole pie and half a chocolate cake, and what was left of a pot of baked beans. “there,” says she, “i guess that’ll keep you from starvin’.”
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we said good-by and started for the door, but she came running after us. “mark,” she says, “you take these gray blankets, and, mind you, bring them back again or you’ll hear from me.” then she kissed him and flew back to her dusting again.
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we had all of our things in the front yard, and it didn’t take us any time to get them packed on our backs and start for the river. it was only about half an hour’s walk, but it took us a little longer to get there on account of mark, who wanted to rest every little while; but it wasn’t really resting he wanted; it was a piece of his mother’s cake. we ate it all up before we got to the cave at all.
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we got at the cave from the top of the hill and threw our things down on the slope in front. it was a little chilly in the shade, so mark told us to gather wood for a fire while he packed things away the way they ought to be. i guess we were gone twenty minutes. when we came back everything was just where we left it, and mark was standing looking into the cave with his face wrinkled up like it gets when he’s puzzled.
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“been workin’ hard, ain’t you?” sings out plunk.
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usually mark would have said something back, but this time he didn’t. he turned around and asks, “have any of you been here since last saturday?”
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“s-somebody’s been in the cave.”
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“how do you know?” i asked him.
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“things been moved around, and some p-p-potaters is gone,” he stuttered.
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“let’s look,” says binney; and we all crowded in. mark knew where everything ought to be, even if we didn’t, and he told us just what had been touched and what hadn’t. “he used the f-fryin’-pan,” he grumbled. “look!”
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sure enough, there was the frying-pan with grease sticking to the bottom, and we never left it that way.
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“wonder who it could have been?” says plunk.
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“maybe it was uncle ike,” guessed binney.
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“no,” says mark, “he’d ’a’ cleaned the pan.”
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that was right. we knew he wouldn’t leave any dirty dishes around.
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well, it kind of upset us. of course, the cave wasn’t ours, and anybody could come into it that wanted to, but nobody ever did. it was such a little cave that it didn’t amount to much to look at, and it was quite a climb; and now here was somebody poking into our things, and it made us pretty sore.
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“probably some feller come along fishin’ and happened onto it,” binney guessed.
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it didn’t do any good to bother about it, so we set to work and packed our things away and got a fire ready to light. in front of the cave was a little patch of sand—white sand crumbled off the sandstone that the cave was carved out of, i guess—and it was there we had our fires and did our cooking. mark always fixed the fires, because he knew how to pile the sticks and get them to blazing even if the wind was blowing like sixty. now he was crouched down ready to strike a match when all of a sudden he said something like he was startled.
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“what’s matter?” i asked him.
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he didn’t answer, but bent over and looked at something in the sand. somehow i felt shivery all at once without any reason, and walked over where he was to see what he was looking at. there in the sand was some kind of a footprint; it was a bare foot, but big, bigger than two ordinary men’s feet, with the toes growing sort of sideways. i looked at mark, and he looked at me.
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“what made it?” i whispered. for a minute it didn’t seem safe to speak out loud.
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“i dunno,” says mark, with his eyes big and his face serious. “looks like a man if the toes weren’t on sideways.”
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we called plunk and binney, but they couldn’t make anything out of it, so we built the fire good and big, just in case it was some kind of a wild animal. we knew animals were afraid of fire.
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it was binney who thought about the frying-pan. “it must be a man, or it wouldn’t have used the pan,” he says.
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that was right. animals don’t cook. plunk drew a long breath. “maybe it’s a wild man,” he said, trembly voiced.
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“like there was with that circus last summer,” i said, remembering the pictures in front of the tent of seven men catching a thing all hair and beard, with skins on it for clothes, and big teeth. we all got closer to the fire.
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“bosh!” snorts mark; but his voice was a little dry, and he didn’t look any too comfortable. “there ain’t any wild men.” but he didn’t believe it and we didn’t believe it.
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“what had we better do?” asks binney.
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“nothing,” says plunk, letting on he wasn’t afraid. “it won’t hurt anybody even if it is a wild man. and, besides, there are four of us.”
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that wasn’t so very encouraging, judging from the size of the footprint. anything with a foot as big as that could take four boys at a bite.
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“had we better stay?” binney was pretty scared and showed it.
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“of course,” plunk told him. “we ain’t babies. we got to stay.”
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we couldn’t very well back down after that. i expect every one of us was willing enough to pack up and go, but nobody would start it, so we sat close to the blaze and talked about other things, and made believe to one another that wild men were the last thing in the world we’d ever think of running away from.
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it began to get dark, and we cooked supper. it wasn’t a very cheerful meal because every once in a while one of us would stop to listen and ask, “what was that?” there were lots of noises, like there always are in the woods, but they never seemed so shivery before. the moon didn’t come up till late, and it was dark as a pocket except where our fire lighted things up for a few feet.
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“we ought to have a gun,” said plunk, after we had been quiet a long time.
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“bosh!” said mark. “let’s go to b-b-bed.”
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miracle discredits the ordered scheme of creation; and quite as much does it do so if you believe creation to be the work of a personal deity. creation (science shows us more and more) was from its inception a process of absolutely related causes and effects--a whole system reared up through millions and millions of years upon a structure involving infinite millions of lives and deaths--and the whole a perfect sequence of causal happenings.
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that is “life” as it is presented to man’s reason and understanding; and if his reason and understanding are not to faint utterly, he must in his search for a moral principle “find god (as the psalmist puts it) in the land of the living,” or not at all. for as he estimates the moral value of things solely by that empyric sense which has been evolved in him through a faithful recognition of the inevitable laws of cause and effect, so must he become demoralised, if he is to be taught that what he has regarded as inevitable can be capriciously suspended by a power independent of those laws which life has taught him to reverence.
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do not think, for a moment, that i am questioning the power of faith or the power of prayer. it is a tenable proposition that they are the most tremendous power in the world; and yet we may hold that they take effect through the natural law alone, and have come into existence through the courses of evolution--or, if you like to put it so--in a faithful following of the will which, in the act of creation, made a compact and kept it.
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but if the compact of creation was not kept, if that impact of spirit upon matter (which through such vast eras and through such innumerable phases of life worked by cause and effect) was ever tampered with so that cause and effect were suspended, then the whole process becomes discredited to our moral sense, and its presiding genius is discredited also.
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are we to suppose that through the earlier millions of years, when only the elementary forms of life were present upon this globe, cause and effect went on unsuspended and unhindered, and that these processes, having once been started (engendered, let us assume, by the immanent will), held absolute sway over the development of life for millions and millions of years, until a time came when humanity appeared, and the idea of religion and a deity entered the world; and that this process then became subject to a dethronement? are we to believe that then intervention in a new form, and upon a different basis (not of cause and effect) began to take place? if that is the proposition, then, it seems to me, we are asked (having accepted the idea of a creator) to impute to him discreditable conduct--to believe that a point came in these causal processes which he had instituted when he could no longer “play the game” without arbitrary interference with its rules, and that the appearance of man upon the globe was the signal for a fatal weakening to his character.
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i have seen a clergyman cheat at croquet. he was the by-word of the neighbourhood for that curious little weakness; but i assure you that the spectacle of that reverend gentleman surreptitiously pushing his ball into better position with his foot instead of depending upon the legitimate use of his mallet, was no more ignoble a spectacle than that which i am asked to contemplate by believers in miracle when they present to my eyes a deity who (upon their assertion) does similar things.
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test upon this basis of morality the most crucial of all events in christian theology.
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the idea of the incarnation of god in human form as the final and logical fulfilment of the creative purpose and process--the manifestation of the creator in the created--has had for many great thinkers a very deep attraction. but if the process which brings him into material being--the so-called virgin-birth--is not a process implicit in nature itself and one that only depends for its realisation on man’s grasp of the higher law which shall make it natural and normal to the human race--if the virgin-birth is miracle instead of perfectly conditioned law revealing itself, then, surely, such a device for bringing about the desired end is “discreditable conduct”--because it discredits that vast system of evolution through cause and effect which we call “life.” from such an incarnation i am repulsed as from something monstrous and against nature; and the doings and sayings of a being so brought into the world are discredited by the fact of a half-parentage not in conformity with creative law.
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now when one ventures to question the moral integrity of so fundamental a religious doctrine, and to give definite grounds as to why adverse judgment should be passed on it, there will not be lacking theologians ready to turn swiftly and rend one something after this manner: “who are you, worm of a man, to question the operations of the eternal mind, or dare to sit in judgment on what god your maker thinks good?”
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the answer is “i don’t. it is only your interpretation of those operations that i question.” but on that head there is this further to say: “by the creative process god has given to man a reasoning mind; and it is only by the use of the reason so given him that man can worship his maker.” to give man the gift of reason and then to take from him the right fully to exercise it, is discreditable conduct.
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that tendency i attribute not to the deity but to the theologian--more especially as i read in the scriptures that where god had a special revelation to make to a certain prophet who thought a prostrate attitude the right one to assume under such circumstances, divine correction came in these words, “stand upon thy feet, and i will speak to thee.” some people seem to think that the right attitude is to stand upon their heads.
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it is told in some early victorian memoirs that a group of oxford dons were discussing together the relations of mortal man to his god, and one postulated that the only possible attitude for man to assume in such a connection was that of “abject submission and surrender.” but even in that dark epoch such a doctrine was not allowed to go unquestioned. “no, no,” protested another, “deference, not abject submission.” and though it is a quaint example of the oxford manner, surely one must agree with it. reason being man’s birthright, “stand upon thy feet and i will speak to thee,” is the necessary corollary. even if there be such a thing as divine revelation--the revelation must be convincing to man’s reason, and not merely an attack upon his nerves, or an appeal to his physical fears.
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similarly any form of government or of society which does not allow reason to stand upon its feet and utter itself unashamed is a discreditable form of discipline to impose, if reason is to be man’s guide.
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now i do not know whether, by characterising the device of a “miraculous” birth as discreditable to its author, i am not incurring the penalty of imprisonment in a country which says that it permits free thought and free speech (at all events in peace-time). a few years ago a man was sent to prison--i think it was for three months--for saying similar things: a man who was a professed unbeliever in divinity. and quite obviously the discreditable conduct in that case was not of the man who acted honestly up to his professions, but of this country which, professing one thing, does another. and the most discreditable figure in the case was the home secretary who, though entirely disapproving of this legal survival of religious persecution, and with full power to exercise the royal prerogative of mercy which has now become his perquisite, refused to move in the matter, and said he saw no reason for doing so. his discredit was, of course, shared by the cabinet, by parliament and by the country--which (without protest except from a few distinguished men of letters and leaders of religious thought) allowed that savage sentence to stand on grounds so antiquated and so inconsistent with our present national professions.
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nationally we are guilty of a good deal of discreditable conduct on similar lines. we profess one thing, and we do another.
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our politicians tell us that they rely upon the voice of the people, yet often they employ the political machine which they control, for the express purpose of evading it. a few years ago a liberal statesman was appointed to cabinet-rank, and had in consequence to go to his constituency for re-election. he belonged to the party which makes a particular boast of its trust in the popular verdict. but in order to make his election more safe--before his appointment became public property--he communicated to his party agent his ministerial knowledge of the coming event so that the date of the bye-election could be calculated. and the agent proceeded to book up all the public halls in the constituency over the period indicated. then, in order that the scandal might not become too flagrant he generously released a proportion of his bookings to his conservative opponent, but refused to release any at all to his labour opponent; and on those nicely arranged conditions he fought his election--and got beaten.
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now that was surely discreditable conduct, for here was a statesman who, while ostensibly appealing to the voice of the people was doing his level best behind the scenes to deny to it a full and a free opportunity of expression. yet the whole political world was in so discreditable a condition that there were actually people who thought then--and perhaps still think to-day--that that budding politician was unfairly and hardly treated when he was thereafter pursued from constituency to constituency by his cheated opponent, and successfully prevented from re-entering parliament even to this day. probably in other branches of life he was an upright and honourable man, but politics had affected him, as religion or social ambition has affected others, and made him a discreditable witness to the faith which he professed.
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now when you have great organisations and great institutions thus discrediting themselves by conniving at the double-dealings of those whom they would place or keep in authority--you cannot expect the honestly critical observer to continue to place their judgment above his own, or to believe (when some difficult moral problem presents itself) that there is safety for his own soul in relying upon their solution of it.
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the sanction of the popular verdict in a community which is true to its professions is very great and should not lightly be set aside. but the sanction of a community or of an organisation which is false to its professions is nil. and it is in the face of such conditions (to which society and religion always tend to revert so long as their claim is to hold power on any basis of inequality or privilege) that the individual conscience is bound to assert itself and become a resistant irrespective of the weight of numbers against it. and so, in any state where it can be said with truth that the average ethical standard for individual conduct is better than the legal standard, the duty of individual resistance to evil law begins to arise. “bad laws,” said a wise magistrate, “have to be broken before they can be mended.” and to be broken with good effect they must be broken not by the criminal classes but by the martyrs and the reformers. it is not without significance that every great moral change in history has been brought about by lawbreakers and by resistance to authority.
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when the english nonconformists of two or three centuries ago were fighting governments and breaking laws, they were doing so in defence of a determination to hold doctrines often of a ridiculous kind and productive of a very narrow and bigoted form of religious teaching--a form which, had it obtained the upper hand and secured a general allegiance, might have done the state harm and not good. but, however egregious and even pernicious their doctrine, the justice (and even the value) of the principle for which they contended was not affected thereby. the life of the spirit must take its chance in contact with the life material, and society must have faith that all true and vital principles will (given a free field and no favour) hold their own against whatever opponents. that is the true faith to which society is called to-day--but which it certainly does not follow--especially not in war time.
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we talk a great deal about liberty, democratic principle, and government by majority; but if those ideals have any real meaning, they mean that--given free trade in ideas and in propaganda on all ethical and moral questions--you have got to trust your community to choose what it thinks good. and to refuse to the general community the means of deciding for itself by the utmost freedom of discussion, is--in a state based on these principles--the most discreditable conduct imaginable.
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but of what worth, you may ask, is this moral sanction of a majority? i am not myself greatly enamoured of majority rule in the sense of a majority exercising compulsion on a minority. compulsion by a majority i should often think it a duty to resist. but to the testimony of a majority that refrained from compulsion i should attach the greatest possible weight. there you would get a public opinion which by its own self-restraint and scrupulous moderation of conduct would be of the highest moral value. for society fearlessly to admit the full and open advocacy of that which it disapproves is the finest proof i can imagine of its moral stability, and of its faith in the social principles it lives by.
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broadly speaking--with the exception i have already referred to--that view is now admitted in matters of religion; you may hold and you may advocate what religious principles you like. but you are not so free to hold and advocate social and ethical principles. the veto of society has shifted, and you are far less likely to incur opprobrium and ostracism to-day if you advocate polytheism than if you advocate polygamy or pacifism. and the reason for this, i take to be, that the religion of modern society is no longer doctrinal but ethical; and so our tendency is to inhibit new ethical teaching though we would not for a moment countenance the inhibition of new doctrinal teaching.
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that is our temptation, and i think that in the coming decade there will be a great fight about it; we are not so prepared as we ought to be to allow a free criticism of those social institutions on which our ideas of moral conduct are based, even when they cover (as at present constituted) a vast amount of double-dealing.
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take for instance this western civilization of ours which bases its social institutions of marriage, property, and inheritance on the monogamic principle, but persists in moral judgments and practices whose only possible justification is to be found in the rather divergent theory that the male is naturally polygamous and the female monogamous.
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these two ideals, or social practices, make mutually discrediting claims the one against the other. i am not concerned to say which i think is right. but on one side or the other we are blinking facts, and are behaving as though they had not a determining effect upon conduct and character which society ought straightforwardly to recognise.
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the man who maintains that it is impossible for the male to live happily and contentedly in faithful wedlock with one wife and then goes and does so, commits himself by such matrimonial felicity to discreditable conduct--discreditable to his professions, i mean. and it is, of course, the same if his inconsistency takes him the other way about.
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there may, however, be an alternative and more honest solution to this conflict of claims; both may contain a measure of truth. it may be true that monogamy--or single mating--faithfully practised by man and woman alike, is ideally by far the best solution of the sex-relations, and the best for the state to recognise and encourage by all legitimate means; just as vegetarianism and total abstinence may be the best solution of our relation to food, or non-resistance of our relation to government, or abject submission of our relation to theological teaching. but though these may be ideals to strive for, it does not follow that human nature is so uniformly constructed upon one model as to justify us in making them compulsory, or in turning round and denouncing as moral obliquity either plural mating or the eating of meat, or the drinking of wine, or rebellion against civil authority, or free thought in matters of religion.
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if the community deliberately decides that one of these courses gives the better social results, it is within its power to discourage the other course, without descending to compulsion; and i am inclined to think that this may, in the majority of cases, be done by treating the desires and appetites of resistant minorities as taxable luxuries. if the state finds, for instance, that alcoholism increases the work of its magistrates and police, and diminishes the health and comfort of home-conditions, it may quite reasonably tax beer, wine and spirits, not merely to produce revenue but to abate a nuisance. but it would be foolish, were it to go on to say that everybody who incurred such taxes was guilty of moral obliquity.
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in the same way, if the state wishes to discourage vegetarianism and temperance, it will tax sugar, currants, raisins, tea, cocoa and coffee, and will continue to tax them till it has diminished the consumption; and incidentally it will let meat go free. but it will not pass moral judgments--having the fear of human nature before its eyes--on those who conscientiously bear the burden of those taxes rather than give up what they think good for them.
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i could imagine the state, in its wisdom, seeking to discourage luxury and the accumulation of wealth into the possession of the few, by imposing a graduated income tax of far more drastic severity than that which is now depleting the pockets of our millionaires--but not therefore saying that all who incurred income tax above a certain scale were guilty of moral obliquity.
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we have seen a state which required an increase of its population setting a premium on children so as to encourage parents to produce them; and i can imagine a state which required a diminution in the increase of its population setting a tax on children, but not therefore joining in the cry of the neo-malthusians that every married couple who produced more than four children were guilty of a kind of moral depravity. and further, i can imagine a state which wished to encourage pure and unadulterated monogamy putting a graduated tax, practically prohibitive in price, on any other course of conduct productive of second or third establishments. but i do not see why the state, as state, should concern itself further, or why society should concern itself more deeply about sexual than it does about commercial and trade relations, wherein it allows far more grievous defections from the ideal of human charity to exist.
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leaving it to the individual is not to say that your views as to the desirability of such conduct will not influence your social intercourse, and perhaps even affect your calling list. a great many things affect our calling lists, without any necessity for us to be self-righteous and bigoted about the principle on which we make our own circle select. there are some people who will call upon the wives of their doctors, but not of their dentists; there are others who will not call upon the organist who conducts them to the harmonies of divine service on sunday, but would be very glad to call upon sir henry wood, who conducts their popular concerts for them during the week. we make our selection according to our social tastes and aspirations, and sometimes those social tastes may include a certain amount of moral judgment. but that moral judgment need not make us interfere; if it keeps us at a respectful and kindly distance from those whom we cannot regard with full charity, it keeps us sufficiently out of mischief.
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take the public hangman, for instance. i, personally, would not have him upon my calling list. i would like to put a graduated tax upon him and tax him out of existence. i think he is lending himself to a base department of state service; but i also think that the state is tempting him; and i think that, in a symbolical way, all of you who approve of capital punishment ought to put the public hangman upon your calling list--or not exclude him because of his profession (which you regard as useful and necessary), but only because he happens to be personally unattractive to you. if you exclude him, because of his profession, while you consider his profession a necessity--you are guilty, i think, of discreditable conduct, and in order to stand morally right with yourselves you had better go (i speak symbolically) and leave cards on him to-morrow.
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what i mean seriously to say is this: there is a great danger to moral integrity in any acceptance of social conditions which you would refuse to interpret into social intercourse. if you believe prostitution to be necessary for the safety of the home--which is the doctrine of some--you must accept the prostitute as one who fulfils an honourable function in the state. if you accept capital punishment, you must accept the hangman. if you accept meat, you must accept the slaughterman; if you accept sanitation you must accept the scavenger. if you accept dividends or profit from sweated labour, you must accept responsibility for sweated conditions, and for the misery, the ill-health, the immorality and the degradation which spring from them.
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we may be quite sure that far worse things come from these conditions on which we make our profit than are contained in the majority of those lives which, because of their irregularities or breaches of convention, we so swiftly rule off our calling lists. if we are not willing to forego the dividends produced for us out of our tolerated social conditions, why forego contact with that human material which they bring into being? but if you accept contact there, then you will have a difficulty in finding any human material of greater abasement to deny to it the advantage of your acquaintance.
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i have purposely put my argument provocatively, and applied it to thorny and questionable subjects, because i want to reach no halfway conclusion in this matter, and because the real test of our spiritual toleration is now shifting from matters religious to matters social, from questions of doctrine to questions of daily life. to-day we must be prepared to tolerate a propaganda of social ideas--the products of which, if they succeeded in obtaining a hold, would in the estimation of many be as regrettable as were the products of calvinism or puritanism in the past, when they were much more powerful than now.
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our hatred of these new social ideas may be just as keen as the hatred of catholicism for protestantism or of protestantism for catholicism, in days when religious doctrine seemed to matter everything. more keen it could not be. the dangers these new ideas present could not be greater in our eyes than in the eyes of our forefathers were the dangers of false doctrine three centuries ago. but the principle which demands that they shall be free to state their case and to make converts remains always the same. nevertheless it is unlikely to be granted without struggle except by an intelligent minority.
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the religious movement of the twentieth century, i say again, is not doctrinal but social; and its scripture is not the bible or any written word, but human nature itself.
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we are on the brink of great discoveries in human nature, and many of our ethical foundations are about to be gravely disturbed. the old manichee dread of the essential evil--the original and engrained sin--of human nature remains with us still, and there will be a great temptation, as there always has been, not merely to controvert (which is permissible) but to persecute and suppress those who preach new ideas. it is against such discreditable conduct that we have now to be on our guard.
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at the threshold of this new era to which we have come, with our old civilisation so broken and shattered about us by our own civilising hands, the guiding spirit of man’s destiny has its new word to say, to which we must listen with brave ears. and first and foremost it is this, “stand upon thy feet--and i will speak with thee.”
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what is womanly?
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the title of my lecture has, i hope, sent a good many of you here--the women of my audience, i mean--in a very bristling and combative frame of mind, ready to resent any laying down of the law on my part as to what is or what is not “womanly.” i hope, that is to say, that you are not prepared to have the terms of your womanliness dictated to you by a man--or, for that matter, by a woman either.
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for who can know either the extent or the direction of woman’s social effectiveness until she has secured full right of way--a right of way equal to man’s--in all directions of mental and physical activity, or, to put it in one word, the right to experiment?
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there are, i have no doubt, many things which women might take it into their heads to do, which one would not think womanly at their first performance, but which one would think womanly when one saw their results at long range. no rule of conduct can be set up as an abstract right or wrong; we must form our ethics on our social results; and in the world’s moral progress the really effective results have generally come by shock of attack upon, or of resistance to, some cherished conventions of the day.
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take, for example, a thing which has seemed to concern only the male sex, but which has really concerned women just as intimately--the history of our male code of honour in relation to the institution of duelling. there was a time in our history when it would have been very difficult to regard as manly the refusal to fight a duel. but it is not difficult to-day to see in such a refusal a very true manliness. we in this country have got rid of the superstition that honour can in any way be mended by two men standing up to take snap-shots at each other; and now that we are free from the superstition ourselves, we can understand, looking at other countries--germany, for instance--that it must often require more courage to refuse to fight than to consent. but we have arrived at that stage of enlightenment only because in our own history there have been men courageous enough and manly enough to dare to be thought unmanly and cowardly. and as with our manhood so with our womanhood; you cannot judge of what is womanly merely on the lines of past conventions, produced under circumstances very different from those of our own days. you must give to women as you give to men the right to experiment, the right to make their own successes and their own failures. you cannot with good results lay upon men and women, as they work side by side in the world (very often under hard competitive conditions) the incompatible rules which govern respectively a living language and a dead language. a living language is constantly in flux, inventing new words for itself, modifying its spelling and its grammatical construction, splitting its infinitives. in a dead language the vocabulary is fixed, the spelling is fixed, the construction is fixed; but the use and the meaning often remain doubtful. and so, if you attempt to determine the woman’s capabilities merely by her past record, and to fix the meaning of “womanliness” in any way that forbids flux and development, then you are making the meaning and the use of the word very doubtful.
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now, obviously, if to be “womanly” means merely to “strike an average,” and be as like the majority of women as possible--womanliness as a quality is not worth thinking about; it will come of its own accord, and exists probably a good deal in excess of our social need for it. it stands on a par with that faculty for submission to the unconscionable demands of others which makes a sheep sheepish and a hen prolific. to be what henry james calls “intensely ordinary” is, from the evolutionary point of view, to be out of the running.
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we see this directly we start applying the word “manly” to men. for we do not take that to mean merely average quality--if it did, over-eating, over-drinking, and that form of speech which i will call over-emphasis--would all be manly qualities--and the evolution of the race would, according to that doctrine, lie on the lines of all sorts of over-indulgence. but when we say “manly,” we mean the pick and polish of those qualities which enable a man to possess himself and to develop all his faculties; and if it denotes discipline it also denotes an insistence on freedom--freedom for development, so that all that is in him may be brought out for social use.
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now, the great poverty which modern civilization suffers from, is the undevelopment or the under-development of the bulk of its citizens. and the great wastage that we suffer from lies in the misdirection toward the over-indulgence of our material appetites--of the energies which should make for our full human development. and you may be quite sure that where in a community of over-population and poverty such as ours, the average man, as master, is demanding for himself more of these things than his share, there the average woman (where she is in economic subjection) is getting less than her share. yet there are many people who (viewing this problem of woman’s subjection where the savage in man is still uppermost) will tell you that it is “womanly” to be self-sacrificing and self-denying; they will say that it is the woman’s nature to be so more than it is the man’s; for, like milton, in his definition of the ideal qualities of womanhood, they put the word “subjection” first and foremost. that condition, which, according to scripture, only followed after the curse as its direct product, was, you will remember, predicated by milton, quite falsely, as essential even to the paradisal state; and when in paradise lost he laid down this law of “subjection” as the right condition for unfallen womanhood, he went on to describe the divinely appointed lines on which it was to operate. the woman was to subject herself to man--
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“with submission, and sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.”
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those, surely, are the qualifications of the courtesan for making herself desired; and it is no wonder, if he had such an eve by his side as was invented for him by milton, that adam fell.
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where true womanliness is to end i do not know; but i am pretty sure of this--that it must begin in self-possession. it is not womanly for a woman to deny herself either in comforts or nourishment, or in her instincts of continence and chastity in order that someone else--whether it be her children or her husband--may over-indulge. it is womanly (it is also manly), when there is danger of hurt or starvation to those for whom you are responsible, to suffer much rather than that they should suffer; but it is not in the least womanly or manly to suffer so that they may indulge. the woman who submits to the starving of herself or of her children by a drunken or a lazy husband is not in any positive sense womanly--for she is then proving herself ineffective for her social task. and she would be more effective, and therefore more womanly, if she could, by any means you like to name, drive that lazy husband into work, or abstract from that drunken husband a right share of his wages. and if by making his home a purgatory to him she succeeded, she would be more womanly in the valuable sense of the word than if (by submission to injustice) she failed, and let her children go starved.
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then, again, a woman may see that the children she and her husband are producing ought never to have been born. and if that is so, is it womanly for her to go on bearing children at the dictates of the man, even though st. paul says, “wives, obey your husbands”? is she any more womanly, if she knowingly brings diseased offspring into the world, than he is manly in the fathering of them?
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but now, come out of the home into society--not into any of those departments of unsolved problems where humanity is seen at its worst--pass all those by for the moment--and come to the seat of administration--into that great regulator of society, the law-courts (in the superintendence and constitution of which woman is conspicuous by her absence). there, as in matters connected with the male code of honour, any duty of initiative on the part of women may seem, at first sight, to be far removed. but let us see! in the law-courts you meet with a doctrine--a sort of unwritten law--that there are certain cases to which women must not listen. and occasionally “all decent women” are requested to leave the court, when “decent” men are allowed to stay. now, in the face of that request it must be a very painful thing indeed for a woman to hold her ground--but it may be womanly for her to do so. it may be that in that case there are women witnesses; and i do not think our judges sufficiently realise what mental agony it may be to a woman to give evidence in a court where there are only men. i am quite sure that in such cases, if the judge orders women generally out of court, he ought to provide one woman to stand by the woman in the witness-box. how would any man feel, if he were called before a court composed only of women, women judges, a woman jury, women reporters, and saw all men turned out of the court before he began his evidence? would he feel sure that it meant justice for him? i think not.
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now these cases to which women are not to listen almost always specially concern women; yet here you have men claiming to deal with them as much as possible behind the woman’s back, and to keep her in ignorance of the lines on which they arrive at a conclusion. surely, then, it would be well for women of expert knowledge and training to insist that these things shall not be decided without women assessors, and to be so “womanly” as to incur the charge of brazenness and immodesty in defending the woman’s interest, which in such matters is also the interest of the race.
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but it is only very gradually--and in the face of immemorial discouragement--that this communal or social spirit, when it began to draw woman outside her own domesticity, has fought down and silenced the reproach raised against it, of “unwomanliness,” of an intrusion by woman into affairs which were outside her sphere. the awakening of the social conscience in women is one of the most pregnant signs of the time. but see what (in order to make itself effective) it has had to throw over at each stage of its advance--things to which beautiful names have been given, things which were assumed all through the victorian era to be essential to womanliness, and to be so engrained in the woman’s nature, that without them womanliness itself must perish. the ideal of woman’s life was that she should live unobserved except when displayed to the world on the arm of a proud and possessive husband, and the height of her fortune was expressed in the phrase enviously quoted by mrs. norton, “happy the woman who has no history.” now that ideal was entirely repressive of those wider activities which during the last fifty years have marked and made happy, in spite of struggle, the history of woman’s social development; and every fresh effort of that social spirit to find itself and to become effective has always had to face, at the beginning of each new phase in its activity, the charge of unwomanliness.
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compare that attack, fundamental in its nature, all-embracing in its condemnation, with the kind of attack levelled against the corresponding manifestations of the social or reforming spirit in man. in a man, new and unfamiliar indications of a stirring-up of the social conscience may earn such epithets of opprobrium as “rash,” “hot-headed,” “ill-considered,” “impracticable,” “utopian”--but we do not label them as “unmanly.” initiative, fresh adventure of thought or action in man have always been regarded as the natural concomitant of his nature. in a woman they have very generally been regarded as unnatural, unwomanly. the accusation is fundamental: it does not concern itself with any unsoundness in the doctrines put forward; but only with the fact that a woman has dared to become their mouthpiece or their instrument. go back to any period in the last 200 years, where a definitely new attempt was made by woman toward civic thought and action, and you will find that, at the time, the charge of “unwomanliness” was levelled against her; you find also that in the succeeding generation that disputed territory has always become a centre of recognised womanly activity. take, for instance, the establishment of higher training for girls; there are towns in this country where the women, who first embarked on such a design, were jeered and laughed at, and even mobbed. and the same thing happened in an even greater degree to the women who sought to recover for their own sex admission to the medical profession: and while the charge levelled against them was “unwomanliness,” it was yet through their instincts of reserve and sex-modesty that their enemies tried to defeat them. even when they gained the right of admission to medical colleges there were lecturers who tried, by the way they expressed themselves in their lectures, to drive them out again.
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or take the very salient instance of florence nightingale. when she volunteered to go out and nurse our soldiers in the crimea, the opposition to a woman’s invasion of a department where men had shown a hopeless incompetence at once based itself on the plea that such a task was “unwomanly.” though in their own homes from time immemorial, women had been nursing fathers, brothers, sons, uncles, cousins, servants, masters, through all the refined and modestly-conducted diseases to which these lords of creation are domestically subject, directly one woman proposed to carry her expert knowledge into a public department and nurse men who were strangers to her, she was told that she was exposing herself to an experience which was incompatible with womanly modesty. well, she was prepared to let her womanly modesty take its risk in face of the black looks of scandalised officials of admiralty or war office; and she managed to live down pretty completely the charge of unwomanliness. but the example is a valuable one to remember, for there you get the claim of convention to keep women from a great work of organisation and public service, although already, in the home, their abilities for that special service had been proved. and so, breaking with that convention of her day florence nightingale went to be the nursing mother of the british army in the crimea, and came home, the one conspicuously successful general of that weary and profitless campaign, shattered in health by her exertions, but of a reputation so raised above mistrust and calumny that through her personal prestige alone was established that organisation of nursing by trained women which we have in our hospitals to-day.
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take again the special and peculiar opposition which women had to face when they began to agitate against certain laws which particularly affected the lives of women and did cruel wrong to them even in their home relations. read the life of caroline norton, for instance--a woman whose husband brought against her a public charge of infidelity, though privately admitting that she was innocent; and when, after that charge was proved to be baseless, she separated from her husband, refusing to live with him any more, then he, in consequence of that refusal cut her off absolutely from her children, though they were all under seven years of age. that wrong, which our laws had immemorially sanctioned, roused her to action, and it was through her efforts, so long ago as 1838, that the law was altered so as to allow a mother of unblemished character right of access to her own children during the years of early infancy!
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and that is how the law still stands to-day--a woman’s contribution--the most that could be done at the time for justice to women. but there is no statue to caroline norton in parliament square--or anywhere else, so far as i know.
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but what i specially want to draw attention to is this--that when she wrote the pamphlet with which she started her agitation all her relatives entreated her not to publish it, because it would be an exposure to the world of her own private affairs. by that time, however, caroline norton had learned her lesson in “womanliness,” and she no longer said “happy is the woman who has no history.” her answer was: “there is too much fear of publicity among women: with women it is reckoned a crime to be accused, and such a disgrace that they wish nothing better than to hide themselves and say no more about it.” does not that set forth in all its weakness the conventional womanly attitude of the period?
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the bill which, through her efforts, was brought three times before parliament, was at first defeated. how? by the votes of the judges, to whom the house of lords left the matter to be decided. and lord brougham, in speaking against that bill used this line of argument: there were, he said, several legal hardships which were of necessity inflicted on women; therefore we should not relieve them from those which are not necessary--the necessary hardships being the greater; and it being bad policy to raise in women a false expectation that the legal hardships relating to their sex were of a removable kind! was ever a more perverted and devilish interpretation given to the scripture, “to him that hath shall be given, and from her that hath not shall be taken even that which she hath.”
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let us remember that we are the direct descendants and inheritors of the age and of the men who pronounced these unjust judgments, and that no miracle has happened between then and now to remove the guilt of the fathers from the third and the fourth generation. heredity is too strong a thing for us to have any good ground for believing that our eyes, even now, are entirely opened. there are many of us who cannot drink port at all, because our grandfathers drank it by the bottle every night of their lives.
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we inherit constitutions, personal and political--we also inherit proverbs, which express so vividly and in so few words, the full-bodied and highly-crusted wisdom of former generations. those proverbs expressed once--else they had not become proverbs--an almost universal contemporary opinion. some of them are now beginning to wear thin, have of recent years been dying the death, and will presently be heard no more. but their source and incentive are still quite recognisable; and their dwindled spirit still lives in our midst.
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there was one, for instance, on which genteel families were brought up in the days of my youth--a rhymed proverb which laid it down that--
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a whistling woman and a crowing hen are hateful alike to god and men.
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now let us look into the bit of real natural history which lies at the root of that proverb. a crowing hen is a disturbance, but so is a crowing cock. but the hen is not to crow because she only lays eggs, and because the bulk of hens manage to lay eggs without crowing. they make, it is true, a peculiar clutter of their own which is just as disturbing; but that is a thoroughly feminine noise and a dispensation of providence; and they don’t do it at all times of the night, and without a reason for it, as cocks do. but as a matter of fact it is far more easy to prevent a cock from crowing than a hen from cluttering; you have only to put a cock in a pen the roof of which knocks his head whenever he rears himself up to crow and he will remain as silent as the grave, though he will continue to do that spasmodic duty by his offspring which is all that nature requires of him. but no such simple method will stop the cluttering of a hen when her egg is once well and truly laid; the social disturbance caused by the pomp of masculine vain-glory is far less inevitable than the disturbance caused by the circumstances of maternity. yet the normal masculine claim to pomp of sound is more readily allowed in our proverbial philosophy than the occasional feminine claim.
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and that is where we have gone wrong; it is really maternity which under wholesome conditions decides the social order of things; and we have been fighting against it by putting maternity into a compound and setting up paternity to crow on the top rail. we have not learned that extraordinary adaptability to sound economic conditions which we find in many birds and in a few animals. there exists, for instance, a particular breed of ostriches, which mates and lays its eggs in a country where the days are very hot and the nights very cold; and as it takes the female ostrich some 13 or 14 days to lay all her eggs and some weeks to incubate, she cannot as she does in other countries deposit them in the sand and leave the sun to hatch them, because after the sun has started the process, the cold night comes and kills them. the mother bird finds, therefore, that she cannot both produce and nurse her eggs; yet directly they are laid somebody must begin sitting on them. well, what does she do? she goes about in flocks, 13 or 14 females accompanied by an equal number of the sterner sex. and on a given day, all the hens lay each an egg in one nest, and one of the father birds is selected to sit upon them. and so the process goes on till all the males are sedentarily employed in hatching out their offspring. and i would ask (applying for the moment our own terminology to that wonderfully self-adaptive breed of sociologists) are not those male ostriches engaged in a thoroughly “manly” occupation? could they be better engaged than in making the conditions of maternity as favourable and as unhampered as possible? yet how difficult it is to make our own countrymen see that the strength of a nation lies mainly--nay, entirely--in eugenics, in sinking every other consideration for that great and central one--the perfecting of the conditions of maternity.
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but let us come back for a moment to whistling. it is an accomplishment which, as a rule, men do better than women; it is the only natural treble left to them after they reach the age of puberty; and they are curiously proud of it; perhaps, because women, as a rule, have not the knack of it. now, the real offence of a woman’s whistling was not when she did it badly (for that merely flattered the male vanity) but when she did it well; and no doubt it was because some women managed to do it well that the proverb i speak of was invented. we should not have been troubled with such a proverb if crowing hens and whistling women had been unable to raise their accomplishment above a whisper. yet whistling is really quite beautiful, when it is well done; and why is woman not to create this beauty of sound, if it is in her power to create it, merely because it finds her in a minority among her sex? does it make her less physically fit, less capable of becoming a mother--less inclined, even, to become a mother? no; it does none of these things; but it distinguishes her from a convention which has laid it down that there are certain things which women can’t do; and so, when the exceptional woman does it, she is--or she was the day before yesterday--labelled “unwomanly.”
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i do not suggest that whistling is a necessary ingredient for the motherhood of the new race; but, as a matter of fact, i have noticed that those women who whistle well have, as a rule, strength of character, originality, the gift of initiative and a strong organising capacity; and if these things do go together, then surely we should welcome an increase of whistling as a truly womanly accomplishment--something attained--which has not been so generally attained hitherto.
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let us pass now to a much more serious instance of those artificial divisions between masculine and feminine habits of thought and action which have in the past seemed so absolute, and are, in fact, so impossible to maintain. for you can have no code or standard of manhood that is not intimately bound up with a corresponding code or standard of womanhood. what raises the one, raises the other, what degrades the one degrades the other; and if there is in existence, anywhere in our social system, a false code of manliness, there alongside of it, reacting on it, depending on it, or producing it, is a false code of womanliness.
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now, obviously, if women could be taught to regard such invasions of their right to pardon offence in others as a direct attack upon their own honour and liberty--a far worse attack than the act of folly which gave occasion for this tragedy--and if they would teach these possessive lovers of theirs that any such intrusion on their womanly prerogative of mercy was in itself an unforgivable sin against womanhood--then such invasions of the woman’s sphere would quickly come to an end. they might even put an end to duelling altogether.
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see, on the other hand, how acceptance of such an institution trains women to give up their own right of judgment, to think even that honour, at first hand, hardly concerns them. is it not natural that, as the outcome of such a system from which we are only gradually emerging, we should hear it said of these conventionally womanly women that they have “a very low sense of honour.”
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low it must naturally be. for that attitude of complaisant passivity on the part of the woman while two male rivals fight to possess her is the normal attitude of the female in the lower animal world; but it is an attitude from which, as the human race evolves into more perfect self-government, you see the woman gradually drawing away. while it pleases something in her animal instincts, it offends something in her human instincts; and while to be fought over is the highest compliment to the female animal, it is coming to be something like an insult to the really civilized woman--the woman who has the spirit of citizenship awake within her. one remembers how candida, when her two lovers are debating which of them is to possess her--brings them at once to their senses by reminding them that it is not in the least necessary that she should be possessed by either of them; but she does in the end give herself to the one who needs her most. that may be the truest womanliness under present conditions; as it may once have been the truest womanliness for the woman to give herself to the strongest. but it may be the truest womanliness, at times, for the woman to bring men to their senses by reminding them that it is not necessary for her to give herself at all. to be quite sure of attaining to full womanliness, let her first make sure that she possesses herself. in the past men have set a barrier to her right of knowledge, her right of action, her right of independent being; and in the light of that history it seems probable that she will best discover her full value by insisting on right of knowledge, on right of way, and on right of economic independence. so long as convention lays upon women any special and fundamental claim of control--a claim altogether different in kind and extent from the claim it lays upon men--so long may it be the essentially womanly duty of every woman to have quick and alive within her the spirit of criticism, and latent within her blood the spirit of revolt.
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use and ornament
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i suppose you would all be very much surprised if i said that not use but ornament was the object of life.
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i refrain from doing so because so definite a statement makes an assumption of knowledge which it may always be outside man’s power to possess. the object of life may for ever remain as obscure to us as its cause. it seems, indeed, likely enough that the one ignorance hinges necessarily on the other, and that without knowing the cause of life neither can we know its object.
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the writers of the scottish church catechism, it is true, thought that they knew why man was created. the social products of their cocksure theology cause me to doubt it. i would prefer to worship more ignorantly a more lovable deity than the one which is there presented to my gaze.
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but though we may never know why we are here, we may know, by taking a little thought and studying the manifestations of the life around us, what aspects of it make us glad that we are here. and gladness is as good a guide as any that i know to the true values of life.
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examining life from that standpoint i know of nothing that gives me more delight than the decoration and embellishment with which man has overlaid all the mere uses of existence--things which without those embellishments might not delight us at all--or only as a dry crust of bread delights in his necessity the starving beggar, or ditch-water one dying of thirst.
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i can scarcely think of a use in life which i enjoy, that i do not enjoy more because of the embellishment placed about it by man, who claims to have been made “in god’s image.” nothing that my senses respond to with delight stays limited within the utilitarian aspect on which its moral claims to acceptance are too frequently based--or remains a benefit merely material in its scope.
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when we breathe happily, when we eat happily, and when we love happily, we do not think of the utilitarian ends with which those bodily instincts are related. the utilitarian motive connects, but only subconsciously, with that sense of well-being and delight which then fills us; and the conscious life within us is happy without stooping to reason.
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underlying our receptivity of these things is, no doubt, the fact that our bodies have a use for them. but were we to consider the material uses alone, our enjoyment would be less; and if (by following that process) we absorbed them in a less joyous spirit, our physical benefit, so science now tells us, would be less also.
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for some reason or another, which is occasionally hard to define, you find pleasure in a thing over and above its use; and i want to persuade you that the finer instinct, the genius of the human race, tends always in that direction--not to rest content with the mere use of a thing, but to lay upon it that additional touch of adornment--whether by well-selected material, or craftsman’s skill, or social amenity, which shall make it a thing delightful to our senses or to our intelligence.
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take, for instance, so simple a thing as a wine-glass, or a water-glass. materially, it is subject to a very considerable drawback; it is brittle, and if broken is practically unmendable. from the point of view of utility, strength, cheapness, cleanliness, it has no advantage over hardware or china. but in its relation to beverages beautiful in colour and of a clear transparency, glass has a delightfulness which greatly enhances the pleasure of its use. there is a subtle relation between the sparkle of the glass, and the sparkle produced in the brain by the sight and the taste of good wine (or--let me add, for the benefit of temperance members of my audience--of good ginger-ale). i think one could also trace a similar delight to the relations subsisting between glass in its transparency and a draught of pure water.
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that relationship set up between two or more senses (in this case between the senses of sight, taste and touch) brings into being a new value which i ask you to bear in mind, as i shall have a good deal to say about it later--the value of association. the more you examine into the matter, the more you will find that association is a very important element for evoking man’s faculties of enjoyment; it secures by the inter-relation of the senses a sort of compound interest for the appeal over which it presides. and it is association, with this compound appeal, which again and again decides (over and above all questions of use) what material is the best, or the most delightful, to be employed for a given purpose. you choose a material because it makes a decorative covering to mere utility. that beauty of choice in material alone is the beginning of ornament.
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when i began, i spoke for a moment as though use and ornament were opposite or separate principles; but what i shall hope soon to show is that they are so interlocked and combined that there is no keeping them apart when once the spirit of man has opened to perceive the true sacramental service which springs from their union, and the social discordance that inevitably follows upon their divorce. but as man’s ordinary definition of the word “use” is sadly material and debased, and as his approval and sanction of the joys of life have too often been limited by a similar materialism of thought, one is obliged, for the time being, to accept the ordinary limiting distinction, so that the finer and less realised uses of beauty and delight may be shown more clearly as the true end to which all lesser uses should converge.
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life itself is a usage of material, the bringing together of atoms into form; and we know, from what science teaches of evolution, that this usage has constantly been in the direction of forms of life which, for certain reasons, we describe as “higher.” emerging through those forms have come manifestations or qualities, which quite obviously give delight to the holders of them; and we are able to gather in watching them, as they live, move, and have their being, that for them life seems good. it is no part of their acceptance of what has come that they are here not to enjoy themselves.
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thus we see from the upward trend of creation a faculty for enjoyment steadily emerging, and existing side by side with fears, risks, and hardships which the struggle for existence entails--probably an even increased faculty for enjoyment, as those fears and risks become more consciously part of their lives. and i question whether we should think that the wild deer had chosen well, could it resign its apprehension of death at the drinking-place for the sake of becoming a worm--the wriggling but scarcely conscious prey of the early bird.
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man (the most conscious prey of death) has also his compensations; but, wishing to eat his cake and have it, he insists that his increased self-consciousness is the hall-mark of an immortality which he is unwilling to concede to others. he sees (or the majority of those see, who preach personal immortality after death) no moral necessity for conceding immortality to the worm because the early bird cuts short its career, or to the wild deer because it enjoys life, shrinks from death, and endures pain; or to the peewit, because she loves her young; or to the parrot, because it dies with a vocabulary still inadequate for expressing that contempt for the human species with which the caged experience of a life-time has filled its brain. yet, for these and similar reasons applied to himself, man thinks that immortality is his due.
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in doing so, he does but pursue, to a rather injudicious extent, that instinct for the ornamentation and embellishment of the facts of life which i spoke of to begin with. for whether it be well-founded or not, a belief in immortality gives ornament to existence.
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of course, it may be bad ornament; and i think it becomes bad ornament the moment he bases it upon the idea that this life is evil and not good. if he says “life is so good that i want it to go on for ever and ever,” and thinks that he can make it better by asserting that it will go on for ever and ever, that is a playful statement which may have quite a stimulating effect on his career, and make him a much more charming and social and imaginative person than he would otherwise be. but if he wants a future life merely because he regards this life as a “vale of misery”--and wants that future life to contain evil as well as good--a hell as well as a heaven (in order that he may visualise retribution meted out on a satisfactory scale upon those whom he cannot satisfactorily visit with retribution to-day) then, i think, that it tends to become bad ornament, and is likely to make him less charming, less social, and less imaginatively inventive for the getting rid of evil conditions from present existence than he would be if he had not so over-loaded his brain with doctrinal adornments.
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still, it is ornament of a kind; and with ornament, good or bad (the moment he has got for himself leisure or any elbow-room at all in the struggle for existence) man cannot help embellishing the facts of life--the things that he really knows.
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now that instinct for embellishment is of course latent in nature itself, or we should not find it in man; and it comes of nature (the great super-mathematician) putting two and two together in a way which does not merely make four. when two and two are put together by nature, they come to life in a new shape; and man is (up-to-date) the most appreciative receptacle of that fact which nature has yet produced. man builds up his whole appreciation of life by association--by studying a method of putting two and two together which comes to something very much more than a dead numerical result.
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this, as i have said, is nature’s way of giving to our investments in life a compound interest. man throws into life his whole capital, body, soul, and spirit; and as a result of that investment nature steadily returns to him year by year--not detached portions of his original outlay, but something new and different. out of every contact between man’s energy and nature’s, something new arises. and yet, though new, it is not strange; it has features of familiarity; it is partly his, partly hers; and if his spirit rises above the merely mechanical, it is endeared to him by and derives its fullest value from association. all beautiful work, all work which is of real use and benefit to the community, bears implicitly within it this mark of parentage--of the way it has been come by, through patience, skill, ingenuity, something more intimate and subtle than the dead impenetrable surface of a thing mechanically formed without the accompaniment either of hope or joy.
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this creation of new values by association (which you can trace through all right processes of labour) is seen even in things which have very little of human about them.
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the germ of its expression is to be found in that simplest of arithmetic propositions to which i have just referred: two and two make--not two twos but four, which is, in fact, a fresh concept; and the mind that can embrace so much--the idea of four as a number with an identity of its own has already raised itself above the lowest level of savagery. in that mind something has begun out of which the social idea may presently be developed; for the man who has conceived the number four will presently be identifying his new concept with a variety of correspondencies under fresh aspects: he will discover that certain animals have four legs, whereas, until then, his view of them was rather that of the child who said that a horse had two legs in front, two legs behind, and two at each side--a statement which shows, indeed, that the horse has been earnestly considered from as many points of view as are sometimes necessary to enable a cabinet minister to make up his mind, but, for all that, never as a whole; and in such a mind, though the identity of the horse may be established from whatever point of view he presents himself, the thought of the horse, as a being of harmoniously related parts, having order and species, has not yet been established. until a man can count, and sum up the results of his counting in synthesis, nature is composed merely of a series of units--and the mind cannot begin that grouping and defining process which leads to association and from that to the development of the social idea.
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you will remember in alice through the looking glass, when the two queens set to work to test her educational proficiency--you will remember how the white queen says (in order to discover whether alice can do addition) “what’s one, and one, and one, and one, and one, and one?”
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“i don’t know,” says alice, “i lost count.”
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“she can’t do addition,” says the white queen.
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well--she “lost count,” and, therefore, that series of ones failed to have any fresh meaning or association for her.
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in the same way the primitive savage loses count; beyond three, numbers are too many for him--they become merely a “lot.” but war and the chase begin to teach him the relative value of numbers; and he finds out that if one lot goes out to fight a bigger lot, the smaller lot probably gets beaten; so that, before long, calculation of some sort becomes necessary for the preservation of existence. he finds out also (and this is where ornament begins to come in) that a certain amount of wilful miscalculation has a beauty and a value of its own. so, after going out to fight ten against ten, and defeating them, he comes back and says to his wives and the surrounding communities by whom he wishes to be held in awe--“my lot killed bigger lot--much, much bigger lot.” and so, when he comes later on to set down his wilful miscalculations in records of scripture, he provides delightful problems for the bishop colensos of future ages--problems the undoing of which may shake to the foundations the authority of documents which some mid-victorian school of christianity has hitherto held to be divinely and verbally inspired--not realising that the normal tendency of human nature is to be decorative when writing its national history or when giving its reasons for having plunged into war.
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you begin now, then, to perceive (if you did not before), the importance of ornamental association, even when confined to matters of arithmetic; and the moral value to future ages not merely of calculated truths but of calculated untruths.
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but this merely figurative illustration of the quickness of the human brain, in its primitive stage, to use mathematics to unmathematical ends (or science to ends quite unscientific) does not bring us very far upon the road to that self-realisation, in ornament rather than in use, which i hope to make manifest by tracing to their most characteristic forms of expression the higher grades of civilization.
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and i shall hope, by and by, to show that you cannot be social without also being ornamental; it is the beginning of that connecting link which shall presently make men realise that life is one, and that all life is good.
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take, to begin with, the earliest instruments by which primitive man began raising himself from the ruck of material conditions; his weapons--first of the chase, and then of war. no sooner had he proved their use than he began to ornament them--to make them records, trophies, and so--objects of beauty. he cannot stop from doing so; his delight in the skill of his hands breaks out into ornament. it is the same with the arts of peace, the work of the woman-primitive--she moulds a pot, or weaves a square of material, and into it--the moment she has accomplished the rudiments--goes pattern, beauty, something additional and memorable that is not for use material, but for use spiritual--pleasure, delight.
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and that quite simple example, from a time when man was living the life, as we should now regard it, of a harried and hunted beast--with his emergence from surrounding perils scarcely yet assured to him--goes on consistently up and up the scale of human evolution; and the more strongly it gets to be established in social institutions, the more noble is likely to be the form of civilization which enshrines it. and the less it shows, the less is that form of civilization likely to be worthy of preservation, or its products of permanent value to the human race.
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it is not the millionaire who leaves his mark on the world so that hereafter men are glad when they name him; it is the “maker” who has turned uses into delights; not the master of the money-market, but the master of arts. the nearest thing we have on earth to that immortality which so many look to as the human goal lies in those forms of ornament--of embellishment over and above mere use--which man’s genius has left to us in architecture, poetry, music, sculpture, and painting. nothing that stops at utility has anything like the same value, for the revelation of the human spirit, as that which finds its setting in the arts--the sculptures of egypt and greece, the gothic and romanesque cathedrals of france, england, germany and italy, the paintings of the renaissance, the masterpieces of bach and beethoven, the poems and writings all down the ages of men comparatively poor in monetary wealth, but rich beyond the dreams of avarice in their power to communicate their own souls to things material and to leave them there, when their own bodies have turned to dust. in the embellishment they added to life they bestowed on the age in which they lived its most significant commentary. there you will find, as nowhere else, the meaning and the interpretation of the whole social order to which these forms were as flower and fruit. ancient greece is not represented to us to-day by its descendants in the flesh (as an expression of that life they have ceased to exist) but by those works of art and philosophy through which men--many now nameless--made permanent the vision of delight to which, in the brief life of the flesh, they had become heirs. the self-realisation of that age--all the best of it that we inherit--comes to us through embodiment in forms transcending material use.
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run your mind’s eye through the various peoples and nationalities of europe--of the world--and you will find that their characteristic charm--that which is “racy” of their native soil, marking the distinction between race and race, lies in the expression they have given to life over and above use. if we had kept to use, race would have remained expressionless. race expresses itself in ornament; and even among a poor peasant people (and far more among them than among the crowded and over-worked populations of our great cities where we pursue merely commercial wealth) comes out in a characteristic appreciation of the superabundance of material with which, at some point or another, life has lifted them above penury. in the great civilizations it extends itself over a rich blend of all these, drawn from far sources; and the more widely it extends over the material uses of life, the higher and the more permanent are the products of that form of civilization likely to be. what does it mean but this?--man is out to enjoy himself.
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having said that, need i add that i put a very high interpretation upon the word “joy”?
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to that end--man’s enjoyment of life--all art is profoundly useful. i put that forward in opposition to the specious doctrine of oscar wilde that “all art is entirely useless.” but it is usefulness extended in a new direction; leaving the material uses, by which ordinary values are measured, it shifts to the spiritual; and by the spiritual i mean that which animates, vitalizes, socializes.
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to that end it may often be--and is generally the case--that, in the material sense, art is a useless addition or refinement upon that which was first planned merely for the service of man’s bodily needs. yet where the need is of a worthy and genuine kind, art never ceases to rejoice at the use that is underlying it. this can be clearly seen in architecture, where the beauty of design, the proportion, the capacity of the edifice--though far transcending the physical need which called it into being--remain nevertheless in subtle relation thereto, and give to it a new expression--useless indeed to the body--but of this use to the mind, that it awakens, kindles, enlivens, sensitizes--making it to be in some sort creative, by perception of and response to the creative purpose which evoked that form. you cannot enter a cathedral without becoming aware that its embracing proportions mean something far more than the mere capacity to hold a crowd; its end and aim are to inspire in that crowd a certain mental attitude, a spiritual apprehension--to draw many minds into harmony, and so to make them one--a really tremendous fact when successfully achieved.
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now nothing can be so made--to awaken and enlarge the spirit--without some apparent wastefulness of material or of energy. a cathedral will absorb more stone, and the labour of more men’s lives, before it is finished, than a tenement of equal housing capacity which aims only at providing warmth and a cover from the elements. to provide so much joy and enlargement to the human spirit, a kind of waste, upon the material plane, is necessary; and the man without joy or imagination in his composition is likely to say on beholding it: “why was all this waste made?”
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bear in mind this accusation of waste which can constantly be made, from a certain standpoint against all forms of joy evolved by the art of living--possibly against all forms of joy that you can name; for all joy entails an expenditure of energy, and for those who do not realise the value of joy such expenditure must necessarily seem wasteful.
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but when a man employs hand or brain worthily, straightway he discovers (latent within that connection) the instinct of delight, of ornament. he cannot rejoice in his craftsmanship without wishing to embellish it--to place upon it the expression of the joy which went with the making. all that he does to this end is apparently (from the material point of view) useless; but from the spiritual it is profoundly useful; and from the spirit (and this i think is important) it tends to re-act and kindle the craftsman to finer craftsmanship than if he had worked for utility alone.
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now if spirit thus acts on matter--achieving its own well-being only through a certain waste of material, or expenditure of labour upon the lower plane, yet communicating back to matter influences from that state of well-being to which it has thus attained--may it not be that waste of a certain kind (what i would call “selective waste” versus “haphazard waste”) is the concomitant not only of spiritual but of material growth also? may it not be that evolution has followed upon a course of waste deliberately willed and insisted on--and that without such waste, life--even material life--had not evolved to its present stage?
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we see a certain wastefulness attaching to many of the most beautiful biological manifestations in the world. up to a certain point, the construction of flower, bird, beast, fish, shows a wonderful economy of structure, of means to end (it is the same also in the arts). but there comes a point at which nature, “letting herself go,” becomes fantastic, extravagant--may one not say “wilful”?--in the forms she selects for her final touches of adornment. and is it not nearly always when the matter in hand is most closely related to the “will to live”--or, in other words, in relation to the amative instincts--that the “art of living” breaks out, and that nature quits all moderation of design and becomes frankly ornamental and extravagant? just at the point where to be creative is the immediate motive, where, in the fulfilment of that motive, life is found to be a thing of delight, just there, nature, being amative, becomes playful, exuberant and ornamental.
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there are some birds which, in this connection, carry upon their persons adornments so extravagant that one wonders how for so many generations they have been able to live and move and multiply, bearing such edifices upon their backs, their heads, their tails--that they were not a crushing hindrance to the necessary affairs of life. they certainly cannot have been a help; and yet--they still persist in them!
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taking, then, these natural embryonic beginnings as our starting point, i would be inclined to trace out the living value of art and ornament somewhat upon these lines: exuberance--the emergence of beauty and adornment, in addition to the mere functional grace arising out of fitness for use--has always been going on through the whole process of creation among animate nature. we see it established in a thousand forms, not only in bird, beast and reptile, but in the vegetable world as well. the tendency of all life that has found a fair field for its development, is to play with its material--to show that it has something over and above the straight needs imposed on it by the struggle for existence, which it can spare for self-expression.
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it has been lured on to these manifestations mainly by that “will to live” which underlies the attractions of sex. that exuberance is an essential feature of the evolutionary process at the point where self-realisation by self-reproduction is the game to play. under that impulse the selective principle begins to assert itself, and straightway the outcome is ornament. self-realisation (by self-reproduction under all sorts of images and symbols) is the true basis of ornament and of art: self-realisation!
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the spirit of man, moving through these means, impresses itself reproductively on the spirits of others with a far better calculation of effect than can be secured through bodily inheritance. for in physical parentage there is always the chance of a throw-back to tainted origins; the sober and moral citizen cannot be sure of sober and moral children in whom the desire of his soul shall be satisfied. they may be drawn, by irresistible forces, to take after some giddy and disreputable old grandfather or grandmother instead of after him; for in his veins run the parental weaknesses of thousands of generations; and over the racial strain that passes through him to others he possesses no control whatever. but the man who has given ornament to life in any form of art--though he commits it to the risks and chances of life, the destructive accidents of peace and war--is in danger of no atavistic trick being played upon the product of his soul; he is assured of his effect, and so long as it endures it reflects and represents his personality more faithfully than the descendants of his blood.
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now for the satisfaction of that instinct, the perpetuation of name and identity is not necessary. the artist would not (if told that his self-realisation was destined to become merged anonymously in the existence of fresco, or canvas, or mosaic)--he would not therefore lay down his mallet or his brush, and say that in that case the survival of these things to a future age was no survival for him. the maker of beautiful inlay would not lose all wish to do inlay if the knowledge that he, individually, as the craftsman were destined to oblivion. let the future involve him in anonymity as impenetrable as it liked, he would still go on expressing himself in ornament; self-realisation would still be the law of his being.
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that is the psychology of the artist mind--of that part of humanity which produces things that come nearest, of all which earth has to show, to conditions of immortality, and so presumably are the most satisfying to man’s wish for continued individual existence. the makers of beauty do not set any great store on the continuance of their names--the continuance of their self-realisation is what they care about.
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but the possessors of these works of beauty do very often make a great point of having their own names perpetuated, even though the vehicle is another personality than their own. and so very frequently we have the names passed down to us of these parasites of immortality--the tyrants for whom palaces, or arches, or temples were built--but not the names of the artists who designed them, whose immortality they really are. and though the official guide may refresh our memory with snippets of history, and say this, that, or the other about the name to which the temple remains attached--the really important thing that lives, survives, and influences us is not the externally applied name, but the invested beauty which has no name, but is soul incarnate in stone to the glory of god--the self-realisation of a being who (but for that) has passed utterly from remembrance.
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that, as i have said before, is the nearest thing to immortality that we know. and it comes to us, in a shape which, (so to be informed with immortality) cannot limit itself to the demands of use. when all the claims of use are satisfied, then the life of personality begins to show--the fullest and the most permanent form of self-realisation known to man on earth lies in ornament.
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of course, when i say “ornament,” i use the word in a very wide sense. what i have said of sculpture, painting or architecture, applies equally to poetry, music or philosophy. i would even go further, and apply it in other directions where no material matrix for it exists. every department of mental activity has its ornament--the culminating expression of that particular direction of the human will. faith is the ornament of destiny, hope the ornament of knowledge, love the ornament of sex. without these ornaments destiny and knowledge and sex would have no beauty that the soul of man should desire them. those additions or glosses were quite unnecessary to existence--up to a point; for millions of years the world did without them, and evolution managed to scramble along without faith, without hope, without love. but evolution itself brought them into being; and then for millions of years they existed in germ, without self-consciousness; but steadily, as they germinated, they produced beauty and a sense of design in their environment. co-ordination, dovetailing (peaceful word!), the harmonising and gentle effect of one life upon another, as opposed to the savage and predatory, began to have effect. and in response came ornament; faith, hope and love showed their rudimentary beginnings even in the lower animals.
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one of the most perfectly decorative objects that i have ever seen in the animal world (you will find it in still-life form in our natural history museum) is the device by which a certain small possum has taught her young to accompany her from branch to branch. along her back she seats her litter, then over their heads like the conducting-wire of a tram-line she extends her tail--and then (each like an electric connecting rod) up go the little tails, make a loop, adjust themselves to the maternal guide-rope, and hang on. and there, safe from upset, is the family-omnibus ready to start!
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of course, you may say that is use; but it is use in which the spiritualities, faith, hope and love, begin to appear; and in the gentleness of its intention it forms a basis for the up-growth of beauty. now all the arts are, in the same way, first of all structural--having for their starting-point a sound and economic use of the material on which they are based. music, architecture, poetry, and the rest were all, to begin with, the result of an instinctive choice or selection, directed to the elimination of superfluities, accidents, excrescences--which to the craftsman’s purpose are nothing.
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nature, in her seed-sowing, has gone to work to propagate by profusion; her method is to sow a million seeds so as to make sure that some may live; thus she meets and out-matches the chances that are against her. the seed of art sprang up differently; maker-man took hold of the one selected seed, not of a dozen, or of a thousand dozen promiscuously, and bent his faculties on making that one seed (his chosen material) fit to face life and its chances: if a house--walls and roof calculated to keep out the rain and resist the force of storms: if a textile--fabric of a staple sufficient to resist the wear and tear to which it would be subjected: if a putting together of words meant to outlast the brief occasion of their utterance--then in a form likely to be impressive, and therefore memorable; so that in an age before writing was known they might find a safe tabernacle, travelling from place to place in the minds of men. and similarly with music--a system of sounds so ruled by structural law as to be capable of transmission either by instrument, or by voice disciplined and trained to a certain code of limitations. and being thus made memorable and passed from mouth to mouth, from one place to another, and from age to age, they acquired a social significance and importance; till, seeing them thus lifted above chance, man set himself to give them new forms of beauty and adornment.
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and the governing motive was, and always has been, first man’s wish to leave memorable records--beyond the limits of his own generation--of what life has meant for him; and secondly (and this is the more intimate phase) the delight of the craftsman in his work, the exuberance of vital energy (secure of its structural ground-work) breaking out into play. “see,” it says, “how i dance, and gambol, and triumph! this superfluity of strength proves me a victor in my struggle to live.”
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nothing else does; for if (having survived the struggle) man only lives miserably--scrapes through as it were--the question in the face of so poverty-stricken a result, may still be--“was the struggle worth it?” and so by his arts and graces, by his adornment of his streets, temples and theatres, by his huge delight in himself, so soon as the essentials of mere material existence are secured to him, man has really shown that life is good in itself, that he can do well enough without the assurance of personal immortality held out to him by the theologians. whether that be or be not his reward hereafter, he will still strive to express himself; but for that end mere use alone will not satisfy him.
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we have seen, then, how man, in his social surroundings, begins to secure something over and above the mere necessities of life; and so, after providing himself with a certain competence of food, clothing and shelter, has means and energy left for the supply of luxuries, ornaments, delights--call them what you will. and according to the direction in which he flings out for the acquisition of these superfluities--so will his whole manhood develop, or his type of racial culture be moulded.
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far back in the beginnings of civilization one of the first forms taken by this surplus of power and energy over mere necessity was the acquisition of slaves and wives. civilization then began to ornament itself with two modes of body-service--the menial attendance of the slave upon his master, and the polygamous sexual attendance of the woman upon her lord.
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to-day we think that both those things were, from a moral point of view, bad ornament. but you cannot look into the history of any civilization conducted on those lines without seeing that they decorated it--and that, out of their acceptance, came colour, pomp, splendour, means for leisure, for enjoyment--for a very keen self-realisation of a kind by the few at the expense of the many. and the masterful few made that form of decorated civilization more sure for themselves by extending a good deal of the decorative element to the subservient lives around them. the slaves wore fine liveries and lorded it over lower slaves, the favourite wives lived in luxury and laziness, eating sweets and spending their days in the frivolous mysteries of the toilet.
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at a certain point in the social scale this form of ornamental existence produced great misery, great hardships, great abasement. but it was not instituted and maintained for that reason. those underlying conditions were a drawback, they were a misuse of human nature employed as a basis for that ornamental superstructure to build on. and out of that underlying misuse came the weakness and the eventual decay of that once flourishing school of ornament.
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but when that school of ornament was threatened by other schools, it was ready to fight to the death for its ornamental superfluities--for polygamy, for slavery, for power over others, which had come to mean for it all that made life worth living! life was quite capable of being carried on without those things--was, and is, happily lived by other races to the accompaniment of another set of ornaments which those races think more enjoyable. but no race will consent to live without some sort of ornament of its own choosing; and when its choice of ornaments, or of social superfluities, over and above the needs of existence, is seriously threatened from without it declares that it is fighting not merely for liberty but for existence. yet we know quite well that the people of invaded and conquered states continue in the main to exist--they continue even to wear ornaments; but these are apt to be imposed ornaments galling to the national pride. and so to-day, in the midst of a vast belligerency, we have committees and consultations going on, to see to it lest, at the end of the war, under german dominance, our women should have their future fashions imposed on them from berlin instead of from paris, a fearful doom for any lady of taste to contemplate.
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the example may seem frivolous, but it is a parable of the truth; we call our ornaments our liberties, and if we cannot ourselves die fighting for them, we make others die for us.
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let us take up (for illustration of the same point) another stage of civilization--that of ancient greece. in greece the city was the centre of civilization, and its public buildings became the outward and visible sign of the people’s pride of life and of their sense of power. the fact that their private dwellings were very simple, and that they expended nearly the whole of their artistry upon public works (things to be shared and delighted in by all the citizens in common) had a profound influence upon their civilization. that new social ideal of civic pride found its way irresistibly into ornament. you could not have had civic pride in anything like the same degree without it.
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but greek civilization did not fall into decay because of the beauty and perfection with which it crowned itself in the public eye, but because of certain underlying evils and misuses in the body politic--in which again slavery and the subjection of women had their share. greek civilization fell because it failed to recognise the dignity of all human nature; it reserved its sense of dignity for a selected race and class; it failed to recognise the dignity of all true kinds of service, and prided itself in military service alone--in that and in the philosophies and the arts. it built a wonderful temple to its gods, but failed in a very large degree to take into god the whole body of humanity over which it had control. and so, greek civilization broke up into portions of an unimportant size and perished.
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at a later day--and again with the city as centre to its life of self-realisation--we get the great period of the italian renaissance, a period in which civic and feudal and ecclesiastical influences alternately jostled and combined.
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and out of these three prides arose a wonderfully complex art--tremendously expressive of what life meant for that people. and you got then (for the first time, i think), grouped under the civic arm, a new life-consciousness--the consciousness of the guilds, the workers, and the craftsmen. the dignity of labour began to assert itself; and when it did, inevitably it broke into ornament on its own account--not at the bidding of an employer, but for the honour and glory of the worker himself. and so, from that date on, the homes and halls and churches of the guilds became some of the noblest monuments to what life meant for men who had found joy in their labour.
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now that did not come till the craftsman had won free from slavery and from forced labour; but when he was a freeman, with room to turn round, he built up temples to his craft, to make more evident that the true goal of labour is not use but delight. and only when it fell back into modern slavery at the hands of commercial capitalism, only then did labour’s power of spontaneous expression depart from it and become imitative and debased.
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i could take you further, and show you (among the survivals from our england of the middle ages) the “joy of the harvest” expressed in the great granaries and tithe-barns which still crown like abbey-churches the corn-lands of home. concerning one of these william morris said that it stood second in his estimation among all the gothic buildings of europe! think of it!--of what that means in the realisation of life-values by the age which had a mind so to celebrate man’s rest after the labour of the harvest! in those days england was called “merry” and foreigners who came to her shores reported as a national characteristic the happy looks of her people: even their faces showed adornment! and thus it is that beautiful use always clothes itself in beauty.
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i have said that all art is useful. to many that may have seemed a very contentious statement. but how can one separate beauty from use if one holds that everything which delights us is useful? on that statement there is only one condition i would impose. the use in which we delight must not mean the misuse or the infliction of pain on others. in those periods of civilization to which i have referred (so magnificent in their powers of self-discovery and self-adornment), there were always dark and cruel habitations where the “art of living” was not applied. they were content that the beauty on which they prided themselves should be built up on the suffering, the oppression, or the corruption of others. in the lust of their eyes there was a blind spot, so that they cared little about the conditions imposed by their own too arrogant claim for happiness on the lives that were spent to serve them. and out of their blindness came at last the downfall of their power.
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so it has always been, so it always must be. i believe that beauty, delight, ornament, are as near to the object of life as anything that one can name, and that through right uses we attain to these as our goal. but it is no good claiming to possess delightful things if we do not see to it that those who make them for us have also the means to live delightfully.
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if man cannot make all the uses and services of life decent and wholesome as a starting-point, neither can he make life enjoyable--not, i mean, with a good conscience. if he would see god through beauty, he must see him not here and there only, but in the “land of the living”; else (as the psalmist said) his spirit must faint utterly.
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our life is built up--we know not to what ultimate end--on an infinite number of uses, functions, mechanisms. these uses enable us to live; they do not necessarily enable us to enjoy. you can quite well imagine the use of all your senses and organs so conditioned that you could not enjoy a single one of them, and yet they might still fulfil their utilitarian purpose of keeping you alive.
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i need not rehearse to you in troublesome detail conditions of life where everything you see is an eyesore, every touch a cause of shrinking, every sound a discord, where taste and smell become a revolt and a loathing.
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our modern civilization derives many of its present comforts from conditions such as these under which thousands, nay millions, of subservient human lives become brutalised. so long as we base our ideal of wealth on individual aggrandisement, and on monetary and commercial prosperity, and not (as we should do) upon human nature itself--making it our chief aim that every life should be set free for self-realisation in ornament and delight--so long will these things be inevitable.
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but when we, as men and women, and as nations, realise that human nature is the most beautiful thing on earth (in its possibilities, i mean) then surely our chief desire will be to make that our wealth here and now, and out of it rear up our memorial to the ages that come after.
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the most hardened advocate of “art for art’s sake,” will hardly deny that art, for all its “sacred egoism,” is a social force. the main question is where does your art-training begin?
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the conditions of the home, the workshop, and of social industries do more than the schools and the universities to educate a nation; and more especially, perhaps, to educate it toward a right or a wrong feeling about art.
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and if, in these departments, your national education takes a wrong line, then (however much you build schools over the heads of your pupils and intercept their feet with scholarships, and block their natural outlook on life with beautiful objects produced in past ages and in other countries) your art-training will partake of the same condemnation.
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true education, as opposed to merely commercial education, is a training of mind and body to an appreciation of right values; values, not prices. the man who has an all-round appreciation of right values is a well-educated man; and he could not have a better basis either for the love or the practice of art than this appreciation of what things are really worth.
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but, in the present age, which prides itself on its inhuman system of specialisation as a means to economy, such a man is rather a rare phenomenon; for it is about as difficult to get out of present conditions a true appreciation of life values--a true art-training--as it is to get a true artist. where your national conditions shut down the critical faculties, and make their exercise difficult, there too, your creative artistic faculties are being shut down and made difficult also. they are far more interdependent than your average art-teacher or art-student is generally willing to admit. the idea that he has to concern himself with conditions outside his own particular department threatens him with extra trouble, and the burden of a conscience that the doctrine of “art for art’s sake,” will not wholly satisfy; and so he is inclined to shut his eyes, and direct his energies to the securing of favourable departmental instead of right national conditions.
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but the man, or woman, who embarks whole-heartedly on art-training must in the end find himself involved in a struggle for the recovery of those true social values which have been lost (or the acquisition of those which are as yet unrealised) and for the substitution, among other things, of true for false economics. he cannot afford to live a life of aloof specialisation, when the conditions out of which he derives and into which he is throwing his work are of a complementarily disturbing kind. if, that is to say, the give-and-take conditions between artistic supply and social demand have become vitiated, if the conditions of the market, or of society, are unfavourable to the reception of products of true worth, then the artist must to some extent be an active party in the struggle for getting things set right.
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that does not mean that, if he has a gift for the designing of stage-scenery, he should necessarily be involved in a struggle to secure a good drainage system (though even that should have an interest for him) but it does mean very much that he should be tremendously interested in the education of his own and the public mind to the point of receiving good drama rather than bad, in order that his art may have worthy material to work upon; and as good drama largely arises from a lively conscience and the quickening in the community of new ideas, he will wish his public a keen and open mind on all social questions.
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similarly a man who designs for textile fabrics should be very much concerned indeed in getting cleanly conditions and pure air in the towns and dwelling-houses where his designs have to live and look beautiful, or grow ugly and rot. and there you get set before you in small, the opposition between the interests of art and the supposed interests of trade. it is--or it is supposed to be--in the interest of trade that things should wear out or get broken, and be replaced by other things. it is in the interest of art that they should not wear out, that they should last; that everything worthy which is given to man’s hand to do should have secured to it the greatest possible length of life. and the reason is that the artist, if he be a true artist, realises the value of things, the life value; that he is on the side of creation and not of destruction, of preservation and not of waste. he has within his nature an instinct that the greatest possible longevity is the right condition for all manual labour; that when a man sets his hand to a thing he should have it as his main aim to give good value, to make it so that it will endure. and in this connection i would like to substitute for the words “art training” the word “education.” it is in the interests of education that things should be made to last, and that only things should be made of any lasting material that deserve lasting. nothing should be produced the value of which will become negligible before it is honestly worn out. and so it is in the interest of education, as of art, that we should eliminate as much as possible the passing and the ephemeral, the demand of mood and fashion, the thing cheaply chosen, cheaply acquired, and cheaply let go; and substitute the thing that we shall have a long use for, and should like to keep permanently--the thing acquired with thought and care, and thoughtfully and carefully preserved because it has in itself a value.
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but you won’t get any broad exercise of that kind of choice between evil and good until you get a sense of right values--going far away from what apparently touches art--in the mind, and the public and private life of the community. and so, as i started by saying, true art is bound up with true education and social conditions. good citizenship is one of the conditions for setting national art upon a proper basis. a lively sense of your duty to your neighbour cannot fail to have an effect upon your taste in art.
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now i want to bring this view of things home to you. so i will ask everyone here to think for a moment of their own homes, their own living-rooms, and especially of their parlours or drawing-rooms, which are by their nature intended to express not so much our domestic necessities as our domestic sense of the value of beauty, recreation, and rest. and to begin with, how do you show your sense of duty to the architect, who has (if you are fortunate) designed for you rooms of pleasant and restful proportions? how many of the objects in those rooms help at all to give a unifying and a harmonious effect, or are in themselves in any way beautiful--things, that is to say, which (if not of actual use) we love to set our eyes on, and feel what fineness of skill in handling, what clean human thought in design went to their production? have those things been put there quite irrespective of their price and the display they make of their owner’s “comfortable circumstances”? are they subordinated to a really intelligent sense of what a living-room should be? or are they merely a crowd, a litter, things flung into the room pell-mell by a house-mistress bent on securing for her parlour-maid a silly hour’s dusting every day of objects--not of virtue--and for herself the recognition by her neighbours that she has money enough to throw away in making her living-room a silly imitation of a shop for bric-a-brac. can you, even those of you who do not live in streets where you have to safeguard your privacy--can you look out of the window without being tickled in the face by lace curtains, blind-tassels, or potted palm-leaves? can you sit down to the writing-table without entangling the legs of your chair in a woolly mat and your feet in the waste-paper basket, or get at the drawer of the cabinet without moving two or three arm-chairs, or play the piano without causing the crocks which stand upon it to jangle? is the rest and recreation you get in that room anything else but a sense of self-complacency based upon pride of possession? i ask you to think what your furnishing of your rooms means, and remember that to every person who comes into those rooms--and more especially perhaps to the maids whom you set to dust them--you are helping to give either an art-training or an anti-art-training, a training in true uses and values, or in misuses and mere waste and wantonness.
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of course i know that to some extent you are victims. you have dear friends who will give you presents, and you can’t hurt their feelings by not putting up another shelf, or erecting another glass-shade, where neither are wanted, or driving another peg into the wall to hang a picture where no picture can be properly seen. and probably the reason you cannot is because you have shown yourself so thoughtless and haphazard in all your ideas about decoration and house-furnishing that even in that house, which you falsely assert to be your castle, you stand defenceless before this invasion of ornamental microbes! obviously the house is not yours if others can break in and spoil its borders with their own false taste. but i can assure you that those inroads do not happen to people whose rooms show a scrupulous sense of selection. you inspire then (even in the thoughtless) a certain dread and respect. though they regard you as uncanny and call you a crank, you are beginning their art-training for them.
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i remember, in this connection, a quaker acquaintance whose friends descended upon him at the time of his marriage with certain household monstrosities which he was expected thereafter to live down to. it was a cataclysm which he could not avert; but he found a remedy. he became a passive resister to the education rate, and year by year he placed at the disposal of the distraining authorities a selection of his wedding-presents till his house was purged of them. i have said that you cannot separate art-training from general education; and here, at all events, you find the two happily combined--a war on bad art and on a bad educational system joined economically in one.
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so much, then, for thoughtless superfluity as an impediment to a recognition of true values. i want now to come to the importance of permanence as a condition underlying the aim of all production if it is to be wholesome in its social results. i have said that an instinct for permanence is what differentiates artistic from supposed trade interests. take architecture. do you imagine that architects or builders are likely to design or build in the same style for a system of short leaseholds as they might for freeholds? and is the building which is calculated just to “save its face” until the lease expires likely to be so good either in design or workmanship?
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read, in that connection, what coventry patmore says in his essay on “greatness in architecture”:
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“the house and cottage builder of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was,” he says, “fully aware that the strength of a rafter lay rather in its depth than its breadth, and that, for a time at least, a few boards two inches thick and ten inches deep, set edgeways, would suffice to carry the roof, which nevertheless it pleased him better to lay upon a succession of beams ten inches square. it is the reality, and the modest ostentation of the reality, of such superfluous substantiality that constitutes the whole secret of effect in many an old house that strikes us as “architectural,” though it may not contain a single item of architectural ornament; and, in the very few instances in which modern buildings have been raised in the same fashion, the beholder at once feels that their generous regard for the far future is of almost as poetical a character as the aged retrospect of a similar house of the time of henry vii. or elizabeth. a man,” he goes on, “now hires a bit of ground for eighty or ninety years; and, if he has something to spare to spend on beauty, he says to himself: ‘i will build me a house that will last my time, and what money i have to spare i will spend in decorating it. why should i waste my means in raising wall and roof which will last five times as long as i or mine shall want them?’ the answer is: because that very ‘waste’ is the truest and most striking ornament; and though your and your family’s enjoyment of a house thus magnanimously built may last but a tenth of its natural age, there lies in that very fact an ‘ornament’ of the most noble and touching kind, which will be obvious at all seasons to yourself and every beholder, though the consciousness of its cause may be dormant; whereas the meanness of the other plan will be only the more apparent with every penny you spend in making it meretricious.”
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again, are you likely to get so good an architectural design where you cannot be fairly sure that the use for which the building is raised is likely to be permanent? and do our modern trade conditions and present enormous demand for thoughtless superfluities tend to make that prospect more probable? if not, then instability of trade, or trade directed to the satisfaction of frivolous and ephemeral demands is bad for architecture, and hinders any worthy development in it of national characteristics.
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but there, mind you, in trade, lies to-day the very life of the nation; for the life of our teeming millions depends on it. by our industrial specialisation in the pursuit of wealth vast numbers of us have ceased to be self-supporting in the necessaries of life. and the question for artists is, are we basing our national life on conditions that cannot secure permanence and stability in the things which we produce? is it a necessary condition of our industrial development that things should have a shorter life and we a shorter use for them than in the old days? to the artist the drawback of machine-made things is not necessarily in the mechanism of their production (for in some cases your machine relieves the human hand of a hard and wearing monotony), but there is a very obvious drawback if it imposes upon the worker merely another form of hard and wearing monotony, and at the same time shortens the life of the thing produced. if handicraft does not offer to the worker worthier conditions for hand and brain, and insure longer life in the thing produced, it is no good pinning our faith to it. eliminate it, and let machinery take its place. you have not, then, in the transfer, destroyed any right values, and you are not going counter to the conditions which tend to produce national art.
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but, as an example of the particular value which does sometimes attach to hand labour (irrespective of its artistic value), i have here a small unused sample of chair-cover material of english make, produced about eighty years ago, at a probable cost--so i am told by experts--of under £2 the square yard. the chairs it was made to cover are now in my possession. during the twenty-five years of my own personal acquaintance with them they have had plenty of hard wear; but even at the corners that material has not yet begun to wear out; and the colour has only become softer and more mellow in quality.
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within the last ten years i endeavoured to get that covering matched in a modern material, and i paid for the nearest match i could get about one-fifth of the price i have quoted. that material has already gone shabby; and where it is most worn and faded the colour, instead of mellowing, has gone dead and dirty in quality. the older material will probably outlast my time.
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there, then, are the comparative values of the old and the new material. you pay the higher price for the old, but in the end it is more economical. and it has this double advantage (or what would be a double advantage in a state where industrial conditions were sound), that it inclines its possessor to adopt a more permanent style of furnishing, by making age beautiful and change unnecessary; and so it sets free a great amount of human labour for other purposes; not merely the labour of the textile workers who have not to provide new covers, but the labour of the upholsterers, who are not called upon to rip off a series of old covers and fit on new ones, dragging old nails out and driving fresh nails in, with the result that the framework of the chair itself is presently worn out and a new one required in its place. all that labour is saved.
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that small example is important because it exemplifies those possibilities of permanence attaching to certain forms of hand-labour out of which can be developed a school of textile manufacture indigenous in character--indigenous in that you give it time to become embedded in its domestic setting, and to make for itself domestic history. it enables you to develop an appreciation for subtleties of colour, and to secure tones and harmonies which you cannot get ready-made in a shop: it gives to a piece of furniture life-value.
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but it is bad for trade!
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now why is it bad for trade? it is bad for trade because our modern industrial conditions have brought us to this pass, that it is no longer our national aim to direct labour and set it free for other work that really needs to be done. our national problem is rather to find work for people, at times even to invent needs, and to create a fictitious turnover in trade so that we may not have upon our hands an enormous increase of the unemployed problem. and as hands go begging, as we have more hands in the country than we can employ on useful and fit labour (fit, i mean, for such fine implements as these and for the brains behind them), therefore hands are inevitably put to degrading uses, and the joy goes out of work; and for the delight (or at least the intelligent patience) of true craftsmanship is substituted the soul-destroying bondage of mechanical labour at something which is not really worth producing.
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you may take that, i think, as a test whether a state is in industrial health or disease--whether, namely, it tends more in the direction of setting labour free for other and higher purposes (through the permanent quality of its products), and so evolving an aristocracy of labour; or whether (owing to their ephemeral quality) it constantly tends to invent work of a lower and more trivial kind, and to provide jobs of an ephemeral character which are not really wanted.
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now bad and wasteful taste is directly productive, not so much of trade as of fluctuations in trade, because that sort of taste soon tires and asks for change; and the consequence is that thousands of workers (especially women, whose industries used to be home industries before machinery drew them out of the homes) are in this country constantly being thrown out of one useless employment into another, and very often have to pass through a fresh apprenticeship at a starvation wage. and so, when we create frivolous demands for things that we shall not want the day after to-morrow, we are not (as we too often think) doing anything that is really good for trade, but only something much more horrible, which you will understand without my naming it.
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you see, then, how very closely the artist’s inclination toward permanence of taste may be connected with morality. and if that instinct for permanence (with an accompanying adaptation of material and design to making things last their full time without waste) is not present in the craftsmanship of our day, then we have not got the true basis, either in spirit or material, for art to build upon.
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now i am going to put before you some quite homely instances, because i think they will stick best in your memories, in order to show you that the real struggle of the artist to-day is not so much to secure appreciation of beauty in line and texture, as honesty of construction, and real adaptation of form to utility and of production to lastingness. i have been noticing, with quite simple objects of domestic use, that the trade-purpose toward them seems almost the opposite. the trade purpose is to present us with an article which, apparently sound in construction, will break down at some crucial point before the rest of it is worn out. a watering can, a carving fork, a kettle, a dustbin, a coal scuttle, the fixings of a door-handle, are generally made, i find, on an ignobly artful plan which insures that they shall break down just at that point where the wear and tear come hardest, so that an article otherwise complete shall be scrapped wastefully or go back to the trade to be tinkered.
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but leave things the actual design of which you cannot control, and come to dress, our own daily wearing apparel. i do not know if the men of my audience are aware that undergarments wear out much quicker if they are tight-fitting and worn at a stretch than if they are loose, but that is so. and, in consequence, a smart shopman has the greatest reluctance to sell you anything that is, as he conceives it, one size too large for you. the reason being that the looser fit lasts longer and is bad for trade--that it makes for endurance instead of for galloping consumption.
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in the majority of houses whose cold water systems i have inspected the pipes are nearly always run at the most exposed angle of the containing walls, so that if there is a frost, the frost may have a chance of getting at the pipes and bursting them, and so give the trade a fresh job. again, every housewife knows that in the ordinary daily conflicts between tea-sets and domestic service more cups get broken than saucers. and i suppose every household in london has got some corner shelf piled with superfluous saucers (useless widowers mourning the departure of their better halves); but it is very exceptional--only in one shop that i know--that one is able to replace the cup (in certain stock patterns) without encumbering oneself with the saucer which one does not want. the saucers continue to be made in wasteful superabundance, because waste of that sort is “good for trade.”
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i have been assured by an observant housewife that certain articles do now and again appear upon the market specially designed to safeguard by little constructive devices, the main point of wear-and-tear through which they become useless, and that presently these things disappear and are unobtainable, presumably because they prove too lasting, and so are “bad for trade.” and they are allowed to disappear because we, as a community, have not sufficiently set our hearts and minds against waste and uselessness. we buy cheaply because we think cheaply, and because we have lost our sense of honour towards the products of men’s hands, and toward that wonderful instrument itself which we are content to put to such base uses, letting the workers themselves see how much we despise the things they have made.
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now what i want you to see is that such a production would not be entertaining to an audience which had not come to regard the labour of man’s hands with a licentious indifference--which had not developed the gambler’s contempt for the true relations between labour and value. and here i want to put before you a proposition which may at first shock you, but which i hope to prove true. and that is that labour in itself, apart from its justification in some useful result, is bad and degrading; the man who is put to work which he knows is to have no result comes from that work more degraded and crushed in spirit than the man who merely “loafs” and lives “naturally.”
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perhaps the readiest example of that is the old treadmill system which was once employed in our prisons, where the prisoner was set to grind at a crank artificially adjusted to his physical strength, but having no useful result; and i believe that the main reason why prisoners on those machines were not allowed to grind their own bread or put their strength to any self-supporting industry was because it was “bad for trade” and brought them into competition with the contractors who supplied food to his majesty’s prisons. it was not the monotony half so much as the consciousness that it was without result which made that form of labour so degrading and so utterly exhausting to mind and body. you might think it was the compulsion; but i am not sure that compulsion to work may not sometimes be very moral and salutary. at any rate, here is an instance of the same thing presented under voluntary conditions. a man out of work applied to a farmer for a job; the farmer had no job for him, and told him so; but as the man persisted he started him at half a crown a day to move a heap of stones from one side of the road to the other. and when the man had done that and asked what next he was to do, he told him to move them back again! but though that man was out of work, and was on his way to earn the half-crown, rather than submit his body to the conscious degradation of such useless labour, he did as the farmer had calculated on his doing, and threw up the job.
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that same quality of outrage and degradation attends on all labour that is subject, within the worker’s knowledge, to wanton destruction, or is obviously of no real use or of “faked” value. and the finer the skill employed the greater the anguish of mind, or else the hard callousness of indifference which must result. call upon men to make useless things, or things which you mean wantonly to destroy the day after to-morrow, or to which by the conditions you tolerate you make a fair length of life impossible--call upon labour to do those things, and you are either filling its spirit with misery and depression, or you are making it, in self-defence, callous and hard.
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industrial conditions which encourage the building of houses that are only intended to last a lease; which permit the destruction of our canal system because that means of transit has proved a dangerous rival to the railway system; which impose a quick change in fashions on which depend various kinds of ephemeral and parasitic industries; which encourage a vast production of ephemeral journalism and magazine illustration which after a single reading is thrown aside and wasted--all these things, which have become nationalised in our midst, are a national anti-art training. we english have, as the result of these things, no national school of architecture; we have no national costume (though i myself can remember the time when in our midland counties not only the farm labourer, but the small yeoman farmer himself went to church as well as to labour in the beautiful smock-frock worn by their forefathers) and we have killed out from our midst one of the most beautiful national schools of popular art that ever existed, the school of the illustrators of the ’sixties; and we have done these things mainly from our increasing haste to get hold of something new, and our almost equal haste, when we have it, to throw it away again.
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we have cast our bread upon the waters. the sort of wealth to the pursuit of which nations have committed themselves needs (it now appears) an enormous amount of protection. and it cannot have been without some demoralising effect upon the mind of the community that we have been driven by our outstanding necessities to build every year six or seven of those enormous engines of destruction called “dreadnoughts,” whose effective lease of life is about 20 years, something considerably shorter than the lease of life which we allow for our most jerry-built lodging-houses! and on these short-lived products of industry (which are to-day the sign and symbol and safeguard of our world-power), our aristocracy of labour has been spending its strength, and the nation has now to depend on them for its safety. the cost of building a “dreadnought” is about the same as the cost of building st. paul’s cathedral. imagine to yourself a nation building every year six or seven st. paul’s cathedrals, with the consciousness that in twenty-five or thirty years they will all again be levelled to the dust, and you will get from that picture something of the horror which an artist is bound to feel at the necessity which thus drives us forward, even in peace-time, to the continuous destruction, on such a colossal scale, of the labour of men’s hands. and the more it is revealed to us to-day (by the present catastrophe) as an absolute political necessity, the more is the disorder of civilization we have arrived at condemned.
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well, i must leave now, in that example i have set before you, the wasteful aspect of modern industry, in order to touch briefly on another, and an almost equally hateful aspect, which i will call “the vivisection of modern industry.” i mean its subdivision into so many separate departments, or rather fragments, that it loses for the mind of the worker all relation to the thing made--that time-saving device at the expense of the human hand and brain, which we glorify under the term “specialisation.” now, however much you may defend that system on ground of trade competition, the artist is bound by his principles to regard it as a national evil; for anything which tends to take away the worker’s joy and pride in the distinctiveness of his trade and to undo its human elements is anti-art training. and so that inhuman specialisation which (for the sake of trade cheapness) sets down a man to the performance of one particular mechanical action all his life, in the making of some one particular part of some article which in its further stages he is never to handle, or a woman to stamp out the tin skeleton of a button, with her eyes glued to one spot for ten hours of the day--all these dehumanising things are anti-art because they are destructive of life-values. we have erected them into a system, and while cutting prices by such means at one end, we are mounting up costs at the other. we are promoting, maybe, a quicker circulation of the currency of the realm, but we are impoverishing the currency of the race. for that hard mechanical efficiency we are paying a price which is eating up all our real profits; quite apart from its effect in the increase of lunacy and of the unfit birth-rate and death-rate among children, it is helping to implant in the whole world of labour a bitter and a revengeful spirit which we have no right to wonder at or to blame. and the results affect us not only in our workshops but in our pastimes, by driving those whose labour is so conditioned into a more consumptive form of pleasure-seeking and relaxation. you cannot put people into inhuman conditions for long hours of each day, and expect them to be normal and humane when you turn them out to their short hours of leisure. i am pointing to conditions which you know probably as well as, or better than, i do; but i am pointing to them for the express purpose of saying that you cannot dissociate them from your national appreciation of art. the more you can connect the worker with the raw material on the one hand and the finished product on the other, the more surely you are establishing conditions out of which national art can grow; and the more you dissociate him from these two ends of his material the more you make national art impossible.
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i will give you an instance, quite away from sweated labour conditions, where you will see at once how wasteful and opposed to art is this system of breaking up craftsmanship into departments. it was an architect who told me that the following system is quite frequently followed in dealing with the stone out of which we build the outside walls of our modern churches. it is hewn at the quarries into a rough surface, thoroughly expressive of the stonemason’s craft, and not in any way too rough for its purpose. it is then taken and submitted by machinery to a grinding process which makes it mechanically smooth, and it is then handed over to other workmen who give back to it a chiselled surface of an absolutely uniform and mechanical character which expresses nothing. and with that wanton and wasteful lie we are content to set up temples to the god of truth!
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now if the church has become so blind to the values of life, and so lacking in any standard of honour toward the labour of men’s hands, as to allow itself to be so clothed in falsehood, yet i do still plead that those who call themselves artists shall protest by all means in their power against the systematisation of such indignities toward handicraft. that is the sort of thing against which any national art training we have ought to fight.
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how can we fight? best of all, i believe, by establishing a standard of honour toward manual labour; and, quite definitely, wherever we have art schools, by training all students to hate and despise shams and to loathe all waste of labour. but, perhaps, the most direct way would be for the state to set up, in every town, in connection with its art schools and its technical schools, a standard of honesty by practical demonstration, in the staple industry of the locality. i would not trouble, so long as that industry had a useful purpose, how much or how little it was connected with art; but i would give the youth of that place the chance of an honest apprenticeship under true human conditions to the trade in which they might be called upon to spend their lives. i would not have those schools of labour adopt any amateurishness of method or standard; they should not obstinately reject the aid of machinery where machinery can relieve monotony, but they should very carefully consider at what stage the dehumanising element came in, either by substituting mechanism for skill, or by separating the worker too much from his work in its completed form. and from those schools of labour i would allow people to purchase all the work of these state-apprentices which their master-craftsmen could pass as being of a standard quality. they would not compete in point of cheapness with the trade article, for their price would almost certainly be higher, but they would, i trust, compete in point of quality and design; and by exhibiting a standard, and making the thing procurable, they might create a demand which the very trade itself would at last be forced to recognise.
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this is but a very bald and brief statement of the kind of extension i mean; but what i want to put to you is this, that wherever a nation has turned from agriculture to trade, there, if you want national art you must invade those trade conditions and set up your standard of honour, not outside, but in the trades themselves; you must get hold of those who are going to be your workers and craftsmen and put into them (by exhibiting to them manual labour under right human conditions) the old craftsman’s pride which existed in the days of the guilds, when the trade unions were not merely organisations to secure good wages, but to secure good work, and to maintain a standard of honour in labour. but you must not stop there. to make your training in any true sense national you must make it characteristic, or rather it must make itself. it must aim at bringing out racial and local character; and before it can do so we must recover that love of locality which we have so largely lost. a mere multiplication of schools and classes where a departmental system evolved at some city centre is put in force, is not national: it is only metropolitan, perhaps only departmental. you can put such a system, in a certain superficial way, into the heads and hands of your local students, but you cannot put it into the blood. unless your art training enters into and links up the lives of those you would teach with a larger sense of citizenship, it isn’t national. they won’t carry it away with them into their daily pursuits, they won’t make a spontaneous and instinctive application of it; they will only come to it at class-hours, and, when class-hours are over, quit again. i have spoken of the necessity of a standard of honour toward labour, but we need also a standard of honour toward life. it is still, you see, values--life-values--that i am trying to get at as a basis for art.
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now to some of you i must have seemed, in all conscience, gloomy and pessimistic in my outlook on present conditions; and therefore, before i end, i will try to emit a ray of hope. there are certain social developments going on around us which make me hope that we may yet emerge from this valley of the shadows through which we are still stumbling. one is that there has been in the last generation a very general breakdown of the old artificial class notion of the kind of work which was compatible with “gentility.” and one meets to-day people, whose culture has given them every chance to develop that standard of honour toward life (without which their claim to be gentry means nothing); you meet with many such people nowadays who have come back to manual labour in various forms, in farming, in horticulture, and in craftsmanship--some also, i am glad to say, who have become shopkeepers--and who are bringing, presumably, their standard of honour to bear on those trades on which they no longer foolishly look down. among these a definite revival of handicraft is taking place, and where they are doing their work honestly and well they are undoubtedly inculcating a better taste. it is especially among this class which has come back to handicraft that one meets with domestic interiors of a fine and scrupulous simplicity which we may eventually see imitated (meretriciously, perhaps, but on the whole beneficially) even in lodging-houses which are at present the dust-hung mausoleums of the aesthetic movement of thirty years ago.
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another matter for congratulation--not a movement, but a survival--is the unspoiled tradition of beauty which still exists in the cottage gardens of england. there, in our villages, you find a note of beauty that has scarcely been touched by the evil of our modern conditions. and i take it as a proof that where, by some happy chance, we have managed to “let well alone,” there the instinct for beauty and for fitness is still a natural ingredient of industrial life. that survival of taste in our cottage gardens is culture in the best sense of the word; and it is still popular. we do not yet dig our gardens by machinery; when we do they will die the death.
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and two other bright points of movement, which i look to as having in them the basis of a true art training, are the widespread revival, in so many of our towns and villages, through the efforts of miss mary neal, mr. cecil sharp and others, of our old folk-songs and morris dances, and lastly--perhaps i shall surprise you--the boy scout movement.
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coming into contact with these two movements, i have found that they have in them certain elements in common. instituted with a rare combination of tact and enthusiasm, they have taken hold of the blood; they have got home at a certain point in boy and girl nature which has already made them become native. i find that these two organisations tend to develop among their members grace and vigour of movement, good manners, a cheerful spirit, a more alert interest in the things about them, a feeling of comradeship, and best of all, a certain sense of honour toward life. and therefore, even in a place technically devoted to the training of students, i say boldly that i see nowhere better hope of a sound basis for national art than in this revival of village dancing and folk-song and in the boy scout movement.
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the assertion may perhaps seem strange and ironic to some of you that it is not from a study of beautiful objects that the sense of beauty can be made national, but only in the recovery of an ordered plan for our social and industrial life, and in the finding of a true and worthy purpose for all that our hands are put to do. but in that connection you may remember how ruskin maintained that great art has only flourished in countries which produced in abundance either wine or corn; in countries, that is to say, where the greatest industries were those with which we most readily associate that note of joy which has become proverbial, the joy of the harvest. it is perhaps too much to dream that we shall ever again see england living upon its own corn; and the greatest forms of art may, therefore, remain for ever beyond our reach. but until a nation does honour to the human hand as the most perfect and beautiful of all instruments under the sun, by giving it only honourable and useful tasks--until then i must rather wish you to be good valuers, keen--indignantly keen--to destroy the false values which you see about you, than that you should be either good draughtsmen or good artists.
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you can do honest and good work as designers and illustrators and architects, as workers in wood and metal and stone; but you are hampered and bound by the conditions of your day, and you cannot by your best efforts make art national till you have established joy in labour. no great school of art can ever arise in our midst in such a form as to carry with it through all the world its national character, until the nation itself has found that voice (which to-day seems so conspicuously absent, even when we close our shops to make holiday); i mean the voice of joy.
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conscious and unconscious immortality.
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we are frequently told (more especially by those whose profession it is to preach belief in a revealed religion), that if man be not endowed with an immortal soul, then the game of life is not worth the candle. incidentally we are warned that if the bottom were knocked out of that belief, morals would go to pieces and humanity would become reprobate.
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now i can imagine a similar sort of claim put forward in other departments of life for other pursuits which seem to their advocate to make life more appetising.
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i can imagine sportsmen saying that without sport men would cease to be manly, morals and physique would deteriorate and life be no longer worth living. i can imagine the butcher saying that without meat, and the licensed victualler that without beer, men were of all things the most miserable. i have recently seen advertisements which say that only by supporting the cinema (made beautiful by the feet of charlie chaplin), can we hope to be victorious in the present war.
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the assertion that man cannot do without certain things which, as a matter of fact, vast numbers of his fellows are constantly doing without--(and with no very marked set-back as regards health, efficiency, or general morals)--is a questionable way of forcing home conviction that these things or beliefs are indispensable. it is quite possible that beer, meat, the pursuit of game, the personality of charlie chaplin, and a belief in immortality are all alike capable of giving stimulus to the human soul (especially to those souls which have come by habit to depend upon them). but it is quite certain that other human souls have found without them sufficient stimulus to make life worth living. and though, against that fact, it may be argued that these unconsciously receive their driving force, their social and ethical standards, from those whose motive power they reject as superfluous, and that we, who do not go to see charlie chaplin on the films, are winning this war somewhat circuitously through the powers of those who do--the argument is hardly a convincing one, since it remains for ever in the nature of an unproved hypothesis.
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but when the majority of those who believe in personal immortality are asked for the ground of their belief, it generally resolves itself into this: they have an intense individual conviction that it is so--so intense that to hold the contrary becomes “unthinkable.” but that intense, individual conviction, over things we greatly care about, is a constant phenomenon of the working of the human mind, and is not limited to belief in a future state. to a convinced liberal it is “unthinkable” that he should ever pass into such a state of mental annihilation as to become a conservative. to a convinced conservative it is unthinkable that he should fall from the grace which guides him into the slough of liberalism. it is the same with protestant or catholic, with socialist, universalist, or sectarian: conviction always presents an adamantine front to opposing forces and arguments--so long as it lasts.
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the same phenomenon constantly occurs in the domain of the amative passion. the lover (if he be really in love), believes that his love will last for ever--that nothing can possibly change it; and all the evidence in the world that lovers of a like faith have too often lived to see the immortal dream put on mortality, will fail to convince him (while he is in the toils) that his own love is liable to any such change as theirs.
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the reason is that strongly vitalised forces always carry with them a sense of permanence.
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the vital spark (focused within us by strong conviction or emotion), is but an individually apprehended part of a great whole: for this thread of life passing through us has already stretched itself out over millions of years, and countless atavisms have touched it to individual ends which were not ours; the will to live has clung to it by myriads of adhesions, feelers, tentacles, and not by human hands alone (though our palms still moisten, and our arms fly upward to the imaginary branch overhead when danger of falling threatens us, because the instinct of our arboreal ancestry still prevails in us over reason). and through those atavisms, the struggle to secure survival for the family, the clan, the race, has left an impress which may very naturally convey from the general to the individual a sense of immortality.
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for of all these constituent forces the majority knew and thought very little about death, except in their instinctive and spasmodic efforts to escape from it; and when at last man began to envisage death consciously and philosophically, straightway, with all these atavisms behind him, he belittled it with dreams of a future life.
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it was as perfectly natural a thing to do as for the lover to declare that his love for his mistress was eternal and not merely for a season, since any lesser statement would fail to convey adequately the intensity of the force by which he was moved. moreover, though in millions of individual cases the statement and the sincere belief that the love experienced will remain changeless and eternal, are contradicted by later fact, it is at least true that the passion itself is an ever-recurring phenomenon of life, and does, by its infinite recurrence and resurrection in form beyond form through evolving generations, present to finite minds an aspect of immortality. just as the water we drink is an imperishable thing, though after drinking it we shall thirst again, so is that love, which satisfies the lover’s soul, a principle of life extending illimitably beyond his own use for it. and if that be true about love, why should it not be true about life?
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for surely (put it thus), when across limited vision a thread passes, of which the eye can see neither the beginning nor the end, and when upon that thread, for the time being, the limited life hangs all its hopes, is it not quite natural for that clinging life to identify itself, through the closeness of its momentary contact, with the spiritually apprehended whole, and to identify with that concept of a general continuity its own present degree of individual consciousness. moreover, in a world governed by cause and effect, it can hardly be predicated that the results either of love or hatred, individually indulged, are not, or may not be illimitable, even though the individual spirit be not there to preside consciously over their extended operations.
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when, therefore, so much is true, when so many elements which pass through our lives have (by association), links and connections which to finite minds seem infinite, they may well impress us (by reason of the close identification established between us and them for the time being) with a sense that our own individual share and apprehension of them are addressed also to a universal goal.
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“universal,” for surely mere continuity--a stretching out of length without corresponding breadth--ought not to be the limit of our claim. yet it is significant that, in their demand for personal immortality, so many thinkers have found sufficient satisfaction in the idea of an extended survival through time into eternity, without making a corresponding demand for extension into unity through space. they are willing, that is to say, to put up for all eternity with those limitations of personality which they enjoy--the relations of meum and tuum upon which the possessive life of the senses is based, but not with those limitations (the prospect of which they do not enjoy), the termination of those same relationships imposed by death. it seems rather a one-sided way of doing things--this narrowing of the claim in a two-dimensional direction (one might almost say in a one-dimensional), yet it has been very generally done--i shall presently hope to show why--and most of our western theology has built up our future hopes for us entirely on those lines. personality, the sort of personality we have learned to enjoy, is based upon limitations. abolish limitations in your conception of future life, and for the majority of those pious minds which now clamour for it as their due you abolish personality also; it is swallowed up not in death but in a life from which the individual power to focus and to enjoy has disappeared.
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it is true that there has now begun, in modern socialistic christianity, a yeasting of desire for an all round, or expansive, as well as a forward, or extensive personality after death; that an all-embracing and not merely an all-surviving consciousness is more and more predicated for the full satisfaction of man’s spiritual need. but that was by no means the form of moral hunger which permeated primitive or mediæval christianity, and sufficed, we are to suppose, to keep poor human nature from that depravity into which it will fall if belief in personal immortality is surrendered. oregon, as we know, looked forward to finding in the nether groans of the damned a full completion of the orchestral harmonies of heaven; and in the whole conception of immortality as it has illumined the path of the church from its beginning down to quite modern times, individualism has been rampant. on that basis, so long as it satisfied his moral conscience, man did great things with it, making it shine as a great light by the unflinching witness which he bore to its efficacy through suffering and through martyrdom.
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it is probably true that an individualistic form to the doctrine was then, and always will be, necessary to attract those whose lives have been run from a highly individualised standpoint; and that, for them, death-bed consolation would hardly be achieved in the presentation of a doctrine so defined as to threaten annihilation to all the fetish worship and social values of the past.
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“god would think twice,” said a courtly french abbé of the seventeenth century to a king’s mistress who, upon her death-bed, was seized by spiritual qualms--“god would think twice before damning a lady of your quality.” and no one who holds by class-distinctions really wishes to find in the new jerusalem any abolition of that respect for persons or prejudices which has, in this world, been the main ground on which their self-esteem and their estimate of personality have been based.
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to them the most “unthinkable” proposition would be not the contraction of the future world to narrower and more select limits than those of the one they know, but a future world conducted on any code of morals which had not their own entire approval and sanction.
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we are told that the late queen victoria looked forward with very great interest to a future meeting with the hebrew patriarchs, with abraham, moses, and elijah, but hoped to be excused from any personal acquaintance with king david on account of his affair with bathsheba. and when we realise how very often the hope of heaven is really a species of self-love and self-applause, conditional on heaven being what we ourselves want it to be, one is led to wonder whether the real condition for entry into that state of bliss may not prove to be the precise opposite, and whether the disciplinary motto upon its portal may not be those mystic words, hitherto attributed to another place, “all hope abandon ye who enter here.” that, after all, is only a more emphatic way of stating what christ himself laid down as the path by which man should attain; that only those namely who were ready to lose life should find it. and i rather question whether our christian individualists have, up till now, been honestly prepared to “lose life” in the full sense, without condition or reserve, and whether, (if they have not), they have yet attained the spiritual standpoint necessary to bring them within the terms of the promise.
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so far i have dealt with the doctrine of immortality as presented to us from the individualistic basis alone. but, in some form or another, the doctrine of immortality belongs to many religions and schools (indeed, one might almost say to all) and has, therefore, most varied and even contradictory meanings attached to it. in some schools, as we have seen, it sets great store on the survival of the individual; in others individuality is held to be of small account--a diminishing rather than a persistent factor in the ultimate ends of life viewed as a whole.
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i remember in that connection discussing with the late father george tyrrell, in the days before rome’s excommunication fell on him, the divergent views as to immortality of christianity and buddhism; and at that time he held that the superiority of the christian faith lay in its insistence on the personal immortality, conscious and self-contained, of every human being. some years later, a month before his death, we discussed the matter again; and i asked him then, in what degree, if at all, his view as to personal immortality had changed. his answer gave me a curious instance of those scientific analogies by which modernism has been seeking to deliver the roman church from its mediæval entanglements.
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“in the main,” he said, “i have only changed in my apprehension of what ‘personality’ really is. just as one may find in an hysterical subject five or six pseudo-personalities which reveal themselves in turn, each one of which is a character quite separately and consistently defined, but not one of them (however completely in possession for the time) a real person, so it seems to me must we regard all those limitations of ‘personality’ which find expression in individual form. there is only one true personality, and that is christ; anything less than the one all-embracing whole is but a simulacrum, concealing rather than revealing the true substance and form.”
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i cannot pretend to give his actual words, but i believe that i have accurately stated the sense of them; and you will see, i think, that they go a long way toward the adaptation of the christian to the buddhistic standpoint. that tendency, i believe, we shall find more and more at work in the christian church as time goes on--not merely because by such a definition the doctrine will be better able to hold its own against the inroads of science--but because it gives also a better response to that socialising genius of the human race which is coming more and more to demand a perfect unity as the ultimate expression of good.
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that, then, we shall probably find to be the future tendency of idealism. there remains, of course, the rationalistic school of thought, by which the possibility of individual or personal survival after death is from first to last either absolutely denied or very severely discountenanced as an idea based upon wholly insufficient evidence.
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nevertheless, in some form or another, immortality, conscious or unconscious, personal or impersonal, is accepted by all schools alike; the scientific law of the conservation of energy being one form of it which human reason would now find it very difficult to deny.
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let us for one moment apply that law to our own individual lives and consciousness.
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has life convinced us that we are all self-contained persons? through social contact we have undergone many changes, many damages, and many repairs. parts of us have gone to other people, parts of other people have come, to us. we have shed and have absorbed quite as much spiritually as materially; and though through our material changes we retain a certain likeness, so that friends meeting us after a seven years’ absence recognise us again in bodies no particle of which have they ever seen before; and though similarly we can recognise our inner selves across wider intervals of time, have we any reason to suppose that our identity is more fixed in the spiritual substance than in the material? for myself, i hope not. may one not prefer the idea of interchange between life and life, to the notion that one is to remain for ever fixed and self-possessed--a thing apart? the more we are compounded of other lives, the more we have contributed to the lives of others--the more can we recognise our entrance into the only eternal life that we can demonstrably be sure about, or that can (so it must seem to many of us), be sensibly desired or deserved. is eternal bliss, in the individual sense, a more tolerable doctrine than eternal hell-fire? though, indeed, this latter may be but a scientific statement of fact perverted and made foolish by the theologians. for life, after all, is but a form of combustion for ever going on, and outside of it we know nothing. no doubt the atoms of our being, whether physical or spiritual, will forever form part of it; but i see no reason why our spirits should not be as diffused, through proper elemental changes, as our bodies are now being diffused from day to day; or why i should repine that i personally shall not always be there to preside over the operation and find it good. even if, at the far end of this earth’s history, everything is again to be reabsorbed in the heat and light out of which it came, i can trust the suns and planets to fulfil their mission of progress--or the will of god--quite as well as, or better than, in my own small sphere i can trust constitutional governments or established churches. and since these lesser lights, in their foolish and providential dealings, do not confound my faith, neither do the stars in their courses fight against it. rather do they confirm me in my sense that even the most acute perceptions with which human life is endowed fail of themselves to justify me in any claim to a larger lease of life than can naturally belong to them; for i see in the universe things far greater than any individual man, doing service and sustaining the life of countless millions, (which without them could not live at all), without any prospect of so great a reward.
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the eye of the sun itself is blind; and for ever, while it dazzles us with its light, blind it must remain. nay, what need has it for sight at all, if in blindness it be able to fulfil its mission? and yet implicit within its vast energies, there lies the gift of sight. for that blind eye of heaven taught us to see; our substance came from it, our eyes were made by it, and without it was not anything made on earth that was made. and if, by this gift of sight, it has opened to us so vast a space for our understanding to dwell in--bestowing so huge a conception of life on this frail vessel of clay--if by so giving of itself through long aeons of time it has opened to us so much more than it knows itself, cannot we render back without grudging these shorter, frailer lives of ours, whose brevity, perhaps, is the very price required of us for their enjoyment, since without such limits our far-reaching comprehension of space and its possessions could never have been gained. should there be any despair, or any depression in the thought that from the blind eye of day and from the powers of its heat was developed the human brain? for if from that apparent blindness of our universe came really the eyes of life by which we perceive all things, can we not commit our spirits back to its keeping with an equal trust that what lies ahead will be at least as good as what lies behind, though we be not there to see it?
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but the law of the conservation of energy does not in the least satisfy the aspirations of those who are out for personal immortality in the individual sense. to these it seems a grievance that they should have been called into being for any end not wholly satisfying to that ego which is now laying upon their consciousness the weight of its possessive limitations. this separative quality of the ego is to them the whole principle of existence; without it they cannot see life. to them, life in any less focused or more diffused form would be no better than annihilation, an obvious setting-back of the evolutionary process by which creation has led step by step to that degree of self-consciousness realised in the human race.
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do not these objectors forget not merely how considerable a part of human nature already moves and has its being on the lines of a diffused and rather decentralised subconsciousness, but also how largely the genius of the human race has committed to such conditions of separation from all possible enjoyment by the ego, some of the rarest gifts and highest efforts at self-realisation that the world has ever seen? it is a condition attaching to all the more permanent forms of expression in the arts, to everything that man designs and makes for the delight of the generations that come after. it is a condition willingly accepted by all who rejoice in their power to throw the influence of their personalities beyond the material uses of their own present existence. and in that willingness to lose out of themselves for future generations--to turn aside from mere physical enjoyment--the life-forces within them, in that willingness artist, poet, and thinker, have come far nearer to the finding of life than those who live indulgently for ends finished by their own absorption thereof.
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now it is the supporters of the individualistic school of thought who have generally urged that grave moral dangers would befall the human race were a belief in personal immortality to perish; and it is at least arguable (by minds that can only see values individually), that if man is not to be permanently rewarded or punished for his present and future conduct, he has no reason for conducting himself as a decent part of the social whole, and that it would be better for him to break out on entirely individual lines, live a short and merry life, and throwing all altruistic and ethical considerations to the winds, enjoy himself as much as he can while the material is to him.
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on paper that consideration may seem to hold strong ground; but when it is put into practice the facts of life are found to be overwhelmingly against it. for one thing excess and self-indulgence fail to produce enjoyment, for another the socialising of life by mutual aid tends quite obviously to the increase of comfort, safety, and happiness. and where apparently it does not is mainly at that point where rampant individualism grasps and warps it to its own ends, making the social organism subserve not the goodwill of the many but the ill-will of the few.
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but the ethical argument about the bad effects of non-belief in personal immortality has been considerably discounted by the growing sensitiveness of the modern conscience--more especially among those who are in a serious sense “free-thinkers”--toward the social ills lying around us. generally speaking, our sense of duty toward our neighbour is much more lively than it was in the mid-victorian era; but our conviction of personal immortality is probably far less. the two things do not go together: the diminution of church attendance in the last fifty years has not worsened the conditions of labour.
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it may, however, be argued that an instinct for immortality is still subconsciously at work within us, colouring our actions and directing us on right ethical lines. but if it be a subconscious direction which thus works in us for righteousness, it may equally be to a subconscious end. the subconscious impulse may merely be guiding us to a subconscious realisation which would not at all satisfy the advocates of conscious immortality after death. what works subconsciously can in all probability find satisfaction in a subconscious reward. the chemic processes of the stomach and of the blood, for instance, are largely subconscious in their operation; and their needs may be subconsciously appeased without the brain being told anything about it through the usual intermediaries of taste and mastication. we have a preference for a conscious performance of the functions of life which we have always been accustomed to perform consciously; but a very large proportion of our life-functions work themselves out subconsciously and independently of our will. our hearts beat, our blood circulates, our nails grow, our stomachs digest, our wounds heal, whether we tell them to or no, and yet we are quite happy about them. we do not consider (because they operate by a volition of which we are unaware), that therefore we carry about with us a body of death from which our conscious ego must needs shrink in disgust--a dead heart, dead stomach, dead blood--that the unconsciousness which accompanies health is a state nearer to annihilation, and so less to be desired, than the pains accompanying functional disturbances.
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when those things happen--functional disturbances--we are conscious of something more immediately relating to death than to life: it is because of local mortification that we become so much aware of things which our immortal part helps us to use unconsciously and without thought. virtue itself, when engrained, tends to become instinctive and subconscious instead of an effort.
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there is quite as much evidence, therefore, in our own bodies that unconsciousness is the real gate to immortal life, and the condition toward which all that is best and highest in us is seeking, as of the contrary teaching that increased self-consciousness is man’s final goal. in the functional working of our own bodies an enormous amount of self-consciousness has been eliminated, and we do not for our happiness or self-realisation wish it restored to us; whole tracts and areas are immune from it, or only make a spasmodic grab at our consciousness when things go ill with them. “if you go on doing that,” they say, when you misuse them, “we will make you know that we are here.” and so you become conscious of them: but that doesn’t make you happier. yet in a sort of way, i suppose, a man would realise himself more completely if he had sciatica all over him, and could count up his nerves, and tell all his bones by the aches and pains attaching to them.
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now it is easy enough for a man to say (i think it was h. m. stanley, the explorer, who did say so) that he would rather endure torment for all eternity than accept a state of annihilation. in thus protesting he is talking through his hat of something too far beyond human experience for the mind to realise. toothache he has probably always found bearable, because he knew that in course of time it would end. on the other hand, sound dreamless sleep is probably not less bearable to him because during that sleep he has not a ghost of a notion that he will ever wake up again. he is carried, that is to say, every day of his life while in health, into a state closely resembling annihilation of consciousness, in which such annihilation has no terrors for him at all; he accepts it as a comfortable part of existence, and goes to it with delight when his faculties are tired. its attractions for him would naturally be less while all his senses were alert and fresh.
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but the waking man is not the whole man; the subconscious life, acquiescent to imposed conditions, occupies by far the larger part of him. he can, therefore, only predicate the inclinations of his waking hours; in sleep he may revert to a very strong affinity for that annihilation of self-conscious life against which, in his waking hours, he protests his dread.
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and now a further word of comfort for those moral teachers who assure us that if once we let go the idea of personal immortality, with its accompanying implications of eternal reward or punishment, the conduct of the human race is bound to degenerate, and that man’s only logical motto will then be, “let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die.”
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to refute that deduction we have but to remember that sociology is a thing of ancestry and evolution, and has committed us to a weight of facts against which precept and theory are powerless. we have only to look back into nature to see how persistently (without, one must suppose, any promise of future reward after death) a contrary instinct emerges from the establishment of the social bond in nest and herd and hive. and why--if that emerging instinct leads on, in man’s reasoned estimation, to foolishness--why do we so specially admire the communal life of ant and bee, and incline sometimes to wonder whether (behind so marvellous an order of altruistic energy) there be not concealed more and not less of spiritual apprehension than in the more individualistic forms of insect and animal life? and why, on the contrary, has the wise cuckoo become a sort of byword for the singular economy with which it has disentangled its life from care or responsibility?
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it is surely very unfair thus to erect the cuckoo into a moral emblem for reprobation, if it is only doing by instinct, what man would do by reason and logic were the darkness of his own destiny made clear to him.
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and similarly, it is surely disingenuous on our part to exalt as a moral emblem the instinct of ant and bee to subordinate the life of the individual to the general--if we deny to ant and bee the immortality by which alone such altruism can be recompensed; or if we are to believe that a clearer knowledge of their future lot would cause them in logic and reason to declare that life on those terms was not worth living, and that “to eat, drink, and die to-morrow” were better than to live longer and labour for a vain repetition of lives like their own indefinitely multiplied. it is ridiculous to impose the moral emblem unless you grant also the justifying conditions.
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because the bee and the ant live unconscious of their impending doom, are we, therefore, to regard them as a hoodwinked race, set to labour at the dictates of the creative capitalist on terms which contain in them no adequate reward? suppose, for a moment, that revelation could descend upon ants’ nest and hive, and tell these workers that beyond death the future held for them no store--that their immortality was the immortality not of individual but of race; and suppose that thereupon they all struck and went forth to die each singly in their own way--would that moral emblem impress us, do you think, as a thing worthy of imitation or of praise?
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but why (let us think) is the predication of such an event so impossible and so grotesque? is it not because the life, the individual life of ant or bee is so impregnated with that instinct of communalism which gives the species its distinctive character, that it is impossible to sunder them, or to imagine the individual capable (while in the social milieu) of pursuing individual ends alone, after a following, over millions of years, of life in the communal form. life, the thread of life which runs through them, is too much engrained with communism for separatist principles ever again to prevail.
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and surely it is the same with man. individualism, separatism, self-obsessionism, though still present in the phenomena of existence, are more and more subject to qualifications from which they cannot escape. and even the most evil form of individualism has to be parasitic or predatory; it cannot exist alone; even against its will it becomes conditioned by other lives. and the communal sense of man, implicit within the innumerable forms of life through which he has evolved, will continue to lay its hold on the parasitic and the predatory, and will do so quite effectively on the basis of an evolutionary past, the tendencies of which were established before ever theological definitions came to give them impulse and strength.
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is it not almost ludicrous to suggest that that communal instinct will cease to play, if the hope of individual reward after death is withdrawn from the human race? will man--because he is nobler than the beast, because at his best he does things more altruistic, more self-sacrificing, more self-forgetting, more self-transcending than any of these--do less nobly because he envisages destiny, which (if he see it as destiny) he will see as the logical outcome of evolutionary law?
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it is possible, it is even probable, that all phases of theological thought have had their use in giving direction and stimulus to the human brain; if they have done nothing but stimulate rebellion against obscurantist authority they have had value of a positive kind. but we may go even further than this, for “everything possible to be believed,” says blake, “is an image of truth.” and under many a concept, distorted by ignorance or guile, has lain a germ of the true life which draws man on to communal ends. in time that germ puts off the husk that seemed once (perhaps in some cases actually was) the protective armoury through which alone it could survive for the use of a later day. but though old reasons have been shed, the essential value has not changed; and often it is less by logic and reason than by the strong and subtle links of association that we preserve what is good of past credulities.
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the doctrine of conscious immortality, however much belittled by its appeal to selfish individualism, has done a work for the human race. it has held the germ of an ideal for unity which is receiving a more universal interpretation to-day than the earlier theologians would ever have allowed, or than man, in his then stage of development, could have thought it worth while to hand on to his intellectual heirs. perhaps only because he conceived it in just such a form have its values been preserved.
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i am reminded in this connection of the method by which the wild swine of the new forest were taught to obey the voice of the horn by means of which the swine-herd, called them back each night from their free roaming in the forest. the way he did it was this. having first formed his herd, some four or five hundred strong, he penned them in a narrow space where water and warm shelter were to be found; and there, in the allotted enclosure, according them no liberty, he fed them daily to the sound of the horn. food and music became a sort of celestial harmony to pig’s brain--when they heard the one, good reason was given them for expecting the other.
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presently, in a well-fed condition, they were set free to roam; and being full and satisfied they did not roam far; and at night the horn sounded them back to an ample meal, and continued to sound while again they ate and were satisfied.
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so at last, by association, the horn came to have such a beneficent meaning that the mere sound of it sufficed to bring them back at nightfall to their appointed place of rest. they might roam for miles and miles during the day, but night and the sound of the horn brought them all back safe to fold. and when that habit had become established, they did not cease to return even though the swineherd no longer supplied the food which had first given music its charm to those savage breasts.
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and, similarly, i doubt not, that, though all hope of material profit or reward be withdrawn from man’s mind, that call of the horn which he has heard of old will still bring his spirit to the resting-place at the appointed time; nor will he wish either to shorten his days or debase his pleasures because the horn has ceased to provide the meal which it once taught him to expect.
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do not let anything i have said be taken as suggesting that the spiritual forces of man’s nature may not be conserved, transmuted, re-assimilated, or re-distributed, as surely and with as little waste as are the material elements of life which pass through disintegration and decay into new forms. the processes by which such changes are wrought may be, and may ever remain, a mystery to human sense. there may be yet in the making a new order or plane of evolution by which the process will be quickened and perfected. soul of man may be in the making, though it may be very far removed from that aspect of individualism with which the anthropomorphic tendencies of theology have burdened it. but--whether life thus rises by unknown law to further ends, or whether it passes out, like the life of leaves, into the general decay with which autumn each year fertilises the bed of mother earth--of one thing i would ask you to be confident--that the bandying of words and theories, and the discussion, tending this way or that, of man’s destiny after death, are not in any way likely to alter or to undo those forward-driving forces and communal desires with which, from an inheritance of so many millions of years, the life of humanity has become endowed. the will to live will still lift up the race and carry it forward to new ends, whether man thinks he sees in death the end of his personal existence, or only a new and a better beginning. and whether he claims or resigns that prospect of reward he will never be able to rid himself of the sense which revives after all failures and crimes, that man is his brother-man--or be able to refrain at his best from laying down his life, without calculation of personal benefit to himself, so that others may live.
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the highest manifestations of human genius, the most perfected forms of self-realisation in art, in literature, and science, have been given to us--and will continue to be given to us--independent of any bargain that name and identity shall for ever remain attached thereto while posterity enjoys the benefit. the artist might foresee that his name would, in a brief time, become dissociated from his work, and his memory blotted out from the book of the living; he would produce it all the same. the reformer might know that his motives would be aspersed, that his name would become after death a spitting and a reproach; but, for the sake of the cause he believed in, he would still be willing to die a dishonoured death and leave a reprobated name, to a world that had failed to understand.
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that is human nature at its best; and you will not change it or endanger it through any increased doubt thrown by modern thought or science on the prospect of conscious immortality after death. for whether we recognise it or not, a subconscious spirit, not perhaps of immortality but of unity, permeates us all; and for furtherance and worship of that which his soul desires, the spirit of man will ever be ready to work and strive, and to pass unconditionally into dust--if that indeed be the condition on which he holds his birthright in a life worth living.
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author of “the bad child’s book of beasts,” etc
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published by the proprietors of the j.c.r. at j. vincent’s 96, high street oxford
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lambkin on “sleep” appeared in “the isis.” it is reprinted here by kind permission of the proprietors. the majority of the remaining pieces were first published in “the j. c. r.”
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the republican club
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i am determined to dedicate this book and nothing shall turn me from my purpose.
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for no one, in our long decline, so dusty, spiteful and divided, had quite such pleasant friends as mine, or loved them half as much as i did.
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the freshman ambles down the high, in love with everything he sees, he notes the clear october sky, he sniffs a vigorous western breeze.
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“can this be oxford? this the place” (he cries), “of which my father said the tutoring was a damned disgrace, the creed a mummery, stuffed and dead?
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“can it be here that uncle paul was driven by excessive gloom, to drink and debt, and, last of all, to smoking opium in his room?
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“is it from here the people come, who talk so loud, and roll their eyes, and stammer? how extremely rum! how curious! what a great surprise.
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“some influence of a nobler day than theirs (i mean than uncle paul’s), has roused the sleep of their decay, and decked with light their ancient walls.
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“o! dear undaunted boys of old, would that your names were carven here, for all the world in stamps of gold, that i might read them and revere.
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“who wrought and handed down for me this oxford of the larger air, laughing, and full of faith, and free, with youth resplendent everywhere.”
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where on their banks of light they lie, the happy hills of heaven between, the gods that rule the morning sky are not more young, nor more serene
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than were the intrepid four that stand, the first who dared to live their dream, and on this uncongenial land to found the abbey of theleme.
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the library was most inviting: the books upon the crowded shelves were mainly of our private writing: we kept a school and taught ourselves.
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we taught the art of writing things on men we still should like to throttle: and where to get the blood of kings at only half-a-crown a bottle.
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eheu fugaces! postume! (an old quotation out of mode); my coat of dreams is stolen away, my youth is passing down the road.
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the wealth of youth, we spent it well and decently, as very few can. and is it lost? i cannot tell; and what is more, i doubt if you can.
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the question’s very much too wide, and much too deep, and much too hollow, and learned men on either side use arguments i cannot follow.
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they say that in the unchanging place, where all we loved is always dear, we meet our morning face to face, and find at last our twentieth year....
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they say, (and i am glad they say), it is so; and it may be so: it may be just the other way, i cannot tell. but this i know:
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from quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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but something dwindles, oh! my peers, and something cheats the heart and passes, and tom that meant to shake the years has come to merely rattling glasses.
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and he, the father of the flock, is keeping burmesans in order, an exile on a lonely rock that overlooks the chinese border.
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and one (myself i mean--no less), ah!--will posterity believe it-- not only don’t deserve success, but hasn’t managed to achieve it.
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not even this peculiar town has ever fixed a friendship firmer, but--one is married, one’s gone down, and one’s a don, and one’s in burmah.
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and oh! the days, the days, the days, when all the four were off together: the infinite deep of summer haze, the roaring boast of autumn weather!
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i will not try the reach again, i will not set my sail alone, to moor a boat bereft of men at yarnton’s tiny docks of stone.
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but i will sit beside the fire, and put my hand before my eyes, and trace, to fill my heart’s desire, the last of all our odysseys.
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the quiet evening kept her tryst: beneath an open sky we rode, and mingled with a wandering mist along the perfect evenlode.
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the tender evenlode that makes her meadows hush to hear the sound of waters mingling in the brakes, and binds my heart to english ground.
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a lovely river, all alone, she lingers in the hills and holds a hundred little towns of stone, forgotten in the western wolds.
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i dare to think (though meaner powers possess our thrones, and lesser wits are drinking worser wine than ours, in what’s no longer austerlitz)
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that surely a tremendous ghost, the brazen-lunged, the bumper-filler, still sings to an immortal toast, the misadventures of the miller.
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the vasty seas are hardly bar to men with such a prepossession; we were? why then, by god, we are-- order! i call the club to session!
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you do retain the song we set, and how it rises, trips and scans? you keep the sacred memory yet, republicans? republicans?
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you know the way the words were hurled, to break the worst of fortune’s rub? i give the toast across the world, and drink it, “gentlemen: the club.”
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the preparation of the ensuing pages has been a labour of love, and has cost me many an anxious hour. “of the writing of books,” says the learned psalmist (or more probably a syro-chaldæic scribe of the third century) “there is no end”; and truly it is a very solemn thought that so many writers, furnishing the livelihood of so many publishers, these in their turn supporting so many journals, reviews and magazines, and these last giving bread to such a vast army of editors, reviewers, and what not--i say it is a very solemn thought that this great mass of people should be engaged upon labour of this nature; labour which, rightly applied, might be of immeasurable service to humanity, but which is, alas! so often diverted into useless or even positively harmful channels: channels upon which i could write at some length, were it not necessary for me, however, to bring this reflection to a close.
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animaxander, king of the milesians, upon being asked by the emissary of atarxessus what was, in his opinion, the most wearying thing in the world, replied by cutting off the head of the messenger, thus outraging the religious sense of a time to which guests and heralds were sacred, as being under the special protection of ζεύς (pronounced “tsephs”).
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warned by the awful fate of the sacrilegious monarch, i will put a term to these opening remarks. my book must be its own preface, i would that the work could be also its own publisher, its own bookseller, and its own reviewer.
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it remains to me only to thank the many gentlemen who have aided me in my task with the loan of letters, scraps of mss., portraits, and pieces of clothing--in fine, with all that could be of interest in illustrating lambkin’s career. my gratitude is especially due to mr. binder, who helped in part of the writing; to mr. cook, who was kind enough to look over the proofs; and to mr. wallingford, q.c., who very kindly consented to receive an advance copy. i must also thank the bishop of bury for his courteous sympathy and ever-ready suggestion; i must not omit from this list m. hertz, who has helped me with french, and whose industry and gentlemanly manners are particularly pleasing.
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i cannot close without tendering my thanks in general to the printers who have set up this book, to the agencies which have distributed it, and to the booksellers, who have put it upon their shelves; i feel a deep debt of gratitude to a very large number of people, and that is a pleasant sensation for a man who, in the course of a fairly successful career, has had to give (and receive) more than one shrewd knock.
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the chaplaincy, burford college, oxford.
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being the unpublished works of j. a. lambkin, m.a. sometime fellow of burford college
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it is without a trace of compunction or regret that i prepare to edit the few unpublished essays, sermons and speeches of my late dear friend, mr. lambkin. on the contrary, i am filled with a sense that my labour is one to which the clearest interests of the whole english people call me, and i have found myself, as the work grew under my hands, fulfilling, if i may say so with due modesty, a high and noble duty. i remember lambkin himself, in one of the last conversations i had with him, saying with the acuteness that characterised him, “the world knows nothing of its greatest men.” this pregnant commentary upon human affairs was, i admit, produced by an accident in the oxford herald which concerned myself. in a description of a public function my name had been mis-spelt, and though i was deeply wounded and offended, i was careful (from a feeling which i hope is common to all of us) to make no more than the slightest reference to this insult.
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the acute eye of friendship and sympathy, coupled with the instincts of a scholar and a gentleman, perceived my irritation, and in the evening lambkin uttered the memorable words that i have quoted. i thanked him warmly, but, if long acquaintance had taught him my character, so had it taught me his. i knew the reticence and modesty of my colleague, the almost morbid fear that vanity (a vice which he detested) might be imputed to him on account of the exceptional gifts which he could not entirely ignore or hide; and i was certain that the phrase which he constructed to heal my wound was not without some reference to his own unmerited obscurity.
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the world knows nothing of its greatest men! josiah lambkin! from whatever cypress groves of the underworld which environs us when on dark winter evenings in the silence of our own souls which nothing can dissolve though all attunes to that which nature herself perpetually calls us, always, if we choose but to remember, your name shall be known wherever the english language and its various dialects are spoken. the great all-mother has made me the humble instrument, and i shall perform my task as you would have desired it in a style which loses half its evil by losing all its rhetoric; i shall pursue my way and turn neither to the right nor to the left, but go straight on in the fearless old english fashion till it is completed.
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of his school-days he always spoke with some bitterness. he appears to have suffered considerably from bullying, and the headmaster, though a humane, was a blunt man, little fitted to comprehend the delicate nature with which he had to deal. on one occasion the nervous susceptible lad found it necessary to lay before him a description of the treatment to which he had been subjected by a younger and smaller, but much stronger boy; the pedagogue’s only reply was to flog lambkin heartily with a light cane, “inflicting,” as he himself once told me, “such exquisite agony as would ever linger in his memory.” doubtless this teacher of the old school thought he was (to use a phrase then common) “making a man of him,” but the object was not easily to be attained by brutal means. let us be thankful that these punishments have nearly disappeared from our modern seminaries.
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here, then, is young lambkin, in his nineteenth year, richly but soberly dressed, and eager for the new life that opens before him. he was entered at burford college on october the 15th, 1861; a date which is, by a curious coincidence, exactly thirty-six years, four months, and two days from the time in which i pen these lines.
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of his undergraduate career there is little to be told. called by his enemies “the burford bounder,” or “dirty lambkin,” he yet acquired the respect of a small but choice circle who called him by his own name. he was third proxime accessit for the johnson prize in biblical studies, and would undoubtedly have obtained (or been mentioned for) the newdigate, had he not been pitted against two men of quite exceptional poetic gifts--the present editor of “the investor’s sure prophet,” and mr. hound, the well-known writer on “food statistics.”
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he took a good second-class in greats in the summer of 1864, and was immediately elected to a fellowship at burford. it was not known at the time that his father had become a bankrupt through lending large sums at a high rate of interest to a young heir without security, trusting to the necessity under which his name and honour would put him to pay. in the shipwreck of the family fortunes, the small endowment was a veritable godsend to josiah, who but for this recognition of his merits would have been compelled to work for his living.
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as it was, his peculiar powers were set free to plan his great monograph on “being,” a work which, to the day of his death, he designed not only to write but to publish.
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in this capacity no breath of calumny ever touched him. his character was spotless. he never offered or took compensations of any kind, and no one has hinted that his accounts were not accurately and strictly kept.
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he never allowed himself to be openly a candidate for the wardenship of the college, but it is remarkable that he received one vote at each of the three elections held in the twenty years of his residence.
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he passed peacefully away just after hall on the gaudy night of last year. when his death was reported, an old scout, ninety-two years of age, who had grown deaf in the service of the college, burst into tears and begged that the name might be more clearly repeated to him, as he had failed to catch it. on hearing it he dried his eyes, and said he had never known a better master.
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his character will, i think, be sufficiently evident in the writings which i shall publish. he was one of nature’s gentlemen; reticent, just, and full of self-respect. he hated a scene, and was careful to avoid giving rise even to an argument. on the other hand, he was most tenacious of his just rights, though charitable to the deserving poor, and left a fortune of thirty-five thousand pounds.
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in the difficult questions which arise from the superior rank of inferiors he displayed a constant tact and judgment. it is not always easy for a tutor to control and guide the younger members of the aristocracy without being accused of pitiless severity on the one hand or of gross obsequiousness on the other. lambkin, to his honour, contrived to direct with energy and guide without offence the men upon whom england’s greatness depends.
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he was by no means a snob--snobbishness was not in him. on the other hand, he was equally removed from what is almost worse than snobbishness--the morbid terror of subservience which possesses some ill-balanced minds.
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his attitude was this: that we are compelled to admit the aristocratic quality of the english polity and should, while decently veiling its cruder aspects, enjoy to the full the benefits which such a constitution confers upon society and upon our individual selves.
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his tact in casual conversation was no less remarkable than his general savoir faire in the continuous business of life. thus upon one occasion a royal personage happened to be dining in hall. it was some days after the death of mr. hooligan, the well-known home rule leader. the distinguished guest, with perhaps a trifle of licence, turned to lambkin and said “well, mr. bursar, what do you think of hooligan?” we observed a respectful silence and wondered what reply lambkin would give in these difficult circumstances. the answer was like a bolt from the blue, “de mortuis nil nisi bonum,” said the classical scholar, and a murmur of applause went round the table.
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indeed his political views were perhaps the most remarkable feature in a remarkable character. he died a convinced and staunch liberal unionist, and this was the more striking as he was believed by all his friends to be a conservative until the introduction of mr. gladstone’s famous bill in 1885.
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in the delicate matter of religious controversy his own writings must describe him, nor will i touch here upon a question which did not rise to any considerable public importance until after his death. perhaps i may be permitted to say this much; he was a sincere christian in the true sense of the word, attached to no narrow formularies, but following as closely as he could the system of seneca, stiffened (as it were) with the meditations of marcus aurelius, though he was never so violent as to attempt a practice of what that extreme stoic laid down in theory.
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neither a ritualist nor a low-churchman, he expressed his attitude by a profound and suggestive silence. these words only escaped him upon one single occasion. let us meditate upon them well in the stormy discussions of to-day: “medio tutissimus ibis.”
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his learning and scholarship, so profound in the dead languages, was exercised with singular skill and taste in the choice he made of modern authors.
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he was ignorant of italian, but thoroughly conversant with the french classics, which he read in the admirable translations of the ‘half-crown series.’ his principal reading here was in the works of voltaire, wherein, however, he confessed, “he could find no style, and little more than blasphemous ribaldry.” indeed, of the european languages he would read german with the greatest pleasure, confining himself chiefly to the writings of lessing, kant, and schiller. his mind acquired by this habit a singular breadth and fecundity, his style a kind of rich confusion, and his speech (for he was able to converse a little in that idiom) was strengthened by expressions of the deepest philosophic import; a habit which gave him a peculiar and individual power over his pupils, who mistook the teutonic gutturals for violent objurgations.
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such was the man, such the gentleman, the true ‘hglaford,’ the modern ‘godgebidden eorldemanthingancanning,’ whose inner thoughts shall unroll themselves in the pages that follow.
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poem written for “newdigate prize” in english verse
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by j. a. lambkin, esq., of burford college
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subject: “the benefits conferred by science, especially in connection with the electric light”
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for the benefit of those who do not care to read through the poem but desire to know its contents, i append the following headings:
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invocation to the muse
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his theme: the electric light and its benefits
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second invocation to the muse
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descend, o muse, from thy divine abode,
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to osney, on the seven bridges road; for under osney’s solitary shade the bulk of the electric light is made. here are the works, from hence the current flows which (so the company’s prospectus goes)
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power of works there
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statistics concerning them
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the energy developed represents, expressed in foot-tons, the united forces of fifteen elephants and forty horses. but shall my scientific detail thus clip the dear wings of buoyant pegasus?
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poetical or rhetorical questions
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shall pure statistics jar upon the ear that pants for lyric accents loud and clear? shall i describe the complex dynamo or write about its commutator? no!
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the theme changes
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to happier fields i lead my wanton pen, the proper study of mankind is men.
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third invocation to the muse
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awake, my muse! portray the pleasing sight that meets us where they make electric light.
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a picture of the electrician
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behold the electrician where he stands: soot, oil, and verdigris are on his hands; large spots of grease defile his dirty clothes, the while his conversation drips with oaths. shall such a being perish in its youth? alas! it is indeed the fatal truth. in that dull brain, beneath that hair unkempt, familiarity has bred contempt. we warn him of the gesture all too late; oh, heartless jove! oh, adamantine fate!
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his awful fate
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some random touch--a hand’s imprudent slip-- the terminals--a flash--a sound like “zip!” a smell of burning fills the startled air-- the electrician is no longer there!
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he changes his theme
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fourth invocation to the muse
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arouse thee, muse! and chaunt in accents rich the interesting processes by which the electricity is passed along: these are my theme, to these i bend my song.
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description of method by which the current is used
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it runs encased in wood or porous brick through copper wires two millimetres thick, and insulated on their dangerous mission by indiarubber, silk, or composition, here you may put with critical felicity the following question: “what is electricity?”
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difficulty of determining nature of electricity
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conservation of energy. proofs of this: no experiment needed
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it needs no pedant in the lecturer’s chair to prove that light and heat are present there. the pear-shaped vacuum globe, i understand, is far too hot to fondle with the hand. while, as is patent to the meanest sight, the carbon filament is very bright.
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doubts on the municipal system, but--
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as for the lights they hang about the town, some praise them highly, others run them down. this system (technically called the arc) makes some passages too light, others too dark.
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none on the domestic
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but in the house the soft and constant rays have always met with universal praise.
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for instance: if you want to read in bed no candle burns beside your curtains’ head, far from some distant corner of the room the incandescent lamp dispels the gloom,
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advantages of large print
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and with the largest print need hardly try the powers of any young and vigorous eye.
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fifth invocation to the muse
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aroint thee, muse! inspired the poet sings! i cannot help observing future things!
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the only hope of humanity is in science
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life is a vale, its paths are dark and rough only because we do not know enough. when science has discovered something more we shall be happier than we were before.
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peroration in the spirit of the rest of the poem
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hail! britain, mistress of the azure main, ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain! hail! mighty mother of the brave and free, that beat napoleon, and gave birth to me! thou that canst wrap in thine emblazoned robe one quarter of the habitable globe. thy mountains, wafted by a favouring breeze, like mighty hills withstand the stormy seas.
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warning to britain
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thou art a christian commonwealth. and yet be thou not all unthankful--nor forget as thou exultest in imperial might the benefits of the electric light.
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some remarks on lambkin’s prose style
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no achievement of my dear friend’s produced a greater effect than the english essay which he presented at his examination. that so young a man, and a man trained in such an environment as his, should have written an essay at all was sufficiently remarkable, but that his work should have shown such mastery in the handling, such delicate balance of idea, and so much know-ledge (in the truest sense of the word), coupled with such an astounding insight into human character and contemporary psychology, was enough to warrant the remark of the then warden of burford: “if these things” (said the aged but eminent divine), “if these things” (it was said in all reverence and with a full sense of the responsibility of his position), “if these things are done in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?”
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truly it may be said that the green wood of lambkin’s early years as an undergraduate was worthily followed by the dry wood of his later life as a fellow and even tutor, nay, as a bursar of his college.
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it is not my purpose to add much to the reader’s own impressions of this tour de force, or to insist too strongly upon the skill and breadth of treatment which will at once make their mark upon any intelligent man, and even upon the great mass of the public. but i may be forgiven if i give some slight personal memories in interpretation of a work which is necessarily presented in the cold medium of type.
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this excessive fastidiousness in the use of words was the cause of his comparatively small production of written work; and thus the essay printed below was the labour of nearly three hours. his ideas in this matter were best represented by his little epigram on the appearance of liddell and scott’s larger greek lexicon. “quality not quantity” was the witty phrase which he was heard to mutter when he received his first copy of that work.
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the nervous strain of so much anxiety about his literary work wearied both mind and body, but he had his reward. the scholarly aptitude of every particle in the phrase, and the curious symmetry apparent in the great whole of the essay are due to a quality which he pushed indeed to excess, but never beyond the boundary that separates right and wrong; we admire in the product what we might criticise in the method, and when we judge as critics we are compelled as englishmen and connoisseurs to congratulate and to applaud.
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he agreed with aristotle in regarding lucidity as the main virtue of style. and if he sometimes failed to attain his ideal in this matter, the obscurity was due to none of those mannerisms which are so deplorable in a meredith or a browning, but rather to the fact that he found great difficulty in ending a sentence as he had begun it. his mind outran his pen; and the sentence from his university sermon, “england must do her duty, or what will the harvest be?” stirring and patriotic as it is, certainly suffers from some such fault, though i cannot quite see where.
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the oxymoron, the aposiopesis, the nominativus pendens, the anacoluthon and the zeugma he looked upon with abhorrence and even with dread. he was a friend to all virile enthusiasm in writing but a foe to rhetoric, which (he would say) “is cloying even in a demagogue, and actually nauseating in the literary man.” he drew a distinction between eloquence and rhetoric, often praising the one and denouncing the other with the most abandoned fervour: indeed, it was his favourite diversion in critical conversation accurately to determine the meaning of words. in early youth he would often split an infinitive or end a sentence with a preposition. but, ever humble and ready to learn, he determined, after reading mrs. griffin’s well-known essays in the daily american, to eschew such conduct for the future; and it was a most touching sight to watch him, even in extreme old age, his reverend white locks sweeping the paper before him and his weak eyes peering close at the mss. as he carefully went over his phrases with a pen, scratching out and amending, at the end of his day’s work, the errors of this nature.
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he commonly used a gilt “j” nib, mounted upon a holder of imitation ivory, but he was not cramped by any petty limitations in such details and would, if necessity arose, make use of a quill, or even of a fountain pen, insisting, however, if he was to use the latter, that it should be of the best.
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the paper upon which he wrote the work that remains to us was the ordinary ruled foolscap of commerce; but this again he regarded as quite unimportant. it was the matter of what he wrote that concerned him, not (as is so often the case with lesser men) the mere accidents of pen or paper.
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i remember little else of moment with regard to his way of writing, but i make no doubt that these details will not be without their interest; for the personal habits of a great man have a charm of their own. i read once that the sum of fifty pounds was paid for the pen of charles dickens. i wonder what would be offered for a similar sacred relic, of a man more obscure, but indirectly of far greater influence; a relic which i keep by me with the greatest reverence, which i do not use myself, however much at a loss i may be for pen or pencil, and with which i never, upon any account, allow the children to play.
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but i must draw to a close, or i should merit the reproach of lapsing into a sentimental peroration, and be told that i am myself indulging in that rhetoric which lambkin so severely condemned.
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lambkin’s essay on “success”
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on “success:” its causes and results
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in approaching a problem of this nature, with all its anomalies and analogues, we are at once struck by the difficulty of conditioning any accurate estimate of the factors of the solution of the difficulty which is latent in the very terms of the above question. we shall do well perhaps, however, to clearly differentiate from its fellows the proposition we have to deal with, and similarly as an inception of our analysis to permanently fix the definitions and terms we shall be talking of, with, and by.
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so far then it is evident that while we may have a fairly definite subjective visual concept of what success is, we shall never be able to convey to others in so many words exactly what our idea may be.
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but here we are met at the outset of our examination by a difficulty of enormous dimensions. there is not one success; there are many. there is the success of the philosopher, of the scientist, of the politician, of the argument, of the commanding officer, of the divine, of the mere unthinking animal appetite, and of others more numerous still. it is evident that with such a vast number of different subsidiary catēgories within our main catēgory it would be impossible to arrive at any absolute conclusions, or to lay down any firm general principle. for the moment we had erected some such fundamental foundation the fair structure would be blown to a thousand atoms by the consideration of some fresh form, aspect or realisation, of success which might have escaped our vision, so that where should we be then? it is therefore most eminently a problem in which we should beware of undue generalisations and hasty dogmatism. we must abandon here as everywhere the immoral and exploded cant of mediæval deductive methods invented by priests and mummers to enslave the human mind, and confine ourselves to what we absolutely know. shall we towards the end of this essay truly know anything with regard to success? who can tell! but at least let us not cheat ourselves with the axioms, affirmations and dogmas which are, in a certain sense, the ruin of so many; let us, if i may use a metaphor, “abandon the à priori for the chiaro-oscuro.”
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terrible thought! a thing can be at once itself and not itself--nay its own opposite! the mind reels, and the frail human vision peering over the immense gulf of metaphysical infinity is lost in a cry for mercy and trembles on the threshold of the unseen! what visions of horror and madness may not be reserved for the too daring soul which has presumed to knock at the doors of silence! let us learn from the incomprehensible how small and weak a thing is man!
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but it would ill-befit the philosopher to abandon his effort because of a kind of a check or two at the start. the great hand of time shouts ever “onward”; and even if we cannot discover the absolute in the limits of this essay, we may rise from the ashes of our tears to better and happier things.
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a light seems to dawn on us. we shall not arrive at the full day but we shall see “in a glass darkly” what, in the final end of our development, may perhaps be more clearly revealed to us. it is evident that we have been dealing with a relative. how things so apparently absolute as hanging or betting can be in any true sense relative we cannot tell, because we cannot conceive the majestic whole of which success and failure, plus and minus, up and down, yes and no, truth and lies, are but as the glittering facets of a diamond borne upon the finger of some titled and wealthy person.
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our error came from foolish self-sufficiency and pride. we thought (forsooth) that our mere human conceptions of contradiction were real. it has been granted to us (though we are but human still), to discover our error--there is no hot or cold, no light or dark, and no good or evil, all are, in a certain sense, and with certain limitations (if i may so express myself) the aspects----
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lambkin on sleep
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“it is a pleasant thing to go to sleep!”
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lambkin’s advice to freshmen
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lambkin was so justly touched by the incident as to purchase the volume, asking that the price might be entered to his account, which was not then of any long standing. the letter he docketed “to be published after my death.” and i obey the wishes of my revered friend:
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“my dear thomas,
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“here you are at last in oxford, and at burford, ‘a burford man.’ how proud your mother must be and even your father, whom i well remember saying that ‘if he were not an accountant, he would rather be a fellow of burford than anything else on earth.’ but it was not to be.
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“the life you are entering is very different from that which you have left behind. when you were at school you were under a strict discipline, you were compelled to study the classics and to play at various games. cleanliness and truthfulness were enforced by punishment, while the most instinctive habits of decency and good manners could only be acquired at the expense of continual application. in a word, ‘you were a child and thought as a child.’
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“now all that is changed, you are free (within limits) to follow your own devices, to make or mar yourself. but if you use oxford aright she will make you as she has made so many of your kind--a perfect gentleman.
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“but enough of these generalities. it is time to turn to one or two definite bits of advice which i hope you will receive in the right spirit. my dear boy, i want you to lay your hand in mine while i speak to you, not as an uncle, but rather as an elder brother. promise me three things. first never to gamble in any form; secondly, never to drink a single glass of wine after dinner; thirdly, never to purchase anything without paying for it in cash. if you will make such strict rules for yourself and keep them religiously you will find after years of constant effort a certain result developing (as it were), you will discover with delight that your character is formed; that you have neither won nor lost money at hazards, that you have never got drunk of an evening, and that you have no debts. of the first two i can only say that they are questions of morality on which we all may, and all do, differ. but the third is of a vital and practical importance. occasional drunkenness is a matter for private judgment, its rightness or wrongness depends upon our ethical system; but debt is fatal to any hope of public success.
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“tut.--pray, what is your name?
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“st.--m. or n.
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“tut.--what have you read before coming up, mr. ----?
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“st.--the existing latin authors from ennius to sidonius apollinaris, with their fragments. the greek from sappho to origen including bacchylides.
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“tut.--have you read the gospels?
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“tut.--you must read two of them as soon as possible in the greek, as it is necessary to the passing of divinity, unless indeed you prefer the beautiful work of plato. come at ten to-morrow. good morning.
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“st.--i am not accustomed to being spoken to in that fashion.
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“i have little more to say. you will soon learn the customs of the place, and no words of mine can efficiently warn you as experience will. put on a black coat before hall, and prepare for that meal with neatness, but with no extravagant display. do not wear your cap and gown in the afternoon, do not show an exaggerated respect to the younger fellows (except the chaplain), on the one hand, nor a silly contempt for the older dons upon the other. the first line of conduct is that of a timid and uncertain mind; it is of no profit for future advancement, and draws down upon one the contempt of all. the second is calculated to annoy as fine a body of men as any in england, and seriously to affect your reputation in society.
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“you will find in every college some club which contains the wealthier undergraduates and those of prominent position. join it if possible at once before you are known. at its weekly meetings speak soberly, but not pompously. enliven your remarks with occasional flashes of humour, but do not trench upon the ribald nor pass the boundary of right-reason. such excesses may provoke a momentary laugh, but they ultimately destroy all respect for one’s character. remember lot’s wife!
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“you will row, of course, and as you rush down to the river after a hurried lunch and dash up to do a short bit of reading before hall, your face will glow with satisfaction at the thought that every day of your life will be so occupied for four years.
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“of the grosser and lower evils i need not warn you: you will not give money to beggars in the street, nor lend it to your friends. you will not continually expose your private thoughts, nor open your heart to every comer in the vulgar enthusiasm of some whom you may meet. no, my dear ezekiel, it would be unworthy of your name, and i know you too well, to fear such things of you. you are a gentleman, and that you may, like a gentleman, be always at your ease, courteous on occasion, but familiar never, is the earnest prayer of--
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lambkin’s lecture on “right”
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of the effects of mr. lambkin’s lectures, the greatest and (i venture to think) the most permanent are those that followed from his course on ethics. the late dean of heaving-on-the-marsh (the honourable albert nathan-merivale, the first name adopted from his property in rutland) told me upon one occasion that he owed the direction of his mind to those lectures (under providence) more than to any other lectures he could remember.
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we have now proceeded for a considerable distance in our journey towards the solution. of eight lectures, of which i had proposed to make so many milestones on the road, the fifth is reached, and now we are in measurable distance of the great answer; the understanding of the relations of the particular to the universal.
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it is an easy, though a profitable task to wander in what the late sir reginald hawke once called in a fine phrase “the flowery meads and bosky dells of positive knowledge.” it is in the essence of any modern method of inquiry that we should be first sure of our facts, and it is on this account that all philosophical research worthy of the name must begin with the physical sciences. for the last few weeks i have illustrated my lectures with chemical experiments and occasionally with large coloured diagrams, which, especially to young people like yourselves have done not a little to enliven what might at first appear a very dull subject. it is therefore with happy, hopeful hearts, with sparkling eyes and eager appetite that we leave the physical entry-hall of knowledge to approach the delicious feast of metaphysics.
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but here a difficulty confronts us. so far we have followed an historical development. we have studied the actions of savages and the gestures of young children; we have enquired concerning the habits of sleepwalkers, and have drawn our conclusions from the attitudes adopted in special manias. so far, then, we have been on safe ground. we have proceeded from the known to the unknown, and we have correlated psychology, sociology, anatomy, morphology, physiology, geography, and theology (here mr. darkin of vast, who had been ailing a long time, was carried out in a faint; mr. lambkin, being short-sighted, did not fully seize what had happened, and thinking that certain of his audience were leaving the hall without permission, he became as nearly angry as was possible to such a man. he made a short speech on the decay of manners, and fell into several bitter epigrams. it is only just to say that, on learning the occasion of the interruption, he regretted the expression “strong meat for babes” which had escaped him at the time.)
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so far so good. but there is something more. no one can proceed indefinitely in the study of ethics without coming, sooner or later, upon the conventional conception of right. i do not mean that this conception has any philosophic value. i should be the last to lay down for it those futile, empirical and dogmatic foundations which may satisfy narrow, deductive minds. but there it is, and as practical men with it we must deal. what is right? whence proceeds this curious conglomeration of idealism, mysticism, empiricism, and fanaticism to which the name has been given?
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it is impossible to say. it is the duty of the lecturer to set forth the scheme of truth: to make (as it were) a map or plan of epistemology. he is not concerned to demonstrate a point; he is not bound to dispute the attitude of opponents. let them fall of their own weight (ruant mole suâ). it is mine to show that things may be thus or thus, and i will most steadily refuse to be drawn into sterile argument and profitless discussion with mere affirmations.
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there is a kind of attitude (this was lambkin’s peroration, and he was justly proud of it) which destroys nothing but creates much: which transforms without metamorphosis, and which says “look at this, i have found truth!” but which dares not say “look away from that--it is untrue.”
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such is our aim. let us make without unmaking and in this difficult question of the origin of right, the grand old anglo-saxon sense of “ought,” let us humbly adopt as logicians, but grimly pursue as practical men some such maxim as what follows:
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next thursday i shall deal with morality in international relations.
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lambkin’s special correspondence
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lambkin was almost the first of that great band of oxford fellows who go as special correspondents for newspapers to places of difficulty and even of danger. on the advantages of this system he would often dilate, and he was glad to see, as he grew to be an older, a wealthier, and a wiser man, that others were treading in his footsteps. “the younger men,” he would say, “have noticed what perhaps i was the first to see, that the press is a power, and that men who are paid to educate should not be ashamed to be paid for any form of education.” he was, however, astonished to see how rapidly the letters of a correspondent could now be issued as a book, and on finding that such publications were arranged for separately with the publishers, and were not the property of the newspapers, he expressed himself with a just warmth in condemnation of such a trick.
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the occasion which produced the following letter was the abominable suppression by italian troops of the catholic riots at rome in 1873. englishmen of all parties had been stirred to a great indignation at the news of the atrocities. “as a nation” (to quote my dear friend) “we are slow to anger, but our anger is terrible.” and such was indeed the case.
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a great meeting was held at hampstead, in which mr. ram made his famous speech. “this is not a question of religion or of nationality but of manhood (he had said), and if we do not give our sympathy freely, if we do not send out correspondents to inform us of the truth, if we do not meet in public and protest, if we do not write and speak and read till our strength be exhausted, then is england no longer the england of cromwell and of peel.”
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such public emotion could not fail to reach lambkin. i remember his coming to me one night into my rooms and saying “george (for my name is george), i had to-day a letter from mr. solomon’s paper--the sunday englishman. they want me to go and report on this infamous matter, and i will go. do not attempt to dissuade me. i shall return--if god spares my life--before the end of the vacation. the offer is most advantageous in every way: i mean to england, to the cause of justice, and to that freedom of thought without which there is no true religion. for, understand me, that though these poor wretches are roman catholics, i hold that every man should have justice, and my blood boils within me.”
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he left me with a parting grip of the hand, promising to bring me back photographs from the museum at naples.
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if the letter that follows appears to be lacking in any full account of the italian army and its infamies, if it is observed to be meagre and jejune on the whole subject of the riots, that is to be explained by the simple facts that follow.
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when lambkin sailed, the british fleet had already occupied a deep and commodious harbour on the coast of apulia, and public irritation was at its height; but by the time he landed the quirinal had been forced to an apology, the vatican had received monetary compensation, and the piedmontese troops had been compelled to evacuate rome.
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partly pleased, partly disappointed, lambkin returned to oxford, taking sketches on the way from various artists whom he found willing to sell their productions. these he later hung round his room, not on nails (which as he very properly said, defaced the wall), but from a rail;--their colours are bright and pleasing. he also brought me the photographs i asked him for, and they now hang in my bedroom.
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this summary must account for the paucity of the notes that follow, and the fact that they were never published.
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as i paced the deck, an officer passed and slapped me heartily on the shoulder. it was the first mate. a rough diamond but a diamond none the less. he asked me where i was bound to. i said leghorn. he then asked me if i had all i needed for the voyage. it seems that i had strayed on to the part of the deck reserved for the second-class passengers. i informed him of his error. he laughed heartily and said we shouldn’t quarrel about that. i said his ship seemed to be a saucy lass. he answered “that’s all right,” asked me if i played “turn-up jack,” and left me. it is upon men like this that the greatness of england is founded.
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well, i will “turn in” and “go below” for my watch; “you gentlemen of england” who read the sunday englishman, you little know what life is like on the high seas; but we are one, i think, when it comes to the love of blue water.
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posted at dover, monday, sept. 28, 1873.
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we have dropped the pilot. i have nothing in particular to write. there is a kind of monotony about a sea voyage which is very depressing to the spirits. the sea was smooth last night, and yet i awoke this morning with a feeling of un-quiet to which i have long been a stranger, and which should not be present in a healthy man. i fancy the very slight oscillation of the boat has something to do with it, though the lady sitting next to me tells me that one only feels it in steamboats. she said her dear husband had told her it was “the smell of the oil”--i hinted that at breakfast one can talk of other things.
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after breakfast my mind kept running to this question of the roman persecution, and (i know not how) certain phrases kept repeating themselves literally “ad nauseam” in my imagination. they kept pace with the throb of the steamer, an altogether new sensation, and my mind seemed (as my old tutor, mr. blurt, would put it) to “work in a circle.” the pilot will take this. he is coming over the side. he is not in the least like a sailor, but small and white. he wears a bowler hat, and looks more like a city clerk than anything else. when i asked the first mate why this was, he answered “it’s the brains that tell.” a very remarkable statement, and one full of menace and warning for our mercantile marine.
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thursday, oct. 1, 1873.
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i cannot properly describe the freshness and beauty of the sea after a gale. i have not the style of the great masters of english prose, and i lack the faculty of expression which so often accompanies the poetic soul.
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the white curling tips (white horses) come at one if one looks to windward, or if one looks to leeward seem to flee. there is a kind of balminess in the air born of the warm south; and there is jollity in the whole ship’s company, as mrs. burton and her daughters remarked to me this morning. i feel capable of anything. when the first mate came up to me this morning and tried to bait me with his vulgar chaff i answered roundly, “now, sir, listen to me. i am not seasick, i am not a landlubber, i am on my sea legs again, and i would have you know that i have not a little power to make those who attack me feel the weight of my arm.”
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he turned from me thoroughly ashamed, and told a man to swab the decks. the passengers appeared absorbed in their various occupations, but i felt i had “scored a point” and i retired to my cabin.
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my steward told me of a group of rocks off the spanish coast which we are approaching. he said they were called “the graveyard.” if a man can turn his mind to the universal consciousness and to a final purpose all foolish fears will fall into a secondary plane. i will not do myself the injustice of saying that i was affected by the accident, but a lady or child might have been, and surely the ship’s servants should be warned not to talk nonsense to passengers who need all their strength for the sea.
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friday, oct. 2, 1873.
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i said to the captain to-day, putting my hand upon his shoulder, “sir, may one speak from one’s heart?” “yes,” said he, “certainly, and god bless you for your kind thought.” “sir,” said i, “you are a strong, silent, god-fearing man and my heart goes out to you--no more.” he was silent, and went up on the bridge, but when i attempted to follow him, he assured me it was not allowed.
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later in the day i asked him what he thought of the roman trouble. he answered, “oh! knock their heads together and have done with it.” it was a bluff seaman’s answer, but is it not what england would have said in her greatest days? is it not the very feeling of a chatham?
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i no longer speak to the first mate. but in a few days i shall be able to dismiss the fellow entirely from my memory, so i will not dwell on his insolence.
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leghorn, oct. 5, 1873.
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lambkin’s address to the league of progress
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everybody will remember the famous meeting of the higher spinsters in 1868; a body hitherto purely voluntary in its organisation, it had undertaken to add to the houses of the poor and wretched the element which reigns in the residential suburbs of our great towns. if whitechapel is more degraded now than it was thirty years ago we must not altogether disregard the earlier efforts of the higher spinsters, they laboured well each in her own sphere and in death they were not divided.
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the moment however which gave their embryonic conceptions an organic form did not sound till this year of 1868. it was in the conference held at burford during that summer that, to quote their eloquent circular, “the ideas were mooted and the feeling was voiced which made us what we are.” in other words the higher spinsters were merged in the new and greater society of the league of progress. how much the league of progress has done, its final recognition by the county council, the sums paid to its organisers and servants i need not here describe; suffice it to say that, like all our great movements, it was a spontaneous effort of the upper middle class, that it concerned itself chiefly with the artisans, whom it desired to raise to its own level, and that it has so far succeeded as to now possess forty-three cloisters in our great towns, each with its grand master, chatelaine, corporation of the burghers of progress and lay brothers, the whole supported upon salaries suitable to their social rank and proceeding entirely from voluntary contributions with the exception of that part of the revenue which is drawn from public funds.
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the subject of the conference, out of which so much was destined to grow, was “the tertiary symptoms of secondary education among the poor.”
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views upon this matter were heard from every possible standpoint; men of varying religious persuasions from the scientific agnostic to the distant parsee lent breadth and elasticity to the fascinating subject. its chemical aspect was admirably described (with experiments) by sir julius wobble, the astronomer royal, and its theological results by the reader in burmesan.
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lambkin was best known for the simple eloquence in which he could clothe the most difficult and confused conceptions. it was on this account that he was asked to give the closing address with which the proceedings terminated.
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before reciting it i must detain the reader with one fine anecdote concerning this occasion, a passage worthy of the event and of the man. lambkin (as i need hardly say) was full of his subject, enthusiastic and absorbed. no thought of gain entered his head, nor was he the kind of man to have applied for payment unless he believed money to be owing to him. nevertheless it would have been impossible to leave unremunerated such work as that which follows. it was decided by the authorities to pay him a sum drawn from the fees which the visitors had paid to visit the college fish-ponds, whose mediæval use in monkish times was explained in a popular style by one who shall be nameless, but who gave his services gratuitously.
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after their departure mr. large entered lambkin’s room with an envelope, wishing to add a personal courtesy to a pleasant duty, and said:
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“i have great pleasure, my dear lambkin, in presenting you with this bank note as a small acknowledgment of your services at the conference.”
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lambkin answered at once with:
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“my dear large, i shall be really displeased if you estimate that slight performance of a pleasurable task at so high a rate as ten pounds.”
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nor indeed was this the case. for when lambkin opened the enclosure (having waited with delicate courtesy for his visitor to leave the room) he discovered but five pounds therein. but note what follows--lambkin neither mentioned the matter to a soul, nor passed the least stricture upon large’s future actions, save in those matters where he found his colleague justly to blame: and in the course of the several years during which they continually met, the restraint and self-respect of his character saved him from the use of ignoble weapons whether of pen or tongue. it was a lesson in gentlemanly irony to see my friend take his place above large at high table in the uneasy days that followed.
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my dear friends,
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my friends, you are not strangers, nay, on the present solemn occasion i think i may call you friends--even brethren!--dear brothers and sisters! but a little bird has told me.... (here a genial smile passed over his face and he drank a draught of pure cold water from a tumbler at his side.) a little bird has told me, i say, that some of you feared a trifle of just harshness, a reprimand perhaps, or a warning note of danger, at the best a doubtful and academic temper as to the future. fear nothing. i shall pursue a far different course, and however courteous i may be i shall indulge in no familiarities.
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“the tertiary symptoms of secondary education among the poor” is a noble phrase and expresses a noble idea. why the very words are drawn from our anglo-saxon mother-tongue deftly mingled with a few expressions borrowed from the old dead language of long-past greece and rome.
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the needy! the poor! terrible words! it has been truly said that we have them always with us. it is one of our peculiar glories in nineteenth century england, that we of the upper classes have fully recognised our heavy responsibility towards our weaker fellow-citizens. not by revolution, which is dangerous and vain, not by heroic legislation or hair-brained schemes of universal panaceas, not by frothy utopias. no!--by solid hard work, by quiet and persistent effort, with the slow invisible tenacity that won the day at badajoz, we have won this great social victory. and if any one should ask me for the result i should answer him--go to bolton, go to manchester, go to liverpool; go to hull or halifax--the answer is there.
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there are many ways in which this good work is proceeding. life is a gem of many facets. some of my friends take refuge in prayer, others have joined the charity organisation society, others again have laboured in a less brilliant but fully as useful a fashion by writing books upon social statistics which command an enormous circulation. you have turned to education, and you have done well. show me a miner or a stevedore who attends his lectures upon rossetti, and i will show you a man. show me his wife or daughter at a cookery school or engaged in fretwork, and i will shew you a woman. a man and a woman--solemn thought!
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go forth then! again i say go forth! go forth! go forth! the time is coming when england will see that your claims to reverence, recognition and emolument are as great as our own. i repeat it, go forth, and when you have brought the great bulk of families to change their mental standpoint, then indeed you will have transformed the world! for without the mind the human intellect is nothing.
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in this laudable effort to keep “abreast of the times” (as he phrased it), the editor and part proprietor determined to have leaders written by university men, who from their position of vantage enjoy a unique experience in practical matters. he had formed a very high opinion of lambkin’s journalistic capacity from his unpublished letters as a special correspondent. indeed, he was often heard to say that “a man like him was lost at oxford, and was born for fleet street.” he wrote, therefore, to mr. lambkin and gave him “carte blanche,” as one french scholar to another, sending him only the general directions that his leader must be “smart, up-to-date, and with plenty of push,” it was to be “neither too long nor too short,” and while it should be written in an easy familiar tone, there should be little or no seriously offensive matter included.
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mr. lambkin was delighted, and when at his request the article had been paid for, he sent in the following:
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“under these conditions of power, splendour, and domination it is intolerable that the vast metropolis of this gigantic empire should be pestered with crawling cabs. there are indeed many things which in the divine plan have it in their nature to crawl. we of all the races of men are the readiest to admit the reign of universal law. meaner races know not the law, but we are the children of the law, and where crawling is part of the cosmos we submit and quit ourselves like men, being armed with the armour of righteousness. thus no englishman (whatever foreigners may feel) is offended at a crawling insect or worm. a wounded hare will crawl, and we read that ‘the serpent was cursed and crawled upon his belly’; again, aristotle in his ethics talks of those whose nature (φύσις) it is ‘ἕρπειν,’ which is usually translated ‘to crawl,’ and kipling speaks of fifes ‘crawling.’ with
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rhoda looked at him and was able to command a smile. “excuse me,” she said politely, “but how many did you say you thought i had concealed in this buggy?”
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“only one,” the marshal answered curtly. “you can get out if you want to while we examine it.”
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she jumped to the ground and stood by, smiling, while they took out the rugs and looked under the seat.
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disappointed glances passed from one to another. evidently, they had felt sure they would find the missing slave in her buggy. rhoda took off her wrap and shook it ostentatiously. “you see, i haven’t got him concealed about my clothing. you can search my pocket too, if you like,” she added innocently.
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“you’ve beat us this time, young lady,” he responded angrily, “but we know what your father is up to, and you with him, and we’ll get you yet.”
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she turned upon him with dignity. “may i ask, mr. hanscomb, that you will finish your examination of this little buggy where there is scarcely room for one, as soon as possible, so that i can go on. i am on an errand for my father, and i would like to finish it and get home before dark. perhaps you would like to look under the horse’s collar and split open the whip-stock.”
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the marshal flushed with annoyance. “all right. you can go on now. but you’d better be careful about taking in any more niggers.”
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but now a new anxiety filled her. did they know of the cave? would they think of it as a possible hiding place? the cave was such a little one,--it was of no interest to any one but children--perhaps they had never heard of it, or had forgotten it if they had. she longed to look around and see if they stopped, but she feared to show interest in their movements, lest she might renew their suspicions. had the boy left footprints as he ran from the buggy to the fence? she tried to remember whether the ground there was hard or muddy, but could recall nothing. in an agony of apprehension she reached the top of the hill and started down the descent.
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“i must know, whatever happens,” she presently said to herself. stopping the horse she sprang out and ran back a little way, to where her eyes could command the opposite hill. the horsemen were disappearing over its crest. her knees were shaking as she hurried back to the buggy, but she pulled herself together and considered what would be the best plan to get the fugitive out of the cave and on to the next station. for she feared to go back openly now, lest some member of the marshal’s party might return. a little farther on, she remembered, was a cross way and striking off from this, a short distance to the westward, an old wood road which ended near the cave. “it used to be there,” she thought anxiously, “but i haven’t been down it since--oh, i don’t know when! i’ll have to take chances on its being there yet.”
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but on the cross road she met farmer gilbertson, in a big, deep-bedded wagon filled with a load of loose hay. she told him of her narrow escape.
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“you better drive in and get him in your little buggy,” he advised, “and i’ll wait out here and take him home with me, under the hay. it’ll be safe enough--this road ain’t traveled much.”
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it was not long until rhoda was driving homeward again, deep joy in her heart that the fugitive had escaped such imminent danger, but wondering much how the marshal had discovered the secret of their woodshed.
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when mrs. ware reached home that afternoon she found marshal hanscomb and his men, baffled and angry, completing their search of the house.
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“mr. hanscomb, what does this mean?” she demanded.
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“it means that runaway niggers have been making a hiding place of your house and that we’ve been barely too late to catch one.”
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“i assure you, mr. hanscomb, that nothing of the sort has been going on in my house. dr. ware’s sympathies, it is true, are with the anti-slavery cause, but he is not a nigger-stealer.”
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“if you think so, madam,”--there was the hint of a sneer in his tone--“you’d better go out to the woodshed and look at that room built into the middle of your woodpile and see how lately it’s been occupied.”
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she turned upon him a face of offended dignity. her small, plump figure, in its balloon-like skirt, stiffened with a haughtiness which impressed even the angry marshal. “i trust, sir, that you have satisfied yourself there is no one concealed in the house or on the premises.”
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“we have, madam, for the present. we happened to be a few minutes too late.”
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“then i will bid you good-evenin’.” with a stately nod she left him, going at once to her own room, behind whose closed door she remained until her husband’s return.
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rhoda and her father, coming from opposite directions, drove up to their east gate at the same moment, in the red glow of a march sunset. she told him hurriedly of the happenings of the afternoon and of the narrow chance by which she had finally saved the mulatto lad from recapture. at the veranda steps jim met them, with an excited account of the marshal’s visit and his search of the house. he evidently knew of the woodshed hiding place, the man said, for he went to it at once.
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“was any one at home?”
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“no, sah, nobody but lizzie and me. but mrs. ware, she done come before they leave.”
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“then she knows now,” rhoda told herself. “oh, to think she had to find it out that way!”
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they walked silently down the veranda, avoiding each other’s eyes, and entered at the front door. mrs. ware was coming down the stairs. rhoda stopped short, but her father walked swiftly past her and held out his hand to his wife. she could not see his face, but the look on her mother’s countenance stabbed her to the heart. in it the girl read resentful inquiry, wounded faith, reproachful love. they seemed oblivious of her, as mrs. ware stood looking into her husband’s face with that hurt look upon her own. she did not take the hand he held out. then rhoda saw him sweep her close to his side and heard him say in a choking voice, “come, emily!” he led her into the living-room and closed the door.
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what passed between them there rhoda never knew--what confessions of outraged rights, what heart-barings of living tenderness, what recognitions of inner imperatives, what renewals of the bonds of love and trust. she crouched where she had dropped on the stair step, miserably conscious that this was the climax of the estrangement over her between her father and mother, feeling keenly that it had been her mother’s right to know the use that was being made of her home, appreciating her father’s motive in wishing to keep it hidden, remorseful for the wound her share in it would deal her mother’s heart, but unable to give up one jot of her conviction that what she and her father had been doing had been demanded of them by the highest laws of god and the most sacred rights of man.
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in a jumble of thought and feeling, swept by waves of passionate sympathy and compassion for both of the two within that closed door, rhoda sat huddled on the stairs until her mother came out. “mother!” she called, springing up and holding out her hands.
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mrs. ware came up and took them, saying simply, “how cold they are, honey!” and pressed them to her breast. in the dim light the girl could see that her face was very pale but that her eyes were shining with calm happiness.
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“oh, mother! we both felt that you ought to know about it--”
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“it’s all right, dear child. i would rather your father had confided in me from the first--”
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“it wasn’t that he doubted you, mother! oh, don’t think that! he knew you would be loyal to him--but he thought it might give you pain to know--”
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“yes, honey, i understand--i appreciate all that. but don’t you see, dear, i would have liked to be trusted by my husband, even if it had hurt--a little?”
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“it was your right to know, mother.”
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“perhaps i don’t think so much about that as you would, rhoda, but--a woman who loves needs to feel that she is trusted as well as loved. but it’s all right now. i know how you and your father feel about it, that you are doing only what seems to you right, although to me, dear child, it seems very wrong. i don’t want to know any more about it than i must, and you mustn’t expect me to help you in the least, but not for the world, dearie, would i hinder you and your father from doing what you think is right.”
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rhoda bowed her head upon her mother’s shoulder whispering, “dear mother!”
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“your father and i understand each other better now,” mrs. ware went on in tender tones. “there has been some misunderstanding between us about you and jeff, but this has cleared it all up, and so i am glad it happened. he has promised me that he will not try to influence you in any way against marrying jeff. so you see now, dearie, that it is possible, after all, for husband and wife to live together in love and trust and happiness, even though they do hold opposite opinions about slavery!”
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there was a sound of quick, light footsteps across the veranda and charlotte came in breezily, cheeks glowing and eyes sparkling. “what’s the matter?” she exclaimed. “what’s happened?” then sudden recollection came to her of what probably had happened and of her own share in it, and a look of confusion crossed her face. rhoda saw it and instant suspicion was born in her mind that here was the medium through which information had reached the marshal.
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“sister, was it you?” she asked on the impulse, her tone gentle but reproachful.
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“was what me?” charlotte flared back.
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“i think you know what i mean.”
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dr. ware had come out of the living-room and was standing in the doorway. charlotte threw at him a coaxing, appealing glance.
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“you’d better tell the truth about it, charlotte,” he responded. the girl shrank back a little at his tone and something of surprise crossed her face. never before had he spoken to her with so near an approach to sternness. his large, calm eyes were upon her, dispassionate but disapproving. she could not withstand their compulsion.
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“well, then, i did,” she exclaimed defiantly, tossing her head as she took a step forward. “and i think i did no more than was right and i’m glad i did it. when people are disobeying the laws and are criminals, even if they are your own people--”
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“there, child, that will do,” her father interrupted, lifting an admonishing hand. “remember, please, that you are only eighteen, and that your father is in no need of moral instruction at your hands. i understand how you feel about this question and i am perfectly willing for you to believe as seems to you right. i expect you to grant the same privilege to me and to every other member of my family. and as long as you live under your father’s roof, my daughter, he has the right also to expect from you loyalty to his interests. do you think i shall have it hereafter?”
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charlotte burst into tears. in all her saucy little life no one had ever spoken to her with such severity. “i only told billy saunders,” she sobbed, “and i told him not to tell!”
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instantly her father was beside her, patting her shoulder, an arm about her waist. “there, there!” he soothed. “i didn’t suppose you realized what you were doing. as it happened, no great harm came of it. just remember, after this, that it is not your duty to sit in judgment on my actions. then we shall all move along as happily as ever.”
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when rhoda went to her room and her eyes fell upon her writing table, sudden misgiving caught her breath. she had not stopped to make it tidy, after her letter-writing in the morning, because of her hurried departure for the sewing circle, and its unaccustomed disorder brought sharply to her mind the letter she had written. and that other sheet--had she destroyed it, as she meant to do? she looked the table over hastily, shuffling the clean sheets of paper in her hand. “how silly!” she thought. “of course i destroyed it! i remember, i picked up several sheets together that i didn’t want, and burned them, and that was among them!”
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still, for a moment, the uneasy fear persisted that perhaps she had put it into her letter. she burned with shame at the thought that her lover might read those words. then with a sudden vault her mind faced about and she felt herself almost exulting that at last he might know how much she cared, that at last, in spite of herself she had surrendered.
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her mother’s words recurred to her: “you see that it is possible for husband and wife to live together in love and trust and happiness, even though they do hold opposite opinions about slavery.” they would be happy--ah, no doubt about that! and perhaps, if they were married and constantly together, she could make jeff see the wrongs of slavery. she could point out to him specific instances of injustice and rouse that side of his conscience which now seemed to be dead. he had such a fine, noble nature in all other things--it was only because he had been brought up in this belief and had always been accustomed to taking slavery for granted. with his great love for her she would surely be able to exert some influence over him, and she would use it all to one end.
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she knew of other men who had been slaveholders but, becoming convinced that it was wrong, had freed their slaves and joined the anti-slavery ranks. some, even, worked with the underground railroad. what a splendid thing it would be if she could win him over to the side of liberty! for such a result, she told herself, she would be willing to crucify her conscience for a little while and be a part of the thing she abhorred.
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she slept that night with a smile on her face and when she wakened in the morning her first consciousness was of an unusual lightness and happiness in her heart. then she remembered, and flushed to her brows.
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“but it was all true,” she whispered. “i didn’t mean to send it, and i’m sure i didn’t. but i--almost--wish i had.”
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when jefferson delavan received the mail containing the three letters from hillside his lover’s eye saw at once the envelope bearing the handwriting of rhoda ware. everything else was pushed aside and this was hastily torn open. he turned the sheets over and swept them with a hungry look, as though he would devour all their contents at one glance. and so it happened that before he had read another line his eyes fell upon the page on which she had poured out her heart, which she thought she had burned--but almost wished she had not.
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he had to read it twice before he could believe that his eyes were not playing him some trick. then he sprang up joyously, with a great light in his face, and ordered his horse. the rest of his mail, even to rhoda’s letter, was thrust into his pocket, while he made ready for immediate journey. slaves went scurrying hither and thither, urged to unaccustomed speed by their master’s impetuous commands, and in less than half an hour he was in his saddle.
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he struck across the country on the turnpike road straight for the kentucky shore of the ohio river opposite hillside. quicker time might have been possible by the more roundabout route by railroad to cincinnati, but his only thought was that thus he was headed directly toward the white house on the hill.
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he galloped his horse for an hour or two before he remembered that it would be the part of wisdom not to take too much out of it at the start, laughed aloud as he slowed down, slapped its neck in sheer joy, and sang lustily the tale of “lord lovell.” then he remembered, that he had not read the whole of rhoda’s letter. he drew it forth, and was reminded in so doing that he had other letters in his pocket. but they could wait. he plunged into hers and read it eagerly through, dropping the bridle and allowing his horse to take a slower pace. now and then he smiled or gave a little, tender laugh, as he came upon a mirthful sally, or again he frowned thoughtfully and shook his head at her argument. and presently he was staring in bewilderment at the closing paragraph with its denial of his suit. his heart sank as he hastily searched out the other sheet for reassurance. yes, there it was, and there could be no mistaking the longing call of her heart that spoke so piteously through its brief lines.
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“this other, she wrote with her head,” he told himself, “and then her heart gave up and made her write this. ah, the dear, dear girl! it’s like her to surrender like this, so completely, and even against herself when she lets her heart get the upper hand. oh, my arms will be all the tying she’ll need, and there’ll be kisses enough to stop her mouth as long as we live!”
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with a caressing touch he put the missive away in an inner pocket and urged his horse on again, smiling and humming softly. at last he recalled the other letters. mrs. ware’s he read first and found in it confirmation of the view he had already taken of rhoda’s surprising message. the girl was evidently longing for sight of him once more, her mother said, and if he were to come soon perhaps he could storm her stubborn heart. he laughed again and exclaimed aloud, “yes, indeed, i’m coming, and if there’s any more storming necessary--” and the sentence broke off into another exultant laugh.
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then he bethought him of the other letter. it was without date line or signature and with puzzled eyes he read its few lines, in the middle of the page: “when true hearts pine and gallants stay away, then what can ladies do? alas the day, they can but pine when cruel gallants come no more!”
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“it must be that little rogue of a charlotte!” he presently exclaimed. “she has sharp eyes in her head, that’s plain enough, always, and she has seen how it is with her sister and thought she might help things along by giving me a hint. bless her heart! she’s a dear little thing, if she does like to flirt, and after rhoda and i are married we’ll bring her down to fairmount and give her the best time she’s had in all her life and perhaps marry her to lloyd corey or frank morehead.”
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while this was not the outcome of her anonymous message which charlotte hoped to bring about when she penned it, she would perhaps have been as willing to accept it, had her thoughts ranged so far ahead, as the one she planned to compass. nor would she have been taken aback had she known, while she fluttered about on the tiptoe of expectancy for whatever might happen, with what ardor jefferson delavan’s thoughts were turning toward rhoda on his northward ride.
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if her missive induced him to come again to their house what did it matter whether he thought its words referred to rhoda or to some one else? since rhoda was determined she would not marry him, he would soon find out his mistake and would be quite willing to look for consolation elsewhere. had he not shown her every attention on the trip to cincinnati? and when had she failed to set a man’s heart aflame, if she had really wanted to witness the conflagration? let her once more have the opportunity--and she smiled at the brown eyes reflected back from her mirror, confident that they had lost none of their power.
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he would be able to reach the ohio river by the morrow’s night, delavan thought, and the next morning he would cross over and hasten up the hill to claim the sweet promise that beckoned to him from that glimpse of rhoda’s secret heart. as he mused over her words, and the wonder of it that she should at last have called him, it occurred to him that perhaps she had not meant to put that sheet into her letter. perhaps she had merely written down that revelation of her feelings as ease to her own aching heart. but he laughed joyously.
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“she’s let me know how it is with her, whether she meant to send it or not, and i’ll do just as she begs me to, this time!”
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and so he urged his horse onward, his glowing heart beating high in his breast, sure of the happiness waiting for him at the end of his journey, and counting off the lessening hours that lay between him and the banks of the river. but that night there came a violent rainstorm that carried away bridges and left swollen streams rushing through overflowed valleys. it delayed him two days, so that it was not until the sixth day after rhoda penned her letter that he reached hillside.
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and in the meantime the supreme court had announced its decision in the dred scott case, delighting the south, staggering the north, and fanning to still higher and hotter flame the fires of contention over the ever-burning question of slavery. jefferson delavan heard the news as he fumed over his delay, storm-bound in the hotel of a country town. he and half a dozen other slave owners from the town and near-by plantations, who dropped into the hotel during the evening, rejoiced over the victory as they sat around a bowl of punch.
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“this will put an end to the whole controversy and give the country peace at last,” said delavan.
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“it knocks the feet from under the republican party,” declared another. “they’ll be capable of no more mischief now!”
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“yes, gentlemen,” exclaimed a third, “it surely ties the hands of the northern fanatics. they can no longer stop our growth!”
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“under the protection of this decision,” delavan followed on, “we can take our slaves wherever we like, and, with the northern democracy becoming more and more favorable to us, we shall soon win back the ground we have lost!”
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“nor will our growth be all in that direction!” said another, slowly and significantly.
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“no, indeed!” was delavan’s quick response. “mexico and central america will be ours for the taking as soon as we realize our strength. gentlemen!” he sprang to his feet, his face glowing with enthusiasm, his glass held high. “gentlemen, i give you a toast: to the republic of the south, our own fair land of dixie, firm footed on the foundation of slavery, and spreading wide wings north, south, east and west; her day shall come soon and endure forever!”
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with shouts of approval the others were on their feet at once, drinking the toast, cheering the sentiment, and waving hats, pipes, glasses, whatever their hands could seize. and no ghost of a misgiving visited jefferson delavan, in the midst of their exultant rejoicing, as to how that decision might affect his personal fate.
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to rhoda ware, as she looked back upon them, the days following that of her adventure with the negro lad were like a beautiful dream. after her one moment of apprehension she did not believe that she had put into her letter the telltale sheet whereon she had poured out her heart. she was sure she had burned it. but that instant of anxious fear that her lover would read her confession had given to her traitor heart its opportunity. in the brief respite of secret rejoicing she had allowed it to take, it had leaped to the saddle and it would not give up again to her mind and conscience the right of command. so she submitted to the sway of her love and battled with it no more.
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“he will know--he will feel it, even though i didn’t send what i wrote,” she whispered to herself. “and if he doesn’t come soon, i will write to him--and tell him--yes, i’ll tell him to come!”
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she spent much time alone in her room, seated at a southern window that commanded a view of the street leading up from the steamboat landing, the little bundle of letters and the faded rose held caressingly in her hands. it happened that no fugitives came to their door during this time, or she might have suffered sudden awakening from her dream.
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as it was, she thought of nothing but the coming of her lover and her surrender to his suit. now and then her reverie strayed on into the future and she pictured their life together in jeff’s beautiful home at fairmount, with the slaves all freed and giving faithful service for wages. staying so much apart and living in her own rose-colored dreams, the strenuous enthusiasms of the recent months, even her immediate surroundings, seemed to lose their reality. the same emotional force in her character which enabled her to enter with such zeal into the anti-slavery work and to be so absorbed by it that she could sacrifice her love upon its altar made it possible now,--indeed, made it inevitable,--when she had once given up to the opposing influence, that she should be swept by its forceful current to the other extreme.
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a new expression came into her face. her dreams drew a soft and tender veil across the usually intent and serious look of her eyes, and all her countenance glowed with her inner happiness. her mother saw the change in expression and demeanor with inward delight. for when it came to the affections mrs. ware was able to interpret her daughter’s feelings and actions with more surety than in matters of the mind and conscience.
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charlotte, in whose heart rankled resentment against her father and sister for their anti-slavery views, their underground work, and the reproach that had been administered to her, noted the new look on rhoda’s face and said bitterly to herself: “yes, i suppose she’s getting hold of a whole pack of niggers to steal and send on to canada!” she told herself petulantly that she was no longer of any consequence in their home and began to feel an angry sense of injury at the bonds tacitly imposed upon her conduct by the ideas and actions of her father and sister. she longed for some happening that would take her away and put her into surroundings where she could feel her accustomed sense of freedom and personal importance.
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and so, the wish being father to the conviction, charlotte felt every day more and more sure that jefferson delavan would soon reappear, that rhoda would refuse him again, and that then she could capture his repulsed heart and speedily win from him a proposal of marriage. she would hold him off a little while, and make him all the more eager--that would be easy enough--and when at last she did consent, he would of course want an early marriage, and to that, too, she would reluctantly consent--“oh, the sooner the better,” her thoughts broke into sudden storm, “so that i can get away from this black abolition hole!”
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dr. ware observed with surprise the look upon his daughter’s face and the change in her manner. he felt the lessening of her ardor in their mutual interests and was not slow to attribute her silence, her drawing away from the life of the household and her self-absorbed, dreamlike demeanor to its true cause.
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“something has happened,” he said to himself, “that, for the time being, has made her give up the struggle against her heart, and, like a river that has burst through its dam, her love is overflowing everything else in her nature. well, i’m glad delavan isn’t here now, and i hope her conscience will get its head above water again before she sees him. the good lord grant that something happens to bring her back to herself before it’s too late!”
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but he said nothing to his daughter, faithfully observing the pledge he had made to his wife at their recent reconciliation. nor did he and mrs. ware speak to each other about it, although it was uppermost in both their thoughts. the renewed tenderness between them was too sacred for either to dare the risk of marring its bloom by even so much as an allusion to a subject upon which they were so widely divided.
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on the fourth day of her surrender rhoda sat at her window reading a letter from her friend, julia hammerton. her active spirit was beginning to bestir itself again and as she finished the epistle she stretched her arms above her head and with a little frown remembered that she had that morning neglected one of her usual duties. then, “dear me,” she exclaimed, “i’ve forgotten all about that for-- oh, it must be several days! i suppose mother has attended to it,” she rebuked herself, and then smiled tenderly at the sunshine which filled all her inner consciousness.
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“i’ve been very happy, these days,” she thought, “but i’m afraid i’ve been awfully lazy and selfish too. i must go down now and get to work.”
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she looked out of the window and saw horace hardaker and the elder kimball, father of walter and lewis, coming up the hill. her thought reverted to the missive from horace’s sister.
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“i’ll take julia’s letter down and read it to them. there’s such a lot of news from kansas in it that will interest them. dear julia! horace ought to be proud of her--and he is, i know. she’s been so brave and so true!”
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the hint of a shadow crossed her face as she looked absently at the letter in her hand. from somewhere far back in her mind seemed to come a faint question, had she also been true? but she lifted her head proudly with the quick answering thought:
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“of course i am true. i shall not change my convictions the least little bit, even if i do marry jeff. and perhaps i can do more good as his wife than i could in any other way.”
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“as the mistress of slaves!” came back the accusing whisper.
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in the office she found her father and the two others deeply engrossed in conversation, their looks anxious and gloomy, but their manner showing excitement.
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“come in, rhoda,” said dr. ware, as she hesitated at the door, “and hear the bad news.”
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“bad news! oh, father, what is it?”
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“the supreme court has decided the dred scott case and the result is even worse than we have feared. chief justice taney has dragged his official robes through slavery filth and given to the pro-slaveryites everything they want!”
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“oh, father--horace! what does he say?”
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“the decision is,” answered hardaker, “that a slave cannot be a citizen--practically, that a nigger has no rights a white man is bound to respect--that congress has no right to prohibit slavery in the territories, and that therefore the missouri compromise is unconstitutional and void.”
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“it knocks the very breath out of the republican party,” added dr. ware. “its existence is based on the effort to get congress to forbid slavery in the territories. so, now--where is it? where are we?”
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“we are done for, all of us,” said kimball, in hopeless tones. “it has knocked the footing from under the whole anti-slavery fight. it binds us hand and foot, and it looks now as if we might as well stop fighting.”
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“oh, no, mr. kimball!” rhoda exclaimed. “don’t say that! we must keep on fighting as long as there’s one of us left!”
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“she’s right, kimball!” said dr. ware, his glance resting for a moment upon his daughter’s face. she looked up in some confusion at having broken in so abruptly, and met his eyes. cool and clear, they seemed to be looking into her very heart and down in their gray depths as they turned away she felt rather than saw a gleam of gratification. the hot blood flushed her face, and conscience, that had just now barely stirred under its rose-leaf coverlet, roused and began to tell her that she too must keep on fighting. had her father guessed how near she had been to deserting their cause, she wondered.
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“yet, she’s right,” dr. ware was repeating, with a thump of his fist on the table. “we’ve got to find standing ground somewhere, and somehow keep up the fight!”
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“their next step will be to reopen the slave trade--they’re demanding that already,” kimball went on. “and then we shall have once more all the horrors of the slave ships sheltered under the law and people taught to regard the traffic as right because it is legal.”
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“yes,” broke in hardaker, “that’s the worst of these legalized wrongs--the way they debauch the consciences of people. look at the way the northern democrats are defending the right of property in slaves! a few years ago they admitted slavery was wrong, but said it was here and so we must make the best of it. now they say it is all right and must be protected and are tumbling over one another in their eagerness to give the south everything she wants!”
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“well, this decision gives her everything she wants now, and opens the door for her to take anything else she may want later.”
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kimball’s thin old hands were clenched together and his gray-bearded face was sad with the hopelessness of age. for thirty years he had been fighting with all his strength in the cause of the slave and he had seen the anti-slavery sentiment grow from the conviction of a mere handful of people to the determination of a mighty multitude. and now, when at last it seemed as if they had almost reached the point where at least the thing could be penned up in small space and its political power taken from it, now had come this deadly blow, to nullify every effort they could make.
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rhoda knew what long years of endeavor and sacrifice he had spent in the anti-slavery cause and how ardent had been his hope that he might live to see slavery ended and the whole country made free. she watched him now, her cheeks flushing and her heart responding with full sympathy to the grief and despair that filled his breast.
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“if congress,” he went on bitterly, “must recognize and defend the master’s right to his slave wherever he takes him, then there can be no hindrance to slavery in any part of this country, and toombs and davis and all the rest of them can yet call the roll of their slaves in the shadow of bunker hill monument, or any place else they wish. that, my friends, is what this decision means!”
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his voice trembled and rhoda saw in his eyes the tears of an old man whose dearest hope had come to naught. she was conscious of a remorseful shame, as though she herself had been in some measure responsible for his grief and despair. for had she not, was her swift, self-accusing thought, been ready to compromise with this monster?
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again she blushed and turned her eyes away, feeling acutely that she did not deserve this praise and miserably wondering if they would despise her were she to tell them that she had been willing, only an hour before, to become a slaveholder’s wife.
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“it seem to me,” horace went on, “that we’ve got to go right on with the popular propaganda against slavery. why, this very decision of chief justice taney--it’s so atrocious and inhuman, it will be the best campaign document we’ve ever had. we ought to circulate it by the thousand! i’m not sure, friends, but it will be a good thing for us, in the long run!”
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dr. ware smiled slightly. he was accustomed to the enthusiasm with which hardaker, in a dozen sentences, could convince himself of the truth of a proposition which, five minutes before, he would have flouted. nevertheless, this idea appealed to him.
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“there’s a good deal in that, horace,” he acquiesced, “and i think we’d better take it up in the rocky mountain club. but while we’re appealing to the northern voters we mustn’t forget the south. we must extend and increase our underground work, because it is making slave property most precarious all along the border states. the more slaves we can run off the more uncertain the whole institution becomes, and the more angry we make the south--and there’s nothing irritates them so much as this--the sooner the crisis will come. war is the only possible solution of this problem, friends. so i say, let’s bring on the crisis as soon as possible, and fight it out!”
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at that moment there was a knock at the office door and a request for dr. ware’s services in another part of the town. the two visitors went down the hill again and rhoda, invited by the bright sunshine, strolled down the veranda and across the yard to the grape arbor. she wanted to be alone and think matters over, find where she stood and allay the turmoil between her heart and her conscience.
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as she walked down the path she saw that jim was already making preparations for the spring. this great bed was to be filled again with white petunias--they had liked it so much last year. again she seemed to sense their odor, as on that june night, and to hear a voice vibrant with tones of love. no, she could not think here,--her heart would not let her. she turned away and hurried to her room. but there too every inch of space was like a seductive voice calling to her with the memories of the last few days. with a sudden grip upon herself--a quick indrawing of breath and a pressure of teeth upon her lip, the outward signs of inner process of taking herself in hand--she went deliberately downstairs and out into the woodshed.
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there she sat down upon a chunk of wood and faced the little room, with its door heedlessly exposed and open, just as the marshal had left it. the sight stung her, as she had known it would, with an accusation of apostasy. but her spirit rose up quickly in self-defense.
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“no, i didn’t desert our cause, even in thought,” she declared to herself. “i’m not so bad as that, i hope. i only thought i could marry jeff and still help it along. but i’m afraid i couldn’t. yes, i know what mother said, and for a little while it did seem possible--just because i wanted it so much, i suppose. but mother and i are so different. i couldn’t be in the midst of things that i thought were wrong without trying to make them right. jeff would free his slaves if i asked him to--i’m sure he would.”
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she lingered over the thought a moment and a fond smile curved her lips. “yes, i’m sure he would, and i wouldn’t have to be a mistress of slaves. but that isn’t the whole of it. he told me once, and it’s been in all his letters, how wrapped up he is in the interests of the south. and that means slavery. it’s his own section and what they think are their rights, against all the rest of us and against freedom, and eternal right, and the upward progress of the world. we’d still be just as much divided and opposed to each other as ever.”
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the memory returned to her of her father sitting at his desk, his face drawn with sadness and sadness in his voice, as she had seen him on that evening in the previous autumn when she had asked if her mother could not be told what they were doing. she shivered a little.
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“no, i shouldn’t like to think of my husband feeling like that, knowing that he couldn’t tell me of his dearest hopes and plans and ambitions, and feel sure of my sympathy. no, that wouldn’t be being married, really married.”
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a little longer she sat with her chin in her hand and stared at the open door of the tiny room. her face gradually took on a stern expression that made it, notwithstanding its youthful smoothness, curiously like her father’s.
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“no,” she said aloud as she rose, “it can’t be. it’s just as impossible still as it has been all the time--even if i did think for a little while--”
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her face suddenly melted into tenderness and her voice sank to a whisper. “it was a lovely dream while it lasted, and i’m glad--it didn’t do anybody, not even me, any harm, and i’m glad--yes, i’m glad--i had it!” the little lines at the corners of her mouth deepened, her upper lip lifted, and her flashing smile lit up her countenance and shone in her eyes. “it’s almost like looking back on having been married for a little while!” she thought.
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“rhoda,” called mrs. ware from the veranda steps, “will you come here, please?”
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rhoda was standing between the rows of lilac that hedged the walk to the front gate, inspecting the swelling buds and saying to herself with pleasure that they looked as if they would bloom early that year. the lilac was her best-loved flower and these two lines of bushes had been planted because of her pleading, ten years before. every season she watched anxiously for the buds to show sign of returning life, and charlotte declared that after they began to swell she measured them with a tape line every day to mark their growth. when they bloomed she kept bowls of the flowers all over the house and was rarely without a spray in her hair or her dress.
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mrs. ware noted that her daughter’s step was not as brisk as usual and saw that the glow was gone from her face, while into her eyes had come a look of wistfulness. believing she knew the cause, she longed to take the girl in her arms and say, “don’t worry, dear. he’ll be here soon, i’m sure, for i wrote to him to come.” but she thought it best to keep her own secrets and so what she said was:
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“mrs. winston has just sent word that little harriet is worse and she wants your father to come at once. he’s not likely to be back here before noon. so i want you to drive me over to their house and then take the message to your father--i know where he is--so he can stop there before he comes home. get ready at once, honey. i’ve told jim to harness up, and i’ve only to put on my bonnet.”
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charlotte watched them as they drove down the hill, thinking discontentedly, “mother doesn’t care half as much about me as she does about rhoda. she’d just give her eyes to have rhoda marry jeff, and she never shows the least interest that way in me. i don’t believe she’d care if i was to be an old maid. an old maid! oh, la! well, i’m not going to, and i’ll not marry anybody in hillside, either.”
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looking rather pleased with herself at this ultimatum she sauntered into the house and the notes of the “battle of prague” were soon resounding through the silent rooms. but the clanging of the knocker at the front door presently crashed them into discord. a moment later she crossed the hall into the parlor, whither lizzie had shown jefferson delavan, thinking:
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“what good luck there’s nobody at home but me! i wish rhoda had refused him again first. well, i’ll tell him she’s going to.”
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a twinkle of amusement came now and then into delavan’s eyes as he watched the airs and graces, the sidelong glances, and all the dainty feminine tricks of movement and gesture and poise with which charlotte accompanied her conversation. it was not her physical habit ever to remain quietly seated, or even in the same position for more than a few minutes. her restless spirits, her active body and her native vivacity of manner combined to keep her in motion almost as incessant and quite as unconscious as that of a bird flitting about in a tree. although she did not know it this habit was one of her most charming characteristics. she had a certain dignity of carriage, like her mother’s, which made itself manifest, notwithstanding her absurdly large hoopskirt, and this, with her grace of action and of posture, made her movements always pleasing to look at, while her bird-like flights gave an elusiveness to her manner that enhanced her charm.
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she saw the admiration in delavan’s face as his eyes followed her, and tilted her skirts in a way that would have scandalized her mother, although she observed that her companion seemed not at all dismayed by the glimpses of slender foot and ankle that she made possible. that occasional twinkle of amusement she took as a tribute to her gaiety and laughed and chattered all the more.
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“has your true heart been pining, miss charlotte?” he presently asked in a quizzical tone, as he leaned upon the back of her chair, looking down smilingly into her pretty, upturned face.
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she flushed a little, but made wide eyes at him and said, “what do you mean?”
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“oh, i was given to understand that some hearts in hillside are in a rather bad way. is yours true and does it pine?”
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she made a graceful little gesture and turned upon him with a merry face and a look distinctly provocative: “suppose it was, either or both, what would it matter to you?”
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she looked up at him, smiling, with saucy lips and inviting eyes, and before she knew what he was doing he had slipped an arm around her waist and lifted her to her feet. she struggled to free herself, but he held her against his breast, pushed back her head and kissed her squarely upon the lips, once, twice, and thrice. with her hands against his chest she tried to push him away and struggled to turn her face from his. but she was helpless in his grasp until he released her.
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“you brute!” she exclaimed, dashing the angry tears from her eyes. “how dare you!”
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he leaned against the back of the chair, hand in pocket, and laughed indulgently. “didn’t you want me to? it looked that way.”
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“of course i didn’t,” she stormed. “you’re a horrid thing, and i hate you!”
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“well, i’m glad to know you didn’t. it’s much better that you were only pretending.”
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“how do you think rhoda will take it, when i tell her? and i shall!”
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“oh, tell her if you like. but how do you think she will take your trying to persuade a kiss from her lover?”
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her eyes blazed angrily and she stamped her foot, but said nothing.
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“never mind, little sister,” he went on, patting her shoulder. “i was only giving you a lesson, and it’s much better to keep such things in the family. remember after this that if you ask a man so plainly to kiss you he’s very likely to do it.”
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“don’t call me ‘sister,’ you horrid thing! i’m not!” she exclaimed, turning away.
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“i hope you will be some day.”
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“i won’t! rhoda isn’t going to marry you!”
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“so she’s told me a number of times!” and he laughed again, an easy, happy, self-satisfied laugh.
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she faced about, curiosity in her heart. had something happened without her knowledge? would he seem so sure, would he wear openly that look of confident love if rhoda had not accepted him? the imp of mischief stirred once more in her breast. she moved a step nearer.
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“say, do you know, jeff, that’s the first time a man ever kissed me!”
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“you’ve had better luck than you deserve, little sister.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ve__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB better__<label>__ADJ luck__<label>__NOUN than__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON deserve__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. little__<label>__ADJ sister__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“if you’re so much in love with rhoda what did you want to do it for?”
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“why did you look as if you wanted me to if you didn’t?”
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“i didn’t look that way!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON didn__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT look__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET way__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“oh, didn’t you? then my previous observations have been at fault. perhaps i thought i’d like to find out why you sent me that anonymous letter. at first i thought you meant it as a hint for rhoda’s sake. but after you’d been five minutes in this room it seemed to me that you were taking very queer means for advancing her interests. if you had unfortunately fallen in love with me yourself it wouldn’t have been quite so bad. but you haven’t, little sister, you haven’t. you’d have wanted me to kiss you again if you had.”
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“you’re a horrid brute, that’s what you are, and i hate you!”
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“i’m sorry to hear it, for i’ve always liked you, and you’re rhoda’s sister. but i hope you’ll remember that treachery isn’t a nice thing, in either love or war.”
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she moved uncertainly toward the door and, glancing through the window, saw her sister drive past the front gate. “there’s rhoda!” she exclaimed, casting back at him a fiery glance. “i shall tell her just the sort of man you are!” but she did not forget to give her hoopskirt an extra tilt as she dashed out. delavan, noting it, smiled as he followed her to the door and cast a glance after her figure, hurriedly retreating up the stairs.
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rhoda did not know that jeff was there until she came into the hall through the office and saw him standing in the parlor door. “sweetheart!” he called in low tones, and moved toward her, with outstretched hand. a glad light came into her face at sight of him, but she stood still and did not speak, until he was at her side.
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“don’t, jeff! when i have told you so many times it can’t be!” she pleaded, and drew away from him as he would take her in his arms.
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“i know, dearest! but it’s different now, when i know what you really want!”
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she turned so that he could not see her face and asked with a sort of gasp, “what do you mean?”
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if he could have seen her countenance as she stood with face averted, finger on lip, listening breathlessly for his reply, nothing would have prevented him from seizing her in his arms and doing as she had begged in the letter she had not meant him to see. for it glowed with love and trembled upon surrender and shone with gladness that he knew her inmost heart.
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“ah, rhoda ware, i know your secret now!” he was bending near her, his hands hovering over her, but still he would not touch her while she seemed unwilling. “i know, now, how much you love me, and how ready at last you are to give up to your heart. come then, dear one, or i shall surely do as you bade me in your letter!”
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a sudden stiffening and shrinking in her attitude made him fall back a step and look at her anxiously. slowly, very slowly, she turned, lifting her head, until she faced him. and slowly the love-light and the trembling nearness to surrender faded out of her countenance and left it drawn with the effort by which she had forced herself once more to the point of denial, with lips compressed and gray eyes steely with resolution.
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“jeff,” she began, and her voice was unsteady, “it’s not fair to either of us that you saw what i wrote. i didn’t mean to put that into my letter--i wrote it out only because my heart ached so and it seemed some relief. but i thought i’d burned it. i’m sorry it got mixed in with the other sheets. but it was a mistake, and you’ll forgive me, won’t you, dear jeff, and you won’t feel that it was a promise?”
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her voice fell away into pleading tones and she stood hesitating, poised, as if wishing him to stand aside and let her pass. with instinctive deference he stepped aside and she moved quickly to the foot of the stairs. but he sprang after her and seized her hand, exclaiming, as he drew her into the parlor, “no, rhoda! i shall not let you ruin both our lives and break both our hearts, after that glimpse you gave me of yours!”
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she steadied herself for the struggle she knew must come, and suddenly felt her nerves grow firm and her brain clear, as they always did when she faced great need. she was calmer than he and more mistress of herself as she said:
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“i can’t say anything different to what i’ve always said, and said in that letter, that i feel to the bottom of my heart that slavery is such a wrong, such a curse, such a horrible thing that i can’t marry you because you believe in it and are a part of it.”
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he gazed at her silently a moment, and the love in his face, that had but just now been more of the body than of the soul, was transfused with admiration of her spirit. “and you can still say that to me,” he marveled in hushed accents, “after your heart has ached as it must have when you wrote those lines?”
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she dropped her eyes lest he see the sudden start of tears. it was a subtle undermining of her defenses, had he known it, thus to cease demanding and reveal such understanding and sympathy. of such sort was her ideal love, and it hurt more than ever to put it from her. one hand was pressed against her heart, as if she could thus lessen the physical pain, and she said piteously, “it’s aching now, jeff!”
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he looked at her irresolutely. her drooping figure, her averted face, her trembling voice--they were all such a plea of weakness to strength, of feminine trust to masculine power to help, that even if he had not loved her the impulse to take her in his arms and comfort her would have been well-nigh overpowering. but he knew not what unexpected visage her spirit might next reveal and he had already learned that, although the primitive woman in her might call loudly one moment, in the next the civilized woman would thrust her into her cave and in dignity and strength stand guard at the door. for a moment he wavered, then with clenched hands turned on his heel and walked across the room, exclaiming:
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“and you won’t let me stop it, you won’t let me comfort you!” then he faced about and as his eyes fell again upon her, he cried, “by heaven, i will!” and he sprang toward her.
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but already she had gathered up her resolution once more and it was the civilized woman, not to be won save with her own consent, who moved aside and eluded the embrace with which he would have swept her to his breast. he dropped on his knees at her feet and buried his face in her dress. a moment she stood with both hands clenched against her heart. then she bent over him and laid them as softly upon his head as a compassionate mother might have done.
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“don’t jeff, please don’t!” she pleaded. “it’s so hard already--don’t make it harder, for both of us. we’ll have to just recognize what is, and accept it.”
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he rose again, seizing one of her hands as it fell from his head. “but what is, rhoda, except that we love each other with such strength that god who made us must have meant us to be husband and wife? what else is there that matters, beside that?”
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“i’ve told you so often, dear, what it is that matters!”
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“what do you want me to do, dear heart? i’ll free my slaves, if you wish, and pay them wages.”
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her face lighted and she smiled wistfully at him, but shook her head. “it’s deeper than that, jeff, deeper than just the ownership of a few slaves. i knew you would do that, for my sake. i told myself so--” she broke off, smiled fondly upon him, then laid her free hand upon the two already clasped.
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“listen, jeff, let me tell you--i didn’t intend to, but perhaps it’s best. after i sent you that last letter, i had a sudden fear that i had put in the sheet i didn’t mean you to see. it was only a second, and then i felt sure i had burned it. but for a little while i--i almost wished i had, and in my heart i said i would give up and that i would write you to come. it seemed as if you would know anyway, and as if you were coming, without my telling you. and for three or four days i sat at my window and watched for you and dreamed about our love, and about our life together at beautiful fairmount--” she hesitated an instant and blushed faintly, but the true woman in her sent her on--“with our children growing up around us, and we so happy and growing old together-- oh, jeff, it was such a beautiful dream!”
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“not half so beautiful or happy as the reality would be, sweetheart! oh, rhoda, won’t you make it true!”
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“we’d be happy for a while, dear, but we’d wake up, sooner or later, just as i did, and then we’d find out that there was no true marriage between us, and our happiness would end.”
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denial was in his face and voice as he quickly answered: “never, rhoda! i can’t believe it! why should we waken? why did you?”
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“it was the dred scott decision.”
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he smiled incredulously. “i suppose i would have anyway, after a little,” she went on, “if you hadn’t got here first--” and she smiled up at him ingenuously.
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“o, how i wish i had! if it hadn’t been for that storm--”
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“it’s better to wake up too soon than too late,” she broke in. “as soon as i knew about that decision and all that the chief justice had said, and understood how delighted the south is over it, and how it has saddened and discouraged all of us up here at the north who hate slavery, then i saw once more that i couldn’t compromise with my conscience, not the least little bit.”
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“but, rhoda, you won’t have to, if i free my slaves. and i will!”
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“i’ve thought that all out, and it wouldn’t help us any--though i’d be glad for the slaves. don’t you see, jeff, that if you should free them, still believing in slavery as you do, and still being devoted to the south and wanting with all your soul to further her interests, which you think are bound up in slavery--don’t you see that after a while you would begin to feel that for my sake you had done something wrong, had been false to your own ideals? and i would know it and it would make me unhappy. i don’t think, jeff, that i’d want you to free your negroes, except as you might be convinced that it’s wrong to keep them enslaved.”
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she stopped and looked up at him with her flashing smile. “i’ll run every one of them off to freedom that i can get a chance to, but--”
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he smiled back at her indulgently, and then they both laughed a little, glad of the relief from the high tension which had held them.
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“rhoda, you are such a dear girl!” he murmured fondly. her hands were imprisoned, one in each of his, but he did not attempt to lessen the distance between them. the earthly side of their love was fading out of their mutual consciousness, for the moment, as their thoughts mounted to the things of the spirit.
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“it’s such a wide gulf between us, although we are so near,” she went on. “your letters have shown me that. to the bottom of your heart you believe that all that the south is struggling for is right and good and is her just right and will be for the good of the world.”
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he threw back his head and his eyes shone. “i do, rhoda,” he exclaimed with emphasis. “i love the south, and her ideals are mine and her ambitions are mine! they are just and right and the more widely they are spread the better it will be for civilization and the whole world!”
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she nodded. “yes, i understand how you feel, though i didn’t at first. and i believe to the bottom of my heart that the enslavement of man by man”--her face was glowing now with the inner fires of conviction and her low voice thrilled with the intensity of her feeling--“is wrong and degrades both of them and is the cause of no end of horrible things. and i don’t believe that anything good can ever come out of it.”
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“but you don’t know, rhoda--you never have seen--” he began earnestly.
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“ah, but i have seen, jeff,” she broke in sadly. “i’ve seen the poor negroes that my father and i have helped on their way to canada taking such desperate risks and enduring such awful sufferings in the hope of winning their freedom that i don’t need to see anything else. divided like that, dear, on a matter that goes so deep with both of us, there could be no real understanding and sympathy between us, no true marriage. i think your convictions and your ideals are wrong--they are hateful to me--but i honor you for being true to them. i honor you more and love you more than i would if you gave them up, while you still believed in them, for love of me.”
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“you are right, dear heart,” he said, the pain of baffled and hopeless love sounding in his voice. “i could not be false to my convictions and my principles, even for you, my sweet, any more than you could be false to yours. you make me understand, as i haven’t before, what this means to you.”
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“no, jeff, i can’t see that there’s any hope for us, for our happiness, on this earth, as long as this thing lasts that lies between us. perhaps, in heaven--”
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their eyes met, and her voice trembled and ceased. they stood with hands clasped, looking through open windows into each other’s souls, gazing deep into the warm and lovely depths of love, which they were putting behind them, and turning their vision upward along the heights where material aims crumbled away and hope and aspiration became only the essence of the soul’s ideals. and as they gazed it seemed to them that somewhere up in that dim region of eternal truth their spirits met and were joined.
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a faint sigh fluttered from rhoda’s lips. with a start delavan dropped her hands and sank upon the sofa beside them. his head bowed on his breast and a deep, shuddering breath, that was almost a sob, shook his body.
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“i think i’ll go now,” said rhoda tremulously.
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“no, don’t go. i want you beside me a little while. sit down here. no, don’t be afraid--give me your hand.”
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for a little space they sat in silence, like two children venturing into some unknown region and gaining courage by clasp of hands. at last he rose.
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“i will leave you now, dear heart. but it’s not good-by, even yet. i still believe that sometime i shall call you wife. i’m proud to have won your love, rhoda, prouder than of anything else i shall ever do.”
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he pressed her hand to his lips, bowed ceremoniously, and a moment later she was listening to the sound of his footsteps as he walked down the path to the gate.
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after the discovery of the hiding place in the woodshed, dr. ware and his underground co-workers thought it best for a little while to receive no runaways in his house. for it was closely watched, not only by the officers whose duty it was to enforce the fugitive slave law, but also by the slave hunters who made it a business to trail and capture northward-bound chattels for the sake of the rewards offered by their owners. in order to divert suspicion walter and lewis kimball and several other young men who were in the habit of keeping a lookout for the fugitives contrived to secrete them elsewhere until surveillance upon the white house on the hilltop was relaxed.
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in the meantime dr. ware made ready a new place of concealment. an end of the cellar extending beneath the room occupied by the two black servants was separated from the rest by a solid wall. a trap door was cut in the floor and a flight of stairs set in. carpet concealed the door and over it was usually set a table, chairs, or other furniture. the cellar room was dark and had little ventilation, but dr. ware and rhoda congratulated themselves that it would be perfectly safe.
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“why, father, it’s like a dungeon in a castle,” the girl exclaimed with a laughing face as she came up after making it ready with pallets and cots and a generous supply of old quilts and blankets. “while they are shut up in there they can rest and sleep, and so can we, without the least fear that they’ll be discovered!”
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dr. ware cast an observant look at her alert and smiling countenance. not since the adventure with the marshal had she seemed so like her usual self. following those self-absorbed days, when she had seemed to be going about in a happy dream, had come a period of depression. his professional eye had noted that she did not eat as a healthy young creature should and his fatherly solicitude had made him quickly conscious of her lessened vivacity of spirit. the changes in her demeanor cost him a good deal of anxious thought--much more, indeed, than she supposed he ever bestowed upon her. he knew that jefferson delavan had been there again, but rhoda told him nothing of what had passed between them. so he merely guessed that his daughter had struggled once more with her heart and had paid dearly for the victory.
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he watched her anxiously, but shrank from speaking to her about her physical state because he felt sure of its emotional cause and could foresee the trend the conversation would take. for the leading-strings of habit were strong upon them both, and even stronger was the constraint of self-consciousness in a middle-aged man who all his life had cultivated the intellectual side of his nature at the expense of the emotional. only toward the wife who had woven so strong a mesh about his heart in the days when the blood of young manhood was hot and winey and, in different scope and color, toward the child who so much resembled her, had he ever been able to express in words and actions the inner warmth and tenderness of his heart.
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of rhoda he made a companion much more than he did of either his wife or charlotte. when she settled down at home after the three years she had spent, in her latter teens, at dr. scott’s female institute, he had been much pleased to find that he could talk with her seriously upon most subjects that interested him. and since then they had grown into a deep and wide intellectual understanding and sympathy. but between them there was no emotional expression of their mutual feeling.
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during this last year he had watched with pride her rapid development in character and intellect. her underground work had stimulated her sympathies and trained her in self-reliance and her increased interest in political affairs had broadened and developed her intellectually until, from an attractive girl of rather more than average endowment she had become a woman whose companionship her father enjoyed upon an equal footing. blind babies, if the windows of sense perception are not opened into their minds, become imbecile. perhaps--but everybody knows that argument by analogy is the most deceptive of all the paths by which human beings endeavor to find truth.
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so, to go back to rhoda and the new place of concealment in the cellar. dr. ware was much gratified to see her more lively demeanor that morning and began to hope that, with the renewal of their underground operations and the constant call they would make upon both heart and head, she would soon forget the pain that had been benumbing her energies. she told him she was going to a meeting of the sewing circle that afternoon at which they were to consider the question of enlarging its sphere and turning it into an anti-slavery society. he thought it a good idea and encouraged her to do all she could toward that end.
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she went early to mrs. hardaker’s house, where the meeting was to be held, and proved to be the first arrival. horace was there, not having yet returned to his office after dinner, and as she entered he greeted her with--
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“rhoda, here’s a grand thing! just listen!”
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she saw that he had the new york “tribune” in his hands, and as he began to read her attention was at once absorbed by the bitter and mournful eloquence of horace greeley’s lament over the dred scott decision--a bit of literature that ought to be among the classics of american journalism and studied by every aspirant for its honors. but it is buried too deep among the yellowing sheets of forgotten newspaper files to be known, in these busy days of a later generation, to any but an occasional investigator. it had its own brief day of vigorous life, when it stirred profoundly the minds and hearts of tens upon tens of thousands of earnest men and women. and then like a dead leaf it fluttered down to earth, to become a part of that debris of the centuries that makes a richer soil for the growth of human souls.
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with quickening pulse rhoda listened to the stately march of the sentences, as hardaker’s fluent, oratorical voice gave to each its full significance. as he came to the closing lines his listener’s breath was catching now and then and her eyes and cheeks were aflame:
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“the star of freedom and the stripes of bondage are henceforth one. american republicanism and american slavery are in the future to be synonymous. this, then, is the final fruit. in this all the labors of our statesmen, the blood of our heroes, the lifelong cares and toils of our forefathers, the aspirations of our scholars, the prayers of good men, have finally ended. america the slave breeder and slaveholder!”
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as hardaker looked up and saw her countenance aglow with the fires of her soul it occurred to him that, after all, rhoda ware was beautiful. like the tuned strings of a musical instrument her emotional nature had responded to the touch upon her convictions, and behind this mingled glow of indignation and aspiring soul he felt all the forces of her woman’s heart, her powers of loving, her wealth of compassion and tenderness. as he left the house he muttered to himself:
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“a girl like that--she ought to be a joan of arc!” for the first time in his rather long and somewhat spasmodic suit for her heart hope of final success almost fell away from him. if such a rare, fine creature mated at all, he felt rather than put into definite thought, it surely ought to be with some being of finer clay than the average man. and then he jammed his hat down hard and said to himself, definitely and savagely: “the idea of her marrying a damned slaveholder!” horace hardaker was a church member in good standing, and it was only in the intimacy of his soul and upon most infrequent occasions that he allowed himself such lapses of speech. when he did it was a sure sign that his indignation had a strong personal tang.
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the band of women in mrs. hardaker’s parlor talked while they sewed, discussing the proposition of turning themselves into a more ambitious society. some were averse, saying they already did as much as they could and that, moreover, to venture outside the sphere of their homes and attempt to do things that men could do better would not be a proper and becoming course. rhoda, stitching busily, now and then put in an argument or answered an objection. her ardor, pleasant demeanor, and practical capacity had made her a favorite with all the members of the society, old and young. her unfortunate love affair, of which all of them knew something, invested her with a romantic interest and set her a little apart, because of her opportunity and her sacrifice.
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of a sudden rhoda felt her heart swell with the desire for utterance. she began speaking, at first with her needle still busy. but, after the first two or three sentences, her work dropped from her hands and she leaned forward, her face glowing, as she dwelt upon the discouragement which had fallen upon all who hoped for either the ending or the staying of the progress of slavery, and of the greater need than ever before that every one who believed slavery to be an evil should work against it with zeal. she spoke quietly and simply, with the intense and moving earnestness of a strong personality in the grip of a passionate conviction. one after another the women dropped their needles and listened with rapt attention. for a few minutes she talked and then she caught up the paper and read the article in the “tribune.” at its close the utter silence of the room was broken only by a half-suppressed sob here and there. after a moment she said modestly:
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“well, friends, what are we going to do about this matter?”
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a woman in the back of the room began clapping her hands softly, and presently rhoda was shrinking back, blushing and abashed, before the storm of applause. immediately and enthusiastically, and perhaps not in strict accord with parliamentary rules, it was decided to change their circle into a “female anti-slavery society,” to continue their present work and to add to it whatever their hands might find to do, and to make rhoda ware its president. surprised and embarrassed, she tried to decline the honor. but the women, crowding around her with praise and caresses, would not let her refuse.
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rhoda grieved much over the growing alienation between herself and her mother and sister. charlotte held herself plainly aloof, and rhoda was puzzled by an evident resentment in her attitude. she did not know that charlotte held her responsible for her own failure to capture the fancy of jefferson delavan.
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“she’s no right to keep him dangling after her if she doesn’t intend to marry him,” was the vexed young woman’s summing up of the situation, having quite decided that if her sister would only move out of the way she herself would soon be mistress of fairmount.
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as the spring and summer went by mrs. ware’s hope for a marriage between jeff and rhoda dwindled into profound disappointment. a sadness came into her face and voice that smote her daughter to the heart. the sick-headaches, to which she had long been subject, became more frequent, and other ailments began to manifest themselves. fearing remorsefully that her anti-slavery work and her refusal to marry delavan were at the bottom of her mother’s failing health, the girl strove in all tender, care-taking ways of which she could think to make amends for the double hurt and disappointment. in the conduct of the house mrs. ware leaned upon her more than ever. but as the months wore on rhoda felt keenly that the old tenderness and intimacy between them were disappearing.
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the warm weather brought much increase of underground traffic. at that time and during the years immediately following the work of the road was at its height. for its operations there were friends, money, workers in plenty, and slaves were gathered up even before they reached the free-state border, and hurried on from hand to hand in such secrecy and safety that they had hardly a care or a responsibility until they found themselves secure on british soil.
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to rhoda her father gave over most of the care of the fugitives upon their arrival and while they were secreted in the cellar. not infrequently also she drove them on to the next station, sometimes in the night, sometimes by day, in a spring wagon with a false bottom which he had bought for this purpose. occasionally chad wallace appeared in the neighborhood with his peddler’s wagon at their service, if it did not already contain its complement of hidden chattels. now and then farmer gilbertson, on a trip to town, hauled back some “baggage” well concealed in his wagon bed, to be stowed away in his hollow haystack until it could be sent on to the next station. a man who had a market garden out on the same road and drove back and forth a good deal with vegetables for the hillside market and for steamboat supplies, and another who traveled about ostensibly selling reeds often carried black passengers.
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with hands and head and heart all so full rhoda found little time to spend in thinking of her own unhappiness. nevertheless, the day never went by that had not a little space saved out from other things and held apart for thought of her lover. now and then a letter passed between them. but from these missives was dropped all mention of both slavery and love, although on both sides the correspondence breathed a sense of mutual tenderness and understanding that amounted to a sort of spiritual intimacy. to rhoda these letters were the treasure of her heart. they were read over and over again, held caressingly in her hands during the brief minutes of each day when she gave herself up to thought of him, and kept under her pillow or upon her breast while she slept. every night, when she knelt at her bedside, her petitions to the heavenly father begged for his blessing upon her efforts in behalf of the slaves, pleaded that he would soon put forth his hand and make an end of slavery, and implored the safety and the happiness of her lover.
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in the late summer there came a message from fairmount. emily delavan, mrs. ware’s namesake, was to be married in october and the ware family was bidden to the festivities. the news set charlotte upon the borders of ecstatic delight. the visit, which was to be prolonged through several weeks, would not only be filled with no end of alluring pleasures and amusements, but it should open, she decided at once, the door of escape from her home into more congenial surroundings. it would be just the sort of environment,--a gay crowd of people with nothing to do but enjoy themselves--in which she knew she always appeared to best advantage. two or three uninterrupted weeks of it, with jefferson delavan always there to feel the effects of her charms, and she could be quite sure of the result. but--there was rhoda.
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“if she’s there,” charlotte grumbled to herself, “she’ll just keep on making jeff think she’s going to marry him some day, and have him dangling after her all the time.”
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why should rhoda want to go at all, if she really meant to play fair with jeff? the girl soon came to the conclusion, with which she promptly acquainted her sister, that the other ought not to attend the wedding.
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“it will be very unkind to me if you insist on going, rhoda,” she complained. “it will spoil all my pleasure.”
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“sister! why do you say that?”
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“because you’ll keep jeff hanging around you all the time, just as he does when he’s here. somehow you manage to make him think that you’re going to marry him sometime when you know you don’t intend to at all. it isn’t fair to me, rhoda, you know it isn’t.”
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rhoda had already begun to plan ways and means by which her duties and responsibilities could be cared for during her absence, for she wished much to make the visit. her youthful spirit, so much neglected and denied of late, was asserting itself once more and eagerly anticipating the new experience and the promised social gaieties. but above all she wished to go in order that she might be with her lover in his own home, and afterward be able to picture his daily life more vividly in her thought.
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“you’re not being fair to me now, charlotte,” she replied. “i’ve told jeff over and over that i can’t marry him. and i’m sure i don’t want to hinder him from marrying any one else, if he wants to.”
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“then be as good as your word, rhoda, and stay away from where he is. he’s attentive enough to me when you’re not around, and if you’ll just give me a fair chance--you’ll see--i’ll come back engaged!”
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rhoda threw up her head and answered, with a calm intensity in her tone that made charlotte look at her curiously: “very well. i’ll stay at home. i’ve no claim on jeff, and you can do whatever you like.”
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charlotte flew across the room, threw her arms around rhoda’s neck, kissed her and declared she was a “dear old thing.” and rhoda, warming in response and comforted a little for her own hurt, smiled with pleasure at this outburst of affection, returned her caresses and called her “silly little sister.”
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“you can be an old maid if you want to and spend your life working for niggers,” charlotte exclaimed, dancing about the room, “but i mean to have a good time and make the niggers work for me!” she stopped suddenly and with head on one side regarded rhoda anxiously. “will you promise,” she broke out, “that you won’t tell mother why you don’t go?”
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“of course i won’t tell her!”
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“nor anybody else?”
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“good sister! then i’ll love you more than ever!”
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when rhoda declared, and her mother could not induce her to change her decision, that it would be impossible for her to go, the disappointment was so keen that it sent mrs. ware to bed with one of her severest headaches. rhoda cared for her with all tenderness, and, in secret bitterness and tears that her mother must now think more hardly of her than she deserved, wished that charlotte would offer to give back her promise. but she would not ask it of her sister, and to that young woman, in the height of girlish spirits, busy with the dressmaker and her own plans, there never occurred the faintest idea of making the offer.
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mrs. ware knew, even before she tried, that she could not induce her husband to accept the hospitality of a slave owner, and so, finally, it was only herself and her younger daughter who made the journey. as they were saying good-by charlotte whispered to her sister:
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“this time next year, rhoda, i’ll be inviting you to fairmount!”
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letters from mrs. ware and charlotte told of much gaiety and of days that were an unceasing round of enjoyment. charlotte wrote that it was “heaven upon earth” and that never before had she “even imagined how happy a girl could be.” but in her mother’s letters rhoda detected a note of melancholy. although at one with the life around her in memory, training, sympathy and belief, she yet seemed to feel herself an alien while in the midst of it and to be saddened by her own lack of complete accord.
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“poor mother!” thought rhoda. “she loves father and me so much that she can’t help feeling loyal to us with a part of her heart. dear, dear mother!”
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moreover, mrs. ware was not well, and declared she would be glad to return home. she related briefly that jeff and emily had divided the estate, two thirds of which, according to their father’s will, belonged to the brother. emily had chosen some land and a number of slaves and, as her husband already has as many negroes as he needed, it was their intention to realize upon these at once and put the money into improvements upon his estate.
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“they’ll be sold ‘down south,’ i suppose,” said rhoda, as she read the letter aloud to her father.
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“very likely. those big cotton, cane and rice plantations are an insatiable market for slaves. they can’t get enough labor. that is why the south is so anxious to reopen the african slave trade. it’s an open secret, which the north winks at, as it does at everything the south chooses to do, that the traffic is already going on. since the dred scott decision there is nothing they stop at. it’s a pity chad wallace or alexander wilson isn’t in the neighborhood of fairmount just now. if they were, emily’s husband wouldn’t be able to make so many improvements!”
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a few days later dr. ware called rhoda into his office, anxiety in his demeanor. “i’ve just received this letter from wilson,” he exclaimed, “written in louisville. see what he says:
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“‘dear friend ware: am sending you to-day by express one blackbird, a fine specimen, securely boxed. i was fortunate enough to secure a live one, as i knew you would find the specimen more interesting alive than dead.’”
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“father!” cried rhoda, her eyes wide and horrified. “he’s sent some one in a box! all the way from louisville! oh, we must see about it at once!”
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“the letter was evidently written in great haste,” dr. ware continued, “on a dirty scrap of paper and,--yes, it was mailed on the boat.”
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“then the box came on the steamboat with the letter!”
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“yes, and will be at the express office now. jim must take the spring wagon and go after it.”
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rhoda waited in extreme anxiety for jim’s return, fearful lest the poor creature should be dead in the box. even dr. ware showed a lessening of his usual calm. they said little to each other during the man’s absence, but together made ready everything that might be necessary if the “blackbird” should be unconscious. they knew of more than one daring escape from slavery by similar methods. and they knew too of the recent release from a southern penitentiary, after an eight years’ term, of a man who had been convicted of attempting to rescue a slave by this same means.
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the box, short and narrow and looking hardly large enough to contain a human being, was hurried into jim’s room and the cover quickly removed. within was the huddled figure of a woman, her knees drawn up to her chin, and all her body held in the close confines as tightly as in a vise. she did not move and when they spoke to her there was no answer.
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“no, she’s not dead,” said dr. ware, his finger on her pulse. they lifted her out and restorative measures soon brought her back to consciousness. but she was ghastly pale and trembling from head to foot.
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“you poor thing! you’re safe now,” rhoda soothed, patting her arm, as she began to sob hysterically. “we are your friends and we’ll take care of you.”
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she was young and comely, perhaps one-fourth colored, with neither complexion nor features showing more than a faint trace of her negro heritage. presently they were able to give her food and water, and a little later she told them her story. as she talked rhoda sat beside her, clasping her hand and now and then patting her arm in sympathy and encouragement. her speech was simple, but good, showing intelligence and some training.
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“how did mr. wilson happen to send you in a box?” asked dr. ware.
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“i didn’t know what i’d do or where i’d go, but i just hurried along down another street, and then i saw the man who’d been at master’s plantation last year and told us about going to canada if we wanted to try it.”
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“yes--mr. wilson,” dr. ware interrupted.
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“i knew him right away, though he looked different, and i spoke to him and told him what i wanted. he said to follow him and we walked fast and turned up and down streets, and came to a free woman’s house. but they’d followed us, and in two or three minutes they were at the door. the woman took me into the back room and told me to jump into that box. then she put the cover down quick and went back and i heard the men go all round the house looking for me and they swore at the woman and told her they’d seen me come in and they’d watch the house and keep on searching it till they got me. then the man--mr. wilson, you said?--spoke up right loud and said he couldn’t wait any longer and would she have his clothes ready if he’d send for the box right away, ’cause he wanted to catch the boat for cincinnati. i ’spected he meant me, and he did. she put a pillow in the box and some biscuits and a bottle of water, and cut a little hole in the side, so i could breathe.
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“i thought i was gwine die in the box,” the woman went on, again showing signs of hysteria, as memory of her experience returned. “it was such a little box i had to be all crunched up and i got awful pains, and sometimes it seemed as if i’d just have to scream right out. and then i’d think what would happen if i did, and i’d be caught and they’d flog me and send me--where they’d bought me for, and then i’d bite hard on the pillow and keep still. and once the box was turned up so i was on my head till i knew i was gwine die in another minute, but they turned it down again and i didn’t.”
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she stopped speaking, as long, nervous sobs shook her frame. the tears were streaming down rhoda’s face and her bosom was heaving as with trembling hands she administered the draught her father had prepared. dr. ware noted her agitation and admonished her gently to calm herself. the old fear of displeasing him by showing too much emotion quickly steadied her nerves. to distract her thoughts from the fugitive’s harrowing experience he began to question the woman, as she grew quiet once more, about her life in slavery.
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“you must have had a hard master to be willing to take such chances to gain your freedom.”
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“it was the trader i run away from, ’cause i knew what he’d bought me for. master was a kind man.”
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“but he sold you.”
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“it wasn’t master that sold us. he never does. it was miss emily, ’cause she married.”
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a chill struck to rhoda’s heart. was her fate to be forever linked in this way with that of the slaves from fairmount? she was glad her father did not even look at her as he passed, with apparent unconcern, to the logical next question:
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“who was your master?”
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“jefferson delavan, of fairmount, just beyond lexington. he was a kind man and never sold any of the slaves. his mother, old mistress, was kind too, when she was alive, and she took pains with some of us. she was teaching me to be her maid. but miss emily’s different. she’s sold nearly all of us that fell to her share.”
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dr. ware stole an anxious glance at rhoda. she was sitting at the bedside, with the woman’s hand clasped in hers, her eyes straight in front, her lips pressed together and her face stern.
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“it’s hardly fair to make the blame personal,” he ventured. she flashed up at him indignant eyes and her voice was bitter with scorn as she replied:
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“but he allowed her to be sold, father, and for such a purpose!”
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he hesitated, considering a temptation. in his daughter’s present mood it would be easy to deepen this impulse of condemnation and so perhaps undermine her love for delavan. but the next instant he told himself that it would not be fair. “the man has enough to answer for--let him at least have justice,” was his thought.
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rhoda felt his calm eyes upon her, but she would not meet them. “you must remember,” he was saying judicially, “that no man can be better than the system of which he is a part. it is quite possible that delavan knew nothing of all this, except that his sister chose certain slaves as her share. i don’t know very much about him, but i think he’s decent enough to have protested if he had known of this woman’s fate. i also think it’s most unlikely it would have done any good if he had. and there it is, rhoda! no matter how well-intentioned an individual slaveholder may be, he is likely to be swept along any minute by his system into its worst abominations. our indictment must always be against the system, not against individuals.”
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when rhoda knelt at her bedside that night the look of scorn had faded from her countenance and in its place were tears. “dear father in heaven,” she prayed, “do not let thy punishment fall upon him. he knows not what he does. his eyes are so blinded that he cannot see how evil these things are. do not punish him, do not let thy vengeance fall upon him, until his eyes are opened and he sees that they are evil. and grant, o god, i beg of thee, grant me this, that i may make amends to this poor creature for his wrong. if thy vengeance is ripe and can be stayed no longer, let it fall upon my head. let me bear his punishment. but grant me first that i may save her.”
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the fugitive, whose name, lear white, it was decided should be changed to mary ellen dunstable, had been so unnerved by her sufferings that for several days she sorely needed rhoda’s care and dr. ware’s medical attention. rhoda would not permit her to go into the cellar hiding place, but made a bed for her in her own room and watched over her with every solicitude. a dust of powder over her light-colored face was enough to give her the appearance of a white girl of brunette complexion. only a close observer would be likely to note that the whites of her eyes and the form of her nose gave a hint of negro origin.
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“father,” said rhoda, when the girl had been two days in the house, “i can’t bear to think of sending mary ellen on in the usual way. she took such awful chances to escape from a horrible fate, and she came so near to death in that box, that it seems to me almost as if god had put her into my charge, and meant for me to make up to her for all that she has suffered. i feel as if i ought not to let her out of my hands until she is safe in canada.”
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“well, what have you thought of doing? have you a plan?”
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“yes. mary ellen looks so much like a white woman that i’m sure she and i could travel together, as two girl friends, and go to cleveland by the canal. there i can put her on one of our friendly boats and the captain will take charge of her till she is safe on the ferry at detroit.”
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they talked the matter over at length, rhoda dwelling upon the girl’s nervous condition, which had so lessened her self-reliance and her courage as to make doubtful the wisdom of sending her on alone by the ordinary methods. but another reason of equal strength in her own mind, although she did not mention it to her father, was her conviction that here was an opportunity to make atonement for what she felt to be her lover’s sin. moreover, the girl clung to her with such implicit confidence in her power to shield and save that rhoda’s heart rose high with a passion of resoluteness, like a mother’s for her threatened offspring.
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it was finally decided that her plan should be carried out. the female anti-slavery society offered its little store of cash--pitifully small since the money panic of two months previous--to help defray mary ellen’s expenses. several of the members donated material they had bought for their own winter wardrobes and helped rhoda make it up into gowns for the fugitive.
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on her way downtown one day rhoda saw a new handbill on the trunk of a tree at the crossing of the two main streets. it was of a sort that had been familiar to her since her childhood. at one side was a crude woodcut of a negro on the run, a bundle on the end of a stick across his shoulder. she stopped to read it, wondering if it concerned any of the blacks who had been sheltered under their roof. it offered three hundred dollars reward, told of the running away of “my negro girl, lear white,” gave a detailed and accurate description of her, saying she was “light-colored and good-looking,” and was signed, “william h. burns,” with his address in louisville. rhoda walked on, smiling, thinking in what a little while that poster would be of no consequence whatever to lear white, for they were to start the next morning.
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in the afternoon marcia kimball came, to help rhoda with the final preparations. they tried upon mary ellen the gown, in which they had just set the last stitches, that she was to wear on the journey. much pleased with its effect, marcia whitened her face with a fresh dusting of powder, and she stood before them a handsome brunette with a pale complexion, big, soft, black eyes and coal-black, waving hair. marcia clapped her hands, exclaiming:
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“splendid, rhoda! nobody would ever guess! oh, you’ll get through all right!”
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rhoda, standing beside the window, glanced out and her face grew grave. “come here a minute, marcia,” she said. some men were entering at the side gate. miss kimball paled. “marshal hanscomb!” she whispered.
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“yes, but i don’t believe they suspect that she’s here. there are three men in the cellar, that mr. gilbertson is going to stop for this evening. we must put on a bold front. don’t let mary ellen know--she’d be scared to death, and they might guess. come,” she exclaimed in a louder voice, turning gaily from the window, “let’s go downstairs and have some music. marcia, you ought to hear mary ellen sing ‘nellie gray’! come down and you and she sing it together, and i’ll play!”
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laughing and talking, with every appearance of gaiety, though the hearts of two of them were beating fast, the three went down to the living-room and took their places at the piano. with ears strained to catch the sounds from the other parts of the house, rhoda struck the opening notes and the two voices sang:
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“there’s a low green valley on the old kentucky shore, where i’ve whiled many happy hours away, a-sitting and a-singing by the little cottage door where lived my darling nellie gray.”
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rhoda stopped for a moment and heard the tramp of the men as they came up the stairs from the cellar. then she laughed merrily.
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“why, marcia, you’re singing all out of tune! i never heard you do that before. come, now, let’s all sing the chorus together!”
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mary ellen’s voice rose, rich and melodious, above the other two as the music made its mournful plaint through the simple lines:
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“oh, my poor nellie gray, they have taken her away, and i’ll never see my darling any more!”
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the men were going through the rooms upstairs and one of them said to another, as he stopped to listen, “that girl can sing, can’t she?”
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rhoda heard them coming downstairs and knew that marcia was looking at her with eyes wide and face a little pale. would they come in? suddenly she was aware that her nerves were steady and strong as steel and that her heart was beating as calmly as ever. “now for the next verse, marcia!” and her fingers moved across the keys. then she heard the men at the door.
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“there’s some one in the hall. i must see what they want,” she said, rising and casting an encouraging smile at miss kimball. marcia gazed at her wonderingly as she moved calmly across the room and then, feeling the contagion of her courage, turned quickly to mary ellen, and to draw her attention away from the door so that she would not face it, began asking her what other songs she knew.
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“excuse me, miss ware, for disturbing you and your friends,” marshal hanscomb was saying, “but my duties under the law make it necessary for me to search your house.”
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“certainly, mr. hanscomb. come in if you wish to. miss kimball is here--i think you know her--and the other lady is my friend, miss dunstable, from cincinnati, who has been visiting me for the last week.”
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the marshal stepped inside, his assistants close behind him. rhoda cast a single glance toward the piano and saw thankfully that marcia was still holding mary ellen’s attention. “if only she won’t look around,” was her anxious thought. then turning to the marshal she said seriously, with a gentle smile:
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“you see, there’s no one else visible in here, mr. hanscomb, but if you want to look under the piano and up the chimney--” she stopped on a rising inflection and looked at him gravely. his eyes flashed, but he merely sent an inquiring glance around the room, saw that there were no closets or recesses, and then moved toward the door, saying, “thank you, miss ware.”
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rhoda closed the door behind him and leaned against it while she drew a long breath and pressed her lips together tightly for a moment. then she went back to the piano saying, “now, marcia, suppose we let mary ellen sing that next verse all alone. i want you to hear her.”
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the men on the veranda steps, taking their departure, paused and listened to the closing lines as mary ellen, in a voice of mournful sweetness, sang on alone:
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“they have taken her to georgia, for to wear her life away, as she toils in the cotton and the cane.”
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“that girl makes a right good imitation of the way a darkey’s voice sounds,” said the one who had spoken before. “i reckon she’s practised it.”
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rhoda’s heart was high with expectation of success when she and mary ellen started upon the journey to cleveland. the runaway, in her new gown and a bonnet and veil, played her part perfectly, and rhoda told her father that he might expect her back in a few days with the news that all had gone well. “and i,” she added to herself, “shall then be able to feel that i have paid off jeff’s debt of wrongdoing to this poor girl.”
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as they were going on board the steamboat jim came hurrying down to the landing from the post-office with the morning mail, which contained a letter for rhoda. she saw that it was from charlotte, and put it unopened into her pocket to read later. for, notwithstanding her inward assurance that her adventure could not fail, she felt anxious about the short time they would have to remain on the river boat. slave traders and their agents and slave catchers were constantly journeying up and down the river, and if one of these who had appraised mary ellen in her days of bondage should happen to see her he might recognize her as lear white. she kept her charge engaged in conversation, the better to carry out the pretense that they were two ladies traveling together, and warned her not to raise her veil.
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the transfer to the canal boat safely made, rhoda felt much less anxious and relaxed a little of her care. they sat upon the deck, and mary ellen lifted her veil now and then, the better to see the succession of charming views through which they passed. the wooded hills were ablaze with autumn foliage and these alternated with open lands where fields of brown stubble, acres of ripened corn, pasturing cattle and busy farm yards told of autumn’s rewards for the year’s labor. mary ellen was much interested in all this and had many questions to ask as to how the work was done and whether or not it would be the same in canada. several hours passed in this way before rhoda bethought her again of the letter from charlotte. smiling at thought of the enthusiastic account it would contain of the round of pleasures since her last missive, she took it from her pocket and drew a little apart, while mary ellen became engrossed in looking at a town which they were approaching. a number of people were at the landing and she gazed at them, the tree-shaded streets, the buildings and the church spires with the self-forgetfulness of a child amid new surroundings.
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instead of the long letter she expected rhoda found in the envelope a single sheet and dashed across the middle of it the one sentence, “i told you i’d soon be engaged, and i am! charlotte.”
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the words danced and blurred before her eyes as she stared at them, all her attention indrawn to the pain in her breast. this, then, was all love meant to a man--the whim of a moment or a month, ready to be captured by the first pretty girl who made the effort. had it not been the same with horace hardaker? why should she have expected jeff’s love to be of any more substantial fiber? and, moreover, what right had she to expect or wish him to be faithful to her? but her quivering heart cried out that if he had loved as she did he would have been faithful, even unto death. and down in the bottom of her soul she knew that her pain was not all for his lost love, that some of it, much of it, was for her ideal of his love and faith and chivalrous heart, stabbed to death by this immediate surrender to charlotte’s allurements.
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“miss rhoda! miss rhoda! miss rhoda!”
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the frightened cry, repeated over and over, seeming at first to come out of some far-off space, pierced her indrawn consciousness. she looked up in a dazed way, her thoughts stumbling back slowly to her surroundings. then she saw that mary ellen, between two men, was being hustled off the boat.
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she sprang after them and seized the arm of one of the men. “what are you doing?” she demanded.
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“you’ll soon find out what you’ve been doing!” the man replied.
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“this is an outrage!” rhoda exclaimed. “let this woman go, or i shall have you arrested! she is miss dunstable of cincinnati, and is traveling with me. let her go, i say!”
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with one sweep of his handkerchief across her cheek, he exposed a broad stripe of browner skin. he laughed contemptuously, and a number of others who had gathered round them on the landing laughed also. rhoda heard the epithet, “nigger-thief,” in derisive tones passed from one to another. she knew well that if the crowd’s sympathies were with him there was no telling what it might do. gripping his arm with both hands and bracing herself against his effort to move on, she faced about, head high and eyes flashing, and cried:
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“is there no one here who will help me to save this poor girl?”
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“yes, yes,” he said heartily, “i’ve heard of dr. ware.” he glanced at mary ellen, dumb and patient between her captors, then back at rhoda, and understanding flashed between their eyes.
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“don’t be afraid,” he said. “thee’ll soon find friends here, who’ll do their best to bring things out all right for thee and for her too.”
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they moved on, the mob around them rapidly increasing. by the looks of the men and the remarks which reached her ears she knew that it was, for the most part, pro-slavery in feeling. the quaker was walking beside her, but his companions had disappeared. presently he whispered:
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“the marshal will be here soon. perhaps thee could slip away and hide. there’ll be help if thee wants to try it.”
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rhoda shook her head and whispered back: “no, no. i mustn’t leave her.”
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in a whisper so low it barely reached her ears she heard him say: “never mind her. she’ll be looked after.”
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but before rhoda could reply three men, pushing their way authoritatively, were beside them, and a moment later she found herself under arrest and being marched along between the marshal’s two assistants.
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soon she saw that a change was taking place in the character of the crowd. its numbers were being rapidly augmented, but most of those who were joining it now were silent, and rhoda guessed by their looks and by the glint of an eye here and there that they were moved by a determined purpose. the marshal surveyed them anxiously, spoke to his aids, and they, with rhoda between them, held back, then edged their way into a cross street and let the throng surge on past them. then they rushed her along until they came to a two-story brick building, where they gave her into the charge of another official, who locked her into an upstairs room.
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through the barred windows she could see the mob, now at a standstill half a block down the street, eddying round the center where stood mary ellen between her two captors, a drooping figure of despair and resignation. on the outskirts and apparently merely looking on was the quaker, who had told her his name was daniel benedict. and still farther away her eye caught sight of a familiar form, old and shabby, topped by a bell-crowned hat, standing beside a dingy peddler’s wagon and watching the proceedings with an interest which broke out now and then in shrill calls and shuffling capers.
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rhoda leaned against the bars, her hands wrung together, and waited breathlessly for what might happen next. the men were surging and pushing this way and that, and she soon made out a resolute movement on the part of those who were on the outside to force their way to the center. many of those who made up the nucleus had been moved apparently by idle curiosity, and they were now falling back, out of the way of the onward efforts of the others.
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“there’s the marshal,” rhoda exclaimed to herself, pressing her face against the bars, “right in front of mary ellen! oh, poor, poor girl! surely, god won’t let them take her back! those men are pushing up closer! what’s the marshal saying? oh, he’s calling for a posse! there, they’re fighting! oh, see, they’ve got hold of him!”
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in her excitement she was breaking into speech. “oh, oh! they’ve knocked down the trader!--and the other man--mary ellen--they’ve got her! they’ve got her! and they’re shooting! oh, again! again!”
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hands clasped hard against her heart, she stood breathless, silent, watching the struggle, while the sound of shots, the cries of the mob, and the shouts of the officers broke the stillness of the room. “there, they are getting her out! oh, don’t hurt her! now--oh, run, mary ellen, run, run! oh, they’re helping her--two men--and another running ahead-- oh, god, help her, help her to safety!”
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she leaned against the side of the window, sight swimming and lips trembling, as mary ellen and her body-guard of rescuers, dashing down another street, passed from her view. then she turned her attention back to the throng of men who seemed now to be intricately struggling with one another. but presently the mass began to resolve itself. a number, which seemed to contain both parties, for some were evidently trying to stop or hinder the others, rushed after the slave girl and her protectors. many others fell back and stood near to be on hand for the next development. they had not long to wait, for the marshal and his assistants, regaining their feet, speedily began arresting their assailants. rhoda presently saw them marching up to the jail door with a dozen men under guard, of whom several were wounded.
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a few minutes later she heard a tenor voice, surprisingly good though somewhat cracked with age, singing loudly in the street, “in dixie land i’ll take my stand.” she smiled, for she knew the voice at once, and hurried back to the window. chad wallace in his dingy peddler’s wagon was passing the jail. his eyes were roving carelessly over the front of the building and she felt sure he saw her, although he made no sign. but he flourished his whip in a wide circle round his head and held it poised for a moment above his shoulder, pointing back into the middle of his wagon.
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later in the day daniel benedict came to see her and gave her explanation of what had happened. his wrinkled, benignant face and silver gray hair seemed to her distraught heart to carry assurance of fatherly protection.
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“thy friend is safe now,” he told her, “and not much the worse for her experience.”
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“i saw from that window,” she exclaimed, “the way they got her out of the crowd. it was wonderful--just pushing a way for her and handing her on from one to another and protecting her with their bodies!”
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“yes,” assented the quaker, calmly, “it was good work, and quickly done--else, they would not have succeeded. i could take no part in it, for, as thee doubtless knows, it is against my principles to offer violent resistance to the law. but,” he hesitated a moment and rhoda saw a twinkle flicker across his kindly eyes, “i do not feel that it is necessary to hinder those who think differently. there is a pretty strong anti-slavery sentiment here, although there is plenty for the other side too, and we determined some time ago that not another seeker after freedom should ever be sent back to his chains from this place. those who had no scruples against violent resistance were to be free to do whatever they might think best and, for the rest of us,”--and his eyes twinkled again,--“there would not be lacking work for us, either.”
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“but mary ellen? how did the trader get hold of her? do you know how it happened? i had been so watchful, and had let her raise her veil only now and then, when it seemed safe. i had not left her side since we started, until just before the awful thing happened. then i heard her call and they were dragging her off the boat. i was hardly three feet away and had had my hand off her arm, oh, it seemed hardly a minute! have you talked with her? has she told you?”
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he nodded gravely and the suggestion of a smile appeared about his lips. rhoda guessed that mary ellen was hidden in his house. “yes, i have talked with the fugitive. she was leaning on the rail, so interested in looking at the town and at the landing as the boat came up that she forgot about her veil. then, among the people on shore she recognized the trader and was so frightened that she seemed to lose the power of motion. he saw her the same instant, rushed upon the boat and seized her.”
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“oh, the fault is all mine!” moaned rhoda. “i should not have left her, i should not have taken my eyes off her, for one single minute! i was too proud, mr. benedict, and this is my punishment. for i thought nobody but me could get her safely to cleveland and i had been so successful with others--and with her too--that i thought i couldn’t fail!”
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“well, she is safe again. but thee is likely to suffer sadly for thy one moment of forgetfulness.”
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she told him mary ellen’s story, dwelling especially upon her sufferings during her long hours in the box. when she ended he brought his fist down on his knee and exclaimed solemnly:
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“she has earned her freedom twenty times over and she shall have it--fugitive slave law, constitution, marshals, or presidents notwithstanding, even if--if--daniel benedict has to forget his principles for once!”
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the next day he came again to see her, bringing with him his wife, a little woman in quaker bonnet and gown, with a strong face and a sweet smile. mary ellen, they told her, had been safely started on her way again at midnight. chaddle wallace had taken her in his peddler’s wagon. their news well-nigh dissipated rhoda’s anxiety. for, of all the many fugitives he had hauled part or all the way to the northern boundary she knew that not one had failed to reach canada in safety.
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in the depths of humiliation rhoda mourned over the fiasco of her attempt to guide mary ellen to freedom. but she soon found that the fiasco itself was bearing a rich crop of results. she was indicted for aiding and abetting the escape of a runaway slave and a dozen men of the rescuing party for obstructing the united states marshal in the performance of his duties and preventing him from rendering back the fugitive. the anti-slavery side retorted by arresting gordon, the slave trader’s agent, and the slave catcher accompanying him, under the state’s personal liberty law, for kidnaping, and several members of the marshal’s posse, who had used fire-arms, for assault with intent to kill.
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as the news spread, meeting after meeting was held all through the central and eastern part of the state and up into the western reserve, denouncing the law, expressing sympathy with its victims and declaring the righteousness of setting at naught its provisions. through the southern portion of the state and wherever there was sufficient pro-slavery feeling to crystallize into such action, counter-meetings were held, which reprobated the unfairness to the south, characterized in contemptuous terms the actions and principles of believers in the “higher law,” declared them to be traitors and called upon the federal government to use stern measures in upholding the fugitive slave act.
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on the advice of horace hardaker, who was to conduct her case, and that of the counsel for her fellow prisoners, both rhoda and they refused to enter recognizance that they would appear in court when wanted, and therefore were compelled to remain in jail.
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“it’s an unrighteous law in every respect,” said hardaker, “and our contention will be that it is unconstitutional and void. to consent to return for trial under it would make tacit recognition of its validity. and that we won’t do. besides, staying in jail will make martyrdom out of it, and the effect will be all the more potent.”
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but rhoda, although she saw that her failure, in the outcome, would be of more consequence than success would have been, felt the pangs of humbled pride. she talked the matter over with rachel, daniel benedict’s wife. for between her and the quakeress a warm affection had quickly developed. rachel benedict visited her as often as the prison officials would allow, and rhoda soon found that the little, dove-gray figure, with the sweet, strong face and the silver hair, was sure to bring assuaging of her heartaches and renewal of her spiritual strength. without making any mention of her personal affairs, rhoda yet found it possible to talk with her new friend with more intimacy and with greater surety of understanding and response than she had ever been able to do with her mother.
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“i was so proud, so self-complacent,” she said, “that i thought i could make amends to mary ellen for the wrongs that had been done to her. and i showed myself unworthy even to try. i let her be taken, just by being wrapped up for a few minutes in my own affairs, in something that troubled me. oh, it has been a bitter lesson!”
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“thee seems to me to be too much troubled by thy repentance. if thee lets it engross thee it too will become a sin. and perhaps the sin for which thee is repenting does not deserve so much repentance, after all. if thee did this thing believing in thy inmost soul that it was right and wishing in thy inmost soul to do good to others by means of it, then don’t disturb thy heart, rhoda ware, with how it seems to have come out. it hasn’t ended yet. and thee can be sure there is plenty of time yet for more good to come out of it than thee ever dreamed of.”
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“yes, it didn’t make any difference to mary ellen,” rhoda answered thoughtfully, “for she reached canada just as safely as if i’d taken her all the way myself. but such an awful wrong had been done to her,--it seemed more horrible than any other case i had known about, and i wanted to suffer for it myself. i wanted to make atonement for another person’s sin. and it has all ended in failure!”
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“well, isn’t thee suffering for it? isn’t thee suffering a great deal more than if thee had been successful? but don’t delude thyself, rhoda ware, by thinking thee can do any good by suffering for another person’s sins. we have got to sweat and suffer stripes ourselves for the evil that is in us if we are to be purged of our sins!”
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at her window that night, rhoda pondered long upon these words. “i suppose mrs. benedict is right,” she said to herself finally. “it was only my pride--and my love, that made me think i could atone for even this one bit of his wrongdoing. he will have to suffer for it, for all of it, himself, before he can see that it is wrong. and we shall all have to suffer, north and south alike, for this awful sin of slavery, for the north is to blame almost as much as the south.
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“‘sweat and suffer stripes’! bloody sweat, father thinks it will be,--he is so sure that it will end in war. will it come in our time? oh, surely, things cannot go on like this much longer! so much anger on both sides, so much indignation in the north, so many threats in the south--and all getting worse and worse every year--oh, if war is to be the end, we must be getting nearly there! war!”
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she shivered and pressed her hands against her face. as the grisly specter of blood and smoke passed vaguely before her mind’s eye her anxious thoughts hovered with instant anxiety over the dear image of him who she knew would be among the first to challenge the issue. then with a little cry she sprang to her feet.
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“shall i never remember i must not think of him like that!” she asked herself with bitterness. “my sister’s husband! o, god, help me to forget!” she paced about the room with frowning brows and lips pressed hard together, telling herself, as she had already done a hundred times, that she must learn to forget, as it had been so easy for him to do. and there she touched upon her deepest wound, that his love had not been as fine and as true as she had thought it.
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“how could he love another--so different--and wish to marry her, after all that has passed between us? i could not--how could he?” was the question that would come back, again and again. she tried to subdue it by telling herself that since he could, since his love and faith were not equal to hers, he was not worthy of her love and deserved only forgetfulness complete, eternal. but her heart cried out fiercely against this edict of her brain and clung to its need of believing in him.
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“he is fine and noble in many, many ways,” at last she said to herself, “in nearly all ways the finest and the noblest man i’ve ever known, and if his love fell short of all i thought it was, i must try to forgive him that, as i forgive him his blindness about the wickedness of slavery, which kept us apart, and, i suppose--deep down in my heart--i suppose--i’ll always love him. but i’ll try, oh, i’ll try from this minute, always to think of him as charlotte’s husband. he mustn’t be jeff to me any more--just charlotte’s husband! charlotte’s husband!”
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during her days in jail she spent much time embroidering dainty things for charlotte’s trousseau, and into these she found herself able to stitch, along with the tears that would fall now and then, prayers and hopes for charlotte’s happiness and earnest desires, since the marriage must be, that she would make her husband happy. but on this latter question she found herself haunted by a doubt that would yield to no arguments based on the sequence of love and happiness.
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charlotte and mrs. ware returned home immediately after rhoda’s arrest and it was some time, after her sister’s first brief announcement of her engagement, before she heard again from either of them. and afterward their letters were filled mainly with accounts of their plans and preparations for charlotte’s trousseau and wedding. in her replies she could not bring herself to write jeff’s name and so referred to him only as “charlotte’s lover,” or “charlotte’s intended.” she noticed too that her mother spoke of him only in the same way while her sister wrote of him as “he,” in capital letters.
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“they are afraid of hurting my feelings by mentioning his name,” i suppose, rhoda said to herself. “i must get used to it, but--i’m glad they don’t.”
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charlotte’s letters were brief and infrequent and each one contained, in addition to talk about her bridal plans, advice in plenty on the propriety of rhoda’s giving up her “nigger thieving” and her black abolition acquaintance, now that the family was identified with southern interests.
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“dear little sister!” rhoda would say to herself with an indulgent smile as she read these admonitions. “she’s such a child, and she’s so positive she knows all about it! i wonder if she’ll ever really grow up!”
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but her mother’s letters gave her much concern. her arrest and imprisonment had caused mrs. ware severe shock and deep grief and her heart was wrung that the necessity was upon her to cause so much suffering.
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“i must do whatever i can,” she moaned. “it’s on my conscience and i must, and i can’t be sorry i did this, dear, dear mother, even for your sake. i couldn’t live if i didn’t do my best to fight this awful evil!”
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evidently, too, mrs. ware was not well. the physical ailments that had interfered with her enjoyment of her visit to fairmount had grown worse since her return. notwithstanding all this the mother heart of her yearned over and wished to be with her first-born. but to this desire rhoda gave constant denial, lest her burden of grief and pain be made harder to bear.
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dr. ware came to see his daughter as often as his practice would allow, but his visits were necessarily brief and infrequent. he spoke occasionally of charlotte’s engagement and rhoda thought he seemed pleased with it.
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“it’s a very good thing, i guess,” he said one day, with a cheerfulness that gave rhoda a little twinge of unhappiness.
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“but he always has loved charlotte so much,” she thought, “and wanted her to have everything she wanted that he’d be glad to have her happy no matter if--”
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“she’ll be in harmony with her surroundings and he seems to be very much in love with her,” dr. ware went on. rhoda turned quickly away lest he see the little spasm of pain that she felt sure was showing itself upon her countenance.
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“your mother, of course, is deeply pleased,” he continued. “i don’t know but it is giving her almost as much pleasure as your marriage would have done. it will be a good thing for charlotte to be married happily and settled down. she’ll come out all right. i never have had any doubts about her, in the long run, because she’s so much like what her mother was at her age.”
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horace hardaker came often to consult with rhoda in the preparation of her case. he hoped to make a telling presentment and was enthusiastic over the excitement that already had been aroused.
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“of course,” he said to her one day in the early winter, when the date set for her trial was almost at hand, “the law and the facts are all against us. the only thing we can do is to appeal to the sentiment against the law. whether we lose or win, the affair is making a big breeze that’s going to be bigger yet!”
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“you know, horace,” she replied, “that i don’t care in the least what they do with me,--except on mother’s account. what i want most is to help all i can in the fight against slavery and if it will do more good for me to stay in jail than to go home and work with the underground again, why then--” she looked straight at him and a smile flashed from her lips up into her eyes--“in jail let me stay!”
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he smiled back at her and his blue eyes lighted with admiration as he laid one hand for a moment over hers. “rhoda, i’ve told you this before, but i must say it again, and i shall always say it--you’re the grandest girl there is anywhere!”
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after he was gone she sat with a tender smile on her lips. “dear horace!” she was thinking. “such a good friend as he is! sound and true to the bottom of his heart! why didn’t i happen to fall in love with him?... well, it seems to be getting nearly time--for me to refuse him again!”
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it was within a day or two of the opening of her trial, which was to be the first of the series, when rhoda finally brought herself to the point of writing to jefferson delavan. many times she had told herself that, since he was to marry her sister, she ought to let him know that in her heart were only wishes for his happiness. but it had been a hard thing to do and she had postponed it from week to week. at last, her sense of duty would be put off no longer and she resolutely faced the heartache that she knew the task would make all the more poignant.
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“dear friend,” she wrote. “charlotte has told me of the happiness that came to her and to you during her visit to fairmount. i am sure you will believe me when i say it is my most earnest wish that that happiness will never be any less than it is now and that it will grow greater during the many long years of wedded life that i hope are before you. in your and her feelings and convictions there is nothing to divide you, nothing to prevent the complete union of hearts and souls which is the only thing that can make marriage worth while. i am sure, since you love her, that you will always be very tender to charlotte. to me she has always been just ‘little sister’ and it is difficult for me to realize that she is really a woman and about to become a wife. at home we have always spoiled her and that has made her, sometimes, in a merry way, rather ruthless of other people’s feelings. but i have no doubt your love will make you understand that this is only on the surface and that her heart is true and loving. for you both, dear friend, soon to be brother, my heart is full of every good wish. always your friend, rhoda”--she paused here, on the point of signing her name in the old way, but “adeline” seemed sacred to those other days and to the love that had been between them then, and she could not write it here. so she added only “ware” and quickly folded and sealed the letter.
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as she looked at the envelope it seemed as if it were the coffin of her love, ready for burial, as if she had said a last good-by to all the pleasure it had brought into her heart. now only the pain was left. she bowed her head upon her hands and some scalding drops trickled through her fingers. her jailer’s knock sounded at the door and she sprang to her feet and dried her eyes. hardly had she time to control her sobs when it opened and jefferson delavan crossed the threshold.
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his look was deeply earnest and intent upon her as he moved forward, holding out both hands and saying, “rhoda! i could stay away no longer!”
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“jeff!” she faltered, stepping back. “i--i--had just written to you!”
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“written to me! rhoda! did you ask me to come?”
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there was no mistaking the look of glad surprise and love that suddenly broke over his countenance. rhoda gazed at him in perplexity and instinctively pressed one hand against her heart, as if to keep down the responsive love that was trying to leap upward, as she said to herself, “charlotte’s husband! charlotte’s husband!”
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still moving backward, away from him, as he followed her across the room exclaiming again, “sweetheart, did you ask me to come?” her bewildered, apprehensive thought sprang to the conclusion that she must make him be true to charlotte, that she must not let him betray the “little sister.”
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“charlotte--” she ejaculated--“your engagement--i wrote to wish you happiness!”
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he stopped short and stared at her with puzzled eyes. “what under heaven do you mean?”
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“why, your engagement to my sister! aren’t you going to marry charlotte?”
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“assuredly, i’m not!” was his quick and emphatic answer.
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“have you--have you--broken it off, then--so soon?” she was moving her trembling hands over each other, unable to keep them still, and holding her face half averted, afraid to look at him save in brief glances, lest her eyes might betray the love that was swelling in her heart.
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“you are talking in puzzles, rhoda! i’ve never had the faintest desire to marry charlotte, or anybody but you.”
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her face dropped lower and her bosom heaved. what could it all mean? had they been deceiving her? and why? “she said--that is--i understood--” she stumbled. then he broke in upon her embarrassed bewilderment.
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“she didn’t say she was going to marry me, did she? lloyd corey is the happy man. it was love at first sight, of the most violent sort, with him, and he would take nothing but an outright ‘yes’ for his answer, and that inside of two weeks. it was a pretty little love comedy, and i wished a hundred times that you were there to watch it with me.”
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she moved unsteadily to a chair and sank down, her face in her hands. it had been such tragedy to her! and now it was taking all her self-control to hold herself firmly in hand under the reaction. at once he was beside her, dropping upon one knee and trying to take her hands from her face. “what is it, rhoda? what is the matter? look at me, dearest!”
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“yes, jeff--let me realize--wait--one moment!” he watched her anxiously, her hands in his, as with a deep, long breath, a tension of the muscles and a pressing together of her lips she regained control of herself. she withdrew her hands and slowly lifted her face as he rose to his feet.
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“it’s nothing, jeff--no, i don’t mean that--it is so much. but--i thought--charlotte led me to think that--she was going to marry you--and now--to find that you’re not--that you still--” she stopped and half turned away her face, trying to hide the confession she knew was there of all it meant to find that his love was still her own. but already he had seen enough to set his heart on fire and he sprang toward her, as if to take her in his arms.
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“and you cared so much? rhoda, deny me no longer!”
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she drew away from him and said humbly: “can you forgive me, jeff? indeed, i would not have thought it possible, but it seemed to have happened. it was just one of charlotte’s tricks.”
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“forgive you, dear heart? i do not think you could do anything that i would not forgive!”
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her glance swept the room. then she looked up at him with a smile and said significantly, “even this?”
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“even this, rhoda, else i would not be here. i held out against the pleading of my heart as long as i could. but i longed so much to see you and wanted so much to help you, that i couldn’t stay away any longer. i’ve come, dear, to beg you once more to be my wife. let me give you, at once, the protection of my name--”
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she drew back and lifted her head proudly. “i have already the protection of my father’s name and the approval of my conscience. i should feel myself a coward, and a traitor to myself, if i tried to crawl under any other now.”
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“i understand what you mean--and i beg your pardon. but we both know now, more surely than we knew before, how necessary we are to each other, how deep and true and everlasting our love is. don’t you realize that neither of us can ever be happy until we have joined our lives together? what are the days and the weeks for us now but just a constant yearning for each other’s presence. look forward, rhoda, to months and years of that, think of how much more life will mean for us both, if only you will give up and listen to what your heart tells you.”
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she had risen and was standing beside her chair, one hand on its back. he came close to her and rested his hand near hers. she was conscious too that his other arm was outstretched behind her, hovering close, ready to sweep her into his embrace. the struggle in her heart, longing to heed the call of his, quick with desire to make amends for the injustice she had done him, tumultuous with rejoicing that his love had been all she had thought it, was almost more than she could bear. he was so near--she had only to lean toward him a little, and his arm would be around her and her head upon his breast. ah, the blessed peace there would be in that haven of repose! already she could feel its stilling waters wrapping round her, numbing the power of resistance.
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he leaned a little nearer and his voice was low and compellingly sweet, “rhoda! come to my arms, where you belong! do not deny our love any longer!”
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she saw his hand on the back of the chair moving instinctively toward her own,--a sinewy, brown, masterful hand, which held her eyes as it drew nearer, little by little, as if drawn by some irresistible attraction. she knew that his eyes in that same way were fixed upon her own, long, slender, nervous, the sort of hand that works out the behests of a strenuous soul. and she knew, also, as she waited, silent, trying to force herself to voice once more the dictates of her conscience, she knew that, if his hand touched hers before she could bring herself to speak, she could resist no longer. still she stood, speechless, her fascinated eyes upon his masterful hand, her body thrilling with the surety that if she did not speak now, at once, in another moment she would be in his arms, and the struggle over.
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“oh, my poor nellie gray, they have taken her away, and i’ll never see my darling any more!”
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the words of the negro song, in a negro woman’s voice, came floating into the room, mingled with the sounds of broom and scrubbing brush. they brought to rhoda instant memory of mary ellen’s melodious tones, singing in happy unconsciousness of peril, and of her own strained and fearful attention as she listened to the footsteps steps of the marshal’s posse. and then like a flash passed before her mind’s eye the ashen face and shaking figure of mary ellen, as her father and jim lifted her from the box that had almost been her deathbed.
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the numbing waters fell away, she raised her hand and pressed it against her heart with the impulsive, unconscious gesture he knew so well, and moved apart.
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“jeff, it’s no use talking any more about this,” she said in tremulous accents. “the last time we said all that is to be said.”
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“don’t say that! it makes everything so bare and hopeless! it makes me fear that you have killed your love. rhoda, you do love me, yet?”
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she turned slowly toward him and lifted her downcast face, alight with all the glow that was in her heart. “jeff,” and the word as it came from her tenderly smiling lips was a caress, “jeff, i love you so much that my heart has made me forgive you even that you allowed mary ellen--lear white--to be sold.”
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“my sweet! and i love you so much that my heart has made me forgive even your stealing her away!”
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for a moment it seemed to them that gray eyes and brown melted into each other. and then the comedy of their cross-conscienced hearts struck her sense of humor, the corners of her mouth trembled and deepened and a smile flashed over her face and sparkled in her eyes. at that they both laughed, softly, in the tenderness of perfect understanding. then she saw the old baffled, determined look overspread his face as turning sharply he strode across the room and back.
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“my god, rhoda! why have our hearts snared us into this misery? why don’t you loathe me as you do all that i believe in and stand for? why can’t i condemn and scorn you as i do all the rest of your tribe? why must i, when i detest and am injured by what is dearest to you, still see in you my ideal of all that is lovable and womanly? my love, my love, why can’t i hate you instead of loving you so that you are the only woman in all the world i want for my wife? must our love be forever a curse instead of a blessing?”
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he flung himself into a chair beside the table, every muscle of his body expressive of anger and rebellion at the mysterious forces of human life that had played this scurvy trick upon them, pitted against each other loving heart and steadfast conscience and left them, like two cocks in a pit, to fight it out in a struggle to the death.
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did they laugh at him and at her, those caliban spirits of the universe, that with grim and cruel humor are forever setting human purpose awry and sending it, lop-sided and ludicrous, far aside its mark? did they laugh and cheer and find pleasure in that struggle, the sure result of the innate upward-strivingness of the human soul, like human beings around a cock-pit betting upon which instinct, which spirit, which physique, shall prove the stronger? or, perhaps, was caliban pushed aside by some angel of the sword, infinitely just and infinitely merciful, that with stern lips whispered to pitying eyes, “no, let them struggle, for only by struggling, even to the uttermost, can their souls grow!”
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softly rhoda came near, hesitatingly put forth one hand and let it rest for an instant upon his arm. at her touch he straightened up and unconsciously one hand sought the place upon his arm where hers had lain. “i don’t believe, dear, it will be forever. i don’t believe it will be very much longer.”
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“yes, jeff, i do. but i don’t suppose you’ll see it as i do. it’s only that i think,” she was speaking timidly, and yet with a grave eagerness of voice and manner, “and so do a good many of us, that slavery can’t last much longer. we feel sure that its end is bound to come, in one way or another, and that before long. and when slavery is swept away, jeff, and the whole country is clean of it, then there will be no gulf between us!”
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her serious eyes were luminous as they met his unbelieving ones and in her face was the subdued glow of one who looks afar off upon a land of promise and knows that toward it his feet are set. love and disbelief were mingled in the somber countenance he bent upon her.
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“no, rhoda, i do not agree with you. and much as i love you, sweet, i would not, if i could, purchase our happiness at such a cost. i would not, if i could, be such a traitor to the south. but i shall always love you, dear heart, and i shall always hope that you will yet be mine.” he held her hand tenderly for a moment in both of his, pressed it to his lips, bowed gravely, and left the room.
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“it’s going to be a good speech, horace, and it will surely attract attention,” said rhoda ware to her counsel on the day before the opening of her trial.
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hardaker had just gone over with her an outline of the address he would make in summing up her case. it was intended for the people outside the court room, near and far, who would talk about it and read it in the newspapers, quite as much as for the ears of the jurors. so high and strong had risen the feeling on the slavery question that in some parts of ohio, as well as elsewhere, the lawyer who devoted energy and ability to the defense of captured fugitives and their helpers could be sure of early and ample political reward. hardaker was ambitious. he meant, as soon as he could reach an opening door, to enter upon a public career and he had mapped out for himself election to congress, and after that a steady ascent to high places in national affairs--such a career as, half a century ago, engaged the talents and aspirations of ten times as many eager and capable young men as now think it worth consideration. the fact is an ugly one and not creditable to the quality of our national growth.
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but for horace hardaker in this present case the spurrings of ambition were only an added incentive. his conviction was profound that slavery was an evil and the fugitive slave act a monstrous law and his desire to oppose either or both or anything that tended to strengthen the institution of slavery amounted to a passion. and, in addition to these motives, his intimate friendship with dr. ware and his love for rhoda incited him to exert himself to the utmost in her defense.
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“i hope it will, rhoda,” he replied, “but i’m doubtful if it will do you any good. your violation of the law was open and flagrant and we don’t want to deny it or attempt to mitigate it in the least.”
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“indeed we don’t.”
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“the decision in the case, then, will depend entirely on the political sympathies of the jury, and the other side is not likely to allow any man on it who has anti-slavery convictions. it would be a victory worth while, rhoda, if i could get you off! not only for you, which would gratify me enough, but for the anti-slavery cause! to have conviction refused in a case as bare-faced as this would be a big blow toward making the fugitive slave law a dead letter!”
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“if i could think,” said rhoda earnestly, “that any act of mine would help to bring that about, i’d be willing to undergo this all over again.”
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he looked at her admiringly and drew his chair nearer, as he said: “well, you can rest assured that your attempt to help mary ellen is having important results. and the waves are spreading out and getting bigger, rhoda!” another hitch brought his chair still closer.
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“i’m glad of that, and i want you to remember, horace, when you are making your speech, that you are not to consider me or my sentence at all. say the thing that will help toward what we all want. don’t think about me--just think about mary ellen and what she was willing to undergo, and all the rest of those poor black creatures that are longing so for their freedom.”
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his chair was beside hers now and he was seizing her hand. “rhoda! not think about you! how can i help it? don’t you know i’m always thinking about you and always hoping that some day you’ll think better about what i’ve been hoping for so long? isn’t there any chance, any prospect of a chance, for me yet?”
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she laid her free hand upon his two that were clasping hers. “i’m sorry, horace! you know how much i like you, how much i prize your friendship--but you are like a dear brother to me, horace, and i can’t think of you any other way!”
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“but isn’t it possible that sometime--don’t you think, rhoda, that after a while you’ll learn to like me the other way too? you know what i am, you know how much i love you--won’t my heart’s love draw yours, after a while?”
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she shook her head and drew her hands away. “no, horace, there isn’t any hope, not the least in the world. and i wish, dear horace, i wish you would put it quite out of your mind. don’t waste any more time thinking about me. there is many a nice girl who would make you a good wife, and i do wish, horace, for your own sake, you would fall in love with one and marry her.”
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he looked at her searchingly. “when a girl talks that way she really means it.”
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“you know i mean it, horace.”
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“i mean, rhoda, that she knows her own heart, clear through, and feels sure about it.”
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“that’s the way i know mine,” she answered softly.
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he seized her hand again as he exclaimed, “does that mean, rhoda, that there is some one else and that your heart is full already?”
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“yes, horace. it means that i love some one else so deeply that i can never have a love thought for any other man. i love him with all my heart, although i don’t suppose i shall ever marry him. but i shall never marry any one else, and i could no more think of you or any one else with the kind of love you want than i could if i were his wife.”
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there was something like reverence in the gesture with which he put down her hand. “then that is the end of it for me, rhoda. would you mind telling me, is it that”--he paused an instant, supplying mentally the adjective with which he usually thought of rhoda’s lover--“slaveholder, delavan, from kentucky?”
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he rose and took up his hat. “if that’s the way it is with you,” he began, then stopped, looking fixedly. “poor girl!” he went on, resting his hand lightly for an instant upon her head. “you ought to have had a happier fate!”
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“it’s as good as i deserve, horace,” she replied cheerfully. then her face lighted with the glow that had been in her heart since delavan’s visit, and she went on: “and it might have been so much worse!”
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that same glow, as of profound inward happiness, was upon her countenance the next day as she sat in the court room. on one side of her was her father and on the other sat rachel benedict, with wrinkled hands primly folded in the lap of her plain gray gown, her kindly, bright old eyes and sweet smile bent now and then upon her young friend as she whispered some encouraging word. behind her were mrs. hardaker and marcia kimball and other friends from the hillside female anti-slavery society.
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in the back of the room, throughout the trial, sat jefferson delavan. he was always in his place in the same seat, when she entered, and their eyes would meet once and a faint smile play around her lips for an instant. then she would not look again in his direction, but her face kept always its glow of inward happiness.
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horace hardaker sat with his gaze moodily fixed upon delavan’s dark head. jeff’s eyes were upon rhoda’s face and hardaker felt resentfully that within their depths must lie some hint of the lover’s yearning. it was almost time for him to begin his address. but his thoughts were not upon what he was about to say nor upon how he could most move the jury. instead they were busy, with indignant wonder, upon how “that damned slaveholder” had contrived to win the rich and undying love of such a girl as rhoda ware.
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for the way of a man with a maid is always a sealed book to other men. a woman can guess, or she knows instinctively, how and why another woman has won a man’s love. but the side of a man’s nature with which he does his wooing is so different from any manifestation of himself that he makes among his fellows that to them it is an unknown land. therefore they are inclined to be skeptical as to its attractiveness.
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but hardaker was much more than skeptical. he was irritated, and even angry, that “such a man as that” should have dared to think himself worthy of rhoda’s love. and when he presently rose to address the jury the rankling in his heart lent sharper vigor to every thrust he made against the slave power and put into his tones a savage indignation as, with eyes fixed upon delavan’s face, he thundered his indictments.
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an audience of character and intelligence crowded the court room to the doors, while outside, in the hall and around the windows people stood on benches, listening intently, for hours at a time. from all over the county, from surrounding counties, and from as far away as cleveland, men of substance and of prominence had left their homes and business and journeyed hither to listen to the proceedings and to testify by their presence their sympathy with the defense.
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but the pro-slavery side also had its representatives, although in the minority, who were of equal consequence and standing. it was such an audience as would gratify any attorney, wishing to influence the community as well as the jury.
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as he rose for his address hardaker presented a manly, attractive figure and a vigorous, almost a magnetic, personality. sweeping the court room with his eyes, he waited for a moment and then began with a couplet from a popular anti-slavery song, a song that had roused the echoes in thousands of enthusiastic gatherings, all over the north. no one within the reach of his voice needed any explanation of its meaning:
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“’tis the law of god in the human soul, ’tis the law in the word divine.”
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he quoted the injunction of the mosaic law against the returning of an escaped servant and the commands of the new testament for the succor of the oppressed, and in vivid language set them forth as the law of the divine word, the command of god, and therefore infinitely more binding upon men and women who believed in god and accepted the bible as his word than any law made by man in defiance of the almighty’s command. in a voice that gave full value to its pathetic appeal he told the story of mary ellen’s heroic endeavor to escape from bondage and a fate “like unto the fires of hell.” then he called upon the fathers and mothers of all young girls to tell him if the command of christ, “do unto others as you would that others do unto you,” had lost all its meaning, if humanity, christianity, fatherhood--even ordinary manhood--no longer felt its force. following the precedent set by a number of lawyers of wide reputation he analyzed the relation of the fugitive slave act to the constitution and concluded that it violated the rights guaranteed by the basic law of the country, and therefore, since it was unconstitutional, to disregard its provisions was not unlawful and his client had committed no crime.
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“this law was passed at the behest of the slave power,” he declared. “it was conceived in iniquity, the iniquity of the south’s determination to put upon slavery the seal of national approval; it was begotten in corruption, the corruption of compromise and bargain; and it was born in the dastardly willingness of misrepresentatives of the people to truckle to southern arrogance and betray the convictions and the conscience of the north.
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“shall we then, free men and women of ohio, betrayed as we have been and misrepresented as we are by this so-called law, be expected to cast aside the commands of christianity and the obligations of common brotherhood, transform ourselves into bloodhounds to chase the panting fugitive and send him back to his chains and, as in this case, to such a hell of lust and vice as all decent manhood and womanhood must shudder at? in the name of all that humanity holds sacred, i answer, no! a thousand times, no!
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“the learned counsel for the prosecution has seen fit to sneer at our belief in the higher law,” hardaker went on, with body erect and hand upraised, his full, melodious, resonant voice filling the court room and the corridors and carrying his words even into the street. “i answer that that law has my entire allegiance and that i stand here to defend and uphold it and to demand the rights of those who feel bound, as i do, by its commands. i feel assured, and you well know, gentlemen of the jury, that i voice the sentiments of thousands upon thousands of christ-loving and god-fearing men and women when i say that if any fleeing bondman comes to me in need of help, protection, and means of flight, so help me the living god in my hour of greatest need, he shall have them all, even to the last drop of my life’s blood!”
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like the sudden upburst of a volcano, the court room broke into resounding applause. men sprang to their feet, swung their hats and cheered. women stood upon benches, waved handkerchiefs and clapped their hands. the rapping of the judge’s gavel and the cries of the officers for “order in the court” were drowned in the uproar and hardly reached even their own ears. then the sharp insistence of hisses began to be heard. jefferson delavan, who had been listening with hands clenched, frowning brows and angry eyes, added his voice to the sounds of disapproval. for a few minutes the tumult continued, and then, at the judge’s order, the court officers began forcing the people out.
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they poured into the street and organized a mass-meeting in the square in front of the court house. numbers of men came running from all directions and while the meeting was in progress word filtered out that the jury had found the prisoner guilty and the judge’s sentence had imposed a fine of one thousand dollars and costs and imprisonment for thirty days.
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resolutions were at once passed denouncing the judge and deciding, “since the courts no longer dispensed justice,” to proceed to the jail, liberate the other prisoners and protect them from the operations of “an outrageously unjust and tyrannous enactment.”
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delavan, looking on at the outskirts of the gathering, heard the resolutions. he knew that rhoda would soon be conducted back to her quarters in the jail and he ran thither, hoping to arrive before the crowd of rescuers. in custody of the marshal she had just reached the jail entrance.
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“rhoda!” he exclaimed. “you are in danger here! a mob is coming to break in the doors. marshal, bring her with me, so we can find a place of safety for her.”
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she drew herself up and looked at him with the same pale face and brilliant eyes with which in the woods, so long ago, she had opposed his quest for his fugitive slave. scarcely she seemed the same being who, only a few days before, had almost trembled into his embrace.
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“no,” she said slowly, “these are my people and with them is where i belong. this is where your law has sent me and while i am in its power i want no place of safety. marshal, take me in!”
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the marshal was doubtful, asked delavan what he meant and what he purposed to do, and while he hesitated the mob came rushing up the street and his only course was to hurry inside with her and bar the door.
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the mass of men surged against the jail entrance and with pieces of timber and bars of iron soon forced their way in. then they trooped through the building, sweeping along all the prisoners who were awaiting trial under the fugitive slave law. they urged rhoda to walk out into freedom and defiance of her sentence. but she smilingly shook her head and told them:
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“no, thank you. it’s better to serve out my sentence, and then i’ll be free to defy the law again in my own way.”
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exultantly the throng poured out into the street again with the prisoners, and faced two companies of militia, ready to fire. even the hottest heads among them paused at this and after some parleying they agreed to disperse and allow the men to be taken back to confinement.
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among those awaiting trial for aiding in mary ellen’s rescue and escape were the pastor of the leading presbyterian church in the town, the superintendent of a methodist sunday school, a professor from oberlin college who had happened to be in the place on that day, a merchant, two lawyers and a physician, together with some clerks, laboring men, a farmer and several free negroes. the day following the conclusion of rhoda’s trial was sunday, and the presbyterian minister preached from the jail yard to a large concourse of people who stood for two hours in a biting wind, for it was now well on in the winter, listening with the closest attention. the sermon, which was mainly an anti-slavery address, added fuel to the already flaming excitement.
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meetings were held and bands of men began to organize and arm themselves. militia guarded the jail night and day. the pro-slavery sympathizers, though in the minority in this region, yet made up a considerable share of the populace, and, angered and uneasy, they also began to prepare for whatever might happen. to hints that the fugitive slave law prisoners might yet be delivered from jail they retaliated with threats that those of their own party who were under durance for infraction of state laws should no longer suffer imprisonment.
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so acute did the situation become that governor chase hurried to washington to consult with president buchanan, assuring him that while he intended to support the federal government, as long as its authority was exercised legitimately, nevertheless he felt it his duty to protect the state officials and the state courts and that this should be done, though it took every man in the state to do it.
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finally, a compromise was arranged by which the federal government dropped the remaining prosecutions for the escape of mary ellen and released the prisoners, while the state authorities dismissed the suits against the slave trader’s agent and his companion and the members of the marshal’s posse.
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the episode was amicably settled, but the flames of contention had been so fed by it that they mounted higher and higher. meetings continued to be held all over those portions of the state where anti-slavery sentiment was strong. they culminated, soon after rhoda’s release, in an immense mass-convention at cleveland attended by many thousand people and addressed by public men of distinction, where, amid the greatest enthusiasm, resolutions were passed denouncing the dred scott decision and declaring the fugitive slave act unconstitutional and therefore void.
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in the pocket of the dress she had worn on the day of her arrest rhoda chanced to find, soon after this convention, charlotte’s note telling of her engagement. she smiled soberly as she thought of all the consequences that had resulted from this manifestation of her sister’s puckish spirit.
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“if she hadn’t misled me this way,” rhoda’s thoughts ran, “i wouldn’t have forgotten about everything else the way i did for a few minutes, and i would have kept watch of mary ellen and made her keep her veil down, and then that man wouldn’t have recognized her, and we’d have gone right on and nothing would have happened!”
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rhoda’s trial aroused the keenest interest all over the north. but it was an interest that cared only for principles. the personalities of those engaged in the matter were of the slightest consequence. everywhere, in newspapers and in conversation, there was discussion of the affair, and of the consequences to which it might lead. but the people concerned in it were only so many cogs in a mighty wheel of fate, turning resistlessly, and ever about to bring into the present, out of the unknown future, no man could tell what.
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to the south and its northern sympathizers the whole affair was irritating and alarming in high degree. democratic newspapers and their readers declared the attitude of “chase and his abolition crew” to be equivalent to a declaration of war against the united states and welcomed the prospect, while the compromise by which the difficulty was finally settled they described with bitterness as “another triumph” for the creed of the “traitorous higher law with its open sanction of treason and rebellion.”
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but there was one element in the north to whom rhoda ware’s share in these events was not a matter of indifference. in the eyes of the abolitionists she was a martyr to the cause to which they were zealously devoted and during the month in which she served out her sentence letters poured in upon her containing money for the payment of her fine and warm words of praise. the female anti-slavery society of hillside sent her the whole of their small store, saying, “we shall be proud to share even so little in the martyrdom of our beloved president.” rhoda wept over it, knowing well at what cost of personal sacrifice the little hoard had been gathered. but she knew, too, that to beg them to take back their offering would be to stab their very hearts. other anti-slavery societies in ohio and elsewhere sent contributions. there were checks from rich men in new york, new england and pennsylvania, whose purses were always open for the anti-slavery cause and whose custom it was to give brotherly encouragement to underground operators who fell into the toils of the fugitive slave act by helping to pay their fines. the amount in which rhoda had been mulcted was entirely paid, as was the assessment in many another case, by these enthusiastic co-workers.
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most precious to her, however, were the letters which came from abolitionists all over the country with their words of praise, sympathy, encouragement and hope. many of them were from men and women whose names will be found in the pages of american history as long as the conflict over slavery holds a place therein. long afterward, when many years of peace had enabled all the people of the land to look back with calm philosophy upon those heated years of contention, and the impartial muse of history had given to the underground railroad a high place among the causes which brought on the civil war and abolished servitude, rhoda ware held these letters among her most prized mementos of those stirring days of which she was a part.
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the lilac bushes were again in bud and rhoda ware was looking at them, pulling down here and there a tall one to see if it was not farther advanced than the rest, and reckoning how soon they would burst into flower, when she saw a tall, erect old man enter the gate. he came up the walk with a peculiar directness of manner, as of one accustomed to go forward with eyes and will upon a single aim. as he approached and asked for dr. ware, rhoda saw in his face something of that same quality of underlying sternness, a sternness expressive rather of uncompromising moral sense than of severity of feeling or of judgment, that marked her father’s countenance. his silver-white beard, long and full, lent to this austereness a patriarchal dignity.
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she took him to her father’s door, but dr. ware was engaged with a patient. the stranger asked if it were not she who had been concerned, the previous autumn, in the escape of the slave girl, lear white, and they talked of that affair and of the consequences to which it led. she felt a magnetic quality in his grave and mellow tones, and in the steady gaze of his deep-set eyes, alert, luminous, penetrating, she was conscious of that compelling force that lies in the look of all men able to impress themselves upon others. presently he told her who he was and she thrilled as she heard him speak the words, “captain john brown, of kansas.”
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“my father and i have spoken of you often, captain brown,” she said, her eyes and face lighting with the admiration which abolitionists felt for the man whom already they regarded as a hero.
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“yes. we have known each other for many years, and we have been agreed about slavery since a time when there were so few of us that we all felt as brothers.”
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she had many questions to ask of matters in kansas, where, she found, he knew the husband of her friend, julia hammerton. as they talked she saw presently that his eyes were fixed upon bully brooks, who, in full grown feline dignity, was sunning himself on the veranda. the cat’s air of complacent ease disappeared and, after some worried movements, it suddenly sprang up with arched back and swelling tail, spat its displeasure and ran away. charlotte, coming in at the east gate, saw her pet’s performance and shot a questioning glance at rhoda and the stranger as she passed them.
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a little later, when her father had taken captain brown into his office, rhoda found charlotte with bully brooks in her lap, alternately soothing his ruffled dignity and stirring him to angry protest.
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“rhoda, who is that horrid old man?” she demanded.
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“why do you call him horrid? he is the finest, noblest-looking old man i’ve ever seen, and his character is as noble as his appearance.”
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“oh, la! i asked you who he is.”
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rhoda hesitated, considering whether or not it would be prudent to let charlotte know the identity of her father’s visitor. for there was much pro-southern sentiment in hillside and, although john brown was not yet an outlaw with a price on his head, he was detested and considered an active enemy by all friends of the south. charlotte noted her pause and bent upon her a keen gaze. apparently rhoda did not want to tell her who he was and therefore it became at once an urgent necessity for her to find out. rhoda felt those intent brown eyes studying her face and decided it would be better not to give her sister reason for suspecting any mystery.
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“i suppose he’s some old nigger-stealer,” charlotte was saying, still watching rhoda’s expression, “and that’s why you think he’s such a noble character. lloyd thinks, and so do i, that nigger-stealing ought to be punished by hanging.”
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rhoda smiled at her. “would my little sister like to see me hanging from a limb of that maple tree yonder?”
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“but you’d quit if you knew you were going to be hung for it.”
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“no, i wouldn’t.”
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charlotte regarded her with wide eyes. in her secret heart she was beginning to feel not a little awe of this quiet elder sister upon whose countenance she sometimes surprised a look of exaltation. and therefore, to save her own sense of dignity, immensely increased by the prospect of her marriage, she had taken refuge in a patronizing manner.
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“of course you would,” she said, with a superior air and a toss of her pretty head. “you say that just to brave it out. has old mr. white-beard come to help you make plans to get arrested again?”
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“no. he wanted to see father.”
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“oh, well! who is he? john brown, or horace greeley, or governor chase? one of them is as bad as another and they’re all tarred with the same brush.”
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“which do you think?” asked rhoda calmly.
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charlotte leaned forward, all eagerness, her intuitions, as they so often did, flashing straight to the truth. “not john brown?” she ejaculated. rhoda nodded, and charlotte drew back with a little gasp and then seized the cat in her lap with extravagant exclamations of pride and affection.
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“my precious bully brooks! you knew who he was, didn’t you, and you told him what you thought of him! he’s a regular old ogre, rhoda, and bully brooks felt it, didn’t you, you darling cat! and you shall go with charlotte, when she’s married, to corey’s hall, so you shall, where there won’t be any nigger-stealers to make you angry.”
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rhoda looked on with amusement. not even yet, although charlotte’s wedding day was fast approaching, could she think of her sister as other than a merry sprite, a spoiled child, of whom it would be too much to expect the sense of ordinary responsibilities. but now a feeling of uneasiness grew upon her, and when presently both rose to go into the house she said:
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“by the way, sister, please remember that it is not necessary for you to tell any one about captain brown’s being here, either now or after he has gone.”
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charlotte tilted her chin saucily and laughed. “don’t you know, rhoda, that i never make promises--except for the fun of breaking them? besides, i’m a southerner now.”
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rhoda laid her hand gently upon the other’s shoulder. “stop, sister. this is a serious matter. i can’t forget that once you played the traitor--pardon me, there is no other word for it, although i don’t think you meant it that way--but it was the traitor to father and to me. you know how much father loves you and how he’ll miss you after you’re married. do you want to make him feel so much safer then that he can’t help being glad you’re gone?”
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it was a new experience for even rhoda to take her reckless audacities with so much seriousness, and she looked up wonderingly, at first with pouting and then with trembling lips. “i don’t see why you want to make me so unhappy at home, when i’m soon going to leave it,” she sobbed. “do you want to make me hate my home and be glad to go away?”
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rhoda longed to take the dainty, drooping little figure into her arms and speak words of soothing. but she held to her purpose. “do you want to make father, who loves you so much, glad to have you go away?”
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charlotte stamped her foot. “of course i don’t!” she exclaimed, her fists in her eyes. “and you’re perfectly horrid to say such things!”
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at once rhoda gave way to compassion, for she felt that she had gained her point. she drew her sister within her arm, patting her shoulder and kissing her forehead. “there, there, dear! never mind. i only wanted to make sure we could trust you.”
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in the afternoon when dr. ware was ready to make his round of visits, he asked rhoda to go with him upon a trip he had to make into the country. as they drove through the glistening young spring he told her of his conversation with his morning’s visitor.
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“captain brown gave me permission to talk it over with you,” he said. “i assured him you could be trusted.” rhoda’s heart swelled with pleasure at her father’s words and at the matter-of-fact way in which he spoke them, for both words and manner made her know how habitual with him their companionship had become.
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“i’ve known him for a good many years,” dr. ware went on, “and i’ve always believed that some day he’d strike a big blow, square on slavery’s head, do some big thing that would help immensely to get rid of it. for a man of brown’s intelligence, character and personality can’t live half his lifetime absorbed by one idea without making something happen. he and i agree on one point, that slavery can be wiped out only by violence. we both see that its roots have gone so deep that to pull them up will make a terrible upheaval. he hasn’t the faith that i have, hasn’t any, in fact, in political measures and the republican party. he doesn’t believe, as i do, that all this is helping to keep the roots from spreading and getting stronger, and that it will make our victory quicker and easier, when the time for violence does come.
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“he thinks that time is nearly here and that he is going to bring it about. he proposes to establish himself, before long, somewhere along the free-state border, with a band of picked followers, drilled in arms, and gather into his fortified camp all the negroes from the near-by plantations. such of these as wish to go to canada will be passed on by the underground, while those who prefer will stay with him and help gather in more slaves from greater distances. as the success of his forays becomes known he thinks that other men will join him from all over the north, until his army, increased also by daring spirits from among the fugitive slaves, will be so large and formidable and slave property be made so insecure that slavery will collapse like the shell of a ruined house.”
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rhoda’s cheeks were flushed and her eyes shining. “what a daring scheme, father! do you think it will succeed?”
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dr. ware smiled doubtfully and shook his head. “i don’t think he can carry it through to the end he feels sure of, and i told him so this morning. but his heart is set on it. he has been slowly maturing the plan for twenty-five years, and has even made a tour of the great battlefields and important fortifications of europe, studying them in the light of this purpose. it seems to me impossible that he can succeed. but he’ll scare the south out of its wits and make it angrier and more determined than ever, and that will be a good thing. with the rising tide of public opinion in the north, it will bring the clash that’s bound to come a big notch nearer.”
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“did he want you to join him, father?”
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“yes. i knew about his plan--we’ve talked of it before. i have so much faith in the power of the one-ideaed man to achieve things that i’ve always told him he could call on me for any help it was in my power to give. i’ve contributed what i could to his kansas campaign, and i gave him this morning for this scheme all i could spare. i told him, too,” dr. ware hesitated a little over his words now, “that i might join him in person somewhat later, if his first attempts prove successful, and that perhaps you would come too. for with your knowledge of nursing you would be useful. do you think you would care to throw yourself into such a scheme as his, full of danger and sure to fail, but likely to deliver an effective blow?”
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his eyes were upon her, clear and calm as usual, but brilliant now with the fires of zeal. as they searched her face her own looked back at him, as glowing with zeal as his. “you know i would, father--you did right to tell him so. i’m always ready to go anywhere or do anything that will help our cause. but--mother--what about mother?”
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he shook his head sadly and turned away. “your mother, rhoda, is incurably ill. she cannot be with us much longer. i had her consult two physicians in cincinnati on her way home from fairmount, and they both told her it is only a question of time.”
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“oh, father! can’t we do anything for her? why didn’t you tell me before?”
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“there is nothing we can do but make her as comfortable and care free as possible while she is with us. i didn’t tell you before because she didn’t want you to know about it until after charlotte’s wedding, and she doesn’t want charlotte to know it at all. she wants everything to be as cheerful and happy as possible while charlotte is here. please don’t let her guess that you know.”
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charlotte was to be married in may, and during the remaining weeks of that time rhoda watched her mother with anxious and loving care, taking upon herself, as mrs. ware seemed willing to relinquish it, every household responsibility, and noted with aching heart the wasting of her face and figure.
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“i believe she is just keeping up by her will power,” rhoda said to dr. ware, “so that there shall be nothing to make charlotte unhappy during her last weeks at home.”
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“yes,” assented her father, “she wants charlotte to remember the months of her engagement as the happiest time in her life. we must be prepared for a reaction after it is all over.”
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after rhoda’s trial and imprisonment no mention of that matter was ever made between her and her mother. when she returned home mrs. ware received her with the utmost love and tenderness, but without the least reference to the reasons for her absence. in neither words nor manner did she recognize that that absence had been anything other than an ordinary social visit and if it had to be spoken of she referred to it merely as the time “when you were away.”
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so, now, she made no sign to either her husband or her daughter that she had any knowledge of the underground activities in which they were engaged or of the fugitive slaves who were sheltered in the house. rhoda was never able to guess whether she knew much or little of what went on under her roof nor whether or not she resented it or was grieved by it. but the girl’s heart ached constantly with sympathy for what she felt must be her mother’s pain.
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her compassion and sorrow, however, did not lead her to consider for a moment the idea of giving up the work. rather, they inspired her to greater zeal, in both thought and action, and to more intense desire to aid in the destruction of slavery. for, in her mind, whatever grief her mother felt, whatever alienation there was between them, were among the evil results of the slave system, just as was the division between her and jefferson delavan, and the only way of rightfully fully meeting them was to attack their cause.
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at the wedding rhoda was bridesmaid and delavan was groomsman. as she saw her mother’s eyes fixed wistfully upon them she felt fresh twinges of self-reproach. she knew the deep pleasure that charlotte’s marriage to a southerner had brought to the ailing woman, and she knew that this would be as nothing beside her satisfaction and delight could she see her other daughter united in marriage to the son of her old friend. could it be, after all, rhoda began to ask herself, that here was where her highest duty lay? ought she, at whatever cost to herself, make happy her mother’s last days?
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it seemed to rhoda that everything conspired, throughout the wedding festivities, to bring her and delavan alone together, although she knew that they were both trying to avoid such meetings. but he forebore to speak of love, and afterward the merry friendliness of these brief occasions, just touched as they were with the fragrance of intimacy, were among her dearest memories.
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when he bade her good-by she felt the lover in his manner and his voice as he said: “it has been two years, rhoda, but i shall wait two years more, and ten times that, before i give up hope of our wedding!”
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rhoda looked at him with her flashing smile, that lifting of her short upper lip and trembling at its corners and lighting of her eyes, which always sent through his veins a fresh thrill of love, and answered: “oh, jeff! what a long time to prepare for a wedding in!”
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after it was all over mrs. ware failed rapidly. rhoda watched her wasting cheeks and growing feebleness with an agony of compassion and constant tumultuous questioning of herself. her mother had not spoken to her for a long time about delavan’s suit, but she knew that the wish was gathering strength in her breast as she came nearer and nearer to death’s door. rhoda felt it in the wistful look with which the brown eyes, grown so large and childlike in the peaked face, followed her about the room. it spoke to her in the plaintive appeal of the soft southern voice and it pulled mightily at her heartstrings in the clinging to hers of the thin hands, a little while ago so plump and fair.
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with her own heart playing traitor, as it always did with every weakening of her resolution, with love and compassion for the invalid pleading incessantly, with a remorse-wrung conscience recalling every hurt she had ever given to her mother and urging that she ought to salve those many wounds with this final atonement, the torment of it became almost greater than she could bear.
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one day she found her father alone in his office and, impelled by her distraught heart, she forgot her usual restraints, flung herself on her knees beside his chair and laid her face against his knee.
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“oh, father,” she begged, “help me to see what i ought to do! i know mother wants me to marry jeff--she doesn’t say a word about it, but i feel all the time that it is making her last days full of sorrow. it seems to me sometimes that i can’t stand it another minute, that i must give up, because it will make her happy. would it help her, father, if i did?”
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dr. ware laid his hand upon her shoulder. even in her wretchedness the action gave her a little thrill of pleasure, for it was nearer a caress than she could remember he had ever given her.
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“nothing can help your mother now, child. with her, it is a matter of a few months, or weeks, or, perhaps, even days. it would make her happy for that little time--i know it as well as you do. you could feel that you had enabled her to end her days in peace. but whether or not you ought to sacrifice your sense of right to your sense of duty to her is something that only you can decide.”
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“i know it, father,” she answered in low tones as she rose to her feet and wiped the tears from her eyes.
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she went out into the yard, gay with the luxuriant blooms of early summer. the white petunias sent up their fragrance and the memories it brought pierced her very heart with poignant sweetness. she went on into the grape arbor and sat down in its cool shadows, asking herself why it was that she could keep her own soul clean only at the expense of another’s happiness.
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“my happiness, jeff’s happiness,” she thought, “they are of our own making and we can choose our own conditions. but mother, poor, dear, little mother, so sick, with such a little while to live, and her happiness so bound up in this! and if i do it i shall feel all my life that it was wrong, that my soul isn’t clean. oh, mother, how can i become a part of this abomination of slavery, this vile, accursed thing! i’d be glad to die, a hundred times over, for you--but to live and be a part of such wickedness-- oh, mother, how can i? how can i?”
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the end came sooner than they expected. on a hot afternoon in midsummer, when the late, red rays of the sun, shining through the half-closed shutters, lay in bands across the floor, mrs. ware called rhoda. “come close, honey, down beside me,” she said, and rhoda knelt at the bedside. her mother slipped a feeble arm around her neck.
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“you’ve been a dear, loving daughter to me,” she said, “even if we’ve thought so differently about some things. you are like your father, rhoda, and that has always been a pleasure to me. you’ve wanted to make me happy, just as he always has, and in almost everything you have. no mother ever had a better, dearer daughter than you, honey.”
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“oh, mother,” rhoda exclaimed, the tears welling into her eyes, for in the pale, pitiful face she saw the shadow of the death angel’s wing and felt his near approach in the chill that struck into her own breast. “dear mother, i’ve never done half enough for you, never been half as good and loving to you as you deserved!”
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“always you have, dear, except in one thing. you know how much for two years i’ve wanted you to marry adeline’s son, dear jeff. and you would not. i haven’t much longer to live, and if you want to make my deathbed happy promise me that you will. oh, rhoda, send for jeff and marry him here beside my bed and have your dying mother’s blessing!”
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rhoda was sobbing with her face upon her mother’s shoulder. “dearest mother,” she pleaded, “don’t ask that of me.”
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“it’s the only thing in all the world that i want, honey. you love jeff, and he adores you, and i know that you’ll be happy together, if you’ll only give up that nonsensical idea that has taken possession of you. it’s your happiness that i want, rhoda, yours and jeff’s. and i know, oh, so much better than you do, what makes a woman happy. i can’t die feeling that i have done my duty to my little girl and made sure of her happiness, unless she will promise me this. will you do it, rhoda?”
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“let me be the judge of my happiness, mother, as you were the judge of yours!”
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“your mother knows best, child! take her word for it, and let her bless you with her last breath, as you’ll always bless her if you do. it’s the last thing she’ll ever ask of you.”
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the invalid’s tones were growing weaker and something querulous sounded in them as she repeated, “promise me, rhoda, promise!”
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the linked hands upon rhoda’s neck loosened their hold and the tired arms slipped down. she bowed her head upon her mother’s breast as she sobbed, “let me think for a minute, mother, dear! it breaks my heart not to do what you want!”
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“it breaks mine, rhoda, that you don’t. oh, honey, let me die in peace and happiness! promise me that you’ll marry jeff!”
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rhoda saw that her father had entered the room and was standing at her side. she sprang to her feet, threw her arms about his neck and with her head upon his shoulder burst into a passion of tears.
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“father, tell me what to do!” she wailed.
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his arms were about her, his face upon her hair, and his tears were mingling with hers. in that supreme moment of grief, compassion and struggle the icy barriers that had kept their hearts apart melted away and they clung together in their common despair, groping through their sobs for the right thing to say and do.
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suddenly they were startled by a gay little laugh from the bed. “you’ve come at last, have you, adeline, dearest! how late you are!” the dying woman exclaimed, holding out her hands in welcome. from her face the shadow had passed and in its place shone a girlish happiness. she was back again among the friends of her youth, chatting and laughing with “dearest adeline,” and calling upon “mammy” to do this and that. and so, babbling of her girlhood’s pleasures, she passed into the dark beyond.
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during the late summer and autumn of that year rhoda and her father and their friends watched with the keenest interest, as did people all over the country, the struggle in illinois between lincoln and douglas. in the cincinnati and new york papers they read the speeches, printed at length, of both the aspirants for senatorial honors, and on many an evening, gathered on the veranda of the ware home or, after the evenings grew cool, around the fireplace in the living-room, they discussed all the features of that famous intellectual wrestling match.
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horace hardaker had been nominated for congress by the republican party and was conducting a vigorous campaign. nevertheless, he found time to come frequently up the hill to dr. ware’s house for these talks. marcia kimball came also, at first with her brothers, but after a little rhoda observed that it was oftener with hardaker that she made her appearance and always upon his arm that she leaned when they went away. with an inward smile rhoda noticed too that horace, with apparent unconsciousness, began to address his conversation mainly toward marcia.
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“i don’t expect to be elected,” he said one evening, “that is, not this time. but i’m giving the ground a good, deep plowing, and there’ll be a different crop to reap two years from now.”
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his opponent, a douglas democrat, won the day, but by so narrow a margin that hardaker was almost as exultant as if he had been successful. “two years more of the way things are going now,” he declared, “and we’ll sweep the country!”
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“suppose you do, what good will it do?” said old mr. kimball. “your republican party expressly says it won’t interfere with slavery in the south.”
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“it will bring on a crisis,” interjected dr. ware, “and a crisis is exactly the thing we want. the south won’t stand a republican president. and when she tries to leave the union the upheaval will come.”
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“he’ll make marcia a good, loving husband,” she thought, “and with his talent and ambition he’ll succeed. oh, they’ll be happy, and i’m glad.”
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her eyes grew sad and the lines of her face drooped as she sat beside her window. and after a while she took out the little box with its treasure of letters and withered flower. she did not read the letters, of which there was now nearly a box full, but turned them over caressingly in her hands and now and then pressed one to her lips.
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rhoda was bridesmaid when horace and marcia were married in the early spring. “it’s your third time, isn’t it, dear,” said marcia as her friend draped about her shoulders the folds of her bridal veil. “i do hope it will be you yourself, next time!”
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“so do i, marcia!” said rhoda frankly, looking up with a smile. “there isn’t a girl anywhere who’d more willingly be a bride than i, if--if--if!”
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“rhoda, you’re the dearest, bravest girl!” cried marcia, squeezing her hand. “if i was in your place i’d be crying my eyes out instead of laughing like that!”
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“then i wouldn’t have you for my bridesmaid if you couldn’t give your eyes a rest that long,” rejoined rhoda gaily.
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spring and summer came and went, and for rhoda ware the weeks passed with uneventful flow. through their house there trickled a thin stream of slaves fleeing northward, sometimes half a dozen or more within a week and sometimes not more than one or two. the trouble and cost of recovering their runaway negroes, even when they were infrequently able to get possession of them again, had caused the southern slaveholders to give over their efforts. in these last years of the decade it was unusual for a fugitive to be pursued and therefore the traffic of the underground was carried on with little risk.
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rhoda busied herself with these duties, the ordering of her father’s household, her anti-slavery work and her reading. gradually the thought grew up in her breast that she would like to study medicine. she talked the matter over with her father and he offered, if she wished, to send her to one of the medical colleges that within a few years had been opened for women. but she would not leave him alone and so, under his guidance, she spent her leisure time reading in his medical library, discussing his cases with him, and often going with him upon his visits.
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“he is bound to come into collision with the federal government very soon,” said dr. ware to his daughter as they talked this letter over together. “of course he knows that will be the end of his enterprise and of him too.”
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“he won’t care,” answered rhoda, “what becomes of him if he can make just one thrust at slavery.”
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“that’s true. and the more i think of it the more i believe that even if he fails in his first attempt, as he is very likely to do, it will be a good strong thrust that will make the south fairly stagger. i told him i’d wait to see whether or not he made a beginning before i decided about joining him. but i doubt very much, rhoda, whether you and i will have a chance to work under john brown.”
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“i’ll be ready to go whenever you say the word, father,” she said with grave earnestness.
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now and then a letter passed between rhoda and jefferson delavan, a letter of intimate friendliness, telling of personal matters and mutual interests. once only did he touch upon the slavery question, which formerly they had argued with such earnestness, and then he filled a long letter with an endeavor to prove to her that the negro race had been benefited by slavery, that in taking it from its barbarous state and bringing it in contact with civilization the slaveholders had lifted it to a higher plane of moral and intellectual life.
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nor was there in their correspondence any mention of love, or of possible or impossible marriage. but toward the end of summer, when a little band of men was warily gathering in a maryland farmhouse, one of jeff’s letters set rhoda’s heart to fluttering. there was in it, save for some terms of endearment which seemed to have flowed unconsciously from his pen, no putting into words of a lover’s hopes. but she felt through every line the burning of the lover’s heart. and a few weeks later there came a brief note saying, “i shall be in hillside soon and shall count on seeing you.”
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for a day rhoda’s heart sang with joy, “he is coming, he is coming! i shall see him, have him here beside me!” and would listen to no warnings of her mind.
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then she wrote, “don’t come! i beg of you, jeff, don’t come! what is the use!” and lest her courage might fail her, she quickly sealed and posted her missive.
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but when the october woods were bright with flaming color, and the little band of men in the maryland farmhouse were waiting for the order to march, and rhoda and her father were saying to each other every morning, “there may be news to-day,” jefferson delavan appeared at her door.
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“i told you not to come!” she said, and gave him her hand, while face and eyes belied the meaning of her words. his heart gladdened at their sweet shining as he held her hand in both of his and answered, “and i disobeyed--because i couldn’t help it.” then, for a moment, their starving, delighted gaze fed upon each other’s eyes, until rhoda suddenly felt that he was about to break into lover’s speech. impulsively she laid a finger across his lips. he seized and held it there while she exclaimed:
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“don’t speak, jeff, don’t say anything. it’s such a lovely day--the hills are so beautiful--let’s have a ride together!”
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he agreed, glad of anything that would insure her presence near him, and they were soon galloping over country roads and across the wooded hills, brilliant in the gala robes with which nature celebrates her thanksgiving for another year of sun and life and growth.
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as they rode, the motion and the wine-like air and the joy in her heart lifted rhoda into exultant mood, deepened the wild rose-bloom in her cheeks and kindled her serious eyes into sparkling gaiety. “let me have this little time!” her heart pleaded. “it may be the last. after that has happened he may never come again!”
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and so, with thrilling nerves and singing heart, the cavalier in her breast dominated the puritan and sent to the four winds warnings of conscience and thought of to-morrow. forgotten was the safety of the three fugitive slaves, at that moment hiding in her cellar, forgotten the fateful thing for whose birth in the virginia mountains she had been waiting, cast away from her mind was all thought of the anti-slavery contest, nor was there room in her heart for zeal in its cause. she was mere woman, loving and beloved, and glorying inwardly in her power over her lover. her cavalier inheritance took possession of her and bade her snatch the pleasure of the hour. her father’s offspring dwindled away into the smallest recesses of her nature and it was her mother’s daughter who sat in the saddle, slender and graceful, and with starry eye and alluring smile kindled fresh fires in her lover’s breast.
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with pride and pleasure she saw them burning in his face and eyes as he drew beside her and murmured, “rhoda, you are so beautiful!” her mirror had told her many times, and she had agreed in its verdict, that she was not beautiful. and so all the more precious to her was this tribute of love, and more than once did she win it, as they rode and rode, during the long afternoon.
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a sudden memory came of the tale of courtship her mother had told to her and jeff, on that june night so long ago, and across her mind’s eye there flitted the vision she had often called up, of the pretty, wilful girl and the resolute young man with his hand on her bridle, galloping, galloping-- “and that was love--and this is love, and it is mine!” her heart sang. quickly her brain flashed back the question, “would i yield, as mother did, if--if--if--” and the cavalier in her heart sang back, exulting, “i would! i would!”
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on their way home they came to an old wood road and turned into it from the cross-country way upon which they had been galloping. checking their horses they rode slowly down the brilliant avenue of gold and russet and crimson, talking, now earnestly, now gaily, upon one or another of the multitude of things, personal and impersonal, which to lovers can bourgeon instantly into matters of moment and interest by the mere fact of mention in the loved one’s voice. gradually the road dwindled away and they came upon steeper hills and a rocky surface. but rhoda knew where they were and said that by turning sharply to the eastward they could gain the high road. dismounting they led their horses across the hills, the fallen autumnal glories billowing beneath their feet.
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already rhoda’s mood had begun to sober. the puritan was claiming his own again. down that wood road she had driven her buggy, on a winter day, to bring out the fugitive negro lad whom she had sent flying to the cave for safety from the pursuing marshal. they passed the cave itself, where, more than three years previous, she had hidden the mulatto, running for the freedom dearer than life from this very man who was bending near her now with ardent looks of love. she shivered a little as she remembered the slave’s sullen resolution, the pistol in his hand, and the tone in which he had said, “i won’t go back.” as jeff bent with loving solicitude to draw her wrap closer about her shoulders she was thinking, “and he said they were brothers.”
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they struck a path which climbed a steep hill, and when they came to a jutting rock delavan looked around him with sudden recollection. “why, i’ve been here before!” he exclaimed. “it was here i met you, dear, that day--don’t you remember? what a long time you have made me wait, sweetheart, for your promise!” his lover’s longing, made a hundredfold more imperious by the allurement there had been all the afternoon in her laugh, her voice, her smile, her lips, her eyes, her manner, would be put aside no longer, and he turned upon her with an impetuosity that would brook no protest.
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“do you, remember, dearest, the proof of my love i gave you that day? i’m ready to give you, here on this same spot, another proof, a thousand times greater! it will sweep away everything that keeps us apart, rhoda! everything!”
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she looked at him silently, sweet wonder parting her lips and shining starlike in her big gray eyes. her cheeks were paler now, with the ebbing of the exultant tide that had kept her all the afternoon on its crest. but to him this soft, subdued mood bespoke the sweetheart ready to tremble into his embrace and made her all the more adorable. he seized her hand and she let it lie in his close, warm grasp as he went on:
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“i have made up my mind to give up everything to our love. i will free all my niggers--for the sake of your dear conscience not one shall be sold--and see that they find places where they can earn their livings. then i will sell my property and we will put this country and its accursed contentions behind us. we will go to england, dear heart, or france, and live where there will come hardly an echo of all this strife to disturb our blessed content and happiness!”
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she dropped her eyes from his and for a long moment stood motionless while it seemed to her that her very heart stood still. with swift inner vision, like that of a drowning man, she saw those years of wedded life, long years of comradeship and love and deepest joy, with dear children growing up beside them, and her heart yearned toward its peace and happiness with such urgency that she dared not try to speak.
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“think, rhoda, dear,” he was pleading, “think of the quiet, blissful years that are waiting for us! our two hearts together, and nothing, nothing at all to come between them!”
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her very lips were pale with desire of it as she whispered: “i am thinking, and, oh, jeff, the thought of it, the joy of it, almost makes my heart stop beating. but have you thought, dear, dear jeff, what a sacrifice this will be for you? i know how much you love the south. would you never regret it, never wish to come back and throw yourself into her service? if that should happen, it would be the end of happiness for us both, for i should know it--our hearts would be so close together--even if you didn’t say a word. have you thought of that, dear jeff?”
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he smiled at her with loving confidence. “i’ve thought that all out, dear heart. for weeks i’ve been thinking of it, and threshing it all out in my mind, until i feel quite sure of myself. i do love my dear southland and as you know so well my ambition has always been to spend my life in her service. but there are plenty of other men who can do her work as well as i can, and not at the cost of their heart’s love and life’s happiness. i am willing to let them do it while i take my love and my happiness. my sweet! i knew your dear, generous heart would ask me that!” he bowed over her hand, which he still held in his, and pressed it to his lips.
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her heart was pleading: “he is right. there are plenty of others who can do his work, and there are surely many, many who can do what little is possible for me better than i. why not put it all aside and take the love and happiness that belong to us?” and then, like an icy grip upon her softening, yielding heart came remembrance of the thing that was about to happen in the virginia mountains.
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she drew her hand from his and in sudden dismay walked apart a few paces, saying, “let me think for a minute, jeff!” she dropped her riding skirt, whose fulness she had been carrying over one arm, and its long black folds swept around her slender figure as she leaned against a tree with her face in her hands. so tall and straight and slim she looked, drooping against the tree trunk, that the fancy crossed his mind she was like some forsaken, grieving wood nymph, and all his body ached with the longing to enfold her in his arms and comfort whatever pain was in her heart. but his love as well as his courtesy forbade him to intrude upon her while she stood apart, and he waited for her to turn to him again.
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rhoda was thinking of what she knew was about to happen and of what it would mean to him. her father had said that it would be like the sudden ringing of an alarm bell and that, however this initial attempt turned out, it might cause the whole south to take up arms at once and declare war. she knew how her lover’s spirit would leap at such an emergency. did she wish to put his love and his promise to such a test at the very beginning? slowly she walked back and stood in front of him.
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“jeff, this is truly a wonderful proof of your love that you have given me!” her voice was tremulous with desire of all she felt she was putting away, but she went bravely on: “i don’t believe any other woman ever had such proof! indeed,” and she smiled tenderly at him, “i don’t believe any other woman was ever loved quite so much. it makes me feel your love in my heart, oh, so much more precious than even it was before! but i want you to be quite sure, dear jeff!”
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“i am sure, sweetheart!” he broke in.
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“but won’t you wait a little while, two weeks, no, three weeks, before i--we decide? i ask you to go home, at once, and not to see me or write to me for three weeks more. and then you can let me know whether or not you still wish to put your ideals and ambitions aside for the sake of love. but i want you to consider the question then just exactly as if we had never talked of it before. you are not to feel yourself in the least bound by what you have told me to-day. if anything should happen between now and then that makes you feel that the south still has a claim upon you, anything that would make you in the very least unwilling to--to carry out this plan, then i want you to tell me so frankly--with perfect frankness, dear jeff, as perfect as our love.”
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“and is that all the hope you will give me, dearest?” he pleaded. “no promise to take back with me?”
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she was standing beside the path, on the rising ground a little above him, and she leaned toward him, resting her hands lightly upon his shoulders as she said, her face all tenderness:
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“dear jeff, it is for your sake i am asking it!”
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he seemed scarcely to hear what she said, and touched her cheek with a caressing palm as he exclaimed, “rhoda, my sweet, your face is like a guardian angel’s!”
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before jefferson delavan reached fairmount again the thing had happened that made the north gasp with wonder and set the south beside itself with fear and rage. the amazing audacity of john brown’s attack upon harper’s ferry and the rankling distrust between the two sections make reasonable, to impartial eyes of a later day, the alarming significance which the southern people, especially those in the border states, saw in brown’s foredoomed enterprise. the slaveholders of kentucky were aroused to almost as extreme a pitch of angry apprehension and defiance as were the people of virginia.
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rhoda ware had not to wait even three weeks for the expected letter from jefferson delavan.
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“you were right,” he wrote. “you saw the obstacles that lie between us more clearly than i did--or, perhaps, you had more information than i of the treacherous lengths to which the north would dare to go in the desire to overthrow the ordinary rights of a state and to undermine the power of the government under which both sections have solemnly sworn to live. this attempt to incite the slaves to insurrection and the butchery of their masters proves to all of us that neither property nor life is safe in the south. at any moment another plot may break forth, no man can tell where, and be more successful than this one was. the south needs now, more than she ever did before, every one of her sons whom she can trust. i cannot desert her in her hour of peril. from the bottom of my heart i thank you, rhoda, that you made it possible for me to remain, without dishonor, in the position where every instinct of duty and honor and loyalty demands that i stay. it was like you to know that, much as i love you, love would have to yield to honor if it came to a test between the two, and it has made me love you all the more, if that were possible, to know that your love is so rich and noble and generous.
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“god knows what the future may hold for us two. for the first time since our love began i can see no hope for us. the feeling between the north and the south grows intolerable and the bonds between them cannot last much longer. as long as the south and her interests are in danger, my conscience, my sense of duty, my loyalty, all my ideals and aspirations, bid me stay here. and here i know you will not come.
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“but whatever happens, dear, i shall always thank god that i have had the privilege of knowing and loving you, while the knowledge that you, such a peerless woman as you, have loved me will be as long as i live the most precious treasure of my heart. i have many dear memories of our love, but the dearest of them all is of that last day we had together, that splendid ride, when you were so adorable, and of all the sweet pictures of you that i cherish the sweetest of all is of your face as you leaned toward me in the wood and said, ‘it is for your sake, dear jeff.’
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“only god knows whether or not we shall ever see each other again. but i shall always love you, and as long as we both live i shall treasure in my heart the belief that you still love me. good-by, dear heart.”
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“at last, it is all over,” rhoda said to herself when she had read the letter. “he sees, at last, as i did so long ago, that there is no hope for us. no--he sees none, now, but i can a little. john brown has brought the war ten years nearer, father says, and any time it may come. and the war will end slavery. but it’s best not to hope too much.”
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she took out the box of his letters and read them all over again, touching them tenderly and kissing the withered rose. “i’d better burn them all now,” she told herself, “and try not to think so much about it after this.”
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with such pain in her heart as might have been in abraham’s when he led isaac to the altar, she carried her little love treasure to the fire. but even as she held it poised over the flames her resolution failed her. it was too much a part of herself and she could not do it. the little box was put away again in its hiding place and in the months that followed, whenever the ache in her breast would not be hushed in any other way, she solaced her love and longing by reading the letters over and over again, until she almost knew them, word for word.
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a year and a half and more went by before rhoda again saw delavan. the campaign of 1860, with its grim earnestness and sober exaltation, had passed. she had been stirred by it to her heart’s core, as had all men and women of the north, and had shared her father’s satisfaction over the result. hers was indeed an even deeper and gladder satisfaction than his, for to passionate abhorrence of slavery and the belief that now was the beginning of its end was added her secret small hope that afterward might come the fulfilment of her long denied love.
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“we mustn’t forget, rhoda,” her father said as they talked over the results of the election, “that probably only a rather small percentage of those who voted for lincoln want to have slavery abolished in the states where it already exists. they really think the national government has no right to interfere. but if there is war, and undoubtedly there will be, a man of lincoln’s shrewd common-sense will know that by freeing the slaves he will cut off the south’s right hand. with such a man as he is in the president’s chair i feel confident, though a good many abolitionists don’t, that we can look forward to the end of slavery.”
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the southern states were leaving the union and the confederacy had been organized. rhoda knew that kentucky was rent almost to her every hearthstone with discussion of whether north or south should have her loyalty. charlotte had lately written: “everybody is all torn into strips over the question whether or not kentucky shall join the confederacy. nobody talks or thinks or dreams of anything else. but lloyd and i are going to secede, whether kentucky does or not.”
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now and then, at long intervals, had come a brief letter from jefferson delavan. but he said nothing in any of these missives of love and but little of the mighty questions that were absorbing the minds and hearts and souls of men, women and children, north and south, and her replies were of the same sort. it was as if two loving but far divided souls, journeying through space, sought now and then by a faint call to bridge the distance between them.
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the tense, dark days of lincoln’s inauguration were over, the guns of sumter had cleared away the last clouds of uncertainty, and war was at hand.
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the lilacs were in bloom again and rhoda, moving slowly down the path, broke off here and there a branch and presently stood at the front gate, her fragrant burden gathered loosely into one arm against her white dress. in her delight in their delicate beauty and savor she bent her face to the flowers, forgetting for the moment the things of the outside world. when she lifted it again jefferson delavan stood before her.
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“i have come to say good-by, rhoda,” was his greeting, as he entered the gate.
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“good-by?-- you are--going--” she stammered.
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“i am going to join the fortunes of the south,” he replied, as they walked up the path. “kentucky has been false to her sister states and deserted them when they need her most. by a single vote she has decided upon neutrality. you, rhoda, can understand what a bitter dose that is for me.”
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“you can’t endure it?” she hesitated as they turned into the walk to the grape arbor.
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“no, i can’t, and there are many other kentuckians who feel as i do. i am going at once to join the southern army, and corey and morehead and a dozen others that i know are going too.”
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“father has joined the union army as a surgeon and i am going as a nurse.”
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they had reached the arbor and stood facing each other, she with her armful of lilacs still held against her white dress, both too much absorbed to be quite conscious of their actions. a sober smile curved by ever so little the grim line of his lips.
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“then you will be fighting for your side as well as i for mine, though in a different way. but across the battlefields, rhoda, i shall hear your heart calling mine, and i shall know too that it is telling me to fight right on.”
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“yes,” she broke out earnestly, “i know that you are fighting for your convictions and your ideals and you will not be worthy of my love if you don’t fight until you either win or are conquered. i don’t want you to compromise, or to yield, until you have fought to the last drop of your strength.”
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“it’s going to be a bitter struggle and a long one, whatever the most of them, on both sides, think now. in the south there isn’t much belief that the north will fight, or can fight. but i know better, rhoda. you have taught me better, you and your father. you have made me understand what determination there is at the bottom of all this.”
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“it’s a war between two ideals,” she said, “whatever else they may say it is. but it’s really that, between two ideals of civilization.”
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she looked away and shuddered. “oh, it is all so horrible, even to think of! but it is a long and horrible iniquity that has caused it and must now be paid for. rachel benedict told me once that we must ourselves pay with sweat and stripes for the evil that we do. i believe it’s true, and the north and the south must pay together for all this long evil of slavery, for they are both responsible. but this war will end it.”
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he smiled upon her indulgently. “can you think so, rhoda, you, who understand how we feel and how determined we are?”
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she stepped back and proudly lifted her head. into her face came the look of exaltation he had seen there, in this same arbor, long before. it seemed to remove her far from him, and therefore set his heart to throbbing all the more with longing for her.
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“yes,” she said, “this war will end it, because god is on our side. and afterward--oh, jeff!”--her face melted to tenderness again--“beyond--after the end, after god has spoken and slavery has been ended, then there will be peace, and for us--” her voice dropped low--“happiness!”
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“god be the judge between us, rhoda ware,” he exclaimed, “as to which is right! will you accept his judgment, as he speaks it in battle, and promise to be my wife when the war is over, whatever he has said?”
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again her face was lifted, glowing with exaltation. “god will never allow such an atonement for evil-doing as this war will be,” she said solemnly, “to be crowned by that very evil itself. with faith in him--i promise!”
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scarcely had the words left her tongue when she found herself swept to his breast and his lips upon her brow, her eyes, her mouth.
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“rhoda, my love, my love,” he whispered, “it is a long good-by that lies before us, perhaps even as long as it has been since i first begged for your love, here among these vines.”
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“and there are battles and dangers, oh, so many,” she whispered back, “between now and--the end.”
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“but i have a talisman that will carry me safe through it all, to the end--and you. see, my sweet, how long i have kept it!” from an inner pocket he took a little package and showed her a withered rose, the mate of the one she herself so treasured. “i have kept it there, next to my heart, ever since the night you gave it me, for my thoughts, five years ago!”
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she looked at it with wondering love, pressed it to her lips and listened with a sweet smile upon them as he said, putting it back again: “it shall lie there always, dear heart, until all my thoughts are yours and yours are mine. and it will always tell me, as plainly as if with your own dear lips, to fight to the uttermost!”
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again she lifted her head proudly. “yes, to the uttermost, jeff! for that way only can your eyes be opened!”
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he was gone, and she sat alone in the arbor, with her lilacs pressed to her bosom, and listened as the strains of martial music came to her ears. it was a band playing, downtown, where volunteers were being drilled. she could hear the tramp of feet, the rattle of musketry, and the words of command.
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louder and louder the sound seemed to grow in her ears until it became the booming of unnumbered cannon and the tramp, tramp, tramp of a million men. the smoke of battle dimmed her eyes and all around her she seemed to hear the cries and groans of mangled and dying men. with white lips she whispered to herself, “with bloody sweat and stripes we must pay--it is god’s law!”
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slowly her features relaxed, and presently, with a tender smile curving her lips, she buried her face in the lilac blooms. for the awful sights and sounds had faded away and she had seen a vision of the afterward.
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italicized text is surrounded by underscores: italics.
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obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
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inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
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archaic or variant spelling has been retained.
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tedious brief tales of granta and gramarye.
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e. joyce shillington scales 1919.
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tedious brief tales of granta and gramarye
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“ingulphus” (arthur gray, master of jesus college)
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with illustrations by e. joyce shillington scales
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“merry and tragical, tedious and brief: that is hot ice and wondrous strange snow.”
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a midsummer night’s dream.
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cambridge: w. heffer & sons ltd. london: simpkin, marshall, hamilton, kent & co. ltd.
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first published, december, 1919.
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for permission to reprint these tales, which originally appeared in the cambridge review, the gownsman and chanticlere (the jesus college magazine), the writer thanks the editors and proprietors of those papers.
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list of illustrations
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to two cambridge magicians
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in london lanes, uncanonized, untold by letter’d brass or stone, apart they lie, dead and unreck’d of by the passer-by. here still they seem together, as of old, to breathe our air, to walk our cambridge ground, here still to after learners to impart hints of the magic that gave faustus art to make blind homer sing “with ravishing sound to his melodious harp” of oenon, dead for alexander’s love; that framed the spell of him who, in the friar’s “secret cell,” made the great marvel of the brazen head. marlowe and greene, on you a cambridge hand sprinkles these pious particles of sand.
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the everlasting club
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there is a chamber in jesus college the existence of which is probably known to few who are now resident, and fewer still have penetrated into it or even seen its interior. it is on the right hand of the landing on the top floor of the precipitous staircase in the angle of the cloister next the hall--a staircase which for some forgotten story connected with it is traditionally called “cow lane.” the padlock which secures its massive oaken door is very rarely unfastened, for the room is bare and unfurnished. once it served as a place of deposit for superfluous kitchen ware, but even that ignominious use has passed from it, and it is now left to undisturbed solitude and darkness. for i should say that it is entirely cut off from the light of the outer day by the walling up, some time in the eighteenth century, of its single window, and such light as ever reaches it comes from the door, when rare occasion causes it to be opened.
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yet at no extraordinarily remote day this chamber has evidently been tenanted, and, before it was given up to darkness, was comfortably fitted, according to the standard of comfort which was known in college in the days of george ii. there is still a roomy fireplace before which legs have been stretched and wine and gossip have circulated in the days of wigs and brocade. for the room is spacious and, when it was lighted by the window looking eastward over the fields and common, it must have been a cheerful place for a sociable don.
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let me state in brief, prosaic outline the circumstances which account for the gloom and solitude in which this room has remained now for nearly a century and a half.
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in the second quarter of the eighteenth century the university possessed a great variety of clubs of a social kind. there were clubs in college parlours and clubs in private rooms, or in inns and coffee-houses: clubs flavoured with politics, clubs clerical, clubs purporting to be learned and literary. whatever their professed particularity, the aim of each was convivial. some of them, which included undergraduates as well as seniors, were dissipated enough, and in their limited provincial way aped the profligacy of such clubs as the hell fire club of london notoriety.
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among these last was one which was at once more select and of more evil fame than any of its fellows. by a singular accident, presently to be explained, the minute book of this club, including the years from 1738 to 1766, came into the hands of a master of jesus college, and though, so far as i am aware, it is no longer extant, i have before me a transcript of it which, though it is in a recent handwriting, presents in a bald shape such a singular array of facts that i must ask you to accept them as veracious. the original book is described as a stout duodecimo volume bound in red leather and fastened with red silken strings. the writing in it occupied some 40 pages, and ended with the date november 2, 1766.
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the club in question was called the everlasting club--a name sufficiently explained by its rules, set forth in the pocket-book. its number was limited to seven, and it would seem that its members were all young men, between 22 and 30. one of them was a fellow-commoner of trinity: three of them were fellows of colleges, among whom i should specially mention a fellow of jesus, named charles bellasis: another was a landed proprietor in the county, and the sixth was a young cambridge physician. the founder and president of the club was the honourable alan dermot, who, as the son of an irish peer, had obtained a nobleman’s degree in the university, and lived in idleness in the town. very little is known of his life and character, but that little is highly in his disfavour. he was killed in a duel at paris in the year 1743, under circumstances which i need not particularise, but which point to an exceptional degree of cruelty and wickedness in the slain man.
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i will quote from the first pages of the minute book some of the laws of the club, which will explain its constitution:--
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“1. this society consisteth of seven everlastings, who may be corporeal or incorporeal, as destiny shall determine.
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2. the rules of the society, as herein written, are immutable and everlasting.
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3. none shall hereafter be chosen into the society and none shall cease to be members.
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4. the honourable alan dermot is the everlasting president of the society.
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5. the senior corporeal everlasting, not being the president, shall be the secretary of the society, and in this book of minutes shall record its transactions, the date at which any everlasting shall cease to be corporeal, and all fines due to the society. and when such senior everlasting shall cease to be corporeal he shall, either in person or by some sure hand, deliver this book of minutes to him who shall be next senior and at the time corporeal, and he shall in like manner record the transactions therein and transmit it to the next senior. the neglect of these provisions shall be visited by the president with fine or punishment according to his discretion.
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6. on the second day of november in every year, being the feast of all souls, at ten o’clock post meridiem, the everlastings shall meet at supper in the place of residence of that corporeal member of the society to whom it shall fall in order of rotation to entertain them, and they shall all subscribe in this book of minutes their names and present place of abode.
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7. it shall be the obligation of every everlasting to be present at the yearly entertainment of the society, and none shall allege for excuse that he has not been invited thereto. if any everlasting shall fail to attend the yearly meeting, or in his turn shall fail to provide entertainment for the society, he shall be mulcted at the discretion of the president.
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8. nevertheless, if in any year, in the month of october and not less than seven days before the feast of all souls, the major part of the society, that is to say, four at the least, shall meet and record in writing in these minutes that it is their desire that no entertainment be given in that year, then, notwithstanding the two rules last rehearsed, there shall be no entertainment in that year, and no everlasting shall be mulcted on the ground of his absence.”
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the rest of the rules are either too profane or too puerile to be quoted here. they indicate the extraordinary levity with which the members entered on their preposterous obligations. in particular, to the omission of any regulation as to the transmission of the minute book after the last everlasting ceased to be “corporeal,” we owe the accident that it fell into the hands of one who was not a member of the society, and the consequent preservation of its contents to the present day.
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low as was the standard of morals in all classes of the university in the first half of the eighteenth century, the flagrant defiance of public decorum by the members of the everlasting society brought upon it the stern censure of the authorities, and after a few years it was practically dissolved and its members banished from the university. charles bellasis, for instance, was obliged to leave the college, and, though he retained his fellowship, he remained absent from it for nearly twenty years. but the minutes of the society reveal a more terrible reason for its virtual extinction.
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between the years 1738 and 1743 the minutes record many meetings of the club, for it met on other occasions besides that of all souls day. apart from a great deal of impious jocularity on the part of the writers, they are limited to the formal record of the attendance of the members, fines inflicted, and so forth. the meeting on november 2nd in the latter year is the first about which there is any departure from the stereotyped forms. the supper was given in the house of the physician. one member, henry davenport, the former fellow-commoner of trinity, was absent from the entertainment, as he was then serving in germany, in the dettingen campaign. the minutes contain an entry, “mulctatus propter absentiam per presidentem, hen. davenport.” an entry on the next page of the book runs, “henry davenport by a cannon-shot became an incorporeal member, november 3, 1743.”
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the minutes give in their own handwriting, under date november 2, the names and addresses of the six other members. first in the list, in a large bold hand, is the autograph of “alan dermot, president, at the court of his royal highness.” now in october dermot had certainly been in attendance on the young pretender at paris, and doubtless the address which he gave was understood at the time by the other everlastings to refer to the fact. but on october 28, five days before the meeting of the club, he was killed, as i have already mentioned, in a duel. the news of his death cannot have reached cambridge on november 2, for the secretary’s record of it is placed below that of davenport, and with the date november 10: “this day was reported that the president was become an incorporeal by the hands of a french chevalier.” and in a sudden ebullition, which is in glaring contrast with his previous profanities, he has dashed down “the good god shield us from ill.”
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the tidings of the president’s death scattered the everlastings like a thunderbolt. they left cambridge and buried themselves in widely parted regions. but the club did not cease to exist. the secretary was still bound to his hateful records: the five survivors did not dare to neglect their fatal obligations. horror of the presence of the president made the november gathering once and for ever impossible: but horror, too, forbade them to neglect the precaution of meeting in october of every year to put in writing their objection to the celebration. for five years five names are appended to that entry in the minutes, and that is all the business of the club. then another member died, who was not the secretary.
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for eighteen more years four miserable men met once each year to deliver the same formal protest. during those years we gather from the signatures that charles bellasis returned to cambridge, now, to appearance, chastened and decorous. he occupied the rooms which i have described on the staircase in the corner of the cloister.
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then in 1766 comes a new handwriting and an altered minute: “jan. 27, on this day francis witherington, secretary, became an incorporeal member. the same day this book was delivered to me, james harvey.” harvey lived only a month, and a similar entry on march 7 states that the book has descended, with the same mysterious celerity, to william catherston. then, on may 18, charles bellasis writes that on that day, being the date of catherston’s decease, the minute book has come to him as the last surviving corporeal of the club.
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the graceless days of george ii. had passed away from the university. they were succeeded by times of outward respectability, when religion and morals were no longer publicly challenged. with bellasis, too, the petulance of youth had passed: he was discreet, perhaps exemplary. the scandal of his early conduct was unknown to most of the new generation, condoned by the few survivors who had witnessed it.
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on the night of november 2nd, 1766, a terrible event revived in the older inhabitants of the college the memory of those evil days. from ten o’clock to midnight a hideous uproar went on in the chamber of bellasis. who were his companions none knew. blasphemous outcries and ribald songs, such as had not been heard for twenty years past, aroused from sleep or study the occupants of the court; but among the voices was not that of bellasis. at twelve a sudden silence fell upon the cloisters. but the master lay awake all night, troubled at the relapse of a respected colleague and the horrible example of libertinism set to his pupils.
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in the morning all remained quiet about bellasis’ chamber. when his door was opened, soon after daybreak, the early light creeping through the drawn curtains revealed a strange scene. about the table were drawn seven chairs, but some of them had been overthrown, and the furniture was in chaotic disorder, as after some wild orgy. in the chair at the foot of the table sat the lifeless figure of the secretary, his head bent over his folded arms, as though he would shield his eyes from some horrible sight. before him on the table lay pen, ink and the red minute book. on the last inscribed page, under the date of november 2nd, were written, for the first time since 1742, the autographs of the seven members of the everlasting club, but without address. in the same strong hand in which the president’s name was written there was appended below the signatures the note, “mulctatus per presidentem propter neglectum obsonii, car. bellasis.”
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the minute book was secured by the master of the college, and i believe that he alone was acquainted with the nature of its contents. the scandal reflected on the college by the circumstances revealed in it caused him to keep the knowledge rigidly to himself. but some suspicion of the nature of the occurrences must have percolated to students and servants, for there was a long-abiding belief in the college that annually on the night of november 2 sounds of unholy revelry were heard to issue from the chamber of bellasis. i cannot learn that the occupants of the adjoining rooms have ever been disturbed by them. indeed, it is plain from the minutes that owing to their improvident drafting no provision was made for the perpetuation of the all souls entertainment after the last everlasting ceased to be corporeal. such superstitious belief must be treated with contemptuous incredulity. but whether for that cause or another the rooms were shut up, and have remained tenantless from that day to this.
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the treasure of john badcoke
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as this narrative of an occurrence in the history of jesus college may appear to verge on the domain of romance, i think it proper to state by way of preface, that for some of its details i am indebted to documentary evidence which is accessible and veracious. other portions of the story are supplied from sources the credibility of which my readers will be able to estimate.
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far different from the truculent attitude of this murderous prior was the conduct on the like occasion of prior john badcoke. dr. legh reported him to be “honest and conformable.” he furnished an exact inventory of the possessions of his house, and quietly retired on the pittance allowed to him by the king. he prevailed upon the other canons to shew the same submission to the royal will, and they peaceably dispersed, some to country incumbencies, others to resume in the colleges the studies commenced in earlier life.
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john badcoke settled in jesus college. the bursar’s rental of 1538-39 shows that his residence there began in the autumn of the earlier year, immediately after the surrender of the monastery. divorced from the priory he was still attached to barnwell, and took up the duties of vicar of the small parish church of st. andrew, which stood close to the priory gate. so long as henry viii. lived, and the rites of the old religion were tolerated, he seems to have ministered faithfully to the spiritual needs of his parishioners, unsuspected and unmolested.
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more than twelve months elapsed before the demolition of the canons’ house was taken in hand, and, for so long, in the empty church the prior still offered mass on ceremonial days for the repose of the souls of the peverels and peches who had built and endowed the house in long bygone days, and were buried beside the high altar. in the porter’s lodge remained the only occupant of the monastery--a former servant of the house, who, from the circumstance that in his secular profession he was a mason, had the name of adam waller. occasional intruders on the solitude of the cloister or the monastic garden sometimes lighted on the ex-prior pacing the grass-grown walks, as of old, and generally in company with a younger priest.
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this companion was named richard harrison. he was not one of the dispossessed canons, but came from the priory of christ church, canterbury, of which mention has been made. he was the youngest and latest professed of the monks there, a nephew of the prior, as also of john badcoke. he had not been present at the time of dr. leyghton’s visitation, as he happened then to be visiting his uncle at barnwell. as the canterbury monks were ejected in his absence he had remained at barnwell, and there he shared his uncle’s parochial duties. he, too, became a resident at jesus, and he occupied rooms in the college immediately beneath those of badcoke.
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late in the year 1539 the demolition of barnwell priory was begun. adam waller was engaged in the work. one incident, which apparently passed almost unnoticed at the time, may be mentioned in connection with this business. the keys of the church were in the keeping of waller, who had been in the habit of surrendering them to the two ecclesiastics whenever they performed the divine offices there. on the morning when the demolition was to begin, it was found that the stone covering the altar-tomb of pain peverel, crusader and founder of the priory, had been dislodged, and that the earth within it had been recently disturbed. waller professed to know nothing of the matter.
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the account rolls of the college bursars in the reigns of henry viii. and edward vi. fortunately tell us exactly the situation of the rooms occupied by badcoke and harrison, and as, for the proper understanding of subsequent events, it is necessary that we should realise their condition and relation to the rest of the college, i shall not scruple to be particular. they were on the left-hand side of the staircase now called k, in the eastern range of the college, and at the northern end of what had once been the dormitory of the nuns of st. radegund. badcoke’s chamber, which was on the highest floor, was one of the largest in the college, and for that reason the statutes prescribed that it should be reserved “for more venerable persons resorting to the college”; and badcoke, being neither a fellow nor a graduate, was regarded as belonging to this class. below his chamber was that of harrison, and on the ground-floor was the “cool-house,” where the college fuel was kept. between this ground-floor room and l staircase--which did not then exist--there is seen at the present day a rarely opened door. inside the door a flight of some half-dozen steps descends to a narrow space, which might be deemed a passage, save that it has no outlet at the farther end. on either side it is flanked, to the height of two floors of k staircase, by walls of ancient monastic masonry; the third and highest floor is carried over it. here, in the times of henry viii. and the nunnery days before them, ran or stagnated a stygian stream, known as “the kytchynge sinke ditch,” foul with scum from the college offices. northward from badcoke’s staircase was “the wood-yard,” on the site of the present l staircase. it communicated by a door in its outward, eastern wall with a green close which in the old days had been the nunnery graveyard. in badcoke’s times it was still uneven with the hillocks which marked the resting-places of nameless, unrecorded nuns. the old graveyard was intersected by a cart-track leading from jesus lane to the wood-yard door. the bursar’s books show that badcoke controlled the wood-yard and coal-house, perhaps in the capacity of promus, or steward.
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now when badcoke and harrison came to occupy their chambers on k staircase, jesus, like other colleges in those troublous times, had fallen on evil days. its occupants comprised only the master, some eight fellows, a few servants, and about half-a-dozen “disciples.” nearly half the rooms in college were empty, and the records show that many were tenantless, propter defectum reparacionis; that is, because walls, roofs and floors were decayed and ruinous. badcoke, being a man of means, paid a handsome rent for his chambers, not less than ten shillings by the year, in consideration of which the college put it in tenantable repair; and, as a circumstance which has some significance in relation to this narrative, it is to be noted that the bursar--the accounts of the year are no longer extant--recorded that in 1539 he paid a sum of three shillings and fourpence “to adam waller for layyinge of new brick in yᵉ cupboard of mr. badcoke’s chamber.” the cupboard in question was seemingly a small recessed space, still recognisable in a gyp-room belonging to the chambers which were badcoke’s. the rooms on the side of the staircase opposite to those of badcoke and harrison were evidently unoccupied; the bursar took no rent from them. the other inmates of the college dwelt in the cloister court.
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shortly after this became known, badcoke disappeared from college. he had lived in such seclusion that for a day or two it was not noticed that his door remained closed, and that he had not been seen in his customary walks. when the door was at last forced it was discovered that he had indeed gone, but, strangely, he had left behind him the whole of his effects. adam waller was the last person who was known to have entered his chamber, and, being questioned, he said that badcoke had informed him of his intention to depart three days previously, but, for some unexplained reason, had desired him to keep his purpose secret, and had not imparted his destination. badcoke’s life of seclusion, and his known connection with english catholics beyond sea, gave colour to waller’s story, and, so far as i am aware, no enquiries were made as to the subsequent fate of the ex-prior. but a strange fact was commented on--that the floor of the so-called cupboard was strewn with bricks, and that in the place from which they had been dislodged was an arched recess of considerable size, which must have been made during badcoke’s tenancy of the room. there was nothing in the recess. another circumstance there was which called for no notice in the then dilapidated state of half the college rooms. two boards were loose in the floor of the larger chamber. thirty feet below the gap which their removal exposed, lay the dark impurities of the “kytchynge sinke ditch.”
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adam waller died a beggar as he had lived.
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a century after these occurrences--in the year 1642--the attention of the college was drawn by a severe visitation of plague to a much-needed sanitary reform. the black ditch which ran under k staircase was “cast,” that is, its bed was effectually cleaned out, and its channel was stopped; and so it came about that from that day to this it has presented a clean and dry floor of gravel. beneath the settled slime of centuries was discovered a complete skeleton. how it came there nobody knew, and nobody enquired. probably it was guessed to be a relic of some dim and grim monastic mystery.
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now whether adam waller knew or suspected the existence of a treasure hidden in the wall-recess of badcoke’s chamber, and murdered the ex-prior when he was about to remove it to louvain, i cannot say. one thing is certain--that he did not find the treasure there. when badcoke disappeared he left his will, with his other belongings, in his chamber. after a decent interval, when it seemed improbable that he would return, probate was obtained by the master and fellows, to whom he had bequeathed the chief part of his effects. in 1858 the wills proved in the university court were removed to peterborough, and there, for aught i know, his will may yet be seen. the property bequeathed consisted principally of books of theology. among them was stephanus’ latin vulgate bible of 1528 in two volumes folio. this he devised “of my heartie good wylle to my trustie felow and frynde, richard harrison, if he shal returne to cambrege aftyr the tyme of my decesse.” richard harrison never returned to cambridge, and the bible, with the other books, found its way to the college library.
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if in the same volume the chapter in question is referred to, a singular fact discloses itself. certain words in the text are underscored in red pencil, and fingers, inked in the margin, are directed to the lines in which they occur. taken in their consecutive order these words run: “ecce murus forinsecus ... ad portam quae respiciebat viam orientalem ... mensus est a facie portae extrinsecus ad orientem et aquilonem quinque cubitorum ... hoc est gazophylacium.” this may be taken to mean, “look at the outside wall ... at the gate facing towards the eastern road ... he measured from the gate outwards five cubits (7¹⁄₂ feet) towards the north-east ... there is the treasure.”
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the outer wall of the college, the wood-yard gate and the road through the nuns’ cemetery must at once have suggested themselves to richard harrison, had he lived to see his friend’s bequest, and he must have taken it as an instruction from the testator that a treasure known to both parties was hidden in the spot indicated, close to badcoke’s chamber. and the first text cited must have conveyed to him that his friend, in some deadly terror, had transferred the treasure thither from the place where the two friends had originally laid it. but the message never reached harrison, and it is quite certain that no treasure has been sought or found in that spot. if the canterbury or any other treasure was deposited there by badcoke it rests there still.
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to those who are curious to know more of this matter i would say: first, ascertain minutely from loggan’s seventeenth-century plan of the college the position of the wood-yard gate; and, secondly, which indeed should be firstly, make absolutely certain that john badcoke was not mystifying posterity by an elaborate jest.
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the true history of anthony ffryar
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the world, it is said, knows nothing of its greatest men. in our cambridge microcosm it may be doubted whether we are better informed concerning some of the departed great ones who once walked the confines of our colleges. which of us has heard of anthony ffryar of jesus? history is dumb respecting him. yet but for the unhappy event recorded in this unadorned chronicle his fame might have stood with that of bacon of trinity, or harvey of caius. they lived to be old men: ffryar died before he was thirty--his work unfinished, his fame unknown even to his contemporaries.
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so meagre is the record of his life’s work that it is contained in a few bare notices in the college bursar’s books, in the grace books which date his matriculation and degrees, and in the entry of his burial in the register of all saints’ parish. these simple annals i have ventured to supplement with details of a more or less hypothetical character which will serve to show what humanity lost by his early death. readers will be able to judge for themselves the degree of care which i have taken not to import into the story anything which may savour of the improbable or romantic.
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anthony ffryar matriculated in the year 1541-2, his age being then probably 15 or 16. he took his b.a. degree in 1545, his m.a. in 1548. he became a fellow about the end of 1547, and died in the summer of 1551. such are the documentary facts relating to him. dr. reston was master of the college during the whole of his tenure of a fellowship and died in the same year as ffryar. the chamber which ffryar occupied as a fellow was on the first floor of the staircase at the west end of the chapel. the staircase has since been absorbed in the master’s lodge, but the doorway through which it was approached from the cloister may still be seen. at the time when ffryar lived there the nave of the chapel was used as a parish church, and his windows overlooked the graveyard, then called “jesus churchyard,” which is now a part of the master’s garden.
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ffryar was of course a priest, as were nearly all the fellows in his day. but i do not gather that he was a theologian, or complied more than formally with the obligation of his orders. he came to cambridge when the six articles and the suppression of the monasteries were of fresh and burning import: he became a fellow in the harsh protestant days of protector somerset: and in all his time the master and the fellows were in scarcely disavowed sympathy with the rites and beliefs of the old religion. yet in the battle of creeds i imagine that he took no part and no interest. i should suppose that he was a somewhat solitary man, an insatiable student of nature, and that his sympathies with humanity were starved by his absorption in the new science which dawned on cambridge at the reformation.
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when i say that he was an alchemist do not suppose that in the middle of the sixteenth century the name of alchemy carried with it any associations with credulity or imposture. it was a real science and a subject of university study then, as its god-children, physics and chemistry, are now. if the aims of its professors were transcendental its methods were genuinely based on research. ffryar was no visionary, but a man of sense, hard and practical. to the study of alchemy he was drawn by no hopes of gain, not even of fame, and still less by any desire to benefit mankind. he was actuated solely by an unquenchable passion for enquiry, a passion sterilizing to all other feeling. to the somnambulisms of the less scientific disciples of his school, such as the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life, he showed himself a chill agnostic. all his thought and energies were concentrated on the discovery of the magisterium, the master-cure of all human ailments.
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for four years in his laboratory in the cloister he had toiled at this pursuit. more than once, when it had seemed most near, it had eluded his grasp; more than once he had been tempted to abandon it as a mystery insoluble. in the summer of 1551 the discovery waited at his door. he was sure, certain of success, which only experiment could prove. and with the certainty arose a new passion in his heart--to make the name of ffryar glorious in the healing profession as that of galen or hippocrates. in a few days, even within a few hours, the fame of his discovery would go out into all the world.
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the summer of 1551 was a sad time in cambridge. it was marked by a more than usually fatal outbreak of the epidemic called “the sweat,” when, as fuller says, “patients ended or mended in twenty-four hours.” it had smouldered some time in the town before it appeared with sudden and dreadful violence in jesus college. the first to go was little gregory graunge, schoolboy and chorister, who was lodged in the college school in the outer court. he was barely thirteen years old, and known by sight to anthony ffryar. he died on july 31, and was buried the same day in jesus churchyard. the service for his burial was held in the chapel and at night, as was customary in those days. funerals in college were no uncommon events in the sixteenth century. but in the death of the poor child, among strangers, there was something to move even the cold heart of ffryar. and not the pity of it only impressed him. the dim chapel, the master and fellows obscurely ranged in their stalls and shrouded in their hoods, the long-drawn miserable chanting and the childish trebles of the boys who had been gregory’s fellows struck a chill into him which was not to be shaken off.
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three days passed and another chorister died. the college gates were barred and guarded, and, except by a selected messenger, communication with the town was cut off. the precaution was unavailing, and the boys’ usher, mr. stevenson, died on august 5. one of the junior fellows, sir stayner--“sir” being the equivalent of b.a.--followed on august 7. the master, dr. reston, died the next day. a gaunt, severe man was dr. reston, whom his fellows feared. the death of a master of arts on august 9 for a time completed the melancholy list.
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before this the frightened fellows had taken action. the scholars were dismissed to their homes on august 6. some of the fellows abandoned the college at the same time. the rest--a terrified conclave--met on august 8 and decreed that the college should be closed until the pestilence should have abated. until that time it was to be occupied by a certain robert laycock, who was a college servant, and his only communication with the outside world was to be through his son, who lived in jesus lane. the decree was perhaps the result of the master’s death, for he was not present at the meeting.
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goodman laycock, as he was commonly called, might have been the sole tenant of the college but for the unalterable decision of ffryar to remain there. at all hazards his research, now on the eve of realisation, must proceed; without the aid of his laboratory in college it would miserably hang fire. besides, he had an absolute assurance of his own immunity if the experiment answered his confident expectations, and his fancy was elated with the thought of standing, like another aaron, between the living and the dead, and staying the pestilence with the potent magisterium. until then he would bar his door even against laycock, and his supplies of food should be left on the staircase landing. solitude for him was neither unfamiliar nor terrible.
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so for three days ffryar and laycock inhabited the cloister, solitary and separate. for three days, in the absorption of his research, ffryar forgot fear, forgot the pestilence-stricken world beyond the gate, almost forgot to consume the daily dole of food laid outside his door. august 12 was the day, so fateful to humanity, when his labours were to be crowned with victory: before midnight the secret of the magisterium would be solved.
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evening began to close in before he could begin the experiment which was to be his last. it must of necessity be a labour of some hours, and, before it began, he bethought him that he had not tasted food since early morning. he unbarred his door and looked for the expected portion. it was not there. vexed at the remissness of laycock he waited for a while and listened for his approaching footsteps. at last he took courage and descended to the cloister. he called for laycock, but heard no response. he resolved to go as far as the buttery door and knock. laycock lived and slept in the buttery.
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at the buttery door he beat and cried on laycock; but in answer he heard only the sound of scurrying rats. he went to the window, by the hatch, where he knew that the old man’s bed lay, and called to him again. still there was silence. at last he resolved to force himself through the unglazed window and take what food he could find. in the deep gloom within he stumbled and almost fell over a low object, which he made out to be a truckle-bed. there was light enough from the window to distinguish, stretched upon it, the form of goodman laycock, stark and dead.
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sickened and alarmed ffryar hurried back to his chamber. more than ever he must hasten the great experiment. when it was ended his danger would be past, and he could go out into the town to call the buryers for the certain about it--that the moment the prodigal son fell on his knees and wept, he made his having wasted his substance with harlots, his swine- herding and hungering for the husks they ate, beautiful and holy moments in his life. it is difficult for most people to grasp the idea. i dare say one has to go to prison to understand it. if so, it may be worth while going to prison.
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there is something so unique about christ. of course just as there are false dawns before the dawn itself, and winter days so full of sudden sunlight that they will cheat the wise crocus into squandering its gold before its time, and make some foolish bird call to its mate to build on barren boughs, so there were christians before christ. for that we should be grateful. the unfortunate thing is that there have been none since. i make one exception, st. francis of assisi. but then god had given him at his birth the soul of a poet, as he himself when quite young had in mystical marriage taken poverty as his bride: and with the soul of a poet and the body of a beggar he found the way to perfection not difficult. he understood christ, and so he became like him. we do not require the liber conformitatum to teach us that the life of st. francis was the true imitatio christi, a poem compared to which the book of that name is merely prose.
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indeed, that is the charm about christ, when all is said: he is just like a work of art. he does not really teach one anything, but by being brought into his presence one becomes something. and everybody is predestined to his presence. once at least in his life each man walks with christ to emmaus.
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as regards the other subject, the relation of the artistic life to conduct, it will no doubt seem strange to you that i should select it. people point to reading gaol and say, 'that is where the artistic life leads a man.' well, it might lead to worse places. the more mechanical people to whom life is a shrewd speculation depending on a careful calculation of ways and means, always know where they are going, and go there. they start with the ideal desire of being the parish beadle, and in whatever sphere they are placed they succeed in being the parish beadle and no more. a man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. that is his punishment. those who want a mask have to wear it.
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but with the dynamic forces of life, and those in whom those dynamic forces become incarnate, it is different. people whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are going. they can't know. in one sense of the word it is of course necessary, as the greek oracle said, to know oneself: that is the first achievement of knowledge. but to recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. the final mystery is oneself. when one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? when the son went out to look for his father's asses, he did not know that a man of god was waiting for him with the very chrism of coronation, and that his own soul was already the soul of a king.
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i hope to live long enough and to produce work of such a character that i shall be able at the end of my days to say, 'yes! this is just where the artistic life leads a man!' two of the most perfect lives i have come across in my own experience are the lives of verlaine and of prince kropotkin: both of them men who have passed years in prison: the first, the one christian poet since dante; the other, a man with a soul of that beautiful white christ which seems coming out of russia. and for the last seven or eight months, in spite of a succession of great troubles reaching me from the outside world almost without intermission, i have been placed in direct contact with a new spirit working in this prison through man and things, that has helped me beyond any possibility of expression in words: so that while for the first year of my imprisonment i did nothing else, and can remember doing nothing else, but wring my hands in impotent despair, and say, 'what an ending, what an appalling ending!' now i try to say to myself, and sometimes when i am not torturing myself do really and sincerely say, 'what a beginning, what a wonderful beginning!' it may really be so. it may become so. if it does i shall owe much to this new personality that has altered every man's life in this place.
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you may realise it when i say that had i been released last may, as i tried to be, i would have left this place loathing it and every official in it with a bitterness of hatred that would have poisoned my life. i have had a year longer of imprisonment, but humanity has been in the prison along with us all, and now when i go out i shall always remember great kindnesses that i have received here from almost everybody, and on the day of my release i shall give many thanks to many people, and ask to be remembered by them in turn.
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the prison style is absolutely and entirely wrong. i would give anything to be able to alter it when i go out. i intend to try. but there is nothing in the world so wrong but that the spirit of humanity, which is the spirit of love, the spirit of the christ who is not in churches, may make it, if not right, at least possible to be borne without too much bitterness of heart.
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i know also that much is waiting for me outside that is very delightful, from what st. francis of assisi calls 'my brother the wind, and my sister the rain,' lovely things both of them, down to the shop-windows and sunsets of great cities. if i made a list of all that still remains to me, i don't know where i should stop: for, indeed, god made the world just as much for me as for any one else. perhaps i may go out with something that i had not got before. i need not tell you that to me reformations in morals are as meaningless and vulgar as reformations in theology. but while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. and such i think i have become.
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if after i am free a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, i should not mind a bit. i can be perfectly happy by myself. with freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy? besides, feasts are not for me any more. i have given too many to care about them. that side of life is over for me, very fortunately, i dare say. but if after i am free a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, i should feel it most bitterly. if he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, i would come back again and again and beg to be admitted, so that i might share in what i was entitled to share in. if he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, i should feel it as the most poignant humiliation, as the most terrible mode in which disgrace could be inflicted on me. but that could not be. i have a right to share in sorrow, and he who can look at the loveliness of the world and share its sorrow, and realise something of the wonder of both, is in immediate contact with divine things, and has got as near to god's secret as any one can get.
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perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. we are no longer in art concerned with the type. it is with the exception that we have to do. i cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, i need hardly say. art only begins where imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.
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when marsyas was 'torn from the scabbard of his limbs'--della vagina della membre sue, to use one of dante's most terrible tacitean phrases--he had no more song, the greek said. apollo had been victor. the lyre had vanquished the reed. but perhaps the greeks were mistaken. i hear in much modern art the cry of marsyas. it is bitter in baudelaire, sweet and plaintive in lamartine, mystic in verlaine. it is in the deferred resolutions of chopin's music. it is in the discontent that haunts burne-jones's women. even matthew arnold, whose song of callicles tells of 'the triumph of the sweet persuasive lyre,' and the 'famous final victory,' in such a clear note of lyrical beauty, has not a little of it; in the troubled undertone of doubt and distress that haunts his verses, neither goethe nor wordsworth could help him, though he followed each in turn, and when he seeks to mourn for thyrsis or to sing of the scholar gipsy, it is the reed that he has to take for the rendering of his strain. but whether or not the phrygian faun was silent, i cannot be. expression is as necessary to me as leaf and blossoms are to the black branches of the trees that show themselves above the prison walls and are so restless in the wind. between my art and the world there is now a wide gulf, but between art and myself there is none. i hope at least that there is none.
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to each of us different fates are meted out. my lot has been one of public infamy, of long imprisonment, of misery, of ruin, of disgrace, but i am not worthy of it--not yet, at any rate. i remember that i used to say that i thought i could bear a real tragedy if it came to me with purple pall and a mask of noble sorrow, but that the dreadful thing about modernity was that it put tragedy into the raiment of comedy, so that the great realities seemed commonplace or grotesque or lacking in style. it is quite true about modernity. it has probably always been true about actual life. it is said that all martyrdoms seemed mean to the looker on. the nineteenth century is no exception to the rule.
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everything about my tragedy has been hideous, mean, repellent, lacking in style; our very dress makes us grotesque. we are the zanies of sorrow. we are clowns whose hearts are broken. we are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour. on november 13th, 1895, i was brought down here from london. from two o'clock till half-past two on that day i had to stand on the centre platform of clapham junction in convict dress, and handcuffed, for the world to look at. i had been taken out of the hospital ward without a moment's notice being given to me. of all possible objects i was the most grotesque. when people saw me they laughed. each train as it came up swelled the audience. nothing could exceed their amusement. that was, of course, before they knew who i was. as soon as they had been informed they laughed still more. for half an hour i stood there in the grey november rain surrounded by a jeering mob.
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for a year after that was done to me i wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. that is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. to those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. a day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.
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well, now i am really beginning to feel more regret for the people who laughed than for myself. of course when they saw me i was not on my pedestal, i was in the pillory. but it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. a pedestal may be a very unreal thing. a pillory is a terrific reality. they should have known also how to interpret sorrow better. i have said that behind sorrow there is always sorrow. it were wiser still to say that behind sorrow there is always a soul. and to mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing. in the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things, and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
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i write this account of the mode of my being transferred here simply that it should be realised how hard it has been for me to get anything out of my punishment but bitterness and despair. i have, however, to do it, and now and then i have moments of submission and acceptance. all the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns. so perhaps whatever beauty of life still remains to me is contained in some moment of surrender, abasement, and humiliation. i can, at any rate, merely proceed on the lines of my own development, and, accepting all that has happened to me, make myself worthy of it.
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people used to say of me that i was too individualistic. i must be far more of an individualist than ever i was. i must get far more out of myself than ever i got, and ask far less of the world than ever i asked. indeed, my ruin came not from too great individualism of life, but from too little. the one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection. to have made such an appeal would have been from the individualist point of view bad enough, but what excuse can there ever be put forward for having made it? of course once i had put into motion the forces of society, society turned on me and said, 'have you been living all this time in defiance of my laws, and do you now appeal to those laws for protection? you shall have those laws exercised to the full. you shall abide by what you have appealed to.' the result is i am in gaol. certainly no man ever fell so ignobly, and by such ignoble instruments, as i did.
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the philistine element in life is not the failure to understand art. charming people, such as fishermen, shepherds, ploughboys, peasants and the like, know nothing about art, and are the very salt of the earth. he is the philistine who upholds and aids the heavy, cumbrous, blind, mechanical forces of society, and who does not recognise dynamic force when he meets it either in a man or a movement.
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people thought it dreadful of me to have entertained at dinner the evil things of life, and to have found pleasure in their company. but then, from the point of view through which i, as an artist in life, approach them they were delightfully suggestive and stimulating. the danger was half the excitement. . . . my business as an artist was with ariel. i set myself to wrestle with caliban. . . .
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a great friend of mine--a friend of ten years' standing--came to see me some time ago, and told me that he did not believe a single word of what was said against me, and wished me to know that he considered me quite innocent, and the victim of a hideous plot. i burst into tears at what he said, and told him that while there was much amongst the definite charges that was quite untrue and transferred to me by revolting malice, still that my life had been full of perverse pleasures, and that unless he accepted that as a fact about me and realised it to the full i could not possibly be friends with him any more, or ever be in his company. it was a terrible shock to him, but we are friends, and i have not got his friendship on false pretences.
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emotional forces, as i say somewhere in intentions, are as limited in extent and duration as the forces of physical energy. the little cup that is made to hold so much can hold so much and no more, though all the purple vats of burgundy be filled with wine to the brim, and the treaders stand knee-deep in the gathered grapes of the stony vineyards of spain. there is no error more common than that of thinking that those who are the causes or occasions of great tragedies share in the feelings suitable to the tragic mood: no error more fatal than expecting it of them. the martyr in his 'shirt of flame' may be looking on the face of god, but to him who is piling the faggots or loosening the logs for the blast the whole scene is no more than the slaying of an ox is to the butcher, or the felling of a tree to the charcoal burner in the forest, or the fall of a flower to one who is mowing down the grass with a scythe. great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them.
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i know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than shakespeare's drawing of rosencrantz and guildenstern. they are hamlet's college friends. they have been his companions. they bring with them memories of pleasant days together. at the moment when they come across him in the play he is staggering under the weight of a burden intolerable to one of his temperament. the dead have come armed out of the grave to impose on him a mission at once too great and too mean for him. he is a dreamer, and he is called upon to act. he has the nature of the poet, and he is asked to grapple with the common complexity of cause and effect, with life in its practical realisation, of which he knows nothing, not with life in its ideal essence, of which he knows so much. he has no conception of what to do, and his folly is to feign folly. brutus used madness as a cloak to conceal the sword of his purpose, the dagger of his will, but the hamlet madness is a mere mask for the hiding of weakness. in the making of fancies and jests he sees a chance of delay. he keeps playing with action as an artist plays with a theory. he makes himself the spy of his proper actions, and listening to his own words knows them to be but 'words, words, words.' instead of trying to be the hero of his own history, he seeks to be the spectator of his own tragedy. he disbelieves in everything, including himself, and yet his doubt helps him not, as it comes not from scepticism but from a divided will.
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of all this guildenstern and rosencrantz realise nothing. they bow and smirk and smile, and what the one says the other echoes with sickliest intonation. when, at last, by means of the play within the play, and the puppets in their dalliance, hamlet 'catches the conscience' of the king, and drives the wretched man in terror from his throne, guildenstern and rosencrantz see no more in his conduct than a rather painful breach of court etiquette. that is as far as they can attain to in 'the contemplation of the spectacle of life with appropriate emotions.' they are close to his very secret and know nothing of it. nor would there be any use in telling them. they are the little cups that can hold so much and no more. towards the close it is suggested that, caught in a cunning spring set for another, they have met, or may meet, with a violent and sudden death. but a tragic ending of this kind, though touched by hamlet's humour with something of the surprise and justice of comedy, is really not for such as they. they never die. horatio, who in order to 'report hamlet and his cause aright to the unsatisfied,'
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'absents him from felicity a while, and in this harsh world draws his breath in pain,'
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i am to be released, if all goes well with me, towards the end of may, and hope to go at once to some little sea-side village abroad with r--- and m---.
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the sea, as euripides says in one of his plays about iphigeneia, washes away the stains and wounds of the world.
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i hope to be at least a month with my friends, and to gain peace and balance, and a less troubled heart, and a sweeter mood. i have a strange longing for the great simple primeval things, such as the sea, to me no less of a mother than the earth. it seems to me that we all look at nature too much, and live with her too little. i discern great sanity in the greek attitude. they never chattered about sunsets, or discussed whether the shadows on the grass were really mauve or not. but they saw that the sea was for the swimmer, and the sand for the feet of the runner. they loved the trees for the shadow that they cast, and the forest for its silence at noon. the vineyard-dresser wreathed his hair with ivy that he might keep off the rays of the sun as he stooped over the young shoots, and for the artist and the athlete, the two types that greece gave us, they plaited with garlands the leaves of the bitter laurel and of the wild parsley, which else had been of no service to men.
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we call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. we have forgotten that water can cleanse, and fire purify, and that the earth is mother to us all. as a consequence our art is of the moon and plays with shadows, while greek art is of the sun and deals directly with things. i feel sure that in elemental forces there is purification, and i want to go back to them and live in their presence.
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of course to one so modern as i am, 'enfant de mon siecle,' merely to look at the world will be always lovely. i tremble with pleasure when i think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that i shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be arabia for me. linnaeus fell on his knees and wept for joy when he saw for the first time the long heath of some english upland made yellow with the tawny aromatic brooms of the common furze; and i know that for me, to whom flowers are part of desire, there are tears waiting in the petals of some rose. it has always been so with me from my boyhood. there is not a single colour hidden away in the chalice of a flower, or the curve of a shell, to which, by some subtle sympathy with the very soul of things, my nature does not answer. like gautier, i have always been one of those 'pour qui le monde visible existe.'
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still, i am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with this spirit that i desire to become in harmony. i have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. the mystical in art, the mystical in life, the mystical in nature this is what i am looking for. it is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.
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all trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death; and three times have i been tried. the first time i left the box to be arrested, the second time to be led back to the house of detention, the third time to pass into a prison for two years. society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where i may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence i may weep undisturbed. she will hang the night with stars so that i may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
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chip, of the flying u
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by b. m. bower (b. m. sinclair)
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author of “the lure of the dim trails,” “her prairie knight,” “the lonesome trail,” etc.
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illustrations by charles m. russell
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came down with not a joint in his legs and turned a somersault
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“the last stand.”
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throwing herself from the saddle she slid precipitately into the washout, just as denver thundered up
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chapter i. -- the old man's sister.
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the weekly mail had just arrived at the flying u ranch. shorty, who had made the trip to dry lake on horseback that afternoon, tossed the bundle to the “old man” and was halfway to the stable when he was called back peremptorily.
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“shorty! o-h-h, shorty! hi!”
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shorty kicked his steaming horse in the ribs and swung round in the path, bringing up before the porch with a jerk.
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“where's this letter been?” demanded the old man, with some excitement. james g. whitmore, cattleman, would have been greatly surprised had he known that his cowboys were in the habit of calling him the old man behind his back. james g. whitmore did not consider himself old, though he was constrained to admit, after several hours in the saddle, that rheumatism had searched him out--because of his fourteen years of roughing it, he said. also, there was a place on the crown of his head where the hair was thin, and growing thinner every day of his life, though he did not realize it. the thin spot showed now as he stood in the path, waving a square envelope aloft before shorty, who regarded it with supreme indifference.
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not so shorty's horse. he rolled his eyes till the whites showed, snorted and backed away from the fluttering, white object.
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“doggone it, where's this been?” reiterated james g., accusingly.
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“how the devil do i know?” retorted shorty, forcing his horse nearer. “in the office, most likely. i got it with the rest to-day.”
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“it's two weeks old,” stormed the old man. “i never knew it to fail--if a letter says anybody's coming, or you're to hurry up and go somewhere to meet somebody, that letter's the one that monkeys around and comes when the last dog's hung. a letter asking yuh if yuh don't want to get rich in ten days sellin' books, or something, 'll hike along out here in no time. doggone it!”
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“you got a hurry-up order to go somewhere?” queried shorty, mildly sympathetic.
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“worse than that,” groaned james g. “my sister's coming out to spend the summer--t'-morrow. and no cook but patsy--and she can't eat in the mess house--and the house like a junk shop!”
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“it looks like you was up against it, all right,” grinned shorty. shorty was a sort of foreman, and was allowed much freedom of speech.
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“somebody's got to meet her--you have chip catch up the creams so he can go. and send some of the boys up here to help me hoe out a little. dell ain't used to roughing it; she's just out of a medical school--got her diploma, she was telling me in the last letter before this. she'll be finding microbes by the million in this old shack. you tell patsy i'll be late to supper--and tell him to brace up and cook something ladies like--cake and stuff. patsy'll know. i'd give a dollar to get that little runt in the office--”
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but shorty, having heard all that it was important to know, was clattering down the long slope again to the stable. it was supper time, and shorty was hungry. also, there was news to tell, and he was curious to see how the boys would take it. he was just turning loose the horse when supper was called. he hurried back up the hill to the mess house, performed hasty ablutions in the tin wash basin on the bench beside the door, scrubbed his face dry on the roller towel, and took his place at the long table within.
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“any mail for me?” jack bates looked up from emptying the third spoon of sugar into his coffee.
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“naw--she didn't write this time, jack.” shorty reached a long arm for the “mulligan stew.”
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“how's the dance coming on?” asked cal emmett.
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“i guess it's a go, all right. they've got them coons engaged to play. the hotel's fixing for a big crowd, if the weather holds like this. chip, old man wants you to catch up the creams, after supper; you've got to meet the train to-morrow.”
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“the noon train. no, he didn't say nothing about dunk. he wants a bunch of you fellows to go up and hoe out the white house and slick it up for comp'ny--got to be done t'-night. and patsy, old man says for you t' git a move on and cook something fit to eat; something that ain't plum full uh microbes.”
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shorty became suddenly engaged in cooling his coffee, enjoying the varied emotions depicted on the faces of the boys.
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shorty took two leisurely gulps before he answered:
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“old man's sister's coming out to stay all summer--and then some, maybe. be here to-morrow, he said.”
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“gee whiz! is she pretty?” this from cal emmett.
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“hope she ain't over fifty.” this from jack bates.
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“hope she ain't one of them four-eyed school-ma'ams,” added happy jack--so called to distinguish him from jack bates, and also because of his dolorous visage.
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“cal's too dangerous. he'd have the old girl dead in love before he got her over the first ridge, with them blue eyes and that pretty smile of his'n. it's up to you, splinter--old man said so.”
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“as to her age,” remarked shorty, “it's a cinch she ain't no spring chicken, seeing she's the old man's sister.”
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“is she a schoolma'am?” happy jack's distaste for schoolma'ams dated from his tempestuous introduction to the a b c's, with their daily accompaniment of a long, thin ruler.
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“no, she ain't a schoolma'am. she's a darn sight worse. she's a doctor.”
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“aw, come off!” cal emmett was plainly incredulous.
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“that's right. old man said she's just finished taking a course uh medicine--what'd yuh call that?”
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“consumption, maybe--or snakes.” weary smiled blandly across the table.
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“she got a diploma, though. now where do you get off at?”
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“yeah--that sure means she's a doctor,” groaned cal.
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“by golly, she needn't try t' pour any dope down me,” cried a short, fat man who took life seriously--a man they called slim, in fine irony.
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“gosh, i'd like to give her a real warm reception,” said jack bates, who had a reputation for mischief. “i know them eastern folks, down t' the ground. they think cow-punchers wear horns. yes, they do. they think we're holy terrors that eat with our six-guns beside our plates--and the like of that. they make me plum tired. i'd like to--wish we knew her brand.”
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“i can tell you that,” said chip, cynically. “there's just two bunches to choose from. there's the sweet young things, that faint away at sight of a six-shooter, and squawk and catch at your arm if they see a garter snake, and blush if you happen to catch their eye suddenly, and cry if you don't take off your hat every time you see them a mile off.” chip held out his cup for patsy to refill.
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“yeah--i've run up against that brand--and they're sure all right. they suit me,” remarked cal.
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“that don't seem to line up with the doctor's diploma,” commented weary.
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“well, she's the other kind then--and if she is, the lord have mercy on the flying u! she'll buy her some spurs and try to rope and cut out and help brand. maybe she'll wear double-barreled skirts and ride a man's saddle and smoke cigarettes. she'll try to go the men one better in everything, and wind up by making a darn fool of herself. either kind's bad enough.”
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“say,” interrupted cal, “don't yuh remember that picture the old man got last fall, of his sister? she was the image of the old man--and mighty near as old.”
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chip, thinking of the morrow's drive, groaned in real anguish of spirit.
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“you won't dast t' roll a cigarette comin' home, chip,” predicted happy jack, mournfully. “yuh want t' smoke double goin' in.”
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“say, chip,” suggested jack bates, “you size her up at the depot, and, if she don't look promising, just slack the lines on antelope hill. the creams 'll do the rest. if they don't, we'll finish the job here.”
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shorty tactfully pushed back his chair and rose. “you fellows don't want to git too gay,” he warned. “the old man's just beginning to forget about the calf-shed deal.” then he went out and shut the door after him. the boys liked shorty; he believed in the old adage about wisdom being bliss at certain times, and the boys were all the better for his living up to his belief. he knew the happy family would stop inside the limit--at least, they always had, so far.
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“what's the game?” demanded cal, when the door closed behind their indulgent foreman.
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“why, it's this. (pass the syrup, happy.) t'morrow's sunday, so we'll have time t' burn. we'll dig up all the guns we can find, and catch up the orneriest cayuses in our strings, and have a real, old lynching bee--sabe?”
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“who yuh goin' t' hang?” asked slim, apprehensively. “yuh needn't think i'll stand for it.”
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“that'd be all right. the old maid would sure know she was out west--we need something to add to the excitement, anyway.”
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“all right, splinter. we won't hang him there at all. that old cottonwood down by the creek would do fine. it'll curdle her blood like dutch cheese to see us marching him down there--and she can't see the hay sticking out of his sleeves, that far off.”
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“by golly, we'll stake her to a hay knife and tell her to go after him!” cried slim, suddenly waking up to the situation.
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the noon train slid away from the little, red depot at dry lake and curled out of sight around a hill. the only arrival looked expectantly into the cheerless waiting room, gazed after the train, which seemed the last link between her and civilization, and walked to the edge of the platform with a distinct frown upon the bit of forehead visible under her felt hat.
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a fat young man threw the mail sack into a weather-beaten buggy and drove leisurely down the track to the post office. the girl watched him out of sight and sighed disconsolately. all about her stretched the rolling grass land, faintly green in the hollows, brownly barren on the hilltops. save the water tank and depot, not a house was to be seen, and the silence and loneliness oppressed her.
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the agent was dragging some boxes off the platform. she turned and walked determinedly up to him, and the agent became embarrassed under her level look.
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“isn't there anyone here to meet me?” she demanded, quite needlessly. “i am miss whitmore, and my brother owns a ranch, somewhere near here. i wrote him, two weeks ago, that i was coming, and i certainly expected him to meet me.” she tucked a wind-blown lock of brown hair under her hat crown and looked at the agent reproachfully, as if he were to blame, and the agent, feeling suddenly that somehow the fault was his, blushed guiltily and kicked at a box of oranges.
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“whitmore's rig is in town,” he said, hastily. “i saw his man at dinner. the train was reported late, but she made up time.” grasping desperately at his dignity, he swallowed an abject apology and retreated into the office.
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miss whitmore followed him a few steps, thought better of it, and paced the platform self-pityingly for ten minutes, at the end of which the flying u rig whirled up in a cloud of dust, and the agent hurried out to help with the two trunks, and the mandolin and guitar in their canvas cases.
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the creams circled fearsomely up to the platform and stood quivering with eagerness to be off, their great eyes rolling nervously. miss whitmore took her place beside chip with some inward trepidation mingled with her relief. when they were quite ready and the reins loosened suggestively, pet stood upon her hind feet with delight and polly lunged forward precipitately.
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the girl caught her breath, and chip eyed her sharply from the corner of his eye. he hoped she was not going to scream--he detested screaming women. she looked young to be a doctor, he decided, after that lightning survey. he hoped to goodness she wasn't of the sweet young thing order; he had no patience with that sort of woman. truth to tell, he had no patience with any sort of woman.
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he spoke to the horses authoritatively, and they obeyed and settled to a long, swinging trot that knew no weariness, and the girl's heart returned to its normal action.
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two miles were covered in swift silence, then miss whitmore brought herself to think of the present and realized that the young man beside her had not opened his lips except to speak once to his team. she turned her head and regarded him curiously, and chip, feeling the scrutiny, grew inwardly defiant.
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miss whitmore decided, after a close inspection, that she rather liked his looks, though he did not strike her as a very amiable young man. perhaps she was a bit tired of amiable young men. his face was thin, and refined, and strong--the strength of level brows, straight nose and square chin, with a pair of paradoxical lips, which were curved and womanish in their sensitiveness; the refinement was an intangible expression which belonged to no particular feature but pervaded the whole face. as to his eyes, she was left to speculate upon their color, since she had not seen them, but she reflected that many a girl would give a good deal to own his lashes.
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of a sudden he turned his eyes from the trail and met her look squarely. if he meant to confuse her, he failed--for she only smiled and said to herself: “they're hazel.”
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“don't you think we ought to introduce ourselves?” she asked, composedly, when she was quite sure the eyes were not brown.
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“maybe.” chip's tone was neutrally polite.
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miss whitmore had suspected that he was painfully bashful, after the manner of country young men. she now decided that he was not; he was passively antagonistic.
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“of course you know that i'm della whitmore,” she said.
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“i took it for granted. i was sent to meet a miss whitmore at the train, and i took the only lady in sight.”
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“you took the right one--but i'm not--i haven't the faintest idea who you are.”
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“my name is claude bennett, and i'm happy to make your acquaintance.”
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“i don't believe it--you don't look happy,” said miss whitmore, inwardly amused.
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“that's the proper thing to say when you've been introduced to a lady,” remarked chip, noncommittally, though his lips twitched at the corners.
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miss whitmore, finding no ready reply to this truthful statement, remarked, after a pause, that it was windy. chip agreed that it was, and conversation languished.
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miss whitmore sighed and took to studying the landscape, which had become a succession of sharp ridges and narrow coulees, water-worn and bleak, with a purplish line of mountains off to the left. after several miles she spoke.
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“what is that animal over there? do dogs wander over this wilderness alone?”
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chip's eyes followed her pointing finger.
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“that's a coyote. i wish i could get a shot at him--they're an awful pest, out here, you know.” he looked longingly at the rifle under his feet. “if i thought you could hold the horses a minute--”
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“oh, i can't! i--i'm not accustomed to horses--but i can shoot a little.”
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chip gave her a quick, measuring glance. the coyote had halted and was squatting upon his haunches, his sharp nose pointed inquisitively toward them. chip slowed the creams to a walk, raised the gun and laid it across his knees, threw a shell into position and adjusted the sight.
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miss whitmore did not much like the skepticism in his tone, but she stood up, took quick, careful aim and fired.
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pet jumped her full length and reared, but chip was watching for some such performance and had them well under control, even though he was compelled to catch miss whitmore from lurching backward upon her baggage behind the seat--which would have been bad for the guitar and mandolin, if not for the young woman.
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the coyote had sprung high in air, whirled dizzily and darted over the hill.
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“you hit him,” cried chip, forgetting his prejudice for a moment. he turned the creams from the road, filled with the spirit of the chase. miss whitmore will long remember that mad dash over the hilltops and into the hollows, in which she could only cling to the rifle and to the seat as best she might, and hope that the driver knew what he was about--which he certainly did.
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“that's a fine shot. throw another shell in, quick! you better kneel on the seat, this time--the horses know what's coming. steady, polly, my girl!”
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miss whitmore glanced down the hill, and then, apprehensively, at the creams, who were clanking their bits, wild-eyed and quivering. only their master's familiar voice and firm grip on the reins held them there at all. chip saw and interpreted the glance, somewhat contemptuously.
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“oh, of course if you're afraid--”
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miss whitmore set her teeth savagely, knelt and fired, cutting the sentence short in his teeth and forcing his undivided attention to the horses, which showed a strong inclination to bolt.
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“i think i got him that time,” said she, nonchalantly, setting her hat straight--though chip, with one of his quick glances, observed that she was rather white around the mouth.
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he brought the horses dexterously into the road and quieted them.
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“aren't you going to get my coyote?” she ventured to ask.
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“certainly. the road swings back, down that same coulee, and we'll pass right by it. then i'll get out and pick him up, while you hold the horses.”
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“you'll hold those horses yourself,” returned miss whitmore, with considerable spirit. “i'd much rather pick up the coyote, thank you.”
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chip said nothing to this, whatever he may have thought. he drove up to the coyote with much coaxing of pet and polly, who eyed the gray object askance. miss whitmore sprang out and seized the animal by its coarse, bushy tail.
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“gracious, he's heavy!” she exclaimed, after one tug.
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“he's been fattening up on flying u calves,” remarked chip, his foot upon the brake.
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miss whitmore knelt and examined the cattle thief curiously.
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“look,” she said, “here's where i hit him the first time; the bullet took a diagonal course from the shoulder back to the other side. it must have gone within an inch of his heart, and would have finished him in a short time, without that other shot--that penetrated his brain, you see; death was instantaneous.”
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chip had taken advantage of the halt to roll a cigarette, holding the reins tightly between his knees while he did so. he passed the loose edge of the paper across the tip of his tongue, eying the young woman curiously the while.
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“you seem to be pretty well onto your job,” he remarked, dryly.
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“i ought to be,” she said, laughing a little. “i've been learning the trade ever since i was sixteen.”
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“yes? you began early.”
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“my uncle john is a doctor. i helped him in the office till he got me into the medical school. i was brought up in an atmosphere of antiseptics and learned all the bones in uncle john's 'boneparte'--the skeleton, you know--before i knew all my letters.” she dragged the coyote close to the wheel.
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“oh, he's dripping blood all over my mandolin case--and i just know it won't come out!” she tugged frantically at the instrument.
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“'out, damned spot!'” quoted chip in a sepulchral tone before he turned to assist her.
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miss whitmore let go the mandolin and stared blankly up at him, and chip, offended at her frank surprise that he should quote shakespeare, shut his lips tightly and relapsed into silence.
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chapter ii. -- over the “hog's back.”
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“that's flying u ranch,” volunteered chip, as they turned sharply to the right and began to descend a long grade built into the side of a steep, rocky bluff. below them lay the ranch in a long, narrow coulee. nearest them sprawled the house, low, white and roomy, with broad porches and wide windows; further down the coulee, at the base of a gentle slope, were the sheds, the high, round corrals and the haystacks. great, board gates were distributed in seemingly useless profusion, while barbed wire fences stretched away in all directions. a small creek, bordered with cottonwoods and scraggly willows, wound aimlessly away down the coulee.
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“j. g. doesn't seem to have much method,” remarked miss whitmore, after a critical survey. “what are all those log cabins scattered down the hill for? they look as though j. g. had a handful that he didn't want, and just threw them down toward the stable and left them lying where they happened to fall.”
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a chorus of shouts and shots arose from below. a scurrying group of horsemen burst over the hill behind the house, dashed half down the slope, and surrounded the bunk house with blood-curdling yells. chip held the creams to a walk and furtively watched his companion. miss whitmore's eyes were very wide open; plainly, she was astonished beyond measure at the uproar. whether she was also frightened, chip could not determine.
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the menacing yells increased in volume till the very hills seemed to cower in fear. miss whitmore gasped when a limp form was dragged from the cabin and lifted to the back of a snorting pony.
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“they've got a rope around that man's neck,” she breathed, in a horrified half whisper. “are--they--going to hang him?”
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“it kinda looks that way, from here,” said chip, inwardly ashamed. all at once it struck him as mean and cowardly to frighten a lady who had traveled far among strangers and who had that tired droop to her mouth. it wasn't a fair game; it was cheating. only for his promise to the boys, he would have told her the truth then and there.
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“hurry up,” she commanded, “so i can be in at the death. remember, i'm a doctor. they're tying him to his horse--he looks half dead with fright.”
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inwardly she added: “he overacts the part dreadfully.”
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the little cavalcade in the coulee fired a spectacular volley into the air and swept down the slope like a dry-weather whirlwind across a patch of alkali ground. through the big gate and up the road past the stables they thundered, the prisoner bound and helpless in their midst.
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then something happened. a wide-open river press, flapping impotently in the embrace of a willow, caught the eye of banjo, a little blaze--faced bay who bore the captive. he squatted, ducked backward so suddenly that his reins slipped from slim's fingers and lowered his head between his white front feet. his rider seemed stupid beyond any that banjo had ever known--and he had known many. snorting and pitching, he was away before the valiant band realized what was happening in their midst. the prisoner swayed drunkenly in the saddle. at the third jump his hat flew off, disclosing the jagged end of a two-by-four.
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the happy family groaned as one man and gave chase.
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banjo, with almost human maliciousness, was heading up the road straight toward chip and the woman doctor--and she must be a poor doctor indeed, and a badly frightened one, withal, if she failed to observe a peculiarity in the horse thief's cranium.
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cal emmett dug his spurs into his horse and shot by slim like a locomotive, shouting profanity as he went.
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“head him into the creek,” yelled happy jack, and leaned low over the neck of his sorrel.
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weary willie stood up in his stirrups and fanned glory with his hat. “yip, yee--e-e! go to it, banjo, old boy! watch his nibs ride, would yuh? he's a broncho buster from away back.” weary willie was the only man of them all who appeared to find any enjoyment in the situation.
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“if chip only had the sense to slow up and give us a chance--or spill that old maid over the bank!” groaned jack bates, and plied whip and spur to overtake the runaway.
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now the captive was riding dizzily, head downward, frightening banjo half out of his senses. what he had started as a grim jest, he now continued in deadly earnest; what was this uncanny semblance of a cow-puncher which he could not unseat, yet which clung so precariously to the saddle? he had no thought now of bucking in pure devilment--he was galloping madly, his eyes wild and staring.
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“hang tight, now--i'm going to beat that horse to the hog's back.”
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miss whitmore, laughing till the tears stood in her eyes, braced herself mechanically. chip had been laughing also--but that was before banjo struck into the hill road in his wild flight from the terror that rode in the saddle.
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a smart flick of the whip upon their glossy backs, and the creams sprang forward at a run. the buggy was new and strong, and if they kept the road all would be well--unless they met banjo upon the narrow ridge between two broad-topped knolls, known as the hog's back. another tap, and the creams ran like deer. one wheel struck a cobble stone, and the buggy lurched horribly.
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“stop! there goes my coyote!” cried miss whitmore, as a gray object slid down under the hind wheel.
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“hang on or you'll go next,” was all the comfort she got, as chip braced himself for the struggle before him. the hog's back was reached, but banjo was pounding up the hill beyond, his nostrils red and flaring, his sides reeking with perspiration. behind him tore the flying u boys in a vain effort to head him back into the coulee before mischief was done.
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chip drew his breath sharply when the creams swerved out upon the broad hilltop, just as banjo thundered past with nothing left of his rider but the legs, and with them shorn of their plumpness as the hay dribbled out upon the road.
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a fresh danger straightway forced itself upon chip's consciousness. the creams, maddened by the excitement, were running away. he held them sternly to the road and left the stopping of them to providence, inwardly thanking the lord that miss whitmore did not seem to be the screaming kind of woman.
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the “vigilantes” drew hastily out of the road and scudded out of sight down a gully as the creams lunged down the steep grade and across the shallow creek bed. fortunately the great gate by the stable swung wide open and they galloped through and up the long slope to the house, coming more under control at every leap, till, by a supreme effort, chip brought them, panting, to a stand before the porch where the old man stood boiling over with anxiety and excitement. james g. whitmore was not a man who took things calmly; had he been a woman he would have been called fussy.
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“what in--what was you making a race track out of the grade for,” he demanded, after he had bestowed a hasty kiss beside the nose of his sister.
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chip dropped a heavy trunk upon the porch and reached for the guitar before he answered.
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“i was just trying those new springs on the buggy.”
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“it was very exciting,” commented miss whitmore, airily. “i shot a coyote, j. g., but we lost it coming down the hill. your men were playing a funny game--hare and hounds, it looked like. or were they breaking a new horse?”
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the old man looked at chip, intelligence dawning in his face. there was something back of it all, he knew. he had been asleep when the uproar began, and had reached the door only in time to see the creams come down the grade like a daylight shooting star.
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chip took the reins from the old man's hands, sprang in and drove back down the hill to the stables.
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the “reception committee,” as chip sarcastically christened them, rounded up the runaway and sneaked back to the ranch by the coulee trail. with much unseemly language, they stripped the saddle and a flapping pair of overalls off poor, disgraced banjo, and kicked him out of the corral.
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“that's the way jack's schemes always pan out,” grumbled slim. “by golly, yuh don't get me into another jackpot like that!”
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“you might explain why you let that” (several kinds of) “cayuse get away from you!” retorted jack, fretfully. “if you'd been onto your job, things would have been smooth as silk.”
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“wonder what the old maid thought,” broke in weary, bent on preserving peace in the happy family.
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“i'll bet she never saw us at all!” laughed cal. “old splinter gave her all she wanted to do, hanging to the rig. the way he came down that grade wasn't slow. he just missed running into banjo on the hog's back by the skin of the teeth. if he had, it'd be good-by, doctor--and chip, too. gee, that was a close shave!”
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“well,” said happy jack, mournfully, “if we don't all get the bounce for this, i miss my guess. it's a little the worst we've done yet.”
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“except that time we tin-canned that stray steer, last winter,” amended weary, chuckling over the remembrance as he fastened the big gate behind them.
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“yes, that was another of jack's fool schemes,” put in slim. “go and tin-can a four-year-old steer and let him take after the old man and put him on the calf shed, first pass he made. old man was sure hot about that--by golly, it didn't help his rheumatism none.”
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“he'll sure go straight in the air over this,” reiterated happy jack, with mournful conviction.
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“there's old splinter at the bunk house--drawing our pictures, i'll bet a dollar. hey, chip! how you vas, already yet?” sung out weary, whose sunny temper no calamity could sour.
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chip glanced at them and went on cutting the leaves of a late magazine which he had purloined from the dry lake barber. cal emmett strode up and grabbed the limp, gray hat from his head and began using it for a football.
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“here! give that back!” commanded chip, laughing. “don't make a dish rag of my new john b. stetson, cal. it won't be fit for the dance.”
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“gee! it don't lack much of being a dish rag, now, if i'm any judge. now! great scott!” he held it at arm's length and regarded it derisively.
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“well, it was new two years ago,” explained chip, making an ineffectual grab at it.
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cal threw it to him and came and sat down upon his heels to peer over chip's arm at the magazine.
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“how's the old maid doctor?” asked jack bates, leaning against the door while he rolled a cigarette.
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“scared plum to death. i left the remains in the old man's arms.”
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“was she scared, honest?” cal left off studying the “types of fair women.”
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“what did she say when we broke loose?” jack drew a match sharply along a log.
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“nothing. well, yes, she said 'are they going to h-a-n-g that man?'” chip's voice quavered the words in a shrill falsetto.
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“the deuce she did!” jack indulged in a gratified laugh.
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“what did she say when you put the creams under the whip, up there? i don't suppose the old girl is wise to the fact that you saved her neck right then--but you sure did. you done yourself proud, splinter.” cal patted chip's knee approvingly.
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chip blushed under the praise and hastily answered the question.
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“she hollered out: 'stop! there goes my coyote!'”
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“what the devil was she doing with a coyote?”
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the happy family stood transfixed, and chip's eyes were seen to laugh.
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“her coyote. did any of you fellows happen to see a dead coyote up on the grade? because if you did, it's the doctor's.”
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weary willie walked deliberately over and seized chip by the shoulders, bringing him to his feet with one powerful yank.
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“don't you try throwing any loads into this crowd, young man. answer me truly-s'help yuh. how did that old maid come by a coyote--a dead one?”
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chip squirmed loose and reached for his cigarette book. “she shot it,” he said, calmly, but with twitching lips.
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“shot it!” five voices made up the incredulous echo.
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“what with?” demanded weary when he got his breath.
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“with my rifle. i brought it out from town today. bert rogers had left it at the barber shop for me.”
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“gee whiz! and them creams hating a gun like poison! she didn't shoot from the rig, did she?”
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“yes,” said chip, “she did. the first time she didn't know any better--and the second time she was hot at me for hinting she was scared. she's a spunky little devil, all right. she's busy hating me right now for running the grade--thinks i did it to scare her, i guess. that's all some fool women know.”
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“she's a howling sport, then!” groaned cal, who much preferred the sweet young things.
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“no--i sized her up as a maverick.”
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“what does she look like?”
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“how old is she?”
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“i never asked her age,” replied chip, his face lighting briefly in a smile. “as to her looks, she isn't cross-eyed, and she isn't four-eyed. that's as much as i noticed.” after this bald lie he became busy with his cigarette. “give me that magazine, cal. i didn't finish cutting the leaves.”
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chapter iii. -- silver.
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miss della whitmore gazed meditatively down the hill at the bunk house. the boys were all at work, she knew. she had heard j. g. tell two of them to “ride the sheep coulee fence,” and had been consumed with amazed curiosity at the order. wherefore should two sturdy young men be commanded to ride a fence, when there were horses that assuredly needed exercise--judging by their antics--and needed it badly? she resolved to ask j. g. at the first opportunity.
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the others were down at the corrals, branding a few calves which belonged on the home ranch. she had announced her intention of going to look on, and her brother, knowing how the boys would regard her presence, had told her plainly that they did not want her. he said it was no place for girls, anyway. then he had put on a very dirty pair of overalls and hurried down to help for he was not above lending a hand when there was extra work to be done.
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miss della whitmore tidied the kitchen and dusted the sitting room, and then, having a pair of mischievously idle hands and a very feminine curiosity, conceived an irrepressible desire to inspect the bunk house.
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j. g. would tell her that, also, was no place for girls, she supposed, but j. g. was not present, so his opinion did not concern her. she had been at the flying u ranch a whole week, and was beginning to feel that its resources for entertainment--aside from the masculine contingent, which held some promising material--were about exhausted. she had climbed the bluffs which hemmed the coulee on either side, had selected her own private saddle horse, a little sorrel named concho, and had made friends with patsy, the cook. she had dazzled cal emmett with her wiles and had found occasion to show chip how little she thought of him; a highly unsatisfactory achievement, since chip calmly over-looked her whenever common politeness permitted him.
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there yet remained the unexplored mystery of that little cabin down the slope, from which sounded so much boylike laughter of an evening. she watched and waited till she was positive the coast was clear, then clapped an old hat of j. g.'s upon her head and ran lightly down the hill.
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with her hand upon the knob, she ran her eye critically along the outer wall and decided that it had, at some remote date, been treated to a coat of whitewash; gave the knob a sudden twist, with a backward glance like a child stealing cookies, stepped in and came near falling headlong. she had not expected that remoteness of floor common to cabins built on a side hill.
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it was only a pencil sketch done on cheap, unruled tablet paper, but her mind dissolved into a chaos of interrogation marks and exclamation points--with the latter predominating more and more the longer she looked.
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it showed blunt-topped hills and a shallow coulee which she remembered perfectly. in the foreground a young woman in a smart tailored costume, the accuracy of which was something amazing, stood proudly surveying a dead coyote at her feet. in a corner of the picture stood a weather-beaten stump with a long, thin splinter beside it on the ground. underneath was written in characters beautifully symmetrical: “the old maid's credential card.”
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there was no gainsaying the likeness; even the rakish tilt of the jaunty felt hat, caused by the wind and that wild dash across country, was painstakingly reproduced. and the fanciful tucks on the sleeve of the gown--“and i didn't suppose he had deigned so much as a glance!” was her first coherent thought.
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miss whitmore's soul burned with resentment. no woman, even at twenty-three, loves to be called “the old maid”--especially by a keen-witted young man with square chin and lips with a pronounced curve to them. and whoever supposed the fellow could draw like that--and notice every tiny little detail without really looking once? of course, she knew her hat was crooked, with the wind blowing one's head off, almost, but he had no business: “the old maid's credential card!”--“old maid,” indeed!
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“the audacity of him!”
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miss whitmore wheeled quickly, her heart in the upper part of her throat, judging by the feel of it. chip himself stood just inside the door, eying her coldly.
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“i was not speaking,” said miss whitmore, haughtily, in futile denial.
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to this surprising statement chip had nothing to say. he went to one of the iron beds, stooped and drew out a bundle which, had miss whitmore asked him what it was, he would probably have called his “war sack.” she did not ask; she stood and watched him, though her conscience assured her it was a dreadfully rude thing to do, and that her place was up at the house. miss whitmore was frequently at odds with her conscience; at this time she stood her ground, backed by her pride, which was her chiefest ally in such emergencies.
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when he drew a huge, murderous-looking revolver from its scabbard and proceeded calmly to insert cartridge after cartridge, miss whitmore was constrained to speech.
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“are you--going to--shoot something?”
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the question struck them both as particularly inane, in view of his actions.
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miss whitmore hoped he wasn't going to murder anyone; he looked keyed up to almost any desperate deed.
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“who--what are you going to shoot?” really, the question asked itself.
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chip raised his eyes for a fleeting glance which took in the pencil sketch in her hand. miss whitmore observed that his eyes were much darker than hazel; they were almost black. and there was, strangely enough, not a particle of curve to his lips; they were thin, and straight, and stern.
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“silver. he broke his leg.”
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“oh!” there was real horror in her tone. miss whitmore knew all about silver from garrulous patsy. chip had rescued a pretty, brown colt from starving on the range, had bought him of the owner, petted and cared for him until he was now one of the best saddle horses on the ranch. he was a dark chestnut, with beautiful white, crinkly mane and tail and white feet. miss whitmore had seen chip riding him down the coulee trail only yesterday, and now--her heart ached with the pity of it.
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“how did it happen?”
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“i don't know. he was in the little pasture. got kicked, maybe.” chip jerked open the door with a force greatly in excess of the need of it.
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miss whitmore started impulsively toward him. her eyes were not quite clear.
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“don't--not yet! let me go. if it's a straight break i can set the bone and save him.”
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chip, savage in his misery, regarded her over one square shoulder.
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“are you a veterinary surgeon, may i ask?”
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miss whitmore felt her cheeks grow hot, but she stood her ground.
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“i am not. but a broken bone is a broken bone, whether it belongs to a man--or some other beast!”
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chip's way of saying yes was one of his chief weapons of annihilation. he had a peculiar, taunting inflection which he could give to it, upon occasion, which caused prickles of flesh upon the victim. to say that miss whitmore was not utterly quenched argues well for her courage. she only gasped, as though treated to an unexpected dash of cold water, and went on.
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“i'm sure i might save him if you'd let me try. or are you really eager to shoot him?”
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chip's muscles shrank. eager to shoot him--silver, the only thing that loved and understood him?
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“you may come and look at him, if you like,” he said, after a breath or two.
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miss whitmore overlooked the tolerance of the tone and stepped to his side, mechanically clutching the sketch in her fingers. it was chip, looking down at her from his extra foot of height, who called her attention to it.
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“are you thinking of using that for a plaster?”
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miss whitmore started and blushed, then, with an uptilt of chin:
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“if i need a strong irritant, yes!” she calmly rolled the paper into a tiny tube and thrust it into the front of her pink shirt-waist for want of a pocket--and chip, watching her surreptitiously, felt a queer grip in his chest, which he thought it best to set down as anger.
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silently they hurried down where silver lay, his beautiful, gleaming mane brushing the tender green of the young grass blades. he lifted his head when he heard chip's step, and neighed wistfully. chip bent over him, black agony in his eyes. miss whitmore, looking on, realized for the first time that the suffering of the horse was a mere trifle compared to that of his master. her eyes wandered to the loaded revolver which bulged his pocket behind, and she shuddered--but not for silver. she went closer and laid her hand upon the shimmery mane. the horse snorted nervously and struggled to rise.
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“he's not used to a woman,” said chip, with a certain accent of pride. “i guess this is the closest he's ever been to one. you see, he's never had any one handle him but me.”
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“then he certainly is no lady's horse,” said miss whitmore, good-naturedly. somehow, in the last moment, her attitude toward chip had changed considerably. “try and make him let me feel the break.”
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with much coaxing and soothing words it was accomplished, and it did not take long, for it was a front leg, broken straight across, just above the fetlock. miss whitmore stood up and smiled into the young man's eyes, conscious of a desire to bring the curve back into his lips.
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chip drew the back of his gloved hand quickly across his eyes and swallowed.
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“miss whitmore--if you could save old silver--”
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miss whitmore, the self-contained young medical graduate, blinked rapidly and found urgent need of tucking in wind-blown, brown locks, with her back to the tall cow-puncher who had unwittingly dropped his mask for an instant. she took off j. g.'s old hat, turned it clean around twice and put it back exactly as it was before; unless the tilt over her left ear was a trifle more pronounced. show me the woman who can set a hat straight upon her head without aid of a mirror!
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“we must get him up from there and into a box stall. there is one, isn't there?”
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“y--e-s--” chip hesitated. “i wouldn't ask the old--your brother, for the use of it, though; not even for silver.”
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“i will,” returned she, promptly. “i never feel any compunction about asking for what i want--if i can't get it any other way. i can't understand why you wanted to shoot--you must have known this bone could be set.”
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“i didn't want to--” chip bent over and drove a fly from silver's shoulder. “when a horse belonging to the outfit gets crippled like that, he makes coyote bait. a forty-dollar cow-puncher can't expect any better for his own horse.”
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“whom shall i get?” she called back.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN whom__<label>__VERB shall__<label>__PRT i__<label>__PRON get__<label>__VERB ?âĢĿ__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON called__<label>__VERB back__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
“weary, if you can--and slim's a good hand with horses, too.”
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“slim--is that the tall, lanky man?”
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“no--he's the short, fat one. that bean-pole is shorty.”
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miss whitmore fixed these facts firmly in her memory and ran swiftly to where rose all the dust and noise from the further corral. she climbed up until she could look conveniently over the top rail. the fence seemed to her dreadfully high--a clear waste of straight, sturdy poles.
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“baw--h-h-h!” came answer from a wholly unexpected source as a big, red cow charged and struck the fence under her feet a blow which nearly dislodged her from her perch. the cow recoiled a few steps and lowered her head truculently.
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“scat! shoo, there! go on away, you horrid old thing you! oh, j. g--e-e-e!”
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“dell! what in thunder the you doing on that fence?” he shouted across the corral.
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“what in thunder are you doing on the fence, j. g.?” she flung back at him.
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the old man climbed shamefacedly down, followed by the others. “is that what you call 'getting put in the clear'?” asked she, genially. “i see now--it means clear on the top rail.”
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“you go back to the house and stay there!” commanded j. g., wrathfully. the boys were showing unmistakable symptoms of mirth, and the laugh was plainly against the old man.
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“oh, no,” came her voice, honey-sweet and calm. “shoo that cow this way again, will you, mr..weary? i like to watch j. g. shin up the fence. it's good for him; it makes one supple, and j. g.'s actually getting fat.”
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“hurry along with that calf!” shouted the old man, recovering the branding iron and turning his back on his tormentor.
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the boys, beyond grinning furtively at one another, behaved with quite praiseworthy gravity. miss whitmore watched while weary dragged a spotted calf up to the fire and the boys threw it to the ground and held it until the old man had stamped it artistically with a smoking u.
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“oh, j. g.!”
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“ain't you gone yet? what d'yuh want?”
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“silver broke his leg.”
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“huh. i knew that long ago. chip's gone to shoot him. you go on to the house, doggone it! you'll have every cow in the corral on the fight. that red waist of yours--”
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“it isn't red, it's pink--a beautiful rose pink. if your cows don't like it, they'll have to be educated up to it. chip isn't either going to shoot that horse, j. g. i'm going to set his leg and cure him--and i'm going to keep him in one of your box stalls. there, now!”
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cal emmett took a sudden fit of coughing and leaned his forehead weakly against a rail, and weary got into some unnecessary argument with his horse and bolted across to the gate, where his shoulders were seen to shake--possibly with a nervous chill; the bravest riders are sometimes so affected. nobody laughed, however. indeed, slim seemed unusually serious, even for him, while happy jack looked positively in pain.
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“i want that short, fat man to help” (slim squirmed at this blunt identification of himself) “and mr. weary, also.” miss whitmore might have spoken with a greater effect of dignity had she not been clinging to the top of the fence with two dainty slipper toes thrust between the rails not so very far below. under the circumstances, she looked like a pretty, spoiled little schoolgirl.
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“oh. you've turned horse doctor, have yuh?” j. g. leaned suddenly upon his branding iron and laughed. “doggone it, that ain't a bad idea. i've got two box stalls, and there's an old gray horse in the pasture--the same old gray horse that come out uh the wilderness--with a bad case uh string-halt. i'll have some uh the boys ketch him up and you can start a horsepital!”
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“is that supposed to be a joke, j. g.? i never can tell your jokes by ear. if it is, i'll laugh. i'm going to use whatever i need and you can do without mr.--er--those two men.”
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“oh, go ahead. the horse don't belong to me, so i'm willing you should practice on him a while. say! dell! give him that truck you've been pouring down me for the last week. maybe he'll relish the taste of the doggone stuff--i don't.”
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“i suppose you've labeled that a 'joke--please laugh here,'” sighed miss whitmore, plaintively, climbing gingerly down.
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“i guess i'll go down to denson's to-day,” said j. g. at the breakfast table one morning. “maybe we can get that grass widow to come and keep house for us.”
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“i don't want any old grass widow to keep house,” protested della. “i'm getting along well enough, so long as patsy bakes the bread, and meat, and cake, and stuff. it's just fun to keep house. the only trouble is, there isn't half enough to keep me busy. i'm going to get a license to practice medicine, so if there's any sickness around i can be of some use. you say it's fifty miles to the nearest doctor. but that needn't make a grass widow necessary. i can keep house--it looks better than when i came, and you know it.” which remark would have hurt the feelings of several well-meaning cow-punchers, had they overheard it.
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“oh, i ain't finding fault with your housekeeping--you do pretty well for a green hand. but patsy'll have to go with the round-up when it starts, and what men i keep on the ranch will have to eat with us. that's the way i've been used to fixing things; i was never so good i couldn't eat at the same table with my men; if they wasn't fit for my company i fired 'em and got fellows that was. i've had this bunch a good long while, now. you can do all right with just me, but you couldn't cook for two or three men; you can't cook good enough, even if it wasn't too much work.” j. g. had a blunt way of stating disagreeable facts, occasionally.
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“very well, get your grass widow by all means,” retorted she with much wasted dignity.
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“she's a swell cook, and a fine housekeeper, and shell keep yuh from getting lonesome. she's good company, the countess is.” he grinned when he said it “i'll have chip ketch up the creams, and you get ready and go along with us. it'll give you a chance to size up the kind uh neighbors yuh got.”
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there was real pleasure in driving swiftly over the prairie land, through the sweet, spring sunshine, and miss whitmore tingled with enthusiasm till they drove headlong into a deep coulee which sheltered the denson family.
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“this road is positively dangerous!” she exclaimed when they reached a particularly steep place and chip threw all his weight upon the brake.
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“we'll get the countess in beside yuh, coming back, and then yuh won't rattle around in the seat so much. she's good and solid--just hang onto her and you'll be all right,” said j. g.
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“if i don't like her looks--and i know i won't--i'll get into the front seat and you can hang onto her yourself, mr. j. g. whitmore.”
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chip, who had been silent till now, glanced briefly over his shoulder.
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“it's a cinch you'll take the front seat,” he remarked, laconically.
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“j. g., if you hire a woman like that--”
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“like what? doggone it, it takes a woman to jump at conclusions! the countess is all right. she talks some--”
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“i'd tell a man she does!” broke in chip, tersely.
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“well, show me the woman that don't! don't you be bluffed so easy, dell. i never seen the woman yet that chip had any time for. the countess is all right, and she certainly can cook! i admit she talks consider'ble--”
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chip laughed grimly, and the old man subsided.
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at the house a small, ginger-whiskered man came down to the gate to greet them.
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“why, how--de-do! i couldn't make out who 't was comin', but mary, she up an' rek'nized the horses. git right out an' come on in! we've had our dinner, but i guess the wimmin folks can scare ye up a bite uh suthin'. this yer sister? we heard she was up t' your place. she the one that set one uh your horse's leg? bill, he was tellin' about it. i dunno as wimmin horse doctors is very common, but i dunno why not. i get a horse with somethin' the matter of his foot, and i dunno what. i'd like t' have ye take a look at it, fore ye go. 'course, i expect t' pay ye.”
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the old man winked appreciatively at chip before he came humanely to the rescue and explained that his sister was not a horse doctor, and mr. denson, looking very disappointed, reiterated his invitation to enter.
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mrs. denson, a large woman who narrowly escaped being ginger-whiskered like her husband, beamed upon them from the doorway.
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“come right on in! louise, here's comp'ny! the house is all tore up--we been tryin' t' clean house a little. lay off yer things an' i'll git yuh some dinner right away. i'm awful glad yuh come over--i do hate t' see folks stand on cer'mony out here where neighbors is so skurce. i guess yuh think we ain't been very neighborly, but we been tryin' t' clean house, an' me an' louise ain't had a minute we could dast call our own, er we'd a been over t' seen yuh before now. yuh must git awful lonesome, comin' right out from the east where neighbors is thick. do lay off yer things!”
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della looked appealingly at j. g., who again came to the rescue. somehow he made himself heard long enough to explain their errand, and to emphasize the fact that they were in a great hurry, and had eaten dinner before they started from home. in his sister's opinion he made one exceedingly rash statement. he said that he wished to hire mrs. denson's sister for the summer. mrs. denson immediately sent a shrill call for louise.
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then appeared the countess, tall, gaunt and muscular, with sallow skin and a nervous manner.
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“the front seat or walk!” declared miss whitmore, mentally, after a brief scrutiny and began storing up a scathing rebuke for j. g.
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“louise, this is miss whitmore,” began mrs. denson, cheerfully, fortified by a fresh lungful of air. “they're after yuh t' go an' keep house for 'em, an' i guess yuh better go, seein' we got the house cleaned all but whitewashin' the cellar an' milk room an' kals'minin' the upstairs, an' i'll make bill do that, an' 't won't hurt him a mite. they'll give yuh twenty-five dollars a month an' keep yuh all summer, an' as much longer as his sister stays. i guess yuh might as well go, fer they can't git anybody else that'll keep things up in shape an' be comp'ny fer his sister, an' i b'lieve in helpin' a neighbor out when yuh can. you go right an' pack up yer trunk, an' don't worry about me--i'll git along somehow, now the house-cleanin's most done.”
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“an' as i told louise, folks has got t' put up with things an' not be huntin' trouble with a club all the time, if they expect t' git any comfort out uh this life. we ain't had the best uh luck, seems t' me, but we always git along somehow, an' we ain't had no sickness except when--”
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a confused uproar arose in the room above them, followed, immediately by a humpety bump and a crash as a small, pink object burst open a door and rolled precipitately into their midst. it proved to be one of the little densons, who kicked feebly with both feet and then lay still.
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“mercy upon us! ellen, who pushed sary down them stairs? she's kilt!”
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della sprang up and lifted the child in her arms, passing her hand quickly over the head and plump body.
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“bring a little cold water, mrs. denson. she's only stunned, i think.”
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“well, it does beat all how handy you go t' work. anybody c'd see t' you know your business. i'm awful glad you was here--there, darlin', don't cry--ellen, an' josephine, an' sybilly, an' margreet, you come down here t' me!”
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the quartet, snuffling and reluctant, was dragged ignominiously to the middle of the floor and there confessed, 'mid tears and much recrimination, that they had been peeping down at the “comp'ny” through various knot-holes in the chamber floor; that, as sary's knot-hole was next the wall, her range of vision was restricted to the thin spot upon the crown of j. g.'s head, and the back of his neck. sary longed for sight of the woman horse doctor, and when she essayed to crowd in and usurp ellen's point of vantage, there ensued a war of extermination which ended in the literal downfall of sary.
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by the time this checked-apron court of inquiry adjourned, louise appeared and said she believed she was ready, and miss whitmore escaped from the house far in advance of the others--and such were chip's telepathic powers that he sprang down voluntarily and assisted her to the front seat without a word being said by either.
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followed a week of dullness at the ranch, with the countess scrubbing and dusting and cleaning from morning till night. the little doctor, as the bunk house had christened her, was away attending the state medical examination at helena.
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“gee-whiz!” sighed cal on sunday afternoon. “it seems mighty queer without the little doctor around here, sassing the old man and putting the hull bunch of us on the fence about once a day. if it wasn't for len adams--”
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“it wouldn't do you any good to throw a nasty loop at the little doctor,” broke in weary, “'cause she's spoken for, by all signs and tokens. there's some fellow back east got a long rope on her.”
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“you got the papers for that?” jeered cal. “the little doctor don't act the way i'd want my girl t' act, supposin' i was some thousand or fifteen hundred miles off her range. she ain't doing no pining, i tell yuh those.”
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“she's doing a lot of writing, though. i'll bet money, if we called the roll right here, you'd see there's been a letter a week hittin' the trail to one dr. cecil granthum, gilroy, ohio.”
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“that's what,” agreed jack bates. “i packed one last week, myself.”
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“i done worse than that,” said weary, blandly. “i up and fired a shot at her, after the second one she handed me. i says, as innocent: 'i s'pose, if i lost this, there'd be a fellow out on the next train with blood in his eye and a six-gun in both hands, demanding explanations'--and she flashed them dimples on me and twinkled them big, gray eyes of hers, and says: 'it's up to you to carry it safe, then,' or words to that effect. i took notice she didn't deny but what he would.”
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“two doctors in one family--gee whiz!” mused cal. “if i hadn't got the only girl god ever made right, i'd give one dr. cecil granthum, of gilroy, ohio, a run for his money, i tell yuh those. i'd impress it upon him that a man's taking long chances when he stands and lets his best girl stampede out here among us cow-punchers for a change uh grass. that fellow needs looking after; he ain't finished his education. jacky, you ain't got a female girl yanking your heart around, sail in and show us what yuh can do in that line.”
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“nit,” said jack bates, briefly. “my heart's doing business at the old stand and doing it satisfactory and proper. i don't want to set it to bucking--over a girl that wouldn't have me at any price. let slim. the little doctor's half stuck on him, anyhow.”
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while the boys amused themselves in serious debate with slim, chip put away his magazine and went down to visit silver in the box stall. he was glad they had not attempted to draw him into the banter--they had never once thought to do so, probably, though he had been thrown into the company of the little doctor more than any of the others, for several good reasons. he had broken the creams to harness, and always drove them, for the old man found them more than he cared to tackle. and there was silver, with frequent discussions over his progress toward recovery and some argument over his treatment--for chip had certain ideas of his own concerning horses, and was not backward about expressing them upon occasion.
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that the little doctor should write frequent letters to a man in the east did not concern him--why should it? still, a fellow without a home and without some woman who cares for him, cannot escape having his loneliness thrust upon him at times. he wondered why he should care. surely, ten years of living his life alone ought to kill that latent homesickness which used to hold him awake at nights. sometimes even of late years, when he stood guard over the cattle at night, and got to thinking--oh, it was hell to be all alone in the world!
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there were cal and weary, they had girls who loved them--and they were sure welcome to them. and jack bates and happy jack had sisters and mothers--and even slim had an old maid aunt who always knit him a red and green pair of wristlets for christmas. chip, smoothing mechanically the shimmery, white mane of his pet, thought he might be contented if he had even an old maid aunt--but he would see that she made his wristlets of some other color than those bestowed every year upon slim.
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as for the little doctor, it would be something strange if she had gone through life without having some fellow in love with her. probably, if the truth was known, there had been more than dr. cecil granthum--bah, what a sickening name! cecil! it might as well be adolphus or regie or--what does a man want to pack around a name like that for? probably he was the kind of man that the name sounded like; a dude with pink cheeks.
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chip knew just how he looked. inspiration suddenly seizing upon him, he sat down upon the manger, drew his memorandum book out of his inner coat pocket, carefully sharpened a bit of lead pencil which he found in another pocket, tore a leaf from the book, and, with silver looking over his shoulder, drew a graphic, ideal picture of dr. cecil granthum.
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“oh, are you here? it's a wonder you don't have your bed brought down here, so you can sleep near silver. how has he been doing since i left?”
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chip simply sat still upon the edge of the manger and stared. his gray hat was pushed far back upon his head and his dark hair waved and curled upon his forehead, very much as a girl's might have done. he did not know that he was a very good-looking young man, but perhaps the little doctor did. she smiled and came up and patted silver, who had forgotten that he ever had objected to her nearness. he nickered a soft welcome and laid his nose on her shoulder.
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“you've been drawing a picture. who's the victim of your satirical pencil this time?” the little doctor, reaching out quickly, calmly appropriated the sketch before chip had time to withdraw it, even if he had cared to do so. he was busy wondering how the little doctor came to be there at that particular time, and had forgotten the picture, which he had not quite finished labeling.
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“dr. cecil--” miss whitmore turned red at first, then broke into laughter. “oh--h, ha! ha! ha! silver, you don't know how funny this master of yours can be! ha! ha!” she raised her head from silver's neck, where it had rested, and wiped her eyes.
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“how did you know about cecil?” she demanded of a very discomfited young man upon the manger.
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“i didn't know--and i didn't want to know. i heard the boys talking and joshing about him, and i just drew--their own conclusions.” chip grinned a little and whittled at his pencil, and wondered how much of the statement was a lie.
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miss whitmore tamed red again, and ended by laughing even more heartily than at first.
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“their conclusions aren't very complimentary,” she said. “i don't believe dr. cecil would feel flattered at this. why those bowed legs, may i ask, and wherefore that long, lean, dyspeptic visage? dr. cecil, let me inform you, has a digestion that quails not at deviled crabs and chafing-dish horrors at midnight, as i have abundant reason to know. i have seen dr. cecil prepare a welsh rabbit and--eat it, also, with much relish, apparently. oh, no, their conclusions weren't quite correct. there are other details i might mention--that cane, for instance--but let it pass. i shall keep this, i think, as a companion to 'the old maid's credential card.'”
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“are you in the habit of keeping other folk's property?” inquired chip, with some acerbity.
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“nothing but personal caricatures--and hearts, perhaps,” returned the little doctor, sweetly.
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“still, i added to the collection to-day,” pursued miss whitmore, calmly. “i shared my seat in the train with j. g.'s silent partner (i did not find him silent, however), mr. duncan whitaker. he hired a team in dry lake and we came out together, and i believe--please don't mention dr. cecil granthum to him, will you?”
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chip wished, quite savagely, that she wouldn't let those dimples dodge into her cheeks, and the laugh dodge into her eyes, like that. it made a fellow uncomfortable. he was thoroughly disgusted with her--or he would be, if she would only stop looking like that. he was in that state of mind where his only salvation, seemingly, lay in quarreling with some one immediately.
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“so old dunk's come back? if you've got his heart, you must have gone hunting it with a microscope, for it's a mighty small one--almost as small as his soul. no one else even knew he had one. you ought to have it set in a ring, so you won't lose it.”
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“i don't wear phony jewelry, thank you,” said miss whitmore, and chip thought dimples weren't so bad after all.
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the little doctor was weaving silver's mane about her white fingers and meditating deeply. chip wondered if she were thinking of dr. cecil.
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“where did you learn to draw like that?” she asked, suddenly, turning toward him. “you do much better than i, and i've always been learning from good teachers. did you ever try painting?”
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chip blushed and looked away from her. this was treading close to his deep-hidden, inner self.
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“i don't know where i learned. i never took a lesson in my life, except from watching people and horses and the country, and remembering the lines they made, you know. i always made pictures, ever since i can remember--but i never tried colors very much. i never had a chance, working around cow-camps and on ranches.”
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“i'd like to have you look over some of my sketches and things--and i've paints and canvas, if you ever care to try that. come up to the house some evening and i'll show you my daubs. they're none of them as good as 'the old maid.'”
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“i wish you'd tear that thing up!” said chip, vehemently.
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“why? the likeness is perfect. one would think you were designer for a fashion paper, the way you got the tucks in my sleeve and the braid on my collar--and you might have had the kindness to tell me my hat was on crooked, i think!”
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there was a rustle in the loose straw, a distant slam of the stable door, and chip sat alone with his horse, whittling abstractedly at his pencil till his knife blade grated upon the metal which held the eraser.
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chapter vi. -- the hum of preparation.
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miss whitmore ran down to the blacksmith shop, waving an official-looking paper in her hand.
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“i've got it, j. g.!”
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“got what--smallpox?” j. g. did not even look up from the iron he was welding.
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“no, my license. i'm a really, truly doctor now, and you needn't laugh, either. you said you'd give a dance if i passed, and i did. happy jack brought it just now.”
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“brought the dance?” the old man gave the bellows a pull which sent a shower of sparks toward the really, truly doctor.
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“brought the license,” she explained, patiently. “you can see for yourself. they were awfully nice to me--they seemed to think a girl doctor is some kind of joke out here. they didn't make it any easier, though; they acted as if they didn't expect me to pass--but i did!”
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the old man rubbed one smutty hand down his trousers leg and extended it for the precious document. “let me have a look at it,” he said, trying to hide his pride in her.
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“well, but i'll hold it. your hands are dirty.” dr. whitmore eyed the hands disapprovingly.
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the old man read it slowly through, growing prouder every line.
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“you're all right, dell--i'll be doggoned if you ain't. don't you worry about the dance--i'll see't yuh get it. you go tell the countess to bake up a lot of cake and truck, and i'll send some uh the boys around t' tell the neighbors. better have it friday night, i guess--i'm goin t' start the round-up out early next week. doggone it! i've gone and burned that weldin'. go on and stop your botherin' me!”
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in two minutes the little doctor was back, breathless.
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“what about the music, j. g.? we want good music.”
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“well, i'll tend t' that part. say! you can rig up that room off the dining room for your office--i s'pose you'll have to have one. you make out a list of what dope you want--and be sure yuh get a-plenty. i look for an unhealthy summer among the cow-punchers. if i ain't mistook in the symptoms, dunk's got palpitation uh the heart right now--an' got it serious.”
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the old man chuckled to himself and went back to his welding.
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“oh, louise!” the little doctor hurried to where the countess was scrubbing the kitchen steps with soft soap and sand and considerable energy. “j. g. says i may have a dance next friday night, so we must hurry and fix the house--only i don't see much fixing to be done; everything is so clean.”
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“oh, there ain't a room in the house fit fer comp'ny t' walk into,” expostulated the countess while she scrubbed. “i do like t' see a house clean when folks is expected that only come t' be critical an' make remarks behind yer back the minit they git away. if folks got anything t' say i'd a good deal ruther they said it t' my face an' be done with it. 'yuh can know a man's face but yuh can't know his heart,' as the sayin' is, an' it's the same way with women--anyway, it's the same way with mis' beckman. you can know her face a mile off, but yuh never know who she's goin' t' rake over the coals next. as the sayin' is: 'the tongue of a woman, at last it biteth like a serpent an' it stingeth like an addle,' an' i guess it's so. anyway, mis' beckman's does. i do b'lieve on my soul--what's the matter, dell? what yuh laughin' at?”
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the little doctor was past speech for the moment, and the countess stood up and looked curiously around her. it never occurred to her that she might be the cause of that convulsive outburst.
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“oh--he--never mind--he's gone, now.”
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“who's gone?” persisted the countess.
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“what kinds of cake do you think we ought to have?” asked the little doctor, diplomatically.
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the countess sank to her knees and dipped a handful of amber, jelly-like soap from a tin butter can.
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“well, i don't know. i s'pose folks will look for something fancy, seein' you're givin' the dance. mis' beckman sets herself up as a shinin' example on cake, and she'll come just t' be critical an' find fault, if she can. if i can't bake all around her the best day she ever seen, i'll give up cookin' anything but spuds. she had the soggiest kind uh jelly roll t' the su'prise on mary last winter. i know it was hern, fer i seen her bring it in, an' i went straight an' ondone it. i guess it was kinda mean uh me, but i don't care--as the sayin' is: 'what's sass fer the goose is good enough sass fer anybody'--an' she done the same trick by me, at the su'prise at adamses last fall. but she couldn't find no kick about my cake, an' hers--yuh c'd of knocked a cow down with it left-handed! if that's the best she c'n do on cake i'd advise 'er to keep the next batch t' home where they're used to it. they say't 'what's one man's meat 's pizen t' the other feller,' and i guess it's so enough. maybe mame an' the rest uh them beckman kids can eat sech truck without comin' down in a bunch with gastakutus, but i'd hate t' tackle it myself.”
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the little doctor gurgled. this was a malady which had not been mentioned at the medical college.
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“where shall we set the tables, if we dance in the dining room?” she asked, having heard enough of the beckmans for the present.
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“why, we won't set any tables. folks always have a lap supper at ranch dances. at the su'prise on mary--”
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“what is a lap supper?”
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“well, my stars alive! where under the shinin' sun was you brought up if yuh never heard of a lap supper? a lap supper is where folks set around the walls--or any place they can find--and take the plates on their laps and yuh pass 'em stuff. the san'wiches--”
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“you do make such beautiful bread!” interrupted the little doctor, very sincerely.
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“well, i ain't had the best uh luck, lately, but i guess it does taste good after that bread yuh had when i come. soggy was no name for--”
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“patsy made that bread,” interposed miss whitmore, hastily. “he had bad luck, and--”
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“i guess he did!” sniffed the countess, contemptuously. “as i told mary when i come--”
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“i wonder how many cakes we'll need?” miss whitmore, you will observe, had learned to interrupt when she had anything to say. it was the only course to pursue with anyone from denson coulee.
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the countess, having finished her scrubbing, rose jerkily and upset the soap can, which rolled over and over down the steps, leaving a yellow trail as it went.
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“well, there, if that wasn't a bright trick uh mine? they say the more yuh hurry the less yuh'll git along, an' that's a sample. we'd ought t' have five kinds, an' about four uh each kind. it wouldn't do t' run out, er mis' beckman never would let anybody hear the last of it. down t' mary's--”
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“twenty cakes! good gracious! i'll have to order my stock of medicine, for i'll surely have a houseful of patients if the guests eat twenty cakes.”
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“well, as the sayin' is: 'patience an' perseverance can git away with most anything,'” observed the countess, naively.
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the little doctor retired behind her handkerchief.
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“my stars alive, i do b'lieve my bread's beginnin' t' scorch!” cried the countess, and ran to see. the little doctor followed her inside and sat down.
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“we must make a list of the things we'll need, louise. you--”
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“dell! oh-h. dell!” the voice of the old man resounded from the parlor.
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“i'm in the kitchen!” called she, remaining where she was. he tramped heavily through the house to her.
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“i'll send the rig in, t'morrow, if there's anything yuh want,” he remarked. “and if you'll make out a list uh dope, i'll send the order in t' the falls. we've got plenty uh saws an' cold chisels down in the blacksmith shop--you can pick out what yuh want.” he dodged and grinned. “got any cake, countess?”
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“well, there ain't a thing cooked, hardly. i'm going t' bake up something right after dinner. here's some sponge cake--but it ain't fit t' eat, hardly. i let dell look in the oven, 'cause my han's was all over flour, an' she slammed the door an' it fell. but yuh can't expect one person t' know everything--an' too many han's can't make decent soup, as the sayin' is, an' it's the same way with cake.”
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the old man winked at the little doctor over a great wedge of feathery delight. “i don't see nothing the matter with this--only it goes down too easy,” he assured the countess between mouthfuls. “fix up your list, dell, and don't be afraid t' order everything yuh need. i'll foot the--”
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the old man, thinking to go back to his work, stepped into the puddle of soft soap and sat emphatically down upon the top step, coasting rapidly to the bottom. a carpet slipper shot through the open door and landed in the dishpan; the other slipper disappeared mysteriously. the wedge of cake was immediately pounced upon by an investigative hen and carried in triumph to her brood.
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“good lord!” j. g. struggled painfully to his feet. “dell, who in thunder put that stuff there? you're a little too doggoned anxious for somebody t' practice on, seems t' me.” a tiny trickle of blood showed in the thin spot on his head.
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“huh! i see yuh spilled the soap, all right enough. i'm willin' to believe yuh did without no affidavit. doggone it, a bachelor never has any such a man-trap around in a fellow's road. i've lived in montana fourteen years, an' i never slipped up on my own doorstep till you got here. it takes a woman t' leave things around--where's my cake?”
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“old specie took it down by the bunk house. shall i go after it?”
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“no, you needn't. doggone it, this wading through ponds uh soft soap has got t' stop right here. i never had t' do it when i was baching, i notice.” he essayed, with the aid of a large splinter, to scrape the offending soap from his trousers.
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“certainly, you didn't. bachelors never use soap,” retorted della.
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“oh, they don't, hey? that's all you know about it. they don't use this doggoned, slimy truck, let me tell yuh. what d'yuh want, chip? oh, you've got t' grin, too! dell, why don't yuh do something fer my head? what's your license good f er, i'd like t' know? you didn't see dell's license, did yuh, chip? go and get it an' show it to him, dell. it's good fer everything but gitting married--there ain't any cure for that complaint.”
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an electrical undercurrent of expectation pervaded the very atmosphere of flying u ranch. the musicians, two supercilious but undeniably efficient young men from great falls, had arrived two hours before and were being graciously entertained by the little doctor up at the house. the sandwiches stood waiting, the coffee was ready for the boiling water, and the dining-room floor was smooth as wax could make it.
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there, that was her, laughing like she always laughed--it reminded him of pines nodding in a canyon and looking wise and whispering things they'd seen and heard before you were born, and of water falling over rocks, somehow. queer, maybe--but it did. he wondered if dick brown had been trying to say something funny. he didn't see, for the life of him, how the little doctor could laugh at that little imitation man. girls are--well, they're easy pleased, most of them.
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down in the bunk house the boys were hurrying into their “war togs”--which is, being interpreted, their best clothes. there was a nervous scramble over the cracked piece of a bar mirror--which had a history--and cries of “get out!” “let me there a minute, can't yuh?” and “get up off my coat!” were painfully frequent.
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weary had possessed himself of the glass and was shaving as leisurely as though four restive cow-punchers were not waiting anxiously their turn.
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“for the lord's sake, weary!” spluttered jack bates. “your whiskers grow faster'n you can shave 'em off, at that gait. get a move on, can't yuh?”
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weary turned his belathered face sweetly upon jack. “getting in a hurry, jacky? your girl won't be there, and nobody else's girl is going to have time to see whether you shaved to-day or last christmas. you don't want to worry so much about your looks, none of you. i hate to say it, but you act vain, all of you kids. honest, i'm ashamed. look at that gaudy countenance happy's got on--and his necktie's most as bad.” he stropped his razor with exasperating nicety, stopping now and then to test its edge upon a hair from his own brown head.
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happy jack, grown desperate over his tie and purple over weary's remarks, craned his neck over the shoulder of that gentleman and leered into the mirror. when happy liked, he could contort his naturally plain features into a diabolical grin which sent prickly waves creeping along the spine of the beholder.
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weary looked, stared, half rose from his chair.
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“holy smithereens! quit it, happy! you look like the devil by lightning.”
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happy, watching, seized the hand that held the razor; cal, like a cat, pounced upon the mirror, and jack bates deftly wrenched the razor from weary's fingers.
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“whoopee, boys! some of you tie weary down and set on him while i shave,” cried cal, jubilant over the mutiny. “we'll make short work of this toilet business.”
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whereupon weary was borne to the floor, bound hand and foot with silk handkerchiefs, carried bodily and laid upon his bed.
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“oh, the things i won't do to you for this!” he asserted, darkly. “there won't nary a son-of-a-gun uh yuh get a dance from my little schoolma'am--you'll see!” he grinned prophetically, closed his eyes and murmured: “call me early, mother dear,” and straightway fell away into slumber and peaceful snoring, while the lather dried upon his face.
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“better turn weary loose and wake him up, chip,” suggested jack bates, half an hour later, shoving the stopper into his cologne bottle and making for the door. “at the rate the rigs are rolling in, it'll take us all to put up the teams.” the door slammed behind him as it had done behind the others as they hurried away.
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“here!” chip untied weary's hands and feet and took him by the shoulder. “wake up, willie, if you want to be queen o' the may.”
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weary sat up and rubbed his eyes. “confound them two jacks! what time is it?”
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“a little after eight. your crowd hasn't, come yet, so you needn't worry. i'm not going up yet for a while, myself.”
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“you're off your feed. brace up and take all there is going, my son.” weary prepared to finish his interrupted beautification.
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“i'm going to--all the bottles, that is. if that dry lake gang comes loaded down with whisky, like they generally do, we ought to get hold of it and cache every drop, weary.”
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weary turned clear around to stare his astonishment.
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“when did the w. c. t. u. get you by the collar?” he demanded.
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weary meditatively scraped his left jaw and wiped the lather from the razor upon a fragment of newspaper.
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“splinter, we've throwed in together ever since we drifted onto the same range, and i'm with you, uh course. but--don't overlook dr. cecil granthum. i'd hate like the devil to see you git throwed down, because it'd hurt you worse than anybody i know.”
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chip calmly sifted some tobacco into a cigarette paper. his mouth was very straight and his brows very close together.
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“it's a devilish good thing it was you said that, weary. if it had been anyone else i'd punch his face for him.”
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“why, yes--an' i'd help you, too.” weary, his mouth very much on one side of his face that he might the easier shave the other, spoke in fragments. “you don't take it amiss from--me, though. i can see--”
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a short time after, the little doctor came across chip glaring at dick brown, who was strumming his guitar with ostentatious ease upon an inverted dry-goods box at one end of the long dining room.
a__<label>__DET short__<label>__ADJ time__<label>__NOUN after__<label>__ADP ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ doctor__<label>__NOUN came__<label>__VERB across__<label>__ADP chip__<label>__NOUN glaring__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP dick__<label>__DET brown__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. who__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB strumming__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON guitar__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP ostentatious__<label>__ADJ ease__<label>__NOUN upon__<label>__ADP an__<label>__DET inverted__<label>__ADJ dry__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. goods__<label>__NOUN box__<label>__NOUN at__<label>__ADP one__<label>__DET end__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET long__<label>__ADJ dining__<label>__VERB room__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“i came to ask a favor of you,” she said, “but my courage oozed at the first glance.”
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“it's hard to believe your courage would ooze at anything. what's the favor?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN it__<label>__PRON 's__<label>__VERB hard__<label>__ADJ to__<label>__PRT believe__<label>__VERB your__<label>__PRON courage__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__PRT ooze__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP anything__<label>__PRON .__<label>__. what__<label>__PRON 's__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET favor__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
the little doctor bent her head and lowered her voice to a confidential undertone which caught at chip's blood and set it leaping.
the__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ doctor__<label>__NOUN bent__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON head__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ lowered__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON voice__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT a__<label>__DET confidential__<label>__ADJ undertone__<label>__NOUN which__<label>__PRON caught__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP chip__<label>__NOUN 's__<label>__VERB blood__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ set__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON leaping__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
“i want you to come and help me turn my drug store around with its face to the wall. all the later editions of denson, pilgreen and beckman have taken possession of my office--and as the countess says: 'them beckman kids is holy terrors--an' it's savin' the rod an' spoilin' the kid that makes 'em so!'”
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chip laughed outright. “the denson kids are a heap worse, if she only knew it,” he said, and followed her willingly.
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the little doctor's “office” was a homey little room, with a couch, a well-worn morris rocker, two willow chairs and a small table for the not imposing furnishing, dignified by a formidable stack of medical books in one corner, and the “drug store,” which was simply a roomy bookcase filled with jars, bottles, boxes and packages, all labeled in a neat vertical hand.
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the room fairly swarmed with children, who seemed, for the most part, to be enjoying themselves very much. charlotte may pilgreen and sary denson were hunched amicably over one of the books, shuddering beatifically over a pictured skeleton. a swarm surrounded the drug store, the glass door of which stood open.
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the little doctor flew across to the group, horror white.
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“sybilly got the key an' unlocked it, an' she give us this candy, too!” tattled a pilgreen with very red hair and a very snub nose.
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“i didn't, either! it was jos'phine!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON didn__<label>__VERB 't__<label>__PRT ,__<label>__. either__<label>__VERB !__<label>__. it__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB jos__<label>__NOUN '__<label>__NOUN phine__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“aw, you big story-teller! i never tetched it!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN aw__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON big__<label>__ADJ story__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. teller__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON never__<label>__PRON tetched__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
the little doctor clutched the nearest arm till the owner of it squealed.
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“how many of you have eaten some of these? tell the truth, now.” they quailed before her sternness--quailed and confessed. all told, seven had swallowed the sweet pellets, in numbers ranging from two to a dozen more.
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“is it poison?” chip whispered the question in the ear of the perturbed little doctor.
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“no--but it will make them exceedingly uncomfortable for a time--i'm going to pump them out.”
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“good shot! serves 'em right, the little--”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN good__<label>__ADJ shot__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. serves__<label>__VERB '__<label>__NOUN em__<label>__NOUN right__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET little__<label>__NOUN --âĢĿ__<label>__.
“all of you who have eaten this--er--candy, must come with me. the rest of you may stay here and play, but you must not touch this case.”
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“yuh going t' give 'em a lickin'?” sary denson wetted a finger copiously before turning a leaf upon the beautiful skeleton.
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“never mind what i'm going to do to them--you had better keep out of mischief yourself, however. mr. bennett, i wish you would get some fellow you can trust--some one who won't talk about this afterward--turn this case around so that it will be safe, and then come to the back bedroom--the one off the kitchen. and tell louise i want her, will you, please?”
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“i'll get old weary. yes, i'll send the countess--but don't you think she's a mighty poor hand to keep a secret?”
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“i can't help it--i need her. hurry, please.”
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awed by the look in her big, gray eyes and the mysterious summoning of help, the luckless seven were marched silently through the outer door, around the house, through the coal shed and so into the back bedroom, without being observed by the merrymakers, who shook the house to its foundation to the cheerful command: “gran' right 'n' left with a double elbow-w!” “chasse by yer pardner--balance--swing!”
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“nothing very serious, louise, though it's rather uncomfortable to be called from dancing to administer heroic remedies by wholesale. can you hold josephine--whichever one that is? she ate the most, as nearly as i can find out.”
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“she ain't gone an' took pizen, has she? what was it--strychnine? i'll bet them beckman kids put 'er up to it. yuh goin' t' give 'er an anticdote?”
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“i'm going to use this.” the little doctor held up a fearsome thing to view. “open your mouth, josephine.”
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josephine refused; her refusal was emphatic and unequivocal, punctuated by sundry kicks directed at whoever came within range of her stout little shoes.
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“it ain't no use t' call mary in--mary can't handle her no better'n i can--an' not so good. jos'phine, yuh got--”
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“here's where we shine,” broke in a cheery voice which was sweet to the ears, just then. “chip and i ain't wrassled with bronks all our lives for nothing. this is dead easy--all same branding calves. ketch hold of her heels, splinter--that's the talk. countess, you better set your back against that door--some of these dogies is thinking of taking a sneak on us--and we'd have t' go some, to cut 'em out uh that bunch out there and corral 'em again. there yuh are, doctor--sail in.”
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upheld mentally by the unfailing sunniness of weary and the calm determination of chip, to whom flying heels and squirming bodies were as nothing, or at most a mere trifle, the little doctor set to work with a thoroughness and dispatch which struck terror to the hearts of the guilty seven.
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it did not take long--as weary had said, it was very much like branding calves. no sooner was one child made to disgorge and laid, limp and subdued, upon the bed, than chip and weary seized another dexterously by heels and head. the countess did nothing beyond guarding the door and acting as chaperon to the undaunted little doctor; but she did her duty and held her tongue afterward--which was a great deal for her to do.
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the little doctor sat down in a chair, when it was all over, looking rather white. chip moved nearer, though there was really nothing that he could do beyond handing her a glass of water, which she accepted gratefully.
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weary held a little paper trough of tobacco in his fingers and drew the tobacco sack shut with his teeth. his eyes were fixed reflectively upon the bed. he placed the sack absently in his pocket, still meditating other things.
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“she answered: 'we are seven,'” he quoted softly and solemnly, and the little doctor forgot her faintness in a hearty laugh.
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“you two go back to your dancing now,” she commanded, letting the dimples stand in her cheeks in a way that chip dreamed about afterward. “i don't know what i should have done without you--a cow-puncher seems born to meet emergencies in just the right way. please don't tell anyone, will you?”
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“never. don't you worry about us, doctor. chip and i don't set up nights emptying our brains out our mouths. we don't tell our secrets to nobody but our horses--and they're dead safe.”
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“you needn't think i'll tell, either,” said the countess, earnestly. “i ain't forgot how you took the blame uh that sof' soap, dell. as the sayin' is--”
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weary closed the door then, so they did not hear the saying which seemed to apply to this particular case. his arm hooked into chip's, he led the way through the kitchen and down the hill to the hay corral. once safe from observation, he threw himself into the sweetly pungent “blue-joint” and laughed and laughed.
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chip's nervous system did not demand the relief of cachinnation. he went away to silver's stall and groped blindly to the place where two luminous, green moons shone upon him in the darkness. he rubbed the delicate nose gently and tangled his fingers in the dimly gleaming mane, as he had seen her do. such pink little fingers they were! he laid his brown cheek against the place where he remembered them to have rested.
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“silver horse,” he whispered, “if i ever fall in love with a girl--which isn't likely!--i'll want her to have dimples and big, gray eyes and a laugh like--”
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chapter viii. -- prescriptions.
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it was sunday, the second day after the dance. the boys were scattered, for the day was delicious--one of those sweet, soft days which come to us early in may. down in the blacksmith shop chip was putting new rowels into his spurs and whistling softly to himself while he worked.
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the little doctor had gone with him to visit silver that morning, and had not hurried away, but had leaned against the manger and listened while he told her of the time silver, swimming the river when it was “up,” had followed him to the shonkin camp when chip had thought to leave him at home. and they had laughed together over the juvenile seven and the subsequent indignation of the mothers who, with the exception of “mary,” had bundled up their offspring and gone home mad. true, they had none of them thoroughly understood the situation, having only the version of the children, who accused the little doctor of trying to make them eat rubber--“just cause she was mad about some little old candy.” the mystification of the others among the happy family, who scented a secret with a joke to it but despaired of wringing the truth from either weary or chip, was dwelt upon with much enjoyment by the little doctor.
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it was a good old world and a pleasant, and chip had no present quarrel with fate--or with anybody else. that was why he whistled.
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then voices reached him through the open door, and a laugh--her laugh. chip smiled sympathetically, though he had not the faintest notion of the cause of her mirth. as the voices drew nearer, the soft, smooth, hated tones of dunk whitaker untangled from the little doctor's laugh, and chip stopped whistling. dunk was making a good, long stay of it this time; usually he came one day and went the next, and no one grieved at his departure.
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“you find them an entirely new species, of course. how do you get on with them?” said dunk.
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and the little doctor answered him frankly and distinctly: “oh, very well, considering all things. they furnish me with some amusement, and i give them something quite new to talk about, so we are quits. they are a good-hearted lot, you know--but so ignorant! i don't suppose--”
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the words trailed into an indistinct murmur, punctuated by dunk's jarring cackle.
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chip did not resume his whistling, though he might have done so if he had heard a little more, or a little less. as a matter of fact, it was the densons, and the pilgreens, and the beckmans that were under discussion, and not the flying u cowboys, as chip believed. he no longer smiled sympathetically.
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“we furnish her with some amusement, do we? that's good! we're a good-hearted lot, but so ignorant! the devil we are!” he struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off. this meant ten or twelve dollars for a new pair--though the cost of it troubled him little, just then. it was something tangible upon which to pour profanity, however, and the atmosphere grew sulphurous in the vicinity of the blacksmith shop and remained so for several minutes, after which a tall, irate cow-puncher with his hat pulled low over angry eyes left the shop and strode up the path to the deserted bunk house.
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he did not emerge till the old man called to him to ride down to benson's after one of the flying u horses which had broken out of the pasture.
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della was looking from the window when chip rode up the hill upon the “coulee trail,” which passed close by the house. she was tired of the platitudes of dunk, who, trying to be both original and polished, fell far short of being either and only succeeded in being extremely tiresome.
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“where's chip going, j. g.?” she demanded, in a proprietary tone.
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“down t' benson's after a horse.” j. g. spoke lazily, without taking his pipe from his mouth.
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“oh, i wish i could go--i wonder if he'd care.” the little doctor spoke impulsively as was her habit.
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“'course he wouldn't. hey, chip! hold on a minute!” the old man stood waving his pipe in the doorway.
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chip jerked his horse to a stand-still and half turned in the saddle.
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“dell wants t' go along. will yuh saddle up concho for 'er? there's no hurry, anyhow, you've got plenty uh time. dell's afraid one uh the kids might fall downstairs ag'in, and she'd miss the case.”
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“i'm not, either,” said the little doctor, coming to stand by her brother; “it's too nice a day to stay inside, and my muscles ache for a gallop over the hills.”
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chip did not look up at her; he did not dare. he felt that, if he met her eyes--with the laugh in them--he should do one of two undesirable things: he should either smile back at her, weakly overlooking the hypocrisy of her friendliness, or sneer in answer to her smile, which would be very rude and ungentlemanly.
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“if you had mentioned wanting a ride i should have been glad to accompany you,” remarked dunk, reproachfully, when chip had ridden, somewhat sullenly, back to the stable.
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“i didn't think of it before--thank you,” said the little doctor, lightly, and hurried away to put on her blue riding habit with its cunning little jockey cap which she found the only headgear that would stay upon her head in the teeth of montana wind, and which made her look-well, kissable. she was standing on the porch drawing on her gauntlets when chip returned, leading concho by the bridle.
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“let me help you,” begged dunk, at her elbow, hoping till the last that she would invite him to go with them.
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the little doctor, not averse to hiding the bitter of her medicine under a coating of sugar, smiled sweetly upon him, to the delectation of dunk and the added bitterness of chip, who was rapidly nearing that state of mind which is locally described as being “strictly on the fight.”
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“i expect she thinks i'll amuse her some more!” he thought, savagely, as they galloped away through the quivering sunlight.
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for the first two miles the road was level, and chip set the pace--which was, as he intended it should be, too swift for much speech. after that the trail climbed abruptly out of flying u coulee, and the horses were compelled to walk. then it was that chip's native chivalry and self-mastery were put to test.
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he was hungry for a solitary ride such as had, before now, drawn much of the lonely ache out of his heart and keyed him up to the life which he must live and which chafed his spirit more than even he realized. instead of such slender comfort, he was forced to ride beside the girl who had hurt him--so close that his knee sometimes brushed her horse--and to listen to her friendly chatter and make answer, at times, with at least some show of civility.
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she was talking reminiscently of the dance.
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“j. g. showed splendid judgment in his choice of musicians, didn't he?”
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chip looked straight ahead. this was touching a sore place in his memory. a vision of dick brown's vapid smile and curled up mustache rose before him.
chip__<label>__NOUN looked__<label>__VERB straight__<label>__PRON ahead__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. this__<label>__DET was__<label>__VERB touching__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET sore__<label>__ADJ place__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON memory__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. a__<label>__DET vision__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP dick__<label>__DET brown__<label>__NOUN 's__<label>__VERB vapid__<label>__ADJ smile__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ curled__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON mustache__<label>__NOUN rose__<label>__NOUN before__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
“i'd tell a man,” he said, with faint irony.
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the little doctor gave him a quick, surprised look and went on.
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“i liked their playing so much. mr. brown was especially good upon the guitar.”
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“yes, of course. you know yourself, he plays beautifully.”
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“cow-punchers aren't expected to know all these things.” chip hated himself for replying so, but the temptation mastered him.
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“aren't they? i can't see why not.”
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chip closed his lips tightly to keep in something impolite.
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the little doctor, puzzled as well as piqued, went straight to the point.
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“why didn't you like mr. brown's playing?”
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“did i say i didn't like it?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN did__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON say__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON didn__<label>__VERB 't__<label>__PRT like__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“well, you--not exactly, but you implied that you did not.”
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the little doctor gave the reins an impatient twitch.
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“i think he's a very nice, amiable young man”--strong emphasis upon the second adjective. “i like amiable young men.”
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“he's going to come down here hunting next fall. j. g. invited him.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON 's__<label>__VERB going__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT come__<label>__VERB down__<label>__PRON here__<label>__. hunting__<label>__VERB next__<label>__DET fall__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. j__<label>__NUM .__<label>__. g__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. invited__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“yes? what does he expect to find?”
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“why, whatever there is to hunt. chickens and--er--deer--”
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by this they reached the level and the horses broke, of their own accord, into a gallop which somewhat relieved the strain upon the mental atmosphere. at the next hill the little doctor looked her companion over critically.
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“mr. bennett, you look positively bilious. shall i prescribe for you?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN mr__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. bennett__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON look__<label>__VERB positively__<label>__ADJ bilious__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. shall__<label>__PRT i__<label>__PRON prescribe__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“i can't see how that would add to your amusement.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON can__<label>__VERB 't__<label>__PRT see__<label>__VERB how__<label>__DET that__<label>__PRON would__<label>__PRT add__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT your__<label>__PRON amusement__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“i'm not trying to add to my amusement.”
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“if i were, there's no material at hand. bad-tempered young men are never amusing, to me. i like--”
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“amiable young men. such as dick brown.”
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“i think you need a change of air, mr. bennett.”
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“yes? i've felt, lately, that eastern airs don't agree with my constitution.”
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miss whitmore grew red as to cheeks and bright as to eyes.
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“i think a few small doses of eastern manners would improve you very much,” she said, pointedly.
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“y--e-s? they'd have to be small, because the supply is very limited.”
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the little doctor grew white around the mouth. she held concho's rein so tight he almost stopped.
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“if you didn't want me to come, why in the world didn't you have the courage to say so at the start? i must say i don't admire people whose tempers--and manners--are so unstable. i'm sorry i forced my presence upon you, and i promise you it won't occur again.” she hesitated, and then fired a parting shot which certainly was spiteful in the extreme. “there's one good thing about it,” she smiled, tartly, “i shall have something interesting to write to dr. cecil.”
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with that she turned astonished concho short around in the trail--and as chip gave blazes a vicious jab with his spurs at the same instant, the distance between them widened rapidly.
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as chip raced away over the prairie, he discovered a new and puzzling kink in his temper. he had been angry with the little doctor for coming, but it was nothing to the rage he felt when she turned back! he did not own to himself that he wanted her beside him to taunt and to hurt with his rudeness, but it was a fact, for all that. and it was a very surly young man who rode into the denson corral and threw a loop over the head of the runaway.
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“the little doctor wants us all to come up t' the white house this evening and have some music,” announced cal, bursting into the bunk house where the boys were sorting and packing their belongings ready to start with the round-up wagon in the morning.
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jack bates hurriedly stuffed a miscellaneous collection of socks and handkerchiefs into his war bag and made for the wash basin.
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“i'll just call her bluff,” he said, determinedly.
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“it ain't any bluff; she wants us t' come, er you bet she wouldn't say so. i've learned that much about her. say, you'd a died to seen old dunk look down his nose! i'll bet money she done it just t' rasp his feelin's--and she sure succeeded. i'd go anyway, now, just t' watch him squirm.”
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“i notice it grinds him consider'ble to see the little doctor treat us fellows like white folks. he's workin' for a stand-in there himself. i bet he gets throwed down good and hard,” commented weary, cheerfully.
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“it's a cinch he don't know about that pill-thrower back in ohio,” added cal. “any of you fellows going to take her bid? i'll go alone, in a minute.”
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“i don't think you'll go alone,” asserted jack bates, grabbing his hat.
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slim made a few hasty passes at his hair and said he was ready. shorty, who had just come in from riding, unbuckled his spurs and kicked them under his bed.
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“it'll be many a day b'fore we listen t' the little doctor's mandolin ag'in,” croaked happy jack.
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“aw, shut up!” admonished cal.
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“come on, chip,” sang out weary. “you can spoil good paper when you can't do anything else. come and size up the look on dunk's face when we take possession of all the best chairs and get t' pouring our incense and admiration on the little doctor.”
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chip took the cigarette from his lips and emptied his lungs of smoke. “you fellows go on. i'm not going.” he bent again to his eternal drawing.
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“the dickens you ain't!” weary was too astounded to say more.
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chip said nothing. his gray hat-brim shielded his face from view, save for the thin, curved lips and firm chin. weary studied chin and lips curiously, and whatever he read there, he refrained from further argument. he knew chip so much better than did anyone else.
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“aw, what's the matter with yuh, splinter! come on; don't be a chump,” cried cal, from the doorway.
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“what's the matter? you and the little doctor have a falling out?”
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“not very bad,” chip's tone was open to several interpretations. cal interpreted it as a denial.
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“sick?” he asked next.
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“yes!” said chip, shortly and falsely.
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“we'll call the doctor in, then,” volunteered jack bates.
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“i don't think you will. when i'm sick enough for that i'll let you know. i'm going to bed.”
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“aw, come on and let him alone. chip's able t' take care of himself, i guess,” said weary, mercifully, holding open the door.
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they trooped out, and the last heard of them was cal, remarking:
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“gee whiz! i'd have t' be ready t' croak before i'd miss this chance uh dealing old dunk misery.”
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chip sat where they had left him, staring unseeingly down at the uncompleted sketch. his cigarette went out, but he did not roll a fresh one and held the half-burned stub abstractedly between his lips, set in bitter lines.
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he rested his chin in his hand and brooded over his comfortless past and cheerless future. he could just remember his mother--and he preferred not to remember his father, who was less kind to him than were strangers. that was his past. and the future--always to be a cow-puncher? there was his knack for drawing; if he could study and practice, perhaps even the little doctor would not dare call him ignorant then. not that he cared for what she might say or might not say, but a fellow can't help hating to be reminded of something that he knows better than anyone else--and that is not pleasant, however you may try to cover up the unsightliness of it.
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if dr. cecil granthum--damn him!--had been kicked into the world and made to fight fate with tender, childish little fists but lately outgrown their baby dimples, as had been his lot, would he have amounted to anything, either? maybe dr. cecil would have grown up just common and ignorant and fit for nothing better than to furnish amusement to girl doctors with dimples and big, gray eyes and a way of laughing. he'd like to show that little woman that she didn't know all about him yet. it wasn't too late--he was only twenty-four--he would study, and work, and climb to where she must look up, not down, to him--if she cared enough to look at all. it wasn't too late. he would quit gambling and save his money, and by next winter he'd have enough to go somewhere and learn to make pictures that amounted to something. he'd show her!
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after reiterating this resolve in several emphatic forms, chip's spirits grew perceptibly lighter--so much so that he rolled a fresh cigarette and finished the drawing in his hands, which demonstrated the manner in which a particularly snaky broncho had taken a fall out of jack bates in the corral that morning.
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next day, early in the afternoon, the round-up climbed the grade and started on its long trip over the range, and, after they had gone, the ranch seemed very quiet and very lonely to the little doctor, who revenged herself by snubbing dunk so unmercifully that he announced his intention of taking the next train for butte, where he lived in the luxury of rich bachelorhood. as the little doctor showed no symptoms of repenting, he rode sullenly away to dry lake, and she employed the rest of the afternoon writing a full and decidedly prejudiced account to dr. cecil of her quarrel with chip, whom, she said, she quite hated.
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chapter x. -- what whizzer did.
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“i guess happy lost some of his horses, las' night,” said slim at the breakfast table next morning. slim had been kept at the ranch to look after the fences and the ditches, and was doing full justice to the expert cookery of the countess.
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“what makes yuh think that?” the old man poised a bit of tender, broiled steak upon the end of his fork.
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“they's a bunch hangin' around the upper fence, an' whizzer's among 'em. i'd know that long-legged snake ten miles away.”
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the little doctor looked up quickly. she had never before heard of a “long-legged snake”--but then, she had not yet made the acquaintance of whizzer.
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“well, maybe you better run 'em into the corral and hold 'em till shorty sends some one after 'em,” suggested the old man.
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“i never c'd run 'em in alone, not with whizzer in the bunch,” objected slim. “he's the orneriest cayuse in chouteau county.”
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“whizzer'll make a rattlin' good saddle horse some day, when he's broke gentle,” argued the old man.
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“huh! i don't envy chip the job uh breakin' him, though,” grunted slim, as he went out of the door.
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after breakfast the little doctor visited silver and fed him his customary ration of lump sugar, helped the countess tidy the house, and then found herself at a loss for something to do. she stood looking out into the hazy sunlight which lay warm on hill and coulee.
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“i think i'll go up above the grade and make a sketch of the ranch,” she said to the countess, and hastily collected her materials.
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down by the creek a “cotton-tail” sprang out of her way and kicked itself out of sight beneath a bowlder. the little doctor stood and watched till he disappeared, before going on again. further up the bluff a striped snake gave her a shivery surprise before he glided sinuously away under a sagebush. she crossed the grade and climbed the steep bluff beyond, searching for a comfortable place to work.
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a little higher, she took possession of a great, gray bowlder jutting like a giant table from the gravelly soil. she walked out upon it and looked down--a sheer drop of ten or twelve feet to the barren, yellow slope below.
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“i suppose it is perfectly solid,” she soliloquized and stamped one stout, little boot, to see if the rock would tremble. if human emotions are possible to a heart of stone, the rock must have been greatly amused at the test. it stood firm as the hills around it.
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della sat down and looked below at the house--a doll's house; at the toy corrals and tiny sheds and stables. slim, walking down the hill, was a mere pigmy--a short, waddling insect. at least, to a girl unused to gazing from a height, each object seemed absurdly small. flying u coulee stretched away to the west, with a silver ribbon drawn carelessly through it with many a twist and loop, fringed with a tender green of young leaves. away and beyond stood the bear paws, hazily blue, with splotches of purple shadows.
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“i don't blame j. g. for loving this place,” thought the little doctor, drinking in the intoxication of the west with every breath she drew.
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she had just become absorbed in her work when a clatter arose from the grade below, and a dozen horses, headed by a tall, rangy sorrel she surmised was whizzer, dashed down the hill. weary and chip galloped close behind. they did not look up, and so passed without seeing her. they were talking and laughing in very good spirits--which the little doctor resented, for some inexplicable reason. she heard them call to slim to open the corral gate, and saw slim run to do their bidding. she forgot her sketching and watched whizzer dodge and bolt back, and chip tear through the creek bed after him at peril of life and limb.
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back and forth, round and round went whizzer, running almost through the corral gate, then swerving suddenly and evading his pursuers with an ease which bordered closely on the marvelous. slim saddled a horse and joined in the chase, and the old man climbed upon the fence and shouted advice which no one heard and would not have heeded if they had.
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as the chase grew in earnestness and excitement, the sympathies of the little doctor were given unreservedly to whizzer. whenever a particularly clever maneuver of his set the men to swearing, she clapped her hands in sincere, though unheard and unappreciated, applause.
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“good boy!” she cried, approvingly, when he dodged chip and whirled through the big gate which the old man had unwittingly left open. j. g. leaned perilously forward and shook his fist unavailingly. whizzer tossed head and heels alternately and scurried up the path to the very door of the kitchen, where he swung round and looked back down the hill snorting triumph.
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“shoo, there!” shrilled the countess, shaking her dish towel at him.
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“who--oo-oof-f,” snorted he disdainfully and trotted leisurely round the corner.
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chip galloped up the hill, his horse running heavily. after him came weary, liberally applying quirt and mild invective. at the house they parted and headed the fugitive toward the stables. he shot through the big gate, lifting his heels viciously at the old man as he passed, whirled around the stable and trotted haughtily past slim into the corral of his own accord, quite as if he had meant to do so all along.
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“did you ever!” exclaimed the little doctor, disgustedly, from her perch. “whizzer, i'm ashamed of you! i wouldn't have given in like that--but you gave them a chase, didn't you, my beauty?”
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the boys flung themselves off their tired horses and went up to the house to beg the countess for a lunch, and della turned resolutely to her sketching again.
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“it's of no use. i can't do a thing till those cow-punchers take themselves and their bronchos off the ranch--and may it be soon!” she told herself, disconsolately and not oversincerely. the best of us are not above trying to pull the wool over our own eyes, at times.
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in reality their brief presence made the near future seem very flat and insipid to the little doctor. it was washing all the color out of the picture, and leaving it a dirty gray. she gazed moodily down at the whirl of dust in the corral, where whizzer was struggling to free himself from the loop chip had thrown with his accustomed, calm precision. whatever chip did he did thoroughly, with no slurring of detail. whizzer was fain to own himself fairly caught.
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“oh, he's got you fast, my beauty!” sighed the little doctor, woefully. “why didn't you jump over the fence--i think you could--and run, run, to freedom?” she grew quite melodramatic over the humiliation of the horse she had chosen to champion, and glared resentfully when chip threw his saddle, with no gentle hand, upon the sleek back and tightened the cinches with a few strong, relentless yanks.
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“chip, you're an ugly, mean-tempered--that's right, whizzer! kick him if you can--i'll stand by you!” this assertion, you understand, was purely figurative; the little doctor would have hesitated long before attempting to carry it out literally.
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“now, whizzer, when he tries to ride you, don't you let him! throw him clear-over-the stable--so there!”
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perhaps whizzer understood the command in some mysterious, telepathic manner. at any rate, he set himself straightway to obey it, and there was not a shadow of doubt but that he did his best--but chip did not choose to go over the stable. instead of doing so, he remained in the saddle and changed ends with his quirt, to the intense rage of the little doctor, who nearly cried.
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“oh, you brute! you fiend! i'll never speak to you again as long as i live! oh, whizzer, you poor fellow, why do you let him abuse you so? why don't you throw him clean off the ranch?”
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this is exactly what whizzer was trying his best to do, and whizzer's best was exceedingly bad for his rider, as a general thing. but chip calmly refused to be thrown, and whizzer, who was no fool, suddenly changed his tactics and became so meek that his champion on the bluff felt tempted to despise him for such servile submission to a tyrant in brown chaps and gray hat--i am transcribing the facts according to the little doctor's interpretation.
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she watched gloomily while whizzer, in whose brain lurked no thought of submission, galloped steadily along behind the bunch which slim made haste to liberate, and bided his time. she had expected better--rather, worse--of him than that. she had not dreamed he would surrender so tamely. as they crossed the hog's back and climbed the steep grade just below her, she eyed him reproachfully and said again:
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“whizzer, i'm ashamed of you!”
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it did certainly seem that whizzer heard and felt the pricking of pride at the reproof. he made a feint at being frightened by a jack rabbit which sprang out from the shade of a rock and bounced down the hill like a rubber ball. as if whizzer had never seen a jack rabbit before!--he who had been born and reared upon the range among them! it was a feeble excuse at the best, but he made the most of it and lost no time seeking a better.
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he stopped short, sidled against weary's horse and snorted. chip, in none the best humor with him, jerked the reins savagely and dug him with his spurs, and whizzer, resenting the affront, whirled and bounded high in the air. back down the grade he bucked with the high, rocking, crooked jumps which none but a western cayuse can make, while weary turned in his saddle and watched with sharp-drawn breaths. there was nothing else that he could do.
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chip was by no means passive. for every jump that whizzer made the rawhide quirt landed across his flaring nostrils, and the locked rowels of chip's spurs raked the sorrel sides from cinch to flank, leaving crimson streams behind them.
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wild with rage at this clinging cow-puncher whom he could not dislodge, who stung his sides and head like the hornets in the meadow, whizzer gathered himself for a mighty leap as he reached the hog's back. like a wire spring released, he shot into the air, shook himself in one last, desperate hope of victory, and, failing, came down with not a joint in his legs and turned a somersault.
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a moment, and he struggled to his feet and limped painfully away, crushed and beaten in spirit.
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chip did not struggle. he lay, a long length of brown chaps, pink-and-white shirt and gray hat, just where he had fallen.
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the little doctor never could remember getting down that bluff, and her sketching materials went to amuse the jack rabbits and the birds. fast as she flew, weary was before her and had raised chip's head upon one arm. she knelt beside him in the dust, hovering over the white face and still form like a pitying, little gray angel. weary looked at her impersonally, but neither of them spoke in those first, breathless moments.
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the old man, who had witnessed the accident, came puffing laboriously up the hill, taking the short cut straight across from the stable.
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“is he--dead?” he yelled while he scrambled.
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weary turned his head long enough to look down at him, with the same impersonal gaze he had bestowed upon the little doctor, but he did not answer the question. he could not, for he did not know. the little doctor seemed not to have heard.
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the old man redoubled his exertions and reached them very much out of breath.
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“is he dead, dell?” he repeated in an awestruck tone. he feared she would say yes.
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the little doctor had taken possession of the brown head. she looked up at her brother, a very unprofessional pallor upon her face, and down at the long, brown lashes and at the curved, sensitive lips which held no hint of red. she pressed the face closer to her breast and shook her head. she could not speak, just then, for the griping ache that was in her throat.
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“one of the best men on the ranch gone under, just when we need help the worst!” complained the old man. “is he hurt bad?”
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“j. g.,” began the little doctor in a voice all the fiercer for being suppressed, “i want you to kill that horse. do you hear? if you don't do it, i will!”
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“you won't have to, if old splinter goes down and out,” said weary, with quiet meaning, and the little doctor gave him a grateful flash of gray eyes.
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“how bad is he hurt?” repeated the old man, impatiently. “you're supposed t' be a doctor--don't you know?”
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“he has a scalp wound which does not seem serious,” said she in an attempt to be matter-of-fact, “and his left collar bone is broken.”
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“doggone it! a broken collar bone ain't mended overnight.”
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“no,” acquiesced the little doctor, “it isn't.”
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these last two remarks chip heard. he opened his eyes and looked straight up into the gray ones above--a long, questioning, rebellious look. he tried then to rise, to free himself from the bitter ecstasy of those soft, enfolding arms. only a broken collar bone! good thing it was no worse! ugh! a spasm of pain contracted his features and drew beads of moisture to his forehead. the spurned arms once more felt the dead weight of him.
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“what is it?” the little doctor's voice called to him from afar.
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must he answer? he wanted to drift on and on--“can you tell me where the pain is?”
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pain? oh, yes, there had been pain--but he wanted to drift. he opened his eyes again reluctantly; again the pain clutched him.
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for the first time the eyes of the little doctor left his face and traveled downward to the spurred boots. one was twisted in a horrible unnatural position that told the agonizing truth--a badly dislocated ankle. they returned quickly to the face, and swam full of blinding tears--such as a doctor should not succumb to. he was not drifting into oblivion now; his teeth were not digging into his lower lip for nothing, she knew.
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“weary,” she said, forgetting to call him properly by name, “ride to the house and get my medicine case--the little black one. the countess knows--and have slim bring something to carry him home on. and--ride!”
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weary was gone before she had finished, and he certainly “rode.”
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“you'll have another crippled cow-puncher on yer hands, first thing yuh know,” grumbled the old man, anxiously, as he watched weary race recklessly down the hill.
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the little doctor did not answer. she scarcely heard him. she was stroking the hair back from chip's forehead softly, unconsciously, wondering why she had never before noticed the wave in it--but then, she had scarcely seen him with his hat off. how silky and soft it felt! and she had called him all sorts of mean names, and had wanted whizzer to--she shuddered and turned sick at the memory of the thud when they struck the hard road together.
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“dell!” exclaimed the old man, “you're white's a rag. doggone it, don't throw up yer hands at yer first case--brace up!”
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chip looked up at her curiously, forgetting the pain long enough to wonder at her whiteness. did she have a heart, then, or was it a feminine trait to turn pale in every emergency? she had not turned so very white when those kids--he felt inclined to laugh, only for that cussed foot. instead he relaxed his vigilance and a groan slipped out before he knew.
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“just a minute more and i'll ease the pain for you,” murmured the girl, compassionately.
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“all right--so long as you--don't--use--the stomach pump,” he retorted, with a miserable makeshift of a laugh.
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“what's that?” asked the old man, but no one explained.
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the little doctor was struggling with the lump in her throat that he should try to joke about it.
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then weary was back and holding the little, black case out to her. she seized it eagerly, slipping chip's head to her knees that she might use her hands freely. there was no halting over the tiny vials, for she had decided just what she must do.
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she laid something against chip's closed lips.
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“swallow these,” she said, and he obeyed her. “weary--oh, you knew what to do, i see. there, lay the coat down there for a pillow.”
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relieved of her burden, she rose and went to the poor, twisted foot.
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weary and the old man watched her go to work systematically and disclose the swollen, purpling ankle. very gently she did it, and when she had administered a merciful anaesthetic, the enthusiasm of the old man demanded speech.
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“well, i'll be eternally doggoned! you're onto your job, dell, doggoned if yuh ain't. i won't ever josh yuh again about yer doctorin'!”
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“i wish you'd been around the time i smashed my ankle,” commented weary, fishing for his cigarette book; he was beginning to feel the need of a quieting smoke. “they hauled me forty miles, to benton.”
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“that must have been torture!” shuddered the little doctor. “a dislocated ankle is a most agonizing thing.”
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“yes,” assented weary, striking a match, “it sure is, all right.”
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chapter xi. -- good intentions.
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“mr. davidson, have you nerve enough to help me replace this ankle? the countess is too nervous, and j. g. is too awkward.”
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chip was lying oblivious to his surroundings or his hurt in the sunny, south room which dunk whitaker chose to call his.
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“i've never been accused of wanting nerve,” grinned weary. “i guess i can stand it if you can.” and a very efficient assistant he proved himself to be.
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when the question of a nurse arose, when all had been done that could be done and weary had gone, the little doctor found herself involved in an argument with the countess. the countess wanted them to send for bill. bill just thought the world and all of chip, she declared, and would just love to come. she was positive that bill was the very one they needed, and the little doctor, who had conceived a violent dislike for bill, a smirky, self-satisfied youth addicted to chewing tobacco, red neckties and a perennial grin, was equally positive he was the very one they did not want. in despair she retrenched herself behind the assertion that chip should choose for himself.
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“i just know he'll choose bill,” crowed the countess after the flicker of the doctor's skirts.
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chip turned his head rebelliously upon the pillow and looked up at her. something in his eyes brought to mind certain stormy crises in the headstrong childhood of the little doctor-crises in which she was forced to submission very much against her will. it was the same mutinous surrender to overwhelming strength, the same futile defiance of fate.
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“i came to ask you who you would rather have to nurse you,” she said, trying to keep the erratic color from crimsoning her cheeks. you see, she had never had a patient of her very own before, and there were certain embarrassing complications in having this particular young man in charge.
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chip's eyes wandered wistfully to the window, where a warm, spring breeze flapped the curtains in and out.
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“how long have i got to lie here?” he asked, reluctantly.
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“a month, at the least--more likely six weeks,” she said with kind bluntness. it was best he should know the worst at once.
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chip turned his face bitterly to the wall for a minute and traced an impossible vine to its breaking point where the paper had not been properly matched. twenty miles away the boys were hurrying through their early dinner that they might catch up their horses for the afternoon's work. and they had two good feet to walk on, two sound arms to subdue restless horseflesh and he was not there! he could fairly smell the sweet, trampled sod as the horses circled endlessly inside the rope corral, and hear them snort when a noose swished close. he wondered who would get his string to ride, and what they would do with his bed.
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he didn't need it, now; he would lie on wire springs, instead of on the crisp, prairie grass. he would be waited on like a yearling baby and-- “the countess just knows you will choose bill,” interrupted a whimsical girl voice.
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chip said something which the little doctor did not try to hear distinctly. “don't she think i've had enough misery dealt me for once?” he asked, without taking his eyes from the poor, broken vine. he rather pitied the vine--it seemed to have been badly used by fate, just as he had been. he was sure it had not wanted to stop right there on that line, as it had been forced to do. he had not wanted to stop, either. he--“she says bill would just love to come,” said the voice, with a bit of a laugh in it.
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chip, turning his head back suddenly, looked into the gray eyes and felt inexplicably cheered. he almost believed she understood something of what it all meant to him. and she mercifully refrained from spoken pity, which he felt he could not have borne just then. his lips took back some of their curve.
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“you tell her i wouldn't just love to have him,” he said, grimly.
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“i'd never dare. she dotes on bill. whom do you want?”
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“when it comes to that, i don't want anybody. but if you could get johnny beckman to come--”
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“oh, i will--i'll go myself, to make sure of him. which one is johnny?”
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“yes, but his head is several shades redder than any of the others,” interrupted he, quite cheerfully.
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the little doctor, observing the twinkle in his eyes, felt her spirits rise wonderfully. she could not bear that hurt, rebellious, lonely look which they had worn.
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“i'll bring him--but i may have to chloroform the countess to get him into the house. you must try to sleep, while i'm gone--and don't fret--will you? you'll get well all the quicker for taking things easily.”
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she came again before she started for johnny, and found him wide awake and staring hungrily at the patch of blue sky visible through the window which faced the east.
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“you'll have to learn to obey orders better than this,” she said, severely, and took quiet possession of his wrist. “i told you not to fret about being hurt. i know you hate it--”
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chip flushed a little under her touch and the tone in which she spoke the last words. it seemed to mean that she hated it even more than he did, having him helpless in the house with her. it hadn't been so long since she had told him plainly how little she liked him. he was not going to forget, in a hurry!
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“why don't you send me to the hospital?” he demanded, brusquely. “i could stand the trip, all right.”
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the little doctor, the color coming and going in her cheeks, pressed her cool fingers against his forehead.
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“because i want you here to practice on. do you think i'd let such a chance escape?”
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after she was gone, chip found some things to puzzle over. he felt that he was no match for the little doctor, and for the first time in his life he deeply regretted his ignorance of woman nature.
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when the dishes were done, the countess put her resentment behind her and went in to sit with chip, with the best of intentions. the most disagreeable trait of some disagreeable people is that their intentions are invariably good. she had her “crochy work,” and chip groaned inwardly when he saw her settle herself comfortably in a rocking-chair and unwind her thread. the countess had worked hard all her life, and her hands were red and big-jointed. there was no pleasure in watching their clever manipulation of the little, steel hook. if it had been the little doctor's hands, now--chip turned again to the decapitated, pale blue vine with its pink flowers and no leaves. the countess counted off “chain 'leven” and began in a constrained tone, such as some well-meaning people employ against helpless sick folk.
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“how're yuh feelin' now? yuh want a drink, or anything?”
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chip did not want a drink, and he felt all right, he guessed.
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the countess thought to cheer him a little.
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“well, i do think it's too bad yuh got t' lay here all through this purty spring weather. if it had been in the winter, when it's cold and stormy outside, a person wouldn't mind it s' much. i know yuh must feel purty blew over it, fer yuh was always sech a hand t' be tearin' around the country on the dead run, seems like. i always told mary 't you'n weary always rode like the sheriff wa'nt more'n a mile b'hind yuh. an' i s'pose you feel it all the more, seein' the round-up's jest startin' out. weary said yuh was playin' big luck, if yuh only knew enough t' cash in yer chips at the right time, but he's afraid yuh wouldn't be watching the game close enough an' ud lose yer pile. i don't know what he was drivin' at, an' i guess he didn't neither. it's too bad, anyway. i guess yuh didn't expect t' wind up in bed when yuh rode off up the hill. but as the sayin' is: 'man plans an' god displans,' an' i guess it's so. here yuh are, laid up fer the summer, dell says--the las' thing on earth, i guess, that yuh was lookin' fer. an' yuh rode buckin' bronks right along, too. i never looked fer whizzer t' buck yuh off, i must say--yuh got the name uh bein' sech a good rider, too. but they say 't the pitcher 't's always goin' t' the well is bound t' git busted sometime, an' i guess your turn come t' git busted. anyway--”
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“i didn't get bucked off,” broke in chip, angrily. a “bronch fighter” is not more jealous of his sweetheart than of his reputation as a rider. “a fellow can't very well make a pretty ride while his horse is turning a somersault.”
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“oh, well, i didn't happen t' se it--i thought weary said 't yuh got throwed off on the hog's back. anyway, i don't know's it makes much difference how yuh happened t' hit the ground--”
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“i guess it does make a difference,” cried chip, hotly. his eyes took on the glitter of fever. “it makes a whole heap of difference, let me tell you! i'd like to hear weary or anybody else stand up and tell me that i got bucked off. i may be pretty badly smashed up, but i'd come pretty near showing him where he stood.”
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“oh, well, yuh needn't go t' work an' git mad about it,” remonstrated the countess, dropping her thread in her perturbation at his excitement. the spool rolled under the bed and she was obliged to get down upon her knees and claw it back, and she jarred the bed and set chip's foot to hurting again something awful.
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the old map knocked the ashes out of his pipe and went in to look at him.
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“did weary say i got bucked off?” demanded the sick man before the old man was fairly in the room. “if he did, he lied, that's all. i didn't think weary'd do me dirt like that--i thought he'd stand by me if anybody would. he knows i wasn't throwed. i--”
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“easy there, doggone it. i never heard weary say't yuh got bucked off. whizzer turned over on his head, 's near as i c'd make out fer dust. i took it he turned a summerset.”
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chip's befogged brain caught at the last word.
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“yes, that's just what he did. it beats me how weary could say, or even think, that i--it was the jack rabbit first--and i told her the supply was limited--and if we do furnish lots of amusement--but i guess i made her understand i wasn't so easy as she took me to be. she--”
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“hey?” the old man could hardly be blamed for losing the drift of chip's rapid utterances.
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“if we want to get them rounded up before the dance, i'll--it's a good thing it wasn't poison, for seven dead kids at once--”
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the old man knew something about sickness himself. he hurried out, returning in a moment with a bowl of cool water and a fringed napkin which he pilfered from the dining-room table, wisely intending to bathe chip's head.
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but chip would have none of him or his wise intentions. he jerked the wet napkin from the old man's fingers and threw it down behind the bed, knocked up the bowl of water into the old man's face and called him some very bad names. the countess came and looked in, and chip hurled a pillow at her and called her a bad name also, so that she retreated to the kitchen with her feelings very much hurt. after that chip had the south room to himself until the little doctor returned with johnny.
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the old man, looking rather scared, met her on the porch. the little doctor read his face before she was off her horse.
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“what's the matter? is he worse?” she demanded, abruptly.
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“that's fer you t' find out. i ain't no doctor. he got on the fight, a while back, an' took t' throwin' things an' usin' langwidge. he can't git out uh bed, thank the lord, or we'd be takin' t' the hills by now.”
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“then somebody has it to answer for. he was all right when i left him, two hours ago, with not a sign of fever. has the countess been pestering him?”
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“no,” said the countess, popping her head out of the kitchen window and speaking in an aggrieved tone, “i hope i never pester anybody. i went an' done all i could t' cheer 'im up, an' that's all the thanks i git fer it. i must say some folks ain't overburdened with gratitude, anyhow.”
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the little doctor did not wait to hear her out. she went straight to the south room, pulling off her gloves on the way. the pillow on the floor told her an eloquent tale, and she sighed as she picked it up and patted some shape back into it. chip stared at her with wide, bright eyes from the bed.
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“i don't suppose dr. cecil granthum would throw pillows at anybody!” he remarked, sarcastically, as she placed it very gently under his head.
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“perhaps, if the provocation was great enough. what have they been doing to you?”
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“did weary say i got bucked off?” he demanded, excitedly.
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the little doctor was counting his pulse, and waited till she had finished. it was a high number--much higher than she liked.
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“no, weary didn't. how could he? you didn't, you know. i saw it all from the bluff, and i know the horse turned over upon you. it's a wonder you weren't killed outright. now, don't worry about it any more--i expect it was the countess told you that. weary hated dreadfully to leave you. i wonder if you know how much he thinks of you? i didn't, till i saw how he looked when you--here, drink this, all of it. you've got to sleep, you see.”
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there was a week when the house was kept very still, and the south room very cool and shadowy, and chip did not much care who it was that ministered to him--only that the hands of the little doctor were always soft and soothing on his head and he wished she would keep them there always, when he was himself enough to wish anything coherently.
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chapter xii. -- “the last stand.”
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to use a trite expression and say that chip “fought his way back to health” would be simply stating a fact and stating it mildly. he went about it much as he would go about gentling a refractory broncho, and with nearly the same results.
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his ankle, however, simply could not be hurried or bluffed into premature soundness, and the little doctor was at her wits' end to keep chip from fretting himself back into fever, once he was safely pulled out of it. she made haste to explain the bit of overheard conversation, which he harped on more than he dreamed, when his head went light in that first week, and so established a more friendly feeling between them.
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still, there was a certain aloofness about him which she could not conquer, try as she might. just so far they were comrades--beyond, chip walked moodily alone. the little doctor did not like that overmuch. she preferred to know that she fairly understood her friends and was admitted, sometimes, to their full confidence. she did not relish bumping her head against a blank wall that was too high to look over or to climb, and in which there seemed to be no door.
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to be sure, he talked freely, and amusingly, of his adventures and of the places he had known, but it was always an impersonal recital, and told little of his real self or his real feelings. still, when she asked him, he told her exactly what he thought about things, whether his opinion pleased her or not.
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there were times when he would sit in the old morris chair and smoke and watch her make lacey stuff in a little, round frame. battenberg, she said it was. he loved to see her fingers manipulate the needle and the thread, and take wonderful pains with her work--but once she showed him a butterfly whose wings did not quite match, and he pointed it out to her. she had been listening to him tell a story of indians and cowboys and with some wild riding mixed into it, and--well, she used the wrong stitch, but no one would notice it in a thousand years. this, her argument.
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“you'll always know the mistake's there, and you won't get the satisfaction out of it you would if it was perfect, would you?” argued chip, letting his eyes dwell on her face more than was good for him.
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the little doctor pouted her lips in a way to tempt a man all he could stand, and snipped out the wing with her scissors and did it over.
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so with her painting. she started a scene in the edge of the bad lands down the river. chip knew the place well. there was a heated discussion over the foreground, for the little doctor wanted him to sketch in some indian tepees and some squaws for her, and chip absolutely refused to do so. he said there were no indians in that country, and it would spoil the whole picture, anyway. the little doctor threatened to sketch them herself, drawing on her imagination and what little she knew of indians, but something in his eyes stayed her hand. she left the easel in disgust and refused to touch it again for a week.
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she was to spend a long day with miss satterly, the schoolma'am, and started off soon after breakfast one morning.
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“i hope you'll find something to keep you out of mischief while i'm gone,” she remarked, with a pretty, authoritative air. “make him take his medicine, johnny, and don't let him have the crutches. well, i think i shall hide them to make sure.”
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“i'll cover it up,” said she.
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“let it be. i like to look at them.” chip leaned back in his chair and watched her, a hunger greater than he knew in his eyes. it was most awfully lonesome when she was gone all day, and last night she had been writing all the evening to dr. cecil granthum--damn him! chip always hitched that invective to the unknown doctor's name, for some reason he saw fit not to explain to himself. he didn't see what she could find to write about so much, for his part. and he did hate a long day with no one but johnny to talk to.
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he craned his neck to keep her in view as long as possible, drew a long, discontented breath and settled himself more comfortably in the chair where he spent the greater part of his waking hours.
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“hand me the tobacco, will you, kid?”
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he fished his cigarette book from his pocket. “thanks!” he tore a narrow strip from the paper and sifted in a little tobacco.
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“now a match, kid, and then you're done.”
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johnny placed the matches within easy reach, shoved a few magazines close to chip's elbow, and stretched himself upon the floor with a book.
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chip lay back against the cushions and smoked lazily, his eyes half closed, dreaming rather than thinking. the unfinished painting stood facing him upon its easel, and his eyes idly fixed upon it. he knew the place so well. jagged pinnacles, dotted here and there with scrubby pines, hemmed in a tiny basin below--where was blank canvas. he went mentally over the argument again, and from that drifted to a scene he had witnessed in that same basin, one day--but that was in the winter. dirty gray snow drifts, where a chinook had cut them, and icy side hills made the place still drearier. and the foreground--if the little doctor could get that, now, she would be doing something!--ah! that foreground. a poor, half-starved range cow with her calf which the round-up had overlooked in the fall, stood at bay against a steep cut bank. before them squatted five great, gaunt wolves intent upon fresh beef for their supper. but the cow's horns were long, and sharp, and threatening, and the calf snuggled close to her side, shivering with the cold and the fear of death. the wolves licked their cruel lips and their eyes gleamed hungrily--but the eyes of the cow answered them, gleam for gleam. if it could be put upon canvas just as he had seen it, with the bitter, biting cold of a frozen chinook showing gray and sinister in the slaty sky-- “kid!”
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“huh?” johnny struggled reluctantly back to montana.
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“get me the little doctor's paint and truck, over on that table, and slide that easel up here.”
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johnny stared, opened his mouth to speak, then wisely closed it and did as he was bidden. philosophically he told himself it was chip's funeral, if the little doctor made a kick.
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“all right, kid.” chip tossed the cigarette stub out of the window. “you can go ahead and read, now. lock the door first, and don't you bother me--not on your life.”
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then chip plunged headlong into the bad lands, so to speak.
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a few dabs of dirty white, here and there, a wholly original manipulation of the sky--what mattered the method, so he attained the result? half an hour, and the hills were clutched in the chill embrace of a “frozen chinook” such as the little doctor had never seen in her life. but johnny, peeping surreptitiously over chip's shoulder, stared at the change; then, feeling the spirit of it, shivered in sympathy with the barren hills.
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“hully gee,” he muttered under his breath, “he's sure a corker t' paint cold that fair makes yer nose sting.” and he curled up in a chair behind, where he could steal a look, now and then, without fear of detection.
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but chip was dead to all save that tiny basin in the bad lands--to the wolves and their quarry. his eyes burned as they did when the fever held him; each cheek bone glowed flaming red.
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as wolf after wolf appeared with what, to johnny, seemed uncanny swiftness, and squatted, grinning and sinister, in a relentless half circle, the book slipped unheeded to the floor with a clatter that failed to rouse the painter, whose ears were dulled to all else than the pitiful blat of a shivering, panic-stricken calf whose nose sought his mother's side for her comforting warmth and protection.
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the countess rapped on the door for dinner, and johnny rose softly and tiptoed out to quiet her. may he be forgiven the lies he told that day, of how chip's head ached and he wanted to sleep and must not be disturbed, by strict orders of the little doctor. the countess, to whom the very name of the little doctor was a fetich, closed all intervening doors and walked on her toes in the kitchen, and johnny rejoiced at the funeral quiet which rested upon the house.
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faster flew the brush. now the eyes of the cow glared desperate defiance. one might almost see her bony side, ruffled by the cutting north wind, heave with her breathing. she was fighting death for herself and her baby--but for how long? already the nose of one great, gray beast was straight uplifted, sniffing, impatient. would they risk a charge upon those lowered horns? the dark pines shook their feathery heads hopelessly. a little while perhaps, and then--chip laid down the brush and sank back in the chair. was the sun so low? he could do no more--yes, he took up a brush and added the title: “the last stand.”
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he was very white, and his hand shook. johnny leaned over the back of the chair, his eyes glued to the picture.
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“gee,” he muttered, huskily, “i'd like t' git a whack at them wolves once.”
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chip turned his head until he could look at the lad's face. “what do you think of it, kid?” he asked, shakily.
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johnny did not answer for a moment. it was hard to put what he felt into words. “i dunno just how t' say it,” he said, gropingly, at last, “but it makes me want t' go gunnin' fer them wolves b'fore they hamstring her. it--well--it don't seem t' me like it was a pitcher, somehow. it seems like the reel thing, kinda.”
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chip moved his head languidly upon the cushion.
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“i'm dead tired, kid. no, i'm not hungry, nor i don't want any coffee, or anything. just roll this chair over to the bed, will you? i'm--dead-tired.”
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johnny was worried. he did not know what the little doctor would say, for chip had not eaten his dinner, or taken his medicine. somehow there had been that in his face that had made johnny afraid to speak to him. he went back to the easel and looked long at the picture, his heart bursting with rage that he could not take his rifle and shoot those merciless, grinning brutes. even after he had drawn the curtain before it and stood the easel in its accustomed place, he kept lifting the curtain to take another look at that wordless tragedy of the west.
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chapter xiii. -- art critics.
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it was late the next forenoon when the little doctor, feeling the spirit of artistic achievement within her, gathered up brushes and paints for a couple hours' work. chip, sitting by the window smoking a cigarette, watched her uneasily from the tail of his eye. looking back to yesterday's “spasm,” as he dubbed it mentally, he was filled with a great and unaccountable shyness. what had seemed so real to him then he feared to-day to face, as trivial and weak.
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he wanted to cry “stop!” when she laid hand to the curtain, but he looked, instead, out across the coulee to the hills beyond, the blood surging unevenly through his veins. he felt when she drew the cloth aside; she stopped short off in the middle of telling him something miss satterly had said--some whimsical thing--and he could hear his heart pounding in the silence which followed. the little, nickel alarm clock tick-tick-ticked with such maddening precision and speed that chip wanted to shy a book at it, but his eyes never left the rocky bluff opposite, and the clock ticked merrily on.
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one minute--two--the silence was getting unbearable. he could not endure another second. he looked toward her; she stood, one hand full of brushes, gazing, white-faced, at “the last stand.” as he looked, a tear rolled down the cheek nearest him and compelled him to speech.
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“what's the matter?” his voice seemed to him rough and brutal, but he did not mean it so.
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the little doctor drew a long, quivering breath.
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“oh, the poor, brave thing!” she said, in a hushed tone. she turned sharply away and sat down.
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“i expect i spoiled your picture, all right--but i told you i'd get into mischief if you went gadding around and left me alone.”
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the little doctor stealthily wiped her eyes, hoping to goodness chip had not seen that they had need of wiping.
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“why didn't you tell me you could paint like that?” she turned upon him fiercely. “here you've sat and looked on at me daubing things up--and if i'd known you could do better than--” looking again at the canvas she forgot to finish. the fascination of it held her.
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“i'm not in the habit of going around the country shouting what i don't know,” said chip, defensively. “you've taken heaps of lessons, and i never did. i just noticed the color of everything, and--oh, i don't know--it's in me to do those things. i can't help trying to paint and draw.”
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“i suppose old von heim would have something to say of your way of doing clouds--but you got the effect, though--better than he did, sometimes. and that cow--i can see her breathe, i tell you! and the wolves--oh, don't sit there and smoke your everlasting cigarettes and look so stoical over it! what are you made of, anyway? can't you feel proud? oh, don't you know what you've done? i--i'd like to shake you--so now!”
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“well, i don't much blame you. i knew i'd no business to meddle. maybe, if you'll touch it up a little--”
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“i'll not touch a brush to that. i--i'm afraid i might kill the cow.” she gave a little, hysterical laugh.
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“don't you think you're rather excitable--for a doctor?” scoffed chip, and her chin went up for a minute.
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“i'd like t' kill them wolves,” said johnny, coming in just then.
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“turn the thing around, kid, so i can see it,” commanded chip, suddenly. “i worked at it yesterday till the colors all ran together and i couldn't tell much about it.”
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johnny turned the easel, and chip, looking, fell silent. had his hand guided the brush while that scene grew from blank canvas to palpitating reality? verily, he had “builded better than he knew.” something in his throat gripped, achingly and dry.
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“did anybody see it yesterday?” asked the little doctor.
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“no--not unless the kid--” “i never said a word about it,” denied johnny, hastily and vehemently. “i lied like the dickens. i said you had headache an' was tryin' t' sleep it off. i kep' the countess teeterin' around on her toes all afternoon.” johnny giggled at the memory of it.
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“well, i'm going to call them all in and see what they say,” declared she, starting for the door.
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“i don't think you will,” began chip, rebelliously, blushing over his achievement like a girl over her graduation essay. “i don't want to be--”
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“well, we needn't tell them you did it,” suggested she.
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“oh, if you're willing to shoulder the blame,” compromised chip, much relieved. he hated to be fussed over.
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the little doctor regarded him attentively a moment, smiled queerly to herself and stood back to get a better view of the painting.
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“i'll shoulder the blame--and maybe claim the glory. it was mine in the first place, you know.” she watched him from under her lashes.
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“yes, it's yours, all right,” said chip, readily, but something went out of his face and lodged rather painfully in the deepest corner of his heart. he ignored it proudly and smiled back at her.
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“do such things really happen, out here?” she asked, hurriedly.
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“i'd tell a man!” said chip, his eyes returning to the picture. “i was riding through that country last winter, and i came upon that very cow, just as you see her there, in that same basin. that's how i came to paint it into your foreground; i got to thinking about it, and i couldn't help trying to put it on canvas. only, i opened up on the wolves with my six-shooter, and i got two; that big fellow ready to howl, there, and that one next the cut-bank. the rest broke out down the coulee and made for the breaks, where i couldn't follow. they--”
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“say? old dunk's comin',” announced johnny, hurrying in. “why don't yuh let 'im see the pitcher an' think all the time the little doctor done it? gee, it'd be great t' hear 'im go on an' praise it up, like he always does, an' not know the diffrunce.”
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“johnny, you're a genius,” cried she, effusively. “don't tell a soul that chip had a brush in his hand yesterday, will you? he--he'd rather not have anyone know he did anything to the painting, you see.”
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“aw, i won't tell,” interrupted johnny, gruffly, eying his divinity with distrust for the first time in his short acquaintance with her. was she mean enough to claim it really? just at first, as a joke, it would be fun, but afterward, oh, she wouldn't do a thing like that!
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“don't you bring dunk in here,” warned chip, “or things might happen. i don't want to run up against him again till i've got two good feet to stand on.”
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their relation was a thing to be watched over tenderly, since chip's month of invalidism. dunk had notions concerning master and servant, and concerning chip as an individual. he did not fancy occupying the back bedroom while chip reigned in his sunny south room, waited on, petted (dunk applied the term petted) and amused indefatigably by the little doctor. and there had been a scene, short but exceeding “strenuous,” over a pencil sketch which graphically portrayed an incident dunk fain would forget--the incident of himself as a would-be broncho fighter, with banjo, of vigilante fame, as the means of his downfall--physical, mental and spiritual. dunk might, in time, have forgiven the crippled ankle, and the consequent appropriation of his room, but never would he forgive the merciless detail of that sketch.
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“i'll carry easel and all into the parlor, and leave the door open so you can hear what they all say,” said the little doctor, cheerfully. “i wish cecil could be here to-day. i always miss cecil when there's anything especial going on in the way of fun.”
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“yes?” answered chip, and made himself another cigarette. he would be glad when he could hobble out to some lonely spot and empty his soul of the profane language stored away opposite the name of dr. cecil granthum. there is so little comfort in swearing all inside, when one feels deeply upon a subject.
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“it's a wonder you wouldn't send for him if you miss him that bad,” he remarked, after a minute, hoping the little doctor would not find anything amiss with his tone, which he meant should be cordial and interested--and which evinced plenty of interest, of a kind, but was curiously lacking in cordiality.
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“i did beg, and tease, and entreat--but cecil's in a hospital--as a physician, you understand, not as a patient, and can't get off just yet. in a month or two, perhaps--”
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dinner, called shrilly by the countess, interrupted her, and she flitted out of the room looking as little like a lovelorn maiden as she did like a doctor--which was little indeed.
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“she begged, and teased, and entreated,” repeated chip, savagely to himself when the door closed upon her, and fell into gloomy meditation, which left him feeling that there was no good thing in this wicked world--no, not one--that was not appropriated by some one with not sense enough to understand and appreciate his blessing.
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after dinner the little doctor spoke to the unsuspecting critics.
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“that picture which i started a couple of weeks ago is finished at last, and i want you good people to come and tell me what you think of it. i want you all--you, slim, and louise, you are to come and give your opinion.”
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“well, i don't know the first thing about paintin',” remonstrated the countess, coming in from the kitchen.
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the old man lighted his pipe and followed her into the parlor with the others, and slim rolled a cigarette to hide his embarrassment, for the role of art critic was new to him.
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there was some nervousness in the little doctor's manner as she set the easel to her liking and drew aside the curtain. she did not mean to be theatrical about it, but chip, watching through the open door, fancied so, and let his lip curl a trifle. he was not in a happy frame of mind just then.
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the cheeks of the little doctor paled and grew pink again. she laughed a bit, as though she would much rather cry.
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“say something, somebody, quick!” she cried, when her nerves would bear no more.
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“well, i do think it's awfully good, dell,” began the countess.
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“by golly, i don't see how you done that without seein' it happen,” exclaimed slim, looking very dazed and mystified.
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“that's a diamond bar cow,” remarked j. g., abstractedly. “that outfit never does git half their calves. i remember the last time i rode through there last winter, that cow--doggone it, dell, how the dickens did you get that cow an' calf in? you must a had a photograph t' work from.”
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“by golly, that's right,” chimed in slim. “that there's the cow i had sech a time chasin' out uh the bunch down on the bottom. i run her till i was plum sick, an' so was she, by golly. i'd know her among a thousand. yuh got her complete--all but the beller, an', by golly, yuh come blame near gittin' that, too!” slim, always slow and very much in earnest, gradually became infused with the spirit of the scene. “jest look at that ole gray sinner with his nose r'ared straight up in the air over there! by golly, he's callin' all his wife's relations t' come an' help 'em out. he's thinkin' the ole diamon' bar's goin' t' be one too many fer 'em. she shore looks fighty, with 'er head down an' 'er eyes rollin' all ways t' oncet, ready fer the first darn cuss that makes a crooked move! an' they know it, too, by golly, er they wouldn't hang back like they're a-doin'. i'd shore like t' be cached behind that ole pine stub with a thirty--thirty an' a fist full uh shells--i'd shore make a scatteration among 'em! a feller could easy--”
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“but, slim, they're nothing but paint!” the little doctor's eyes were shining.
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slim turned red and grinned sheepishly at the others.
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“i kinda fergot it wasn't nothin' but a pitcher,” he stammered, apologetically.
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“that is the gist of the whole matter,” said dunk. “you couldn't ask for a greater compliment, or higher praise, than that, miss della. one forgets that it is a picture. one only feels a deep longing for a good rifle. you must let me take it with me to butte. that picture will make you famous among cattlemen, at least. that is to say, out west, here. and if you will sell it i am positive i can get you a high price for it.”
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the eyes of the little doctor involuntarily sought the morris chair in the next room; but chip was looking out across the coulee, as he had a habit of doing lately, and seemed not to hear what was going on in the parlor. he was indifference personified, if one might judge from his outward appearance. the little doctor turned her glance resentfully to her brother's partner.
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“do you mean all that?” she demanded of him.
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“i certainly do. it is great, miss della. i admit that it is not quite like your other work; the treatment seems different, in places, and--er--stronger. it is the best picture of the kind that i have ever seen, i think. it holds one, in a way--”
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“by golly, i bet chip took a pitcher uh that!” exclaimed slim, who had been doing some hard thinking. “he was tellin' us last winter about ridin' up on that ole diamon' bar cow with a pack uh wolves around her, an' her a-standin' 'em off, an' he shot two uh the wolves. yes, sir; chip jest about got a snap shot of 'em.”
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“well, doggone it! what if he did?” the old man turned jealously upon him. “it ain't everyone that kin paint like that, with nothin' but a little kodak picture t' go by. doggone it! i don't care if dell had a hull apurn full uh kodak pictures that chip took--it's a rattlin' good piece uh work, all the same.”
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“i ain't sayin' anything agin' the pitcher,” retorted slim. “i was jest wonderin' how she happened t' git that cow down s' fine, brand 'n all, without some kind uh pattern t' go by. s' fur 's the pitcher goes, it's about as good 's kin be did with paint, i guess. i ain't ever seen anything in the pitcher line that looked any natcherler.”
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“well, i do think it's just splendid!” gurgled the countess. “it's every bit as good 's the one mary got with a year's subscription t' the household treasure fer fifty cents. that one's got some hounds chasin' a deer and a man hidin' in 'the bushes, sost yuh kin jest see his head. it's an awful purty pitcher, but this one's jest as good. i do b'lieve it's a little bit better, if anything. mary's has got some awful nice, green grass, an' the sky's an awful purty blue--jest about the color uh my blue silk waist. but yuh can't expect t' have grass an' sky like that in the winter, an' this is more of a winter pitcher. it looks awful cold an' lonesome, somehow, an' it makes yuh want t' cry, if yuh look at it long enough.”
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the critics stampeded, as they always did when the countess began to talk.
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“you better let dunk take it with him, dell,” was the parting advice of the old man.
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“you don't mind, do you?” the little doctor was visibly uneasy.
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“mind what?” chip's tone was one of elaborate unconsciousness. “mind dunk's selling the picture for you? why should i? it's yours, you know.”
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“i think you have some interest in it yourself,” she said, without looking at him. “you don't think i mean to--to--”
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chip really felt that way about it, after the first dash of wounded pride. he could never begin to square accounts with the little doctor, anyhow, and he was proud that he could do something for her, even if it was nothing more than fixing up a picture so that it rose considerably above mediocrity. he had meant it that way all along, but the suspicion that she was quite ready to appropriate his work rather shocked him, just at first. no one likes having a gift we joy in bestowing calmly taken from our hands before it has been offered. he wanted her to have the picture for her very own--but--but--he had not thought of the possibility of her selling it, or of dunk as her agent. it was all right, of course, if she wanted to do that with it, but--there was something about it that hurt, and the hurt of it was not less, simply because he could not locate the pain.
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his mind fidgeted with the subject. if he could have saddled silver and gone for a long gallop over the prairie land, he could have grappled with his rebellious inner self and choked to death several unwelcome emotions, he thought. but there was silver, crippled and swung uncomfortably in canvas wrappings in the box stall, and here was himself, crippled and held day after day in one room and one chair--albeit a very pleasant room and a very comfortable chair--and a gallop as impossible to one of them as to the other.
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“i do wish--” the little doctor checked herself abruptly, and hummed a bit of coon song.
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“what do you wish?” chip pushed his thoughts behind him, and tried to speak in his usual manner.
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“nothing much. i was just wishing cecil could see 'the last stand.'”
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chip said absolutely nothing for five minutes, and for an excellent reason. there was not a single thought during that time which would sound pretty if put into words, and he had no wish to shock the little doctor.
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after that day a constraint fell upon them both, which each felt keenly and neither cared to explain away. “the last stand” was tacitly dismissed from their conversation, of which there grew less and less as the days passed.
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then came a time when chip strongly resented being looked upon as an invalid, and johnny was sent home, greatly to his sorrow.
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chip hobbled about the house on crutches, and chafed and fretted, and managed to be very miserable indeed because he could not get out and ride and clear his brain and heart of some of their hurt--for it had come to just that; he had been compelled to own that there was a hurt which would not heal in a hurry.
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it was a very bitter young man who, lounging in the big chair by the window one day, suddenly snorted contempt at a western story he had been reading and cast the magazine--one of the six leading--clean into the parlor where it sprawled its artistic leaves in the middle of the floor. the little doctor was somewhere--he never seemed to know just where, nowadays--and the house was lonesome as an isolated peak in the bad lands.
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“i wish i had the making of the laws. i'd put a bounty on all the darn fools that think they can write cowboy stories just because they rode past a roundup once, on a fast train,” he growled, reaching for his tobacco sack. “huh! i'd like to meet up with the yahoo that wrote that rank yarn! i'd ask him where he got his lack of information. huh! a cow-puncher togged up like he was going after the snakiest bronk in the country, when he was only going to drive to town in a buckboard! 'his pistol belt and dirk and leathern chaps'--oh, lord; oh, lord! and spurs! i wonder if he thinks it takes spurs to ride a buckboard? do they think, back east, that spurs grow on a man's heels out here and won't come off? do they think we sleep in 'em, i wonder?” he drew a match along the arm of the chair where the varnish was worn off. “they think all a cow-puncher has to do is eat and sleep and ride fat horses. i'd like to tell some of them a few things that they don't--”
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the color surged to his face, and he leaned from the window, his thin, white hand outstretched caressingly.
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“i'd tell a man!” he said, and choked a little over it. “silver, old boy!”
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silver, nickering softly, limped forward and nestled his nose in the palm of his master.
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“he's been out in the corral for several days, but i didn't tell you--i wanted it for a surprise,” said the little doctor. “this is his longest trip, but he'll soon be well now.”
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“yes; i'd give a good deal if i could walk as well as he can,” said chip, gloomily.
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“he wasn't hurt as badly as you were. you ought to be thankful you can walk at all, and that you won't limp all your life. i was afraid for a while, just at first--”
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“you were? why didn't you tell me?” chip's eyes were fixed sternly upon her.
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“because i didn't want to. it would only have made matters worse, anyway. and you won't limp, you know, if you're careful for a while longer. i'm going to get silver his sugar. he has sugar every day.”
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silver lifted his head and looked after her inquiringly, whinnied complainingly, and prepared to follow as best he could.
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“silver--oh, silver!” chip snapped his fingers to attract his attention. “hang the luck, come back here! would you throw down your best friend for that girl? has she got to have you, too?” his voice grew wistfully rebellious. “you're mine. come back here, you little fool--she doesn't care.”
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“i'm coming, now be still. oh, don't you dare paw with your lame leg! why didn't you stay with your master?”
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“he's no use for his master, any more,” said chip, with a hurt laugh. “a woman always does play the--mischief, somehow. i wonder why? they look innocent enough.”
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“wait till your turn comes, and perhaps you'll learn why,” retorted she.
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chip, knowing that his turn had come, and come to tarry, found nothing to say.
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“beside,” continued the little doctor, “silver didn't want me so much--it was the sugar. i hope you aren't jealous of me, because i know his heart is big enough to hold us both.”
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she stayed a long half hour, and was so gay that it seemed like old times to listen to her laugh and watch her dimples while she talked. chip forgot that he had a quarrel with fate, and he also forgot dr. cecil granthum, of gilroy, ohio--until slim rode up and handed the little doctor a letter addressed in that bold, up-and-down writing that chip considered a little the ugliest specimen of chirography he had ever seen in his life.
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“it's from cecil,” said the little doctor, simply and unnecessarily, and led silver back down the hill.
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chip, gazing at that tiresome bluff across the coulee, renewed his quarrel with fate.
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“i wish, while i'm gone, you'd paint me another picture. will you, please?”
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when a girl has big, gray eyes that half convince you they are not gray at all, but brown, or blue, at times, and a way of using them that makes a fellow heady, like champagne, and a couple of dimples that will dodge into her cheeks just when a fellow is least prepared to resist them--why, what can a fellow do but knuckle under and say yes, especially when she lets her head tip to one side a little and says “please” like that?
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chip tried not to look at her, but he couldn't help himself very well while she stood directly in front of him. he compromised weakly instead of refusing point-blank, as he told himself he wanted to do.
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“i don't know--maybe i can't, again.”
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“maybe you can, though. here's an eighteen by twenty-four canvas, and here are all the paints i have in the house, and the brushes. i'll expect to see something worth while, when i return.”
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“well, but if i can't--”
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“look here. straight in the eye, if you please! now, will you try?”
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chip, looking into her eyes that were laughing, but with a certain earnestness behind the laugh, threw up his hands--mentally, you know.
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“yes, i'll try. how long are you going to be gone?”
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“oh, perhaps a week,” she said, lightly, and chip's heart went heavy.
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“you may paint any kind of picture you like, but i'd rather you did something like 'the last stand'--only better. and put your brand, as you call it, in one corner.”
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“you won't sell it, will you?” the words slipped out before he knew.
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“no--no, i won't sell it, for it won't be mine. it's for yourself this time.”
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“then there won't be any picture,” said chip, shortly.
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“oh, yes, there will,” smiled the little doctor, sweetly, and went away before he could contradict her.
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perhaps a week! heavens, that was seven days, and every day had at least sixteen waking hours. how would it be when it was years, then? when dr. cecil granthum--(er--no, i won't. the invective attached to that gentleman's name was something not to be repeated here.) at any rate, a week was a long, long time to put in without any gray eyes or any laugh, or any dimples, or, in short, without the little doctor. he could not see, for his part, why she wanted to go gadding off to the falls with len adams and the schoolma'am, anyway. couldn't they get along without her? they always had, before she came to the country; but, for that matter, so had he. the problem was, how was he going to get along without her for the rest of his life? what did they want to stay a week for? couldn't they buy everything they wanted in a day or so? and the giant spring wasn't such great shakes, nor the rainbow falls, that they need to hang around town a week just to look at them. and the picture--what was he such a fool for? couldn't he say no with a pair of gray eyes staring into his? it seemed not. he supposed he must think up something to daub on there--the poorer the better.
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that first day chip smoked something like two dozen cigarettes, gazed out across the coulee till his eyes ached, glared morosely at the canvas on the easel, which stared back at him till the dull blankness of it stamped itself upon his brain and he could see nothing else, look where he might. whereupon he gathered up hat and crutches, and hobbled slowly down the hill to tell silver his troubles.
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the second day threatened to be like the first. chip sat by the window and smoked; but, little by little, the smoke took form and substance until, when he turned his eyes to the easel, a picture looked back at him--even though to other eyes the canvas was yet blank and waiting.
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there was no johnny this time to run at his beckoning. he limped about on his crutches, collected all things needful, and sat down to work.
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as he sketched and painted, with a characteristic rapidity that was impatient of the slightest interruption yet patient in its perfectness of detail, the picture born of the smoke grew steadily upon the canvas.
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it seemed, at first, that “the last stand” was to be repeated. there were the same jagged pinnacles and scrubby pines, held in the fierce grip of the frozen chinook. the same? but there was a difference, not to be explained, perhaps, but certainly to be felt. the little doctor's hills were jagged, barren hills; her pines were very nice pines indeed. chip's hills were jagged, they were barren--they--were desolate; his pines were shuddering, lonely pines; for he had wandered alone among them and had caught the message of the wilderness. his sky was the cold, sinister sky of “the last stand”--but it was colder, more sinister, for it was night. a young moon hung low in the west, its face half hidden behind a rift of scurrying snow clouds. the tiny basin was shadowy and vague, the cut-bank a black wall touched here and there by a quivering shaft of light.
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there was no threatening cow with lowered horns and watchful eye; there was no panic-stricken calf to whip up her flagging courage with its trust in her.
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the wolves? yes, there were the wolves--but there were more of them. they were not sitting in a waiting half circle--they were scattered, unwatchful. two of them in the immediate foreground were wrangling over a half-gnawed bone. the rest of the pack were nosing a heap pitifully eloquent.
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as before, so now they tricked the eye into a fancy that they lived. one could all but hear the snarls of the two standing boldly in the moonlight, the hair all bristly along the necks, the white fangs gleaming between tense-drawn lips. one felt tempted to brace oneself for the rush that was to come.
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for two days chip shut himself in his room and worked through the long hours of daylight, jealous of the minutes darkness stole from him.
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he clothed the feast in a merciful shade which hid the repugnance and left only the pathos--two long, sharp horns which gleamed in the moonlight but were no longer threatening.
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he centered his energy upon the two wolves in the foreground, grimly determined that slim should pray for a gatling gun when he saw them.
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the third day, when he was touching up the shoulders of one of the combatants, a puff of wind blew open the door which led to the parlor. he did not notice it and kept steadily at work, painting his “brand” into a corner. beneath the stump and its splinter he lettered his name--a thing he had never done before.
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chip jumped half out of his chair, giving his lame ankle a jolt which made him grind his teeth.
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“darn it, chip, did you do that?”
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“it kind of looks that way, don't it?” chip was plainly disconcerted, and his ankle hurt.
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“h--m-m.” the old man eyed it sharply a minute. “it's a wonder you wouldn't paint in a howl or two, while you're about it. i suppose that's a mate to--doggone you, chip, why didn't yuh tell us you painted that other one?”
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“i didn't,” said chip, getting red and uncomfortable, “except the cow and--”
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“yes, except the part that makes the picture worth the paint it's done with!” snorted the old man. “i must say i never thought that uh dell!”
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“thought what?” flared chip, hotly, forgetting everything but that the little doctor was being censured. “it was her picture, she started it and intended to finish it. i painted on it one day when she was gone, and she didn't know it. i told her not to tell anyone i had anything to do with it. it wasn't her fault.”
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“huh!” grunted the old man, as if he had his own opinion on that matter. “well, it's a rattling good picture--but this one's better. poor ole diamond bar--she couldn't come through with it, after all. she put up a good fight, out there alone, but she had t' go under--her an' her calf.” he stood quiet a minute, gazing and gazing. “doggone them measly wolves! why in thunder can't a feller pump lead into 'em like he wants t'?”
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chip's heart glowed within him. his technique was faulty, his colors daring, perhaps--but his triumph was for that the greater. if men could feel his pictures--and they did! that was the joy of it--they did!
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“darn them snarlin' brutes, anyway! i thought it was doggone queer if dell could dab away all her life at nice, common things that you only think is purty, an' then blossom out, all of a sudden, with one like that other was--that yuh felt all up an' down yer back. the little cheat, she'd no business t' take the glory uh that'n like she done. i'll give her thunder when she gits back.”
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“you won't do anything of the kind,” said chip, quietly--too quietly not to be menacing. “i tell you that was my fault--i gave her all i did to the picture, and i told her not to say anything. do you think i don't know what i owe to her? do you think i don't know she saved silver's life--and maybe mine? forty pictures wouldn't square me with the little doctor--not if they were a heap better than they are, and she claimed every darned one. i'm doing this, and i'll thank you not to buy in where you're not wanted. this picture is for her, too--but i don't want the thing shouted from the housetops. when you go out, i wish you'd shut the door.”
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the old man, thoroughly subdued, took the hint. he went out, and he shut the door.
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chapter xvi. -- weary advises.
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“i have a short article here which may interest you, miss della,” said dunk, coming out on the porch a few days later with a butte paper in his hand. the little doctor was swinging leisurely in the hammock.
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“it's about the picture,” he added, smiling.
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“it is reported that 'the last stand' has been sold. the painting, which has been on exhibition in the lobby of the summit hotel, has attracted much attention among art lovers, and many people have viewed it in the last week. duncan gray whitaker, the well-known mine owner and cattleman, who brought the picture to butte, is said to have received an offer which the artist will probably accept. mr. whitaker still declines to give the artist's name, but whoever he is, he certainly has a brilliant future before him, and montana can justly feel proud of him. it has been rumored that the artist is a woman, but the best critics are slow to believe this, claiming that the work has been done with a power and boldness undoubtedly masculine. those who have seen 'the last stand' will not easily forget it, and the price offered for it is said to be a large one. mr. whitaker will leave the city to-morrow to consult the unknown artist, and promises, upon his return, to reveal the name of the modest genius who can so infuse a bit of canvas with palpitating life.”
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“what do you think of that? isn't the 'modest genius' rather proud of the hit she has made? i wish you could have seen the old stockmen stand around it and tell wolf stories to one another by the hour. the women came and cried over it--they were so sorry for the cow. really, miss della, she's the most famous cow in butte, just now. i had plenty of smaller offers, but i waited till senator blake came home; he's a crank on western pictures, and he has a long pocketbook and won't haggle over prices. he took it, just as i expected, but he insists that the artist's name must be attached to it; and if you take his offer, he may bring the picture down himself--for he's quite anxious to meet you. i am to wire your decision at once.”
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the little doctor watched a pale green “measuring worm” loop its way hurriedly along the floor of the porch. she was breathing rather quickly and unevenly, and she seemed to be thinking very fast. when the worm, reaching the end, doubled out of sight, she started the hammock swinging and leaned back upon her cushions.
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“you may tell him to come--i should like very much to see him,” she said. “and i am very much obliged to you for the service you have performed.” she became very much interested in a magazine, and seemed to dismiss dunk and the picture entirely from her mind. dunk, after waiting till he was convinced she had no intention of saying more, went off to the stables to find a messenger for the telegram, telling himself on the way that miss della whitmore was a very cool young person, and not as grateful as he would like her to be.
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the little doctor went immediately to find chip, but that young man, who had been just inside the window and had heard every word, was not so easily found. he was down in the bunk house, thinking things. and when she did find him, near supper time, he was so utterly unapproachable that her courage and her patience failed together, and she did not mention the picture at all.
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“hello, doctor!” it was a heartening voice, sounding very sweet to the ears of the little doctor just then. she turned eagerly, her arms still clasping silver's neck. she had come down to the corral to feed him sugar and tell him what a very difficult young man his master was, and how he held her at arm's length with his manner, and yet was nice and friendly and sunny enough--like the sun shining on an iceberg. but human sympathy was within reach of her hand, and it was much more satisfying than the mute sympathy of a horse.
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“weary willy davidson, you don't know how glad i am to see you! as the sayin' is: 'yuh think of angels an' their opposets ain't fur off.' i am glad to see you.”
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“dirt and all?” grinned weary, for he had ridden far in the heat, and was dust-grimed and travelworn. he pulled the saddle off glory, also, travelworn and sweat-grimed, and gave him an affectionate slap of dismissal.
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“i'd chance money you wasn't thinking of me,” he said, pointedly. “how is the old ranch, anyhow? splinter up, yet?”
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“good shot! that was sure a bad foot he had on him, and i didn't know--what's he been putting in the time at? making pictures--or love?”
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“pictures,” said the little doctor, hastily, laying her cheek against silver's mane. “i'd like to see him making love!”
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“yuh would?” said weary, innocently, disregarding the irony of her tone. “well, if yuh ever do, i tell yuh right now you'll see the real thing. if he makes love like he does other things, there won't any female girl dodge his loop, that's straight. what about the pictures?”
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“well, he drew a picture of j. g. sliding down the kitchen steps, before he was out of bed. and he made a picture of dunk, that time banjo bucked him off--you saw that happen, i suppose--and it was great! dunk was standing on his head in front of his horse, but i can't show you it, because it blew out of the window and landed at dunk's feet in the path, and he picked it up and tore it into little bits. and he doesn't play in chip's yard any more.”
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“he never did,” grinned weary. “dunk's a great hand to go around shooting off his mouth about things he's no business to buy into, and old splinter let him down on his face once or twice. chip can sure give a man a hard fall when he wants to, and not use many words, either. what little he does say generally counts.”
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the little doctor's memory squirmed assentingly. “it's the tone he uses,” she said, reflectively. “the way he can say 'yes,' sometimes--”
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“you've bumped into that, huh? bert rogers lit into him with a tent peg once, for saying yes at him. they sure was busy for a few minutes. i just sat in the shade of a wagon wheel and laughed till i near cracked a rib. when they got through they laughed, too, and they played ten games uh pool together that night, and got--” weary caught himself up suddenly. “pool ain't any gambling game,” he hastened to explain. “it's just knocking balls into the pockets, innocent like, yuh see.”
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“mr. davidson, there's something i'd like to tell you about. will you wait a few minutes more for your supper?”
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“sure,” said weary; wonderingly, and sat down upon the edge of the watering trough.
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the little doctor, her arms still around silver's neck, told him all about “the last stand,” and “the spoils of victory,” and chip, and dunk, and herself. and weary listened silently, digging little trenches in the hard soil with the rowels of his spurs, and, knowing chip as he did, understanding the matter much better than did the little doctor.
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“and he doesn't seem to know that i never meant to claim the picture as my work, and i can't explain while he acts so--oh, you know how he can act. and dunk wouldn't have sold the picture if he had known chip painted it, and it was wrong, of course, but i did so want chip to have some real encouragement so he would make that his life work. you know he is fitted for something better than cow-punching. and now the picture has made a hit and brought a good price, and he must own it. dunk will be furious, of course, but that doesn't matter to me--it's chip that i can't seem to manage.”
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weary smiled queerly down at his spurs.
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“it's a cinch you could manage him, easy enough, if you took the right way to do it,” he said, quietly.
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“tell me!” flashed the little doctor. “i told him senator blake was coming, and that he wanted to buy the picture, and he just made him a cigarette and said, 'ye--e-es?' and after that there wasn't any conversation of any description!”
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weary threw back his head and laughed.
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“that sure sounds just like him,” he said, and at that minute chip himself hobbled into the corral, and the little doctor hastened to leave it and retreat to the house.
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chapter xvii. -- when a maiden wills.
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it was dunk who drove to meet the train, next day, and it was an extremely nervous young woman who met senator blake upon the porch. chip sprawled in the hammock on the east porch, out of sight.
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the senator was a little man whose coat did not fit, and whose hair was sandy and sparse, and who had keen, twinkling blue eyes which managed to see a great deal more than one would suspect from the rest of his face. he pumped the little doctor's hand up and down three times and called her “my dear young lady.” after the first ten minutes, the little doctor's spirits rose considerably and her heart stopped thumping so she could hear it. she remembered what weary had told her--that “old blake won't be hard to throw.” she no longer feared the senator, but she refused to speculate upon what chip might do. he seemed more approachable to-day, but that did not count--probably he was only reflecting weary's sunshine, and would freeze solid the minute--“and so you are the mysterious genius who has set the butte critics by the ears!” chuckled the senator. “they say your cloud treatment is all wrong, and that your coloring is too bold--but directly they forget all that and wonder which wolf will make the first dash, and how many the cow will put out of business before she goes under herself. don't be offended if i say that you look more capable of portraying woolly white lambs at play than ravening wolves measuring the strength of their quarry. i must confess i was looking for the--er man behind that brush.”
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“i told the senator coming out that it was a lady he would have to make terms with. he would hardly believe it,” smiled dunk.
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“he needn't believe it,” said the little doctor, much more calmly than she felt. “i don't remember ever saying that i painted 'the last stand.'”
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dunk threw up his head and looked at her sharply.
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“genius is certainly modest,” he said, with a laugh that was not nice to hear.
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“in this case, the genius is unusually modest,” assented she, getting rather white. “unfortunately for myself, senator, i did not paint the 'ravening wolves' which caught your fancy. it would be utterly beyond my brush.”
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a glimmering of the truth came to dunk, and his eyes narrowed.
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“who did paint it for you? your friend, chip?”
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the little doctor caught her breath at the venomous accent he employed, and the old man half rose from his chair. but della could fight her own battles. she stood up and faced dunk, tight-lipped and proud.
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“yes, mr. whitaker, my friend, mr. bennett, of whose friendship i am rather proud, painted the best part of 'the last stand.'”
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“senator blake must forgive my being misled by your previous statement that the picture was yours,” sneered dunk.
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“i made no previous statement, mr. whitaker.” the little doctor's tone was sweetly freezing. “i said that the picture which i had begun was finished, and i invited you all to look at it. it was your misfortune that you took too much for granted.”
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“it's a mistake to take anything for granted where a woman is concerned. at the same time i shouldn't be blamed if i take it for granted chip--”
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“suppose you say the rest to me, dunk,” suggested chip from the doorway, where he leaned heavily upon his cane. “it begins to look as though i held a hand in this game.”
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dunk wheeled furiously upon him.
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“you're playing a high hand for a forty-dollar man,” he grated, “and you've about reached your limit. the stakes are beyond your reach, my friend.”
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chip went white with anger at the thrust, which struck deeper than dunk knew. but he stood his ground.
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“ye--es? wait till the cards are all turned.” it turned him sick, though, the emptiness of the boast. it was such a pitiful, ghastly bluff--for the cards were all against him, and he knew it. a man in gilroy, ohio, would take the trick which decided the game. hearts were trumps, and dr. cecil granthum had the ace.
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the little senator got out of his chair and faced chip tactfully.
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“kid bennett, you rascal, aren't you going to shake hands?” his own was outstretched, waiting.
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chip crowded several hot words off his tongue, and gave up his hand for a temporary pump handle.
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“how do you do, blake? i didn't think you'd remember me.”
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“you didn't? how could i help it? i can feel the cold of the water yet, and your rope settling over my shoulders. you never gave me a chance to say 'god bless you' for that; you just coiled up your rope--swearing all the time you did it, because it was wet--and rode off, dripping like a muskrat. what did you do it for?”
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“i was in a hurry to get back to camp,” grinned chip, sinking into a chair. “and you weren't a senator then.”
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“it would have been all the same if i had been, i reckon,” responded the senator, shaking chip's hand again. “well, well! so you are the genius--that sounds more likely. no offense, miss whitmore. do you remember that picture you drew with charcoal on a piece of pine board? it stands on the mantel in my library, and i always point it out to my friends as the work of a young man with a future. and you painted 'the last stand!' well, well! i think i'll have to send the price up another notch, just to get even with you for swearing at me when my lungs were so full of water i couldn't swear back!”
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while he talked he was busy unwrapping the picture which he had brought with him, and he reminded the little doctor of a loquacious peddler opening his pack. he was much more genial and unpretentious since chip entered the room, and she wondered why. she wanted to ask about that reference to the water, but he stood the painting against the wall, just then, and she forgot everything but that.
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chip's eyes clung to the scene greedily. after all, it was his--and he knew in his heart that it was good. after a minute he limped into his room and brought “the spoils of victory,” and stood it beside “the last stand.”
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“a--h-h!” the senator breathed the word deep in his throat and fell silent. even the old man leaned forward in his chair that he might see the better. the little doctor could not see anything, just then, but no one noticed anything wrong with her eyes, for they were all down in the bad lands, watching an old range cow defend her calf.
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“bennett, do the two go together?” asked the senator, at last.
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“i don't know--i painted it for miss whitmore,” said chip, a dull glow in his cheeks.
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the little doctor glanced at him quickly, rather startled, if the truth be known.
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“oh, that was just a joke, mr. bennett. i would much rather have you paint me another one--this one makes me want to cry--and a doctor must forego the luxury of tears. i have no claim upon either of them, mr. blake. it was like this. i started 'the last stand,' but i only had the background painted, and one day while i was gone mr. bennett finished it up--and it is his work that makes the picture worth anything. i let it pass as mine, for the time, but i never intended to wear the laurel crown, really. i only borrowed it for a little while. i hope you can make mr. bennett behave himself and put his brand on it, for if he doesn't it will go down to posterity unsigned. this other--'the spoils of victory'--he cannot attempt to disown, for i was away at great falls when he painted it, and he was here alone, so far as help of any kind is concerned. now do make him be sensible!”
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the senator looked at chip, then at the little doctor, chuckled and sat down on the couch.
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“well, well! kid bennett hasn't changed, i see. he's just as ornery as he ever was. and you're the mysterious, modest genius! how did you come out after that dip into the old missouri?” he asked, abruptly. “you didn't take cold, riding in those wet clothes, i hope?”
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“i? no, i was all right. i stopped at that sheep camp and borrowed some dry clothes.” chip was very uncomfortable. he wished blake wouldn't keep bringing up that affair, which was four years old and quite trivial, in his opinion. it was a good thing dunk pulled out when he saw he'd got the worst of it, or there'd have been trouble, most likely. and blake-- the senator went on, addressing the others.
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“do you know what this young fellow did, four years ago this last spring? i tried to cross the river near my place in a little boat, while the water was high. bennett, here, came along and swore that a man with no more sense than i had ought to drown--which was very true, i admit. i had just got out a nice little distance for drowning properly, when a tree came bobbing along and upset my boat, and kid bennett, as we called him then, rode in as far as he could--which was a great deal further than was safe for him--and roped me, just as he would have roped a yearling. ha! ha! i can see him yet, scowling at me and whirling the loop over his head ready to throw. a picture of that, now! when he had dragged me to the bank he used some rather strong language--a cowboy does hate to wet his rope--and rode off before i had a chance to thank him. this is the first time i've seen him since then.”
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chip got very red.
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“i was young and foolish, those days, and you weren't a senator,” he repeated, apologetically.
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“my being a senator wouldn't have mattered at all. they've been changing your name, over this side the river, i see. how did that happen?”
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again chip was uncomfortable.
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“we've got a cook that is out of sight when it comes to saratoga chips, and i'm a fiend for them, you see. the boys got to calling me saratoga chip, and then they cut it down to chip and stuck to it.”
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“i see. there was a fellow with you over there--davidson. what has become of him?”
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“weary? he works here, too. he's down in the bunk house now, i guess.”
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“well, well! let's go and hunt him up--and we can settle about the pictures at the same time. you seem to be crippled. how did that happen? some dare-devil performance, i expect.”
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the senator smiled reassuringly at the little doctor and got chip out of the house and down in the bunk house with weary, and whatever means he used to make chip “behave himself,” they certainly were a success. for when he left, the next day, he left behind him a check of generous size, and chip was not so aloof as he had been with the little doctor, and planned with her at least a dozen pictures which he meant to paint some time.
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there was one which he did paint at once, however--though no one saw it but della. it was the picture of a slim young woman with gray eyes and an old felt hat on her head, standing with her fingers tangled in the mane of a chestnut horse.
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if there was a heartache in the work, if the brush touched the slim figure caressingly and lingered wistfully upon the face, no one knew but chip, and chip had learned long ago to keep his own counsel. there were some thoughts which he could not whisper into even silver's ear.
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chapter xviii. -- dr. cecil granthum.
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the little doctor leaned from the window and called down the hill to her recovered patient--more properly, her nearly recovered patient; for chip still walked with the aid of a cane, though by making use of only one stirrup he could ride very well. he limped up the hill to her, and sat down on the top step of the porch.
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“what's the excitement now?” he asked, banteringly.
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“i've got the best, the most splendid news--you couldn't guess what in a thousand years!”
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“then i won't try. it's too hot.” chip took off his hat and fanned himself with it.
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“well, can't you look a little bit excited? try and look the way i feel! anybody as cool as you are shouldn't suffer with the heat.”
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“i don't know--i get pretty hot, sometimes. well, what is the most splendid news? can't you tell a fellow, after calling him up here in the hot sun?”
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“well, listen. the gilroy hospital--you know, where cecil is”--chip knew--“has a case of blighted love and shattered hopes”--chip's foolish, man-heart nearly turned a somersault. was it possible?--“and it's the luckiest thing ever happened.”
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“yes?” chip wished to goodness she would get to the point. she could be direct enough in her statements when what she said was going to hurt a fellow. his heart was thumping so it hurt him.
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“yes. a doctor there was planning to get married and go away on his honeymoon, you know--”
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chip nodded, half suffocated with crowding, incredulous hopes.
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“well, and now he isn't. his ladylove was faithless and loves another, and his honeymoon is indefinitely postponed. do you see now where the good news comes in?”
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chip shook his head once and looked away up the grade. funny, but something had gone wrong with his throat. he was half choked.
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“well, you are dull! now that fellow isn't going to have any vacation, so cecil can come out, right away! next week! think of it!”
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chip tried to think of it, but he couldn't think of anything, just then. he was only conscious of wishing whizzer had made a finish of the job, up there on the hog's back that day. his heart no longer thumped--it was throbbing in a tired, listless fashion.
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“why can't you look a little bit pleased?” smiled the torturer from the window. “you sit there like a--an indian before a cigar store. you've just about the same expression.”
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“i can't help it. i never was fierce to meet strangers, somehow.”
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“judging from my own experience, i think you are uncommonly fierce at the principle that neutrals shall also in time of war enjoy the freedom of the seas extends only to neutral vessels, not to neutral persons on board enemy ships, since the belligerents are admittedly justified in hampering enemy traffic at sea as far as lies in their power. granted the necessary military power, they can, if deemed necessary to their ends, forbid enemy merchant vessels to sail the sea, on pain of instant destruction, as long as they make their purpose known beforehand so that all, whether enemy or neutral, are enabled to avoid risking their lives. but even where there is doubt as to the justification of such proceeding, and possible reprisals threatened by the opposing side, the question would remain one to be decided between the belligerents themselves alone, they being admittedly allowed the right of making the high seas a field for their military operations, of suppressing any interruption of such operations and supremely determining what measures are to be taken against enemy ships. the neutrals have in such case no legitimate claims beyond that of demanding that due notice be given them of measures contemplated against the enemy, in order that they may refrain from entrusting their persons or goods to enemy vessels.
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the austrian government may presumably take it for granted that the washington cabinet agrees with the foregoing views, which the austrian government is fully convinced are altogether unassailable. to deny the correctness of these views would imply--and this the union government can hardly intend--that neutrals have the right of interfering in the military operations of the belligerents; indeed, ultimately to constitute themselves the judges as to what methods may or may not be employed against an enemy. it would also seem a crying injustice for a neutral government, in order merely to secure for its subjects the right of passage on enemy ships when they might just as well, or indeed with far greater safety, travel by neutral vessels, to grasp at the arm of a belligerent power, fighting perhaps for its very existence. not to mention the fact that it would open the way for all kinds of abuses if a belligerent were forced to lay down arms at the bidding of any neutral whom it might please to make use of enemy ships for business or pleasure. no doubt has ever been raised as to the fact that subjects of neutral states are themselves responsible for any harm they may incur by their presence in any territory on land where military operations are in progress. obviously, there is no ground for establishing another standard for naval warfare, particularly since the second peace conference expressed the wish that, pending the agreement of rules for naval warfare, the rules observed in warfare upon land should be applied as far as possible at sea.
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from the foregoing it appears that the rule as to warning being given to the vessel itself before such vessel is sunk is subject to exceptions of various kinds under certain circumstances, as, for instance, the cases cited by the union government of flight and resistance, the vessel may be sunk without any warning; in others warning should be given before the vessel sails. the austrian government may then assert that it is essentially in agreement with the union government as to the protection of neutrals against risk of life, whatever may be the attitude of the washington cabinet towards some of the separate questions here raised. the austrian government has not only put into practice throughout the war the views it holds in this respect, but has gone even farther, regulating its actions with the strictest care according to the theory advanced by the washington cabinet, although its assurance as published only stated that was "essentially in agreement" with the union government's views. the austrian government would be extremely satisfied if the washington cabinet should be inclined to assist it in its endeavours, which are inspired by the warmest feelings of humanity, to save american citizens from risk at sea by instructing and warning its subjects in this direction.
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the austrian government is therefore of opinion that its former assurance to the washington cabinet could not be held to apply to armed merchant vessels, since these, according to the legal standards prevailing, whereby hostilities are restricted to organised military forces, must be regarded as privateers (freebooters) which are liable to immediate destruction. history shows us that, according to the general law of nations, merchant vessels have never been justified in resisting the exercise by warships of the right of taking prizes. but even if a standard to this effect could be shown to exist, it would not mean that the vessels had the right to provide themselves with guns. it should also be borne in mind that the arming of merchant ships must necessarily alter the whole conduct of warfare at sea, and that such alteration cannot correspond to the views of those who seek to regulate maritime warfare according to the principles of humanity. as a matter of fact, since the practice of privateering was discontinued, until a few years back no power has ever thought of arming merchant vessels. throughout the whole proceedings of the second peace conference, which was occupied with all questions of the laws of warfare at sea, not a single word was ever said about the arming of merchant ships. only on one occasion was a casual observation made with any bearing on this question, and it is characteristic that it should have been by a british naval officer of superior rank, who impartially declared: "lorsqu'un navire de guerre se propose d'arrêter et de visiter un vaisseau marchand, le commandant, avant de mettre une embarcation à la mer, fera tirer un coup de canon. le coup de canon est la meilleure garantie que l'on puisse donner. les navires de commerce n'ont pas de canons à bord." (when a warship intends to stop and board a merchant vessel the commander, before sending a boat, will fire a gun. the firing of a gun is the best guarantee that can be given. merchant vessels do not carry guns.)
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nevertheless, austria-hungary has in this regard also held by its assurance; in the circular verbal note referred to neutrals were cautioned beforehand against entrusting their persons or their goods on board any armed ship; moreover, the measures announced were not put into execution at once, but a delay was granted in order to enable neutrals already on board armed ships to leave the same. and, finally, the austro-hungarian warships are instructed, even in case of encountering armed enemy merchant vessels, to give warning and to provide for the safety of those on board, provided it seems possible to do so in the circumstances.
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the statement of the american ambassador, to the effect that the armed british steamers secondo and welsh prince were sunk without warning by austrian submarines, is based on error. the austrian government has in the meantime received information that no austro-hungarian warships were at all concerned in the sinking of these vessels.
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the austrian government has, as in the circular verbal note already referred to--reverting now to the question of aggravated submarine warfare referred to in the memorandum--also in its declaration of january 31 of this year issued a warning to neutrals with corresponding time limit; indeed, the whole of the declaration itself is, from its nature, nothing more or less than a warning to the effect that no merchant vessel may pass the area of sea expressly defined therein. nevertheless, the austrian warships have been instructed as far as possible to warn such merchant vessels as may be encountered in the area concerned and provide for the safety of passengers and crew. and the austrian government is in the possession of numerous reports stating that the crews and passengers of vessels destroyed in these waters have been saved. but the austrian government cannot accept any responsibility for possible loss of human life which may after all occur in connection with the destruction of armed vessels or vessels encountered in prohibited areas. also it may be noted that the austro-hungarian submarines operate only in the adriatic and mediterranean seas, and there is thus hardly any question as to any action affecting american interests on the part of austro-hungarian warships.
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after all that has been said in the preamble to this memorandum, it need hardly be said that the declaration of the waters in question as a prohibited area is in no way intended as a measure aiming at the destruction of human life, or even to endangering the same, but that its object--apart from the higher aims of relieving humanity from further suffering by shortening the war, is only to place great britain and its allies, who have--without establishing any legally effective blockade of the coasts of the central powers--hindered traffic by sea between neutrals and these powers in a like position of isolation, and render them amenable to a peace with some guarantee of permanency. that austria-hungary here makes use of other methods of war than her opponents is due mainly to circumstances beyond human control. but the austrian government is conscious of having done all in its power to avoid loss of human life. the object aimed at in the blockading of the western powers would be most swiftly and certainly attained if not a single human life were lost or endangered in those waters.
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to sum up, the austrian government may point out that the assurance given to the washington cabinet in the case of the ancona, and renewed in the case of the persia, is neither withdrawn nor qualified by its statements of february 10, 1916, and january 31, 1917. within the limits of this assurance the austrian government will, together with its allies, continue its endeavours to secure to the peoples of the world a share in the blessings of peace. if in the pursuit of this aim--which it may take for granted has the full sympathy of the washington cabinet itself--it should find itself compelled to impose restrictions on neutral traffic by sea in certain areas, it will not need so much to point to the behaviour of its opponents in this respect, which appears by no means an example to be followed, but rather to the fact that austria-hungary, through the persistence and hatred of its enemies, who are determined upon its destruction, is brought to a state of self-defence in so desperate extreme as is unsurpassed in the history of the world. the austrian government is encouraged by the knowledge that the struggle now being carried on by austria-hungary tends not only toward the preservation of its own vital interests, but also towards the realisation of the idea of equal rights for all states; and in this last and hardest phase of the war, which unfortunately calls for sacrifices on the part of friends as well, it regards it as of supreme importance to confirm in word and deed the fact that it is guided equally by the laws of humanity and by the dictates of respect for the dignity and interests of neutral peoples.
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the norddeutsche allgemeine zeitung of may 1, 1917, gives the following speech by dr. helfferich, secretary of state, on the economic effects of the submarine warfare delivered in the principal committee of the reichstag on april 28. the speech is here given verbatim, with the exception of portions containing confidential statements:
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"in the sitting of yesterday a member rightly pointed out that the technical and economic results of the submarine warfare have been estimated with caution. in technical respects the caution observed in estimating the results is plain; the sinkings have, during the first month, exceeded by nearly a quarter, in the second by nearly half, the estimated 600,000 tons, and for the present month also we may fairly cherish the best expectations. the technical success guarantees the economic success with almost mathematical exactitude. true, the economic results cannot be so easily expressed numerically and set down in a few big figures as the technical result in the amount of tonnage sunk. the economic effects of the submarine warfare are expressed in many different spheres covering a wide area, where the enemy seeks to render visibility still more difficult by resorting, so to speak, to statistical smoke-screens.
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"the english statistics to-day are most interesting, one might almost say, in what they wisely refrain from mentioning. the secretary of state for the navy pointed out yesterday how rapidly the pride of the british public had faded. the english are now suppressing our reports on the successes of our submarines and our statements as to submarine losses; they dare not make public the amount of tonnage sunk, but mystify the public with shipping statistics which have given rise to general annoyance in the english press itself. the english government lets its people go on calmly trusting to the myth that instead of six u-boats sunk there are a hundred at the bottom of the sea. it conceals from the world also the true course of the entries and departures of tonnage in british ports since the commencement of unrestricted submarine warfare. and more than all, the english government has since february suppressed most strictly all figures tending to throw light on the position of the grain market. in the case of the coal exports, the country of destination is not published. the monthly trade report, which is usually issued with admirable promptness by the tenth of the next month or thereabouts, was for february delayed and incomplete; and for march it has not yet appeared at all. it is to be regretted that this sudden withdrawal of information makes it more difficult for us to estimate the effect of our submarine operations, but there is a gratifying side to the question after all. it is not to be supposed that england should suddenly become reticent in order to avoid revealing its strength.
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"for the rest, what can be seen is still sufficient to give us an idea.
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"i will commence with the tonnage. you are aware that in the first two months of the unrestricted submarine warfare more than 1,600,000 tons were sunk, of which probably considerably over one million tons sailed under the british flag.
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"the estimates as to the quantity of english tonnage at present available are somewhat divergent; in any case, whether we take the higher or the lower figures, a loss of more than a million tons in two months is a thing that england cannot endure for long. and to replace it, even approximately, by new building, is out of the question. in the year 1914 england's newly-built ships gave a tonnage increment of 1,600,000; in 1915 it was 650,000 tons, in 1916 only 580,000, despite all efforts. and the normal loss of the british merchant fleet in peace time amounts to between 700,000 and 800,000 tons. it is hopeless to think of maintaining equilibrium by urging on the building of new vessels.
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"the attempts which are made to enlist the neutral tonnage in british service by a system of rewards and punishments may here and there, to the ultimate disadvantage of the neutrals themselves, have met with some success, but even so, the neutrals must consider the need for preserving a merchant fleet themselves for peace time, so that there is a narrow limit to what can be attained in this manner. even in january of this year about 30 per cent. of the shipping entries into british ports were under foreign flags. i have heard estimates brought up to 80 per cent. in order to terrify the neutrals; if but 50 per cent. of this be correct it means a decrease in british shipping traffic of roughly one-sixth. counting tonnage sunk and tonnage frightened off, the arrivals at british ports have been reduced, at a low estimate, by one-fourth, and probably by as much as one-third, as against january. in january arrivals amounted to 2.2 million net tons. i may supplement the incomplete english statistics by the information that in march the arrivals were only 1.5 to 1.6 million tons net, and leave it to mr. carson to refute this. the 1.5 to 1.6 million tons represent, compared with the average entries in peace time, amounting to 4.2 millions, not quite 40 per cent. this low rate will be further progressively reduced. lloyd george at the beginning of the war reckoned on the last milliard. those days are now past. then he based his plans on munitions. england has here, with the aid of america, achieved extraordinary results. but the somme and arras showed that, even with those enormous resources, england was not able to beat us. now, in his greeting to the american allies, lloyd george cries out: 'ships, ships, and yet more ships.' and this time he is on the right tack; it is on ships that the fate of the british world-empire will depend.
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"the americans, too, have understood this. they propose to build a thousand wooden vessels of 3,000 tons. but before these can be brought into action they will, i confidently hope, have nothing left to save.
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"i base this confidence upon the indications which are visible, despite the english policy of suppression and concealment.
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"take the total british trade. the figures for march are still not yet available, but those for february tell us enough.
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"british imports amounted in january of this year to 90 million pounds sterling, in february to only 70 million; the exports have gone down from 46 to 37 millions sterling--imports and exports together showing a decline of over 20 per cent. in the first month of the submarine warfare. and again, the rise in prices all round has, since the commencement of the u-boat war, continued at a more rapid rate, so that the decline in the import quantity from one month to another may fairly be estimated at 25 per cent. the figures for imports and exports, then, confirm my supposition as to the decrease of tonnage in the traffic with british ports.
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"the british government has endeavoured, by the strictest measures rigorously prohibiting import of less important articles, to ward off the decline in the quantity of vital necessaries imported. the attempt can only partially succeed.
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"in 1916, out of a total import quantity of 42 million tons, about 31 millions fall to three important groups alone, viz., foodstuffs and luxuries, timber, and iron ore; all other goods, including important war materials, such as other ores and metals, petroleum, cotton and wool, rubber, only 11 million tons, or roughly one-fourth. a decline of one-fourth, then, as brought about by the first month of unrestricted submarine warfare, must affect articles indispensable to life and to the purposes of war.
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"the decline in the imports in february, 1917, as against february, 1916, appears as follows:
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"wool 17 per cent., cotton 27 per cent., flax 38 per cent., hemp 48 per cent., jute 74 per cent., woollen materials 83 per cent., copper and copper ore 49 per cent., iron and steel 59 per cent. as to the imports of iron ore i will give more detailed figures:
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"coffee 66 per cent., tea 41 per cent., raw sugar 10 per cent., refined sugar 90 per cent., bacon 17 per cent., butter 21 per cent., lard 21 per cent., eggs 39 per cent., timber 42 per cent.
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"the only increases worth noting are in the case of leather, hides, rubber and tin.
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"as regards the group in which we are most interested, the various sorts of grain, no figures for quantities have been given from february onwards.
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"the mere juxtaposition of two comparable values naturally gives no complete idea of the facts. it should be borne in mind that the commencement of the unrestricted u-boat campaign came at a time when the economical position of england was not normal, but greatly weakened already by two and a half years of war. a correct judgment will, then, only be possible when we take into consideration the entire development of the imports during the course of the war.
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"i will here give only the most important figures.
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"in the case of iron ore, england has up to now maintained its position better than in other respects.
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"imports amounted in 1913 to 7.4 million tons.
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"in 1916 to 6.9 million tons.
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"january, 1913, 689,000 tons; february, 1913, 658,000 tons.
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"january, 1916, 526,000 tons; february, 1916, 404,000 tons.
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"january, 1917, 512,000 tons; february, 1917, 508,000 tons.
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"here again comparison with the peace year 1913 shows for the months of january and february a not inconsiderable decrease, though the imports, especially in february, 1917, were in excess of those for the same month in 1916.
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"as regards mining timber especially, the import of which fell from 3.5 million loads in 1913 to 2.0 million in 1916, we have here december, 1916, and january, 1917, with 102,000 and 107,000 loads as the lowest import figures given since the beginning of 1913; a statement for the import of mining timber is missing for february.
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"before turning to the import of foodstuffs a word may be said as to the export of coal.
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"the total export of coal has decreased from 78 million tons in 1913 to 461/2 million tons in 1915; in 1916 only about 42 million tons were exported. in december, 1916, the export quantity fell for the first time below 3 million tons, having remained between 3.2 and 3.9 million tons during the months from january to november, 1916. in january, 1917, a figure of 3.5 million tons was again reached; it is the more significant, therefore, that the coal export, which from the nature of the case exhibits only slight fluctuations from month to month, falls again in february, 1917, to 2.9 million tons (as against 3.4 million tons in february of the year before), thus almost reaching once more to the lowest point hitherto recorded--that of december, 1916. and it should be remembered that here, as in the case of all other exports, sunk transports are included in the english statistics.
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"details as to the destination of exported coal have since the beginning of this year been withheld. england is presumably desirous of saving the french and italians the further distress of reading for the future in black and white the calamitous decline in their coal supply. the serious nature of this decline, even up to the end of 1916, may be seen from the following figures:
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"england's coal export to france amounted in december, 1916, to only 1,128,000 tons, as against 1,269,000 tons in january of the same year; the exports to italy in december, 1916, amounted only to 278,000 tons, as against 431,000 tons in january, and roughly 800,000 tons monthly average for the peace year 1913.
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"as to the further development since the end of february, i am able to give some interesting details. scotland's coal export in the first week of april was 103,000 tons, as against 194,000 tons the previous year; from the beginning of the year 1,783,000 tons, as against 2,486,000 tons the previous year. from this it is easy to see how the operations of the u-boats are striking at the root of railway and war industries in the countries allied with england.
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"lloyd george, in a great speech made on january 22 of this year, showed the english how they could protect themselves against the effects of submarine warfare by increased production in their own country. the practicability and effectiveness of his counsels are more than doubtful. he makes no attempt, however, to instruct his allies how they are to protect themselves against the throttling of the coal supply.
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"i come now to the most important point: the position of england with regard to its food supply.
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"first of all i would give a few brief figures by way of calling to mind the degree to which england is dependent upon supplies of foodstuffs from overseas.
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"the proportion of imports in total british consumption averaged during the last years of peace as follows:
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"bread-corn, close on 80 per cent.
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"fodder-grain (barley, oats, maize), which can be utilised as substitutes for, and to supplement, the bread-corn, 50 per cent.; meat, over 40 per cent.; butter, 60-65 per cent. the sugar consumption, failing any home production at all, must be entirely covered by imports from abroad.
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"i would further point out that our u-boats, inasmuch as concerns the food situation in england, are operating under quite exceptionally favourable conditions; the world's record harvest of 1915 has been followed by the world's worst harvest of 1916, representing a loss of 45-50 million tons of bread and fodder-grain. the countries hardest hit are those most favourably situated, from the english point of view, in north america. the effects are now--the rich stocks from the former harvest having been consumed--becoming more evident every day and everywhere. the argentine has put an embargo on exports of grain. as to the condition of affairs in the united states, this may be seen from the following figures:
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"the department of agriculture estimates the stocks of wheat still in the hands of the farmer on march 1, 1917, at 101 million bushels, or little over 21/2 million tons. the stocks for the previous year on that date amounted to 241 million bushels. never during the whole of the time i have followed these figures back have the stocks been so low or even nearly so. the same applies to stocks of maize. against a supply of 1,138,000 bushels on march 1, 1916, we have for this year only 789,000 bushels.
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"the extraordinary scarcity of supplies is nearing the panic limit. the movement of prices during the last few weeks is simply fantastic. maize, which was noted in chicago at the beginning of january, 1917, at 95 cents, rose by the end of april to 127 cents, and by april 25 had risen further to 148 cents. wheat in new york, which stood at 871/4 cents in july, 1914, and by the beginning of 1917 had already risen to 1911/2 cents, rose at the beginning of april to 229 cents, and was noted at no less than 281 on april 2. this is three and a half times the peace figure! in german currency at normal peace time exchange, these 281 cents represent about 440 marks per ton, or, at present rate of exchange for dollars, about 580 marks per ton.
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"that, then, is the state of affairs in the country which is to help england in the war of starvation criminally begun by itself!
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"in england no figures are now made public as to imports and stocks of grain. i can, however, state as follows:
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"on the last date for which stocks were noted, january 13, 1917, england's visible stocks of wheat amounted to 5.3 million quarters, as against 6.3 and 5.9 million quarters in the two previous years. from january to may and june there is, as a rule, a marked decline in the stocks, and even in normal years the imports during these months do not cover the consumption. in june, 1914 and 1915, the visible stocks amounted only to about 2 million quarters, representing the requirements for scarcely three weeks.
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"we have no reason to believe that matters have developed more favourably during the present year. this is borne out by the import figures for january--as published. the imports of bread-corn and fodder-grain--i take them altogether, as in the english regulations for eking out supplies--amounted only to 12.6 million quarters, as against 19.8 and 19.2 in the two previous years.
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"for february the english statistics show an increase in the import value of unstated import quantity of all grain of 50 per cent., as against february, 1916. this gives, taking the distribution among the various sorts of grain as similar to that of january, and reckoning with the rise in prices since, about the same import quantity as in the previous year. but in view of the great decrease in american grain shipments and the small quantity which can have come from india and australia the statement is hardly credible. we may take it that march has brought a further decline, and that to-day, when we are nearing the time of the three-week stocks, the english supplies are lower than in the previous years.
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"the english themselves acknowledge this. lloyd george stated in february that the english grain supplies were lower than ever within the memory of man. a high official in the english ministry of agriculture, sir ailwyn fellowes, speaking in april at an agricultural congress, added that owing to the submarine warfare, which was an extremely serious peril to england, the state of affairs had grown far worse even than then.
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"captain bathurst, of the british food controller's department (kriegsernährungsamt), stated briefly on april 19 that the then consumption of breadstuffs was 50 per cent. in excess of the present and prospective supplies. it would be necessary to reduce the consumption of bread by fully a third in order to make ends meet.
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"shortly before, mr. wallhead, a delegate from manchester, at a conference of the independent labour party in leeds had stated that, according to his information, england would in six to eight weeks be in a complete state of famine.
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"the crisis in which england is placed--and we can fairly call it a crisis now--is further aggravated by the fact that the supplies of other important foodstuffs have likewise taken an unfavourable turn.
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"the import of meat in february, 1917, shows the lowest figures for many years, with the single exception of september, 1914.
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"the marked falling off in the butter imports--february, 1917, showing only half as much as in the previous year--is not nearly counterbalanced by the margarine which england is making every effort to introduce.
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"the import of lard also, most of which comes from the united states, shows a decline, owing to the poor american crops of fodder-stuffs. the price of lard in chicago has risen from 151/2 cents at the beginning of january, 1917, to 211/2 cents on april 25, and the price of pigs in the same time from 9.80 to 16.50 dollars.
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"most serious of all, however, is the shortage of potatoes, which at present is simply catastrophic. the english crop was the worst for a generation past. the imports are altogether insignificant. captain bathurst stated on april 19 that in about four weeks the supplies of potatoes in the country would be entirely exhausted.
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"the full seriousness of the case now stares english statesmen in the face. up to now they have believed it possible to exorcise the danger by voluntary economies. now they find themselves compelled to have recourse to compulsory measures. i believe it is too late."
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the secretary of state then gives a detailed account of the measures taken up to date in england for dealing with the food question, and thereafter continues:
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"on march 22 again the english food dictator, lord devonport, stated in the house of lords that a great reduction in the consumption of bread would be necessary, but that it would be a national disaster if england should have to resort to compulsion.
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"his representative, bathurst, stated at the same time: 'we do not wish to introduce so un-english a system. in the first place, because we believe that the patriotism of the people can be trusted to assist us in our endeavours towards economy, and, further, because, as we can see from the example of germany, the compulsory system promises no success; finally, because such a system would necessitate a too complicated administrative machinery and too numerous staffs of men and women whose services could be better employed elsewhere.'
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"meantime the english government has, on receipt of the latest reports, decided to adopt this un-english system which has proved a failure in germany, declaring now that the entire organisation for the purpose is in readiness.
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"i have still something further to say about the vigorous steps now being taken in england to further the progress of agriculture in the country itself. i refrain from going into this, however, as the measures in question cannot come to anything by next harvest time, nor can they affect that harvest at all. the winter deficiency can hardly be balanced, even with the greatest exertions, by the spring. not until the 1918 crop, if then, can any success be attained. and between then and now lies a long road, a road of suffering for england, and for all countries dependent upon imports for their food supply.
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"everything points to the likelihood that the universal failure of the harvest in 1916 will be followed by a like universal failure in 1917. in the united states the official reports of acreage under crops are worse than ever, showing 63.4, against 78.3 the previous year. the winter wheat is estimated at only 430 million bushels, as against 492 million bushels for the previous year and 650 million bushels for 1915.
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"the prospects, then, for the next year's harvest are poor indeed, and offer no hope of salvation to our enemies.
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"our enemies are feeling the grip of the fist that holds them by the neck. they are trying to force a decision. england, mistress of the seas, is seeking to attain its end by land, and driving her sons by hundreds of thousands to death and mutilation. is this the england that was to have sat at ease upon its island till we were starved into submission, that could wait till their big brother across the atlantic arrived on the scene with ships and million armies, standing fast in crushing superiority until the last annihilating battle?
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"no, gentlemen, our enemies have no longer time to wait. time is on our side now. true, the test imposed upon us by the turn of the world's history is enormous. what our troops are doing to help, what our young men in blue are doing, stands far above all comparison. but they will attain their end. for us at home, too, it is hard; not so hard by far as for them out there, yet hard enough. those at home must do their part as well. if we remain true to ourselves, keeping our own house in order, maintaining internal unity, then we have won existence and the future for our fatherland. everything is at stake. the german people is called upon now, in these weeks heavy with impending decision, to show that it is worthy of continued existence."
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"gentlemen, it is my duty to give you a true picture of the peace negotiations, to set forth the various phases of the results obtained up to now, and to draw therefrom such conclusions as are true, logical and justifiable.
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"it should be stated beforehand that the basis on which austria-hungary treats with the various newly-constituted russian states is that of 'no indemnities and no annexations.' that is the programme which a year ago, shortly after my appointment as minister, i put before those who wished to talk of peace, and which i repeated to the russian leaders on the occasion of their first offers of peace. and i have not deviated from that programme. those who believe that i am to be turned from the way which i have set myself to follow are poor psychologists. i have never left the public in the slightest doubt as to which way i intended to go, and i have never allowed myself to be turned aside so much as a hair's breadth from that way, either to right or left. and i have since become far from a favourite of the pan-germans and of those in the monarchy who follow the pan-german ideas. i have at the same time been hooted as an inveterate partisan of war by those whose programme is peace at any price, as innumerable letters have informed me. neither has ever disturbed me; on the contrary, the double insults have been my only comfort in this serious time. i declare now once again that i ask not a single kreuzer, not a single square metre of land from russia, and that if russia, as appears to be the case, takes the same point of view, then peace must result. those who wish for peace at any price might entertain some doubt as to my 'no-annexation' intentions towards russia if i did not tell them to their faces with the same complete frankness that i shall never assent to the conclusion of a peace going beyond the lines just laid down. if the russian delegates demand any surrender of territory on our part, or any war indemnity, then i shall continue the war, despite the fact that i am as anxious for peace as they, or i would resign if i could not attain the end i seek.
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"this once said, and emphatically asserted, that there is no ground for the pessimistic anticipation of the peace falling through, since the negotiating committees are agreed on the basis of no annexations or indemnities--and nothing but new instructions from the various russian governments, or their disappearance, could shift that basis--i then pass to the two great difficulties in which are contained the reasons why the negotiations have not proceeded as quickly as we all wished.
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"the first difficulty is this: that we are not dealing with a single russian peace delegation, but with various newly-formed russian states, whose spheres of action are as yet by no means definitely fixed or explained among themselves. we have to reckon with the following: firstly, the russia which is administered from st. petersburg; secondly, our new neighbour proper, the great state of ukraine; thirdly, finland; and, fourthly, the caucasus.
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"with the first two of these states we are treating directly; that is to say, face to face; with the two others it was at first in a more or less indirect fashion, as they had not sent any representative to brest-litovsk. we have then four russian parties, and four separate powers on our own side to meet them. the case of the caucasus, with which we ourselves have, of course, no direct questions to settle, but which, on the other hand, is in conflict with turkey, will serve to show the extent of the matter to be debated.
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"the point in which we ourselves are most directly interested is that of the great newly-established state upon our frontiers, ukraine. in the course of the proceedings we have already got well ahead with this delegation. we are agreed upon the aforementioned basis of no indemnities and no annexations, and have in the main arrived at a settlement on the point that trade relations are to be re-established with the new republic, as also on the manner of so doing. but this very case of the ukraine illustrates one of the prevailing difficulties. while the ukraine republic takes up the position of being entirely autonomous and justified in treating independently with ourselves, the russian delegation insists that the boundaries between their territory and that of the ukraine are not yet definitely fixed, and that petersburg is therefore able to claim the right of taking part in our deliberations with the ukraine, which claim is not admitted by the members of the ukraine delegation themselves. this unsettled state of affairs in the internal conditions of russia, however, gave rise to very serious delays. we have got over these difficulties, and i hope that in a few days' time we shall be able once more to resume negotiations.
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"as to the position to-day, i cannot say what this may be. i received yesterday from my representative at brest-litovsk the following two telegrams:
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"'herr joffe has this evening, in his capacity as president of the russian delegation, issued a circular letter to the delegations of the four allied powers in which he states that the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian republic has decided to send two delegates to brest-litovsk with instructions to take part in the peace negotiations on behalf of the central committee of the workers', soldiers' and peasants' councils of pan-ukraine, but also to form a supplementary part of the russian delegation itself. herr joffe adds with regard to this that the russian delegation is prepared to receive these ukrainian representatives among themselves. the above statement is supplemented by a copy of a "declaration" dated from kharkov, addressed to the president of the russian peace delegation at brest, and emanating from the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian republic, proclaiming that the central rada at kiev only represents the propertied classes, and is consequently incapable of acting on behalf of the entire ukrainian people. the ukrainian workers' and peasants' government declares that it cannot acknowledge any decisions arrived at by the delegates of the central rada at kiev without its participation, but has nevertheless decided to send representatives to brest-litovsk, there to participate as a supplementary fraction of the russian delegation, which they recognise as the accredited representatives of the federative government of russia.'
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"furthermore: 'the german translation of the russian original text of the communication received yesterday evening from herr joffe regarding the delegates of the ukrainian government at kharkov and the two appendices thereto runs as follows:
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"'to the president of the austro-hungarian peace delegation.
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"'sir,--in forwarding you herewith a copy of a declaration received by me from the delegates of the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian republic, w.m. schachrai and j.g. medwjedew, and their mandates, i have the honour to inform you that the russian delegation, in full agreement with its frequently repeated acknowledgment of the right of self-determination among all peoples--including naturally the ukrainian--sees nothing to hinder the participation of the representatives of the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian republic in the peace negotiations, and receives them, according to their wish, among the personnel of the russian peace delegation, as accredited representatives of the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian republic. in bringing this to your knowledge, i beg you, sir, to accept the expression of my most sincere respect.--the president of the russian peace delegation: a. joffe.'
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"'appendix 1. to the president of the peace delegation of the russian republic. declaration.
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"'we, the representatives of the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian republic, people's commissary for military affairs, w.m. schachrai, and the president of the pan-ukrainian central executive committee of the council of the workers', soldiers' and peasants' deputation, j.g. medwjedew, delegated to proceed to brest-litovsk for the purpose of conducting peace negotiations with the representatives of germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and turkey, in full agreement with the representatives of the workers' and peasants' government of the russian federative republic, thereby understood the council of people's commissaries, hereby declare as follows: the general secretariat of the ukrainian central rada can in no case be acknowledged as representing the entire ukrainian people. in the name of the ukrainian workers, soldiers and peasants, we declare categorically that all resolutions formed by the general secretariat without our assent will not be accepted by the ukrainian people, cannot be carried out, and can in no case be realised.
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"'in full agreement with the council of people's commissaries, and thus also with the delegation of the russian workers' and peasants' government, we shall for the future undertake the conduct of the peace negotiations with the delegation of the four powers, together with the russian peace delegation.
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"'and we now bring to the knowledge of the president the following resolution, passed by the central executive committee of the pan-ukrainian council of workers', soldiers' and peasants' deputies, on the 30th december, 1917/12th january, 1918:
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"'the central committee has decided: to delegate comrade medwjedew, president of the central executive committee, and people's secretary satonski and commissary schachrai, to take part in the peace negotiations, instructing them at the same time to declare categorically that all attempts of the ukrainian central rada to act in the name of the ukrainian people are to be regarded as arbitrary steps on the part of the bourgeois group of the ukrainian population, against the will and interests of the working classes of the ukraine, and that no resolutions formed by the central rada will be acknowledged either by the ukrainian soviet government or by the ukrainian people; that the ukrainian workers' and peasants' government regards the council of people's commissaries as representatives of the pan-russian soviet government, and as accordingly entitled to act on behalf of the entire russian federation; and that the delegation of the ukrainian workers' and peasants' government, sent out for the purpose of exposing the arbitrary steps of the ukrainian central rada, will act together with and in full agreement with the pan-russian delegation.
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"'herewith: the mandate issued by the people's secretariat of the ukrainian workers' and peasants' republic, 30th december, 1917.
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"'note: people's secretary for enlightenment of the people, wladimir petrowitch satonski, was taken ill on the way, and did not therefore arrive with us.
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"'the president of the central executive committee of the ukrainian council of workers', soldiers' and peasants' deputies, e. medwjedew.
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"'the people's commissary for military affairs, schachrai.
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"'a true copy of the original.
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"'the secretary of the peace delegation, leo karachou.'
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"'on the resolution of the central executive committee of the council of workers', peasants' and soldiers' deputies of ukraina, the people's secretariat of the ukrainian republic hereby appoints, in the name of the workers' and peasants' government of ukraina, the president of the central executive committee of the council of workers', soldiers' and peasants' deputies of ukraina, jesim gregoriewitch medwjedew, the people's secretary for military affairs, wasili matwjejewitch schachrai, and the people's secretary for enlightenment of the people, wladimir petrowitch satonski, in the name of the ukrainian people's republic, to take part in the negotiations with the governments of germany, austria-hungary, turkey and bulgaria as to the terms of peace between the mentioned states and the russian federative republic. with this end in view the mentioned deputies, jesim gregoriewitch medwjedew, wasili matwjejewitch schachrai and wladimir petrowitch satonski are empowered, in all cases where they deem it necessary, to issue declarations and to sign documents in the name of the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian republic. the accredited representatives of the ukrainian workers' and peasants' government are bound to act throughout in accordance with the actions of the accredited representatives of the workers' and peasants' government of the russian federative republic, whereby is understood the council of people's commissaries.
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"'in the name of the workers' and peasants' government of the ukrainian people's republic, the people's secretary for international affairs, for internal affairs, military affairs, justice, works, commissariat.
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"'the manager of the secretariat.
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"'kharkov, 30th december, 1917/12th january, 1918.
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"'in accordance with the copy.
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"'the president of the russian peace delegation, a. joffe.'
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"this is at any rate a new difficulty, since we cannot and will not interfere in the internal affairs of russia.
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"this once disposed of, however, there will be no further difficulties to encounter here; we shall, in agreement with the ukrainian republic determine that the old boundaries between austria-hungary and the former russia will also be maintained as between ourselves and the ukraine.
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"as regards poland, the frontiers of which, by the way, have not yet been exactly determined, we want nothing at all from this new state. free and uninfluenced, the population of poland shall choose its own fate. for my part i attach no great weight to the form of the people's vote in this respect; the more surely it expresses the general wish of the people, the better i shall be pleased. for i desire only the voluntary attachment of poland; only in the express wish of poland itself toward that end can i see any guarantee for lasting harmony. it is my unalterable conviction that the polish question must not be allowed to delay the signing of peace by a single day. if, after peace is arrived at, poland should wish to approach us, we will not reject its advances--the polish question must not and shall not endanger the peace itself.
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"i should have been glad if the polish government had been able to take part in the negotiations, since in my opinion poland is an independent state. the petersburg government, however, takes the attitude that the present polish government is not entitled to speak in the name of the country, and does not acknowledge it as competent to represent the country, and we therefore gave way on this point in order to avoid possible conflict. the question is certainly one of importance, but it is more important still in my opinion to set aside all difficulties likely to delay the negotiations.
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"the second difficulty to be reckoned with, and one which has been most widely echoed in the press, is the difference of opinion between our german allies and the petersburg government anent the interpretation of the right of self-determination among the russian peoples; that is to say, in the areas occupied by german troops. germany maintains that it does not aim at any annexation of territory by force from russia, but, briefly stated, the difference of opinion is a double one.
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"in the first place, germany rightly maintains that the numerous expressions of desire for independence on the part of legislative corporations, communal representations, etc., in the occupied areas should be taken as the provisional basis for the will of the people, to be later tested by plebiscite on a broader foundation, a point of view which the russian government at first was indisposed to agree to, as it did not consider the existing administrations in courland and lithuania entitled to speak for those provinces any more than in the case of poland.
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"in the second place, russia demands that this plebiscite shall take place after all german troops and officials have been withdrawn from the occupied provinces, while germany, in reply to this, points out that if this principle were carried to its utmost limits it would create a vacuum, which could not fail to bring about at once a state of complete anarchy and the utmost misery. it should here be noted that everything in these provinces which to-day renders possible the life of a state at all is german property. railways, posts and telegraphs, the entire industry, and moreover the entire administrative machinery, police, law courts, all are in german hands. the sudden withdrawal of all this apparatus would, in fact, create a condition of things which seems practically impossible to maintain.
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"in both cases it is a question of finding a middle way, which moreover must be found.
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"the differences between these two points of view are in my opinion not great enough to justify failure of the negotiations.
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"but such negotiations cannot be settled from one day to another; they take time.
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"if once we have attained peace with russia, then in my opinion the general peace cannot be long delayed, despite all efforts on the part of the western entente statesmen. i have learned that some are unable to understand why i stated in my first speech after the resumption of negotiations that it was not now a question at brest of a general peace, but of a separate peace with russia. this was the necessary recognition of a plain fact, which herr trotski also has admitted without reserve, and it was necessary, since the negotiations would have been on a different footing--that is to say, in a more limited sphere--if treating with russia alone than if it were a case of treating for a general peace.
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"though i have no illusions in the direction of expecting the fruit of general peace to ripen in a single night, i am nevertheless convinced that the fruit has begun to ripen, and that it is now only a question of holding out whether we are to obtain a general honourable peace or not.
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"i have recently been confirmed in this view by the offer of peace put forward by the president of the united states of america to the whole world. this is an offer of peace, for in fourteen points mr. wilson sets forth the principles upon which he seeks to establish a general peace. obviously, an offer of this nature cannot be expected to furnish a scheme acceptable in every detail. if that were the case, then negotiations would be superfluous altogether, and peace could be arrived at by a simple acceptance, a single assent. this, of course, is not so.
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"but i have no hesitation in declaring that these last proposals on the part of president wilson seem to me considerably nearer the austro-hungarian point of view, and that there are among his proposals some which we can even agree to with great pleasure.
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"if i may now be allowed to go further into these proposals, i must, to begin with, point out two things:
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"so far as the proposals are concerned with our allies--mention is made of the german possession of belgium and of the turkish empire--i declare that, in fulfilment of our duty to our allies, i am firmly determined to hold out in defence of our allies to the very last. the pre-war possessions of our allies we will defend equally with our own. this standpoint is that of all four allies in complete reciprocity with ourselves.
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"in the second place, i have to point out that i must politely but definitely decline to consider the point dealing with our internal government. we have in austria a parliament elected by general, equal, direct and secret ballot. there is not a more democratic parliament in the world, and this parliament, together with the other constitutionally admissible factors, has the sole right to decide upon matters of austrian internal affairs. i speak of austria only, because i do not refer to hungarian internal affairs in the austrian delegation. i should not consider it constitutional to do so. and we do not interfere in american affairs; but, on the other hand, we do not wish for any foreign guidance from any state whatever. having said this, i may be permitted, with regard to the remaining points, to state as follows:
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"as to the point dealing with the abolition of 'secret diplomacy' and the introduction of full openness in the negotiations, i have nothing to say. from my point of view i have no objection to such public negotiations so long as full reciprocity is the basis of the same, though i do entertain considerable doubt as to whether, all things considered, it is the quickest and most practical method of arriving at a result. diplomatic negotiations are simply a matter of business. but it might easily be imagined that in the case, for instance, of commercial treaties between one country and another it would not be advisable to publish incomplete results beforehand to the world. in such negotiations both parties naturally commence by setting their demands as high as possible in order to climb down gradually, using this or that expressed demand as matter for compensation in other ways until finally an equilibrium of the opposing interests is arrived at, a point which must necessarily be reached if agreement is to be come to at all. if such negotiations were to be carried on with full publicity, nothing could prevent the general public from passionately defending every separate clause involved, regarding any concession as a defeat, even when such clauses had only been advanced for tactical reasons. and when the public takes up any such point with particular fervour, ultimate agreement may be thereby rendered impossible or the final agreement may, if arrived at, be regarded as in itself a defeat, possibly by both sides. and this would not conduce to peaceable relations thereafter; it would, on the contrary, increase the friction between the states concerned. and as in the case of commercial treaties, so also with political negotiations, which deal with political matters.
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"if the abolition of secret diplomacy is to mean that no secret compacts are to be made, that no agreements are to be entered upon without the public knowledge, then i have no objection to the introduction of this principle. as to how it is to be realised and adherence thereto ensured, i confess i have no idea at all. granted that the governments of two countries are agreed, they will always be able to make a secret compact without the public being aware of the fact. these, however, are minor points. i am not one to stick by formalities, and a question of more or less formal nature will never prevent me from coming to a sensible arrangement.
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"point 1, then, is one that can be discussed.
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"point 2 is concerned with the freedom of the seas. in this postulate the president speaks from the hearts of all, and i can here fully and completely share america's desire, the more so as the president adds the words, 'outside territorial waters'--that is to say, we are to understand the freedom of the open sea, and there is thus, of course, no question of any interference by force in the sovereign rights of our faithful turkish allies. their standpoint in this respect will be ours.
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"point 3, which is definitely directed against any future economic war, is so right, so sensible, and has so often been craved by ourselves that i have here again nothing to remark.
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"point 4, which demands general disarmament, sets forth in particularly clear and lucid form the necessity of reducing after this present war the free competition in armaments to a footing sufficient for the internal security of states. mr. wilson states this frankly and openly. in my speech at budapest some months back i ventured to express the same idea; it forms part of my political creed, and i am most happy to find any other voice uttering the same thought.
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"as regards the russian clause, we are already showing in deeds that we are endeavouring to bring about friendly relations with our neighbours there.
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"with regard to italy, serbia, roumania and montenegro, i can only repeat my statement already made in the hungarian delegation.
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"i am not disposed to effect any insurance on the war ventures of our enemies.
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"i am not disposed to make any one-sided concessions to our enemies, who still obstinately adhere to the standpoint of fighting on until the final victory; to prejudice permanently the monarchy by such concessions, which would give the enemy the invaluable advantage of being able to carry on the war indefinitely without risk. (applause.)
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"let mr. wilson use the great influence he undoubtedly possesses among his allies to persuade them on their part to declare on what conditions they are willing to treat; he will then have rendered the enormous service of having set on foot the general peace negotiations. i am here replying openly and freely to mr. wilson, and i will speak as openly and freely to any who wish to speak for themselves, but it must necessarily be understood that time, and the continuation of the war, cannot but affect the situations here concerned.
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"i have already said this once before; italy is a striking example. italy had the opportunity before the war of making great territorial acquisitions without firing a shot. it declined this and entered into the war; it has lost hundreds of thousands of lives, milliards in war expenses and values destroyed; it has brought want and misery upon its own population, and all this only to lose for ever an advantage which it might have won.
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"finally, as regards point 13, it is an open secret that we are adherents to the idea of establishing 'an independent polish state to include the areas undoubtedly occupied by polish inhabitants.' on this point also we shall, i think, soon agree with mr. wilson. and if the president crowns his proposals with the idea of a universal league of nations he will hardly meet with any opposition thereto on the part of the austro-hungarian monarchy.
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"as will be seen from this comparison of my views with those of mr. wilson, we are not only agreed in essentials as to the great principles for rearrangement of the world after this war, but our ideas as to several concrete questions bearing on the peace are closely allied.
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"the differences remaining do not appear to me so great but that a discussion of these points might lead to a clearer understanding and bring us closer still.
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"the situation, then, seems to be this: austria-hungary on the one hand, and the united states of america on the other, are the two great powers in the hostile groups of states whose interests are least opposed one to the other. it seems reasonable, then, to suppose that an exchange of opinion between these two powers might form the natural starting point for a conciliatory discussion between all those states which have not yet entered upon peace negotiations. (applause.) so much for wilson's proposals.
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"and now, gentlemen, i hasten to conclude. but this conclusion is perhaps the most important of all i have to say; i am endeavouring to bring about peace between the ukraine and petersburg.
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"the conclusion of peace with petersburg alters nothing in our definitive situation. austro-hungarian troops are nowhere opposed to the petersburg government--we have the ukrainian against us--and it is impossible to export anything from petersburg, since they have nothing there themselves but revolution and anarchy, goods which the bolshevists, no doubt, would be glad to export, but which i must politely decline to receive.
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"in spite of this, i wish to make peace with petersburg as well, since this, like any other cessation of hostilities, brings us nearer to the general peace.
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"it is otherwise with ukraine. for the ukraine has supplies of provisions which they will export if we can agree on commercial terms. the question of food is to-day a matter of anxiety throughout the world; among our opponents, and also in the neutral countries, it is a burning question. i wish to profit by the conclusion of peace with those russian states which have food to export, in order to help our own population. we could and would hold out without this assistance. but i know my duty, and my duty bids me do all that can be done to lighten the burden of our suffering people, and i will not, therefore, from any hysterical nervousness about getting to final peace a few days or a few weeks earlier, throw away this possible advantage to our people. such a peace takes time and cannot be concluded in a day. for such a peace must definitely state whether, what and how the russian party will deliver to us, for the reason that the ukraine on its part wishes to close the business not after, but at the signing of peace.
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"i have already mentioned that the unsettled conditions in this newly established state occasion great difficulty and naturally considerable delay in the negotiations.
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"if you fall on me from behind, if you force me to come to terms at once in headlong fashion, we shall gain no economic advantage at all, and our people will then be forced to renounce the alleviation which they should have gained from the peace.
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"a surgeon conducting a difficult operation with a crowd behind him standing watch in hand may very likely complete the operation in record time, but in all probability the patient would not thank him for the manner in which it had been carried out.
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"if you give our present opponents the impression that we must have peace at once, and at any price, we shall not get so much as a single measure of grain, and the result will be more or less platonic. it is no longer by any means a question principally of terminating the war on the ukrainian front; neither we nor the ukrainians themselves intend to continue the war now that we are agreed upon the no-annexation basis. it is a question--i repeat it once again--not of 'imperialistic' annexation plans and ideas, but of securing for our population at last the merited reward of their endurance, and procuring them those supplies of food for which they are waiting. our partners in the deal are good business men and are closely watching to see whether you are forcing me to act or not.
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"if you wish to ruin the peace, if you are anxious to renounce the supply of grain, then it would be logical enough to force my hand by speeches and resolutions, strikes and demonstrations, but not otherwise. and there is not an atom of truth in the idea that we are now at such a pass that we must prefer a bad peace without economic gain rather than a good peace with economic advantages to-morrow.
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"the difficulties in the matter of food of late are not due solely to lack of actual provisions; it is the crises in coal, transport and organisation which are increasing. when you at home get up strikes you are moving in a vicious circle; the strikes increase and aggravate the crises concerned and hinder the supplies of food and coal. you are cutting your own throats in so doing, and all who believe that peace is accelerated thereby are terribly mistaken.
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"it is believed that men in the country have been circulating rumours to the effect that the government is instigating the strikes. i leave to these men themselves to choose whether they are to appear as criminal slanderers or as fools.
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"if you had a government desirous of concluding a peace different from that desired by the majority of the population, if you had a government seeking to prolong the war for purposes of conquest, one might understand a conflict between the government and the country. but since the government desires precisely the same as the majority of the people--that is to say, the speedy settlement of an honourable peace without annexationist aims--then it is madness to attack that government from behind, to interfere with its freedom of action and hamper its movements. those who do so are fighting, not against the government, they are fighting blindly against the people they pretend to serve and against themselves.
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"as for yourselves, gentlemen, it is not only your right, but your duty, to choose between the following alternatives: either you trust me to proceed with the peace negotiations, and in that case you must help me, or you do not trust me, and in that case you must depose me. i am confident that i have the support of the majority of the hungarian delegation. the hungarian committee has given me a vote of confidence. if there is any doubt as to the same here, then the matter is clear enough. the question of a vote of confidence must be brought up and put to the vote; if i then have the majority against me i shall at once take the consequences. no one of those who are anxious to secure my removal will be more pleased than myself; indeed far less so. nothing induces me now to retain my office but the sense of duty, which constrains me to remain as long as i have the confidence of the emperor and the majority of the delegations. a soldier with any sense of decency does not desert. but no minister for foreign affairs could conduct negotiations of this importance unless he knows, and all the world as well, that he is endowed with the confidence of the majority among the constitutional representative bodies. there can be no half measures here. you have this confidence or you have not. you must assist me or depose me; there is no other way. i have no more to say."
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the austro-hungarian government entered upon the peace negotiations at brest-litovsk with the object of arriving as quickly as possible at a peace compact which, if it did not, as we hoped, lead to a general peace, should at least secure order in the east. the draft of a preliminary peace was sent to brest containing the following points:
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1. cessation of hostilities; if general peace should not be concluded, then neither of the present contracting parties to afford any support to the enemies of the other.
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2. no surrender of territory; poland, lithuania and courland retaining the right of determining their own destiny for the future.
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3. no indemnity for costs of war or damages due to military operations.
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4. cessation of economic war and reparation of damages sustained by private persons through the economic war.
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5. resumption of commercial intercourse and the same provisionally on the basis of the old commercial treaty and twenty years' preference subject to restriction in respect of any customs union with neighbouring countries.
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6. mutual assistance in raw materials and industrial articles.
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a further point was contemplated, dealing with the evacuation of the occupied areas, but the formulation of this had to be postponed until after consultation with the german supreme military command, whose co-operation was here required owing to the mingling of german and austro-hungarian troops on the russian front. the army command has indicated a period of at least six months as necessary for the evacuation.
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in discussing this draft with the german delegates two points in particular were found to present great difficulty. one was that of evacuation. the german army command declared categorically that no evacuation of the occupied districts could be thought of until after conclusion of the general peace. the second difficulty arose in connection with the question as to treatment of the occupied districts. germany insisted that in the peace treaty with russia it should be simply stated that russia had conceded to the peoples within its territory the right of self-determination, and that the nations in question had already availed themselves of that right. the plain standpoint laid down in our draft we were unable to carry through, although it was shared by the other allies. however, in formulating the answer sent on december 25, 1916, to the russian peace proposals a compromise was, after persistent efforts on our part, ultimately arrived at which at least prevented the full adoption of the divergent german point of view on these two points. in the matter of evacuation the germans agreed that the withdrawal of certain bodies of troops before the general peace might be discussed.
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in the matter of annexations a satisfactory manner of formulating this was found, making it applicable only in the event of general peace. had the entente then been disposed to make peace the principle of "no annexations" would have succeeded throughout.
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even allowing for the conciliatory form given through our endeavours to this answer by the four powers to the russian proposals, the german headquarters evinced extreme indignation. several highly outspoken telegrams from the german supreme command to the german delegates prove this. the head of the german delegation came near to being recalled on this account, and if this had been done it is likely that german foreign policy would have been placed in the hands of a firm adherent of the sternest military views. as this, however, could only have had an unfavourable effect on the further progress of the negotiations, we were obliged to do all in our power to retain herr kühlmann. with this end in view he was informed and invited to advise berlin that if germany persisted in its harsh policy austria-hungary would be compelled to conclude a separate peace with russia. this declaration on the part of the minister for foreign affairs did not fail to create a certain impression in berlin, and was largely responsible for the fact that kühlmann was able to remain.
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kühlmann's difficult position and his desire to strengthen it rendered the discussion of the territorial questions, which were first officially touched upon on december 27, but had been already taken up in private meetings with the russian delegates, a particularly awkward matter. germany insisted that the then russian front was not to be evacuated until six months after the general peace. russia was disposed to agree to this, but demanded on the other hand that the fate of poland was not to be decided until after evacuation. against this the germans were inclined to give up its original standpoint to the effect that the populations of occupied territories had already availed themselves of the right of self-determination conceded, and allow a new inquiry to be made among the population, but insisted that this should be done during the occupation. no solution could be arrived at on this point, though austria-hungary made repeated efforts at mediation. the negotiations had arrived at this stage when they were first interrupted on december 29.
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on resuming the negotiations on january 6 the situation was little changed. kühlmann's position was at any rate somewhat firmer than before, albeit only at the cost of some concessions to the german military party. in these circumstances the negotiations, in which trotski now took part as spokesman for the russians, led only to altogether fruitless theoretical discussions and the right of self-determination, which could not bring about any lessening of the distance between the two firmly maintained points of view. in order to get the proceedings out of this deadlock further endeavours were made on the part of austria to arrive at a compromise between the german and russian standpoints, the more so as it was generally, and especially in the case of poland, desirable to solve the territorial question on the basis of complete self-determination. our proposals to the german delegates were to the effect that the russian standpoint should so far be met as to allow the plebiscite demanded by the russians, this to be taken, as the germans insisted should be the case, during the german occupation, but with extensive guarantees for free expression of the will of the people. on this point we had long discussions with the german delegates, based on detailed drafts prepared by us.
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our endeavours here, however, were again unsuccessful. circumstances arising at the time in our own country were responsible for this, as also for the result of the negotiations which had in the meantime been commenced with the ukrainian delegates. these last had, at the first discussion, declined to treat with any polish representatives, and demanded the concession of the entire cholm territory, and, in a more guarded fashion, the cession of eastern galicia and the ukrainian part of north-eastern hungary, and in consequence of which the negotiations were on the point of being broken off. at this stage a food crisis broke out in austria to an extent of which the ministry of foreign affairs was hitherto unaware, threatening vienna in particular with the danger of being in a few days devoid of flour altogether. almost immediately after this came a strike movement of threatening proportions. these events at home weakened the position of the foreign minister both as regards his attitude towards the german allies and towards the opposing parties in the negotiations--with both of which he was then in conflict--and this, at a most critical moment, to a degree that can hardly be appreciated from a distance. he was required to exert pressure upon germany, and was now forced, not merely to ask, but to entreat germany's aid in sending supplies of food, or vienna would within a few days be in the throes of a catastrophe. with the enemy, on the other hand, he was forced, owing to the situation at home, to strive for a settlement of peace that should be favourable to austria, in spite of the fact that our food situation and our labour troubles were well known to that enemy.
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this complete alteration of the position changed the whole basis and tactics of the foreign minister's proceedings. he had to obtain the supplies of grain asked for from germany and thus to diminish political pressure on that country; but at the same time he had to persuade the soviet delegates to continue negotiations, and finally to arrive at a settlement of peace under the most acceptable conditions possible with the ukraine, which would put an end to the still serious difficulties of the food situation.
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in these circumstances it was impossible now to work on the german delegates by talking of austria-hungary's concluding a separate peace with russia, as this would have imperilled the chance of food supplies from germany--the more so as the representative of the german army command had declared that it was immaterial whether austria-hungary made peace or not. germany would in any case march on petersburg if the russian government did not give way. on the other hand, however, the foreign minister prevailed on the leader of the russian delegation to postpone the carrying out of the intentions of his government--to the effect that the russian delegation, owing to lack of good faith on the part of german-austro-hungarian negotiators, should be recalled.
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at the same time the negotiations with the ukrainian delegation were continued. by means of lengthy and wearisome conferences we succeeded in bringing their demands to a footing which might just possibly be acceptable, and gaining their agreement to a clause whereby ukraine undertook to deliver at least 1,000,000 tons of grain by august, 1918. as to the demand for the cholm territory, which we had wished to have relegated to the negotiations with poland, the ukrainian delegates refused to give way on this point, and were evidently supported by general hoffmann. altogether the german military party seemed much inclined to support ukrainian demands and extremely indisposed to accede to polish claims, so that we were unable to obtain the admission of polish representatives to the proceedings, though we had frequently asked for this. a further difficulty in the way of this was the fact that trotski himself was unwilling to recognise the polish party as having equal rights here. the only result obtainable was that the ukrainians should restrict their claims on the cholm territory to those parts inhabited by ukrainian majority and accept a revision of the frontier line, as yet only roughly laid down, according to the finding of a mixed commission and the wishes of the population, i.e. the principle of national boundaries under international protection. the ukrainian delegates renounced all territorial claims against the monarchy, but demanded from us on the other hand a guarantee as to the autonomous development of their co-nationals in galicia. with regard to these two weighty concessions, the foreign minister declared that they could only be granted on the condition that the ukraine fulfilled the obligation it had undertaken as to delivery of grain, the deliveries being made at the appointed times; he further demanded that the obligations on both sides should be reciprocal, i.e. that the failure of one party to comply therewith should release the other. the formulation of these points, which met with the greatest difficulties on the part of ukraine, was postponed to a later date.
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at this stage of the proceedings a new pause occurred to give the separate delegates time to advise their governments as to the results hitherto attained and receive their final instructions. the foreign minister returned to vienna and reported the state of the negotiations to the proper quarters. in the course of these deliberations his policy of concluding peace with russia and ukraine on the basis of the concessions proposed was agreed to. another question dealt with at the same time was whether the monarchy should, in case of extreme necessity, conclude a separate peace with russia if the negotiations with that state should threaten to come to nothing on account of germany's demands. this question was, after full consideration of all grounds to the contrary, answered in thesi in the affirmative, as the state of affairs at home apparently left no alternative.
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on resuming the negotiations at brest-litovsk further endeavours were made to persuade germany to give way somewhat by pointing out what would be the consequence of its obstinate attitude. in the course of the deliberations on this point with herr kühlmann we succeeded after great difficulty in obtaining the agreement of the german delegates to a final attempt at compromise, to be undertaken by the foreign minister. the proposals for this compromise were based on the following considerations:
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for months past conflicting views had been expressed as to:
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1. whether in the territories where constitutional alterations were to be made owing to the war the right of self-determination should be taken as already exercised, or whether a plebiscite should be taken first;
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2. whether such plebiscite, if taken, should be addressed to a constituent body or in the form of a referendum to the people direct;
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3. whether this should be done before or after evacuation; and
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4. in what manner it was to be organised (by general franchise, by a vote of the nobles, etc.). it would be advisable, and would also be in accordance with the principles adopted by russia, to leave the decision on all these points to the people themselves, and deliver them over to the "temporary self-administrative body," which should, also according to the russian proposal (kameneff), be introduced at once. the whole of the peace negotiations could then be concentrated upon a single point: the question as to the composition of this temporary body. here, however, a compromise could be arrived at, as russia could agree that the already existent bodies set in the foreground by germany should be allowed to express a part of the will of the people, germany agreeing that these bodies should, during the occupation, be supplemented by elements appointed, according to the russian principles, by free election.
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on february 7, immediately after herr kühlmann had agreed to mediation on this basis, the foreign minister saw the leader of the russian delegation, trotski, and had a series of conversations with him. the idea of compromise on the lines just set forth was little to trotski's taste, and he declared that he would in any case protest against the handling of the self-determination question by the four powers. on the other hand, the discussion did lead to some result, in that a new basis for disposing of the difficulties which had arisen was now found. there was to be no further continuance of the conflict as to whether the territorial alterations involved by the peace should be termed "annexations," as the russian delegates wished, or "exercise of the right of self-determination," as germany wished; the territorial alterations were to be simply noted in the peace treaty ("russia notes that ..."). trotski, however, made his acquiescence to the conclusion of such a compact subject to two conditions: one being that the moon sound islands and the baltic ports should remain with russia; the other that germany and austria-hungary should not conclude any separate peace with the ukrainian people's republic, whose government was then seriously threatened by the bolsheviks and, according to some reports, already overthrown by them. the foreign minister was now anxious to arrive at a compromise on this question also, in which he had to a certain degree the support of herr von kühlmann, while general hoffmann most vehemently opposed any further concession.
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all these negotiations for a compromise failed to achieve their end owing to the fact that herr kühlmann was forced by the german supreme army command to act promptly. ludendorff declared that the negotiations with russia must be concluded within three days, and when a telegram from petersburg was picked up in berlin calling on the german army to rise in revolt herr von kühlmann was strictly ordered not to be content with the cessions already agreed to, but to demand the further cession of the unoccupied territories of livonia and esthonia. under such pressure the leader of the german delegation had not the power to compromise. we then arrived at the signing of the treaty with ukraine, which had, after much trouble, been brought to an end meanwhile. it thus appeared as if the efforts of the foreign minister had proved fruitless. nevertheless he continued his discussions with trotski, but these still led to no result, owing to the fact that trotski, despite repeated questioning, persisted in leaving everything vague till the last moment as to whether he would, in the present circumstances, conclude any peace with the four powers at all or not. not until the plenary session of february 10 was this cleared up; russia declared for a cessation of hostilities, but signed no treaty of peace.
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the situation created by this declaration offered no occasion for further taking up the idea of a separate peace with russia, since peace seemed to have come via facta already. at a meeting on february 10 of the diplomatic and military delegates of germany and austria-hungary to discuss the question of what was now to be done it was agreed unanimously, save for a single dissentient, that the situation arising out of trotski's declarations must be accepted. the one dissentient vote--that of general hoffmann--was to the effect that trotski's statement should be answered by declaring the armistice at an end, marching on petersburg, and supporting the ukraine openly against russia. in the ceremonial final sitting, on february 11, herr von kühlmann adopted the attitude expressed by the majority of the peace delegations, and set forth the same in a most impressive speech. nevertheless, a few days later, as general hoffmann had said, germany declared the armistice at an end, ordered the german troops to march on petersburg, and brought about the situation which led to the signing of the peace treaty. austria-hungary declared that we took no part in this action.
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the possibility of entering upon peace negotiations with roumania was considered as soon as negotiations with the russian delegations at brest-litovsk had commenced. in order to prevent roumania itself from taking part in these negotiations germany gave the roumanian government to understand that it would not treat with the present king and the present government at all. this step, however, was only intended to enable separate negotiations to be entered upon with roumania, as germany feared that the participation of roumania in the brest negotiations would imperil the chances of peace. roumania's idea seemed then to be to carry on the war and gain the upper hand. at the end of january, therefore, austria-hungary took the initiative in order to bring about negotiations with roumania. the emperor sent colonel randa, the former military attaché to the roumanian government, to the king of roumania, assuring him of his willingness to grant roumania honourable terms of peace.
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in connection with the peace negotiations a demand was raised in hungarian quarters for a rectification of the frontier line, so as to prevent, or at any rate render difficult, any repetition of the invasion by roumania in 1916 over the siebenbürgen, despite opposition on the part of the minister for foreign affairs. the strategical frontier drawn up by the army command, which, by the way, was influenced by considerations not conducive to peace, followed a line involving the cession to hungary of turnu-severin, sinaia and several valuable petroleum districts in moldavia. public opinion in hungary voiced even further demands. the hungarian government was of opinion that the parliament would offer the greatest hindrances to any peace not complying with the general desire in this respect, and leading hungarian statesmen, even some among the opposition parties, declared the rectification of the frontier to be a condition of peace sine qua non. wekerle and tisza in particular took this view. despite this serious difference of opinion, the foreign minister, in entire agreement with the emperor, even before the commencement of the negotiations in the middle of february, took up the position that demands connected with the frontier line should not offer any obstacle to the conclusion of peace. the rectification of the frontier should only seriously be insisted on as far as could be done on the basis of a loyal and, for the future, amicable relations with roumania. hungary regarded this lenient attitude on the part of the foreign minister with increasing disapproval. we pointed out that a frontier line conceding cities and petroleum districts to hungary would be unfortunate in every respect. from the point of view of internal politics, because the number of non-hungarian inhabitants would be thereby increased; from the military point of view, because it would give rise to frontier conflicts with unreliable roumanian factions; and, finally, from the point of view of foreign policy, because it would mean annexations and the transference of population this way and that, rendering friendly relations with roumania an impossibility. nevertheless, it would be necessary for a time to hold fast by the frontier line as originally conceived, so that the point could be used to bring about the establishment in roumania of a régime amicably disposed toward the central powers. the foreign minister was particularly anxious to see a marghiloman cabinet formed, inaugurating a policy friendly to ourselves. he believed that with such a cabinet it would be easier to arrive at a peace of mutual understanding, and was also resolved to render possible such a peace by extensive concessions, especially by giving his diplomatic support in the bessarabian question. he informed marghiloman also in writing that he would be prepared to grant important concessions to a cabinet of which he, marghiloman, was the head, in particular as regards the cession of inhabited places such as turnu-severin and ocna, on which points he was willing to give way. when the marghiloman cabinet was formed the austro-hungarian demands in respect of the frontier line would, despite active opposition on the part of the hungarian government, be reduced almost by half. the negotiations with roumania were particularly difficult in regard to the question of two places, azuga and busteni. on march 24 count czernin prepared to terminate these negotiations, declaring that he was ready to renounce all claim to azuga and busteni and halve his demands as to the much-debated lotru district, provided marghiloman were willing to arrange the frontier question on this basis. marghiloman declared himself satisfied with this compromise. on the next day, however, it was nevertheless rejected by the hungarian government, and not until after further telegraphic communication with the emperor and wekerle was the assent of all competent authorities obtained. this had, indeed, been widely considered in hungarian circles as an impossibility.
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another austro-hungarian demand which played some part in the bucharest negotiations was in connection with the plan of an economical alliance between austria-hungary and roumania. this was of especial interest to the austrian government, whereas the frontier question, albeit in some degree affecting austria as well, was a matter of indifference to this government, which, as a matter of fact, did not sympathise with the demands at all. the plan for an economical alliance, however, met with opposition in hungary. immediately before the commencement of the bucharest negotiations an attempt was made to overcome this opposition on the part of the hungarian government and secure its adherence to the idea of an economical alliance with roumania--at any rate, conditionally upon the conclusion of a customs alliance with germany as planned. it proved impossible, however, at the time to obtain this assent. the hungarian government reserved the right of considering the question later on, and on march 8 instructed their representatives at bucharest that they must dissent from the plan, as the future economical alliance with germany was a matter beyond present consideration. consequently this question could play no part at first in the peace negotiations, and all that could be done was to sound the leading roumanian personages in a purely private manner as to the attitude they would adopt towards such a proposal. the idea was, generally speaking, well received by roumania, and the prevalent opinion was that such an alliance would be distinctly advisable from roumania's point of view. a further attempt was therefore made, during the pause in the peace negotiations in the east, to overcome the opposition of the hungarian government; these deliberations were, however, not concluded when the minister for foreign affairs resigned his office.
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germany had, even before the commencement of negotiations in bucharest, considered the question of imposing on roumania, when treating for peace, a series of obligations especially in connection with the economical relations amounting to a kind of indirect war indemnity. it was also contemplated that the occupation of wallachia should be maintained for five or six years after the conclusion of peace. roumania should then give up its petroleum districts, its railways, harbours and domains to german companies as their property, and submit itself to a permanent financial control. austria-hungary opposed these demands from the first on the grounds that no friendly relations could ever be expected to exist with a roumania which had been economically plundered to such a complete extent; and austria-hungary was obliged to maintain amicable relations with roumania.
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this standpoint was most emphatically set forth, and not without some success, on february 5 at a conference with the reichskansler. in the middle of february the emperor sent a personal message to the german emperor cautioning him against this plan, which might prove an obstacle in the way of peace. roumania was not advised of these demands until comparatively late in the negotiations, after the appointment of marghiloman. until then the questions involved gave rise to constant discussion between germany and austria-hungary, the latter throughout endeavouring to reduce the german demands, not only with a view to arriving at a peace of mutual understanding, but also because, if germany gained a footing in roumania on the terms originally contemplated, austro-hungarian economical interests must inevitably suffer thereby. the demands originally formulated with regard to the roumanian railways and domains were then relinquished by germany, and the plan of a cession of the roumanian harbours was altered so as to amount to the establishment of a roumanian-german-austro-hungarian harbour company, which, however, eventually came to nothing. the petroleum question, too, was reduced from a cession to a ninety years' tenure of the state petroleum districts and the formation of a monopoly trading company for petroleum under german management. finally, an economic arrangement was prepared which should secure the agricultural products of roumania to the central powers for a series of years. the idea of a permanent german control of the roumanian finances was also relinquished owing to austro-hungarian opposition. the negotiations with marghiloman and his representatives on these questions made a very lengthy business. in the economic questions especially there was great difference of opinion on the subject of prices, which was not disposed of until the last moment before the drawing up of the treaty on march 28, and then only by adopting the roumanian standpoint. on the petroleum question, where the differences were particularly acute, agreement was finally arrived at, in face of the extreme views of the german economical representative on the one hand and the roumanian foreign minister, arion, on the other, by a compromise, according to which further negotiations were to be held in particular with regard to the trade monopoly for petroleum, and the original draft was only to apply when such negotiations failed to lead to any result.
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the german demands as to extension of the period of occupation for five to six years after the general peace likewise played a great part at several stages of the negotiations, and were from the first stoutly opposed by austria-hungary. we endeavoured to bring about an arrangement by which, on the conclusion of peace, roumania should have all legislative and executive power restored, being subject only to a certain right of control in respect of a limited number of points, but not beyond the general peace. in support of this proposal the foreign minister pointed out in particular that the establishment of a roumanian ministry amicably disposed towards ourselves would be an impossibility (the averescu ministry was then still in power) if we were to hold roumania permanently under our yoke. we should far rather use every endeavour to obtain what could be obtained from roumania through the medium of such politicians in that country as were disposed to follow a policy of friendly relations with the central powers. the main object of our policy to get such men into power in roumania, and enable them to remain in the government, would be rendered unattainable if too severe measures were adopted. we might gain something thereby for a few years, but it would mean losing everything in the future. and we succeeded also in convincing the german secretary of state, kühlmann, of the inadvisability of the demands in respect of occupation, which were particularly voiced by the german army council. as a matter of fact, after the retirement of averescu, marghiloman declared that these demands would make it impossible for him to form a cabinet at all. and when he had been informed, from german sources, that the german supreme army command insisted on these terms, he only agreed to form a cabinet on the assurance of the austrian foreign minister that a solution of the occupation problem would be found. in this question also we did ultimately succeed in coming to agreement with roumania.
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one of the decisive points in the conclusion of peace with roumania was, finally, the cession of the dobrudsha, on which bulgaria insisted with such violence that it was impossible to avoid it. the ultimatum which preceded the preliminary treaty of buftea had also to be altered chiefly on the dobrudsha question, as bulgaria was already talking of the ingratitude of the central powers, of how bulgaria had been disillusioned, and of the evil effects this disillusionment would have on the subsequent conduct of the war. all that count czernin could do was to obtain a guarantee that roumania, in case of cession of the dobrudsha, should at least be granted a sure way to the harbour of kustendje. in the main the dobrudsha question was decided at buftea. when, later, bulgaria expressed a desire to interpret the wording of the preliminary treaty by which the dobrudsha "as far as the danube" was to be given up in such a sense as to embrace the whole of the territory up to the northernmost branch (the kilia branch) of the danube, this demand was most emphatically opposed both by germany and austria-hungary, and it was distinctly laid down in the peace treaty that only the dobrudsha as far as the st. george's branch was to be ceded. this decision again led to bad feeling in bulgaria, but was unavoidable, as further demands here would probably have upset the preliminary peace again.
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the proceedings had reached this stage when count czernin resigned his office.
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i. open covenants of peace openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
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ii. absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas outside territorial waters alike in peace and in war except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
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iii. the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
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vi. the evacuation of all russian territory, and such a settlement of all questions affecting russia as will secure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy, and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and more than a welcome assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. the treatment accorded russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
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vii. belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. no other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is for ever impaired.
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viii. all french territory should be freed, and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to france by prussia in 1871 in the matter of alsace-lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly 50 years, should be righted in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interests of all.
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ix. a readjustment of the frontiers of italy should be effected along clearly recognisable lines of nationality.
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x. the peoples of austria-hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the first opportunity of autonomous development.
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xi. roumania, serbia, and montenegro should be evacuated, occupied territories restored, serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea, and the relations of the several balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality, and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several balkan states should be entered into.
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xii. the turkish portions of the present ottoman empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
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xiii. an independent polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
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gentlemen,--in rising now to speak of our policy during the war it is my hope that i may thereby help to bring the truth to light. we are living in a time of excitement. after four years of war, the bloodiest and most determined war the world has ever seen, and in the midst of the greatest revolution ever known, this excitement is only too easily understood. but the result of this excitement is that all those rumours which go flying about, mingling truth and falsehood together, end by misleading the public. it is unquestionably necessary to arrive at a clear understanding. the public has a right to know what has really happened, it has the right to know why we did not succeed in attaining the peace we had so longed for, it has a right to know whether, and if so where, any neglect can be pointed out, or whether it was the overwhelming power of circumstances which has led our policy to take the course it did. the new arrangement of relations between ourselves and germany will make an end of all secret proceedings. the day will come then when, fortunately, all that has hitherto been hidden will be made clear. as, however, i do not know when all this will be made public, i am grateful for the opportunity of lifting the veil to-day from certain hitherto unknown events. in treating of this theme i will refrain from touching upon those constitutional factors which once counted for so much, but which do so no longer. i do so because it seems to me unfair to import into the discussion persons who are now paying heavily for what they may have done and who are unable to defend themselves. and i must pay this honourable tribute to the austro-hungarian press, that it has on the whole sought to spare the former emperor as far as possible. there are, of course, exceptions--exceptiones firmant regulam. there are in vienna, as everywhere else, men who find it more agreeable to attack, the less if those whom they are attacking are able to defend themselves. but, believe me, gentlemen, those who think thus are not the bravest, not the best, nor the most reliable; and we may be glad that they form so insignificant a minority.
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but, to come to the point. before passing on to a consideration of the various phases of the work for peace, i should like to point out two things: firstly, that since the entry of italy and roumania into the war, and especially since the entry of america, a "victorious peace" on our part has been a utopian idea, a utopia which, unfortunately, was throughout cherished by the german military party; and, secondly, that we have never received any offer of peace from the entente. on several occasions peace feelers were put forward between representatives of the entente and our own; unfortunately, however, these never led to any concrete conditions. we often had the impression that we might conclude a separate peace without germany, but we were never told the concrete conditions upon which germany, on its part, could make peace; and, in particular, we were never informed that germany would be allowed to retain its possessions as before the war, in consequence of which we were left in the position of having to fight a war of defence for germany. we were compelled by our treaty to a common defence of the pre-war possessions, and since the entente never declared its willingness to treat with a germany which wished for no annexations, since the entente constantly declared its intention of annihilating germany, we were forced to defend germany, and our position in berlin was rendered unspeakably more difficult. we ourselves, also, were never given any assurance that we should be allowed to retain our former possessions; but in our case the desire for peace was so strong that we would have made territorial concessions if we had been able thereby to secure general peace. this, however, was not the case. take italy, for instance, which was primarily at war with ourselves and not with germany. if we had offered italy concessions however great, if we had offered all that italy has now taken possession of, even then it could not have made peace, being bound by duty to its allies and by circumstances not to make peace until england and france made peace with germany.
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when, then, peace by sacrifice was the only peace attainable, obviously, as a matter of principle, there were two ways of reaching that end. one, a general peace, i.e. including germany, and the other, a separate peace. of the overwhelming difficulties attending the former course i will speak later; at present a few words on the question of separate peace.
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i myself would never have made a separate peace. i have never, not even in the hour of disillusionment--i may say of despair at my inability to lead the policy of berlin into wiser channels--even in such hours, i say, i have never forgotten that our alliance with the german empire was no ordinary alliance, no such alliance as may be contracted by two emperors or two governments, and can easily be broken, but an alliance of blood, a blood-brotherhood between the ten million austro-germans and the seventy million of the empire, which could not be broken. and i have never forgotten that the military party in power at that time in germany were not the german people, and that we had allied ourselves with the german people, and not with a few leading men. but i will not deny that in the moments when i saw my policy could not be realised i did ventilate the idea of suggesting to the emperor the appointment, in my stead, of one of those men who saw salvation in a separation from germany. but again and again i relinquished this idea, being firmly convinced that separate peace was a sheer impossibility. the monarchy lay like a great block between germany and the balkans. germany had great masses of troops there from which it could not be cut off, it was procuring oil and grain from the balkans; if we were to interpose between it and the balkans we should be striking at its most sensitive vital nerve. moreover, the entente would naturally have demanded first of all that we joined in the blockade, and finally our secession would automatically have involved also that of bulgaria and turkey. had we withdrawn, germany would have been unable to carry on the war. in such a situation there can be no possibility of doubt but that the german army command would have flung several divisions against bohemia and the tyrol, meting out to us the same fate which had previously befallen roumania. the monarchy, bohemia in particular, would at once have become a scene of war. but even this is not all. internally, such a step would at once have led to civil war. the germans of austria would never have turned against their brothers, and the hungarians--tisza's hungarians--would never have lent their aid to such a policy. we had begun the war in common, and we could not end it save in common. for us there was no way out of the war; we could only choose between fighting with germany against the entente, or fighting with the entente against germany until germany herself gave way. a slight foretaste of what would have happened was given us through the separatist steps taken by andrassy at the last moment. this utterly defeated, already annihilated and prostrate germany had yet the power to fling troops toward the tyrol, and had not the revolution overwhelmed all germany like a conflagration, smothering the war itself, i am not sure but that the tyrol might at the last moment have been harried by war. and, gentlemen, i have more to say. the experiment of separate peace would not only have involved us in a civil war, not only brought the war into our own country, but even then the final outcome would have been much the same. the dissolution of the monarchy into its component national parts was postulated throughout by the entente. i need only refer to the conference of london. but whether the state be dissolved by way of reward to the people or by way of punishment to the state makes little difference; the effect is the same. in this case also a "german austria" would have arisen, and in such a development it would have been hard for the german-austrian people to take up an attitude which rendered them allies of the entente. in my own case, as minister of the imperial and royal government, it was my duty also to consider dynastic interests, and i never lost sight of that obligation. but i believe that in this respect also the end would have been the same. in particular the dissolution of the monarchy into its national elements by legal means, against the opposition of the germans and hungarians, would have been a complete impossibility. and the germans in austria would never have forgiven the crown if it had entered upon a war with germany; the emperor would have been constantly encountering the powerful republican tendencies of the czechs, and he would have been in constant conflict with the king of serbia over the south-slav question, an ally being naturally nearer to the entente than the habsburgers. and, finally, the hungarians would never have forgiven the emperor if he had freely conceded extensive territories to bohemia and to the south-slav state; i believe, then, that in this confusion the crown would have fallen, as it has done in fact. a separate peace was a sheer impossibility. there remained the second way: to make peace jointly with germany. before going into the difficulties which rendered this way impossible i must briefly point out wherein lay our great dependence upon germany. first of all, in military respects. again and again we were forced to rely on aid from germany. in roumania, in italy, in serbia, and in russia we were victorious with the germans beside us. we were in the position of a poor relation living by the grace of a rich kinsman. but it is impossible to play the mendicant and the political adviser at the same time, particularly when the other party is a prussian officer. in the second place, we were dependent upon germany owing to the state of our food supply. again and again we were here also forced to beg for help from germany, because the complete disorganisation of our own administration had brought us to the most desperate straits. we were forced to this by the hunger blockade established, on the one hand, by hungary, and on the other by the official authorities and their central depots. i remember how, when i myself was in the midst of a violent conflict with the german delegates at brest-litovsk, i received orders from vienna to bow the knee to berlin and beg for food. you can imagine, gentlemen, for yourselves how such a state of things must weaken a minister's hands. and, thirdly, our dependence was due to the state of our finances. in order to keep up our credit we were drawing a hundred million marks a month from germany, a sum which during the course of the war has grown to over four milliards; and this money was as urgently needed as were the german divisions and the german bread. and, despite this position of dependence, the only way to arrive at peace was by leading germany into our own political course; that is to say, persuading germany to conclude a peace involving sacrifice. the situation all through was simply this: that any momentary military success might enable us to propose terms of peace which, while entailing considerable loss to ourselves, had just a chance of being accepted by the enemy. the german military party, on the other hand, increased their demands with every victory, and it was more hopeless than ever, after their great successes, to persuade them to adopt a policy of renunciation. i think, by the way, that there was a single moment in the history of this war when such an action would have had some prospect of success. i refer to the famous battle of görlitz. then, with the russian army in flight, the russian forts falling like houses of cards, many among our enemies changed their point of view. i was at that time still our representative in roumania. majorescu was then not disinclined to side with us actively, and the roumanian army moved forward toward bessarabia, could have been hot on the heels of the flying russians, and might, according to all human calculations, have brought about a complete débâcle. it is not unlikely that the collapse which later took place in russia might have come about then, and after a success of that nature, with no "america" as yet on the horizon, we might perhaps have brought the war to an end. two things, however, were required: in the first place, the roumanians demanded, as the price of their co-operation, a rectification of the hungarian frontier, and this first condition was flatly refused by hungary; the second condition, which naturally then did not come into question at all, would have been that we should even then, after such a success, have proved strong enough to bear a peace with sacrifice. we were not called upon to agree to this, but the second requirement would undoubtedly have been refused by germany, just as the first had been by hungary. i do not positively assert that peace would have been possible in this or any other case, but i do positively maintain that during my period of office such a peace by sacrifice was the utmost we and germany could have attained. the future will show what superhuman efforts we have made to induce germany to give way. that all proved fruitless was not the fault of the german people, nor was it, in my opinion, the fault of the german emperor, but that of the leaders of the german military party, which had attained such enormous power in the country. everyone in wilhelmstrasse, from bethmann to kühlmann, wanted peace; but they could not get it simply because the military party got rid of everyone who ventured to act otherwise than as they wished. this also applies to bethmann and kühlmann. the pan-germanists, under the leadership of the military party, could not understand that it was possible to die through being victorious, that victories are worthless when they do not lead to peace, that territories held in an iron grasp as "security" are valueless securities as long as the opposing party cannot be forced to redeem them. there were various shades of this pan-germanism. one section demanded the annexation of parts of belgium and france, with an indemnity of milliards; others were less exorbitant, but all were agreed that peace could only be concluded with an extension of german possessions. it was the easiest thing in the world to get on well with the german military party so long as one believed in their fantastic ideas and took a victorious peace for granted, dividing up the world thereafter at will. but if anyone attempted to look at things from the point of view of the real situation, and ventured to reckon with the possibility of a less satisfactory termination of the war, the obstacles then encountered were not easily surmounted. we all of us remember those speeches in which constant reference was always made to a "stern peace," a "german peace," a "victorious peace." for us, then, the possibility of a more favourable peace--i mean a peace based on mutual understanding--i have never believed in the possibility of a victorious peace--would only have been acute in the case of poland and the austro-polish question. but i cannot sufficiently emphasise the fact that the austro-polish solution never was an obstacle in the way of peace and could never have been so. there was only the idea that austrian poland and the former russian poland might be united and attached to the monarchy. it was never suggested that such a step should be enforced against the will of poland itself or against the will of the entente. there was a time when it looked as if not only poland but also certain sections among the entente were not disinclined to agree to such a solution.
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very shortly after taking up office i had some discussions with the german government which left those gentlemen perfectly aware of the serious nature of the situation. in april, 1917--eighteen months ago--i sent the following report to the emperor charles, which he forwarded to the emperor william with the remark that he was entirely of my opinion.
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this led to a reply from the german government, dated may 9, again expressing the utmost confidence in the success of the submarine campaign, declaring, it is true, their willingness in principle to take steps towards peace, but reprehending any such steps as might be calculated to give an impression of weakness.
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as to any territorial sacrifice on the part of germany, this was not to be thought of.
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as will be seen from this report, however, we did not confine ourselves to words alone. in 1917 we declared in berlin that the emperor charles was prepared to permit the union of galicia with poland, and to do all that could be done to attach that state to germany in the event of germany making any sacrifices in the west in order to secure peace. but we were met with a non possumus and the german answer that territorial concessions to france were out of the question.
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the whole of galicia was here involved, but i was firmly assured that if the plan succeeded germany would protect the rights of the ukraine; and consideration for the ukrainians would certainly not have restrained me had it been a question of the highest value--of peace itself.
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when i perceived that the likelihood of converting berlin to our views steadily diminished i had recourse to other means. the journey of the socialist leaders to stockholm will be remembered. it is true that the socialists were not "sent" by me; they went to stockholm of their own initiative and on their own responsibility, but it is none the less true that i could have refused them their passes if i had shared the views of the entente governments and of numerous gentlemen in our own country. certainly, i was at the time very sceptical as to the outcome, as i already saw that the entente would refuse passes to their socialists, and consequently there could be nothing but a "rump" parliament in the end. but despite all the reproaches which i had to bear, and the argument that the peace-bringing socialists would have an enormous power in the state to the detriment of the monarchical principle itself, i never for a moment hesitated to take that step, and i have never regretted it in itself, only that it did not succeed. it is encouraging to me now to read again many of the letters then received criticising most brutally my so-called "socialistic proceedings" and to find that the same gentlemen who were then so incensed at my policy are now adherents of a line of criticism which maintains that i am too "narrow-minded" in my choice of new means towards peace.
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it will be remembered how, in the early autumn of 1917, the majority of the german reichstag had a hard fight against the numerically weaker but, from their relation to the german army command, extremely powerful minority on the question of the reply to the papal note. here again i was no idle spectator. one of my friends, at my instigation, had several conversations with südekum and erzberger, and encouraged them, by my description of our own position, to pass the well known peace resolution. it was owing to this description of the state of affairs here that the two gentlemen mentioned were enabled to carry the reichstag's resolution in favour of a peace by mutual understanding--the resolution which met with such disdain and scorn from the pan-germans and other elements. i hoped then, for a moment, to have gained a lasting and powerful alliance in the german reichstag against the german military plans of conquest.
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and now, gentlemen, i should like to say a few words on the subject of that unfortunate submarine campaign which was undoubtedly the beginning of the end, and to set forth the reasons which in this case, as in many other instances, forced us to adopt tactics not in accordance with our own convictions. shortly after my appointment as minister the idea of unrestricted submarine warfare began to take form in german minds. the principal advocate of this plan was admiral tirpitz. to the credit of the former reichskansler, bethmann-hollweg, be it said that he was long opposed to the idea, and used all means and every argument to dissuade others from adopting so perilous a proceeding. in the end he was forced to give way, as was the case with all politicians who came in conflict with the all-powerful military party. admiral holtzendorff came to us at that time, and the question was debated from every point of view in long conferences lasting for hours. my then ministerial colleagues, tisza and clam, as well as myself were entirely in agreement with emperor charles in rejecting the proposal, and the only one who then voted unreservedly in favour of it was admiral haus. it should here be noted that the principal german argument at that time was not the prospect of starving england into submission, but the suggestion that the western front could not be held unless the american munition transports were sunk--that is to say, the case for the submarine campaign was then based chiefly on a point of technical military importance and nothing else. i myself earnestly considered the question then of separating ourselves from germany on this point; with the small number of u-boats at our disposal it would have made but little difference had we on our part refrained. but another point had here to be considered. if the submarine campaign was to succeed in the northern waters it must be carried out at the same time in the mediterranean. with this latter water unaffected the transports would have been sent via italy, france and dover to england, and the northern u-boat campaign would have been paralysed. but in order to carry on submarine war in the adriatic we should have to give the germans access to our bases, such as pola, cattaro and trieste, and by so doing we were de facto partaking in the submarine campaign ourselves. if we did not do it, then we were attacking germany in the rear by hindering their submarine campaign--that is to say, it would bring us into direct conflict with germany. therefore, albeit sorely against our will, we agreed, not convinced by argument, but unable to act otherwise.
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and now, gentlemen, i hasten to conclude. i have but a few words to say as to the present. from time to time reports have appeared in the papers to the effect that certain gentlemen were preparing disturbances in switzerland, and i myself have been mentioned as one of them. i am doubtful whether there is any truth at all in these reports; as for myself, i have not been outside this country for the last nine months. as, however, my contradiction on this head itself appears to have given rise to further misunderstandings, i will give you my point of view here briefly and, as i hope, clearly enough. i am most strongly opposed to any attempt at revolt. i am convinced that any such attempt could only lead to civil war--a thing no one would wish to see. i am therefore of opinion that the republican government must be maintained untouched until the german-austrian people as a whole has taken its decision. but this can only be decided by the german people. neither the republic nor the monarchy is in itself a dogma of democracy. the kingdom of england is as democratic as republican switzerland. i know no country where men enjoy so great freedom as in england. but it is a dogma of democracy that the people itself must determine in what manner it will be governed, and i therefore repeat that the final word can only be spoken by the constitutional representative body. i believe that i am here entirely at one with the present government. there are two methods of ascertaining the will of the people: either each candidate for the representative body stands for election on a monarchical or a republican platform, in which case the majority of the body itself will express the decision; or the question of monarchy or republic can be decided by a plebiscite. it is matter of common knowledge that i myself have had so serious conflicts with the ex-kaiser that any co-operation between us is for all time an impossibility. no one can, therefore, suspect me of wishing on personal grounds to revert to the old régime. but i am not one to juggle with the idea of democracy, and its nature demands that the people itself should decide. i believe that the majority of german-austria is against the old régime, and when it has expressed itself to this effect the furtherance of democracy is sufficiently assured.
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and with this, gentlemen, i have finished what i proposed to set before you. i vainly endeavoured to make peace together with germany, but i was not unsuccessful in my endeavours to save the german-austrians from ultimately coming to armed conflict with germany. i can say this, and without exaggeration, that i have defended the german alliance as if it had been my own child, and i do not know what would have happened had i not done so. andrassy's "extra turn" at the last moment showed the great mass of the public how present a danger was that of war with germany. had the same experiment been made six months before it would have been war with germany; would have made austria a scene of war.
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there are evil times in store for the german people, but a people of many millions cannot perish and will not perish. the day will come when the wounds of this war begin to close and heal, and when that day comes a better future will dawn.
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the austrian armies went forth in the hour of war to save austria. they have not availed to save it. but if out of this ocean of blood and suffering a better, freer and nobler world arise, then they will not have died in vain, all those we loved who now lie buried in cold alien earth; they died for the happiness, the peace and the future of the generations to come.
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america and the u-boat campaign, 116, 119, 120 enters the war, 17, 148 rupture with germany, 127 shipbuilding programme of, 291 unpreparedness for war, 122 (cf. united states)
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american government, count czernin's note to, 279 et seq.
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austrian delegation, count czernin's speech to, 298 et seq.
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austro-polish question, the, and the ukrainian demands, 242 no bar to peace, 331 solution of, 200 et seq.
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bucharest, fall of, 99 report of peace negotiations at, 318 zeppelin attacks on, 101 et seq.
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carmen sylva (see elizabeth, queen of roumania)
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central powers and the bratianu ministry, 97 enemy blockade of, 132 favourable news in 1917, 143 why they adopted submarine warfare, 281 et seq.
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east galicia, cession of, demanded by ukrainians, 240 et seq.
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erzberger, herr, agrees with "czernin scheme", 185, 333 and author's secret report to the emperor, 155 (note)
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fourteen points, wilson's, 190 et seq., 271, 305, 306, 323 et seq.
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great war, the, psychology of various cities, 197 (see world war)
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helfferich, dr., disclosures by, 161 (note) on attitude of william ii. during balkan troubles, 68 speech on submarine warfare, 151, 288 et seq.
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hohendorf, general conrad von, and his responsibility for the war, 18 (note)
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international arbitration (see arbitration)
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konopischt and its history, 34 et seq.
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london, pact of, 20, 170, 172, 179, 328 desired amendments to, 146 text of, 21, 275 et seq.
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monarchs, hypnotic complacency of, 58 et seq.
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peace congress at brest-litovsk, 218 et seq.
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prussian militarism, england's idea of, 166 extermination of, 273 fear of, 174 (see also german military party)
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russian revolution, the, 142, 147, 211 et seq.
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submarine warfare, author's note to american government on, 279 czernin on, 334 destruction without warning justified, 283 enemy losses in, 290 enemy's "statistical smoke-screens" as to, 289 question of safety of passengers and crew, 282 speech by dr. helfferich on, 288 why adopted by central powers, 281 et seq. (see also u-boats)
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u-boat warfare, 114 et seq. a conference in vienna on, 121 "a terrible mistake", 126 and america's entry into the war, 126 and why adopted by germany, 16 czernin on, 148 political arguments against, 117, 118 what it achieved, 178 (see also submarine warfare)
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united states, the, scarcity of supplies in, 294 (see also america)
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wales, prince of (see edward vii., king)
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wedel, count, calls on count czernin, 127 disclosures of, 161 (note) revelations of, 155 (note)
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world organization, a new, principles of, 174 et seq.
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amateurs may produce the plays in this volume without charge. professional actors must apply for acting rights to the author, in care of the publishers.
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the one-act plays for young people contained in this volume can be produced separately, or may be used as links in the chain of episodes which go to make up outdoor or indoor pageants. there are full directions for simple costumes, dances, and music. each play deals with the youth of some american hero, so that the lad who plays george washington or benjamin franklin will be in touch with the emotions of a patriot of his own years, instead of incongruously portraying an adult. much of the dialogue contains the actual words of lincoln, washington, and franklin, so that in learning their lines the youthful players may grasp something of the hardihood and sagacity of washington, the perseverance of franklin, and the honesty and dauntlessness of lincoln, and of those salient virtues that went to the up-building of america--a heritage from the time "when all the land was young."
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the plays are suitable for schools, summer camps, boys' clubs, historic festivals, patriotic societies, and social settlements and playgrounds. the outdoor plays are especially adapted for a "safe and sane fourth." all the plays have stood the test of production.
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"the pageant of patriots"--the first children's patriotic pageant ever given in america--was produced in prospect park, brooklyn, n. y., under the auspices of brooklyn's ten social settlements, may, 1911. the hawthorne pageant was first produced on arbor day, may, 1911, by the wadleigh high school, new york city; pocahontas was given as a separate play at franklin park, boston, by lincoln house, and some of the other plays have been given at various schools in new york city.
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thanks are due to the woman's home companion, the delineator, the designer, the normal instructor, and the popular educator for their kind permission to reprint these plays.
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patriotic plays: their use and value
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pageants of patriotism
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the outdoor arrangement can be produced by a whole school or group of schools, by groups of social settlements, communities, and cities, in parks, armories, woodland spaces or meadows on such occasions as the fourth of july, decoration day, bunker hill day, labor day, during old home week, or for any special city or town celebration. the indoor arrangement of the same pageant is also suitable for whole schools, or groups of schools, groups of settlements, communities, villages, cities: in armories, school halls, assembly rooms, or small theaters on columbus day, lincoln's birthday, washington's birthday, or some day of special celebration.
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pageant of patriots (outdoor) prologue by the spirit of patriotism princess pocahontas pilgrim interlude ferry farm episode george washington's fortune daniel boone: patriot benjamin franklin episode abraham lincoln episode liberty dance pageant directions
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pageant of patriots (indoor) prologue by the spirit of patriotism dramatic silhouette: lords of the forest the coming of the white man: tableau princess pocahontas priscilla mullins spinning: tableau benjamin franklin: journeyman george washington's fortune the boston tea party dramatic silhouette: the spirit of '76 abraham lincoln: rail-splitter directions for indoor arrangement
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the hawthorne pageant
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can be produced in park or woodland in its outdoor arrangement. is suitable for co-educational schools, girls' schools, girls' summer camps. is appropriate for hawthorne's birthday (july 4), arbor day, may day, or any day during spring and summer. in its indoor form it can be given in school halls or in a small theater. in this form it is appropriate for co-educational schools, girls' schools, settlements. it can be given any time during the autumn, winter, or spring.
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hawthorne pageant (for outdoor or indoor production) chorus of spirits of the old manse prologue by the muse of hawthorne in witchcraft days (first episode) dance interlude merrymount (second episode) pageant directions
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list of separate one-act plays
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abraham lincoln: rail-splitter (indoor) can be produced in school, home, or small theater. is suitable for schools, settlements, clubs, patriotic societies, and debating societies. can be appropriately produced any time between september and march. is especially appropriate for lincoln's birthday.
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benjamin franklin: journeyman (indoor) can be produced in a school, home, or small theater. is suitable for schools, clubs, settlements, patriotic societies and clubs. can appropriately be produced any time between september and june. is particularly suited to franklin's birthday.
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the boston tea party (indoor) can be produced in school, home, or small theater. is suitable for boys' schools, boy scouts, settlements, clubs, and patriotic societies. can be produced on any holiday. is particularly appropriate for fall and winter months--especially the month of december.
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daniel boone: patriot (outdoor) can be produced in park, woodland, or village green. can be given by boys' schools, clubs, settlements, and patriotic societies. also by the "sons of daniel boone" and the boy scouts. is appropriate for any day during spring, summer, or autumn. can be given on the fourth of july.
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george washington's fortune (outdoor) can be produced in park, lawn, or woodland. is suitable for schools, clubs, patriotic societies, and settlements. is appropriate for any day during spring, summer, or autumn, and is particularly appropriate for the fourth of july. an indoor arrangement can easily be made for george washington's birthday.
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in witchcraft days (outdoor) can be given in park, lawn, or village green or woodland. suitable for co-educational schools, girls' schools, girls' summer camps, patriotic societies, settlements, and clubs. appropriate for arbor day, may day, or any day during spring, summer, or early autumn. an indoor arrangement can be given for thanksgiving in school halls.
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merrymount (outdoor) can be produced in park or woodland. is suitable for co-educational schools, girls' schools, girls' summer camps, and for clubs, settlements, and patriotic societies. is appropriate for arbor day, may day, or any day in spring and summer. an indoor version of it can also be given.
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princess pocahontas (outdoor) can be given in park, in woodland, or on lawn. is suitable for schools, clubs, and patriotic societies. can be given on the fourth of july, or any day during spring and summer. indoor production is also possible.
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patriotic plays and pageants
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patriotic plays: their use and value
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the primary value of the patriotic play lies in its appeal to the love of country, and its power to revitalize the past. the youth of to-day is put in touch with the patriots of yesterday. historic personages become actual, vivid figures. the costumes, speech, manners, and ideas of bygone days take on new significance. the life of trail and wigwam, of colonial homestead and pioneer camp, is made tangible and realistic. and the spirit of those days--the integrity, courage, and vigor of the nation's heroes, their meager opportunities, their struggle against desperate odds, their slow yet triumphant upward climb--can be illumined by the acted word as in no other way. to read of the home life of america's beginnings is one thing; to portray it or see it portrayed is another. and of the two experiences the latter is the less likely to be forgotten. to the youthful participants in a scene which centers about the campfire, the tavern table, or the puritan hearthstone will come an intimate knowledge of the folk they represent: they will find the old sayings and maxims of the nation-builders as pungent and applicable to the life of to-day as when they were first spoken.
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the patriotic play has manifold uses. it combines both pleasure and education. it is both stimulating and instructive. in its indoor form it may be the basis of a winter afternoon's or evening's entertainment, in its outdoor form it may take whole communities and schools into the freedom of the open. it should rouse patriotic ardor, and be of benefit ethically, esthetically, and physically. it should wake in its participants a sense of rhythm, freedom, poise, and plastic grace. it should bear its part in developing clear enunciation and erectness of carriage. to those taking part it should bring the exercise of memory, patience, and inventiveness. it should kindle enthusiasm for the things of america's past. in what way can national hero-days and festivals be more fittingly commemorated than by giving a glimpse of the hero for whom the day is named? thus the patriotic play is equally adaptable for fourth of july, washington's birthday, lincoln's birthday, columbus day, and the hundreds of other days--not holidays--that lie in between.
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if the patriotic play is produced in the right way it should contain the very essence of democracy--efficient team-work, a striving together for the good of the whole. it should lead to the ransacking of books and libraries; the planning of scene-setting, whether indoor or outdoor; the fashioning of simple and accurate costumes by the young people taking part; the collecting of suitable stage properties such as hearthbrooms, indian pipes, and dishes of pewter. the greater the research, the keener the stimulus for imagination and ingenuity, two things that go to the making of every successful production. fortunately, the patriotic play is inherently simple, its appeal is along broad general lines, so that it requires no great amount of money or energy to adequately produce it. and, as history is made up not of one event, but of a series of events, so an historical pageant is a logical sequence of one-act patriotic plays or episodes. the one-act patriotic play shows one hero or one event; the pageant shows, through one-act plays used in chronological order, the development and upbuilding of america through the lives of her heroes.
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in its pageant form, the patriotic play, with dances, songs, pantomime, and spoken speech, lends itself to schools, communities, and city use, in park, in armory, and on village green: in its one-act form it lends itself to both indoor and outdoor production by schools, patriotic societies, clubs and settlements, and, last, but not least, the home circle. and in the hope of assisting teachers and producers to fit appropriate plays to appropriate occasions notes on the subject have been added to the individual plays in the table of contents.
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the pageant of patriots (outdoor)
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the pageant of patriots
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1. prologue by the spirit of patriotism 2. princess pocahontas 3. pilgrim interlude 4. ferry farm episode 5. george washington's fortune 6. daniel boone: patriot 7. benjamin franklin episode scene 1. benjamin franklin and the crystal gazer (1720) the dream begins scene 2. benjamin franklin at the court of france (1781) the dream ends 8. abraham lincoln episode 9. final tableau 10. march of players
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prologue spoken by the spirit of patriotism
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people of --------, ye who come to see enacted here some hours of pageantry, lend us your patience for each simple truth, and see portrayed for you the nation's youth. spirit of patriotism i. behold how at my word time's curtain is uprolled, and all the past years live, unvanquished as are the laurels of the mighty dead. i am the spirit of the hearth and home! for me are flags unfurled and bugles blown. for me have countless thousands fought and died; for me the name of "liberty" is cried! i am the leader where the battle swings, i bring the memory of all high things. and so to-day i come to bid you look at scenes deep-written in the nation's book. the youth of all the heroes you shall see-- what lads they were, what men they grew to be. how honor, thrift, and courage made them rise by steps that you can learn if you be wise. first, pocahontas in a woodland green; then life among the pilgrim folk is seen-- thrifty priscilla, maid o' plymouth town, in puritanic cap and somber gown! for the next scene comes life in southern climes-- the ferry farm of past colonial times. then washington encamped before a blaze o' fagots, swiftly learning woodland ways. then boone with rigdon in the wilderness dauntlessly facing times of strife and stress. crossing the common in the morning sun young benjamin franklin comes: about him hung symbols of trade and hope--kite, candles, book. the crystal gazer enters, bids him look at all the guerdon that the years will bring. the vision next: trianon in the spring, and franklin honored by the queen of france with courtly minuet and festal dance. lastly, a cabin clearing in the west, where on a holiday with mirth and zest lincoln's companions take their simple cheer. these are the scenes to be enacted here, shown to you straightway in a simple guise. youthful the scenes that we shall here devise on which the beads of history are strung. remember that our players, too, are young. all critic-knowledge, then, behind you leave, and in the spirit of the day receive what we would give, and let there come to you the joy of youth, with purpose high and true.
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the spirit of patriotism. the spirit of patriotism should wear a long white robe, with flowing grecian lines, made either of white cheesecloth, or white cashmere. it should fall from a rounded neck. hair worn flowing, and chapleted with a circlet of gold stars. white stockings and sandals. carries a staff from which floats the stars and stripes.
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princess pocahontas chief powhatan captain john smith eight young indian braves eight young indian maidens two indian women two old and withered squaws six or seven little indian children other followers of powhatan
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time: mid-afternoon on a mild day in 1609. place: virginia. scene: an open glade showing a small indian encampment.
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at the opening of the scene the glade is deserted, the men of the tribe being engaged in a skirmish with the white men, while the women and children have gone foraging. there are two teepees, one at right, and one at left, their doors closed. by the side of teepee at left a pile of fagots, and a wooden block.
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further front, facing audience, a great war-drum, gaily painted. a skin-covered drum-stick. at right, towards front, the smoldering remains of a fire. the whole appearance of the camp shows that it is not permanent--a mere pausing-place.
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the space between the teepees is absolutely unobstructed, but there are trees and bushes at the back and sides.
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by degrees the indians who have been foraging begin to return. one of the indian women enters carrying fagots. one of the older squaws rekindles the fire. next come the children, with merry shouts, carrying their little bows and arrows. the indian maidens enter gaily, carrying reeds for weaving. they move silently, swiftly, gracefully. two of their number begin to grind maize between stones. two others plait baskets. an old medicine-man, with a bag of herbs, comes from the background, and seats himself near the drum, at left, taking an indian flute from his deerskin belt, and fingering it lovingly. an indian woman, arriving later than the others, unstraps from her back a small papoose, and hangs it to the limb of a tree. the indian children stand towards the front of the greensward, shoot in a line their feathered arrows, run and pick up the arrows, and acclaim in pantomime the one who shot the best. then they go towards background, doing a childish imitation of a war-dance. the mother of the papoose, having finished her duties in setting one of the teepees to rights, now takes down the papoose from the tree where it swings, and seating herself in the center of the greensward, croons an indian lullaby. the indian maidens group themselves about her, seated in a semicircle on the ground, swaying rhythmically. at the back of the stage one of the little indian boys sees an indian maiden approaching, clad in white doeskin. cries aloud delightedly: "pocahontas!"
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the indian maidens and the squaws rise and fall back before the entrance of pocahontas with gestures of salutation and respect.
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all (clearly and enthusiastically). pocahontas!
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pocahontas (speaking slowly, as one does in an unfamiliar tongue, yet clearly and deliberately). i--pocahontas--daughter of powhatan, great chief,--speak--language of--paleface. powhatan teach me. (points to way from which she has come.) yonder--i--went. prayed to river god.
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the indians being a notably silent people, this scene must be given mostly in pantomime.
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from the forest at right comes the faint sound of a crackling branch. instant attention on the part of all. the dance stops. the indian maidens stand poised, listening. the women shade their eyes with their hands. a small indian boy lays his ear to the ground, and then cries: "powhatan!" two expectant semicircles are formed. all look to wards right. powhatan enters, pocahontas runs to meet him. tableau.
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powhatan then indicates that others are coming from right. young braves enter with john smith in their midst. his hands are bound behind him, his face is white and drawn. children at sight of him scamper to teepees. the rest show signs of curiosity. pocahontas stands with clasped hands and startled eyes, regarding smith most earnestly. a brave bears smith's weapons. smith is led to right foreground. block of wood is brought him for a seat.
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the indian women, maidens, and children retreat to the extreme background, where they sit in a semicircle, watching. then powhatan and braves withdraw to left, where they form a circle and confer, one brave at a time addressing the rest in pantomime, with many gestures, some towards smith, some towards the path by which they brought him. occasionally the words "algonquin," "chickahominy," "jamestown," "opeckankano," "w'ashunsunakok" are spoken. when powhatan speaks in pantomime the others listen with occasional grunts of satisfaction and approval. it is evident that the prisoner and the fate awaiting him are under discussion.
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pocahontas alone remains near the center of interest. she glances first at her father and the braves, sees they are deep in discussion, and then crosses to john smith, with every sign of interest and awakening pity. she brings him water in a wooden bowl. he drinks thirstily. she then goes to one of the teepees, and brings him a cup of milk. this she holds for him to drink from, as his hands are bound.
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pocahontas (gravely, as she puts down the cup). how!
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smith (with equal gravity). how!
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pocahontas(touching herself lightly). pocahontas. daughter of powhatan.
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smith (answering her). smith. john smith.
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pocahontas (repeating it after him). john smith.
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smith. from jamestown.
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pocahontas (nods, says slowly). pocahontas likes paleface.
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pocahontas (looking from smith to her father, and then running towards the latter with a cry). no! no!
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pocahontas (speaking slowly). pocahontas, daughter of great chief, asks of great chief john smith's life.
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smith. great chief! (turns first to powhatan, and then to pocahontas.) great princess! john smith grateful!
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powhatan (grunting). umph!
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smith (standing center). john smith goes to jamestown. john smith friend of great chief, powhatan. palefaces always remember powhatan! always remember pocahontas!
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braves (all together). wah! wah! wah!
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pocahontas (to powhatan). great chief safely returned. captive set free. shall we go yonder? (points.) pray to river god?
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pocahontas. pocahontas should wear the traditional costume of "white doeskin with a scarlet mantle flecked with gold sequins." a great chain of pearls should be about her neck. another chain which reaches to her waist should be of white and blue beads--large beads that will catch glitter from the sun. about her head a band of tan, and a white quill. the embroidery about the neck of her indian robe is of pearls. the basket which she carries should be white, with a motif of rich blue and scarlet. she wears a tan (dressed deerskin) girdle, heavily embroidered in red beads. her stockings and moccasins are tan-colored also, the moccasins embroidered in scarlet. the ends of her braids are bound in scarlet and gold. white canton flannel, skilfully slashed for fringing, will make the indian dress, which should fall in straight lines from a square neck. it should reach to about three inches above the ankle, and should be heavily fringed. the robe, worn fastened at the shoulders, should be of scarlet cloth. the deerskin belt is of cotton khaki. the moccasins can be made of the same material, cut sandal fashion. or low canvas ties without heels, bead-embroidered.
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captain john smith. tan-colored costume of the seventeenth century. the coat of tattered, weather-stained brown velvet, the puffed sleeves slashed with tan satin that is soiled and frayed. great tan boots coming to the knee. a white lace collar at neck, much the worse for wear. a brown leather girdle.
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powhatan. indian dress of tan (dressed deerskin), the neck and breast of it gorgeously painted with blue, green, and scarlet. great chains of shells and beads. a huge head-dress of black feathers that hangs down his back almost to his knees. it should be the largest and most magnificent of all the indian head-dresses, as it is the insignia of chiefdom. tan stockings and tan moccasins. the material of his costume may be cotton khaki. (the imitation khaki is best, as the real material is too heavy.)
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the medicine-man. the medicine-man is old. he wears a wig of long, white, coarse hair. his costume is of cotton khaki, decorated with beads, bits of looking-glass, and feathers. he wears no feathers on his head. a piece of fur is fastened to his shoulders. his blanket is black, with white cabalistic signs. it can be made of canton flannel.
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indian braves. the braves who follow powhatan should wear costumes resembling those of the chief, save that they are less gorgeously painted, and wear fewer strings of beads and shells. their head-dresses, too, are shorter. they should be of gray, black, and brown feathers. their faces are, of course, stained brown, their arms and necks likewise. red and black warpaint should also be on their faces. unless wigs of long hair are to be worn, the boys wearing the feathered head-dresses should be careful to see that their lack of long hair is concealed from view. often the indian braves wore their long matted locks braided; and black cheesecloth cut into strips and then braided and fastened to a tight black cap will make a splendid wig of this sort--the braids of hair should hang in front of the ears. the indian braves should carry bows, arrows, and tomahawks.
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the indian maidens. the indian maidens should wear tan fringed dresses, of the same length and fashion as that of pocahontas. necklaces and bracelets of shells. the necks of the dresses embroidered in beads and shells. they wear their long black hair in two braids, the ends of the braids bound either with scarlet, corn-yellow, or vivid blue. they have moccasins and tan-colored stockings. their bead' embroidered footgear should be in striking color on a tan background. but their chief glory is their blankets. these should be barbarically glowing, since it is partly in their wild flare of color that the beauty of the blanket dance lies. the following designs for them are taken from the indian motifs and colorings studied from the collections in various museums of natural history, and however startling they may seem at first, their color-scheme should be faithfully carried out, as much of the success of the scene depends on them. the material used may be canton flannel throughout. they should be the size of the average, every-day blanket.
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1. blanket made of equal halves of deep royal purple and pale turquoise blue.
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2. blanket of deep cobalt blue. fastened in the center a great oval of orange.
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3. blanket made of equal halves of pale lemon and black.
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4. blanket made of equal halves of very dark green and very pale green.
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5. blanket made of equal halves of deep violet and white.
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6. white blanket with disks of scarlet at each of its four corners.
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7. blanket of equal halves of royal purple and pale lavender.
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8. blanket of very pale green, with large white disk in center.
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each indian maiden should wear a band of gay-colored cheesecloth, red, green, or blue, bound about her forehead. this band should match the color that fastens her braids. in the back of the head-band should be fastened a quill of contrasting shade. it need hardly be added that the indian maidens wear neither feather head-dresses nor war-paint. their arms, necks, and faces should be stained light brown. the tan-colored stockings are to simulate bare skin.
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squaws. the squaws wear the same cotton khaki costumes as the indian maidens, save that their blanket are of more somber colors, and their headgear is either omitted altogether, or consists of black, bronze, or dull green.
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the little indian boys. they should drew in exact imitation of the older braves, save that they wear no war-paint.
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properties. for either an indoor or outdoor representation of this scene where it is impossible to have a real fire, have a pile of fagots and unionist them place large bunches of joss-sticks bound together with thread. these will burn easily and safely, and the blue smoke from them will simulate a waft from woodland embers.
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the log can be made of two small vinegar barrels fastened together, covered with brown burlap, and then flecked with green and brown paint. the teepees should be of canvas, unbleached cotton, or burlap fastened over three slender, strong poles, stuck into the ground. they should be equal to bearing the weight of the canvas or burlap, and yet light enough to be removed and carried off the scene by the young indian braves as they leave in the direction of the river when the scene ends.
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dances. at the place indicated in the scene, the indian maidens give one or more characteristic indian dances. "the blanket dance," one of the most widely known and picturesque of the indian dances, follows somewhat the lines of a virginia reel. the indian maidens stand in a line facing each other, their blankets wrapped about them. the head couple, facing each other, spread wide their blankets behind them like great butterfly wings. then they dance forward and back, forward and back, beckoning, retreating, gesturing, and finally dance off, with one blanket wrapped about two pairs of shoulders. then the next couple, and so on. all sorts of fantastic steps, gestures, bendings, and swayings can be introduced. a wide space should be left between the dancers, so that all they do can be clearly seen. dancing in great circles, like a mild war-dance, yet without the whoops and wild gestures of the latter, is another form that lends itself to the out-of-doors. another dance is the eagle dance; with arms spread wide, holding their blankets at wing-like angles, the dancers circle about each other, the dance growing wilder and wilder. still another dance is the symbolical one of the four winds--north, south, east, west--done by four indian maidens. the south wind gentle and swaying; the west wind fantastic, with arms upraised; the east wind with streaming hair and rain-drops shining on finger tips; the north wind wilder than them all, and finally driving them all before her.
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music. piano: macdowell's "an indian idyl," "from an indian lodge." these can be had orchestrated. for a band: "tomahawk dance," by andrew herman. "indian war dance," by bellstedt. "the sun dance," by leo friedman.
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gone is now the sullen winter, gone the famine and the snow; in the forest, like a promise, see the first white mayflowers blow.
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fresh hope thrills us with their coming, they, too, braved the winter long; then at springtime took new leafage, frail yet steadfast, small but strong.
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cling we thus to our new country, let us struggle and endure; we have found a land of freedom, and our heritage is sure.
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the spinning lesson (a pilgrim interlude)
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priscilla mullins lads of plymouth town john billington degory martin youthful pilgrim maidens ruth patience miriam lettice anne star-of-spring, an indian maiden natiqua, a squaw, her mother forest flower, another indian maiden heron's wing, a young indian brave
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scene: a grassy glade at plymouth in the spring of 1621, trees right, left, and background. at the beginning of the scene the grassy stage is deserted. there presently enters from background anne, a young pilgrim maid of about fourteen, whose somber garb shows out darkly against the green background. she looks quickly about her, right and left, shielding her eyes with her hand. then she calls back over her shoulder to her companions, diantha and lettice.
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anne (calling). come quickly, diantha. here is a fair spot for our corn-shelling, and not a prowling indian in sight.
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diantha (clearly). nay, we need have no fear; for on one side captain miles standish keeps watch, and on the other john alden; so as for indians----
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lettice (as they come to center). one indian only have i seen this day, and to see him is ever a sign of good omen.
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diantha. that means that squanto is in plymouth town, our good, true indian friend. he it was who taught us how to shell the corn, so many months agone; he it was who taught us, this spring, the manner of sowing it.
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lettice (holding up indian basket). and here is one of the indian corn-baskets that captain standish found buried in a strange wilderness spot when he first explored these forests.
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anne (drawing near to lettice). these forests--! oh, my heart! as night draws on how dark and fearsome they appear! and now that spring is in the land it sets me longing for english hedgerows.
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lettice (joining anne in her work). do you remember the spring in leyden, diantha?
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diantha (looking upward as she stands). why, even here the spring is very fair! do not the sunlight, the blue sky, and the budding trees make your heart sing with joy?
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anne. sit, then, diantha, and let us have a quiet hour.
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diantha (standing behind them, half-gay, half-mocking). a quiet hour--! hither come patience and miriam and ruth, the greatest clatter-tongues in plymouth. see! they have been gathering wild plum blossoms!
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miriam (excitedly). diantha, what dost think! priscilla mullins hath declared herself weary of spinning in her own door-yard, and since squanto hath told us that we need not fear the indians she hath besought degory martin and john billington to bring hither her spinning-wheel.
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patience (wide-eyed). was ever the like known in plymouth!
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ruth (as all look eagerly towards background). hither she comes!
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priscilla (clearly in distance). have a care, degory.
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degory. aye, mistress priscilla.
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priscilla (as they emerge from background). stumble not, john billington.
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john billington (sturdily). not while i bear such a burden.
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priscilla. i thank you. will you come for me when the shadows o' the pines grow long across my doorway?
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priscilla (to pilgrim maidens). well, and have you no word of greeting? why, they are dumb with astonishment! and is it so strange a thing to bring one's wheel outdoors? 'twas out of doors that this wood first grew! (touches wheel.) all day i have longed to be out in these wide spaces--and yet there was work to do. but see--now i weld heart's desire and work together!
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miriam. you are ever one to see the bright side of things, priscilla, and------look, priscilla--an indian!
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star-of-spring, emboldened, takes a step towards the pilgrim maidens. pilgrim maidens, quite as wary of star-of-spring as she is of them, retreat a little way to left. at this star-of-spring's last fears vanish. she wishes to be friends. with pretty pleading she holds out to them her basket of shell-fish. places it on the ground and then steps back, bowing, with arms wide and outstretched palms.
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priscilla. she means we should accept it. is that not truly generous!
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diantha (reassured). it must be star-of-spring, the little indian maid of whom squanto has so often told us.
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diantha (as the meaning of the scene dawns on her). priscilla! she wishes to spin!
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anne. thou hast done many strange things in this new land, priscilla; but i doubt not that the strangest of all is to give an indian maiden her first lesson in spinning!
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diantha. only think, degory, star-of-spring, an indian maid, hath had a spinning lesson!
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degory. the shadows are lengthening. twilight comes apace here in the forest. 'tis time you all came home.
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pilgrim maidens. the pilgrim maidens should wear plain black dresses ankle length, with white cuffs and puritan caps, and white kerchiefs. these dresses may be made of black cambric, worn with the glazed side turned in.
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the pilgrim lads. the pilgrim lads wear black suits, with full knee-breeches, black stockings, and low black shoes with silver buckles. their hair comes to their ears, and they have white collars turned down on their coats, and deep white cuffs on their sleeves.
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the indians. the indians wear costumes of cotton khaki, the necks gaily painted with indian designs. strings of beads and shells. natiqua has a green and scarlet blanket. she and the indian maidens wear their hair in braids. they also have a gay strip of cheesecloth--red, green, or yellow--bound about their brows, and a quill stuck upright in the back. heron's wing has a head-dress of blue-gray heron's feathers. all wear moccasins. (see description of indian costumes in "princess pocahontas.")
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ferry farm episode
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lord fairfax mary ball washington george washington plantation hands aunt rachel sambo lucy dinah peter nelly susy uncle ned
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scene: the lawn of ferry farm, 1748. a wide expanse of green. trees right, left, and background. the trees in background supposedly screen the colonial house from view. at the left the estate supposedly stretches to the highway. at the right, behind the trees, it is given over to flower and vegetable gardens.
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at the beginning of the scene the grassy space is deserted, but from the distance, right, comes the sound of singing. the sound swells louder and louder in the rhythm of one of the oldest of african songs, "mary and martha just gone 'long to ring those charming bells." the first verse is sung before the singers appear. with the second verse those who have been at work in the fields come into view, their gay and colorful costumes bright against the green background.
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two of the children run into sight first; then comes a group of nine or ten young people. some carry between them baskets heaped quite high with fruit and vegetables. one boy holds a hoe. a girl carries a rake. another an armful of dried corn on the ear. two more a low basket heaped with cotton. in the center of this group hobbles old aunt rachel, turbaned, and leaning on a cane. by her side walks lucy, carrying a great bunch of pink "winter roses."
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the third verse is sung as this group emerges into full view of the audience. the children stand looking at aunt rachel as they sing, as if they were catching some of the words from her. she beats time with her finger to see that they learn correctly. other voices take up the song in right background, swelling it higher and higher. uncle ned, with his fiddle under his arm, comes slowly from right to join the group in foreground. the baskets are set down. the boy leans on his hoe, the girl on her wooden rake, rapt and happy. all are given over to the rhythmic joy of the music. "since that day when we spoke on the staircase we have only been alone together once, for a moment. i asked her then if i should tell her mother, and she said 'not yet.' excepting that, we have never exchanged a word that you and her mother might not have heard, nor a glance that you might not have seen. we both knew that we were waiting for you to get well, and we have waited."
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guido looked at him with a sort of wonder.
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"that was like you," he said quietly.
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"you understand, now," lamberti continued. "you and i met her on the same day at your aunt's, and when i saw her, i felt as if i had always known her and loved her. no one can explain such things. then by a strange coincidence we dreamt the same dream, on the same night."
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"was it she whom you met in the forum, and who ran away from you?" asked guido, in astonishment.
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"yes. that is the reason why we always avoided each other, and why i would not go to their house till you almost forced me to. we had never spoken alone together till the garden party. it was then that we found out that our dreams were alike, and after that i kept away from her more than ever, but i dreamt of her every night."
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"so that was your secret, that afternoon!"
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"yes. we had dreamt of each other and we had met in the forum in the place we had dreamt of, and she ran away without speaking to me. that was the whole secret. she was afraid of me, and i loved her, and was beginning to know it. i thought there was something wrong with my head and went to see a doctor. he talked to me about telepathy, but seemed inclined to consider that it might possibly be a mere train of coincidences. i think i have told you everything."
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for a long time they sat side by side in silence, each thinking his own thoughts.
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"is there anything you do not understand?" lamberti asked at last.
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"no," guido answered thoughtfully. "i understand it all. it was rather a shock at first, but i am glad you have told me. perhaps i do not quite understand why she wishes to see me."
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"we both wish to be sure that you bear us no ill-will. i am sure she does, and i know that i do."
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there was a pause again.
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"do you think i am that kind of friend?" guido asked, with a little sadness. "after what you have done, too?"
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"i am afraid my mere existence has broken up your life, after all," lamberti answered.
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"you must not think that. please do not, my friend. there is only one thing that could hurt me now that it is all over."
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"what is that?"
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"i am not afraid that it will happen. you are not the kind of man to break her heart."
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"no," lamberti answered very quietly. "i am not."
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"it was only a dream for me, after all," guido said, after a little while. "you have the reality. she used to talk of three great questions, and i remember them now as if i heard her asking them: 'what can i know? what is it my duty to do? what may i hope?' those were the three."
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"and the answers?"
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"nothing, nothing, nothing. those are my answers. unless----"
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"unless--what?" lamberti asked.
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guido smiled a little.
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"unless there is really something beyond it all, something essentially true, something absolute by nature."
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lamberti had never known his friend to admit such a possibility even under a condition.
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"at all events," guido added, "our friendship is true and absolute. shall we go home? i feel a little tired."
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lamberti helped him to the carriage and drew the light cover over his knees before getting in himself. then they drove down towards the city, by the long and beautiful drive, past the acqua paola and san pietro in montorio.
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"you must go and see her this evening," guido said gently, as they came near the palazzo farnese. "will you tell her something from me? tell her, please, that it would be a little hard for me to talk with her now, but that she must not think i am not glad that she is going to marry my best friend."
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"thank you. i will say that." lamberti's voice was less steady than guido's.
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"and tell her that i will write to her from the tyrol."
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it was over. the two men knew that their faithful friendship was unshaken still, and that they should meet on the morrow and trust each other more than ever. but on this evening it was better that each should go his own way, the one to his solitude and his thoughts, the other to the happiest hour of his life.
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on the following afternoon lamberti waited for cecilia at the villa madama, and she came not long after him, with petersen. he had been to the palazzo massimo in the evening, and a glance and a sign had explained to her that all was well. then they had sat together awhile, talking in a low tone, while the countess read the newspaper. when lamberti had given guido's brave message, they had looked earnestly at each other, and had agreed to tell her mother the truth at once, and to meet on the morrow at the villa, which was cecilia's own house, after all. for they felt that they must be really alone together, to say the only words that really mattered.
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the head gardener had admitted lamberti to the close garden, by the outer steps, but had not let him into the house, as he had received no orders. when cecilia came, he accompanied her with the keys and opened wide the doors of the great hall. cecilia and lamberti did not look at each other while they waited, and when the man was gone away cecilia told petersen to sit down in the court of honour on the other side of the little palace. petersen went meekly away and left the two to themselves.
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they walked very slowly along the path towards the fountain, and past it, to the parapet at the other end, where they had talked long ago. but as they passed the bench, they glanced at it quietly, and saw that it was still in its place. cecilia had not been at the villa since the afternoon before guido fell ill, and lamberti had never come there since the garden party in may.
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they stood still before the low wall and looked across the shoulder of the hill. saving commonplace words at meeting, they had not spoken yet. cecilia broke the silence at last, looking straight before her, her lids low, her face quiet, almost as if she were in a dream.
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"have we done all that we could do, all that we ought to do for him?" she asked. "are you sure?"
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"we can do nothing more," lamberti answered gravely.
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"tell me again what he said. i want the very words."
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"he said, 'tell her that it would be a little hard for me to talk with her now, but that she must not think i am not glad that she is going to marry my best friend.' he said those words, and he said he would write to you from the tyrol. he leaves to-morrow night."
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"he has been very generous," cecilia said softly.
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"yes. he will be your best friend, as he is mine."
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she knew that it was true.
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"we have done what we can," lamberti continued presently. "he has given all he has, and we have given him what we could. the rest is ours."
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he took her hand and drew her gently, turning back towards the fountain.
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"it was like this in the dream," she said, scarcely breathing the words as she walked beside him.
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they stood still before the falling water, quite alone and out of sight of every one, in the softening light, and suddenly the girl's heart beat hard, and the man's face grew pale, and they were facing each other, hands in hands, look in look, thought in thought, soul in soul; and they remembered that day when each had learned the other's secret in the shadowy staircase of the palace, and each dreamt again of a meeting long ago in the house of the vestals; but only the girl knew what she had felt of mingled joy and regret when she had sat alone at night weeping on the steps of the temple.
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there was no veil between them now, as their eyes drew them closer together by slow and delicious degrees. it was the first time, though every instant was full of memories, all ending where this was to begin. their lips had never met, yet the thrill of life meeting life and the blinding delight of each in the other were long familiar, as from ages, while fresh and untasted still as the bloom on a flower at dawn.
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then, when they had kissed once, they sat down in the old place, wondering what words would come, and whether they should ever need words at all after that. and somehow, cecilia thought of her three questions, and they all were answered as youth answers them, in one way and with one word; and the answer seemed so full of meaning, and of faith and hope and charity, that the questions need never be asked again, nor any others like them, to the end of her life; nor did she believe that she could ever trouble her brain again about thus spake zarathushthra, and the man who had killed god, and the overcoming of pity, and the eternal return, and all those terrible and wonderful things that live in nietzsche's mazy web, waiting to torment and devour the poor human moth that tries to fly upward.
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but as for kant's categorical imperative, in order to act in such a manner that the reasons for her actions might be considered a universal law, it was only necessary to realise how very much she loved the man she had chosen, and how very much he loved her; for how indeed could it then be possible not to live so as to deserve to be happy?
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she had thought of these things during the night and had fallen asleep very happy in realising the perfect simplicity of all science, philosophy, and transcendental reasoning, and vaguely wondering why every one could not solve the problems of the universe as she had.
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"is it all quite true?" she asked now, with a little fluttering wonder. "shall i wake and hear the door shutting, and be alone, and frightened as i used to be?"
"__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON all__<label>__VERB quite__<label>__VERB true__<label>__ADJ ?"__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON asked__<label>__VERB now__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. with__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ fluttering__<label>__VERB wonder__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. "__<label>__NOUN shall__<label>__PRT i__<label>__PRON wake__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ hear__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET door__<label>__NOUN shutting__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ be__<label>__VERB alone__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ frightened__<label>__VERB as__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON used__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB ?"__<label>__.
"i should have waked already," he said, "when we were standing there by the fountain. i always did when i dreamt of you."
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"so did i. do you think we really met in our dreams?" she blushed faintly.
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"do you know that you have not told me once to-day that you care for me, ever so little?" he asked.
"__<label>__NOUN do__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON know__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET you__<label>__PRON have__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT told__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON once__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. day__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON care__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP me__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. ever__<label>__PRON so__<label>__VERB little__<label>__ADJ ?"__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON asked__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
"i have told you much more than that, a thousand times over, in a thousand ways."
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"i wonder whether we really met!"
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a maid of venice
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by f. marion crawford
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author of "saracinesca," etc.
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"there are two important departments of the novelist's art in which marion crawford is entirely at home. he can tell a love story better than any one now living save the unapproachable george meredith. and he can describe the artistic temperament and the artistic environment with a security born of infallible instinct."--the new york herald.
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"this is not the first time that mr. crawford's pen has drawn the conscious love of a pure girl for a man whose own heart she believed to be untouched, yet, in the love of marietta for the dalmatian, we have something that, while so utterly human, is so delicately revealed that the reader must be a stoic indeed who does not take a delightful interest in the fate of that love."--new york times.
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"it suggests the bright shimmer of the moon on still waters, the soft gliding of brilliant-hued gondolas, the tuneful voices of the gondoliers keeping rhythmic time to the oar stroke and the faint murmuring of lovers' vows lightly made and lightly broken."--richmond dispatch.
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"furnishes another illustration of the author's remarkable facility in assimilating different atmospheres, and in mastering, in a minute way, as well as sympathetically, very diverse conditions of life.... the plot is intricate, and is handled with the ease and skill of a past-master in the art of story-telling."--outlook.
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"the workshop, its processes, the ways and thought of the time,--all this is handled in so masterly a manner, not for its own sake, but for that of the story.... it has charm, and the romance which is eternally human, as well as that which was of the venice of that day. and over it all there is an atmosphere of worldly wisdom, of understanding, sympathy, and tolerance, of intuition and recognition, that makes marion crawford the excellent companion he is in his books for mature men and women."--new york mail and express.
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the macmillan company
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66 fifth avenue, new york
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writings of f. marion crawford
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12 mo. cloth
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a tale of sicily the last of the famous saracinesca series
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"it is by far the most stirring and dramatic of all the author's italian stories.... the plot is a masterly one, bringing at almost every page a fresh surprise, keeping the reader in suspense to the very end."--the times, new york.
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"it is lofty and uplifting. it is strongly, sweetly, tenderly written. it is in all respects an uncommon novel."--the literary world.
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"the characters are strongly marked without any suspicion of caricature, and the author's ideas on social and political subjects are often brilliant and always striking. it is no exaggeration to say that there is not a dull page in the book, which is peculiarly adapted for the recreation of the student or thinker."--living church.
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a roman singer
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"a powerful story of art and love in rome."--the new york observer.
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an american politician
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"one of the characters is a visiting englishman. possibly mr. crawford's long residence abroad has made him select such a hero as a safeguard against slips, which does not seem to have been needed. his insight into a phase of politics with which he could hardly be expected to be familiar is remarkable."--buffalo express.
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"it is an admirable tale of italian life told in a spirited way and far better than most of the fiction current."--san francisco chronicle.
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"as a matter of literary art solely, we doubt if mr. crawford has ever before given us better work than the description of belshazzar's feast with which the story begins, or the death-scene with which it closes."--the christian union (now the outlook).
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a tale of a lonely parish
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"it is a pleasure to have anything so perfect of its kind as this brief and vivid story. it is doubly a success, being full of human sympathy, as well as thoroughly artistic."--the critic.
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"we take the liberty of saying that this work belongs to the highest department of character-painting in words."--the churchman.
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"it need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and picturesquely written, portraying sharply individual characters in well-defined surroundings."--new york commercial advertiser.
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"the strength of the story lies not only in the artistic and highly dramatic working out of the plot, but also in the penetrating analysis and understanding of the impulsive and passionate italian character."--public opinion.
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the children of the king
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"one of the most artistic and exquisitely finished pieces of work that crawford has produced. the picturesque setting, calabria and its surroundings, the beautiful sorrento and the gulf of salerno, with the bewitching accessories that climate, sea, and sky afford, give mr. crawford rich opportunities to show his rare descriptive powers. as a whole the book is strong and beautiful through its simplicity."--public opinion.
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"we are disposed to rank 'marion darche' as the best of mr. crawford's american stories."--the literary world.
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"it need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and picturesquely written, portraying sharply individual characters in well-defined surroundings."--new york commercial advertiser.
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"the whole group of character studies is strong and vivid."--the literary world.
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love in idleness
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"the story is told in the author's lightest vein; it is bright and entertaining."--the literary world.
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"we are grateful when mr. crawford keeps to his italy. the poetry and enchantment of the land are all his own, and 'casa braccio' gives promise of being his masterpiece.... he has the life, the beauty, the heart, and the soul of italy at the tips of his fingers."--los angeles express.
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"a charming story this is, and one which will certainly be liked by all admirers of mr. crawford's work."--new york herald.
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adam johnstone's son and a rose of yesterday
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"it is not only one of the most enjoyable novels that mr. crawford has ever written, but is a novel that will make people think."--boston beacon.
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"don't miss reading marion crawford's new novel, 'a rose of yesterday.' it is brief, but beautiful and strong. it is as charming a piece of pure idealism as ever came from mr. crawford's pen."--chicago tribune.
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"the work has two distinct merits, either of which would serve to make it great: that of telling a perfect story in a perfect way, and of giving a graphic picture of roman society.... the story is exquisitely told, and is the author's highest achievement, as yet, in the realm of fiction."--the boston traveler.
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a sequel to saracinesca
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"a singularly powerful and beautiful story.... it fulfils every requirement of artistic fiction. it brings out what is most impressive in human action, without owing any of its effectiveness to sensationalism or artifice. it is natural, fluent in evolution, accordant with experience, graphic in description, penetrating in analysis, and absorbing in interest."--the new york tribune.
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a sequel to saracinesca and sant' ilario
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"offers exceptional enjoyment in many ways, in the fascinating absorption of good fiction, in the interest of faithful historic accuracy, and in charm of style. the 'new italy' is strikingly revealed in 'don orsino.'"--boston budget.
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with the immortals
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"the strange central idea of the story could have occurred only to a writer whose mind was very sensitive to the current of modern thought and progress, while its execution, the setting it forth in proper literary clothing, could be successfully attempted only by one whose active literary ability should be fully equalled by his power of assimilative knowledge both literary and scientific, and no less by his courage, and so have a fascination entirely new for the habitual reader of novels. indeed, mr. crawford has succeeded in taking his readers quite above the ordinary plane of novel interest."--the boston advertiser.
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"... another notable contribution to the literature of the day. like all mr. crawford's work, this novel is crisp, clear, and vigorous, and will be read with a great deal of interest."--new york evening telegram.
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a cigarette-maker's romance and khaled
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"it is a touching romance, filled with scenes of great dramatic power."--boston commercial bulletin.
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"it abounds in stirring incidents and barbaric picturesqueness; and the love struggle of the unloved khaled is manly in its simplicity and noble in its ending."--the mail and express.
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the witch of prague
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"the artistic skill with which this extraordinary story is constructed and carried out is admirable and delightful.... mr. crawford has scored a decided triumph, for the interest of the tale is sustained throughout.... a very remarkable, powerful, and interesting story."--new york tribune.
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my brave and gallant gentleman
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a romance of british columbia
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mcclelland, goodchild & stewart
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publishers :: :: :: :: toronto
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by george h. doran company
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printed in the united states of america
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to a lady called nan
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i the second son ii another second son iii jim the blacksmith iv viscount harry, captain of the guards v tommy flynn, the harlford bruiser vi aboard the coaster vii k. b. horsfal, millionaire viii golden crescent ix the booze artist x rita of the spanish song xi an informative visitor xii joe clark, bully xiii a visit, a discovery and a kiss xiv the coming of mary grant xv "music hath charms--" xvi the devil of the sea xvii good medicine xviii a maid, a mood and a song xix the "green-eyed monster" awakes xx fishing! xxi the beachcombers xxii jake stops the drink for good xxiii the fight in the woods xxiv two maids and a man xxv the ghoul xxvi "her knight proved true"
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my brave and gallant gentleman
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the second son
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lady rosemary granton! strange how pleasant memories arise, how disagreeable nightmares loom up before the mental vision at the sound of a name!
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lady rosemary granton! as far back as i could remember, that name had sounded familiar in my ears. as i grew from babyhood to boyhood, from boyhood to youth, it was drummed into me by my father that lady rosemary granton, some day, would wed the future earl of brammerton and hazelmere. this apparently awful calamity did not cause me any mental agony or loss of sleep, for the reason that i was merely the honourable george, second son of my noble parent.
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i was rather happy that morning, as i sat in an easy chair by the library window, perusing a work by my favourite author,--after a glorious twenty-mile gallop along the hedgerows and across country. i was rather happy, i say, as i pondered over the thought that something in the way of a just retribution was at last about to be meted out to my elder, haughty, arrogant and extremely aristocratic rake of a brother, harry.
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my mind flashed back again to the source of my vagrant thoughts. lady rosemary granton! to lose the guiding hand of her mother in her infancy; to spend her childhood in the luxurious lap of new york's pampered three hundred; to live six years more among the ranchers, the cowboys and, no doubt, the cattle thieves of wyoming, in the care of an old friend of her father, to wit, colonel sol dorry; then to be transferred for refining and general educational purposes for another spell of six years to the strict discipline of a french convent; to flit from city to city, from country to country, for three years with her father, in the stress of diplomatic service--what a life! what an upbringing for the future countess of brammerton! finally, by way of culmination, to lose her father and to be introduced into london society, with a fortune that made the roués of every capital in europe gasp and order a complete new wardrobe!
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as i thought what the finish might be, i threw up my hands, for it was a most interesting and puzzling speculation.
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personally, i preferred to sit on the fence. being a lover of the open air, of the agile body, the strong arm and the quick eye, i could not but admire some of this extraordinary young lady's exploits. but,--the woman who was conceded the face of an angel, the form of a venus de milo; who was reported to have dressed as a jockey and ridden a horse to victory in the grand national steeplechase; who, for a wager, had flicked a coin from the fingers of a cavalry officer with a revolver at twenty paces; lassooed a cigar from between the teeth of the duke of kaslo and argued on the budget with a cabinet minister, all in one week; who could pray with the piety of a fasting monk; weep at will and look bewitching in the process; faint to order with the grace, the elegance and all the stage effect of an early victorian duchess: the woman who was styled a golden-haired goddess by those on whom she smiled and dubbed a saucy, red-haired minx by those whom she spurned;--was too, too much of a conglomeration for such a humdrum individual, such an ordinary, country-loving fellow as i,--george brammerton.
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and now, poor old hazelmere was undergoing a process of renovation such as it had not experienced since the occasion of a royal visit some twenty years before: not a room in the house where one could feel perfectly safe, save the library: washing, scrubbing, polishing and oiling in anticipation of a rousing week-end house party in honour of this wonderful, chameleon-like, lady rosemary's first visit; when her engagement with harry would be formally announced to the inquisitive, fashionable world of which she was a spoiled child.
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why all this fuss over a matter which concerned only two individuals, i could not understand. had i been going to marry the lady rosemary,--which, heaven forbid,--i should have whipped her quietly away to some little, country parsonage, to the registrar of a small country town; or to some village blacksmith, and so got the business over, out of hand. but, of course, i had neither the inclination, nor the intention, let alone the opportunity, of putting to the test what i should do in regard to marrying her, nor were my tastes in any way akin to those of my most elegant, elder brother, viscount harry, captain of the guards,--egad,--for which two blessings i was indeed truly thankful.
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as i was thus ruminating, the library door opened and my noble sire came in, spick and span as he always was, and happier looking than usual.
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"'morning, george," he greeted.
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"good morning, dad."
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he rubbed his hands together.
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"gad, youngster! (i was twenty-four) everything is going like clockwork. the house is all in order; supplies on hand to stock an hotel; all london falling over itself in its eagerness to get here. harry will arrive this afternoon and lady rosemary to-morrow."
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i raised my eyebrows, nodded disinterestedly and started in again to my reading. father walked the carpet excitedly, then he stopped and looked down at me.
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"you don't seem particularly enthusiastic over it, george. nothing ever does interest you but boxing bouts, wrestling matches, golf and books. why don't you brace up and get into the swim? why don't you take the place that belongs to you among the young fellows of your own station?"
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"god forbid!" i answered fervently.
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"not jealous of harry, are you? not smitten at the very sound of the lady's name,--like the young bloods, and the old ones, too, in the city?"
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"god forbid!" i replied again.
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"hang it all, can't you say anything more than that?" he asked testily.
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"oh, yes! dad,--lots," i answered, closing my book and keeping my finger at the place. "for one thing--i have never met this lady rosemary granton; never even seen her picture--and, to tell you the truth, from what i have heard of her, i have no immediate desire to make the lady's acquaintance."
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there was silence for a moment, and from my father's heavy breathing i could gather that his temper was ruffling.
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"look here, you young barbarian, you revolutionary,--what do you mean? what makes you talk in that way of one of the best and sweetest young ladies in the country? i won't have it from you, sir, this lady rosemary granton, this lady indeed."
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"oh! you know quite well, dad, what i mean," i continued, a little bored. "harry is no angel, and i doubt not but lady rosemary is by far too good for him. but,--you know,--you cannot fail to have heard the stories that are flying over the country of her cantrips;--some of them, well, not exactly pleasant. and, allowing fifty percent for exaggeration, there is still a lot that would be none the worse of considerable discounting to her advantage."
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"tuts, tush and nonsense! foolish talk most of it! the kind of stuff that is garbled and gossiped about every popular woman. the girl is up-to-date, modern, none of your drawing-room dolls. i admit that she has go in her, vim, animal spirits, youthful exuberance and all that. she may love sport and athletics, but, but,--you, yourself, spend most of your time in pursuit of these same amusements. why not she?"
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"why! father, these are the points i admire in her,--the only ones, i may say. but, oh! what's the good of going over it all? i know, you know,--everybody knows;--her flirtations, her affairs; every rake in london tries to boast of his acquaintance with her and bandies her name over his brandy and soda, and winks."
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"look here, george," put in my father angrily, "you forget yourself. these stories are lies, every one of them! lady rosemary is the daughter of my dearest, my dead friend. very soon, she will be your sister."
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"yes! i know,--so let us not say any more about it. it is harry and she for it, and, if they are pleased and an old whim of yours satisfied,--what matters it to an ordinary, easy-going, pipe-loving, cold-blooded fellow like me?"
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"whim, did you say? whim?" cried my father, flaring up and clenching his hands excitedly. "do you call the vow of a brammerton a whim? the pledged word of a granton a whim? whim, be damned."
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for want of words to express himself, my father dropped into a chair and drummed his agitated fingers on the arms of it.
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i rose and went over to him, laying my hand lightly on his shoulder.
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poor old dad! i had not meant to hurt his feelings. after all, he was the dearest of old-fashioned fellows and i loved his haughty, mid-victorian ways.
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"there, there, father,--i did not mean to say anything that would give offence. i take it all back. i am sorry,--indeed i am."
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he looked up at me and his face brightened once more.
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"'gad, boy,--i'm glad to hear you say it. i know you did not mean anything by your bruskness. you are an impetuous, headstrong young devil though,--with a touch of your mother in you,--and, 'gad, if i don't like you the more for it.
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"i clasped fred's hand and i thanked him for what he had done for me that day, right in the teeth of the russian guns.
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"'freddy, old chap, you're a trump,' i said, 'and, if ever i be blessed with an heir to brammerton and hazelmere, i would wish nothing better than that he should marry a granton.'
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"'and nothing would please me so much, harry, old boy,--as that a maid of granton should wed a brammerton,' he answered earnestly.
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"'then it's a go,' said i, full of enthusiasm.
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"'it's a go, harry.'
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"and we raised our winecups, such as they were.
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"'your daughter, fred!'
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"'your heir, harry!'
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"'the future earl and countess of brammerton and hazelmere,' we chimed together.
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"our winecups clinked and the bond was made;--made for all time, george."
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my father's eyes lit up and he seemed to be back in the crimea. he shook his head sadly.
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"and now, poor old fred is gone. ah, well! our dream is coming true. in a month, the maid of granton weds the future earl of brammerton.
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"'gad, george, my boy,--rosemary may be skittish and lively, but were she the most mercurial woman in christendom, she has never forgotten that she is first of all a granton, and, as a granton, she has kept a granton's pledge."
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for a moment i caught the contagion of my father's earnestness. my eyes felt damp as i thought how important, after all, this union was to him. but, even then, i could not resist a little more questioning.
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"does harry love her, dad?"
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"love her!" he smiled. "why! my boy, he's madly in love with her."
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"then, why doesn't he mend a bit? give over his mad chasing after,--to put it mildly,--continual excitement; and demonstrate that he is thoroughly in earnest. you know, falling madly in love is a habit of harry's."
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"don't you worry your serious head about that, george. you talk of harry as if he were a baby. you talk as if you were his grandfather, instead of his younger brother and a mere boy."
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"does lady rosemary love harry?" i asked, ignoring his admonition.
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"of course, she loves him. why shouldn't she? he's a good fellow; well bred and well made; he is a soldier; he is in the swim; he has plenty to spend; he is the heir to brammerton;--why shouldn't she love him? she is going to marry him, isn't she? she may not be of the gushing type, george, but she'll come to it all in good time. she will grow to love him, as every good wife does her husband. so, don't let that foolish head of yours give you any more trouble."
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i turned to leave.
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"you will be on hand this week-end. i want you at home. i need you to keep things going. no skipping off to sporting gatherings or athletic conventions. i wish you to meet your future sister."
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"well,--i had not thought of that, dad. big jim darrol, tom tanner and i have entered for a number of events at the gartnockan games on saturday. i am also on the lists as a competitor for the northern counties golf championship on monday."
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my father looked up at me in a strange way.
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"however," i went on quickly, "much as i dislike the rush, the gush and the clatter of house parties, i shall be on hand."
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"good! i knew you would, my boy," replied my father quietly. "where away now, lad?"
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"oh! down to the village to tell jim and tom not to count on me for their week-end jaunt."
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another second son
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i strolled down the avenue, between the tall trees and on to the broad, sun-baked roadway leading to the sleepy little village of brammerton, which lay so snugly down in the hollow. swinging my stout stick and whistling as i went, i felt at peace with the good old world. my head was clear, my arm was strong; rich, fresh blood was dancing in my veins; i was young, single, free;--so what cared i?
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as i walked along, i saw ahead of me a thin line of blue-grey smoke curling up from the roadside. as i drew nearer, i made out the back of a ragged man, leaning over a fire. his voice, lusty and clear as a bell, was ringing out a strange melody. i went over to him.
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i was looking over his shoulder, yet he seemed not to have heard me, so intent was he on his song and in his work.
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he was toasting the carcass of a poached rabbit, the wet skin of which lay at his side. he was a dirty, ragged rascal, but he seemed happy and his voice was good. the sentiment of his song was not altogether out of harmony with my own feelings.
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"a carter swore he'd love always a skirt, some rouge, a pair of stays. after his vow, for days and days, he thought himself the smarter."
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the singer bit a piece of flesh from the leg of his rabbit, to test its tenderness, then he resumed his toasting and his song.
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"but, underneath the stays and paint he found the usual male complaint: a woman's tongue, with satan's taint; a squalling, brawling tartar.
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"she scratches, bites and blacks his eye. his head hangs low; he heaves a sigh; he longs for single days, gone by. he's doomed to die a martyr."
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the peculiar fellow stopped, opened a red-coloured handkerchief, took out a hunk of bread and set it down by his side with slow deliberation. it was quite two minutes ere he started off again.
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"now, friends, beware, take my advice; when eating sugar, think of spice; before you marry, ponder twice: remember ned the carter."
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from the words, it seemed to me that he had finished the song, but, judging from the tune, it was never-ending.
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"a fine song, my good fellow," i remarked from behind.
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the rascal did not turn round.
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"oh!--it's no' so bad. it's got the endurin' quality o' carrying a moral," he answered.
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"you seem to be clear in the conscience yourself," said i.
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"it'll be clearer when i get outside o' this rabbit," he returned, still not deigning to look at me.
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"but you did not seem to be startled when i spoke to you," i remarked in surprise.
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"what way should i? i never saw the man yet that i was feart o'. forby,--i kent you were there."
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"but, how could you know? i did not make a noise or display my presence in any way."
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"no!--but the wind was blawin' from the back, ye see; and when ye came up behind the smoke curled up a bit further and straighter than it did before; then there was just the ghost o' a shadow."
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i laughed. "you are an observant customer."
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"oh, ay! i'm a' that. come round and let me see ye."
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i obeyed, and he seemed satisfied with his inspection.
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"sit doon,--oot o' the smoke," he said.
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i did so.
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"you are scotch?" i ventured.
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"ay! from perth, awa'.
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"a scotch tinker?"
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"just that; a tinker from perth, and my name's robertson. i'm a struan, ye ken. the struans,--the real struans,--are a' tinkers or pipers. in oor family, my elder brother fell heir to my father's pipes, so i had just to take to the tinkering. but we're joint heirs to my father's fondness for a dram. ye havena a wee drop on ye?"
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"not a drop," i remarked.
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"that's a disappointment. i was kind o' feart ye wouldna, when i asked ye."
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"oh! ye don't look like a man that wasted your substance. more like a seller o' bibles, or maybe a horse doctor."
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i laughed at the queer comparison, and he looked out at me from under his shaggy, red eyebrows.
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"have a bite o' breakfast wi' me. i like to crack to somebody when i'm eatin'. it helps the digestion."
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"no, thank you," i said. "i have breakfasted already."
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"it's good meat, man. the rabbit's fresh. i can guarantee it, for it was runnin' half an hour ago. try a leg."
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i refused, but, as he seemed crestfallen, i took the drumstick in my hand and ate the meat slowly from it; and never did rabbit taste so good.
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"what makes ye smile?" asked my tattered companion. "do ye no' like the taste o' it?"
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"oh! the rabbit is all right," i said, "but i was just thinking that had it lived its children might have belonged to a brother of mine some day."
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"how's that? is he a keeper? od sake!" he went on, scratching his head, as it seemed to dawn on him, "ye don't happen to belong to the big hoose up there?"
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"i live there," said i.
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he leaned over to me quickly. "have another leg, man,--have it;--dod! it's your ain, anyway."
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"i haven't finished the first yet. go ahead yourself."
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he ate slowly, eying me now and again through the smoke.
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"so you're a second son, eh?" he pondered. "man, ye have my sympathy. i had the same ill-luck. that's how my brother angus got the pipes and i'm a tinker. although, i wouldna mind being the second son o' a laird or a duke."
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"well, my friend," said i; "that's just where our opinions differ. now, i'd sooner be the second son of a rag-and-bone man; a--perthshire piper of the name of robertson; ay! of the devil himself,--than the second son of an earl."
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"do ye tell me that now!" he put in, with a cock of his towsled head, picking up another piece of rabbit.
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"you see,--you and these other fellows can do as you like; go where you like when you like. an earl's second son has to serve his house. he has to pave the way and make things smooth for the son and heir. he is supposed to work the limelight that shines on his elder brother. he is tolerated, sometimes spoiled and petted, because,--well, because he has an elder brother who, some day, will be an earl; but he counts for little or nothing in the world's affairs.
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"be thankful, sir, you are only the second son of a highland piper."
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the tramp reflected for a while.
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"ay, ay!" he philosophised at last, "no doot,--maybe,--just that. i can see you have your ain troubles and i'm thinkin', maybe, i'm just as weel the way i am. but it's a queer thing; we aye think the other man is gettin' the best o' what's goin'. it's the way o' the world."
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he was quiet a while. he negotiated the rabbit's head and i watched him with interest as he extracted every bit of meat from the maze of bone.
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"and you would be the earl when your father dies, if it wasna for your brother?" he added.
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"yes!" i answered.
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"man, it must be a dreadful temptation."
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"what must be?"
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"och! to keep from puttin' something in his whisky; to keep from flinging him ower the window or droppin' a flower pot on his heid, maybe. if my ain father had been an earl, angus robertson would never have lived to blow the pipes. as it was, it was touch and go wi' angus;--for they were the bonny pipes,--the grand, bonny pipes."
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"do you mean to tell me, you would have murdered your brother for a skirling, screeching bagpipes?" i asked in horror.
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"och! hardly that, man. murder is no' a bonny name for it. i would just kind o' quietly have done awa' wi' him. it's maybe a pity my conscience was so keen, for he's no' much good, is angus; he's a through-other customer: no' steady and law-abidin' like mysel'."
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"well, my friend," i said finally----
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"donald! that's my name."
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"well, donald, i must be on my way."
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"what's a' the hurry, man?"
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"oh! weel; give me your hand on it. you've a fine face. the face o' a man that, if he had a dram on him, he would give me a drop o' it."
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"that i would, donald."
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"it's a pity. but ye don't happen to have the price o' the dram on ye?"
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"maybe i have, donald."
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i handed him a sixpence.
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"thank ye. i'm never wrong in the readin' o' face character."
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as i made to go from him, he started off again.
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"you don't happen to be a married man, wi' a wife and bairns?" he asked.
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"no, donald. thank goodness! what made you ask that?"
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"oh! i thought maybe you were and that was the way you liked the words o' my bit song."
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i left the tinker finishing his belated breakfast and hurried down the road toward the village.
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the sun was getting high in the heavens, birds were singing and the spring workers were busy in the fields. i took the side track down the rough pathway leading to modley farm.
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my good friend, big, brawny, bluff tom tanner,--who was standing under the porch,--hailed me from a distance, with his usual merry shout.
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"where away, george? feeling fit for our trip?" he asked as i got up to him.
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"i am sorry, old boy, but, so far as i am concerned, the trip is off. i just hurried down to tell you and jim.
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"you see, tom, there is going to be a house party up there this week-end and my dad's mighty anxious to have me at home; so much so, that i would offend him if i went off. being merely george brammerton, i must bow to the paternal commands, although i would rather, a hundred times, be at the games."
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tom's face fell, and i could see he was disappointed. i knew how much he enjoyed those week-end excursions of ours.
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"the fact is," i explained, "there is going to be a marriage up there pretty soon, and, naturally, i am wanted to meet the lady."
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"great scott! george,--you are not trying to break it gently to me? you are not going to get married, are you?" he asked in consternation.
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i laughed loudly. "lord, no! not for a kingdom. it is my big brother harry."
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tom seemed relieved. he even sighed.
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"i'm glad to hear you say it, george, for there's a lot of fine athletic meetings coming on during the next three or four months and it would be a pity to miss them for, for,---- oh! hang it all! you know what i mean. you're such a queer, serious, determined sort of customer, that it's hard to say what you will do next."
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he looked so solemn over the matter that i laughed again.
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his kind-hearted old mother, who had been at work in the kitchen and had overheard our conversation, came to the doorway and placed her arms lovingly around our broad shoulders.
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"lots of time yet to think about getting married. and, let me whisper something into your ears. it's an old woman's advice, and it's good:--when you do think of marrying, be sure you get a wife with a pleasant face and a good figure; a wife that other wives' men will turn round and admire; for, you know, you can never foretell what kind of temper a woman has until you have lived with her. a maid is always on her best behaviour before her lover. and, just think what it would mean if you married a plain, shapeless lass and she proved to have a temper like a termagant! now, a handsome lass, even if she has a temper, is always--a handsome lass and something to rouse envy of you in other men. and, after all, we measure and treasure what we have in proportion as other people long for it. so, whatever you do, young men, make sure she is handsome!"
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"good, sensible advice, mrs. tanner; and i mean to take it," said i. "but i would be even more exacting. in addition to being sweet tempered and fair of face and form, she must have curly, golden hair and golden brown eyes to match."
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"and freckles?" put in mrs. tanner with a wry face.
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"no! freckles are barred," i added.
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"but, golden hair and brown eyes are mighty rare to find in one person," said tom innocently.
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"of course they are; and the combination such as i require is so extremely rare that my quest will be a long one. i am likely therefore to enjoy my bachelorhood for many days to come."
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"good-bye, mrs. tanner. good-bye, tom; i am going down to the smithy to see jim."
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i strolled away from my happy, contented friends, on to the main road again and down the hill to the village, little dreaming how long it would be ere i should have an opportunity of talking with them again.
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jim the blacksmith
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the village of brammerton seemed only half awake. a rumbling cart was slowly wending its way up the hill, three or four old men were standing yarning at the inn corner; now and again, a busy housewife would appear at her door and take a glimpse of what little was going on and disappear inside just as quickly as she had shown herself. the sound of the droning voices of children conning their lessons came through the open window of the old schoolhouse.
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these were the only signs and sounds of life that forenoon in brammerton. stay!--there was yet another. breaking in on the general quiet of the place, i could hear distinctly the regular thud of hard steel on soft, followed by the clear double-ring of a small hammer on a mellow-toned anvil.
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one man, at any rate, was hard at work,--jim darrol,--big, honest, serious giant that he was.
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light of heart and buoyant in body, i turned down toward the smithy. i looked in through the grimy, broken window and admired the brawny giant he looked there in the glare of the furnace, with his broad back to me, his huge arms bared to the shoulders. little wonder, thought i, jim darrol can whirl the hammer and put the shot farther than any man in the northern counties.
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how the muscles bulged, and wriggled, and crawled under his dark, hairy skin! what a picture of manliness he portrayed! and, best of all,--i knew his heart was as good and clean as his body was sound.
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i tiptoed cautiously inside and slapped him between the shoulders. he wheeled about quickly. he always was a solemn-looking owl, but this morning his face was clouded and grim. as he recognised me, a terrible anger seemed to blaze up in his black eyes. i could see the muscles tighten in his arms and his fingers close firmly over the shaft of the hammer he held. i could see a new-born, but fierce hatred burning in every inch of his enormous frame.
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"hello, jim, old man! who has been rubbing you the wrong way?" i cried.
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his jaws set. he raised his left hand and pointed with his finger to the open doorway.
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"get out!" he growled, in a deep, hoarse voice.
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i stood dumbfounded for a brief moment, then i replied roughly and familiarly: "oh, you go to the devil! keep your anger for those who have caused it."
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"get out, will you!" he cried again, taking a step nearer to me, his brows lowered, his lips drawn to a thin line.
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i had seen these danger signals in jim before, but never with any ill intent toward me. i was so astounded i could scarcely think aright. what could he mean? what was the matter?
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"jim, jim," i soothed, "don't talk that way to old friends."
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"you're no friend of mine," he shouted. "will you get out of here?"
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in some respects, i was like jim darrol: i did not like to be ordered about.
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"no! i will not get out," i snapped back at him. "i mean to remain here until you grow sensible."
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i went over to his anvil, set my leg across it and looked straight at him.
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he raised his hammer high, as if to strike me; and i felt then that if i had taken my eyes from jim's for the briefest flash of time, my last minute on earth would have arrived.
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with an oath,--the first i ever heard him utter,--he cast the hammer from him, sending it clattering into a corner among the old horse shoes.
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"damn you,--i hate you and all your cursed aristocratic breed," he snarled. and, with the spring of a tiger, he had me by the throat, with those great, grabbing hands of his, his fingers closing cruelly on my windpipe as he tried to shake the life out of me.
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i had always been able to account for jim when it came to fisticuffs, but never at close quarters. this time, his attack was violent as it was unexpected. i did not have the ghost of a chance. i staggered back against the furnace wall, still in his devilish clutch. not a gasp of air entered or left my body from the moment he clutched me.
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he shook me as a terrier does a rat.
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soon my strength began to go; my eyes bulged; my head felt as if it were bursting; dancing lights and awful darknesses flashed and loomed alternately before and around me. then the lights became scarcer and the darknesses longer and more intense. as the last glimmer of consciousness was leaving me, when black gloom had won and there was no more light, i felt a sudden release, painful and almost unwelcome to the oblivion to which i had been hurling. the lights came flashing back to me again and out of the whirling chaos i began to grasp the tangible once more. as i leaned against the side of the furnace, pulling at my throat where those terrible fingers had been,--gasping,--gasping,--for glorious life-giving, life-sustaining air, i gradually began to see as through a haze. before long, i was almost myself again.
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jim was standing a few paces away, his chest heaving, his shaggy head bent and his great hands clenched against his thighs.
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i gazed at him, and as i gazed something wet glistened in his eyes, rolled down his cheeks and splashed on the back of his hand, where it dried up as if it had fallen on a red-hot plate.
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i took an unsteady step toward him and held out my hand.
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"jim," i murmured, "my poor old jim!"
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his head remained lowered.
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"strike me," he groaned huskily. "for god's sake strike me, for the coward i am!"
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"i want your hand, jim," i answered. "tell me what is wrong? what is all this about?"
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at last he looked into my eyes. i could see a hundred conflicting emotions working in his expressive face.
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"you would be friends after what i have done?" he asked.
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"i want your hand, jim," i said again.
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"george,--george!" he cried. "we've always been friends,--chums. i have always known you were not like the rest of them."
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he drew his forearm across his brow. "i am not myself, george. you'll forgive me for what i did, won't you?"
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"ay,--it's trouble enough,--god forbid. it's peggy, george,--my dear little sister, peggy, that has neither mother nor father to guide her;--only me, and i'm a blind fool. oh!--i can't speak about it. come over with me and see for yourself."
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i followed him slowly and silently out of the smithy, down the lane and across the road to his little, rose-covered cottage. we went round to the back of the house. jim held up his hand for caution, as he peeped in at the kitchen window. he turned to me again, and beckoned, his big eyes blind with tears.
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"look in there," he gulped. "that's my little sister, my little peggy; she who never has had a sorrow since mother left us. she's been like that for four hours and she gets worse when i try to comfort her."
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i peered in.
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peggy was sitting on the edge of a chair and bending across the table. her arms were spread out in front of her and her face was buried in them. her brown, curly hair rippled over her neck and shoulders like a mountain stream. great sobs seemed to be shaking her supple body. i listened, and my ears caught the sound of a breaking heart. there was a fearful agony in her whole attitude.
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i turned away without speaking and followed jim back to the smithy. when we got there, something pierced me like a knife, although all was not quite clear to my understanding.
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"jim,--jim," i cried, "surely you never fancied i--i was in any way to blame for this. why! jim,--i don't even know yet what it is all about."
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he laughed unpleasantly. "no, george, no!--oh! i can't tell you. here----"
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he went to his coat which hung from a hook in the wall. he pulled a letter from his inside pocket. "read that," he said.
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i unfolded the paper, as he stood watching me keenly.
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the note was in handwriting with which i was well familiar.
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"my dear little peggy,
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i am very, very sorry,--but surely you know that what you ask is impossible. i shall try to find time to run out and see you at the usual place, friday night at nine o'clock. do not be afraid, little woman; everything will come out all right. you know i shall see that you are well looked after; that you do not want for anything.
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burn this after you read it. keep our secret, and bear up, like the good little girl you are. yours affectionately,
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as i read, my blood chilled in my veins, was,--there could be no mistaking it.
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"my god! jim," i cried, "this is terrible. surely,--surely----"
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"yes! george," he said, in a tensely subdued voice, "your brother did that. your brother,--with his glib tongue and his masterful way. oh!--well i know the breed. they are to be found in high and low places; they are generally not much for a man to look at, but they are the kind no woman is safe beside; the kind that gets their soft side whether they be angels or she-devils. why couldn't he leave her alone? why couldn't he stay among his own kind?
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"and now, he has the gall to think that his accursed money can smooth it over. damn and curse him for what he is."
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i had little or nothing to say. my heart was too full for words and a great anger was surging within me against my own flesh and blood.
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"jim,--does this make any difference between you and me?" i asked, crossing over to him on the spongy floor of hoof parings and steel filings. "does it, jim?"
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he caught me by the shoulders, in his old, rough way, and looked into my face. then he smiled sadly and shook his head.
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"no, george, no! you're different: you always were different; you are the same straight, honest george brammerton to me;--still the same."
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"then, jim, you will let me try to do something here? you will promise me not to get into personal contact with harry,--at least until i have seen him and spoken with him. not that he does not deserve a dog's hiding, but i should like to see him and talk with him first."
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"why should i promise that?" he asked sharply.
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"for one thing,--because, doubtless, harry is home now. and again, there is going to be a week-end house party at our place. harry's engagement of marriage with lady rosemary granton is to be announced; and lady rosemary will be there.
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"it would only mean trouble for you, jim;--and, god knows, this is trouble enough."
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"what do i care for trouble?" he cried defiantly. "what trouble can make me more unhappy than i now am?"
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"you must avoid further trouble for peggy's sake," i interposed. "jim,--let me see harry first. do what you like afterwards. promise me, jim."
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he swallowed his anger.
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"god!--it will be a hard promise to keep if ever i come across him. but i do promise, just because i like you, george, as i hate him."
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"may i keep this meantime?" i asked, holding up harry's letter to peggy.
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"no! give it to me. i might need it."
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"but i might find greater use for it, jim. won't you let me have it, for a time at least?"
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"oh! all right, all right," he answered, spreading his hands over his leather apron.
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i left him there amid the roar of the fire and the odour of sizzling hoofs, and wended my way slowly up the dust-laden hill, back home, having forgotten entirely, in the great sorrow that had fallen, to tell jim my object in calling on him that day.
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viscount harry, captain of the guards
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on nearing home, i noticed the "flying dandy," harry's favourite horse, standing at the front entrance in charge of a groom.
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"hello, wally," i shouted in response to the groom's salute and broad grin. "is captain harry home?"
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"yes, sir! three hours agone, sir. 'e's just agoing for a canter, sir, for the good of 'is 'ealth."
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i went inside.
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"hi! william," i cried to the retreating figure of our portly and aristocratic butler. "where's harry?"
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"captain harry, sir, is in the armoury. any message, sir?"
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"no! it is all right, william. i shall go along in and see him."
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i went down the corridor, to the most ancient part of hazelmere house; the old armoury, with its iron-studded oaken doors and its suggestion of spooks and goblins. i pushed in to that sombre-looking place, which held so many grim secrets of feudal times. how many drinking orgies and all-night card parties had been held within its portals, i dared not endeavour to surmise. as to how many plots had been hatched behind its studded doors, how many affairs of honour had been settled for all time under its high-panelled roof,--there was only a meagre record; but those we knew of had been bloody and not a few.
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figures, in suits of armour, stood in every corner; two-edged swords, shields of brass and cowhide, blunderbusses and breech-loading pistols hung from the walls, while the more modern rifles and fowling pieces were ranged in orderly fashion along the far side.
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the light was none too good in there, and i failed, at first, to discover the object of my quest.
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"how do, farmer giles?" came that slow, drawling, sarcastic voice which i knew so well.
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i turned suddenly, and,--there he was, seated on a brass-studded oak chest almost behind the heavy door, swinging one leg and toying with a seventeenth century rapier. through his narrow-slitted eyes, he was examining me from top to toe in apparent disgust: tall, thin, perfectly groomed, handsome, cynical, devil-may-care.
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i tried to speak calmly, but my anger was greater than i could properly control. poor little peggy darrol was uppermost in my thoughts.
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"don't you know the brammerton motto is, 'clean,--within and without.'"
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he bent the blade of his rapier until it formed a half hoop, then he let it fly back with a twang.
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"and some of us have degenerated so," i answered, "that we apply the motto only in so far as it affects the outside."
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"while some of us, of course, are so busy scrubbing and polishing at our inwards," he put in, "that we have no time to devote to the parts that are seen. but that seems to me deuced like cant; and a cheap variety of it at that.
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"so you have taken to preaching, as well as farming. fine combination, little brother! however, george,--dear boy,--we shall let it go at that. there is something you are anxious to unload. get it out of your system, man."
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"i have just been hearing that you are going to marry lady rosemary granton soon."
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"why, yes! of course. you may congratulate me, for i have that distinguished honour," he drawled.
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"and you do consider it an honour?" i asked, pushing my hands deep into my pockets and spreading my legs.
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he leaned back and surveyed me tolerantly.
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"'gad!--that's a beastly impertinent question, george. why shouldn't it be an honour, when every gentleman in london will be biting his finger-tips with envy?"
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i nodded and went on.
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"you consider also that she will be honoured in marrying a brammerton?"
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"look here," he answered, a little irritated, "what's all this damned catechising for?"
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"i am simply asking questions, harry; taking liberties seeing i am a brammerton and your little brother," i retorted calmly.
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"and nasty questions they are, too;--but, by jove! since you ask, and, as i am a brammerton, and it is i she is going to marry,--why! i consider she is honoured. the honour will be,--ah! on both sides, george. now,--dear fellow,--don't worry about my feelings. if you have anything more to ask, why! shoot it over, now that i am in the mood for answering," he continued dryly. "i have a hide like a rhino'."
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i looked him over coldly.
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"yes, harry,--lady rosemary will come to you as a granton, fulfilling the pledge made by her father. she will come to you with her honour bright and unsullied."
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he bent forward and frowned at me.
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"do you doubt it?" he shot across.
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i shook my head. "no!"
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he resumed his old position.
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"glad to hear you say so. now,--what else? blest if this doesn't make me feel quite a devil, to be lectured and questioned by my young brother,--my own, dear, little, preaching, farmer, kid of a brother."
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"you will go to her a brammerton, fulfilling the vow made by a brammerton, with a brammerton's honour, unstained, unblemished,--'clean,--within and without'?"
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he rose slowly from the chest and faced me squarely.
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there was nothing of the coward in harry.
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his eye glistened with a cruel light. "have a care, little brother," he said between his regular, white teeth. "have a care."
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"why, harry," i remonstrated in feigned surprise, "what's the matter? what have i said amiss?"
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he had always played the big, patronising, bossing brother with me and i had suffered it from him, although, from a physical standpoint, the suffering of late had been one of good-natured tolerance. to-day, there was something in my manner that told him he had reached the end of it.
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"tell me what you mean?" he snarled.
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"if you do not know what i mean, brother mine, sit down and i will tell you."
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"no!" he answered.
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"oh, well!--i'll tell you anyway."
"__<label>__NOUN oh__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. well__<label>__NOUN !--__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON 'll__<label>__PRT tell__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON anyway__<label>__NOUN ."__<label>__.
i went up close to him. "what are you going to do about peggy darrol?" i demanded.
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the shot hit hard; but he was almost equal to it. he sat down on the chest again and toyed once more with the point of the rapier. then, without looking up, he answered:
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"peggy darrol,--eh, george! peggy darrol, did you say? who the devil is she? oh,--ah,--eh,--oh, yes! the blacksmith's sister,--um,--nice little wench, peggy:--attractive, fresh, clinging, strawberries and cream and all that sort of thing. bit of a dreamer, though!"
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"who set her dreaming?" i asked, pushing my anger back.
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"yes! she is pretty; and she was good as she is pretty until she got tangled up with you."
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harry sprang up and menaced me.
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"what do you mean, you,--you?---- what are you driving at? what's your game?"
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"oh! give over this rotten hypocrisy," i shouted, pushing him back. "hit you on the raw, did it?"
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"no! it didn't. but i have had more than enough of your impertinences. i would box your ears for the unlicked pup you are, if i could do it without soiling my palms."
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"those days are gone, harry,--and you know it, too. let us cut this evasion and tom-foolery. you have got that poor girl into a scrape. what are you going to do about getting her out of it?"
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"i have got her into trouble? how do you know i have? her word for it, i suppose? a fine state of affairs it has come to, when any girl who gets into trouble with her clod-hopper sweetheart, has simply to accuse some one in a higher station than she, to have all her troubles ended."
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"no! not her word," i retorted. "little peggy darrol is not that sort of girl and well you know it. i have your own word for it,--in writing."
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his face underwent a change in expression; his cheeks paled slightly.
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i drew his letter from my pocket.
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"damn her for a little fool," he growled. he held out his hand for it.
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"oh, no! harry,--i am keeping this meantime." and i replaced it. "tell me now,--what are you going to do about peggy?" i asked relentlessly.
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"oh!" he replied easily, "don't worry. i shall have her properly looked after. she needn't fear. probably i shall make a settlement on her; although the little idiot hardly deserves that much after giving the show away as she has done."
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"of course, you will tell lady rosemary of this before any announcement is made of your marriage, harry? a brammerton must, in all things, be honourable, 'clean,--within and without.'"
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he looked at me incredulously, and smiled almost in pity for me and my strange ideas.
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"certainly not! what do you take me for? what do you think lady rosemary is that i should trouble her with these petty matters?"
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"petty matters," i cried. "you call this petty? god forgive you, harry. petty! and that poor girl crying her heart out; her whole innocent life blasted; her future a disgrace! petty!--my god!;--and you a brammerton!
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"but i tell you," i blazed, "you shall let lady rosemary know."
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"and i tell you,--i shall not," he replied.
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"then, by god!--i'll do it myself," i retorted. "i give you two hours to decide which of us it is to be."
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i made toward the door. but harry sprang for his rapier, picked it up and stood with his back against my exit, the point of his weapon to my breast.
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there was a wicked gleam in his narrow eyes.
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"damn you! george brammerton, for a sneaking, prying, tale-bearing lout;--you dare not do it!"
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he took a step forward.
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"now, sir,--i will trouble you for that letter."
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i looked at him in astonishment. there was a strange something in his eyes i had never seen there before; a mad, irresponsible something that cared not for consequences; a something that makes heroes of some men and murderers of others. i stood motionless.
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slowly he pushed the point of his rapier through my coat-sleeve. it pricked into my arm and i felt a few drops of warm blood trickle. i did not wince.
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"stop this infernal fooling," i cried angrily.
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he bent forward, in the attitude of fence with which he was so familiar.
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"fooling, did you say? 'gad! then, is this fooling?"
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it was the act of a madman; and i knew in that moment that i was face to face with death by violence for the second time in a few hours. i slowly backed from him, but he followed me, step for step,
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as i came up against and sought the wall behind me for support, my hand came in contact with something hard. i closed my fingers over it. it was the handle of an old highland broadsword and the feel of it was not unpleasant. it lent a fresh flow to my blood. i tore the sword from its fastenings, and, in a second, i was standing facing my brother on a more equal, on a more satisfactory footing, determined to defend myself, blow for blow, against his inhuman, insane conduct.
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"ho! ho!" he yelled. "a duel in the twentieth century. 'gad! wouldn't this set london by the ears? the corsican brothers over again!
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"come on, with your battle-axe, farmer giles, let's see what stuff you're made of--blood or sawdust."
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twice he thrust at me and twice i barely avoided his dextrous onslaughts. i parried as he thrust, not daring to venture a return. our strange weapons rang out and re-echoed, time and again, in the dread stillness of the isolated armoury.
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my left arm was smarting from the first wound i had received, and a few drops of blood trickled down over the back of my hand, splashing on the floor.
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"you bleed!--just like a human being, george. who would have thought it?" gloated harry with a taunt.
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he came at me again.
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my broadsword was heavy and, to me, unwieldy, while harry's rapier was light and pliable. i could tell that there could be only one ending, if the unequal contest were prolonged,--i would be wounded badly, or killed outright. at that moment, i had no very special desire for either happening.
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harry turned and twisted his weapon with the clever wrist movement for which he was famous in every fencing club in britain; and every time i wielded my heavy weapon to meet his light one i thought i should never be in time to meet his counter-stroke, his recovery was so very much quicker than mine.
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he played with me thus for a time which seemed an eternity. my breath began to come in great gasps. suddenly he lunged at me with all his strength, throwing the full weight of his body recklessly behind his stroke, so sure was he, evidently, that it would find its mark. i sprang aside just in time, bringing my broadsword down on his rapier and sending six inches of the point of it clattering to the floor.
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"damn the thing!" he blustered, taking a firmer grip of what steel remained in his hand.
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"aren't you satisfied? won't you stop this madness?" i panted, my voice sounding loud and hollow in the stillness around us.
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for answer he grazed my cheek with his jagged steel, letting a little more blood and hurting sufficiently to cause me to wince.
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"got you again, you see," he chuckled, pushing up his sleeves and pulling his tie straight. "george, dear boy, i'll have you in mincemeat before i get at any of your well-covered vitals."
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a blind fury seized me. i drove in on him. he turned me aside with a grin and thrust heavily at me in return. i darted to the left, making no endeavour to push aside his weapon with my own but relying only on the agility of my body. with an oath, he floundered forward, and before he could recover i brought the flat of my heavy broadsword crashing down on the top of his head. his arm went up with a nervous jerk and his rapier flew from his hand, shattering against a high window and sending the broken glass rattling on to the cement walk below.
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harry sagged to the floor like a sack of flour and lay motionless on his face, his arms and legs spread out like a spider's.
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i was bending down to turn him over, when i heard my father's voice on the other side of the door.
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"stand back! i'll see to this," he cried, evidently addressing the frightened servants.
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i turned round. the door swung on its immense hinges and my father stood there, with staring eyes and pallid face, taking in the situation deliberately, looking from me to harry's inert body beside which i knelt. slowly he came into the centre of the room.
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full of anxiety, i looked at him. but there was no opening in that stern, old face for any explanations. he did not assail me with a torrent of words nor did he burst into a paroxysm of grief and anger. his every action was calculated, methodical, remorseless.
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he turned to the open door.
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"go!" he commanded sternly. "leave us,--leave brammerton. i never wish to see you again. you are no son of mine."
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his words seared into me. i held out my hands.
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"go!" he repeated quietly, but, if anything, more firmly.
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"good god! father,--won't you hear what i have to say in explanation?" i cried in vexatious desperation.
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he did not answer me except with his eyes--those eyes which could say so much.
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my anger was still hot within me. my inborn sense of fairness deeply resented this conviction on less than even circumstantial evidence; and, at the back of all that, i,--as well as he, as well as harry,--was a brammerton, with a brammerton's temperament.
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"do you mean this, father?" i asked.
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"go!" he reiterated. "i have nothing more to say to such an unnatural son, such an unnatural brother as you are."
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"all right, father! some day, i know you will be sorry."
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i turned on my heel and left the armoury.
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the servants were clustering at the end of the corridor, with frightened eyes and pale faces. they opened up and shuffled uneasily as i passed through.
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"william," i said to the butler, "you had better go in there. you may be needed."
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"yes, sir! yes, sir!" he answered, and hurried to obey.
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upstairs, in my own room, my knapsack was lying in a corner, ready for my proposed week-end tour. beside it, stood my golf clubs. these will do, i found myself thinking: a knapsack with a change of linen and a bag of golf clubs,--not a bad outfit to start life with.
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i opened my purse:--fifty pounds and a few shillings. not much, but enough! in fact, nothing would have been plenty.
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suddenly i remembered that, before i went, i had a duty to perform. from my inside pocket, i took the letter which harry had written to little, forlorn peggy darrol. i went to my writing desk and addressed an envelope to lady rosemary granton. i inserted harry's letter and sealed the envelope. as to the bearer of my message, that was easy. i pushed the button at my bedside and, in a second, sweet little maisie brant came to the door.
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maisie always had been my special favourite, and, on account of my having pulled her out of the river when she was only seven years old, i was hers. she had never forgotten. i cried to her in an easy, bantering way in order to reassure her.
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"neat little maisie, sweet little maisie; only fifteen and as fresh as a daisy."
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she smiled, but behind her smile was a look of concern.
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"i am going away, maisie," i said.
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"going away, sir?" she repeated anxiously, as she came bashfully forward.
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"i won't be back again, maisie. i am going for good."
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she looked up at me in dumb disquiet.
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"maisie, lady rosemary granton will be here this week-end."
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"yes, sir!" she answered. "i am to have the honour of looking after her rooms."
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i laid my hand gently on her shoulder.
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"i want you to do something for me, maisie. i want you to give her this letter,--see that she gets it when she is alone. it is more important to her than you can ever dream of. she must have it within a few hours of her arrival. no one else must set eyes on it between now and then. do you understand, maisie?"
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"oh, yes, sir! you can trust me for that."
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"i know i can, maisie. you are a good girl."
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i gave her the letter and she placed it in the safest, the most secret, place she knew,--her bosom. then her eyes scanned me over.
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"oh! sir," she cried, in sudden alarm, "you are hurt. you are bleeding."
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i put my hand to my cheek, but then i remembered i had already wiped away the few drops of blood from there with my handkerchief.
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"your arm, sir," she pointed.
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"oh!--just a scratch, maisie."
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"won't you let me bind it for you, sir, before you go?" she pleaded.
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"it isn't worth the trouble, maisie."
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tears came to those pretty eyes of hers; so, to please her, i consented.
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"all right," i cried, "but hurry, for i have no more business in here now than a thief would have."
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she did not understand my meaning, but she left me and was back in a moment with a basin of hot water, a sponge, balsam and bandages.
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i slipped off my coat and rolled up my sleeve, then, as maisie's gentle fingers sponged away the congealed blood and soothed the throb, i began to discover, from the intense relief, how painful had been the hurt, mere superficial thing as it was.
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she poured on some balsam and bound up the cut; all gentleness, all tenderness, like a mother over her babe.
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she undid my shirt, and, as she surveyed the damage, she cried out in anxiety.
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it was a raw, jagged, angry-looking wound, but nothing to occasion concern.
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she dealt with it as she had done the other, then she drew the edges of the cut together, binding them in place with strips of sticking plaster. when it was all over, i slipped into my jacket, swung my knapsack across my shoulders, took my golf-bag under my left arm,--and i was ready.
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maisie wiped her eyes with the corner of her apron.
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"never mind, little woman," i sympathised.
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"must you really go away, sir?" she sobbed.
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"yes!--i must. good-bye, little girl."
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i kissed her on the trembling curve of her red, pouting lips, then i went down the stairs, leaving her weeping quietly on the landing.
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as i turned at the front door for one last look at the inside of the old home, which i might never see again, i saw the servants carrying harry from the armoury. i could hear his voice swearing and complaining in almost healthy vigour, so i was pleasantly confirmed in what i already had surmised,--his hurt was as temporary as the flat of a good, trusty, highland broad-sword could make it.
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tommy flynn, the harlford bruiser
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i hurried down the avenue to where it joined the dusty roadway.
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i stood for a few moments in indecision. to my left, down in the hollow, the way led through the village. to my right, it stretched far on the level until it narrowed to a grey point piercing a semi-circle of green; but i knew that miles beyond, at the end of that grey line, was the busy town of grangeborough, with its thronging people, its railways and its steamships. that was the direction for me.
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i waved my hand to sleepy little brammerton and i swung to the right, for grangeborough and the sea.
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soon the internal tumult, caused by what i had just gone through, began to subside, and my spirits rose attune to the glories of the afternoon.
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little i cared what my lot was destined to be--a prince in a palace or a tramp under a hedge. although, to say truth, the tramp's existence held for me the greater fascination.
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i was young, my lungs were sound and my heart beat well. i was big and endowed with greater strength than is allotted the average man.
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glad to be done with pomp, show and convention, my life was now my very own to plan and make, or to warp and spoil, as fancy, fortune and fate decreed.
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i hankered for the undisturbed quiet of some small village by the sea, with work enough,--but no more,--to keep body nourished and covered; with books in plenty and my pipe well filled; with an open door to welcome the sunshine, the scented breeze, the salted spray from the ocean and my congenial fellow-man.
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but, if i should be led in the paths of grubbing men, 'mid bustle, strife and quarrel, where the strong and the crafty alone survived, where the weaklings were thrust aside, i was ready and willing to take my place, to take my chance, to pit brawn against brawn, brain against brain, to strike blow for blow, to fail or to succeed, to live or die, as the gods might decree.
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as i filled my lungs, i felt as if i had relieved myself of some great burden in cutting myself adrift from brammerton,--dear old spot as it was. and i whistled and hummed as i trudged along, trying to reach the point of grey at the rim of the semi-circle of green. on, on i went, on my seemingly unending endeavour. but i knew that ultimately the road would end, although merely to open up another and yet another path over which i would have to travel in the long journey of life which lay before me.
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as i kept on, i saw the sun go down in a display of blood-red pyrotechnics. i heard the chatter of the birds in the hedgerows as they settled to rest. now and again, i passed a tired toiler, with bent head and dragging feet,--his drudgery over for the day, but weighted with the knowledge that it must begin all over again on the morrow and on each succeeding morrow till the crash of his doom.
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the night breeze came up and darkness gathered round me. a few hours more, and the twinkling lights of grangeborough came into view. they were welcome lights to me, for the pangs of a healthy hunger were clamouring to be appeased.
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as it had been with the country some hours before, so was it now with grangeborough. the town was settling down for the night. it was late. most of the shops were closing, or already closed. business was over for the day. people hurried homeward like shadows.
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i looked about me for a place to dine, but failed, at first, in my quest. down toward the docks there were brighter lights and correspondingly deeper darknesses. i went along a broad thoroughfare, turned down a narrower one until i found myself among lanes and alleys, jostled by drunken sailors and accosted by wanton women, as they staggered, blinking, from the brightly lighted saloons.
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my finer sensibilities rose and protested within me, but i had no choice. if i wished to quell my craving for food, there was nothing left for me to do but to brave the foul air and the rough element of one of these sawdust-floored, glass-ornamented whisky palaces, where a snack and a glass of ale, at least, could be purchased.
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i looked about me and pushed into what seemed the least disreputable one of its kind. i made through the haze of foul air and tobacco smoke to the counter, and stood idly by until the bar-tender should find it convenient to wait upon me.
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the place was crowded with sea-faring men and the human sediment that is found in and around the docks of all shipping cities; it resounded with a babel of coarse, discordant voices.
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the greater part of this coterie was gathered round a huge individual, with enormous hands and feet, a stubbly, blue chin,--set, round and aggressive; a nose with a broken bridge spoiled the balance of his podgy face. he had beady eyes and a big, ugly mouth with stained, irregular teeth. from time to time, he laughed boisterously, and his laugh had an echo of hell in it.
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he and his followers appeared to be enjoying some good joke. but whenever he spoke every one else became silent. each coarse jest he mouthed was laughed at long and uproariously. he had a hold on his fellows. even i was fascinated; but it was by the great similarity of some of the mannerisms of this uncouth man to those i had observed in the lower brute creation.
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my attention was withdrawn from him, however, by the sound of the rattling of tin cans in another corner which was partly partitioned from the main bar-room. i followed the new sound.
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a tattered individual was seated there, his feet among a cluster of pots and pans all strung together. his head was in his hands and his red-bearded face was a study of dejection and misery.
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there was something strangely familiar in the appearance of the man.
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suddenly i remembered, and i laughed.
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i went over and sat down opposite him, setting my golf clubs by my side. he ignored my arriving. that same old trick of his!
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"donald,--donald robertson!" i exclaimed, laughing again.
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still he did not look across.
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suddenly he spoke, and in a voice that knew neither hope nor gladness.
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"ye laugh,--ye name me by my christian name,--but ye don't say, 'donald, will ye taste?'"
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i leaned over and pulled his hands away from his head. he flopped forward, then glared at me. his eyes opened wide.
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"it's,--it's you,--is it? the second son come to me in my hour o' trial."
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"why! donald,--what's the trouble?" i asked.
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"trouble,--ye may well say trouble. have ye mind o' the sixpence ye gied me on the roadside this mornin'."
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"for thirteen long, unlucky hours i saved that six-pence against my time o' need. i tied it in the tail o' my sark for safety. i came in here an hour ago. i ordered a glass o' whisky and a tumbler o' beer. i sat doon here for a while wi' them both before me, enjoying the sight o' them and indulgin' in the heavenly joy o' anteecipation. then i drank the speerits and was just settlin' doon to the beer,--tryin' to make it spin oot as long as i could; for, ye ken, it's comfortable in here,--when an emissary o' the deevil, wi' hands like shovels and a leer in his e'e, came in and picked up the tumbler frae under my very nose and swallowed the balance o' your six-pence before i could say squeak."
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i laughed at donald's rueful countenance and his more than rueful tale.
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"did the man have a broken nose and a heavy jaw?" i asked.
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"ay, ay!" said donald, lowering his voice. "do ye happen to ken him?"
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"no!--but he is still out there and he thinks it a fine joke that he played on you."
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"so would i," said donald, "if i had drunk his beer."
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"what did you do when he swallowed off your drink?" i asked.
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"do!--what do ye think i did? i remonstrated wi' a' the vehemence that a struan robertson in anger is capable o'. but the vehemence o' the lord himsel' couldna bring the beer back."
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"why didn't you fight, man? why didn't you knock the bully down?" i asked, pitying his wobegone appearance.
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"mister,--whatever your name is,--i'm a man o' peace; and, forby i'm auld enough to ken it's no' wise to fight on an empty stomach. i havena had a bite since i saw ye last."
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his face lit up like a roman candle.
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"man,--i'm wi' ye. you're a man o' substance, and i'm fonder o' substantial bread and cheese and beer than i am o' the metapheesical drinks i was indulgin' in for ten minutes before ye so providentially came."
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i could not help wondering at some of the remarks of this wise, yet good-for-little, old customer; but i did not press him for more enlightenment.
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i thumped the hand-bell on the table, and was successful in obtaining more prompt attention from the bar-tender than i had been able to do across the counter.
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when the food and drink were placed between us and paid for, donald stuffed all but one slice of his bread and cheese inside his waistcoat, and he sighed contentedly as he contemplated the sparkling ale.
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but, all at once, he startled me by springing to his feet, seizing his tumbler in his hand and emptying the contents down his gullet at two monstrous gulps.
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"no, no!--ye thievin' deevil," he shouted, as he regained his breath, "ye canna do that twice wi' donald robertson."
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i looked toward the opening in the partition. donald's recent enemy,--the man whom i had been studying at the other end of the bar-room,--was shouldering himself into our company. behind him, in a semi-circle, a dozen faces grinned in anticipation of some more fun at donald's expense.
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the big bully glared down at me as i sat.
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"that there is uncommon good beer, young un," he growled, "and that there is most uncommon good bread and cheese."
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i glanced at him with half-shut eyelids, then i broke off another piece of bread.
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"maybe you didn't 'ear me?" he shouted again, "i said that was uncommon good beer."
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"i shall be better able to judge of that, my man, after i have tasted it," i replied.
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"not that beer, little boy,--you ain't going to taste that," he thundered, "because i 'appens to want it,--see! i 'appens to 'ave a most aggrawating thirst in my gargler."
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a burst of laughter followed this ponderous attempt at humour.
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"'and it over, sonny,--i wants it."
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i merely raised my head and ran my eyes over him.
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he was an ugly brute, and no mistake. a man of tremendous girth.
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although i had no real fear of him,--for, already i had been schooled to the knowledge that fear and its twin brother worry are man's worst opponents.--i was a little uncertain as to what the outcome would be if i got him thoroughly angered. however, i was in no mind to be interfered with.
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he thumped his heavy fist on the table.
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"'and that over,--quick," he roared.
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his great jaws clamped together and his thick, discoloured lips became compressed.
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"why!--certainly, my friend," i remarked easily, rising with slow deliberation. "which will you have first:--the bread and cheese, or the ale?"
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"'twere the ale i arst and it's th' ale i wants,--and blamed quick about it or i'll know the reason w'y."
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"stupid of me!" i remarked. "i should have known you wanted the ale first. here you are, my good, genial, handsome fellow."
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i picked up the foaming tumbler and offered it to him. when he stretched out his great, grimy paw to take it, i tossed the stuff smack into his face, sending showers of the liquid into the gaping countenances of his supporters.
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he staggered back among them, momentarily blinded, and, as he staggered, i sent the tumbler on the same errand as the ale. it smashed in a hundred pieces on the side of his broken nose, opening up an old gash there and sending a stream of blood oozing down over his mouth.
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there was no more laughter, nor grinning. the place was as quiet as a church during prayer. i pushed into the open saloon, with the remonstrating donald at my heels. then the bull began to roar. he pulled off his coat, while half a dozen of his own kind endeavoured with dirty handkerchiefs and rags to mop the blood from his face.
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"shut the door. don't let 'im away from 'ere," he shouted. "i'll push his windpipe into his boots, i will. watch me!"
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as i stood with my back against the partition, the bar-tender slipped round the end of the counter.
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"look here, guv'nor," he whispered with good intent, "the back door's open,--run like the devil."
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i turned to him in mild surprise.
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"don't be an ijit," he went on. "git. why! he's tommy flynn, the champion rib cracker and face pusher of harlford, here on his holidays."
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"tommy flynn," i answered, "tommy rot fits him better."
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"you ain't a-going to stand up and get hit, are you?"
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"what else is there for me to do?" i asked.
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he threw up his arms despairingly.
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"lor' lumme!--then i bids you good-bye and washes my hands clean of you." and he went round behind the counter in disgust, spitting among the sawdust.
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by this time, tommy flynn, the champion rib cracker and face pusher, was rolling up his sleeves businesslike and thrusting off his numerous seconds in his anxiety to get at me.
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"'ere, splotch," he cried to a one-eyed bosom friend of his, "'old my watch, while i joggles the puddins out of this kid with a left 'ander. my heye!--'e won't be no blooming golfing swell in another 'alf minute."
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he grinned at me a few times in order to hypnotise me with his beauty and to instil in me the necessary amount of frightfulness, before he got to work in earnest. then, by way of invitation, he thrust forward his jaw almost into my face. i took advantage of his offer somewhat more quickly than he anticipated. i struck him on the chin with my left and drew my right to his body. but his chin was hard as flint and it bruised my knuckles; while his great body was podgy and of an india-rubberlike flexibility.
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for my pains, he brushed my ear and drew a little blood, with the grin of an ape on his brutish face.
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he threw up his arms to guard, feinted at me, and rushed in.
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i parried his blows successfully, much to his surprise, for i could see his eyes widening and a wrinkle in his brow.
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"careful, tommy!--careful," cautioned splotch of the one eye. "he's a likely looking young bloke."
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"likely be blowed," said tommy shortly, as he toyed with me. "watch this!"
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i saw that it would be for my own good, the less i let my antagonist know of my ability at his own game, and i knew also i would have to play caution with my strength all the way, owing to the trying ordeals i had already gone through that day.
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once, my antagonist tried to draw me as he would draw a novice. i ignored the body bait he opened up for me and, instead, i swung in quickly with my right on to his bruised nose, with all the energy i could muster. he staggered and reeled like a drunken man. in fact, had he not been half-besotted by dear-only-knows how many days of debauchery, it might have gone hard with me, but now he positively howled with pain.
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i had hit on his most vulnerable part, right at the beginning.
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something inside of me chuckled, for, if there was one special place in any man's anatomy that i always had been able to reach, it was his nose.
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flynn rushed on me again and again. i was lucky indeed in beating back his onslaughts.
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once, a spent blow got me on the cheek; yet, spent as it was, it made me numb and dizzy for the moment. once, he caught me squarely on the chest right over the wound my brother had given me. the pain of that was like the cut of a red-hot knife, but it passed quickly. i staggered and reeled several times, as flashes of weakness seemed to pass over me. i began to fear that my strength would give out.
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i pulled myself together with an effort. then, once,--twice,--thrice,--in a succession bewildering to myself, i smashed that broken nose of flynn's, sending him sick and wobbling among his following.
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he became maddened with rage. his companions commenced to voice cautions and instructions. he swore back at them in a muddy torrent of abuse.
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already, the fight was over;--i could feel it in my bones;--over, far sooner and more satisfactory to me than i had expected. and, more by good luck than by ability, i was, to all intents and purposes, unscathed.
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tommy flynn could fight. but he was not the fighter he would have been had he been away from drink and in strict training, as i was. it was my good fortune to meet him when he was out of condition. he spat out a mouthful of blood and returned to the conflict, defending his nose with all the ferocity of a lioness defending her whelps.
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"look out! take care!" a timely voice whispered on my left.
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something flashed in my opponent's hands in the gaslight. i backed to the partition. we had a terrible mix-up just then. blow and counterblow rained. he broke down my guard once and drove with fierce force for my face. i ducked, just in time, for he missed me by a mere hair's-breadth. his fist smashed into a metal bolt in the woodwork. sparks flew and there was a loud ring of metal against metal.
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"you cowardly brute!" i shouted, breaking away as it dawned on me that he had attacked me with heavy knuckle-dusters. my blood fairly danced with madness. i sprang in on him in a positive frenzy. he became a child in my hands. never had i been roused as i was then. i struck and struck again at his hideous face until it sagged away from me.
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he was blind with his own blood. i followed up, raining punch upon punch,--pitilessly,--relentlessly. his feet slipped in the slither of bloody sawdust. i struck again and he crashed to the floor, striking his head against the iron pedestal of a round table in the corner.
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he lay all limp and senseless, with his mouth wide open and his breath coming roaring and gurgling from his clotted throat.
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as his friends endeavoured to raise him, as i stood back against the counter, panting, i heard a battering at the main door of the saloon which had been closed at the commencement of the scuffle.
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"here, sir,--quick!" cried the sympathetic bartender to me. "the cops! out the back door like hell!"
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i had no desire to be mixed up in a police affair, especially in the company of such scum as i was then among. i picked up my golf bag and swung my knapsack on to my back once more. then i remembered about donald. i could not leave him. i searched in corners and under the tables. he was nowhere in sight.
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"is it the tinker?" asked the bar-tender excitedly.
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i did not wait for anything more, for some one was unlocking the front door. i darted out the back exit and into the lane. down the lane, in the darkness, i tore like a hurricane, then along the waterfront until there was a mile between me and the scene of my late encounter.
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i slowed up at a convenient horse-trough, splashed my hands and face in the cooling water and adjusted my clothing as best i could, then i strolled into the shipping shed, where stevedores and dock labourers were busy, by electric light, completing the loading of a smart-looking little cargo boat.
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a notion seized me. it was a coaster, so i knew i could not be going very far away.
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i walked up the gang-plank, and aboard.
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aboard the coaster
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an ordinary seaman, then the second officer of the little steamer passed me on the deck, but both were busy and paid no more attention to my presence than if i had been one of themselves.
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i strolled down the narrow companionway, into a cosy, but somewhat cramped, saloon.
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after standing for a time in the hope of seeing some signs of life, i pushed open the door of a stateroom on the starboard side. the room had two berths. i tossed my knapsack and clubs into the lower one. as i turned to the door again, i espied a diminutive individual, no more than four and a half feet tall,--or, as i should say, small,--in the full, gold-braided uniform of a ship's chief steward.
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he was a queer-looking little customer, grizzled, weather-beaten and, apparently, as hard as nails. he was absolutely self-possessed and, despite his stature, there was "nothing small about him," as an american friend of mine used to put it.
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he touched his cap, and smiled. his smile told me at once that he was an irishman, for only an irishman could smile as he did. it was a smile with a joke, a drink, a kiss and a touch of the devil himself in it.
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"i saw ye come down, sor. ye'll be makin' for glasgow?"
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glasgow! i cogitated, yes!--glasgow as a starting point would suit me as well as anywhere else.
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"correct first guess," i answered. "but, tell me,--how did you know that that was my destination?"
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he showed his teeth.
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"och! because it's the only port we're callin' at, sor. looks like a fine trip north," he went on. "the weather's warm and there's just enough breeze to make it lively. nothin' like the sea, sor, for keepin' the stomach swate and the mind up to the knocker."
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i yawned, for i was dog-weary.
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"when ye get to glasgow, if ye are on the lookout for a place to slape,--try barney o'toole's in argyle street. the place is nothin' to look at, but it's a hummer inside, sor."
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i yawned drowsily once more, but the hint did not stop him.
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"if you'll excuse my inquisitiveness, sor,--or rather, what ye might call my natural insight,--i judge you're on either a moighty short tour, or a devil av a long one got up in a hurry."
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the little clatterbag's uncanny guessing harried me.
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"och! shure it's by the size av your wardrobe. no man goes on a well-planned, long trip with a knapsack and a bag av golfsticks."
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"well,--it is likely to be long enough," i laughed ruefully.
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"had a row with the old man and clearin' out?" he sympathised. "well, good luck to yer enterprise. i did the same meself when i was thirteen; after gettin' a hidin' with a bit av harness for doin' somethin' i never did at all. i've never seen the old man since and never want to. bad cess to him.
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"would ye like a bite before ye turn in, sor? it's past supper-time, but i can find ye a scrapin' av something."
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"a bite and a bath,--if i may?" i put in. "i'm sticky all over."
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"a bath! right ye are. i knew ye was a toff the minute i clapped my blinkers on ye."
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in ten minutes my talkative friend announced that my bath was in readiness. for ten minutes more he rattled on to me at intervals, through the bathroom door, poking into my past and arranging my future like a clairvoyant.
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notwithstanding, he had a nice, steaming-hot supper waiting for me when i returned to my stateroom.
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as i fell-to, he stood by, enjoying the relish i displayed in the appeasing of my hunger.
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"if i was a young fellow av your age, strong build and qualities, do ye know where i would make for?" he ventured.
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"where?" i asked, uninterestedly.
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he lowered his eyebrows. "out west,--canada," he said, with a decided nod of his head. "and, the farther west the better. the pacific coast has a climate like home, only better. for the main part, ye're away from the long winters;--it's a new country;--a young man's country:--it's wild and free:--and,--it's about as far away as ye can get from--from,--the trouble ye're leavin' behind."
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i looked across at him.
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"oh! bhoy,--i've been there. i know what i'm talkin' about."
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he pulled himself together suddenly. owing to his stature, that was not a very difficult task.
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"man!--ye're tired. i'll be talkin' no more to you. tumble in and sleep till we get to glasgow."
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as he cleared away the dishes, i approached him regarding my fare.
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"look here, steward,--i had not time to book my berth or pay my passage. what's the damage?"
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"ten and six, sor, exclusive av meals," he answered, taking out his ticket book in a business-like way.
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"what name, sor?"
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"name!--oh, yes! name!" i stammered. "why!--george bremner."
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he looked at me and his face fell. i am sure his estimation of me fell with it. i was almost sorry i had not obliged him by calling myself algernon something-or-other.
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i paid him.
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"when do you expect to arrive in glasgow?" i asked.
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"eight o'clock to-morrow morning, sor. and," he added, "there's a boat leaves for canada to-morrow night."
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"the devil it does," i grunted.
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he gave me another of his infectious smiles.
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"would ye like another bath in the mornin', sor, before breakfast?" he inquired, as he was leaving.
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i could not bear to disappoint the little fellow any more.
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"yes," i replied.
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quarter of an hour later, i was lying on my back in the upper berth, gazing drowsily into the white-enamelled ceiling two feet overhead; happy in the reborn sensations of cleanliness, relaxation and satisfaction; loving my enemies as well, or almost as well, as i loved my friends. i could not get the little steward's advice out of my head. in a jumbled medley, "out west,--out west,--out west," kept floating before my brain. "the pacific coast.--home climate, only better.--a new country.--a young man's country.--wild and free.--it's about as far away as ye can get,--as ye can get,--can get,--can get."
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the rumbling of the cargo trucks, the hoarse "lower away" of the quartermaster, the whirr of the steam winch and the lapping of the water against the boat,--all intermingled, then died away and still farther away, until only the quietest of these sounds remained,--the lapping of the sea and "canada,--canada,--canada." they kept up their communications with me, sighing and singing, the merest murmurings of the wind in a sea shell:--soothing accompaniments to my unremembered dreams.
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k. b. horsfal, millionaire
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when i awoke, the sun was streaming through the porthole upon my face. it was early morning,--saturday morning i remembered.
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from the thud, thud, of the engines and the steady rise and fall, i knew we were still at sea. i stretched my limbs, feeling as a god must feel balancing on the topmost point of a star; so refreshed, so invigorated, so buoyant, so much in harmony with the rising sun and the freshness of the early day, that, to be exact, i really had no feeling.
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i sprang to the floor of my cabin and dressed hurriedly in my anxiety to be on deck; but, at the door, i encountered my little irish steward. he eyed me suspiciously, as if i had had intentions of evading my morning ablution,--so i swallowed my impatience, grabbed a towel and made leisurely for the bathroom, where i laved my face and hands in the cold water, remained inside for a sufficiently respectable time, then ran off the water and, finally, made my exit and clambered on deck.
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as i paced up and down, enjoying the beauties of the fast narrowing firth, i no longer felt in doubt as to my ultimate destination. my subconscious self, aided and abetted by the irish steward, had already decided that for me:--it was canada, the west, the pacific.
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soon after i had breakfasted, we reached the tail of the bank, and so impatient was i to be on my long journey that i bade good-bye to my little irishman at greenock, leaving him grinning and happy in the knowledge that i was taking his advice and was bound for the pacific coast.
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in forty minutes more, i left the train at glasgow and started in to a hurried and moderate replenishing of my wardrobe, finishing up with the purchase of a travelling bag, a good second-hand rifle and a little ammunition.
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i dispensed with my knapsack by presenting it to a newsboy, who held it up in disgust as if it had been a dead cat. despite the fact that i was now on my own resources and would have to work, nothing could induce me to part with my golf clubs. they were old and valued friends. little did i imagine then how useful they would ultimately prove.
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at the head office of the steamship company, i inquired as to the best class of travelling when the traveller wished to combine cheapness with rough comfort; and i was treated to the cheering news that there was a rate war on between the rival trans-atlantic steamship companies and i could purchase a second-cabin steamboat ticket for six pounds, while a further eight pounds, thirteen shillings and four-pence would carry me by colonist, or third class, three thousand miles, from the east to the far west of canada.
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i paid for my ticket and booked my berth then and there, counted out my remaining wealth,--ten pounds and a few coppers,--and my destiny was settled.
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with so much to tell of what befell me later, i have neither the time nor the inclination to detail the pleasures and the discomforts of a twelve days' trip by slow steamer across a storm-swept atlantic, battened down for days on end, like cattle in the hold of a cross-channel tramp; of a six days' journey across prairie lands, in a railway car with its dreadful monotony of unupholstered wooden seats and sleeping boards, its stuffiness, its hourly disturbances in the night-time in the shape of noisy conductors demanding tickets, incoming and outgoing travellers and shrieking engines; its dollar meals in the dining car, which i envied but could not afford; its well-nigh unlightable cooking stoves and the canned beef and pork and beans with which i had to regale myself en route.
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jaded, travel-weary and grimy, i reached the end of my journey. it was late in the evening. i tumbled out of the train and into the first hotel bus that yawned for me, and not once did i look out of the window to see what kind of a city i had arrived at.
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i came to myself at the entrance to a magnificent and palatial hotel; too much so, by far, i fancied, for my scantily-filled purse. but i was past the minding stage, and i knew i could always make a change on the morrow, if so be it a change were necessary.
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and then i began to think,--what mattered it anyway? what were a few paltry sovereigns between one and poverty? comforting thought,--a man could not have anything less than nothing.
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i registered, ordered a bath, a shave, a haircut, a jolly good supper and a bed; and, oh! how i enjoyed them all! surely this was the most wonderful city in the world, for never did bath, or shave, or supper, or bed feel so delicious as these did.
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i swooned away at last from sheer pleasure.
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the recuperative powers of youth are marvellously quick. i was up and out to view the city almost as soon as the sun was touching the snow-tipped tops of the magnificent mountain peaks which were miles away yet seemed to stand sentinels at the end of the street down which i walked. i was up and out long ere the sun had gilded the waters of the broad inlet which separated vancouver from its baby sister to the north of it.
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the prospect pleased me; there was freedom in the air, expanse, vastness, but,--it was still a city with a city's artifices and, consequently, not what i was seeking. i desired the natural life; not the roughness, the struggle, the matching of crafty wits, the throbbing blood and the straining sinews,--but the solitude, the quiet, the chance for thought and observation, the wilds, the woods and the sea.
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as i returned to breakfast, i wondered if i should find them,--and where.
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in the dining-room, during the course of my breakfast,--the first real breakfast i had partaken of in canada,--my attention was diverted to a tall, well-groomed, muscular-looking man, who sat at a table nearby. he looked a considerable bit on the sunny side of fifty. he was clean shaven, his hair was black tinged with grey, and his eyes were keen and kindly.
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every time i glanced in his direction, i found him looking over at me in an amused sort of way. i began to wonder if i were making some breach of canadian etiquette of which i was ignorant. true, i had eaten my porridge and cream without sprinkling the dish with a surface of sugar as he had done; i had set aside the fried potatoes which had been served to me with my bacon and eggs;--but these, surely, were trivial things and of no interest to any one but myself.
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at last, he rose and walked out, sucking a wooden toothpick. with his departure, i forgot his existence.
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after i had breakfasted, i sought the lounge room in order to have a look at the morning paper and, if possible, determine what i was going to do for a living and how i was going to get what i wanted to do.
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i was buried in the advertisements, when a genial voice with a nasal intonation, at my elbow, unearthed me.
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it was my observer of the dining-room. he had seated himself in the chair next to mine.
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"say! young man,--you'll excuse me; but was it you i saw come in last night with the bag of golf clubs?"
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i acknowledged the crime.
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he laughed good-naturedly.
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"well,--you had courage anyway. to sport a golfing outfit here in the west is like venturing out with breeches, a walking cane and a monocle. nobody but an englishman would dare do it. here, they think golf and cricket should be bracketed along with hopscotch, dominoes and tiddly-winks; just as i used to fancy baseball was a glorified kids' game. i know better now."
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i looked at him rather darkly.
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"oh!--it's all right, friend,--it takes a man to play baseball, same as it takes a man to play golf and cricket. golfing is about the only vice i have left. why, now i come to think of it, my wife clipped a lot of my vices off years ago, and since that my daughter has succeeded in knocking off all the others,--all but my cigars, my cocktails and my golf. i'm just plumb crazy on the game and i play it whenever i can. maybe it's because i used to play it when i was a little chap, away back in england years and years ago."
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"i am glad you like the game," i put in. "it is a favourite of mine."
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"i play quite a bit back home in baltimore," he continued, "that's when i'm there. my clubs arrived here by express yesterday. you see, it's like this;--i'm off to australia at the end of the week, on a business trip,--that is, if i get things settled up here by that time. i am crossing over from there to england, where i shall be for several months. england is some place for golf, so i'm going to golf some, you bet.
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"i'm not boring you, young friend?" he asked suddenly.
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"not a bit," i laughed. "go on,--i am as interested as can be."
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"i believe there's a kind of a lay-out they call a golf course, in one of the outlying districts round here. what do you say to making the day of it? you aren't busy, are you?" he added.
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"no! no!--not particularly," i answered. i did not tell him that in a few days, if i did not get busy at something or other, i should starve.
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"good!" he cried. "go to your room and get your sticks. i'll find out all about the course and how to get to it."
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the brusk good-nature of the man hit me somehow; besides, i had not had a game for over three weeks. think of it--three weeks! and goodness only knew when i should have the chance of another after this one. as for looking for work;--work was never to be compared with golf. surely work could wait for one day!
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"all right!--i'm game," i said, jumping up and entering into the spirit of gaiety that lay so easily on my new acquaintance.
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"good boy!" he cried, getting up and holding out his hand. "my name's horsfal,--k. b. horsfal,--lumberman, meat-packer, and the man whose name is on every trouser-suspender worth wearing. what's yours?"
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"george bremner," i answered simply.
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"all right, george, my boy,--see you in ten minutes. but, remember, i called this tune, so i pay the piper."
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that was music in my ears and i readily agreed.
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"make it twenty minutes," i suggested. "i have a short letter to write."
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i wrote my letter, gave it to the boy to deliver for me and presented myself before my new friend right up to time.
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in the half hour's run we had in the electric tram, i learned a great deal about mr. k. b. horsfal.
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he had migrated from the midlands of england at the age of seventeen. he had kicked,--or had been kicked,--about the united states for some fifteen years, more or less up against it all the time, as he expressively put it; when, by a lucky chance, in a poverty-stricken endeavour to repair his broken braces, he hit upon a scheme that revolutionised the brace business: was quick enough to see its possibilities, patented his idea and became famous.
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not content to rest on his laurels,--or his braces,--he tackled the lumbering industry in the west and the meat-packing industry in the east, both with considerable success. now he had to sit down and do some figuring when he wished to find out how many millions of dollars he was worth.
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his wife had died years ago and his only daughter was at home in baltimore.
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altogether, he was a new and delightful type to one like me,--a young man fresh from his ancestral roof in the north of staid and conventional old england.
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he was healthy, vigorous, and as keen as the edge of a razor.
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on and on he talked, telling me of himself, his work and his projects.
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i got to wondering if he were merely setting the proverbial sprat; but the sprat in his case proved the whale. every moment i expected him to ask me for some confidences in return, but on this point mr. k. b. horsfal was silent.
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we discovered our golfing ground, which proved to be a fairly good, little, nine-holed country course, rough and full of natural hazards.
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k. b. horsfal could play golf, that i soon found out. he entered into his game with the enthusiasm and grim determination which i imagined he displayed in everything he took a hand in.
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he seldom spoke, so intent was he on the proper placing of his feet and the proper adjustment of his hands and his clubs.
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three times we went round that course and three times i had the pleasure of beating him by a margin. he envied me my full swing and my powerful and accurate driving; he studied me every time i approached a green and he scratched his head at some of my long putts; but, most of all, he rhapsodised on my manner of getting out of a hole.
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"man,--if i only had that trick of yours in handling the mashie and the niblick, i could do the round a stroke a hole better, for there isn't a rut, or a tuft, or a bunker in any course that i seem to be able to keep out of."
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i showed him the knack of it as it had been taught me by an old professional at saint andrews. k. b. horsfal was in ecstasies, if a two-hundred-pound, keen, brusk, american business man ever allows himself such liberties.
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nothing would please him but that we should go another round, just to test out his new acquisition and give him the hang of the thing.
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to his supreme satisfaction,--although i again beat him by the same small margin,--he reduced his score for the round by eight strokes.
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on our journey back to the city, he began to talk again, but on a different tack this time.
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"george,--you'll excuse me,--but, if i were you i would put that signet ring you are wearing in your pocket."
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i looked down at it and reddened, for my ring was manifestly old, as it was manifestly strange in design and workmanship, and apt to betray an identity.
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i slipped it off my little finger and placed it in my vest pocket.
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my companion laughed.
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"'no sooner said than done,'" he quoted. "you see, george,--any one who saw you come in to the hotel last night could tell you had not been travelling for pleasure. the marks of an uncomfortable train journey, in a colonist car, were sticking out all over you. now, golf clubs and a signet ring like that which you were sporting are enough to tell any man that you have been in the habit of travelling luxuriously and for the love of it."
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i could not help admiring my new friend's method of deduction, and i thanked him for his kindly interest.
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"not a bit," he continued, "so long as you don't mind. for, it's like this,--i take it you have left home for some personal reason,--no concern of mine,--you have come out here to start over, or rather, to make a start. good! you are right to start at the bottom of the hill. but, from the look of you, i fancy you won't stick at anything that doesn't suit you. you are the kind of a fellow who, if you felt like it, would tell a man to go to the devil, then walk off his premises. you see, i don't tab you as a milksop kind of englishman exactly.
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"well,--out here they don't like britishers who receive remittances every month from their mas or pas at home, for they have found that that kind is generally not much good. hope you're not one, george?"
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"no!" i laughed, rather ruefully, almost wishing i were. "with me, it is sink or swim. and, i do not mind telling you, mr. horsfal, that it will be necessary for me to leave the hotel to-morrow for less pretentious apartments and to start swimming for all i am worth."
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"good!" he cried, as if it were a good joke. "how do you propose starting in?"
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"i have already commenced keeping an eye on the advertisements, which seem to be chiefly for real estate salesmen and partners with a little capital," i said.
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"but, the fact is, i have made an application this morning for something i thought might suit me. but, even if i am lucky enough to be considered, the chances are there will be some flies in the ointment:--there always are."
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my friend looked at me, as i thought, curiously.
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"to-morrow morning," i went on, "it is my intention to begin with the near end of the business district and call on every business house, one after another, until i happen upon something that will provide a start.
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"i have no love for the grinding in an office, nor yet for the grubbing in a warehouse, but, for a bit, it will be a case of 'needs must when the devil drives,'--so i mean to take anything that i can get, to begin with, and leave the matter of choice to a more opportune time."
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"and what would be your choice, george?" he inquired.
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"choice! well, if you asked me what i thought i was adapted for, i would say, green-keeper and professional golfer; gymnastic instructor; athletic coach; policeman; or, with training and dieting, pugilist. at a pinch, i could teach school."
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k. b. horsfal grinned and looked out of the car window at the apparently never-ending sea of charred tree stumps through which we were passing.
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"not very ambitious, sonny!--eh!"
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"no,--that is the worst of it," i answered. "i do not seem to have been planned for anything ambitious. besides, i have no desire to amass millions at the sacrifice of my peace of mind. why!--a millionaire cannot call his life his own. he is at the beck and call of everybody. he is consulted here and harassed there. he is dunned, solicited and blackmailed; he is badgered and pestered until, i should fancy, he wished his millions were at the bottom of the deep, blue sea."
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"lord, man!" exclaimed mr. horsfal, "but you have hit it right. one would almost think you had been through it yourself."
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"i have not," i answered, "but i know most of the diseases that attack the man of wealth."
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"now, you have given me an idea of what you might have to do. but to get back to desire or choice;--what would it be then?" he inquired, as the electric tram passed at last from the tree stumps and began to draw, through signs of habitation, toward the city.
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"if i had my desire and my choice, mr. horsfal, they would be: in such a climate as we have here but away somewhere up the coast, with the sea in front of me and the trees and the hills behind me; the open air, the sunlight; contending with the natural,--not the artificial,--obstacles of life; work, with a sufficiency of leisure; quiet, when quiet were desired; and, in the evening as the sun went down into the sea or behind the hills, a cosy fire, a good book and my pipe going good."
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k. b. horsfal, millionaire, patentee, lumberman and meat-packer, looked at me, sighed and nodded his head.
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"after all, my boy," he said, almost sadly, "i shouldn't wonder if that isn't better than all the hellish wealth-hunting that ever was or ever shall be. stick to your ideals. try them out if you can. as for me,--it's too late. i am saturated with the money-getting mania; i am in the maelstrom and i couldn't get out if i tried. i'm in it for good."
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our conversation was brought to an abrupt ending, as mr. horsfal had to make a short call at one of the newspaper offices, on some business matter. we got out of the tram together. i waited for him while he made his call, then we walked back leisurely to the hotel; happy, pleasantly tired and hungry as hunters.
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i was regaled in the dining-room as the guest of my american friend.
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"are you going to be in for the balance of the evening?" he asked, as i rose to leave him at the conclusion of our after-dinner smoke.
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"good!" he ejaculated, rather abruptly.
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and why he should have thought it "good," puzzled me not a little as i went up in the elevator.
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i had been sitting in my room for two hours, reading, and once in a while, thinking over the strange adventures that had befallen me since i had started out from home some three short weeks before. i was trying to picture to myself how it had all gone in the old home; i was wondering if my father's heart had softened any to his absent son.
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i reasoned whether, after all, i had done right in interfering between my brother harry and his fiancee; but, when i thought of poor little peggy darrol and the righteous indignation and anger of her brother jim, i felt, that if i had to go through all of it again, i would do as i had done already.
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my telephone bell rang. i answered.
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it was the hotel exchange operator.
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"hello!--is that room 280?"
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"yes!" i answered.
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"mr. george bremner?"
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"a gentleman in room 16 wishes to see you. right away, if you can, sir!"
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"what name?" i asked.
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"no name given, sir."
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"all right! i'll go down at once. thank you!"
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i laid aside my pipe and threw on my coat. on reaching the right landing, i made my way along an almost interminable corridor, until i stood before the mysterious room 16.
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as i entered, a respectably dressed, middle-aged man was coming out, hat in hand. two others were sitting inside, apparently waiting an interview, while a smart-looking young lady,--evidently a stenographer,--was showing a fourth into the room adjoining.
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it dawned on me that this request to call must be the outcome of the letter i had written that morning in answer to the newspaper advertisement.
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i immediately assumed what i thought to be the correct, meek expression of a man looking for work; with, i hope, becoming timidity and nervousness, i whispered my name to the young lady. then i took a seat alongside one of my fellow applicants, who eyed me askance and with what i took to be amused tolerance.
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five minutes, and the young lady ushered out the man who had been on the point of being interviewed as i had come in.
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"mr. monaghan?" queried the lady.
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mr. monaghan rose and followed her.
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an interval of ten minutes, and mr. monaghan went after his predecessor.
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"mr. rubenstein?" asked the lady.
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mr. rubenstein, who, every inch of him, looked the part, went through the routine of mr. monaghan, leaving me alone in the waiting room.
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at last my turn came and i was ushered into the "sanctum." i had put my head only inside the door, when the bluff voice i had learned that day to know shouted merrily:
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"hello! george. what do you know? come on in and sit down."
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and there was mr. horsfal, as large as life, sitting behind a desk with a pile of letters in front of him.
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i was keenly disappointed and i fear i showed it. only this,--after all my rising hopes,--the genial mr. horsfal wished to chat with me now that he had got his business worries over.
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"why!--what's the matter, son? you look crestfallen."
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"i am, too," i answered. "i was not aware which rooms you occupied and, when i received the telephone message to come here and saw those men waiting, i felt sure i had received an answer to my application for a position i saw in the papers this morning."
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mr. horsfal leaned back in his chair and surveyed me.
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"well,--no need to get crestfallen, george. when you had that thought, your thinking apparatus was in perfect working order."
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my eyes showed surprise. "you don't mean----"
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"what?--'wanted,--alert, strong, handy man, to supervise up-coast property. one who can run country store preferred. must be sober,'" i quoted.
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"the very same. i've been interviewing men for a week now and i'm sick of it. i got your letter this evening. but all day i have had it in my mind that you were the very man i wanted, sent from the clouds right to me."
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"but,--but," i exclaimed. "i am afraid i have not the experience a man requires for such a job."
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k. b. horsfal thumped his desk.
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"lord sakes! man,--don't start running yourself down. boost,--boost yourself for all you're worth."
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"oh, yes! i know," i said. "but this is different. i have become acquainted with you. i cannot sail under false colours. i have no experience. i am a simple baby when it comes to business."
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he banged his desk again.
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"george,--i'm the boss of this affair. you must just sit back quiet and listen, while i tell you about it; then you can talk as much as you want.
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"there's a thousand acres of property that i, or i should say, my daughter eileen owns some hundred miles up the coast from here. the place is called golden crescent bay. my wife took a fancy to it in the early days, when she came with me on a trip one time i was looking over a timber proposition. i bought it for her for an old song and she grew so fond of the place that she spent three months of every year, as long as she lived, right on that very land. she left it all to eileen when she died.
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"as a business man, i should sell it, for its value has gone away up; but, as a husband, as a father and as a sentimentalist, i just can't do it. it would be like desecration.
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"there's two miles of water frontage to it; there's the house we put up, also a little cabin where the present caretaker lives. the only other place within a couple of miles by water and four miles round by land through the bush, is a cottage that stands on the property abutting eileen's, and close to her bungalow. it has been boarded up and unoccupied for quite a while. of course, up behind, over the hills, there are ranches here and there, while, across the bay and all up the coast, there are squatters, settlers, fishermen and ranchers for a fare-you-well."
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"you say there is a caretaker there already?" i put in.
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"yes!--i was just getting to that. he's an old klondike miner; came out with a fortune. spent the most of it before he got sober. came to, just in time. now he hoards what's left like an old skinflint. won't spend a nickel, unless it's on booze. drinks like a drowning man and it never fizzes on him. a good enough man for what he's been doing, but no good for what i want now."
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"you don't want me to do him out of his place, mr. horsfal?" i asked.
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"i was coming to that, too,--only you're so darned speedy.
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"he's all right as a caretaker with little or nothing to do, and he will prove useful to you for odd jobs,--but, i have a salmon cannery some miles north of this place and i am going to have half a dozen lumber camps operating south, and further up, for the next few years. some of them are going full steam ahead now.
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"they require a convenient store, where they can get supplies; grub, oil, gasoline, hardware and such like. i need a man who could look after a proposition of that kind,--good. the settlers would find a store up there a perfect god-send.
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"the property at golden crescent is easily got at and is the most central to all my places. now, having an eye to business, and with eileen's consent, i have decided to convert the large front living-room of her bungalow into a store. it is plain, and can't be hurt. it's just suited for the purpose. i have had some carpenters up there this past week, putting in a counter and shelves and shutting the new store off completely from the rest of the house.
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"a stock of groceries, hardware, etc., has already been ordered from the wholesalers and should be up there in a few days.
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"steamers pass golden crescent twice a week. when they have anything for you, they whistle and stand by out in the bay; when you want them, you hoist a white flag on the pole, on the rock, at the end of the little wharf; then you row out and meet them.
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"these are the main features, george. oh, yes! i'm paying one hundred dollars a month and all-found to the right man."
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he stopped and looked over at me a little anxiously.
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"george!--will you take the job?"
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"what about those other poor beggars who have applied?" i asked.
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"there you are again," he exclaimed impatiently. "they had the same chance as you had. didn't i even keep you waiting out there till i had seen them in turn. not one of them has the qualifications you have. i want a man with a brain as well as a body."
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"but you don't know me, mr. horsfal. i have no friends, no testimonials; and i might be,--why! i might be the biggest criminal unhung."
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"testimonials be blowed! who wants testimonials? any dub can get them. as for the other part,--do you think k. b. horsfal of baltimore, u. s. a., by this time, doesn't know a man after he has been a whole day in his company?
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"sonny, take it from me,--there are mighty few american business men, who have topped a million dollars, who don't know a man through and through in less time than that, and without asking very many questions, either. why, man!--that's their business; that's what makes their millions."
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there was no resisting k. b. horsfal.
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"thanks! i'll take the job," i said. "and i'm mighty grateful to you."
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"good boy! you're all right. leave it there!" his two hands clasped over mine.
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"gee! but i'm glad that's over at last."
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"when do i start in?" i asked.
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nothing was overlooked by the masterly mind of my new, my first employer.
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we breakfasted early. an automobile was standing waiting for us at the hotel entrance; while, at a down-town slip, a trig little launch, already loaded up with our immediate necessities, was in readiness to shoot out through the narrows as soon as we got aboard.
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this launch was named the edgar allan poe, and, in consequence, i felt as if she were an old friend.
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as soon as the ropes were cast from the wharf, a glorious feeling of exhilaration started to run through me; for it seemed that i was being loosed from the old life and plunged into a new; a life i had been for so long hungering; the life of the woods, the hills and the sea, the quiet and freedom; the life of my dreams as well as of my waking fancies. whether or not it would come up to my expectations was a question of conjecture, but i was not in a mood to trouble conjecturing.
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the swift little boat fought the tide rip in the narrows like a lonely explorer defending his life against a horde of surging savages; and, gradually, she nosed her way through, past prospect point, then, inclining to the north shore, but heading forward all the time, past the lighthouse which stands sentinel on the rock at point atkinson; and away up the coast, leaving the city, with its dizzying and light-blotting sky-scrapers far and still farther behind, until nothing of that busy terminal remained to the observer but a distant haze.
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the edgar allan poe threaded her way rapidly and confidently among the rocks and fertile little islands, up, up northward, ever northward, amid lessening signs of life and habitation; through the beautiful strait of georgia.
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at last, we sped past a great looming rock, which stood almost sheer out of the sea, then we ran into a glorious bay, where the sea danced and glanced in a fairy ecstasy.
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"golden crescent bay," broke in mr. horsfal. "how do you like it?"
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"it is paradise," i exclaimed, in breathless admiration. and never have i had reason to change that first impression and opinion.
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"number one is for gasoline; two for oil," volunteered my ever informing employer.
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"my property starts ten yards to the south of the wharf here, george, and runs around the bay as far, almost, as it goes, and back to the hills quite a bit. that over there is the other house i spoke to you about. it, and the property to the south, is owned by some one in the western states.
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"but i wonder where the devil old jake meaghan is. folks could land here and walk away with the whole shebang and he would never know of it."
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as he spoke, however, a small boat crept out from some little cove about three hundred yards round the bay. it contained a man, who rowed it leisurely toward the wharf. we leaned over the wooden rail and waited.
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the man ran the boat into the shingly beach, pulled in his oars, climbed out and made toward us. an airedale dog, which had evidently been curled up in the bottom of the boat, sprang out after him, keeping close to him and eyeing us suspiciously and angrily.
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in appearance the man reminded me of one of r. l. stevenson's pirates, or one of jack london's 'longshoremen.
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he wore heavy logging boots, brown canvas trousers kept up by a belt, and a brown shirt, showing hairy brown arms and a bared, scraggy throat. a battered, sun-cast, felt hat lay on his head. his face was wrinkled and weather-beaten to the equivalent of tanned hide. he wore great, long, drooping moustaches snow white in colour. his eyes were limpid blue.
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"it's you, mr. horsfal," he mumbled rather thickly, in a voice that seemed to come from somewhere underground; "didn't know you in the distance."
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"jake,--shake with mr. george bremner;--he's going to supervise the place and the new store, same as i explained to you two weeks ago. hope you make friends. he's to be head boss man, and his word goes; but you'll find him twenty-four carat gold."
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"that's darned fine gold, boss," grunted jake.
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he held out his horny hand and grasped mine, exclaiming heartily enough:
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"glad to meet you, george."
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he pulled out a plug of tobacco from his hip pocket, brushed some of the most conspicuous dirt and grime from it, bit off what appeared to me to be a mouthful and began to look me over.
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"he's new," he grunted, as if to himself; "but he's young and big. he looks tough; he's got the right kind of jaw."
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then he turned to mr. horsfal. "guess, when he gets the edges rubbed off, he'll more than make it, boss," he said.
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k. b. horsfal laughed loudly.
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"that's just what i thought myself, jake. now, give us the keys to the oil barns and the new store. go and help unload that baggage and truck from the launch. you can follow your usual bent after that, for i'll be showing george over the place myself."
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i found the prospective store just as it had been described: a large, plain, front room, now fitted with shelves and a counter, and all freshly painted. everything was in readiness to accommodate the stock, most of which was due to arrive the next afternoon. where a door had been, leading into the other parts of the house, it was now solidly partitioned up, leaving only front and back entrances to the store.
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we spent the afternoon in the open air, inspecting the property, which was perfectly situated for scenic beauty, with plenty of cleared, fertile land near the shore and rich in giant timber behind.
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in the early part of the evening, after a cold lunch aboard the launch, we went back to the house and, for the first time, mr. horsfal inserted a key into the front door of the dwelling proper.
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i had been not a little curious regarding this place and i was still wondering where it was intended that i should take up my quarters.
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jake meaghan seemed all right in his own klondikish, pork-and-beans-and-a-blanket way, but i hardly fancied him as a rooming partner and a possible bedfellow. to be candid, i never had had a bedfellow in all my life and i had already made up my mind that, rather than suffer one now, i would fix up one of the several empty barns which were scattered here and there over the property, and thus retain my beloved privacy.
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my employer pushed his way into the house and invited me to follow him.
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i found myself in a small, front room, neatly but plainly furnished. the floor was varnished and two bearskin rugs supplied the only carpeting. it had a mahogany centre table, on which a large oil-burning reading lamp was set. three wicker chairs, designed solely for comfort, and a stove with an open front helped to complete its comfortable appearance. a number of framed photographs of golden crescent and some water colour paintings decorated the plain, wooden walls. in the far corner, beside a small side window, there stood a writing desk; while, all along that side of the wall, on a long curtain pole, there was hung, from brass rings, a heavy green curtain.
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i took in what i could in a cursory glance and i marvelled that there could be so much apparent concentrated comfort so far away from city civilisation; but, when my guide pulled aside the curtain on the wall and disclosed rows and rows of books behind a glass front, books ancient and modern, books of religion, philosophy, medicine, history, fiction and poetry,--at least a thousand of them,--i gave up trying any more to fathom what manner of a man he was.
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my eyes sparkled and explained to k. b. horsfal what my voice failed to utter.
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"well,--what d'ye think of it all?" he asked at last.
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"it is a delight,--a positive delight," i replied simply.
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as i walked over to the front window, i wondered little that mrs. horsfal should have loved the place; and, when i looked away out over the dancing waters, upon the beauties of the bay in the changing light of the lowering sun, upon the rocky, fir-dotted island a mile to sea, and upon the lonely-looking homes of the settlers over there two miles away on the far horn of golden crescent, with the great background of mountains in purple velvet,--i wondered less.
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"yes! george,--it's pretty near what heaven should be to look at. but i guess it's the same old story that the poet once sang:
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"'where every prospect pleases and only man is vile.'
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"that poet kind of forgot that, if what he said was true, it was only the vile man that the prospect could please, eh!
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"you notice the house has been cleaned from top to toe. i had that done last week. i see to that every time i come west."
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he put his hand on my shoulder. "george, boy,--no one but myself and eileen has slept under this roof since my wife died, but i want you to make it your home."
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i turned to remonstrate.
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"come and have a look at the other apartments.
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"this is the kitchen. it has a pantry and a good cooking-stove. there are four bedrooms in the house. this can be yours;--it's the one i used to occupy. this is a spare one. this is eileen's. you won't require it; and one never knows when eileen might take it into her head to come up here and live.
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"this is my helen's room,--my wife's. it has not been changed since she died."
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he went in. i remained respectfully in the adjoining apartment. i waited for five minutes.
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when he returned, there were tears in his eyes. he locked the door with a sigh.
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"george,--here are the keys to the whole she-bang. there isn't much more to keep me here. you have signed the necessary papers in connection with the trust account for $5,000 in the commercial bank of canada in vancouver. draw your wages regularly. pay jake his fifty a month at the same time. we find his grub for him.
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"run things at a profit if you can, for that's business. stand strictly to the instructions i have given you regarding orders for supplies from the various camps and from the cannery. use your own judgment as to credit with the settlers. i leave you a free hand up here.
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"send your monthly reports, addressed to me care of my lawyers, dow, cross & sneddon of vancouver. they will forward them.
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"if any question should arise regarding the property itself, get in touch with the lawyers."
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i walked with him down to the launch as he talked.
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"thanks to you, george,--i'll get to vancouver in the small hours of the morning and i will be able to pull out for sydney in the afternoon of to-morrow.
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"good-bye, boy. all being well, i'll be back within a year."
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in parting with him, as he shook me by the hand, i experienced a tightening in my throat such as i had never felt when parting from any other man either before or since. yet, i had only known him for two days. i could see that he, also, was similarly affected. it was as if something above and beyond us were making our farewell singularly solemn.
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the booze artist
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i stood watching until the tiny launch rounded the point; then, as the light was still fairly good,--it being the end of the month of may,--and as i had no inclination for sleep as yet, i got into the smallest of the rowing boats that were tied up alongside the wharf, loosed it and pulled leisurely up the bay, with the intention of making myself a little better acquainted with the only living soul with whom i was within hail,--jake meaghan.
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as i ran the boat into his cove, i could hear his dog bark warningly.
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the door of his barn,--for it was nothing else,--was closed, and it was some time before i heard meaghan's deep voice in answer to my knock, inviting me to come in and bidding his dog to lie down.
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meaghan was sitting, presumably reading a newspaper, which was the only kind of "literature" i ever saw him read. his attitude appeared to me to be assumed and i had a notion that, when the dog first barked at my approach, he had been busy with the contents of a brass-bound, wooden chest which now lay half under his bunk, in a recess in the far corner.
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"hello! thought you might come over. sit down," he greeted. "saw the boss pull out half an hour ago. i'm just sittin' down for my turn at the newspaper. they leave me a bundle off the steamer once in a while. this one's from the old country;--the liverpool monitor. it's two months old, but what's the dif,--the news is just as good as if it was yesterday's or to-morrow's."
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i looked round jake's shanty. considering it was a single-roomed place and used for cooking, washing, sleeping and everything else, it was wonderfully tidy, although, to say truth, there was little in it after all to occasion untidiness: a stove, a pot, a frying-pan, an enamelled tin teapot, some crockery, a table, an oil lamp, three chairs, the brass-bound trunk, two wheat-flake boxes and jake's bed,--with one other addition,--a fifteen-gallon keg with a stopcock in it and set on a wooden stand close to his bunk.
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an odour of shell-fish pervaded the atmosphere, coming from some kind of soup made from clams and milk, on which jake had evidently been dining. the residue of it still sat in a pot on the stove. this, i discovered, was jake's favourite dish.
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he rose, took two breakfast cups from a shelf and went over to the keg in the corner. he filled up both of them to the brim.
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"have a drink, george?" he invited, offering me one of the cups.
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"what is it?" i asked, thinking it might be a cider of some kind.
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"what d'ye suppose, man?--ginger beer? it's good rye whiskey."
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from the odour, i had ascertained this for myself before he spoke.
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"no, thanks, jake, i don't drink."
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"holy mackinaw!" he exclaimed, almost dropping the cups in his astonishment. "if you don't drink, how in the sam hill are you going to make it stick up here? why, man, you'll go batty in the winter time, for it's lonely as hell."
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"from all accounts, jake, hell is not a very lonely place," i laughed.
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"aw!--you know what i mean," he put in.
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"i'll have plenty of work to do in the store; enough to keep me from feeling lonely."
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"not you. once it's goin', it'll be easy's rollin' off'n a log. what'll you do o' nights, 'specially winter nights,--if you don't drink?"
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his dog, which had been lying sullenly on the floor near the stove, got up and ambled leisurely to jake's feet. it looked up at him as he drank, then it put its two front paws on jake's knees, as if to attract his attention.
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meaghan stopped his imbibing and stroked the dog's head.
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"well,--well--mike; and did i forget you?"
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he poured a little liquor in a saucer and set it down on the floor before the dog, who lapped it up with all the relish of a seasoned toper. then it put its paws back on jake's knees, as if asking for more.
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"no! mike. nothin' doin'. you've had your whack. too much ain't good for your complexion, old man."
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in a sort of dreamy, contemplative mood the dog sat down on its haunches between us.
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"what'll you do o' nights if you don't drink? you ain't told me that, george," reiterated jake, sucking some of the liquor from his drooping moustaches.
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"oh!" i replied, "i'll read, and sometimes i'll sit out and watch the stars and listen to the sea and the wind."
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"and what after that?" he queried.
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"i can always think, when i have nothing else to do."
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"and what after that?" he asked again.
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"nothing, jake,--nothing. that's all."
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"no it ain't. no it ain't, i tell you;--after that,--it's the bughouse for yours. it's the thinking,--it's the thinking that does it every time. it's the last stage, george. you'll be clean, plumb batty inside o' six months."
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the dog got up, after two unsuccessful attempts.
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never did i see such a strange sight in any animal. he put out one paw and staggered to the right. he put out another and staggered to the left. all the time, his eyes were half closed. he was quite insensible of our presence, for he was as drunk as any waterfront loafer. staggering, stumbling and balancing, he made his way back to his place beside the stove, where, in a moment more, he was in a deep sleep and snoring,--as a westerner would put it,--to beat the cars.
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meaghan noticed my interest in the phenomenon.
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"that's nothin'," he volunteered. "mike has his drink with me every night, for the sake o' company. why not? he doesn't see any fun in lookin' at the stars and watching the tide come up o' nights. worst is, he can't stand up to liquor. it kind o' gets his goat; yet he's been tipplin' for three years now."
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jake finished off his cup of whisky.
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"good heavens, man!" i exclaimed in disgust and dismay, "don't you know you will kill yourself drinking that stuff in that way?"
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"guess nit," he growled, but quite good-naturedly. "i ain't started. i've been drinkin' more'n that every night for ten years and i ain't dead yet,--not by a damn sight. no! nor i ain't never been drunk, neither."
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he took up the other cupful of whisky as he spoke and slowly drained it off before my eyes. he laid the empty cup on the table with a grunt of satisfaction, pulling at his long moustaches in lazy pleasure.
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"that's my nightcap, george. better'n seein' stars, too."
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i could see his end.
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"i'd much rather see stars than snakes," i remarked. but jake merely laughed it off.
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i rose in a kind of cold perspiration. to me, this was horrible;--drinking for no apparent reason.
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he came with me to the door. his voice was as steady as could be; so were his legs. the effects of the liquor he had consumed did not show on him except maybe for a bloodshot appearance in the whites of his baby-blue eyes.
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i was worried. i had known such another as jake in the little village of brammerton; and i knew what the inevitable end had been and what jake's would be also.
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"don't be sore at me, george," he pleaded. "it's the only friend i got now."
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"it is not any friend of yours, jake."
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"well,--maybe it ain't, but i think it is and that's about the only way we can reckon our friends.
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"when you find i ain't doin' my share o' the work because o' the booze or when you catch me drunk,--i'll quit it. good-night, george."
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i wished him good-night gruffly, hurried over the beach, scrambled into the boat and rowed quickly for my new home.
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and, as i stood on the veranda for a long time before turning in, i watched the moon rise and skim her way behind and above the clouds, throwing, as she did so, great dark shadows and eerie lights on the sea.
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in the vast, awesome stillness of the forest behind and the swishing and shuffling of the incoming tide on the shingles on the beach, i thought of what my good friend, k. b. horsfal, had quoted:
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"where every prospect pleases and only man is vile."
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rita of the spanish song
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next morning i was awakened bright and early by the singing of birds. for a few moments i imagined myself back in england; but the ceaseless beat of the sea and the sustained, woody-toned, chattering, chirruping squeak of an angry squirrel on my roof gave me my proper location.
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i had heard once, in a london drawing-room, that there were no singing birds in british columbia; that the songsters of the east were unable to get across the high, eternal cold and snow of the rockies. what a fallacy! they were everywhere around me, and in thousands. how they got there was of little moment to me. they were there, much to my joy; and the forests at my back door were alive with the sweetness of their melodies.
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early as i was, i could see a thin column of smoke rising from the cove where jake was. when i went to the woodpile at the rear of my bungalow, i found more evidence of his early morning diligence. a heap of dry, freshly cut kindling was set out, while the chickens had already been fed and let out to wander at their own sweet wills.
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for the first time in my very ordinary life, i investigated the eccentricities of a cook stove, overcame them and cooked myself a rousing breakfast of porridge and bacon and eggs with toast. how proud i felt of my achievement and how delicious the food tasted! never had woman cooked porridge and bacon and eggs to such a delightful turn.
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i laughed joyously, for i felt sure i had stumbled across an important truth that woman had religiously kept from the average man throughout all the bygone ages: the truth that any man, if he only sets his mind to it, can cook a meal perfectly satisfactory to himself.
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after washing up the breakfast dishes without smashing any, sweeping the kitchen floor and shovelling up--nothing; there was nothing left for me to do, for the north-going steamer was not due until early in the afternoon. when she should arrive and give me delivery of the freight which she was bringing, i knew i should have enough to occupy my attention for some days to come, getting the cases opened up and the goods checked over, priced and set out in the store; but, meantime, my time was my own.
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it was a glorious morning. the sun was shining and the air was balmy as a midsummer's day at home. i opened the front door and gazed on the loveliness; i stretched my arms and felt vigour running to my finger-tips. then i longed, how i longed, for a swim!
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and why not! i slipped out of my shirt and trousers and got into my bathing suit. i ran down to the end of the wharf and out on to the rocks.
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the water was calm, and deep, and of a pale green hue. i could see the rock cod and little shiners down there, darting about on a breakfast hunt.
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filling my lungs, i took a header in, coming up fifteen yards out and shaking my head with a gurgling cry of pleasure. i struck out, overhand, growing stronger and more vigorous each succeeding moment, as the refreshing sea played over my body. on, on i went, turning upon my breast sometimes, sometimes on my back, lashing the water into foam with my feet and blowing it far into the air from my mouth.
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half a mile out and i was as near to the island, in the middle of the bay, as i was to the wharf. i knew i could make it, although i had not been in the water for several weeks. i had an abundance of time, the sea was warm, the island looked pretty,--so on i went.
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i reached it at last, a trifle blown, but in good condition.
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i made for a sandy beach, between two rocky headlands. soon, i got my footing and waded ashore. after a short rest, i set out to survey the island.
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all the childhood visions i had stored in my memory of "coral island," "crusoe's island," and "treasure island" became visualised and merged into one,--the island i was exploring.
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it was of fairy concept; only some four hundred yards long and about a hundred yards in breadth, with rugged rocks and sandy beaches; secret caves and strange caverns; fertile over all with small fir and arbutus trees, shrubs, ferns and turfy patches of grass of the softest velvet pile. in the most unlikely places, i stumbled across bubbling springs of fresh water forcing its way through the rocks. how they originated, was a mystery to me, for the island was separated from the mainland by a mile, at least, of salt water.
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what an ideal spot, i thought, for a picnic! would not some of my eccentric acquaintances at home,--the duke of athlane, for instance,--dearly love to take the whole thing up by the roots and transplant it in the centre of some of the artificial lakes they had schemed and contrived, in wild attempts to make more beautiful the natural beauties of their estates?
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by this time, the warm air had dried my body. i climbed to the highest point of the island,--a small plateau, covered with short turf; a glorious place for the enjoyment of a sun bath. i lay down and stretched myself.
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my only regret then was that i did not have a book with me to complete my paradise.
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pillowed on a slight incline, i dreamily watched the scudding clouds, then my eyes travelled across to the mainland. i could see the smoke curl upward from my kitchen fire. i saw old jake get into his boat, followed by the drunken rascal of a dog, mike. all was still and quiet but for the seethe and shuffle of the sea.
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suddenly, on the other side of the water somewhere, but evidently far away, a voice, untrained, but of peculiar sweetness, broke into my drowsing. i listened for a time, trying to catch the refrain. as it grew clearer, i tried to pick up the words, but they were in a tongue foreign to me. they were not french, nor were they italian. at last, it struck me that they were spanish words; the words of a spanish dancing song, which, when i was a gadding-about college boy, had been popular among us. i recalled having heard that it was sung by the chorus of a famous spanish dancer, who, at one time, had been the rage of london and the provinces, but who had mysteriously vanished from the footlights with the same suddenness as she had appeared there.
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it was a haunting little melody, catchy and childishly simple; and it had remained in my memory all these years, as is so often the case with choruses that we hear in our babyhood.
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naturally, i was more than curious to see the singer, so i crept to the top of the grassy knoll and peered over, searching the far side of the island and over the water.
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away out, i discerned a small boat making in the direction of the island. the oars were being plied by a woman, or a girl,--i could not tell which, as her back was toward me and she was still a good way off. she handled her oars as if she were a part of the boat itself and the boat were a living thing.
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she stopped every now and then, rose from her seat and busied herself with something. i wondered what she was doing. i saw her haul something into the boat. as she examined it in her hand, the sun flashed upon it. i could hear her laugh happily as she tossed it into the bottom of the boat.
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she was trolling for fish and, evidently, getting a plentiful supply.
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she rowed in as if intent upon fishing round the island. but, all at once, she changed her mind, turned the boat, pulled in her fishing line and shot into a sandy beach, springing out and pulling the boat clear of the tide.
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she straightened herself as she turned and faced the plateau on the far incline of which i lay hidden. i saw at a glance that, though a mere girl in years,--somewhere between sixteen and eighteen,--yet she was a woman, maturing as a june rose, as a butterfly stretching its pretty wings for the first time in the ecstasy of its new birth. of medium height; her hair was the darkest shade of brown and hung in two long, thick braids down to her neat waist. she seemed not at all of the countrified type i might have expected to encounter so far in the wilds.
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she was dressed in a spotless white blouse, the sleeves of which were rolled back almost to her shoulders; with a dark-coloured, serviceable skirt, the hem of which hung high above a pair of small, bare feet and neat, supple-looking ankles. i could see her shoes and stockings, brown in colour, lying in the bow of the boat. she reached over, picked them up, then sat on a rock by the water's edge and pulled them on her feet.
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but, after all, it was not her dress that held my attention; although in the main this was pleasing to the eye, nor yet was it the girl's features, for she was still rather far off for me to observe these distinctly. what riveted me was the light, agile rapidity of her every action; and her evident abandonment of everything else for what, for the moment, absorbed her.
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as i watched, i became filled with conflicting thoughts. should i remain where i was, or should i at once betray my presence?
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i decided that the island was large enough for both of us. she was not interested in me, so why should i interrupt her in her lonely enjoyment?
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i was perplexed more than a little in trying to place where she rightfully belonged. naturally, i took her to be the daughter of one of the settlers on the far side of golden crescent. but there was a something in her entire appearance that seemed to place her on a different plane from that, a plane all by herself; while, again, there was the spanish song which i had heard her lilt out on the water.
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she brought my conjecturing to rather an abrupt conclusion, for, without any warning, she darted up over the rocks and through the ferns to where i lay, and she had almost trodden upon me before i had time to get out of her way.
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she stepped back with an exclamation of surprise, but gave no sign to indicate that she was afraid.
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i sprang to my feet.
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"i am very sorry,--miss," i said sincerely.
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"oh!--there ain't much to be sorry over. this ain't my island. still,--girls don't much care about men watching them from behind places," she replied, with a tone of displeasure.
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"and i am sorry,--again," i answered. "please forgive me, for i could hardly help it. i was lying here when i heard you sing. i became curious. when you landed, i intended making my presence known, but i said to myself just what you have said now:--'it is not my island.' however, i shall go now and leave you in possession."
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"where is your boat?"
"__<label>__NOUN where__<label>__ADP is__<label>__VERB your__<label>__PRON boat__<label>__NOUN ?"__<label>__.
"didn't bring one with me."
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"how did you get here then?"
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her blunt questioning was rather disconcerting.
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"oh! i walked it," i answered lightly, with a grin.
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her voice changed. "you're trying to be smart," she reprimanded.
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"sorry," i said, in a tone of contrition, "for i am not a bit smart in spite of my trying. well,--i swam across from the wharf over there."
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"no!--it is true."
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she measured the distance from the island to the wharf with her eye.
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i remarked, some time ago, that her hair was of the darkest shade of brown. i was wrong;--there was a darker hue still, and that was in her eyes; while her skin was of that attractive combination, olive and pink.
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"gee!--that was some swim.
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"how are you going to get back?" she continued, in open friendliness.
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"ain't you tired?"
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"i was winded a bit when i got here, but i am all right again," i answered.
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"you're an englishman?"
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"how did you guess it?" i asked, as if i were giving her credit for unearthing a great mystery.
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before answering, she sat down on the grass, clasping her hands over her knees. i squatted a short distance from her.
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"only englishmen go swimming hereabouts in the morning."
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"do you often stumble across stray, swimming englishmen?" i asked in banter.
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"no!--but three summers ago there were some english people staying in that house at the wharf that's now closed up:--the one next horsfal's, and they were in the water so much, they hardly gave the fish a chance. it was the worst year we ever had for fishing."
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i laughed, and she looked up in surprise.
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"then we had an english surveyor staying with us for a month last year. he was crazy for the water. he went in for half an hour every morning and before his breakfast, too. you don't find the loggers or any of the settlers doing silly stunts like that. no, siree.
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"guess you're a surveyor?"
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"or maybe a gentleman up for shooting and fishing? can't be though, for there ain't any launches in the bay. yes, you are, too, for i saw a launch in yesterday."
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"i hope i am always a gentleman," i said, "but i am not the kind of gentleman you mean. i have no launch and no money but what i can earn. i am the new man who is to look after mr. horsfal's golden crescent property. i shall be more or less of a common country storekeeper after to-day."
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"heard about that store from old jake. granddad over home was talking about it, too. it'll be convenient for the camps and a fine thing for the settlers up here."
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"george bremner," i put in.
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"my name's rita;--rita clark. i stay over at the ranch there, the one with the red-roofed houses. this island's named rita, too."
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she did not venture any more.
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"been here long?" i asked.
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"long's i can remember," she answered.
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"i love it. it's all i got. never been away from it more'n three times in my life."
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there was something akin to longing in her voice.
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"i love it all the same,--all but that over there."
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as she spoke, she shivered and pointed away out to the great perpendicular rock, with its jagged, devilish, shark-like teeth, which rose sheer out of the water and stood black, forbidding and snarling, even in the sunshine, to the right, at the entrance to the bay, a quarter of a mile or so from the far horn of golden crescent.
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"you don't like rocks?"
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"some rocks," she whispered, "but not 'the ghoul.'"
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"the ghoul," i repeated with a shudder. "ugh!--what a name. who on earth saddled it with such a horrible name?"
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"nobody on earth. guess it must have been the devil in hell, for it's a friend of his."
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her face grew pale and a nameless horror crept into her eyes.
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"it ain't nice to look on now,--is it?"
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"no!" i granted.
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"you want to see it in the winter, when there's a storm tearing in, with the sea crashing over it in a white foam and,--and,--people trying to hang on to it. oh!--i tell you what it is,--it's hellish, that's all. it's well named the ghoul,--it's a robber of the dead."
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"robber of the dead!--what do you mean?"
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"everybody but a stranger knows:--it robs them of a decent burial. heaps of men, and women too, have been wrecked out there, but only one was ever known to come off alive. never a body has ever been found afterwards." she shivered and turned her head away.
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for a while, i gazed at the horrible rock in fascination. what a reminder it was to the poor human that there is storm as well as calm; evil as well as good; that turmoil follows in the wake of quiet; that sorrow tumbles over joy; and savagery and death run riot among life and happiness and love!
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at last, i also turned my eyes away from the ghoul, with a strong feeling of anger and resentment toward it. already i loathed and hated the thing as i hated nothing else.
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i stood alongside the girl and we remained silent until the mood passed.
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then she raised her eyes to mine and smiled. in an endeavour to forget,--which, after all, was easy amid so much sunshine and beauty,--i reverted to our former conversation.
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"you said you were seldom away from here. don't you ever take a trip to vancouver?"
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"been twice. we're not strong on trips up here. grand-dad goes to vancouver and victoria once in a while. grandmother's been here twenty years and never been five miles from the ranch, 'cept once, and she's sorry now for that once.
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"joe's the one that gets all the trips. you ain't met joe. guess when you do you and him won't hit it. he always fights with men of your size and build."
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"who is this joe?" i asked. "he must be quite a man-eater."
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"i ain't going to tell you any more. you'll know him when you see him.
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"i'm going now. would you like some fish? the trout were biting good this morning. i've got more'n we need."
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we went down to the shore together. there were between thirty and forty beauties of sea-trout in the bottom of her boat. she handed me out a dozen.
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"guess that'll make a square meal for you and jake."
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then she looked at me and laughed, showing her teeth. "clean forgot," she said. "a swimming man ain't no good at carrying fish."
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"why not?" i asked.
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i picked up some loose cord from her boat, strung the trout by the gills and tied them securely round my waist.
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she watched me archly and a thought went flashing through my mind that it did not need the education of the city to school a woman in the art of using her eyes.
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"guess i'll see you off the premises first, before i go."
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"all right!" said i.
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we crossed the island once more, and i got on to a rock which dipped sheer and deep into the sea.
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she held out her hand and smiled in such a bewitching way that, had i not been a well-seasoned bachelor of almost twenty-five years' standing, i should have lost my heart to her completely.
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"good-bye! mister,--mister bremner. safe home."
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"sure you can make it?" she asked earnestly.
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"yes!" i cried, and plunged in.
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as i came up, i turned and waved my hand. she waved in answer, and when i looked again she was gone.
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i struck swiftly for the wharf, allowing for the incoming tide.
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when i was half-way across, i heard the sound of oars and, on taking a backward glance, i saw rita making toward me.
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"hello!" i cried, when she drew near. "what's the matter?"
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a little shame-faced, she bent over. "i got scared," she said timidly, "scared you mightn't make it. sure you don't want me to row you in?"
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the boat was alluring, but my pride was touched.
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"quite sure," i answered. "i'm as fresh as the trout round my waist. thanks all the same."
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"all right! guess i was foolish. you ain't a man; you're a porpoise."
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with this half-annoyed sally, she swung the bow of the boat and rowed away.
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an informative visitor
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that afternoon, prompt at two o'clock, a whistle sounded beyond the point and, shortly afterwards, the steamboat siwash, north bound, entered the bay.
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jake and i were waiting at the end of the wharf, seated in a large, wide-beamed, four-oared boat, with mike, the dog,--still eyeing me suspiciously,--crouching between his master's feet.
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we had a raft and half a dozen small rowing boats of all shapes and conditions, strung out, indian file, from our stern. every available thing in golden crescent bay that could float, down to a canoe and an old indian dug-out, we borrowed or requisitioned for our work. and, with this long procession in tow, we pulled out and made for the steamer, which came to a standby in the deep water, three hundred yards from the shore.
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the merchandise was let down by slings from the lower deck, and we had to handle the freight as best we could, keeping closely alongside all the while.
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a dozen times, i thought one or another of the boats would be overturned and its contents emptied into the bay. but luck was with us. jake spat tobacco juice on his hands every few minutes and sailed in like a nigger. our clothes were soon moist through and through, and the perspiration was running over our noses long before our task was completed. but finally the last package was lowered and checked off by the mate and myself, a clear receipt given; and we (jake and i) pushed for the shore, landing exhausted in body but without mishap to the freight.
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jake fetched some fresh clams to my kitchen for convenience and, after slapping half a plug of tobacco in his cheek, he started in and cooked us a savoury concoction which he called "chowder," made with baked clams mixed in hot milk, with butter and crumbled toast; all duly seasoned:--while i smoked my pipe and washed enough dishes to hold our food, and set the table for our meal.
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already, i had discovered that dish-washing was the bugbear of a kitchen drudge's existence, be the kitchen drudge female or male. i had only done the job three or four times, but i had got to loathe and abhor the operation. not that i felt too proud to wash dishes, but it seemed such a useless, such an endless, task. however, i suppose everything in this old world carries with it more or less of these same annoyingly bad features.
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at any rate, i never could make up my mind to wash a dish until i required it for my next and immediate meal.
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we dined ravenously, and throughout the proceeding, mike sat in the doorway, keeping close watch that i did not interfere with the sacred person of his lord and master, jake meaghan.
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rested and reinvigorated, we set-to with box-openers, hammers and chisels, unpacking and unpacking until the thing became a boring monotony.
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canned milk, canned beef, canned beans, canned salmon, canned crabs, canned well-nigh-everything; bottled fruits, bottled pickles, bottled jams and jellies, everything bottled that was not canned; bags of sugar, flour, meal, potatoes, oats and chicken feed; hardware galore, axes, hammers, wedges, peevies, cant hoops, picks, shovels, nails, paints, brooms, brushes and a thousand other commodities and contrivances the like of which i never saw before and hope never to see again.
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never, in all my humble existence, did i feel so clerky as i did then.
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i checked the beastly stuff off as well as i could, taking the vancouver wholesalers' word for the names of half the things, for i was quite sure they knew better than i did about them.
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with the assistance of jake, as "hander-up," i set the goods in a semblance of order on the shelves and about the store.
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we worked and slaved as if it were the last day and our eternal happiness depended on our finishing the job before the last trump sounded its blast of dissolution.
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by the last stroke of twelve, midnight, we had the front veranda swept clean of straw, paper and excelsior, and all empty boxes cleared away; just in time to welcome the advent of my first sabbath day in the canadian west.
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throughout our arduous afternoon and evening, what a surprise old jake was to me! well i knew that he was hard and tough from years of strenuous battling with the northern elements; but that he, at his age and with his record for hard drinking, should be able to keep up the sustained effort against a young man in his prime and that he should do so cheerfully and without a word of complaint,--save an occasional grunt when the steel bands around some of the boxes proved recalcitrant, and an explosive, picturesque oath when the end of a large case dropped over on his toes,--was, to me, little short of marvellous.
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already, i was beginning to think that mr. k. b. horsfal had erred in regard to his man and that it was jake meaghan who was twenty-four carat gold.
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if any man ever did deserve two breakfast cups brimful of whisky, neat, before turning in, it was old, walrus-moustached, weather-battered, baby-eyed, sour-dough jake, in the small, early hours of that sabbath morning.
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i slept that night like a dead thing, and the sun was high in the heavens before i opened my eyes and became conscious again of my surroundings.
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i looked over at the clock. fifteen minutes past ten! i threw my legs over the side of the bed, ashamed of my sluggardliness.
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then i remembered,--it was sunday morning.
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oh! glorious remembering! sunday,---with nothing to do but attend to my own bodily comforts.
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i pulled my legs back into the bed in order to start the day correctly. i lay and stretched myself, then, very leisurely,--always remembering that it was the sabbath,--i put one foot out and then the other, until, at last, i stood on the floor, really and truly up and awake.
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jake had been around. i could see traces of him in the yard, though he was nowhere visible in the flesh.
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after i had breakfasted and made my bed (i know little maisie brant, who used to make my bed away back over in the old home--little maisie who had wept at my departure, would have laughed till she wept again, had she seen my woful endeavours to straighten out my sheets and smooth my pillow. but then, she was not there to see and laugh and--i was quite satisfied with my handiwork and satisfied that i would be able to sleep soundly in the bed when the night should come again)--i hunted the shelves for a book.
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stevenson, poe, scott, hugo, wells, barrie, dumas, twain, emerson, byron, longfellow, burns,--which should it be?
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back along the line i went, and chose--oh, well!--an old favourite i had read many times before.
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i hunted out a hammock and slung it comfortably from the posts on the front veranda, where i could lie and smoke and read; also where i could look away across the bay and rest my eyes on the quiet scene when they should grow weary.
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late in the afternoon, when i was beginning to grow tired of my indolence, i heard the thud, thud of a gasoline launch as it came up the bay. it passed between rita's isle and the wharf, and held on, turning in to jake meaghan's cove.
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i wondered who the visitor could be, then i went back to my reading.
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"pray, don't let me disturb you, my son," said a soft, well-modulated, masculine voice. "stay where you are. enjoy your well-earned rest."
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a little, frail-looking, pale-faced, elderly gentleman was at my elbow.
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he smiled at me with the smile of an angel, and my heart went out to him at once, so much so that i could have hugged him in my arms.
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"my name is william auld," he continued. "i am the medical missionary. what is yours, my son?"
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he held out his hand to me.
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"george bremner," i replied, gripping his. "let me bring you a chair."
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i went inside, and when i returned he was turning over the leaves of my book.
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"so you are a book lover?" he mused. "well, i would to god more men were book lovers, for then the world would be a better place to live in, or rather, the men in it would be better to live among.
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"victor hugo,--'les miserables'!--" he went on. "to my mind, the greatest of all novelists and the greatest of all novels."
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he laid the book aside, and sought my confidences, not as a preacher, not as a pedagog, but as a friend; making no effort to probe my past, seeking no secrets; but all anxiety for my welfare; keen to know my ambitions, my aspirations, my pastimes and my habits of living; open and frank in telling me of himself. he was a man's man, with the experience of men that one gets only by years of close contact.
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"for twenty years it has been god's will to allow me to travel up and down this beloved coast and minister to those who need me."
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"you must like the work, sir," i ventured.
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"like it!--oh! yes, yes,---i would not exchange my post for the city temple of london, england."
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"but such toil must be arduous, mr. auld, for you are not a young man and you do not look altogether a robust one."
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he paused in meditation. "it is arduous, sometimes;--to-day i have talked to the men at eight camps and i have visited fourteen families at different points on my journey. but, if i were to stop, who would look after my beloved people in the ranches all up the coast; who would care for my easily-led, simple-hearted brethren in the logging camps, every one of whom knows me, confides in me and looks forward to my coming; not one of whom but would part with his coat for me, not one who would harm a hair of my head. i shall not stop, mr. bremner,--i have no desire to stop, not till god calls me.
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"i see you have been making changes even in your short time here," he said, pointing to the store.
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"yes! i think jake and i did fairly well yesterday," i answered, not a little proudly.
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"splendidly, my boy! and, do you know,--your coming here means a great deal. it is the commencement of a new departure, for your store is going to prove a great boon to the settlers. they have been talking about it and looking forward to it ever since it was first mooted.
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"but it will not be altogether smooth sailing for you, for you must keep a close rein on your credit."
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it struck me, as he spoke, that he was the very man i was desirous of meeting regarding what i considered would prove my stumbling block.
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"can you spare me half an hour, sir, and have tea with me?" i asked.
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"yes! gladly, for my day's service is over,--all but one call, and a cup of tea is always refreshing."
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i showed him inside and set him in my cosiest chair. while i busied with the table things,--washing some dishes as a usual preliminary,--i approached the subject.
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"mr. auld,--i wished to ask your advice, for i am sure you can assist me. my employer, mr. horsfal, has given me a free hand regarding credit to the settlers. i know none of them and i am afraid that, without guidance, i may offend some or land the business in trouble with others. will you help me, sir?"
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he took a sheet of paper from his pocket and commenced to write, talking to me as he did so.
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"you know, if times are at all good, you can trust the average man who owns the ranch he lives on to pay his grocery bills sooner or later. still, if i were you, i wouldn't let any of them get into debt more than sixty or seventy dollars, for they do not require to, and, once they get in arrears, they have difficulty in getting out.
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"it is the floating population,--the here-to-day-and-away-to-morrow people who should not be given credit. and,--mr. bremner, if you desire to act in kindness to the men themselves, do not allow the loggers, who come in here, to run up bills for themselves personally. not that they are more dishonest than other people,--far from it. i find it generally the other way round,--but they are notoriously improvident; inclined,--god bless them,--to live for the fleeting moment.
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"in many ways they are like children in their simplicity and their waywardness,--and their lot is not one of roses and honeysuckle. they make good money and can afford to pay as they go. if they cannot pay, they can easily wait for what they want until they can, for they are well fed and well housed while in the camps."
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we sat down at the table together.
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"there is a list, george. may i call you george? it is so much more friendly."
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i nodded in hearty approval.
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"it is not by any means complete, but it contains the principal people among your near-hand neighbours. you can trust them to pay their last cent: neil andrews, semple, smith, johannson, doolan, macallister and gourlay.
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"any others who may call,--make them pay; and i shall be glad to inform you about them when i am this way again."
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"how often do you come in here, mr. auld?"
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"i try to make it, at least, once in two weeks, but i am not always successful. i like to visit jake meaghan. poor, old, faithful, plodding jake,--how i tried, at first, to extract the thorn from his flesh--the accursed drink! i talked to him, i scolded him, i threatened him, but,--poor jake,--he and his whisky are one, and nothing but death will ever separate them."
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suddenly his face lit up and his eyes seemed to catch fire.
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"and who are we to judge?" he said, as if denying some inward question. "what right have we to think for a moment that this inherent weakness shall deprive jake meaghan of eternal happiness? he is honest; he does good in his own little sphere; he harms no one but himself, for he hasn't a dependent in the world. he fills a niche in god's plan; he is still god's child, no matter how erring he may be. he is some mother's son. george,--i am fully persuaded that my god, and your god, will not be hard on old jake when his time comes; and, do you know, sometimes i think that time is not very far off."
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we sat silent for a while, then the minister spoke again:
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"tell me, george,--have you met any of your neighbours yet?"
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"only two," i said, "jake, and rita clark."
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he raised his white, bushy eyebrows.
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"so you have met rita! she's a strange child; harboured in a strange home."
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he sighed at some passing thought.
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"it's a queer world,--or rather, it's a good world with queer people in it. one would expect to find love and harmony in the home every time away up here, but it does not always follow. old margaret clark is the gentlest, dearest, most patient soul living. andrew clark is a good man in every way but one,--but in that one he is the rock of gibraltar itself, or, to go nearer the place of his birth, ailsa craig, that old milestone that stands defiantly between scotland and ireland. andrew clark is immovable. he is hard, relentless, fanatical in his ideas of right and wrong; cruel to himself and to the woman he vowed to love and cherish. oh!--he sears my heart every time i think of him. yet, he is living up to his idea of what is right."
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the white-haired old gentleman,--bearer of the burdens of his fellows,--did not confide in me as to the nature of andrew clark's trouble, and it was not for me to probe.
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"as for rita," he pursued, "poor, little rita!--she is no relative of either margaret or andrew clark. she is a child of the sea. hers is a pitiful story, and i betray no confidences in telling you of it, for it is common property.
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"fourteen years ago a launch put into the bay and anchored at the entrance to jake's cove. there were several ladies and gentlemen in her, and one little girl. they picnicked on the beach and, in the evening, they dined aboard, singing and laughing until after midnight. jake was the only one who saw or heard them, and he swears they were not english-spoken. though they were gay and pleasure-loving, yet they seemed to be of a superior class of people.
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"he awoke before daylight, fancying he heard screams in the location of the ghoul rock. he got up and, so certain was he that he had not been mistaken, he got into his boat and rowed out and round the ghoul,--for the night was calm,--but everything was quiet and peaceful out there.
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"next morning, while joe clark was scampering along the shore, he came across the unconscious form of a little girl about four years old, clad only in a nightdress and roped roughly to an unmarked life-belt. joe carried her in to his grandfather, old andrew, who worked over her for more than an hour; and at last succeeded in bringing her round.
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"all she could say then was, "rita, rita, rita," although, about a year afterwards, she started to hum and sing a little spanish dancing song. a peculiar reversion of memory, for she certainly never heard such a song in golden crescent.
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"jake swears to this day that she belonged to the launch party, who must have run sheer into the ghoul rock and gone down.
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"little boy joe pleaded with his grandfather and grandmother to keep the tiny girl the sea had given them, and they did not need much coaxing, for she was pretty and attractive from the first.
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"inquiries were set afoot, but, from that day to this, not a clue has been found as to her identity; so, rita clark she is and rita clark she will remain until some fellow, worthy of her i hope, wins her and changes her name.
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"i thought at one time, joe clark would claim her and her name would not be changed after all, but since joe has seen some of the outside world and has been meeting with all kinds of people, he has grown patronising and changeable with women, as he is domineering and bullying with men.
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"he treats rita as if he expected her to be continually at his call should he desire her, and yet he were at liberty to choose when and where he please."
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"but, does rita care for him?" i asked.
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"seems so at times," he answered, "but of late i have noticed a coldness in her at the mention of his name; just as if she resented his airs of one-sided proprietorship and were trying to decide with herself to tolerate no more of it.
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"i tried to veer round to the subject with joe once, but he swore an oath and told me to mind my own affairs. what joe clark needs is opposition. yet joe is a good fellow, strong and daring as a lion and aggressive to a degree."
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i was deeply interested as the old minister told the story, and it was like bringing me up suddenly when he stopped. i had no idea how fast the time had been passing.
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well i could understand now why this rita clark intuitively hated the ghoul rock. who, in her place, would feel otherwise?
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"i must go now, my son, for the way is long. thanks so much for the rest and for your hospitality. my only exhortation to you is, stand firm by all the principles you know to be true; never lose hold of the vital things because you are here in the wilds, for it is here the vital things count, more than in the whirr of civilisation."
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"thank you, sir. i'll try," i said. "you will come again, i hope."
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"certainly i shall. even if you did not ask me, for that is my duty.
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"if you accompany me as far as jake's cove, where my launch is, i think i can furnish you with a paper from your countryside. i have friends in the city, in the states and in england, who supply me, every week, with american and old country papers. there are so many men from both lands in the camps and settled along the coast and they all so dearly love a newspaper. i generally try to give them what has been issued nearest their own home towns."
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i rowed mr. auld over to his launch and wished him good-bye, receiving from his kindly old hands a copy of the northern examiner, dated three days after i had left brammerton.
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it was like meeting with an old friend, whom i had expected never to meet again. i put it in my inside pocket for consideration when i should get back to my bungalow with plenty of time to enjoy it.
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i dropped in to jake's shack, for i had not seen him all the sleepy day. i found him sitting in perfect content, buried up over the eyes in a current issue of the northern lights,--a dawson newspaper, which had been in existence since the old klondike days and was much relished by old-timers.
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the dog was curled up near the stove, sleeping off certain effects; jake was at his second cup of whisky. i left them to the peace and sanctity of their sabbath evening and rowed back to "paradise regained," as i had already christened my bungalow.
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i sat down on the steps of the veranda, to peruse the home paper which the minister had left with me, and it was not long before i was startled by a flaring headline. the blood rushed from my face to my heart and seemed as if it would burst that great, throbbing organ:--
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"sudden death of the earl of brammerton and hazelmere."
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my eyes scanned the notice.
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"news has been telegraphed that the earl of brammerton and hazelmere died suddenly of heart failure at his country residence, hazelmere. his demise has caused a profound sensation, as it occurred on the eve of a house party, arranged in celebration of the engagement of his son, viscount harry brammerton, captain of the coldstream guards, to the beautiful lady rosemary granton, daughter of the late general frederick granton, who was the companion and dearest friend of the late earl of brammerton in the early days of their campaigning in the crimea and india."
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a long obituary notice followed, concluding with the following paragraph:
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"it is given out that the marriage of the present earl with lady granton has been postponed and that, after the necessary business formalities have been attended to, captain harry will join his regiment in egypt for a short term.
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"lady rosemary granton has gone to new york, at the cabled invitation of some old family friends."
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"it is understood that the hon. george brammerton, second and only other son of the late earl, is presently on a long walking tour in europe. his whereabouts are unknown and he is still in ignorance of his father's death."
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the pain of that sudden announcement, so soon after i had left home and right on the eve of my new endeavours, no one shall ever know.
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my dear old father! angry at my alleged eccentricities sometimes, but ever ready to forgive,--was gone: doubtless, passing away with a message of forgiveness to me on his lips.
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and,--after the pain of it, came the conflict.
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had what i had done caused or in any way hastened my father's death? admitting that harry's fault was great and unforgiveable, would it not have been better had i allowed it to remain in obscurity, at least for a time? was the keeping of the family name unsullied, was the untarnished honour of our ancient family motto, "clean,--within and without," of greater importance than my father's life? was it my duty to be an unintentional and silent partner to the keeping of vital intelligence from the fair lady rosemary?
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over all,--had i done right or wrong?
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what did duty now demand of me? should i hurry home and face the fresh problems there which were sure to arise now that harry had succeeded to the titles and estates? should i remain by the post i had accepted from the hands of mr. k. b. horsfal and test thoroughly this new and exhilarating life which, so far, i had merely tasted?
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i had no doubts as to what my inclinations and desires were. but it was not a question of inclinations and desires:--it was simply one of duty.
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all night long, i sat on the veranda steps with my elbows on my knees and my head in my upturned hands, fighting my battle; until, at last, when the grey was creeping up over the hills behind me and touching the dark surface of the sea in front here and there with mellow lights, i rose and went in to the house,--my conscience clear as the breaking day, my mind at rest like the rose-coloured tops of the mountains.
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i had no regrets. i had done as a true brammerton should. i had done the right.
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i would not go back;--not yet. i would remain here for a while in my obscurity, testing out the new life and executing as faithfully as i knew how the new duties i had voluntarily assumed.
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further,--for my peace of mind,--so long as i remained in golden crescent, i decided i would not cast my eyes over the columns of any newspaper coming from the british isles. if i were to be done with the old life, i must be done with it in every way.
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joe clark, bully
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with the advent of monday morning, the golden crescent trading company, in charge of george bremner, handyman, store-clerk, bookkeeper, buyer and general superintendent,--opened its doors for business.
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i was not overburdened with customers, for which i was not sorry, as i had lots to do fixing the prices of my stock and setting it to rights.
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but the arrival of the mail by the tuesday steamer brought neil andrews, doolan, gourlay and the stern, but honest-faced old scot, andrew clark, all at different times during the afternoon. not one of them could resist the temptation and go away without making some substantial purchases.
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on wednesday, a launch, with three men in her, put in from no. 1 camp at susquahamma, bearing an order as long as my arm, duly endorsed in a business-like way and all according to requirements.
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thursday brought another launch, this time from camp no. 3, and the same process was gone through as with no. 1, including the visit of the visitors to jake's shack.
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in an ordinary case, i would have been beginning to fear that that shack had become a common shebeen, but i knew jake was not the man to accept money from any of his fellow creatures in exchange for any hospitality it might be in his power to offer. a few days later came a repeat order from no. 1 camp, then a request from the cannery, which i was able to fill only in part, as many things required by them had not been included in the original orders given to the vancouver wholesalers.
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two men came over in a fast-moving launch of a much better type than those in use by the other camps. the men were big and burly fellows. one of them was unmistakably irish; the other looked of swedish extraction.
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"you the man that looks after this joint?" asked the swede.
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"i am," i answered.
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he looked me up and down, for i was on the same side of the counter as they. then he turned to his irish companion with a grin.
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"say, mister,--where's your hoss?" he asked, addressing me.
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both laughed loudly.
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at first i failed to see the point of hilarity.
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"what is the joke?" i asked.
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"guess you are!" said the swede. and the two men laughed louder than ever.
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"look here!" i cried, my blood getting up, "i want you two to understand, first go off, that i am not in the habit of standing up to be grinned at. what do you want? speak out your business or get out of here and tumble back into your boat."
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"ach!--it's all right, matey," put in the irishman. "just a bit av fun out av yer breeches and leggings. we canucks don't wear breeches and leggings in grocery stores. do we, jan?"
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"guess nit," said jan. and they both laughed again.
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i cooled down, thinking if that were all their joke they were welcome to it, for i had already found my breeches and leggings mighty handy for getting through the bush with and for tumbling in and out of leaky rowing boats.
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i grinned. "all right, fellows," i cried, "laugh all you want and i'll leave you a legging each as a legacy when i die."
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"say, sonny,--you're all right!" he exclaimed.
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good humour returned all round.
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"we're from no. 2 camp at cromer bay and we want a bunch of stuff."
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"where is your list and i'll try to fill it?" i inquired.
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the swede handed over a long order, badly scrawled on the back of a paper bag. the order was unstamped and unsigned, and not on the company's order form.
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"this is not any good," i said. "where is the company's order?"
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the swede looked blankly at the irishman, and the irishman gazed dreamily at the swede.
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"guess that's good enough. ain't it, dan?"
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"shure!" seconded dan.
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"it can't be done, boys," i said. "sorry,--but i have my instructions and they must be followed out."
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i handed back the list.
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the swede stared at it and then over at me.
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"ain't you goin' to fill this?"
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"well, i'll be gosh-dinged! say! sonny,--there'll be a hearse here for you to-morrow. the boss wrote this."
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"how am i to know that?" i retorted.
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"damned if i know," he returned, scratching his forelock. "but it'll be merry hell to pay if we go back without this bunch of dope."
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"some of this stuff's for to-morrow's grubstake," put in the swede, "and most of the hardware's wanted for a job first crack out of the box in the morning."
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"sorry to disoblige you, fellows," i said sincerely, "but your boss should not have run so close to the wind. further, i am going to work this store right and that from the very beginning."
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"and you're not goin' to fill the boss's own caligeography, or whatever you call it?" reiterated the irishman.
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"wouldn't that rattle ye?" exclaimed dan to his friend.
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"it do," conceded the swede, who put his hand into his pocket and tossed fifteen cents on to the counter.
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"well,--give us ten cents chewing tobacco, and a packet of gum."
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i filled this cash order and immediately thereafter the two walked out of the store and sailed away without another word or even a look behind them.
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i was worried over the incident, for i did not like to think myself in any way instrumental in depriving the men of anything they might require for their supper, and it was farthest from my desires to stop or even hamper the work at camp no. 2. but i had been warned that there was only one way to operate a business and that was on business lines, according to plan, so my conscience would not permit of any other course than the one i had taken.
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had the store been my own, i might have acted differently, but it was merely held by me in trust, which was quite another matter.
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next forenoon, a tug blew her whistle and put into the bay, coming-to on the far side of rita's isle. a little later, as i stood behind the counter writing up some fresh orders to the wholesalers, to replenish my dwindling stock, a dinghy, with one man at the oars and another sitting in the stern, appeared round the island and pointed straight for the wharf.
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the oarsman ran the nose of the boat on the beach and remained where he was. the man who had been sitting in the stern sprang out and came striding in the direction of the store.
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he stopped at the door and looked around him, ignoring my presence the while.
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what a magnificent specimen of a man he was! never in my life had i seen such a man, and, with all the sight-seeing i have done since, i have never met such another.
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i fancied, with my five feet eleven inches, that i was of a good height; but this giant stood six feet four inches, if he stood an inch. he looked quite boyish; not a day older than twenty-two. his hair was very fair and wavy, and he had plenty of it.
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he was cleanly shaven and cleanly and neatly dressed. his eyes were big and sky blue in colour. they were eyes that could be warm or cold at will. just then, they were passively cold.
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his was a good face, reflecting strength and determination, while honesty, straight-forwardness and absolute fearlessness lent a charm to it that it otherwise would have lacked.
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after all, it was the glory of his stature that attracted me, as he stood, framed by the door, dressed in his high logging boots, with khaki-coloured trousers and a shirt to match; a soft felt hat on the back of his head set a little sportily to one side.
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myself an admirer of the human form, a lover of muscle and sinew,
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and what a sense of contrast did the sight awaken in his mind. the vessel was probably one of the union company's mail steamships, coasting round to natal. how plainly he would conjure up the scene upon her decks, the passengers striving to while away the tediousness of their floating captivity with chess and draughts--the latter of divers kinds-- with books and tobacco, with chat and flirtation; whereas, here he was, at no very great distance either, undergoing, in this savage wilderness, a captivity which was terribly real--a prisoner of war among a tribe of sullen and partially crushed barbarians, with almost certain death, as a sacrifice to their slain compatriots, staring him in the face, and a strong probability of that death being a cruel and lingering one withal. and the pure rays of the newly risen sun shone forth joyously upon that blue surface, and a whiff of strong salt air seemed borne in upon them from the bosom of the wide, free ocean.
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for some minutes the kafirs stood, talking, laughing like children as they gazed upon the long, low form of the distant steamship, concerning which many of their quaint remarks and conjectures would have been amusing enough at any other time. and, as if anything was wanting to keep him alive to the peril of his position, hlangani, stepping to the prisoner's side, observed:
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"the time has come to blind you, ixeshane."
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the words were grim enough in all conscience--frightful enough to more than justify the start which eustace could not repress, as he turned to the speaker. but a glance was enough to reassure him. the chief advanced toward him, holding nothing more formidable than a folded handkerchief.
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to the ordeal of being blindfolded eustace submitted without a word. he recognised its force. they were nearing their destination. even a captive, probably foredoomed to death, was not to be allowed to take mental notes of the approaches to the present retreat of the paramount chief. besides, by insuring such ignorance, they would render any chance of his possible escape the more futile. but as he walked, steered by one of his escort, who kept a hand on his shoulder, he concentrated every faculty, short of the sight of which he was temporarily deprived, upon observations relating to the lay of the ground. one thing he knew. wherever they might be they were at no great distance from the sea coast. that was something.
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suddenly a diversion occurred. a long, loud, peculiar cry sounded from some distance in front. it was a signal. as it was answered by the returning warriors, once more the wild war-song was raised, and being taken up all along the line, the forest echoed with the thunderous roar of the savage strophe, and the clash of weapons beating time to the weird and thrilling chant. for some minutes thus they marched; then by the sound eustace knew that his escort was forming up in martial array around him; knew moreover, from this circumstance, that the forest had come to an end. then the bandage was suddenly removed from his eyes.
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the abrupt transition from darkness to light was bewildering. but he made out that he was standing in front of a hut, which his captors were ordering him to enter. in the momentary glance which he could obtain he saw that other huts were standing around, and beyond the crowd of armed men which encompassed him he could descry the faces of women and children gazing at him with mingled curiosity and wonder. then, stooping, he crept through the low doorway. two of his guards entered with him, and to his unspeakable gratification their first act was to relieve him of the reim which secured his arms. this done, a woman appeared bearing a calabash of curdled milk and a little reed basket of stamped mealies.
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"here is food for you, umlungu," said one of them. "and now you can rest until--until you are wanted. but do not go outside," he added, shortly, and with a significant grip of his assegai. then they went out, fastening the wicker screen that served as a door behind them, and eustace was left alone.
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how long he slept he could not tell, but it must have been some hours. he awoke with a start of bewilderment, for his slumber had been a heavy and dreamless one: the slumber of exhaustion. opening his eyes to the subdued gloom of the hut he hardly knew where he was. the atmosphere of that primitive and ill-ventilated tenement was stuffy and oppressive with an effluvium of grease and smoke, and the cockroaches were running over his face and hands. then the situation came back to him with a rush. he was a prisoner.
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there was not much doing outside, to judge by the tranquillity that reigned. he could hear the deep inflections of voices carrying on a languid conversation, and occasionally the shrill squall of an infant. his watch had stopped, but he guessed it to be about the middle of the afternoon.
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he was about to make an attempt at undoing the door, but remembering the parting injunction of his guard, he judged it better not. at the same time it occurred to him that he had not yet investigated the cause of the saving of his life. here was a grand opportunity.
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cautiously, and with one ear on the alert for interruption, he took the silver box from the inside pocket in which it was kept. removing the chamois leather covering, which showed a clean cut an inch long, he gazed with astonishment upon, the box itself. the assegai had struck it fair, and there in the centre of the lid its point, broken off flush, remained firmly embedded. he turned the box over. the point had just indented the other side but not sufficiently to show through.
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for some minutes he sat gazing upon it, with a strange mixture of feeling, and well he might. this last gift of eanswyth's had been the means of saving his life--it and it alone. it had lain over his heart, and but for its intervention that sure and powerfully directed stroke would have cleft his heart in twain. that was absolutely a fact, and one established beyond any sort of doubt.
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her hand had averted the death-stroke--the shield of her love had stood between him and certain destruction. surely--surely that love could not be so unlawful--so accursed a thing. it had availed to save him--to save him for itself. eustace was not a superstitious man, but even he might, to a certain extent, feel justified in drawing a highly favourable augury from the circumstance. yet he was not out of his difficulties--his perils--yet. they had, in fact, only just begun; and this he knew.
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so far his captors had not ill-treated him, rather the reverse. but this augured next to nothing either way. the gcalekas had suffered severe losses. even now they were in hiding. they were not likely to be in a very merciful mood in dealing with a white prisoner, one of the hated race which had shot down their righting men, driven them from their country, and carried off most of their cattle. the people would clamour for his blood, the chiefs would hardly care to run counter to their wish--he would probably be handed over to the witch-doctors and put to some hideous and lingering death.
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it was a frightful thought, coming upon him alone and helpless. better that the former blow had gone home. he would have met with a swift and merciful death in the excitement of battle--whereas now? and then it crossed his mind that the interposition of the silver box might not have been a blessing after all, but quite the reverse. what if it had only availed to preserve him for a death amid lingering torments? but no, he would not think that. if her love had been the means of preserving him thus far, it had preserved him for itself. yet it was difficult to feel sanguine with the odds so terribly against him.
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what would she do when she heard that tom had been killed and himself captured by the savages? "were anything to befall you, my heart would be broken," had been almost her last words, and the recollection of them tortured him like a red-hot iron, for he had only his own fool-hardiness to thank that he was in this critical position at all. fortunately it did not occur to him that he might be reported dead, instead of merely missing.
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his reflections were interrupted. a great noise arose without--voices-- then the steady tramp of feet--the clash of weapons--and over and above all, the weird, thrilling rhythmical chant of the war-song. he had just time to restore the silver box to its place, when the door of the hut was flung open and there entered three kafirs fully armed. they ordered him to rise immediately and pass outside.
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chapter twenty nine.
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the paramount chief.
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the spectacle which met eustace's eyes, on emerging from the dark and stuffy hut, struck him as grand and stirring in the extreme.
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he saw around him an open clearing, a large natural amphitheatre, surrounded by dense forest on three sides, the fourth being constituted by a line of jagged rocks more or less bush-grown. groups of hastily constructed huts, in shape and material resembling huge beehives, stood around in an irregular circle, leaving a large open space in the centre. and into this space was defiling a great mass of armed warriors.
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on they came, marching in columns, the air vibrating to the roar of their terrible war-song. on they came, a wild and fierce array, in their fantastic war dresses--the glint of their assegai blades dancing in the sunlight like the ripples of a shining sea. they were marching round the great open space.
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into this muster of fierce and excited savages eustace found himself guided. if the demeanour of his guards had hitherto been good-humoured and friendly, it was so no longer. those immediately about him kept turning to brandish their assegais in his face as they marched, going through the pantomime of carving him to pieces, uttering taunts and threats of the most blood-curdling character.
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"hau umlungu! are you cold? the fire will soon be ready. then you will be warm--warm, ha-ha!" they sang, rubbing their hands and spreading them out before an imaginary blaze. "the wood is hot--ah-ah! it burns! ah-ah!" and then they would skip first on one foot, then on another, as if trying to avoid a carpeting of glowing coals. or, "the fighting men of the ama-gcaleka are thirsty. but they will soon have to drink. blood--plenty of blood--the drink of warriors--the drink that shall make their hearts strong. hau!" and at this they would feign to stab the prisoner--bringing their blades near enough to have frightened a nervous man out of his wits. or again: "the ants are hungry. the black ants are swarming for their food. it shall soon be theirs. ha-ha! they want it alive. they want eyes. they want brains. they want blood! ha-ha! the black, ants are swarming for their food." here the savages would squirm and wriggle as in imitation of a man being devoured alive by insects. for this was an allusion to a highly popular barbarity among these children of nature; one not unfrequently meted out to those who had incurred the envy or hostility of the chiefs and witch-doctors, and had been "smelt out" accordingly.
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when all were gathered within the open space the war chant ceased. the great muster of excited barbarians had formed up into crescent rank and now dropped into a squatting posture. to the open side of this, escorted by about fifty warriors, the prisoner was marched.
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as he passed through that sea of fierce eyes, all turned on him with a bloodthirsty stare, between that great crowd of savage forms, squatted around like tigers on the crouch, eustace felt his pulses quicken. the critical time had arrived.
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even at that perilous moment he took in the place and its surroundings. he noted the faces of women, behind the dark serried ranks of the warriors, peering eagerly at him. there were, however, but few, and they wore a crushed and anxious look. he noted, further, that the huts were of recent and hasty construction, and that the cattle inclosure was small and scantily stocked. all this pointed to the conclusion that the kraal was a temporary one. the bulk of the women and cattle would be stowed away in some more secure hiding place. only for a moment, however, was he thus suffered to look around. his thoughts were quickly diverted to a far more important consideration.
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his guards had fallen back a few paces, leaving him standing alone. in front, seated on the ground, was a group consisting of a dozen or fourteen persons, all eyeing him narrowly. these he judged to be the principal chiefs and councillors of the gcaleka tribe. one glance at the most prominent figure among these convinced him that he stood in the presence of the paramount chief himself.
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kreli, or sarili, as the name is accurately rendered--the former being, however, that by which he was popularly, indeed, historically known--the chief of the gcalekas and the suzerain head of all the xosa race, was at that time about sixty years of age. tall and erect in person, dignified in demeanour, despising gimcrack and chimney-pot hat counterfeits of civilisation, he was every inch a fine specimen of the savage ruler. his shrewd, massive countenance showed character in every line, and the glance of his keen eyes was straight and manly. his beard, thick and bushy for a kafir, was only just beginning to show a frost of grey among its jetty blackness. such was the man before whom eustace milne stood-- so to speak--arraigned.
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for some moments the august group sat eyeing the prisoner in silence. eustace, keenly observing those dark impassive faces, realised that there was not one there which was known to him. he had seen hlangani's gigantic form, resplendent or the reverse in the most wildly elaborate war costume, seated among the fighting men. here in the group before him all were strangers.
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while some of his chiefs were arrayed in costumes of plumes and skins and cow-tails exceeding fantastic, kreli himself had eschewed all martial adornments. an ample red blanket swathed his person, and above his left elbow he wore the thick ivory armlet affected by most kafirs of rank or position. but there was that about his personality which marked him out from the rest. eustace, gazing upon the arbiter of his fate, realised that the latter looked every inch a chief--every inch a man.
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"why do you come here making war upon me and my people, umlungu!" said the chief, shortly.
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"there is war between our races," answered eustace. "it is every man's duty to fight for his nation, at the command of his chief."
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"who ordered you to take up arms against us? you are not a soldier, nor are you a policeman."
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this was hard hitting. eustace felt a trifle nonplussed. but he conceived that boldness would best answer his purpose.
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"there were not enough regular troops or police to stand against the might of the gcaleka nation," he replied. "those of us who owned property were obliged to take up arms in defence of our property."
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"was your property on the eastern side of the kei? was it on this side of the bashi?" pursued the chief. "when a man's house is threatened does he go four days' journey away from it in order to protect it?" a hum of assent--a sort of native equivalent for "hear, hear," went up from the councillors at this hard hit.
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"do i understand the chief to mean that we whose property lay along the border were to wait quietly for the gcaleka forces to come and `eat us up' while we were unprepared?" said eustace quietly. "that because we were not on your side of the kei we were to do nothing to defend ourselves; to wait until your people should cross the river?"
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"does a dog yelp out before he is kicked?"
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"does it help him, anyway, to do so after?" replied the prisoner, with a slight smile over this new rendering of an old proverb. "but the chief cannot be talking seriously. he is joking."
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"hau!" burst forth the amapakati in mingled surprise and resentment.
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"you are a bold man, umlungu," said kreli, frowning. "do you know that i hold your life in my hand?"
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this was coming to the point with a vengeance. eustace realised that, like agag, he must "walk delicately." it would not do to take up a defiant attitude. on the other hand to show any sign of trepidation might prove equally disastrous. he elected to steer as near as possible a middle course.
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"that is so," he replied. "i am as anxious to live as most people. but this is war-time. when a man goes to war he does not lock up his life behind him at home. what would the great chief gain by my death?"
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"his people's pleasure," replied kreli, with sombre significance, waving a hand in the direction of the armed crowd squatted around. then turning, he began conferring in a low tone with his councillors, with the result that presently one of the latter directed that the prisoner should be removed altogether beyond earshot.
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eustace accordingly was marched a sufficient distance from the debating group, a move which brought him close to the ranks of armed warriors. many of the latter amused themselves by going through a wordless, but highly suggestive performance illustrative of the fate they hoped awaited him. one would imitate the cutting out of a tongue, another the gouging of an eye, etc., all grinning the while in high glee.
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"who is that with hlangani, who has just joined the amapakati?" he asked.
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he looked with new interest at the warrior in question, in whose name he recognised that of a fighting chief of some note, and who was reported to have commanded the enemy in the fight with shelton's patrol.
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"and the man half standing up--who is he?"
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"sigcau--the great chief's first son. whau umlungu!" broke off his informant. "you speak with our tongue even as one of ourselves. yet the chiefs and principal men of the house of gcaleka are unknown lo you by sight."
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"those of the house of gaika are not. tell me. which is botmane?"
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"botmane? lo!" replied several of the kafirs emphatically. "he next to the great chief."
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eustace looked with keen interest upon the man pointed out--an old man with a grey head, and a shrewd, but kindly natured face. he was kreli's principal councillor and at that time was reported to be somewhat in disfavour by reason of having been strenuously opposed to a war with the whites. he was well-known to eustace by name; in fact the latter had once, to his considerable chagrin, just missed meeting him on the occasion of a political visit he had made to the komgha some months previously.
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meanwhile the prisoner might well feel anxious as he watched the group of amapakati, for they were debating nothing less than the question whether he should be put to death or not.
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the chief kreli was by no means a cruel or bloodthirsty ruler--and he was a tolerably astute one. it is far from certain that he himself had ever been in favour of making war at that time. he was too shrewd and far-seeing to imagine that success could possibly attend his arms in the long run, but on the other hand he bore a deep and latent grudge against the english by reason of the death at their hands of his father, hintza, who had been made a prisoner not altogether under circumstances of an unimpeachable kind and shot while attempting to escape. this had occurred forty years earlier.
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so when the young bloods of the tribe, thirsting for martial distinction, had forced the hands of their elders and rulers, by provoking a series of frictions with their fingo neighbours then under british protection, the old chief had exercised no very strenuous opposition to their indulging themselves to the top of their bent.
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having, however, given way to the war spirit, he left no stone unturned to insure success. runners were sent to the gaika and hlambi tribes located in british kaffraria, viz.: within the colonial limits--but although plenty of young men owning those nationalities drifted across the kei in squads to join his standard, the bulk of the tribes themselves were slow to respond to his appeal. had it been otherwise, the position of the border people would have been more serious. with the enemy at their very doors they would have found plenty of occupation at home, instead of being free to pour their forces into the transkei. things, however, had turned out differently. the gcaleka country had been ravaged from end to end, and the old chief was at that moment practically a fugitive. it may readily be imagined, therefore, that he was in rather an ugly humour, and not likely to show much clemency towards the white prisoner in his power.
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there was another consideration which militated against the said clemency. although he had made no allusion to it, it must not be supposed that kreli was all this time unaware of the identity of his prisoner. the latter's friendship with many of the gaika rulers was a rank offence in the eyes of the paramount chief just then. had he not sent his "word" to those chiefs, and had not his "word" fallen on ears dull of hearing? instead of rising at his call they were yet "sitting still." what more likely than that white men, such as this one, were influencing them--were advising them contrary to their allegiance to him, the paramount chief?
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some of the amapakati were in favour of sparing the prisoner at present. he might be of use to them hereafter. he seemed not like an ordinary white man. he spoke their tongue and understood their customs. there was no knowing but that he might eventually serve them materially with his own people. others, again, thought they might just as well give him over to the people to be put to death in their own way. it would please the fighting men--many of whom had lost fathers and brothers at the hands of the whites. yet again, one or two more originated another proposal. they had heard something of this white man being a bit of a wizard--that he owned a "charm" which had turned the blade of a broad assegai from his heart. let him be handed over to ngcenika, the great witch-doctress. let her try whether his "charm" was too strong for her.
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this idea met with something like universal acceptance. shrewd and intelligent as they are in ordinary matters, kafirs are given to the most childish superstitions, and, in adopting the above suggestion, these credulous savages really did look forward to witnessing something novel in the way of a competition in magic. in their minds the experiment was likely to prove a thing worth seeing.
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"so be it," assented kreli. "let the witch-doctress be sought."
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but almost before the words had left his lips--there pealed forth a wild, unearthly shriek--a frightful yell--emanating from the line of rugged and bush-grown rocks which shut in one side of the clearing. chiefs, amapakati, warriors--all turned towards the sound, an anxious expression upon every face--upon many, one of apprehension, of fear. even to the white prisoner the interruption was sufficiently startling. and then there bounded forth into their midst a hideous, a truly appalling apparition.
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man, woman, or demon--which was it?
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a grim, massive face, a pair of fierce, rolling eyes, which seemed to sparkle with a cruel and blood thirsty scintillation, a large, strongly built trunk, whose conformation alone betrayed the sex of the creature. limbs and body were hung around thickly with barbarous "charms" in hideous and disgusting profusion--birds' heads and claws, frogs and lizards, snakes' skins, mingling with the fresh and bloody entrails of some animal. but the head of this revolting object was simply demoniacal in aspect. the hair, instead of being short and woolly, had been allowed to attain some length, and hung down on each side of the frightful face in a black, kinky mane, save for two lengths of it, which, stiffened with some sort of horrid pigment, stood erect like a couple of long red horns on each side of the wearer's ears. between these "horns," and crowning the creature's head, grinned a human skull, whose eyeless sockets were smeared round with a broad circle in dark crimson. and that nothing should be wanting to complete the diabolical horror of her appearance, the repulsive and glistening coils of a live serpent were folding and unfolding about the left arm and shoulder of the sorceress.
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something like a shudder of fear ran through the ranks of the armed warriors as they gazed upon this frightful apparition. brave men all-- fearless fighters when pitted against equal forces--now they quailed, sat there in their armed might, thoroughly cowed before this female fiend. she would require blood--would demand a life, perhaps several-- that was certain. whose would it be?
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the wild, beast-like bounds of the witch-doctress subsided into a kind of half-gliding, half-dancing step--her demoniacal words into a weird nasal sort of chant--as she approached the chief and his councillors.
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"seek not for ngcenika, o son of hintza, father of the children of xosa!" she cried in a loud voice, fixing her eyes upon kreli. "seek not for ngcenika, o amapakati, wise men of the house of gcaleka, when your wisdom is defeated by the witchcraft of your enemies. seek not ngcenika, o ye fighting men, children of the great chief, your father, when your blood is spilled in battle, and your bullets fly harmless from the bodies of the whites because of the evil wiles of the enemy within your ranks. seek her not, for she is here--here to protect you--here to `smell out' the evil wizard in your midst. she needs no seeking; she needs no calling. she is here!"
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"ha! ha!" ejaculated the warriors in a kind of gasping roar, for those ominous words told but too truly what would presently happen. not a man but dreaded that he might be the victim, and in proportion as each man stood well in rank or possessions, so much the greater was his apprehension.
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"i hear the voices of the shadowy dead!" went on the sorceress, striking an attitude of intense listening, and gazing upwards over the heads of her audience. "i hear their voices like the whispering murmur of many waters. i hear them in the air? no. i hear them in the roar of the salt waves of yonder blue sea? no. i hear them in the whispering leaves of the forest--in the echoing voices of the rocks? no. in the sunshine? no. i am in the dark--in the dark!" she repeated, raising her tone to a high, quavering shriek, while her features began to work, her eyes to roll wildly. "i am in the gloom of the far depths, and the world itself is rolling above me. the air is thick. i choke. i suffocate. i am in the tomb. the rock walls close me in. there are faces around me--eyes--myriads of eyes--serpent eyes--hissing tongues. they come about me in the black gloom. they scorch--they burn. ah-ah!"
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an awful change had come over the speaker. her features were working convulsively--she foamed at the mouth--her eyes were turned literally inward so that nothing but the white was visible. her body swayed to and fro in short, irregular jerks, as though avoiding the attack of unseen enemies. the live serpent, which, grasped by the neck, she held aloft in the air, writhed its sinuous length, and with hood expanded and eyes scintillating, was hissing ferociously. the effect upon the savage audience was striking. not a word was uttered--not a finger moved. all sat motionless, like so many statues of bronze, every eye bent in awesome entrancement upon the seer. even eustace felt the original contemptuous interest with which he had watched the performance deepen into a blood-curdling sort of repulsion. from the stage of mere jugglery the case had entered upon one which began to look uncommonly like genuine diabolical possession.
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"i am in the gloom of the depths," shrieked the hideous sorceress, "even the home of the immortal serpents, which none can find save those who are beloved of the spirits. the air is black and thick. it is shining with eyes--eyes, eyes--everywhere eyes. the ground is alive with serpents, even the spirits of our valiant dead, and they speak. they speak but one word and that is `blood! blood--blood--blood!'" repeated the frightful monster. "blood must flow! blood! blood!" and uttering a series of deafening howls she fell prone to the earth in frightful convulsions.
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not one of the spectators moved. the hideous features working, the eyes rolling till they seemed about to drop from their sockets, the foam flying from the lips--the body of ngcenika seeming to stiffen itself like a corpse, bounded many feet in the air, and falling to the earth with a heavy thud, bounded and rebounded again--the festoons of barbarous and disgusting ornaments which adorned her person, twisting and untwisting in the air like clusters of snakes. the live rinkhaals, which had escaped from her grasp, lay coiled in an attitude of defence, its head reared threateningly.
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for some minutes this appalling scene continued. then the horrible contortions of the body ceased. the witch-doctress lay motionless; the swollen eyes, the terrible face, set and rigid, staring up to heaven. she might have been dead. so, too, might have been the spectators, so still, so motionless were they.
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the suspense was becoming horrible, the silence crushing. there was just a whisper of air among the leaves of the surrounding forest, causing a faint rustle, otherwise not a sound--not even the distant call of a bird. eustace, gazing upon the motionless dark forms that surrounded him and upon the immeasurably repulsive figure of the prostrate demoniac, felt that he could stand it no longer--that he must do something to break that awful silence even though it should cost him his life, when an interruption occurred, so sudden, so startling in its unexpectedness, that he could hardly believe his eyes.
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the witch-doctress, who had seemed prone in the powerlessness of extreme exhaustion for hours at least, suddenly sprang to her feet with a blood-curdling yell.
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"the white wizard!" she shrieked. "the white wizard!"
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"ha! the white wizard! the white wizard!" echoed the warriors, relieved that the storm had passed them by this time. "let us see. is his charm too strong for ngcenika?"
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the time had come. though unarmed, eustace was still unbound. instinctively and warily he glanced around, eager to grasp at some means of doing battle for his life. but no such means rewarded his glance.
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ngcenika walked up to one of the guards, and laid her hand on the bundle of assegais which he carried. the man surrendered it with alacrity, striving to conceal the apprehension which came over his features as he came face to face with the terrible witch-doctress. she chose a short-handled, broad-bladed stabbing assegai, examined it critically, and returned to her former position.
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placing the weapon on the ground she proceeded to dance round it in a circle, chanting a weird, droning incantation. the prisoner watched her keenly. no attempt had been made to bind him. at last her song ceased. grasping the assegai in her powerful right hand, she advanced towards eustace.
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at a sign from ngcenika the guards fell back some twenty yards. behind them were the dense ranks of armed warriors, all craning eagerly forward to watch what was to follow. at about the same distance in front sat the group of chiefs and councillors, so that the prisoner and the sorceress were completely hemmed in.
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"white wizard--white dog!" she began, standing within striking distance. "wizard indeed! what is thy magic worth? dost thou not fear me?"
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eustace, seeing through the repulsive mass of gew-gaws which represented the juggling line of business, realised that he had to deal with a powerful, broadly built, middle-aged woman of about five foot ten. she looked hard and muscular, and as strong as any two men--in fact, no mean antagonist, even had he been similarly armed, and he was unarmed.
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"no, i do not fear you," he replied quietly, keeping his eyes upon hers, like a skilful fencer. the answer seemed rather to amuse than irritate her.
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"he is not afraid! the white wizard is not afraid!" they cried.
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"dost thou dare to stand before me while i strike thee? is thy charm potent enough, o white wizard?" said ngcenika, raising the assegai in the air.
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"present thy breast, then. give thy heart to my stroke. let thy `charm' protect thee if it can."
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a desperate plan had occurred to eustace--to wrench the assegai from the hag's hand and make a dash for the forest. but even concurrently with the idea, he realised the absolute impracticability of it. he more, than doubted his ability to disarm his adversary; he had no doubt at all as to the certainty of his being seized long before he could accomplish that feat. no--he must stand up to the blow. it was his only chance, and at any rate his death would be a swift and painless one.
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the dark, brawny arm of the sorceress was upraised, her muscular fingers gripped the assegai haft a few inches from the blade. the shining spear-head gleamed aloft.
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not once did his glance wander from that cruel demon-face confronting him. yet between it and him floated the sweet, oval contour of another very different countenance.
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"love of my life--preserve that life once more for thyself!" he murmured with the impassioned fervour of an invocation of faith. his lips moved.
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"ha! thou repeatest thy charm, o white wizard," said ngcenika. "is it stronger than mine? is it stronger than mine?"
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the prisoner stood with chest expanded--erect--facing the witch-doctress. there was a flash of light through the air, and the spear descended. no writhing body, gushing with blood, sank to the earth. the prisoner stood, erect and smiling.
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"hau!" cried the warriors. "the `charm' is too strong. the white man is unhurt--mawo!"
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ngcenika could be seen examining the point of her assegai in scowling concern. it was completely flattened and turned.
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it must not be supposed that eustace was so simple as to imagine that the sorceress would strike at the spot where she knew the impediment was concealed--over his heart, to wit. that cunning she-devil, as he well knew, would aim just to the right of this, and would reckon infallibly upon transfixing him. accordingly, while watching the stroke, with incredible quickness and dexterity he timed himself to swerve slightly in that direction thus actually catching the point of the weapon upon the silver box. again had the love of eanswyth stepped between himself and death.
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"where is the man who owns this spear?" cried the witch-doctress, suddenly.
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with much inward trepidation a warrior stepped forward.
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"thy weapon is bewitched!" cried the hag, in a terrible voice.
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the man made no reply. he thought his doom was sealed.
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"yes, thy weapon is bewitched." then raising her voice: "where is the man who struck this white wizard in battle?"
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a moment's hesitation--and there advanced from the ranks of the fighting men a tall, powerful warrior. he grasped in his hand a broad-bladed assegai, with the point broken short off.
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"ewa, ewa!" shouted the warriors. "the wizard must be found. the great witch-doctress must find him. then will the white man's magic be no longer too strong for her. he must be killed! find him! find him! he must be killed!"
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chapter thirty one.
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the "smelling out."
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"he must be killed! he must be killed!"
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"find the wizard!" echoed those whom she had already passed by as she commenced her passage along the line.
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"find the wizard!" they shouted, rapping the ground with their sticks. those who had yet to undergo the ordeal kept stem silence.
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the chorus grew in volume as the number qualified to swell it increased. not merely a lust for blood did that horrid shout represent--it embodied also a delirious relief on the part of those already safe.
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suddenly ngcenika made a half pause, raising her voice in the midst of her yelling chant. the serpent, its black coils writhing and twisting around her arm, opened its jaws and hissed horribly. those still expectant held their breaths; those already relieved shouted and hammered with their sticks harder than ever. those directly opposite the sorceress, at this ill-omened juncture, stood turned to stone.
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"find him, inyoka!" snarled the hag.
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"find him! find him!" echoed the deep-toned chorus.
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but the pause was only momentary. not yet was the victim singled out. ngcenika resumed her way, only to repeat the process further along the line. and this she would do at intervals, sometimes coming to a dead stop in such significant and purpose-fraught fashion that the whole body of spectators stood ready to hurl themselves like lightning upon the unlucky one denounced. the hellish hag was enjoying the terror she inspired, and as strong men of tried bravery one after another quailed before her she gloated over their fears to such a pitch that her voice rose to a deafening shriek of demoniacal glee.
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the other end of the great human crescent was nearly reached and still no victim. and now those who had escaped so far began to feel their apprehensions return. it would be no unprecedented affair were a second trial to occur, or even a third. the sorceress might elect to make her fatal progress through the ranks again and again. there were barely fifty men left. unless the victim or victims should be found among those, a second progress was inevitable.
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the bloodthirsty chorus rose into a deafening roar. the tension was fearful to witness. the hideous possession of the repulsive witch-doctress had communicated itself in some degree to the mass of excitable savages. many were foaming at the mouth and apparently on the eve of convulsions. not satisfied with the shouting, the infuriated mob beat time with their feet in addition to their sticks, as they joined in the hell-hag's demoniacal incantations, and the perspiration streamed from every pore till the very air was heavy with a sickening and musky odour. it was a repellent and appalling scene, and even the white spectator, apart from the extreme peril of his own situation, felt his blood curdle within him at this vision of what was very like a diabolical power let loose. but there was worse to follow.
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suddenly the sorceress was seen to halt. her voice rose to a frightful yell, as with blazing eyes, and pouring forth a torrent of denunciation, she raised the great black serpent aloft in such wise that its writhing neck and hissing jaws made a dart straight at the face of a man in the rear rank of the line and near the end of the latter.
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"thou hast found him, inyoka! thou hast found him! show us the wizard!" screeched the hideous witch-doctress. the grinning skull and the two devil-like horns of hair which surmounted her head quivered convulsively. her eyes started from the sockets, and the weird and barbaric amulets hung about her person rattled like castanets. she was once more the mouthing demoniac of a short half-hour ago.
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the writhings and hisses of the serpent had become perfectly frantic. suddenly the reptile was seen to spring free of her grasp and to fling itself straight at the man whose face it had first struck at.
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"the wizard! the wizard!" roared the warriors. "hau! it is vudana! vudana, the son of sekweni, hau!"
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"vudana, the wizard! seize him!" shrieked the sorceress. "seize him, but slay him not. he must confess! he must confess! on your lives, slay him not!"
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the first part of her mandate had already been obeyed. those in his immediate neighbourhood had flung themselves upon the doomed man and disarmed him almost before the words of denunciation had left the hag's lips. the second part was in no danger of being disobeyed now. better for the victim if it had.
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the latter was a man just past middle age, with a quiet and far from unpleasing cast of features. he was not a chief, but had a reputation for shrewdness and foresight beyond that of many an accredited leader.
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"ha, vudana! vudana, the wizard!" cried ngcenika mockingly. "vudana, who did not believe in the efficacy of my magic. vudana, who pretended to manufacture `charms' as effective as mine. vudana, whose poor attempts at magic have been effective to destroy mine in the case of all who believed in them. call the names of those who fell," she cried, addressing the crowd. "they are all believers in vudana, not in me! where are they now? ask the amanglezi--even the amafengu, before whose bullets they fell. ask the jackal and the vulture, who have picked their bones. ask mfulini, the son of mapute, whose weapon was turned by the magic of the white man! was he a believer in vudana's `charms'?" she added in a menacing voice, rolling her eyes around.
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"he was not," shouted the warrior named, springing forward. "where is the man who bewitched my broad umkonto. let him confess and say how he did it."
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"it is well, mfulini," said the witch-doctress grimly, knowing that the other trembled for his personal safety now that she had dexterously turned suspicion upon him. "thou shall be the man to make him confess."
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"i have nothing to confess," said vudana. he lay on his bark, held powerless by several men while waiting for a reim to be brought wherewith to bind him. he knew that he was doomed--doomed not merely to death, but to one of the differing forms of frightful torment meted out to those accused of his offence. he knew moreover that whether he accused himself or not the result would be the same, and a warrior light blazed from his eyes as he replied.
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"if the great chief wants my cattle, my possessions, they are his; let him take them. if he wants my life, it too is his; let him take it. but i will not accuse myself of that which i have never committed."
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if kreli had heard this appeal he made no sign. witchcraft was an offence--theoretically at any rate--outside the secular province. "smelling out" was a good old custom which had its uses, and one not lightly to be interfered with. it was doubtful, however, whether he did hear, for a shout of execration, led by the witch-doctress, drowned the victim's words.
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"he will not confess! au! where are the hot stones? to the fire! to the fire!" roared the crowd. the witch-doctress uttered a fiendish laugh.
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"no. to the ants!" she cried.
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"ewa! ewa! to the ants!" they echoed. "bring him along. hau! the ants are hungry!"
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a noosed reim was thrown round the doomed man's neck, and another made fast to each of his wrists, and thus, with the whole crowd surging and yelling around him, he was dragged into the adjoining forest.
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by no means free from apprehension on his own account, eustace obeyed. when they arrived among the eager and excited crowd, the entertainment had already begun. all made way for the white prisoner and his guards, and there was a fiendish leer on many a dark face which needed not a muttered remark or two to explain. the horrible scene he was about to witness was extremely likely to be his own fate.
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the doomed man lay spread eagled on his back; his hands and feet, stretched to their utmost tension, were fastened to stout pegs driven into the ground. two of the kafirs were busily anointing his naked body with a sticky compound, which was, in fact, a mixture of honey and native beer. this they smeared over him with bits of rag: ears, eyes, nose, coming in for a plentiful share. already his flesh seemed alive with moving objects, and then the cause became apparent. the wretched man was tied down right across a huge ant's nest, which had been broken in order to receive his body. already the infuriated insects were making their bites felt. he was to be devoured alive by black ants.
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"confess, vudana," cried ngcenika. "confess thy witchcraft and how thy `charms' were obtained. the black ants bite hard. ha!"
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"confess? ha-ha!" jeered the sufferer, his eyes blazing. "not to thee, vulture. not to thee, jackal. not to thee, spawn of a fingo dog. ha! that is the witch-doctress of the amagcaleka! such a thing as that! what magic can she make? a cheat--a liar! i can die--i can die as i have lived--a man, a warrior."
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"hau! a wizard! a traitor!" vociferated the crowd. "confess thy witchcraft, lest we put thee to the flaming torment. the fire bites deeper than the black ants. hau!"
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"i laugh at the fire," roared the victim. "i laugh at all that you can do. the fire is but a pleasant warmth. the bite of the ants is but the softest tickling. thou dog, mfulini, were i free, i would whip thee round the kraal."
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"is thy bed a comfortable one, vudana?" replied the barbarian thus apostrophised, with a sneer. and picking up a handful of the venomous insects he scattered them upon the tortured man's face with a brutal laugh.
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for all his defiant fortitude the latter was undergoing agonies. the ants were swarming all over his body, crawling into his nostrils and ears, biting everywhere, eating the rims of his eyelids, his lips, his throat, and he was powerless to move a hand or foot. the spectators crowded around, mocking and jeering at him. a few minutes ago he was a man of consideration--now all pushed and fought for the front places to witness his sufferings, all heaped execrations upon him as they gloated over the horrible punishment of one who had been denounced as a wizard.
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"whose magic is the greatest, vudana--thine or mine?" jeered ngcenika, bending over her victim until her face was close to his. but the proximity of that repulsive countenance infuriated even the helpless victim. with a roar of rage he spat full into it, vociferating:
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"thou spawn of a fingo dog! thine hour is come. i have put my mark upon thee. before many moons are dead thou too shalt die, and thy death shall be even as mine. i, vudana, say it. hear ye my words all!"
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"he has confessed," shouted the crowd. "he is a wizard. he has confessed. let him die the death!"
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with a yell of fury ngcenika started back, and glared vengefully around as if inquest of some means whereby to add to the sufferer's agony. then she remembered that it would hardly bear adding to under the circumstances, and contented herself with a satanic laugh.
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nor would it. in a short time the miserable man's body was black with the repulsive insects. they swarmed into his ears and nostrils. his struggles became fearful, as he writhed in the excruciating torment of their poisonous bites. he foamed at the mouth. his eyeballs rolled and strained in their sockets, and he shook his head and roared like a beast. it would be impossible to exaggerate the agonies he was undergoing. his frantic struggles availed not to shake off a single one of the myriad insects swarming upon him. already his eyes were half eaten away.
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it was a fiendish and appalling spectacle. the man was now raving mad. he gnashed his teeth and howled. his contortions were fearful to witness. yet no spark of pity or compunction did the sight awaken in the ferocious hearts of the spectators, many of whom were, up to the moment of the fatal denunciation, his kindred and his friends. but since his treatment of the witch-doctress all were chary of venturing too close. many of the superstitious barbarians had already began to look upon ngcenika with decreased respect. vudana, suffering as a wizard, had spat in her face, accompanying the act with a prophecy and a curse. on no consideration would they run the risk of exposing themselves to like treatment.
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eustace, forced to be a spectator of this blood-curdling scene, felt his head swim with horror and disgust. the chastened gloom of the forest, the gibing crowd of armed savages, the weird shrill singing of the witch-doctress, and the frightful contortions and beast-like roars of the miserable victim, who was being literally devoured alive, made up a picture likely to haunt a man in his dreams for the rest of his life, to start him suddenly awake in a cold sweat of terror. still he remembered that any exhibition of feeling would be in the highest degree dangerous, and controlled himself accordingly.
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all this had taken some time and now the frantic struggles of the sufferer had subsided. a convulsive shudder would now and then run through his limbs, and his sightless eyeballs would roll in a manner hideous to behold, and ever the disgusting insects swarmed over him in a horrible moving mass, now red with blood, and smothered beneath gouts of saliva which had flown from the maniac's lips. upon his violent struggles had followed exhaustion--mercifully, the exhaustion of approaching death.
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"he is dying!" cried several, bending over the victim. "hau! a man like vudana should have taken much longer to die."
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this was said in a disappointed tone. the barbarous appetite of these savages was thoroughly roused--whetted for further atrocities. a shout arose.
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"the white man! the white man! what shall we do with him?"
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well might eustace start, in horror and dismay. but a glance served to show that the object of attention was not himself, but somebody at the other end of the crowd, in which direction all heads were turned. then as the crowd parted a moment he caught a glimpse of something--somebody rather--which evoked a second start, this time one of very unequivocal amazement. could he believe his eyes?
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chapter thirty two.
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a strange duel.
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in the midst of the savage throng was another white man, also a prisoner, who had been forced to assist at the barbarous scene just detailed. his lot, however, had been cast in far worse lines than that of eustace, for his hands were tightly fastened behind his back and a reim connected his ankles in such wise that he could only take short steps--which painful fact he would every now and then forget, with the result of just so many ignominious "croppers." whereat his dusky tormentors would shout with gleeful laughter.
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in addition to his bonds the unfortunate man appeared to have undergone considerable maltreatment. his hair and beard were matted with dust and blood, and his head was rudely bandaged with rags of the filthiest description. he was clad in a greasy and tattered shirt, and trousers to match--his own clothes having been impounded by his captors. moreover there were livid wales upon his face and hands, and such parts of his person as were visible through his ragged apparel, which showed that he had been unmercifully beaten. well might eustace start in amazement, absolute and unfeigned. in this pitiable object he recognised tom carhayes.
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he gazed at him speechless--as at one who has risen from the dead. if ever he could have sworn to any man's death it would have been to that of the man before him. he had seen the assegais flash in the air and descend--had heard the dull, sickening blows of the kerries which had beaten the life out of his unfortunate cousin. yet, here stood the latter--not exactly unhurt, but yet full of life.
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"hau, umlilwane!" said hlangani, who was standing beside the latter-- grinning hideously into his victim's face. "you are not near enough to see well. the black ants bite--harder than the shot from your gun," he went on, with grim meaning, beckoning to those who stood by to drag the prisoner nearer to the body of the unfortunate vudana, which lay, raw and bloody, the veins exposed in many places by the bites of the myriad swarming insects. carhayes gazed upon the horrid sight with a shudder of disgust. then raising his eyes he encountered those of eustace. a shout of astonishment escaped him.
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"how did you get here?" he cried. "thought you were rubbed out if ever any fellow was. suppose you thought the same of me. well, well. it'll come to that soon. these damned black devils have bested me, just as i reckoned i was besting them. they've been giving me hell already. but i say, eustace, you seem to be in clover," noticing the other's freedom from bonds or ill-treatment. then he added bitterly, "i forgot; you always did stand in well with them."
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"that isn't going to help me much now, i'm afraid," answered eustace. "i've just made a fool of the witch-doctress and she won't let things rest there, depend upon it. my case isn't much more hopeful than yours. have you tried the bribery trick?"
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"no. how do you mean?"
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"offer some big-wig, like our particular friend there--i won't mention names--a deuce of a lot of cattle to let you escape. try and work it-- only you must be thundering careful."
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the kafirs, who had been attentively listening to the conversation between the two white men, here deemed that enough had been said. dialogue in an unknown tongue must represent just so much plotting, argued their suspicious natures. so they interposed.
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"see there," said hlangani, with a meaning glance at the fearfully contorted features of the miserable victim of the witch-doctress. "see there, umlilwane, and remember my `word' to you the day you shot my white hunting dog and wounded me in the shoulder. you had better first have cut off your right hand, for it is better to lose a hand than one's mind. hau! you laughed then. who laughs now?"
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to eustace those words now stood out in deadly significance. the wretched vudana had died raving mad. this, then, was the promised vengeance. whatever his own fate might be, that of his cousin was sealed. nothing short of a miracle could save him. carhayes, noting the deadly and implacable expression upon the dark countenance of his enemy, realised something of this, and fearless as he habitually was, it was all he could do to keep from betraying some misgiving.
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at this juncture a mandate arrived from kreli that the warriors should once more assemble within the temporary kraal, and that the white prisoners should again be brought before him. singing, chatting, laughing, administering many a sly kick or cuff to poor carhayes, the savages swarmed back to the open space, dragging that unfortunate along in rough, unceremonious fashion. soon the glade was empty, save for the body of the miserable victim of their blindly superstitious ferocity. it lay there, stark, mangled, and hideous.
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the paramount chief and his councillors still sat in a group apart. they had borne no part in, betrayed no interest in, the barbarous tragedy which had just taken place. such a matter as the punishment of a wizard was entirely beneath their notice--in theory at any rate. they still sat in grave and dignified impassiveness.
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eustace, noting the difference between his own treatment and that of his cousin--the one bound with unnecessary rigour, hustled and kicked, the other, though disarmed, treated with a certain amount of consideration-- began to entertain strong hopes on his own account. but tending materially to dash them was the fact that ngcenika, standing before the chief and the amapakati, was favouring that august assemblage with a very fierce and denunciatory harangue.
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there were two white men, she said--two prisoners. one of these was a man of some power, who had been able to oppose her magic with his own; only for a time, however--the hag took care to add. this man it might be well to keep for a little while longer at any rate; there were several experiments which she herself intended to try upon him. but the other--he had always been a bitter enemy of their race. many had fallen at his hands. had he not cut a notch upon his gun-stock for every fighting man of the race of xosa whom he had slain? there was the gun-stock and there were the notches. there were many of them, let the great chief--let the amapakati count.
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at the production of this damning "piece de conviction," a shout of fury rose from the ranks of the warriors.
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"to the fire!" they cried. "to the fire with him!"
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the situation was appalling, yet carhayes never quailed. the desperate pluck of the man bore him up even then. he scowled contemptuously upon the lines of dark and threatening faces, then turned erect and fearless towards the chief.
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for a few moments they confronted each other thus in silence. the englishman, somewhat weak and unsteady from exhaustion and ill-treatment, could still look the arbiter of his fate straight in the eyes without blenching. they might do their worst and be damned, he said to himself. he, tom carhayes, was not going to whine for mercy to any nigger--even if that "nigger" was the chief paramount of all the amaxosa tribes.
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the latter, for his part, was not without respect for the white man's intrepidity, but he had no intention of sparing him for all that. he had been debating with his chiefs and councillors, and they had decided that carhayes ought to be sacrificed as an uncompromising and determined enemy of their race. the other it might be expedient to keep a little longer and see how events would turn.
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"what have you to say, umlungu?" said kreli at length.
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"nothing. not a damn thing," broke in carhayes, in a loud, harsh tone.
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"tom, for god's sake don't be such a fool," whispered eustace, who was near enough to be heard. "can't you be civil for once?"
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"no, i can't; not to any infernal black scoundrel," roared the other savagely. "it's different with you, eustace," changing his tone to a bitter sneer. "damn it, man, you're about half a kafir already. why don't you ask old kreli for a couple of his daughters and set up a kraal here among them, eh?"
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a sounding whack across the ear with the haft of an assegai choked the words in his throat. he stood, literally foaming with fury.
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"attend, thou white dog," cried a great deep-toned voice. "attend when the great chief is talking to thee. au!"
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an infuriated mastiff straining at his chain is a pretty good exemplification of impotent wrath, but even he is nothing to the aspect and demeanour of carhayes as he turned to the perpetrator of this indignity. the veins rolled in his forehead as if they would burst. the muscles stood out upon his neck like cords as he strove by a superhuman effort to burst his bonds. but hlangani only sneered.
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"listen when the great chief is talking to thee, thou jackal, or i will strike thee again," he said.
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"god damn the great chief!" roared poor tom, his voice rising to a hurricane shriek of fury under this shameful indignity, which he was powerless to resent. "and you, hlangani, you dog, if i stood unbound i would kill you at this moment--kill you all unarmed as i am. coward! dare you try it!"
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"what is this indaba?" interrupted kreli sternly. "this white man has a very long tongue. perhaps it may be shortened with advantage." a hum of applause greeted this remark, and the chief went on. "you are asked a question, umlungu, and instead of answering you rave and bellow and throw yourself about like a cow that has lost her calf. and now what have you to say? you have invaded our country and shot our people with your own hand. if a man thrusts his head into a hornet's nest, whom shall he blame but himself if he gets stung--if he treads upon a serpent, how shall he complain if made to feel the reptile's fangs?"
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"well, you see, it's war-time," answered carhayes bluntly, beginning to think he might just as well say something to save his life, if words could save it, that is. "i have met your people in fair fight, and i challenge any man, black or white, to deny that i have acted fair, square, and above board. and when we do take prisoners we don't treat them as i have been treated since i was brought here. they are taken care of by the doctors if wounded, as i am; not tied up and starved and kicked, as i have been."
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"their doctors are the fingo dogs," interrupted the chief darkly, "their medicine a sharp assegai. freeborn men of the house of gcaleka to die at the hand of a fingo slave! hau!"
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a roar of execration went up at this hit. "to the fire with him!" howled the savage crowd. "give him to us, great chief, that we may make him die a hundred deaths!"
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"that is the sort of healing my children get when they fall into the hands of amanglezi. and you, umlungu, you have offered an insult to the house of gcaleka in the person of hlangani, my herald, a man of the house of hintza, my father. was it war-time when you shed his blood? did you meet in fair fight when you shot him suddenly and at close-quarters, he having no gun?"
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"was it war-time when hlangani entered the gaika location to stir up strife? was it right that he should bring his dogs on to my farm to hunt my bucks?" answered carhayes fearlessly. "again, was it fair play for four men, armed with assegais, to attack one, who had but two shots? or was it self-defence? listen to my words, kreli, and you chiefs and amapakati of the house of gcaleka," he went on, raising his voice till it was audible to the whole assemblage. "in the presence of you all i proclaim hlangani a coward. he has struck and insulted me because i am bound. he dare not meet me free. i challenge him to do so. loosen these bonds. i am weak and wounded. i cannot escape--you need not fear--and let him meet me if he dares, with any weapon he chooses. i challenge him. if he refuses he is nothing but a cowardly dog, and worse than the meanest fingo. if you, kreli, refuse my request, it is because you know this bragging herald of yours to be a coward."
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the fierce rapidity of this harangue, the audacity of the request embodied within it, took away the auditors' breath. yet the idea appealed to them--appealed powerfully to their ardently martial sympathies. the very novelty of such a duel as that proposed invested it with a rare attractiveness.
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"what does hlangani say?" observed kreli, with a partly amused glance at his subordinate.
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"this, o great chief of my father's house," replied the warrior, the light of battle springing into his eyes. "of what man living was hlangani ever afraid? what man ever had to call him twice? yet, o great chief, the head of my father's house, i would ask a boon. when i have whipped this miserable white dog, i would claim possession of his wretched carcase absolutely, alive or dead."
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"it is granted, hlangani," said the chief.
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"and i?" cried carhayes. "what shall be given to me when i have sent this cur, who strikes helpless men, howling to his hut? my liberty, of course?"
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"no," replied kreli, shortly.
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"no?" echoed the prisoner. "my life then?"
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"no," answered the chief again. "be content, umlungu. if you conquer you shall have a swift and merciful death. if you fail, hlangani claims you."
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carhayes stared at the chief for a moment, then, as he realised that he had nothing to hope for, whether he won in the combat or not--an expression of such deadly ferocity, such fell and murderous purpose swept across his face, that many of those who witnessed it realised that their countryman was going to snatch no easy victory.
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the stout rawhide reims which bound his hands behind him were loosened--and that which secured his feet was removed. he stood swinging his arms and stamping to hasten the circulation--then he asked for some water, which was brought him.
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"ha, umlungu!" jeered ngcenika, addressing eustace, as the two white men stood talking together. "give this valiant fighter some white magic to strengthen him. he will need it."
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"well, eustace, i'm going to kill that dog," said carhayes. "i'm going to die fighting anyway, so that's all right. now--i'm ready. what are we going to fight with?"
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"this," said one of the bystanders, handing him a pair of hard-wood kerries.
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hlangani now made his appearance similarly armed. the crescent formation of warriors had narrowed their ranks, the chiefs and councillors and eustace and his guards composing the upper arc of the circle. the prisoner could not have broken through that dense array of armed men which hemmed him in on every side, had he entertained the idea.
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both the principals in that strange impromptu duel were men of splendid physique. the kafir, nearly naked, looked like a bronze giant, towering above his adversary in his magnificent height and straight and perfect proportions. the englishman, thick-set, deep-chested, concentrated a vast amount of muscular power within his five-foot-eight. he had thrown off his ragged shirt, and the muscles of his chest and arms stood out like ropes. he looked a terribly awkward antagonist, and moreover on his side the conflict would be fought with all the ferocity of despair. he was a man bent on selling his life dearly.
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hlangani, for his part, was confident and smiling. he was going to fight with his natural weapons, a pair of good, trusty kerries. this blundering white man, though he had the strength and ferocity of an enraged bull, had more than that quadruped's stupidity. he would knock him out of shape in no time.
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when blood is up, the spirit of donnybrook is very strong among kafirs. the next best thing to taking part in a fight is to witness one--and now, accordingly, every head was bent forward with the most eager interest as the two combatants advanced towards each other in the open space. there was no "ring" proper, nor were there any recognised rules; no "time" either. each man's business was to kill or disable the other--as effectually as possible, and by any means in his power.
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now a smart kafir, armed with two good kerries whose use he thoroughly understands, is about as tough a customer to tackle as is a professional pugilist to the average briton who knows how to use his hands but indifferently. of this carhayes was perfectly aware. consequently his plan was to meet his antagonist with extreme wariness; in fact, to stand rather on the defensive, at any rate at first. he was a fair single stick player, which tended not a little to equalise the chances.
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as they drew near each other and reached striking distance, they looked straight into each other's eyes like a pair of skilful fencers. the savage, with one kerrie raised in the air, the other held horizontally before his breast, but both with a nervous, supple grasp, ready to turn any way with lightning rapidity--his glance upon that of his foe--his active, muscular frame poised lightly on one foot, then on another, with feline readiness, would have furnished a perfect subject for an instantaneous photograph representing strength and address combined. the englishman, his bearded lips compressed, his blue eyes sparkling and alert, shining with suppressed eagerness to come to close-quarters with his crafty and formidable foe, was none the less a fine specimen of courage and undaunted resolution.
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hlangani, a sneering laugh upon his thick lips, opened the ball by making a judicious feint. but his adversary never moved. he followed it up by another, then a series of them, whirling his striking kerrie round the englishman's head in the most startling proximity, now on this side, now on that, holding his parrying one ready for any attack the other might make upon him. still carhayes stood strictly on the defensive. he knew the kafir was trying to "draw him"--knew that his enemy's quick eye was prepared for any opportunity. he was not going to waste energy gratuitously.
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suddenly, and with lightning-like celerity, hlangani made a sweep at the lower part of his adversary's leg. it would have been the ruin of a less experienced combatant, but carhayes' kerrie, lowered just two inches, met that of his opponent with a sounding crash just in time to save his skull somewhere in the region of the ear. it was a clever feint, and a dexterous follow-up, but it had failed. hlangani began to realise that he had met a foeman worthy of his steel--or, rather, of his wood. still he knew the other's impetuous temper, and by wearing out his patience reckoned on obtaining a sure and tolerably easy victory.
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and it seemed as if he would gain the result of his reasoning even sooner than he expected. bristling with rage, literally smarting with the indignity recently put upon him, carhayes abandoned the defensive. with a sudden rush, he charged his antagonist, and for a few moments nothing was heard but the clash of hard-wood in strike and parry. hlangani was touched on the shoulder, while carhayes got a rap on the knuckles, which in cold blood would have turned him almost sick with pain. but his blood was at boiling point now, and he was fighting with the despairing ferocity of one who has no hope left in life. he pressed his gigantic adversary with such vigour and determination that the other had no alternative but to give way.
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the fun was waxing fast and furious now. the warriors crowding in nearer and nearer, pressed forward in breathless attention, encouraging their champion with many a deep-toned hum of applause when he scored or seemed likely to score a point. the few women then in the kraal stood on tiptoe, trying to peer over the heads and shoulders of the armed men. even the chiefs and councillors condescended to show considerable interest in this impromptu tournament, while eustace milne, animated by various motives, watched its progress narrowly.
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for a few moments it really seemed that the white man would prove the victor. before the impetuosity of his furious attacks hlangani was constrained to give way more and more. a beserk ferocity seemed to have taken possession of carhayes. his eyes glared through the blood and dust which clung to his unwashen visage. every hair of his beard seemed to bristle and stand upright, like the mane of a wild boar. his chest heaved, and the dexterity with which he whirled his kerrie around his adversary's ears--always quick to ward the latter's blows from himself-- was wonderful to behold.
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crash--scroosh! the blow told. a sound as of the crunching of bone. hlangani staggered back half a dozen paces, the blood pouring from a wound in his skull. it was a blow that would probably have shattered the skull of a white man.
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but before carhayes could follow it up, the wily savage adopted a different plan. by a series of astonishing leaps and bounds, now backward, now from side to side, he endeavoured to bewilder his enemy, and very nearly succeeded. mad with rage, desperation, and a consciousness of failing strength, carhayes was fast losing control over himself. he roared like a wild animal. he began to strike out wildly, leaving his guard open. this the cunning barbarian saw and encouraged. those looking on had no doubt now as to who held the winning cards; even eustace could see it, but his cousin was too far off now to hear a word of warning or advice, which, however, was just as well for himself.
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again the combatants closed. the splinters began to fly in all directions as the hard-wood sticks whirled and crashed. then suddenly a crushing blow on the wrist sent carhayes' kerrie flying from his grasp and almost simultaneously with it came a sickening "scrunch." the white man dropped like an ox at the shambles, the blood pouring from his head.
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echoing the mighty roar of exultation that went up from the spectators, hlangani stood with his foot on the chest of his prostrate adversary, his kerrie raised to strike again. but there was no necessity. poor tom lay like a corpse, stunned and motionless. the ferocious triumph depicted on the countenance of the savage was horrible to behold.
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"he is mine," he cried, his chest heaving, his eyes blazing, "mine absolutely. the great chief has said it. bring reims."
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in a trice a few stout rawhide thongs were procured, and carhayes was once more bound hand and foot. then acting under the directions of his fierce conqueror--three or four stalwart kafirs raised the insensible form of the unfortunate settler and bore it away.
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"he has only begun to taste the fury of hlangani's revenge," said a voice at eustace's side. turning he beheld the witch-doctress, ngcenika. the hag pointed to the retreating group with a mocking leer.
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"he will wake," she went on. "but he will never be seen again, ixeshane--never. hau!"
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"where will he wake, ngcenika?" asked eustace, in a voice which he strove to render unconcerned.
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"and where is that?"
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"where is it? ha, ha!" mocked the witch-doctress. "thou art a magician, too, ixeshane. wouldst thou indeed like to know?"
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"invoke thy magic then, and see if it will tell thee. but better not. for they who look upon the home of the serpents are seen no more in life. thou hast seen the last of yon white man, ixeshane; thou and these standing around here. ha, ha! better for him that he had never been born." and with a satanic laugh she turned away and left him.
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chapter thirty three.
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"i walk in shadow."
"__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON walk__<label>__VERB in__<label>__DET shadow__<label>__NOUN ."__<label>__.
eanswyth was back again in her old home--living her old life, as in the times that were past--but alone.
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when she had announced her intention of returning to anta's kloof, her friends had received the proposition with incredulity--when they saw that she was determined, with dismay.
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it was stark lunacy, they declared. she to go to live on an out-of-the-way farm, alone! there was not even a neighbour for pretty near a score of miles, all the surrounding stock-farmers having trekked into laager. the gaikas were reported more restless than ever, nor were symptoms wanting that they were on the eve of an outbreak. the gcaleka campaign had fired their warlike spirits, but had failed to convey its accompanying warning, and those "in the know" asserted that the savages might rise any minute and make common cause with their countrymen across the kei. and in the face of all this, here was eanswyth proposing to establish herself on a lonely farm bordering on the very location of the plotting and disaffected tribesmen. why, it was lunacy--rank suicide!
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the worst of it was that nobody on earth had the power to prevent her from doing as she chose. her own family were western province people and lived far up in the karroo. had they been ever so willing, it would take them nearly three weeks to arrive--by which time it might be too late. but eanswyth did not choose to send for any one. she wanted to be alone.
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"you need not be in the least alarmed on my account," she had said to the hostes in answer to their reiterated expostulations. "even if the gaikas should rise, i don't believe they would do me the slightest harm. the people on nteya's location know me well, and the old chief and i used to be great friends. i feel as if i must go to my old home again-- and--don't think me ungracious, but it will do me good to be entirely alone."
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"that was how poor milne used to argue," said hoste gravely. "but they killed him all the same."
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"yes," she replied, mastering the quick sharp spasm which the allusion evoked. "but they were gcalekas--not our people, who knew him."
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hoste shook his head.
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"you are committing suicide," he said. "and the worst of it is we have no power on earth to prevent you."
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"no, you haven't," she assented with the shadow of a smile. "so let me go my own way with a good grace. besides, with old josane to look after me, i can't come to much harm."
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she had telegraphed to her late husband's manager at swaanepoel's hoek, requesting him to send the old cattle-herd to her at once. three days later josane arrived, and having commissioned hoste to buy her a few cows and some slaughter sheep, enough to supply her modest household. eanswyth had carried out her somewhat eccentric plan.
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the utter loneliness of the place--the entire absence of life--the empty kraals and the silent homestead, all this is inexpressibly grateful to her crushed and lacerated spirit. and in the dead silence of those uninhabited rooms she conjures up the sweetest, the holiest memories. her solitude, her complete isolation, conveys no terror--no spark of misgiving, for it is there that her very life has been lived. the dead stillness of the midnight hour, the ghostly creaking of a board, the hundred and one varying sounds begotten of silence and darkness, inspire her with no alarm, for her imagination peoples these empty and deserted rooms with life once more.
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she can see him as she saw him in life, moving about the place on different errands bent. there is his favourite chair; there his place at the table. his personality seems still to pervade the whole house, his spirit to hover around her, to permeate her whole being, here as it could nowhere else. but it was on first entering his room, which still contained a few possessions too cumbersome or too worthless to carry away--a trunk or two and a few old clothes--here it was that that awful and vivid contrast struck her in overwhelming force.
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what an expression there is in such poor and useless relics--a glove, a boot, a hat, even an old pipe--when we know we shall never see the owner again, parted perhaps by circumstances, by distance, by death. do not such things seem verily to speak--and to speak eloquently--to bring before our eyes, to sound within our ears, the vision, the voice of one whom we shall never behold again? ah! do they not!
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standing for the first time alone in that room, eanswyth felt as though her heart had been broken afresh. she fell prone among those poor and worthless relics, pressing them passionately to her lips, while her tears fell like rain. if ever her lover's spirit could come back to her, surely it would be in that room.
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"o eustace, my darling, my first and only love!" murmured the stricken creature, lying face to the very floor in the agony of her grief. "come to me from the shadowy spirit land! o god, send him to me, that i may look upon him once more!"
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the shadows deepened within the room. raising her head she gazed around, and the expression of pitiable eagerness on the white drawn face was fearful to behold.
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"oh, dear lord, if our love is so wicked are we not punished enough! o god, show him to me again if but for a moment! the ghastliest terrors of the grave are sweetness to me, if i may but see him once--my dear dead love! eustace, eustace! you cannot come to me, but i shall soon go to you! is it a loving god or a fiend that tortures us so? ah-ah!"
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her heart-broken paroxysm could go no further. no apparition from another world met her eyes as they strove to penetrate the deepening shadows as though fully expecting one. the exhaustion that supervened was beneficial to a degree, in that it acted as a safety valve to her fearfully overwrought brain. her very mind was in danger.
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for nearly a fortnight has eanswyth thus dwelt, and so far from beginning to tire of her solitude, she hugs it closer to her. she has received visits from the hostes and other friends who, reckoning that a couple of days of solitude would sicken her of it altogether, had come with the object of inducing her to return to the settlement. besides, christmas was close at hand and, her bereavement notwithstanding, it did not somehow seem good that she should spend that genial season alone and in a position not altogether free from danger. but their kindly efforts proved futile; indeed, eanswyth could hardly disguise the fact that their visits were unwelcome. she preferred solitude at such a time, she said. then mrs hoste had undertaken to lecture her. it could not be right to abandon one's self so entirely, even to a great sorrow, purred that complacent matron. it seemed somehow to argue a want of christian resignation. it was all very well up to a certain point, of course; but beyond that, it looked like flying in the face of providence. and eanswyth had turned her great eyes with such a blank and bewildered look upon the speaker's face, as if wondering what on earth the woman could be talking about, that mrs hoste, good-hearted though shallow, had dropped her role of preacher then and there.
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one thing that struck eanswyth as not a little strange was that hardly a kafir had been near the place, whereas formerly their dusky neighbours had been wont to visit them on one pretext or another enough and to spare, the latter especially, in poor tom's opinion. she had sent word to nteya, inviting him to visit her and have a talk, but the old chief had made some excuse, promising, however, to come over and see her later. all this looked strange and, taken in conjunction with the fact that there had been war-dancing again in nteya's location, suspicious. so thought at any rate josane, who gave vent to his misgivings in no uncertain tone. but eanswyth treated his warnings with perfect unconcern. she would not move, she declared. she was afraid of nobody. if josane was, he might go if he liked. to which the staunch old fellow would reply that he feared no man, black or white; that he was there to take care of her, and there he would stay, adding, with a growl, that it might be bad for nteya's, or anybody else's, people should they attempt to molest her.
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it wanted but a day or two to christmas--but an hour to sunset. it was one of those marvellous evenings not uncommon in south africa, as well as in the southern parts of europe--one of those evenings when sky and earth alike are vivid with rich colouring, and the cloudless blue of the heavens assumes a deeper azure still, and there is a dreamy enchantment in the air, and every sight, every sound, toned and mellowed by distance, blends in perfect harmony with the changing glories of the dying day. then the sun goes down in a flaming rainbow of rare tints, each more subtle than the other, each more gorgeous, and withal more delicate than the last.
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the enchantment of the hour was upon eanswyth to the full--the loneliness, the sense of absolute solitude, cut off from the outer world, alone with her dead. wandering down to the gate of the now tenantless ostrich camp she is going over the incidents of that last day--that first and that last day, for it was that upon which they had discovered to each other their great and all-absorbing love. "the last day we shall have together," he had said--and it was so. she can vividly conjure up his presence at her side now. every word he said, every careless gesture even, comes back to her now. here was the gate where they had stood feeding the great birds, idly chatting about nothing in particular, and yet how full were both their hearts even then. and that long sweet embrace so startlingly interrupted! ah! what a day that had been! one day out of a whole lifetime. standing here on this doubly hallowed spot, it seems to her that an eternity of unutterable wretchedness would not be too great a price to pay for just that one day over again. but he is gone. whether their love had been the most sacred that ever blessed the lot of mortal here below, or the unhallowed, inexorably forbidden thing it really is, matters nothing now. death has decided, and from his arbitration there is no appeal.
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she throws herself upon the sward: there in the shade of the mimosa trees where they had sat together. all nature is calm and at peace, and, with the withdrawal of man, the wild creatures of the earth seem to have reclaimed their own. a little duiker buck steps daintily along beneath the thorn fence of the ostrich camp, and the grating, metallic cackle of the wild guinea-fowl is followed by the appearance of quite a large covey of those fine game birds, pecking away, though ever with an air of confirmed distrust, within two score yards of the pale, silent mourner, seated there. the half-whistling, half-twanging note of the yellow thrush mingles with the melodious call of a pair of blue cranes stalking along in the grass, and above the drowsy, measured hum of bees storing sweetness from the flowering aloes, there arises the heavier boom of some great scarabaeus winging his way in blundering, aimless fashion athwart the balmy and sensuous evening air.
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the sun sinks to the western ridge--the voices of animal and insect life swell in harmonious chorus, louder and louder, in that last hour of parting day. his golden beams, now horizontal, sweep the broad and rolling plains in a sea of fire, throwing out the rounded spurs of the kabousie hills into so many waves of vivid green. then the flaming chariot of day is gone.
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and in the unearthly hush of the roseate afterglow, that pale, heart-broken mourner wends her way home. home! an empty house, where the echo of a footfall sounds ghostly and startling; an abode peopled with reminiscences of the dead--meet companionship for a dead and empty heart.
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never so dead--never so empty--as this evening. never since the first moment of receiving the awful news has she felt so utterly crushed, so soul-weary as here to-night. "how was it all to end?" had been their oft-spoken thought--here on this very spot. the answer had come now. death had supplied it. but--how was this to end?
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the glories of departing day were breaking forth into ever varying splendours. the spurs of the mountain range, now green, now gold, assumed a rich purple against the flaming red of the sky. the deepening afterglow flushed and quivered, as the scintillating eyes of heaven sprang forth into the arching vault--not one by one, but in whole groups. then the pearly shades of twilight and the cool, moist fragrance of the falling night.
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why was the earth so wondrously lovely--why should eyes rest upon such semi-divine splendour while the heart was aching and bursting? was the unspoken cry that went up from that heart-weary mourner standing there alone gazing forth into the depths of the star-gemmed night.
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stay! what is that tongue of flame suddenly leaping forth into the darkness? another and another--and lo! by magic, from a score of lofty heights, red fires are gushing upward into the black and velvety gloom, and as the ominous beacons gather in flaming volume roaring up to a great height, the lurid glow of the dark firmament is reflected dully upon the slumbering plains.
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a weird, far-away chorus floats upon the stillness, now rising, now falling. its boding import there is no mistaking. it is the gathering cry of a barbarian host. the gaika location is up in arms. heavens! what is to become of this delicate woman here, alone and unprotected, exposed to the full brunt of a savage rising--and all that it means?
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eanswyth is standing on the stoep, her eyes fixed upon the appalling phenomenon, but in their glance is no shadow of fear. death has no terrors for her now; at peril she can afford to laugh. her lips are even curving into a sweet, sad smile.
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"just as it was that night," she exclaims. "the parallel is complete. blaze on red signals of death--and when destruction does break forth let it begin with me! i will wait for it, welcome it, for i walk in shadow now--will welcome it here on this spot where we stood that sweet and blessed night--here where our hearts first met--here where mine is breaking now!"
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her voice dies away in a sob. she sinks to the ground. the distant glare of the war-fires of the savages falls fully upon that prostrate figure lying there in the abandonment of woe. it lights up a very sacrifice. the rough stones of the stoep are those of an altar--the sacrifice a broken heart.
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"here is where we stood that night together," she murmurs, pressing her lips to the hard, cold stones. "it is just as it was then. oh, my love--my love, come back to me! come back--even from the cold grave!"
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the word is breathed in a low, unsteady voice. every drop of blood within her turns to ice. it is answered at last, her oft-repeated prayer. she is about to behold him. does she not shrink from it? not by a hair's-breadth.
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"let me see you, my love," she murmurs softly, not daring to move lest the spell should be broken. "where--where are you?"
"__<label>__NOUN let__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON see__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. my__<label>__PRON love__<label>__NOUN ,"__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON murmurs__<label>__NOUN softly__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. not__<label>__VERB daring__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT move__<label>__VERB lest__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET spell__<label>__NOUN should__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB broken__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. "__<label>__NOUN where__<label>__NOUN --__<label>__. where__<label>__PRON are__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON ?"__<label>__.
"where our hearts first met--there they meet again. look up, my sweet one. i am here."
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"eustace--eustace! oh, my love! spirit or flesh--you shall not leave me! at last--at last!"
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chapter thirty four.
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from death and--to death.
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she realised it at length--realised that this was no visitant from the spirit-world conjured up in answer to her impassioned prayer, but her lover himself, alive and unharmed. she had thrown herself upon his breast, and clung to him with all her strength, sobbing passionately-- clung to him as if even then afraid that he might vanish as suddenly as he had appeared.
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"my love, my love," he murmured in that low magnetic tone which she knew so well, and which thrilled her to the heart's core. "calm those poor nerves, my darling, and rest on the sweetness of our meeting. we met-- our hearts met first on this very spot. now they meet once more, never again to part."
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still her feeling was too strong for words; she could only cling to him in silence, while he covered her face and soft hair with kisses. a moment ago she was mourning him as dead, was burying her heart in his unknown and far-away grave, and lo, as by magic, he stood before her, and she was safe in his embrace. a moment ago life was one long vista of blank, agonising grief; now the joys of heaven itself might pale before the unutterable bliss of this meeting.
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unlawful or not as their love might be, there was something solemn, almost sacred, in its intense reality. the myriad eyes of heaven looked down from the dark vault above, and the sullen redness of the war-fires flashing from the distant heights shed a dull, threatening glow upon those two, standing there locked in each other's embrace. then once more the wild, weird war-cry of the savage hosts swelled forth upon the night. it was an awesome and fearful background to this picture of renewed life and bliss.
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such a reunion can best be left to the imagination, for it will bear no detailment.
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"why did you draw my very heart out of me like this, eustace, my life?" she said at last, raising her head. "when they told me you were dead i knew it would not be long before i joined you. i could not have endured this living death much longer."
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there were those who pronounced eanswyth carhayes to be the most beautiful woman they had ever beheld--who had started with amazement at such an apparition on an out-of-the-way kaffrarian farm. a grand creature, they declared, but a trifle too cold. they would have marvelled that they had ever passed such a verdict could they but have seen her now, her splendid eyes burning into those of her lover in the starlight as she went on:
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"you are longing to ask what i am doing here in this place all alone and at such a time. this. i came here as to a sanctuary: a sacred spot which enshrined all the dearest memories of you. here in silence and in solitude i could conjure up visions of you--could see you walking beside me as on that last day we spent together. here i could kneel and kiss the floor, the very earth which your feet had trod; and--o eustace, my very life, it was a riven and a shattered heart i offered up daily-- hourly--at the shrine of your dear memory."
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her tones thrilled upon his ear. never had life held such a delirious, intoxicating moment. to the cool, philosophical, strong-nerved man it seemed as if his very senses were slipping away from him under the thrilling love-tones of this stately, beautiful creature nestling within his arms. again their lips met--met as they had met that first time-- met as if they were never again to part.
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the sudden sonorous interruption caused eanswyth to start as if she had been shot, and well it might. her lover, however, had passed through too many strange and stirring experiences of late to be otherwise than slightly and momentarily disconcerted.
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a dark figure stood at the lowest step of the stoep, one hand raised in the air, after the dignified and graceful manner of native salutation.
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"greeting, josane," he replied.
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"now do mine eyes behold a goodly sight," went on the old kafir with animation, speaking in the pleasing figurative hyperbole of his race. "my father and friend is safe home once more. we have mourned him as dead and he is alive again. he has returned to gladden our hearts and delight our eyes. it is good--it is good."
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"how did you know i had returned, josane?"
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had there been light enough they would have detected the most whimsical smile come over the old kafir's face as he replied:
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"am i not the inkosikazi's watch-dog? what sort of a watch-dog is it that permits a footstep to approach from outside without his knowledge?"
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"you are, indeed, a man, josane--a man among men, and trust to those who trust you," replied eustace, in that tone of thorough friendship and regard which had enabled him to win so effectually the confidence of the natives.
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the old cattle-herd's face beamed with gratification, which, however, was quickly dashed with anxiety.
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"look yonder," he said. "there is trouble in the gaika location to-night. take the inkosikazi and leave--this very night. i know what i say." then, marking the other's hesitation, "i know what i say," he repeated impressively. "am i not the inkosikazi's watch-dog? am i not her eyes and ears? even now there is one approaching from nteya's kraal."
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he had struck a listening attitude. eustace, his recent experiences fresh in his mind, felt depressed and anxious, gazing expectantly into the darkness, his hand upon the butt of his revolver.
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"halt! who comes there?" he cried in the xosa tongue.
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"a friend, ixeshane!" came the prompt reply, as a dark form stepped into view.
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now that life was worth living again, eanswyth felt all her old apprehensions return; but she had every confidence in her lover's judgment and the fidelity of her trusted old retainer.
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"hau, ixeshane! you are here; it is good," said the new arrival in the most matter-of-fact way, as though he were not wondering to distraction how it was that the man who had been reported slain in the bomvana country by the hostile gcalekas, should be standing there alive and well before him. "i am here to warn the inkosikazi. she must leave, and at once. the fire-tongues of the amaxosa are speaking to each other; the war-cry of the ama ngqika is cleaving the night."
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"we have seen and heard that before, ncanduku," answered eustace, recognising the new arrival at once. "yet your people would not harm us. are we not friends?"
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the kafir shook his head.
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"who can be called friends in war-time?" he said. "there are strangers in our midst--strangers from another land. who can answer for them? i am ncanduku, the brother of nteya. the chief will not have his friends harmed at the hands of strangers. but they must go. look yonder, and lose no time. get your horses and take the inkosikazi, and leave at once, for the ama ngqika have responded to the call of their brethren and the paramount chief, and have risen to arms. the land is dead."
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there was no need to follow the direction of the kafir's indication. a dull, red glare, some distance off, shone forth upon the night; then another and another. signal fires? no. these shone from no prominent height, but from the plain itself. then eustace took in the situation in a moment. the savages were beginning to fire the deserted homesteads of the settlers.
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the whole condition of affairs was patent to eustace's mind. nteya, though a chief whose status was not far inferior to that of sandili himself, was not all-powerful. those of his tribesmen who came from a distance, and were not of his own clan, would be slow to give implicit obedience to his "word," their instincts for slaughter and pillage once fairly let loose, and so he had sent to warn eanswyth. besides, it was probable that there were gcalekas among them. ncanduku's words, "strangers from another land," seemed to point that way. he put it to josane while harnessing the horses. the old man emitted a dry laugh.
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"there are about six hundred of the gcaleka fighting men in nteya's location to-night," he replied. "every farmhouse in the land will be burned before the morning. whau, ixeshane! is there any time to lose now?"
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eustace realised that assuredly there was not. but inspanning a pair of horses was, to his experienced hand, the work of a very few minutes indeed.
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an involuntary exclamation of concern escaped eustace. for the chief named had evinced a marked hostility towards himself during his recent captivity; indeed, this man's influence had more than once almost turned the scale in favour of his death. no wonder he felt anxious.
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eanswyth had gone into the house to put a few things together, having, with an effort, overcome her reluctance to let him out of her sight during the few minutes required for inspanning. now she reappeared. "i am ready, eustace," she said.
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he helped her to her seat and was beside her in a moment.
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"let go, josane!" he cried. and the kafir, standing away from the horses' heads, uttered a sonorous farewell.
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"what will become of him, dear?" said eanswyth, as they started off at a brisk pace.
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"he is going to stay here and try and save the house. i'm afraid he won't be able to, though. they are bound to burn it along with the others. and now take the reins a moment, dearest. i left my horse hitched up somewhere here, because i wanted to come upon you unawares. i'll just take off the saddle and tie it on behind."
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"but what about the horse? why not take him with us?"
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"josane will look after him. i won't take him along now, because--well, it's just on the cards we might have to make a push for it, and a led horse is a nuisance. ah--there he is," as a low whinnying was heard on their left front and duly responded to by the pair in harness.
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in less than two minutes he had the saddle secured at the back of the buggy and was beside her again. it is to be feared eustace drove very badly that night. had the inquiry been made, candour would have compelled him to admit that he had never driven so badly in his life.
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eanswyth, for her part, was quite overcome with the thrilling, intoxicating happiness of the hour. but what an hour! they were fleeing through the night--fleeing for their lives--their way lighted by the terrible signal beacons of the savage foe--by the glare of flaming homesteads fired by his ravaging and vengeful hand. but then, he who was dead is alive again, and is beside her--they two fleeing together through the night.
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"darling," she whispered at last, nestling up closer to him. "why did they try to kill me by telling me you were dead?"
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"they had every reason to suppose so. now, what do you think stood between me and certain death?"
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"your love--not once, but twice. the silver box. see. here it is, where it has ever been--over my heart. twice it turned the point of the assegai."
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"it is as i say. your love preserved me for yourself."
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"oh, my darling, surely then it cannot be so wicked--so unlawful!" she exclaimed with a quiver in her voice.
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"i never believed it could," he replied.
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up till then, poor tom's name had not been mentioned. both seemed to avoid allusion to it. now, however, that eustace had to narrate his adventures and escape, it could not well be avoided. but in describing the strange impromptu duel between the gcaleka warrior and his unfortunate cousin, he purposely omitted any reference to the latter's probable hideous fate, leaving eanswyth to suppose he had been slain then and there. it was impossible that she should have been otherwise than deeply moved.
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"he died fighting bravely, at any rate," she said at last.
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"yes. want of courage was never one of poor tom's failings. all the time we were out he was keener on a fight than all the rest of the command put together."
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there was silence after this. then at last:
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"how did you escape, eustace, my darling? you have not told me."
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"through paying ransom to that same hlangani and paying pretty stiffly too. four hundred and fifty head of good cattle was the figure. such a haggle as it was, too. it would have been impolitic to agree too quickly. then, i had to square this witch-doctress, and i daresay old kreli himself will come in for some of the pickings. from motives of policy we had to carry out the escape as if it was a genuine escape and not a put-up job--but they managed it all right--took me across the river on some pretext or other and then gave me the opportunity of leg-bail. as soon as the war is over hlangani will come down on me for the cattle."
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"how did you know i was back at anta's kloof, dearest? did the hostes tell you?" said eanswyth at last.
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"no. i met that one-eyed fellow tomkins just outside komgha. i only waited while he called up two or three more to back his statement and then started off here as hard as ever i could send my nag over the ground."
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the journey was about half accomplished. the buggy bowled merrily along--and its occupants--alone together in the warm balmy southern night--began to wish the settlement was even further off. they were ascending a long rise.
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"hallo, what's up?" exclaimed eustace suddenly, whipping up his horses, which he had been allowing to walk up the hill.
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the brow of the hill was of some altitude and commanded a considerable view of the surrounding country. but the whole of the latter was lit up by a dull and lurid glow. at intervals apart burned what looked like several huge and distant bonfires.
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"they mean business this time," said eustace, reining in a moment to breathe his horses on the brow of the rise. "look. there goes hoste's place. that's bradfield's over there--and beyond that must be oesthuisen's. look at them all blazing merrily; and--by jingo--there goes draaibosch!"
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far and wide for many a mile the country was aglow with blazing homesteads. evidently it was the result of preconcerted action on the part of the savages. the wild yelling chorus of the barbarous incendiaries, executing their fierce war-dances around their work of destruction, was borne distinctly upon the night.
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"the sooner we get into komgha the better now," he went on, sending the buggy spinning down the long declivity which lay in front. at the bottom of this the road was intersected by a dry water course, fringed with bush; otherwise the veldt was for the most part open, dotted with straggling clumps of mimosa.
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down went the buggy into the dry sandy drift. suddenly the horses shied violently, then stopped short with a jerk which nearly upset the vehicle. a dark firm, springing panther-like, apparently from the ground, had seized the reins.
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instinctively eustace recognised that this was no time for parleying. quick as thought he drew his revolver and fired. the assailant relaxed his hold, staggered, spun round, then fell heavily to the earth. the horses, thus released, tore wildly onward, mad with terror.
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a roar and a red, sheeting flash split the darkness behind. the missiles hummed overhead, one of them tearing a hole in the wide brim of eanswyth's hat. this aroused all the demon in the blood of her companion. standing up in his seat, regardless of prudence, he pointed his revolver at the black onrushing mass discernible in the starlight, and fired three shots in rapid succession. a horrible, shrill, piercing scream, showed that they had told with widespread and deadly effect.
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but the latter had gained some distance now. the horses, panic-stricken and well-nigh unmanageable, were tearing up the hill on the other side of the drift, and it was all their driver could do in the darkness to keep them in the track. the buggy swayed fearfully, and twice catching a wheel in an ant-heap was within an ace of turning over.
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suddenly one of the horses stumbled heavily, then fell. all his driver's efforts to raise him were useless. the poor beast had been struck by a bullet, and lay, feebly struggling, the blood pouring from a jagged wound in his flank.
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the black bolt of despair shot through eustace's heart. there was a feeble chance of escape for eanswyth, but a very feeble one. of himself he did not think. quickly he set to work to cut loose the other horse.
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but the traditional sagacity of that quadruped, as is almost invariably the case, failed in an emergency. he plunged and kicked in such wise as to hinder seriously, if not defeat, every effort to disengage him from the harness. eustace, his listening powers at their utmost tension, caught the light pit-pat of the pursuers' footsteps racing up the hill in the darkness. they would be upon him before--
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ha! the horse was loose.
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"quick, eanswyth. mount! it is your only chance!" he said, shortening the reins into a bridle and holding them for her.
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"i will not."
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"quick, quick! every moment lost is a life!"
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"i will not. we will die together. i will not live without you," and the heroic flash in the grand eyes was visible in the starlight.
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the stealthy footsteps were now plainly audible. they could not have been two hundred yards distant. suddenly the horse, catching a renewed access of panic, plucked the reins from eustace's hand, and careered wildly away into the veldt. the last chance of escape was cut off. they must die together now. facing round, crouching low behind the broken-down vehicle, they listened for the approach of the pursuers.
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all the bitterness of the moment was upon those two--upon him especially--crouching there in the dark and lonely veldt. their reunion was only to be a reunion in death.
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the last dread act was drawing on. the stealthy steps of the approaching foe were now more distinctly audible. with a deadly and vengeful fire at his heart, eustace prepared to sell their lives as dearly as ever life was sold.
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"we need not fear, my sweet one," whispered the heroine at his side. "we are dying together."
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nearer--nearer, came those cat-like footfalls. then they ceased. the pulses of the two anxious listeners beat with an intense and surging throb of expectation in the dead silence.
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but instead of those stealthy feet, swift to shed blood, there was borne upon the night the sound of horses' hoofs. then a crash of fire-arms, and a ringing cheer. no savage war-cry that, but a genuine british shout.
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"that you, milne?" cried a familiar voice. "all right: keep cool, old man. we shan't hit you by mistake. how many are there?"
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"i don't know. better not tackle them in the dark, hoste. who is with you?"
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"some police. but where are the niggers?"
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where indeed? savages have no stomach for facing unknown odds. their late assailants had prudently made themselves scarce.
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"we seem to be only just in time, anyway?" said hoste, with a long whistle of consternation as he realised the critical position of affairs. "is mrs carhayes all right?" he added anxiously.
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"quite, thanks, mr hoste," replied eanswyth. "but you are, as you say, only just in time."
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two of the police horses were inspanned to the buggy, the men mounting behind comrades, and the party set forth. it would not do to linger. the enemy might return in force at any moment.
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their escape had indeed been a narrow one. it was only late in the afternoon that hoste had, by chance, learned from a trustworthy source that the gaikas meant to rise that night. horror-stricken, he had rushed off to the officer in command of the mounted police to beg for some troopers as a protective escort in order to bring eanswyth away from her lonely and perilous situation. an experienced sergeant and twenty-five men had been immediately ordered out--arriving in the very nick of time, as we have seen.
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"well, we are all burnt out now, anyway," said hoste as they journeyed along as rapidly as possible. "look at my old place, what a flare-up it's making. and the hotel at draaibosch! it's making a bigger blaze than all."
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it was a weird and awesome sight. the whole country was literally in a blaze--the murk of the reddened smoke of burning homesteads obliterating the stars. and ever and anon the fierce, tumultuous thunder of a distant war-dance was borne upon the air, with the vengeful shouts of excited savages, beginning their orgy of torch and assegai.
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chapter thirty five.
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eustace becomes unpopular.
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the state of excitement prevailing in komgha during the period of hostilities within the transkei, was as nothing to that which prevailed now that the tide of war was rolling around the very outposts of the settlement itself.
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the once sleepy little village had become a vast armed camp, garrisoned by regular troops, as well as being the halting place for numerous bodies of irregulars--mounted burghers or fingo levies--once more called out or volunteering for active service, the latter with more zest this time, inasmuch as the enemy was within their very gates. it was the headquarters of operations, and all day long--frequently all night too-- what with expeditions or patrols setting out, or returning, or preparing; the arrival of reinforcements; the flash and trappings of the military element; the exaggerated and conflicting rumours varying with every half-hour that went by. with all these things, we say, the sojourners in that favoured settlement found things as lively as they could wish.
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there was no mistaking the position of affairs now. the gaikas, whose locations occupied the whole northern half of british kaffraria, the hlambi clans, who held the rugged country along the eastern slopes of the amatola mountains, were all up in arms. all, that is, save an insignificant fraction, who applied to the government for protection as `loyals'; their loyalty consisting in taking no part in hostilities themselves, but aiding with supplies and information those who did--as well as affording a refuge in time of need to the women and cattle belonging to their hostile countrymen. communication with the colony was practically cut off--for, except to strong parties, the king williamstown road was closed. a strong escort, consisting of police and military, was attacked within a few miles of the settlement itself, only getting through by dint of hard fighting; and ever in their bushy hiding places, on the surrounding hills, hovered dark clouds of armed savages ready to swoop down upon lonely express-rider or waggon train insufficiently guarded. the smoke of ruined homesteads rose from the fair plains of british kaffraria, and by night the lurid signals of the hostile barbarians flamed forth from many a lofty peak.
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in the transkei matters were rather worse than before the previous three months of campaigning. very far from crushed, the gcalekas swarmed back into their oft-swept country, and with the aid of their new allies set to work with redoubled ardour to make things as lively for the white man as they possibly could. this kept nearly all the forces then at the front actively employed in that direction, leaving the field open to the residue of the gaikas and hlambis to burn and pillage throughout british kaffraria at their own sweet will. the destruction of property was great and widespread.
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still, on the whole, men seemed rather to enjoy the prevailing state of things than otherwise, even those who were severe losers, strange to say. the colonial mind, adventurous at bottom, dearly loves excitement, once it has drunk at that enchanted fountain. perhaps one of the best illustrations of this is to be found in the numbers who remained, and do remain, on at johannesburg after the collapse, in a state of semi-starvation--rather than exchange the liveliness and stir of that restless and mushroom town for the surer but more sober conditions of life offered by the scenes of their birth. in british kaffraria, the renewed outbreak of hostilities afforded plenty of excitement, which went as a set-off against the aforesaid losses--for the time being at any rate. those who had already taken part in the first campaign either volunteered for the second or stayed at home and talked about both. though whether he had been out or not made no difference as regarded the talking part of it, for every man jack you might meet in a day's wandering was open to give you his opinion upon what had been done, and what hadn't been done; above all upon what should have been done; in a word, felt himself entirely competent to direct the whole of the field operations there and then, and without even the traditional minute's notice.
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but however enjoyable all this may have been to society at large, as there represented, there was one to whom it was intolerably irksome, and that one was eustace milne. the reasons for this were diverse. in the first place, in the then crowded state of the community, he could hardly ever obtain an opportunity of talking, with eanswyth alone; which was not wholly without advantage in that it enabled the latter to keep up her role; for if her former sorrowing and heart-wrung condition had now become the hollowest mockery, there was no reason why everybody should be informed thereof, but very much the reverse. he could not see her alone in the house, for it was always full of people, and when it was not, still, the walls were thin. he could not take her for a ride outside the settlement, for in those early days the enemy was daring, and did not always keep at a respectful distance. it would not do to run any more risks. in the next place, all the "talking big," and indeed the talking at all, that went on, morning, noon, and night, on the well-worn, and threadbare topic was wearisome to him. the thing had become, in fact, a bore of the first water. but the most distasteful side of it all was the notoriety which he himself had, all involuntarily, attained. a man who had been reported slain, and then turned up safe and sound after having been held a prisoner for some weeks by the savage and ordinarily ruthless enemy they were then fighting, was sure to attract considerable attention throughout the frontier community. friends, neighbours, intimates, people they had never seen or heard of before, would call on the hostes all day and every day--literally in swarms, as the victim of these attentions put it--in order to see eustace, and haply, to extract a "yarn" as to his late captivity. if he walked through the township some effusive individual was bound to rush at him with an "i say, mister, 'scuse me, but we're told you're the man that was taken prisoner by old kreli. now, do us the favour to step round and have a drink. we don't see a man who has escaped from them black devils every day." and then, under pain of being regarded as churlish to a degree, he would find himself compelled to join a group of jovial, but under the circumstances excessively unwelcome, strangers, and proceed to the nearest bar to be cross questioned within an inch of his life, and expected to put away sundry "splits" that he did not want. or those in charge of operations, offensive and defensive, would make his acquaintance and ask him to dine, always with the object of eliciting useful information. but to these eustace was very reticent and proved, in fact, a sore disappointment. he had been treated fairly well by his captors. they were savages, smarting under a sense of defeat and loss. they might have put him to death amid cruel torments; instead of which they had given him his liberty. for the said liberty he had yet to pay--to pay pretty smartly, too, but this was only fair and might be looked upon in the light of ransom. he was not going to give any information to their detriment merely because, under a doubtfully administered system of organisation, they had taken up arms against the colony. besides, as a matter of fact, it was doubtful whether he had any information to give.
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so his entertainers were disappointed. everyone who accosted him upon the objectionable topic was disappointed. he became unpopular.
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the infinitesimal intellect of the community felt slighted. the far from infinitesimal sense of self-importance of the said community was wounded to the core. here was a man who had passed through strange and startling experiences which everyone else was dying to share--at second hand. yet he kept them to himself. who was he, indeed, they would like to know? other men, had they gone through the same experiences, would have had them on tap all day long, for the benefit of all comers, good measure and brimming over. this one, on the contrary, was as close as death itself. who was he that he should affect a singularity?
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when a man is unpopular in a small community, he is pretty sure before long to be made aware of that fact. in this instance there were not wanting individuals the ingenuity of whose inventive powers was equal to the occasion. no wonder milne was reticent as to what he had gone through--hinted these--for it was almost certainly not to his credit. it was a singular thing that he should have emerged from the ordeal unhurt and smiling, while poor tom carhayes had been mercilessly butchered. it looked, fishy--uncommonly so. the more you looked at it, the more it began to take on the aspect of a put-up job. indeed it would not be surprising if it turned out that the expedition across the bashi was a cunningly devised trap, not originating with the kafirs either. the escape of hoste and payne was part of the programme--no motive existing why these two should be put out of the way.
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motive? motive for desiring tom carhayes' death? well, any fool could see that, one might have thought. was there not a young and beautiful widow in the case--who would succeed lo the dead man's extremely comfortable possessions, and whom, by this time, any one could see with half an eye, was desperately in love with the plotting and unscrupulous cousin? that was motive enough, one would think.
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it was easy, moreover, now to see through the predilection of that arch-schemer for their native neighbours and now enemies. it was all part of the plot. doubtless he was even no sending them secret information and advice in return for what they had done for him. it would be surprising if he turned out anything better than a kafir spy, were the real truth known.
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these amiable hints and innuendoes, sedulously buzzed around, were not long in reaching the object of them. but they affected his impenetrable self-possession about as much as the discharge of a pea-shooter might affect the back of the mail-plated armadillo. his philosophical mind saw no earthly reason for disturbing itself about any rumours which a pack of spiteful idiots might choose to set afloat. hoste's advice to him, to run two or three of these amiable gentry to earth and visit them with a good sound kicking, only made him laugh. why should he mind what anybody said? if people chose to believe it they might--but if they didn't they wouldn't, and that was all about it.
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true, he was tempted, on one or two occasions, to follow his friend's advice--and that was when eanswyth was brought into the matter. but he remembered that you cannot strangle a widespread slander by force, and that short of the direst necessity the association in an ordinary row of any woman's name is justifiable neither by expediency nor good taste. but he resolved to get her to move down to swaanepoel's hoek at the very earliest opportunity.
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chapter thirty six.
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there was just this much to bear out the ill-natured comments of the scandal-mongers, in that the re-appearance of the missing cousin had gone very far towards consoling the young widow for the loss of the dead husband.
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the fact was that where her strongest, deepest feelings were concerned, eanswyth, like most other women, was a bad actress. the awful poignancy of her suffering had been too real--the subsequent and blissful revulsion too overpowering--for her to be able to counterfeit the one or dissemble the other, with anything like a satisfactory result. those who had witnessed the former, now shook their heads, feeling convinced that they had then mistaken the object of it. they began to look at eanswyth ever so little, askance.
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but why need she care if they did? she was independent, young and beautiful. she loved passionately, and her love was abundantly returned. a great and absorbing interest has a tendency to dwarf all minor worries. she did not, in fact, care.
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eustace, thanks to his cool and cautious temperament, was a better actor; so good, indeed, that to those who watched them it seemed that the affection was mainly, if not entirely, on one side. sometimes he would warn her.
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"for your own sake, dearest," he would say on such rare occasions when they were alone together. "for your own sake try and keep up appearances a little longer; at any rate until we are out of this infernal back-biting, gossipy little hole. remember, you are supposed to be plunged in an abyss of woe, and here you are looking as absurdly happy as a bird which has just escaped from a cage."
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"oh, darling, you are right as usual," she would reply, trying to look serious. "but what am i to do? no wonder people think i have no heart."
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"and they think right for once, for you have given it away--to me. do keep up appearances, that's all. it won't be for much longer."
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eustace had secured a couple of rooms for his own use in one of the neighbouring cottages. the time not spent with eanswyth was got through strolling about the camp, or now and then taking a short ride out into the veldt when the entourage was reported safe. but this, in deference to eanswyth's fears, he did but seldom.
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"why on earth don't you go to the front again, milne?" this or that friend or acquaintance would inquire. "you must find it properly slow hanging on in this hole. i know i do. why, you could easily get a command of fingo or hottentot levies, or, for the matter of that, it oughtn't to be difficult for a fellow with your record to raise a command on your own account."
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"the fact is i've had enough of going to the front," eustace would reply. "when i was there i used often to wonder what business it was of mine anyway, and when the kafirs made a prisoner of me, my first thought was that it served me devilish well right. i give you my word it was. and i tell you what it is. when a man has got up every day for nearly a month, not knowing whether he'd go to bed between his blankets that night or pinned down to a black ants' nest, he's in no particular hurry to go and expose himself to a repetition of the process. it tells upon the nerves, don't you know."
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"by jove, i believe you," replied the other. "i never knew jack kafir was such a cruel devil before, at least not to white men. well, if i'd gone through what you have, i believe i'd give the front a wide berth, too. as it is, i'm off in a day or two, i hope."
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"i trust you may meet with better luck," said eustace.
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one day a considerable force of mounted burghers started for the transkei--a good typical force--hardened, seasoned frontiersmen all, well mounted, well armed; in fact, a thoroughly serviceable looking corps all round. there was the usual complement of spectators seeing them off--the usual amount of cheering and hat-waving. on the outskirts of the crowd was a sprinkling of natives, representing divers races and colours.
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"what's that you say, johnny?" said a hard-fisted individual, turning threateningly upon the speaker.
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"nothing. i only made a remark to my comrade," replied the man in his own language.
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"did you?" said the other walking up to the kafir and looking him straight in the eye. "then just keep your damned remarks to yourself, johnny, or we shall quarrel. d'you hear?"
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but the kafir never quailed, never moved. he was a tall, powerful native and carried his head grandly. the white man, though shorter, looked tough and wiry as whip cord. the crowd, which had been scattering, gathered round the pair with the celerity of a mob of london street-cads round a fallen cab-horse.
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"what's the row? a cheeky nigger? give him fits, mister! knock him into the middle of next week!" were some of the cries that burst from the group of angry and excited men.
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"i have committed no offence," said the kafir. "i made a remark to a comrade, saying what a fine lot of men those were."
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"oh, yes? very likely!" shouted several ironically.
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"see here now. you get out of this," said the first man. "do you hear, get out. don't say another word--or--"
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he did not finish. stung by a contemptuous look in the kafir's eyes, he dashed his fist full into his face.
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it was a crushing blow--but the native did not fall. like lightning he aimed a blow at his assailant's head with his heavy kerrie--a blow which would have shattered the skull like an egg shell. but the other threw up his arm in time, receiving nearly the full force of the blow on that member, which dropped to his side completely paralysed. without attempting to follow up his success the savage sprang back, whirling his kerrie round his head. the crowd, taken by surprise, scattered before him.
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only for a moment, though. like a pack of hounds pressed back by a stag at bay they gave way but to close up again. in a trice the man's kerrie was struck from his grasp, and he was thrown down, beaten, kicked, and very roughly handled.
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"tie up the schelm!"
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"give him six dozen well-laid on!" "six dozen without counting!" "cheeky brute!" were some of the shouts that accompanied each kick and blow dealt or aimed at the prostrate kafir, who altogether seemed to be having a pretty bad time of it.
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"that's a damned shame!" exclaimed a voice behind them.
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all started and turned their heads, some astonished--all angry--some perhaps a little ashamed of themselves--towards the owner of the voice, a horseman who sat calmly in his saddle some twenty yards away--an expression of strong disgust upon his features.
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"what have you got to say to it anyhow, i'd like to know?" cried the man who had just struck the native.
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"what i said before--that it's a damned shame," replied eustace milne unhesitatingly.
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"what's a shame, mister?" sneered another. "that one o' your precious black kids is getting a hidin' for his infernal cheek?"
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"that it should take twenty men to give it him, and that, too, when he's down."
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"i tell you what it is, friend," said the first speaker furiously. "it may take rather less than twenty to give you one, and that, too, when you're up!" which sally provoked a blatant guffaw from several of the hearers.
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"i'm not much afraid of that," answered eustace tranquilly. "but now, seeing that british love of fair play has been about vindicated by a score of englishmen kicking a prostrate kafir, how would it be to let him get up and go?"
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"look here," he shouted savagely. "i don't know who you are and i don't care. but if you don't take yourself off out of this mighty quick, i'll just about knock you into a jelly; you see if i don't."
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"ja, that's right. serve him as you did the nigger!" yelled the bystanders, a lot of rowdy hobbledehoys and a contingent of town loafers whom the prospect of an easy-going, devil-may-care life in the veldt had drawn from the more sober avocations of bricklaying and waggon-building within the colony, and who, it may be added, distinguished themselves at the seat of hostilities by such a line of drunken mutinous insubordination as rendered them an occasion of perennial detestation and disgust to their respective commanders. these now closed up around their bullying, swash-bucklering champion, relieving their ardently martial spirits by hooting and cat's calls. it was only one man against a crowd. they felt perfectly safe.
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"who sold his mate to the blanked niggers!" they yelled. "ought to be tarred and feathered. come on, boys; let's do it. who's for tarring and feathering the kafir spy?"
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all cordially welcomed this spicy proposal, but curiously enough, no one appeared anxious to begin, for they still kept some paces behind the original aggressor. that worthy, however, seemed to have plenty of fight in him, for he advanced upon eustace unhesitatingly.
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"come now. are you going to clear?" he shouted. "you're not? all right. i'll soon make you."
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"any more takers for the tar-and-feather line of business?" said eustace quietly, but with the light of battle in his eyes.
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the insulting jeers and the hooting still continued. but no one advanced. no one seemed anxious to tackle that particularly resolute looking horseman.
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"get out of this, you cowardly skunks!" sung out a voice behind him, which voice proceeded from another horseman, who had ridden up unseen during the emeute. "twenty to one! faugh! for two pins we'll sjambok the lot of you."
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"hallo, errington! where have you dropped from? thought you were away down in the colony," said eustace, turning to the new arrival, a fine soldierly looking man of about his own age, in whom he recognised a former field-captain in brathwaite's horse. the crowd had already begun to melt away before this new accession of force.
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"yer--send yer winder to be cleaned! stick it in yer breeches pocket!" were some of the witticisms yelled back by the retreating rowdies, in allusion to the eye-glass worn by the newcomer.
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"by jove, milne. you seem to have been in the wars," said the latter looking from one to the other of the injured parties. "what's the row, eh?"
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"it speaks for itself. nothing much, though. i've only been reminding our valiant friends there that fair play is a jewel even when its only a kafir that's concerned."--"which unsavoury ethiop seems to have been knocked about a bit, however," rejoined the other, sticking his glass into his eye to examine the fallen native.
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some three or four of the gaika's countrymen, who had held aloof, now came up to the assistance of their friend. these gave their version of the story. eustace listened attentively.
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"it was a foolish thing to make any remark at such a time and in such a place," he said. "it was sure to provoke strife. go and get him a tot of grog," throwing them a sixpence, "and then you'd better get away home."
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"i tell you what it is, milne," said errington in a low tone. "i know that fellow you floored so neatly. he's one of the best bruisers in the country, and i'm afraid you haven't seen the last of him. you'd better keep a bright lookout as long as you're in this part. he's bound to play you some dog's trick at the earliest opportunity."
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"is he? well i must try and be ready for him. i suppose now we must bring the poor devil round, eh? he seems about stunned."
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errington had a flask in his pocket. dismounting he raised the fallen man's head and poured some of the contents into his mouth.
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the fellow revived--gradually, stupidly. he had received a bad blow, which only a thick slouch hat and a thicker skull had saved from being a worse one.
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"you brought it upon yourself. why did you try and rush me?"
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"i didn't rush you with a stirrup-iron, did i?"
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"no. but see here. if i'm attacked i'm not going to leave the choice of my means of defence to the enemy. not much. how would that pan out for an idea in fighting old kreli, for instance?"
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the man, who was not a bad fellow at bottom, gave a growl as he tossed off the tendered potion. then he held out his hand to eustace.
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"well, mister, i don't bear no grudge. if you'll jest say you're sorry you hit me--"
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"i'll say that with pleasure, jackson," replied eustace, as they shook hands. "and look here, if you still feel a bit groggy on your pins, jump on my horse and ride home. i'll walk."
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"no, thanks. i'm all right now. besides i ain't going your way. my waggon's outspanned yonder on the flat. good-night."
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"pooh! not at all, my dear fellow. that howling rabble wouldn't have come within twenty yards of you."
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"i quite agree with you," said the other, who was something of a boxer. "to form the centre of attraction to a howling, yahooing rabble, making an undignified exhibition of yourself bashing and being bashed by some other fellow like a couple of butcher's boys in the gutter, is bound to be a revolting process whichever way you look at it. even the law of the pistol seems to be an improvement on it."
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"i think so, too. it puts men on better terms of equality. any man may become a dead shot and a quick drawer, but not one man in ten can fulfil all the conditions requisite to becoming a good boxer. the fact is, however, i hate rows of any kind, even when only a spectator. when fellows say they like them i never altogether believe them."
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"unless they are very young. but the berserk taint soon wears off as you get on into life a bit," said errington.
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"well now--i turn off here. good-evening."
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chapter thirty seven.
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"it is the voice of an oracle."
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swaanepoel's hoek, poor tom carhayes' other farm, was situated in the division of somerset east, somewhere between the great and little fish rivers. it was rather an out-of-the-way place, lying in a mountainous district, sparsely inhabited and only reached by rough wheel-tracks through narrow, winding poorts. but the scenery was wild and romantic to a degree. the bold sweep of bush-grown slopes, the lofty heights culminating in red iron-bound krantzes whose inaccessible hedges afforded nesting place for colonies of aasvogels, the thunder of the mountain torrent pent-up between black rocky walls where the maiden-hair fern hung in solid festoons from every crack and cranny, the cheerful and abundant sounds of bird and animal life--all this rendered the place a wonderfully pleasant and attractive, if somewhat out-of-the-way, residence.
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to eanswyth carhayes, however, this very isolation constituted an additional charm. the solemn grandeur of the soaring mountains, the hush of the seldom trodden valleys, conveyed to her mind, after the bustle and turmoil of the crowded frontier settlement, the perfection of peace. she felt that she could spend her whole life on this beautiful spot. and it was her own.
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she had only once before visited the place--shortly after her marriage-- and then had spent but three or four days there. its beauties had failed at that time to strike her imagination. now it was different. all the world was a paradise. it seemed that there was nothing left in life for her to desire.
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the house was a fair size, almost too large for the overseer and his family. that worthy had asked eustace whether mrs carhayes would prefer that they should vacate it. there was a substantial outbuilding, used--or rather only half of it was used--as a store, and a saddle and harness room. they could make themselves perfectly snug in that, if mrs carhayes wished to have the house to herself.
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"i can answer for it: mrs carhayes wishes nothing of the sort," he had replied. "in fact, we were talking over that very thing on the way down."
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"sure the children won't disturb her, mr milne?"
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"well, it hasn't looked like it up till now. those youngsters of yours don't seem particularly obstreperous, bentley, and mrs carhayes appears rather to have taken a fancy to them than otherwise."
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"if there's a kind sweet lady in this world, mr milne, it's mrs carhayes," said the overseer earnestly. "i know the wife'll make her right comfortable while she's here. she'll save her all bother over housekeeping or anything of that sort. excuse the question, but is she likely to be making a long stay?"
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"i shouldn't wonder. you see, there's nowhere else for her to go, and the quiet of this place suits her after all she has gone through. and she has gone through some pretty lively times, i need hardly tell you."
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"i should think so. why, what a narrow escape she had that time you were bringing her away from anta's kloof, when the trap broke down. that was a frightful position for any lady to be in, in all conscience."
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"oh, you heard of that, did you? ah, i forgot. it was in every paper in the colony--more or less inaccurately reported, of course," added eustace drily, and then the two men lit their pipes and chatted for an hour or so about the war and its events.
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"by the way, bentley," said eustace presently. "talking about that outbuilding. i've decided to knock out the partition--it's only a wooden one--between the two rooms next to the storeroom, turn them into one, and use it as a bedroom for myself. the house is rather congested with the lot of us in it, after all. we might go to work at it this afternoon."
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"certainly, mr milne, certainly," replied the overseer. and forthwith the tool-chest was laid under requisition, and in a couple of hours the necessary alterations were effected.
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this move did not altogether meet with eanswyth's approval, and she expostulated accordingly.
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"why should you be the one turned out in the cold," she said. "there's no earthly necessity for it. you will be horribly uncomfortable over there, eustace, and in winter the nights will be quite bitter. then again, the roof is a thatched one, and the first rain we get will start it leaking like a sieve. besides, there's plenty of room in the house."
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"it isn't that, you dear, thoughtful, considerate guardian angel," he answered. "it isn't quite that, though i put it that way for bentley's behoof. it is something of a concession to mother grundy, for even here that arch-hag can make her upas power felt, and i don't want to have all the tongues in the district wagging like the tails of a pack of foxhounds just unkennelled. we had enough of that at komgha. so i've arranged that at any rate we shan't be under the same roof. see?"
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"yes; but it's ridiculous all the same. as if we weren't relations, too."
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"and will be closer relations soon--in fact, the closest. i suppose we must wait a year--but that rests with you."
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"i don't know. it's an awfully long time," and she sighed. then rather hesitatingly: "darling, you have never yet shown me the little silver box. we are alone now, and--"
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"and you are dying to see it. well, eanswyth, it is really a most remarkable coincidence--in fact, almost makes a man feel superstitious."
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"as you say, the time and place are indeed fitting," said eustace, sitting down upon a boulder and taking the box from its place of concealment. "now, my darling, look at this. the assegai point is broken short off, driven with such force that it has remained embedded in the lid."
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it was even as he said. had the blade been driven with a powerful hammer it could not have been more firmly wedged within the metal.
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"that was the blow i received during the fight," he went on. "the dent at the side of it was done when i stood up to the witch-doctress. it did not penetrate much that time; not that the blow wasn't hard enough, for it nearly knocked me down, but the assegai was a rotten one and made of soft iron, and the point flattened out like a snider bullet. heavens! but that was an ordeal--something of a nerve-tickler!" he added, with a grave and meditative look in his eyes, as if he were mentally re-enacting that trying and critical scene.
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eanswyth shuddered, but said nothing. she nestled rather closer to his side, as he continued:
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"now to open the box--a thing i haven't done since, partly from superstitious motives--partly that i intended we should do so together-- if we ever were to be again together, that is."
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he pressed the spring, but it was out of order. it needed the wrench of a strong knife blade before the lid flew open.
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"look at that. the assegai point is so firmly wedged that it would take a hammer to drive it out--but i propose to leave it in--use it as a `charm' next war perhaps. now for the letter. it has gone through and through it--through the photograph too--and has just dinted the bottom of the box."
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he spread out the letter. those last tender, loving words, direct from her overflowing heart, were pierced and lacerated by the point of the murderous weapon.
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"if this is not an oracle, there never was such a thing," he went on. "look at this"--reading--"`i dare not say "god bless you." coming from me it would entail a curse, rather than a blessing...' the point has cut clean through the words `a curse'--mfulini's assegai has made short work of that malediction. is not that the voice of an oracle?"
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she made no reply. she was watching the development of the investigation with rapt, eager attention.
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"here again--`were anything to befall you--were you never to come back to me my heart would be broken...' as the paper is folded it has cut through the word `heart'--and--by jove, this is more than a coincidence! here again, it has gone clean through the same word. look at the end. `i want you in all your dangers and hardships to have, with you, these poor little lines, coming, as they are, warm from my hand and heart'... and now for the photograph. it is a sweetly lifelike representation of you, my dearest--"
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a cry from her interrupted him. the portrait was a three parts length cabinet one, cut round to enable it to fit the box, which it did exactly. right through the breast of the portrait, the assegai point had pierced.
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"o eustace--this is an oracle, indeed!" she cried. "do you not see? the spear point has gone right through my `heart' again for the third time. my dearest love, thrice has my `heart' stood between you and death--once in the portrait, twice in the letter. at the same time it has obliterated the word `curse.' it is, indeed, an `oracle' and--what if i had never given you that box at all?"
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"i should be a lot of dry bones scattered about the veldt in bomvanaland at this moment," he rejoined. "now you see how your love has twice stood between me and death; has preserved my life for itself. my sweet guardian angel, does not that look as if some fate had always intended us for each other from the very first!"
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chapter thirty eight.
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at swaanepoel's hoek.
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several months had gone by.
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the war was nearly over now. struck on all sides--decimated by the terrible breech-loading weapons of the whites--harried even in their wildest strongholds, their supplies running low, their crops destroyed, and winter upon them--the insurgent tribes recognised that they were irretrievably worsted. they had no heart for further fighting--their principal thought now was to make the best terms they could for themselves. so all along the frontier the disheartened savages were flocking in to lay down their arms and surrender. those who belonged to independent tribes in the transkei were treated as belligerents--and after being disarmed were located at such places as the government thought fit. those who were british subjects, and whose locations were within the colonial boundaries, such as the gaikas, hlambis, and a section of the tembus, were treated as rebels and lodged in gaol until such time as it should please the authorities to put them on their trial for high treason, treason, felony, or sedition, according to their rank, responsibilities, or deeds. still the unfortunate barbarians preferred to discount the chances of the future against present starvation--and continued to come in, in swarms. the gaols were soon crammed to overflowing; so, too, were the supplementary buildings hired for the emergency.
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not all, however, had preferred imprisonment with plenty to liberty with starvation. there were still armed bands lurking in the forest recesses of the amatola, and in the rugged and bushy fastnesses beyond the kei. while most of the chiefs of the colonial tribes had either surrendered or been slain, the head and paramount chief of all was still at large. "kreli must be captured or killed," was the general cry. "until this is done the war can never be considered at an end." but the old chief had no intention of submitting to either process if he could possibly help it. he continued to make himself remarkably scarce.
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another character who was very particularly wanted was hlangani, and for this shrewd and daring leader the search was almost as keen as for kreli himself. common report had killed him over and over again, but somehow there was no satisfactory evidence of his identification. then a wild rumour got about that he had been sent by his chief on a mission to invoke the aid of the zulu king, who at that time was, rightly or wrongly, credited with keeping south africa in general, and the colony of natal in particular, in a state of uneasiness and alarm. but, wherever he was, like his chief, and the "bold gendarmes" of the burlesque song, he continued to be "when wanted never there."
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all these reports and many more reached eustace milne, who had taken no active part in frontier affairs since we saw him last. he had even been sounded as to his willingness to undertake a post on behalf of the government which should involve establishing diplomatic relations with the yet combatant bands, but this he had declined. he intended to do what he could for certain of the rebels later on, but meanwhile the time had not yet come.
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moreover, he was too happy amid the peaceful idyllic life he was then leading to care to leave it even for a time in order to serve a potentially ungrateful country. and it was idyllic. there was quite enough to do on the place to keep even his energetic temperament active. the stock which had constituted the capital of their common partnership and had been sent to swaanepoel's hoek at the outbreak of the war required considerable looking after, for, owing to the change of veldt, it did not thrive as well as could be wished. and then the place afforded plenty of sport; far more than anta's kloof had done. leopards, wild pigs, and bushbucks abounded in the bushy kloofs; indeed, there were rather too many of the former, looking at it from the farming point of view. the valley bottoms and the water courses were full of guinea-fowl and francolins, and high up on the mountain slopes, the vaal rykbok might be shot for the going after, to say nothing of a plentiful sprinkling of quail and now and then a bustard. eustace was often constrained to admit to himself that he would hardly have believed it possible that life could hold such perfect and unalloyed happiness.
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he had, as we have said, plenty of wholesome and congenial work, with sport to his heart's content, and enjoyed a complete immunity from care or worry. these things alone might make any man happy. but there was another factor in this instance. there was the sweet companionship of one whom he had loved passionately when the case was hopeless and she was beyond his reach, and whom he loved not less absorbingly now that all barriers were broken down between them, now that they would soon belong to each other until their life's end. this was the influence that cast a radiant glow upon the doings and undertakings of everyday life, encircling everything with a halo of love, even as the very peace of heaven.
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not less upon eanswyth did the same influences fall. the revulsion following upon that awful period of heart-break and despair had given her fresh life indeed. in her grand beauty, in the full glow of health and perfect happiness, no one would have recognised the white, stricken mourner of that time. she realised that there was nothing on earth left to desire. and then her conscience would faintly reproach her. had she a right to revel in such perfect happiness in the midst of a world of sorrow and strife?
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but the said world seemed to keep very fairly outside that idyllic abode. now and then they would drive or ride into somerset east, or visit or be visited by a neighbour--the latter not often. the bulk of the surrounding settlers were boers, and beyond exchanging a few neighbourly civilities from time to time they saw but little of them. this, however, was not an unmixed evil.
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bentley had been as good as his word. his wife was a capital housekeeper and had effectively taken all cares of that nature off eanswyth's hands. both were thoroughly good and worthy people, of colonial birth, who, by steadiness and trustworthy intelligence, had worked their way up from a very lowly position. unlike too many of their class, however, they were not consumed with a perennial anxiety to show forth their equality in the sight of heaven with those whom they knew to be immeasurably their superiors in birth and culture, and to whom, moreover, they owed in no small degree their own well-being. so the relations existing between the two different factors which composed the household were of the most cordial nature.
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there had been some delay in settling up tom carhayes' affairs--in fact, they were not settled yet. with a good sense and foresight, rather unexpected in one of his unthinking and impulsive temperament, poor tom had made his will previous to embarking on the gcaleka campaign. everything he possessed was bequeathed to his wife--with no restriction upon her marrying again--and eustace and a mutual friend were appointed executors.
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this generosity had inspired in eanswyth considerable compunction, and was the only defective spoke in the wheel of her present great happiness. sometimes she almost suspected that her husband had guessed at how matters really stood, and the idea cost her more than one remorseful pang. yet, though she had failed in her allegiance, it was in her heart alone. she would have died sooner than have done so otherwise, she told herself.
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twice had the executors applied for the necessary authority to administer the estate. but the master of the supreme court professed himself not quite satisfied. the evidence as to the testator's actual death struck him as inadequate--resting, as it did, upon the sole testimony of one of the executors, who could not even be positive that the man was dead when last seen by him. he might be alive still, though held a prisoner. against this view was urged the length of time which had elapsed, and the utter improbability that the gcaleka bands, broken up and harried, as they were, from point to point, would hamper themselves with a prisoner, let alone a member of that race toward which they had every reason to entertain the most uncompromising and implacable rancour. the supreme court, however, was immovable. when hostilities were entirely at an end, they argued, evidence might be forthcoming on the part of natives who had actually witnessed the testator's death. that fact incontestably established, letters of administration could at once be granted. meanwhile the matter must be postponed a little longer.
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this delay affected those most concerned not one whit. there was not the slightest fear of eanswyth's interests suffering in the able hands which held their management. only, the excessive caution manifested by the law's representatives would at times communicate to eustace milne a vague uneasiness. what if his cousin should be alive after all? what if he had escaped under circumstances which would involve perforce his absence during a considerable period? he might have gained the sea shore, for instance, and been picked up by a passing ship bound to some distant country, whose captain would certainly decline to diverge many days out of his course to oblige one unknown castaway. such things had happened. still, the idea was absurd, he told himself, for, even if it was so, sufficient time had elapsed for the missing man, in these days of telegraphs and swift mail steamers, to make known his whereabouts, even if not to return in person. he had not seen dim actually killed in his conflict with hlangani--indeed, the fact of that strange duel having been fought with kerries, only seemed to point to the fact that no killing was intended. that he was only stunned and disabled when dragged away out of sight eustace could swear, but why should that implacable savage make such a point of having the absolute disposal of his enemy, if it were not to execute the most deadly ferocious vengeance upon him which lay in his power? that the wretched man had been fastened down to be devoured alive by black ants, even as the pretended wizard had been treated, eustace entertained hardly any doubt--would have entertained none, but that the witch-doctress's veiled hint had pointed to a fate, if possible, even more darkly horrible. no, after all this time, his unfortunate cousin could not possibly be alive. the actual mode of his death might forever remain a mystery, but that he was dead was as certain as anything in this world can be. any suspicion to the contrary he resolved to dismiss effectually from his mind.
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"we are partners now, you know, dearest," she would say gaily, when he would sometimes urge the fatigue and occasionally even the risk of these long and toilsome rides. "while that law business still hangs fire the partnership can't be dissolved, i suppose. therefore i claim my right to do my share of the work."
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it was winter now. the clear mountain air was keen and crisp, and although the nights were bitterly cold, the days were lovely. the sky was a deep, cloudless blue, and the sun poured his rays down into the valleys with a clear, genial warmth which just rendered perceptible the bracing exhilaration of the air. thanks to the predominating spekboem and other evergreen bushes, the winter dress of nature suffered but little diminution in verdure; and in grand contrast many a stately summit soared proudly aloft, capped with a white powdering of snow.
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those were days of elysium indeed, to those two, as they rode abroad among the fairest scenes of wild nature; or, returning at eve, threaded the grassy bush-paths, while the crimson winged louris flashed from tree to tree, and the francolins and wild guinea-fowl, startled by the horses' hoofs, would scuttle across the path, echoing their grating note of alarm. and then the sun, sinking behind a lofty ridge, would fling his parting rays upon the smooth burnished faces of the great red cliffs until they glowed like molten fire.
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yes, those were indeed days to look back upon.
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chapter thirty nine.
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from the dead!
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eustace and the overseer were sitting on the stoep smoking a final pipe together before going to bed. it was getting on for midnight and, save these two, the household had long since retired.
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tempted by the beauty of the night they sat, well wrapped up, for it was winter. but the whole firmament was ablaze with stars, and the broad nebulous path of the milky way shone forth like the phosphoric trail in the wake of a steamer. the conversation between the two had turned upon the fate of tom carhayes.
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"i suppose we shall soon know now what his end really was," the overseer was saying. "kafirs are as close as death over matters of that kind while the war is actually going on. but they are sure to talk afterwards, and some of them are bound to know."
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"yes. and but for this administration business it might be just as well for us not to know," answered eustace. "depend upon it, whatever it is, it will be something more than ghastly, poor fellow. tom made a great mistake in going to settle in kafirland at all. he'd have done much better here."
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"i suppose there isn't the faintest shadow of a chance that he may still be alive, mr milne?"
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the remark was an unfortunate one. cool-headed as he was, it awoke in eustace a vague stirring of uneasiness--chiming in, as it did, with the misgivings which would sometimes pass through his own mind.
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"not a shadow of a chance, i should say," he replied, after a slight pause.
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bentley, too, began to realise that the remark was not a happy one--for of course he could not all this time have been blind to the state of affairs. he felt confused and relapsed into silence--puffing vigorously at his pipe.
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the silence was broken--broken in a startling manner. a terrified scream fell upon their ears--not very loud, but breathing unmistakable tones of mortal fear. both men sprang to their feet.
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"heavens!" cried the overseer. "that's mrs carhayes--"
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but the other said not a word. in about a half a dozen steps he was through the sitting room and had gained the door which opened out of it. this was eanswyth's bedroom, whence the terrified cry had proceeded.
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"what is wrong, eanswyth?" he cried, tapping at the door.
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it opened immediately. she stood there wrapped in a long loose dressing gown, the wealth of her splendid hair falling in masses. but her face was white as death, and the large eyes were dilated with such a pitiable expression of fear and distress, as he certainly had never beheld there.
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"what is it, my darling? what has frightened you so?" he said tenderly, moved to the core by this extraordinary manifestation of pitiable terror.
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she gave a quick flurried look over her shoulder. then clutching his hands--and he noticed that hers were trembling and as cold as ice--she gasped:
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"eustace--i have seen--him!"
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"who--in heaven's name?"
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"darling, you must have dreamt it. you have been allowing your thoughts to run too much on the subject and--"
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"no. it was no dream. i have not even been to bed yet," she interrupted, speaking hurriedly. "i was sitting there, at the table, reading one of my little books. i just happened to look up and--o eustace"--with a violent shudder--"i saw his face staring in at the window just as plainly as i can see you now."
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eustace followed her cowering glance. the window, black and uncurtained, looked out upon the veldt. there were shutters, but they were hardly ever closed. his first thought, having dismissed the nightmare theory, was that some loafer was hanging about, and seeing the lighted window had climbed up to look in. he said as much.
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"no. it was him," she interrupted decisively. "there was no mistaking him. if it were the last word i breathed i should still say so. what does it mean? oh, what does it mean?" she repeated in tones of the utmost distress.
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"hush, hush, my dearest! remember, bentley will hear, and--"
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"there he is again!"
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the words broke forth in a shriek. quickly eustace glanced at the window. the squares of glass, black against the outer night, showed nothing in the shape of a human countenance. a large moth buzzed against them, and that was all.
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her terror was so genuine, as with blanched face and starting eyes she glared upon the black glass, that ever so slight a thrill of superstitious dread shot through him in spite of himself.
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"quick!" she gasped. "quick! go and look all round the house! i am not frightened to remain alone. mr bentley will stay with me. go, quick!"
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the overseer, who had judiciously kept in the background, now came forward.
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"certainly, mrs carhayes. better come into this room and sit down for a bit. why, you must have been mistaken," he went on, cheerily placing a chair at the sitting room fire, and kicking up the nearly dead logs. "nobody could get up at your window. why, its about fifteen feet from the ground and there's nothing lying about for them to step on. not even a monkey could climb up there--though--wait. i did hear once of a case where a baboon, a wild one out of the veldt, climbed up on to the roof of a house and swung himself right into a room. i don't say i believe it, though. it's a little too much of a dutchman's yarn to be readily swallowed."
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thus the good-natured fellow rambled on, intent on cheering her up and diverting her thoughts. the rooms occupied by himself and his family were at the other end of the house and opened outside on the stoep, hence the sound of her terrified shriek had not reached them.
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eustace, on investigation intent, had slipped round the outside of the house with the stealth and rapidity of a savage. but, as he had expected, there was no sign of the presence of any living thing. he put his ear to the ground and listened long and intently. not a sound. no stealthy footfall broke the silence of the night.
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but as he crouched there in the darkness, with every nerve, every faculty at the highest tension, a horrible thought came upon him. what if carhayes had really escaped--was really alive? why should he not avow himself openly--why come prowling around like a midnight assassin? and then the answer suggested itself. might it not be that his mind, unhinged by the experiences of his captivity, was filled with the one idea--to exact a deadly vengeance upon the wife who had so soon forgotten him? such things had been, and to this man, watching there in the darkness, the idea was horrible enough.
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stay! there was one way of placing the matter beyond all doubt. he remembered that the soil beneath eanswyth's window was loose dust--a trifle scratched about by the fowls, but would give forth the print of a human foot with almost the distinctness of snow.
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quickly he moved to the spot. striking a wax vesta, and then another, he peered eagerly at the ground. the atmosphere was quite still, and the matches flamed like a torch. his heart beat and his pulses quickened as he carefully examined the ground--then a feeling of intense relief came upon him. there was no sign of a human footprint.
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no living thing could have stood under that window, much less climbed up to it, without leaving its traces. there were no traces; ergo, no living thing had been there, and he did not believe in ghosts. the whole affair had been a hallucination on the part of eanswyth. this was bad, in that it seemed to point to a weak state of health or an overloaded mind. but it was nothing like so bad as the awful misfortune involved by the reality would have been--at any rate, to him.
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he did not believe in ghosts, but the idea crossed his mind that so far as from allaying eanswyth's fears, the utter impossibility of any living being having approached her window without leaving spoor in the sandy, impressionable soil, would have rather the opposite tendency. once the idea got firmly rooted in her mind that the dead had appeared to her there was no foreseeing the limits of the gravity of the results. and she had been rather depressed of late. very anxiously he re-entered the house to report the utter futility of his search.
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it was long before the distressed, scared look faded from her eyes. "eustace," she said--bentley having judiciously left them together for a while--"when you were--when i thought you dead--i wearied heaven with prayers to allow me one glimpse of you again. i had no fear then, but now--o god! it is his spirit that i have seen."
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he tried to soothe her, to reassure her, and in a measure succeeded. at last, to the surprise of himself and the overseer, she seemed to shake off her terror as suddenly as it had assailed her. she was very foolish, she declared. she would go to bed now, and not keep them up all night in that selfish manner. and she actually did--refusing all offers on the part of eustace or the overseer to remain in the sitting room in order to be within call, or to patrol around the house for the rest of the night.
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"no," she said, "i am ashamed of myself already. the shutters are fastened up and i shall keep plenty of light burning. i feel quite safe now."
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it was late next morning when eanswyth appeared. thoroughly refreshed by a long, sound sleep, she had quite forgotten her fears. only as darkness drew on again a restless uneasiness came over her, but again she seemed to throw it off with an effort. she seemed to have the faculty of pulling herself together by an effort of will--even as she had done that night beside the broken-down buggy, while listening for the approaching footsteps of their savage enemies in the darkness. to eustace's relief, however, nothing occurred to revive her uneasiness.
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but he himself, in his turn, was destined to receive a rude shock.
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a letter from hoste.
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there was no postal delivery at swaanepoel's hoek, nor was there any regular day for sending for the mails. if anybody was driving or riding into somerset east on business or pleasure, they would call at the post office and bring out whatever there was; or, if anything of greater or less importance was expected, a native servant would be despatched with a note to the postmaster.
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bentley had just returned from the township, bringing with him a batch of letters. several fell to eustace's share, all, more or less, of a business nature. all, save one--and before he opened this he recognised hoste's handwriting:
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my dear milne (it began): this is going to be an important communication. so, before you go any further, you had better get into some sequestered corner by yourself to read it, for it's going to knock you out of time some, or i'm a dutchman.
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"that's a shrewd idea on the part of hoste putting in that caution," he said to himself. "i should never have credited the chap with so much gumption."
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he was alone in the shearing-house when the overseer had handed him his letters. his coat was off, and he was doing one or two odd carpentering jobs. the time was about midday. nobody was likely to interrupt him here.
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you remember that kafir on whose behalf you interfered when jackson and a lot of fellows were giving him beans? he is my informant. he began by inquiring for you, and when i told him you were far away, and not likely to be up here again, he seemed disappointed, and said he wanted to do you a good turn for standing his friend on that occasion. he said he now knew who you were, and thought he could tell you something you would like to know.
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well, i told him he had better unburden himself to me, and if his information seemed likely to be of use, he might depend upon me passing it on to you. this, at first, he didn't seem to see--you know what a suspicious dog our black brother habitually is--and took himself off. but the secret seemed to weigh upon him, for, in a day or two, he turned up again, and then, in the course of a good deal of "dark talking," he gave me to understand that tom carhayes was still alive; and, in fact, he knew where he was.
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milne, you may just bet your boots i felt knocked all out of time. i hadn't the least suspicion what the fellow was driving at, at first. thought he was going to let out that he knew where old kreli was hiding, or hlangani, perhaps. so, you see, you must come up here at once, and look into the matter. i've arranged to send word to xalasa--that's the fellow's name--to meet us at anta's kloof directly you arrive.
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don't lose any time. start the moment you get this. of course i've kept the thing as dark as pitch; but there's no knowing when an affair of this kind may not leak out and get into all the papers.
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kind regards to mrs carhayes--and keep this from her at present.
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yours ever, percy f. hoste.
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carefully eustace read through every word of this communication; then, beginning again, he read it through a second time.
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"this requires some thinking out," he said to himself. then taking up the letter he went out in search of some retired spot where it would be absolutely impossible that he should be interrupted.
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wandering mechanically he found himself on the very spot where they had investigated the silver box together. that would do. no one would think of looking for him there.
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he took out the letter and again studied every word of it carefully. there was no getting behind its contents: they were too plain in their fatal simplicity. and there was an inherent probability about the potentiality hinted at. he would certainly start at once to investigate the affair. better to know the worst at any rate. and then how heartily he cursed the kafir's obtrusive gratitude, wishing a thousand-fold that he had left that sable bird of ill-omen at the mercy of his chastisers. however, if there was any truth in the story, it was bound to have come to light sooner or later in any case--perhaps better now, before the mischief wrought was irreparable. but if it should turn out to be true--what then? good-bye to this beautiful and idyllic dream in which they two had been living during all these months past. good-bye to a life's happiness: to the bright golden vista they had been gazing into together. why had he not closed with hlangani's hideous proposal long ago? was it too late even now?
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the man suffered agonies as he sat there, realising his shattered hopes--the fair and priceless structure of his life's happiness levelled to the earth like a house of cards. like lucifer fallen from paradise he felt ready for anything.
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great was eanswyth's consternation and astonishment when he announced the necessity of making a start that afternoon.
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"the time will soon pass," he said. "it is a horrible nuisance, darling, but there is no help for it. the thing is too important. the fact is, something has come to light--something which may settle that delayed administration business at once."
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it might, indeed, but in a way very different to that which he intended to convey. but she was satisfied.
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"do not remain away from me a moment longer than you can help, eustace, my life!" she had whispered to him during the last farewell, she having walked a few hundred yards with him in order to see the last of him. "remember, i shall only exist--not live--during these next few days. this is the first time you have been away from me since--since that awful time."
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then had come the sweet, clinging, agonising tenderness of parting. eanswyth, having watched him out of sight, returned slowly to the house, while he, starting upon his strange venture, was thinking in the bitterness of his soul how--when--they would meet again. his heart was heavy with a sense of coming evil, and as he rode along his thoughts would recur again and again to the apparition which had so terrified eanswyth a few nights ago. was it the product of a hallucination on her part after all, or was it the manifestation of some strange and dual phase of nature, warning of the ill that was to come? he felt almost inclined to admit the latter.
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chapter forty one.
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"you ought to consider yourself uncommonly fortunate, milne," said hoste, as the two men drew near anta's kloof. "you are the only one of the lot of us not burnt out."
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"that's a good deal thanks to josane," replied eustace, as the house came into sight. "he thought he could manage to save it. i didn't. but he was right."
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"ha-ha! i believe the old scamp has been enjoying himself all this time with the rebels. i dare say he has been helping to do the faggot trick."
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hoste eyed his companion with a curious glance. the latter had been rather laconic during their ride; otherwise he seemed to show no very great interest one way or another in the object of it. yet there was reason for believing that if xalasa's tale should prove true it would make every difference to the whole of eustace milne's future life.
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the sun was just setting as they reached anta's kloof. the kafir had stipulated that they should meet him at night. he did not want to incur potential pains and penalties at the hands of his compatriots as an "informer" if he could possibly help it. the house, as hoste had said, was the only one in the whole neighbourhood which had escaped the torch, but that was all that could be said, for it was completely gutted. everything portable had been carried off, if likely to prove of any use to the marauders, what was not likely so to prove being smashed or otherwise destroyed. windows were broken and doors hung loose on their hinges; in fact, the place was a perfect wreck. still it was something that the fabric would not need rebuilding.
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hardly had they off-saddled their horses, and, knee-haltering them close, turned them out to graze around the house, than the night fell.
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"xalasa should be here by now," remarked hoste, rather anxiously. "unless he has thought better of it. i always expected we should learn something more about poor tom when the war was over. kafirs will talk. not that i ever expected to hear that he was alive, poor chap--if he is, that's to say. but what had been the actual method of his death: that was bound to leak out sooner or later."
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eustace made no reply. the remark irritated him, if only that his companion had made it, in one form or another, at least half a dozen times already. then the sound of a light footstep was heard, and a tall, dark figure stood before them in the gloom, with a muttered salutation.
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"greeting, xalasa!" said eustace, handing the new arrival a large piece of boer tobacco. "we will smoke while we talk. the taste of the fragrant plant is to conversation even as the oil unto the axles of a heavily laden waggon."
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the kafir promptly filled his pipe. the two white men did likewise.
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"have you been in the war, xalasa?" went on eustace, when the pipes were in full blast. "you need not be afraid of saying anything to us. we are not government people."
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"au!" said the gaika, with a quizzical grin upon his massive countenance. "i am a `loyal,' ixeshane."
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"the chiefs of the ama ngqika, sandili and the rest of them, have acted like children," replied eustace, with apparent irrelevance. "they have allowed themselves to be dragged into war at the `word' of kreli, and against the advice of their real friends, and where are they now? in prison, with a lot of thieves and common criminals, threatened with the death of a dog!"
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the kafir uttered an emphatic murmur of assent. hoste, who was excusably wondering what the deuce the recent bad behaviour, and eventual fate of sandili and co., had to do with that of tom carhayes, could hardly restrain his impatience. but eustace knew what he was about. the briton may, as he delights to boast, prefer plain and straightforward talking in matters of importance--or he may not. the savage, of whatever race or clime, unequivocally does not. he dearly loves what we should call beating around the bush. however important the subject under discussion, it must be led up to. to dash straight at the point is not his way. so after some further talk on the prospects and politics of the gaika nation, and of the amaxosa race in general-- past, present, and to come--eustace went on:
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"you were not always a `loyal,' xalasa?"
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"whau!" cried the man, bringing his hand to his mouth, in expressive native fashion. "when the fire trumpet first sounded in the midnight sky, i answered its call. while the chiefs of the ama ngqika yet sat still, many of their children went forth to war at the `word' of the paramount chief. many of us crossed into the gcaleka country and fought at the side of our brethren. many of us did not return. hau!"
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"then you became a `loyal'?"
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"but your eyes and ears were open among the ama-gcaleka. they saw--they heard of my brother, umlilwane?"
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"how do you know he is alive still?" said eustace, mastering his voice with an effort, for his pulses were beating like a hammer as he hung upon the other's reply. it came--cool, impassive, confident:
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"the people talk."
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"where is he, xalasa?"
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"listen, ixeshane," said the kafir, glancing around and sinking his voice to an awed whisper. "where is he! au! kwa 'zinyoka."
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"kwa 'zinyoka! `the home of the serpents!'" well he remembered the jeering, but ominous, words of the hideous witch-doctress at the time his unfortunate cousin was being dragged away insensible under the directions of his implacable foe, hlangani. "he will wake. but he will never be seen again." and now this man's testimony seemed to bear out her words.
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"what is this `home of the serpents,' xalasa?" he said.
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"au!" returned the kafir, after a thoughtful pause, and speaking in a low and apprehensive tone as a timid person in a haunted room might talk of ghosts. "it is a fearsome place. none who go there ever return-- none--no, not one," he added, shaking his head. "but they say your magic is great, ixeshane. it may be that you will find your brother alive. the war is nearly over now, but the war leaves every man poor. i have lost all i possessed. when you find your brother you will perhaps think xalasa is a poor man, and i have too many cattle in my kraal. i will send four or five cows to the man who told me my brother was alive."
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in his heart of hearts eustace thought how willingly he would send him a hundred for precisely the opposite intelligence.
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"where is `the home of the serpents'?" he said.
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"where? who knows? none save ngcenika, who talks with the spirits. none save hlangani, who rejoices in his revenge as he sees his enemy there, even the man who struck him, and drew the blood of the great chief's herald. who knows? not i. those who go there never return," he added impressively, conveying the idea that in his particular instance "ignorance is bliss."
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eustace's first instinct was one of relief. if no one knew where the place was, clearly no one could tell. then it struck him that this rather tended to complicate matters than to simplify them. there had been quite enough insinuated as to himself, and though guiltless as to his cousin's fate, yet once it got wind that the unfortunate man was probably alive somewhere, it would devolve upon himself to leave no stone unturned until that probability should become a certainty. public opinion would demand that much, and he knew the world far too well to make the blunder of treating public opinion, in a matter of this kind, as a negligeable quantity.
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"but if you don't know where the place is, xalasa, how am i to find it?" he said at length. "i would give much to the man who would guide me to it. think! is there no man you know of who could do so?"
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but the kafir shook his head. "there is none!" he said. "none save ngcenika. whau, ixeshane! is not thy magic as powerful as hers? will it not aid thee to find it? now i must go. where the `home of the serpents' is, thy brother is there. that is all i can tell thee."
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he spoke hurriedly now and in an altered tone--even as a man who has said too much and is not free from misgiving as to the consequences. he seemed anxious to depart, and seeing that nothing more was to be got out of him for the present, the two made no objection.
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hoste, wearied with all this talk, which moreover he understood but imperfectly, had waxed restive and strolled away. no sooner was he out of earshot than josane, sinking his voice, remarked suddenly:
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"xalasa is a fool!"
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eustace merely assented. he saw that something was coming, and prepared to listen attentively.
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"do you want to find umlilwane?" went on the old kafir with ever so slight an expression on the "want."
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"of course i do," was the unhesitating reply. but for the space of half a minute the white man and the savage gazed fixedly into each other's faces in the starlight.
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"au! if i had known that!" muttered josane in a disappointed tone. "if i had known that, i could have told you all that xalasa has--could have told you many moons ago."
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"you knew it, then?"
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"and is it true--that--that he is alive now?"
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"but, josane, how is it you kept your knowledge to yourself? he might have been rescued all this time. now it may be too late."
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"whau, ixeshane! did you want him rescued?" said the old fellow shrewdly. "did the inkosikazi want him rescued?"
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this was putting matters with uncomfortable plainness. eustace reddened in the darkness.
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"whatever we `wanted,' or did not want, is nothing," he answered. "this is a matter of life and death. he must be rescued."
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"as you will," was the reply in a tone which implied that in the speaker's opinion the white man was a lunatic. and from his point of view such was really the case. the old savage was, in fact, following out a thoroughly virtuous line of conduct according to his lights. all this while, in order to benefit the man he liked, he had coolly and deliberately been sacrificing the man he--well, did not like.
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"where is `the home of the serpents,' josane? do you know?"
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"yes. i know?"
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"can you guide me to it?" he said, speaking quickly.
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"i can. but it is a frightful place. the bravest white man would take to his heels and run like a hunted buck before he had gone far inside. you have extraordinary nerve, ixeshane--but--you will see."
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this sounded promising. but the old man's tone was quiet and confident. he was not given to vapouring.
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"how do you know where to find this place, josane?" said eustace, half incredulously in spite of himself. "xalasa told us it was unknown to everybody--everybody but the witch-doctress?"
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"xalasa was right. i know where it is, because i have seen it. i was condemned to it."
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"by ngcenika. but my revenge is coming--my sure revenge is coming," muttered the old gcaleka, crooning the words in a kind of ferocious refrain--like that of a war-song.
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as this juncture they were rejoined by hoste.
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"well, milne," he said. "had enough indaba? because, if so, we may as well trek home again. seems to me we've had a lot of trouble for nothing and been made mortal fools of down to the ground by that schelm, xalasa's, cock-and-bull yarns."
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"you're wrong this time," replied eustace. "just listen here a while and you'll see that we're thoroughly on the right scent."
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at the end of half an hour the kafir and the two white men arose. their plans were laid. the following evening--at sundown--was the time fixed on as that for starting upon their perilous and somewhat dimly mysterious mission.
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"you are sure three of us will be enough, josane?" said hoste.
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"quite enough. there are still bands of the gcaleka fighting men in the forest country. if we go in a strong party they will discover us and we shall have to fight--au! `a fight is as the air we breathe,' you will say, amakosi," parenthesised the old kafir, whimsically--"but it will not help us to find `the home of the serpents.' still, there would be no harm in having one more in the party."
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"who can we get?" mused hoste. "there's george payne; but he's away down in the colony--grahamstown, i believe. it would take him days to get here and even then he might cry off. i have it; shelton's the man, and i think he'll go, too. depend upon it, milne, shelton's the very man. he's on his farm now--living in a kafir hut, seeing after the rebuilding of his old house. we'll look him up this very night; we can get there in a couple of hours."
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this was agreed to, and having arranged where josane was to meet them the following evening, the two men saddled up and rode off into the darkness.
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chapter forty two.
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the search party.
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midwinter as it was, the heat in the valley of the bashi that morning was something to remember.
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not so much the heat as an extraordinary closeness and sense of oppression in the atmosphere. as the sun rose, mounting higher and higher into the clear blue of the heavens, it seemed that all his rays were concentrated and focussed down into this broad deep valley, whose sides were broken up into a grand panorama of soaring krantzes and wild rocky gorges, which latter, as also the great terraced slopes, were covered with dense forest, where the huge and spreading yellow-wood, all dangling with monkey trailers, alternated with the wild fig and the mimosa, the spekboem scrub and the waacht-een-bietje thorn, the spiky aloe and the plumed euphorbia, and where, in the cool dank shade, flourished many a rare orchid, beginning to show sign of blossoming, winter as it was.
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but the four men riding there, making a path for themselves through this well-nigh virgin forest, had little thought to give to the beauties of nature. seriousness and anxiety was absent from none of those countenances. for to-day would see the object of their quest attained.
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so far their expedition had been in no wise unattended by danger. four men would be a mere mouthful if discovered by any of the scattered bands of the enemy, who still roamed the country in its wildest and most rugged parts. the ferocity of these savages, stimulated by a sullen but vengeful consciousness of defeat, would render them doubly formidable. four men constituted a mere handful. so the party had travelled by circuitous ways, only advancing at night, and lying hidden during the daytime in the most retired and sequestered spots. twice from such judicious hiding places had they espied considerable bodies of the enemy marching northward, and two or three times, patrols, or armed forces of their own countrymen. but these they were almost as careful to avoid as the savage gcalekas. four men advancing into the hostile country was an uncommon sight. they did not want their expedition talked about, even among their own countrymen, just yet. and now they were within two hours of the object of their search.
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the dangers they had gone through, and those which were yet to come, were courted, be it remembered, not in search of treasure or riches, not even out of love of adventure. they were braved in order to rescue a friend and comrade from an unknown fate, whose mysteriousness was enhanced by vague hints at undefined horrors, on the part of the only man qualified to speak, viz., their guide.
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for josane had proved extraordinarily reticent as to details; and all attempts to draw him out during their journey had failed. as they drew near the dreaded spot this reticence had deepened to a remarkable degree. the old gcaleka displayed an ominous taciturnity, a gloom even, which was in no degree calculated to raise the spirits of the three white men. even eustace failed to elicit from him any definite facts. he had been "smelt out" and condemned to "the home of the serpents" and had escaped while being taken into it, and to do this he had almost had to fly through the air. but the place would try their nerves to the uttermost; of that he warned them. then he would subside again into silence, regardless of any further attempt to "draw" him.
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there was one of the party whose motives, judged by ordinary human standards, were little short of heroic, and that one was eustace milne. he had nothing to gain by the present undertaking, nor had the others. but then they had nothing to lose by it except their lives, whereas he had not only that but everything that made life worth living into the bargain. again and again he found himself cursing xalasa's "gratitude," from the very depths of his soul. yet never for a moment did he swerve in his resolve to save his unfortunate cousin if the thing were to be done, although there were times when he marvelled over himself as a strange and unaccountable paradox. a silence was upon them all, as they moved at a foot's pace through the dense and jungly tangle, mounting ever upwards. after an hour of this travelling they had reached a considerable height. here in a sequestered glade josane called a halt.
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"we must leave the horses," he said. "it is impossible to take them where we are going. whau!" he went on, looking upwards and snuffing the air like a stag. "there will be plenty of thunder by and by. we have no time to lose."
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taking with them a long twisted rawhide rope, of amazing strength, which might be necessary for climbing purposes, and a few smaller reims, together with a day's provisions, and every available cartridge, they started on foot, josane leading the way. each was armed with a double gun--one barrel rifled--and a revolver. the gcaleka carried three small-bladed casting assegais, and a broad headed, close-quarter one, as well as a kerrie.
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they had struck into a narrow gorge in the side of the hill. it was hard work making any headway at all. the dense bush, intertwined with creepers, met them in places in an unbroken wall, but josane would hack away manfully with his broad-bladed assegai until he succeeded in forcing a way.
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"it seems as if we were going to storm the devil's castle," said shelton, sitting down to wipe his streaming brow. "it's hot enough anyway."
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"rather," assented hoste. "milne, old chap, how do you feel?"
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"headachy. there's a power of thunder sticking out--as josane says-- against when we get out."
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"if we ever do get out."
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"that's cheerful. well, if we mean to get in, i suppose we'd better make a move? eh, josane!" the kafir emphatically agreed. he had witnessed their dilatoriness not without concern. he appeared strangely eager to get the thing over--contrary to the habits of his kind, for savages, of whatever race, are never in a hurry. a line of rocky boulders in front, thickly grown with straight stemmed euphorbia, stiff and regular like the pipes of an organ, precluded any view of the sort of formation that lay beyond. right across their path, if path it might be called, rose another impenetrable wall of thorns and creepers. in front of this josane halted.
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chapter forty three.
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the brooding, oppressive stillness deepened. not a breath of air stirred the sprays of the bush, which slept motionless as though carved in stone. even the very bird voices were hushed. far below, the sound of the river, flowing over its long stony reaches, came upwards in plaintive monotonous murmur.
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all of a sudden josane turned. he sent one keen searching glance straight in front of him, and another from side to side.
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"the home of the serpents is a horrible place," he said. "i have warned you that it is so. it is not too late now. the amakosi can yet turn back."
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the awed solemnity of his tone could not fail to impress his hearers, especially two of them. the boding sense of oppression in the atmosphere, the utter wildness of the surroundings, the uneasy, mysterious nature of their quest, and the tall gaunt figure of the old kafir standing in the semi-gloom beneath the funereal plumes of the straight stemmed euphorbia, like an oracle of misfortune--all this affected the imagination of two, at any rate, of these ordinarily hard-headed and practical men in a fashion they could scarcely have deemed possible. the third, however, was impervious to such influences. there was too much involved in the material side of the undertaking. no thought had he to spare apart from this; no scope was there for giving free rein to his imagination.
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"i think i may say we none of us have the slightest idea of turning back!" he answered.
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"certainly not," assented the other two.
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josane looked fixedly at them for a moment. then he said:
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"it is good. follow me--carefully, carefully. we do not want to leave a broad spoor."
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the undergrowth among the straight stiff stems of the euphorbia looked dense and impenetrable as a wall. to the astonishment of the spectators, the old kafir lay flat on his stomach, lifted the dense tangle just enough to admit the passage of his body, for all the world as though he were lifting a heavy curtain, and slipped through.
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"come," he whispered from the other side, for he had completely disappeared from view. "come--as i did. but do not rend the bushes more than is absolutely necessary."
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they followed, worming their way in the same fashion about a dozen yards. then an ejaculation of amazement, not unmixed with alarm, broke from the lips of shelton, who was leading. it found an echo on those of the other two. their first instinct was to draw back.
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they had emerged upon a narrow ledge, not of rock, or even earth; a narrow ledge of soft, yielding, quaking moss. and it overhung what had the appearance of a huge natural well.
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it literally overhung. by peering cautiously outward they could see a smooth perpendicular wall of red rock falling sheer and straight to a depth of nearly two hundred feet. three sides of the hollow--itself not that distance in width--were similarly constituted, the fourth being a precipitous, well-nigh perpendicular slope, with a sparse growth of stunted bushes jotting its rugged sides. a strange, gruesome looking hole, whose dismal depths showed not the smallest sign of life. could this be the awesome, mysterious "home of the serpents?"
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but josane's next words disabused them on this point.
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"tarry not," he said. "follow me. do even as i do."
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right to the brink of this horrible abyss the bush grew in a dense jungly wall, and it was the roots of this, overgrown with an accumulation of moss and soil, that constituted the apology for a ledge along which they were expected to make their way. and there was a distance of at least sixty or seventy yards of this precarious footway, to miss which would mean a certain and terrible death.
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it would have been something of an ordeal even had the foothold been firm. now, however, as they made their way along this quivering, quaking, ladder-like pathway of projecting roots interleaved with treacherous moss, not one of the three was altogether free from a nervous and shaky sensation about the knees as he moved slowly forward, selecting the strongest-looking stems for hand-hold. once a root whereon hoste had put his foot gave way with a muffled crack, letting his leg through the fearful pathway up to the thigh. an involuntary cry escaped him as, grasping a stem above him, he drew it forth with a supreme effort, and his brown visage assumed a hue a good many shades paler, as through the hole thus made he contemplated a little cloud of leaves and sticks swirling away into the abyss.
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"great heaven!" he ejaculated. "are we never coming to the end of this ghastly place?"
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"how would you like to cross it running at full speed, like a monkey, as i was forced to do? i told you i had to fly through the air," muttered josane, who had overheard. "the horror of it has only just begun--just begun. hau! did i not say it was going to be a horrible place?"
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but they were destined to reach the end of it without mishap, and right glad were they to find themselves crawling along a narrow ledge overhung by a great rock, still skirting the abyss, but at any rate there was hard ground under them; not a mere shaky network of more or less rotten roots.
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"is this the only way, josane?" said eustace at length, as they paused for a few minutes to recover breath, and, truth to say, to steady their nerves a trifle. even he put the question with some diffidence, for as they drew nearer and nearer to the locality of their weird quest the old gcaleka's manner had undergone a still further change. he had become morose and taciturn, gloomy and abstracted to a degree.
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"it is not," he answered. "it is the only way i know. when i came here my eyes were shut; when i went away they were open. then i approached it from above; now we have approached from below. the way by which i left, is the way you have seen."
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"o lord! i wouldn't travel the last infernal hundred yards again for a thousand pounds," muttered hoste ruefully. "and now, i've got to do it again for nothing. i'd sooner run the gauntlet of the whole gcaleka tribe, as we did before."
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"we may have to do that as well," remarked shelton. "but i think i never did see such an utterly dismal and god-forsaken corner in my life. looks as if old nick had built it out of sheer devilment."
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there was reason in what he said. the immense funnel-like hole seemed an extraordinary caprice of nature. nothing grew at the bottom but coarse herbage and a few stunted bushes. it seemed absolutely lacking in raison d'etre. occurring at the top of a mountain, it would at once have suggested an ancient crater. occurring, as it did, in solid ground on the steep slope of a lofty river bank that theory seemed not to hold good. on all sides, save the narrow defile they had come through, it was shut in by lofty wooded heights breaking here and there into a red iron-stone cliff.
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their guide resumed his way, advancing in a listening attitude, and with intense caution. the ledge upon which they crept, now on all-fours, widened considerably. the projecting rock overhead jutted out further and further, till it overhung the abyss for a considerable distance. beneath its shade they were already in semi-gloom. crawling along, toilsomely, laboriously, one behind the other, each man with all his senses, all his faculties, on the alert, the fact that their guide had stopped came upon them as a surprise. then, as they joined him, and crouched there side by side--each man's heart beat quicker, each man's face slightly changed colour. for the overhanging rock had heightened-- the ledge had widened to an area of fifteen or twenty feet. flooring and rock-roof no longer met. at the bottom of this area, both yawned away from each other in a black horizontal rift.
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save through this rift there was no getting any further. quickly each mind grasped the solution. the cave yawning in front of them was--
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"where does that hole lead to, josane?" said hoste.
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"kwa 'zinyoka," replied the gcaleka, impressively.
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such creatures are we of the light and air, that it is safe to assert that not even the boldest among us can undertake the most cursory exploration into the bowels of the earth without a consciousness of ever so slight a sobering influence, a kind of misgiving begotten of the idea of darkness and weight--a feeling as though the cavern roof might crush down upon us, and bury us there throughout the aeons of eternity. it is not surprising, therefore, that our three friends--all men of tried courage--should sit down for a few minutes, and contemplate this yawning black hole in dubious silence.
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it was no reflection on their courage, either. they had just dared and surmounted a peril trying and frightful enough to tax the strongest nerves--and now before them lay the entrance to an unknown inferno; a place bristling with grim and mysterious terrors such as even their stout-hearted guide--the only man who knew what they were--recoiled from braving again. they could hardly believe that the friend and fellow-countrymen, whom all these months they had reckoned among the slain, lay near them within that fearful place, alive, and perchance unharmed. it might be, however, that the cavern before them was but a tunnel, leading to some hidden and inaccessible retreat like the curious crater-like hollow they had just skirted.
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"au!" exclaimed josane, with a dissatisfied shake of the head. "we cannot afford to sleep here. if we intend to go in we must do so at once."
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there was reason in this. their preparations were simple enough--and consisted in seeing that their weapons were in perfect readiness. eustace, too, had lighted a strong bull's-eye lantern with a closing slide. besides this, each man was plentifully supplied with candles, which, however, it was decided, should only be used if a quantity of light became absolutely necessary.
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be it remembered not one of the three white men had other than the vaguest idea of the nature of the horrors which this gruesome place might disclose. whether through motives of superstition or from whatever cause, josane had hitherto preserved a remarkable silence on the subject. now he said, significantly:
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"hear my words, amakosi. tread one behind the other, and look neither to the right nor to the left, nor above. but look where you place your steps, and look carefully. remember my words, for i know that of which i speak."
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they compared their watches. it was just half-past one. they sent a last long look at the sky and the surrounding heights. as they did so there rolled forth upon the heavy air a long, low boom of distant thunder. then they fell into their places and entered the cavern, the same unspoken thought in each man's mind--would they ever behold the fair light of day again?
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and the distant, muttering thunder peal, hoarse, heavy, sullen, breaking upon the sultry air, at the moment when they left the outer world, struck them as an omen--the menacing voice of outraged nature booming the knell of those who had the temerity to seek to penetrate her innermost mysteries.
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chapter forty four.
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for the first forty yards the roof of the cave was so low that they had to advance in a stooping posture. then it heightened and the tunnel widened out simultaneously. eustace led the way, his bull's-eye lantern strapped around him, throwing a wide disk of yellow light in front. behind him, but keeping a hand on his shoulder in order to guide him, walked josane; the other two following in single file.
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a turn of the way had shut out the light from the entrance. eustace closing the slide of the lantern for a moment, they were in black, pitchy darkness.
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a perceptible current of air blew into the cavern. that looked as if there should be an outlet somewhere. old josane, while enjoining silence upon the rest of the party, had, from the moment they had entered, struck up a low, weird, crooning song, which sounded like an incantation. soon a glimmer of light showed just in front.
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"that is the other way in," muttered old josane. "that is the way i came in. the other is the way i came out. hau!"
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an opening now became apparent--a steep, rock shaft, reaching away into the outer air. it seemed to take one or more turnings in its upward passage, for the sky was not visible, and the light only travelled down in a dim, chastened glimmer as though it was intercepted in its course. an examination of this extraordinary feature revealed the fact that it was a kind of natural staircase.
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"this is the way i came in. ha!" muttered josane again, with a glare of resentment in his eyes as though recalling to mind some particularly ignominious treatment--as he narrowly scrutinised the slippery, rocky sides of the shaft.
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"i suppose it'll be the best way for us to get out," said hoste. "anything rather than that devil of a scramble again."
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"the time to talk of getting out is not yet," rejoined the kafir drily. "we are not in yet."
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they resumed their way. as they penetrated deeper, the cavern suddenly slanted abruptly upwards. this continued for some twenty or thirty yards, when again the floor became level, though ever with a slight upward bend. great slabs of rock projected from the sides, but the width of the tunnel varied little, ranging between six and ten yards. the same held good of its height.
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as they advanced they noticed that the current of air was no longer felt. an extraordinary foetid and overpowering atmosphere had taken its place. similarly the floor and sides of the cavern, which before they reached the outlet had been moist and humid, now became dry and firm.
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"hand us your flask, shelton," said hoste. "upon my soul i feel as if i was going to faint. faugh!"
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"it cannot be," he said. "it would be madness. remember my words, amakosi. look neither to the right nor to the left--only straight in front of you, where you set down your steps."
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then he resumed his strange wild chant, now sinking it to an awe-struck whisper hardly above his breath. it was a weird, uncanny sight, those four shadowy figures advancing through the thick black darkness, the fiery eye of the lantern darting forth its luminous column in front, while the deep-toned, long-drawn notes of the wild, heathenish rune died away in whispering echoes overhead.
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"oh! good lord! look at that!"
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the cry broke from shelton. all started, so great was the state of tension that their nerves were undergoing. following his glance they promptly discovered what it was that had evoked it.
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lying upon a great slab of rock, about on a level with their chests, was an enormous puff-adder. the bloated proportions of the hideous reptile were disposed in a sinuous coil--shadowy, repulsive to the last degree, in the light of the lantern. a shudder ran through every one of the three white men.
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"quick, josane. hand me one of your kerries," said shelton. "i can get a whack at him now."
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but the kafir, peremptorily, almost angrily refused.
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"why did you not listen to my words?" he said. "look neither to the right nor to the left, was what i told you. then you would have seen nothing. now let us move on."
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but shelton and hoste stood, irresolutely staring at the horrid reptile as though half fascinated. it--as if resenting the intrusion--began to unwind its sluggish folds, and raising its head, emitted a low, warning hiss, at the same time blowing itself out with a sound as of a pair of bellows collapsing, after the fashion which has gained for this most repulsive of all serpents its distinctive name.
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"you must not kill it," repeated the kafir, in a tone almost of command. "this is `the home of the serpents,' remember. did i not warn you?"
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they saw that he was deadly in earnest. here in this horrible den, right in the heart of the earth, the dark-skinned, superstitious savage seemed the one to command. it was perhaps remarkable that no thought of disobeying him entered the mind of any one of the three white men; still more so, that no resentment entered in either. they resumed their way without a murmur; not, however, without some furtive glances behind, as though dreading an attack on the part of the deadly reptile they were leaving in their rear. more than once they thought to detect the sound of that slow, crawling glide--to discern an indistinct and sinuous shadow moving in the subdued light.
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"this is `the home of the serpents'!" chanted josane, taking up once more his weird refrain.
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"the shades of thy home are blacker than blackest night.
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"we tread the dark shades of thy home in search of the white man's friend.
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"give us back the white man's friend, so may we depart in peace--
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"in peace from the home of the serpents, the abode of the spirit-dead.
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"so may we return to the daylight in safety with him whom we seek.
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"harm us not, o snake of snakes! do us no hurt, o inyoka 'nkulu!"
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the drawn out notes of this lugubrious refrain were uttered with a strange, low, concentrative emphasis which was indescribably thrilling. eustace, the only one of the party who thoroughly grasped its burden, felt curiously affected by it. the species of devil worship implied in the heathenish invocation communicated its influence to himself. his spirits, up till now depressed and burdened as with a weight of brooding evil, seemed to rise to an extraordinary pitch of exaltation, as though rejoicing at the prospect of prompt admission into strange mysteries. far otherwise, however, were the other two affected by the surroundings. indeed, it is by no means certain that had their own inclinations been the sole guide in the matter, they would there and then have turned round and beat a hasty and ignominious retreat, leaving tom carhayes and his potential fate to the investigation of some more enterprising party.
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the atmosphere grew more foetid and pestilential. suddenly the cavern widened out. great slabs of rock jutted horizontally from the sides, sometimes so nearly meeting that there was only just room to pass in single file between. then a low cry of horror escaped the three white men. they stopped short, as though they had encountered a row of fixed bayonets, and some, at any rate, of the party were conscious of the very hair on their heads standing erect.
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for, lying about upon the rock slabs were numbers of shadowy, sinuous shapes, similar to the one they had just disturbed. some were lying apart, some were coiled up together in a heaving, revolting mass. as the light of the lantern flashed upon them, they began to move. the hideous coils began to separate, gliding apart, head erect, and hissing till the whole area of the grisly cavern seemed alive with writhing, hissing serpents. turn the light which way they would, there were the same great wriggling coils, the same frightful heads. many, hitherto unseen, were pouring their loathsome, gliding shapes down the rocks overhead, and the dull, dragging heavy sound, as the horrible reptiles crawled over the hard and stony surface, mingled with that of strident hissing. what a sight to come upon in the heart of the earth!
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it is safe to assert that no object in nature is held in more utter and universal detestation by man than the serpent. and here were these men penned up within an underground cave in the very heart of the earth, with scores, if not hundreds, of these frightful and most deadly reptiles--some too, of abnormal size--around them; all on the move, and so near that it was as much as they could do to avoid actual contact. small wonder that their flesh should creep and that every drop of blood should seem to curdle within their veins. it was a position to recur to a man in his dreams until his dying day.
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"oh, i can't stand any more of this," said hoste, who was walking last. "hang it. anything above ground, you know--but this--! faugh! we've got no show at all. ugh-h!"
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something cold had come in contact with his hand. he started violently. but it was only the clammy surface of a projecting rock.
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and now the whole of the gloomy chamber resounded with shrill and angry hissing, as the disturbed reptiles glided hither and thither--was alive with waving necks and distended jaws, glimpsed shadowy on the confines of the disk of light which shot into the remote corners of the frightful den. curiously enough, not one of the serpents seemed to be lying in the pathway itself. all were on the ledges of rock which bordered it.
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"keep silence and follow close on my steps," said josane shortly. then he raised his voice and threw a marvellously strange, soft melodiousness into the weird song, which he had never ceased to chant. eustace, who was the first to recover to some extent his self-possession, and who took in the state of affairs, now joined in with a low, clear, whistling accompaniment. the effect was extraordinary. the writhing contortions of the reptiles ceased with a suddenness little short of magical. with heads raised and a slight waving motion of the neck they listened, apparently entranced. it was a wonderful sight, terrible in its weird ghastliness--that swarm of deadly serpents held thus spell-bound by the eerie barbaric music. it really looked as though there was more than met the eye in that heathenish adjuration as they walked unharmed through the deadly reptiles to the refrain of the long-drawn, lugubrious chant.
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"harm us not, o snake of snakes! do us no hurt, o inyoka 'nkulu!"
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thus they passed through that fearful chamber, sometimes within a couple of yards of two or three serpents lying on a level with their faces. once it was all that even eustace, the self-possessed, could do to keep himself from ducking violently as the head of a huge puff-adder noiselessly shot up horribly close to his ear, and a very marked quaver came into his whistling notes.
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as the cavern narrowed to its former tunnel-like dimensions the serpents grew perceptibly scarcer. one or two would be seen to wriggle away, here and there; then no more were met with. the sickening closeness of the air still continued, and now this stood amply accounted for. it was due to the foetid exhalations produced by this mass of noisome reptiles congregated within a confined space far removed from the outer air.
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"faugh!" ejaculated hoste. "thank heaven these awful brutes seem to have grown scarce again. shall we have to go back through them, josane?"
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"it is not yet time to talk of going back," was the grim reply. then he had hardly resumed his magic song before he broke it off abruptly. at the same time the others started, and their faces blanched in the semi-darkness.
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for, out of the black gloom in front of them, not very far in front either, there burst forth such a frightful diabolical howl as ever curdled the heart's blood of an appalled listener.
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chapter forty five.
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a fearful discovery.
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they stood there, turned to stone. they stood there, strong men as they were, their flesh creeping with horror. the awful sound was succeeded by a moment of silence, then it burst forth again and again, the grim subterraneous walls echoing back its horrible import in ear-splitting reverberation. it sounded hardly human in its mingled intonation of frenzied ferocity and blind despair. it might have been the shriek of a lost soul, struggling in the grasp of fiends on the brink of the nethermost pit.
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"advance now, cautiously, amakosi," said josane. "look where you are stepping or you may fall far. keep your candles ready to light. the home of the serpents is a horrible place. there is no end to its terrors. be prepared to tread carefully."
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his warning was by no means superfluous. the ground ended abruptly across their path. suddenly, shooting up, as it were, beneath their very feet, pealed forth again that frightful, blood-curdling yell.
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it was awful. starting backward a pace or two, the perspiration pouring from their foreheads, they stood and listened. on the kafir no such impression had the incident effected. he understood the position in all its grim significance.
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"look down," he said, meaningly. "look down, amakosi."
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they did so. before them yawned an irregular circular hole or pit, about thirty feet deep by the same in diameter. the sides were smooth and perpendicular; indeed, slightly overhanging from the side on which they stood. opposite, the glistening surface of the rock rose into a dome. but with this hole the cavern abruptly ended, the main part of it, that is, for a narrow cleft or "gallery" branched off abruptly at right angles. from this pit arose such a horrible effluvium that the explorers recoiled in disgust.
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"look down. look down," repeated josane.
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the luminous disk from the lantern swept round the pit. upon its nearly level floor crawled the loathsome, wriggling shapes of several great serpents. human skulls strewn about, grinned hideously upwards, and the whole floor of this ghastly hell-pit seemed literally carpeted with a crackling layer of pulverised bones. but the most awful sight of all was yet to come.
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gathered in a heap, like a huge squatting toad, crouched a human figure. human? could it be? ah! it had been once. nearly naked, save for a few squalid rags black with filth, this fearful object, framed within the brilliantly defined circle of the bull's-eye, looked anything but human. the head and face were one mass of hair, and the long, bushy, tangled beard screening almost the whole body in its crouching attitude imparted to the creature the appearance of a head alone, supported on two hairy, ape-like arms, half man, half tarantula. the eyes were glaring and blinking in the light with mingled frenzy and terror, and the mouth was never still for a moment. what a sight the grizzly denizen of that appalling hell-pit--crouching there, mopping and mowing among the gliding, noisome reptiles, among the indescribable filth and the grinning human skulls! no wonder that the spectators stood spell-bound, powerless, with a nerveless, unconquerable repulsion.
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suddenly the creature opened its mouth wide and emitted that fearful demoniacal howl which had frozen their blood but a few moments back. then leaping to its feet, it made a series of desperate springs in its efforts to get at them. indeed it was surprising the height to which these springs carried it, each failure being signalled by that blood-curdling yell. once it fell back upon a serpent. the reptile, with a shrill hiss, struck the offending leg. but upon the demoniac those deadly fangs seemed to produce no impression whatever. realising the futility of attempting to reach them, the creature sank back into a corner, gathering itself together, and working its features in wild convulsions. then followed a silence--a silence in its way almost as horrible as the frightful shrieks which had previously broken it.
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the spectators looked at each other with ashy faces. heavens! could this fearful thing ever have been a man--a man with intellect and a soul--a man stamped with the image of his maker?
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"he is the last, amakosi," said the grave voice of josane. "he is the last, but not the first. there have been others before him," designating the skulls which lay scattered about. "soon he will be even as they--as i should have been had i not escaped by a quick stroke of luck."
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"great heaven, josane! who is he?" burst from the horror-stricken lips of shelton and hoste simultaneously. eustace said nothing, for at that moment as he gazed down upon the mouldering skulls, there came back to him vividly the witch-doctress's words, "they who look upon `the home of the serpents' are seen no more in life." well did he understand them now.
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"the man whom you seek," was the grave reply. "he whom the people call umlilwane."
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an ejaculation of horror again greeted the kafir's words. this awful travesty, this wreck of humanity, that this should be tom carhayes! it was scarcely credible. what a fate! better had he met his death, even amid torture, at the time they had supposed, than be spared for such an end as this.
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then amid the deep silence and consternation of pity which this lugubrious and lamentable discovery evoked, there followed an intense, a burning desire for vengeance upon the perpetrators of this outrage; and this feeling found its first vent in words. josane shook his head.
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"it might be done," he muttered. "it might be done. are you prepared to spend several days in here, amakosi?"
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this was introducing a new feature into the affair--the fact being that each of the three white men was labouring under a consuming desire to find himself outside the horrible hole once more--again beneath the broad light of day. it was in very dubious tones, therefore, that shelton solicited an explanation.
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"even a maniac must eat and drink," answered josane. "those who keep umlilwane here do not wish him to die--"
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"you mean that some one comes here periodically to bring him food?"
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"but it may not be the persons who put him here; only some one sent by them," they objected.
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"this place is not known to all the gcaleka nation," said josane. "there are but two persons known to me who would dare to come within a distance of it. those are ngcenika, the witch-doctress, and hlangani, who is half a witch-doctor himself."
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"by lying in wait for them we might capture or shoot one or both of them when they come to bring the poor devil his food, eh, josane?" said shelton. "when are they likely to come?"
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"it may not be for days. but there is another side to that plan. what if they should have discovered that we are in here and decide to lie in wait for us?"
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"oh, by jove! that certainly is a reverse side to the medal," cried hoste, with a long whistle of dismay. and indeed the idea of two such formidable enemies as the redoubted gcaleka warrior and the ferocious witch-doctress lurking in such wise as to hold them entirely at their mercy was not a pleasant one. there was hardly a yard of the way where one determined adversary, cunningly ambushed, would not hold their lives in his hand. no. any scheme for exacting reprisals had better keep until they were once more in the light of day. the sooner they rescued their unfortunate friend and got quit of the place the better.
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and even here they had their work fully cut out for them. how were they to get at the wretched maniac? the idea of descending into that horrible pit was not an alluring one; and, apart from this, what sort of reception would they meet with from its occupant? that the latter regarded them in anything but a friendly light was manifest. how, then, were they ever to convey to the unfortunate creature that their object was the reverse of hostile? tom carhayes was well-known to be a man of great physical power. tom carr hayes--a gibbering, mouthing lunatic--a furious demoniac--no wonder they shrank from approaching him.
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"silence! darken the light!"
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the words, quick, low, peremptory--proceeded from josane. in an instant eustace obeyed. the slide of the lantern was turned.
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"i listen--i hear," went on the kafir in the same quick whisper. "there are steps approaching."
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every ear was strained to the uttermost. standing in the pitchy blackness and on the brink of that awful pit, no one dared move so much as a foot.
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and now a faint and far-away sound came floating through the darkness; a strange sound, as of the soft bass of voices from the distant spirit-world wailing weirdly along the ghostly walls of the tunnel. it seemed, too, that ever so faint a light was melting the gloom in the distance. the effect was indescribable in its awesomeness. the listeners held their very breath.
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this precaution, dictated by the double motive of keeping together in the darkness, and also to avoid any one of the party accidentally falling into the pit--being observed, the kafir led the way some little distance within the shaft.
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"heavens!" whispered hoste. "what about the snakes? supposing we tread on one?"
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in the excitement of the moment this consideration had been quite overlooked. now it struck dismay into the minds of the three white men. to walk along in pitch darkness in a narrow tunnel which you know to be infested with deadly serpents, with more than an even chance of treading upon one of the noisome reptiles at every step, is a position which assuredly needs a powerful deal of excitement to carry it through.
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"au! flash one beam of light in front, ixeshane," whispered the guide. "not behind--for your life, not behind!"
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eustace complied, carefully shading the sides of the light with the flaps of his coat. it revealed that the cave here widened slightly, but made a curve. it further revealed no sign of the most dreaded enemy of the human race.
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here, then, it was decided to lie in wait. the lights carried by those approaching would hardly reach them here, and they could lurk almost concealed, sheltered by the formation of the tunnel.
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the flash from eustace's lantern had been but momentary. and now, as they crouched in the inky gloom, the sense of expectation became painful in its intensity. nearer and nearer floated the wailing chant, and soon the lurking listeners were able to recognise it as identical with the wild, heathenish rune intoned by their guide--the weird, mysterious invocation of the serpent.
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"harm us not, o snake of snakes! do us no hurt o inyeka 'nkulu!"
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the sonorous, open vowels rolled forth in long-drawn cadence, chanted by two voices--both blending in wonderful harmony. then a cloud of nebulous light filled up the entrance to their present hiding place, hovering above the fearful hell-pit where the maniac was imprisoned, throwing the brink into distinct relief.
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the watchers held their very breath. the song had ceased. suddenly there was a flash of light in their eyes, as from a lantern.
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two dark figures were standing on the brink of the hole. each carried a lantern, one of those strong, tin-rimmed concerns used by transport-riders for hanging in their waggon-tents. there was no lack of light now.
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"ho, umlilwane!" cried a deep, bass voice, which rumbled in hoarse echoes beneath the domed roof, while the speaker held his lantern out over the pit. "ho, umlilwane! it is the dog's feeding time again. we have brought the dog his bones. ho, ho!"
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the wretched maniac who, until now, had kept silence, here broke forth again into his diabolical howls. by the sound the watchers could tell that he was exhausting himself in a series of bull-dog springs similar to those prompted by his frenzy on first discovering themselves. at each of these futile outbursts the two mocking fiends shouted and roared with laughter. but they little knew how near they were laughing for the last time. three rifles were covering them at a distance of fifty yards--three rifles in the hands of men who were dead shots, and whose hearts were bursting with silent fury. josane, seeing this, took occasion to whisper under cover of the lunatic's frenzied howls:
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"the time is not yet. the witch-doctress is for me--for me. i will lure her in here, and when i give the word--but not before--shoot hlangani. the witch-doctress is for me."
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the identity of the two figures was distinct in the light. the hideous sorceress, though reft of most of the horrid accessories and adornments of her order, yet looked cruel and repulsive as a very fiend--fitting figure to harmonise with the styx-like gloom of the scene. the huge form of the warrior loomed truly gigantic in the sickly lantern light. "ho, umlilwane, thou dog of dogs!" went on the latter. "art thou growing tired of thy cool retreat? are not the serpents good companions? haul thou wert a fool to part so readily with thy mind. after so many moons of converse with the serpents, thou shouldst have been a mighty soothsayer--a mighty diviner--by now. how long did it take thee to lose thy mind? but a single day? but a day and a night? that was quick! ho, ho!" and the great taunting laugh was echoed by the shriller cackle of the female fiend.
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"thou wert a mighty man with thy fists, a mighty man with thy gun, o umlilwane!" went on the savage, his mocking tones now sinking to those of devilish hatred. "but now thou art no longer a man--no longer a man. au! what were my words to thee? `thou hadst better have cut off thy right hand before shedding the blood of hlangani for it is better to lose a hand than one's mind.' what thinkest thou now of hlangani's revenge? hi!"
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how plain now to one of the listeners were those sombre words, over whose meaning he had so anxiously pondered. this, then, was the fearful vengeance promised by the gcaleka warrior. and for many months his wretched victim had lain here a raving maniac--had lain here in a darkness as of the very pit of hell--had lain among noisome serpents-- among crawling horrors untold--small wonder his reason had given way after a single night of such, as his tormentor had just declared. small wonder that he had indeed lost his mind!
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a fiendish yell burst from the maniac. suddenly a great serpent was thrown upward from the pit. petrified with horror, the watchers saw its thick, writhing form fly through the air and light on the witch-doctress's shoulder. with a shrill laugh the hag merely seized the wriggling, squirming reptile, which, with crest waving, was hissing like a fury, and hurled it back into the pit again. what sort of devil's influence was protecting these people, that they could handle the most deadly reptiles with absolute impunity? were they, indeed, under some demoniac spell? to one, however, among the white spectators, the real solution of the mystery may have suggested itself.
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"here are thy bones, dog," resumed the great barbarian, throwing what looked like a half-filled sack into the hole. "here is thy drink," and he lowered a large calabash at the end of a string. "eat, drink, and keep up thy strength. perhaps one day i may turn thee loose again. who knows! then when thy people see thee coming they will cry: `here comes hlangani's revenge.' and they will fly from thee in terror, as from the approach of a fell disease."
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the watchers looked at each other. these last words, coupled with the act of throwing down the food, seemed to point to the speedy conclusion of the visit. they could hear the miserable victim mumbling and crunching what sounded like literally bones, and growling like a dog. but hlangani went on.
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eustace had nudged josane in such wise as to make that individual understand that the curtain must be rung down on this scene--and that at once. simultaneously the "yap" of a puppy dog burst forth almost beneath his feet. its effect upon the pair at the pit's brink was electric.
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"yau!" cried ngcenika, turning toward the sound. "the little dog has followed me in after all. ah, the little brute. i will make him taste the stick!"
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"or throw him down to umlilwane," laughed her companion. "he will do for him to play with, two dogs together. mawo!"
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again the "yap" was heard, now several times in rapid succession. so perfect was the imitation that the watchers themselves were for a moment taken in.
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"now," he whispered, under cover of the echoes produced, as the width of the gallery left a clear chance at hlangani, without endangering the witch-doctress. "remember--the female beast, ngcenika, is for me. shoot hlangani--now!"
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scarce had the word left his mouth than the shots crashed forth simultaneously.
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chapter forty six.
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the end of the witch-doctress.
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to convey anything like an adequate idea of what followed is well-nigh impossible. the stunning, deafening roar of the volley in that narrow space was as though the very earth had exploded from its foundations. through it came the shivering crash of glass, as hlangani's lantern fell into the pit, but whether its owner followed it or not could not be determined through the overpowering din. still holding the lantern, the hideous witch-doctress was seen through the sulphurous smoke, standing there as one turned to stone--then like lightning, a dark, lithe body sprang through the spectators and with a growl like that of a wild beast leaped upon the bewildered ngcenika. there was the gleam of an assegai in the air--then darkness and the shatter of glass. the lantern fell from the sorceress' hand.
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"turn on the light, milne; quick!" cried the other two.
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"i'm trying to, but the infernal thing won't work. the slide's jammed-- oh!"
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for he was swept off his feet. two heavy bodies rolled over him-- striving, cursing, struggling, stabbing--then half stumbled, half rolled away into the gloom beyond.
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the others bethought them of their candles, which, up till now, had been kept unused. quickly two of them were produced and lighted.
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the din of the scuffle seemed to be receding further and further; nor in the faint and flickering impression cast upon the cavernous gloom by the light of the candles could anything be seen of the combatants. but that the scuffle was a hard and fierce one was evident from the sounds.
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just then eustace succeeded in opening the lantern slide, and now they were able to advance boldly in the strong disk of light. the latter revealed the object of their search.
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rolling over and over each other were two dark bodies, one now uppermost, now the other. both seemed equally matched; even if in point of sheer physical strength the advantage did not lie slightly with the witch-doctress, for josane, though wiry and active, was a good deal older than he looked. each firmly gripped the other's right wrist, for the purpose of preventing the use of the broad-bladed, murderous assegai with which the right hand of each was armed. victory would lie with whoever could hold out the longest.
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as soon as the light fell upon the two struggling bodies, the witch-doctress threw all her energies into afresh and violent effort. she seemed to divine that the new arrivals would refrain from shooting at her for fear of injuring josane. so she redoubled her struggles and kicked and bit and tore like one possessed.
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"keep her in that position a moment, josane," sung out hoste. "i'll put a hunk of lead through the devil's carcase. there--so!"
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but it was not to be. with a supreme effort she wrenched her wrist free from her opponent's grasp, and turning with the rapidity of a cat, leaped out of sight in the darkness. but a moment later she stumbled over a boulder and sprawled headlong. before she could rise her pursuer was upon her and had stabbed her twice through the body with his assegai.
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"ha! spawn of a fingo dog!" cried josane, his voice assuming a fierce, throaty growl in the delirious satiety of his vengeance. "i am josane-- whom thou wouldst have thrown to the serpents, as thou didst this white man--ha! whom thou wouldst have given alive to feed the black ants, as thou didst vudana, my kinsman. ha! i am josane, who was eaten up at thy accursed bidding. ha! but i lived for revenge and it has come. ha! how does this feel?--and this?--and this?"
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with each ejaculation "ha!" he had plunged his assegai into the writhing body of the prostrate witch-doctress. to the white men his aspect was that of a fiend--standing there in the cavernous gloom, his eyes rolling in frenzy--literally digging with his spear into the body of his vanquished enemy, out of which the red blood was squirting in a dozen great jets. not until the corpse had entirely ceased to move did he cease his furious stabs.
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"the hell-hag is dead!" he cried, as he at length turned to leave. "the hell-hag is dead," he repeated, turning the words into a fierce chant of exultation. "the hell-hag bleeds, and my revenge is sweet. ha! revenge is brighter than the sun in the heavens, for it is red, blood red. ha! mine enemy is dead!"
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by this time they had returned to the brink of the pit. but there was no sign of hlangani. something like dismay was on every face. the fragments of his shattered lantern lay strewn about at the bottom of the hole, but of the savage himself there was no sign. it was marvellous. all three men were first-rate shots. it was impossible that any one of them could have missed him at that distance, let alone all three. how could he have got away with three bullets in his body?
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cautiously they hunted everywhere with increasing anxiety, but nothing occurred to reward their search. the latter led them almost back to the great rock-chamber where the serpents swarmed. still no sign of hlangani.
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this was serious in the extreme. they would have their hands full enough with the wretched maniac, even if they succeeded in bringing him away at all; and the idea that the fierce gcaleka, desperately wounded perhaps, might be lying in wait, in some awkward place, ready to fall upon them with all the reckless, despairing ferocity of a cornered leopard, was anything but encouraging. or, what if he had escaped altogether, and were to bring back a swarm of his countrymen to cut off their retreat.
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"i tell you what it is," said hoste. "the sooner we get this poor chap out, and clear out ourselves, the better."
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this was true enough; but how to act upon it was another thing.
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several candles were lighted and stuck about on the rocks, making the black, gloomy cavern a trifle less sepulchral. then they advanced to the pit's brink. the lunatic, crouched on the ground gnawing a bone, stared stupidly at them.
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but the poor wretch gave no sign of intelligence, as he went on munching his revolting food. several times they tried him, each in different ways, but always without success. it was pitiable.
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"we shall have to get him out by force," said shelton. "but how the deuce we are going to do it beats me."
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"we might lasso him with a reim, and haul him up that way," suggested hoste.
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"i had thought of that," said eustace. "first of all, though, i'm going to have another try at the suaviter in modo. he may recognise me-- nearer."
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"nearer? what? how? you are never going down there!" cried shelton.
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"that's just what i am going to do. where's that long reim, josane?"
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this was the long, stout rawhide rope they had brought with them in case it might be wanted for climbing purposes. quickly eustace had made a running noose in it.
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"i hope you're in good hard form, milne," said shelton gravely. "the poor chap may try and tear you to pieces. i wouldn't risk it, if i were you."
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"and the snakes?" put in hoste. "what about the snakes?"
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"i shall have to chance them," returned eustace, having a shrewd suspicion that the reptiles had been rendered harmless by the extraction of their fangs, and were, in fact, kept there by the witch-doctress in order to lend additional horror to this inferno, whither she consigned her victims. even then the act of descending into that noisome pit, with the almost certainty of a hand-to-hand struggle with a raging lunatic of enormous strength, was an ordeal calculated to daunt the stoutest of hearts. certain it is that neither of the other two would have cared to undertake it. more than ever, then, did they endeavour to dissuade him.
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"but how about yourself, old chap?"
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"never mind about me. i can wait down there until you're ready for me. but when you have got him up here you must tie him up as tight as a log, and sharp, too. now, josane, is your blanket ready?"
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the old kafir, who had been knotting a small stone into each corner so that the thing should fall quickly, answered in the affirmative. in a second the reim was dropped over the side, and eustace, sliding down, stood at the bottom of the pit.
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the indescribably fearful effluvium fairly choked him. he felt dizzy and faint. the lunatic, still crouching at the other side, made no aggressive movement, merely staring with lack-lustre eyes at the new arrival. keeping his eye upon him, eustace took advantage of this welcome truce to feel for his flask and counteract his fast overpowering nausea with a timely pull.
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"tom," he said, in a most persuasive tone, approaching the wretched being. "tom--you know me, don't you?"
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then an awful change came into the maniac's countenance. his eyes glared through the tangle of his matted hair; the great bushy beard began to bristle and quiver with rage. he rose to his feet and, opening his mouth, emitted that same horrible howl. those above held their breath.
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well for eustace was it that he never quailed. standing there in the middle of the pit--at the mercy of this furious lunatic--he moved not a muscle. but his eyes held those of the demoniac with a piercing and steady gaze.
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the crisis was past. whimpering like a child, the wretched creature sank to the ground, again covering his face with his hands.
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this was good enough as a first triumph, but the maniac had to be coaxed round to the other side of the hole. eustace dared not remove his glance, even for the fraction of a second. his foot struck against something, which yielded suddenly and started away hissing. his pulses stood still with horror, yet he knew better than to remove his eyes from his unhappy kinsman.
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"come, tom," he said coaxingly, advancing a couple of steps. "get up, man, and go and sit over there."
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"he's all right now, if you're ready," whispered a voice from above.
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"ready!" was the quick reply.
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something dropped. the madman's head and shoulders disappeared under the voluminous folds of old josane's red blanket. quick as lightning eustace had sprung to his side and whipped the running noose round him.
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"trek!" he cried, with an energy sufficient to start a dozen spans of oxen.
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the body of tom carhayes swung into the air. kicking, struggling, howling, he disappeared over the brink above. eustace, alone at the bottom of the pit, could hear the sounds of a furious scuffle--sounds, too, which seemed to be receding as though into distance. what did it all mean? they seemed a long time securing the maniac.
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then, as he looked around this horrible dungeon, at the crawling shapes of the serpents gliding hither and thither, hissing with rage over their late disturbance, as he breathed the unspeakably noisome atmosphere, he realised his own utter helplessness. what if anything untoward should occur to prevent his comrades from rescuing him? life was full of surprises. they might be attacked by a party of kafirs, brought back there by the missing hlangani, for instance. what if he had merely exchanged places with his unfortunate kinsman and were to be left there in the darkness and horror? how long would he be able to keep his reason? hardly longer than the other, he feared. and the perspiration streamed from every pore, as he began to realise what the miserable maniac had undergone.
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a silence had succeeded to the tumult above. what did it mean? every second seemed an hour. then, with a start of unspeakable relief, he heard hoste's voice above.
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"ready to come up, old chap?"
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"very much so. why have you taken so long?" he asked anxiously.
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"we had to tie up poor tom twice, you know; first with the big reim, then with others. then we had to undo the big reim again. here it is," chucking it over.
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eustace slipped the noose under his armpits, and, having given the word to haul away, a very few moments saw him among them all again. the mad man was securely bound and even gagged, only his feet being loosened sufficiently to enable him to take short steps.
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so they started on their return track, longing with a greater longing than words can tell, to breathe the open air, to behold the light of day again. the armies of the philistines, and fighting over again the battles of israel's kings! many a tale he stored away in his busy brain to be repeated to the children gathered around the public fountain in the cool of the evening.
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it mattered not what character he told them of,--priest or prophet, judge or king,--the picture was painted in life-like colors by this patriotic little hero-worshipper.
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so he watched his host closely till the meal was over, finding that in the observance of many customs, he failed to measure up to his uncle's strict standard.
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phineas went back to his work after dinner. he was greatly interested in joel, and, while he sawed and hammered, kept a watchful eye on him. he was surprised at the boy's knowledge. more than once he caught himself standing with an idle tool in hand, as he listened to some story that joel was telling to jesse.
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after a while he laid down his work and leaned against the bench. "what do you find to do all day, my lad?" he asked, abruptly.
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"nothing," answered joel, "after i have recited my lessons to rabbi amos."
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"does your aunt never give you any tasks to do at home?"
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"no. i think she does not like to have me in her sight any more than she is obliged to. she is always kind to me, but she doesn't love me. she only pities me. i hate to be pitied. there is not a single one in the world who really loves me."
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"oh, rabbi phineas!" cried joel. "do you mean that i may come here every day? it is too good to be true!"
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"yes; if you will promise to stick to it until you have mastered the trade. if you are as quick to learn with your hands as you have been with your head, i shall have reason to be proud of such a pupil."
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joel's face flushed with pleasure, and he sprang up quickly, saying, "may i begin right now? oh, i'll try so hard to please you!"
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phineas laid a soft pine board on the bench, and began to mark a line across it with a piece of red chalk.
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"well, you may see how straight a cut you can make through this plank."
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he picked up a saw, and ran his fingers lightly along its sharp teeth. but he paused in the act of handing it to joel, to ask, "you are sure, now, that your uncle and aunt will consent to such an arrangement?"
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"yes indeed!" was the emphatic answer. "they will be glad enough to have me out of the way, and learning something useful."
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the saw cut slowly through the wood; for the weak little hand was a careful one, and the boy was determined not to swerve once from the line. he smiled with satisfaction as the pieces fell apart, showing a clean, straight edge.
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"well done!" said phineas, kindly. "now let me see you drive a nail." made bold by his first success, joel pounded away vigorously, but the hammer slipped more than once, and his unpractised fingers ached with the blows that he had aimed at the nail's head.
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"you'll soon learn," said phineas, with an encouraging pat on the boy's shoulder. "gather up those odds and ends under the bench. when you've sawed them into equal lengths, i'll show you how to make a box."
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joel bent over his work with almost painful intensity. he fairly held his breath, as he made the measurements. he gripped the saw as if his life depended on the strength of his hold. phineas smiled at his earnestness.
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"be careful, my lad," he said. "you will soon wear out at that rate."
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it seemed to joel that there never had been such a short afternoon. he had stopped to rest several times, when phineas had insisted upon it; but this new work had all the fascination of an interesting game. the trees threw giant shadows across the grass, when he finally laid his tools aside. his back ached with so much unusual exercise, and he was very tired.
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"rabbi phineas," he asked gently, after a long pause, "what makes you so good to me? what makes you so different from other people? while i am with you, i feel like i want to be good. other people seem to rub me the wrong way, and make me cross and hateful; then i feel like i'd rather be wicked than not. why this afternoon, i've scarcely thought of rehum at all. i forgot at times that i am lame. when you talk to me, i feel like i did that day dan took me out on the lake. it seemed a different kind of a world,--all blue sky and smooth water. i felt if i could stay out there all the time, where it was so quiet and comforting, that i could not even hate rehum as much as i do."
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a surprised, pleased look passed over the man's face. "do i really make you feel that way, little one? then i am indeed glad. once when i was a young boy living in nazareth, i had a playmate who had that influence over me and all the boys he played with. i never could be selfish and impatient when he was with me. his very presence rebuked such thoughts,--when we were children playing together, like my own two little ones there, and when we were older grown, working at the same bench. it has been many a long year since i left nazareth, but i think of him daily. even now, after our long separation, the thought of his blameless life inspires me to a higher living. yes," he went on musingly, more to himself than the boy, "it was like music. surely no white-robed priest in the holy temple ever offered up more acceptable praise than the perfect harmony of his daily life."
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joel's lips trembled. "if i had ever had one real friend to care for me--not just pity me, you know--maybe i would have been different. but i have never had a single one since my father died."
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phineas smiled, and held out his hand. "you have one now, my lad, never forget that."
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the strong brown hand closed in a warm grasp, and joel drew it, with a grateful impulse, to his lips. ruth came up with wondering eyes. she could not understand what had passed; but joel's eyes were full of tears, and she vaguely felt that he needed comfort. she had a pet pigeon in her arms, that she carried everywhere with her.
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"here," she lisped, holding out the snowy winged bird. "boy, take it! boy, keep it!"
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joel looked up inquiringly at phineas. "take it," he said, in a low tone. "let it be the omen of a happier life commencing for you."
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"i never had a pet of any kind before," said joel, in delight, smoothing the white wings folded contentedly against his breast. "but she loves it so, i dislike to take it from her. how beautiful it is!"
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"my little ruth is a born comforter," said phineas, tossing her up in his arms. "shall joel take the pigeon home with him, little daughter?"
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"yes," she answered, nodding her head. "boy cried."
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"i'll name it 'little friend,'" said joel, rising with it in his arms. "i'll take it home with me, and keep it until after the sabbath, to make me feel sure that this day has not been just a dream; but i will bring it back next time i come. i can see it here every day, and it will be happier here. oh, rabbi phineas, i can never thank you enough for this day!"
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it was a pitiful little figure that limped away homeward in the fading light, with the white pigeon in his arms.
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looking anxiously up in the sky, joel saw one star come twinkling out. the sabbath would soon begin, and then he must not be found carrying even so much as this one poor little pigeon. the slightest burden would be unlawful.
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as he hurried on, the loud blast of a trumpet, blown from the roof of the synagogue, signalled the laborers in the fields to stop all work. he knew that very soon it would sound again, to call the town people from their tasks; and at the third blast, the sabbath lamp would be lighted in every home.
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fearful of his uncle's displeasure at his tardiness, he hurried painfully onward, to provide food and a resting-place for his "little friend" before the second sounding of the trumpet.
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early in the morning after the sabbath, joel was in his accustomed place in the market, waiting for his friend phineas. his uncle had given a gruff assent, when he timidly asked his approval of the plan.
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the good rabbi amos was much pleased when he heard of the arrangement. "thou hast been a faithful student," he said, kindly. "thou knowest already more of the law than many of thy elders. now it will do thee good to learn the handicraft of phineas. remember, my son, 'the balm was created by god before the wound.' work, that is as old as eden, has been given us that we might forget the afflictions of this life that fleeth like a shadow. may the god of thy fathers give thee peace!"
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with the old man's benediction repeating itself like a solemn refrain in all his thoughts, joel stood smoothing the pigeon in his arms, until phineas had made his daily purchases. then they walked on together in the cool of the morning, to the little white house under the fig-trees. phineas was surprised at his pupil's progress. to be sure, the weak arms could lift little, the slender hands could attempt no large tasks. but the painstaking care he bestowed on everything he attempted, resulted in beautifully finished work. if there was an extra smooth polish to be put on some wood, or a delicate piece of joining to do, joel's deft fingers seemed exactly suited to the task.
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before the winter was over, he had made many pretty little articles of furniture for abigail's use.
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"may i have these pieces of fine wood to use as i please?" he asked of phineas, one day.
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"all but that largest strip," he answered. "what are you going to make?"
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"something for ruth's birthday. she will be three years old in a few weeks, jesse says, and i want to make something for her to play with."
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"what are you going to make her?" inquired jesse, from under the work-bench. "let me see too."
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"oh, i didn't know you were anywhere near," answered joel, with a start of alarm.
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"tell me!" begged jesse.
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"well, if you will promise to keep her out of the way while i am finishing it, and never say a word about it--"
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"i'll promise," said the child, solemnly. he had to clap his hand over his mouth a great many times in the next few weeks, to keep his secret from telling itself, and he watched admiringly while joel carved and polished and cut.
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one of the neighbors had come in to talk with abigail the day he finished it, and as the children were down on the beach, playing in the sand, he took it in the house to show to the women. it was a little table set with toy dishes, that he had carved out of wood,--plates and cups and platters, all complete.
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the visitor held up her hands with an exclamation of delight. after taking up each little highly polished dish to admire it separately, she said, "i know where you might get a great deal of money for such work. there is a rich roman living near the garrison, who spends money like a lord. no price is too great for him to pay for anything that pleases his fancy. why don't you take some up there, and offer them for sale?"
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"i believe i will," said joel, after considering the matter. "i'll go just as soon as i can get them made."
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ruth spread many a little feast under the fig-trees; but after the first birthday banquet, jesse was her only guest. joel was too busy making more dishes and another little table, to partake of them.
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the whole family were interested in his success. the day he went up to the great house near the garrison to offer them for sale, they waited anxiously for his return.
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"he's sold them! he's sold them!" cried jesse, hopping from one foot to the other, as he saw joel coming down the street empty-handed. joel was hobbling along as fast as he could, his face beaming.
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"see how much money!" he cried, as he opened his hand to show a shining coin, stamped with the head of cæsar. "and i have an order for two more. i'll soon have a fortune! the children liked the dishes so much, although they had the most beautiful toys i ever saw. they had images they called dolls. some of them had white-kid faces, and were dressed as richly as queens. i wish ruth had one."
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"the law forbids!" exclaimed phineas. "have you forgotten that it is written, 'thou shalt not make any likeness of anything in the heavens above or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth'? she is happy with what she has, and needs no strange idols of the heathen to play with."
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joel made no answer; but he thought of the merry group of roman children seated around the little table he had made, and wished again that ruth had one of those gorgeously dressed dolls.
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skill and strength were not all he gained by his winter's work; for some of the broad charity that made continual summer in the heart of phineas crept into his own embittered nature. he grew less suspicious of those around him, and smiles came more easily now to his face than scowls.
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but the strong ambition of his life never left him for an instant. to all the rest of the world he might be a friend; to rehum he could only be the most unforgiving of enemies.
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the thought that had given him most pleasure when the wealthy roman had tossed him his first earnings, was not that his work could bring him money, but that the money could open the way for his revenge.
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that thought, like a dark undercurrent, gained depth and force as the days went by. as he saw how much he could do in spite of his lameness, he thought of how much more he might have accomplished, if he had been like other boys. it was a constant spur to his desire for revenge.
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one day phineas laid aside his tools much earlier than usual, and without any explanation to his wondering pupil, went up into the town.
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when he returned, he nodded to his wife, who sat in the doorway spinning, and who had looked up inquiringly as he approached.
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"yes, it's all arranged," he said to her. then he turned to joel to ask, "did you ever ride on a camel, my boy?"
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"no, rabbi," answered the boy, in surprise, wondering what was coming next.
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"well, i have a day's journey to make to the hills in upper galilee. a camel caravan passes near the place where my business calls me, as it goes to damascus. i seek to accompany it for protection. i go on foot, but i have made arrangements for you to ride one of the camels."
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"oh, am i really to go, too?" gasped joel, in delighted astonishment. "oh, rabbi phineas! how did you ever think of asking me?"
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"you have not seemed entirely well, of late," was the answer. "i thought the change would do you good. i said nothing about it before, for i had no opportunity to see your uncle until this afternoon; and i did not want to disappoint you, in case he refused his permission."
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"and he really says i may go?" demanded the boy, eagerly.
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"yes, the caravan moves in the morning, and we will go with it."
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there was little more work done that day. joel was so full of anticipations of his journey that he scarcely knew what he was doing. phineas was busy with preparations for the comfort of his little family during his absence, and went into town again.
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on his return he seemed strangely excited. abigail, seeing something was amiss, watched him carefully, but asked no questions. he took a piece of timber that had been laid away for some especial purpose, and began sawing it into small bits.
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"rabbi phineas," ventured joel, respectfully, "is that not the wood you charged me to save so carefully?"
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phineas gave a start as he saw what he had done, and threw down his saw.
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"truly," he said, smiling, "i am beside myself with the news i have heard. i just now walked ten cubits past my own house, unknowing where i was, so deeply was i thinking upon it. abigail," he asked, "do you remember my friend in nazareth whom i so often speak of,--the son of joseph the carpenter? last week he was bidden to a marriage in cana. it happened, before the feasting was over, the supply of wine was exhausted, and the mortified host knew not what to do. six great jars of stone had been placed in the room, to supply the guests with water for washing. he changed that water into wine!"
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"i cannot believe it!" answered abigail, simply.
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"but ezra ben jared told me so. he was there, and drank of the wine," insisted phineas.
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"he could not have done it," said abigail, "unless he were helped by the evil one, or unless he were a prophet. he is too good a man to ask help of the powers of darkness; and it is beyond belief that a son of joseph should be a prophet."
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to this phineas made no answer. his quiet thoughts were shaken out of their usual routine as violently as if by an earthquake.
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joel thought more of the journey than he did of the miracle. it seemed to the impatient boy that the next day never would dawn. many times in the night he wakened to hear the distant crowing of cocks. at last, by straining his eyes he could distinguish the green leaves of the vine on the lattice from the blue of the half-opened blossoms. by that token he knew it was near enough the morning for him to commence saying his first prayers.
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dressing noiselessly, so as not to disturb the sleeping family, he slipped out of the house and down to the well outside the city-gate. here he washed, and then ate the little lunch he had wrapped up the night before. a meagre little breakfast,--only a hard-boiled egg, a bit of fish, and some black bread. but the early hour and his excitement took away his appetite for even that little.
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soon all was confusion around the well, as the noisy drivers gathered to water their camels, and make their preparations for the start.
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joel shrunk away timidly to the edge of the crowd, fearful that his friend phineas had overslept himself.
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in a few minutes he saw him coming with a staff in one hand, and a small bundle swinging from the other.
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joel had one breathless moment of suspense as he was helped on to the back of the kneeling camel; one desperate clutch at the saddle as the huge animal plunged about and rose to its feet. then he looked down at phineas, and smiled blissfully.
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oh, the delight of that slow easy motion! the joy of being carried along without pain or effort! who could realize how much it meant to the little fellow whose halting steps had so long been taken in weariness and suffering?
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swinging along in the cool air, so far above the foot-passengers, it seemed to him that he looked down upon a new earth. blackbirds flew along the roads, startled by their passing. high overhead, a lark had not yet finished her morning song. lambs bleated in the pastures, and the lowing of herds sounded on every hill-side.
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not a sight or sound escaped the boy; and all the morning he rode on without speaking, not a care in his heart, not a cloud on his horizon.
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at noon they stopped in a little grove of olive-trees where a cool spring gurgled out from the rocks.
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phineas spread out their lunch at a little distance from the others; and they ate it quickly, with appetites sharpened by the morning's travel. afterwards joel stretched himself out on the ground to rest, and was asleep almost as soon as his eyelids could shut out the noontide glare of the sun from his tired eyes.
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when he awoke, nearly an hour afterward, he heard voices near him in earnest conversation. raising himself on his elbow, he saw phineas at a little distance, talking to an old man who had ridden one of the foremost camels.
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they must have been talking of the miracle, for the old man, as he stroked his long white beard, was saying, "but men are more wont to be astonished at the sun's eclipse, than at his daily rising. look, my friend!"
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he pointed to a wild grape-vine clinging to a tree near by. "do you see those bunches of half-grown grapes? there is a constant miracle. day by day, the water of the dew and rain is being changed into the wine of the grape. soil and sunshine are turning into fragrant juices. yet you feel no astonishment."
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"no," assented phineas; "for it is by the hand of god it is done."
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"why may not this be also?" said the old man. "even this miracle at the marriage feast in cana?"
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phineas started violently. "what!" he cried. "do you think it possible that this friend of mine is the one to be sent of god?"
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"is not this the accepted time for the coming of israel's messiah?" answered the old man, solemnly. "is it not meet that he should herald his presence by miracles and signs and wonders?"
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joel lay down again to think over what he had just heard. like every other israelite in the whole world, he knew that a deliverer had been promised his people.
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time and again he had read the prophecies that foretold the coming of a king through the royal line of david; time and again he had pictured to himself the mighty battles to take place between his down-trodden race and the haughty hordes of cæsar. sometime, somewhere, a universal dominion awaited them. he firmly believed that the day was near at hand; but not even in his wildest dreams had he ever dared to hope that it might come in his own lifetime.
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he raised himself on his elbow again, for the old man was speaking.
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"about thirty years ago," he said slowly, "i went up to jerusalem to be registered for taxation, for the emperor's decree had gone forth and no one could escape enrolment. you are too young to remember the taking of that census, my friend; but you have doubtless heard of it."
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"yes," assented phineas, respectfully.
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"i was standing just outside the joppa gate, bargaining with a man for a cage of gold finches he had for sale, which i wished to take to my daughter, when we heard some one speaking to us. looking up we saw several strange men on camels, who were inquiring their way. they were richly dressed. the trappings and silver bells on their camels, as well as their own attire, spoke of wealth. their faces showed that they were wise and learned men from far countries.
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"we greeted them respectfully, but could not speak for astonishment when we heard their question:
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"'where is he that is born king of the jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him.' the bird-seller looked at me, and i looked at him in open-mouthed wonder. the men rode on before we could find words wherewith to answer them.
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"all sorts of rumors were afloat, and everywhere we went next day, throughout jerusalem, knots of people stood talking of the mysterious men, and their strange question. even the king was interested, and sought audience with them."
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"could any one answer them?" asked phineas.
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"nay! but it was then impressed on me so surely that the christ was born, that i have asked myself all these thirty years, 'where is he that is born king of the jews?' for i too would fain follow on to find and worship him. as soon as i return from damascus, i shall go at once to cana, and search for this miracle-worker."
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the old man's earnest words made a wonderful impression on joel. all the afternoon, as they rose higher among the hills, the thought took stronger possession of him. he might yet live, helpless little cripple as he was, to see the dawn of israel's deliverance, and a son of david once more on its throne.
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ride on, little pilgrim, happy in thy day-dreams! the time is coming; but weary ways and hopeless heart-aches lie between thee and that to-morrow. the king is on his way to his coronation, but it will be with thorns.
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ride on, little pilgrim, be happy whilst thou can!
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it was nearly the close of the day when the long caravan halted, and tents were pitched for the night near a little brook that came splashing down from a cold mountain-spring.
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joel, exhausted by the long day's travel, crowded so full of new experiences, was glad to stretch his cramped limbs on a blanket that phineas took from the camel's back.
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here, through half-shut eyes, he watched the building of the camp-fire, and the preparations for the evening meal.
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"i wonder what uncle laban would do if he were here!" he said to phineas, with an amused smile. "look at those dirty drivers with their unwashed hands and unblessed food. how little regard they have for the law. uncle laban would fast a lifetime rather than taste anything that had even been passed over a fire of their building. i can imagine i see him now, gathering up his skirts and walking on the tips of his sandals for fear of being touched by anything unclean."
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"your uncle laban is a good man," answered phineas, "one careful not to transgress the law."
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"yes," said the boy. "but i like your way better. you keep the fasts, and repeat the prayers, and love god and your neighbors. uncle laban is careful to do the first two things; i am not so sure about the others. life is too short to be always washing one's hands."
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phineas looked at the little fellow sharply. how shrewd and old he seemed for one of his years! such independence of thought was unusual in a child trained as he had been. he scarcely knew how to answer him, so he turned his attention to spreading out the fruits and bread he had brought for their supper.
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next morning, after the caravan had gone on without them, they started up a narrow bridle-path, that led through hillside-pastures where flocks of sheep and goats were feeding.
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the dew was still on the grass, and the air was so fresh and sweet in this higher altitude that joel walked on with a feeling of strength and vigor unknown to him before.
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"oh, look!" he cried, clasping his hands in delight, as a sudden turn brought them to the upper course of the brook whose waters, falling far below, had refreshed them the night before.
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the poetry of the psalms came as naturally to the lips of this beauty-loving little israelite as the breath he drew.
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now he repeated, in a low, reverent voice, "'the lord is my shepherd; i shall not want.' oh, rabbi phineas, did you ever know before that there could be such green pastures and still waters?"
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the man smiled at the boy's radiant, upturned face. "'yea, the earth is the lord's and the fulness thereof,'" he murmured. "we have indeed a goodly heritage."
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hushed into silence by the voice of the hills and the beauty on every side, they walked on till the road turned again.
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just ahead stood a house unusually large for a country district; everything about it bore an air of wealth and comfort.
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"our journey is at an end now," said phineas. "yonder lies the house of nathan ben obed. he owns all those flocks and herds we have seen in passing this last half hour. it is with him that i have business; and we will tarry with him until after the sabbath."
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they were evidently expected, for a servant came running out to meet them. he opened the gate and conducted them into a shaded court-yard. here another servant took off their dusty sandals, and gave them water to wash their feet.
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they had barely finished, when an old man appeared in the doorway; his long beard and hair were white as the abba he wore.
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phineas would have bowed himself to the ground before him, but the old man prevented it, by hurrying to take both hands in his, and kiss him on each cheek.
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"peace be to thee, thou son of my good friend jesse!" he said. "thou art indeed most welcome."
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joel lagged behind. he was always sensitive about meeting strangers; but the man's cordial welcome soon put him at his ease.
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he was left to himself a great deal during the few days following. the business on which the old man had summoned phineas required long consultations.
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one day they rode away together to some outlying pastures, and were gone until night-fall. joel did not miss them. he was spending long happy hours in the country sunshine. there was something to entertain him, every way he turned. for a while he amused himself by sitting in the door and poring over a roll of parchment that sarah, the wife of nathan ben obed, brought him to read.
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she was an old woman, but one would have found it hard to think so, had he seen how briskly she went about her duties of caring for such a large household.
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after joel had read for some little time, he became aware that some one was singing outside, in a whining, monotonous way, and he laid down his book to listen. the voice was not loud, but so penetrating he could not shut it out, and fix his mind on his story again. so he rolled up the parchment and laid it on the chest from which it had been taken; then winding his handkerchief around his head, turban fashion, he limped out in the direction of the voice.
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just around the corner of the house, under a great oak-tree, a woman sat churning. from three smooth poles joined at the top to form a tripod, a goat-skin bag hung by long leather straps. this was filled with cream; she was slapping it violently back and forth in time to her weird song.
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her feet were bare, and she wore only a coarse cotton dress. but a gay red handkerchief covered her black hair, and heavy copper rings hung from her nose and ears.
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the song stopped suddenly as she saw joel. then recognizing her master's guest, she smiled at him so broadly that he could see her pretty white teeth.
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joel hardly knew what to say at this unexpected encounter, but bethought himself to ask the way to the sheep-folds and the watch-tower. "it is a long way there," said the woman, doubtfully; joel flushed as he felt her black eyes scanning his misshapen form.
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just then sarah appeared in the door, and the maid repeated the question to her mistress.
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"to be sure," she said. "you must go out and see our shepherds with their flocks. we have a great many employed just now, on all the surrounding hills. rhoda, call your son, and bid him bring hither the donkey that he always drives to market."
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the woman left her churning, and presently came back with a boy about joel's age, leading a donkey with only one ear.
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joel knew what that meant. at some time in its life the poor beast had strayed into some neighbor's field, and the owner of the field had been at liberty to cut off an ear in punishment.
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the boy that led him wore a long shirt of rough hair-cloth. his feet and legs were brown and tanned. a shock of reddish sunburned hair was the only covering for his head. there was a squint in one eye, and his face was freckled.
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he made an awkward obeisance to his mistress.
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"buz," she said, "this young lad is your master's guest. take him out and show him the flocks and herds, and the sheep-folds. he has never seen anything of shepherd life, so be careful to do his pleasure. stay!" she added to joel. "you will not have time to visit them all before the mid-day meal, so i will give you a lunch, and you can enjoy an entire day in the fields."
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as the two boys started down the hill, joel stole a glance at his companion. "what a stupid-looking fellow!" he thought; "i doubt if he knows anything more than this sleepy beast i am riding. i wonder if he enjoys any of this beautiful world around him. how glad i am that i am not in his place."
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buz, trudging along in the dust, glanced at the little cripple on the donkey's back with an inward shiver.
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"what a dreadful lot his must be," he thought. "how glad i am that i am not like he is!"
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it was not very long till the shyness began to wear off, and joel found that the stupid shepherd lad had a very busy brain under his shock of tangled hair. his eyes might squint, but they knew just where to look in the bushes for the little hedge-sparrow's nest. they could take unerring aim, too, when he sent the smooth sling-stones whizzing from the sling he carried.
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"how far can you shoot with it?" asked joel.
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for answer buz looked all around for some object on which to try his skill; then he pointed to a hawk slowly circling overhead. joel watched him fit a smooth pebble into his sling; he had no thought that the boy could touch it at such a distance. the stone whizzed through the air like a bullet, and the bird dropped several yards ahead of them.
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"see!" said buz, as he ran to pick it up, and display it proudly. "i struck it in the head."
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joel looked at him with increasing respect. "that must have been the kind of sling that king david killed the giant with," he said, handing it back after a careful examination.
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"king david!" repeated buz, dully, "seems to me i have heard of him, sometime or other; but i don't know about the giant."
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"why where have you been all your life?" cried joel, in amazement. "i thought everybody knew about that. did you never go to a synagogue?"
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shocked at such ignorance, joel began to tell the shepherd king's life with such eloquence that buz stopped short in the road to listen.
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the story was a favorite one with joel, and he put his whole soul into it.
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"who told you that?" asked buz, taking a long breath when the interesting tale was finished.
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"why i read it myself!" answered joel.
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"oh, can you read?" asked buz, looking at joel in much the same way that joel had looked at him after he killed the hawk. "i do not see how anybody can. it puzzles me how people can look at all those crooked black marks and call them rivers and flocks and things. i looked one time, just where master had been reading about a great battle. and i didn't see a single thing that looked like a warrior or a sword or a battle-axe, though he called them all by name. there were several little round marks that might have been meant for sling-stones; but it was more than i could make out, how he could get any sense out of it."
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joel leaned back and laughed till the hills rang, laughed till the tears stood in his eyes, and the donkey waked up and ambled on.
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buz did not seem to be in the least disturbed by his merriment, although he was puzzled as to its cause. he only stooped to pick up more stones for his sling as they went on.
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it was not long till they came to some of the men,--great brawny fellows dressed in skins, with coarse matted hair and tanned faces. how little they knew of what was going on in the busy world outside their fields! as joel talked to them he found that cæsar's conquests and hero's murders had only come to them as vague rumors. all the petty wars and political turmoils were unknown to them. they could talk to him only of their flocks and their faith, both as simple as their lives.
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joel, in his wisdom learned of the rabbis, felt himself infinitely their superior, child though he was. but he enjoyed his day spent with them. he and buz ate the ample lunch they had brought, dipped up water from the brook in cups they made of oak-leaves, and both finally fell asleep to the droning music of the shepherd's pipes, played softly on the uplands.
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a distant rumble of thunder aroused them, late in the afternoon; and they started up to find the shepherds calling in their flocks. the gaunt sheep dogs raced to and fro, bringing the straying goats together. the shepherds brought the sheep into line with well-aimed sling-shots, touching them first on one side, and then on the other, as oxen are guided by the touch of the goad.
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joel looked up at the darkening sky with alarm. "who would have thought of a storm on such a day!" he exclaimed.
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buz cocked his eyes at the horizon. "i thought it might come to this," he said; "for as we came along this morning there were no spider-webs on the grass; the ants had not uncovered the doors of their hills; and all the signs pointed to wet weather. i thought though, that the time of the latter rains had passed a week ago. i am always glad when the stormy season is over. this one is going to be a hard one."
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"what shall we do?" asked joel.
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buz scratched his head. then he looked at joel. "you never could get home on that trifling donkey before it overtakes us; and they'll be worried about you. i'd best take you up to the sheep-fold. you can stay all night there, very comfortably. i'll run home and tell them where you are, and come back for you in the morning."
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joel hesitated, appalled at spending the night among such dirty men; but the heavy boom of thunder, steadily rolling nearer, silenced his half-spoken objection. by the time the donkey had carried him up the hillside to the stone-walled enclosure round the watch-tower, the shepherds were at the gates with their flocks.
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joel watched them go through the narrow passage, one by one. each man kept count of his own sheep, and drove them under the rough sheds put up for their protection.
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a good-sized hut was built against the hillside, where the shepherds might find refuge. buz pointed it out to joel; then he turned the donkey into one of the sheds, and started homeward on the run.
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joel shuddered as a blinding flash of lightning was followed by a crash of thunder that shook the hut. the wind bore down through the trees like some savage spirit, shrieking and moaning as it flew. joel heard a shout, and looked out to the opposite hillside. buz was flying along in break-neck race with the storm. at that rate he would soon be home. how he seemed to enjoy the race, as his strong limbs carried him lightly as a bird soars!
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at the top he turned to look back and laugh and wave his arms,--a sinewy little figure standing out in bold relief against a brazen sky.
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joel watched till he was out of sight. then, as the wind swooped down from the mountains, great drops of rain began to splash through the leaves.
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the men crowded into the hut. one of them started forward to close the door, but stopped suddenly, with his brown hairy hand uplifted.
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"hark ye!" he exclaimed.
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joel heard only the shivering of the wind in the tree-tops; but the man's trained ear caught the bleating of a stray lamb, far off and very faint.
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"i was afraid i was mistaken in my count; they jostled through the gate so fast i could not be sure." going to a row of pegs along the wall, he took down a lantern hanging there and lit it; then wrapping his coat of skins more closely around him, and calling one of the dogs, he set out into the gathering darkness.
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flash after flash of lightning blinded them. the wind roared down the mountain and beat against the house till joel held his breath in terror. it was midnight before it stopped. joel thought of the poor shepherd out on the hills, and shuddered. even the men seemed uneasy about him, as hour after hour passed, and he did not come.
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finally he fell asleep in the corner, on a pile of woolly skins. in the gray dawn he was awakened by a great shout. he got up, and went to the door. there stood the shepherd. his bare limbs were cut by stones and torn by thorns. blood streamed from his forehead where he had been wounded by a falling branch. the mud on his rough garments showed how often he had slipped and fallen on the steep paths.
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joel noticed, with a thrill of sympathy, how painfully he limped. but there on the bowed shoulders was the lamb he had wandered so far to find; and as the welcoming shout arose again, joel's weak little cheer joined gladly in.
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"how brave and strong he is," thought the boy. "he risked his life for just one pitiful little lamb."
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the child's heart went strangely out to this rough fellow who stood holding the shivering animal, sublimely unconscious that he had done anything more than a simple duty.
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joel, who felt uncommonly hungry after his supperless night, thought he would mount the donkey and start back alone. but just as he was about to do so, a familiar bushy head showed itself in the door of the sheepfold. buz had brought him some wheat-cakes and cheese to eat on the way back.
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joel was so busy with this welcome meal that he did not talk much. buz kept eying him in silence, as if he longed to ask some question. at last, when the cheese had entirely disappeared, he found courage to ask it.
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"were you always like that?" he said abruptly, motioning to joel's back and leg. somehow the reference did not wound him as it generally did. he began to tell buz about the samaritan boy who had crippled him. he never was able to tell the story of his wrongs without growing passionately angry. he had worked himself into a white heat by the time he had finished.
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"i'd get even with him," said buz, excitedly, with a wicked squint of his eyes.
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"how would you do it?" demanded joel. "cripple him as he did me?"
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"worse than that!" exclaimed buz, stopping to take deliberate aim at a leaf overhead, and shooting a hole exactly through the centre with his sling. "i'd blind him as quick as that! it's a great deal worse to be blind than lame."
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joel closed his eyes, and rode on a few moments in darkness. then he opened them and gave a quick glad look around the landscape. "my! what if i never could have opened them again," he thought. "yes, buz, you're right," he said aloud. "it is worse to be blind; so i shall take rehum's eyesight also, some time. oh, if that time were only here!"
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although the subject of the miracle at cana had been constantly in the mind of phineas, and often near his lips, he did not speak of it to his host until the evening before his departure.
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it was just at the close of the evening meal. nathan ben obed rose half-way from his seat in astonishment, then sank back.
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"how old a man is this friend of yours?" he asked.
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"about thirty, i think," answered phineas. "he is a little younger than i."
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"where was he born?"
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"in bethlehem, i have heard it said, though his home has always been in nazareth."
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"strange, strange!" muttered the man, stroking his long white beard thoughtfully.
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joel reached over and touched phineas on the arm. "will you not tell rabbi nathan about the wonderful star that was seen at that time?" he asked, in a low tone.
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"what was that?" asked the old man, arousing from his reverie.
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when phineas had repeated his conversation with the stranger on the day of his journey, nathan ben obed exchanged meaning glances with his wife.
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"send for the old shepherd heber," he said. "i would have speech with him."
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rhoda came in to light the lamps. he bade her roll a cushioned couch that was in one corner to the centre of the room.
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"this old shepherd heber was born in bethlehem," he said; "but since his sons and grandsons have been in my employ, he has come north to live. he used to help keep the flocks that belonged to the temple, and that were used for sacrifices. his has always been one of the purest of lives; and i have never known such faith as he has. he is over a hundred years old, so must have been quite aged at the time of the event of which he will tell us."
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presently an old, old man tottered into the room, leaning on the shoulders of his two stalwart grandsons. they placed him gently on the cushions of the couch, and then went into the court-yard to await his readiness to return. like the men joel had seen the day before, they were dressed in skins, and were wild-looking and rough. but this aged father, with dim eyes and trembling wrinkled hands, sat before them like some hoary patriarch, in a fine linen mantle.
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pleased as a child, he saluted his new audience, and began to tell them his only story.
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as the years had gone by, one by one the lights of memory had gone out in darkness. well-known scenes had grown dim; old faces were forgotten; names he knew as well as his own, could not be recalled: but this one story was as fresh and real to him, as on the night he learned it.
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the words he chose were simple, the voice was tremulous with weakness; but he spoke with a dramatic fervor that made joel creep nearer and nearer, until he knelt, unknowing, at the old man's knee, spell-bound by the wonderful tale.
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"we were keeping watch in the fields by night," began the old shepherd, "i and my sons and my brethren. it was still and cold, and we spoke but little to each other. suddenly over all the hills and plains shone a great light,--brighter than light of moon or stars or sunshine. it was so heavenly white we knew it must be the glory of the lord we looked upon and we were sore afraid, and hid our faces, falling to the ground. and, lo! an angel overhead spake to us from out of the midst of the glory, saying, 'fear not: for, behold, i bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. for unto you is born this day in the city of david a saviour, which is christ the lord. and this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.'
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"and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising god, and saying, 'glory to god in the highest, peace on earth, good-will toward men!'
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"oh, the sound of the rejoicing that filled that upper air! ever since in my heart have i carried that foretaste of heaven!"
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the old shepherd paused, with such a light on his upturned face that he seemed to his awestruck listeners to be hearing again that same angelic chorus,--the chorus that rang down from the watch-towers of heaven, across earth's lowly sheep-fold, on that first christmas night.
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there was a solemn hush. then he said, "and when they were gone away, and the light and the song were no more with us, we spake one to another, and rose in haste and went to bethlehem. and we found the babe lying in a manger with mary its mother; and we fell down and worshipped him.
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"thirty years has it been since the birth of israel's messiah; and i sit and wonder all the day,--wonder when he will appear once more to his people. surely the time must be well nigh here when he may claim his kingdom. o lord, let not thy servant depart until these eyes that beheld the child shall have seen the king in his beauty!"
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joel remained kneeling beside old heber, perfectly motionless. he was fitting together the links that he had lately found. a child, heralded by angels, proclaimed by a star worshipped by the magi! a man changing water into wine at only a word!
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"i shall yet see him!" exclaimed the voice of old heber, with such sublime assurance of faith that it found a response in every heart.
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there was another solemn stillness, so deep that the soft fluttering of a night-moth around the lamp startled them.
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then the child's voice rang out, eager and shrill, but triumphant as if inspired: "rabbi phineas, he it was who changed the water into wine!--this friend of nazareth and the babe of bethlehem are the same!"
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the heart of the carpenter was strangely stirred, but it was full of doubt. not that the christ had been born,--the teachings of all his lifetime led him to expect that; but that the chosen one could be a friend of his,--the thought was too wonderful for him.
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the old shepherd sat on the couch, feebly twisting his fingers, and talking to himself. he was repeating bits of the story he had just told them: "and, lo, an angel overhead!" he muttered. then he looked up, whispering softly, "glory to god in the highest--and peace, yes, on earth peace!"
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"he seems to have forgotten everything else," said nathan, signalling to the men outside to lead him home. "his mind is wiped away entirely, that it may keep unspotted the record of that night's revelation. he tells it over and over, whether he has a listener or not."
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they led him gently out, the white-haired, white-souled old shepherd heber. it seemed to joel that the wrinkled face was illuminated by some inner light, not of this world, and that he lingered among men only to repeat to them, over and over, his one story. that strange sweet story of bethlehem's first christmas-tide.
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next morning a goodly train set out from the gates of nathan ben obed. it was near the time of the feast of the passover, and he, with many of his household, was going down to jerusalem.
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the family and guests went first on mules and asses. behind them followed a train of servants, driving the lambs, goats, and oxen to be offered as sacrifices in the temple, or sold in jerusalem to other pilgrims.
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all along the highway, workmen were busy repairing the bridges, and cleaning the springs and wells, soon to be used by the throngs of travellers.
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all the tombs near the great thoroughfares were being freshly white-washed; they gleamed with a dazzling purity through the green trees, only to warn passers-by of the defilement within. for had those on their way to the feast approached too near these homes of the dead, even unconsciously, they would have been accounted unclean, and unfit to partake of the passover. nothing escaped joel's quick sight, from the tulips and marigolds flaming in the fields, to the bright-eyed little viper crawling along the stone-wall.
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but while he looked, he never lost a word that passed between his friend phineas and their host. the pride of an ancient nation took possession of him as he listened to the prophecies they quoted.
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every one they met along the way coming from capernaum had something to say about this new prophet who had arisen in galilee. when they reached the gate of the city, a great disappointment awaited them. he had been there, and gone again.
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nathan ben obed and his train tarried only one night in the place, and then pressed on again towards jerusalem. phineas went with them.
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"you shall go with us next year," he said to joel; "then you will be over twelve. i shall take my own little ones too, and their mother."
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"only one more year," exclaimed joel, joyfully. "if that passes as quickly as the one just gone, it will soon be here."
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"look after my little family," said the carpenter, at parting. "come every day to the work, if you wish, just as when i am here; and remember, my lad, you are almost a man."
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almost a man! the words rang in the boy's thoughts all day as he pounded and cut, keeping time to the swinging motion of hammer and saw. almost a man! but what kind of one? crippled and maimed, shorn of the strength that should have been his pride, beggared of his priestly birthright.
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almost, it might be, but never in its fulness, could he hope to attain the proud stature of a perfect man.
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a fiercer hate sprang up for the enemy who had made him what he was; and the wild burning for revenge filled him so he could not work. he put away his tools, and went up the narrow outside stairway that led to the flat roof of the carpenter's house. it was called the "upper chamber." here a latticed pavilion, thickly overgrown with vines, made a cool green retreat where he might rest and think undisturbed.
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sitting there, he could see the flash of white sails on the blue lake, and slow-moving masses of fleecy clouds in the blue of the sky above. they brought before him the picture of the flocks feeding on the pastures of nathan ben obed.
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then, naturally enough, there flashed through his mind a thought of buz. he seemed to see him squinting his little eyes to take aim at a leaf overhead. he heard the stone whirr through it, as buz said: "i'd blind him!"
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some very impossible plans crept into joel's day-dreams just then. he imagined himself sitting in a high seat, wrapped in robes of state; soldiers stood around him to carry out his slightest wish. the door would open and rehum would be brought forth in fetters.
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"what is your will concerning the prisoner, o most gracious sovereign," the jailer would ask.
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joel closed his eyes, and waved his hand before an imaginary audience. "away with him,--to the torture! wrench his limbs on the rack! brand his eyelids with hot irons! let him suffer all that man can suffer and live! thus shall it be done unto the man on whom the king delighteth to take vengeance!"
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that moment a possible way seemed to open for him. phineas would probably see his friend of nazareth at the passover. what could be more natural than that the old friendship should be renewed. he whose hand had changed the water into wine should finally cast out the alien king who usurped the throne of israel, for one in whose veins the blood of david ran royal red,--what was more to be expected than that?
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the messiah would come to his kingdom, and then--and then--the thought leaped to its last daring limit.
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phineas, who had been his earliest friend and playfellow, would he not be lifted to the right hand of power? through him, then, lay the royal road to revenge.
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the thought lifted him unconsciously to his feet. he stood with his arms out-stretched in the direction of the far-away temple, like some young prophet. david's cry of triumph rose to his lips: "thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle," he murmured. "thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that i might destroy them that hate me!"
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a sweet baby voice at the foot of the steps brought him suddenly down from the height of his intense feeling.
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"joel! joel!" called little ruth, "where is you?"
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then jesse's voice added, "we're all a-coming up for you to tell us a story."
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up the stairs they swarmed to the roof, the carpenter's children and half-a-dozen of their little playmates.
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joel, with his head still in the clouds, told them of a mighty king who was coming to slay all other kings, and change all tears--the waters of affliction--into the red wine of joy.
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"h'm! i don't think much of that story," said jesse, with out-spoken candor. "i'd rather hear about goliath, or the bears that ate up the forty children."
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but joel was in no mood for such stories, just then. on some slight pretext he escaped from his exacting audience, and went down to the sea-shore. here, skipping stones across the water, or writing idly in the sand, he was free to go on with his fascinating day-dreams.
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for the next two weeks the boy gave up work entirely. he haunted the toll-gates and public streets, hoping to hear some startling news from jerusalem. he was so full of the thought that some great revolution was about to take place, that he could not understand how people could be so indifferent. all on fire with the belief that this man of nazareth was the one in whom lay the nation's hope, he looked and longed for the return of phineas, that he might learn more of him.
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but phineas had little to tell when he came back. he had met his friend twice in jerusalem,--the same gentle quiet man he had always known, making no claims, working no wonders. phineas had heard of his driving the moneychangers out of the temple one day, and those who sold doves in its sacred courts, although he had not witnessed the scene.
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the carpenter was rather surprised that he should have made such a public disturbance.
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"rabbi phineas," said joel, with a trembling voice, "don't you think your friend is the prophet we are expecting?"
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phineas shook his head. "no, my lad, i am sure of it now."
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"but the herald angels and the star," insisted the boy.
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"they must have proclaimed some one else. he is the best man i ever knew; but there is no more of the king in his nature, than there is in mine."
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the man's positive answer seemed to shatter joel's last hope. downcast and disappointed, he went back to his work. only with money could he accomplish his life's object, and only by incessant work could he earn the shining shekels that he needed.
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phineas wondered sometimes at the dogged persistence with which the child stuck to his task, in spite of his tired, aching body.
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he had learned to make sandal-wood jewel-boxes, and fancifully wrought cups to hold the various dyes and cosmetics used by the ladies of the court.
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several times, during the following months, he begged a sail in some of the fishing-boats that landed at the town of tiberias. having gained the favor of the keeper of the gates, by various little gifts of his own manufacture, he always found a ready admittance to the palace.
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to the ladies of the court, the sums they paid for his pretty wares seemed trifling; but to joel the small bag of coins hidden in the folds of his clothes was a little fortune, daily growing larger.
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it was sabbath morning in the house of laban the pharisee. joel, sitting alone in the court-yard, could hear his aunt talking to the smaller children, as she made them ready to take with her to the synagogue.
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from the upper chamber on the roof, came also a sound of voices, for two guests had arrived the day before, and were talking earnestly with their host. joel already knew the object of their visit.
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they had been there before, when the preaching of john baptist had drawn such great crowds from all the cities to the banks of the jordan. they had been sent out then by the authorities in jerusalem to see what manner of man was this who, clothed in skins and living in the wilderness, could draw the people so wonderfully, and arouse such intense excitement. now they had come on a like errand, although on their own authority.
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another prophet had arisen whom this john baptist had declared to be greater than himself. they had seen him drive the moneychangers from the temple; they had heard many wild rumors concerning him. so they followed him to his home in the little village of nazareth, where they heard him talk in the synagogue.
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they had seen the listening crowd grow amazed at the eloquence of his teaching, and then indignant that one so humble as a carpenter's son should claim that isaiah's prophecies had been fulfilled in himself.
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they had seen him driven from the home of his boyhood, and now had come to capernaum that they might be witnesses in case this impostor tried to lead these people astray by repeating his claims.
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all this joel heard, and more, as the earnest voices came distinctly down to him through the deep hush of the sabbath stillness. it shook his faith somewhat, even in the goodness of this friend of his friend phineas, that these two learned doctors of the law should consider him an impostor.
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he stood aside respectfully for them to pass, as they came down the outside stairway, and crossed the court-yard on their way to the morning service.
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their long, flowing, white robes, their broad phylacteries, their dignified bearing, impressed him greatly. he knew they were wise, good men whose only aim in life was to keep the letter of the law, down to its smallest details. he followed them through the streets until they came to the synagogue. they gave no greeting to any one they passed, but walked with reverently bowed heads that their pious meditation might not be disturbed by the outside world. his aunt had already gone by the way of the back streets, as it was customary for women to go, her face closely veiled.
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the synagogue, of finely chiselled limestone, with its double rows of great marble pillars, stood in its white splendor, the pride of the town. it had been built by the commander of the garrison who, though a roman centurion, was a believer in the god of the hebrews, and greatly loved by the whole people.
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joel glanced up at the lintel over the door, where aaron's rod and a pot of manna carved in the stone were constant reminders to the daily worshippers of the hand that fed and guided them from generation to generation.
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joel limped slowly to his place in the congregation. in the seats of honor, facing it, sat his uncle and his guests, among the rulers of the synagogue.
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for a moment his eyes wandered curiously around, hoping for a glimpse of the man whose fame was beginning to spread all over galilee. it had been rumored that he would be there. but joel saw only familiar faces. the elders took their seats.
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during the reading of the usual psalm, the reciting of a benediction, and even the confession of the creed, joel's thoughts wandered. when the reader took up his scroll to read the passages from deuteronomy, the boy stole one more quick glance all around. but as the whole congregation arose, and turned facing the east, he resolutely fixed his mind on the duties of the hour.
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the eighteen benedictions, or prayers, were recited in silence by each devout worshipper. then the leader repeated them aloud, all the congregation responding with their deep amen! and amen! joel always liked that part of the service and the chanting that followed.
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another roll of parchment was brought out. the boy looked up with interest. probably one of his uncle's guests would be invited to read from it, and speak to the people.
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no, it was a stranger whom he had not noticed before, sitting behind one of the tall elders, who was thus honored.
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joel's heart beat so fast that the blood throbbed against his ear-drums, as he heard the name called. it was the friend of his friend phineas, the rabbi jesus.
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joel bent forward, all his soul in his eyes, as the stranger unrolled the book, and began to read from the prophets. the words were old familiar ones; he even knew them by heart. but never before had they carried with them such music, such meaning. when he laid aside the roll, and began to speak, every fibre in the boy's being thrilled in response to the wonderful eloquence of that voice and teaching.
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the whole congregation sat spell-bound, forgetful of everything except the earnestness of the speaker who moved and swayed them as the wind does the waving wheat.
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suddenly there arose a wild shriek, a sort of demon-like howl that transfixed them with its piercing horror. every one turned to see the cause of the startling sound. there, near the door, stood a man whom they all knew,--an unhappy creature said to be possessed of an unclean spirit.
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"ha!" he cried, in a blood-curdling tone. "what have we to do with thee, jesus of nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? i know thee, who thou art, the holy one of god!"
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there was a great stir, especially in the woman's gallery; and those standing nearest him backed away as far as possible.
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every face was curious and excited, at this sudden interruption,--every face but one; the rabbi jesus alone was calm.
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"hold thy peace and come out of him!" he commanded. there was one more shriek, worse than before, as the man fell at his feet in a convulsion; but in a moment he stood up again, quiet and perfectly sane. the wild look was gone from his eyes. whatever had been the strange spell that had bound him before, he was now absolutely free.
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there was another stir in the woman's gallery. contrary to all rule or custom, an aged woman pushed her way out. down the stairs she went, unveiled through the ranks of the men, to reach her son whom she had just seen restored to reason. with a glad cry she fell forward, fainting, in his arms, and was borne away to the little home, now no longer darkened by the shadow of a sore affliction.
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little else was talked about that day, until the rumor of another miracle began to spread through the town. phineas, stopping at laban's house on his way home from an afternoon service, confirmed the truth of it.
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one of his neighbors had been dangerously ill with a fever that was common in that part of the country; she was the mother-in-law of simon bar jonah. it was at his home that the rabbi jesus had been invited to dine.
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as soon as he entered the house, they besought him to heal her. standing beside her, he rebuked the fever; and immediately she arose, and began to help her daughter prepare for the entertainment of their guest.
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"abigail was there yesterday," said phineas, "to carry some broth she had made. she thought then it would be impossible for the poor creature to live through the night. i saw the woman a few hours ago, and she is perfectly well and strong."
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that night when the sun was setting, and the sabbath was at an end, a motley crowd streamed along the streets to the door of simon bar jonah. men carried on couches; children in their mother's arms; those wasted by burning fevers; those shaken by unceasing palsy; the lame; the blind; the death-stricken,--all pressing hopefully on.
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what a scene in that little court-yard as the sunset touched the wan faces and smiled into dying eyes. hope for the hopeless! balm for the broken in body and spirit! there was rejoicing in nearly every home in capernaum that night, for none were turned away. not one was refused. it is written, "he laid his hand on every one of them, and healed them."
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that he might not seem behind his guests in zeal and devotion to the law, the dignified laban would not follow the crowds.
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"let others be carried away by strange doctrines and false prophets, if they will," he declared; "as for me and my household, we will cling to the true faith of our fathers."
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so the three sat in the upper chamber on the roof, and discussed the new teacher with many shakes of their wise heads.
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"it is not lawful to heal on the sabbath day," they declared. "twice during the past day he has openly transgressed the law. he will lead all galilee astray!"
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but galilee cared little how far the path turned from the narrow faith of the pharisees, so long as it led to life and healing.
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down in the garden below, the children climbed up on the grape-arbor, and peered through the vines at the surging crowds which they would have joined, had it not been for laban's strict commands.
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one by one they watched people whom they knew go by, some carried on litters, some leaning on the shoulders of friends. one man crawled painfully along on his hands and knees.
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after awhile the same people began to come back.
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"look, quick, joel!" one of the children cried; "there goes simon ben levi. why, his palsy is all gone! he doesn't shake a bit now! and there's little martha that lives out near aunt rebecca's! don't you know how white and thin she looked when they carried her by a little while ago? see! she is running along by herself now as well as we are!"
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the children could hardly credit their own sense of sight, when neighbors they had known all their lives to be bed-ridden invalids came back cured, singing and praising god.
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it was a sight they never could forget. so they watched wonderingly till darkness fell, and the last happy-hearted healed one had gone home to a rejoicing household.
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while the fathers on the roof were deciding they would have naught of this man, the children in the grape-arbor were storing up in their simple little hearts these proofs of his power and kindness.
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then they gathered around joel on the doorstep, while he repeated the story that the old shepherd heber had told him, of the angels and the star, and the baby they had worshipped that night in bethlehem.
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"come, children," called his aunt leah, as she lit the lamp that was to burn all night. "come! it is bed-time!"
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his cousin hannah lingered a moment after the others had gone in, to say, "that was a pretty story, joel. why don't you go and ask the good man to straighten your back?"
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strange as it may seem, this was the first time the thought had occurred to him that he might be benefited himself. he had been so long accustomed to thinking of himself as hopelessly lame, that the wonderful cures he had witnessed had awakened no hope for himself. a new life seemed to open up before him at the little girl's question. he sat on the doorstep thinking about it until his uncle laban came down and crossly ordered him to go to bed.
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he went in, saying softly to himself, "i will go to him to-morrow; yes, early in the morning!"
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strange that an old proverb should cross his mind just then. "boast not thyself of to-morrow. thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."
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when joel went out on the streets next morning, although it was quite early, he saw a disappointed crowd coming up from the direction of simon's house on the lake shore.
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"where have all these people been?" he asked of the baker's boy, whom he ran against at the first corner.
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the boy stopped whistling, and rested his basket of freshly baked bread against his knee, as he answered:--
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"they were looking for the rabbi who healed so many people last night. say! do you know," he added quickly, as if the news were too good to keep, "he healed my mother last night. you cannot think how different it seems at home, to have her going about strong and well like she used to be."
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joel's eyes brightened. "do you think he'll do anything for me, if i go to him now?" he asked wistfully. "do you suppose he could straighten out such a crooked back as mine? look how much shorter this leg is than the other. oh, do you think he could make them all right?"
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the boy gave him a critical survey, and then answered, emphatically, "yes! it really does not look like it would be as hard to straighten you as old jeremy, the tailor's father. he was twisted all out of shape, you know. well, i'll declare! there he goes now!"
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joel looked across the street. the wrinkled face of the old basket-weaver was a familiar sight in the market; but joel could hardly recognize the once crippled form, now restored to its original shapeliness.
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"i am going right now," he declared, starting to run in his excitement. "i can't wait another minute."
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"but he's gone!" the boy called after him. "that's why the people are all coming back."
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joel sat down suddenly on a ledge projecting from the stone-wall. "gone!" he echoed drearily. it was as if he had been starving, and the life-giving food held to his famished lips had been suddenly snatched away. both his heart and his feet felt like lead when he got up after awhile, and dragged himself slowly along to the carpenter's house.
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it was such a bitter disappointment to be so near the touch of healing, and then to miss it altogether.
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no cheerful tap of the hammer greeted him. the idle tools lay on the deserted workbench. "disappointed again!" he thought. then the doves cooed, and he caught a glimpse of ruth's fair hair down among the garden lilies.
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"where is your father, little one?" he called.
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"gone away wiv 'e good man 'at makes everybody well," she answered. then she came skipping down the path to stand close beside him, and say confidentially: "i saw him--'e good man--going by to simon's house. i peeped out 'tween 'e wose-vines, and he looked wite into my eyes wiv his eyes, and i couldn't help loving him!"
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joel looked into the beautiful baby face, thinking what a picture it must have made, as framed in roses it smiled out on the tender-hearted one, going on his mission of help and healing.
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with her little hand in his, she led him back to hope, for she took him to her mother, who comforted him with the assurance that phineas expected to be home soon, and doubtless his friend would be with him.
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so there came another time to work by himself and dream of the hour surely dawning. and the dreams were doubly sweet now; for side by side with his hope of revenge, was the belief in his possible cure.
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they heard only once from the absent ones. word came back that a leper had been healed. joel heard it first, down at the custom-house. he had gotten into the way of strolling down in that direction after his work was done; for here the many trading-vessels from across the lake, or those that shipped from capernaum, had to stop and pay duty. here, too, the great road of eastern commerce passed which led from damascus to the harbors of the west. so here he would find a constant stream of travellers, bringing the latest news from the outside world.
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the boy did not know, as he limped up and down the water's edge, longing for some word from his absent friends, that near by was one who watched almost as eagerly as himself.
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it was levi-matthew, one of the officials, sitting in the seat of custom. sprung from the same priestly tribe as joel, he had sunk so low, in accepting the office of tax-gatherer, that the righteous laban would not have touched him so much as with the tip of his sandal.
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"bears and lions," said a proverb, "might be the fiercest wild beasts in the forests; but publicans and informers were the worst in cities."
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one could not bear witness in the courts, and the disgrace extended to the whole family. they were even classed with robbers and murderers. no doubt there was deep cause for such a feeling; as a class they were unscrupulous and unjust. there might have been good ones among their number, but the company they kept condemned them to the scorn of high and low.
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when a jew hates, or a jew scorns, be sure it is thoroughly done; there is no half-way course for his intense nature to take.
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so this son of levi, sitting in the seat of custom, and this son of levi strolling past him, were, socially, as far apart as the east is from the west,--as unlike as thorn and blossom on the same tribal stem.
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matthew knew all the fishermen and ship-owners that thronged the busy beach in front of him. the sons of jonah and of zebedee passed him daily; and he must have wondered when he saw them throw down their nets and leave everything to follow a stranger.
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he must have wondered also at the reports on every tongue, and the sights he had seen himself of miraculous healing. but while strangely drawn towards this new teacher from nazareth, it could have been with no thought that the hand and the voice were for him. he was a publican, and how could they reach to such depths?
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a caravan had just stopped. the pack-animals were being unloaded, bales and packages opened, private letters pried into. the insolent officials were tossing things right and left, as they made a list of the taxable goods.
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joel was watching them with as much interest as if he had not witnessed such scenes dozens of times before, till he noticed a group gathering around one of the drivers. he was telling what he had seen on his way to capernaum. several noisy companions kept interrupting him to bear witness to the truth of his statements.
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"and he who but a moment before had been the most miserable of lepers stood up before us all, cleansed of his leprosy. his skin was soft and fair as a child's, and his features were restored to him," said the driver.
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joel and levi-matthew stood side by side. at another time the boy might have drawn his clothes away to keep from brushing against the despised tax-gatherer. but he never noticed now that their elbows touched.
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when he had heard all there was to be told, he limped away to carry the news to abigail. to know that others were being cured daily made him all the more impatient for the return of this friend of phineas.
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the publican turned again to his pen and his account-book. he, too, looked forward with a burning heart to the return of the nazarene, unknowing why he did so.
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at last joel heard of the return, in a very unexpected way. there were guests in the house of laban again. one of the rabbis who had been there before, and a scribe from jerusalem. now there were longer conferences in the upper chamber, and graver shakings of the head, over this false prophet whose fame was spreading wider.
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the miracle of healing the paralytic at the pool of bethesda, when he had gone down to jerusalem to one of the many feasts, had stirred judea to its farthest borders. so these two men had been sent to investigate.
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on the very afternoon of their arrival, a report flew through the streets that the rabbi jesus was once more in the town. their host led them with all the haste their dignity would allow, to the house where he was said to be preaching. the common people fell back when they saw them, and allowed them to pass into the centre of the throng.
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the rabbi stood in the doorway, so that both those in the house and without could distinctly hear him. the scribe had never seen him before, and in spite of his deep-seated prejudice could not help admiring the man whom he had come prepared to despise. it was no wild fanatic who stood before him, no noisy debater whose fiery eloquence would be likely to excite and inflame his hearers.
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he saw a man of gentlest dignity; truth looked out from the depths of his calm eyes. every word, every gesture, carried with it the conviction that he who spoke taught with god-given authority.
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the scribe began to grow uneasy as he listened, carried along by the earnest tones of the speaker.
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there was a great commotion on the edge of the crowd, as some one tried to push through to the centre.
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"stand back! go away!" demanded angry voices.
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the scribe was a tall man, and by stretching a little, managed to see over the heads of the others. four men, bearing a helpless paralytic, were trying to carry him through the throngs; but they would not make room for this interruption.
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after vainly hunting for some opening through which they might press, the men mounted the steep, narrow staircase on the outside of the building, and drew the man up, hammock and all, to the flat roof on which they stood.
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there was a sound of scraping and scratching as they broke away the brush and mortar that formed the frail covering of the roof. then the people in the room below saw slowly coming down upon them between the rafters, this man whom no obstacle could keep back from the great physician.
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but the paralyzed hands could not lift themselves in supplication; the helpless tongue could frame no word of pleading,--only the eyes of the sick man could look up into the pitying face bent over him, and implore a blessing.
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the scribe leaned forward, confidently expecting to hear the man bidden to arise. to his surprise and horror, the words he heard were: "son, thy sins be forgiven thee!"
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he looked at laban and his companion, and the three exchanged meaning glances. when they looked again at the speaker, his eyes seemed to read their inmost thoughts.
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"wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?" he asked, with startling distinctness. "whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? but that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," here he turned to the helpless form lying at his feet, "i say unto thee, arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way unto thine house."
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the man bounded to his feet, and picking up the heavy rug on which he had been lying, went running and leaping out of their midst.
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without a word, laban and his two guests drew their clothes carefully around them, and picked their way through the crowd. phineas, who stood at the gate, gave them a respectful greeting. laban only turned his eyes away with a scowl, and passed coldly on.
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"the man is a liar and a blasphemer!" exclaimed the scribe, as they sat once more in the privacy of laban's garden.
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"only god can forgive sins!" added his companion. "this paralytic should have taken a sin-offering to the priest. for only by the blood of sacrifice can one hope to obtain pardon."
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"still he healed him," spoke up the scribe, musingly.
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"only through the power of satan!" interrupted laban. "when he says he can forgive sins, he blasphemes."
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the other pharisee leaned forward to say, in an impressive whisper: "then you know the law on that point. he should be stoned to death, his body hung on a tree, and then buried with shame!"
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it was not long after that joel, just back from a trip to tiberias in a little sailing-boat, came into the garden. he had been away since early morning, so had heard nothing of what had just occurred; he had had good luck in disposing of his wares, and was feeling unusually cheerful. hearing voices in the corner of the garden, he was about to pass out again, when his uncle called him sternly to come to him at once.
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surprised at the command, he obeyed, and was questioned and cross-questioned by all three. it was very little he could tell them about his friend's plans; but he acknowledged proudly that phineas had always known this famous man from nazareth, even in childhood, and was one of his most devoted followers.
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"this man phineas is a traitor to the faith!" roared laban. "he is a dangerous man, and in league with these fellows to do great evil to our nation."
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the scribe and the rabbi nodded approvingly.
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"hear me, now!" he cried, sternly. "never again are you to set foot over his threshold, or have any communication whatsoever with him or his associates. i make no idle threat; if you disobey me in this, you will have cause to wish you had never been born. you may leave us now!"
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too surprised and frightened to say a word, the child slipped away. to give up his daily visit to the carpenter's house, was to give up all that made his life tolerable; while to be denied even speaking to his associates, meant to abandon all hope of cure.
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but he dared not rebel; obedience to those in authority was too thoroughly taught in those days to be lightly disregarded. but his uncle seemed to fear that his harsh command would be eluded in some way, and kept such a strict watch over him, that he rarely got beyond the borders of the garden by himself.
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one day he was all alone in the grape-arbor, looking out into the streets that he longed to be in, since their freedom had been denied him.
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a little girl passed, carrying one child in her arms, and talking to another who clung to her skirts. it was jerusha.
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joel threw a green grape at her to attract her attention, and then beckoned her mysteriously to come nearer. she set the baby on the ground, and gave him her bracelet to play with, while she listened to a whispered account of his wrongs through the latticed arbor.
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"it's a shame!" she declared indignantly. "i'll go right down to the carpenter's house and tell them why you cannot go there any more. and i'll keep watch on all that happens, and let you know. i go past here every day, and if i have any news, i'll toss a pebble over the wall and cluck like a hen. then if nobody is watching, you can come to this hole in the arbor again."
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the next day, as joel was going in great haste to the baker's, whither his aunt had sent him, he heard some one behind him calling him to wait. in another moment jerusha was in speaking distance, nearly bent double with the weight of her little brother, whom she was carrying as usual.
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"there!" she said, with a puff of relief, as she put him on his own feet. "wait till i get my breath! it's no easy thing to carry such a load and run at the same time! how did you get out?"
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"there was an errand to be done, and no one else to do it," answered joel, "so aunt sent me."
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"oh, i've got such news for you!" she exclaimed. "guess what has happened! your rabbi jesus has asked levi-matthew to be one of his followers, and go around with him wherever he goes. think of it! one of those horrid tax-gatherers! he settled his accounts and gave up his position in the custom-house yesterday. and he is getting ready for a great feast. i heard the butcher and the wine-dealer both telling about the big orders he had given them.
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"all the publicans and low common people that are his friends are invited. yes, and so is your friend the carpenter. think of that, now! he is going to sit down and eat with such people! of course respectable folks will never have anything more to do with him after that! i guess your uncle was right about him, after all!"
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both the little girl's face and manner expressed intense disgust.
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joel was shocked. "oh, are you sure?" he cried. "you certainly must be mistaken! it cannot be so!"
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"i guess i know what i see with my own eyes, and hear with my own ears!" she retorted, angrily. "my father says they are a bad lot. people that go with publicans are just as unclean themselves. if you know so much more than everybody else, i'll not trouble myself to run after you with any more news. mistaken, indeed!"
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with her head held high, and her nose scornfully turned up, she jerked her little brother past him, and went quickly around the corner of the street.
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the indignation of some of the rabbis knew no bounds. "it has turned out just as i predicted," said the scribe to laban, at supper. "they are nothing but a set of gluttons and wine-bibbers!"
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there was nothing else talked of during the entire meal. how joel's blood boiled as he listened to their conversation! the food seemed to choke him. as they applied one coarse epithet after another to his friend phineas, all the kindness and care this man had ever given him seemed to rise up before him. but when they turned on the nazarene, all the stories joel had heard in the carpenter's house of his gentle sinless childhood, all the tokens he had seen himself of his pure unselfish manhood, seemed to cry out against such gross injustice.
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it was no light thing for a child to contradict the doctors of the law, and, in a case of this kind, little less than a crime to take the stand joel did.
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but the memory of two faces gave him courage: that of phineas as it had looked on him through all those busy happy hours in the carpenter's home; the other face he had seen but once, that day of healing in the synagogue,--who, having once looked into the purity of those eyes, the infinite tenderness of that face, could sit calmly by and raise no voice against the calumny of his enemies?
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the little cripple was white to the lips, and he trembled from head to foot as he stood up to speak.
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the scribe lifted up both hands, and turned to laban with a meaning shrug of the shoulders. "to think of finding such heresy in your own household!" he exclaimed. "among your own children!"
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"he is no child of mine!" retorted laban. "nor shall he stay among them!" then he turned to joel.
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"boy, take back every word you have just uttered! swear you will renounce this man,--this son of perdition,--and never have aught to say well of him again!"
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joel looked around the table, at each face that shone out pale and excited in the yellow lamplight. his eyes were dilated with fear; his heart thumped so in the awful pause that followed, that he thought everybody else must hear it.
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"i cannot!" he said hoarsely. "oh, i cannot!"
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"then take yourself out of my sight forever. the doors of this house shall never open for you again!"
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there was a storm of abuse from the angry man at this open defiance of his authority. with these two cold, stern men to nod approval at his zealousness, he went to greater lengths than he might otherwise have done.
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with one more frightened glance around the table, the child hurried out of the room. the door into the street creaked after him, and joel limped out into the night, with his uncle's curse ringing in his ears.
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phineas, going along the beach that night, in the early moonlight, towards his home, saw a little figure crouched in the shadow of a low building beside the wharf. it was shaking with violent sobs. he went up to the child, and took its hands down from its wet face, with a comforting expression of pity. then he started back in surprise. it was joel!
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"why, my child! my poor child!" he exclaimed, putting his arm around the trembling, misshapen form. "what is the meaning of all this?"
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"uncle laban has driven me away from home!" sobbed the boy. "he was angry because you and rabbi jesus were invited to levi-matthew's feast. he says i have denied the faith, and am worse than an infidel. he says i am fit only to be cast out with the dogs and publicans!--and--and--" he ended with a wail. "oh, he sent me away with his curse!"
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phineas drew him closer, and stroked the head on his shoulder in pitying silence.
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"fatherless and motherless and lame!" the boy sobbed bitterly. "and now, a homeless outcast, blighted by a curse, i have been sitting here with my feet in the dark water, thinking how easy it would be to slip down into it and forget; but, rabbi phineas, that face will not let me,--that face of your friend,--i keep seeing it all the time!"
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phineas gathered the boy so close in his arms that joel could feel his strong, even heart-beats.
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"my child," he said solemnly, "call me no more, rabbi! henceforth, it is to be father phineas. you shall be to me as my own son!"
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"but the curse!" sobbed joel. "the curse that is set upon me! it will blight you too!"
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"nay," was the quiet answer; "for it is written, 'as the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse, causeless, shall not come.'"
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but the boy still shook as with a chill. his face and hands were burning hot.
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"come!" said phineas. he picked him up in his strong arms, and carried him down the beach to abigail's motherly care and comforting.
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"ah, loyal little heart!" he answered, "he has suffered much for the sake of his friendship with us!"
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poor little storm-tossed bark! in the days that followed he had reason to bless the boisterous winds, that blew him to such a safe and happy harbor!
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over on the horns of mount hattin, the spring morning began to shine. the light crept slowly down the side of the old mountain, till it fell on a little group of men talking earnestly together. it was the preacher of galilee, who had just chosen twelve men from among those who followed him to help him in his ministry.
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they gathered around him in the fresh mountain dawn, as he pictured the life in store for them. strange they did not quail before it, and turn back disheartened. nay, not strange! for in the weeks they had been with him, they had learned to love him so, that his "follow me," that drew them from the toll-gate and fishing-boat, was stronger than ties of home and kindred.
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just about this time, phineas and joel were starting out from capernaum to the mountain. hundreds of people were already on the way; people who had come from all parts of judea, and beyond the jordan. clouds of dust rose above the highway as the travellers trudged along.
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joel was obliged to walk slowly, so that by the time they reached the plain below, a great multitude had gathered.
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"let's get close," he whispered. he had heard that those who barely touched the garments of the strange rabbi were made whole, and it was with the hope that he might steal up and touch him unobserved that he had begged phineas to take him on such a long, painful walk.
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"there is too great a crowd, now," answered phineas. "let us rest here awhile, and listen. let me lift you up on this big rock, so that you can see. 'sh! he is speaking!"
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joel looked up, and, for the second time in his life, listened to words that thrilled him like a trumpet call,--words that through eighteen hundred years have not ceased to vibrate; with what mighty power they must have fallen when, for the first time, they broke the morning stillness of those mountain wilds!
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joel forgot the press of people about him, forgot even where he was, as sentence after sentence seemed to lift him out of himself, till he could catch glimpses of lofty living such as he had never even dreamed of before.
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round by round, he seemed to be carried up some high ladder of thought by that voice, away from all that was common and low and earthly, to a summit of infinite love and light.
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still the voice led on, "ye have heard that it hath been said, 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'"
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joel started so violently at hearing his own familiar motto, that he nearly lost his balance on the rock.
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"but i say unto you that you resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.... ye have heard that it hath been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. but i say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
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poor little joel, it was a hard doctrine for him to accept! how could he give up his hope of revenge, when it had grown with his growth till it had come to be as dear as life itself?
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he heard little of the rest of the sermon, for through it all the words kept echoing, "bless them that curse you! do good to them that hate you! pray for them which despitefully use you!"
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"oh, i can't! i can't!" he groaned inwardly.
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"i have found a chance for you to ride home," said phineas, when the sermon was over, and the people began to file down the narrow mountain paths. "but there will be time for you to go to him first, for healing. you have only to ask, you know."
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joel took an eager step forward, and then shrank back guiltily. "not now," he murmured, "some other time." he could not look into those clear eyes and ask a blessing, when he knew his heart was black with hate.
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after all his weeks of waiting the opportunity had come; but he dared not let the sinless one look into his soul.
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phineas began an exclamation of surprise, but was interrupted by some one asking him a question. joel took advantage of this to climb up behind the man who had offered him a ride. all the way home he weighed the two desires in his mind,--the hope of healing, and the hope of revenge.
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by the time the two guardian fig-trees were in sight, he had decided. he would rather go helpless and halting through life than give up his cherished purpose.
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but there was no sleep for him that night, after he had gone up to his little chamber on the roof. he seemed to see that pleading face on the mountain-side; it came to him again and again, with the words, "bless them that curse you! pray for them that despitefully use you!"
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all night he fought against yielding to it. time and again he turned over on his bed, and closed his eyes; but it would not let him alone.
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he thought of jacob wrestling with the angel till day-break, and knew in his heart that the sweet spirit of forgiveness striving with his selfish nature was some heavenly impulse from another world.
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at last when the cock-crowing commenced at dawn, and the stars were beginning to fade, he drew up his crooked little body, and knelt with his face to the kindling east.
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"father in heaven," he prayed softly, "bless mine enemy rehum, and forgive all my sins,--fully and freely as i now forgive the wrong he has done to me."
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a feeling of light-heartedness and peace, such as he had never known before, stole over him. he could not settle himself to sleep, though worn out with his night's long vigil.
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hastily slipping on his clothes, he tiptoed down the stairs, and limped, bare-headed, down to the beach. the lake shimmered and glowed under the faint rose and gray of the sky like a deep opal. the early breeze blew the hair back from his pale face with a refreshing coolness.
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it seemed to him the world had never looked one half so beautiful before, as he stood there.
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a firm tread on the gravel made him turn partly around. a man was coming up the beach; it was the friend of phineas. as if drawn by some uncontrollable impulse, joel started to meet him, an unspoken prayer in his pleading little face.
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not a word was said. for one little instant joel stood there by the shining sea, his hand held close in the loving hand of the world's redeemer. for one little instant he looked up into his face; then the man passed on.
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joel covered his face with his hands, seeming to hear the still small voice that spoke to the prophet out of the whirlwind.
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"he is the christ!" he whispered reverently,--"he is the christ!"
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in his exalted feeling all thought of a cure had left him; but as he walked on down the beach, he noticed that he no longer limped. he was moving along with strong, quick strides. he shook himself and threw back his shoulders; there was no pain in the movement. he passed his hands over his back and down his limbs.
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oh, he was straight and strong and sinewy! he seemed a stranger to himself, as running and leaping, then stopping to look down and feel his limbs again, he ran madly on.
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suddenly he cast his garments aside and dived into the lake. before his injury, he had been able to swim like a fish, now he reached out with long powerful strokes that sent him darting through the cold water with a wonderful sense of exhilaration.
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then he dressed again, and went on running and leaping and climbing till he was exhausted, and his first wild delirious joy began to subside into a deep quiet thankfulness. then he went home, radiant in the happiness of his new-found cure.
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but more than the mystery of the miracle, more than the joy of the healing, was the remembrance of that moment, that one little moment, when he felt the clasp of the master's hand, and seemed wrapped about with the boundless love of god.
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from that moment, he lived but to serve and to follow him.
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high up among the black lava crags of perea stood the dismal fortress of macherus. behind its close prison bars a restless captive groped his way back and forth in a dungeon cell. sometimes, at long intervals, he was given such liberty as a chained eagle might have, when he was led up into one of the towers of the gloomy keep, and allowed to look down, down into the bottomless gorges surrounding it. for months he had chafed in the darkness of his underground dungeon; escape was impossible.
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it was john baptist, brought from the wild, free life of the desert to the tortures of the "black castle." here he lay at the mercy of herod antipas, and death might strike at any moment. more than once, the whimsical monarch had sent for him, as he sat at his banquets, to be the sport of the passing hour.
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the lights, the color, the flash of gems may have dazzled his eyes for a brief space, accustomed as they were to the midnight darkness of his cell; but his keen vision saw, under the paint and purple of royal apparel, the corrupt life of king and court.
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pointing his stern, accusing finger at the uneasy king, he cried, "it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife!" with words that stung like hurtling arrows, he laid bare the blackened, beastly life that sought to hide its foulness under royal ermine.
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antipas cowered before him; and while he would gladly have been freed from a man who had such power over him, he dared not lift a finger against the fearless, unflinching baptist.
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but the guilty herodias bided her time, with blood-thirsty impatience; his life should pay the penalty of his bold speech.
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meanwhile he waited in his cell, with nothing but memories to relieve the tediousness of the long hours. over and over again he lived those scenes of his strange life in the desert,--those days of his preparation,--the preaching to the multitudes, the baptizing at the ford of the jordan.
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he wondered if his words still lived; if any of his followers still believed on him. but more than all, he wondered what had become of that one on whom he had seen the spirit of god descending out of heaven in the form of a dove.
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"where art thou now?" he cried. "if thou art the messiah, why dost thou not set up thy kingdom, and speedily give thy servant his liberty?" the empty room rang often with that cry; but the hollow echo of his own words was the only answer.
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one day the door of his cell creaked back far enough to admit two men, and then shut again, leaving them in total darkness. in that momentary flash of light, he recognized two old followers of his, timeus bar joram and benjamin the potter.
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with a cry of joy he groped his way toward them, and clung to their friendly hands.
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"how did you manage to penetrate these roman-guarded walls?" he asked, in astonishment.
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"i knew the warden," answered benjamin. "a piece of silver conveniently closes his eyes to many things. but we must hasten! our time is limited."
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they had much to tell of the outside world. pilate had just given special offence, by appropriating part of the treasure of the temple, derived from the temple tax, to defray the cost of great conduits he had begun, with which to supply jerusalem with water.
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there was a cry for a national uprising to avenge the murder.
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"they only need a leader!" exclaimed john. "where is he for whom i was but a voice crying in the wilderness? why does he not show himself?"
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"we have just come from the village of nain," said timeus bar joram. "we saw him stop a funeral procession and raise a widow's son to life. he was followed by a motley throng whom he had healed of all sorts of diseases; and there were twelve men whom he had chosen as life-long companions.
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"we questioned some of them closely, and they gave us marvellous reports of the things he had done."
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"is it not strange," asked benjamin the potter, "that having such power he still delays to establish his kingdom?"
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the captive prophet made no answer for awhile. then he groped in the thick darkness till his hand rested heavily on benjamin's arm.
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"go back, and say that john baptist asks, 'art thou the coming one, or must we look for another?'"
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days passed before the devoted friends found themselves once more inside the prison walls. they had had a weary journey over rough hills and rocky by-paths.
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"what did he say?" demanded the prisoner, eagerly.
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"go and tell john what ye saw and heard: that the blind receive sight; the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed; the deaf hear; the dead are raised; and the poor have the gospel preached unto them."
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"the fulfilment of the words of isaiah!" he cried. "for he hath said, 'your god will come and save you. then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing!' yea, he hath bound up the broken-hearted; and he shall yet 'proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord!'"
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then with both hands clasped high above his head, he made the prison ring with the cry, "the kingdom is at hand! the kingdom is at hand! i shall soon be free!"
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not long after that, the castle blazed with the lights of another banquet. the faint aroma of wines, mingled with the heavy odor of countless flowers, could not penetrate the grim prison walls. nor could the gay snatches of song and the revelry of the feast. no sound of applause reached the prisoner's ear, when the daughter of herodias danced before the king.
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sitting in darkness while the birthday banqueters held high carnival, he heard the heavy tramp of soldiers' feet coming down the stairs to his dungeon. the great bolts shot back, the rusty hinges turned, and a lantern flickered its light in his face, as he stood up to receive his executioners.
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a little while later his severed head was taken on a charger to the smiling dancing girl. she stifled a shriek when she saw it; but the wicked herodias looked at it with a gleam of triumph in her treacherous black eyes.
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when the lights were out, and the feasters gone, two men came in at the warden's bidding,--two men with heavy hearts, and voices that shook a little when they spoke to each other. they were timeus and benjamin. silently they lifted the body of their beloved master, and carried it away for burial; and if a tear or two found an unaccustomed path down their bearded cheeks, no one knew it, under cover of the darkness.
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so, out of the black castle of macherus, out of the prison-house of a mortal body, the white-souled prophet of the wilderness went forth at last into liberty.
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for him, the kingdom was indeed at hand.
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meanwhile in the upper country, phineas was following his friend from village to village. he had dropped his old familiar form of address, so much was he impressed by the mysterious power he saw constantly displayed.
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now when he spoke of the man who had been both friend and playfellow, it was almost reverently that he gave him the title of master.
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it was with a heavy heart that joel watched them go away. he, too, longed to follow; but he knew that unless he took the place at the bench, phineas could not be free to go.
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gratitude held him to his post. no, not gratitude alone; he was learning the master's own spirit of loving self-sacrifice. as he dropped the plumb-line over his work, he measured himself by that perfect life, and tried to straighten himself to its unbending standard.
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he had his reward in the look of pleasure that he saw on the carpenter's face when phineas came in, unexpectedly, one day, dusty and travel-stained.
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"how much you have accomplished!" he said in surprise. "you have filled my place like a grown man."
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joel stretched his strong arms with a slight laugh. "it is a pleasure to work now," he said. "it seems so queer never to have a pain, or that worn-out feeling of weakness that used to be always with me. at first i was often afraid it was all a happy dream, and could not last. i am getting used to it now. where is the master?" joel asked, as phineas turned towards the house.
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"he is the guest of simon. he will be here some days, my son. i know you wish to be with him as much as possible, so i shall not expect your help as long as he stays."
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"if i could only do something for him!" was joel's constant thought during the next few days. once he took a coin from the little money bag that held his hoarded savings--a coin that was to have helped buy his revenge--and bought the ripest, juiciest pear he could find in the market. often he brought him water, fresh and cold from the well when he looked tired and warm from his unceasing work.
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wherever the master turned, there, close beside him, was a beaming little face, so full of love and childish sympathy that it must have brought more refreshment to his thirsty soul than either the choice fruit or the cooling water.
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one evening after a busy day, when he had talked for hours to the people on the seashore who had gathered around the boat in which he sat, he sent away the multitude.
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"let us pass over unto the other side," he said.
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joel slipped up to andrew, who was busily arranging their sails. "let me go, too!" he whispered pleadingly.
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"well," assented the man, carelessly, "you can make yourself useful, i suppose. will you hand me that rope?"
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joel sprang to obey. presently the boat pushed away from the shore, and the town, with its tumult and its twinkling lights, was soon left far behind.
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the sea was like glass, so calm and unruffled that every star above could look down and see its unbroken reflection in the dark water below.
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joel, in the hinder part of the ship, lay back in his seat with a sigh of perfect enjoyment. the smooth gliding motion of the boat rested him; the soft splash of the water soothed his excited brain. he had seen his uncle laban that afternoon among other of the scribes and pharisees, and heard him declare that beelzebub alone was responsible for the wonders they witnessed.
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joel's indignation flared up again at the memory. he looked down at the master, who had fallen asleep on a pillow, and wondered how anybody could possibly believe such evil things about him.
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it was cooler out where they were now. he wondered if he ought not to lay some covering over the sleeping form. he took off the outer mantle that he wore, and bent forward to lay it over the master's feet. but he drew back timidly, afraid of wakening him. "i'll wait awhile," he said to himself, folding the garment across his knees in readiness.
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several times he reached forward to lay it over him, and each time drew back. then he fell asleep himself.
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from its situation in the basin of the hills, the galilee is subject to sudden and furious storms. the winds, rushing down the heights, meet and clash above the water, till the waves run up like walls, then sink again into seething whirlpools of danger.
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still the master slept. joel, drenched to the skin, clung to the boat's side, expecting that every minute would be his last. it was so dark and wild and awful! how helpless they were, buffetted about in the fury of the storm!
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as wave after wave beat in, some of the men could no longer control their fear.
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"master!" they called to the sleeping man, as they bent over him in terror. "carest thou not that we perish?"
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looking up at the midnight blackness of the sky, and down at the wild waste of waters, he stretched out his hand.
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"peace!" he commanded in a deep voice. "be still!" the storm sank to earth as suddenly as a death-stricken raven; a great calm spread over the face of the waters. the silent stars shone out in their places; the silent sea mirrored back their glory at his feet.
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the men huddled fearfully together. "what manner of man is this?" they asked, one of another. "even the wind and the sea obey him!"
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joel, looking up at the majestic form, standing so quietly by the railing, thought of the voice that once rang out over the night of creation with the command, "let there be light!" at its mere bidding light had flowed in across the darkness of primeval night.
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just so had this voice thrilled the storm with its "peace! be still!" into utter calm.
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the child crouched at his feet, burying his face in his mantle, and whispering, in awe and adoration, "he is the christ! he is the son of god!"
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after that night of the voyage to the gadarenes, joel ceased to be surprised at the miracles he daily witnessed. even when the little daughter of jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, was called back to life, it did not seem so wonderful to him as the stilling of the tempest.
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many a night after phineas had gone away again with the master to other cities, joel used to go down to the beach, and stand looking across the water as he recalled that scene.
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the lake had always been an interesting place to him at night. he liked to watch the fishermen as they flashed their blazing torches this way and that. a sympathetic thrill ran through him as they sighted their prey, and raised their bare sinewy arms to fling the net or fly the spear.
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but after that morning of healing, and that night of tempest, it seemed to be a sacred place, to be visited only on still nights, when the town slept, and heaven bent nearer in the starlight to the quiet earth.
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the time of the passover was drawing near,--the time that joel had been looking forward to since phineas had promised him a year ago that he should go to jerusalem.
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the twelve disciples who had been sent out to all the little towns through galilee, to teach the things they had themselves been taught, and work miracles in the name of him who had sent them, began to come slowly back. they had an encouraging report to bring of their work; but it was shadowed by the news they had heard of the murder of john baptist.
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joel joined them as soon as they came into capernaum, and walked beside phineas as the footsore travellers pressed on a little farther towards simon's house.
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"when are we going to start for jerusalem?" was his first eager question.
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phineas looked searchingly into his face as he replied, "would you be greatly disappointed, my son, not to go this year?"
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joel looked perplexed; it was such an unheard of thing for phineas to miss going up to the feast of the passover.
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"these are evil times, my joel," he explained. "john baptist has just been beheaded. the master has many enemies among those in high places. it would be like walking into a lion's den for him to go up to jerusalem.
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"oh, why should he be persecuted so?" asked joel, looking with tear-dimmed eyes at the man walking in advance of them, and talking in low earnest tones to john, who walked beside him.
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"you have been with him so much, father phineas. have you ever known him to do anything to make these men his enemies?"
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"yes," said phineas. "he has drawn the people after him until they are jealous of his popularity. he upsets their old traditions, and teaches a religion that ignores some of the laws of moses. i can easily see why they hate him so. they see him at such a long distance from themselves, they can not understand him. healing on the sabbath, eating with publicans and sinners, disregarding the little customs and ceremonies that in all ages have set apart our people as a chosen race, are crimes in their eyes.
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"if they only could get close enough to understand him; to see that his pure life needs no ceremonies of multiplied hand-washings; that it is his broad love for his fellow-men that makes him stoop to the lowest classes,--i am sure they could not do otherwise than love him.
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"blind fanatics! they would put to death the best man that ever lived, because he is so much broader and higher than they that the little measuring line of their narrow creed cannot compass him!"
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"is he never going to set up his kingdom?" asked joel. "does he never talk about it?"
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"yes," said phineas; "though we are often puzzled by what he says, and ask ourselves his meaning."
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they had reached the house by this time, and as simon led the way to its hospitable door, phineas said, "enter with them, my lad, if you wish. i must go on to my little family, but will join you soon."
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to joel's great pleasure, he found they were to cross the lake at once, to the little fishing port of bethsaida. it was only six miles across.
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"we have hardly had time to eat," said andrew to joel, as they walked along towards the boat "i will be glad to get away to some desert place, where we may have rest from the people that are always pushing and clamoring about us."
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"how long before you start?" asked joel.
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"in a very few minutes," answered andrew; "for the boat is in readiness."
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joel glanced from the street above the beach to the water's edge, as if calculating the distance.
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"don't go without me," he said as, breaking into a run, he dashed up the beach at his utmost speed. he was back again in a surprisingly quick time, with a cheap little basket in his hand; he was out of breath with his rapid run.
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"didn't i go fast?" he panted. "i could not have done that a few weeks ago. oh, it feels so good to be able to run when i please! it is like flying."
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he lifted the cover of the basket. "see!" he said. "i thought the master might be hungry; but i had no time to get anything better. i had to stop at the first stall i came to."
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at the same time the boat went gliding out into the water with its restful motion, thousands of people were pouring out of the villages on foot, and hurrying on around the lake, ahead of them.
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the boat passed up a narrow winding creek, away from the sail-dotted lake; its green banks seemed to promise the longed-for quiet and rest. but there in front of them waited the crowds they had come so far to avoid.
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they had brought their sick for healing. they needed to be helped and taught; they were "as sheep without a shepherd!" he could not refuse them.
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joel found no chance to offer the food he had bought so hastily with another of his hoarded coins,--the coins that were to have purchased his revenge.
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as the day wore on, he heard the disciples ask that the multitudes might be sent away.
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"it would take two hundred pennyworth of bread to feed them," said philip, "and even that would not be enough."
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andrew glanced over the great crowds and stroked his beard thoughtfully. "there is a lad here which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many?"
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joel hurried forward and held out his basket with its little store,--five flat round loaves of bread, not much more than one hungry man could eat, and two dried fishes.
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he hardly knew what to expect as the people were made to sit down on the grass in orderly ranks of fifties.
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his eyes grew round with astonishment as the master took the bread, gave thanks, and then passed it to the disciples, who, in turn, distributed it among the people. then the two little fishes were handed around in the same way.
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joel turned to phineas, who had joined them some time ago. "do you see that?" he asked excitedly. "they have been multiplied a thousand fold!"
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phineas smiled. "we drop one tiny grain of wheat into the earth," he said, "and when it grows and spreads and bears dozens of other grains on its single stalk, we are not astonished. when the master but does in an instant, what nature takes months to do, we cry, 'a miracle!' 'men are more wont to be astonished at the sun's eclipse, than at its daily rising,'" he quoted, remembering his conversation with the old traveller, on his way to nathan ben obed's.
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a feeling of exaltation seized the people as they ate the mysterious bread; it seemed that the days of miraculous manna had come again. by the time they had all satisfied their hunger, and twelve basketfuls of the fragments had been gathered up, they were ready to make him their king. the restlessness of the times had taken possession of them; the burning excitement must find vent in some way, and with one accord they demanded him as their leader.
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joel wondered why he should refuse. surely no other man he had ever known could have resisted such an appeal.
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the perplexed fisherman, at jesus's command, turned their boat homeward without him. to their simple minds it seemed that he had made a mistake in resisting the homage forced upon him by the people; they longed for the time to come when they should be recognized as the honored officials in the new kingdom. many a dream of future power and magnificence must have come to them in the still watches of the night, as they drifted home in the white light of the passover moon.
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many a time in the weeks that followed, joel slipped away to his favorite spot on the beech, a flat rock half hidden by a clump of oleander bushes. here, with his feet idly dangling in the ripples, he looked out over the water, and recalled the scenes he had witnessed there.
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it seemed so marvellous to him that the master could have ever walked on those shining waves; and yet he had seen him that night after the feeding of the multitudes. he had seen, with his own frightened eyes, the master walk calmly towards the boat across the unsteady water, and catch up the sinking peter, who had jumped overboard to meet him. it grieved and fretted the boy that this man, of god-given power and such sweet unselfish spirit, could be so persistently misunderstood by the people. he could think of nothing else.
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he had not been with the crowds that pressed into the synagogue the sabbath after the thousands had been fed; but phineas came home with grim lips and knitted brows, and told him about it.
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"the master knew they followed him because of the loaves and fishes," he said. "he told them so.
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"when we came out of the door, i could not help looking up at the lintel on which is carved the pot of manna; for when they asked him for a sign that they might believe him, saying, 'our fathers ate manna in the wilderness!' he answered: 'i am the bread of life! ye have seen me, and yet believe not!'
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"while he talked there was a murmuring all over the house against him, because he said that he had come down from heaven. your uncle laban was there. i heard him say scornfully: 'is not this the son of joseph, whose father and mother we know? how doth he now say, "i am come down out of heaven"?' then he laughed a mocking little laugh, and nudged the man who stood next to him. there are many like him; i could feel a spirit of prejudice and persecution in the very air. many who have professed to be his friends have turned against him."
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while phineas was pouring out his anxious forebodings to his wife and joel, the master was going homeward with his chosen twelve.
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"would ye also go away?" he asked wistfully of his companions, as he noted the cold, disapproving looks of many who had only the day before been fed by him, and who now openly turned their backs on him.
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simon peter gave a questioning glance into the faces of his companions; then he pressed a step nearer. "lord, to whom shall we go?" he answered impulsively. "thou hast the words of eternal life. and we have believed, and know that thou art the holy one of god."
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the others nodded their assent, all but one. judas iscariot clutched the money bags he held, and looked off across the lake, to avoid the searching eyes that were fixed upon him.
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these honest galileans were too simple to suspect others of dark designs, yet they had never felt altogether free with this stranger from judea. he had never seemed entirely one of them. they did not see in his crafty quiet manners, the sheep's clothing that hid his wolfish nature; but they could feel his lack of sympathetic enthusiasm.
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he had been one of those who followed only for the loaves and fishes of a temporal kingdom, and now, in his secret soul, he was sorry he had joined a cause in whose final success he was beginning to lose faith.
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the sun went down suddenly that night behind a heavy cloud, as a gathering storm began to lash the galilee and rock the little boats anchored at the landings.
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the year of popularity was at an end.
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"you are home early, my phineas," she said, with a smile. "well, i shall soon have your supper ready. joel has gone to the market for some honey and--"
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"nay! i have little wish to eat," he interrupted, "but i have much to say to you. come! the work can wait."
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abigail put the mill aside, and brushing the flour from her hands, sat down on the step beside him, wondering much at his troubled face.
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he plunged into his subject abruptly. "the master is soon going away," he said, "that those in the uttermost parts of galilee may be taught of him. and he would fain have others beside the twelve he has chosen to go with him on his journey."
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"and you wish to go too?" she questioned, as he paused.
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"yes! how can i do otherwise? and yet how can i leave you and the little ones alone in these troubled times? you cannot think how great the danger is. remember how many horrors we have lately heard. the whole country is a smouldering volcano, ready to burst into an eruption at any moment. a leader has only to arise, and all israel will take up arms against the powers that trample us under foot."
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"is not this prophet, jesus, he who is to save israel?" asked abigail. "is he not even now making ready to establish his kingdom?"
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"i do not understand him at all!" said phineas, sadly. "he does talk of a kingdom in which we are all to have a part; but he never seems to be working to establish it. he spends all his time in healing diseases and forgiving penitent sinners, and telling us to love our neighbors.
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"then, again, why should he go down to the beach, and choose for his confidential friends just simple fishermen. they have neither influence nor money. as for the choice of that publican levi-matthew, it has brought disgrace on the whole movement. he does not seem to know how to sway the popular feeling. i believe he might have had the support of the foremost men of the nation, if he had approached them differently.
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abigail laid her hand on his, her dark eyes glowing with intense earnestness, as she answered: "what need is there of armies and human hands to help?
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"where were the hosts of pharaoh when our fathers passed through the red sea? was there bloodshed and fighting there?
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"who battled for us when the walls of jericho fell down? whose hand smote the assyrians at sennacherib? is the lord's arm shortened that he cannot save?
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"why may not his prophet speak peace to jerusalem as easily as he did the other night to the stormy sea? why may not his power be multiplied even as the loaves and fishes?
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"why may not the sins and backslidings of the people be healed as well as joel's lameness; or the glory of the nation be quickened into a new life, as speedily as he raised the daughter of jairus?
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"isaiah called him the prince of peace. what are all these lessons, if not to teach us that the purposes of god do not depend on human hands to work out their fulfilment?"
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her low voice thrilled him with its inspiring questions, and he looked down into her rapt face with a feeling of awe.
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"abigail," he said softly, "'my source of joy,'--you are rightly named. you have led me out of the doubts that have been my daily torment. i see now, why he never incites us to rebel against the yoke of cæsar. in the fulness of time he will free us with a breath.
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"how strange it should have fallen to my lot to have been his playmate and companion. my wonder is not that he is the messiah; but that i should have called him friend, all these years, unknowing."
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"how long do you expect to be away?" she asked, after a pause, suddenly returning to the first subject.
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"several months, perhaps. there is no telling what insurrections and riots may arise, all through this part of the country. since the murder of john baptist, herod has come back to his court in tiberias. i dislike to leave you here alone."
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abigail, too, looked grave, and neither spoke for a little while. "i have it!" she exclaimed at length, with a pleased light in her eyes. "i have often wished i could make a long visit in the home of my girlhood. the few days i have spent in my father's house, those few times i have gone with you to the feasts, have been so short and unsatisfactory. can i not take joel and the children to bethany? neither father nor mother has ever seen little ruth, and we could be so safe and happy there till your return."
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"why did i not come to you before with my worries?" asked phineas. "how easily you make the crooked places straight!"
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just then the children came running back from the market. abigail went into the house with the provisions they had brought, leaving their father to tell them of the coming separation and the long journey they had planned.
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a week later, phineas stood at the city gate, watching a little company file southward down the highway. he had hired two strong, gayly-caparisoned mules from the owner of the caravan. abigail rode on one, holding little ruth in her arms; joel mounted the other, with jesse clinging close behind him.
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abigail, thinking of the joyful welcome awaiting her in her old home, and the children happy in the novelty of the journey, set out gayly.
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but phineas, thinking of the dangers by the way, and filled with many forebodings, watched their departure with a heavy heart.
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at the top of a little rise in the road, they turned to look back and wave their hands. in a moment more they were out of sight. then phineas, grasping his staff more firmly, turned away, and started on foot in the other direction, to follow to the world's end, if need be, the friend who had gone on before.
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it was in the midst of the barley harvest. jesse had never been in the country before. for the first time, nature spread for him her great picture-book of field and forest and vineyard, while abigail read to him the stories.
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first on one side of the road, then the other, she pointed out some spot and told its history.
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here was dothan, where joseph went out to see his brothers, dressed in his coat of many colors. there was mount gilboa, where the arrows of the philistines wounded saul, and he fell on his own sword and killed himself. shiloh, where hannah brought little samuel to give him to the lord; where the prophet eli, so old that his eyes were too dim to see, sat by the gate waiting for news from the army, and when word was brought back that his two sons were dead, and the ark of the covenant taken, here it was that he fell backward from his seat, and his neck was broken.
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all these she told, and many more. then she pointed to the gleaners in the fields, and told the children to notice how carefully israel still kept the commandment given so many centuries before: "when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. and thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard, thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger."
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at jacob's well, where they stopped to rest, joel lifted jesse up, and let him look over the curb. the child almost lost his balance in astonishment, when his own wondering little face looked up at him from the deep well. he backed away from it quickly, and looked carefully into the cup of water joel handed him, for more than a minute, before he ventured to drink.
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the home to which abigail was going was a wealthy one. her father, reuben, was a goldsmith, and for years had been known in jerusalem not only for the beautifully wrought ornaments and precious stones that he sold in his shop near the temple, but for his rich gifts to the poor.
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"reuben the charitable," he was called, and few better deserved the name. his business took him every day to the city; but his home was in the little village of bethany, two miles away. it was one of the largest in bethany, and seemed like a palace to the children, when compared to the humble little home in capernaum.
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joel only looked around with admiring eyes; but jesse walked about, laying curious little fingers on everything he passed. the bright oriental curtains, the soft cushions and the costly hangings, he smoothed and patted. even the silver candlesticks and the jewelled cups on the side table were picked up and examined, when his mother happened to have her back turned.
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there were no pictures in the house; the law forbade. but there were several mirrors of bright polished metal, and jesse never tired of watching his own reflection in them.
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ruth stayed close beside her mother. "she is a ray of god's own sunshine," said her grandmother, as she took her in her arms for the first time. the child, usually afraid of strangers, saw in rebecca's face a look so like her mother's that she patted the wrinkled cheeks with her soft fingers. from that moment her grandmother was her devoted slave.
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jesse was not long in finding the place he held in his grandfather's heart. the old man, whose sons had all died years before, seemed to centre all his hopes on this son of his only daughter. he kept jesse with him as much as possible; his happiest hours were when he had the child on his knee, teaching him the prayers and precepts and proverbs that he knew would be a lamp to his feet in later years.
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"nay! do not punish the child!" he said, one morning when jesse had been guilty of some disobedience. abigail went on stripping the leaves from an almond switch she just had broken off.
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"why, father," she said, with a smile, "i have often seen you punish my brothers for such disobedience, and have as often heard you say that one of solomon's wisest sayings is, 'chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.' jesse misses his father's firm rule, and is getting sadly spoiled."
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"that is all true, my daughter," he acknowledged; "still i shall not stay here to witness his punishment."
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abigail used the switch as she had intended. the boy had overheard the conversation, and the cries that reached his grandfather as he rode off to the city were unusually loud and appealing. they may have had something to do with the package the good man carried home that night,--cakes and figs and a gay little turban more befitting a young prince than the son of a carpenter.
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"who lives across the street?" asked joel, the morning after their arrival.
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"mary says some of the copies of the scriptures he has made are the most beautifully written that she has ever seen."
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"see!" exclaimed joel, "he has dropped one of the rolls of parchment he was carrying, and does not know it. i'll run after him with it."
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he was hardly yet accustomed to the delight of being so fleet of foot; no halting step now to hinder him. he almost felt as if he were flying, and was by the young man's side nearly as soon as he had started.
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"ah, you are the guest of my good neighbor, reuben," lazarus said, after thanking him courteously. "are you not the lad whose lameness has just been healed by my best friend? my sisters were telling me of it. it must be a strange experience to suddenly find yourself changed from a helpless cripple to such a strong, straight lad as you are now. how did it make you feel?"
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"oh, i can never begin to tell you, rabbi lazarus," answered joel. "i did not even think of it that moment when he held my hand in his. i only thought how much i loved him. i had been starving before, but that moment he took the place of everything,--father, mother, the home love i had missed,--and more than that, the love of god seemed to come down and fold me so close and safe, that i knew he was the messiah. i did not even notice that i was no longer lame, until i was far down the beach. oh, you do not know how i wanted to follow him! if i could only have gone with him instead of coming here!"
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"yes, my boy, i know!" answered the young man, gently; "for i, too, love him."
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this strong bond of sympathy between the two made them feel as if they had known each other always.
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"come walk with me a little way," said lazarus. "i am going up to jerusalem to the temple. or rather, would you not like to come all the way? i have only to carry these rolls to one of the priests, then i will be at liberty to show you some of the strange sights in the city."
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joel ran back for permission. only stopping to wind his white linen turban around his head, he soon regained his new-found friend.
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his recollection of jerusalem was a very dim, confused one. time and time again he had heard pilgrims returning from the feasts trying to describe their feelings when they had come in sight of the holy city. now as they turned with the road, the view that rose before him made him feel how tame their descriptions had been.
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the morning sun shone down on the white marble walls of the temple and the gold that glittered on the courts, as they rose one above the other; tower and turret and pinnacle shot back a dazzling light.
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it did not seem possible to joel that human hands could have wrought such magnificence. he caught his breath, and uttered an exclamation of astonishment.
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lazarus smiled at his pleasure. "come," he said, "it is still more beautiful inside."
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they went very slowly through solomon's porch, for every one seemed to know the young man, and many stopped to speak to him. then they crossed the court of the gentiles. it seemed like a market-place; for cages of doves were kept there for sale, and lambs, calves, and oxen bleated and lowed in their stalls till joel could scarcely hear what his friend was saying, as they pushed their way through the crowd, and stood before the gate beautiful that led into the court of the women.
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here lazarus left joel for a few moments, while he went to give the rolls to the priest for whom he had copied them.
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joel looked around. then for the first time since his healing, he wondered if it would be possible for him to ever take his place among the levites, or become a priest as he had been destined.
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while he wondered, lazarus came back and led him into the next court. here he could look up and see the holy place, over which was trained a golden vine, with clusters of grapes as large as a man's body, all of purest gold. beyond that he knew was a heavy veil of babylonian tapestry, hyacinth and scarlet and purple, that veiled in awful darkness the holy of holies.
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as he stood there thinking of the tinkling bells, the silver trumpets, the clouds of incense, and the mighty songs, a great longing came over him to be one of those white-robed priests, serving daily in the temple.
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but with the wish came the recollection of a quiet hillside, where only bird-calls and whirr of wings stirred the stillness; where a breeze from the sparkling lake blew softly through the grass, and one voice only was heard, proclaiming its glad new gospel under the open sky.
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"no," he thought to himself; "i'd rather be with him than wear the high priest's mitre."
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it was almost sundown when they found themselves on the road homeward. they had visited place after place of interest.
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lazarus found the boy an entertaining companion, and the friendship begun that day grew deep and lasting.
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"what are you looking for, grandfather?" called jesse, as he pattered up the outside stairs to the roof, where reuben stood, scanning the sky intently.
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"come here, my son," he called. "stand right here in front of me, and look just where i point. what do you see?"
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the child peered anxiously into the blue depths just now lit up by the sunset.
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"oh, the new moon!" he cried. "where did it come from?"
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"summer hath dropped her silver sickle there, that night may go forth to harvest in her star-fields," answered the old man. then seeing the look of inquiry on the boy's face, hastened to add, "nay, it is the censer that god's hand set swinging in the sky, to remind us to keep the incense of our praises ever rising heavenward. even now a messenger may be running towards the temple, to tell the sanhedrin that it has appeared. yea, other eyes have been sharper than mine, for see! already the beacon light has been kindled on the mount of olives!"
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jesse watched the great bonfire a few minutes, then ran to call his sister. by the time they were both on the roof, answering fires were blazing on the distant hilltops throughout all judea, till the whole land was alight with the announcement of the feast of the new moon.
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"i wish it could be this way every night, don't you, ruth?" said jesse. "are you not glad we are here?"
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the old man looked down at the children with a pleased smile. "i'll show you something prettier than this, before long," he said. "just wait till the feast of weeks, when the people all come to bring the first fruits of the harvests. i am glad your visit is in this time of the year, for you can see one festival after another."
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the day the celebration of the feast of weeks commenced, reuben left his shop in charge of the attendants, and gave up his entire time to joel and jesse.
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"we must not miss the processions," he said. "we will go outside the gates a little way, and watch the people come in."
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they did not have long to wait till the stream of people from the upper countries began to pour in; each company carried a banner bearing the name of the town from which it came. a white ox, intended for a peace-offering, was driven first; its horns were gilded, and its body twined with olive wreaths.
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flocks of sheep and oxen for the sacrifice, long strings of asses and camels bearing free-will gifts to the temple, or old and helpless pilgrims that could not walk, came next.
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there were wreaths of roses on the heads of the women and children; bands of lilies were tied around the sheaves of wheat. piled high in the silver vessels of the rich, or peeping from the willow baskets of the poor, were the choicest fruits of the harvest.
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great bunches of grapes from whose purple globes the bloom had not been brushed, velvety nectarines, tempting pomegranates, mellow pears, juicy melons,--these offerings of fruit and flowers gleamed all down the long line, for no one came empty-handed up this "hill of the lord."
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as they drew near the gates, a number of white-robed priests from the temple met them. reuben lifted jesse in his arms that he might have a better view. "listen," he said. joel climbed up on a large rock.
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a joyful sound of flutes commenced, and a mighty chorus went up: "i was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the lord. our feet shall stand within thy gates, o jerusalem!"
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voice after voice took up the old psalm, and reuben's deep tones joined with the others, as they chanted, "peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces!"
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following the singing pilgrims to the temple, they saw the priests take the doves that were to be for a burnt-offering, and the first fruits that were to be laid on the altars.
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jesse held fast to his grandfather's hand as they passed through the outer courts of the temple. he was half frightened by the din of voices, the stamping and bellowing and bleating of the animals as they were driven into the pens.
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he had seen one sacrificial service; the great stream of blood pouring over the marble steps of the altar, and the smoke of the burnt-offering were still in his mind. it made him look pityingly now at the gentle-eyed calves and the frightened lambs. he was glad to get away from them.
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soon after the time of this rejoicing was over, came ten solemn days that to joel were full of interest and mystery. they were the days of preparation for the fast of the atonement. disputes between neighbors were settled, and sins confessed.
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the last great day, the most solemn of all, was the only time in the whole year when the high priest might draw aside the veil, and enter into the holy of holies.
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with all his rich robes and jewels laid aside, clad only in simple white, with bare feet and covered head, he had to go four times into the awful presence. once to offer incense, once to pray, to sprinkle the blood of a goat towards the mercy-seat, and then to bring out the censer.
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that was the day when two goats were taken; by casting lots one was chosen for a sacrifice. on the other the high priest laid the sins of the people, and it was driven out into the wilderness, to be dashed to pieces from some high cliff.
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tears came into joel's eyes, as he watched the scape-goat driven away into the dreary desert. he pitied the poor beast doomed to such a death because of his nation's sins.
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then came the closing ceremonies, when the great congregation bowed themselves three times to the ground, with the high priest shouting solemnly, "ye are clean! ye are clean! ye are clean!"
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joel was glad when the last rite was over, and the people started to their homes, as gay now as they had been serious before.
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"when are we going back to our other home?" asked ruth, one day.
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"why, are you not happy here, little daughter?" said abigail. "i thought you had forgotten all about the old place."
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"i want my white pigeons," she said, with a quivering lip, as if she had suddenly remembered them. "i don't want my father not to be here!" she sobbed; "and i want my white pigeons!"
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abigail picked her up and comforted her. "wait just a little while. i think father will surely come soon. i will get my embroidery, and you may go with me across the street."
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ruth had been shy at first about going to see her mother's friends; but martha coaxed her in with honey cakes she baked for that express purpose, and mary told her stories and taught her little games.
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after a while she began to flit in and out of the house as fearlessly as a bright-winged butterfly.
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one day her mother was sitting with the sisters in a shady corner of their court-yard, where a climbing honeysuckle made a cool sweet arbor. ruth was going from one to the other, watching the bright embroidery threads take the shape of flowers under their skilful fingers. suddenly she heard the faint tinkle of a silver bell. while she stood with one finger on her lip to listen, lazarus came into the court-yard.
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"see what i have brought you, little one," he said. "it is to take the place of the pigeons you are always mourning for."
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it was a snow-white lamb, around which he had twined a garland of many colored flowers, and from whose neck hung the little silver bell she had heard.
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at first the child was so delighted she could only bury her dimpled fingers in the soft fleece, and look at it in speechless wonder. then she caught his hand, and left a shy little kiss on it, as she lisped, "oh, you're so good! you're so good!"
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after that day ruth followed lazarus as the white lamb followed ruth; and the sisters hardly knew which sounded sweeter in their quiet home, the tinkling of the silver bell, or the happy prattle of the baby voice.
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abigail spent many happy hours with her friends. one day as they sat in the honeysuckle arbor, busily sewing, ruth and jesse came running towards them.
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"i see my father coming, and another man," cried the boy. "i'm going to meet them."
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they all hastened to the door, just as the tired, dusty travellers reached it.
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"peace be to this house, and all who dwell therein," said the stranger, before phineas could give his wife and friends a warmer greeting.
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"we went first to your father's house, but, finding no one at home, came here," said phineas.
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"come in!" insisted martha. "you look sorely in need of rest and refreshment."
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but they had a message to deliver before they could be persuaded to eat or wash.
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"the master is coming," said phineas. "he has sent out seventy of his followers, to go by twos into every town, and herald his approach, and proclaim that the day of the lord is at hand. we have gone even into samaria to carry the tidings there."
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"at last, at last!" cried mary, clasping her hands. "oh, to think that i have lived to see this day of israel's glory!"
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"tell us what the master has been doing," urged abigail, after the men had been refreshed by food and water.
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first one and then the other told of miracles they had seen, and repeated what he had taught. even the children crept close to listen, leaning against their father's knees.
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"there has been much discussion about the kingdom that is to be formed. while we were in peter's house in capernaum, some of the disciples came quarrelling around him, to ask who should have the highest positions. i suppose those who have followed him longest think they have claim to the best offices."
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"what did he say?" asked abigail, eagerly.
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phineas laid his hand on ruth's soft curls. "he took a little child like this, and set it in our midst, and said that he who would be greatest in his kingdom, must become even like unto it!"
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"faith and love and purity on the throne of the herods," cried martha. "ah, only jehovah can bring such a thing as that to pass!"
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"are you going to stay at home now, father?" asked jesse, anxiously.
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"no, my son. i must go on the morrow to carry my report to the master, of the reception we have had in every town. but i will soon be back again to the feast of tabernacles."
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"carry with you our earnest prayer that the master will abide with us when he comes again to bethany," said martha, as her guests departed. "no one is so welcome in our home, as the friend of our brother lazarus."
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the preparation for the feast of the tabernacles had begun. "i am going to take the children to the city with me to-day!" said reuben, one morning, "to see the big booth i am having built. it will hold all our family, and as many friends as may care to share it with us."
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jesse was charmed with the great tent of green boughs.
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"i wish i could have been one of the children that moses led up out of egypt," he said, with a sigh.
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"why, my son?" asked reuben.
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"so's i could have wandered around for forty years, living in a tent like this. how good it smells, and how pretty it is! i wish you and grandmother would live here all the time!"
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the next day phineas joined them. it was a happy family that gathered in the leafy booth for a week of out-door rejoicing in the cool autumn time.
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"where is the master?" asked abigail.
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"i know not," answered her husband. "he sent us on before."
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"will he be here, i wonder?" she asked, and that question was on nearly every lip in jerusalem.
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"will he be here?" asked the throngs of pilgrims who had heard of his miracles, and longed to see the man who could do such marvellous things.
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"will he be here?" whispered the scribes to the pharisees. "let him beware!"
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"will he be here?" muttered caiaphas the high priest. "then better one man should die, than that the whole community perish."
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the sight that dazzled the eyes of the children that first evening of the week, was like fairyland; a blaze of lanterns and torches lit up the whole city.
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in the court of the women, in the temple, all the golden lamps were lit, twinkling and burning like countless stars.
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on the steps that separated this court from the next one, stood three thousand singers, the sons and daughters of the tribe of levi. two priests stood at the top of the steps, and as each gave the signal on a great silver trumpet, the burst of song that went up from the vast choir seemed to shake the very heavens. harps and psalters and flutes swelled with the rolling waves of the organ's melody. to the sound of this music, men marched with flaming torches in their hands, and the marching and a weird torch-dance were kept up until the gates of the temple closed.
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in the midst of all the feasting and the gayeties that followed, the long-expected voice was heard in the arcades of the temple.
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the child of nazareth was once more in his father's house about his father's business.
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on the last great day of the feast, joel was up at day-break, ready to follow the older members of the family as soon as the first trumpet-blast should sound.
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in his right hand he carried a citron, as did all the others; in his left was a palm-branch, the emblem of joy. an immense multitude gathered at the spring of siloam. water was drawn in a golden pitcher, and carried back to be poured on the great altar, while the choir sang with its thousands of voices, and all the people shouted, amen and amen!
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when the days had gone by in which the seventy bullocks had been sacrificed, and when the ceremonies were all over, then the leaves were stripped from the green booths, and the people scattered to their homes.
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long afterward, jesse remembered only the torch-light dances, the silver trumpets and the crowds, and the faint ringing of the fringe of bells on the priest's robes as he carried the fire on the golden shovel to burn the sweet-smelling incense.
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joel's memory rang often with two cries that had startled the people. one when the water was poured from the golden pitcher. it was the master's voice: "if any man thirst, let him come unto me." the other was when all eyes were turned on the blazing lamps. "i am the light of the world!"
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reuben thought oftenest of the blind man to whom he had seen sight restored. but lazarus was filled with anxiety and foreboding; through his office of scribe, he had come in close contact with the men who were plotting against his friend. dark rumors were afloat. the air was hot with whisperings of hate.
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he had overheard a conversation between the temple police, and some of the chief priests and pharisees.
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"why did ye not take him, as ye were ordered?" they demanded angrily.
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"we could not," was the response; "for never man spake like this man."
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he had seen the mob searching for stones to throw at him. though he had disappeared out of their midst unhurt, still lazarus felt that some terrible disaster was hanging threateningly over the head of his beloved friend.
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it was with a deep feeling of relief that the two families watched the master go away into perea. phineas still kept with him. as the little band disappeared down the street, ruth hid her face in her mother's dress and began to cry.
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"i don't want my father to go away again!" she sobbed. abigail took her in her lap and tried to comfort her, although there were tears in her own eyes.
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"we will go home soon, little daughter, and then father will be with us all the time. but we must wait first, till after the cold, rainy season, and the feast of dedication."
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"what! another feast?" asked jesse, to whom the summer had seemed one long confusion of festivals. "don't they have lots of them down in this country! what's this one for?"
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"grandfather will tell you," answered his mother. "run out and ask him for the story. i know you will like it."
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seated on his grandfather's knee, jesse doubled up his little fists, as he heard how a heathen altar had once been set up on the great altar of burnt-offering, and a heathen general had driven a herd of swine through the holy temple, making it unclean. but his breath came quick, and his eyes shone, as the proud old israelite told him of judas the maccabee, judas the lion-hearted, who had whipped the syrian soldiers, purified the temple, and dedicated it anew to the worship of jehovah.
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"our people never forget their heroes," ended the old man. "every year, in every home, no matter how humble, one candle is lighted at the beginning of the feast; the next night, two, and the next night, three, and so on, till eight candles shine out into the winter darkness.
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"for so the brave deeds of the maccabees burn in the memory of every child of abraham!"
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the feast came and went. while the candles burned in every home, and the golden lamps in the great temple blazed a welcome, the nazarene came back to his father's house, to be once more about his father's business.
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joel caught a glimpse of him walking up and down the covered porches in front of the gate beautiful. the next moment he was pushing and elbowing his way through the jostling crowds, till he stood close beside him.
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after that, the services that followed were a blank. he saw only one face,--the face that had looked into his beside the galilee, and drawn from his heart its intensest love. he heard only one voice,--the voice he had longed for all these weeks and days. just to be near him! to be able to reach out reverent fingers and only touch the clothes he wore; to look up in his face, and look and look with a love that never wearied,--that was such happiness that joel was lost to everything else!
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but after a while he began to realize that it was for no friendly purpose that the chief priests came pressing around with questions.
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"if thou be the christ, tell us plainly," they demanded. then up and down through the long porch of solomon, among all its white marble pillars, they repeated his answer:--
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"the works that i do in my father's name, they bear witness of me. i and my father are one!"
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"blasphemy!" shouted a mocking voice behind him. "blasphemy!" echoed pharisee and sadducee for once agreed. the crowds pushed and shoved between the pillars; some ran out for stones. in the confusion of the uproar, as they turned to lay violent hands on him, he slipped out of their midst, and went quietly away.
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joel hunted around awhile for the party he had come with, but seeing neither phineas nor lazarus, started back to bethany on the run. a cold winter rain had begun to fall.
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none of reuben's family had gone into jerusalem that day on account of the weather, but were keeping the feast at home.
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they were startled when the usually quiet boy burst excitedly into the house, and told them what he had just seen.
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"o mother abigail!" he cried, throwing himself on his knees beside her. "if he goes away again may i not go with him? i cannot go back to galilee and leave him, unknowing what is to happen. if he is to be persecuted and driven out, and maybe killed, let me at least share his suffering, and be with him at the last!"
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"you forget that he has all power, and that his enemies can do him no harm," said abigail, gently. "has he not twice walked out unharmed, before their very eyes, when they would have taken him? and besides what good could you do, my boy? you forget you are only a child, and might not be able to stand the hardships of such a journey."
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"i am almost fourteen," said joel, stretching himself up proudly. "and i am as strong now as some of the men who go with him. he gave me back my strength, you know. oh, you do not know how i love him!" he cried. "when i am away from him, i feel as you would were you separated from jesse and ruth and father phineas. my heart is always going out after him!"
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"child, have you no care for us?" she responded reproachfully.
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"oh, do not speak so!" he cried, catching up her hand and kissing it. "i do love you; i can never be grateful enough for all you have done for me. but, o mother abigail, you could never understand! you were never lame and felt the power of his healing. you were never burning with a wicked hatred, and felt the balm of his forgiveness! you cannot understand how he draws me to him!"
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"let the boy have his way," spoke up reuben. "i, too, have felt that wonderful power that draws all men to him. gladly would i part with every shekel i possess, if i thereby might win him the favor of the authorities."
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when once more a little band of fugitives followed their master across the jordan, joel was with them.
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the winter wore away, and they still tarried. day by day, they were listening to the simple words that dropped like seeds into their memories, to spring up in after months and bear great truths. now they heard them as half understood parables,--the good samaritan, the barren fig-tree, the prodigal son, the unjust steward.
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it was only long afterwards that he realized it was the good shepherd himself who told the story, when he was about to lay down his own life for the lost sheep of israel.
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meanwhile in bethany, rabbi reuben and his wife rejoiced that their daughter's visit stretched out indefinitely.
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jesse openly declared that he intended to stay there always, and learn to be a goldsmith like his grandfather.
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ruth, too, was happy and contented, and seemed to have forgotten that she ever had any other home. as the early spring days came on, she lived almost entirely out in the sunshine. she had fallen into the habit of standing at the gate to watch for lazarus every evening when he came back from the temple. as soon as she saw him turn the corner into their street, she ran to meet him, her fair curls and white dress fluttering in the wind.
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no matter how tired he was, or what cares rested heavily on his mind, the pale face always lighted up, and his dark eyes smiled at her coming.
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"lazarus does not seem well, lately," she heard martha say to her mother one day. "i have been trying to persuade him to rest a few days; but he insists he cannot until he has finished the scroll he is illuminating."
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a few days after that he did not go to the city as usual. ruth peeped into the darkened room where he was resting on a couch; his eyes were closed, and he was so pale it almost frightened her.
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he did not hear her when she tiptoed into the room and out again; but the fragrance of the little stemless rose she laid on his pillow aroused him. he opened his eyes and smiled languidly, as he caught sight of her slipping noiselessly through the door.
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her mother, sewing by the window, looked out and saw her running across the street. jesse was out in front of the house, playing with a ball.
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"why, that is little joseph, the only son of simon the leper. poor child!"
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"simon the leper," repeated abigail. "a stranger to me."
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"surely not. have you forgotten the wealthy young oil-seller who lived next the synagogue? he has the richest olive groves in this part of the country."
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"not the husband of my little playmate esther!" cried abigail. "surely he has not been stricken with leprosy!"
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"yes; it is one of the saddest cases i ever heard of. it seems so terrible for a man honored as he has been, and accustomed to every luxury, to be such a despised outcast."
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"poor esther!" sighed abigail. "does she ever see him?"
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"not now. the disease is fast destroying him; and he is such a hideous sight that he has forbidden her to ever try to see him again. even his voice is changed. of course he would be stoned if he were to come back. he never seeks the company of other lepers. she has had a room built for him away from the sight of men. every day a servant carries him food and tidings. it is well that they have money, or he would be obliged to live among the tombs with others as repulsive-looking as himself, and such company must certainly be worse than none. sometimes little joseph is taken near enough to speak to him, that he may have the poor comfort of seeing his only child at a distance."
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"what if it were my phineas!" exclaimed abigail, her tears dropping fast on the needlework she held. "oh, it is a thousand times worse than death!"
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out in the street the boys were making each other's acquaintance in the off-hand way boys of that age have.
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"my name is jesse. what's yours?"
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"where do you live?"
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"around the corner, next to the synagogue."
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"my father is a carpenter. what's yours?"
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joseph hesitated. "he used to be an oil-seller," he said finally. "he doesn't do anything now."
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"why?" persisted jesse.
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"he is a leper now," was the reluctant answer.
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a look of distress came over jesse's face. he had seen some lepers once, and the sight was still fresh in his mind. as they were riding down from galilee, joel had pointed them out to him. a group of beggars with horrible scaly sores that had eaten away their flesh, till some were left without lips or eyelids; one held out a deathly white hand from which nearly all the fingers had dropped. their hair looked like white wire, and they called out, in shrill, cracked voices, "unclean! unclean! come not near us!"
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"how terrible to have one's father like that," thought jesse. a lump seemed to come up in his throat; his eyes filled with tears at the bare idea. then, boy-like, he tossed up his ball, and forgot all about it in the game that followed.
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several days after he met joseph and a servant who was carrying a large, covered basket and a water-bottle made of skin.
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"i'm going to see my father, now," said joseph. "ask your mother if you can come with me."
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jesse started towards his home, then turned suddenly. "no, i'm not going to ask her, for she'll be sure to say no. i am just going anyhow."
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"you'll catch it when you get home!" exclaimed joseph.
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"well, it cannot last long," reasoned jesse, whose curiosity had gotten the better of him. "i believe i'd rather take a whipping than not to go."
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joseph looked at him in utter astonishment.
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"yes, i would," he insisted; "so come on!"
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a short walk down an unfrequented road, in the direction of jericho, took them to a lonely place among the bare cliffs. a little cabin stood close against the rocks, with a great sycamore-tree bending over it. near by was the entrance to a deep cave, always as cool as a cellar, even in the hottest summer days.
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at the mouth of the cave sat simon the leper. he stood up when he saw them coming, and wrapped himself closely in a white linen mantle that covered him from head to foot. it was a ghostly sight to jesse; but to joseph, so long accustomed to it, there seemed nothing strange.
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at a safe distance the servant emptied his basket on a large flat rock, and poured the water into a stone jar standing near. last of all, he laid a piece of parchment on the stone. it was esther's daily letter to her exiled husband.
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no matter what storms swept the valley, or what duties pressed at home, that little missive was always sent. she had learned to write for his sake. by all his friends he was accounted dead; but her love, stronger than death, bridged the gulf that separated them. she lived only to minister to his comfort as best she could.
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simon did not send as long a message in return as this trusted messenger usually carried. he had much to say to his boy, and the sun was already high.
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jesse, lagging behind in the shelter of the rock, heard the tender words of counsel and blessing that came from the white-sheeted figure with a feeling of awe.
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as the father urged his boy to be faithful to every little duty, careful in learning the prayers, and above all obedient to his mother, jesse's conscience began to prick him sorely.
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"i believe i know somebody that could cure him," he said, as they picked their way over the rocks, going home. "'cause he made joel well."
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"who's joel?" asked joseph.
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"a boy that lives with us. he was just as lame, and limped way over when he walked. now he is as straight as i am. all the sick people where i lived went to him, and they got well."
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joseph shook his head. "lepers can't be cured. can they, seth?" he asked, appealing to the servant.
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"no, lepers are just the same as dead," answered seth. "there's no help for them."
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jesse was in a very uncomfortable frame of mind, as, hot and dusty, he left his companion and dragged home at a snail's pace.
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next morning joseph was waiting for him out in front. "well, did she whip you?" he asked, with embarrassing frankness.
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"no," said jesse, a little sheepishly. "she put me to bed just as soon as i had eaten my dinner, and made me stay there till this morning."
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ruth went every day to ask for her sick friend, sometimes with a bunch of grapes, sometimes with only a flower in her warm little hand.
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but there came a time when martha met her, with eyes all swollen and red from crying, and told her they had sent to the city for a skilful physician.
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in the night there came a loud knocking at the door, and a call for rabbi reuben to come quickly, that lazarus was worse. at day-break a messenger was sent clattering away to hurry over the jordan in hot haste, and bring back from perea the only one who could help them.
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the noise awakened ruth; she sat up in surprise to see her mother dressed so early. the outer door was ajar, and she heard the message that the anxious martha bade the man deliver: "lord, he whom thou lovest is sick."
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"he will come right away and make him well, won't he, mother?" she asked anxiously.
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"surely, my child," answered abigail. "he loves him too well to let him suffer so."
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but the day wore on, and the next; still another, and he did not come.
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ruth stole around like a frightened shadow, because of the anxious looks on every face.
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"why doesn't he come?" she wondered; and on many another lip was the same question.
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she was so quiet, no one noticed when she stole into the room where her friend lay dying. mary knelt on one side of the bed, martha on the other, watching the breath come slower and slower, and clinging to the unresponsive hands as if their love could draw him back to life.
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neither shed a tear, but seemed to watch with their souls in their eyes, for one more word, one more look of recognition.
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abigail sat by the window, weeping softly. ruth had never seen her mother cry before, and it frightened her. she glanced at her grandfather, standing by the foot of the bed; two great tears rolled slowly down his cheeks, and dropped on his long beard.
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a sudden cry from mary, as she fell fainting to the floor, called her attention to the bed again. martha was silently rocking herself to and fro, in an agony of grief.
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still the child did not understand. those in the room were so busy trying to bring mary back to consciousness, that no one noticed ruth.
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drawn by some impulse she could not understand, the child drew nearer and nearer. then she laid her soft little hand on his, thinking the touch would surely make him open his eyes and smile at her again; it had often done so before.
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but what was it that made her start back terrified, and shrink away trembling? it was not lazarus she had touched, but the awful mystery of death.
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"i did not know that a little child could feel so deeply," said abigail to her mother, when she found that ruth neither ate nor played, but wandered aimlessly around.
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"i shall keep her away from the funeral."
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but all her care could not keep from the little one's ears the mournful music of the funeral dirge, or the wailing of the mourners, who gathered to do honor to the young man whom all bethany knew and loved.
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many friends came out from jerusalem to follow the long procession to the tomb. there was a long eulogy at the grave; but the most impressive ceremony was over at last, and the great stone had to be rolled into the opening that formed the doorway.
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then the two desolate sisters went back to their lonely home and empty life, wondering how they could go on without the presence that had been such a daily benediction.
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the fourth day after his death, as martha sat listlessly looking out of the green arbor with unseeing eyes, ruth ran in with a radiant face.
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"he's come!" she cried. "he's come, and so has my father. hurry! he is waiting for you!"
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martha drew her veil about her, and mechanically followed the eager child to the gate, where phineas met her with the same message.
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"oh, why did he not come sooner?" she thought bitterly, as she pressed on after her guide.
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once outside of the village, she drew aside her veil. there stood the master, with such a look of untold sympathy on his worn face, that martha cried out, "lord, if thou hadst been here my brother had not died!"
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"thy brother shall rise again," he said gently.
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"yes, i know he shall rise again in the resurrection, at the last day," she said brokenly. "that brings hope for the future; but what comfort is there for the lonely years we must live without him?" the tears streamed down her face again.
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then for the first time came those words that have brought balm into thousands of broken hearts, and hope into countless tear-blind eyes.
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"i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me shall never die. believest thou this?"
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martha looked up reverently. "yea, lord, i believe that thou art the christ, the son of god which should come into the world."
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a great peace came over her troubled spirit as she hurried to her home, where the many friends still sat who had come to comfort them. a number of them were from jerusalem, and she knew that among them were some who were unfriendly to her brother's friend.
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so she quietly called her sister from the room, whispering, "the master is come, and calleth for thee!"
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those who sat there thought they were going to the grave to weep, as was the custom. so they rose also, and followed at a little distance.
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mary met him with the same exclamation that her sister had uttered, and fell at his feet.
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he, seeing in her white face the marks of the deep grief she had suffered, was thrilled to the depths of his humanity by the keenest sympathy. his tears fell too, at the sight of hers.
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"behold how he loved lazarus!" said a man to the one who stood beside him.
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"why did he not save him then?" was the mocking answer.
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"they say he has the power to open the eyes of the blind, and even to raise the dead. let him show it in this case!"
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it was a curious crowd that followed him to the door of the tomb: men who hated him for the scorching fire-brands of rebuke he had thrown into their corrupt lives; men who feared him as a dangerous teacher of false doctrines; men who knew his good works, but hesitated either to accept or refuse; and men who loved him better than life,--all waiting, wondering what he would do.
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"roll the stone away!" he commanded; a dozen strong shoulders bent to do his bidding. then he looked up and spoke in a low tone, but so distinctly that no one lost a word.
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"father," he said,--he seemed to be speaking to some one just beside him,--"i thank thee that thou hast heard me, and i knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by i said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."
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a cold shiver of expectancy ran over those who heard. then he cried, in a loud voice, "lazarus, come forth!" there was a dreadful pause. some of the women clutched each other with frightened shrieks; even strong men fell back, as out of the dark grave walked a tall figure wrapped in white grave-clothes.
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his face was hidden in a napkin. "loose him, and let him go," said the master, calmly.
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phineas stepped forward and loosened the outer bands. when the napkin fell from his face, they saw he was deathly white; but in an instant a warm, healthful glow took the place of the corpse-like pallor.
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not till he spoke, however, could the frightened people believe that it was lazarus, and not a ghost they saw.
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never had there been such a sight since the world began: the man who had lain four days in the tomb, walking side by side with the man who had called him back to life.
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the streets were full of people, laughing, shouting, crying, fairly beside themselves with astonishment.
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smiths left their irons to cool on the anvils; bakers left their bread to burn in the ovens; the girl at the fountain dropped her half-filled pitcher; and a woman making cakes ran into the street with the dough in her hands.
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every house in the village stood empty, save one where a sick man moaned for water all unheeded, and another where a baby wakened in its cradle and began to cry.
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long after the reunited family had gone into their home with their nearest friends, and shut the door on their overwhelming joy, the crowds still stood outside, talking among themselves.
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many who had taken part against the master before, now believed on account of what they had seen. but some still said, more openly than before, "he is in league with the evil one, or he could not do such things." these hurried back to jerusalem, to spread the report that this dangerous man had again appeared, almost at the very gates of the great capital.
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that night there was a secret council of the chief priests and the pharisees. "what shall we do," was the anxious question. "if we let him alone, all men will believe on him; and the romans shall come and take away both our place and our nation."
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every heart beat with the same thought, but only caiaphas put it in words. at last he dared repeat what he had only muttered to himself before: "it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not."
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while the streets were still full of people, jesse crept up to joel, as they sat together in the court-yard. "don't you think it would be just as easy to cure a leper as to raise rabbi lazarus from the dead?"
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"yes, indeed!" answered joel, positively, "i've seen it done."
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"oh, have you?" cried the boy, in delight. "then joseph can have his father back again."
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he told him the story of simon the leper, and of his visit to the lonely cave.
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joel's sympathies were aroused at once. ever since his own cure, he had felt that he must bring every afflicted one in the wide world to the great source of healing.
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just then a man stopped at the gate to ask for phineas. joel had learned to know him well in the weeks they had been travelling together; it was thomas.
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the boy sprang up eagerly. "do you know when the master is going to leave bethany?" he asked.
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"in the morning," answered thomas, "and right glad i am that it is to be so soon. for when we came down here, i thought it was but to die with him. he is beset on all sides by secret enemies."
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"and will he go out by the same road that we came?"
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"it is most probable."
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joel waited for no more information from him, but went back to jesse to learn the way to the cave.
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jesse was a little fellow, but a keen-eyed one, and was able to give joel the few simple directions that would lead him the right way.
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"oh, i'm so glad you are going!" he exclaimed. "shall i run and tell joseph what you are going to do?"
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"no, do not say a word to any one," answered joel. "i shall be back in a very short time."
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simon the leper sat at the door of his cave. he held a roll of vellum in his unsightly fingers; it was a copy of the psalms that lazarus had once made for him in happier days.
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many a time he had found comfort in these hope-inspiring songs of david; but to-day he was reading a wail that seemed to come from the depths of his own soul:
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"thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me. thou hast made me an abomination unto them. i am shut up and i cannot come forth. lord, i have called daily upon thee. i have stretched out my hands unto thee. wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise again and praise thee? lord, why casteth thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?"
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the roll dropped to the ground, and he hid his face in his hands, crying, "how long must i endure this? oh, why was i not taken instead of lazarus?"
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the sound of some one scrambling over the rocks made him look up quickly.
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seth never made his visits at this time of the day, and strangers had never before found the path to this out-of-the-way place.
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joel came on, and stopped by the rock where the water-jar stood.
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simon stood up, covering himself with his mantle, and crying out, warningly, "beware! unclean! come no further!"
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"i bring you news from the village," said joel. the man threw out his hand with a gesture of alarm.
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"oh, not of my wife esther," he cried, imploringly, "or of my little joseph! i could not bear to hear aught of ill from them. my heart is still sore for the death of my friend lazarus. i went as near the village as i dared, and heard the dirge of the flutes and the wailing of the women, when they laid him in the tomb. i have sat here ever since in sackcloth and ashes."
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"but lazarus lives again!" exclaimed joel, simply. he had seen so many miracles lately, that he forgot the startling effect such an announcement would have on one not accustomed to them.
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the man stood petrified with astonishment. at last he said bitterly, "you but mock me, boy; at least leave me to my sorrow in peace."
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"no!" cried joel. "as the lord liveth, i swear it is the truth. have you not heard that messiah has come? i have followed him up and down the country, and know whereof i speak. at a word from him the dumb sing, the blind see, and the lame walk. i was lame myself, and he made me as you see me now."
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joel drew himself up to his fullest height. simon looked at him, completely puzzled.
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"why did you take the trouble to come and tell me that,--a poor despised leper?" he finally asked.
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"because i want everybody else to be as happy as i am. he cured me. he gave me back my strength. then why should not my feet be always swift to bring others to him for the same happy healing? he himself goes about all the time doing good. i know there is hope for you, for i have seen him cleanse lepers."
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simon trembled, as the full meaning of the hope held out to him began to make itself clear to his confused mind: health, home, esther, child,--all restored to him. it was joy too great to be possible.
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"oh, if i could only believe it!" he cried.
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"lazarus was raised when he had been four days dead. all bethany can bear witness to that," persisted joel. the words poured out with such force and earnestness, as he described the scene, that simon felt impelled to believe him.
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"where can i find this man?" he asked.
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joel pointed down the rocky slope. "take that road that leads into bethany. come early in the morning, and as we all pass that way, call to him. he never refuses any who have faith to believe that he can grant what they ask."
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when joel was half-way down the hill, he turned back. "if he should not pass on the morrow," he said, "do not fail to be there on the second day. we will surely leave here soon."
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simon stood in bewilderment till the boy had passed down the hill; he began to fear that this messenger had been only the creation of a dream. he climbed upon the cliff and peered down into the valley. no, he had not been deceived; the boy was no mirage of his thirsty soul, for there, he came out into full sight again, and now, he was climbing the opposite hillside.
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"how beautiful upon the mountain are the feet of him who bringeth good tidings!" he murmured. "oh, what a heaven opens out before me, if this lad's words are only true!"
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next morning, after they left bethany, joel looked anxiously behind every rock and tree that they passed; but simon was not to be seen.
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presently joel saw him waiting farther down the road; he was kneeling in the dust. the white mantle, that in his sensitiveness was always used to hide himself from view, was cast aside, that the great healer might see his great need.
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he scanned the approaching figures with imploring eyes. he was looking for the messiah,--some one in kingly garments, whose jewelled sceptre's lightest touch would lay upon him the royal accolade of health.
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these were evidently not the ones he was waiting for. these were only simple wayfarers; most of them looked like galileans.
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he was about to rise up with his old warning cry of unclean, when he caught sight of joel. but where was the princely redeemer of prophecy?
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nearer and nearer they came, till he could look full in their faces. no need now to ask on which one he should call for help; indeed, he seemed to see but one face, it was so full of loving pity.
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"o thou messiah of israel!" he prayed. "thou didst call my friend lazarus from the dead, o pass me not by! call me from this living death! make me clean!"
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the eyes that looked down into his seemed to search his soul. "believest thou that i can do this?"
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the pleading faith in simon's eyes could not be refused. "yea, lord," he cried, "thou hast but to speak the word!"
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he waited, trembling, for the answer that meant life or death to him.
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"i will. be thou clean!" he put out his hand to raise the kneeling man to his feet. "go and show thyself to the priests," he added.
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the party passed on, and simon stood looking after them. was it the christ who had passed by? where were his dyed garments from bozrah? the prophet foretold him as glorious in apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength. no sceptre of divine power had touched him; it was only the clasp of a warm human hand he had felt. he looked down at himself. still a leper! his faith wavered; but he remembered he had not obeyed the command to show himself to the priests. immediately he started across the fields on a run, towards the road leading into jerusalem.
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far down the highway joel heard a mighty shout; he turned and looked back. there on the brow of a hill, sharply outlined against the sky, stood simon. his arms were lifted high up towards heaven; for as he ran, in obedience to the command, the leprosy had gone from him. he was pouring out a flood of praise and thanksgiving, in the first ecstasy of his recovery, at the top of his voice.
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joel thought of the tiresome ceremonies to be observed before the man could go home, and wished that the eight days of purification were over, that the little family might be immediately reunited.
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meanwhile, seth, with his basket and water-bottle, was climbing the hill toward the cave. for the first time in seven years since he had commenced these daily visits, no expectant voice greeted him. he went quite close up to the little room under the cliff; he could see through the half-open door that it was empty. then he cautiously approached the mouth of the cave, and called his master. a hundred echoes answered him, but no human voice responded. call after call was sent ringing into the hollow darkness. the deep stillness weighed heavily upon him; he began to be afraid that somewhere in its mysterious depths lay a dead body.
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the fear mastered him. only stopping to put down the food and pour out the water, he started home at the top of his speed.
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as he reached the road, a traveller going to bethany hailed him. "what think you that i saw just now?" asked the stranger. "a man running with all his might towards jerusalem. tears of joy were streaming down his cheeks, and he was shouting as he ran, 'cleansed! cleansed! cleansed!' he stopped me, and bade me say, if i met a man carrying a basket and water-skin, that simon the leper has just been healed of the leprosy. he will be home as soon as the days of purification are over."
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seth gazed at him stupidly, feeling that he must be in a dream. esther, too, heard the message unbelievingly. yet she walked the floor in a fever of excitement, at the bare possibility of such a thing being true.
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the next morning, she sent seth, as usual, with the provisions. but he brought them back, saying the place was still deserted.
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then she began to dare to hope; although she tried to steel herself against disappointment, by whispering over and over that she could never see him again, she waited impatiently for the days to pass. at last they had all dragged by.
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the new day would begin at sunset, the very earliest time that she might expect him. the house was swept and garnished as if a king were coming. the table was set with the choicest delicacies seth could find in the jerusalem markets.
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the earliest roses, his favorite red ones, were put in every room. in her restless excitement nothing in her wardrobe seemed rich enough to wear. she tried on one ornament after another before she was suited. then, all in white, with jewels blazing in her ears, on her throat, on her little white hands, and her eyes shining like two glad stars, she sat down to wait for him.
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but she could not keep still. this rug was turned up at the corner; that rose had dropped its petals on the floor. she would have another kind of wine on the table.
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at last she stepped out of the door in her little silken-bound sandals, and climbed the outside stairs to the roof, to watch for him.
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the sun was entirely out of sight, but the west was glorious with the red gold of its afterglow. looking up the mount of olives, she could see the smoke of the evening sacrifice rising as the clouds of incense filled the temple. surely he must be far on the way by this time.
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her heart almost stopped beating as she saw a figure coming up the road, between the rows of palm-trees. she strained her eyes for a nearer view, then drew a long tremulous breath. it was lazarus; there went the two children and the lamb to meet him. all along the street, people were standing in the doors to see him go past; he was still a wonder to them.
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she shaded her eyes with her hand, and looked again. but while her gaze searched the distant road, some one was passing just below, under the avenue of leafy trees, with quick impatient tread; some one paused at the vine-covered door; some one was leaping up the stairs three steps at a time; some one was coming towards her with out-stretched arms, crying, "esther, little esther, o my wife! my god-given one!"
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for the first time in seven years, she turned to find herself in her husband's arms. strong and well, with the old light in his eyes, the old thrill in his voice, the glow of perfect health tingling through all his veins, he could only whisper tremulously, as he held her close, "praise god! praise god!"
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no wonder he seemed like a stranger to joseph. but the clasp of the strong arms, and the deep voice saying "my son," so tenderly, were inexpressibly dear to the little fellow kept so long from his birthright of a father's love.
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he was the first to break the happy silence that fell upon them. "what a good man rabbi jesus must be, to go about making people glad like this all the time!"
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"it is he who shall redeem israel!" exclaimed simon. "to god be the glory, who hath sent him into this sin-cursed world! henceforth all that i have, and all that i am, shall be dedicated to his service!"
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kneeling there in the dying daylight, with his arms around the wife and child so unexpectedly given back to him, such a heart-felt prayer of gratitude went upward to the good father that even the happiest angels must have paused to listen, more glad because of this great earth-gladness below.
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"i think there will be an unusual gathering of strangers at the passover this year," said rabbi reuben to lazarus, as they came out together from the city, one afternoon. "the number may even reach three millions. a travelling man from rome was in my shop to-day. he says that in the remotest parts of the earth, wherever the hebrew tongue is found, one may hear the name of the messiah.
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"people pacing the decks of the ships, crossing the deserts, or trading in the shops, talk only of him and his miracles; they have aroused the greatest interest even in athens and the cities of the nile. the very air seems full of expectancy. i cannot but think great things are about to come to pass. surely the time is now ripe for jesus to proclaim himself king. i cannot understand why he should hide himself away in the wilderness as if he feared for his safety."
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lazarus smiled at the old man, with a confident expression. "be sure, my friend, it is only because the hour has not yet come. what a sight it will be when he does stand before the tomb of our long dead power, to call back the nation to its old-time life and grandeur. i can well believe that with him all things are possible."
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"would that this next passover were the time!" responded reuben. "how i would rejoice to see his enemies laid low in the dust!"
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already, on the borders of galilee, the expected king had started toward his coronation. many of the old friends and neighbors from capernaum had joined their band, to go on to the paschal feast.
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joel could not crowd all the scenes into his memory; but some stood with clear-cut distinctness. there were the ten lepers who met them at the very outset; and there was blind bartimeus begging by the wayside. he could never forget the expression of that man's face, when his eyes were opened, and for the first time he looked out on the glory of the morning sunshine.
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joel quivered all over with a thrill of sympathy, remembering his own healing, and realizing more than the others what had been done for the blind beggar.
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then there was zaccheus, climbing up to look down through the sycamore boughs that he might see the master passing into jericho, and zaccheus scrambling down again in haste to provide entertainment for his honored guest.
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there was the young ruler going away sorrowful because the sacrifice asked of him was more than he was willing to make. but there was one scene that his memory held in unfading colors:--
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roses and wild honeysuckle climbing over a bank by the road-side. orange-trees dropping a heavy fragrance with the falling petals of their white blossoms. in the midst of the shade and the bloom the mothers from the village near by, gathering with their children, all freshly washed and dressed to find favor in the eyes of the passing prophet.
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babies cooed in their mother's arms. bright little faces smiled out from behind protecting skirts, to which timid fingers clung. as they waited for the coming procession, and little bare feet chased each other up and down the bank, the happy laughter of the older children filled all the sunny air.
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as the travellers came on, the women caught up their children and crowded forward. it was a sight that would have made almost any one pause,--those innocent-eyed little ones waiting for the touch that would keep them always pure in heart,--that blessing their mothers coveted for them.
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but some of the disciples, impatient at the many delays, seeing in the rosy faces and dimpled limbs nothing that seemed to claim help or attention, spoke to the women impatiently. "why trouble ye the master?" they said. "would ye stop the great work he has come to do for matters of such little importance?"
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repelled by the rebuke, they fell back. but there was a look of displeasure on his face, such as they had never seen before, as jesus turned toward them.
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"suffer the little children to come unto me," he said, sternly, "and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven!"
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then holding out his hands he took them up in his arms and blessed them, every one, even the youngest baby, that blinked up at him unknowingly with its big dark eyes, received its separate blessing.
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so fearlessly they came to him, so lovingly they nestled in his arms, and with such perfect confidence they clung to him, that he turned again to his disciples. "verily i say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of god as a little child, he shall not enter therein."
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met at all points as he had been by loathsome sights, ragged beggars, and diseases of all kinds, this group of happy-faced children must have remained long in his memory, as sweet as the unexpected blossoming of a rose in a dreary desert.
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at last the slow journey drew towards a close. the friday afternoon before the passover found the tired travellers once more in bethany. news of their coming had been brought several hours before by a man riding down from jericho. his swift-footed beast had overtaken and passed the slow procession far back on the road.
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away from the sights that oppressed him, away from the clamor and the criticism, here was a place where heart and body might find rest. the peace of the place, and the atmosphere of sympathy surrounding him, must have fallen like dew on his thirsty soul. here, for a few short days, he who had been so long a houseless wanderer was to know the blessedness of a home.
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several hours before the first trumpet blast from the roof of the synagogue proclaimed the approaching sabbath, simon hurried to his home.
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"esther," he called in great excitement, "i have seen him! the christ! i have knelt at his feet. i have looked in his face. and, oh, only think!--he has promised to sit at our table! to-morrow night, such a feast as has never been known in the place shall be spread before him. help me to think of something we may do to show him especial honor."
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esther sprang up at the news. "we have very little time to prepare," she said. "seth must go at once into the city to make purchases. to-morrow night, no hireling hand shall serve him. i myself shall take that lowly place, with martha and mary to aid me. abigail, too, shall help us, for it is a labor of love that she will delight to take part in. i shall go at once to ask them."
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the long, still sabbath went by. the worshippers in the synagogue looked in vain for other miracles, listened in vain for the voice that wrought such wonders.
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through the unbroken rest of that day he was gathering up his strength for a coming trial. something of the approaching shadow may have been seen in his tender eyes; some word of the awaiting doom may have been spoken to the brother and sisters sitting reverently at his feet,--for they seemed to feel that a parting was at hand, and that they must crowd the flying hours with all the loving service they could render him.
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that night at the feast, as esther's little white hands brought the water for the reclining guests to wash, and martha and abigail placed sumptuously filled dishes before them, mary paused in her busy passing to and fro; she longed to do some especial thing to show her love for the honored guest.
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never had his face worn such a look of royalty; never had he seemed so much the christ. the soft light of many candles falling on his worn face seemed to reveal as never before the divine soul soon to leave the worn body where it now tarried.
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an old jewish custom suddenly occurred to her. she seemed to see two pictures: one was aaron, standing up in the rich garments of the priesthood, with his head bowed to receive the sacred anointing; the other was israel's first king, on whom the hoary samuel was bestowing the anointing that proclaimed his royalty. token of both priesthood and kingship,--oh, if she dared but offer it!
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no one noticed when she stepped out after awhile, and hurried swiftly homeward. hidden away in a chest in her room, was a little alabaster flask, carefully sealed. it held a rare sweet perfume, worth almost its weight in gold.
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she took it out with trembling fingers, and hid it in the folds of her long flowing white dress. her breath came quick, and her heart beat fast, as she slipped in behind the guests again. the color glowed and paled in her cheeks, as she stood there in the shadow of the curtains, hesitating, half afraid to venture.
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at last, when the banquet was almost over, she stepped noiselessly forward. there was a hush of surprise at this unusual interruption, although every one there was familiar with the custom, and recognized its deep meaning and symbolism.
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first on his head, then on his feet, she poured the costly perfume. bending low in the deepest humility, she swept her long soft hair across them to wipe away the crystal drops. the whole house was filled with the sweet, delicate odor.
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some of those who saw it, remembered a similar scene in the house of another simon, in far away galilee; but only the anointed one could feel the deep contrast between the two.
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that simon, the proud pharisee, condescending and critical and scant in hospitality; this simon, the cleansed leper, ready to lay down his life, in his boundless love and gratitude. that woman, a penitent sinner, kneeling with tears before his mercy; this woman, so pure in heart that she could see god though hidden in the human body of the nazarene. that anointing, to his priesthood at the beginning of his ministry; this anointing, to his kingdom, now almost at hand. no one spoke as the fragrance rose and spread itself like the incense of a benediction. it seemed a fitting close to this hour of communion with the master.
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across this eloquent silence that the softest sound would have jarred upon, a cold, unfeeling voice broke harshly.
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it was judas iscariot who spoke. "why was all this ointment wasted?" he asked. "it would have been better to have sold it and given it to the poor."
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simon frowned indignantly at this low-browed guest, who was so lacking in courtesy, and mary looked up distressed.
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"let her alone!" said the master, gently. "ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. she hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying."
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a dark look gleamed in the eyes of judas,--there was that reference again to his burial. there seemed to be no use of making any further pretence to follow him any longer. his kingdom was a delusion,--a vague, shadowy, spiritual thing that the others might believe in if they chose. but if there was no longer any hope of gaining by his service, he would turn to the other side.
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that night there was another secret council of some of the sanhedrin, and judas iscariot was in their midst.
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when the lights were out, and the temple police were making their final rounds, a dark figure went skulking out into the night, and wound its way through the narrow streets,--the dark figure that still goes skulking through the night of history,--the man who covenanted for thirty pieces of silver to betray his lord.
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"who is that talking in the house?" asked joel of abigail the morning after the feast. he had been playing in the garden with jesse, and paused just outside the door as he heard voices.
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"only father and phineas, now," answered abigail. "simon the oil-seller has just been here, and i am sure you could not guess his errand. it was about you."
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"about me?" echoed joel, in surprise.
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"yes, i never knew until this morning that you were the one who persuaded him to go to the master for healing. he says if it had not been for you, he would still be an outcast from home. during these weeks you have been away, he has been hoping to find some trace of you, for he longs to express his gratitude. last night at the feast, he learned your name, and now he has just been here to talk to phineas and father about you. his olive groves yield him a large fortune every year, and he is in a position to do a great deal for you, if you will only let him."
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"what does he want to do?" asked joel.
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"he has offered a great deal: to send you to the best schools in the country; to let you travel in foreign lands, and see life as it is in rome and athens and the cities of egypt. then when you are grown, he offers to take you in business with himself, and give you the portion of a son. it is a rare chance for you, my boy."
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"yes," answered joel, flushing with pleasure at the thought of all he might be able to see and learn. he seemed lost for a few minutes in the bright anticipation of such a tempting future; then his face clouded.
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"but i would have to leave everybody i love," he cried, "and the home where i have been so happy! i cannot do it, mother abigail; it is too much to ask."
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"now you talk like a child," she answered, half impatiently; but there was a suspicion of tears in her eyes as she added, "joel, you have grown very dear to us. it will be hard to give you up, for you seem almost like an own son. but consider, my boy; it would not be right to turn away from such advantages. jesse and ruth will be well provided for. all that my father has will be theirs some day. but phineas is only a poor carpenter, and cannot give you much beyond food and clothing. i heard him say just now that he clearly thought it to be your duty to accept, and he had no doubt but that you would."
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"but i cannot be with the master!" cried joel, as the thought suddenly occurred to him that he could no longer follow him as he had been doing, if he was to be sent away to study and travel.
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"no; but think what you may be able to do for his cause, if you have money and education and influence. it seems to me that for his sake alone, you ought to consent to such an arrangement."
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that was the argument that phineas used when he came out; and the boy was sadly bewildered between the desire to be constantly with his beloved master, and his wish to serve him as they suggested.
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it was in this perplexed state of mind that he started up to jerusalem with jesse and his grandfather.
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the streets were rapidly filling with people, coming up to the feast of the passover, and joel recognized many old friends from galilee.
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"there is rabbi amos!" he exclaimed, as he caught sight of an old man in the door of a house across the street. "may i run and speak to him?"
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rabbi amos gave joel a cordial greeting. "i am about to go back to the damascus gate," he said. "i have just been told that the nazarene will soon make his entrance into the city, and a procession of pilgrims are going out to meet him. i have heard much of the man since he left capernaum, and i have a desire to see him again. will you come?"
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the old man hobbled along so painfully, leaning on his staff, that they were a long time in reaching the gate. the outgoing procession had already met the coming pilgrims, and were starting to return. the way was strewn with palm branches and the clothes they had taken off to lay along the road in front of the man they wished to honor. every hand carried a palm branch, and every voice cried a hosannah.
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at first joel saw only a confused waving of the green branches, and heard an indistinct murmur of voices; but as they came nearer, he caught the words, "hosannah to the son of david!"
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"look!" cried rabbi amos, laying his wrinkled, shaking hand heavily on joel's shoulder. "look ye, boy, the voice of prophecy! no roman war-horse bears the coming victor! it is as zechariah foretold! that the king should come riding upon the colt of an ass,--the symbol of peace. so david rode, and so the judges of israel came and went!"
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joel's eyes followed the gesture of the tremulous, pointing finger. there came the master, right in the face of his enemies, boldly riding in to take possession of his kingdom.
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at last! no wandering now in lonely wildernesses! no fear of the jealous scribe or pharisee! the time had fully come. with garments strewn in the way, with palms of victory waving before him, with psalm and song and the shouting of the multitude, he rode triumphantly into the city.
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joel was roused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, to see his best beloved friend so honored. people understood him now; they appreciated him. the demonstrations of the multitude proved it. he was so happy and excited, he scarcely knew what he was doing. he had no palm branch to wave, but as the head of the procession came abreast with him, and he saw the face of the rider, he was almost beside himself.
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he waved his empty hands wildly up and down, cheering at the top of his voice; but his shrillest hosannahs were heard only by himself. they were only a drop in that mighty surf-beat of sound.
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scarcely knowing what to expect, yet prepared for almost anything, they followed the procession into the city. when they reached the porch of the temple, the master had disappeared.
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"i wonder where he has gone," said joel, in a disappointed tone. "i thought they would surely crown him."
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"he evidently did not wish it to be," answered rabbi amos. "it would be more fitting that the coronation take place at the great feast. wait until the day of the passover."
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as they sat in the court of the gentiles, resting, joel told rabbi amos of the offer made him by the wealthy oil-dealer simon.
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"accept it, by all means!" was the old man's advice. "we have seen enough just now to know that a new day is about to dawn for israel. in bethany, you will be much nearer the master than in capernaum; for surely, after to-day's demonstration, he will take up his residence in the capital. in time you may rise to great influence in the new government soon to be established."
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the old rabbi's opinion weighed heavily with joel, and he determined to accept simon's offer. then for awhile he was so full of his new plans and ambitions, he could think of nothing else.
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all that busy week he was separated from the master and his disciples; for it was the first passover he had ever taken part in. after it was over, he was to break the ties that bound him to the carpenter's family and the simple life in galilee, and go to live in simon's luxurious home in bethany.
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so he stayed closely with phineas and abigail, taking a great interest in all the great preparations for the feast.
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reuben chose, from the countless pens, a male lamb a year old, without blemish. about two o'clock the blast of two horns announced that the priests and levites in the temple were ready, and the gates of the inner courts were opened, that all might bring the lambs for examination.
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the priests, in two long rows, caught the blood in great gold and silver vessels, as the animals were killed, and passed it to others behind, till it reached the altar, at the foot of which it was poured out.
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then the lamb was taken up and roasted in an earthen oven, and the feast commenced at sunset on thursday. the skin of the lamb, and the earthen dishes used, were generally given to the host, when different families lodged together.
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as many as twenty were allowed to gather at one table. reuben had invited nathan ben obed, and those who came with him, to partake of his hospitality. much to joel's delight, a familiar shock of sunburned hair was poked in at the door, and he recognized buz's freckled face, round-eyed and open mouthed at this first glimpse of the great city.
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during the first hour they were together, buz kept his squinting eyes continually on joel. he found it hard to believe that this straight, sinewy boy could be the same pitiful little cripple who had gone with him to the sheepfolds of nathan ben obed.
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"say," he drawled, after awhile, "i know where that fellow is who made you lame. i was so upset at seeing you this way that i forgot to tell you. he had a dreadful accident, and you have already had your wish, for he is as blind as that stone."
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"oh, how? who told you?" cried joel, eagerly.
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"i saw him myself, as we came through jericho. he had been nearly beaten to death by robbers a few weeks before. it gave him a fever, and both eyes were so inflamed and bruised that he lost his sight."
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"poor rehum!" exclaimed joel.
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"poor rehum!" echoed buz, in astonishment. "what do you mean by poor rehum? aren't you glad? isn't that just exactly what you planned; or did you want the pleasure of punching them out yourself?"
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"no," answered joel, simply; "i forgave him a year ago, the night before i was healed."
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"you forgave him!" gasped buz,--"you forgave him! a dog of a samaritan! why, how could you?"
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buz looked at him with such a wondering, puzzled gaze that joel did not attempt to explain. buz might be ignorant of a great many things, but he knew enough to hate the samaritans, and look down on them with the utmost contempt.
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"i don't really believe you could understand it," said joel, "so it is of no use to try to tell you how or why. but i did forgive him, fully and freely. and if you will tell me just where to find him, i will go after him early in the morning and bring him back with me. the hand that straightened my back can open his eyes; for i have seen it done many times."
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all during the feast, buz kept stealing searching glances at joel. he could hardly tell which surprised him most, the straightened body or the forgiving spirit. it was so wonderful to him that he sat speechless.
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at the same time, in an upper chamber in another street, the master and his disciples were keeping the feast together. it was their last supper with him, although they knew it not. afterwards they recalled every word and every incident, with loving memory that lingered over each detail; but at the time they could not understand its full import.
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the gates were left open on passover night. while the master and his followers walked out to the garden of gethsemane, where they had often gone together, joel was questioning buz as to the exact place where he was to find his old enemy.
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"i'll go out very early in the morning," said joel, as his head touched the pillow. "very early in the morning, for i want rehum's eyes to be open just as soon as possible, so that he can see the master's face. lord help me to find him to-morrow," he whispered, and with a blessing on his lips for the one he had so long ago forgiven, his eyes closed softly.
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sleep came quickly to him after the fatigue and excitement of the day. in his dreams he saw again the master's face as he made his triumphal entrance into the city; he heard again the acclamations of the crowd. then he saw rabbi amos and simon and little ruth. there was a confused blending of kindly faces; there was a shadow-like shifting of indistinct but pleasant scenes. in the fair dreamland where he wandered, fortune smiled on him, and all his paths were peace.
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sleep on, little disciple, happy in thy dreaming; out in gethsemane's dark garden steals one to betray thy lord! by the light of glimmering lanterns and fitful torches they take him now. armed with swords and staves, they lead him out from the leafy darkness into the moon-flooded highroad.
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now he stands before the high priest,--alone, unfriended. sleep, and wake not at the cock's shrill crowing, for there is none to make answer for him, and one who loved him hath thrice denied!
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dream on! in the hall of pilate now, thorn-crowned and purple-clad, him whom thou lovest; scourged now, and spat upon. this day, indeed, shall he come into his kingdom, but well for thee, that thou seest not the coronation.
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sleep on, little disciple, be happy whilst thou can!
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it was so much later than he had intended, when joel awoke next morning, that without stopping for anything to eat, he hurried out of the city, and took the road by which the master had made such a triumphal entry a few days before.
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faded branches of palms still lay scattered by the wayside, thickly covered with dust.
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all unconscious of what had happened the night before, and what was even at that very moment taking place, joel trudged on to bethany at a rapid pace, light-hearted and happy.
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for six days he had been among enthusiastic galileans who firmly believed that before the end of passover week they should see the overthrow of rome, and all nations lying at the feet of a jewish king. how long they had dreamed of this hour!
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he turned to look back at the city. the white and gold of the temple dazzled his eyes, as it threw back the rays of the morning sun. he thought of himself as he had stood that day on the roof of the carpenter's house, stretching out longing arms to this holy place, and calling down curses on the head of his enemy, rehum.
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could he be the same boy? it seemed to him now that that poor, crippled body, that bitter hatred, that burning thirst for revenge, must have belonged to some one else, he felt so well, so strong, so full of love to god and all mankind.
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a little broken-winged sparrow fluttered feebly under a hedgerow. he stopped to gather a handful of ripe berries for it, and even retraced his steps to a tiny spring he had noticed farther back, to bring it water in the hollow of a smooth stone.
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he did not find rehum at the place where buz had told him to inquire. his father had taken him to his home, somewhere in samaria.
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joel turned back, tired and disappointed. he was glad to lie down, when he reached bethany again, and rest awhile. a peculiar darkness began to settle down over the earth. joel was perplexed and frightened; he knew it could not be an eclipse, for it was the time of the full moon. finally he started back to jerusalem, although it was like travelling in the night, for the darkness had deepened and deepened for nearly three hours, and the mysterious gloom made him long to be with his friends.
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his first thought was to find the master, and he naturally turned toward the temple. just as he started across the porch of solomon, the darkness was lifted, and everything seemed to dance before his eyes. he had never experienced an earthquake shock before, but he felt sure that this was one.
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he braced himself against one of the pillars. how the massive columns quivered! how the hot air throbbed! the darkness had been awful, but this was doubly terrifying.
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the earth had scarcely stopped trembling, when an old white-bearded priest ran across the court of the gentiles; his wrinkled hands, raised above his head, shook as with palsy. the scream that he uttered seemed to transfix joel with horror.
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"the veil of the temple is rent in twain!" he cried,--"the veil of the temple is rent in twain!"
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then with a convulsive shudder he fell forward on his face. joel's knees shook. the darkness, the earthquake, and now this mighty force that had laid bare the holy of holies, filled him with an undefined dread.
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he ran past the prostrate priest into the inner court, and saw for himself. there hung the heavy curtain of babylonian tapestry, in all its glory of hyacinth and scarlet and purple, torn asunder from top to bottom. no earthquake shock could have made that ragged gash. the wrath of god must have come down and laid mighty fingers upon it.
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he ran out of the temple, and towards the house where he had slept the night before.
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the earthquake seemed to have shaken all jerusalem into the streets. strange words were afloat. a question overheard in passing one excited group, an exclamation in another, made him run the faster.
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at reuben's shop he found jesse and ruth both crying from fright. the attendant who had them in charge told him that his friends had been gone nearly all day.
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"where?" demanded joel.
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"i do not know exactly. they went out with one of the greatest multitudes that ever passed through the gates of the city. not only jews, but greeks and romans and egyptians. you should have seen the camels and the chariots, the chairs and the litters!" exclaimed the man.
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a sudden fear fell upon the boy that this was the day that the one he loved best had been made king, and he had missed it,--had missed the greatest opportunity of his life.
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"was it to follow rabbi jesus of nazareth?" he demanded eagerly.
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the man nodded.
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"to crown him?" was the next breathless question.
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"no; to crucify him."
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the unexpected answer was almost a death-thrust. joel stood a moment, dumb with horror. the blood seemed to stand still in his veins; there was a roaring in his ears; then everything grew black before him. he clutched blindly at the air, then staggered back against the wall.
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"no, no, no, no!" he cried; each word was louder than the last. "i will not believe it! you do not speak truth!"
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he ran madly from the shop, down the street, and through the city gate. out on the highway he met the returning multitude, most of them in as great haste as he.
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everything he saw seemed to confirm the truth of what he had just heard, but he could not believe it.
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"no, no, no!" he gasped, in a breathless whisper, as he ran. "no, no, no! it cannot be! he is the christ! the son of god! they could not be able to do it, no matter how much they hated him!"
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but even as he ran he saw the hill where three crosses rose. he turned sick and cold, and so weak he could scarcely stand. still he stumbled resolutely on, but with his face turned away from the sight he dared not look upon, lest seeing should be knowing what he feared.
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at last he reached the place, and, shrinking back as if from an expected blow, he slowly raised his eyes till they rested on the face of the dead body hanging there.
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the agonized shriek on his lips died half uttered, as he fell unconscious at the foot of the cross.
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the veil of the temple was rent indeed, and through this pierced body there shone out from its holy of holies the shekinah of god's love for a dying world. it uplifted joel, and drew him, and drew him, till he seemed to catch a faint glimpse of the father's face; to feel himself folded in boundless pardon, in pity so deep, and a love so unfathomed, that the lowest sinner could find a share. but while he gazed and gazed into the white face, so glorified in its marble stillness, joseph of arimathea stood between him and the cross, giving directions, in a low tone, for the removal of the body.
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it seemed to waken joel out of his trance; and when the bloodstained form was stretched gently on the ground, he forgot his glimpse of heavenly mysteries, he saw no longer the uplifted christ. he saw instead, the tortured body of the man he loved; the friend for whom he would gladly have given his life.
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almost blinded by the rush of tears, he groped his way on his knees toward it. a mantle of fine white linen had been laid over the lifeless body; but one hand lay stretched out beside him with a great bloody nail-hole through the palm,--it was the hand that had healed him; the hand that had fed the hungry multitudes; the hand that had been laid in blessing on the heads of little children, waiting by the roadside! with the thought of all it had done for him, with the thought of all it had done for all the countless ones its warm, loving touch had comforted, came the remembrance of the torture it had just suffered. joel lay down beside it with a heart-broken moan.
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men came and lifted the body in its spotless covering. joel did not look up to see who bore it away.
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the lifeless hand still hung down uncovered at his side. with his eyes fixed on that, joel followed, longing to press it to his lips with burning kisses; but he dared not so much as touch it with trembling fingers,--a sense of his unworthiness forbade.
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as the silent procession went onward, joel found himself walking beside abigail. she had pushed her veil aside that she might better see the still form borne before them; she had stood near by through all those hours of suffering. her wan face and swollen eyes showed how the force of her sympathy and grief had worn upon her.
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joel glanced around for phineas. he was one of those who walked before with the motionless burden, his strong brown hands tenderly supporting the master's pierced feet; his face was as rigid as stone, and seemed to joel to have grown years older since the night before.
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another swift rush of tears blinded joel, as he looked at the set, despairing face, and then at what he carried.
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o friend of phineas! o feet that often ran to meet him on the grassy hillsides of nazareth, that walked beside him at his daily toil, and led him to a nobler living!--thou hast climbed the mountain of beatitudes! thou hast walked the wind-swept waters of the galilee! but not of this is he thinking now. it is of thy life's unselfish pilgrimage; of the dust and travel stains of the feet he bears; of the many steps, taken never for self, always for others; of the cure and the comfort they have daily carried; of the great love that hath made their very passing by to be a benediction.
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it seemed strange to joel that, in the midst of such overpowering sorrow, trivial little things could claim his attention. years afterward he remembered just how the long streaks of yellow sunshine stole under the trees of the garden; he could hear the whirr of grasshoppers, jumping up in the path ahead of them; he could smell the heavy odor of lilies growing beside an old tomb.
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from time to time as they wound the bands of white linen, powdered with myrrh and aloes, they glanced up nervously at the sinking sun. the sabbath eve was almost upon them, and the old slavish fear of the law made them hasten. a low stifled moaning rose from the lips of the women, as the one they had followed so long was lifted up, and borne forever out of their sight, through the low doorway of the tomb.
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strong hands rolled the massive stone in place that barred the narrow opening. then all was over; there was nothing more that could be done.
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the desolate mourners sat down on the grass outside the tomb, to watch and weep and wait over a dead hope and a lost cause.
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a deep stillness settled over the garden as they lingered there in the gathering twilight. they grew calm after awhile, and began to talk in low tones of the awful events of the day just dying.
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gradually, joel learned all that had taken place. as he heard the story of the shame and abuse and torture that had been heaped upon the one he loved better than all the world, his face grew white with horror and indignation.
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"oh, wasn't there one to stand up for him?" he cried, with clasped hands and streaming eyes. "wasn't there one to speak a word in his defence? o my beloved!" he moaned. "out of all the thousands thou didst heal, out of all the multitudes thou didst bless, not one to bear witness!"
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he rocked himself to and fro on his knees, wringing his hands as if the thought brought him unspeakable anguish.
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"oh, if i had only been there!" he moaned. "if i could only have stood up beside him and told what he had done for me! o my god! my god! how can i bear it? to think he went to his death without a friend and without a follower, when i loved him so! all alone! not one to speak for him, not one!"
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groping with tear-blinded eyes towards the tomb, the boy stretched his arms lovingly around the great stone that stopped its entrance; then suddenly realizing that he could never go any closer to the one inside, never see him again, he leaned his head hopelessly against the rock, and gave way to his feeling of utter loneliness and despair.
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how long he stood there, he did not know. when he looked up again, the women had gone, and it was nearly dark. phineas and several other men lingered in the black shadows of the trees, and joel joined them.
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roman guards came presently. a stout cord was stretched across the stone, its ends firmly fastened, and sealed with the seal of cæsar. a watch-fire was kindled near by; then the roman sentinels began their steady tramp! tramp! as they paced back and forth.
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high overhead the stars began to set their countless watch-fires in the heavens; then the white full moon of the passover looked down, and all night long kept its silent vigil over the forsaken tomb of the sleeping christ.
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abigail had found shelter for the night with friends, in a tent just outside the city; but joel and phineas took their way back to bethany.
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little was said as they trudged along in the moonlight. joel thought only of one thing,--his great loss, the love of which he had been bereft. but to phineas this death meant much more than the separation from the best of friends; it meant the death of a cause on which he had staked his all. he must go back to galilee to be the laughing-stock of his old neighbors. he who they trusted would have saved israel had been put to death as a felon,--crucified between two thieves! the cause was lost; he was left to face an utter failure.
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when the moon went down that morning over the hills of judea, there were many hearts that mourned the man of nazareth, but not a soul in all the universe believed on him as the son of god.
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hope lay dead in the tomb of joseph, with a great stone forever walling it in.
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"wake up, joel! wake up! i bring you good tidings, my lad!" it was abigail's voice ringing cheerily through the court-yard, as she bent over the boy, fast asleep on the hard stones.
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all the long sabbath day after the burial, he had sat listlessly in the shady court-yard, his blank gaze fixed on the opposite wall. no one seemed able to arouse him from his apathy. he turned away from the food they brought him, and refused to enter the house when night came.
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towards morning he had gone over to the fountain for a long draught of its cool water; then overcome by weakness from his continued fast, and exhausted by grief, he fell asleep on the pavement.
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abigail came in and found him there, with the red morning sun beating full in his face. she had to shake him several times before she could make him open his eyes.
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he sat up dizzily, and tried to collect his thoughts. then he remembered, and laid his head wearily down again, with a groan.
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"wake up! wake up!" she insisted, with such eager gladness in her voice that joel opened his eyes again, now fully aroused.
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"what is it?" he asked indifferently.
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"he is risen!" she exclaimed joyfully, clasping her hands as she always did when much excited. "i went to his tomb very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, with mary and salome and some other women. the stone had been rolled aside; and while we wondered and wept, fearing his enemies had stolen him away, he stood before us, with his old greeting on his lips,--'all hail!'"
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joel rubbed his eyes and looked at her. "no, no!" he said wearily, "i am dreaming again!"
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he would have thrown himself on the ground as before, his head pillowed on his arm, but she would not let him. she shook his hands with a persistence that could not be refused, talking to him all the while in such a glad eager voice that he slowly began to realize that something had made her very happy.
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"what is it, mother abigail?" he asked, much puzzled.
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"i do not wonder you are bewildered," she cried. "it is such blessed, such wonderful news. why he is alive, joel, he whom thou lovest! try to understand it, my boy! i have just now come from the empty tomb. i saw him! i spoke with him! i knelt at his feet and worshipped!"
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by this time all the family had come out. reuben looked at his daughter pityingly, as she repeated her news; then he turned to phineas.
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"poor thing!" he said, in a low tone. "she has witnessed such terrible scenes lately, and received such a severe shock, that her mind is affected by it. she does not know what she is saying. did not you yourself help prepare the body for burial, and put it in the tomb?"
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"yes," answered phineas, "and helped close it with a great stone, which mammy had sat very silent all the time, her old face wearing a puzzled expression, her keen eyes fixed upon a paper cutter which lay upon haydn’s desk, her lips pursed up doubtfully. haydn did not break the silence; he only watched. after a few moments she looked up, gave a perplexed sigh, and said:
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“well, sah, p’raps yo’ is right. p’raps yo’ is. i ain’t nothin’ but a’ ole nigger woman, but, bress gawd, i loves ma white folks, an’ i hates fer ter see de ole times so twisted up wid de new ideas, i sartain’ does. it goes against de grain p’intedly.”
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“i can understand all that, dear old mammy, but you mark my words, the results will justify the deeds.”
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so mammy gave up the argument, though she was far from resigned to the plans.
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and thus had the enterprise grown. constance finished her year at the high-school, mary willing was established in the model little candy kitchen, with all its practical little appointments, and before long was nearly as proficient as constance herself, and quite as enthusiastic. one year slipped by and another followed it. then a third was added to the number, until now, with the autumn of 19— constance was nineteen years old and eleanor twenty-one.
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neither has changed a great deal. eleanor’s three years in the college world have given her greater poise and independence, a more matured outlook upon life, but the old eleanor carruth is still in evidence.
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constance had grown taller, the slight figure is more rounded, though still girlish. she still has the wonderfully sweet, frank expression, in spite of her two years out in the business world, for after her graduation she took firmer hold than ever of her business venture and branched out in many directions. new booths were opened in adjacent towns, private orders were filled for patrons in new york city, holiday consignments were made to more remote ones, to which her fame had spread through friends and friends’ friends. of course some losses had been sustained, but in comparison with her output and returns they were trivial, and her success was an established fact. but the work continued, her aim being absolute independence for her mother, and for jean the home and the atmosphere their mother had formerly known and loved.
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and the silent partner of the firm, old baltie, how had the three years dealt with him? a horse which has attained twenty-five years and is sightless is supposed to be out of the running, but baltie lived apparently to prove the fallacy of such a supposition. at twenty-eight he was younger and more active than at twenty-four, his age when rescued by jean. nothing could restore his sight, but with each year his hearing seemed to have grown keener, and the ears were as sensitive as a wild animal’s. but baltie needs a chapter to himself.
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the silent partner and others.
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“mother, have you seen jean?” asked constance, popping her head into her mother’s room shortly after breakfast one glorious october morning.
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“she was here but a few moments ago, dear,” answered mrs. carruth, looking up from her desk at which she sat writing out the marketing list for mammy.
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“i want her to leave this parcel at mrs. morgan’s on her way to school, and, by the same token, she ought to be on her way there this very minute. i wonder where she has gone?”
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“not very far, i think. she knows she must start at once.”
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constance laughed as she replied: “i wonder if she ever will know? time doesn’t exist for her, or perhaps i would better say that it exists only for her; she so calmly takes all she wishes. but she really must start now. i’ll go hunt her up and get her headed in the right direction.”
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“yes, do, honey,” urged mrs. carruth, as constance hurried away in quest of the youngest member of the household.
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mrs. carruth resumed her writing. the past three years had dealt kindly with her: mammy and the daughters of the home had seen to that. nothing could ever alter the gentle expression of her eyes, or change the tender curves of her lips. each told its story of love for those nearest and dearest to her, as well as her sympathy and interest in her fellow-beings. mrs. carruth had passed her forty-seventh birthday, but did not look more than thirty-eight. the hardest years of her life were those following upon her husband’s death, and the serious financial losses she was then forced to meet. since constance’s venture and the success which had almost immediately attended it, the outlook for all had been more hopeful, and if now living less pretentiously than she had lived during her husband’s lifetime, she was none the less comfortable. upon hadyn stuyvesant’s advice mrs. carruth had not rebuilt the old home, although by careful economy she could have done so. but hadyn was looking farther into the future than mrs. carruth looked. perhaps his wish had some bearing upon the thought, for from the moment hadyn stuyvesant had met constance carruth his future was settled so far as he was concerned. but he was too wise to let the sixteen-year-old girl guess his feelings. the gulf between sixteen and twenty-three is a wide one. as the years advance it mysteriously narrows. at nineteen constance often wondered why hadyn seemed younger to her in his twenty-sixth year than he had at twenty-three. never by look or word had he betrayed any warmer feeling for her than the good-comradeship established at the beginning of their acquaintance. he was like a brother in that dear home. mrs. carruth consulted him freely upon all occasions. eleanor accepted him as a matter-of-course; that was eleanor’s way. constance found in him the jolliest companion. jean adored him openly, and he was her valiant champion whenever she needed one. from the day he had taken his first meal in her home she had been to him the “little sister,” and he never called her by any other name. not long after that event she had coined a name for him—a funny enough one, too. rushing into constance’s room in her impetuous way one day, she demanded: “connie, when knights used to fight for their ladies, ever ever so long ago, what did they call them?—the knights i mean.”
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“do you mean knight errant?” asked constance, looking up to smile at the eager little girl.
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“knight errant? knight errant?” repeated jean, doubtfully. “no, somehow that doesn’t fit him. i couldn’t call him that, it’s too long.”
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“call whom, jean?” constance began to wonder what was simmering in this little sister’s head.
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“mr. stuyvesant. he calls me ‘little sister,’ and i want a name for him.”
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“do you think mother would approve of your calling him by a nickname?”
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“’tisn’t going to be a nickname; it’s going to be a love name for him, just like his for me is,” was jean’s curious distinction.
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“oh!” the tone did not imply deep conviction.
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“now, connie, you don’t understand at all. you think i’m going to be—be—, well, you don’t think i’m respectful, but i am. i don’t know anyone that i feel more respectfuller to than mr. stuyvesant. he’s just lovely. only just plain mr. stuyvesant keeps him such a long way off, and he mustn’t be. mother has adopted him, you know, ’cause we all agreed to lend part of her to him. so i must have a homey name for him. what were the other names they gave those old knights?”
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“they were often called ‘champions of their fair ladies,’” answered constance, slipping her arm about jean and drawing her close to her side.
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“that’s it! that just suits him, doesn’t it? he was my champion the day jabe raulsbury turned old baltie out to die in the road, and he has been a heap of times since when i’ve got into scrapes. so that’s what i’m going to call him. he is down on the piazza talking with mother about the new fence, and i’m going right straight down to ask him if i may call him champion,” ended jean, delighted with her new acquisition and bounding away.
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“don’t interrupt mother,” warned constance, always a little doubtful of the outbreaks of the fly-away.
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hadyn stuyvesant had not only approved the name, but was delighted with the idea, and vowed from thenceforth to guard his “lady fair.” so “champion” he was from that moment on, and, long as the name was, it had clung. the three years had not lessened jean’s love for him or his devotion to her.
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as constance descended the stairs in quest of jean she met mammy at the foot.
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“is yo’ ma up in her room, baby?” she asked.
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“yes, mammy, and just finishing the marketing list. have you seen jean? it is high time she started for school.”
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“dat’s de livin’ truf, an’ it’s what i done tol’ her a’reddy, but she boun’ ter go out yonder to see dat hawse.”
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“then i’m bound to go out yonder after her,” laughed constance, as she ran briskly down the hall, passed through the door which led to the piazza and opened upon the lawn. there was no sign of jean, but constance crossed the velvety turf to the stable at the further side of the grounds, passing on her way the candy kitchen, and calling cheerily to mary willing, who was already busy within: “polly’s got her kettle on for our candee,” to be promptly answered by: “yes, and it’s a-boiling, if you will come and see.”
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“good! i will be there in just a minute. i’m hunting for jean.” a moment later she turned the corner of the stable and came upon jean and old baltie.
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“hello!” called jean, glancing up from pressing her cheek against one large satiny ear which she held against it.
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“thought i’d find you here, honey; but i’ve got to hustle you off to school. do you know what time it is?”
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“only half-past eight, and we’re having a beau-ti-ful time, aren’t we, baltie, dear?”
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“hoo-hoo-hoo!” fluttered the delicate nostrils. constance dropped down beside jean and ran her hand along the warm, sleek neck. another nicker acknowledged the caress, but the great horse did not stir. the clear morning sunshine flooded the paddock, baltie’s little kingdom, and filtered through the gorgeous sugar maples overhead. the air was clear and crisp, the ground dry as though night dews were unknown. off at the edge of the paddock a cricket shrilled his monotonous little song of the coming winter—a snug stable for the old horse and a warm fireside for his friends.
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“you really must go now, dear,” urged constance, rising to her feet after a final caress.
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“charles devon hadn’t been massa stark’s groom fer nothin’,” and she herself was a master hand at “mashargin” (mammy’s pronunciation of massaging), a course of treatment to which baltie had been most vigorously subjected, to the wonderful rejuvenation of his old bones and muscles.
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a horse, even in his most nimble days of colthood, does not rise from a prone position with any great degree of grace; yet baltie might have given points to some of his younger brethren. up came his head, the slender forefeet were braced, there was a mighty heave and hoist, and baltie stood upon all-fours, shaking clover leaves from his flanks.
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“now fly, jean! be sure to take the parcel for mrs. morgan. i’ll stop a moment with baltie to make your peace for your abrupt departure,” said constance, gayly, well knowing that jean’s leave-taking from her pet was usually a prolonged ceremony.
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away hurried the little girl, leaving the older sister to spend the ensuing five minutes with the old horse, who nozzled and fussed over her, as only a petted horse knows how.
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“now, old silent partner, i must run away and look after my forewoman and get busy myself. goodness, how the carruth family is developing! eleanor already offered a position at sunnymeade for next fall, my humble self a full-fledged business woman with a flourishing trade; jean junior partner with a private following of her own, and you, you dear, blind, faithful old creature, setting us all an example of faithfulness and devotion; mammy and charles the biggest hit of the whole establishment with their lunch counter, and yonder the little girl whom mother has made over brand new! no wonder i’m proud; no wonder i’m sometimes afraid my head will be turned by all our good fortune and success. keep me headed right, baltie. if you, without sight, can steer a straight course, surely i, with both my eyes to the good, ought to be able to. good-bye, dear,” and clasping her arms around the sleek, warm neck, constance stood perfectly still for a moment or two, her head pillowed upon the silky mane, her thoughts traveling rapidly back across the intervening years—years so full of effort, anxiety, hope, disappointment, love and faith. the one which was beginning with this october—for it was in october that she had begun her work four years before—was bidding fair to prove a crisis in all their lives. instinctively the girl felt this. girl in years, yes, but a little woman in executive ability, foresight and execution, withal, still sweet and true, and retaining her faith in her fellow-beings. never had she looked lovelier than at this moment standing there in the glorious october sunlight, her arms clasped about the big bay horse, her eyes shining with hope, health, courage, her cheeks glowing. she was dressed for her morning’s work, her gown a simple tan-colored linen with white collar, cuffs and belt, a soft tie of brown silk at her throat. she was good to look at this girl of nineteen, as she stood with such unstudied grace, the very personification of hope. presently, with a little start, she came back to a realization of things around her, and with a parting caress for the blind horse ran lightly from the paddock across the lawn to the little candy kitchen, and entered with a cheery greeting.
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when three years before, hadyn stuyvesant, the owner of the property rented by the carruths, had followed out constance carruth’s plans for a model kitchen in which she could make her candy, he was not a little surprised at the sixteen-year-old girl’s practical ideas. she asked him to build an extension to the little cottage at the end of the grounds occupied by mammy and charles, and had drawn the plans and specifications herself. the result was a marvel to him.
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the extension consisted of three rooms on the first floor and two on the second. upon entering the door one found one’s self in a good-sized room, with rubber-tiled floor all blue and white, the walls snowy in alabasterine. here on numberless white enameled shelves were placed the boxes of candy ready for shipment. from this attractive room opened the packing room, floor, walls and ceiling scrupulous. long zinc-covered tables ready for the pans of candy, little portable stands at hand to hold the boxes in which the candy was to be packed. perhaps the most practical feature of this packing room was the height of the tables, or more correctly their lack of height. constance had reason to know that one can be foot-weary after several hours spent in candy-making. consequently these packing tables were made low enough to enable those working at them to sit upon the comfortable bent-wood chairs while doing the work, which often required several hours, for not only had the candy to be packed in its pretty boxes, but the boxes had to be wrapped and tied with dainty ribbons. nothing must fall short of perfection.
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but the crowning point of constance’s practicability was shown in the actual kitchen itself. this was also tiled, but the tiles were of shining porcelain, washable, scrubable, scourable to the very limit. a big gas range stood at one side, near it hung pans, pots and kettles of every size and possible need, all of white enamel ware. a big porcelain sink and draining tray stood next. close at hand was a large table, its top of white marble warranted to withstand the hottest candy which could be poured upon it, to chill it quickly for handling or cutting, and to come forth from its boiling baptism immaculate under the alchemy of hot soapsuds.
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on the walls were great hooks, upon which to pull long ropes of molasses or cream candy. along another side of the kitchen were shelves to hold the hundred and one ingredients which were to be transformed into the most toothsome of dainties, and these were too numerous to name. a spacious closet held aprons, caps, towels, dish-cloths and what not, needed in the work.
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on the floor overhead, and reached by a quaint little stairway from the shipping room, was the stock room, where boxes, labels, wrapping paper, twine, and a hundred other needfuls were kept. in one corner a business-like roll-top desk, with still more business-like ledgers, told of the ability of this little lady to keep track of her finances. and room number five? ah, the eternal feminine! who says she must waive all claim to her womanly instincts, merge them in the coarser, less refined ones of the hurrying, struggling world around her when she sets out to be a bread-winner among her masculine contemporaries? if some do this, constance carruth was not to be numbered among them, and no better proof of it could have been offered than the “fifth wheel to her business wagon,” as she laughingly called room number five. that little room is worthy of minute description.
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certainly the girl, bending over the big saucepan, stirring its boiling contents, felt that her little paradise had been gained when she changed from the bustling, rushing arcade to the peace, tranquillity and refinement of her present surroundings. the accident which short-circuited the switchboard wires in the telephone booth that eventful labor day had brought to mary willing, even at the cost of a good deal of physical suffering, present advantages and an outlook for the future such as she had never pictured. indeed, her horizon had been much too circumscribed for her imagination to reach so far. it needed the influence and environment of the past three years to make her fully appreciate the vast difference between the acquisitions which mere dollars can command, and those which true refinement of heart, mind, soul and body hold as invaluable and indeprivable heritages. possibly the best proof that she had taken the lesson to heart lay in the fact that “pearl” willing had completely dropped out of the world’s ken, and in her stead, quiet, dignified mary willing moved and had her being. unconsciously mrs. carruth had undertaken to solve a knotty, sociological problem, but the results already obtained seemed to justify her belief that she was right in her estimate of this girl. at all events she had reason to be sanguine of ultimate success in bending a hitherto neglected twig. it needed courage, however, upon mrs. carruth’s part to undertake this reformation. from her childhood, to her nineteenth year mary willing’s environment had been, if not demoralizing, certainly detrimental to a higher development in any girl. her associates were coarse, boisterous, heedless girls, without the faintest sense of the fitness of things, or the first rudiments of refinement. to earn enough money to clothe themselves in shoddy finery, to contribute as small a percentage of their earnings to the family purse as possible, and to have as much “fun,” never mind at whose expense, or at what sacrifice of their own dignity, bounded their aims and ambitions. and mary willing had seen no reason for not following in their footsteps. handsomer than any of her companions, and holding a position where her personal charms were conspicuous for all who passed to comment upon them, she had used them to attract the attention of those whom she thought likely to contribute to her pleasure.
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to make her more self-conscious, and senselessly pave the way to greater evil, her mother had continually urged her to make the most of her good looks while she had them, assuring her that unless she managed to “catch a rich husband with her handsome face she needn’t hope to get one at all.”
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was it any wonder the girl grew up vain, shallow, and with standards poorly calculated to withstand temptations if offered opportunely? still, there was a certain something in her which, up to her nineteenth year, had saved her from anything worse than shallow flirtations; and then when everything seemed conspiring to lead her to more serious consequences of her folly, fate had established close at her side a personality and atmosphere in such contrast to her own, and all she had ever known, that it acted as a dash of cold water acts upon a sleepwalker. at first she was startled, then roused, and finally thoroughly wakened to the perilous path she was following.
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but the strangest part of it all lay in the fact that the individual which capricious dame fate had used as her instrument never for one moment suspected that she was being used at all, but continued on her sweet, cheery, sunny way entirely unconscious of her responsibilities. perhaps therein lay her greatest strength. then came the accident on the river, and mrs. carruth, quick to read and comprehend, found a field for the sweetest missionary work a woman can enter upon—that of shaping the life of a young girl for the noblest position to which she can attain—a refined young womanhood, a beautiful wifehood, and a motherhood as perfect as god will give her grace to make it. mary willing could hardly have found a more beautiful example, and the three years had wrought miracles.
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mrs. carruth had made haste slowly. the first year mary willing entered upon her duties in the candy kitchen she went and came daily, learning and applying herself with all the enthusiasm her gratitude to those she so admired and strove to emulate inspired. the relations between the girl and constance were those of valued employee and respected employer. it could not have been otherwise. mary had a vast deal to unlearn, the hardest of all things to accomplish, and when old impressions were effaced to begin an entirely new page. gradually as time passed on the girl grew into her new environment. old habits of manner and speech gave way to gentler ones, old viewpoints shifted to those of these good friends, who had risen up at such a crucial point in her life and were fitting her to be a little woman in the truest sense. in the course of the three years just passed she and constance had grown closer to each other. the latter, quick to see the former’s sincere desire to improve, and take advantage of every opportunity to do so, felt the keenest sympathy for her less fortunate sister, and the strongest desire to aid her. mary’s aim and ambition was to grow “just exactly like constance carruth! the dearest, best and loveliest girl that ever lived,” as she confided to her mother. the greatest obstacle to be overcome was the unhappy influence in mary willing’s own home life. it sometimes seemed to mrs. carruth that whatever good they accomplished in the five and a half working days of the week was entirely undone during the one day and a half which the girl spent in the hurly-burly, the untidiness and hopeless shallowness of her own home, to say nothing of the coarsening influence of a worthless, dissipated father’s presence. mrs. carruth believed that mary willing had naturally been endowed with instincts far above the average of her class, though from what source inherited she could not understand, and that all needed to develop them was a more wholesome atmosphere, wise guiding, and, of course, separation from former contaminating influences. but she bided her time and, when least expecting to do so, discovered the secret. at length, when she felt the moment to be ripe, she suggested most tactfully that mary come to live with them, to occupy the little room which had once been mammy’s, but, since her marriage to charles, and her removal to the snug cottage adjoining the candy kitchen, had been newly decorated and furnished for what jean, in her characteristic fashion, termed “the left-overs;” “left-overs” being any extra guest who might claim the hospitality of the family when the other guest room was occupied. it was a pretty little room, up in the third floor at the rear of the house, and overlooked the lawn, the candy kitchen, mammy’s cottage, and the rolling country beyond owned by jabe raulsbury. it had been papered in the softest green paper, with garlands of pink roses as a border. the floor was carpeted with a deeper shade of ingrain filling, upon which lay two pretty rugs in pink and green. dimity curtains, looped back with chintz bands, draped the windows. the furniture was of white enamel, with plain white iron bedstead. cushions and coverings, as well as table and bureau scarfs, were of the chintz, edged with inexpensive lace—the bedspread of snowy white. had the room been designed for mary willing’s rich coloring it could hardly have suited her more perfectly. but it had not; fate was simply working out her scheme not only in color but in influence. how great the influence of that simple little room would prove not even mrs. carruth suspected, although she was a firm believer in the influence of one’s surroundings.
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when mrs. carruth suggested that mary remain with them in order to be at hand whenever needed in an emergency, and to avoid during the cold, stormy days of winter the long trip to and from her own home, the girl had responded with an eagerness which touched mrs. carruth very deeply. “and if i come here to live you must let me pay my board,” she cried, impulsively. then, noticing the color which crept into the older woman’s face, she hastened to add, contritely: “oh, dear me! shall i ever learn how to say things? i’m—i’m so—i mean i know so little. please forgive me, mrs. carruth. i didn’t stop to think how rude that was. i ought to have said you must not pay me such a large salary if you let me live here. i know that no amount of money that i could earn could pay my board. i’ve learned that much, you see, even if i don’t seem to have learned very much more during the last two years. but i’m truly, truly trying hard to learn.”
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“i know it, dear. perhaps i am over-sensitive. old instincts are hard to overcome. no, i do not think we will change the salary. constance had already thought of increasing the sum she is now paying you, for you earn it. work has increased rapidly during these two years, and you are very proficient, and very valuable to her.”
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“oh, i am so glad! i want so much to be.”
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“you are; so live here with us, and let the little room and the ‘bread and salt’ stand as a part of your salary.”
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mary willing had never had occasion to enter this room, and when constance led her to it upon the day she took up her residence with them, the girl stopped short upon the threshold, clasped her hands in a little ecstacy of rapture, and cried: “i’ll live up to every single thing in it, for only a gentlewoman could have arranged such a room, and only a gentlewoman has any right to live in it. it just speaks of that dear, blessed little mother of yours from every corner, and from every single rose on the paper and the chintz; and if i don’t live to make her proud of me i shall want to know why.”
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the busy bees.
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“i’m afraid the head of the firm is very late this morning,” cried constance, merrily, as she entered the candy kitchen. mrs. carruth had long since given it the name of the bee-hive.
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“i think the head of the firm has earned the right to arrive late if she wishes to,” answered mary willing, glancing backward over her shoulder as she stood before the gas range. her arms were bared to the elbows, for the waist she wore was made with short sleeves, in order to give her perfect freedom in her work. they were beautiful arms, strong, well-rounded and smooth as ivory.
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“no, indeed, the head of the firm is a far cry from such indulgences, let me tell you. she has just heaps and loads to accomplish before she can arrive at such luxuries. but how goes the candy, mary? are you ready for me yet?”
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“not quite; but i shall be in just a few minutes. see, it is beginning to rope,” was the reply as the candy-maker lifted a spoonful of the boiling syrup and let it run back into the kettle, the last drop falling from the spoon quickly forming into little threads, which wavered in the hot air rising from the range.
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“better begin beating it now, and let me pop in the nuts; then we’ll pour it off,” answered constance, her practiced eye quick to see that another moment’s boiling might undo a morning’s work.
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“well, you’re the boss! oh, i beg your pardon, miss constance, i didn’t mean that! i mean you’re—” and the girl paused in confusion, her face coloring a deeper red than the heat and her work had brought there.
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“i’ll make believe i didn’t hear,” answered constance, a softer light filling her eyes in place of the pained one which for a little instant had crept into them, as a cloud can cast a momentary shadow upon a wind-swept, shining october sea.
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“you have to make believe so many times,” answered the girl, contritely, as she lifted the kettle from the range, and placing it upon the marble table, began to beat vigorously.
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“not nearly so often as i used to,” answered constance, emptying into the kettle a great dish of walnuts. mary again beat vigorously with her big spoon, shaking her head doubtfully the while. constance did not look at her, but, arming herself with a large knife, guided the candy into the little grooves which would shape it as it was poured upon the table from the tilted kettle. one end of the table had been blocked out like a checkerboard, each inch square lined for cutting the candy accurately.
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“now watch me do my stunt,” she cried, standing with knife suspended over the fast chilling candy, and smiling up at the tall girl at her side.
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“do you forgive my—my—oh, the things i’m forever saying that must feel just like a file drawn over your teeth? if you only knew how hard it is to forget old ways and words and learn the better ones!”
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“do you see that little motto over there?” asked constance, pointing with her poised knife to a card, one of several hanging upon the wall of the kitchen. the one toward which she pointed was in dark blue letters upon a white ground. it read: “forget it!”
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“yes, that is just exactly what i am forever doing,” was mary’s petulant reply. “if i didn’t forget all the time i’d never have to forget at all, and if that isn’t the finest bit of irish you’ve ever heard, please improve on it if you can.”
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the laughter which floated out through the open door greeted mrs. carruth as she entered the packing room.
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“may i share the joke?” she asked. “i’m sure it must be a good one, and rich as the odors floating out to tempt nose and palate. cut it quickly, honey; i know it must be chilled enough and it does smell so good. mary, you are a master hand. m—mm—m! a veritable lump of delight, though still slightly warm,” she ended as constance dropped into her mouth a square of the nut fudge she had just cut from the great mass covering the table.
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“sit down, mumsey, dear, and be good, consequently happy, while we work like beavers. how does it chill so rapidly? quick! mary, you cut at that end while i work at this. we’ve pounds and pounds to get done this morning if we are to fill all the orders.”
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for a few moments only the swift swish of the great knives as they cut the candy could be heard, now and again one girl or the other catching up a square upon the end of her knife and pausing just long enough to offer it to mrs. carruth. presently all was cut, and as it lay cooling they set to work upon the next batch to be made, mary cleaning the fudge kettle while constance got out another for the walnut creams. each kind of candy had its special cooking utensils, and no others were ever used for it. in a few minutes constance had a second batch of candy bubbling upon her range, ready to turn over to mary when she should have finished washing the kettles and other articles used in making the fudge.
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“i came out to be useful; may i prove it?” asked mrs. carruth.
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“just sit and watch us work. that helps,” answered mary, as she relieved constance.
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“will you be just a heap happier if i let you help wrap the fudge in paraffin paper?” asked constance as she nestled her head for a moment in her mother’s neck. “eh? will you? you busy body. why can’t you let us do all the work and so win all the glory? i suspect you’re a terribly selfish mother; yes, i do. you needn’t protest. you won’t even let your girls, real own ones or adopted ones, make their sticky marks in this world in peace. you must come poking out here to buzz around in the hive and beg honey.”
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“i don’t have to beg, for it is voluntarily given,” laughed mrs. carruth, kissing the soft cheek so close to her lips. “this kind i mean, and i know of none sweeter.”
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“gross flattery! now i know you are scheming, so ’fess right off,” cried constance, whirling around to peer into her mother’s face, and break into a merry laugh.
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mrs. carruth pursed up her lips into a derisive pucker, and looked into the merry eyes of this sunshiny daughter.
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“and if i am, what then?” she asked.
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“shoo along in there and get busy if you must, and while you are getting sticky enough to satisfy even yourself, you will tell me what is simmering. and mind, mary can hear, too; so if it is too anarchistic she will come to the rescue. oh, you can’t do as you used to. whyfor do i make candy by the pounds innumerable? whyfor do i send it to tickle many palates? whyfor do i take in dollars galore? all, all to keep you from running off on some wild project whereby you shall earn as many more dollars to my utter undoing, lost glory and disgrace appalling to contemplate in a girl who has a tendency to grow fat—yes, fat!”
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as she rattled on with her nonsense constance worked busily getting out her paraffin paper, the necessary boxes and the dainty ribbons with which to tie them. then seating herself beside her mother, who was already busy wrapping the fudge in its little squares of paraffin, she began packing the candy in its boxes.
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“now, what is it?” she asked, looking quizzically into the sweet, lovable face. mrs. carruth laughed a low, little laugh as she asked: “why are you so sure that it is anything?”
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“i know the signs. they have periodical simmerings, sort of seismic rumblings, so to speak,” nodded constance, working swiftly.
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“i feel such a drone in a busy hive—” began mrs. carruth, then hesitated.
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“i knew it! mary, it has bubbled to the surface again,” constance called into the kitchen, where brisk footsteps testified to the occupant’s industry.
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“shall i come to your rescue?” was the laughing question.
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“alas for consistency!” interrupted mrs. carruth, derisively. “a moment ago you assured me you were growing fat. that scores me one, and entitles me to have my little say-so and hold my own against this conspiracy of—how many shall i say? six. yes, think of the outrageous odds brought against one weak woman.”
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“weak! weak! why, it requires all the energy and shrewdness the combined force can bring to bear upon her to keep her within bounds, doesn’t it, mary?”
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“and we don’t always do it then,” was the bantering reply.
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“no, we do not,” was the emphatic agreement. “neither mammy, charles, eleanor, jean, hadyn, you, nor i can feel sure that we have settled her vaulting ambitions at once and for all time. is your candy ready for me yet?—don’t need me? very well, i’ll keep at this job, then; it’s a co-operative job, and the hardest part of it is to hold down my rival. there, those boxes are all packed, and now, madame busy-body, i’m ready to listen. no, you are not going to tie bows while you talk, it gives you too great an advantage. look right straight into my eyes, and while you confess your desires to transgress you shall keep up a sub-conscious train of thought along this line: ‘this is my second daughter, constance blairsdale carruth. she is past nineteen years of age. she weighs one hundred and eighteen pounds. she still possesses all her faculties unimpaired. is endowed (i hope!) with the average degree of intelligence and common sense. she has never been ill a day in her life (whistle and knock wood when you think that), and she is taking mighty good care of the health she enjoys. she has been at work four years transmuting syrups and sugars into dollars and cents, in which undertaking she has met with rather amazing success, and is going to meet with even greater. her plan is to make one dear, blessed little mother quite independent, and—please god—(these words were spoken in a mere whisper)—she will compass it. now, are you going to let her do all this quite untrammeled, or are you going to worry her by suggesting all manner of wild plans for doing things for yourself?”
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constance had risen from her chair while speaking, and dropped upon her knees before her mother to clasp her arms about her waist and look into the face she loved best on earth. the girl’s expression was half grave, half merry, though wholly sweet and winning.
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mrs. carruth took the upraised face in both her hands, bent toward it, rested her lips upon the soft, silky hair, and said gently:
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“dear heart, dear heart; my dauntless little daughter. yes, you are doing all and far more than you have said, and that is exactly the reason i wish to contribute my share. can’t you see, dear, that i feel such a dull, dull drone in this busy hive?”
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“dull?—when you keep the hive in such running order that we never even suspect where the machinery which runs it is located. dull?—when you keep our home as charming in every detail as it was when you had ample means at your command to conduct it. dull?—when you are here every moment as its sweet and gracious head to make it such a home as few know in this northern world, where homes for the most part mean simply a roof to cover one, and under which food is served three times daily. mother, can’t you see and feel what you are doing for us girls? how you are surrounding us with an atmosphere so beautiful, so exceptional in these days of hurry and bustle that its influence must bide with us all our days and remain a dear memory all our lives? we may leave it sooner or later, other duties may call us away, but nothing, nothing can ever deprive us of all this—” constance raised one arm to sweep it comprehensively over the room in which they sat and all-embracingly beyond. “so please let all rest as it is. let nonnie work away at college, and later—” here a merry twinkle filled the girl’s eyes—“let her, well, let her take up the co-ed plan, if she likes. things seem shaping that way if the signs can be trusted. let me boil a way to fame and fortune. let jean—if fate so decrees—though by the same token i’ve a notion she won’t, follow in nonnie’s footsteps. alack! jean’s energies do not point toward the campus of —— college. i misdoubt,” and constance smiled. then, turning serious again, she resumed: “will you promise me something?”
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“will you first listen to my little plan?” was her mother’s counter question.
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“yes, i’ll listen.”
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“you know how i delight in fancy work, dear, and there is such a field for embroidery and other kinds i do so well. the woman’s exchange, you know.”
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“you may do all you want to—yards, pounds, dozens, heaps—however it is described—but you must do it for our home, not other people’s. i’ll tell you what you may do, all against the coming climax, for it is coming, you mark my words: you begin right now and make dozens of the daintiest pieces of underwear imaginable—”
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“oh, constance!” cried mrs. carruth, reproachfully, the softest rose creeping into her cheeks.
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“connie, connie, this is dreadful!”
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“may be,” answered constance, wagging her head dubiously; “but i’m afraid we must resign ourselves to it. mercy only knows how she will come home at thanksgiving. i believe he is to meet her. i’m prepared for a box car or even a flat car. yes, it is dreadful, you are quite right. wonder how it will affect me if i ever succumb? but take my advice, get busy, mumsey, and, dear, remember this—” swiftly the tone changed from the jesting one to the tenderest as the girl rested her head upon her mother’s shoulder: “you represent home to us girls. without you it would be the harp without its strings, the organ without its pipes. it would disintegrate. keep it for us. try to feel that you are doing far more in our busy hive by just being our queen bee than you ever could by going abroad in the land to gather the honey. let us do that, and remember this—i read it not long ago and i’ll never forget it:—
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“‘the beautiful gracious mother, wherever she places her chair, in the kitchen (this one) or the parlor, the center of home is there.’
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“ready for me in there, mary? mother is perishing for occupation, and i’ve scolded her as much as i dare,” and, with a tender kiss upon her mother’s cheek, the girl ran swiftly into the next room.
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mammy makes investigations.
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“bress de lord, we ain’t got ter run no counter on thanksgiving day!” was mammy’s fervent exclamation, as she rose from her bed on the monday preceding thanksgiving day. hurrying across the room she opened the draughts in the little stove, for charles’ rheumatic twinges must not be aggravated by the sudden chill of rising from a warm bed to dress in a cold room. the fire had been carefully covered the night before, and now, replenished by a few shovelfuls of coal, and a vigorous shake of the revolving grate, was soon snapping and roaring right comfortably. the rattling had served more than one end, as had the clatter made by putting on the fresh fuel. although mammy had no idea of permitting her spouse to contract a cold from dressing in a cold room, she, on the other hand, saw no reason why he should indulge in over-many morning winks after she, herself, had risen and begun the duties of the day.
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“eh? um, yas, honey,” came in somnolent tones from the billows of feathers in which charles’ shiny bald pate, with its fringe of snowy wool, was nearly buried. mammy could not abide the new-fangled hair mattresses, but clung tenaciously to her bygone ideas of “real downright comfort fer a body dat’s clar beat out when de day’s done. no, sir-ee! don’t talk ter me ob dese hyar ha’r mattresses. i ain’t got a mite er use fer ’em needer has charles, if i ses-so. give me de suah ’nough fedders wid de down on ’em; none ob yo’ hawse ha’r stuffed bags. de fedders fits wherever dey teches, ’an snugs up mighty soft on de achy spots, but dose highfalutin’ h’ar mattresses,—well, dey jest lak dese hyar norf folks we meet up wid: ef yo’ kin fit dem, well an’ good, yo’s all right, but does yo’ t’ink dey’s gwine ter try fer ter fit yo’? go ’long, chile.”
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consequently the bed, which stood in the bedroom of the little cottage in which mammy and charles lived, boasted a feather bed, the like of which for downiness and size was rarely seen. it had been made by mammy herself of the downiest of feathers, plucked by her own hand from the downiest of her own geese, hatched under her own critical eyes when she was a young woman on her old master’s plantation. it had taken many geese, many days, much drying and curing to achieve such a triumph; and the “baid” was mammy’s most cherished possession. the airings, sunnings, beatings and renovatings to which it had been subjected during the years she had owned it would have totally wrecked any less perfect article of household economy; but it had survived all, and each morning, after its prescribed hours of airing, was “spread up” into a most imposing mound, covered with a “croshey” spread, made by the sanctified hands of “ol’ miss” (mrs. carruth’s mother), and still further adorned by “piller shams,” made by “miss jinny” herself.
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more than one of mrs. carruth’s guests had been conducted through mammy’s cottage by its proud inmate, and the “baid” and its coverings displayed with justifiable pride.
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“yas, wake up!” commanded mammy, making her own toilet with despatch. “we’s got a pile o’ wo’k ter do terday, an’ i’se gotter see dat dose no count nigger gals what’s a-pertendin’ ter do miss jinny’s wo’k now-a-days gits a move on ’em. dey pesters me mightily, dough i ain’t let ’em ’spect it, i tells yo’. ef i did dey’d jes nachelly climb right ober de house an’ ebery las’ pusson in it. but i knows how ter han’le ’em ef miss jinny don’t. she t’ink she gwine do it jes lak she useter back yonder on her pa’s plantation, but it don’ do up hyar. trouble is wid dese hyar norf niggers dey ain’ know dey is niggers, and dey gits mighty mix in dey minds twell somebody come along and tells ’em jest ’zackly what dey is, an’ whar dey b’longs at. i done tol’ dem two in yonder, an’ i reckon dey’s learnt a heap since i done took ’em in han’. yas, i does. dey don’ come a-splurgin’ an’ a-splutterin’ roun’ me no mo’ wid dey, ‘dis hyar ain’ ma juty. i ain’ ’gaged fer ter do dat wuk.’ my lawd! i come pretty nigh bustin’ dat lilly may’s haid las’ week when i tell her ter do sumpin’ an’ she say dat ter me. she foun’ out what her juty was, an’ she ain’t fergit it again, i tell yo’. now come ’long down, charles, i gwine have brekfus ready befo’ yo’ get yo’ wool breshed,” and off hurried the old woman to begin the routine of her more than busy day.
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the clock was striking five when charles came slowly down the stairs and entered the immaculate kitchen. the past three years have dealt kindly with the old couple in spite of their incessant labors. mammy has not changed in the least. charles is a trifle more bent, perhaps, but the three years have certainly not detracted from the old man’s appearance, nor have they robbed him of any strength. indeed, he seems in better health and physical condition than upon the day he celebrated his golden wedding. mammy has made up for the lost years by caring for him as she would have cared for a child.
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the business which they started in the arcade has flourished and prospered beyond their wildest hopes. charles still holds the honorary position of “janitor-in-chief” at the arcade, a sinecure in every sense of the word excepting one; he keeps the acting janitor up to the high mark in the performance of his duties, greatly to mr. porter’s amusement. he also keeps the dapper mulatto youth, who now serves at the lunch counter headed due north. to that young man charles is “mr. devon,” of the firm of “blairsdale & devon.”
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at the cottage mammy still cooks, bakes, preserves and concocts with all her wonderful skill, assisted by a little colored girl, the eldest of those whom jean impressed upon mammy’s wedding day.
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oh, mammy is a most important personage these days.
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breakfast over in the little cottage, and it was a breakfast fit for a king, mammy began issuing her orders like a general, and charles lived only to obey.
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“here, put on yo’ coat! what’s de use ob my rubbin’ yo’ shoulder wid linnimint ef yo’ gwine right spang out dis here warm kitchen inter de chill ob de mawnin’ widout wroppin’ up? laws-a-massy, it tek mos’ de whole endurin’ time ter keep you from doin’ foolishnesses, i clar it do.”
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charles chuckled delightedly. it was, on the whole, rather flattering to be so cherished and looked after as he had been during the last three years. poor old soul, those he had spent alone had been barren enough of care or comforts.
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“you needn’t ter snort dat-a-way,” protested his dominating wife. “i’s only jes’ a-watchin’ out fer my own sake. i’se got a sight ter do ’sides nussin’ rheumatics an’ tekin’ keer sick folks wid a misery in dey backs.”
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“honey, yo’s a wonder. yas, yo’ is,” was charles’ parting rejoinder, as he toddled off to the duties, which to him, as well as to mammy, were labors of love. before many minutes had passed the little candy kitchen was snug and warm for its mistress, and then the old man made his way to the “gre’t house,” as he and mammy, true to earlier customs, always called the home which sheltered their white folks. mammy had already finished her own household tasks and met him at the door. together they entered the silent house, their key making not the slightest sound, lest they disturb the sleeping inmates. the maids now in mrs. carruth’s service did not sleep in the house, but came at seven each morning, and woe betide the tardy one! mammy was always on hand, and her greeting was governed by the moment of the said damsel’s arrival. there were a few duties, however, which mammy would permit no other than herself to perform. she must see that the breakfast table was properly laid, the breakfast under way and the rooms dusted, aired and warmed before she stole softly upstairs to call her “chillern.” then she turned all over to her dusky satellites, and at once became grand high potentate and autocrat.
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it was a few minutes past seven when she entered mrs. carruth’s room with a cheery “mawnin’, honey. ’spose ef i lets yo’ sleep any longer yo’ gwine give me sumpin’ i ain’t cravin’ fer ter git. cyant fer de life er me see why yo’ boun’ ter git up dese mawnin’s. why won’ yo’ let me bring up yo’ tray, honey?” said the good old soul, moving softly about the room, raising the window shades and turning on the valve of the radiator.
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“because i have all i can do as it is to keep you and the girls from spoiling me completely,” returned mrs. carruth, as she rose from her bed and stepped into the adjoining bathroom, where mammy already had her bath prepared.
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“well, it’s de biggest job we-all ever is tackled,” insisted the old woman, as she placed a chair before the dressing table and took from the closet the garments mrs. carruth would need for the day. since sunnier times had come to this home mammy had fallen back into old habits. the “chillern,” as she called eleanor, constance and jean, were called before their mother was awakened, but “miss jinny” claimed her undivided attention, and it would have nearly broken mammy’s loving old heart had mrs. carruth denied her this privilege, so long made impossible by the strenuous days and manifold duties following upon the misfortunes which succeeded mr. carruth’s death.
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the delight of mammy’s life was to assist at her “miss jinny’s” toilet, as she had done in her mistress’ girlhood days—to brush and arrange the still abundant hair, and to hand her a fresh handkerchief and say, as she had said to the young girl years ago:
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“gawd bless yo’, honey! yo’ is as sweet as de roses dis mawnin’.”
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when all was completed to her satisfaction, and mrs. carruth was about to leave the room, mammy remarked, with well-assumed indifference:
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“i ’spose dat lilly done got miss nonnie’s room all fix jes right, but i reckons i better cas’ ma eyes ober it; cyant trus’ dese girls wid no ’sponserbility, nohow.”
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“i think everything is in perfect order, mammy, but i dare say you will feel happier if you give those little touches which you alone can give. eleanor will recognize them and be happier because you gave them. it will be a joy to us all to have her back again, won’t it, although she has not been away so very long after all.”
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“no’m, she ain’t. how long she gwine be wid us dis time?”
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“not quite a week, mammy. she will reach here this afternoon and must leave us early saturday; thanksgiving holidays are short ones. we shall have her longer at christmas, then we will count the days till easter, and after that to june, when we will have her for a long, long holiday, and college days will be ended.”
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“m’m-u’m,” nodded mammy, drawing the coverings from the bed and laying them carefully over chairs to air. “spec she’ll find dat trip down from up yonder mighty tiresome. trabblin’ all alone is sort of frazzlin’.”
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“she is hardly likely to travel alone. mammy. so many of her college mates will be journeying the same way, and even if they were not, she will be pretty sure to meet mr. forbes; he was obliged to run up to springfield on saturday and expects to return to-day. they may meet on the same train.”
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mammy was looking out of the window. it would have made very little difference had she been facing mrs. carruth. her face was absolutely inscrutable, as she answered:
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“’spec dat would save miss nonnie a heap ob trouble. yas’m, mebbe dey will meet up wid one anoder.”
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mrs. carruth went upon her way to the breakfast room. mammy had learned all she wished to know.
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at four o’clock that afternoon miss jean carruth was perched upon her point of vantage, from which every object approaching her home could be descried. it was not a particularly easy point to reach, but that only added to its attraction; nobody else was likely to choose it. nearly everyone sought the terrace, the piazza, or the upper windows in preference to the stable roof, even though the stable roof boasted a delightful assortment of gables and dormer windows, to say nothing of a broad gutter, around which one could prance at the imminent risk of a header to the ground, at least twelve feet below. in the golden haze of that mellow november afternoon, for autumn lingered late this year, jean sat curled up in her corner, her chin resting in her palms, and her wonderful eyes fixed upon the road leading up the hill to her home. it was in reality more street than road, but was nearly always mentioned as the “hill road,” owing to its contrast to the broader highway from which it branched and zig-zagged up the hill to the more sparsely settled section of riveredge. the watcher commanded all its length. presently the shining eyes lighted up with a queer, half-delighted, half-defiant expression. far down the road a vehicle was approaching; it was one of the railroad station surreys, and in it were seated two people, besides the driver: two people quite oblivious to all the rest of the world, if one could judge by their absorbing interest in each other, for the keen eyes watching them could discern this, even from their owner’s distance from the surrey.
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“um.” the utterance might be interpreted almost any way. then, “now, i dare say, we’ve got to have him here all this evening, and all to-morrow, and all the next day, and all every day; and i don’t want him around every single minute. my goodness, it was bad enough before nonnie left for —— college; we never could get a single word in edgeways. i wonder if he’s going to board here? i used to like him when he just came to see us all, but now he’s tickled to death if everybody’s engaged when he shows up; everybody but nonnie. i reckon i’ve got to take things in hand. nonnie’s only twenty-one, and he’s, he’s? i do believe he’s about forty-one, though i never could get him to tell. but it doesn’t make any difference! he’s too old for nonnie, and i’m not going to let him have her,” was the emphatic conclusion to this monologue, as jean scrambled to her feet and gave a defiant nod toward the vehicle, which had just drawn up in front of the carriage block. at that moment mrs. carruth and constance hurried down the steps to greet the new arrivals. evidently the welcome accorded the masculine member of the party aroused a keen sense of resentment in jean, and some manner of outlet for her feelings became imperative. physical exercise was her usual safety-valve, and in this instance she chose one which had on former occasions proved effective, and more than once brought mammy to the verge of nervous prostration, and the dire prophecy that “sooner or later dat chile gwine brek her neck.” as before stated, the gutter was wide, it was also a stoutly constructed one of galvanized iron, but it had not been designed for a promenade, much less a running track for athletic training. nevertheless, it had to serve as one this time, for jean started running around it as though bent upon its destruction, or her own. it came near proving her own, for just as homer forbes was placing a couple of suit cases upon the piazza he chanced to catch sight of the prancing demoiselle, and with a shout of: “great josephus! are you courting sudden death?” made a wild dash for the stable.
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with a defiant skip, jean made for the other side at top speed, lost her balance, slipped, and the next second was hanging suspended by her arms between earth and sky. had she not been lithe as a cat she never could have saved herself. forbes was nearly petrified.
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“hang on! confound it, what took you up there, anyway?” he cried, with no little asperity, as the others hurried across the lawn to the trapeze performer’s rescue.
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“drop nothing!” was the very un-savant like retort. “you’ll break both your legs. hold on till i can get up there,” and the would-be rescuer darted within the stable.
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how she managed it no one could quite grasp, but there was a flutter of skirts, a swing, and jean was in a little heap upon the soft turf. springing lightly to her feet and dusting the grass from her palms, she said:
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“hello, nonnie! i got him out of the way long enough to hug you without having him watch how it’s done. reckon he’ll learn soon enough without me to teach him. come on into the house, quick. he’ll find out that i’m not killed when he looks out of the window.”
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if mrs. carruth seemed resigned, constance quite convulsed and eleanor unduly rosy, jean seemed oblivious of those facts.
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with the happier outlook resulting from constance’s success in her candy-making, it had been deemed advisable to send jean to the private school from which eleanor had graduated. consequently, that autumn jean had been enrolled among its pupils, and her place in the public school at which she and constance had been pupils knew her no more, and jean was much divided in her mind as to whether she was made happier or otherwise by the change. in the old school were many friends whom she loved dearly, and whom she missed out of her daily life. in the new one was her boon companion, amy fletcher, and also a number of the girls whom she constantly met in the homes of her mother’s friends. but jean was a loyal little soul, and her interest in her fellow-beings a lively one. she could hardly have been her mother’s daughter otherwise. naturally in the public school were many children from the less well-to-do families of riveredge, and not a few from those in very straitened circumstances. among the latter were three girls very near jean’s own age. they were sisters, and were ambitious to complete the grammar school course, in order to fit themselves for some employment. there were other children older and other children younger; in fact, there seemed to be no end to the children in the hodgeson family, a new one arriving upon the scene with the punctuality of clockwork. this fact had always disturbed jean greatly.
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“i’m afraid not, dear. perhaps we had better ask some other friends if they have a carriage they no longer need.”
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“oh, no, don’t! please, don’t! if you do, mrs. hodgeson will think she’s got to get a brand new baby to put into it, for the old babies wouldn’t match, you know. no, please, don’t.”
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“very well; we must let them get on with the old ones, both babies and carriage, i see,” mrs. carruth answered, much amused.
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“yes, i really would; but here is something that’s bothering me,” and jean snuggled close into the encircling arms of the big chair in which she and her mother sat for this twilight hour conference.
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“what are they going to do when thanksgiving day comes? no turkey on earth would be big enough to go ’round, even if they could buy one, which i don’t believe they can. i was talking to mrs. hodgeson about it just the other day, and she said she was afeered her man couldna buy one nohow this year; they was so terrible intortionate in the prices,” concluded jean, lapsing unconsciously into the slipshod mrs. hodgeson’s vernacular.
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“i think she must have meant extortionate,” corrected mrs. carruth.
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“perhaps she did; i don’t know. but i’ll bet five cents they won’t have a thing when the day comes around, and i think that’s awful.”
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“we are sending out a number of baskets from the church, and i have asked that one be sent to the hodgesons,” was mrs. carruth’s hopeful reply. it was not welcomed as she anticipated.
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“that won’t do a bit of good,” answered jean, with a dubious shake of her copper-tinted head. “not a single bit, for when mrs. hodgeson said she reckoned they’d have to get along without a turkey i said right off that i thought i could manage one all right, ’cause you could get one sent to her. my, but she got mad! and she told me she guessed she could get along without no charity turkey; that hodgeson always had managed to fill up the young ones somehow, and if he couldn’t do it on turkey this year he could do it on salt pork. ugh! wouldn’t that be awful? why, mammy won’t have salt pork near her except for seasoning use, as she calls it. no, we’ve got to do something else for those everlasting hodgesons.”
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mrs. carruth thought the term well applied, even though she did not say so; they were everlasting. but she was hardly prepared for jean’s solution of the problem with which she had seen fit to burden her youthful shoulders.
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mrs. carruth’s thanksgiving guests were hadyn stuyvesant and homer forbes. her table was laid for six, and a pretty table it was, suggestive in its decorations of the day. according to her southern traditions, the meal was ordered for two o’clock instead of the more fashionable hour favored by her northern friends. her guests had arrived, and charles, the very personification of the old family servitor, had just announced with all the elegance and mannerism of which he was capable:
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“de madam is sarved.”
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upon this day mammy had taken affairs strictly into her own hands. no one except herself should prepare her miss jinny’s thanksgiving dinner. the other servants might assist charles in serving it, but the actual preparation and cooking must be done by her own faithful hands. consequently all the marketing for this occasion had been personally looked to by mammy and charles. in their chariot of state, drawn by baltie, they had driven to south riveredge, selected every article, and carried it home in their own baskets. once that lordly turkey had been scientifically poked and pinched by her and met with approval, she was not going to let it out of her sight “an’ have no secon’-rater sont up to de house instid.” mammy had small faith in northern tradesmen. so to her cabin all had been sent, there to be prepared and cooked by her on “de fines’ range in de worl’!” as she confidently believed her own to be, and truly it was a wondrous feast which now stood ready for charles’ serving, the two maids to dart like shuttles between mammy’s cabin and the great house.
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it was hadyn stuyvesant who with graceful bow offered his arm to mrs. carruth, while homer forbes turned to the two girls. as she rose to accept hadyn’s arm mrs. carruth paused a moment, doubt and indecision in her eyes, and asked:
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“where is jean?”
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“she left the room just a short time ago, mother. shall i call her?” asked constance.
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“yes, do, dear. we will wait just a moment for you.”
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constance left the room, to return in two minutes with consternation written upon her face.
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“where is she and what—?” asked mrs. carruth, resignation to any possibility descending upon her.
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“she has just come in, mother, and—and—” the words ended in a laugh as constance collapsed upon a chair.
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“what is it, connie?” demanded eleanor. “what has jean done now?”
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“where’s my little sister?” asked hadyn. “you can’t make me believe she has broken all the laws of the medes and persians.”
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“no, not those old fogies, but, oh, dear, what do you suppose she has done?—invited, sans ceremony, victoria regina, mary stuart, and adelaide elizabeth hodgeson to dine with her!”
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“constance! never!” cried mrs. carruth.
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“she has. they are up in her room this very minute putting the finishing touches to their very unique toilets.”
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“go get ’em. fetch ’em on. we’ll entertain ’em right royally! i know that national bird is a bouncer, and big enough to feed a dozen hodgesons as well as all present,” was hadyn’s laughing command.
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“oh, hadyn, we can’t,” protested eleanor, whose dignity and sense of propriety were continually receiving slight jars from this friend of the household.
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“why not? it will be the experience of their lives—an education by practical illustration of manners polite. how can you hesitate, eleanor? i thought you were a strong advocate of settlement work, and here you are overlooking an opportunity sent to your very door. who was it i heard talking about ‘neglected opportunities’ not long since? a most edifying dissertation, if i recollect aright, too.”
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“i second the motion. such a zest to a meal may never again be offered. yes, mrs. carruth, you’ve got it to do. it is clearly a duty brought to your door,” added homer forbes. “moreover, it will give me a wonderful opportunity to pursue my psychological studies. didn’t know i was knee-deep in them, did you, eleanor? fact, however. human emotions as the direct result of unsuspected mental suggestion, etc. bring on your subjects, constance.”
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“i give in. do as you’ve a mind to, you incorrigible children, only bear this in mind—you are not to tease those girls and make them miserable. jean has made one wild break, but there shall be no more if i can prevent it. since she has brought them here, and you will dine with them, so be it; but you are not to tease them, you madcap men,” was mrs. carruth’s final dictum.
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“not a tease, not a smile out of order,” agreed hadyn, though his twinkling eyes half belied his words.
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“you just watch us entertain ’em,” insisted homer.
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“i’ll watch, you may be sure of that,” laughed mrs. carruth. “now fly, connie, and summon our unexpected guests.”
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we will pass over the oysters, which were disposed of as never before oysters had been, and the soup, which disappeared audibly. that dinner was a genuine southern one, and no item was lacking. at length arrived the critical moment when the bird of national fame should have appeared, but—didn’t. there was a long, ominous delay. charles bustled and fussed about, one eye upon his mistress, the other upon the pantry. no one noticed that jean’s conversational powers, never mediocre, were now phenomenal. she talked incessantly and as rapidly as a talking machine, albeit her listeners seemed to offer small encouragement for such a ceaseless flow of language. they sat with their eyes fastened to their plates—plates which would require very little scraping before washing. to and from pantry and dining room vibrated charles. the vegetables, relishes, jellies—in short, everything to be served with the turkey—was placed in tempting array upon the sideboard; but still no sign of the festive bird itself, and charles’ perturbation was increasing by the second. as on many another occasion it was mammy who supplied the climax. at this crucial moment she appeared in the doorway of the pantry, her eyes blazing, her face a thundercloud, as she stammered:
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“miss jin-n-n-ninny! m-m-iss jinny! please, ma’am, fergive me fer ’trudin’ in ’pon yo’ when yo’ is entertainin’; but ’tain’t lak dey was strangers, dey’s all ob de family, so to speak, ma’am” (mammy was too excited to notice that the cheeks of two individuals seated at that board had turned a rosy, rosy pink), “an’ i jes’ natchelly got to speak ma min’ or bus’—”
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“why, mammy, what has happened?” interrupted mrs. carruth, quite aware that mammy managed to find mares’ nests when others were unable to do so, but surprised by this one, nevertheless. mammy did not often overstep the lines set by convention; but on this occasion she certainly seemed tottery.
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“de bird! de tuckey! it’s gone! it’s done been stole right out ob ma wamin oven yonder. i done had it all cook to a tu’n, an’ set up in ma oven fer ter keep it jes’ ter de true livin’ p’int ob sarvin’, an den i run inter miss connie’s kitchen fer ter git some ob dem little frilly papers i need fer its laigs, an—an’ it mus’ ’a’ been stole whilst i was in dar, er else de very debbil hisself done fly away wid it right from unner ma nose, kase i ain’t been outer dat kitchen one single minnit since—not one!” emphasized mammy, with a wag of her turbaned head, her talking machine running down simply because her breath had given out.
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if poor mammy had needed anything to further outrage her feelings and put a climax to her very real distress, the roar which at that instant arose from two masculine throats would have been more than enough; but when homer forbes turned a reproachful face toward her and asked, “mammy blairsdale, do you mean to tell me that our goose—”
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“no, sah! no, sah! de tuckey!” corrected mammy instantly.
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“well, then, our turkey is cooked—”
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“cooked! cooked! ef it was only de cookin’ dat pestered me i wouldn’t be pestered,” was mammy’s hibernian reply. “it’s done been stole, sah! clean, cl’ar stole out ob ma kitchen.”
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“let’s go find the thief, forbes!” cried hadyn, casting his napkin upon the table and springing to his feet. “come on. mammy, whom do you suspect? which way shall we run? what must we do with him when we overhaul him?”
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“oh, yo’ jes’ a-projeckin, i knows dat all right, but i tells you dat bird ain’ got no ekal in dis town. i done supervise his p’ints masef, an’ he’s de best to be had. if yo’ wants to know who i thinks is got him, i thinks it’s a man what done stop at ma door when i was a-stuffin’ dat tucky early dis mawnin’. he was a tromp, an’ he ax me fer somethin’ ter eat. i ain’t ginnerly got no use fer tromps, but dis hyer was de thanksgivin’ mawnin’, an’ seem lak i couldn’t turn him away hungry.”
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“we’ll find him! come on, forbes! where’s that stout walking-stick, mrs. carruth? bring along the wheelbarrow for the remains, charles—of the turkey, i mean.”
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haydn was making for the door, forbes hard upon his heels, when jean darted to her mother’s side to draw her head toward her and whisper something into the listening ear. jean’s guests sat like graven images. constance and eleanor were ready to shriek at the absurdity of the situation.
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“hadyn, homer, come back! mammy, send in the quail pie and all the other good things you’ve prepared; we shall not starve. ladies and gentlemen, circumstances render explanations somewhat embarrassing at this moment. don’t be distressed, mammy. on with the feast, charles.
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“why? what? where? who?” were the words which rattled about mrs. carruth’s ears.
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mammy gave one glance at jean, who had returned to her seat. she had not been in this family sixty-eight years without arrogating a few prerogatives. then, but for mrs. carruth’s upraised hand, etna would have broken forth. but jean knew her hour of reckoning would come later. her conversational powers seemed to have suffered a reaction. her chair was next hadyn’s. as he returned to his place he bent low, slipped his arm about the subdued little figure, and asked in a tone which it would have been hard to resist:
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“little sister, what did you do with that turkey?”
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“rolled it in a big towel, put it in a basket, and carried it to the hodgesons’ with mother’s thanksgiving compliments, when i went after the girls. they wouldn’t eat a charity turkey, but a compliment turkey was different,” was whispered back in a voice suspiciously charged with tears.
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“i call you a trump!” then in a lower tone he turned to constance, who sat at the other side, and said: “who gives himself with his gift, serves three.”
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the short thanksgiving holiday ended, eleanor returned to college and jean to school, found constance busier than ever in her kitchen, for the holiday season was her hardest time, and this year promised to be an exceptional one. an extra supply of candy must be made for the booth in the arcade, as well as for those who sold her candies on commission in other towns. then, too, an unusual number of private orders had already come in. these all meant incessant work for constance and mary willing.
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the first week in december she entered the kitchen where mary was just cutting into squares great masses of chocolate caramels. she had been hard at work all the morning, and her face was flushed from her exertions.
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“oh, i’m afraid you are nearly done up,” cried constance, contritely. “you have been working so hard ever since eight o’clock, and it is now past eleven. i am so sorry to leave all this work to you while i do the easy part.”
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“do you call it easy work to write about two dozen letters, keep track of all the orders which are pouring in now, and run accounts straight?—to say nothing of ordering our supplies. i don’t, and i’m thanking my lucky stars that i can do my share of the work with a big spoon instead of a pen,” was mary’s cheerful reply, as she raised her arm to push back from her forehead an unruly lock of hair which fell across her eyes.
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“let me,” said constance quickly, lifting the soft strand into place. “you are all sticky, and when one’s hands are sticky that is the time for hair to grow rampant and one’s nose to itch! i’ve been there too many times myself not to know all about it, i tell you. but that isn’t what i came downstairs to say! do you know that this pile of letters has set me thinking, mary? if things go on at this rate you and i can never in the world handle the business. why, it has taken me the whole morning to look after the letters and acknowledge the orders which came by the early mail. i haven’t been able to do one single stroke in here, and now i have got to go down to south riveredge. charles told mammy that we ought to have more space there for our goods, and he wished i would see mr. porter about it at once. he thinks we ought to rent one of the other spaces for the christmas season, anyway, and have someone there to attend to it. what do you think? and do you know of someone we could get? you see christmas is only three weeks off, and whatever we do we’ve got to do at once.”
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as constance talked she wielded a big knife and helped briskly. mary did not answer at once; her pretty forehead wore a perplexed pucker. at length she said:
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“i know a girl who could take charge of it i think, although i don’t know whether you’d like her or not.”
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constance smiled as she answered: “suppose you tell me who she is, then maybe i can tell you whether i like her or not.”
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“it’s kitty sniffins. we used to go to school together.”
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“i don’t know her at all, so i’m a poor judge of her qualifications, am i not? but if you think she is the sort of girl we would like to have there, i am sure she needs no other recommendation, mary. what is her address?”
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“her brother is an insurance agent down on state street. you might see him. they moved not long ago, and i don’t know where they live now.”
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“oh——,” exclaimed constance, light beginning to dawn upon her. she had not heard the name sniffins since the year in which she began her candy-making, as the result of the burning of their home, and the name had not figured very pleasantly in the experience of that october, or the months which followed. still, the sister might prove very unlike the brother, and just now time was precious. if she was to act upon charles’ suggestion she must act immediately.
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“i think i’ll drop her a note in care of her brother; i don’t like to go to his office. she can call here,” said constance.
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mary glanced up quickly to ask:
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“is there any reason, miss constance, why you would prefer someone else?” for something in constance’s tone made her surmise that for some reason which she failed to comprehend kitty sniffins did not meet with her young employer’s approval.
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“if i have one it is too silly to put into words,” laughed constance, “so i will not let it influence me. i dare say kitty sniffins is a right nice girl and will sell enough candy to make me open my eyes. at all events, i’ll have a pow-wow with her. but before she can sell candy or anything else she must have a place to sell it in, and it’s up to me to scuttle off to the arcade as fast as i can go. and, by the way, you’ve got to have more help here, mary. yes, you have. you need not shake your head. as matters are shaping i shall have to give every moment of my time to the business of this great and glorious enterprise. now whom shall i get? what is fanny doing this fall? she left school in the spring, didn’t she?”
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“yes. she is helping mother sew, but——” and an eager light sprang into mary’s eyes. fanny willing was a younger sister, a rather delicate girl, who was growing more delicate from the hours spent at work in the close rooms of her home, and running a heavy, old-fashioned sewing machine. she was a plain, quiet little thing, very unlike her striking-looking older sister, and as such had not found favor in her mother’s eyes. in her younger days mrs. willing had boasted a certain style of beauty, and with it had contrived to win a husband whom she felt would elevate her to a higher social plane, but her hopes had never been realized. probably every family has a black sheep; jim willing had figured as that unenviable figure in his. it was the old story of the son born after his parents had been married a number of years, and several older sisters were waiting to spoil him; plenty of money to fling about, a wild college career of two years, marriage with a pretty housemaid and—disinheritance. it had required only twenty-three years to bring it all to pass, and the next twenty-three completed the evil. at forty-six jim willing looked like a man of fifty-six—so can dissipation and moral degeneration set their seal upon their victims. gentle blood? what had it done for him? very little, because he had permitted it to become hopelessly contaminated. and his children?—they were working out the problem of heredity; paying the penalties of an earlier generation; demonstrating the commandment which says, “unto the third and fourth generation.” a cruel, relentless one, but not to be lightly broken.
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in mary was one illustration of it; fanny another. each was to “drie her weird,” as the scotch say.
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“do you think your mother can spare her?”
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“i’m sure she can. the fact is, fanny has been trying to get some work in one of the shops in south riveredge. sewing doesn’t agree with her, somehow; she seems to grow thinner every day; she ain’t—isn’t, i mean—very strong, you see.”
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“will you send word to her, mary? i think this sort of work will be better for her than the sewing, and we’ll talk about the salary when she comes over.”
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“she’ll be a mighty lucky girl just to get here, salary or no salary!” was mary’s positive reply. “if you don’t mind i’ll run down home this afternoon and tell her to come early to-morrow morning. i’ll have all this batch made, and the rest can wait until the morning; we’ve got a good lot ahead already.” mary’s eagerness manifested itself in her every action, and constance nodded a cheerful approval as she laid down her big knife and turned to leave the kitchen.
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“go ahead, partner, but i must be off now.”
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“what!” cried constance, aghast at the recklessness of her oldest customer.
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“now, that will do, young lady. will you please answer me this! why must i always be looked upon as a mild sort of lunatic when i give you an order? ’twas ever thus! why, you hooted my first order, and you have kept on hooting every single one since. i wonder i haven’t transferred my patronage long since. trouble is you realize where you have me cornered. you know i can’t duplicate those candies anywhere. now come along with me and let us arrange for the new quarters which are to replace the outgrown ones, and—mark my word—this business will never again contract to the old space. this is where my business acumen shows itself. once i’ve got you into the bigger stand, and the rent into my coffers, i mean to keep you there, even if i have to get out and drum up the extra trade to meet the extra outlay. co-operation.”
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constance was too accustomed to this good friend’s nonsense to see anything but the deepest interest for her welfare underlying it. she knew that, with all his seeming badinage, he was looking further ahead than she, with her still limited experience, even after four years in her little business world, could look, for her’s, while exceptional for her years and sex, could never match that of this man of the great, active business world. but if mr. porter was far-seeing in some directions, in others he was short-sighted, and his range of vision was to be broadened by one who dwelt in a far humbler walk of life—mammy blairsdale.
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upon this particular morning mammy had elected to drive in state to south riveredge, ostensibly to cast a critical eye over the blairsdale-devon lunch counter, but in reality to convey to it a very special dainty for her pet customer—hadyn stuyvesant.
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in addition to a few hundred other side issues to her business, mammy had raised poultry during the previous summer, and, curiously enough, to every chick hatched out, there had pecked themselves into the world about four roosters, until poor mammy began to believe her setting eggs must have had a spell cast upon them. as the summer advanced such an array of lordly, strutting, squawking young cocks never dominated a poultry yard, and the sequel was inevitable. when they arrived at the crowing age the neighbors arose in revolt! such a vociferous, discordant collection of birds had never fought and crowed themselves into public notice. mammy became almost distracted, and was at her wits’ end until a diplomatic move struck her: those roosters should win not only fame for themselves, but for their owner also; and not long afterward first one neighbor then another was mollified and highly flattered to receive a fine daintily broiled, fried, or roasted young bird, cooked as only mammy knew how to cook a fowl, garnished as only mammy knew how to garnish, and accompanied by a respectful note, not written by mammy, but by jean, somewhat in this strain:
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“will mrs. —— please accept this dish with the most respectful compliments of mammy blairsdale, who hopes this noisy rooster will never disturb her any more?”
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oh, “sop to cerberus!” could diplomacy go further?
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it was one of the most vociferous of her flock which now lay upon his lordly back, his legs pathetically turned to the skies, his fighting and his squaking days ended forever, that reposed in mammy’s warming can, to be transferred to charles’ warming oven, there to await hadyn’s arrival.
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as constance and mr. porter drew near the lunch counter, mammy was giving very explicit directions to charles. constance and mr. porter were too occupied to be aware of her presence; not she of theirs, however.
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mr. porter conducted constance to the arch next but one to that in which the lunch counter stood, only separated from it by the cigar stand.
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“now here is a space which you can have as well as not, and it is close enough to charles for him to cast an eye over it from time to time.”
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“and may i rent it for one month?” asked constance.
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“better rent it for one year,” urged mr. porter. “it’s in a mighty good location.”
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“and i call it a mighty po’ location,” broke in an emphatic voice. “a mighty po’ one, and no kynd ob a place fo’ one ob ma chillen fer to be at. gobblin men-folks hyar at de lunch stan’; smokin’ men-folks at de nex’ one; an’ we kin bress gawd ef we don’t fin’ oursefs wid guzzlin men-folks on yonder at de tother side befo’ long.”
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“now, now! hold on, mammy! go slow,” broke in mr. porter, laughingly. “you know the arcade doesn’t stand for that sort of thing. don’t hit us so hard.”
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“how i gwine know what it boun’ ter stan’ fer if it lak ter stan’ fer lettin’ dat chile rint a counter nex’ door to a segar stan’?” snapped mammy, her eyes fixed upon the luckless superintendent, personifying the strongly emphasized it.
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“well, it’s lucky we found you here. now, we never took that side of the question into consideration, did we, little girl? yes, i guess mammy’s judgment beats ours. great head! so come on, mammy, and let us have your sound advice in this choice of bigger quarters for miss constance. you see, i predict that she will never return to the smaller ones again.”
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“don’t need no gre’t secon’-sight fer ter make dat out, i reckon,” was the superior retort.
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mr. porter looked crushed and then dropped behind mammy, who went sailing majestically down the arcade, to stop at the very first and most pretentious of all the arches—one which had been rented until very recently by a stationer, who had profited so handsomely that he had built a large shop not far from the arcade, and now wished to sub-let this arch until his lease expired. next to it was a florist’s stand, and opposite a stationer’s, each of a very high order. constance stood aghast at mammy’s audacity.
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“why, mammy, this is the highest-priced arch in the arcade,” she exclaimed.
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“well, what dat got ter do wid it, baby? ain’t your candy de highest-priced candy? an’ ain’ you de very high-water mark quality? who gwine ter ’spute dat? go ’long an’ rint yo’ place; yo’ all matches p’intedly,” and with this speech mammy stalked back to her own quarters.
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constance gave one look at mr. porter, then sank upon one of the little benches within the arch.
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“by george, she’s right and i’m a blockhead! think i’d better turn over my job to her and go down into the engine-room until i learn to read human nature as she can. yes, it is the finest, highest-priced arch in the building, but it didn’t take that old black woman five seconds to discover the match for it.”
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“but, mr. porter,” protested constance, “of all the extravagant steps, and for mammy, above all others, to urge it. that conservative creature! and the way she expressed it! why was i born a blairsdale? it will shorten my years, i know, to have to live up to the name,” and constance broke into a merry laugh.
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“perhaps the burden will be lifted before long, and such a calamity to your friends averted,” answered mr. porter, soberly, but with twinkling eyes. the one o’clock whistle had just blown in a building hard by, and the arcade’s elevator was beginning to bring down the people from the floors above. among them was hadyn stuyvesant, who went at once to the luncheon counter, quite unaware of the presence of a certain little lady near the entrance of the arcade; but her back was toward the elevator. for one second she glanced at mr. porter entirely innocent of the purport of his words. then, catching sight of the mischievous eyes twinkling at her, she rose suddenly to her feet, saying: “come at once and let me learn what this rash step will cost me.”
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with a low laugh mr. porter strode toward his office beside a very rosy-cheeked young girl.
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in the course of a few days constance’s new quarters in the arcade were in operation, for mr. porter lost no time in fitting up arch number one. the little booth beneath the stairs was dismantled to furnish forth the new one. down at the kitchen mary and her sister fanny, who had come to assist in the work, were doing their best to keep abreast of the orders pouring in with each mail, while mrs. carruth, her ambitions at length achieved, was attending to the correspondence, since constance’s time must for a little while be given to the new booth. she had not received a reply to her letter to kitty sniffins, and for the time being was too occupied with the demands of the new booth to take further steps in the matter. indeed, she had about made up her mind to look for someone else, once order was brought out of the confusion of moving and settling, for some indefinable instinct caused her to feel an aversion to engaging kitty sniffins. had she been asked to state why, she would have found it difficult to put her objection into actual words, and more than once she reproached herself for entertaining it at all. nevertheless, she could not free herself from it, but was too busy just then to dwell upon it. in the course of a few days everything would be settled and in running order; and meanwhile she, herself, would go to the arcade each day where, with charles as her majordomo, body-guard and faithful friend, she was a veritable queen of her little realm, and woe betide the individual so reckless as to forget that he or she was in the presence of a blairsdale.
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the pretty arch had been in perfect running order for one week when constance began to cast about for someone to take her place, since neither she herself, nor her family felt content to have her make the journey to and from south riveredge each day, or to spend her time at the arch. on the previous saturday she had put a carefully-worded advertisement in the riveredge times, the answers to be sent to arch no. 1, arcade building; and upon her arrival at her arch on this monday morning she found dozens of letters from girls, and even men, asking employment. she was reading one of the letters when a shadow fell across the page, and raising her eyes she saw a young man standing at the counter. thinking he had come to purchase a box of candy, she rose from her chair and stood waiting for him to make his wants known to her. instead of doing so, he raised his hat, and with a most impressive bend of his long, loosely-hung figure, and a smile which irritated her by its self-complacency, said:
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“how are you, miss carruth? you’re sure putting up a big show here, ain’t you?”
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“what can i do for you?” asked constance, with quiet dignity.
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“guess you can’t do nothing for me, but maybe i can do something for you. candy ain’t in my line. never spent none o’ my solid cash for the stuff, but i’m glad other people do; plenty of fools in this world to help wise folks get rich, ain’t there?”
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“will you please state your business?” and constance took up another letter as a hint to her unwelcome visitor that her time, if not his, was of some value.
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“got a pile o’ answers, ain’t you? that’s just what i thought, and it’s just what brought me down here this early. this letter come for kitty in my care ’most a week ago, but she’s down in the city doin’ somethin’ or ’nother; don’t ’mount to much, i guess, though. i knew she hadn’t no friends up yonder in swell riveredge, and when i saw your ad. in the riveredge times it didn’t take me no time to put two and two together. oh, i’m fly, i am! i knowed—knew—the postmark meant something about that candy kitchen, ’cause mary willing and kit used to be school pals, and i guessed you was a-lookin’ for more help, and i don’t often guess wrong, neither. i sent a telegraph to kit to come on home this mornin’ to see you, but i weren’t goin’ to take any chances, so i come right up to clench the job for her.”
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“then i assume that you are miss sniffins’ brother. may i ask why you felt so sure that the letter sent to your care was from me, or had anything to do with my need of more help in this business?”
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the smile and wink which prefaced his reply nearly proved the last straw. quietly reaching below the counter, constance pressed an electric button. she had been wise beyond her years when she had this connection made between her arch and charles’ counter. sniffins did not notice the motion.
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“well, you see, i’m boss in my own house and run the wimmin-folks. when i suspicioned what the letter was, i just took french leave, so to speak, and opened and read it——”
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“what!” the indignation in constance’s tone was a trifle disconcerting even to the thick-skinned sniffins, and he had the grace to color slightly. but it was only momentary. he rarely forgot sniffins.
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“oh, that’s all o. k. all in the family, you see. kit won’t dare kick; she ain’t the kickin’ kind—not with me, anyhow. she knows too well which side her bread’s buttered to kick. i’m the head of things down yonder in our house, and as long as i can earn the pile and put up the cash for ’em ma and kit can toe the mark. but i don’t see no reason why they shouldn’t add some to the pile. we ain’t, so-to-speak, rich yet, but we ain’t poor; oh, no-siree, we ain’t poor. that savings bank next door knows we ain’t poor no more, and it knows we’re goin’ to be——”
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“yes, charles, i need you,” interrupted constance, for unobserved by her visitor old charles had drawn near, and now stood just behind sniffins, and had heard a good portion of his senseless boasting.
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“yas, mist’ess, i’s right hyer fer ter sarve yo’.”
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sniffins turned quickly.
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“hello, old stager, where did you come from?”
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charles paid no more attention to him than he would have paid to a stray dog—not as much.
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“will you please remain at the counter a few moments, charles. when your sister returns she may call here to see me, mr. sniffins. good-morning.” and without another glance at the man constance walked quickly away from the counter, and down to the ’phone booth, where she called a number. sniffins’ eyes followed her. when she disappeared he turned to charles and, with an unpleasant sneer, remarked: “workin’ for her livin’ an’ tryin’ ter play the big-bug, too, ain’t she?”
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“does yo’ wish fer ter purchase some of dis hyer candy, sah?” asked charles, icily.
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“no, i don’t, an’ if i did i ain’t takin’ it from niggers.”
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“no, sah, i don’ reckon yo’ is, kase—mor’in’, massa po’tah, i’se right glad fer ter see a gemmen, sah. dey’s mighty skurse sometimes. how kin i sarve yo’, sah?”
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“morning, charles. where is my little girl this morning? gone to the telephone booth? be back pretty quick, won’t she? i want to speak to her a moment.”
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“she’ll return, sah, when de air’s better fer her ter breve; it got sort o’ foul-like, an’ if you’se no objections i’se gwine raise de winder jist a trifle.”
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“do, by all means. must keep the air pure and sweet for that little lady.”
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“yas, sir: yas, sir: dat’s percis’ly what i’s amin’ ter do. dat’s why i’se always on han’.”
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“good! we’ll watch out for her, won’t we? hello, sniffins. how about that big deal you were going to put through for me? i haven’t heard much about it lately.”
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“oh, you’ll hear from that all right, all right. trouble is you expect a man to do in two weeks somethin’ most men needs two months to do.”
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“well if you take two months to settle that matter for me, the other fellow, who can do it in two weeks, will win out, you mark my word. so you’d better not take time to buy candy at ten a. m. on monday mornings,” for in some way mr. porter had gathered from charles the true situation, and had given this broad hint. sniffins was not given to taking hints, but he dared not go counter to mr. porter’s implied wish that he leave the candy arch. still, he was bound to have his last shot, and, with what he intended to be a telling glance, he said:
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“you tell miss carruth that my sister will take that position, and i’ll call ’round later to arrange about her salary.”
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“it will not be necessary for you to do so, mr. sniffins; i have just ’phoned to someone else.” constance had returned so quietly that no one was aware of her approach.
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“how do you do, mr. porter? i am glad to see you. what can i do for you? come into my sanctum.”
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she led the way to the rear of the arch, where a little inclosure held her desk and two chairs. sniffins turned to leave the arch. at the entrance he came face to face with hadyn stuyvesant. the look which accompanied the nod sniffins gave him was not pleasant. hadyn did not know him at all, and looked at him in surprise, believing him to have mistaken him for someone else. but sniffins knew hadyn.
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“so he’s on there, too, is he? guess he can see through a millstone most as far as other folks can. if that girl keeps on she’s goin’ to be rich, rich. that business has growed—ah, grown—like a—a—well, it’s grown. ’for’ long she’s goin’ to have a big thing in it. wake up, sniffins, my boy. you’re got as good a chance as any other fellow, an’ you’re no sloach on looks, neither. get busy and spruce up more’n ever. buy some new clothes, old man; you’ll find ’em a good investment, i tell you. get kit down there somehow; that’s your best wedge for gettin’ into the swell set up yonder. kit’s half-way good-lookin’, and ain’t got the spunk of a mouse to do any way except the way i tell her.”
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by the time this monologue came to an end sniffins had turned into his office on state street, and there found his sister awaiting him. she had returned to south riveredge nearly frightened to death by his telegram.
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“ah, cut it out! what’s the use whooping things up for nothing?” was his short ordering. “nobody’s dead nor dyin’, but i want you to get down to the arcade and get this job, see? don’t come back here whinin’ that you can’t. you’re got to get it, or you can dust out o’ south riveredge an’ your happy home. now listen to what i’m tellin’ you: don’t you let on who you are. if you do the jig’s up, for that high and mighty sprig down there ain’t got no sort o’ use for me. but i’ll tame her. i ain’t seen the girl yet i couldn’t tame. but i want you there ’cause i want to keep track of the revenue, do you see? and if your head’s worth half a muttonhead you can’t help gettin’ a good idea of what that business is worth, and that’s what i mean to know. she don’t know you from a hole in the ground, and you ain’t goin’ to let her——”
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“but she will know my name, lige.”
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“how will she know your name if you don’t tell her your name? you’ve got a middle name, ain’t you? well, what’s the matter with that? katherine boggs is all right, ain’t it? you haven’t got to tack on the sniffins.”
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“oh, i’d forget, and people would know me, and i’d be scared to death to do it, lige.”
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“now see here: you’ll be scared to death if you don’t do it, let me tell you, for i’ll scare you myself. now get down there and do the job right up to the mark.”
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about half an hour later a sweet-faced, timid girl presented herself at constance’s arch. she seemed unduly agitated, and her hands trembled as she rested them on the counter, to ask if miss carruth was to be seen.
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“i think she can be,” answered constance, smiling encouragingly at the perturbed little figure before her, for constance was too much her mother’s child not to feel the deepest sympathy for such a girl.
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“is she in?” ventured her visitor.
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“i am miss carruth. what can i do for you?”
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“oh! why, you want a girl, a clerk?”
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“i do. come into my little office; no one will interrupt us there. sit down; you seem tired. now tell me all about it. i’ve had such a pile of letters that i hardly know which to answer. by the way, i have just ’phoned to one who gave me her number but not her name. i asked her to call at once. i wonder if you can be no. 795?” constance paused with a most encouraging smile upon her lips and light in her eyes.
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“yes—oh—no; i mean——”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN yes__<label>__NOUN âĢĶ__<label>__. oh__<label>__NOUN âĢĶ__<label>__. no__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON mean__<label>__VERB âĢĶâĢĶâĢĿ__<label>__.
“why are you so nervous? it will not be a very difficult undertaking, i’m sure, just to sit here and sell boxes of candy, and i’m not half as formidable a young woman as you must have pictured me. the hours are not so very long, and there will be a good many spare moments. the salary is seven dollars a week. do you care to consider it, miss——?”
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“s—boggs, i mean miss boggs. yes, i’ll take it, i want it very much, i’ll try to please you——”
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constance looked at the girl. what ailed her? why this feverish eagerness to secure the position, and why a degree of nervousness which almost amounted to a panic?
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“will you please give me your address? and”—constance hesitated. she was upon the point of asking for references, but sympathy for the girl withheld her from doing so.
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the girl gave an address in a distant part of the town, and rose to go. constance’s look held her. there was nothing alarming in the quiet gaze of those deep brown eyes; on the contrary, it was soothing, if compelling.
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“do you mind telling me why you are so agitated? i can see no cause for it, yet there may be one which i do not guess, and if i can help remove it i shall be glad to do so. it troubles me to see you disturbed. perhaps a good deal depends upon your securing a situation at once, and if that is the cause of your trouble we have removed it, haven’t we? for you are already engaged.”
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“oh, yes, i know i’m very foolish; i do want the situation; i’ve got to take it; i’ll do my very, very best; i truly will. please excuse me. when must i come?”
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“can you come this afternoon? i am very anxious to get back to my duties in my candy kitchen, and if you can arrange to come here after luncheon, i shall have time to show you the little things you would like to learn, and to-morrow morning you can get along without me.”
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“yes, i’ll come. i’ll be here at two o’clock, and i’ll try so hard to please you, miss carruth.” for a moment a smile lighted up the girl’s face and quite transformed it.
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she was a plain, colorless little thing, but something in her smile made her very attractive.
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“i shall be here. good-bye for a couple of hours.”
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the girl hurried away.
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“well, if she isn’t one of the oddest little creatures i’ve ever come across. i am sure i don’t know what impelled me to engage her, for i dare say i could have found a dozen others much better qualified to attend to things here, but—somehow—well, i dare say, there’s a lot of mother in me, and when our sympathies are aroused we sometimes do queer things.”
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constance was not conscious of having spoken aloud, as she moved about the arch arranging and giving a touch here and there, until a laughing voice asked:
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“what is this i’m listening to? a budding elocutionist practicing her monologue?”
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“does sound a little like it, doesn’t it? but it’s nothing half so brilliant. in fact, you might suspect me of bordering on mental aberration instead if i told you, so i reckon i won’t. but i am starved even if you are not. let us go see what blairsdale and devon have to offer to-day.”
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a moment later constance and hadyn stuyvesant were seated in the little screened-off corner back of charles’ counter, his duties transferred to his satellite, as he laid before his young mistress, and the one whom in his faithful old heart he had long cherished a wish to call his “young massa,” the dainties especially prepared for them by mammy.
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at merry yuletide.
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“hurry, eleanor. we are all waiting for you,” called constance from the terrace, where a group of young people stood waiting for the tardy one.
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it was the day following christmas, and such a day as long dwells in one’s memory of perfect winter days; scarcely a cloud in the sky, and the air filled with a crispness which set one’s blood a-tingle. the world wore her white robes of the season, bedecked with a thousand sparkling jewels. the river was frozen nearly across, and on its glistening surface groups of skaters darted about, or pushed ice-chairs, in which were seated older or less vigorous bodies for whom skating was not.
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early in december, when the weather had turned unusually cold for the season, the river had commenced to freeze over. it had been thirty years since such heavy ice had formed, and those who recalled that time predicted that the present cold snap would hold as that one had held, and the new year find, as it had then found, the sleighs crossing to the opposite shore.
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eleanor carruth had returned from college three days before christmas, to find everyone in the liveliest, gayest mood, and each moment crowded to its very limit with duties or pleasures. christmas in mrs. carruth’s home had always been a day of “good will toward man” in its truest, sweetest sense. no one had time to think of self in her desire to think of others. for more than sixty years mammy’s voice had been the first one to cry “christmas gif’” to her children, as she went from bed to bed in the chill christmas dawn. try as they might in bygone years, none of the other servants on the old plantation had been able to creep up to the bedchambers before her, and now in the newer life of the northern world, to which she had followed those she loved, she had never missed her greeting. in the dark, difficult days when resources were limited and every penny had to be so carefully expended, the christmas gifts had been very simple little remembrances interchanged, but old mammy had invariably managed to have some trifle for her “chillen,” and they would sooner have gone without their own than have failed to have their token of the season lying at her door on christmas morning.
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but happier days had now dawned for all, and the christmas day just passed had been a red-letter one for the family. true, eleanor’s resources were not yet equal to constance’s. eleanor’s spending money was derived from the source which, prior to her entrance in college, had caused mammy such deep concern. eleanor still coached a number of the less brilliant lights of the college. in this way she felt more independent of her aunt and less dependent upon constance.
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constance protested and scolded, declaring that it was perfect nonsense for eleanor to so burden herself, since the candy kitchen was more than equal to the demands made upon it. but eleanor was a carruth.
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as the party stood waiting for her, jean, keeping fast hold of haydn’s hand and jigging up and down in her impatience to be off, forbes talking to one of eleanor’s friends, and the others all chatting at once, eleanor came hurrying from the house, carrying in her hand a pair of shining skates, and carefully tucked under her arm a broom.
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haydn was the first to spy it. his eyes began to twinkle, and he quickly slipped over to constance’s side.
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“is this a very mid-winter madness?” he asked under his breath.
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constance glanced up quickly. her eyes instantly caught the twinkle, and darted toward forbes, who was too deeply engaged in trying to prove to his rather skeptical listener that the soft little wraith-like clouds beginning to gather overhead meant wind, and perhaps more snow also, within twenty-four hours, to be aware of eleanor’s unusual departure in the line of impedimenta. neither constance nor hadyn intended to spoil the joke by jogging their wits, and the others who were alive to the fun preferred to see it to the end.
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eleanor hurried up to forbes and said, as though to confirm his argument:
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“yes, it is clouding over, isn’t it? mammy says it is going to snow and urged me to carry this umbrella. i can always trust mammy’s ‘bones,’ she ended as she held forth the broom to the bewildered man, who looked from her face to it as though questioning her sanity.”
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then eleanor wakened.
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“oh, why—i thought—why, how did i get this?”
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“let me relieve you of your strange burden, eleanor. still want an umbrella? i’ll fetch one if you say so, but you may find the broom more useful, on second thought. let’s take it along to clear away the light snow which fell last night. come on, people! if we expect to get up an appetite for mammy’s luncheon at two o’clock, we’d best make a move toward the river,” cried hadyn, leading the way with the broom shouldered like a musket, and jean in full prance beside him.
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it was a merry party which gathered upon the crystal surface of the river that morning. for many days jack frost had been busy, and had done his wonderful work most effectively, completing it during the previous night by a light coating of diamond-dust, which glistened and sparkled in the clear sunshine, or swirled up in fantastic spirals as the skaters whirled away through it. the boathouse at the river’s edge served as a shelter for the chilled ones, and, far-sighted woman! mammy had sent charles down there with a great basket of sandwiches, and a heaterful of steaming chocolate. somehow nature had made a big mistake when she fashioned mammy: she should have formed a man, a white man, and cast his lot among the great commerical lights of his day.
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the chocolate heater had to be replenished more than once, and the manner in which the sandwiches vanished was almost miraculous.
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eleanor, constance and jean were as much at home upon their skates as upon the soles of their feet, and hadyn had skated ever since he could move without assistance; but forbes had acquired the art during a winter spent in northern europe, and at a date not so remote as to have lessened the novelty of the experience. he had brought with him from holland a pair of skates of truly remarkable design, and it was upon these “ice boats,” as hadyn instantly dubbed them, that he was now demonstrating the extraordinary agility of the dutch skaters.
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“stand off! make way!” cried hadyn, as forbes, one arm about eleanor’s waist and the other holding her hand aloft in what he fondly believed to be a perfect imitation of the dutch peasants’ graceful poise and motion, bore down upon the party, his long, upturned skates and still longer legs causing eleanor to cast skittish glances in their direction as she swung along beside him.
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“great! how do you do it, old man?” asked hadyn as eleanor was almost hurled into his arms, forbes’ momentum carrying him on and past them like a runaway motor-car.
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“simplest thing in the world! be back in a second to show you how. nothing like it! absolutely—” but he was carried beyond his hearers, whose eyes followed his wild evolutions with more or less apprehension for “what next?” since it seemed contrary to all laws of gravitation for any human being to maintain his equilibrium very long if he took such chances.
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“he has turned! he’s coming back! now watch out, hadyn, and learn how it’s done,” laughed constance, as this skated “ichabod crane” bore down upon them, hair blown on end, arms flying, legs cutting capers legs never before had cut, and upon his face the expression of “do or die, man, for she is watching you.”
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“gee, what a swathe he cuts!” cried another man, as the light snow lying upon the ice flew from beneath the rushing skates.
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“can—can i help you?” stammered hadyn, as he bent over to raise the prone one. “you—you rather came a cropper that time, and—and—”
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“get behind me, for heaven’s sake. do you think a man can slither along on the ice for thirty feet and—and not damage his garments? quick, before all those people get wise. is your long cape in the boathouse? yes? thanks, i’ll take it, and i don’t care a hang if you freeze;” and scrambling to his feet forbes sped for the boathouse, and the world saw him not again that day.
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scarcely had forbes left the party on the pond when a new member was added to it, or, at least, arrived upon the scene with a very firmly fixed intention of being added to it if he could contrive to be.
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he was arrayed, from his standpoint of a proper toilet for the occasion, in a costume altogether irresistible, and which it had cost him no little time and outlay to procure.
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with many a curve and flourish, for the man could skate, he came up to the group, and with a most impressive bow to constance, raised the fur cap, and, standing uncovered, said:
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“good-morning, miss carruth. fine sport, ain’t it? may i compliment you on your skating? you ain’t got a rival on the ice, nor off it, neither.”
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for a moment constance was at a loss to place the man, then she recalled his visit to her candy arch about three weeks before. it was elijah sniffins.
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the very audacity of this move deprived her of speech for a moment, and the others with her were too amazed to come to her rescue. indeed, they did not know the man at all, and, consequently, did not realize the extent of his presumption.
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then constance came to herself. looking straight into the man’s eyes, her own ominous with indignation, and her cheeks flushing with resentment, she replied:
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“haven’t you made a slight mistake, mr. sniffins? i believe the business matter upon which you called at the arcade was settled then and there, for i had already made other arrangements. i hardly think there is anything more to be discussed.”
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“oh, that’s all in the sweet bygones. you needn’t think i’ve got to talk business every time we meet any mor’n you have; i just give myself a holiday once in so often just like you do, and this is one of ’em. great day for a holiday. but, by the way, did you get a nice girl for your counter?—one that’s goin’ to have some snap to her and do a rushin’ business with all the young folks anxious to get rid of their money?”
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“she is quite satisfactory, thank you, and good-morning, mr. sniffins.”
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“oh, i say, won’t you give me just one turn? never see anyone could skate like you—”
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“hadyn, isn’t it about time we went home? just one more spin, please,” and turning toward hadyn stuyvesant constance held out both hands toward him. he had turned to speak to another member of the party, and until that moment had not been aware of sniffins’ intrusion. at sight of constance’s face his own changed, and he gave a quick glance at the man, who seemed undecided as to whether it would be wiser to accept his dismissal or persist in his unwelcome attentions. it may have been something in hadyn’s glance which deterred him, for with another impressive bow he skated rapidly away, muttering:
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“little snob! thinks she’s out of sight; but she ain’t any better’n others who are makin’ their pile, and i’ll learn her yet.”
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“who is he? what is the matter, little girl?” asked hadyn, as he and constance swung away over the ice.
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“why, it’s that odious man. i don’t know what to make of him. this is the second time he has forced himself upon me, and why he does so is more than i can fathom. he is the fire insurance agent down in state street; and the only time we have ever had any intercourse whatsoever with him was when the house burned. but i did not see him even then. mother or mammy were the only ones who had any dealings with him at that time, though once later, when the candy booth in the arcade caught fire, he did speak to me, now i remember, though i had quite forgotten it. what in this world can the man want? i declare he half frightens me, he is so audacious.”
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she then told hadyn of sniffins’ visit to the arcade. he listened attentively, seeing far more in it than the girl beside him guessed, but taking care not to let her know.
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“and you did not engage his sister, after all?” he inquired.
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“no; i have a katherine boggs doing duty there. she’s a quiet, nice little thing, and not likely to do the ’rushin’ business with all the young fools,’ which this idiot seems to think a requisite qualification. ugh! how i loathe the very sight of that man! it’s mighty lucky i did not engage his sister, isn’t it? he would have used her as a wedge to force his presence upon me, though why on earth he wishes to is more than i can understand.”
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the face she turned up to hadyn’s was the very personification of sweetness and modesty.
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he looked at her, a slight color creeping into his own and a light filling his eyes, which for the first time since she had known him sent an odd little thrill to the girl’s heart, which caused it to beat a trifle quicker, and her eyes to fall before his. it was all over in a moment, and all he said was:
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“keep your modesty, little girl. it is a valuable asset to womanhood. and now we must get back home, or the little mother and mammy will get after us.”
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“then came the wild weather.”
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january and february, blustery, wild months, crept slowly away, and march, still more blustery, came in. the cold and dampness told upon poor old charles, and more than one day found him a fast prisoner in the “baid,” which, in spite of mammy’s conviction “dat it fair hit de sore spots,” frequently failed to find charles’, and only served to smother his groans. then one day, when, in spite of his spouse’s protests, he insisted upon going to the arcade in a driving snowstorm, the climax was reached, and when charles reached his little cabin at nightfall he was “cl’ar beat out an’ ready fer ter drap,” as mammy told mrs. carruth. the next day he was downright ill, and a physician had to be summoned.
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“seem lak, seem lak de very ol’ boy hisself done got inter dat man,” scolded mammy, her wrath the outcome of nervous irritation, for charles was the pride and the love of her life. “no matter how i is ter argify wid him, he just natcherly boun’ ter go ’long ter dat arcyde yistiddy, an’ now see what done come of it! gawd bress ma soul, i reckons i’d smack him good ef he warn’t lyin’ dar groanin’ so wid his misery dat he lak ’nough wouldn’t feel de smacks i give him. tch! tch!” and mammy shook her head ominously.
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“poor charles! i’ll go right out to the cabin, mammy, and sit with him while you look after your cooking; it’s too bad, too bad; but i think he will soon be about again.”
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“yes, an’ ef yo’ goes out in dis hyar blizzardy weather i’ll have two sick folks on my han’s ’stid o’ one. now, see here, miss jinny, yo’ min’ me an’ stay indoors! yo’ hear me?”
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“nonsense, mammy. do you think i shall take cold by walking from here to your cabin? how foolish,” protested mrs. carruth. “your luncheon counter cannot be neglected, and with but one pair of hands how can you do your cooking and nurse charles, too?”
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as she spoke mrs. carruth tied a scarf over her head and wrapped a long, heavy cloak about her, mammy never for a second ceasing to protest.
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“now come, mammy,” she said, leading the way to the back door, mammy following and scolding every step of the way. as they opened the door leading to the back porch they were assailed by a gust of wind and a whirl of snow which blinded them, and at the same time nearly carried them off their feet.
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“mighty man! go ’long back, miss jinny’ go back! dis hyar ain’t no fittin’ place fer yo’, i tells yo’,” gasped mammy, turning to bar mrs. carruth’s progress, for even mammy’s weight was as a straw against the gale which swept around the corner of the porch. but slight as she was, mrs. carruth was not to be overborne. for a moment she laid hold of the porch railing to steady herself, then with a firm hold upon her flapping cloak braced herself against the wind, and started for the cottage. mammy was for once silenced, simply because the words were swept from her lips as soon as she tried to form them.
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earlier in the morning an attempt had been made to clear a path to the cottage; but in such a wild, howling blizzard a half hour was more than enough to set man’s work at naught, and mrs. carruth and mammy had to flounder through the snowdrifts as best they could, and were breathless when they reached the bottom of the garden.
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“fo’ gawd’s sake, come unner de lee ob de house ’fore yo’ is blown daid unner ma eyes, honey,” panted mammy. “oh, why for is we ever come ter sech a place fer ter live! we all gwine be froz daid ’fore we kin draw our brefs. come in de house, miss jinny, come in,” and, half dragging, half carrying her mistress, mammy led her into the cabin where the little darkey, mammy’s handmaiden, stood with her eyes nearly popping out of her head with fright, for she had been watching them from the safe shelter of the kitchen.
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mrs. carruth dropped upon a chair well-nigh exhausted, for even though the cabin was barely two hundred feet from the house, it had required all the strength she could summon to battle her way to it in the force and smother of the blizzard.
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“why—why, i’d no idea it was so terrible,” she panted. “i’ve never known such a storm.”
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“ain’t i tell yo’ so? ain’t i tell yo’ not ter come out in it? an’ how i is ter git yo’ back ter de house is mo’n i kin tell,” deplored mammy, as she hastily divested herself of her own wrappings and then turned to remove her mistress’.
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“yo’ foots is soppin’, soakin’ wet. yo’ mought as well not ’a’ had no rubbers on ’em, fer yo’ is wet ter de knees. hyer, you no ’count mirandy, get me some hot water, an’ den hike upstairs fo’ de bottle ob alcohol, yo’ hyer me!” stormed mammy, relieved to find someone to vent her irritation upon. “an’ yo’ ain’t gwine back ter dat house whilst dis storm is ragin’, let me tell yo’.”
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“i am all right, mammy; this is mere folly. i shall be as dry as a bone in just a few minutes,” protested mrs. carruth.
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“yis! yis! an’ lak enough chilled to de bone, too. now, yo’ min’ what i tells you,” and, in spite of their protests, mrs. carruth was presently rubbed and warmed into dry garments and comfort. it was well constance’s candy kitchen communicated with mammy’s quarters, and that a supply of clothing was always kept in it. it was deserted this morning, for mary and fanny had gone home on the previous, saturday afternoon, and the storm had made it impossible for them to return. a large supply of candy had been sent to the arcade on saturday morning; so even if customers were courageous enough to face the blizzard in quest of sweets there would be no lack of of sweets to please the sweet tooth, and constance was glad of the respite the storm gave her, for, like many another busy little business woman, she found many things to attend to in the house when she could steal the time from her regular duties.
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this morning she was busy with a dozen little odd bits of work, while jean, school impossible in such weather, was lost to all the outer world in a new book.
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when mrs. carruth was made comfortable she went upstairs to charles. she found him in a sorry plight, and saw at once that poor old charles was in a more serious condition than mammy realized, troubled as she was about him; but this was carefully concealed from the old woman.
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“we have both to take our scolding now,” she said as she seated herself near him. “mammy will never forgive either of us for disobeying her, charles. but what can i do for you?”
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charles was too stiff and full of pain to move, but he tried to smile bravely as he answered:
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“reckons we’d better a-minded her, honey. reckons we had. she’s a mighty pert ’oman, she is, an’ when she say do, we better do, an’ when she say don’t, we better don’t, dat’s suah. an’ jes’ look at me! hyar i layin’ lak i tied han’ an’ foot, an’ de bis’ness down yonder gwine ter rack an’ ruin, lak ’nough, wid dat no ’count boy a-runnin’ it. and charles groaned in tribulation of spirit.
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“wait a moment; i’ll see that all goes well down there,” answered mrs. carruth, soothingly, and slipping away from the room she went into the deserted bee-hive to ’phone to the arcade. after considerable delay she got mr. porter and told him the situation. he was all interest, and begged her to tell charles that if necessary he himself would mount guard over the luncheon counter. she next called hadyn, and asked him to let her know how all went at the candy booth. he assured her that all was well, but that business did not seem to be flourishing.
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“will you please tell miss boggs to close it for the day and to go home at once, hadyn? the storm grows worse every moment, i believe, and if she remains there any longer she may not be able to get home.”
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“i’ll tell her, and i’ll see that she gets home, too. don’t worry, little mother. i’ll be down a little later to see how you all fare.”
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“oh, no! no! don’t try to come. we are all right, and you must not try to drive here in this awful storm. promise me that you won’t, hadyn.”
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“can’t make rash promises, and comet has breasted even worse storms than this,” was the laughing answer. “who is looking after your furnace, now that charles is down and out?”
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“mr. henry’s man. he was here this morning, and will be back this evening. we lack nothing, and we don’t want you under any circumstances. please, say you won’t try to come.”
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“not unless——” then there was a whirr and one or two disconnected words and the connection broke short off. no wires could long withstand the weight of ice and snow and the force of wind wrenching at them. mrs. carruth tried again and again to get the connection, but all to no purpose, and with a strange apprehension in her heart she returned to charles’ bedside to reassure him regarding his luncheon counter.
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at noon the doctor called to see charles, and during mammy’s absence from the room mrs. carruth contrived to have a word with him.
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“he’s a pretty old man, and took big chances yesterday. if it were only the rheumatism i had to contend with, i should not feel the least concern for him. that is painful, i know, but not dangerous, as it has settled in his limbs; but i don’t like this temperature and breathing. yet i dare say, if i use a stethoscope, he will think he is a dead man already. these colored people are difficult patients to handle, what with their ignorance and their emotional temperaments they are far worse than children, for we can compel children to do as we think best.”
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mrs. carruth smiled. “you do not know the ante-bellum negro,” she said.
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“maybe i do not, but i know the post-bellum, i can tell you, and i’ve very little use for them.”
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“do you wish to examine charles?” she asked, quietly.
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“if he had been a white man, i should have done so last night when i was first called to attend him; but i came near being mobbed the last time i tried to use a stethoscope on a negro patient. the family thought i was about to remove the woman’s lungs, i believe.”
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“charles, i wish dr. black to examine you very thoroughly while he is here—as thoroughly as if he were treating me. there is nothing to alarm you; but we cannot treat you understandingly unless he learns exactly where the greatest difficulty lies.”
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“wha’ he gwine do to me?” asked charles, his eyes opening wide.
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“examine your lungs and heart to see if they are sound and strong.”
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“he gwine cut me wide open?” cried the old man.
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just then mammy entered. it was well she did. “luty, luty, dat man gwine projec’ wid me, honey; don’ you let him.”
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for a moment mammy seemed ready to take the defensive, and dr. black shrugged his shoulders in a manner which indicated: “i told you so.” perhaps it was the shrug—mammy wasn’t slow to grasp a situation—but more likely it was the look in her miss jinny’s eyes, for, turning to the doctor, she said, with the air of an african queen:
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“yo’ is de perfessional ’tendant, an’ i wishes yo’ fer ter do what yo’ an’ ma miss jinny knows fer ter be right wid de patient.”
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when dr. black left a few moments later, he said to mrs. carruth, who had followed him downstairs, while mammy remained behind to alternately berate and calm charles:
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“if we can keep the fever down, the old fellow may escape with nothing worse than his rheumatic twinges—hard to bear, but not alarming; but i don’t like the other symptoms. he was too old to take such chances. can you let me hear from him about eight this evening?”
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“every hour if necessary. he is like one of our own family to us, and nothing we can do for him or mammy can ever repay their devotion to us. would it not be better for you to call again?”
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“i’d gladly do so, but i am likely to be summoned to a patient in glendale at any moment, and with this storm——” and the doctor waved his hand toward the turmoil beyond the windows.
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“i know it. i will ’phone if——” then mrs. carruth paused in dismay. “what if the wires were down?”
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“my wire was all right when i left home less than an hour since, and you may not need me, after all. i hope you will not.”
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“amen to that hope,” said mrs. carruth, fervently, and, bidding the doctor good-bye, she returned to charles.
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as the day dragged on the storm increased in violence. mammy would not hear of mrs. carruth returning to the house, but prepared a dainty tray for her and ordered her into the bee-hive to partake of her luncheon, and afterward to lie down. perhaps she would not have been so ready to comply with the old woman’s wishes had she not resolved upon a course which she felt sure mammy would combat with all her strength. this was to spend the night with charles, whose condition did not improve. toward evening jean came battling out to the cottage, followed by constance, greatly to mammy’s consternation.
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“i ’clar’s ter goodness, yo’s all gone crazy!” she stormed as they came in from the bee-hive. “fo’ de lawd’s sake, wha’ brung you chillun out hyer? ain’ yo’ ma an’ me got ’nough fer ter pester us wid dat sick man up dar widout any mo’ tribberlations ’scendin’ ’pon us? go ’long back, i tells yo’; ’fo’ we’s driven cl’ar crazy.”
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“hush, mammy, dear,” said constance. “i want mother to go back to the house and let me take her place with charles. i am so strong that it won’t tire me, and you know i’m a good nurse, don’t you?”
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“and so am i, mammy. you know i am,” broke in jean. “please, please let me stay.”
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for a moment mammy looked as though she were about to take a wild flight into the wilder weather outside, and her wits along with her; then she stamped her foot and said:
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“yo’ chillern come an’ talk wid yo’ ma.”
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in the valley.
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“no, dear. i shall not wear myself out,” said mrs. carruth, gently, though firmly. “i want you to go back to the house to look after the maids and jean——”
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“oh, i don’t want to go back! please, please let me sleep in the bee-hive, mother. please, please do,” begged jean, clasping her arms about her mother’s waist. constance interrupted:
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“yes, mother, do. i will go back if you are determined not to, for i dare say the maids would be panic-stricken if left alone; but jean might just as well remain here with you,” for into constance’s active brain had sprung an idea which she wished to carry out, and she knew she could count upon jean’s co-operation.
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“but you and the maids would be quite alone in the house,” demurred mrs. carruth.
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“and do you think jean would be big and valiant enough to protect me from prowlers?” smiled constance. “it would be a hard-pressed burglar who would venture forth this night, i’m thinking.”
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just then a sound overhead caused mrs. carruth to raise her hand to enjoin silence, and mammy was heard to say soothingly:
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“dar, dar, honey, jis’ let me raise an’ ease yo’ up a leetle, so’s yo’ hits de sof’est fedders in de baid,” and quickly upon the softer, more soothing tones followed: “yit what in de name o’ man ever done teken yo’ out of dis house yistiddy’s mo’n i can tell. ef yo’d done taken heed ter ma’ wo’ds yo’ wouldn’ never come ter dis hyer pass.”
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then followed a series of groans from the patient.
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“mammy is getting worn out and consequently irritable,” said mrs. carruth. “yes, you may remain, jean, but constance must go back, and i must go to charles. if mammy has much more to tax her strength and mind she will be ill, and she is in no mood to care for charles now; she will do more harm than good. good-night, darling. don’t worry about me i will ’phone over to the house if i need anything in the night.” and mrs. carruth hurried upstairs.
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“come into the bee-hive, jean,” whispered constance. the little girl followed.
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“now, dear,” said constance, earnestly, “you and i have got to take matters into our own hands. can i trust you, jean?” constance dropped upon a chair, and placing both arms about the little sister looked straight into her eyes.
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the look was returned as steadfastly, and the fine little head poised in a manner which would have delighted an artist’s soul, as jean asked:
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“don’t you know you can, connie?”
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“yes, i do! and here is the situation: before we came over here i tried to ’phone over to mother, but even our wire is out of order. i dare say every wire is, and that the trouble is in the central office, owing to this storm. i did not tell mother because it would only alarm her, and she may not have occasion to use the ’phone at all; i earnestly hope she will not until it is repaired. i shall go home, but i shall not go to bed. you stay here in the bee-hive, but don’t undress, jean; roll this warm rug around you and cuddle down on the couch. i know you will drop asleep, but i know you will not sleep so soundly that you will be lost to the world altogether. i shall be on the couch in the library and can see this window from there. if charles grows worse, or you think mother is worn out and needs me, will you flash the electric light three times? i shall know what it means and come straight over.” constance spoke very quietly, but very earnestly.
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“i’ll do it. i may go to sleep, but somehow i know i shall wake up if i am needed, connie. even if i am only fourteen years old i can be a little woman, as mother so often says i am.”
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“i know you can, dear, and you are, jean; even if in many ways you are younger than most girls of your age. i don’t think any of us have grown up quite so fast as the girls around us. mother says we have not, and she does not wish us to, because there are so many more years in which we must be old than in which we can be young; but i reckon we can rise to a situation when occasion demands, and, somehow, i feel that we will both be needed to-night. dear old charles, he is pretty sick, i know, or mother would not look so anxious, and such a night as this is. why, jean, we could not get a message to dr. black however badly we might need him. we must depend entirely upon ourselves.”
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“i wonder champion did not come over.”
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“he ’phoned mother this morning, but before she got all his message the connection broke, and, i dare say, the roads have been almost impassable.”
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“impassable roads would never keep him from coming,” cried the “champion’s” champion. “there must have been something worse than the roads. i don’t know what, but i know it was something,” insisted jean.
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“yes, i am sure there must have been, he is always so thoughtful for us,” replied constance, a soft light springing into her eyes as she recalled hadyn’s unvarying kindness from the first moment she knew him. “now, good-night, honey. i hope you won’t need me at all, but i know you will be on the lookout if you do.”
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a moment later constance was struggling back to the house through the blinding storm and snowdrifts. as she entered the back door the front one opened to admit a snow-covered, panting figure, and hadyn confronted her.
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“great scott! where have you come from?” he demanded.
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“i might ask the same question,” panted constance, divesting herself of her cloak, and shaking it to free it from the snow which covered it. “get out of your coat, quick, and give it to lilly to hang in the kitchen until it is dry. what under the sun possessed you to try to come here to-night, you madman?”
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“under the sun? nay, lady, neither sun nor moon. i fear you are wandering. is it a case of blizzard-madness?” answered hadyn, as he slipped off his big ulster and cap and gave them to the maid.
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“now, come along in here and tell me all the little mother couldn’t tell me. where is she, and where is my little sister?”
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“lilly, please bring some more logs for the library fire. come in here, hadyn, and i’ll tell you all about it. mother and jean are over with charles and mammy, and i’m here to mount guard over the house and maids, who, luckily, are storm-bound.”
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“but why on earth aren’t you all here? the little mother and jean have no business to be anywhere else on such a villainous night. let me go right over after them,” and hadyn turned toward the door.
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“stop! wait! listen to me!”
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“oh, of course, mademoiselle la general,” laughed hadyn, as constance laid a detaining hand upon his arm. “i’m listening.”
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“then sit down to do it and hear the whole story. when you really know all about it you can help me; but you might as well whistle to the wind out yonder as to hope to get mother back here to-night. yes, lilly, put the logs in the basket, and you and rose please stay in the kitchen until eleven. i will be out to speak to you when mr. stuyvesant goes.”
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“when he does,” said hadyn, under his breath, then louder: “it must be rather satisfying to have such a flower-garden right indoors when it is whooping things up so outside,” and he nodded toward the maid just leaving the room. “if you could only have a ‘violet’ and a ‘pansy,’ and one or two other blossoms, you’d have a whole greenhouse.”
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constance laughed outright as she answered:
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“we’ve had wood nymphs, and some of the months—may and june, for instance—and several jewels, to say nothing of a few royalties, so nothing will surprise us now; but mammy seems equal to all of them put together. and apropos of mammy, let me tell you all about her and charles.”
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they sat down before the blazing logs while constance told of the experiences of the past twenty-four hours. hadyn listened with a troubled face.
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“i’d no idea it was so serious,” he said, when she finished, “but i am mighty glad i came over to-night. and now you are to heed what i say: you may sit here with me until eleven if you will. i’ll be right glad of your company. then you are going upstairs to bed—yes, you are, too. now, it is no use ‘argifyin’,’ to quote mammy. i’ll stay here in the library snug, warm, and as comfortable as any man could wish to be. i shall see jean’s light if she signals, and i’ll be good—yes, honest i will. you doubt it, i know, and you think i will sneak over yonder and be more bother than i am worth; but i give you my word i won’t. i’ll do exactly as you would do if you were here alone.”
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constance raised her eyes to his, and little guessed how hard it was for the man who looked into their pure, trustful depths to refrain from holding out his arms to the girl who had grown so dear to him during the past three and a half years.
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“i’ll take you at your word,” she answered.
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“good. now sit down and toast your toes before this blaze. by jove, is there anything like blazing logs and soft lamplight? they spell h-o-m-e, don’t they?” and hadyn glanced around the cosy room as though to him, at least, it held the sweetest elements of home a man could ask for.
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softly the little clock ticked the moments and hours away as they sat there together, talking over a hundred little happenings of the past years, now and then glancing over to the bee-hive. but all was quiet. a dim light shone in mammy’s bedroom, and in the bee-hive jean’s shaded electric light cast a faint halo upon the snow which continued to whirl by the window, although the wind had died down a little and the storm seemed less violent. shortly after ten constance went out to the kitchen to see that the storm-bound maids were comfortable. cots had been placed in the laundry for them, and they were probably far better off than they would have been in their own home.
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“now, are you sure you will be comfortable?” she asked hadyn when she returned to the library. he glanced about the room, at the cheerful fire and the divan, with its numberless pillows, and smiled significantly. “only trouble is, i may be too comfortable,” he said. “but you need not worry,” as a slight shade of doubt crossed constance’s face. “i won’t go to the land o’ nod. but you must, so good-night, little girl. go on upstairs and sleep well. i know just what that room looks like; i shall never forget the night you gave it up to me. if i had known it a little sooner, i should not have let you do so, although the memory of it has been one of the sweetest ones of my life. good-night.”
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“good-night, hadyn, and—thank you a thousand times.”
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if haydn held the slender fingers an extra moment, and looked earnestly into the beautiful eyes raised to his, he was hardly to be blamed.
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turning to the book shelves, he selected a book and went back to his chair before the fire. eleven and twelve were struck by the clock on the mantle shelf, but all was quiet in the little cottage at the foot of the garden. then came three single strokes in succession; twelve-thirty, one, one-thirty. hadyn remembered no more. his wild struggle through the storm earlier in the evening, the silent house, the warmth, the luxurious depth of the morris chair had all conspired against his resolutions, and three o’clock was striking when he started wide awake with a sense of calamity at hand and the deepest contrition in his heart—an hour and a half blotted out as though they had never been!
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of the shadow.
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as the night wore on, mrs. carruth and mammy grew more and more anxious for their patient. the severe weather told upon him in spite of the even temperature of the cottage, and he suffered as a man upon the rack. with the intense pain came higher temperature, and by one o’clock mrs. carruth began to see that further medical advice was imperative; something more than they could do must be done for charles, for he could not endure such torture for many more hours. furthermore, his breathing had become very labored, and mrs. carruth feared the worst from that symptom. without saying anything to mammy she slipped noiselessly into the bee-hive, meaning to ’phone to dr. black. in that little sanctum all was snug and quiet. noiselessly removing the receiver, she tried to call up central. there was no response, and a shadow fell across her face. then she tried her own home, but without result; the storm had completely disorganized the entire service. she was sorely troubled and about to slip back to charles, when jean’s face appeared at the top of the stairway, and she called softly:
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“mother, is charles worse?”
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“why, dearie! what are you doing out of your bed at this hour?”
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“don’t scold me, mumsey, i haven’t been in it, only lying on the outside, ’cause i thought you might need me; do you?”
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“no, honey, certainly not. you must undress at once and get into bed.”
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“but, mother, is charles worse? if he isn’t please let me go and sit with mammy while you come in here and go to bed; you have been up all night. if he isn’t worse you can be spared, and i’ll be all the help mammy needs. if he is worse you need me, anyway. i’ve had a long rest, and been asleep, too, though i tried hard not to.”
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as she talked, jean tiptoed down the stairs, and, coming close to her mother, slipped her arms about her waist and nestled her head against her shoulder. the past three months had made a great change in jean. for a long time it seemed as though she never meant to grow another inch, for at thirteen she was no taller than a child of eleven, although plump and strong beyond the average child. then she suddenly took a start and shot up, up, up, until now she was fully as tall as constance, but slight and pliable as a willow wand.
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mrs. carruth laid her arms caressingly about her shoulders, and rested her cheek against the wonderful hair: hair of the deepest, richest bronze, and soft and wavy to a degree.
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“my little woman,” she said, very tenderly.
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“there is so little we can do, jean. we have done practically all we know how to do, and dr. black asked me to ’phone if there seemed to be any pronounced change. i haven’t said anything to mammy, because i do not want to alarm her more than i must; but i would give anything to communicate with him, and the wires are down.”
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“yes, i know they are; connie told me so before she went home, and that was one reason she wanted me to stay here: she was afraid you would need help during the night and be unable to get it.”
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mrs. carruth was about to reply, when mammy’s frightened face appeared in the doorway.
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“yes, mammy! what is it?”
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poor old mammy! one of the child-race, she was pitifully at a loss in the face of such a situation as the present crisis. had it been any of her white folks she would have been efficient to the last degree, carrying out the precepts of “ole miss,” who “raised” her, remembering with marvellous accuracy each detail of that ante-bellum training, and performing each with a patience and tenderness incomprehensible to those who have never known the heart-service rendered by those old-time servitors. but, strange anomaly, though a characteristic so very marked in her race, mammy was utterly helpless when it came to taking the initiative for charles or herself in sickness. then she turned to her “white folks,” and if her miss jinny had bidden her drink strychnine, or give it to charles, she would have obeyed her unquestionably. strange people that they are!
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“please, come quick, miss jinny! i’se powerful trebbled. charles he sought o’ wanderin’ in his min’ and talkin’ a heap o’ foolishness.”
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without a word mrs. carruth hurried from the bee-hive in mammy’s wake, jean, unnoticed, close behind her. as she entered the room charles was sitting upright, talking wildly and gesticulating to some imaginary person at the foot of his bed. mammy, true to her instincts, flung her apron over her head, and, dropping upon her knees in the middle of the floor, cried:
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“he sees de hants! he sees de hants! his hours done numbered!” and followed it up with earnest petitions for charles’ life. mrs. carruth knew colored people too well to waste time in expostulations. she knew that the only way to bring mammy back to her senses was to set about doing for charles the things which mammy, in a more rational frame of mind, would have done herself. hurrying to his bedside, she said to the semi-delirious old man:
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“why, charles, did you miss me when i went to speak to miss jean? it is jean you wish to see, isn’t it? well, here she is right at the foot of the bed, but you can talk to her quite as well when you are lying down. there, that is better,” as charles, in obedience to her gentle easing down, let her lay him back among his pillows. mammy caught sight of the act, and it recalled her to her senses quicker than a whip lash could have done. springing to her feet, she hurried to the bedside, and taking her mistress by both hands forced her into the chair near at hand, exclaiming under her breath:
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“bress gawd, baby! wha’, wha’ yo’ mean by liftin’ dat heavy man?”
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mrs. carruth had not misjudged, but she was none the less concerned for charles who continued to ramble on to jean, who stood at the foot of the bed. a distant clock struck one-thirty. mammy was doing all she could to quiet charles, while mrs. carruth slipped into the adjoining room to prepare some medicine for him. jean chose that moment to hurry back to the bee-hive. a moment later the electric drop light was flashing its message across the snow-bound garden to the darkened house beyond. there was no response. again and again jean turned the switch, flashing out across the snow the bright light from the tungsten bulb, and watching eagerly for some response, but the house remained perfectly dark; and at length, in despair, she gave up signalling and went swiftly back to mammy’s side of the cottage. creeping softly up to the bedroom she looked in. her mother was too much occupied with charles to notice her return, and mammy was placing hot water bags at the old man’s feet. from the anxious look upon her mother’s face, jean knew that she was seriously alarmed for charles, who was trembling and quivering with a sudden chill. without a word she turned and sped back to the bee-hive. five minutes later she opened the door and slipped out into the night. the storm had nearly ceased, but the clouds, driven by a wild, bleak wind, were still scudding across the sky. there was no moon, and it would have been a brave star which dared send its cheerful gleam through that cloud rack. upon the ground the snow lay in deep wind-driven banks, in some places higher than jean’s head. all the world was dark, silent, awesome. jean never paused. she had formed her plans upon the instant, and was acting upon them as promptly. a hundred feet from the cottage old baltie’s stable loomed in the darkness, the snow upon the eastern side of it banked high as the little window over his stall. luckily the doors were upon the southern, more protected side of the building; and after struggling and wallowing through the snow until she was nearly breathless, jean reached them. pausing a moment to recover her breath, she inserted the key in the lock and opened the smaller door. she was instantly greeted by a soft nicker. baltie never slept when the footfalls, however light, of those he loved drew near.
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“baltie, baltie, dear,” cried jean, softly, running to the box and opening the door, switching on the light as she ran. but neither light nor darkness meant anything to baltie. his sensitive ears bounded his world of darkness, and love did the rest. his head was in jean’s arms in a moment.
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“can you do it, dear? can you do it for charles and mammy? i wouldn’t ask you to if i could go alone, but you are bigger and stronger than i am, baltie, even if you are so old. can you take me to dr. black’s through this deep snow? it isn’t so very far, baltie, and we’ll be careful. can you, baltie? we must have him, for charles is so sick.”
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for answer the horse nestled closer to the girl, and nickered repeatedly.
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“i know you mean ‘yes,’ dear. i know you do. i’ll be careful, baltie. i’ll cover you up all warm and snug.”
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as she talked, jean threw over baltie’s head the head and neck blanket, which charles had insisted must be part of the old horse’s impedimenta during the severe winter months. deftly pushing his ears into the ear coverings, she drew the hood over his head, his soft eyes shining upon her like two moons from the circular openings, and buttoned it around his throat. an extra blanket was quickly added, and then the old saddle was strapped on. leading baltie to the door, jean switched off the electric light, gave one lithe little spring and landed across the saddle. it had not taken her long to shift from her ordinary clothing into constance’s divided riding skirt up there in the bee-hive, or to add the heavy outer garments the inclement weather made necessary.
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“now, baltie, we must go, we must, dear. please, please do your best for charles and mammy, they have been so good to you.”
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as though he understood every word spoken to him, the horse bent to the driving wind and plunged into the unbroken road. dr. black’s home was less than a mile from mrs. carruth’s, and ordinarily jean could have walked it in less than fifteen minutes, or run it in ten, and had often done so; but all walks and roadways were now completely obliterated. she must trust to her sense of direction and to baltie’s wonderful instinct.
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on plodded the good old creature, breaking into a light lope where the wind had swept the street comparatively free of snow, wallowing, pounding, pawing into the drifts where they barred his progress, snorting his protest, not at jean, but at the elements, though never pausing in his efforts, which made him breathe hard, and more than once slow up for his second wind.
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jean had ridden from her earliest childhood, and had a man’s seat in the saddle. now she leaned forward, her arms clasped about the great, heaving neck, the while speaking encouraging words into the ears laid back to catch her voice. as they drew near the more thickly settled portion of riveredge, the blank, dense silence in which it lay impressed her strongly. during the first half mile the electric lights at measured intervals cast their fantastic gleam and shadows upon the snow. in this section they were numerous and brought into stronger relief the ghostly houses. far off some shivering dog howled dismally, and instantly jean thought of old mammy’s superstitions, and her convictions “dat ef he howl two times an’ stop, it sure is fer a man ter die.” this dog had howled “two times.” jean was not superstitious, but she was the child of southern-born parents, and had been “raised” by a very typical southern “mammy.” tradition is very hard to overcome. she shivered, but not from the biting cold, though her feet were numb from it.
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not a human being was in sight as she turned into the street upon which dr. black’s house stood five blocks further down. they might almost as well have been fifty, for the street was narrower than most of the others, and running north and south had caught the full brunt of the northeaster. more than one piazza and front door was banked nearly to the piazza roof, and the street itself practically impassable.
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baltie had come bravely thus far, but such a white mountain as now lay before him was enough to daunt a young horse, much less an old blind one. he stopped, his flanks heaving, his head drooping. jean was almost ready to give up in despair, for the cold had chilled her to the bone, and feet and hands were almost without sensation.
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“oh, baltie, baltie, my dear old horse, can’t you go a little further? can’t you, dear? please, please try just once more. it’s only a very little way now; only such a little way! i can see the light in front of dr. black’s door. i’d get off your back and walk, or try to, if i didn’t know that i couldn’t go five steps. come, baltie, please try just once more.”
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perhaps it was jean’s pleading, perhaps baltie’s wind had returned; at all events, he raised his head, gave a wild snort, a mad plunge, and, after a desperate struggle, floundered up to dr. black’s gate. the house was barely twenty feet from it, but the snow was up to jean’s waist.
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she never knew how she forced her way through it, or reached the electric button. she only knew she must do it somehow. when, in response to its prolonged jingling by his bedside, dr. black came back to this world of real things from the world of dreams, into which a long, hard day of work and exposure had carried him, and making a hurried toilet hastened down to the door, he found a huddled heap upon the doormat, and saw in the drifts beyond a quivering, panting horse.
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in two minutes the whole household was astir, kind mrs. black had jean up in her bedroom, the doctor administering restoratives, the doctor’s man had led baltie around to the stable and was caring for him with all possible despatch.
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“look after her, polly, and don’t let her leave that bed until i say she may. i must be off to mrs. carruth’s. i don’t believe she even knows this child is here. it’s all the result of this confounded storm and the wires being down. such a blizzard as this hasn’t struck riveredge in thirty years.”
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it did not take dr. black as long to reach mrs. carruth’s home as it had taken jean to reach his, and when he arrived he found a distracted household. hadyn had rushed over to the bee-hive to find jean vanished, mrs. carruth entirely absorbed with charles, who was in a very critical condition, and mammy nearly beside herself. as hadyn, in spite of mrs. carruth’s protests, insisted upon going after dr. black, he was confronted by that gentleman at the very door.
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that storm of march, 19—, claimed many a victim. more than one was frozen to death, many died from the exposure, and many more were invalids for months as the result of it. all that terrible night dr. black worked over old charles, with mammy and hadyn to aid him, and constance to vibrate between the house and the cottage, for with the first peep of dawn mr. henry’s man came over to dig out the snow-bound family and make a path from house to cottage. mrs. carruth, upon learning of jean’s desperate rush for dr. black and her collapse at his doorstep, started instantly for his home. charles could claim a great deal from her, but the claim of her own was far greater, and dr. black’s sleigh and powerful horse carried her to jean as quickly as the great snowdrifts permitted.
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but jean was really none the worse for her mad ride once she was warmed and had partaken of mrs. black’s cup of steaming hot chocolate. she was as strong and pliable as a hickory sapling, which, the storm having passed over it, springs erect and is as vigorous as ever. mrs. black soon reassured mrs. carruth, and at length had the satisfaction of seeing them both fast asleep in her guest room, mrs. carruth’s arm, even in her sleep, laid caressingly and protectingly across jean’s shoulder. both were worn out, and noon had struck before they wakened to reproach themselves for their long rest and to make inquiry for charles. dr. black had just returned, and reported a decided improvement in the old man.
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“and baltie—dear old baltie?” demanded jean.
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“baltie is sure enough in clover, little girl,” answered the good doctor. “dried clover, and last summer’s clover, to be sure, but none the less clover, for dick has nearly buried him in it, and the old fellow seems none the worse for his struggle through snowdrifts. but you are both trumps—the queen of hearts and the king, by george! i don’t know how you did it!”
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“we had to do it. there wasn’t anyone else to.”
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dr. black took the earnest face in both his hands, and, looking into the hazel eyes, said:
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“it is a pity a few more are not convinced of that ‘we had to.’”
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then he drove his guests back to their home. it was agreed that baltie should not be taken out of dr. black’s stable until the weather moderated.
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a week passed. charles was out of danger, but still required the closest attention, and constance insisted upon a nurse from memorial hospital. mammy protested, but her protests were of no avail. constance saw very quickly that weeks of careful nursing lay ahead, and she would not permit her mother to overtax her strength. mammy must attend to her cooking and the luncheon counter, now that charles could not. constance had her own hands full with her candy kitchen, for, even with mary and fanny willing to assist her, she had all she could do to keep abreast of her orders. so the nurse took command in mammy’s bedroom, and mammy had to yield.
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in the course of the next week baltie came hobbling back to his home. in spite of all the care given him at dr. black’s, the old horse showed the effects of his exposure and the terrible tax upon his strength that wild night; yet none who loved him so well dreamed that the great summons had really come to the animal which had given more than thirty years of faithful service to his friends. from little colthood he had been grandfather raulsbury’s pet until the old man’s death. then had come the dreadful interval of evil days when jabe raulsbury had so misused him, to be followed by the happier ones with the carruths—days of unremitting care, affection and happiness for baltie and those who loved him, and especially to jean and mammy. and how generously he had requited their devotion to him! indeed, the last act of his life was to be recorded as one of service to those he loved—a service which had undoubtedly saved the life of one who had tenderly ministered to his comfort. but for baltie’s devotion charles’ life could not have been saved, all agreed, and the one who loved the blind horse more than any other excepting jean would have mourned her old husband. mammy’s heart was large enough to take in all the world if they needed her love and care, though she often hid that fact beneath an assumed aggressiveness. that was mammy’s way.
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from the hour that baltie had become the joint property of jean and mammy, and later the ownership had embraced charles, they had not missed visiting his stable the first thing in the morning. for a long time mammy’s was the first voice the blind old horse heard when he greeted the morning sunlight which streamed into his big box stall; mammy’s the first hand to minister to his comfort and caress him. then, as soon as she was dressed, jean flew to the stable, and a pretty scene always followed. when charles came into the family he was the one to go first to the stable; but neither jean nor mammy ever failed to visit baltie a little later, and during those years he had become almost human. only human speech seemed denied him, but this lack he supplied by his own houyhnhum language, and the silent but most eloquent language of the eyes and ears which god has given mute creatures—each so very wonderful if dull humans will only try to learn them. in the audible one are almost as many inflections as in the broader range of the human voice, and it is a dull intellect indeed which cannot interpret:
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“i love you. i am cold. i am hungry. i am parched with thirst,” and a hundred other sentences, or read the language of the eyes and ears.
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and baltie’s vocabulary was a liberal one; his conversational powers, exceptional; his friends understanding the keenest.
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as often occurs, that blizzard, which is now history, was followed by weather as soft and balmy as mid-april rather than late march. as if by magic the snow disappeared, running away in rivers of water and leaving the turf beneath showing promising bits of green, which made one feel little tingles of joy at the hint of springtime. only in sunless spots did banks of snow linger surlily and soiled, like some malign creature beaten, but yet too vindictive to withdraw. the stable fronted south, and all the graciousness of that early spring sunshine fell upon it and entered its doors the minute they were opened. in spite of her anxiety for charles, and her increased labors as the result of his illness and convalescence, mammy had somehow found time to visit baltie each day, though she was not often able to do so early in the morning. it was jean who ran out to him long before anyone else was astir, and more than once had constance been obliged to go out after her, lest she forget breakfast, school, and everything else.
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baltie had been back in his own stable about a week when he began to show signs that the wonderful machinery which had endured for so many years was wearing out. had charles or mammy been looking after him then, they would have recognized the signs; but mr. henry’s man, though he did everything for baltie’s comfort, saw in him nothing but a worn-out old horse, which must very soon go the way of all old worn-out horses, and jean lacked experience to understand. so the climax came when no one dreamed it was pending.
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it was a wonderful morning in mid-april. out in the garden some pioneer robins had ventured into the northern world, and were calling madly to one another of the grave responsibilities of selecting building sites, and constructing homes against the arrival of their wives, who had, like themselves, been wintering in the south. on the southern terrace a few venturesome crocuses popped their heads up through the moist earth to smile a “howdy, friend,” at a passerby. off in the distance the river lay like a mirror, with vast ice floes dropping down stream with the tide, crystal barges for elaine, and moving as silently, each duplicated in the water mirror that floated them, as were also the opposite shore and mountains. a wonderful picture, mirage-like in its outline and exquisite coloring. those who knew that river best read the signs unerringly. the farmers living in the environs of riveredge called this peculiar atmospheric condition a “weather breeder.”
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there was something in jean which fairly leaped out to meet the newly awakened world and springtide. from a little child she had lived very close indeed to nature’s heart. the first balmy breath of spring seemed to intoxicate her; the first bird-call could throw her into an ecstacy; an early spring blossom invariably caused a rapture; summer’s languor and richness bore her off into a beautiful world of her own; autumn’s “mellow, yellow, ripening days, floating in a golden coating of a dreamy, listless haze,” conveyed her instantly into dreamland; winter’s frost and sparkle produced the wildest exhilaration. was it any wonder that, coming out into the early morning sunlight of that soft springlike day, with bird notes filling the air, and her own pulses thrilling with life at its dawn, jean’s cheeks glowed and her eyes sparkled with the very joy of living?
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it was still very early and no one yet astir. over in mammy’s cottage a faint smoke wraith floated up from the chimney, telling that mammy was astir. jean had thrown a warm cape about her, for the morning air still had its chill, and, enticed by the sunlight, she ran down the piazza steps, inhaling deep breaths of the delicious air. pausing a moment to revel in it all, her eyes fell upon the stable. the next second she was darting away like a swallow, no premonition in her heart of what lay behind its closed doors.
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opening the door she entered with a soft whistle. when had there failed to be an instant response to that whistle? this time there was silence only.
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“oh, baltie, dear! come, baltie!” she called, running across to the box stall and opening the door. then there was a low cry, and jean stood for a moment as though petrified. on the sweet, clean straw lay the old horse, body inert, limbs relaxed, head resting upon its bed of soft straw as a tired, worn-out veteran’s might rest upon his pillow, his eyes closed, and without a flutter of the delicate nostrils to indicate breathing. life seemed extinct. with a piteous cry jean glided to the horse’s head and dropped upon her knees, clasping her arms about the silky neck.
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“baltie, oh, baltie, dear, look at me! speak to me,” she begged.
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the eyelids fluttered, and the faintest possible nicker was breathed through the nostrils as he strove to raise his head. too late! the angel of death was about to claim one of his most faithful creatures, and, let us hope, the recording angel was already checking off the deeds of a devoted life and a disposition which many of his friends claiming immortality might emulate.
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slowly the sunlight which baltie and jean so loved crept around and looked into the window of the stall. on a branch just beyond the window a bluebird caroled as though not in all the sunlit world was there sorrow or death.
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in the stall jean sat motionless. her first impulse had been to rush for aid; but who could aid in this extremity? instinctively the girl knew it to be the end, and somehow, in her great love for her pet, she did not wish anyone else to intrude upon the moment of his passing. she had no idea of the flight of time. ten minutes or an hour might have passed without her noting them. baltie lay perfectly still, his head in her lap, her arms clasping his neck. gently, sweetly as he had lived, so was baltie slipping out of the world of sentient creatures. only the faintest flutter of breath indicated that life lingered. his effort to greet the one he loved seemed to have demanded his last atom of vitality. after a little jean’s sobs ceased, though tears still fell upon the satiny head. she did not know how long she had been in the stall, when just the softest sigh was breathed from the delicate nostrils, a faint quiver passed over the great frame, and baltie was at rest forever. gently as he had lived, so had baltie died.
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two hours later mammy came out to the stable in quest of jean.
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in the springtide.
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it is probable that not even those who loved her best realized how jean had loved the pet which had been her daily companion for nearly four years. the very fact that she had rescued him from a miserable death, nursed and tended him to restored health, had felt his love for her growing with each day, made baltie nearer and dearer to her than a young, vigorous horse could ever have been.
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baltie was now resting in his lowly bed at the foot of the garden, but jean did not cease to grieve for him. when mammy had found her with baltie’s head in her lap that morning there had been a pathetic little scene—for mammy loved the old horse as dearly as jean loved him; but had she been entirely indifferent to him, the fact that her baby loved him would have been enough to exalt him above all other animals in mammy’s sight. jean was utterly exhausted by her grief and benumbed from her cramped position when mammy found her, and the good old soul was genuinely alarmed when she tried to help the child to her feet. baltie’s weight and her cramped position had completely arrested circulation. in spite of her own grief mammy lifted baltie’s head from jean’s lap, laid it gently upon the straw and then helped the girl up, or tried to, for jean was too numb to stand.
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“bress gawd, what comin’ to us nex’?” she cried, half carrying jean to the house, where constance met them.
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it was hours before jean could walk unaided, and many days before the girl smiled again. mrs. carruth grew troubled, and one afternoon spoke to hadyn about her.
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“i am so distressed about it. she is filled with remorse for having taken baltie out that night, and that, added to her grief for him, is making the child positively ill. i have done my best to make her understand that baltie had already lived far beyond a horse’s allotted years, and that very soon he must have come into his long rest, but i seem to make no impression.”
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“if i had been on hand when needed he would be alive this minute, and my little girl happy and cheery as ever,” protested hadyn. “i’ll never, never forgive myself that lapse as long as i live, and nothing i can do will ever atone for it. it was the most contemptible failure of which i have ever been guilty; but i declare to you, i’m going to do something to make reparation. where is jean now?”
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“she went down to the arcade for constance about an hour ago, but she ought to be back very soon.”
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“i’ll walk down and meet my little sister. i’ve a scheme simmering far back in my witless mind which may take form and shape if i can keep awake. au revoir, little mother,” and with the grace so characteristic of him, hadyn raised her hand and pressed his lips to it! there was no one on earth he loved as he loved this gentle, gracious woman.
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riveredge in its late april dress was very dainty. she seemed to be preparing for easter, which this year fell late in the month, and over all the world lay the softest veil of gossamer green. the air was redolent of cherry and apple blossoms, and filled with bird notes.
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as hadyn walked down the steep roadway, which led from the carruth’s to the broader highway, he saw jean coming toward him and waved his hand in greeting. as he hurried toward her he called:
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“well met, little sister,” raising his hat and extending his hand.
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a quick light sprung into jean’s eyes. “i like that,” she said, with a quaint, little upraising of her head.
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“like what, jean?”
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“i like to have a man bow as you do, champion. because i’m only fourteen and still wear short skirts some of them seem to think a nod and ‘how-d’-do’ is all that is required of them, but i don’t agree with them.”
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hadyn did not betray the amusement this characteristic little comment caused him. he knew jean to be more observing of the amenities than most girls of her age, and that all her southern instincts demanded the chivalrous attention which generations of her ancestors had received from men. many of her girl friends laughed at her and teased her, but that did not lower her standard of what was due womanhood from manhood.
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“i should be unworthy the name you’ve given me if i forgot,” said hadyn.
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“it wouldn’t make one bit of difference whether i had given you that name or not, you couldn’t be different.”
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“thank you. but where are you going now?”
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“nowhere in particular. amy is away and connie up to her eyes in the month’s accounts. so i’m adrift.”
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“i’d love to, but i must let mother know, she might worry.”
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“she won’t, because she knows i came to ask you to go with me if i could find you.”
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they struck into a side road, which presently became a mere wood path leading up the mountain, and from which a little higher up an exquisite picture of the river and opposite mountains could be seen. hadyn, pausing at a broad, flat rock, said:
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“let’s sit down and enjoy all this. come, sit beside me, little sister.”
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jean dropped down upon the lichen-covered rock, warm and dry in the afternoon sunshine which fell upon it, and said:
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“isn’t it beautiful? isn’t all the world beautiful? why need anybody or anything in it ever die, and why will other people make them. oh, champion, if i only hadn’t made baltie!” and quick tears sprung into her eyes. during the two weeks since baltie’s death jean had actually lost flesh and grown pale in her sorrow and remorse for what she believed to be purely the result of her want of thought.
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hadyn put his hand on hers and, looking into her eyes, asked:
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“little sister, do you know how that hurts me? it was not your want of forethought that night, but my faithlessness which carried you out into that terrible storm, and i shall never, never forgive myself. you might have been the victim instead of old baltie, but as it is his life paid the penalty of my lapse. true, he was very old and might not have lived a great deal longer, but his end certainly would not have been hastened, or your loving heart grieving as it now is had i done my duty. can you ever forgive me, dear?”
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as hadyn talked a swift change swept over jean’s expressive face; a new light sprung into her eyes, and she said:
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“why, champion, i never for one single second blamed you. did you think i did? oh, you couldn’t think that, not when you know how dearly i love you, and how good you’ve always been to baltie and me. why, you saved his life, you know, and have always helped me look out for him; and you’ve done hundreds and hundreds of things for us both. please, please never say that again. you didn’t know i was going to signal that night.”
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“ah, but i did know it, and it was only upon that condition that constance consented to go upstairs to bed. she thought she could trust me to answer that signal, but you see she couldn’t, and all this is the result. you are grieving for your pet until you are almost ill from it, and i feel like—like, oh, like the most contemptible thing that ever happened. what can i do to help, little one? it hurts me to see you or yours unhappy.”
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“i shall not be unhappy,” was jean’s instant assertion. “i do miss baltie terribly, for i loved him, and—and he seemed so much mine, and was so good and faithful—” here a little sob checked her words. hadyn slipped his arms about her, and she leaned her head upon his shoulder. this big “brother” was a great source of strength and comfort to her. then she resumed: “but i shall not let it make you unhappy, too. i dare say i am silly—the girls laugh at me and say i am, but i can’t help it—when i love anybody, or anything, i love them, and that’s all there is about it. baltie knew me better than he knew anyone else, and loved me better. no one knows or believes how he understood me, or i him, and it is no use trying to make them; but i feel as if some part of me had gone without having him to love and visit and pet every day, and have him snuggle up to me. i wish horses could have monuments raised to their memory, and some record kept of their good deeds and faithfulness for people to read. my goodness, more good things could be said of baltie this minute, and they’d be true, too, than can be said of that dreadful old jabe raulsbury; and yet when he died last year they put up a tombstone for him the very first thing, and what do you think they had inscribed on it?”
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“i’m sure i don’t know,” and hadyn smiled at the thought of any commendatory legend being placed upon the monument of the irascible jabe, whose life had been one long series of quarrels with his neighbors, brutality to the dumb creatures which had lucklessly fallen into his hands, and whose last act had been to fly into a wild rage and beat his wife. fortunately, it had been his last transgression, for a neighbor, hearing her screams, had rushed to her aid, and jabe, hearing his approach, and starting to escape by a back door, had pitched headlong through an open trap-door and into his cellar. several broken bones and some internal injuries brought him his just desserts of four months’ torture, ending in his death, and the town drew a sigh of relief. then his widow erected a monument to his memory. it bore this memorial to the deceased jabe:
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“a loving husband, tender brother. never shall we find another,”
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the first statement was open to doubt, also, the second, for ned raulsbury, who had not had the pleasure of fraternal intercourse with his brother jabe for many years, unless a ten years’ lawsuit to secure his own share of the estate represented it, probably congratulated himself that he was not likely to “find another.”
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jean repeated the legend with infinite scorn, and hadyn laughed outright. then growing serious again, he said:
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“perhaps a better record of jabe’s true character is preserved in his neighbors’ memory of him, and i should think that mrs. raulsbury might now draw her first free breath. it is true that a man’s death can sometimes bring oblivion of his evil deeds. poor old baltie might have told a few of jabe’s, but even had he possessed human speech i doubt if he would have so employed it. baltie was a gentleman. and, little sister, as a gentleman he must have a monument. yes, i mean it. a shaft shall mark the old horse’s resting-place down there in the garden, and i shall have it erected; it is the least i can do under the circumstances. don’t say anything about it to anyone. what would you like inscribed on it, dear?”
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as hadyn talked in his deep, softly-modulated voice, jean’s face grew radiant. at his concluding question she clasped his hand in both of hers and pressed her lips to it again and again, exclaiming:
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“no one but you would ever have understood! no, not anyone. you have always understood; right from the very first day i knew you. baltie would never have been saved on that awful day, or ever have been mine at all, if it hadn’t been for you, champion, and oh, how hard, hard, hard i love you for it. please don’t ever go away from us; i couldn’t live without you now; none of us could; you’ll be just one of us always, won’t you, champion?”
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jean was too deeply in earnest to be aware that hadyn’s face was flushing, or of the strange expression creeping into his eyes: a light of wonderful tenderness and yearning. he looked steadily into the eyes regarding him so earnestly as he said:
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“little sister, do you realize that your home is the only real home i have known in many years? that when you and eleanor and constance agreed to share with me ‘a part of mother,’ as you so sweetly expressed it, you made me your debtor forever and ever? can you understand how very dear that little mother of yours is to me, or how much her daughters’ welcome into their home has done to spare me a great many lonely hours? true, there are many friends in the outer world, but that house was once my mother’s home, you know, and all my boyhood was spent in it. to go back to it under almost any conditions would seem almost like entering my own doors, but to be welcomed to it as i have been makes it—well, some day you may understand just what it does make it, little girl. and now i want to tell you something else: you miss old baltie, i know, and nothing can ever quite fill his place for you, but your heart is big, true and warm enough to hold another, isn’t it? for some time i have been dissatisfied with the care given comet down in that south riveredge boarding stable. they are careless in grooming him, and someone, i can’t find out which man, is not treating him kindly. comet never knew the meaning of a harsh or impatient word until he went there, never feared a blow——”
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“strike comet!” cried jean, all her sense of justice outraged.
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“not exactly strike him, i think, but there are many ways of making a high-strung, thoroughbred horse’s life a torture. a sudden slap when grooming him, a shout if he does not step around briskly, or even a blow on his muzzle with the curry-comb. they may not inflict any great amount of pain, but they soon get on his nerves, and the next thing we know we have a horse that starts and plunges at the first sharp word; jerks his head up if anyone raises a hand toward it; shrinks at the sight of a curry-comb as from an instrument of torture. comet never before manifested any of those signs, but now i’m beginning to notice them, and i don’t like it a little bit. i wouldn’t have that horse ruined for ten times his price in dollars, and so i’m going to see what i can do to place him where all chance of it will be removed.”
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“where, where are you going to send him?” cried jean, clasping her hands in her eagerness.
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“how would you like to have him come and live down yonder with you?” asked hadyn, nodding toward jean’s home, which could be seen from their woodland nook.
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“in our stable: comet? to be there all the time so i could go out to see him every single day, and he’d grow to love me just as baltie did? do you really mean it? could i?”
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“i think comet will meet your advances more than half way. he has been treated like a child since his colthood, and you know how he understands me. i’ve had a long talk with the little mother, and she has agreed to let me keep comet down there, and my man parsons is to take care of him, to sleep in the coachman’s room upstairs and board with mammy. you know most of his color find ‘just naturally doing nothing’ quite to their liking; but parsons seems to be of different clay, so we will make him happy by keeping him busy. good plan all around, don’t you think so?”
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“i think you are just the splendidest, dearest man that ever lived, and comet shall have the best care in all the world, and if any living being so much as points a finger at him i’ll—i’ll—well, i just tell you, they’d better not! now, let’s go right back home and tell connie all about it. you know she loves comet as much as you or i love him, and she’ll be tickled to death to have him right there,” and jean bounded to her feet all enthusiasm, her eyes shining and cheeks glowing, for something to love and care for was absolutely essential to jean’s happiness.
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and so it came to pass that about a week later comet was installed in the carruth stable, and if ever a horse came into an earthly paradise, comet came into one in this new home.
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jean was in a rapture, and truly no horse-lover could fail to fall complete victim to comet’s charms. it was the balm needed for jean’s sorrow for baltie, and when, in the course of the following weeks, a granite shaft was placed over baltie’s grave, the little girl was as happy as she well could be.
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the shaft bore the legend:
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for thirty years a faithful friend and servitor.
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perhaps in some more blissful realm your eyes will beam on us again, and we shall find that great and small, god is the father of us all.
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mammy makes a discovery.
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june had come, and with june came eleanor’s graduation. during her various holidays eleanor had returned to riveredge, and with each return of eleanor there was vigorous renewal of visits from homer forbes. forbes seemed deeply occupied in the intervals, and those most interested in the progress of affairs at the irving school wondered at his long absence during the afternoons and his frequent walks up the mountain to a plateau at its summit. more than once had some of the pupils of the irving school met him as he strolled along toward it, head bent in deepest meditation, hat drawn down over his eyes, hands clasped behind him, and “munchin’, munchin’, munchin’, fer all de spi’t an’ image ob a goat,” said mammy, who frequently came upon him as he passed through the arcade, for he never set forth upon his rambles without fortifying himself with a box of constance’s candies.
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since the fall jean had not journeyed to the irving school with her candies, so the sweet-tooth forbes was obliged to go after his sweeties or do without them. but it did not seem to inconvenience him. the arcade lay upon his way, and nothing short of dynamite was ever likely to hurry him. he would buy his box of chocolates and start off, leaving behind him a little trail of the paraffin papers in which they had been wrapped, and by which anyone so minded might have followed him miles. sometimes, if he had absent-mindedly forgotten to eat any luncheon, he would supplement his box of candies with some of mammy’s sandwiches, and it was upon one of these occasions that his call at mammy’s counter led to a curious disclosure.
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with the warm spring weather charles’ health improved steadily; but mammy had no idea of risking a repetition of her recent experiences by permitting charles to take needless risks. on dull days or damp ones charles must bide at home in his cottage, or do little indoor jobs for his mistress. true, hadyn’s man left very little for the old man to do, for hadyn had been very careful to tell parsons that mrs. carruth must not want for any service he could render her, and at the same time tactfully spare old charles’ feelings. and parsons was a clever young negro, as well as a devoted one to hadyn.
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and it so fell out that mammy went down to the arcade rather oftener than usual that spring, and consequently saw many things. among others was the frequency with which mr. elijah sniffins haunted arch number one.
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now, mammy had absolutely no use for mr. elijah sniffins, as may be remembered. of course, she conceded him the right to purchase all the candy he wished; but why should he dawdle over his selection, and then tarry to talk with miss boggs until the girl seemed almost panic stricken? as near as mammy could discover, she wished him anywhere but in arch number one, and one saturday morning mammy took it upon herself to keep a sharp lookout. several times during the morning she made excuses to go down to the counter for boxes of candy for some of her own customers, and twice found sniffins there engaged in a very confidential conversation with miss boggs. upon her approach he made most impressive bows to the young lady, and departed with slow insolence.
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“’pears lak dat man powerful set ’pon dese hyer candies,” remarked mammy.
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“yes, i guess he does like them pretty well,” answered miss boggs.
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“you know him quite a spell back?” was mammy’s next question.
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“oh, yes, for some time,” was the hasty answer. “did you want some more of those pralines, mammy?” and miss boggs fluttered nervously among the boxes in the case, bending low to avoid mammy’s sharp eyes. as mammy stood talking homer forbes came strolling up to the candy counter.
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“good-morning, mammy blairsdale. as usual, you have a watchful eye upon miss constance’s interests, i see.”
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“mor’in’, marsa fo’bes. yas, sir. dat’s what ma eyes were done give me fo’, an’ dey ain’t often playin’ me no tricks, neider. dey’s good, sharp eyes, if dey is ol’ ones,” was mammy’s sibyl-like answer.
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“you proved that fact to me many months ago,” said forbes, with one of his whimsical, inscrutable smiles. “i should hate to have a guilty conscience and have you cast your eyes upon me. i’d give myself away as sure as shooting. i’d be sure you’d read my secret if i had one. lucky i haven’t!”
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“yas, sir, ’tis. mos’ culled folks has de gif ob secon’ sight, dey say. i ain’t rightly know what secon’ sight is mase’f, but i knows dis much p’intedly: i knows dat dey ain’t many folks what kin fool me fer long. dey like ’nough fool me a little while, but i ketches dem sooner or later. yas, sah, i does. yo’ gwine for one ob yo’ strolls terday? ’pears lak yo’ powerful taken wid dat mountain walk, yo’ go ’long up dat a-way so f’equently. better stop ter ma lunch counter an’ git a snack ter take ’long wid yo’.”
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how innocent the words, yet what a strange effect they produced upon miss boggs. forbes did not notice it at all, but mammy missed nothing.
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“good idea. i’ll be along presently,” said forbes, as he selected his box of chocolates, and reached into the pocket of his trousers for the change, rather abstractedly staring at miss boggs as he did so. the girl seemed greatly disconcerted by the look, though, as a matter of fact, forbes himself was barely aware of her presence. it was not lost upon mammy, who had given one swift, backward glance as she turned to go down the arcade. a moment later forbes reached her counter.
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“give me a good snack to-day, mammy blairsdale. i’ve much on my mind these days, and must keep the brain well fed.”
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“reckons yo’ll find dat wholesome-lak,” returned mammy, handing him a neat little package.
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“what’s the damage?” he asked.
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“none ’tall lessen yo’ drap it, er sits on it. if yo’ does dat it’ll squash.”
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“nonsense! how much?”
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“ain’t i say nothin’, sah?—wid de complements ob de firm,” was mammy’s grandiloquent answer. then, coming closer, she asked:
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“massa fo’bes, i wonner if yo’ kin he’p me wid somepin what’s pesterin’ ma min’ mightily?”
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“i’ll help you if i can, mammy blairsdale. what is it?”
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“kin yo’ tell me who dat girl down yonder is?”
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“which girl?” asked forbes, turning to look down the corridor.
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“none yo’ kin see. i means de one dat’s yonder at miss constance’s counter.”
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“oh, that one? why, she is a miss boggs, isn’t she?”
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“no, she ain’t,” contradicted mammy, emphatically. “she may call herse’f miss boggs if she wanter, but i’ll bait yo’ she ain’t miss boggs no mo’n i’m miss brown! i’se seen dat girl somewhar’s else befo’, an’ i’se gwine ter fin’ more ’bout her dan i knows now. she favors someone else i knows, an’ i ain’t got er mite er use fer dat someone else, neider. is yo’ know mr. ’lijer sniffins?”
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“the fire insurance agent down on state street?”
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“yas, sir, dat’s him i means.”
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“yes, by sight, and enough to have him insure the few worldly goods i possess.”
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“he’s at dat counter de hull endurin’ time, ’specially when he git a notion miss constance gwine come down, and he’n dat girl jes’ as thick as thieves.”
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“he and miss constance?” cried forbes, aghast.
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“gawd bress ma soul, no, sir. i means dat miss boggs; an’ what i wants ter fin’ out is what fo’ he got any call ter jist na’chelly live dar.”
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“maybe it’s a charming romance right under your very eyes, mammy blairsdale. surely you do not wish to play the kill-joy?”
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“kill-joy! huh!” retorted mammy. “i ain’t gwine be no fool, neider. i tells yo’ i never is like dat man, an’ if he’s takin’ ter pesterin’ dat girl he gotter quit; an’ if ’tain’t de girl it’s some other divilmint he got in his haid. i ain’ trus’ him no furder’n i kin see his shadder; no, i ain’.”
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“has he been there when miss constance was at the counter?”
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“if he ain’t bin dar, he bin whar he kin watch her ’thout her s’pici’nin’ it. time’n agin i’se done seen him tip in dat men’s furnishin’ arch, number six, pertendin’ lak he buyin’ neckties an’ all kynds ob fummadiddles. reckon he do buy a heap, too, for he jes’ splurgin’ fer fair dese days.”
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“dare say he is trying to make a good impression upon the lady of his heart,” laughed forbes.
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“d’ssay he tryn’ fer ter mak’ a ’pression on someone else, an’ he better quit if he knows what’s good fer him. now, what dat girl scuttlin’ down yonder fer?” was her quick exclamation. over forbes’ shoulder she had caught sight of miss boggs hurrying down the corridor, ostensibly toward the lavatory.
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“candy makes her fingers sticky, mammy blairsdale,” was forbes’ half-idle comment as he turned to look over his shoulder in the direction of mammy’s glance. at that very instant miss boggs’ profile was distinctly outlined against the white marble wall behind her, and, strange coincidence, elijah sniffins, turning suddenly around the corner, came face to face with her. for a brief second each face was distinctly outlined, then the man and girl passed their opposite ways.
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but in that instant forbes had received an impression swift as an electric shock. when he turned to look at mammy, she remarked:
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“reckons yo’ ain’t so near-sighted as dem glasses ’ceivin’ folks inter believin’, sah.”
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“where does sniffins live, mammy?”
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“don’ know no mo’n de daid,” scoffed mammy.
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“where does miss boggs live?”
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“bress de lawd!” exclaimed the old woman, apparently apropos of nothing.
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“guess i’ll cut out the stroll up mount parnassus and look after my insurance. i’m afraid i ought to renew that premium pretty soon. good-bye, mammy blairsdale. i’ll see you later.”
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“good-bye, sah! yas, sah, reckon yo’ had better see me later.”
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with his package of luncheon and box of candies, and, as usual, leaving a trail of paraffin papers behind him, forbes strolled out of the arcade, incidentally noting that sniffins was selecting cigars at the counter next mammy’s. once he was beyond the portals of the arcade, his accustomed deliberation of air and manner fell from him, and with a muttered “i’ll learn what is back of all that or jump overboard” he sped along toward state street at a rate which would have startled his friends had any chanced to meet him.
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no one but the office boy was in sniffins’ office.
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“where’s mr. sniffins?” demanded forbes.
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“when will he be back?”
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“what in thunder do you know, then?”
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“right you are, son!” and turning forbes pretended to leave the office. suddenly pausing, he whirled around to say:
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“give me sniffins’ home address; i’ll ’phone to him there this evening.” it was a venture, but worth while.
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“six-twenty westbank road.”
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“day,” and the boy returned to the fascinations of “tom, the cow-puncher.”
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then forbes went his way up the mountains, having accomplished his object much quicker than he had hoped to. had anyone been watching him, once he reached the summit, they might have questioned his sanity. deliberately placing his candy box and his luncheon upon a stump, he began pacing off distances: twenty long strides toward the river, then twenty at right-angles, pausing to peer toward the mighty stream flowing six hundred feet below him, for the cliffs were precipitous at that point.
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“good site. magnificent view. constant inspiration. bound to succeed. purely classical. this will emphasize the illusion. but it must not prove an illusion; no, not for a moment. it will be a beautiful reality—a crystallized dream. we will set up our lares and penates in its very center—ahem! i mean—i mean—well i’ll try to persuade her to set hers up beside mine. wonderful girl! extraordinary, very! fell in with my idea at once—at least thought the plan—what was it she pronounced it? ah, i recall, ‘truly altruistic.’ truly altruistic. yes, that was it. excellent choice of words. invariably apt and to the point. yes, the building shall face this way. her window—my lord!” and the monologue came to an abrupt end as the speaker, turning a vivid scarlet, made a grab for his edibles, and, seating himself upon a warm rock, began to devour his luncheon with the dispatch of the animal mammy insisted he resembled. the sun was sinking into the west when forbes came strolling up to mrs. carruth’s piazza, where the family had gathered for their afternoon tea which old charles was serving. it was the delight of charles’ heart to serve this little repast.
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this time it was iced tea and lemonade, with some of mammy’s flaky jumbles and a box of constance’s candy. that piazza was an inviting spot. hammocks, lounging chairs and bamboo settees made it more than luxurious, and the family spent all the time possible in this corner, which seemed to catch every passing breeze from the river.
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they rose to welcome their guest and offer him refreshment. it was eleanor who first reached him, and it was beside eleanor he ensconced himself upon one of the pillow-laden settees.
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“where on earth have you been, you tramp?” asked hadyn where he swayed idly back and forth in a hammock, jean nestling beside him. jean was never ten feet from hadyn if she could help it. his arm encircled her, and her head rested against his shoulder as she watched forbes. jean was growing into a very beautiful young girl, though still a child at heart. “a thin slip of a girl like a new morn” exactly described her. though jean was not thin. she was simply lithe and supple.
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“just on one of my strolls up the mountain. great old mountain! fine view up there! wonderful place for a residence!” replied forbes, devouring jumbles at an alarming rate and quenching his thirst with glass after glass of lemonade.
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“great if you have an idea of perfecting an aeroplane. personally, i’d not relish rambling up there twice daily, and at present the trail leaves something to be desired for vehicles which navigate upon this mundane sphere,” laughed hadyn.
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“how do you know that mr. forbes hasn’t already invented an air-ship?” asked constance. “i hear he goes up there very often, and he may have ways and means of which we are ignorant.”
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“only shank’s mare,” answered forbes, stretching out a pair of long, dusty legs. “jove! i am a sight. i didn’t know i was so disreputable. beg your pardon, mrs. carruth, for intruding upon you like this. truth is, i hurried down that trail like an avalanche, for i’d spent more time at mammy’s counter than usual. by the way, miss constance, mammy asked me to look up an address for her. will you please give it to her for me?”
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“tell her it is 620 westbank road.”
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“six-twenty westbank road!” repeated constance, in a surprised voice. “why, that is katherine boggs’ address, and i am almost sure that mammy knows it. why did she ask for katherine’s address, i wonder?”
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“don’t know, i’m sure, for mammy’s ways and wishes are beyond the ken of the average mortal,” laughed forbes, as he rose to take leave. as he was about to descend the steps he turned to eleanor.
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“by the way, if you haven’t anything special on hand for to-morrow afternoon, won’t you come for a stroll with me?” he asked.
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“now, don’t you do it, eleanor,” broke in hadyn. “he means to drag you clear to the top of that mountain, and these july days are over-warm for violent exertion. can’t you see, forbes, that the very thought of it is making her cheeks flush?”
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“here, eat another jumble, quick!” cried constance, catching up the plate and rushing to the hammock.
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eleanor and forbes had sauntered off down the terrace. hadyn took a jumble, and with a laugh crowded the whole cake into his mouth, his eyes dancing with mischief.
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at that moment mammy popped her head out upon the piazza to ask:
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“is yo’ chillen all got ’nough jumbles?”
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“one of them has more than he can manage,” was constance’s merry reply. “look at him, mammy. it was the only way i could close his mouth when he was inclined to say more than was wise.”
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“don’ believe dat, nohow. marse hadyn ain’ never is ter say wha’ he no b’isness ter,” asserted mammy.
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“hah! i’ve one champion, anyway,” choked hadyn.
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“two,” corrected jean.
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“oh, mammy,” called constance after the retreating figure. “mr. forbes says the address you wanted is 620 westbank road.”
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“huh? wha’ yo’ say?” cried mammy, whirling about and coming out upon the piazza again, her face a study.
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“yes, miss boggs’ address, mammy. why did you ask mr. forbes about it? i could have given it to you, you know.”
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“my lawd!” was mammy’s brief retort, and, turning as quickly as she had come, she hurried indoors once more.
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“i shall never understand mammy if i live to be a hundred years old” said constance. “i often believe i’ve solved her riddle, then presto! here comes a new phase.”
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“leave her alone, constance. don’t try to solve it. just take her as she is, and make sure that her ‘chillen’ come first in her thoughts,” said hadyn. “but, by the by, will you come for a ride to-morrow afternoon?”
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mammy a sherlock holmes.
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during the following week independence day was celebrated, and such had become the fame of both mammy’s luncheons and constance’s candies, that these two busy women found every moment filled more than full.
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each had reason to remember another july fourth, and mary willing most reason of all. the mary willing of this year bore little resemblance to the mary willing of that one, and a happier girl it would have been hard to find. fanny was now staying with mary, sharing with her the pretty little room in mrs. carruth’s home, and had quite won her way into mrs. carruth’s heart by her sweet, gentle ways.
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during the spring poor, shiftless jim willing had taken himself and his family out west, thanks to hadyn’s influence in securing for him a position upon a large farm in minnesota, where he was not only compelled to work, but where also, thanks to hadyn, he could not loaf and drink, for the man whom he served was not to be trifled with. in may the family had emigrated, to the intense satisfaction of those most deeply interested in mary and fanny, and the boundless relief of their neighbors.
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in the course of the week which followed her suspicions concerning katherine boggs, mammy began to lay her plans, and, as usual, with her accustomed shrewdness. she did not wish constance to suspect her interference, but she was fully resolved to get to the bottom of the matter. mammy had already formed her opinion, and mammy was not often wrong. fate seemed to favor her, for one morning, when she happened to be at her counter, elijah sniffins entered the arcade, and going to the cigar stand bought a cigar, which he lighted and began to smoke. he then strolled down toward the candy counter. it was a warm, sultry day, with scarcely a breath stirring. the window giving upon the street in the arch was open, as was the door leading from constance’s little office, to a short hall communicating with the side street. from her counter mammy watched sniffins until he entered the candy arch, and then slipping out of the rear door of the arcade made her way around the block and entered constance’s office by the side door.
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for greater protection constance had hung china silk curtains across the grillwork, which divided her office from the counter, but these, while affording her perfect seclusion, did not cut off the sound of a customer’s footfalls.
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under ordinary circumstances, mammy would have scorned to resort to such measures to obtain her end, but she felt pretty sure that her miss constance was being tricked for some purpose, and felt herself justified in fighting fire with fire.
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with exceptional wisdom for her years constance had arranged with charles and mammy a little code of signals on the electric buttons beside her desk and under the counter in her arch. the signals had served to good purpose, as has already been shown, for old charles had come most opportunely when needed one morning. the code was simple: one ring meant, “are you there?”; two, “come to my counter”; three, “please ’phone up to mr. porter that miss carruth needs him at once.” this last call was clearly an emergency call and had never been put to the test; but both mammy and charles, as well as the young colored boy who served at mammy’s counter, knew that it must not be disregarded for one instant if it did come. constance never knew why she had added it to the simple little code, for she certainly never anticipated any special need for it. still, it was a comfort to the young girl to feel that, should anything serious occur, she could instantly turn to mr. porter.
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mammy entered the office unheard by the two people in the arch, the rumble of vehicles in the street drowning all sound of her footfalls. sniffins was standing at the counter in earnest conversation with miss boggs. presently mammy overheard these words:
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“lige, i can’t! i just can’t any longer. she’s too lovely to me.”
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“ah, shut up that stuff. what does she do for you, anyway! nothin’ mor’n anybody else would, an’ she gets enough out o’ you for seven dollars a week. gosh, she’s makin’ seventy if she’s makin’ a cent. here, lemme see that last memorandum of sales made.”
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“i haven’t got it here,” was the low-spoken reply.
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“then where have you got it? i want it, do you understand.”
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“i don’t see why you want it. i don’t see what good it does you, anyway, to know how much candy is sold here,” was the querulous answer.
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“ah, what do you know, anyway? you never did have enough sense to go in out of the rain. i know what i want it for. when i’m sure this business is makin’ the right-sized pile, i’m goin’—well, never mind what i’m going to do. but what i want you to do right now is to strike for ten dollars a week—see? you’ve been here six months on seven dollars, an’ that’s long and plenty. now we’re going to have more of the profits.”
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katherine merely shook her head stubbornly.
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“does that mean that you won’t?” asked lige, in an ugly tone.
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“yes, it does.”
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“all right, all right. then you can dust your sweet self out of 620 mighty quick. no happy home for you of my puttin’ up unless you do as i say, miss prude. now where’s that memorandum i want?”
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as he spoke lige made a move as though he intended to go behind the counter. poor, simple little katherine! she had never been intended to play a double game.
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at that moment mammy pressed the button four times. here was a situation needing a firmer hand than hers. a moment later the boy at mammy’s arch was ’phoning up to mr. porter’s office.
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“please, sir, i just got four rings from miss carruth’s candy arch, and mrs. blairsdale, she say if ever i git that, i must call you up right smart, and ask you please to go there, ’cause miss constance ain’t never goin’ to ring four rings unless she need you quick.”
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“i’ll be there inside of two minutes, fred,” and the receiver was snapped back.
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“get away, lige; are you crazy?” cried katherine, under her breath, at the same time foolishly making a dash for her pocketbook which lay upon a shelf behind her. as she clasped it lige caught her wrist in a grip which made her cry aloud in pain. at that moment mr. porter entered the arch. lige dropped katherine’s arm and made a dash for constance’s sanctum, but mammy had anticipated all this; she had shut and locked the door leading to the side street.
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“mebby yo’ t’ink mos’ eve’ybody as big a fool as yo’ is, mr. sniffins, but yo’ see dey’s some wise an’ hones’ ones yit, don’ yo’? now, sah, yo’ set yo’sef right spang down on dat ar’ cheer t’will i ax yo’ a few ques’ions, wha’ massa po’tah gwine hyar, an’ dat po’ li’l fool out yonder gwine ’splain ef we ses-so. yas, massa po’tah, i’se runnin’ t’ings just now, an’, please, sah, keep yo’ eye on dat skunk, fo’ i tells yo’ he ain’t nothin’ in de roun’ worl’ else. now, miss sniffins, yo’ please, ma’am, come on hyar, too, fo’ yo’s needed p’intedly.”
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“dar, dar, chile, don’ yo’ git so pannicky. nobody ain’ gwine kill yo’ whilst massa po’tah an’ me close by, dough, gawd knows wha’ dat low-down sumpin’-nurrer lak ter do if he git a chance; i ain’ speculatin’.”
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“mammy, what is the meaning of all this?” interrupted mr. porter at this juncture.
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“dat’s jist ’xactly what i don’ sent fo’ yo’ fer ter fin’ out, sah. dere’s been some sort of debbilmint gwine on hyar fer a right smart while, an’ i’se made it ma b’isness fer ter git scent of it an’ trail it, i has. dat ar’—dat ar’, my gawd! i spec’s i gotter call him a man kase dar don’ seem to be no yether name fo’ him, but he’s at de bottom ob it, an’ wha’ fo’ he is, is jist what i means fer ter fin’ out befo’ i lets him outer dis hyar office. now, sah, massa po’tah, yo’ kin hab de bench an’ question de prisoner.”
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porter had seen enough upon entering the arch to make him realize that mammy had pretty good grounds for her words and the rage which seemed to almost consume her. ordinarily mammy’s face was wonderfully serene, but mammy was a pure-blooded african negro, born of an african slave captured and brought to the united states when the slave trade was a flourishing and disgraceful source of revenue, and mammy was born not long after her mother’s capture. in moments of excitement all her racial characteristics dominated to a degree that transformed her. at the present moment there was a fierce conflict between heredity and tradition, and the environment and training of a lifetime.
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“mammy, tell me what took place before i came upon the scene,” said mr. porter. “i mean within the last half hour, not before.”
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mammy repeated all she had seen and heard. as she talked mr. porter rang the janitor’s bell. when the man appeared he said to him: “get terry and wait with him out in the main corridor. do it quickly, and don’t make a fuss.” terry was the house detective.
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“now, sniffins, sit down and explain what i saw as i entered the arch. there is something wrong here, and i’ve got to get to the bottom of it right off. it will be useless to beat about the bush now. mammy has seen and heard enough to make things very disagreeable for you, i fancy, and certainly i’ve seen pleasanter spectacles than your conduct with miss boggs as i entered——-”
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“she ain’ miss boggs no mo’n i is,” broke in mammy.
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sniffins would not answer. mr. porter turned to the trembling little figure at the opposite side of the room, real pity in his kind eyes. sniffins glowered at her. catching the look, mr. porter turned upon him like lightning.
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“if you try to intimidate that child, by the great jehosaphat i’ll either give myself the satisfaction of thrashing you, or turning you over to terry on an accusation you’ll not like. now quit it! you haven’t a thing in the world to fear, miss boggs; i guess it is all far less grave than it seems to you this minute. so tell me the whole truth.”
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mr. porter’s voice had changed rapidly from the severe tones directed toward sniffins, and now held only encouragement for the terrified girl. after a few spasmodic sobs she faced him and said:
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“no, mr. porter, i shall not try to keep up this deceit any longer. i told lige when i began it that it would be useless. i’m not the kind of girl who can do such things; i’m not smart enough.”
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“reckons yo’s too smart fer ter try ter be what he is,” broke in mammy. mr. porter held up his hand to enjoin silence, but if mammy consented to keep her tongue still, she could still wag her head and use her eyes, and to some purpose.
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“my name isn’t boggs, but sniffins——”
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“what i done tole yo’!” exploded mammy.
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“lige is my brother. he wanted me to take the situation. at first i did not know why he was so anxious for me to. i thought it was just because he wanted me to have one which he believed might lead to something a good deal better later on, because miss carruth’s candy business was growing fast, and i might get to be a forewoman, or something like that. you see, i used to know mary willing at school, and she and fanny are both doing so well, but——” and katherine hesitated.
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“go on, miss sniffins,” said mr. porter, encouragingly; but the look elijah sniffins gave his sister was not pleasant.
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“well, he just made me take this place, and wouldn’t let me tell my real name; and i’ve been scared nearly to death every day of my life for fear mary willing would come down here, and that would be the end of it all. but that wasn’t the worst; pretty soon i guessed just why lige wanted me here, and—and—oh, it seemed as though i just couldn’t stand it another minute; i was so ashamed. miss carruth is so kind to me, and has always been.”
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“and the true reason?” interrogated mr. porter.
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“oh, i can’t tell it,” cried the girl, turning scarlet and burying her face in her hands.
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“it will be better to do so here than to do so elsewhere, will it not? i am determined to get to the bottom of all this, now that i have begun, and much prefer to keep it quiet for the sake of all concerned. i think i already guess more than you realize. i shall ask a few questions to make it easier for you?”
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“she ain’t got to answer none if she don’t want ter,” was elijah’s surly remark.
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“will you kindly keep quiet until your information is desired?” said mr. porter, quietly. “your brother wished you to have this situation for two reasons, i take it: the first for the income and prospective advancement; the second because it brought you in close touch with miss carruth and might prove a wedge for his social aspirations, which i hear are ambitious.”
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the girl nodded assent.
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“you objected to the deceit practiced and rebelled. was that the cause of his anger and gross rudeness as i entered?”
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“and the rest?”
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“he made me keep strict account of the sales and profits and give him a memorandum each week,” whispered katherine.
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“indeed. and to what end?”
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“he said—he said, he’d make up his mind that he would get to know and would marry miss carruth if the business got to be—to be—a big one——”
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“my gawd a-mighty!” cried mammy, flying out of the chair upon the edge of which she had been sitting, her old face the picture of consternation and amazement. it was not surprising that sniffins sprung from his simultaneously and made toward the door, for mammy certainly was wrath and retribution incarnate.
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mr. porter barred the way of one and said sternly: “mammy, sit down!”
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“but—but—but—massa po’tah, is yo’ hyar wha’ dat man a-sayin’? is yo’? he—he marry ma miss jinny’s daughter? why, he ain’, he ain’ fitten fer ter bresh her shoes! lemme jes’ lay ma hans on him an’ frazzle him out.”
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mammy was nearly beside herself with indignation.
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“mammy, do you wish to remain here and hear the rest of this ridiculous story, or must i have sniffins and his sister taken up to my office? it is too public here for loud talking, and if you wish to save your little girl deep mortification, and her mother the keenest distress, you will control yourself. this is the greatest folly i could have believed any sane being capable of, but if it gets noised abroad it will soon grow into a scandal, as you must realize. remember this, every one present, miss carruth must never learn one word about it if we can keep it from her. now, go on, miss sniffins, and tell all the rest of this wretched folly and, yes, downright rascality, for your brother has placed himself in a very unenviable position.”
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“you can’t prove nothin’,” protested sniffins.
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“prove anything! man, are you altogether a fool? intimidating your sister into masquerading under an assumed name, to say nothing of handing over a private memoranda of another person’s business affairs, and, by the way, miss sniffins, i’ll take charge of that last memorandum, if you please,” said mr. porter, extending his hand toward katherine.
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“no, i’m hanged if you do,” blustered sniffins, springing toward her.
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with a grip like iron mr. porter forced him back upon his chair. katherine handed him a slip of paper from her purse.
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“thank you. now, sniffins, i’ve just a few concluding words to say to you, but you will do well to heed them: in the first place, you have made an ass of yourself pure and simple. in the second, you are pretty close to being something far worse. you have done some queer things lately, and tried some very questionable tricks down there on state street, as you know even better than i do, although, as i hinted to you some time ago, i know enough, and a heap more than you suspect. i don’t want to make trouble for you, or any other man just beginning his career, but i won’t stand for rascality. now here is your chance and you have no choice but to take it: you gave your sister no choice, remember, and now it’s your turn to eat a little of your own loaf. ask to be transferred to some other office—the further away the better.”
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“ah—what sort of a game are you puttin’ up?” snarled sniffins.
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“it is you, not i, who have put up the game, and since you’ve begun it you may as well make up your mind to play it out. you can easily get transferred, and that is just what you’ve got to do. this place has grown too warm for you in a good many ways. your mother is fairly well-to-do, and your sister has this situation.”
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“but i can’t keep it! i can’t!” lamented katherine.
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“you must. once your brother is away you have nothing to apprehend.”
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“but my name! what will miss carruth think?” deplored katherine.
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“will you leave that to me?” asked mr. porter, real compassion in his voice and face for this unhappy little victim of an unscrupulous will.
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“i want to stay, oh, i do want to, for miss carruth is always so lovely to me.”
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“you’s gwine fer ter stay, too,” announced mammy, autocratically, hastily going to katherine’s side to soothe and pat as she would have consoled a distressed child.
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“oh, mammy, mammy, she won’t let me stay,” sobbed the contrite little soul.
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“how she gwine know anything ’bout dese hyer doin’s?” demanded mammy.
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“i don’t see how she can help it.”
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“well, den, i does.”
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“keep your situation, miss sniffins, and also keep quiet. i shall tell miss constance that you gave the assumed name because you feared she might feel some prejudice against engaging you if she learned you were mr. sniffins’ sister; i am sure that is a pretty valid reason, for she has every reason to wish to avoid him; he has never figured pleasantly in her affairs. and now i think we have had enough of all this. but remember this, sniffins: i mean exactly what i have said, and south riveredge is no place for your future business operations. you have come pretty near making a serious mess of things for yourself and everyone connected with you, and a halt has been called. move on, and take a word of advice from a business man of double your years—move straight hereafter. now go.”
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sniffins left the office by the side door, which mammy unlocked and held open with this parting shot:
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“ain’ i done told yo’ long time ergo dat some day niggers gwine fer ter hol’ open de do’ fo’ yo’ stid of yo’ fo’ dem?”
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mammy had never forgotten or forgiven the experience of her first visit to elijah sniffins’ office, and she was settling an old score. then, turning to katherine, she asked:
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“wha yo’ gwine spen’ de nex’ few days, honey? i would’n aim fer ter go home ef i was yo’.”
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“i shall stay with a friend here in south riveredge. i believe lige would half kill me if i went home, he’s so awful mad.”
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“dat’s right, yo’ keep ’way f’om dat man.”
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“yes, it is wiser, miss sniffins. don’t worry, all will come out right in the end; he has just lost his head—that’s all. now mind what i say, both of you: not one word of all this anywhere else. i wouldn’t have all this folly come to that little girl’s ears for all i’m worth. it’s almost incredible that anyone could act like such a fool. paugh! it makes me ill. i feel as though some loathsome beast had drawn near that little girl of ours,” and with a quick “good-day” mr. porter turned and strode from the office, out through the arch and into the main corridor, where the janitor and terry stood quietly talking together. they glanced up as he drew near.
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“oh, donnely,” he said to the janitor, “just take a look at that faucet in arch number one, will you? it’s leaking a little; and terry, if you’ll come up to my office with me you can get those papers now as well as any time.” a word, a smile to those in the other arches, and not a thought was given by anyone to what might have been a very unpleasant episode in constance carruth’s career.
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cupid in spectacles.
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if constance had any suspicion that a most unusual scene had taken place in arch number one, she gave no sign of it.
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within a few days after that occurrence mr. porter ’phoned down to her counter one morning, and asked her if she could come up to his office before she returned to her home, giving as a reason his wish to talk over some plans he had in mind for the arch. she went up immediately, and as simply as possible he told her of katherine sniffins’ unfortunate deception, her reason for taking the position under an assumed name, and her distress and remorse for having practiced such a deceit. he did his best to spare katherine and to convince constance that her only reason for such deceit had been her eagerness to secure the position, and her fear that she could not do so if constance knew her to be elijah sniffins’ sister.
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at first constance was strongly inclined to resent it all, and to sever relations with the victim of elijah sniffin’s scheming, but gradually, as mr. porter talked, her sense of justice prevailed, and her resentment changed to pity, and with that the day was won.
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perhaps mr. porter’s casually dropped remark regarding mr. elijah sniffins’ sudden departure from south riveredge to take charge of one of the company’s offices in the far west, and the added information that he would not return to his former home, was the final straw which turned the balance in katherine’s favor. constance was a generous-hearted girl, to whom petty resentment was impossible. and so that chapter in the lives of the girls, so utterly unlike in character, was closed, and constance never knew what an exceedingly unpleasant one it might have been for her but for mammy’s ceaseless vigilance and mr. porter’s wisdom. for a few days, it is true, she was somewhat disturbed, and it needed all her self-control and dignity to help her through the half-hour’s talk with katherine, but once that ordeal was over she dismissed it all forever, and was the same sweet, gracious little employer whom katherine had always known. if katherine had admired her before, she openly adored her now, and confided to mary willing, whom she met not long after, that she “didn’t know there could be girls like constance carruth,” and forthwith eulogized her until, had constance heard it, she might have been forgiven if she had begun to feel around her own shoulder blades for sprouting wings.
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mary let her talk on, secretly rejoicing in every word spoken in praise of her idol, then with a most superior “why—anybody—could—have—told—you—that” air, she said:
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“it’s all very well, i dare say, for people to work like everything to reform girls who have actually done wrong and are in disgrace, but from my standpoint, if a few more people would do the things mrs. carruth and miss constance are doing as a matter of course every day of their lives, there wouldn’t be so many girls in need of reforming, because they would be helped to have a little common sense and an idea of the fitness of things before they went too far. everybody knows what a silly little fool i used to be whenever a man came near me, and i’d be one yet if it hadn’t been for those blessed people; but i tell you they made me sit up and take notice, and they did it so beautifully, and with so much love and sweet fellowship thrown in, that i’d die to-morrow if it could save just one hair of their dear heads. you may think i’m just talking for effect, but i’m not. i mean every single word i say, and if you ever get to know them as fanny and i do, you will feel exactly the same way, you see if you don’t.”
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“i do already, though i can’t talk as you do,” answered katherine, simply.
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“they have helped me that way, too,” added mary. “my goodness, how i used to talk and what awful words i used before i knew them! but they teach you without letting you ever guess they are teaching, and you learn because you can’t help it. good-bye. come down and see me some time.”
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“can i come to see you down there?”
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“why not? the little sitting-room up over the candy kitchen is just like our own. miss constance told me to invite any of my girl friends to visit me whenever i wished to, and we have lovely times up there evenings when the work is done. sometimes mrs. carruth or miss constance come out to sit with us a little while. they always say they have come out to welcome their guests, because fanny’s guests and mine are theirs, too. isn’t that a sweet way of putting it? we know, though, that they do it because they want our friends to feel at home, and there hasn’t been a single evening when they haven’t sent mammy up with some cake, or lemonade, or something nice, and i can always take a pound of candy if i want to. oh, there’s no place in all the world like the ‘bee-hive,’ i tell you!” and, with a happy smile, mary went upon her way.
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not long after this something else came up that filled the carruth household with subject for thought.
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before leaving college, eleanor had been offered a position in a girls’ school. the school was one widely known, and prepared a great many pupils for eleanor’s alma mater. she had been highly recommended by its faculty, and had fully decided to accept the position. all that remained to complete the arrangements was her final acceptance above her own signature and that of the school’s principal. this she was on the point of settling when she returned to riveredge, then a trifle changed her decision. homer forbes came home with her, and on the way she told him of her plans.
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he listened with great interest, although without comment, meanwhile gazing abstractedly out of the pullman car window until eleanor began to wonder if he heard one word she said, and, if the truth must be confessed, was not a little piqued at his seeming unconcern.
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as usual, when thinking deeply, he munched away upon something. this time it happened to be a long spiral of paper he had absently torn from a magazine and twisted into a lamplighter, and eleanor found herself subconsciously wondering how much of it would disappear before he recovered his wits and spoke.
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about four inches of it had vanished, and, had mammy been present, her theory of the goat would surely have been substantiated, when he gave his paper fodder a toss, and, turning toward her, said:
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“don’t sign that contract until you get home and have thought it over a week. then if you do sign it, do so for six months—one term—only.”
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“but,” interrupted eleanor, “that seems to me a most improvident step, for right in the dead of the winter it would leave me without occupation or the prospect of any.”
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“no, it wouldn’t, either. do you think i would suggest such a step if i didn’t have something up my sleeve for you a mighty sight better—er, ahem! i mean if i hadn’t been on the lookout for something desirable—or, or, at least, something i feel you would consider.”
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“what is it?” was eleanor’s very natural and direct question.
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“eh? ah, well, er—a little enterprise, a scheme, a—er—what station is this we’re drawing into?” and this discussion was sidetracked instantly, leaving eleanor to wonder if forbes had lost his senses.
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she had been home a little more than a week when he asked her to take a walk with him, and had led her a wild scramble to the top of the mountain to the plateau heretofore mentioned, where he unfolded a plan which caused eleanor to collapse upon a nearby rock and sit looking at him in a bewildered manner. again and again during the ensuing weeks had they toiled up the mountain, and each time had returned grimy, gratified and garrulous, heads nodding, hands gesticulating and oblivious of any other human being on top of the round world.
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mrs. carruth watched developments with resignation; constance with open amusement; mammy with a division between tolerance and contempt—the saving grace in the cause being that forbes could remotely claim kinship with the blairsdales. but it was upon jean that the effect was the funniest. jean had spent all her life with people older than herself. there had been no little children in her home, and her interests had naturally centered upon her older sisters and around their affairs. she had a wise little head upon her fourteen-year-old shoulders, and older people would have been somewhat surprised could they have known the “long, long thoughts” which passed through it. more than once had she seen forbes and eleanor start off and toil up the mountain, and more than once had she been an unobserved follower. she never followed close enough to overhear their conversation; that would have been contrary to her sense of honor. still, she was determined to know where they went, and, if her eyes could inform her, why they went, and her deductions came nearer the mark than the two would have believed possible.
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and so had passed the summer days, and now september was at hand, and in a very short time eleanor would start for forest lodge—the school in which she had accepted a position for six months—not longer. forbes’ influence had prevailed.
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early one morning the ’phone rang. eleanor was wanted.
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“i know what it is,” cried jean, who happened to be near it and turned to receive the message: “it’s mr. forbes, and he wants eleanor to play pilgrim’s progress with him again, i’ll bet a cookie.” the funny one-sided conversation began only to be interrupted by jean, who exclaimed:
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“what makes you think you’re talking to eleanor? are our voices so alike as all that? hold the wire while i call her, and don’t waste all those nice speeches on me,” and with a chuckle jean turned to call eleanor.
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that afternoon forbes called for eleanor, and just as they were about to start upon their pilgrimage jean came tearing out upon the piazza with two gorgeously colored laundry bags, rose-flowered and highly decorative, which she plumped down upon the piazza.
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“jean!” expostulated mrs. carruth. “what in this world?”
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“well, i don’t see any sense in playing a game unless you have the ‘impurtenances,’ as mammy calls them: it must seem sort of half played. so i’ve filled these bags full of newspapers, and if you’ll each sling one over your shoulders you’ll be sure enough ‘pilgrims,’ and goodness knows you climb up that mountain often enough to give ‘pilgrim’s progress’ to the life!”
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then jean fled, and so did eleanor and forbes.
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panting and hot, in the course of time they reached the summit of the mountain and the plateau, every square foot of which should have been known to them by this time. seating themselves upon the log, which had done duty many times before, forbes at once began to unroll a great blueprint which he held at arm’s length, and said:
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“now, i can show you the tangible evidence of my dreams. you see the plan is this:”
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but, alack! the best-drawn plans, etc., and this plan was printed upon the stiffest of architect’s paper, and had been rolled tightly for several days: forbes’ fingers were a trifle shaky for some reason; one edge of the outspread roll slipped from them and quick as a flash coiled up upon itself, sweeping his glasses from his nose and hurling them ten feet away, where they crashed upon a rock and shivered to atoms.
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now, if anyone reading this is solely and entirely dependent upon a pair of glasses to see anything ten inches beyond her own nose, she will understand how forbes felt at that particular moment—maybe.
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“ah, here is a little piece, a very little piece! do you think you can see with that? see just a little, little bit? enough to look over the plans? i’ll read the specifications to you. i’ll do anything, anything to help you, i feel so terribly sorry. let me be your eyes for just a little while, for i know how disappointed you must be,” and there was almost a sob in her voice as she rose to her feet and held the hopeless bit of eyeglass toward him.
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he took it, deliberately opened the patent clip and as deliberately snapped it upon his nose, eleanor watching him as though worlds trembled in the balance.
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if half a loaf is better than no bread, i dare say two-thirds of an eyeglass are better than no eyeglass at all; and who in such a vital moment would have dared hint that forbes looked slightly batty as he cocked one eye at the lady before him? certainly not the lady, who was the very picture of dolores at that instant. then forbes came to the front splendidly. indeed, he came with a rush and a promptitude which no one could have foreseen; he made one step forward, and the next instant held the lady in his arms, as his words poured deliciously into the ear so near his lips:
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“my eyes! my eyes! you shall be my eyes, my ears, my soul!—yes, my very body and boots. no! no! i don’t mean that! oh, hang it all, what made me say that foolish thing? i mean you are my eyes and my very soul! without your inspiration my very mind would be a blank. with you the dreams of my life will be crystallized into beautiful realities. never, never shall i let you leave me! never depart from your home until this one we have pictured and planned stands ready to receive you within its walls, to be its cherished, adored light; its inner shrine, at which i shall be the chief worshipper, my goddess of sweetness, light and intellect! my inspiration to ideals beyond man’s conception.”
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but let us draw down that thick fir bough as a curtain.
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off yonder, upon a moss-covered stone, sat a little figure, hugging his knees and swaying backward and forward in an abandonment of hilarious mirth. at his feet lay a bow, beside him an empty quiver. on his wee nose the wreck of a pair of thick-lensed eyeglasses.
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the september days were exceptionally warm ones, but no one seemed to mind them because the evenings were cool. the two pilgrims continued their progress, advancing rapidly and in such a rosy atmosphere that the millennium seemed close at hand. whatever homer forbes’ plans were, and as yet only he and eleanor seemed to know much about them, they evidently met the entire approval of the lady in the question, for she threw herself into the process of perfecting them with an ardor that nearly drove her family frantic. no matter where they turned, they found plans and specifications lying about, and eleanor’s room resembled an architect’s drafting-office. not long after that walk up the mountain there had been a closeted hour’s talk with mrs. carruth, and when homer forbes came out of the library at the end of it he was in such a perturbed state of mind that he nearly fell over mammy as he rushed through the hall, out of the front door and across the piazza, to vanish down the road and leave the family staring after him; at least, that portion of the family which happened to be seated there. hard upon his heels followed mammy, crying:
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“gawd bress ma soul! what miss jinny done ter dat man? ’pears lak he gone plum loony.” then, turning to mrs. carruth, who followed not far behind, mammy continued: “miss jinny, is dat man gone cl’ar crazy?”
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mrs. carruth smiled as she replied:
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“they sometimes call it ‘a very mid-summer madness,’ mammy, but mid-summer has passed, hasn’t it? it’s not dangerous, however. you would better go upstairs and ask miss nornie. i am sure she can tell you more about mr. forbes than i can. at all events, she has decided to let him guide her through life, so she must have an abiding faith in him, and i have told him he may do so if she wishes it. by the spring you will have to climb to the top of mt. parnassus if you wish to see your miss nornie, i think.”
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“whar dat place at?” demanded mammy, while hadyn gave a low whistle, and constance cried, “what did i tell you, mumsey?” as jean jumped up and down in her excitement.
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“you had better go upstairs and ask miss nornie, mammy,” and straightway mammy whirled about and started upstairs to eleanor’s room, where she found her buried neck-deep in a pile of drafting papers, triangles, compasses and pencils; though just what she was drawing plans for mammy could not guess. when questioned of late eleanor had given negative, abstracted replies which more than once nearly convulsed her hearers, and upon one occasion she had brought consternation upon the family by emptying a brimming washbowl of water into her scrap-basket instead of her slop-jar. evidently the scrap-basket had figured more prominently in her thoughts of late than had her washbowl.
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as mammy appeared at the door eleanor was bending over a great blueprint plan which she had spread upon the floor. it was a tremendous affair, fully two by four feet, and eleanor was down upon her knees, hands outspread and locks flying, too absorbed to be aware of mammy’s presence.
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“peripatos, peristyle penetralia,” murmured the engrossed one, tracing with a slender forefinger the lines upon her plan, then repeating, “penetralia, penetralia. how interesting.”
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“what in de name o’ man is you jabberin’ about, anyway, miss nornie?”
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eleanor came to an upright position with a start, crying:
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“goodness, mammy, how you startled me!”
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“yo’ better had git up f’om dat floor ’stid o’ bendin’ ober dat sky-blue sheet o’ paper what done look lak it got chinee writin’ an’ drawin’ on it. yo’ face make out de res’ ob de colors fer de hull ’merican flag: red, white an’ blue alltergedder. ’taint no kynd ob a day fer ter be bendin’ ober lak yo’ is. nex’ t’ing yo’ know yo’ gwine git rush o’ blood ter de haid, an’ dat’s bad, i tells yo’! wha’ yo’ gwine do wid all dat blue stuff, anyway? yo’ ain’ tell me one single t’ing ’bout it, an’ i ain’ know wha’ ’tis. an’ i wants fer ter know, too, if yo’ gwine be home ter lunch ter day.” mammy’s sharp eye scrutinized the rosy face before her.
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“tromp! tromp!” echoed mammy. “tromp on sich a hot day as dis hyar wid de fermom’ter jist nachelly climbin’ cl’ar out er sight? is you done gone silly, yo’ an’ dat perfesser fo’bes? yo’ stay ter home in dis cool house what i done darken up fer ter keep out de sizzlin’, billin’ heat. it fa’r scoch de very skin off yo’ body. don’ yo’ let dat man drag yo’ up dat mountain on sich a day, i tells yo’.”
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“oh, we don’t mind it, and the woods are so cool. just put up one of your delicious little luncheons for us, and we’ll be more than supplied.”
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“cool in de woods! yis, when yo’ gits to em, but yo’s got right smart ter walk fo’ yo’ comes ter dem, an’ i ain’ pinin’ fer no sich ’xertion on such a frazzlin’-out day. but i reckons i jist better save ma’ bref dan spend it a-talkin’. yo’ lunch gwine be ready fo’ yo’ when yo’ ready fo’ it; but what i wants ter know now is, what all dat meanin’,” and mammy pointed again to the big blueprint.
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eleanor was not given to emotion but there come times in every life when one’s emotions are more easily played upon than at others. the past week had held such moments for eleanor. of all mammy’s children eleanor had been the least demonstrative. she rarely caressed the old woman as constance and jean did. now, however, she bounded to her feet and, rushing to mammy, cried:
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“oh, mammy! mammy! do you believe in dreams? don’t you think they come true sometimes?”
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“a heap o’ times!” interjected mammy.
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eleanor sighed ecstatically. i knew you would say so, mammy. “and ours will, won’t it?”
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“who ‘ours?’” demanded mammy, her lips pursed up, and distrust in her eyes.
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“homer’s and mine! homer! isn’t that a name to inspire one? fate must have ordained that he should bear such a name. only a classic poet’s could be in harmony. it must be the purest, the best, the finest, the most perfect,” rhapsodized eleanor.
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mammy looked at her a little anxiously, and asked:
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“isn’t yo’ better lay down on dat baid yonder? yo’s been a bendin’ ober dose papers twell yo’ haid’s achin’, i’se feered.”
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“ah, no, mammy, but think of it! to live in a grecian dwelling! a perfect reproduction of an athenian temple. with the fountain of hippocrene in it’s center, from which a rill will flow murmuring all the day. helicon’s harmonious stream. we shall call it helicon hall, and there we shall train the youthful mind to a deep appreciation of true beauty. in the central court, overroofed with glass and filled with tropical plants, will be our hearth stone, our altar, on either side of which will stand our lares and penates. could any other mind have conceived this wonderful dream in this prosaic age? see, see our plans, mammy? how clear, how concise, how graphic. ah, i can picture it all—all.”
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“well den i cyant!” cried mammy, losing patience, “and i don’ reckon yo’ ma nor none ob de yethers kin. at any rate, i got sumpin else ter do ’sides standin’ hyar listenin’ at what i sets down as jist foolishness; an’ ef i was yo’ ma i’d tell yo’ not ter go a-climbin’ up dat mountain no mo’ twell de wedder done cool off some,” and with this admonition mammy left the dreamer to her dreams. but before we take a long leave of her, we will add, by the way, that in the course of time this dream crystallized into a large building, in the form of the parthenon, wherein this modern socrates, professor homer forbes, and a charming hypatia, his wife, led the minds of affluent youths, whose parents were willing to indulge them in such luxuries, along paths of learning literally flower-strewn. reclining at length upon the green sward of the court of helicon hill, they drank in the words of wisdom falling from the lips of their preceptors. eleanor had achieved her ideals: homer forbes his. what more could mortals ask?
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and the lares and penates? well, jean was rather practical. those old greek fireside gods might be all very well in their way, but greece had seen her day. in the present one there was a quaint little grinning “god of things, as they ought to be,” to which jean pinned greater faith; and when, one beautiful april day, homer forbes and his bride returned from their wedding journey, and entered the inner court of helicon hall, where the (let us hope) sacred fire burned upon the hearth, the first thing upon which eleanor’s eyes rested in these classic surroundings was “billykin,” perched above the blazing logs.
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and in the interval between that warm september day and the lighting of that hearth by loving hands for the home-coming of the idealists? ah, life holds some sweet moments, and this old world is not such a bad one, after all. but we anticipate.
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october came again, and all the world was beautiful in its golden haze. with eleanor’s engagement to homer forbes, and her complete absorption in her demi-god, who had changed her plans so completely, her future so entirely, eleanor plunged headlong into consummating his dreams so far as in her power lay. this left constance largely to herself and her own plans. all had gone well with her, and, with the beginning of the social season in riveredge and elsewhere, constance’s business grew very brisk. she was kept busy from morning to evening. it was a wonderfully happy life for her. to be the chief support of her family, to give to her mother the thousand little luxuries she had known in earlier life, to give to jean every possible advantage, both educational and social, and still have time to enjoy life at its heyday herself—why—surely, no more could be asked.
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mary and fanny willing were as happy and content as two girls well could be, and worked and sang from dawn to twilight. with the autumn even more help became necessary to keep abreast of the orders; and, through hadyn, constance secured the services of a man in whom hadyn was deeply interested. he had known him in college days, but days of adversity had overtaken him, and for two years he had seemed to be the very toy of an adverse fate. in that interval his family had slipped into the great beyond, and the small nest-egg left him had been swept from him by the failure of the company in which it was invested, throwing edward delaney upon his own resources.
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upon hadyn’s advice he was engaged by constance as bookkeeper and a sort of general superintendent, dividing his time between the candy kitchen, the arcade, and the other booths, which, in the course of time had been established elsewhere. he was only twenty-five, but an able, manly fellow, quick-witted and resourceful. he took firm hold of affairs instantly, and, during the course of the ensuing winter, constance more than once thanked the lucky star which had guided this tall, clear-eyed, finely-set-up six-foot laddie to her candy kitchen. no one could look into those fine, hazel eyes without trusting them instantly, nor see the lines of that resolute, yet tender mouth without reading the man’s character. his skin was as fair and as clear as a child’s, and his smile as winning. he speedily found his way into the home circle, and just the degree of happiness it brought to him few guessed.
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but this is dipping into the future by several months. at present we are in october’s golden glow.
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“what a day!” cried hadyn, as he and constance came out upon the piazza one beautiful afternoon when luncheon was over.
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“isn’t it simply heavenly? it seems to me we never have such days excepting during october. look at the coloring over on that mountain and on our own hills. it is perfectly intoxicating. it makes me feel like doing something out of the usual order, and yet i ought to go out yonder to the candy kitchen and lend a hand with the thousand and one things to be attended to. i tell you, hadyn stuyvesant, i am rapidly becoming a power in the commercial world,” laughed constance.
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“you are a greater power already than you guess. before you know it that business will have grown beyond its boundaries again, and even greater expansion will be necessary. but just now let’s ‘forget it,’ and go for a ride up that glorious mountain. i’ll ’phone down to pringle’s for lightfoot, and we’ll have an afternoon fit for the gods.”
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“done! i’m only human, and the call of the woods on such a day as this drowns the call of duty. but i hate to take comet from you; you seem so much a part of each other.”
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“since he came to live here he has become a part of you all, and more nearly human than ever. jean has seen to that. how that child loves animals! i’ve a little scheme in the back part of my head which i mean shall take tangible form when her next birthday comes around.”
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“oh, what is it?” cried constance, for everything concerning jean held the keenest interest for her.
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“tell you after we’ve had our ride. i’m off now for my togs. see you inside half an hour. tell parsons to saddle comet for you,” and with a wave of his hand hadyn hurried away to get into his riding clothes. an hour later they rode away from the house, as bonny a pair as eyes could rest upon, and upon which one pair did rest with the love and devotion one often sees in the eyes of a dog; mammy raised her apron, wiped a tear from her lids, and said softly to herself:
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“dem’s ma chillen. yis, jist ma own god-blessedest ones what ever is live! him, too. miss nornie kin tek up wid dat perfesser man ef she wanter, but gimme dat one ridin’ ’way yonder. he’s de very cream ob all creation, an’ he gwine be mighty good ter ma baby, too. i ain’t need no secon’ sight fer ter read dat writin’. an’ he gwine fin’ out what a pearl o’ price he gettin’, too, dough i reckons he got some notion o’ dat a’reddy. an’ he gwine git somepin’ he ain’ countin’ ’pon a mite, an’ would be clar ’bove countin’ ’pon anyhow; he gwine git a wife wha’ got her own nes’aig. charles an’ me ain’ run dat ar’ lunch counter all dis time jist fer fun an’ de reppitation it done give us; no, sir-ee! we done put ’side ’nough fer ter give each o’ ole massa’s gran’chillen dey dots, as dose french folks calls it. yis, we is, an’ i’s proud ob it, too. it’s de onlies’ way we kin eber show em dat dey’s ours, an’ we’s deirs. mebbe massa stuyvesant got a-plenty, an’ mebbe massa fo’bes is got, too, a-plenty fer ’em bofe—i dunno—but i knows dis much: a ’omans a mighty sight mo’ self-respectin’ an’, an’ sort o’ stan’in’ firm on her own foots ef she knows dars a stockin’full o’ gol’ wha’ she kin turn inside-out ef she want ter ’thout axin’ ’by yo’ leave, mr. man,’ no matter how she love him or he love her. an’ me an’ charles done fix dat all right, so we has. gawd bress ma chillen! gawd bress em! dey’s filled ma soul wid joy all de days of ma life, and dey’s made charles’ foots fer ter walk in de green past’ers endurin’ his declinin’ years. oh, we’s happy, we is, wid de gawd-blessedes’ white folks two ol’ cullered folks ever is know.”
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three little women’s success which causes them to believe that the divinity is continually interfering on their behalf at the cost of other people. it will be noticed that the references given are all to the old testament, and nearly all refer to acts of blood.
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these doctrines were not, however, at all acceptable to burgers' party, or the more enlightened members of the community, and so bitter did the struggle of rival opinions become that there is very little doubt that had the country not been annexed, civil war would have been added to its other calamities. meanwhile the natives were from day to day becoming more restless, and messengers were constantly arriving at the special commissioner's camp, begging that their tribe might be put under the queen, and stating that they would fight rather than submit any longer to the boers.
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at length on the 9th april, sir t. shepstone informed the government of the republic that he was about to declare the transvaal british territory. he told them that he had considered and reconsidered his determination, but that he could see no possible means within the state by which it could free itself from the burdens that were sinking it to destruction, adding that if he could have found such means he would certainly not have hidden them from the government. this intimation was received in silence, though all the later proceedings with reference to the annexation were in reality carried out in concert with the authorities of the republic. thus on the 13th march the government submitted a paper of ten questions to sir t. shepstone as regards the future condition of the transvaal under english rule, whether the debts of the state would be guaranteed, &c. to these questions replies were given which were on the whole satisfactory to the government. as these replies formed the basis of the proclamation guarantees, it is not necessary to enter into them.
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it was further arranged by the republican government that a formal protest should be entered against the annexation, which was accordingly prepared and privately shown to the special commissioner. the annexation proclamation was also shown to president burgers, and a paragraph eliminated at his suggestion. in fact, the special commissioner and the president, together with most of his executive, were quite at one as regards the necessity of the proclamation being issued, their joint endeavours being directed to the prevention of any disturbance, and to secure a good reception for the change.
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at length, after three months of inquiry and negotiation, the proclamation of annexation was on the 12th of april 1877 read by mr. osborn, accompanied by some other gentlemen of sir t. shepstone's staff. it was an anxious moment for all concerned. to use the words of the special commissioner in his despatch home on the subject, "every effort had been made during the previous fortnight by, it is said, educated hollanders, and who had but lately arrived in the country, to rouse the fanaticism of the boers, and to induce them to offer 'bloody' resistance to what it was known i intended to do. the boers were appealed to in the most inflammatory language by printed manifestoes and memorials; ... it was urged that i had but a small escort, which could easily be overpowered." in a country so full of desperadoes and fanatical haters of anything english, it was more than possible that, though such an act would have been condemned by the general sense of the country, a number of men could easily be found who would think they were doing a righteous act in greeting the "annexationists" with an ovation of bullets. i do not mean that the anxiety was personal, because i do not think the members of that small party set any higher value on their lives than other people, but it was absolutely necessary for the success of the act itself, and for the safety of the country, that not a single shot should be fired. had that happened it is probable that the whole country would have been involved in confusion and bloodshed, the zulus would have broken in, and the kafirs would have risen; in fact, to use cetywayo's words, "the land would have burned with fire."
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it will therefore be easily understood what an anxious hour that was both for the special commissioner sitting up at government house, and for his staff down on the market square, and how thankful they were when the proclamation was received with hearty cheers by the crowd. mr. burgers' protest, which was read immediately afterwards, was received in respectful silence.
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and thus the transvaal territory passed for a while into the great family of the english colonies. i believe that the greatest political opponent of the act will bear tribute to the very remarkable ability with which it was carried out. when the variety and number of the various interests that had to be conciliated, the obstinate nature of the individuals who had to be convinced, as well as the innate hatred of the english name and ways which had to be overcome to carry out this act successfully, are taken into consideration, together with a thousand other matters, the neglect of any one of which would have sufficed to make failure certain, it will be seen what tact and skill and knowledge of human nature was required to execute so difficult a task. it must be remembered that no force was used, and that there never was any threat of force. the few troops that were to enter the transvaal were four weeks' march from pretoria at the time. there was nothing whatsoever to prevent the boers putting a summary stop to the proceedings of the commissioner if they had thought fit.
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that sir theophilus played a bold and hazardous game nobody will deny, but, like most players who combine boldness with coolness of head and justice of cause, he won; and, without shedding a single drop of blood, or even confiscating an acre of land, and at no cost, annexed a great country, and averted a very serious war. that same country four years later cost us a million of money, the loss of nearly a thousand men killed and wounded, and the ruin of many more confiding thousands, to surrender. it is true, however, that nobody can accuse the retrocession of having been conducted with judgment or ability--very much the contrary.
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there can be no more ample justification of the issue of the annexation proclamation than the proclamation itself.
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first, it touches on the sand river convention of 1852, by which independence was granted to the state, and shows that the "evident objects and inciting motives" in granting such guarantee were to promote peace, free-trade, and friendly intercourse, in the hope and belief that the republic "would become a flourishing and self-sustaining state, a source of strength and security to neighbouring european communities, and a point from which christianity and civilisation might rapidly spread toward central africa." it goes on to show how these hopes have been disappointed, and how that increasing weakness in the state itself on the one side, and more than corresponding growth of real strength and confidence among the native tribes on the other, have produced their natural and inevitable consequence ... that after more or less of irritating conflict with aboriginal tribes to the north, there commenced about the year 1867 gradual abandonment to the natives in that direction of territory settled by burghers of the transvaal "in well-built towns and villages and on granted farms."
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it goes on to show that "this decay of power and ebb of authority in the north is being followed by similar processes in the south under yet more dangerous circumstances. people of this state residing in that direction have been compelled within the last three months, at the bidding of native chiefs, and at a moment's notice, to leave their farms and homes, their standing crops ... all to be taken possession of by natives, but that the government is more powerless than ever to vindicate its assumed rights or to resist the declension that is threatening its existence." it then recites how all the other colonies and communities of south africa have lost confidence in the state, how it is in a condition of hopeless bankruptcy, and its commerce annihilated, whilst the inhabitants are divided into factions, and the government has fallen into "helpless paralysis." how also the prospect of the election of a new president, instead of being looked forward to with hope, would in the opinion of all parties be the signal for civil war, anarchy, and bloodshed. how that this state of things affords the very strongest temptation to the great neighbouring native powers to attack the country, a temptation that they were only too ready and anxious to yield to, and that the state was in far too feeble a condition to repel such attacks, from which it had hitherto only been saved by the repeated representations of the government of natal. the next paragraphs i will quote as they stand, for they sum up the reasons for the annexation.
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"that the secocoeni war, which would have produced but little effect on a healthy constitution, has not only proved suddenly fatal to the resources and reputation of the republic, but has shown itself to be a culminating point in the history of south africa, in that a makatee or basuto tribe, unwarlike and of no account in zulu estimation, successfully withstood the strength of the state, and disclosed for the first time to the native powers outside the republic, from the zambesi to the cape, the great change that had taken place in the relative strength of the white and black races, that this disclosure at once shook the prestige of the white man in south africa, and placed every european community in peril, that this common danger has caused universal anxiety, has given to all concerned the right to investigate its cause, and to protect themselves from its consequences, and has imposed the duty upon those who have the power to shield enfeebled civilisation from the encroachments of barbarism and inhumanity." it proceeds to point out that the transvaal will be the first to suffer from the results of its own policy, and that it is for every reason perfectly impossible for her majesty's government to stand by and see a friendly white state ravaged, knowing that its own possessions will be the next to suffer. that her majesty's government, being persuaded that the only means to prevent such a catastrophe would be by the annexation of the country, and, knowing that this was the wish of a large proportion of the inhabitants of the transvaal, the step must be taken. next follows the formal annexation.
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together with the proclamation, an address was issued by sir t. shepstone to the burghers of the state, laying the facts before them in a friendly manner, more suited to their mode of thought than it was possible to do in a formal proclamation. this document, the issue of which was one of those touches that insured the success of the annexation, was a powerful summing up in colloquial language of the arguments used in the proclamation, strengthened by quotations from the speeches of the president. it ends with these words: "it remains only for me to beg of you to consider and weigh what i have said calmly and without undue prejudice. let not mere feeling or sentiment prevail over your judgment. accept what her majesty's government intends shall be, and what you will soon find from experience, is a blessing not only to you and your children, but to the whole of south africa through you, and believe that i speak these words to you as a friend from my heart."
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two other proclamations were also issued, one notifying the assumption of the office of administrator of the government by sir t. shepstone, and the other repealing the war-tax, which was doubtless an unequal and oppressive impost.
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i have in the preceding pages stated all the principal grounds of the annexation and briefly sketched the history of that event. in the next chapter i propose to follow the fortunes of the transvaal, under british rule.
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the transvaal under british rule.
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the news of the annexation was received all over the country with a sigh of relief, and in many parts of it with great rejoicings. at the gold fields, for instance, special thanksgiving services were held, and "god save the queen" was sung in church. nowhere was there the slightest disturbance, but, on the contrary, addresses of congratulation and thanks literally poured in by every mail, many of them signed by boers who have since been conspicuous for their bitter opposition to english rule. at first, there was some doubt as to what would be the course taken under the circumstances by the volunteers enlisted by the late republic. major clarke, r.a., was sent to convey the news, and to take command of them, unaccompanied save by his kafir servant. on arrival at the principal fort, he at once ordered the republican flag to be hauled down and the union jack run up, and his orders were promptly obeyed. a few days afterwards some members of the force thought better of it, and having made up their minds to kill him, came to the tent where he was sitting to carry out their purpose. on learning their kind intentions, major clarke fixed his eye-glass in his eye, and after steadily glaring at them through it for some time, said, "you are all drunk, go back to your tents." the volunteers, quite overcome by his coolness and the fixity of his gaze, at once slipped off, and there was no further trouble. about three weeks after the annexation, the i-13th regiment arrived at pretoria, having been very well received all along the road by the boers, who came from miles round to hear the band play. its entry into pretoria was quite a sight; the whole population turned out to meet it; indeed the feeling of rejoicing and relief was so profound that when the band began to play "god save the queen" some of the women burst into tears.
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meanwhile the effect of the annexation on the country was perfectly magical. credit and commerce were at once restored; the railway bonds that were down to nothing in holland rose with one bound to par, and the value of landed property nearly doubled. indeed it would have been possible for any one, knowing what was going to happen, to have realised large sums of money by buying land in the beginning of 1877, and selling it shortly after the annexation.
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the annexation was as well received in england as it was in the transvaal. lord carnarvon wrote to sir t. shepstone to convey "the queen's entire approval of your conduct since you received her majesty's commission, with a renewal of my own thanks on behalf of the government for the admirable prudence and discretion with which you have discharged a great and unwonted responsibility." it was also accepted by parliament with very few dissentient voices, since it was not till afterwards, when the subject became useful as an electioneering howl, that the liberal party, headed by our "powerful popular minister," discovered the deep iniquity that had been perpetrated in south africa. so satisfied were the transvaal boers with the change that messrs. kruger, jorissen, and bok, who formed the deputation to proceed to england and present president burgers' formal protest against the annexation, found great difficulty in raising one-half of the necessary expenses--something under one thousand pounds--towards the cost of the undertaking. the thirst for independence cannot have been very great when all the wealthy burghers in the transvaal put together would not subscribe a thousand pounds towards retaining it. indeed, at this time the members of the deputation themselves seem to have looked upon their undertaking as being both doubtful and undesirable, since they informed sir t. shepstone that they were going to europe to discharge an obligation which had been imposed upon them, and if the mission failed, they would have done their duty. mr. kruger said that if they did fail, he would be found to be as faithful a subject under the new form of government as he had been under the old; and dr. jorissen admitted with equal frankness that "the change was inevitable, and expressed his belief that the cancellation of it would be calamitous."
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whilst the annexation was thus well received in the country immediately interested, a lively agitation was commenced in the western province of the cape colony, a thousand miles away, with a view of inducing the home government to repudiate sir t. shepstone's act. the reason of this movement was that the cape dutch party, caring little or nothing for the real interests of the transvaal, did care a great deal about their scheme to turn all the white communities of south africa into a great dutch republic, to which they thought the annexation would be a deathblow. as i have said elsewhere, it must be borne in mind that the strings of the anti-annexation agitation have all along been pulled in the western province, whilst the transvaal boers have played the parts of puppets. the instruments used by the leaders of the movement in the cape were, for the most part, the discontented and unprincipled hollander element, a newspaper of an extremely abusive nature called the volkstem, and another in natal known as the natal witness, lately edited by the notorious aylward, which has an almost equally unenviable reputation.
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on the arrival of messrs. jorissen and kruger in england, they were received with great civility by lord carnarvon, who was, however, careful to explain to them that the annexation was irrevocable. in this decision they cheerfully acquiesced, assuring his lordship of their determination to do all they could to induce the boers to accept the new state of things, and expressing their desire to be allowed to serve under the new government.
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whilst these gentlemen were thus satisfactorily arranging matters with lord carnarvon, sir. t. shepstone was making a tour round the country which resembled a triumphal progress more than anything else. he was everywhere greeted with enthusiasm by all classes of the community, boers, english, and natives, and numerous addresses were presented to him couched in the warmest language, not only by englishmen, but also by boers.
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it is very difficult to reconcile the enthusiasm of a great number of the inhabitants of the transvaal for english rule, and the quiet acquiescence of the remainder, at this time, with the decidedly antagonistic attitude assumed later on. it appears to me, however, that there are several reasons that go far towards accounting for it. the transvaal, when we annexed it, was in the position of a man with a knife at his throat, who is suddenly rescued by some one stronger than he, on certain conditions which at the time he gladly accepts, but afterwards, when the danger is passed, wishes to repudiate. in the same way the inhabitants of the south african republic were in the time of need very thankful for our aid, but after a while, when the recollection of their difficulties had grown faint, when their debts had been paid and their enemies defeated, they began to think that they would like to get rid of us again, and start fresh on their own account with a clean sheet. what fostered agitation more than anything else, however, was the perfect impunity with which it was allowed to be carried on. had only a little firmness and decision been shown in the first instance there would have been no further trouble. we might have been obliged to confiscate half-a-dozen farms, and perhaps imprison as many free burghers for a few months, and there it would have ended. neither boers or natives understand our namby-pamby way of playing at government; they put it down to fear. what they want, and what they expect, is to be governed with a just but a firm hand. thus when the boers found that they could agitate with impunity, they naturally enough continued to agitate. anybody who knows them will understand that it was very pleasant to them to find themselves in possession of that delightful thing, a grievance, and, instead of stopping quietly at home on their farms, to feel obliged to proceed, full of importance and long words, to a distant meeting, there to spout and listen to the spouting of others. it is so much easier to talk politics than to sow mealies. some attribute the discontent among the boers to the postponement of the carrying out of the annexation proclamation promises with reference to the free institutions to be granted to the country, but in my opinion it had little or nothing to do with it. the boers never understood the question of responsible government, and never wanted that institution; what they did want was to be free of all english control, and this they said twenty times in the most outspoken language. i think there is little doubt the causes i have indicated are the real sources of the agitation, though there must be added to them their detestation of our mode of dealing with natives, and of being forced to pay taxes regularly, and also the ceaseless agitation of the cape wire-pullers, through their agents the hollanders, and their organs in the press.
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on the return of messrs. kruger and jorissen to the transvaal, the latter gentleman resumed his duties as attorney-general, on which occasion, if i remember aright, i myself had the honour of administering to him the oath of allegiance to her majesty, that he afterwards kept so well. the former reported the proceedings of the deputation to a boer meeting, when he took a very different tone to that in which he addressed lord carnarvon, announcing that if there existed a majority of the people in favour of independence, he still was vice-president of the country.
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both these gentlemen remained for some time in the pay of the british government, mr. jorissen as attorney-general, and mr. kruger as member of the executive council. the government, however, at length found it desirable to dispense with their services, though on different grounds. mr. jorissen had, like several other members of the republican government, been a clergyman, and was quite unfit to hold the post of attorney-general in an important colony like the transvaal, where legal questions were constantly arising requiring all the attention of a trained mind; and after he had on several occasions been publicly admonished from the bench, the government retired him on liberal terms. needless to say, his opposition to english rule then became very bitter. mr. kruger's appointment expired by law in november 1877, and the government did not think it advisable to re-employ him. the terms of his letter of dismissal can be found on page 135 of blue-book (c. 144), and involving as they do a serious charge of misrepresentation in money matters, are not very creditable to him. after this event he also pursued the cause of independence with increased vigour.
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during the last months of 1877 and the first part of 1878 agitation against british rule went on unchecked, and at last grew to alarming proportions, so much so that sir t. shepstone, on his return from the zulu border in march 1878, where he had been for some months discussing the vexed and dangerous question of the boundary line with the zulus, found it necessary to issue a stringent proclamation warning the agitators that their proceedings and meetings were illegal, and would be punished according to law. this document, which was at the time vulgarly known as the "hold-your-jaw" proclamation, not being followed by action, produced but little effect.
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on the 4th april 1878 another boer meeting was convened, at which it was decided to send a second deputation to england, to consist this time of messrs. kruger and joubert, with mr. bok as secretary. this deputation proved as abortive as the first, sir. m. hicks beach assuring it, in a letter dated 6th august 1878, that it is "impossible, for many reasons, ... that the queen's sovereignty should now be withdrawn."
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whilst the government was thus hampered by internal disaffection, it had also many other difficulties on its hands. first, there was the zulu boundary question, which was constantly developing new dangers to the country. indeed, it was impossible to say what might happen in that direction from one week to another. nor were its relations with secocoeni satisfactory. it will be remembered that just before the annexation this chief had expressed his earnest wish to become a british subject, and even paid over part of the fine demanded from him by the boer government to the civil commissioner, major clarke. in march 1878, however, his conduct towards the government underwent a sudden change, and he practically declared war. it afterwards appeared, from secocoeni's own statement, that he was instigated to this step by a boer, abel erasmus by name--the same man who was concerned in the atrocities in the first secocoeni war--who constantly encouraged him to continue the struggle. i do not propose to minutely follow the course of this long war, which, commencing in the beginning of 1878, did not come to an end till after the zulu war: when sir garnet wolseley attacked secocoeni's stronghold with a large force of troops, volunteers, and swazi allies, and took it with great slaughter. the losses on our side were not very heavy, so far as white men were concerned, but the swazis are reported to have lost 400 killed and 500 wounded.
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the struggle was, during the long period preceding the final attack, carried on with great courage and ability by major clarke, r.a., c.m.g., whose force, at the best of times, only consisted of 200 volunteers and 100 zulus. with this small body of men he contrived, however, to keep secocoeni in check, and to take some important strongholds. it was marked also by some striking acts of individual bravery, of which one, performed by major clarke himself, whose reputation for cool courage and presence of mind in danger is unsurpassed in south africa, is worthy of notice; and which, had public attention been more concentrated on the secocoeni war, would doubtless have won him the victoria cross. on one occasion, on visiting one of the outlying forts, he found that a party of hostile natives, who were coming down to the fort on the previous day with a flag of truce, had been accidentally fired on, and had at once retreated. as his system in native warfare was always to try and inspire his enemy with perfect faith in the honour of englishmen, and their contempt of all tricks and treachery even towards a foe, he was very angry at this occurrence, and at once, unarmed and unattended save by his native servant, rode up into the mountains to the kraal from which the white flag party had come on the previous day, and apologised to the chief for what had happened. when i consider how very anxious secocoeni's natives were to kill or capture clarke, whom they held in great dread, and how terrible the end of so great a captain would in all probability have been had he been taken alive by these masters of refined torture, i confess that i think this act of gentlemanly courage is one of the most astonishing things i ever heard of. when he rode up those hills he must have known that he was probably going to meet his death at the hands of justly incensed savages. when secocoeni heard of what major clarke had done he was so pleased that he shortly afterwards released a volunteer whom he had taken prisoner, and who would otherwise, in all probability, have been tortured to death. i must add that major clarke himself never reported or alluded to this incident, but an account of it can be found in a despatch written by sir o. lanyon to the secretary of state, dated 2d february 1880.
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concurrently with, though entirely distinct from, the political agitation that was being carried on among the boers having for object the restoration of independence, a private agitation was set on foot by a few disaffected persons against sir t. shepstone, with the view of obtaining his removal from office in favour of a certain colonel weatherley. the details of this impudent plot are so interesting, and the plot itself so typical of the state of affairs with which sir t. shepstone had to deal, that i will give a short account of it.
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after the annexation had taken place, there were naturally enough a good many individuals who found themselves disappointed in the results so far as they personally were concerned; i mean that they did not get so much out of it as they expected. among these was a gentleman called colonel weatherley, who had come to the transvaal as manager of a gold-mining company, but getting tired of that had taken a prominent part in the annexation, and who, being subsequently disappointed about an appointment, became a bitter enemy of the administrator. i may say at once that colonel weatherley seems to me to have been throughout the dupe of the other conspirators.
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the next personage was a good-looking desperado, who called himself captain gunn of gunn, and who was locally somewhat irreverently known as the very gunn of very gunn. this gentleman, whose former career had been of a most remarkable order, was, on the annexation of the country, found in the public prison charged with having committed various offences, but on colonel weatherley's interesting himself strongly on his behalf, he was eventually released without trial. on his release, he requested the administrator to publish a government notice declaring him innocent of the charges brought against him. this sir t. shepstone declined to do, and so, to use his own words, in a despatch to the high commissioner on the subject, captain gunn of gunn at once became "what in this country is called a patriot."
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the third person concerned was a lawyer, who had got into trouble on the diamond fields, and who felt himself injured because the rules of the high court did not allow him to practise as an advocate. the quartette was made up by mr. celliers, the editor of the patriotic organ, the volkstem, who, since he had lost the government printing contract, found that no language could be too strong to apply to the personnel of the government, more especially its head. of course, there was a lady in it; what plot would be complete without? she was mrs. weatherley, now, i believe, mrs. gunn of gunn. these gentlemen began operations by drawing up a long petition to sir bartle frere as high commissioner, setting forth a string of supposed grievances, and winding up with a request that the administrator might be "promoted to some other sphere of political usefulness." this memorial was forwarded by the "committee," as they called themselves, to various parts of the country for signature, but without the slightest success, the fact of the matter being that it was not the annexor but the annexation that the boers objected to.
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at this stage in the proceedings colonel weatherley went to try and forward the good cause with sir bartle frere at the cape. his letters to mrs. weatherley from thence, afterwards put into court in the celebrated divorce case, contained many interesting accounts of his attempts in that direction. i do not think, however, that he was cognisant of what was being concocted by his allies in pretoria, but being a very vain, weak man, was easily deceived by them. with all his faults he was a gentleman. as soon as he was gone a second petition was drawn up by the "committee," showing "the advisability of immediately suspending our present administrator, and temporarily appointing and recommending for her majesty's royal and favourable consideration an english gentleman of high integrity and honour, in whom the country at large has respect and confidence."
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the english gentleman of high integrity and honour of course proves to be colonel weatherley, whose appointment is, further on, "respectfully but earnestly requested," since he had "thoroughly gained the affections, confidence, and respect of boers, english, and other europeans in this country." but whilst it is comparatively easy to write petitions, there is sometimes a difficulty in getting people to sign them, as proved to be the case with reference to the documents under consideration. when the "committee" and the employés in the office of the volkstem had affixed their valuable signatures it was found to be impossible to induce anybody else to follow their example. now, a petition with some half dozen signatures attached would not, it was obvious, carry much weight with the imperial government, and no more could be obtained.
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but really great minds rise superior to such difficulties, and so did the "committee," or some of them, or one of them. if they could not get genuine signatures to their petitions, they could at any rate manufacture them. this great idea once hit out, so vigorously was it prosecuted that they, or some of them, or one of them, produced in a very little while no less than 3883 signatures, of which sixteen were proved to be genuine, five were doubtful, and all the rest fictitious. but the gentleman, whoever he was, who was the working partner in the scheme--and i may state, by way of parenthesis, that when gunn of gunn was subsequently arrested, petitions in process of signature were found under the mattress of his bed--calculated without his host. he either did not know, or had forgotten, that on receipt of such documents by a superior officer, they are at once sent to the officer accused to report upon. this course was followed in the present case, and the petitions were discovered to be gross impostures. the ingenuity exercised by their author or authors was really very remarkable, for it must be remembered that not one of the signatures was forged; they were all invented, and had, of course, to be written in a great variety of hands. the plan generally pursued was to put down the names of people living in the country, with slight variations. thus "de villiers" became "de williers," and "van zyl" "van zul." i remember that my own name appeared on one of the petitions with some slight alteration. some of the names were evidently meant to be facetious. thus there was a "jan verneuker," which means "john the cheat."
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of the persons directly or indirectly concerned in this rascally plot, the unfortunate colonel weatherley subsequently apologised to sir t. shepstone for his share in the agitation, and shortly afterwards died fighting bravely on kambula. captain gunn of gunn and mrs. weatherley, after having given rise to the most remarkable divorce case i ever heard--it took fourteen days to try--were, on the death of colonel weatherley, united in the bonds of holy matrimony, and are, i believe, still in pretoria. the lawyer vanished i know not where, whilst mr. celliers still continues to edit that admirably conducted journal the volkstem; nor, if i may judge from the report of a speech made by him recently at a boer festival, which, by the way, was graced by the presence of our representative, mr. hudson, the british resident, has his right hand forgotten its cunning, or rather his tongue lost the use of those peculiar and recherché epithets that used to adorn the columns of the volkstem. i see that he, on this occasion, denounced the english element as being "poisonous and dangerous" to a state, and stated, amidst loud cheers, that "he despised" it. mr. cellier's lines have fallen in pleasant places; in any other country he would long ago have fallen a victim to the stern laws of libel. i recommend him to the notice of enterprising irish newspapers. such is the freshness and vigour of his style that i am confident he would make the fortune of any hibernian journal.
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some little time after the gunn of gunn frauds a very sad incident happened in connection with the government of the transvaal. shortly after the annexation, the home government sent out mr. sergeaunt, c.m.g., one of the crown agents for the colonies, to report on the financial condition of the country. he was accompanied, in an unofficial capacity, amongst other gentlemen, by captain patterson and his son, mr. j. sergeaunt; and when he returned to england, these two gentlemen remained behind to go on a shooting expedition. about this time sir bartle frere was anxious to send a friendly mission to lo bengula, king of the matabele, a branch of the zulu tribe, living up towards the zambesi. this chief had been making himself unpleasant by causing traders to be robbed, and it was thought desirable to establish friendly relations with him, so it was suggested to captain patterson and mr. sergeaunt that they should combine business with pleasure, and go on a mission to lo bengula, an offer which they accepted, and shortly afterwards started for matabeleland with an interpreter and a few servants. they reached their destination in safety; and having concluded their business with the king, started on a visit to the zambesi falls on foot, leaving the interpreter with the waggon. the falls were about twelve days' walk from the king's kraal, and they were accompanied thither by young mr. thomas, the son of the local missionary, two kafir servants, and twenty native bearers supplied by lo bengula. the next thing that was heard of them was that they had all died through drinking poisoned water, full details of the manner of their deaths being sent down by lo bengula.
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in the first shock and confusion of such news it was not very closely examined, at any rate by the friends of the dead men, but, on reflection, there were several things about it that appeared strange. for instance, it was well known that captain patterson had a habit, for which, indeed, we had often laughed at him, of, however thirsty he might be, always having his water boiled when he was travelling, in order to destroy impurities, and it seemed odd that he should on this one occasion have neglected the precaution. also, it was curious that the majority of lo bengula's bearers appeared to have escaped, whereas all the others were, without exception, killed; nor even in that district is it usual to find water so bad that it will kill with the rapidity it had been supposed to do in this case, unless indeed it had been designedly poisoned. these doubts of the poisoning-by-bad-water-story resolved themselves into certainty when the waggon returned in charge of the interpreter, when, by putting two and two together, we were able to piece out the real history of the diabolical murder of our poor friends with considerable accuracy, a story which shows what blood-thirsty wickedness a savage is capable of when he fancies his interests are threatened.
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it appeared that, when captain patterson first interviewed lo bengula, he was not at all well received by him. i must, by way of explanation, state that there exists a pretender to his throne, kruman by name, who, as far as i can make out, is the real heir to the kingdom. this man had, for some cause or other, fled the country, and for a time acted as gardener to sir t. shepstone in natal. at the date of messrs. patterson and sergeaunt's mission to matabeleland he was living, i believe, in the transvaal. captain patterson, on finding himself so ill received by the king, and not being sufficiently acquainted with the character of savage chiefs, most unfortunately, either by accident or design, dropped some hint in the course of conversation about this kruman. from that moment lo bengula's conduct towards the mission entirely changed, and, dropping his former tone, he became profusely civil; and from that moment, too, he doubtless determined to kill them, probably fearing that they might forward some scheme to oust him and place kruman, on whose claim a large portion of his people looked favourably, on the throne.
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when their business was done, and captain patterson told the king that they were anxious, before returning, to visit the zambesi falls, he readily fell in with their wish, but, in the first instance, refused permission to young thomas, the son of the missionary, to accompany them, only allowing him to do so on the urgent representations of captain patterson. the reason of this was, no doubt, that he had kindly feelings towards the lad, and did not wish to include him in the slaughter.
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captain patterson was a man of extremely methodical habits, and, amongst other things, was in the habit of making notes of all that he did. his note-book had been taken off his body, and sent down to pretoria with the other things. in it we found entries of his preparations for the trip, including the number and names of the bearers provided by lo bengula. we also found the chronicle of the first three days' journey, and that of the morning of the fourth day, but there the record stopped. the last entry was probably made a few minutes before he was killed; and it is to be observed that there was no entry of the party having been for several days without water, as stated by the messengers, and then finding the poisoned water.
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this evidence by itself would not have amounted to much, but now comes the curious part of the story, showing the truth of the old adage, "murder will out." it appears that when the waggon was coming down to pretoria in charge of the interpreter, it was outspanned one day outside the borders of lo bengula's country, when some kafirs--bechuanas, i think--came up, asked for some tobacco, and fell into conversation with the driver, remarking that he had come up with a full waggon, and now he went down with an empty one. the driver replied by lamenting the death by poisoned water of his masters, whereupon one of the kafirs told him the following story:--he said that a brother of his was out hunting, a little while back, in the desert for ostriches, with a party of other kafirs, when hearing shots fired some way off, they made for the spot, thinking that white men were out shooting, and that they would be able to beg meat. on reaching the spot, which was by a pool of water, they saw the bodies of three white men lying on the ground, and also those of a hottentot and a kafir, surrounded by an armed party of kafirs. they at once asked the kafirs what they had been doing killing the white men, and were told to be still, for it was by "order of the king." they then learned the whole story. it appeared that the white men had made a mid-day halt by the water, when one of the bearers, who had gone to the edge of the pool, suddenly shouted to them to come and look at a great snake in the water. captain patterson ran up, and, as he leaned over the edge, was instantly killed by a blow with an axe; the others were then shot and assegaied. the kafir further described the clothes that his brother had seen on the bodies, and also some articles that had been given to his party by the murderers, that left little doubt as to the veracity of his story. and so ended the mission to matabeleland.
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no public notice was taken of the matter, for the obvious reason that it was impossible to get at lo bengula to punish him; nor would it have been easy to come by legal evidence to disprove the ingenious story of the poisoned water, since anybody trying to reach the spot of the massacre would probably fall a victim to some similar accident before he got back again. it is devoutly to be hoped that the punishment he deserves will sooner or later overtake the author of this devilish and wholesale murder.
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but though some such disaster was daily expected by a few, the majority both of soldiers and civilians never dreamed of anything of the sort, the general idea being that the conquest of cetywayo was a very easy undertaking; and the shock produced by the news of isandhlwana was proportionately great, especially as it reached pretoria in a much exaggerated form. i shall never forget the appearance of the town that morning; business was entirely suspended, and the streets were filled with knots of men talking, with scared faces, as well they might: for there was scarcely anybody but had lost a friend, and many thought that their sons or brothers were among the dead on that bloody field. among others, sir t. shepstone lost one son, and thought for some time that he had lost three.
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shortly after this event sir theophilus went to england to confer with the secretary of state on various matters connected with the transvaal, carrying with him the affection and respect of all who knew him, not excepting the majority of the malcontent boers. he was succeeded by colonel, now sir owen lanyon, who was appointed to administer the government during the absence of sir t. shepstone.
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by the boers, however, the news of our disaster was received with great and unconcealed rejoicing, or at least by the irreconcilable portion of that people. england's necessity was their opportunity, and one of which they certainly meant to avail themselves. accordingly, notices were sent out summoning the burghers of the transvaal to attend a mass meeting on the 18th march, at a place about thirty miles from pretoria. emissaries were also sent to native chiefs, to excite them to follow cetywayo's example, and massacre all the english within reach, of whom a man called solomon prinsloo was one of the most active the natives, however, notwithstanding the threats used towards them, one and all declined the invitation.
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it must not be supposed that all the boers who attended these meetings did so of their own free will; on the contrary, a very large number came under compulsion, since they found that the english authorities were powerless to give them protection. the recalcitrants were threatened with all sorts of pains and penalties if they did not attend, a favourite menace being that they should be made "biltong" of when the country was given back (i.e., be cut into strips and hung in the sun to dry). few, luckily for themselves, were brave enough to tempt fortune by refusing to come, but those who did have had to leave the country since the war. whatever were the means employed, the result was an armed meeting of about 3000 boers, who evidently meant mischief.
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on one or two occasions the boers came to the inn and threatened to shoot us, but as our orders were to do nothing unless our lives were actually in danger, we took no notice. the officer who came out to relieve me had not, however, been there more than a day or two before he and all his troopers were hunted back into pretoria by a large mob of armed boers whom they only escaped by very hard riding.
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meanwhile the boers were by degrees drawing nearer and nearer to the town, till at last they pitched their laagers within six miles, and practically besieged it. all business was stopped, the houses were loopholed and fortified, and advantageous positions were occupied by the military and the various volunteer corps. the building, normally in the occupation of the government mules, fell to the lot of the pretoria horse, and, though it was undoubtedly a post of honour, i honestly declare that i have no wish to sleep for another month in a mule stable that has not been cleaned out for several years. however, by sinking a well, and erecting bastions and a staging for sharpshooters, we converted it into an excellent fortress, though it would not have been of much use against artillery. our patrols used to be out all night, since we chiefly feared a night attack, and generally every preparation was made to resist the onset that was hourly expected, and i believe that it was that state of preparedness that alone prevented it.
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whilst this meeting was going on, and when matters had come to a point that seemed to render war inevitable, sir bartle frere arrived at pretoria and had several interviews with the boer leaders, at which they persisted in demanding their independence, and nothing short of it. after a great deal of talk the meeting finally broke up without any actual appeal to arms, though it had, during its continuance, assumed many of the rights of government, such as stopping post-carts and individuals, and sending armed patrols about the country. the principal reason of its break-up was that the zulu war was now drawing to a close, and the leaders saw that there would soon be plenty of troops available to suppress any attempt at revolt, but they also saw to what lengths they could go with impunity. they had for a period of nearly two months been allowed to throw the whole country into confusion, to openly violate the laws, and to intimidate and threaten her majesty's loyal subjects with war and death. the lesson was not lost on them; but they postponed action till a more favourable opportunity offered.
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sir bartle frere before his departure took an opportunity at a public dinner given him at potchefstroom of assuring the loyal inhabitants of the country that the transvaal would never be given back.
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meanwhile a new pharaoh had arisen in egypt, in the shape of sir garnet wolseley, and on the 29th june 1879 we find him communicating the fact to sir 0. lanyon in very plain language, telling him that he disapproved of his course of action with regard to secocoeni, and that "in future you will please take orders only from me."
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one of his first acts was to issue a proclamation, stating that, "whereas it appears that, notwithstanding repeated assurances of contrary effect given by her majesty's representatives in this territory, uncertainty or misapprehension exists amongst some of her majesty's subjects as to the intention of her majesty's government regarding the maintenance of british rule and sovereignty over the territory of the transvaal: and whereas it is expedient that all grounds for such uncertainty or misapprehension should be removed once and for all beyond doubt or question: now therefore i do hereby proclaim and make known, in the name and on behalf of her majesty the queen, that it is the will and determination of her majesty's government that this transvaal territory shall be, and shall continue to be for ever, an integral portion of her majesty's dominions in south africa."
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alas! sir g. wolseley's estimate of the value of a solemn pledge thus made in the name of her majesty, whose word has hitherto been held to be sacred, differed greatly to that of mr. gladstone and his government.
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sir garnet wolseley's operations against secocoeni proved eminently successful, and were the best arranged bit of native warfare that i have yet heard of in south africa. one blow was struck, and only one, but that was crushing. of course the secret of his success lay in the fact that he had an abundance of force; but it was not ensured by that alone, good management being very requisite in an affair of the sort, especially where native allies have to be dealt with. the cost of the expedition, not counting other secocoeni war expenditure, amounted to over £300,000, all of which is now lost to this country.
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another step in the right direction undertaken by sir garnet was the establishment of an executive council and also of a legislative council, for the establishment of which letters patent were sent from downing street in november 1880.
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meanwhile the boers, paying no attention to the latter proclamation, for they guessed that it, like other proclamations in the transvaal, would be a mere brutum fulmen, had assembled for another mass meeting, at which they went forward a step, and declared a government which was to treat with the english authorities. they had now learnt that they could do what they liked with perfect impunity, provided they did not take the extreme course of massacring the english. they had yet to learn that they might even do that. at the termination of this meeting, a vote of thanks was passed to "mr. leonard courtney of london, and other members of the british parliament." it was wise of the boer leaders to cultivate mr. courtney of london. as a result of this meeting, pretorius, one of the principal leaders, and bok, the secretary, were arrested on a charge of treason, and underwent a preliminary examination; but as the secretary of state, sir m. hicks beach, looked rather timidly on the proceeding, and the local authorities were doubtful of securing a verdict, the prosecution was abandoned, and necessarily did more harm than good, being looked upon as another proof of the impotence of the government.
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shortly afterwards, sir g. wolseley changed his tactics, and, instead of attempting to imprison pretorius, offered him a seat on the executive council, with a salary attached. this was a much more sensible way of dealing with him, and he at once rose to the bait, stating his willingness to join the government after a while, but that he could not publicly do so at the moment lest he should lose his influence with those who were to be brought round through him. it does not, however, appear that mr. pretorius ever did actually join the executive, probably because he found public opinion too strong to allow him to do so.
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in december 1879 a new light broke upon the boers, for in the previous month mr. gladstone had been delivering his noted attack on the policy of the conservative government. those mid-lothian speeches did harm, it is said, in many parts of the world; but i venture to think that they have proved more mischievous in south africa than anywhere else; at any rate, they have borne fruit sooner. it is not to be supposed that mr. gladstone really cared anything about the transvaal or its independence when he was denouncing the hideous outrage that had been perpetrated by the conservative government in annexing it. on the contrary, as he acquiesced in the annexation at the time (when lord kimberley stated that it was evidently unavoidable), and declined to rescind it when he came into power, it is to be supposed that he really approved of it, or at the least looked on it as a necessary evil. however this may be, any stick will do to beat a dog with, and the transvaal was a convenient point on which to attack the government. he probably neither knew nor cared what effect his reckless words might have on ignorant boers thousands of miles away; and yet, humanly speaking, many a man would have been alive and strong to-day whose bones now whiten the african veldt had those words never been spoken. then, for the first time, the boers learnt that, if they played their cards properly and put on sufficient pressure, they would, in the event of the liberal party coming to office, have little difficulty in coercing it as they wished.
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there was a fair chance at the time of the utterance of the mid-lothian speeches that the agitation would, by degrees, die away; sir g. wolseley had succeeded in winning over pretorius, and the boers in general were sick of mass meetings. indeed, a memorial was addressed to sir. g. wolseley by a number of boers in the potchefstroom district, protesting against the maintenance of the movement against her majesty's rule, which, considering the great amount of intimidation exercised by the malcontents, may be looked upon as a favourable sign.
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but when it slowly came to be understood among the boers that a great english minister had openly espoused their cause, and that he would perhaps soon be all-powerful, the moral gain to them was incalculable. they could now go to the doubting ones and say,--we must be right about the matter, because, putting our own feelings out of the question, the great gladstone says we are. we find the committee of the boer malcontents, at their meeting in march 1880, reading a letter to mr. gladstone, "in which he was thanked for the great sympathy shown in their fate," and a hope expressed that, if he succeeded in getting power, he would not forget them. in fact, a charming unanimity prevailed between our great minister and the boer rebels, for their interests were the same, the overthrow of the conservative government. if, however, every leader of the opposition were to intrigue or countenance intrigues with those who are seeking to undermine the authority of her majesty, whether they be boers or irishmen, in order to help himself to power, the country might suffer in the long run.
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but whatever feelings may have prompted her majesty's opposition, the home government, and their agent, sir garnet wolseley, blew no uncertain blast, if we may judge from their words and actions. thus we find sir garnet speaking as follows at a banquet given in his honour at pretoria:--
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"i am told that these men (the boers) are told to keep on agitating in this way, for a change of government in england may give them again the old order of things. nothing can show greater ignorance of english politics than such an idea; i tell you that there is no government, whig or tory, liberal, conservative, or radical, who would dare under any circumstances to give back this country. they would not dare, because the english people would not allow them. to give back the country, what would it mean? to give it back to external danger, to the danger of attack by hostile tribes on its frontier, and who, if the english government were removed for one day, would make themselves felt the next. not an official of government paid for months; it would mean national bankruptcy. no taxes being paid, the same thing recurring again which had existed before would mean danger without, anarchy and civil war within, every possible misery; the strangulation of trade, and the destruction of property."
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it is very amusing to read this passage by the light of after events. on other occasions sir garnet wolseley will probably not be quite so confident as to the future when it is to be controlled by a radical government.
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this explicit and straightforward statement of sir garnet's produced a great effect on the loyal inhabitants of the transvaal, which was heightened by the publication of the following telegram from the secretary of state:--"you may fully confirm explicit statements made from time to time as to inability of her majesty's government to entertain any proposal for withdrawal of the queen's sovereignty."
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as the government took the trouble to republish the despatch, it is a pity that they did not think fit to pay more attention to its contents.
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the reader will remember the financial condition of the country at the time of the annexation, which was one of utter bankruptcy. after three years of british rule, however, we find, notwithstanding the constant agitation that had been kept up, that the total revenue receipts for the first quarter of 1879 and 1880 amounted to £22,773 and £47,982 respectively. that is to say, that, during the last year of british rule, the revenue of the country more than doubled itself, and amounted to about £160,000 a year, taking the quarterly returns at the low average of £40,000. it must, however, be remembered that this sum would have been very largely increased in subsequent years, most probably doubled. at any rate the revenue would have been amply sufficient to make the province one of the most prosperous in south africa, and to have enabled it to shortly repay all debts due to the british government, and further to provide for its own defence. trade also, which, in april 1877, was completely paralysed, had increased enormously. so early as the middle of 1879, the committee of the transvaal chamber of commerce pointed out, in a resolution adopted by them, that the trade of the country had in two years risen from almost nothing to the considerable sum of two millions sterling per annum, and that it was entirely in the hands of those favourable to british rule. they also pointed out that more than half the land-tax was paid by englishmen, or other europeans adverse to boer government. land, too, had risen greatly in value, of which i can give the following instance. about a year after the annexation i, together with a friend, bought a little property on the outskirts of pretoria, which, with a cottage we put up on it, cost some £300. just before the rebellion we fortunately determined to sell it, and had no difficulty in getting £650 for it. i do not believe that it would now fetch a fifty-pound note.
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i cannot conclude this chapter better than by drawing attention to a charming specimen of the correspondence between the boer leaders and their friend mr. courtney. the letter in question, which is dated 26th june, purports to be written by messrs. kruger and joubert, but it is obvious that it owes its origin to some member or members of the dutch party at the cape, from whence, indeed, it is written. this is rendered evident both by its general style, and also by the use of such terms as "satrap," and by references to napoleon iii. and cayenne, about whom messrs. kruger and joubert know no more than they do of peru and the incas.
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after alluding to former letters, the writers blow a blast of triumph over the downfall of the conservative government, and then make a savage attack on the reputation of sir bartle frere. the "stubborn satrap" is throughout described as a liar, and every bad motive imputed to him. really, the fact that mr. courtney should encourage such epistles as this is enough to give colour to the boast made by some of the leading boers, after the war, that they had been encouraged to rebel by a member of the british government.
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at the end of this letter, and on the same page of the blue-book, is printed the telegram recalling sir bartle frere, dated 1st august 1880. it really reads as though the second document was consequent on the first. one thing is very clear, the feelings of her majesty's new government towards sir bartle frere differed only in the method of their expression from those set forth by the boer leaders in their letter to mr. courtney, whilst their object, namely, to be rid of him, was undoubtedly identical with that of the dutch party in south africa.
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the boer rebellion.
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when the liberal ministry became an accomplished fact instead of a happy possibility, mr. gladstone did not find it convenient to adopt the line of policy with reference to the transvaal that might have been expected from his utterances whilst leader of the opposition. on the contrary, he declared in parliament that the annexation could not be cancelled, and on the 8th june 1880 we find him, in answer to a boer petition, written with the object of inducing him to act up to the spirit of his words and rescind the annexation, writing thus:--"looking to all the circumstances, both of the transvaal and the rest of south africa, and to the necessity of preventing a renewal of disorders which might lead to disastrous consequences, not only to the transvaal, but to the whole of south africa, our judgment is, that the queen cannot be advised to relinquish her sovereignty over the transvaal; but, consistently with the maintenance of that sovereignty, we desire that the white inhabitants of the transvaal should, without prejudice to the rest of the population, enjoy the fullest liberty to manage their local affairs. we believe that this liberty may be most easily and promptly conceded to the transvaal as a member of a south african confederation."
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unless words have lost their signification, this passage certainly means that the transvaal must remain a british colony, but that england will be prepared to grant it responsible government, more especially if it will consent to a confederation scheme. mr. gladstone, however, in a communication dated 1st june 1881, and addressed to the unfortunate transvaal loyals, for whom he expresses "respect and sympathy," interprets his meaning thus: "it is stated, as i observe, that a promise was given by me that the transvaal never should be given back. there is no mention of the terms or date of this promise. if the reference be to my letter, of 8th june 1880, to messrs. kruger and joubert, i do not think the language of that letter justifies the description given. nor am i sure in what manner or to what degree the fullest liberty to manage their local affairs, which i then said her majesty's government desired to confer on the white population of the transvaal, differs from the settlement now about being made in its bearing on the interests of those whom your committee represents."
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such twisting of the meaning of words would, in a private person, be called dishonest. it will also occur to most people that mr. gladstone might have spared the deeply wronged and loyal subjects of her majesty whom he was addressing the taunt he levels at them in the second paragraph i have quoted. if asked, he would no doubt say that he had not the slightest intention of laughing at them; but when he deliberately tells them that it makes no difference to their interests whether they remain her majesty's subjects under a responsible government, or become the servants of men who were but lately in arms against them and her majesty's authority, he is either mocking them, or offering an insult to their understandings.
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by way of comment on his remarks, i may add that he had, in a letter replying to a petition from these same loyal inhabitants, addressed to him in may 1880, informed them that he had already told the boer representatives that the annexation could not be rescinded. although mr. gladstone is undoubtedly the greatest living master of the art of getting two distinct and opposite sets of meanings out of one set of words, it would try even his ingenuity to make out, to the satisfaction of an impartial mind, that he never gave any pledge about the retention of the transvaal.
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indeed, it is from other considerations clear that he had no intention of giving up the country to the boers, whose cause he appears to have taken up solely for electioneering purposes. had he meant to do so, he would have carried out his intention on succeeding to office, and, indeed, as things have turned out, it is deeply to be regretted that he did not; for, bad as such a step would have been, it would at any rate have had a better appearance than our ultimate surrender after three defeats. it would also have then been possible to secure the repayment of some of the money owing to this country, and to provide for the proper treatment of the natives, and the compensation of the loyal inhabitants who could no longer live there: since it must naturally have been easier to make terms with the boers before they had defeated our troops.
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on the other hand, we should have missed the grandest and most soul-stirring display of radical theories, practically applied, that has as yet lightened the darkness of this country. but although mr. gladstone gave his official decision against returning the country, there seems to be little doubt that communications on the subject were kept up with the boer leaders through some prominent members of the radical party, who, it was said, went so far as to urge the boers to take up arms against us. when mr. white came to this country on behalf of the loyalists, after the surrender, he stated that this was so at a public meeting, and said further that he had in his possession proofs of his statements. he even went so far as to name the gentleman he accused, and to challenge him to deny it i have not been able to gather that mr. white's statements were contradicted.
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however this may be, after a pause, agitation in the transvaal suddenly recommenced with redoubled vigour. it began through a man named bezeidenhout, who refused to pay his taxes. thereupon a waggon was seized in execution under the authority of the court and put up to auction, but its sale was prevented by a crowd of rebel boers, who kicked the auctioneer off the waggon and dragged the vehicle away. this was on the 11th november 1880. when this intelligence reached pretoria, sir owen lanyon sent down a few companies of the 21st regiment, under the command of major thornhill, to support the landdrost in arresting the rioters, and appointed captain raaf, c.m.g., to act as special messenger to the landdrost's court at potchefstroom, with authority to enrol special constables to assist him to carry out the arrests. on arrival at potchefstroom captain raaf found that, without an armed force, it was quite impossible to effect any arrest. on the 26th november sir owen lanyon, realising the gravity of the situation, telegraphed to sir george colley, asking that the 58th regiment should be sent back to the transvaal. sir george replied that he could ill spare it on account of "daily expected outbreak of pondos and possible appeal for help from cape colony," and that the government must be supported by the loyal inhabitants.
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it will be seen that the boers had, with some astuteness, chosen a very favourable time to commence operations. the hands of the cape government were full with the basuto war, so no help could be expected from it; sir g. wolseley had sent away the only cavalry regiment that remained in the country, and lastly, sir owen lanyon had quite recently allowed a body of 300 trained volunteers, mostly, if not altogether, drawn from among the loyalists, to be raised for service in the basuto war, a serious drain upon the resources of a country so sparsely populated as the transvaal.
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meanwhile a mass meeting had been convened by the boers for the 8th january to consider mr. gladstone's letter, but the bezeidenhout incident had the effect of putting forward the date of assembly by a month, and it was announced that it would be held on the 8th december. subsequently the date was shifted to the 15th, and then back again to the 8th. every effort was made, by threats of future vengeance, to secure the presence of as many burghers as possible; attempts were also made to persuade the native chiefs to send representatives, and to promise to join in an attack on the english. these entirely failed. the meeting was held at a place called paarde kraal, and resulted in the sudden declaration of the republic and the appointment of the famous triumvirate kruger, joubert, and pretorius. it then moved into heidelberg, a little town about sixty miles from pretoria, and on the 16th december the republic was formally proclaimed in a long proclamation, containing a summary of the events of the few preceding years, and declaring the arrangements the malcontents were willing to make with the english authorities. the terms offered in this document are almost identical with those finally accepted by her majesty's government, with the exception that in the proclamation of the 16th december the boer leaders declare their willingness to enter into confederation, and to guide their native policy by general rules adopted in concurrence "with the colonies and states of south africa." this was a more liberal offer than that which we ultimately agreed to, but then the circumstances had changed.
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this proclamation was forwarded to sir owen lanyon with a covering letter, in which the following words occur:--"we declare in the most solemn manner that we have no desire to spill blood, and that from our side we do not wish war. it lies in your hands to force us to appeal to arms in self-defence.... we expect your answer within twice twenty-four hours."
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i beg to direct particular attention to these paragraphs, as they have a considerable interest in view of what followed.
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the letter and proclamation reached government house, pretoria, at 10.30 on the evening of friday the 17th december. sir owen lanyon's proclamation, written in reply, was handed to the messenger at noon on sunday, 19th december, or within about thirty-six hours of his arrival, and could hardly have reached the rebel camp, sixty miles off, before dawn the next day, the 20th december, on which day, at about one o'clock, a detachment of the 94th was ambushed and destroyed on the road between middleburg and pretoria, about eighty miles off, by a force despatched from heidelberg for that purpose some days before. on the 16th december, or the same day on which the triumvirate had despatched the proclamation to pretoria containing their terms, and expressing in the most solemn manner that they had no desire to shed blood, a large boer force was attacking potchefstroom.
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so much then for the sincerity of the professions of their desire to avoid bloodshed.
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the proclamation sent by sir o. lanyon in reply recited in its preamble the various acts of which the rebels had been guilty, including that of having "wickedly sought to incite the said loyal native inhabitants throughout the province to take up arms against her majesty's government," announced that matters had now been put into the hands of the officer commanding her majesty's troops, and promised pardon to all who would disperse to their homes.
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it was at potchefstroom, which town had all along been the nursery of the rebellion, that actual hostilities first broke out. potchefstroom as a town is much more boer in its sympathies than pretoria, which is, or rather was, almost purely english. sir owen lanyon had, as stated before, sent a small body of soldiers thither to support the civil authorities, and had also appointed major clarke, c.m.g., an officer of noted coolness and ability, to act as special commissioner for the district.
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major clarke's first step was to try, in conjunction with captain raaf, to raise a corps of volunteers, in which he totally failed. those of the townsfolk who were not boers at heart had too many business relations with the surrounding farmers, and perhaps too little faith in the stability of english rule after mr. gladstone's utterances, to allow them to indulge in patriotism. at the time of the outbreak, between seventy and eighty thousand sterling was owing to firms in potchefstroom by neighbouring boers, a sum amply sufficient to account for their lukewarmness in the english cause. subsequent events have shown that the potchefstroom shopkeepers were wise in their generation.
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on the 15th december a large number of boers came into the town and took possession of the printing-office in order to print the proclamation already alluded to. major clarke made two attempts to enter the office and see the leaders, but without success.
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on the 16th a boer patrol fired on some of the mounted infantry, and the fire was returned. these were the first shots fired during the war, and they were fired by boers. orders were thereupon signalled to clarke by lieutenant-colonel winsloe, 21st regiment, now commanding at the fort which he afterwards defended so gallantly, that he was to commence firing. clarke was in the landdrost's office on the market square with a force of about twenty soldiers under captain falls and twenty civilians under captain raaf, c.m.g., a position but ill-suited for defensive purposes, from whence fire was accordingly opened, the boers taking up positions in the surrounding houses commanding the office. shortly after the commencement of the fighting, captain falls was shot dead whilst talking to major clarke, the latter having a narrow escape, a bullet grazing his head just above the ear. the fighting continued during the 17th and till the morning of the 18th, when the boers succeeded in firing the roof, which was of thatch, by throwing fire-balls on to it. major clarke then addressed the men, telling them that, though personally he did not care about his own life, he did not see that they could serve any useful purpose by being burned alive, so he should surrender, which he did, with a loss of about six killed and wounded. the camp meanwhile had repulsed with loss the attack made on it, and was never again directly attacked.
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whilst these events were in progress at potchefstroom, a much more awful tragedy was in preparation on the road between middleburg and pretoria.
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on the 23d november, colonel bellairs, at the request of sir owen lanyon, directed a concentration on pretoria of most of the few soldiers that there were in the territory, in view of the disturbed condition of the country. in accordance with these orders, colonel anstruther marched from lydenburg, a town about 180 miles from pretoria, on the 5th december, with the headquarters and two companies of the 94th regiment, being a total of 264 men, three women, and two children, and the disproportionately large train of thirty-four ox-waggons, or an ox-waggon capable of carrying five thousand pounds' weight to every eight persons. and here i may remark that it is this enormous amount of baggage, without which it appears to be impossible to move the smallest body of men, that renders infantry regiments almost useless for service in south africa except for garrisoning purposes. both zulus and boers can get over the ground at thrice the pace possible to the unfortunate soldier, and both races despise them accordingly. the zulus call our infantry "pack oxen." in this particular instance, colonel anstruther's defeat, or rather, annihilation, is to a very great extent referable to his enormous baggage train; since, in the first place, had he not lost valuable days in collecting more waggons, he would have been safe in pretoria before danger arose. it must also be acknowledged that his arrangements on the line of march were somewhat reckless, though it can hardly be said that he was ignorant of his danger. thus we find that colonel bellairs wrote to colonel anstruther, warning him of the probability of an attack, and impressing on him the necessity of keeping a good look-out, the letter being received and acknowledged by the latter on the 17th december.
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to this warning was added a still more impressive one that came to my knowledge privately. a gentleman well known to me received, on the morning after the troops had passed through the town of middleburg on their way to pretoria, a visit from an old boer with whom he was on friendly terms, who had purposely come to tell him that a large patrol was out to ambush the troops on the pretoria road. my informant having convinced himself of the truth of the statement, at once rode after the soldiers, and catching them up some distance from middleburg, told colonel anstruther what he had heard, imploring him, he said, with all the energy he could command, to take better precautions against surprise. the colonel, however, laughed at his fears, and told him that if the boers came "he would frighten them away with the big drum."
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at one o'clock on sunday, the 20th december, the column was marching along about a mile and a half from a place known as bronker's splint, and thirty-eight miles from pretoria, when suddenly a large number of mounted boers were seen in loose formation on the left side of the road. the band was playing at the time, and the column was extended over more than half a mile, the rearguard being about a hundred yards behind the last waggon. the band stopped playing on seeing the boers, and the troops halted, when a man was seen advancing with a white flag, whom colonel anstruther went out to meet, accompanied by conductor egerton, a civilian. they met about one hundred and fifty yards from the column, and the man gave colonel anstruther a letter, which announced the establishment of the south african republic, stated that until they heard lanyon's reply to their proclamation they did not know if they were at war or not; that, consequently, they could not allow any movements of troops, which would be taken as a declaration of war. this letter was signed by joubert, one of the triumvirate. colonel anstruther replied that he was ordered to pretoria, and to pretoria he must go.
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whilst this conference was going on, the boers, of whom there were quite five hundred, had gradually closed round the column, and took up positions behind rocks and trees which afforded them excellent cover, whilst the troops were on a bare plain, and before colonel anstruther reached his men a murderous fire was poured in upon them from all sides. the fire was hotly returned by the soldiers. most of the officers were struck down by the first volley, having, no doubt, been picked out by the marksmen. the firing lasted about fifteen minutes, and at the end of that time seven out of the nine officers were down killed and wounded; an eighth (captain elliot), one of the two who escaped, untouched, being reserved for an even more awful fate. the majority of the men were also down, and had the hail of lead continued much longer it is clear that nobody would have been left. colonel anstruther, who was lying badly wounded in five places, seeing what a hopeless state affairs were in, ordered the bugler to sound the cease firing, and surrendered. one of the three officers who were not much hurt was, most providentially, dr. ward, who had but a slight wound in the thigh; all the others, except captain elliot and one lieutenant, were either killed or died from the effects of their wounds. there were altogether 56 killed and 101 wounded, including a woman, mrs. fox. twenty more afterwards died of their wounds. the boer loss appears to have been very small.
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this is a short account of what i must, with reluctance, call a most cruel and carefully planned massacre. i may mention that a zulu driver, who was with the rearguard, and escaped into natal, stated that the boers shot all the wounded men who formed that body. his statement was to a certain extent borne out by the evidence of one of the survivors, who stated that all the bodies found in that part of the field (nearly three-quarters of a mile away from the head of the column), had a bullet hole through the head or breast in addition to their other wounds.
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the administrator of the transvaal in council thus comments on the occurrence in an official minute:--"the surrounding and gradual hemming in under a flag of truce of a force, and the selection of spots from which to direct their fire, as in the case of the unprovoked attack by the rebels upon colonel anstruther's force, is a proceeding of which very few like incidents can be mentioned in the annals of civilised warfare."
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the boer leaders, however, were highly elated at their success, and celebrated it in a proclamation of which the following is an extract:--"inexpressible is the gratitude of the burghers for this blessing conferred on them. thankful to the brave general f. joubert and his men who have upheld the honour of the republic on the battlefield. bowed down in the dust before almighty god, who had thus stood by them, and, with a loss of over a hundred of the enemy, only allowed two of ours to be killed."
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in view of the circumstances of the treacherous hemming in and destruction of this small body of unprepared men, most people would think this language rather high-flown, not to say blasphemous.
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on the news of this disaster reaching pretoria, sir owen lanyon issued a proclamation placing the country under martial law. as the town was large, straggling, and incapable of defence, all the inhabitants, amounting to over four thousand souls, were ordered up to camp, where the best arrangements possible were made for their convenience. in these quarters they remained for three months, driven from their comfortable homes, and cheerfully enduring all the hardships, want, and discomforts consequent on their position, whilst they waited in patience for the appearance of that relieving column that never came. people in england hardly understand what these men and women went through because they chose to remain loyal. let them suppose that all the inhabitants of an ordinary english town, with the exception of the class known as poor people, which can hardly be said to exist in a colony, were at an hour's notice ordered--all, the aged and the sick, delicate women, and tiny children--to leave their homes to the mercy of the enemy, and crowd up in a little space under shelter of a fort, with nothing but canvas tents or sheds to cover them from the fierce summer suns and rains, and the coarsest rations to feed them; whilst the husbands and brothers were daily engaged with a cunning and dangerous enemy, and sometimes brought home wounded or dead. they will then have some idea of what was gone through by the loyal people of pretoria, in their weak confidence in the good faith of the english government.
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the arrangements made for the defence of the town were so ably and energetically carried out by sir owen lanyon, assisted by the military officers, that no attack upon it was ever attempted. it seems to me that the organisation that could provide for the penning up of four thousand people for months, and carry it out without the occurrence of a single unpleasantness or expression of discontent, must have had something remarkable about it. of course, it would have been impossible without the most loyal co-operation on the part of those concerned. indeed everybody in the town lent a helping hand; judges served out rations, members of the executive inspected nuisances, and so forth. there was only one instance of "striking;" and then, of all people in the world, it was the five civil doctors who, thinking it a favourable opportunity to fleece the government, combined to demand five guineas a-day each for their services. i am glad to say that they did not succeed in their attempt at extortion.
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on the 23d december, the boer leaders issued a second proclamation in reply to that of sir o. lanyon of the 18th, which is characterised by an utter absence of regard for the truth, being, in fact, nothing but a tissue of impudent falsehoods. it accuses sir o. lanyon of having bombarded women and children, of arming natives against the boers, and of firing on the boers without declaring war. not one of these accusations has any foundation in fact, as the boers well knew; but they also knew that sir owen, being shut up in pretoria, was not in a position to rebut their charges, which they hoped might, to some extent, be believed, and create sympathy for them in other parts of the world. this was the reason of the issue of the proclamation, which well portrays the character of its framers.
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life at pretoria was varied by occasional sorties against the boer laagers, situated at different points in the neighbourhood, generally about six or eight miles from the town. these expeditions were carried out with considerable success, though with some loss, the heaviest incurred being when the boers, having treacherously hoisted the white flag, opened a heavy fire on the pretoria forces, as soon as they, beguiled into confidence, emerged from their cover. in the course of the war, one in every four of the pretoria mounted volunteers was killed or wounded.
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on the 2d january information reached pretoria that on the 26th december some boers fired on some natives who were resting outside potchefstroom and killed three; the rest fled, whereupon the boers took the cattle they had with them.
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on the 11th january some men, who had been sent from pretoria with despatches for standerton, were taken prisoners. whilst prisoners they saw ten men returning from the fields stopped by the boers and ordered to come to the laager. they refused and ran away, were fired on, five being killed and one getting his arm broken.
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these are a few instances of the treatment meted out to the unfortunate natives, taken at haphazard from the official reports. there are plenty more of the same nature if anybody cares to read them.
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as soon as the news of the rising reached them, every chief of any importance sent in to offer aid to government, and many of them, especially montsioa, our old ally in the keate award district, took the loyals of the neighbourhood under their protection. several took charge of government property and cattle during the disturbances, and one had four or five thousand pounds in gold, the product of a recently collected tax, given him to take care of by the commissioner of his district, who was afraid that the money would be seized by the boers. in every instance the property entrusted to their charge was returned intact. the loyalty of all the native chiefs under very trying circumstances (for the boers were constantly attempting to cajole or frighten them into joining them) is a remarkable proof of the great affection of the kafirs, more especially those of the basuto tribes, who love peace better than war, for the queen's rule. the government of pretoria need only have spoken one word to set an enormous number of armed men in motion against the boers, with the most serious results to the latter. any other government in the world would, in its extremity, have spoken that word, but, fortunately for the boers, it is against english principles to set black against white under any circumstances.
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one of the first acts of the triumvirate was to despatch a large force from heidelberg with orders to advance into natal territory, and seize the pass over the drakensberg known as lang's nek, so as to dispute the advance of any relieving column. this movement was promptly executed, and strong boer troops patrolled natal country almost up to newcastle.
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the news of the outbreak, followed as it was by that of the bronker's spruit massacre, and captain elliot's murder, created a great excitement in natal. all available soldiers were at once despatched up country, together with a naval brigade, who, on arrival at newcastle, brought up the strength of the imperial troops of all arms to about a thousand men. on the 10th january sir george colley left maritzburg to join the force at newcastle, but at this time nobody dreamt that he meant to attack the nek with such an insignificant column. it was known that the loyals and troops who were shut up in the various towns in the transvaal had sufficient provisions to last for some months, and that there was therefore nothing to necessitate a forlorn hope. indeed the possibility of sir george colley attempting to enter the transvaal was not even speculated upon until just before his advance, it being generally considered as out of the question.
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the only thing to do under the circumstances was to await the course of events, which were now about to develop themselves with startling rapidity. the little town of newcastle was at this time an odd sight, and remained so all through the war. the hotels were crowded to overflowing with refugees, and on every spare patch of land were erected tents, mud huts, canvas houses, and every kind of covering that could be utilised under the pressure of necessity, to house the many homeless families who had succeeded in effecting their escape from the transvaal, many of whom were reduced to great straits.
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on the morning of the 28th january, anybody listening attentively in the neighbourhood of newcastle could hear the distant boom of heavy guns. we were not kept long in suspense, for in the afternoon news arrived that sir george had attacked the nek, and failed with heavy loss. the excitement in the town was intense, for, in addition to other considerations, the 58th regiment, which had suffered most, had been quartered there for some time, and both the officers and men were personally known to the inhabitants.
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the story of the fight is well known, and needs little repetition, and a very sad story it is. the boers, who at that time were some 2000 strong, were posted and entrenched on steep hills, against which sir george colley hurled a few hundred soldiers. it was a forlorn hope, but so gallant was the charge, especially that of the mounted squadron led by major bronlow, that at one time it nearly succeeded. but nothing could stand under the withering fire from the boer schanses, and as regards the foot soldiers, they never had a chance. colonel deane tried to take them up the hill with a rush, with the result that by the time they reached the top, some of the men were actually sick from exhaustion, and none could hold a rifle steady. there on the bare hill-top they crouched and lay, whilst the pitiless fire from redoubt and rock lashed them like hail, till at last human nature could bear it no longer, and what was left of them retired slowly down the slope. but for many that gallant charge was their last earthly action. as they charged they fell, and where they fell they were afterwards buried. the casualties, killed and wounded, amounted to 195, which, considering the small number of troops engaged in the actual attack, is enormously heavy, and shows more plainly than words can tell the desperate nature of the undertaking. amongst the killed were colonel deane, major poole, major hingeston, and lieutenant elwes. major essex was the only staff officer engaged who escaped, the same officer who was one of the fortunate four who lived through isandhlwana. on this occasion his usual good fortune attended him, for though his horse was killed and his helmet knocked off, he was not touched. the boer loss was very trivial.
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sir george colley, in his admirably lucid despatch about this occurrence addressed to the secretary of state for war, does not enter much into the question as to the motives that prompted him to attack, simply stating that his object was to relieve the besieged towns. he does not appear to have taken into consideration, what was obvious to anybody who knew the country and the boers, that even if he had succeeded in forcing the nek, in itself almost an impossibility, he could never have operated with any success in the transvaal with so small a column, without cavalry, and with an enormous train of waggons. he would have been harassed day and night by the boer skirmishers, his supplies cut off, and his advance made practically impossible. also the nek would have been re-occupied behind him, since he could not have detached sufficient men to hold it, and in all probability newcastle, his base of supplies, would have fallen into the hands of the enemy.
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the moral effect of our defeat on the boers was very great. up to this time there had been many secret doubts amongst a large section of them as to what the upshot of an encounter with the troops might be; and with this party, in the same way that defeat, or even the anxiety of waiting to be attacked, would have turned the scale one way, victory turned it the other. it gave them unbounded confidence in their own superiority, and infused a spirit of cohesion and mutual reliance into their ranks which had before been wanting. waverers wavered no longer, but gave a loyal adherence to the good cause, and, what was still more acceptable, large numbers of volunteers,--whatever president brand may say to the contrary,--poured in from the orange free state.
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what sir george colley's motive was in making so rash a move is, of course, quite inexplicable to the outside observer. it was said at the time in natal that he was a man with a theory: namely, that small bodies of men properly handled were as useful and as likely to obtain the object in view as a large force. whether or no this was so, i am not prepared to say; but it is undoubtedly the case that very clever men have sometimes very odd theories, and it may be that he was a striking instance in point.
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for some days after the battle at lang's nek affairs were quiet, and it was hoped that they would remain so till the arrival of the reinforcements, which were on their way out. the hope proved a vain one on the 7th february it was reported that the escort proceeding from newcastle to the general's camp with the post, a distance of about eighteen miles, had been fired on and forced to return.
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on the 8th, about mid-day, we were all startled by the sound of fighting, proceeding apparently from a hill known as scheins hoogte, about ten miles from newcastle. it was not known that the general contemplated any move, and everybody was entirely at a loss to know what was going on, the general idea being, however, that the camp near lang's nek had been abandoned, and that sir george was retiring on newcastle.
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the firing grew hotter and hotter, till at last it was perfectly continuous, the cannon evidently being discharged as quickly as they could be loaded, whilst their dull booming was accompanied by the unceasing crash and roll of the musketry. towards three o'clock the firing slackened, and we thought it was all over, one way or the other, but about five o'clock it broke out again with increased vigour. at dusk it finally ceased. about this time some kafirs came to my house and told us that an english force was hemmed in on a hill this side of the ingogo river, that they were fighting bravely, but that "their arms were tired," adding that they thought they would be all killed at night.
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on the hill-top they had lately held the dead lay thick. there, too, exposed to the driving rain and bitter wind, lay the wounded, many of whom would be dead before the rising of the morrow's sun. it must indeed have been a sight never to be forgotten by those who saw it. the night--i remember well--was cold and rainy, the great expanses of hill and plain being sometimes lit by the broken gleams of an uncertain moon, and sometimes plunged into intensest darkness by the passing of a heavy cloud. now and again flashes of lightning threw every crag and outline into vivid relief, and the deep muttering of distant thunder made the wild gloom more solemn. then a gust of icy wind would come tearing down the valleys to be followed by a pelting thunder shower--and thus the night wore away.
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when one reflects what discomfort, and even danger, an ordinary healthy person would suffer if left after a hard day's work to lie all night in the rain and wind on the top of a stony mountain, without food, or even water to assuage his thirst, it becomes to some degree possible to realise what the sufferings of our wounded after the battle of ingogo must have been. those who survived were next day taken to the hospital at newcastle.
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what sir george colley's real object was in exposing himself to the attack has never transpired. it can hardly have been to clear the road, as he says in his despatch, because the road was not held by the enemy, but only visited occasionally by their patrols. the result of the battle was to make the boers, whose losses were trifling, more confident than ever, and to greatly depress our soldiers. sir george had now lost between three and four hundred men out of his column of little over a thousand, which was thereby entirely crippled. of his staff officers major essex now alone survived, his usual good fortune having carried him safe through the battle of ingogo. what makes his repeated escapes the more remarkable is that he was generally to be found in the heaviest firing. a man so fortunate as major essex ought to be rewarded for his good fortune if for no other reason, though, if reports are true, there would be no need to fall back on that to find grounds on which to advance a soldier who has always borne himself so well.
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another result of the ingogo battle was that the boers, knowing that we had no force to cut them off, and always secure of a retreat into the free state, passed round newcastle in free state territory, and descended from fifteen hundred to two thousand strong into natal for the purpose of destroying the reinforcements which were now on their way up under general wood. this was on the 11th of february, and from that date till the 18th the upper districts of natal were in the hands of the enemy, who cut the telegraph wires, looted waggons, stole herds of cattle and horses, and otherwise amused themselves at the expense of her majesty's subjects in natal.
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it was a very anxious time for those who knew what boers are capable of, and had women and children to protect, and who were never sure if their houses would be left standing over their heads from one day to another.
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every night we were obliged to place out kafirs as scouts to give us timely warning of the approach of marauding parties, and to sleep with loaded rifles close to our hands, and sometimes, when things looked very black, in our clothes, with horses ready saddled in the stable. nor were our fears groundless, for one day a patrol of some five hundred boers encamped on the next place, which by the way belonged to a dutchman, and stole all the stock on it, the property of an englishman. they also intercepted a train of waggons, destroyed the contents, and burnt them. numerous were the false alarms it was our evil fortune to experience. for instance, one night i was sitting in the drawing-room reading, about eleven o'clock, with a door leading on to the verandah slightly ajar, for the night was warm, when suddenly i heard myself called by name in a muffled voice, and asked if the place was in the possession of the boers. looking towards the door i saw a full-cocked revolver coming round the corner, and on opening it in some alarm, i could indistinctly discern a line of armed figures in a crouching attitude stretching along the verandah into the garden beyond. it turned out to be a patrol of the mounted police, who had received information that a large number of boers had seized the place and had come to ascertain the truth of the report. as we gathered from them that the boers were certainly near, we did not pass a very comfortable night.
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meanwhile we were daily expecting to hear that the troops had been attacked along the line of march, and knowing the nature of the country and the many opportunities it affords for ambuscading and destroying one of our straggling columns encumbered with innumerable waggons, we had the worst fears for the result. at length a report reached us to the effect that the reinforcements were expected on the morrow, and that they were not going to cross the ingagaan at the ordinary drift, which was much commanded by hills, but at a lower drift on our own place, about three miles from newcastle, which is only slightly commanded. we also heard that it was the intention of the boers to attack them at this point and to fall back on my house and the hills behind. accordingly, we thought it about time to retreat, and securing a few valuables, such as plate, we made our way into the town, leaving the house and its contents to take their chance. at newcastle an attack was daily expected, if for no other reason, to obtain possession of the stores collected there.
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the defences of the place were, however, in a wretched condition, no proper outlook was kept, and there was an utter want of effective organisation. the military element at the camp had enough to do to look after itself, and did not concern itself with the safety of the town; and the mounted police--a colonial force paid by the colony--had been withdrawn from the little forts round newcastle, as the general wanted them for other purposes, and a message sent that the town must defend its own forts. there were, it is true, a large number of able-bodied men in the place who were willing to fight, but they had no organisation. the very laager was not finished until the danger was past.
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then there was a large party who were for surrendering the town to the boers, because if they fought it might afterwards injure their trade. with this section of the population the feeling of patriotism was strong, no doubt, but that of pocket was stronger. i am convinced that the boers would have found the capture of newcastle an easy task, and i confess that what i then saw did not inspire me with great hopes of the safety of the colony when it gets responsible government, and has to depend for protection on burgher forces. colonial volunteer forces are, i think, as good troops as any in the world; but an unorganised colonial mob, pulled this way and that by different sentiments and interests, is as useless as any other mob, with the difference that it is more impatient of control.
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for some unknown reason the boer leaders providentially changed their minds about attacking the reinforcements, and their men were withdrawn to the nek as swiftly and silently as they had been advanced, and on the 17th february the reinforcements marched into newcastle, to the very great relief of the inhabitants, who had been equally anxious for their own safety and that of the troops. personally, i was never in my life more pleased to see her majesty's uniform; and we were equally rejoiced on returning home to find that nothing had been injured. after this we had quiet for a while.
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on the 21st february, we heard that two fresh regiments had been sent up to the camp at lang's nek, and that general wood had been ordered down country by sir george colley to bring up more reinforcements. this item of news caused much surprise, as nobody could understand why, now that the road was clear, and that there was little chance of its being again blocked, a general should be sent down to do work which could, to all appearance, have been equally well done by the officers in command of the reinforcing regiments, with the assistance of their transport riders. it was, however, understood that an agreement had been entered into between the two generals that no offensive operations should be undertaken till wood returned.
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as soon as the boers found out that the hill was in the occupation of the english, their first idea was to leave the nek, and they began to inspan with that object, but discovering that there were no guns commanding them, they changed their mind, and set to work to storm the hill instead. as far as i have been able to gather, the number of boers who took the mountain was about 300, or possibly 400; i do not think there were more than that. the boers themselves declare solemnly that they were only 100 strong, but this i do not believe. they slowly advanced up the hill till about 11.30, when the real attack began, the dutchmen coming on more rapidly and confidently, and shooting with ever-increasing accuracy, as they found our fire quite ineffective.
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about a quarter to one, our men retreated to the last ridge, and general colley was shot through the head. after this, the retreat became a rout, and the soldiers rushed pell-mell down the precipitous sides of the hill, the boers knocking them over by the score as they went, till they were out of range. a few were also, i heard, killed by the shells from the guns that were advanced from the camp to cover the retreat, but as this does not appear in the reports, perhaps it is not true. our loss was about 200 killed and wounded, including sir george colley, drs. landon and cornish, and commander romilly, who was shot with an explosive bullet, and died after some days' suffering. when the wounded commander was being carried to a more sheltered spot, it was with great difficulty that the boers were prevented from massacring him as he lay, they being under the impression that he was sir garnet wolseley. as was the case at ingogo, the wounded were left on the battlefield all night in very inclement weather, to which some of them succumbed. it is worthy of note that after the fight was over they were treated with considerable kindness by the boers.
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not being a soldier, of course, i cannot venture to give any military reasons as to how it was that what was after all a considerable force was so easily driven from a position of great natural strength; but i think i may, without presumption, state my opinion as to the real cause, which was the villainous shooting of the british soldier. though the troops did not, as was said at the time, run short of ammunition, it is clear that they fired away a great many rounds at men who, in storming the hill, must necessarily have exposed themselves more or less, of whom they managed to hit--certainly not more than six or seven--which was the outside of the boer casualties. from this it is clear that they can neither judge distance nor hit a moving object, nor did they probably know that when shooting down hill it is necessary to aim low. such shooting as the english soldier is capable of may be very well when he has an army to aim at, but it is useless in guerilla warfare against a foe skilled in the use of the rifle and the art of taking shelter.
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a couple of months after the storming of majuba, i, together with a friend, had a conversation with a boer, a volunteer from the free state in the late war, and one of the detachment that stormed majuba, who gave us a circumstantial account of the attack with the greatest willingness. he said that when it was discovered that the english had possession of the mountain, they thought that the game was up, but after a while bolder counsels prevailed, and volunteers were called for to storm the hill. only seventy men could be found to perform the duty, of whom he was one. they started up the mountain in fear and trembling, but soon found that every shot passed over their heads, and went on with greater boldness. only three men, he declared, were hit on the boer side; one was killed, one was hit in the arm, and he himself was the third, getting his face grazed by a bullet, of which he showed us the scar. he stated that the first to reach the top ridge was a boy of twelve, and that as soon as the troops saw them they fled, when, he said, he paid them out for having nearly killed him, knocking them over one after another "like bucks" as they ran down the hill, adding that it was "alter lecker" (very nice). he asked us how many men we had lost during the war, and when we told him about seven hundred killed and wounded, laughed in our faces, saying he knew that our dead amounted to several thousands. on our assuring him that this was not the case, he replied, "well, don't let's talk of it any more, because we are good friends now, and if we go on you will lie, and i shall lie, and then we shall get angry. the war is over now, and i don't want to quarrel with the english; if one of them takes off his hat to me i always acknowledge it." he did not mean any harm in talking thus; it is what englishmen have to put up with now in south africa; the boers have beaten us, and act accordingly.
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this man also told us that the majority of the rifles they picked up were sighted for 400 yards, whereas the latter part of the fighting had been carried on within 200.
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sir george colley's death was much lamented in the colony, where he was deservedly popular; indeed, anybody who had the honour of knowing that kind-hearted english gentleman, could not do otherwise than deeply regret his untimely end. what his motive was in occupying majuba in the way he did has never, so far as i am aware, transpired. the move, in itself, would have been an excellent one, had it been made in force, or accompanied by a direct attack on the nek, but, as undertaken, seems to have been objectless. there were, of course, many rumours as to the motives that prompted his action, of which the most probable seems to be that, being aware of what the home government intended to do with reference to the transvaal, he determined to strike a blow to try and establish british supremacy first, knowing how mischievous any apparent surrender would be. whatever his faults may have been as a general, he was a brave man, and had the honour of his country much at heart.
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it was also said by soldiers who saw him the night the troops marched up majuba, that the general was "not himself," and it was hinted that continual anxiety and the chagrin of failure had told upon his mind. as against this, however, must be set the fact that his telegrams to the secretary of state for war, the last of which he must have despatched only about half an hour before he was shot, are cool and collected, and written in the same unconcerned tone--as though he were a critical spectator of an interesting scene--that characterises all his communications, more especially his despatches. they at any rate give no evidence of shaken nerve or unduly excited brain, nor can i see that any action of his with reference to the occupation of majuba is out of keeping with the details of his generalship upon other occasions. he was always confident to rashness, and possessed by the idea that every man in the ranks was full of as high a spirit, and as brave as he was himself. indeed, most people will think, that so far from its being a rasher action, the occupation of majuba, bad generalship as it seems, was a wiser move than either the attack on the nek or the ingogo fiasco.
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but at the best, all his movements are difficult to be understood by a civilian, though they may, for ought we know, have been part of an elaborate plan, perfected in accordance with the rules of military science, of which, it is said, he was a great student.
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the retrocession of the transvaal.
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when parliament met in january 1881, the government announced, through the mediumship of the queen's speech, that it was their intention to vindicate her majesty's authority in the transvaal. i have already briefly described the somewhat unfortunate attempts to gain this end by force of arms; and i now propose to follow the course of the diplomatic negotiations entered into by the ministry with the same object.
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as soon as the hostilities in the transvaal took a positive form, causing great dismay among the home authorities, whose paths, as we all know, are the paths of peace--at any price; and whilst, in the first confusion of calamity, they knew not where to turn, president brand stepped upon the scene in the character of "our mutual friend," and, by the government at any rate, was rapturously welcomed.
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this gentleman has for many years been at the head of the government of the orange free state, whose fortunes he had directed with considerable ability. he is a man of natural talent and kind-hearted disposition, and has the advancement of the boer cause in south africa much at heart. the rising in the transvaal was an event that gave him a great and threefold opportunity: first, of interfering with the genuinely benevolent object of checking bloodshed; secondly, of advancing the dutch cause throughout south africa under the cloak of amiable neutrality, and striking a dangerous blow at british supremacy over the dutch and british prestige with the natives; and, thirdly, of putting the english government under a lasting obligation to him. of this opportunity he has availed himself to the utmost in each particular.
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so soon as things began to look serious, mr. brand put himself into active telegraphic communication with the various british authorities with the view of preventing bloodshed by inducing the english government to accede to the boer demands. he was also earnest in his declarations that the free state was not supporting the transvaal; which, considering that it was practically the insurgent base of supplies, where they had retired their women, children, and cattle, and that it furnished them with a large number of volunteers, was perhaps straining the truth.
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about this time also we find lord kimberley telegraphing to mr. brand that "if only the transvaal boers will desist from armed opposition to the queen's authority," he thinks some arrangement might be made. this is the first indication made public of what was passing in the minds of her majesty's government, on whom its radical supporters were now beginning to put the screw, to induce or threaten them into submitting to the boer demands.
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again, on the 11th january, the president telegraphed to lord kimberley through the orange free state consul in london, suggesting that sir h. de villiers, the chief justice at the cape, should be appointed a commissioner to go to the transvaal to settle matters. oddly enough, about the same time the same proposition emanated from the dutch party in the cape colony, headed by mr. hofmeyer, a coincidence that inclines one to the opinion that these friends of the boers had some further reason for thus urging sir henry de villiers' appointment as commissioner beyond his apparent fitness for the post, of which his high reputation as a lawyer and in his private capacity was a sufficient guarantee.
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the explanation is not hard to find, the fact being that, rightly or wrongly, sir henry de villiers, who is himself of dutch descent, is noted throughout south africa for his sympathies with the boer cause, and both president brand and the dutch party in the cape shrewdly suspected that, if the settling of differences were left to his discretion, the boers and their interests would receive very gentle handling. the course of action adopted by him, when he became a member of the royal commission, went far to support this view, for it will be noticed in the report of the commissioners that in every single point he appears to have taken the boer side of the contention. indeed so blind was he to their faults, that he would not even admit that the horrible potchefstroom murders and atrocities, which are condemned both by sir h. robinson and sir evelyn wood in language as strong as the formal terms of a report will allow, were acts contrary to the rules of civilised warfare. if those acts had been perpetrated by englishmen on boers, or even on natives, i venture to think sir henry de villiers would have looked at them in a very different light.
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in the same telegram in which president brand recommends the appointment of sir henry de villiers, he states that the allegations made by the triumvirate in the proclamation in which they accused sir owen lanyon of committing various atrocities, deserve to be investigated, as they maintain that the collision was commenced by the authorities. nobody knew better than mr. brand that any english official would be quite incapable of the conduct ascribed to sir owen lanyon, whilst, even if the collision had been commenced by the authorities, which as it happened it was not, they would under the circumstances have been amply justified in so commencing it. this remark by president brand in his telegram was merely an attempt to throw an air of probability over a series of slanderous falsehoods.
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messages of this nature continued to pour along the wires from day to day, but the tone of those from the colonial office grew gradually humbler. thus we find lord kimberley telegraphing on the 8th february, that if the boers would desist from armed opposition all reasonable guarantees would be given as to their treatment after submission, and that a scheme would be framed for the "permanent friendly settlement of difficulties." it will be seen that the government had already begun to water the meaning of their declaration that they would vindicate her majesty's authority. no doubt mr. chamberlain, mr. courtney, and their followers had given another turn to the radical screw.
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it is, however, clear that at this time no idea of the real aims of the government had entered into the mind of sir george colley, since on the 7th february he telegraphed home a plan which he proposed to adopt on entering the transvaal, which included a suggestion that he should grant a complete amnesty only to those boers who would sign a declaration of loyalty.
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in answer to this he was ordered to do nothing of the sort, but to promise protection to everybody and refer everything home.
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then came the battle of ingogo, which checked for the time the flow of telegrams, or rather varied their nature, for those despatched during the next few days deal with the question of reinforcements. on the 13th february, however, negotiations were reopened by paul kruger, one of the triumvirate, who offered, if all the troops were ordered to withdraw from the transvaal, to give them a free passage through the nek, to disperse the boers, and to consent to the appointment of a commission.
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the offer was jumped at by lord kimberley, who, without making reference to the question of withdrawing the soldiers, offered, if only the boers would disperse, to appoint a commission with extensive powers to develop the "permanent friendly settlement" scheme. the telegram ends thus: "add, that if this proposal is accepted, you now are authorised to agree to suspension of hostilities on our part." this message was sent to general wood, because the boers had stopped the communications with colley. on the 19th, sir george colley replies in these words, which show his astonishment at the policy adopted by the home government, and which, in the opinion of most people, redound to his credit--
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"latter part of your telegram to wood not understood. there can be no hostilities if no resistance is made, but am i to leave lang's nek in natal territory in boer occupation, and our garrisons isolated and short of provisions, or occupy former and relieve latter?" lord kimberley hastens to reply that the garrisons must be left free to provision themselves, "but we do not mean that you should march to the relief of garrisons or occupy lang's nek if an arrangement proceeds."
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it will be seen that the definition of what vindication of her majesty's authority consisted grew broader and broader; it now included the right of the boers to continue to occupy their positions in the colony of natal.
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meanwhile the daily fire of complimentary messages was being kept up between president brand and lord kimberley, who alternately gave "sincere thanks to lord kimberley" and "fully appreciated the friendly spirit" of president brand, till on the 21st february the latter telegraphs through colley: "hope of amicable settlement by negotiation, but this will be greatly facilitated if somebody on spot and friendly disposed to both could by personal communication with both endeavour to smooth difficulties. offers his services to her majesty's government, and kruger and pretorius and joubert are willing." needless to say his services were accepted.
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presently, however, on 27th february, sir george colley made his last move, and took possession of majuba. his defeat and death had the effect of causing another temporary check in the peace negotiations, whilst sir frederick roberts with ample reinforcements was despatched to natal. it had the further effect of increasing the haughtiness of the boer leaders, and infusing a corresponding spirit of pliability or generosity into the negotiations of her majesty's government.
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thus on 2d march, the boers, through president brand and sir evelyn wood, inform the secretary of state for the colonies that they are willing to negotiate, but decline to submit on cease opposition. sir evelyn wood, who evidently did not at all like the line of policy adopted by the government, telegraphed that he thought the best thing to do would be for him to engage the boers, and disperse them vi et armis, without any guarantees, "considering the disasters we have sustained," and that he should, "if absolutely necessary," be empowered to promise life and property to the leaders, but that they should be banished from the country. in answer to this telegram, lord kimberley informs him that her majesty's government will amnesty everybody except those who have committed acts contrary to the rules of civilised warfare, and that they will agree to anything, and appoint a commission to carry out the details, and "be ready for friendly communications with any persons appointed by the boers."
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thus was her majesty's authority finally re-established in the transvaal.
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it was not a very grand climax, nor the kind of arrangement to which englishmen are accustomed, but perhaps, considering the circumstances, and the well-known predilections of those who made the settlement, it was as much as could be expected.
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the action of the government must not be considered as though they were unfettered in their judgment; it can never be supposed that they acted as they did because they thought such action right or even wise, for that would be to set them down as men of a very low order of intelligence, which they certainly are not.
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it is clear that no set of sensible men, who had after much consideration given their decision that under all the circumstances the transvaal must remain british territory, and who, on a revolt subsequently breaking out in that territory, had declared that her majesty's rule must be upheld, would have, putting aside all other circumstances, deliberately stultified themselves by almost unconditionally, and of their own free will, abandoning the country, and all her majesty's subjects living in it. that would be to pay a poor tribute to their understanding, since it is clear that if reasons existed for retaining the transvaal before the war, as they were satisfied there did, those reasons would exist with still greater force after a war had been undertaken and three crushing defeats sustained, which if left unavenged must, as they knew, have a most disastrous effect on our prestige throughout the south african continent.
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i prefer to believe that the government was coerced into acting as it did by radical pressure, both from outside and from its immediate supporters in the house, and that it had to choose between making an unconditional surrender in the transvaal and losing the support of a very powerful party. under these circumstances it, being liberal in politics, naturally followed its instincts, and chose surrender.
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if such a policy was bad in itself, and necessarily mischievous in its consequences, so much the worse for those who suffered by it; it was clear that the government could not be expected to lose votes in order to forward the true interests of countries so far off as the south african colonies, which had had the misfortune to be made a party question of, and must take the consequences.
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there is no doubt that the interest brought to bear on the government was very considerable, for not only had they to deal with their own supporters, and with the shadowy caucus that was ready to let the lash of its displeasure descend even on the august person of mr. gladstone, should he show signs of letting slip so rich an opportunity for the vindication of the holiest principles of advanced radicalism, but also with the hydra-headed crowd of visionaries and professional sentimentalists who swarm in this country, and who are always ready to take up any cause, from that of jumbo or of a murderer to that of oppressed peoples, such as the bulgarians or the transvaal boers.
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these gentlemen, burning with zeal, and filled with that confidence which proverbially results from the hasty assimilation of imperfect and erroneous information, found in the transvaal question a great opportunity of making a noise; and--as in a disturbed farmyard the bray of the domestic donkey, ringing loud and clear among the utterances of more intelligent animals, overwhelms and extinguishes them--so, and with like effect, amongst the confused sound of various english opinions about the boer rising, rose the trumpet-note of the transvaal independence committee and its supporters.
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as we have seen, they did not sound in vain.
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on the 6th of march an armistice with the boers had been entered into by sir evelyn wood, which was several times prolonged up to the 21st march, when sir evelyn wood concluded a preliminary peace with the boer leaders, which, under certain conditions, guaranteed the restoration of the country within six months, and left all other points to be decided by a royal commission.
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the news of this peace was at first received in the colony in the silence of astonishment. personally, i remember, i would not believe that it was true. it seemed to us, who had been witnesses of what had passed, and knew what it all meant, something so utterly incredible that we thought there must be a mistake.
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if there had been any one redeeming circumstance about it, if the english arms had gained a single decisive victory, it might have been so, but it was hard for englishmen, just at first, to understand that not only had the transvaal been to all appearance wrested from them by force of arms, but that they were henceforth to be subject, as they well knew would be the case, to the coarse insults of victorious boers, and the sarcasms of keener-witted kafirs.
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people in england seem to fancy that when men go to the colonies they lose all sense of pride in their country, and think of nothing but their own advantage. i do not think that this is the case, indeed, i believe that, individual for individual, there exists a greater sense of loyalty, and a deeper pride in their nationality, and in the proud name of england, among colonists, than among englishmen proper. certainly the humiliation of the transvaal surrender was more keenly felt in south africa than it was at home; but, perhaps, the impossibility of imposing upon people in that country with the farrago of nonsense about blood-guiltiness and national morality, which was made such adroit use of at home, may have made the difference.
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i know that personally i would not have believed it possible that i could feel any public event so keenly as i did this; indeed, i quickly made up my mind that if the peace was confirmed, the neighbourhood of the transvaal would be no fit or comfortable residence for an englishman, and that i would, at any cost, leave the country,--which i accordingly did.
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newcastle was a curious sight the night after the peace was declared. every hotel and bar was crowded with refugees, who were trying to relieve their feelings by cursing the name of gladstone with a vigour, originality, and earnestness that i have never heard equalled; and declaring in ironical terms how proud they were to be citizens of england--a country that always kept its word. then they set to work with many demonstrations of contempt to burn the effigy of the bight honourable gentleman at the head of her majesty's government, an example, by the way, that was followed throughout south africa.
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even sir evelyn wood, who is very popular in the colony, was hissed as he walked through the town, and great surprise was expressed that a soldier who came out expressly to fight the boers should consent to become the medium of communication in such a dirty business. and, indeed, there was some excuse for all this bitterness, for the news meant ruin to very many.
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but if people in natal and at the cape received the news with astonishment, how shall i describe its effect upon the unfortunate loyal inhabitants in the transvaal, on whom it burst like a thunderbolt?
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they did not say much, however, and indeed there was nothing to be said. they simply began to pack up such things as they could carry with them, and to leave the country, which they well knew would henceforth be utterly untenable for englishmen or english sympathisers. in a few weeks they come pouring down through newcastle by hundreds; it was the most melancholy exodus that can be imagined. there were people of all classes, officials, gentlefolk, work-people, and loyal boers, but they had a connecting link; they had all been loyal, and they were all ruined.
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most of these people had gone to the transvaal since it became a british colony, and invested all they had in it, and now their capital was lost and their labour rendered abortive; indeed, many of them whom one had known as well to do in the transvaal, came down to natal hardly knowing how they would feed their families next week.
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it must be understood that so soon as the queen's sovereignty was withdrawn the value of landed and house property in the transvaal went down to nothing, and has remained there ever since. thus a fair-sized house in pretoria brought in a rental varying from ten to twenty pounds a month during british occupation, but after the declaration of peace, owners of houses were glad to get people to live in them to keep them from falling into ruin. those who owned land or had invested money in businesses suffered in the same way; their property remains neither profitable or saleable, and they themselves are precluded by their nationality from living on it, the art of "boycotting" not being peculiar to ireland.
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"the streets grown over with rank vegetation; the water-furrows uncleaned and unattended, emitting offensive and unhealthy stenches; the houses showing evident signs of dilapidation and decay; the side paths, in many places, dangerous to pedestrians--in fact, everything the eye can rest upon indicates the downfall which has overtaken this once prosperous city. the visitor can, if he be so minded, betake himself to the outskirts and suburbs, where he will perceive the same sad evidences of neglect, public grounds unattended, roads uncared for, mills and other public works crumbling into ruin. these palpable signs of decay most strongly impress him. a blight seems to have come over this lately fair and prosperous town. rapidly it is becoming a 'deserted village,' a 'city of the dead.'"
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the commission appointed by her majesty's government consisted of sir hercules robinson, sir henry de villiers, and sir evelyn wood, president brand being also present in his capacity of friend of both parties, and to their discretion were left the settlement of all outstanding questions. amongst these, were the mode of trial of those persons who had been guilty of acts contrary to the rules of civilised warfare, the question of severance of territory from the transvaal on the eastern boundary, the settlement of the boundary in the keate-award districts, the compensation for losses sustained during the war, the functions of the british resident, and other matters. their place of meeting was at newcastle in natal, and from thence they proceeded to pretoria.
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the first question of importance that came before the commission was the mode of trial to be adopted in the cases of those persons accused of acts contrary to the usages of civilised warfare, such as murder. the attorney-general for the transvaal strongly advised that a special tribunal should be constituted to try these cases, principally because "after a civil war in which all the inhabitants of a country, with very few exceptions, have taken part, a jury of fair and impartial men, truly unbiassed, will be very difficult to get together." it is satisfactory to know that the commissioners gave this somewhat obvious fact "their grave consideration," which, according to their report, resulted in their determining to let the cases go before the ordinary court, and be tried by a jury, because in referring them to a specially constituted court which would have done equal justice without fear or favour, "the british government would have made for itself, among the dutch population of south africa, a name for vindictive oppression, which no generosity in other affairs could efface."
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there is more in this determination of the commissioners, or rather of the majority of them--for sir e. wood, to his credit be it said, refused to agree in their decision--than meets the eye, the fact of the matter being that it was privately well known to them, that though the boer leaders might be willing to allow a few of the murderers to undergo the form of a trial, neither they nor the boers themselves meant to permit the farce to go any further. had the men been tried by a special tribunal they would in all probability have been condemned to death, and then would have come the awkward question of carrying out the sentence on individuals whose deeds were looked on, if not with general approval, at any rate without aversion by the great mass of their countrymen. in short, it would probably have become necessary either to reprieve them or to fight the boers again, since it was very certain that they would not have allowed them to be hung. therefore the majority of the commissioners, finding themselves face to face with a dead wall, determined to slip round it instead of boldly climbing it, by referring the cases to the transvaal high court, cheerfully confident of what the result must be.
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after all, the matter was, much cry about little wool, for of all the crimes committed by the boers--a list of some of which will be found in the appendix to this book--in only three cases were a proportion of the perpetrators produced and put through the form of trial. those three were--the dastardly murder of captain elliot, who was shot by his boer escort whilst crossing the vaal river on parole; the murder of a man named malcolm, who was kicked to death in his own house by boers, who afterwards put a bullet through his head to make the job "look better;" and the murder of a doctor named barber, who was shot by his escort on the border of the free state. a few of the men concerned in the first two of these crimes were tried in pretoria; and it was currently reported at that time, that in order to make their acquittal certain our attorney-general received instructions not to exercise his right of challenging jurors on behalf of the crown. whether or not this is true i am not prepared to say, but i believe it is a fact that he did not exercise that right, though the counsel for the prisoners availed themselves of it freely, with the result that in elliot's case, the jury was composed of eight boers and one german, nine being the full south african jury. the necessary result followed; in both cases the prisoners were acquitted in the teeth of the evidence. barber's murderers were tried in the free state, and were, as might be expected, acquitted.
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thus it will be seen that of all the perpetrators of murder and other crimes during the course of the war not one was brought to justice.
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the offence for which their victims died was, in nearly every case, that they had served, were serving, or were loyal to her majesty the queen. in no single case has england exacted retribution for the murder of her servants and citizens; but nobody can read through the long list of these dastardly slaughters without feeling that they will not go unavenged. the innocent blood that has been shed on behalf of this country, and the tears of children and widows, now appeal to a higher tribunal than that of mr. gladstone's government, and assuredly they will not appeal in vain.
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the next point of importance dealt with by the commission was the question whether or no any territory should be severed from the transvaal, and kept under english rule for the benefit of the native inhabitants. lord kimberley, acting under pressure put upon him by members of the aborigines protection society, instructed the commission to consider the advisability of severing the districts of lydenburg and zoutpansberg, and also a strip of territory bordering on zululand and swaziland, from the transvaal, so as to place the inhabitants of the first two districts out of danger of maltreatment by the boers, and to interpose a buffer between zulus, and swazis, and boer aggression, and vice versâ.
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the boer leaders had, it must be remembered, acquiesced in the principle of such a separation in the preliminary peace signed by sir evelyn wood and themselves. the majority of the commission, however (sir evelyn wood dissenting), finally decided against the retention of either of these districts, a decision which, i think, was a wise one, though i arrive at that conclusion on very different grounds to those adopted by the majority of the commission.
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personally, i cannot see that it is the duty of england to play policeman to the whole world. to have retained these native districts would have been to make ourselves responsible for their good government, and to have guaranteed them against boer encroachment, which i do not think that we were called upon to do. it is surely not incumbent upon us, having given up the transvaal to the boers, to undertake the management of the most troublesome part of it, the zulu border. besides, bad as the abandonment of the transvaal is, i think that if it was to be done at all, it was best to do it thoroughly, since to have kept some natives under our protection, and to have handed over the rest to the tender mercies of the boers, would only be to render our injustice more obvious, whilst weakening the power of the natives themselves to combine in self-defence, since those under our protection would naturally have little sympathy with their more unfortunate brethren--their interests and circumstances being different.
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the commission do not seem to have considered the question from these points of view; but putting them on one side, there are many other considerations connected with it which are ably summed up in their report. amongst these is the danger of disturbances commenced between zulus or swazis and boers spreading into natal, and the probability of the fomenting of disturbances amongst the zulus by boers. the great argument for the retention of some territory, if only as a symbol that the english had not been driven out of the country, is, however, set forth in the forty-sixth paragraph of the report, which runs as follows:--"the moral considerations that determine the actions of civilised governments are not easily understood by barbarians, in whose eyes successful force is alone the sign of superiority, and it appeared possible that the surrender by the british crown of one of its possessions to those who had been in arms against it, might be looked upon by the natives in no other way than as a token of the defeat and decay of the british power, and that thus a serious shock might be given to british authority in south africa, and the capacity of great britain to govern and direct the vast native population within and without her south african dominions--a capacity resting largely on the renown of her name--might be dangerously impaired."
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these words, coming from so unexpected a source, do not, though couched in such mild language, hide the startling importance of the question discussed. on the contrary, they accurately and with double weight convey the sense and gist of the most damning argument against the policy of the retrocession of the transvaal in its entirety; and proceeding from their own carefully chosen commissioners, can hardly have been pleasant reading to lord kimberley and his colleagues.
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the majority of the commission then proceeds to set forth the arguments advanced by the boers against the retention of any territory, which appear to have been chiefly of a sentimental character, since we are informed that "the people, it seemed certain, would not have valued the restoration of a mutilated country. sentiment in a great measure had led them to insurrection, and the force of such it was impossible to disregard." sir evelyn wood, in his dissent, states that he cannot even agree with the premises of his colleagues' argument, since he is convinced that it was not sentiment that had led to the outbreak, but a "general and rooted aversion to taxation." if he had added, and a hatred not only of english rule, but of all rule, he would have stated the complete cause of the transvaal rebellion. in the next paragraph of the report, however, we find the real cause of the pliability of the commission in the matter, which is the same that influenced them in their decision about the mode of trial of the murderers and other questions--they feared that the people would appeal to arms if they decided against their wishes.
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discreditable and disgraceful as it may seem, nobody can read this report without plainly seeing that the commissioners were, in treating with the boers on these points, in the position of ambassadors from a beaten people getting the best terms they could. of course, they well knew that this was not the case but whatever the boer leaders may have said, the boers themselves did not know this, or even pretend to look at the matter in any other light. when we asked for the country back, said they, we did not get it; after we had three times defeated the english we did get it; the logical conclusion from the facts being that we got it because we defeated the english. this was their tone, and it is not therefore surprising that whenever the commission threatened to decide anything against them, they, with a smile, let it know that if it did, they would be under the painful necessity of re-occupying lang's nek. it was never necessary to repeat the threat, since the majority of the commission would thereupon speedily find a way to meet the views of the boer representatives.
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sir evelyn wood, in his dissent, thus correctly sums up the matter:--"to contend that the royal commission ought not to decide contrary to the wishes of the boers, because such decision might not be accepted, is to deny to the commission the very power of decision that it was agreed should be left in its hands." exactly so. but it is evident that the commission knew its place, and so far from attempting to exercise any "power of decision," it was quite content with such concessions as it could obtain by means of bargaining. thus, as an additional reason against the retention of any territory, it is urged that if this territory was retained "the majority of your commissioners ... would have found themselves in no favourable position for obtaining the concurrence of the boer leaders as to other matters." in fact, her majesty's commission, appointed, or supposed to be appointed, to do her majesty's will and pleasure, shook in its shoes before men who had lately been rebels in arms against her authority, and humbly submitted itself to their dicta.
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the majority of the commission went on to express their opinion, that by giving way about the retention of territory they would be able to obtain better terms for the natives generally, and larger powers for the british resident. but, as sir evelyn wood points out in his report, they did nothing of the sort, the terms of the agreement about the resident and other native matters being all consequent on and included in the first agreement of peace. besides, they seem to have overlooked the fact that such concessions as they did obtain are only on paper, and practically worthless, whilst all bonâ fide advantages remained with the boers.
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the decision of the commissioners in the question of the keate award, which next came under their consideration, appears to have been a judicious one, being founded on the very careful report of colonel moysey, r.e., who had been for many months collecting information on the spot. the keate award territory is a region lying to the south-west of the transvaal, and was, like many other districts in that country, originally in the possession of natives of the baralong and batlapin tribes. individual boers having, however, more suo taken possession of tracts of land in the district, difficulties speedily arose between their government and the native chiefs, and in 1871 mr. keate, lieutenant-governor of natal, was by mutual consent called in to arbitrate on the matter. his decision was entirely in favour of the natives, and was accordingly promptly and characteristically repudiated by the boer volksraad. from that time till the rebellion the question remained unsettled, and was indeed a very thorny one to deal with. the commission, acting on the principle in medio tutissimus ibis, drew a line through the midst of the disputed territory, or, in other words, set aside mr. keate's award, and interpreted the dispute in favour of the boers.
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amongst the questions remaining for the consideration of the commissioners was that of what compensation should be given for losses during the war. of course, the great bulk of the losses sustained were of an indirect nature, resulting from the necessary and enormous depreciation in the value of land and other property, consequent on the retrocession. into this matter the home government declined to enter, thereby saving its pocket at the price of its honour, since it was upon english guarantees that the country would remain a british possession that the majority of the unfortunate loyals invested their money in it. it was, however, agreed by the commission (sir h. de villiers dissenting) that the boers should be liable for compensation in cases where loss had been sustained through commandeering seizure, confiscation, destruction, or damage of property. the sums awarded under these heads have already amounted to about £110,000, which sum has been defrayed by the imperial government, the boer authorities stating that they were not in a position to pay it.
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in connection with this matter i will pass to the financial clauses of the report. when the country was annexed, the public debt amounted to £301,727. under british rule this debt was liquidated to the extent of £150,000, but the total was brought up by a parliamentary grant, a loan from the standard bank, and sundries to £390,404, which represented the public debt of the transvaal on the 31st december 1880. this was further increased by moneys advanced by the standard bank and english exchequer during the war, and till the 8th august 1881, during which time the country yielded no revenue, to £457,393. to this must be added an estimated sum of £200,000 for compensation charges, pension allowances, &c., and a further sum of £383,000, the cost of the successful expedition against secocoeni, that of the unsuccessful one being left out of account, bringing up the total public debt to over a million, of which about £800,000 is owing to this country.
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this sum, with the characteristic liberality that distinguished them in their dealings with the boers, but which was not so marked where loyals were concerned, the commissioners (sir evelyn wood dissenting) reduced by a stroke of the pen to £265,000, thus entirely remitting an approximate sum of £500,000, or £600,000. to the sum of £265,000 still owing must be added say another £150,000 for sums lately advanced to pay the compensation claims, bringing up the actual amount now owing to england to something under half a million, of which i say with confidence she will never see a single £10,000. as this contingency was not contemplated, or if contemplated, not alluded to by the royal commission, provision was made for a sinking fund, by means of which the debt, which is a second charge on the revenues of the states, is to be extinguished in twenty-five years.
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it is a strange instance of the proverbial irony of fate, that whilst the representatives of the imperial government were thus showering gifts of hundreds of thousands of pounds upon men who had spurned the benefits of her majesty's rule, made war upon her forces, and murdered her subjects, no such consideration was extended to those who had remained loyal to her throne. their claims for compensation were passed by unheeded; and looking from the windows of the room in which they sat in newcastle, the members of the commission might have seen them flocking down from a country that could no longer be their home; those that were rich among them made poor, and those that were poor reduced to destitution.
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the only other point which it will be necessary for me to touch on in connection with this report is the duties of the british resident and his relations to the natives. he was to be invested as representative of the suzerain with functions for securing the execution of the terms of peace as regards--(1) the control of the foreign relations of the state; (2) the control of the frontier affairs of the state; and (3) the protection of the interests of the natives in the state.
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as regards the first of these points, it was arranged that the interests of subjects of the transvaal should be left in the hands of her majesty's representatives abroad. since boers are, of all people in the world, the most stay-at-home, our ambassadors and consuls are not likely to be troubled much on their account. with reference to the second point, the commission made stipulations that would be admirable if there were any probability of their being acted up to. the resident is to report any encroachment on native territory by boers to the high commissioner, and when the resident and the boer government differ, the decision of the suzerain is to be final. this is a charming way of settling difficulties, but the commission forgets to specify how the suzerain's decision is to be enforced. after what has happened, it can hardly have relied on awe of the name of england to bring about the desired obedience!
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but besides thus using his beneficent authority to prevent subjects of the transvaal from trespassing on their neighbour's land, the resident is to exercise a general supervision over the interests of all the natives in the country. considering that they number about a million, and are scattered over a territory larger than france, one would think that this duty alone would have taken up the time of any ordinary man; and, indeed, sir evelyn wood was in favour of the appointment of sub-residents to assist him. the majority of the commission refused, however, to listen to any such suggestion--believing, they said, "that the least possible interference with the independent government of the state would be the wisest." quite so, but i suppose it never occurred to them to ask the natives what their views of the matter were! the resident was also to be a member of a native location commission, which was at some future time to provide land for the natives to live on.
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in perusing this report it is easy to follow with more or less accuracy the individual bent of its framers. sir hercules robinson figures throughout as a man who has got a disagreeable business to carry out, in obedience to instructions that admit of no trifling with, and who has set himself to do the best he can for his country, and those who suffer through his country's policy, whilst obeying those instructions. he has evidently choked down his feelings and opinions as an individual, and turned himself into an official machine, merely registering in detail the will of lord kimberley. with sir henry de villiers the case is very different. one feels throughout that the task is to him a congenial one, and that the boer cause has in him an excellent friend. indeed, had he been an advocate of their cause instead of a member of the commission, he could not have espoused their side on every occasion with greater zeal. according to him they were always in the right, and in them he could find no guile. mr. hofmeyer and president brand exercised a wise discretion from their own point of view when they urged his appointment as special commissioner. i now come to sir evelyn wood, who was in the position of an independent englishman, neither prejudiced in favour of the boers, or the reverse, and on whom, as a military man, lord kimberley would find it difficult to put the official screw. the results of his happy position are obvious in the paper attached to the end of the report, and signed by him, in which he totally and entirely differs from the majority of the commission on every point of any importance. most people will think that this very outspoken and forcible dissent deducts somewhat from the value of the report, and throws a shadow of doubt on the wisdom of its provisions.
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the formal document of agreement between her majesty's government and the boer leaders, commonly known as the convention, was signed by both parties at pretoria on the afternoon of the 3d august 1881, in the same room in which, nearly four years before, the annexation proclamation was signed by sir t. shepstone.
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whilst this business was being transacted in government house, a curious ceremony was going on just outside, and within sight of the windows. this was the ceremonious burial of the union jack, which was followed to the grave by a crowd of about 2000 loyalists and native chiefs. on the outside of the coffin was written the word "resurgam," and an eloquent oration was delivered over the grave. such demonstrations are, no doubt, foolish enough, but they are not entirely without political significance.
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but a more unpleasant duty awaited the commissioners than that of attaching their signatures to a document,--consisting of the necessity of conveying her majesty's decision as to the retrocession to about a hundred native chiefs, until now her majesty's subjects, who had been gathered together to hear it. it must be borne in mind that the natives had not been consulted as to the disposal of the country, although they outnumber the white people in the proportion of twenty to one, and that, beyond some worthless paper stipulations, nothing had been done for their interests.
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personally, i must plead guilty to what i know is by many, especially by those who are attached to the boer cause, considered as folly, if not worse, namely, a sufficient interest in the natives, and sympathy with their sufferings, to bring me to the conclusion that in acting thus we have inflicted a cruel injustice upon them. it seems to me, that as they were the original owners of the soil, they were entitled to some consideration in the question of its disposal, and consequently and incidentally, of their own. i am aware that it is generally considered that the white man has a right to the black man's possessions and land, and that it is his high and holy mission to exterminate the wretched native and take his place. but with this conclusion i venture to differ. so far as my own experience of natives has gone, i have found that in all the essential qualities of mind and body they very much resemble white men, with the exception that they are, as a race, quicker-witted, more honest, and braver than the ordinary run of white men. of them might be aptly quoted the speech shakespeare puts into shylock's mouth: "hath not a jew eyes? hath not a jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" in the same way i ask, has a native no feelings or affections? does he not suffer when his parents are shot, or his children stolen, or when he is driven a wanderer from his home? does he not know fear, feel pain, affection, hate, and gratitude? most certainly he does; and this being so, i cannot believe that the almighty, who made both white and black, gave to the one race the right or mission of exterminating or even of robbing or maltreating the other, and calling the process the advance of civilisation. it seems to me, that on only one condition, if at all, have we the right to take the black men's land; and that is, that we provide them with an equal and a just government, and allow no maltreatment of them, either as individuals or tribes, but, on the contrary, do our best to elevate them, and wean them from savage customs. otherwise, the practice is surely undefensible.
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i am aware, however, that with the exception of a small class, these are sentiments which are not shared by the great majority of the public, either at home or abroad. indeed, it can be plainly seen how little sympathy they command, from the fact that but scanty remonstrance was raised at the treatment meted out to our native subjects in the transvaal, when they were, to the number of nearly a million, handed over from the peace, justice, and security that on the whole characterise our rule, to a state of things and possibilities of wrong and suffering which i will not try to describe.
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to the chiefs thus assembled sir hercules robinson, as president of the royal commission, read a statement, and then retired, refusing to allow them to speak in answer. the statement informed the natives that "her majesty's government, with that sense of justice which befits a great and powerful nation," had returned the country to the boers, "whose representatives, messrs. kruger, pretorius, and joubert, i now," said sir hercules, "have much pleasure in introducing to you." if reports are true, the native chiefs had, many of them personally, and all of them by reputation, already the advantage of a very intimate acquaintance with all three of these gentlemen, so that an introduction was somewhat superfluous.
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in availing themselves of this permission, it is noticeable that no allusion was made to all the advantages they were to reap under the convention, nor did they seem to attach much importance to the appointment of the british resident. on the contrary, all their attention was given to the great fact that the country had been ceded to the boers, and that they were no longer the queen's subjects. we are told, in mr. shepstone's report, that they "got very excited," and "asked whether it was thought that they had no feelings or hearts, that they were thus treated as a stick or piece of tobacco, which could be passed from hand to hand without question." umgombarie, a zoutpansberg chief, said: "i am umgombarie. i have fought with the boers, and have many wounds, and they know that what i say is true.... i will never consent to place myself under their rule. i belong to the english government. i am not a man who eats with both sides of his jaw at once; i only use one side. i am english, i have said." silamba said: "i belong to the english. i will never return under the boers. you see me, a man of my rank and position; is it right that such as i should be seized and laid on the ground and flogged, as has been done to me and other chiefs?"
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sinkanhla said: "we hear and yet do not hear, we cannot understand. we are troubling you, chief, by talking in this way; we hear the chiefs say that the queen took the country because the people of the country wished it, and again that the majority of the owners of the country did not wish their rule, and that therefore the country was given back. we should like to have the man pointed out from among us black people who objects to the rule of the queen. we are the real owners of the country; we were here when the boers came, and without asking leave, settled down and treated us in every way badly. the english government then came and took the country; we have now had four years of rest and peaceful and just rule. we have been called here to-day, and are told that the country, our country, has been given to the boers by the queen. this is a thing which surprises us. did the country, then, belong to the boers? did it not belong to our fathers and forefathers before us, long before the boers came here? we have heard that the boers' country is at the cape. if the queen wishes to give them their land, why does she not give them back the cape?"
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i have quoted this speech at length, because, although made by a despised native, it sets forth their case more powerfully and in happier language than i can do.
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umyethile said: "we have no heart for talking. i have returned to the country from sechelis, where i had to fly from boer oppression. our hearts are black and heavy with grief to-day at the news told us, we are in agony, our intestines are twisting and writhing inside of us, just as you see a snake do when it is struck on the head.... we do not know what has become of us, but we feel dead; it may be that the lord may change the nature of the boers, and that we will not be treated like dogs and beasts of burden as formerly, but we have no hope of such a change, and we leave you with heavy hearts and great apprehension as to the future." in his report, mr. shepstone (the secretary for native affairs) says: "one chief, jan sibilo, who has been, he informed me, personally threatened with death by the boers after the english leave, could not restrain his feelings, but cried like a child."
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i have nothing to add to these extracts, which are taken from many such statements. they are the very words of the persons most concerned, and will speak for themselves.
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the convention was signed on the 3d august 1881, and was to be formally ratified by a volksraad or parliament of the burghers within three months of that date, in default of which it was to fall to the ground and become null and void.
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anybody who has followed the course of affairs with reference to the retrocession of the transvaal, or who has even taken the trouble to read through this brief history, will probably come to the conclusion that, under all the circumstances, the boers had got more than they could reasonably expect. not so, however, the boers themselves. on the 28th september the newly-elected volksraad referred the convention to a general committee to report on, and on the 30th september the report was presented. on the 3d october a telegram was despatched through the british resident to "his excellency w. e. gladstone," in which the volksraad states that the convention is not acceptable--
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the volksraad consequently declared that modifications were desirable, and that certain articles must be altered.
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to begin with, they declare that the "conduct of foreign relations does not appertain to the suzerain, only supervision," and that the articles bearing on these points must consequently be modified. they next attack the native question, stating that "the suzerain has not the right to interfere with our legislature," and state that they cannot agree to article 3, which gives the suzerain a right of veto on legislation connected with the natives; to article 13, by virtue of which natives are to be allowed to acquire land; and to the last part of article 26, by which it is provided that whites of alien race living in the transvaal shall not be taxed in excess of the taxes imposed on transvaal citizens.
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they further declare that it is infra dignitatem for the president of the transvaal to be a member of a commission. this refers to the native location commission, on which he is, in the terms of the convention, to sit, together with the british resident, and a third person jointly appointed.
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they next declare that the amount of the debt for which the commission has made them liable should be modified. considering that england had already made them a present of from £600,000 to £800,000, this is a most barefaced demand. finally, they state that "articles 15, 16, 26, and 27 are superfluous, and only calculated to wound our sense of honour" (sic).
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article 15 enacts that no slavery or apprenticeship shall be tolerated.
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article 16 provides for religious toleration.
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article 26 provides for the free movement, trading, and residence of all persons, other than natives, conforming themselves to the laws of the transvaal.
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article 27 gives to all the right of free access to the courts of justice.
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putting the "sense of honour" of the transvaal volksraad out of the question, past experience has but too plainly proved that these articles are by no means superfluous.
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in reply to this message, sir hercules robinson telegraphs to the british resident on the 21st october in the following words:--
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"having forwarded volksraad resolution of 15th to earl of kimberley, i am desired to instruct you in reply to repeat to the triumvirate that her majesty's government cannot entertain any proposals for a modification of the convention until after it has been ratified, and the necessity for further concession proved by experience."
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i wish to draw particular attention to the last part of this message, which is extremely typical of the line of policy adopted throughout in the transvaal business. the english government dared not make any further concession to the boers, because they felt that they had already strained the temper of the country almost to breaking in the matter. on the other hand, they were afraid that if they did not do something, the boers would tear up the convention, and they would find themselves face to face with the old difficulty. under these circumstances, they have fallen back upon their temporising and un-english policy, which leaves them a back-door to escape through, whatever turn things take. should the boers now suddenly turn round and declare, which is extremely probable, that they repudiate their debt to us, or that they are sick of the presence of a british resident, the government will be able to announce that "the necessity for further concession" has now been "proved by experience," and thus escape the difficulty. in short, this telegram has deprived the convention of whatever finality it may have possessed, and made it, as a document, as worthless as it is as a practical settlement. that this is the view taken of it by the boers themselves, is proved by the text of the ratification which followed on the receipt of this telegram.
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the tone of this document throughout is, in my opinion, considering from whom it came, and against whom it is directed, very insolent. and it amply confirms what i have previously said, that the boers looked upon themselves as a victorious people making terms with those they have conquered. the ratification leads off thus: "the volksraad is not satisfied with this convention, and considers that the members of the triumvirate performed a fervent act of love for the fatherland when they upon their own responsibility signed such an unsatisfactory state document." this is damning with faint praise indeed. it then goes on to recite the various points of objection, stating that the answers from the english government proved that they were well founded. "the english government," it says, "acknowledges indirectly by this answer (the telegram of 21st october, quoted above) that the difficulties raised by the volksraad are neither fictitious nor unfounded, inasmuch as it desires from us the concession that we, the volksraad, shall submit it to a practical test." it will be observed that england is here represented as begging the favour of a trial of her conditions from the volksraad of the transvaal boers. the ratification is in these words: "therefore is it that the raad here unanimously resolves not to go into further discussion of the convention, and maintaining all objections to the convention as made before the royal commission or stated in the raad, and for the purpose of showing to everybody that the love of peace and unity inspires it, for the time and provisionally submitting the articles of the convention to a practical test, hereby complying with the request of the english government contained in the telegram of the 13th october 1881, proceeds to ratify the convention."
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it would have been interesting to have seen how such a ratification as this, which is no ratification but an insult, would have been accepted by lord beaconsfield. i think that within twenty-four hours of its arrival in downing street, the boer volksraad would have received a startling answer. but lord beaconsfield is dead, and by his successor it was received with all due thankfulness and humility. his words, however, on this subject still remain to us, and even his great rival might have done well to listen to them. it was in the course of what was, i believe, the last speech he made in the house of lords, that speaking about the transvaal rising, he warned the government that it was a very dangerous thing to make peace with rebellious subjects in arms against the authority of the queen. the warning passed unheeded, and the peace was made in the way i have described.
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as regards the convention itself, it will be obvious to the reader that the boers have not any intention of acting up to its provisions, mild as they are, if they can possibly avoid them, whilst, on the other hand, there is no force at hand to punish their disregard or breach. it is all very well to create a resident with extensive powers; but how is he to enforce his decisions? what is he to do if his awards are laughed at and made a mockery of, as they are and will be? the position of mr. hudson at pretoria is even worse than that of mr. osborn in zululand. for instance, the convention specifies in the first article that the transvaal is to be known as the transvaal state. the boer government have, however, thought fit to adopt the name of "south african republic" in all public documents. mr. hudson was accordingly directed to remonstrate, which he did in a feeble way; his remonstrance was politely acknowledged, but the country is still officially called the south african republic, the convention and mr. hudson's remonstrance notwithstanding. mr. hudson, however, appears to be better suited to the position than would have been the case had an englishman, pure and simple, been appointed, since it is evident that things that would have struck the latter as insults to the queen he represented, and his country generally, are not so understood by him. in fact, he admirably represents his official superiors in his capacity of swallowing rebuffs, and when smitten on one cheek delightedly offering the other.
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thus we find him attending a boer meeting of thanksgiving for the success that had waited on their arms and the recognition of their independence, where most people will consider he was out of place. to this meeting, thus graced by his presence, an address was presented by a branch of the africander bond, a powerful institution, having for its object the total uprootal of english rule and english customs in south africa, to which he must have listened with pleasure. in it he, in common with other members of the meeting, is informed that "you took up the sword and struck the briton with such force" that "the britons through fear revived that sense of justice to which they could not be brought by petitions," and that the "day will soon come that we shall enter with you on one arena for the entire independence of south africa," i.e., independence from english rule.
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on the following day the government gave a dinner, to which all those who had done good service during the late hostilities were invited, the british resident being apparently the only englishman asked. amongst the other celebrities present i notice the name of buskes. this man, who is an educated hollander, was the moving spirit of the potchefstroom atrocities; indeed, so dark is his reputation that the royal commission refused to transact business with him, or to admit him to their presence. mr. hudson was not so particular. and now comes the most extraordinary part of the episode. at the dinner it was necessary that the health of her majesty as suzerain should be proposed, and with studied insolence this was done last of all the leading political toasts, and immediately after that of the triumvirate. notwithstanding this fact, and that the toast was couched by mr. joubert, who stated that "he would not attempt to explain what a suzerain was," in what appear to be semi-ironical terms, we find that mr. hudson "begged to tender his thanks to the honourable mr. joubert for the kind way in which he proposed the toast."
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it may please mr. hudson to see the name of the queen thus metaphorically dragged in triumph at the chariot wheels of the triumvirate, but it is satisfactory to know that the spectacle is not appreciated in england: since, on a question in the house of lords, by the earl of carnarvon, who characterised it as a deliberate insult, lord kimberley replied that the british resident had been instructed that in future he was not to attend public demonstrations unless he had previously informed himself that the name of her majesty would be treated with proper respect. let us hope that this official reprimand will have its effect, and that mr. hudson will learn therefrom that there is such a thing as trop de zéle--even in a good cause.
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the convention is now a thing of the past, the appropriate rewards have been lavishly distributed to its framers, and president brand has at last prevailed upon the volksraad of the orange free state to allow him to become a knight grand cross of saint michael and saint george,--the same prize looked forward to by our most distinguished public servants at the close of the devotion of their life to the service of their country. but its results are yet to come--though it would be difficult to forecast the details of their development. one thing, however, is clear: the signing of that document signalised an entirely new departure in south african affairs, and brought us within a measurable distance of the abandonment, for the present at any rate, of the supremacy of english rule in south africa.
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this is the larger issue of the matter, and it is already bearing fruit. emboldened by their success in the transvaal, the dutch party at the cape are demanding, and the demand is to be granted, that the dutch tongue be admitted pari passu with english, as the official language in the law courts and the house of assembly. when a country thus consents to use a foreign tongue equally with its own, it is a sure sign that those who speak it are rising to power. but "the party" looks higher than this, and openly aims at throwing off english rule altogether, and declaring south africa a great dutch republic. the course of events is favourable to their aspiration. responsible government is to be granted to natal, which country, not being strong enough to stand alone in the face of the many dangers that surround her, will be driven into the arms of the dutch party to save herself from destruction. it will be useless for her to look for help from england, and any feelings of repugnance she may feel to boer rule will soon be choked by necessity, and a mutual interest. it is, however, possible that some unforeseen event, such as the advent to power of a strong conservative ministry, may check the tide that now sets so strongly in favour of dutch supremacy.
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it seems to me, however, to be a question worthy of the consideration of those who at present direct the destinies of the empire, whether it would not be wise, as they have gone so far, to go a little further and favour a scheme for the total abandonment of south africa, retaining only table bay. if they do not, it is now quite within the bounds of sober possibility that they may one day have to face a fresh transvaal rebellion, only on a ten times larger scale, and might find it difficult to retain even table bay. if, on the other hand, they do, i believe that all the white states in south africa would confederate of their own free-will, under the pressure of the necessity for common action, and the dutch element being preponderant, at once set to work to exterminate the natives on general principles, in much the same way, and from much the same motives that a cook exterminates black beetles, because she thinks them ugly, and to clear the kitchen.
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i need hardly say that such a policy is not one that commands my sympathy, but her majesty's government having put their hand to the plough, it is worth their while to consider it. it would at any rate be in perfect accordance with their declared sentiments, and command an enthusiastic support from their followers.
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as regards the smaller and more immediate issue of the retrocession, namely, its effect on the transvaal itself, it cannot be other than evil. the act is, i believe, quite without precedent in our history, and it is difficult to see, looking at it from those high grounds of national morality assumed by the government, what greater arguments can be advanced in its favour, than could be found to support the abandonment of,--let us say,--ireland. indeed a certain parallel undoubtedly exists between the circumstances of the two countries. ireland was, like the transvaal, annexed, though a long time ago, and has continually agitated for its freedom. the irish hate us, so did the boers. in ireland, englishmen are being shot, and england is running the awful risk of blood-guiltiness, as it did in the transvaal. in ireland, smouldering revolution is being fanned into flame by mr. gladstone's speeches and acts, as it was in the transvaal. in ireland, as in the transvaal, there exists a strong loyal class that receives insults instead of support from the government, and whose property, as was the case there, is taken from them without compensation, to be flung as a sop to stop the mouths of the queen's enemies. and so i might go on, finding many such similarities of circumstances, but my parallel, like most parallels, must break down at last thus--it mattered little to england whether or no she let the transvaal go, but to let ireland go would be more than even mr. gladstone dare attempt.
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somehow, if you follow these things far enough, you always come to vulgar first principles. the difference between the case of the transvaal and that of ireland is a difference not of justice of cause, for both causes are equally unjust or just according as they are viewed, but of mere common expediency. judging from the elevated standpoint of the national morality theory, however, which, as we know, soars above such truisms as the foolish statement that force is a remedy, or that if you wish to retain your prestige you must not allow defeats to pass unavenged, i cannot see why, if it was righteous to abandon the transvaal, it would not be equally righteous to abandon ireland!
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as for the transvaal, that country is not to be congratulated on its success, for it has destroyed all its hopes of permanent peace, has ruined its trade and credit, and has driven away the most useful and productive class in the community. the boers, elated by their success in arms, will be little likely to settle down to peaceable occupations, and still less likely to pay their taxes, which, indeed, i hear they are already refusing to do. they have learnt how easily even a powerful government can be upset, and the lesson is not likely to be forgotten, for want of repetition to their own weak one.
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already the transvaal government hardly knows which way to turn for funds, and as, perhaps fortunately for itself, quite unable to borrow, through want of credit.
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as regards the native question, i agree with mr. h. shepstone, who, in his report on this subject, says that he does not believe that the natives will inaugurate any action against the boers, so long as the latter do not try to collect taxes, or otherwise interfere with them. but if the boer government is to continue to exist, it will be bound to raise taxes from the natives, since it cannot collect much from its white subjects. the first general attempt of the sort will be the signal for active resistance on the part of the natives, whom, if they act without concert, the boers will be able to crush in detail, though with considerable loss. if, on the other hand, they should have happened, during the last few years, to have learnt the advantages of combination, as is quite possible, perhaps they will crash the boers.
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the only thing that is at present certain about the matter is that there will be bloodshed, and that before long. for instance, the montsioa difficulty in the keate award has in it the possibilities of a serious war, and there are plenty such difficulties ready to spring into life within and without the transvaal.
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in all human probability it will take but a small lapse of time for the transvaal to find itself in the identical position from which we relieved it by the annexation.
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what course events will then take it is impossible to say. it may be found desirable to re-annex the country, though, in my opinion, that would be, after all that has passed, an unfortunate step; its inhabitants may be cut up piecemeal by a combined movement of native tribes, as they would have been, had they not been rescued by the english government in 1877, or it is possible that the orange free state may consent to take the transvaal under its wing: who can say? there is only one thing that our recently abandoned possession can count on for certain, and that is trouble, both from its white subjects, and the natives, who hate the boers with a bitter and a well-earned hatred.
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the whole question can, so far as its moral aspect is concerned, be summed up in a few words.
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whether or no the annexation was a necessity at the moment of its execution--which i certainly maintain it was--it received the unreserved sanction of the home authorities, and the relations of sovereign and subject, with all the many and mutual obligations involved in that connection, were established between the queen of england and every individual of the motley population of the transvaal. nor was this change an empty form, for, to the largest proportion of that population, this transfer of allegiance brought with it a priceless and a vital boon. to them it meant freedom and justice--for where, on any portion of this globe over which the british ensign floats, does the law even wink at cruelty or wrong?
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a few years passed away, and a small number of the queen's subjects in the transvaal rose in rebellion against her authority, and inflicted some reverses on her arms. thereupon, in spite of the reiterated pledges given to the contrary--partly under stress of defeat, and partly in obedience to the pressure of "advanced views"--the country was abandoned, and the vast majority who had remained faithful to the crown, was handed to the cruel despotism of the minority who had rebelled against it.
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such an act of treachery to those to whom we were bound with double chains--by the strong ties of a common citizenship, and by those claims to england's protection from violence and wrong which have hitherto been wont to command it, even where there was no duty to fulfil, and no authority to vindicate--stands, i believe, without parallel on our records, and marks a new departure in our history.
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i cannot end these pages without expressing my admiration of the extremely able way in which the boers managed their revolt, when once they felt that, having undertaken the thing, it was a question of life and death with them. it shows that they have good stuff in them somewhere, which, under the firm but just rule of her majesty, might have been much developed, and it makes it the more sad that they should have been led to throw off that rule, and have been allowed to do so by an english government.
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in conclusion, there is one point that i must touch on, and that is the effect of the retrocession on the native mind, which i can only describe as most disastrous. the danger alluded to in the report of the royal commission has been most amply realised, and the prevailing belief in the steadfastness of our policy, and the inviolability of our plighted word, which has hitherto been the great secret of our hold on the kafirs, has been rudely shaken. the motives that influenced, or are said to have influenced, the government in their act, are naturally quite unintelligible to savages, however clever, who do believe that force is a remedy, and who have seen the inhabitants of a country ruled by england defeat english soldiers and take possession of it, whilst those who remained loyal to england were driven out of it. it will not be wonderful if some of them, say the natives of natal, deduce therefrom conclusions unfavourable to loyalty, and evince a desire to try the same experiment.
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it is, however, unprofitable to speculate on the future, which must be left to unfold itself.
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the curtain is, so far as this country is concerned, down for the moment on the south african stage; when it rises again, there is but too much reason to fear that it will reveal a state of confusion, which, unless it is more wisely and consistently dealt with in the future than it has been in the past, may develop into chaos.
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the following pages, extracted from an introduction to a new edition to "cetywayo and his white neighbours," written in 1888, are reprinted here, because they contain matter of interest concerning the more recent history of the transvaal boers.
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extract from introduction to new edition of 1888.
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more than one such attempt to secure informal rights of occupation in swaziland appears to have been made by the transvaal boers. mr. t. shepstone, c.m.g., is at present acting as resident to umbandine, though he has not, it would seem, any regular commission from the home government authorising him to do so, probably because it does not consider that its rights in swaziland are such as to justify such an assumption of formal authority over the swazis. however this may be, umbandine could not have found a better man to protect his interests. of course, when acts like that of piet joubert are reported to the government of the south african republic and made the subject of a remonstrance by this country, all knowledge of them is repudiated, as it was repudiated in the case of the invasion of zululand.
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it is part of the policy of the transvaal only to become an accessory after the fact. its subjects go forth and stir up trouble among the natives, and then probably the boer government intervenes "in the interests of humanity," and takes, or tries to take, the country. this process is always going on, and, unless the british government puts a stop to it, always will go on. we shall probably soon hear that it is developing itself in the direction of matabeleland. a country the size of france, which could without difficulty accommodate a population of from eight to ten millions of industrious folk, is not large enough for the wants of a boer people, numbering something under fifty thousand souls. every young boer must have his six or more thousand acres of land on which to lord it. it is his birthright, and if it is not forthcoming he goes and takes it by force from the nearest native tribe. hence these continual complaints. of course, there are two ways of looking at the matter. there is a party that does not hesitate to say that the true policy of this country is to let the boers work their will upon the natives, and then, as they in turn fly from civilisation towards the far interior, to follow on their path and occupy the lands that they have swept. this plan is supported by arguments about the superiority of the white races and their obvious destiny of rule. it is, i confess, one that i look upon as little short of wicked. i could never discern a superiority so great in ourselves as to authorise us, by right divine as it were, to destroy the coloured man and take his lands. it is difficult to see why a zulu, for instance, has not as much right to live in his own way as a boer or an englishman. of course, there is another extreme. nothing is more ridiculous than the length to which the black brother theory is sometimes driven by enthusiasts. a savage is one thing, and a civilised man is another; and though civilised men may and do become savages, i personally doubt if the converse is even possible. but whether the civilised man, with his gin, his greed, and his dynamite, is really so very superior to the savage is another question, and one which would bear argument, although this is not the place to argue it. my point is, that his superiority is not at any rate so absolutely overwhelming as to justify him in the wholesale destruction of the savage and the occupation of his lands, or even in allowing others to do the work for him if he can prevent it. the principle might conceivably be pushed to inconvenient and indecent lengths. savagery is only a question of degree. when all true savages have been wiped out, the most civilised and self-righteous among the nations may begin to give the term to those whom they consider to be on a lower scale than themselves, and apply the argument also. thus there are "cultured" people in another land who do not hesitate to say that the humble writers of these islands are rank and rude barbarians not to be endured. supposing that, being the stronger, they also applied the argument, it would be inconvenient for some of us, and perhaps the world would not gain so very much after all. but this is a digression, only excusable, if excusable at all, in one who has endured a three weeks' course of unmitigated blue-book. to return.
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now it is quite possible that the germans, or some other power, may try to gather the transvaal apple. the boers are not blind to the march of events, and they dislike us and our rule. perhaps they might think it worth their while to seek german protection, and unless we are prepared to say "no" very firmly indeed--and who knows, in the present condition of home politics, what we are prepared to do from one day to another?--germany would in such a case almost certainly think it worth her while to give it. very likely the protection, when granted, would in some ways resemble that which the boer himself, his breast aglow with love of peace and the "interests of humanity," is so anxious to extend to the misguided native possessor of desirable and well-watered lands. very likely, in the end, the boer would be sorry that he did not accept the ills he knew of. but that is neither here nor there. so far as we are concerned, the mischief would be done. in short, should the position arise, everything will depend upon our capacity of saying "no," and the tone in which we say it. it will not do to rely upon our london convention, by which the transvaal is forbidden to conclude treaties with outside powers without the consent of this government. the convention has been broken before now, and will be broken again, if the boers find it convenient to break it, and know that they can do so with impunity. meanwhile we must rest on our oars and watch events. one thing, however, might and should be done. some person having weight and real authority--if he were quite new to south africa so much the better--should be appointed as our consul to watch over the welfare of englishmen and our imperial interests at pretoria, and properly paid for doing so. it is difficult to find a suitable man unless he is adequately salaried and supported.
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but quite recently this country has awakened to the knowledge that delagoa bay is important to its south african interests, though how important it perhaps does not altogether realise. for years and years the colony of natal has been employed in the intermittent construction of a railway with a very narrow gauge, which is now open as far as ladysmith, or to within a hundred miles of the transvaal border. natal is very poor, and in common with the rest of south africa, and indeed of the world, has lately been passing through a period of great commercial depression. the home government has refused to help it to construct its railways (if it had done so, how many hundreds of thousand pounds would have been saved to the british taxpayer during the zulu and boer wars!), and has equally refused to allow it to borrow sufficient money to get them constructed, with the result that a large amount of the interior trade has already been deflected into other channels. and now a fresh and very real danger, not only to natal, but to all imperial interests in south africa, has sprung into sudden prominence, that is, in this country, for in africa it has been foreseen for many years. above zululand is situated amatongaland, which reaches to the southern shore of one of the finest harbours in the world, delagoa bay. this great bight, in which half a dozen navies could ride at anchor, the only really good haven on the coasts of south africa, is fifty-five miles in width and twenty in depth, that is, from east to west it is separated from the transvaal, of which it is the natural port, by about ninety miles of wild and sparsely inhabited country.
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the ownership of this splendid port was for many years in dispute between this country and the portuguese, with whose dominions of mozambique it is connected by a strip of coast, and who have a small fort upon it. this dispute was finally referred by lord granville in 1872 to the decision of marshal macmahon, and on this occasion, as on every other in which this country has been weak enough to go to arbitration, that decision was given against us. into the merits of the case it is not necessary to enter, further than to say, as has already been recently pointed out by a very able and well-informed correspondent of the morning post, that it is by no means clear by what right the matter was referred to arbitration at all. the amatongas are in possession of the southern shore of the bay, including, i believe, the inyack peninsula and inyack island, and they are an independent people. the swazis also abut on it, and they are independent. what warrant had we to refer their rights to the arbitration of marshal macmahon? the evidence of the exercise of any portuguese sovereignty over these countries is so shadowy that it may be said never to have existed; certainly it does not exist now. this is a point, but it is nothing more. we must take things as we find them, and we find that the portuguese have been formally declared and admitted by us to be the owners of delagoa bay.
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now, so long as we held the transvaal it did not so much matter who had the sovereignty of the bay, since a railway constructed from there could only run to british territory. but we gave up the transvaal, which is now virtually a hostile state, and the contingency which has been so long foreseen in south africa, and so blindly overlooked at home, has come to pass--the railway is in course of rapid completion. what does this mean to us? at the best, it means that we lose the greater part of the trade of south-eastern africa; at the worst, that we lose it all. in other words, it means, putting aside the question of our imperial needs and status in africa, a great many millions a year in hard cash out of the national pocket. let us suppose that the worst happens, and that the germans get a footing either in the transvaal or delagoa bay. obviously they will stop our trade in favour of their own. or let us suppose that the transvaal takes advantage of one of our spasms of imperial paralysis, such as afflicted us during the régime of lord derby, and defies the provision in the convention which forbids them to put a heavier tax upon our goods than upon those of any other nation. in either event our case would be a bad one, for our road from the eastern coast to the vast interior is blocked. but it is of little use crying over spilt milk, or anticipating evils which it is our duty to try to avert, and which in all probability still could be averted by a sound and consistent policy.
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to begin with, both swaziland and amatongaland can be annexed to the empire. it is true that the independence of the first of these countries is guaranteed by article xii. of the convention of london of 1884. here is the exact wording:--"the independence of the swazis within the boundary-line of swaziland, as indicated in the first article of this convention, will be fully recognised." but england has for years exercised a kind of protective right over swaziland--a right, as i have already shown, fully acknowledged and frequently appealed to by the swazis themselves. and for the rest, what is the obvious meaning of this provision? it means that the independence of swaziland is guaranteed against boer encroachments; its object was to protect the swazis from extermination at the hands of the boers. further, the boers have again and again broken this article of the convention in their repeated attempts to get a foothold in swaziland. it has now become necessary to our interests that the swazis should come under our rule, as indeed they are most anxious to do, and a way should be found by which this end can be accomplished.
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note.--this has since been done.--h. r. h.
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meanwhile, can nothing be done by direct treaty with the portuguese? a little while ago the bay could no doubt have been acquired for a very moderate consideration, but those golden opportunities have been allowed to slip from hands busy weaving the web of party politics. now it is a different affair. delagoa bay is of no direct value to portugal except for the honour and glory of the thing. portugal has never done anything with it, any more than she has with her other african possessions, and never will do anything with it. but it has become very valuable, indeed, so far as its south african interests are concerned, almost vital, to this country, and of that fact portugal is perfectly well aware. consequently, if we want the bay we must pay for it, if not in cash, at the offer of which the portuguese national pride might be revolted, then in some other equivalent. surely a power like england could find a way of obliging one like portugal in return for this small concession. or an exchange of territory might be effected. perhaps portugal might be inclined to accept of some of our possessions on the west coast or an island or two in the west indies. it is hard to suppose that there is no way out of the trouble; but if indeed there is none, why, then, one must be found, or we must be content to lose a great part of our african trade.
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the reader who has followed me through this brief and imperfect summary of recent events in south africa will see how varied are its interests, how enormous its areas, and how vast its wealth. in that great country england is still the paramount power. her prestige has, indeed, been greatly shaken, and she is sadly fallen from her estate of eight or nine years gone. but she is still paramount; and if she has to face the animosity of a section of the boers, she can, notwithstanding her many crimes against them, set against it the love and respect of every native in the land, with the exception, perhaps, of a few self-seekers and intriguers. the history of the next twenty years, and perhaps of the next ten, will decide whether this country is to remain paramount or whether south africa is to become a great dutch, english-hating republic. there are some who call themselves englishmen, and who possessed by that strange itch which prompts them to desire any evil that can humble their country in the face of her enemies, or can bring about the advantage of the rebel to the injury of the loyal subject, to whom this last event would be most welcome, and who have not hesitated to say that it would be welcome. to such there is nothing to be said. let them follow their false lights and earn the wonder of true-hearted men and the maledictions of posterity.
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but, addressing those of other and older doctrines, i would ask what such an event would mean? it would mean nothing less than a great national calamity; it would mean the utter ruin of the native tribes; and, to come to a reason which has a wider popularity, for as i think mr. s. little says in his work on south africa, "the argument to the pocket is the best argument to the man," it would mean the loss of a vast trade, which, if properly protected, will be growing while we are sleeping. and this calamity can yet be averted; the mistakes and cowardice of the past can still be remedied, at any rate to a great extent; the door is yet open. we have many difficulties to face, among the chief of which are the transvaal, the question of delagoa bay, and last, but not least, the question of the dutch party at the cape, which may be numerically the strongest party. when, in our mania for representative institutions, we thrust responsible government upon the cape, we placed ourselves practically at the mercy of any chance anti-english majority. it is possible that in the future we may find some such majority urging upon an english ministry the desirability of the separation of the cape colony from the empire, and may find also that the prayer meets with favourable attention from those to whom there is but one thing sacred, the rights of a majority, and especially of an agitating majority.
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but let not the country be deceived by any such representations. the natives too have a right to a voice in the disposal of their fortunes and their lands. they are the majority in the proportion of three to one, and let any doubter go and ask of them, anywhere from the zambesi to cape agulhas, whether they would rather be ruled by the queen or by a boer republic, and hear the answer. when it was a question of surrendering the transvaal we heard a great deal of the rights of some thirty thousand boers, and very little, or rather nothing, of the rights of the million natives who lived in the country with them, and to whom that country originally belonged. and yet, if the reader will turn to that part of this book which deals with the question, he will find that they had an opinion, and a strong one. no settlement of south african questions that does not receive adequate consideration from a native point of view can be a just settlement, or one which the home government should sanction. moreover, the cape is not by any means entirely anti-english at heart, as was shown clearly enough by the number and enthusiasm of the loyalist meetings when its ministry was attempting to undo mr. mackenzie's work in bechuanaland in the interests of the patriot-party.
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still, it is possible that movements may arise under the fostering care of the africander bond and its sympathisers, having for object the separation of the colony from the empire, or other ends fatal to imperial interests; and in this case the home government should be prepared to disallow and put a final stop to them. we cannot afford to lose our alternative route to india and to throw these great territories into the hands of enemies, from which they would very probably pass into those of commercial rivals. in such an event all that would be required is a show of firmness. if once it was known that an english ministry really meant what it said, and that its promises made in the queen's name were not liable to be given the lie by a succeeding set of politicians elected on another platform, there would be an end to disloyalty and agitation in south africa. as it is, loyalists, remembering the experiences of the last few years, are faint-hearted, never knowing if they will meet with support at home, while agitators and enemies wax exceeding bold.
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our system of party government, whatever may be its merits, if any, as applied to home politics, is a great enemy to the welfare and progress of our colonies, the affairs of which are, especially of late years, frequently used as stalking-horses to cover an attack upon the other side. could not the two great parties agree to rule colonial affairs, and especially south african affairs, out of the party game? could not the policy of the colonial office be guided by a commission composed of members of different political opinions, and responsible not to party, but to parliament and the country, instead of by a succession of ministers as variable and as transitory as shadows? lord rosebery and mr. chamberlain, for instance, are radicals; but, putting aside party tactics and exigencies, are their views upon colonial matters so widely different from those of, let us say, sir michael hicks beach and lord carnarvon that it would be impossible for these four gentlemen to act together on such a commission? surely they are not; and perhaps a day may come when the common-sense of the country will lead it to adopt some such system which would give to the colonies a fixed and intelligent control aiming at the furtherance of the joint interests of the empire and its dependencies. if it ever does, that day will be a happy one for all concerned.
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meanwhile, there is, so far as south africa is concerned, a step that might be taken to the great benefit of that country, and also of our imperial aims, and that is the appointment of a high commissioner who would have charge of all imperial as distinguished from the various colonial interests. this appointment has already been advocated with ability by mr. mackenzie in the last chapter of his book, "austral africa," and it is undoubtedly one that should receive the consideration of the government. such an officer would not supersede the governors of the various colonies or the administrators of the native territories, although, so far as imperial interests were concerned, they would be primarily responsible to him. at present there is no central authority except the colonial office, and downing street is a long way off and somewhat overworked. each governor must necessarily look at south african affairs from his own standpoint and through local glasses. what is wanted is a man of the first ability, whose name would command respect abroad and support at home; and several such men could be found, who would study south african politics as a whole as an engineer studies a map, and who would set himself to conciliate and reconcile all interests for the common welfare and the welfare of the mother-country. such a man, or rather a succession of such men, might, if properly supported, succeed in bringing about a very different state of affairs from that which has been briefly reviewed and considered in these pages. they might, little by little, build up a south african confederation, strong in itself and loyal to england, that shall in time become a great empire. for my part, notwithstanding the difficulties and dangers which we have brought upon ourselves, and upon the various south african territories and their inhabitants, i believe that such an empire is destined to arise, and that it will not take the form of a dutch republic.
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the potchefstroom atrocities, &c.
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there were more murders and acts of cruelty committed during the war at potchefstroom, where the behaviour of the boers was throughout both deceitful and savage, than at any other place.
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when the fighting commenced a number of ladies and children, the wives and children of english residents, took refuge in the fort. shortly after it had been invested they applied to be allowed to return to their homes in the town till the war was over. the request was refused by the boer commander, who said that as they had gone there, they might stop and "perish" there. one poor lady, the wife of a gentleman well known in the transvaal, was badly wounded by having the point of a stake, which had been cut in two by a bullet, driven into her side. she was at the time in a state of pregnancy, and died some days afterwards in great agony. her little sister was shot through the throat, and several other women and children suffered from bullet wounds, and fever arising from their being obliged to live for months exposed to rain and heat, with insufficient food.
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the moving spirit of all the potchefstroom atrocities was a cruel wretch of the name of buskes, a well-educated man, who, as an advocate of the high court, had taken the oath of allegiance to the queen.
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i remember hearing at the time that this buskes (who is a good musician) took one of his victims, who was on the way to execution, into the chapel and played the "dead march in saul," or some such piece, over him on the organ.
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after the capture of the court house a good many englishmen fell into the hands of the boers. most of these were sentenced to hard labour and deprivation of "civil rights." the sentence was enforced by making them work in the trenches under a heavy fire from the fort. one poor fellow, f. w. finlay by name, got his head blown off by a shell from his own friends in the fort, and several loyal kafirs suffered the same fate. after these events the remaining prisoners refused to return to the trenches till they had been "tamed" by being thrashed with the butt end of guns, and by threats of receiving twenty-five lashes each.
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but their fate, bad as it was, was not so awful as that suffered by dr. woite and j. van der linden.
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dr. woite had attended the boer meeting which was held before the outbreak, and written a letter from thence to major clarke, in which he had described the talk of the boers as silly bluster. he was not a paid spy. this letter was, unfortunately for him, found in major clarke's pocket-book, and because of it he was put through a form of trial, taken out and shot dead, all on the same day. he left a wife and large family, who afterwards found their way to natal in a destitute condition.
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the case of van der linden is somewhat similar. he was one of raaf's volunteers, and as such had taken the oath of allegiance to the queen. in the execution of his duty he made a report to his commanding officer about the boer meeting, and which afterwards fell into the hands of the boers. on this he was put through the form of trial, and, though in the service of the queen, was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. one of his judges, a little less stony-hearted than the rest, pointed out that "when the prisoner committed the crime martial law had not yet been proclaimed, nor the state," but it availed him nothing. he was taken out and shot.
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a kafir named carolus was also put through the form of trial and shot, for no crime at all that i can discover.
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ten unarmed kafir drivers, who had been sent away from the fort, were shot down in cold blood by a party of boers. several witnesses depose to having seen their remains lying together close by potchefstroom.
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various other kafirs were shot. none of the perpetrators of these crimes were brought to justice. the royal commission comments on these acts as follows:--
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"in regard to the deaths of woite, van der linden, and carolus, the boer leaders do not deny the fact that those men had been executed, but sought to justify it. the majority of your commissioners felt bound to record their opinion that the taking of the lives of these men was an act contrary to the rules of civilised warfare. sir h. de villiers was of opinion that the executions in these cases, having been ordered by properly constituted court martial of the boers' forces after due trial, did not fall under the cognisance of your commissioners.
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"upon the case of william finlay the majority of your commissioners felt bound to record the opinion that the sacrifice of finlay's life, through forced labour under fire in the trenches, was an act contrary to the rules of civilised warfare. sir h. de villiers did not feel justified by the facts of the case in joining in this expression of opinion (sic). as to the case of the kafir andries, your commissioners decided that, although the shooting of this man appeared to them, from the information laid before them, to be not in accordance with the rules of civilised warfare, under all the circumstances of the case, it was not desirable to insist upon a prosecution."
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"the majority of your commissioners, although feeling it a duty to record emphatically their disapproval of the acts that resulted in the deaths of woite, van der linden, finlay, and carolus, yet found it impossible to bring to justice the persons guilty of these acts."
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it will be observed that sir h. de villiers does not express any disapproval, emphatic or otherwise, of these wicked murders.
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but potchefstroom did not enjoy a monopoly of murder.
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the men despatched from heidelberg with the letter found lambart and elliot wandering about and trying to find the way to standerton, they presented the letter, and took them towards a drift in the vaal. shortly before they got there the prisoners noticed that their escort had been reinforced. it would be interesting to know, if these extra men were not sent to assist in the murder, how and why they turned up as they did and joined themselves to the escort. the prisoners were taken to an old and disused drift of the vaal river and told to cross. it was now dark, and the river was much swollen with rain; in fact, impassable for the cart and horses. captains elliot and lambart begged to be allowed to outspan till the next morning, but were told that they must cross, which they accordingly attempted to do. a few yards from the bank the cart stuck on a rock, and whilst in this position the boer escort poured a volley into it. poor elliot was instantly killed, one bullet fracturing his skull, another passing through the back, a third shattering the right thigh, and a fourth breaking the left wrist. the cart was also riddled, but strange to say, captain lambart was untouched, and succeeded in swimming to the further bank, the boers firing at him whenever the flashes of lightning revealed his whereabouts. after sticking some time in the mud of the bank he managed to effect his escape, and next day reached the house of an englishman called groom, living in the free state, and from thence made his way to natal.
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two of the murderers were put through a form of trial, after the conclusion of peace, and acquitted.
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the case of the murder of dr. barber is of a somewhat similar character to that of elliot, except that there is in this case a curious piece of indirect evidence that seems to connect the murder directly with piet joubert, one of the triumvirate.
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in the month of february 1881, two englishmen came to the boer laager at lang's nek to offer their services as doctors. their names were dr. barber, who was well known to the boers, and his assistant, mr. walter dyas, and they came, not from natal, but the orange free state. on arrival at the boer camp they were at first well received, but after a little while seized, searched, and tied up all night to a disselboom (pole of a waggon). next morning they were told to mount their horses, and started from the camp escorted by two men who were to take them over the free state line.
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dyas went down on his hands and knees and saw one of the escort deliberately aim at him. he then jumped up, and ran dodging from right to left, trying to avoid the bullet. presently the man fired, and he felt himself struck through the thigh. he fell with his face to the men, and saw his would-be assassin put a fresh cartridge into his rifle and aim at him. turning his face to the ground he awaited his death, but the bullet whizzed past his head. he then saw the men take the horses and go away, thinking they had finished him. after waiting a while he managed to get up and struggled to a house not far off; where he was kindly treated and remained till he recovered.
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some time after this occurrence a hottentot, named allan smith, made a statement at newcastle, from, which it appears that he had been taken prisoner by the boers and made to work for them. one night he saw barber and dyas tied to the disselboom, and overheard the following, which i will give in his own words:--
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"i went to a fire where some boers were sitting; among them was a low-sized man, moderately stout, with a dark brown full beard, apparently about thirty-five years of age i do not know his name. he was telling his comrades that he had brought an order from piet joubert to viljoen, to take the two prisoners to the free state line and shoot them there. he said, in the course of conversation, 'piet joubert het gevraacht waarom was de mensche neet dood geschiet toen hulle bijde eerste laager gekom het' ('piet joubert asked why were the men not shot when they came to the first laager.') they then saw me at the fire, and one of them said, 'you must not talk before that fellow; he understands what you say, and will tell everybody.
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"next morning viljoen told me to go away, and gave me a pass into the free state. he said (in dutch), 'you must not drive for any englishman again. if we catch you doing so we will shoot you, and if you do not go away quick, and we catch you hanging about when we bring the two men to the line, we will shoot you too.'"
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dyas, who escaped, made an affidavit with reference to this statement in which he says, "i have read the foregoing affidavit of allan smith, and i say that the person described in the third paragraph thereof as bringing orders from piet joubert to viljoen, corresponds with one of the boers who took dr. barber and myself to the free state, and to the best of my belief he is the man who shot dr. barber."
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the actual murderers were put on their trial in the free state, and, of course, acquitted. in his examination at the trial, allan smith says, "it was a young man who said that joubert had given orders that barber had to be shot.... it was not at night, but in the morning early, when the young man spoke about piet joubert's order."
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most people will gather, from what i have quoted, that there exists a certain connection between the dastardly murder of dr. barber (and the attempted murder of mr. dyas) and piet joubert, one of that "able" triumvirate of which mr. gladstone speaks so highly.
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i shall only allude to one more murder, though more are reported to have occurred, amongst them that of mr. malcolm, who was kicked to death by boers,--and that is mr. green's.
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"that i was the clergyman who got together a party of englishmen and brought down the body of mr. green who was murdered by the boers and buried it. i have ascertained the circumstances of the murder, which were as follows:--mr. green was on his way to the gold-fields. as he was passing the fort, he was called in by the officers, and sent out again with a message to the boer commandant. immediately on leaving the camp, he went to the boer guard opposite with a flag of truce in his hand; while parleying with the boers, who proposed to make a prisoner of him, he was shot through the head."
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no prosecution was instituted in this case. mr. green left a wife and children in a destitute condition.
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pledges given by mr gladstone's government as to the retention of the transvaal as a british colony.
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the following extracts from the speeches, despatches, and telegrams of members of the present government, with reference to the proposed retrocession of the transvaal, are not without interest:--
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during the month of may 1880, lord kimberley despatched a telegram to sir bartle frere, in which the following words occur: "under no circumstances can the queen's authority in the transvaal be relinquished."
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in a despatch dated 20th may, and addressed to sir bartle frere, lord kimberley says, "that the sovereignty of the queen in the transvaal could not be relinquished."
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in a speech in the house of lords on the 24th may 1880, lord kimberley said:--
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"there was a still stronger reason than that for not receding; it was impossible to say what calamities such a step as receding might not cause. we had, at the cost of much blood and treasure, restored peace, and the effect of our now reversing our policy would be to leave the province in a state of anarchy, and possibly to cause an internecine war. for such a risk, he could not make himself responsible. the number of the natives in the transvaal was estimated at about 800,000, and that of the whites less than 50,000. difficulties with the zulus and frontier tribes would again arise, and, looking as they must to south africa as a whole, the government, after a careful consideration of the question, came to the conclusion that we could not relinquish the transvaal. nothing could be more unfortunate than uncertainty in respect to such a matter."
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on the 8th june 1880, mr. gladstone, in reply to a boer memorial, wrote as follows:--
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"it is undoubtedly a matter for much regret that it should, since the annexation, have appeared that so large a number of the population of dutch origin in the transvaal are opposed to the annexation of that territory, but it is impossible now, to consider that question as if it were presented for the first time. we have to do with a state of things which has existed for a considerable period, during which obligations have been contracted, especially, though not exclusively, towards the native population, which cannot be set aside. looking to all the circumstances, both of the transvaal and the rest of south africa, and to the necessity of preventing a renewal of disorders, which might lead to disastrous consequences, not only to the transvaal but to the whole of south africa, our judgment it that the queen cannot be advised to relinquish the transvaal."
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her majesty's speech, delivered in parliament on the 6th january 1881, contains the following words: "a rising in the transvaal has recently imposed upon me the duty of vindicating my authority."
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these extracts are rather curious reading in face of the policy adopted by the government, after our troops had been defeated.
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a boer on boer designs.
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we have received the following letter, appropriately headed "boer ignorance." the writer bears a well-known dutch name, and gives as his late address the name of a well-known town in a dutch district of cape colony:--
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to the editor of the "times."
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sir,--in your paper you have often commented on what you are pleased to call the ignorance of my countrymen, the boers. we are not so ignorant as the british statesmen and newspaper writers, nor are we such fools as you british are. we know our policy, and we do not change it. we have no opposition party to fear nor to truckle to. your boasted conservative majority has been the obedient tool of the radical minority, and the radical minority has been the blind tool of our farseeing and intelligent, president. we have desired delay, and we have had it, and we are now practically masters of africa from the zambezi to the cape. all the afrikanders in cape colony have been working for years for this end, for they and we know the facts.
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1. the actual value of gold in the transvaal is at least 200,000 millions of pounds, and this fact is as well known to the emperors of germany and russia as it is to us. you estimate the value of the gold at only 700 millions of pounds, or, at least, that is what you pretend to estimate it at. but germany, russia, and france do not desire you to get possession of this vast mass of gold, and so, after encouraging you to believe that they will not interfere in south africa they will certainly do so, and very easily find a casus belli, and they will assist us directly and indirectly to drive you out of africa.
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2. we know that you dare not take any precautions in advance to prevent the onslaught of the great powers, as the opposition, the great peace party, will raise the question of expense, and this will win over your lazy, dirty, drunken working classes, who will never again permit themselves to be taxed to support your empire, or even to preserve your existence as a nation.
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3. we know from all the military authorities of the european and american continents that you exist as an independent power merely on sufferance, and that at any moment the great emperor william can arrange with france or russia to wipe you off the face of the earth. they can at any time starve you into surrender. you must yield in all things to the united states also, or your supply of corn will be so reduced by the americans that your working classes would be compelled to pay high prices for their food, and rather than do that they would have civil war, and invite any foreign power to assist them by invasion, for there is no patriotism in the working classes of england, wales, or ireland.
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4. we know that your country has been more prosperous than any other country during the last fifty years (you have had no civil war like the americans and french to tone up your nerves and strengthen your manliness), and consequently your able-bodied men will not enlist in your so-called voluntary army. therefore you have to hire the dregs of your population to do your fighting, and they are deficient in physique, in moral and mental ability, and in all the qualities that make good fighting men.
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5. your military officers we know to be merely pedantic scholars or frivolous society men, without any capacity for practical warfare with white men. the afridis were more than a match for you, and your victory over the sudanese was achieved because those poor people had not a rifle amongst them.
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6. we know that your men, being the dregs of your people, are naturally feeble, and that they are also saturated with the most horrible sexual diseases, as all your government returns plainly show, and that they cannot endure the hardships of war.
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7. we know that the entire british race is rapidly decaying, your birth-rate is rapidly falling, your children are born weak, diseased, and deformed, and that the major part of your population consists of females, cripples, epileptics, consumptives, cancerous people, invalids, and lunatics of all kinds whom you carefully nourish and preserve.
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8. we know that nine-tenths of your statesmen and higher officials, military and naval, are suffering from kidney diseases, which weaken their courage and will-power and makes them shirk all responsibility as far as possible.
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9. we know that your navy is big, but we know that it is not powerful, and that it is honeycombed with disloyalty--as witness the theft of the signal-books, the assaults on officers, the desertions, and the wilful injury of the boilers and machinery, which all the vigilance of the officers is powerless to prevent.
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10. we know that the conservative government is a mere sham, and that it largely reduced the strength of the british artillery in 1888-89. and we know that it does nor dare now to call out the militia for training, nor to mobilise the fleet, nor to give sufficient grants to the line and volunteers for ammunition to enable them to become good marksmen and efficient soldiers. we know that british soldiers and sailors are immensely inferior as marksmen, not only to germans, french, and americans, but also to japanese, afridis, chilians, peruvians, belgians, and russians.
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11. we know that no british government dares to propose any form of compulsory military or naval training, for the british people would rather be invaded, conquered, and governed by germans, russians, or frenchmen than be compelled to serve their own government.
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12. we boers know that we will not be governed by a set of british curs, but that we will drive you out of africa altogether, and the other manly nations which have compulsory military service--the armed manhood of europe--will very quickly divide all your other possessions between them.
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talk no more of the ignorance of the boers or cape dutch; a few days more will prove your ignorance of the british position, and in a short space of time you and your queen will be imploring the good offices of the great german emperor to deliver you from your disasters, for your humiliations are not yet complete.
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for thirty years the cape dutch have been waiting their chance, and now their day has come; they will throw off their mask and your yoke at the same instant, and 300,000 dutch heroes will trample you under foot.
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we can afford to tell you the truth now, and in this letter you have got it.--yours, &c.,
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being the happenings of a night in richmond in the spring of 1865 done into book form from the play by william gillette
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illustrated by the kinneys
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new york grosset & dunlap publishers
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copyright, 1912, by dodd, mead and company
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the many people of the stage, personally known and unknown by me, who have so often interested, amused, instructed, and inspired me by their presentations of life in all its infinite variety. they are a much misunderstood people by the public generally, and i take this occasion to testify that, in my wide acquaintance with stage people, i have found them as gentle, as generous, as refined, and as considerate as any group of people with whom i have associated in my long and varied career.
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once upon a time a novel of mine was turned into a play. the dramatist who prepared the story for stage production sent me a copy of his efforts toward that end. about the only point of resemblance between his production and mine was the fact that they both bore the same title, the hero in each had the same name, and the action in both cases took place on this earth.
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i was a young author then, and timid. i ventured humbly to enquire why the drama differed so entirely from the novel; and this ingenious, i might almost say ingenuous, explanation was vouchsafed me:
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“well, to tell you the truth, after i had read a chapter or two of your book, i lost it, and i just wrote the play from my own imagination.”
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i do not wish to criticise the results of his efforts, for he has since proved himself to be a dramatist of skill and ability, but to describe that particular effort as a dramatisation of my book was absurd. incidentally, it was absurd in other ways and, fortunately for the reputation of both of us, it never saw the light.
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when my dear friends, the publishers, asked me to turn this play into a novel, i recalled my experience of by-gone days, and the idea flashed into my mind that here was an opportunity to get even, but i am a preacher as well as a story-writer, and in either capacity i found i could not do it. frankly, i did not want to do it.
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my experience, however, has made me perhaps unduly sensitive, and i determined, since i had undertaken this work, to make it represent mr. gillette’s remarkable and brilliant play as faithfully as i could, and i have done so. i have used my own words only in those slight changes necessitated by book presentation instead of production on the stage. i have entered into as few explanations as possible and have limited my own discussion of the characters, their motives, and their actions, to what was absolutely necessary to enable the reader to comprehend. on the stage much is left to the eye which has to be conveyed by words in a book, and this is my excuse for even those few digressions that appear.
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i have endeavoured to subordinate my own imagination to that of the accomplished playwright. i have played something of the part of the old greek chorus which explained the drama, and there has been a touch of the scene-painter’s art in my small contribution to the book.
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otherwise, i have not felt at liberty to make any departure from the setting, properties, episodes, actions, or dialogue. mine has been a very small share in this joint production. the story and the glory are mr. gillette’s, not mine. and i am cheerfully determined that as the author of the first, he shall have all of the second.
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cyrus townsend brady.
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st. george’s rectory, kansas city, mo., november, 1911.
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book i what happened at eight o’clock
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book ii what happened at nine o’clock
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book iii what happened at ten o’clock
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book iv what happened at eleven o’clock
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what happened at eight o’clock
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the battery passes
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outside, the softness of an april night; the verdure of tree and lawn, the climbing roses, already far advanced in that southern latitude, sweetly silvered in the moonlight. within the great old house apparently an equal calm.
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yet, neither within nor without was the night absolutely soundless. far away to the southward the cloudless horizon, easily visible from the slight eminence on which the house stood, was marked by quivering flashes of lurid light. from time to time, the attentive ear might catch the roll, the roar, the reverberation of heavy sound like distant thunder-peals intermingled with sharper detonations. the flashes came from great guns, and the rolling peals were the sound of the cannon, the detonations explosions of the shells. there was the peace of god in the heaven above; there were the passions of men on the earth beneath.
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lights gleamed here and there, shining through the twining rose foliage, from the windows of the old house, which stood far back from the street. from a room on one side of the hall, which opened from the broad pillared portico of colonial fashion, a hum of voices arose.
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a group of women, with nervous hands and anxious faces, working while they talked, were picking lint, tearing linen and cotton for bandages. their conversation was not the idle chatter of other days. they “told sad stories of the death of kings!” how “tom” and “charles” and “allen” and “page” and “burton” had gone down into the valley of the shadow of death, whence they had not come back. how this fort had been hammered yesterday, the other, the day before. how so-and-so’s wounds had been ministered to. how such-a-one’s needs had been relieved. how the enemy were drawing closer and closer and closer, and how they were being held back with courage, which, alas! by that time was the courage of despair. and much of their speech was of their own kind, of bereft women and fatherless children. and ever as they talked, the busy fingers flew.
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upstairs from one of the front rooms the light shone dimly through a window partly covered by a half-drawn venetian blind. one standing at the side of the house and listening would have heard out of the chamber low moanings, muttered words from feverish lips and delirious brain. the meaningless yet awful babble was broken now and again by words of tenderness and anguish. soft hands were laid on the burning brow of the poor sufferer within, while a mother’s eyes dropped tears upon bloodstained bandages and wasted frame.
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and now the gentle wind which swept softly through the trees bore a sudden sharper, stranger sound toward the old house in the garden. the tramp of horse, the creak of wheels, the faint jingling of arms and sabres drew nearer and rose louder. sudden words of command punctured the night. here came a battery, without the rattle of drum or the blare of bugles, with no sound but its own galloping it rolled down the street. lean, gaunt horses were ridden and driven by leaner and gaunter men in dusty, worn, ragged, tattered uniforms. only the highly polished brass guns—twelve-pounder napoleons—gleamed bright in the moonlight.
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the sewing women came out on the porch and the blind of the window above was lifted and a white-haired woman stood framed in the light.
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no, those watchers did not cheer as the battery swept by on its way to the front. for one thing, a soldier lay upstairs dying; for another, they had passed the time when they cheered that tattered flag. now they wept over it as one weeps as he beholds for the last time the face of a friend who dies. once they had acclaimed it as the sunrise in the morning, now they watched it silently go inevitably to the sunset of defeat.
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the men did not cheer either. they were not past cheering—oh, no! they were made of rougher stuff than the women, and the time would come when, in final action, they would burst forth into that strange, wild yell that struck terror to the hearts of the hearers. they could cheer even in the last ditch, even in the jaws of death—face the end better for their cheering perhaps; but women are more silent in the crisis. they bear and give no tongue.
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the officer in command saw the little group of women on the porch. the moonlight shone from the street side and high-lighted them, turning the rusty black of most of the gowns, home-dyed mourning,—all that could be come at in those last awful days in richmond,—into soft shadows, above which their faces shone angelic. he saw the woman’s head in the window, too. he knew who lay upon the bed of death within the chamber. he had helped to bring him back from the front several days before. he bit his lips for a moment and then, ashamed of his emotion, his voice rang harsh. with arm and sabre the battery saluted the women and passed on, while from the window of the great drawing-room, opposite the room of the lint-pickers and bandage-tearers, a slender boy stared and stared after the disappearing guns, his eyes full of envy and vexatious tears as he stamped his foot in futile protest and disappointment.
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the noise made by the passing cannon soon died away in the distance. stillness supervened as before; workers whispered together, realising that some of those passing upon whom they had looked would pass no more, and that they would look upon them never again. upstairs the moans of the wounded man had died away, the only thing that persisted was the fearful thundering of the distant guns around beleaguered petersburg. within the drawing-room, the boy walked up and down restlessly, muttering to himself, evidently nerving himself to desperate resolution.
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“i won’t do it,” he said. “i won’t stay here any longer.”
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he threw up his hands and turned to the portraits that adorned the room, portraits that carried one back through centuries to the days of the first cavalier of the family, who crossed the seas to seek his fortune in a new land, and it was a singular thing that practically every one of them wore a sword.
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“you all fought,” said the boy passionately, “and i am going to.”
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the door at the other end was softly opened. the great room was but dimly lighted by candles in sconces on the wall; the great chandelier was not lighted for lack of tapers, but a more brilliant radiance was presently cast over the apartment by the advent of old martha. she had been the boy’s “mammy” and the boy’s father’s “mammy” as well, and no one dared to speculate how much farther into the past she ran back.
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“is dat you, mars wilfred?” said the old woman, waddling into the room, both hands extended, bearing two many-branched candle-sticks, which she proceeded to deposit upon the handsome mahogany tables with which the long drawing-room was furnished.
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“yes, it is i, aunt martha. did you see benton’s battery go by?”
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“lawd lub you, chile, ah done seed so many guns an’ hosses an’ soljahs a-gwine by ah don’t tek no notice ob ’em no mo’. ’peahs lak dey keep on a-passin’ by fo’ebah.”
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“well, there won’t be many more of them pass by,” said the boy in a clear accent, but with that soft intonation which would have betrayed his southern ancestry anywhere, “and before they are all gone, i would like to join one of them myself.”
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“why, my po’ li’l lamb!” exclaimed martha, her arms akimbo, “dat ah done nussed in dese ahms, is you gwine to de fight!”
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the boy’s demeanour was anything but lamb-like. he made a fierce step toward her.
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“don’t you call me ‘lamb’ any more,” he said, “it’s ridiculous and——”
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mammy martha started back in alarm.
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“’peahs mo’ lak a lion’d be better,” she admitted.
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“where’s mother?” asked the boy, dismissing the subject as unworthy of argument.
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“i reckon she’s upstaihs wid mars howard, suh. yo’ bruddah——”
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“i want to see her right away,” continued the boy impetuously.
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“mars howard he’s putty bad dis ebenin’,” returned martha. “ah bettah go an’ tell her dat you want her, but ah dunno’s she’d want to leab him.”
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“well, you tell her to come as soon as she can. i’m awfully sorry for howard, but it’s living men that the confederacy needs most now.”
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“yas, suh,” returned the old nurse, with a quizzical look out of her black eyes at the slender boy before her. “dey suah does need men,” she continued, and as the youngster took a passionate step toward her, she deftly passed out of the room and closed the door behind her, and he could hear her ponderous footsteps slowly and heavily mounting the steps.
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the boy went to the window again and stared into the night. in his preoccupation he did not catch the sound of a gentler footfall upon the stairs, nor did he notice the opening of the door and the silent approach of a woman, the woman with white hair who had stood at the window. the mother of a son dead, a son dying, and a son living. no distinctive thing that in the confederacy. almost any mother who had more than one boy could have been justly so characterised. she stopped half-way down the room and looked lovingly and longingly at the slight, graceful figure of her youngest son. her eyes filled with tears—for the dying or the living or both? who can say? she went toward him, laid her hand on his shoulder. he turned instantly and at the sight of her tears burst out quickly:
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“howard isn’t worse, is he?” for a moment forgetful of all else.
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the woman shook her head.
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“poor old howard!”
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“he’s quieter now, perhaps——”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN quieter__<label>__ADJ now__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. perhaps__<label>__NOUN âĢĶâĢĶâĢĿ__<label>__.
“mother, is there anything i can do for him?”
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“no, my son,” answered the woman with a sigh, “i don’t think there is anything that anybody can do. we can only wait—and hope. he is in god’s hands, not ours.”
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she lifted her face for a moment and saw beyond the room, through the night, and beyond the stars a presence divine, to whom thousands of other women in that dying confederacy made daily, hourly, and momentary prayers. less exalted, more human, less touched, the boy bowed his head, not without his own prayer, too.
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“but you wanted to see me, wilfred, martha said,” the woman presently began.
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“yes, mother, i——”
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the boy stopped and the woman was in no hurry to press him. she divined what was coming and would fain have avoided it all.
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“i am thankful there is a lull in the cannonading,” she said, listening. “i wonder why it has stopped?”
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“it has not stopped,” said wilfred, “at least it has gone on all evening.”
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“i don’t hear it now.”
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“no, but you will—there!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN no__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT âĢĶ__<label>__ADP there__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“yes, but compared to what it was yesterday—you know how it shook the house—and howard suffered so through it.”
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“so did i,” said the boy in a low voice fraught with passion.
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“you, my son?”
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“yes, mother, when i hear those guns and know that the fighting is going on, it fairly maddens me——”
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but mrs. varney hastily interrupted her boy. woman-like she would thrust from her the decision which she knew would be imposed upon her.
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“yes, yes,” she said; “i know how you suffered,—we all suffered, we——” she turned away, sat down in a chair beside the table, leaned her head in her hands, and gave way to her emotions. “there has been nothing but suffering, suffering since this awful war began,” she murmured.
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“mother,” said wilfred abruptly, “i want to speak to you. you don’t like it, of course, but you have just got to listen this time.”
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mrs. varney lifted her head from her hands. wilfred came nearer to her and dropped on his knees by her side. one hand she laid upon his shoulder, the other on his head. she stared down into his up-turned face.
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“i know—i know, my boy—what you want.”
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“i can’t stay here any longer,” said the youth; “it is worse than being shot to pieces. i just have to chain myself to the floor whenever i hear a cannon-shot or see a soldier. when can i go?”
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the woman stared at him. in him she saw faintly the face of the boy dying upstairs. in him she saw the white face of the boy who lay under the sun and dew, dead at seven pines. in him she saw all her kith and kin, who, true to the traditions of that house, had given up their lives for a cause now practically lost. she could not give up the last one. she drew him gently to her, but, boy-like, he disengaged himself and drew away with a shake of his head, not that he loved his mother the less, but honour—as he saw it—the more.
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“why don’t you speak?” he whispered at last.
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“i don’t know what to say to you, wilfred,” faltered his mother, although there was but one thing to say, and she knew that she must say it, yet she was fighting, woman-like, for time.
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“i will tell you what to say,” said the boy.
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“say that you won’t mind if i go down to petersburg and enlist.”
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“but that would not be true, wilfred,” said his mother, smiling faintly.
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“true or not, mother, i can’t stay here.”
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“oh, wilfred, russell has gone, and howard is going, and now you want to go and get killed.”
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“i don’t want to be killed at all, mother.”
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“but you are so young, my boy.”
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“not younger than tom kittridge,” answered the boy; “not younger than ell stuart or cousin steven or hundreds of other boys down there. see, mother—they have called for all over eighteen, weeks ago; the seventeen call may be out any moment; the next one after that takes me. do you want me to stay here until i am ordered out! i should think not. where’s your pride?”
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“my pride? ah, my son, it is on the battlefield, over at seven pines, and upstairs with howard.”
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“well, i don’t care, mother,” he persisted obstinately. “i love you and all that, you know it,—but i can’t stand this. i’ve got to go. i must go.”
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“well,” she said at last, “i will write to your father and——”
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“but,” the boy interrupted in great disappointment, “that’ll take because you saved my rice. have you no thanks?
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sing you of her, o first few stars, whom brahma, touching with his finger, praises, for you hold the van of wandering quiet; ere you be too calm and old, sing, turning in your cars, sing, till you raise your hands and sigh, and from your car heads peer, with all your whirling hair, and drop tear upon azure tear.
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what know the pilots of the stars of tears?
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their faces are all worn, and in their eyes flashes the fire of sadness, for they see the icicles that famish all the north, where men lie frozen in the glimmering snow; and in the flaming forests cower the lion and lioness, with all their whimpering cubs; and, ever pacing on the verge of things, the phantom, beauty, in a mist of tears; while we alone have round us woven woods, and feel the softness of each other’s hand, amrita, while—
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ah me, you love another,
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and may some dreadful ill befall her quick!
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i loved another; now i love no other. among the mouldering of ancient woods you live, and on the village border she, with her old father the blind wood-cutter; i saw her standing in her door but now.
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vijaya, swear to love her never more.
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swear by the parents of the gods, dread oath, who dwell on sacred himalay, on the far golden peak; enormous shapes, who still were old when the great sea was young; on their vast faces mystery and dreams; their hair along the mountains rolled and filled from year to year by the unnumbered nests of aweless birds, and round their stirless feet the joyous flocks of deer and antelope, who never hear the unforgiving hound. swear!
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by the parents of the gods, i swear.
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farewell, vijaya. nay, no word, no word; i, priestess of this temple, offer up prayers for the land.
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o brahma, guard in sleep the merry lambs and the complacent kine, the flies below the leaves, and the young mice in the tree roots, and all the sacred flocks of red flamingo; and my love, vijaya; and may no restless fay with fidget finger trouble his sleeping: give him dreams of me.
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the indian upon god
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i passed along the water’s edge below the humid trees, my spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees, my spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moorfowl pace all dripping on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to chase each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak: who holds the world between his bill and made us strong or weak is an undying moorfowl, and he lives beyond the sky. the rains are from his dripping wing, the moonbeams from his eye. i passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk: who made the world and ruleth it, he hangeth on a stalk, for i am in his image made, and all this tinkling tide is but a sliding drop of rain between his petals wide. a little way within the gloom a roebuck raised his eyes brimful of starlight, and he said: the stamper of the skies, he is a gentle roebuck; for how else, i pray, could he conceive a thing so sad and soft, a gentle thing like me? i passed a little further on and heard a peacock say: who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay, he is a monstrous peacock, and he waveth all the night his languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.
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the indian to his love
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the island dreams under the dawn and great boughs drop tranquillity; the peahens dance on a smooth lawn, a parrot sways upon a tree, raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.
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here we will moor our lonely ship and wander ever with woven hands, murmuring softly lip to lip, along the grass, along the sands, murmuring how far away are the unquiet lands:
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how we alone of mortals are hid under quiet boughs apart, while our love grows an indian star, a meteor of the burning heart, one with the tide that gleams, the wings that gleam and dart,
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the heavy boughs, the burnished dove that moans and sighs a hundred days: how when we die our shades will rove, when eve has hushed the feathered ways, dropping a vapoury footsole on the tide’s drowsy blaze.
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the falling of the leaves
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autumn is over the long leaves that love us, and over the mice in the barley sheaves; yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, and yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.
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the hour of the waning of love has beset us, and weary and worn are our sad souls now; let us part, ere the season of passion forget us, with a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.
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‘your eyes that once were never weary of mine are bowed in sorrow under their trembling lids, because our love is waning.’
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and then she: ‘although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness when the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep: how far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!’ pensive they paced along the faded leaves, while slowly he whose hand held hers replied: ‘passion has often worn our wandering hearts.’
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the woods were round them, and the yellow leaves fell like faint meteors in the gloom, and once a rabbit old and lame limped down the path; autumn was over him: and now they stood on the lone border of the lake once more: turning, he saw that she had thrust dead leaves gathered in silence, dewy as her eyes, in bosom and hair. ‘ah, do not mourn,’ he said, ‘that we are tired, for other loves await us: hate on and love through unrepining hours; before us lies eternity; our souls are love, and a continual farewell.’
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the madness of king goll
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i sat on cushioned otter skin: my word was law from ith to emen, and shook at invar amargin the hearts of the world-troubling seamen, and drove tumult and war away from girl and boy and man and beast; the fields grew fatter day by day, the wild fowl of the air increased; and every ancient ollave said, while he bent down his fading head, ‘he drives away the northern cold.’ they will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.
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i sat and mused and drank sweet wine; a herdsman came from inland valleys, crying, the pirates drove his swine to fill their dark-beaked hollow galleys. i called my battle-breaking men, and my loud brazen battle-cars from rolling vale and rivery glen; and under the blinking of the stars fell on the pirates by the deep, and hurled them in the gulph of sleep: these hands won many a torque of gold. they will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.
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but slowly, as i shouting slew and trampled in the bubbling mire, in my most secret spirit grew a whirling and a wandering fire: i stood: keen stars above me shone, around me shone keen eyes of men: i laughed aloud and hurried on by rocky shore and rushy fen; i laughed because birds fluttered by, and starlight gleamed, and clouds flew high, and rushes waved and waters rolled. they will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.
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and now i wander in the woods when summer gluts the golden bees, or in autumnal solitudes arise the leopard-coloured trees; or when along the wintry strands the cormorants shiver on their rocks; i wander on, and wave my hands, and sing, and shake my heavy locks. the grey wolf knows me; by one ear i lead along the woodland deer; the hares run by me growing bold. they will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.
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i came upon a little town, that slumbered in the harvest moon, and passed a-tiptoe up and down, murmuring, to a fitful tune, how i have followed, night and day, a tramping of tremendous feet, and saw where this old tympan lay, deserted on a doorway seat, and bore it to the woods with me; of some unhuman misery our married voices wildly trolled. they will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.
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i sang how, when day’s toil is done, orchil shakes out her long dark hair that hides away the dying sun and sheds faint odours through the air: when my hand passed from wire to wire it quenched, with sound like falling dew, the whirling and the wandering fire; but lift a mournful ulalu, for the kind wires are torn and still, and i must wander wood and hill through summer’s heat and winter’s cold. they will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.
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the stolen child
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where dips the rocky highland of sleuth wood in the lake, there lies a leafy island where flapping herons wake the drowsy water rats; there we’ve hid our faery vats. full of berries, and of reddest stolen cherries. come away, o human child! to the waters and the wild with a faery, hand in hand, for the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
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where the wandering water gushes from the hills above glen-car, in pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star, we seek for slumbering trout, and whispering in their ears give them unquiet dreams; leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears over the young streams. come away, o human child! to the waters and the wild with a faery, hand in hand, for the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
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away with us he’s going, the solemn-eyed: he’ll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside; or the kettle on the hob sing peace into his breast, or see the brown mice bob round and round the oatmeal-chest. for he comes, the human child, to the waters and the wild with a faery, hand in hand, from a world more full of weeping than he can understand.
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to an isle in the water
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shy one, shy one, shy one of my heart, she moves in the firelight pensively apart.
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she carries in the dishes, and lays them in a row. to an isle in the water with her would i go.
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she carries in the candles and lights the curtained room, shy in the doorway and shy in the gloom;
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and shy as a rabbit, helpful and shy. to an isle in the water with her would i fly.
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down by the salley gardens
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down by the salley gardens my love and i did meet; she passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. she bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; but i, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
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in a field by the river my love and i did stand, and on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. she bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; but i was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
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the meditation of the old fisherman
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you waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play, though you glow and you glance, though you purr and you dart; in the junes that were warmer than these are, the waves were more gay, when i was a boy with never a crack in my heart.
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the herring are not in the tides as they were of old; my sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart that carried the take to sligo town to be sold, when i was a boy with never a crack in my heart.
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and ah, you proud maiden, you are not so fair when his oar is heard on the water, as they were, the proud and apart, who paced in the eve by the nets on the pebbly shore, when i was a boy with never a crack in my heart.
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the ballad of father o’hart
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good father john o’hart in penal days rode out to a shoneen who had free lands and his own snipe and trout.
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in trust took he john’s lands; sleiveens were all his race; and he gave them as dowers to his daughters, and they married beyond their place.
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but father john went up, and father john went down; and he wore small holes in his shoes, and he wore large holes in his gown.
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all loved him, only the shoneen, whom the devils have by the hair, from the wives, and the cats, and the children, to the birds in the white of the air.
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the birds, for he opened their cages as he went up and down; and he said with a smile, ‘have peace now’; and he went his way with a frown.
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but if when any one died came keeners hoarser than rooks, he bade them give over their keening; for he was a man of books.
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and these were the works of john, when weeping score by score, people came into coloony; for he’d died at ninety-four.
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there was no human keening; the birds from knocknarea and the world round knocknashee came keening in that day.
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the young birds and old birds came flying, heavy and sad; keening in from tiraragh, keening from ballinafad;
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the ballad of moll magee
the__<label>__DET ballad__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP moll__<label>__NOUN magee__<label>__.
come round me, little childer; there, don’t fling stones at me because i mutter as i go; but pity moll magee.
come__<label>__DET round__<label>__ADP me__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. little__<label>__ADJ childer__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. there__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. don__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT fling__<label>__ADJ stones__<label>__NOUN at__<label>__ADP me__<label>__PRON because__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON mutter__<label>__VERB as__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON go__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP pity__<label>__VERB moll__<label>__NOUN magee__<label>__. .__<label>__.
my man was a poor fisher with shore lines in the say; my work was saltin’ herrings the whole of the long day.
my__<label>__PRON man__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET poor__<label>__ADJ fisher__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP shore__<label>__NOUN lines__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET say__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__ADP my__<label>__PRON work__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB saltin__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB herrings__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET whole__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET long__<label>__ADJ day__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
and sometimes from the saltin’ shed, i scarce could drag my feet under the blessed moonlight, along the pebbly street.
and__<label>__CONJ sometimes__<label>__VERB from__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET saltin__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB shed__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON scarce__<label>__VERB could__<label>__PRT drag__<label>__VERB my__<label>__PRON feet__<label>__NOUN under__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET blessed__<label>__ADJ moonlight__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. along__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET pebbly__<label>__NOUN street__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
i’d always been but weakly, and my baby was just born; a neighbour minded her by day, i minded her till morn.
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i lay upon my baby; ye little childer dear, i looked on my cold baby when the morn grew frosty and clear.
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a weary woman sleeps so hard! my man grew red and pale, and gave me money, and bade me go to my own place, kinsale.
a__<label>__DET weary__<label>__ADJ woman__<label>__NOUN sleeps__<label>__VERB so__<label>__DET hard__<label>__ADJ !__<label>__. my__<label>__PRON man__<label>__NOUN grew__<label>__VERB red__<label>__ADJ and__<label>__CONJ pale__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ gave__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON money__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ bade__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON go__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT my__<label>__PRON own__<label>__ADJ place__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. kinsale__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he drove me out and shut the door, and gave his curse to me; i went away in silence, no neighbour could i see.
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the windows and the doors were shut, one star shone faint and green; the little straws were turnin’ round across the bare boreen.
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i went away in silence: beyond old martin’s byre i saw a kindly neighbour blowin’ her mornin’ fire.
i__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON in__<label>__DET silence__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__NOUN beyond__<label>__ADP old__<label>__DET martin__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN byre__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON saw__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET kindly__<label>__ADJ neighbour__<label>__NOUN blowin__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON mornin__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB fire__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
she says my man will surely come, and fetch me home agin; but always, as i’m movin’ round, without doors or within,
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pilin’ the wood or pilin’ the turf, or goin’ to the well, i’m thinkin’ of my baby and keenin’ to mysel’.
pilin__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET wood__<label>__NOUN or__<label>__CONJ pilin__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET turf__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. or__<label>__CONJ goin__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET well__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN thinkin__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP my__<label>__PRON baby__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ keenin__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT mysel__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ.__<label>__.
and sometimes i am sure she knows when, openin’ wide his door, god lights the stars, his candles, and looks upon the poor.
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so now, ye little childer, ye won’t fling stones at me; but gather with your shinin’ looks and pity moll magee.
so__<label>__DET now__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. ye__<label>__NOUN little__<label>__ADJ childer__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. ye__<label>__NOUN won__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT fling__<label>__ADJ stones__<label>__NOUN at__<label>__ADP me__<label>__PRON ;__<label>__. but__<label>__PRON gather__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP your__<label>__PRON shinin__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB looks__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ pity__<label>__VERB moll__<label>__NOUN magee__<label>__. .__<label>__.
the ballad of the foxhunter
the__<label>__DET ballad__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET foxhunter__<label>__.
‘now lay me in a cushioned chair and carry me, you four, with cushions here and cushions there, to see the world once more.
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN now__<label>__PRON lay__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET cushioned__<label>__NOUN chair__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ carry__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON four__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. with__<label>__CONJ cushions__<label>__NOUN here__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ cushions__<label>__NOUN there__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. to__<label>__PRT see__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN once__<label>__ADP more__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
‘and some one from the stables bring my dermot dear and brown, and lead him gently in a ring, and gently up and down.
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ some__<label>__NUM one__<label>__NOUN from__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET stables__<label>__NOUN bring__<label>__VERB my__<label>__PRON dermot__<label>__NOUN dear__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ brown__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ lead__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON gently__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET ring__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ gently__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON and__<label>__CONJ down__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
‘now leave the chair upon the grass: bring hound and huntsman here, and i on this strange road will pass, filled full of ancient cheer.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN now__<label>__PRON leave__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET chair__<label>__NOUN upon__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET grass__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__NOUN bring__<label>__VERB hound__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ huntsman__<label>__PRON here__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ i__<label>__PRON on__<label>__ADP this__<label>__DET strange__<label>__ADJ road__<label>__NOUN will__<label>__PRT pass__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. filled__<label>__VERB full__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP ancient__<label>__ADJ cheer__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
his eyelids droop, his head falls low, his old eyes cloud with dreams; the sun upon all things that grow pours round in sleepy streams.
his__<label>__PRON eyelids__<label>__NOUN droop__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. his__<label>__PRON head__<label>__NOUN falls__<label>__VERB low__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. his__<label>__PRON old__<label>__ADJ eyes__<label>__NOUN cloud__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP dreams__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET sun__<label>__NOUN upon__<label>__ADP all__<label>__NUM things__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP grow__<label>__VERB pours__<label>__VERB round__<label>__ADP in__<label>__DET sleepy__<label>__ADJ streams__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
brown dermot treads upon the lawn, and to the armchair goes, and now the old man’s dreams are gone, he smooths the long brown nose.
brown__<label>__NOUN dermot__<label>__NOUN treads__<label>__NOUN upon__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET lawn__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET armchair__<label>__NOUN goes__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ now__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET old__<label>__ADJ man__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN dreams__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB gone__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON smooths__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET long__<label>__ADJ brown__<label>__NOUN nose__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
and now moves many a pleasant tongue upon his wasted hands, for leading aged hounds and young the huntsman near him stands.
and__<label>__CONJ now__<label>__PRON moves__<label>__VERB many__<label>__NUM a__<label>__DET pleasant__<label>__ADJ tongue__<label>__NOUN upon__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON wasted__<label>__VERB hands__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP leading__<label>__VERB aged__<label>__NOUN hounds__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ young__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET huntsman__<label>__NOUN near__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON stands__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
‘my huntsman, rody, blow the horn, and make the hills reply.’ the huntsman loosens on the morn a gay and wandering cry.
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a fire is in the old man’s eyes, his fingers move and sway, and when the wandering music dies they hear him feebly say,
a__<label>__DET fire__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET old__<label>__ADJ man__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN eyes__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. his__<label>__PRON fingers__<label>__NOUN move__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ sway__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ when__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET wandering__<label>__VERB music__<label>__NOUN dies__<label>__VERB they__<label>__PRON hear__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON feebly__<label>__PRT say__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__.
‘my huntsman, rody, blow the horn, and make the hills reply.’ ‘i cannot blow upon my horn, i can but weep and sigh.’
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the servants round his cushioned place are with new sorrow wrung; and hounds are gazing on his face, both aged hounds and young.
the__<label>__DET servants__<label>__NOUN round__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON cushioned__<label>__NOUN place__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP new__<label>__ADJ sorrow__<label>__NOUN wrung__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ hounds__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB gazing__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON face__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. both__<label>__NUM aged__<label>__NOUN hounds__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ young__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
one blind hound only lies apart on the sun-smitten grass; he holds deep commune with his heart: the moments pass and pass;
one__<label>__DET blind__<label>__ADJ hound__<label>__NOUN only__<label>__PRON lies__<label>__VERB apart__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET sun__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. smitten__<label>__VERB grass__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON holds__<label>__VERB deep__<label>__ADJ commune__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON heart__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET moments__<label>__NOUN pass__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ pass__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__.
the blind hound with a mournful din lifts slow his wintry head; the servants bear the body in; the hounds wail for the dead.
the__<label>__DET blind__<label>__ADJ hound__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET mournful__<label>__ADJ din__<label>__NOUN lifts__<label>__VERB slow__<label>__ADJ his__<label>__PRON wintry__<label>__NOUN head__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET servants__<label>__NOUN bear__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET body__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP ;__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET hounds__<label>__NOUN wail__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET dead__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
the ballad of father gilligan
the__<label>__DET ballad__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP father__<label>__NOUN gilligan__<label>__.
the old priest peter gilligan was weary night and day; for half his flock were in their beds, or under green sods lay.
the__<label>__DET old__<label>__ADJ priest__<label>__NOUN peter__<label>__NOUN gilligan__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB weary__<label>__ADJ night__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ day__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP half__<label>__NUM his__<label>__PRON flock__<label>__NOUN were__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP their__<label>__PRON beds__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. or__<label>__CONJ under__<label>__ADP green__<label>__DET sods__<label>__NOUN lay__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
once, while he nodded on a chair, at the moth-hour of eve, another poor man sent for him, and he began to grieve.
once__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. while__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON nodded__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET chair__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET moth__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. hour__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP eve__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. another__<label>__DET poor__<label>__ADJ man__<label>__NOUN sent__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ he__<label>__PRON began__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT grieve__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
‘i have no rest, nor joy, nor peace, for people die and die’; and after cried he, ‘god forgive! my body spake, not i!’
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they slowly into millions grew, and leaves shook in the wind; and god covered the world with shade, and whispered to mankind.
they__<label>__PRON slowly__<label>__VERB into__<label>__ADP millions__<label>__NOUN grew__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ leaves__<label>__NOUN shook__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET wind__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ god__<label>__PRON covered__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP shade__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ whispered__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT mankind__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
upon the time of sparrow chirp when the moths came once more, the old priest peter gilligan stood upright on the floor.
upon__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET time__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP sparrow__<label>__NOUN chirp__<label>__NOUN when__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET moths__<label>__NOUN came__<label>__VERB once__<label>__ADP more__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET old__<label>__ADJ priest__<label>__NOUN peter__<label>__NOUN gilligan__<label>__NOUN stood__<label>__VERB upright__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET floor__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
‘mavrone, mavrone! the man has died, while i slept on the chair’; he roused his horse out of its sleep, and rode with little care.
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN mavrone__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. mavrone__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. the__<label>__DET man__<label>__NOUN has__<label>__VERB died__<label>__. ,__<label>__. while__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON slept__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET chair__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ;__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON roused__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON horse__<label>__NOUN out__<label>__ADP of__<label>__ADP its__<label>__PRON sleep__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ rode__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP little__<label>__DET care__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he rode now as he never rode, by rocky lane and fen; the sick man’s wife opened the door: ‘father! you come again!’
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‘and is the poor man dead?’ he cried. ‘he died an hour ago.’ the old priest peter gilligan in grief swayed to and fro.
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‘when you were gone, he turned and died as merry as a bird.’ the old priest peter gilligan he knelt him at that word.
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‘he who hath made the night of stars for souls, who tire and bleed, sent one of his great angels down to help me in my need.
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‘he who is wrapped in purple robes, with planets in his care, had pity on the least of things asleep upon a chair.’
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the lamentation of the old pensioner
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i had a chair at every hearth, when no one turned to see, with ‘look at that old fellow there, and who may he be?’ and therefore do i wander now, and the fret lies on me.
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the road-side trees keep murmuring: ah, wherefore murmur ye, as in the old days long gone by, green oak and poplar tree? the well-known faces are all gone and the fret lies on me.
the__<label>__DET road__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. side__<label>__NOUN trees__<label>__NOUN keep__<label>__VERB murmuring__<label>__VERB :__<label>__NOUN ah__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. wherefore__<label>__NOUN murmur__<label>__NOUN ye__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET old__<label>__ADJ days__<label>__NOUN long__<label>__ADJ gone__<label>__VERB by__<label>__ADP ,__<label>__. green__<label>__DET oak__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ poplar__<label>__DET tree__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. the__<label>__DET well__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. known__<label>__VERB faces__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB all__<label>__PRON gone__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ the__<label>__DET fret__<label>__NOUN lies__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP me__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
the fiddler of dooney
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when i play on my fiddle in dooney, folk dance like a wave of the sea; my cousin is priest in kilvarnet, my brother in moharabuiee.
when__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON play__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP my__<label>__PRON fiddle__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP dooney__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. folk__<label>__ADJ dance__<label>__NOUN like__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET wave__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET sea__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__ADP my__<label>__PRON cousin__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB priest__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP kilvarnet__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. my__<label>__PRON brother__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP moharabuiee__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
i passed my brother and cousin: they read in their books of prayer; i read in my book of songs i bought at the sligo fair.
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when we come at the end of time, to peter sitting in state, he will smile on the three old spirits, but call me first through the gate;
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for the good are always the merry, save by an evil chance, and the merry love the fiddle and the merry love to dance:
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and when the folk there spy me, they will all come up to me, with ‘here is the fiddler of dooney!’ and dance like a wave of the sea.
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the dedication to a book of stories selected from the irish novelists
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there was a green branch hung with many a bell when her own people ruled in wave-worn eire; and from its murmuring greenness, calm of faery, a druid kindness, on all hearers fell.
there__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET green__<label>__ADJ branch__<label>__NOUN hung__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP many__<label>__NUM a__<label>__DET bell__<label>__NOUN when__<label>__ADP her__<label>__PRON own__<label>__VERB people__<label>__PRON ruled__<label>__VERB in__<label>__DET wave__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. worn__<label>__VERB eire__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ from__<label>__ADP its__<label>__DET murmuring__<label>__VERB greenness__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. calm__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP faery__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. a__<label>__DET druid__<label>__ADJ kindness__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. on__<label>__ADP all__<label>__PRON hearers__<label>__NOUN fell__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
it charmed away the merchant from his guile, and turned the farmer’s memory from his cattle, and hushed in sleep the roaring ranks of battle, for all who heard it dreamed a little while.
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ah, exiles, wandering over many seas, spinning at all times eire’s good to-morrow! ah, worldwide nation, always growing sorrow! i also bear a bell branch full of ease.
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i tore it from green boughs winds tossed and hurled, green boughs of tossing always, weary, weary! i tore it from the green boughs of old eire, the willow of the many-sorrowed world.
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ah, exiles, wandering over many lands! my bell branch murmurs: the gay bells bring laughter, leaping to shake a cobweb from the rafter; the sad bells bow the forehead on the hands.
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a honeyed ringing: under the new skies they bring you memories of old village faces; cabins gone now, old well-sides, old dear places; and men who loved the cause that never dies.
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‘sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova! sero te amavi.’
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to lionel johnson
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early poems: the rose
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to the rose upon the rood of time
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red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days! come near me, while i sing the ancient ways: cuchulain battling with the bitter tide; the druid, gray, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed, who cast round fergus dreams, and ruin untold; and thine own sadness, whereof stars, grown old in dancing silver-sandalled on the sea, sing in their high and lonely melody. come near, that no more blinded by man’s fate, i find under the boughs of love and hate, in all poor foolish things that live a day, eternal beauty wandering on her way.
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come near, come near, come near—ah, leave me still a little space for the rose-breath to fill! lest i no more hear common things that crave; the weak worm hiding down in its small cave, the field mouse running by me in the grass, and heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass; but seek alone to hear the strange things said by god to the bright hearts of those long dead, and learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know. come near; i would, before my time to go, sing of old eire and the ancient ways: red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days.
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fergus and the druid
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the whole day have i followed in the rocks, and you have changed and flowed from shape to shape. first as a raven on whose ancient wings scarcely a feather lingered, then you seemed a weasel moving on from stone to stone, and now at last you wear a human shape, a thin gray man half lost in gathering night.
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what would you, king of the proud red branch kings?
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this would i say, most wise of living souls: young subtle conchubar sat close by me when i gave judgment, and his words were wise, and what to me was burden without end to him seemed easy, so i laid the crown upon his head to cast away my care.
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what would you, king of the proud red branch kings?
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i feast amid my people on the hill, and pace the woods, and drive my chariot wheels in the white border of the murmuring sea; and still i feel the crown upon my head.
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what would you, king of the proud red branch kings?
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i’d put away the foolish might of a king, but learn the dreaming wisdom that is yours.
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look on my thin gray hair and hollow cheeks, and on these hands that may not lift the sword, this body trembling like a wind-blown reed. no maiden loves me, no man seeks my help, because i be not of the things i dream.
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a wild and foolish labourer is a king, to do and do and do, and never dream.
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take, if you must, this little bag of dreams; unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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i see my life go dripping like a stream from change to change; i have been many things, a green drop in the surge, a gleam of light upon a sword, a fir-tree on a hill, an old slave grinding at a heavy quern, a king sitting upon a chair of gold, and all these things were wonderful and great; but now i have grown nothing, being all, and the whole world weighs down upon my heart: ah! druid, druid, how great webs of sorrow lay hidden in the small slate-coloured thing!
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the death of cuchulain
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a man came slowly from the setting sun, to forgail’s daughter, emer, in her dun, and found her dyeing cloth with subtle care, and said, casting aside his draggled hair: ‘i am aleel, the swineherd, whom you bid go dwell upon the sea cliffs, vapour-hid; but now my years of watching are no more.’
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then emer cast the web upon the floor, and stretching out her arms, red with the dye, parted her lips with a loud sudden cry.
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looking on her, aleel, the swineherd, said: ‘not any god alive, nor mortal dead, has slain so mighty armies, so great kings, nor won the gold that now cuchulain brings.’
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‘why do you tremble thus from feet to crown?’
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aleel, the swineherd, wept and cast him down upon the web-heaped floor, and thus his word: ‘with him is one sweet-throated like a bird, and lovelier than the moon upon the sea; he made for her an army cease to be.’
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‘who bade you tell these things?’ and then she cried to those about, ‘beat him with thongs of hide and drive him from the door.’ and thus it was; and where her son, finmole, on the smooth grass was driving cattle, came she with swift feet, and called out to him, ‘son, it is not meet that you stay idling here with flocks and herds.’
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‘i have long waited, mother, for those words; but wherefore now?’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON have__<label>__VERB long__<label>__ADJ waited__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. mother__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP those__<label>__NUM words__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP wherefore__<label>__NOUN now__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘there is a man to die; you have the heaviest arm under the sky.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN there__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET man__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT die__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON have__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET heaviest__<label>__NOUN arm__<label>__NOUN under__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET sky__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘my father dwells among the sea-worn bands, and breaks the ridge of battle with his hands.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN my__<label>__PRON father__<label>__NOUN dwells__<label>__VERB among__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET sea__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. worn__<label>__NUM bands__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ breaks__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET ridge__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP battle__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON hands__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘nay, you are taller than cuchulain, son.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN nay__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON are__<label>__VERB taller__<label>__VERB than__<label>__ADP cuchulain__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. son__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘he is the mightiest man in ship or dun.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET mightiest__<label>__NOUN man__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP ship__<label>__NOUN or__<label>__CONJ dun__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘nay, he is old and sad with many wars, and weary of the crash of battle cars.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN nay__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ and__<label>__CONJ sad__<label>__ADJ with__<label>__ADP many__<label>__NUM wars__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ weary__<label>__NUM of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET crash__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP battle__<label>__NOUN cars__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘i only ask what way my journey lies, for god, who made you bitter, made you wise.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON only__<label>__PRON ask__<label>__VERB what__<label>__PRON way__<label>__NOUN my__<label>__PRON journey__<label>__NOUN lies__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP god__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. who__<label>__PRON made__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON bitter__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. made__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON wise__<label>__ADJ .âĢĻ__<label>__.
between the lavish shelter of a wood and the gray tide, the red branch multitude feasted, and with them old cuchulain dwelt, and his young dear one close beside him knelt, and gazed upon the wisdom of his eyes, more mournful than the depth of starry skies, and pondered on the wonder of his days; and all around the harp-string told his praise, and conchubar, the red branch king of kings, with his own fingers touched the brazen strings. at last cuchulain spake, ‘a young man strays driving the deer along the woody ways. i often hear him singing to and fro; i often hear the sweet sound of his bow, seek out what man he is.’
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one went and came. ‘he bade me let all know he gives his name at the sword point, and bade me bring him one who had a like vow from our triple dun.’
one__<label>__DET went__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ came__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON bade__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON let__<label>__VERB all__<label>__PRON know__<label>__VERB he__<label>__PRON gives__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON name__<label>__NOUN at__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET sword__<label>__NOUN point__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ bade__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON bring__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON one__<label>__NOUN who__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET like__<label>__ADJ vow__<label>__NOUN from__<label>__ADP our__<label>__PRON triple__<label>__ADJ dun__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘i only of the red branch hosted now,’ cuchulain cried, ‘have made and keep that vow.’
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after short fighting in the leafy shade, he spake to the young man, ‘is there no maid who loves you, no white arms to wrap you round, or do you long for the dim sleepy ground, that you come here to meet this ancient sword?’
after__<label>__ADP short__<label>__ADJ fighting__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET leafy__<label>__ADJ shade__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON spake__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET young__<label>__ADJ man__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB there__<label>__ADP no__<label>__ADJ maid__<label>__NOUN who__<label>__PRON loves__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. no__<label>__ADJ white__<label>__ADJ arms__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT wrap__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON round__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. or__<label>__CONJ do__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON long__<label>__ADJ for__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET dim__<label>__NOUN sleepy__<label>__ADJ ground__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. that__<label>__PRON you__<label>__PRON come__<label>__VERB here__<label>__. to__<label>__PRT meet__<label>__VERB this__<label>__DET ancient__<label>__ADJ sword__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘the dooms of men are in god’s hidden hoard.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET dooms__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP men__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP god__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN hidden__<label>__VERB hoard__<label>__NOUN .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘your head a while seemed like a woman’s head that i loved once.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN your__<label>__PRON head__<label>__NOUN a__<label>__DET while__<label>__ADP seemed__<label>__VERB like__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET woman__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN head__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON loved__<label>__VERB once__<label>__ADP .âĢĻ__<label>__.
again the fighting sped, but now the war rage in cuchulain woke, and through the other’s shield his long blade broke, and pierced him.
again__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET fighting__<label>__VERB sped__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__CONJ now__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET war__<label>__NOUN rage__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP cuchulain__<label>__PRON woke__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ through__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET other__<label>__ADJ âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN shield__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON long__<label>__ADJ blade__<label>__NOUN broke__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ pierced__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
‘speak before your breath is done.’
âĢĺ__<label>__NOUN speak__<label>__VERB before__<label>__ADP your__<label>__PRON breath__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB done__<label>__VERB .âĢĻ__<label>__.
‘i am finmole, mighty cuchulain’s son.’
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‘i put you from your pain. i can no more.’
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while day its burden on to evening bore, with head bowed on his knees cuchulain stayed; then conchubar sent that sweet-throated maid, and she, to win him, his gray hair caressed; in vain her arms, in vain her soft white breast. then conchubar, the subtlest of all men, ranking his druids round him ten by ten, spake thus, ‘cuchulain will dwell there and brood for three days more in dreadful quietude, and then arise, and raving slay us all. go, cast on him delusions magical, that he may fight the waves of the loud sea.’ and ten by ten under a quicken tree, the druids chaunted, swaying in their hands tall wands of alder and white quicken wands.
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in three days’ time, cuchulain with a moan stood up, and came to the long sands alone: for four days warred he with the bitter tide; and the waves flowed above him, and he died.
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the rose of the world
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who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? for these red lips, with all their mournful pride, mournful that no new wonder may betide, troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, and usna’s children died.
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we and the labouring world are passing by: amid men’s souls, that waver and give place, like the pale waters in their wintry race, under the passing stars, foam of the sky, lives on this lonely face.
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bow down, archangels, in your dim abode: before you were, or any hearts to beat, weary and kind one lingered by his seat; he made the world to be a grassy road before her wandering feet.
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the rose of peace
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if michael, leader of god’s host when heaven and hell are met, looked down on you from heaven’s door-post he would his deeds forget.
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brooding no more upon god’s wars in his divine homestead, he would go weave out of the stars a chaplet for your head.
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and all folk seeing him bow down, and white stars tell your praise, would come at last to god’s great town, led on by gentle ways;
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and god would bid his warfare cease, saying all things were well; and softly make a rosy peace, a peace of heaven with hell.
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the rose of battle
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rose of all roses, rose of all the world! the tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled above the tide of hours, trouble the air, and god’s bell buoyed to be the water’s care; while hushed from fear, or loud with hope, a band with blown, spray-dabbled hair gather at hand. turn if you may from battles never done, i call, as they go by me one by one, danger no refuge holds, and war no peace, for him who hears love sing and never cease, beside her clean-swept hearth, her quiet shade: but gather all for whom no love hath made a woven silence, or but came to cast a song into the air, and singing past to smile on the pale dawn; and gather you who have sought more than is in rain or dew or in the sun and moon, or on the earth, or sighs amid the wandering, starry mirth, or comes in laughter from the sea’s sad lips; and wage god’s battles in the long gray ships. the sad, the lonely, the insatiable, to these old night shall all her mystery tell; god’s bell has claimed them by the little cry of their sad hearts, that may not live nor die.
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rose of all roses, rose of all the world! you, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring the bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. beauty grown sad with its eternity made you of us, and of the dim gray sea. our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, for god has bid them share an equal fate; and when at last defeated in his wars, they have gone down under the same white stars, we shall no longer hear the little cry of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.
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a faery song
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sung by the people of faery over diarmuid and grania, who lay in their bridal sleep under a cromlech.
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we who are old, old and gay, o so old! thousands of years, thousands of years, if all were told:
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give to these children, new from the world, silence and love; and the long dew-dropping hours of the night, and the stars above:
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give to these children, new from the world, rest far from men. is anything better, anything better? tell us it then:
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us who are old, old and gay, o so old! thousands of years, thousands of years, if all were told.
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the lake isle of innisfree
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i will arise and go now, and go to innisfree, and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; nine bean rows will i have there, a hive for the honey bee, and live alone in the bee-loud glade.
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and i shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; there midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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i will arise and go now, for always night and day i hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; while i stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, i hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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a cradle song
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the angels are stooping above your bed; they weary of trooping with the whimpering dead.
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god’s laughing in heaven to see you so good; the shining seven are gay with his mood.
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i kiss you and kiss you, my pigeon, my own; ah, how i shall miss you when you have grown.
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the song of the old mother
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i rise in the dawn, and i kneel and blow till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; and then i must scrub and bake and sweep till stars are beginning to blink and peep; and the young lie long and dream in their bed of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head, and their day goes over in idleness, and they sigh if the wind but lift a tress: while i must work because i am old, and the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold.
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the pity of love
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a pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love: the folk who are buying and selling; the clouds on their journey above; the cold wet winds ever blowing; and the shadowy hazel grove where mouse-gray waters are flowing threaten the head that i love.
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the sorrow of love
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the quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves, the full round moon and the star-laden sky, and the loud song of the ever-singing leaves, had hid away earth’s old and weary cry.
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and then you came with those red mournful lips, and with you came the whole of the world’s tears, and all the trouble of her labouring ships, and all the trouble of her myriad years.
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and now the sparrows warring in the eaves, the curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky, and the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves, are shaken with earth’s old and weary cry.
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when you are old
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when you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
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how many loved your moments of glad grace, and loved your beauty with love false or true; but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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and bending down beside the glowing bars murmur, a little sadly, how love fled and paced upon the mountains overhead and hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
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the white birds
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i would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! we tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; and the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
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a weariness comes from those dreamers, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose; ah, dream not of them, my beloved, the flame of the meteor that goes, or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew: for i would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: i and you!
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i am haunted by numberless islands, and many a danaan shore, where time would surely forget us, and sorrow come near us no more; soon far from the rose and the lily, and fret of the flames would we be, were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
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a dream of death
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i dreamed that one had died in a strange place near no accustomed hand: and they had nailed the boards above her face, the peasants of that land, and, wondering, planted by her solitude a cypress and a yew: i came, and wrote upon a cross of wood, man had no more to do: she was more beautiful than thy first love, this lady by the trees: and gazed upon the mournful stars above, and heard the mournful breeze.
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a dream of a blessed spirit
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all the heavy days are over; leave the body’s coloured pride underneath the grass and clover, with the feet laid side by side.
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one with her are mirth and duty; bear the gold embroidered dress, for she needs not her sad beauty, to the scented oaken press.
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hers the kiss of mother mary, the long hair is on her face; still she goes with footsteps wary, full of earth’s old timid grace.
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with white feet of angels seven her white feet go glimmering; and above the deep of heaven, flame on flame and wing on wing.
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the man who dreamed of faeryland
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he stood among a crowd at drumahair; his heart hung all upon a silken dress, and he had known at last some tenderness, before earth made of him her sleepy care; but when a man poured fish into a pile, it seemed they raised their little silver heads, and sang how day a druid twilight sheds upon a dim, green, well-beloved isle, where people love beside star-laden seas; how time may never mar their faery vows under the woven roofs of quicken boughs: the singing shook him out of his new ease.
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he wandered by the sands of lisadill; his mind ran all on money cares and fears, and he had known at last some prudent years before they heaped his grave under the hill; but while he passed before a plashy place, a lug-worm with its gray and muddy mouth sang how somewhere to north or west or south there dwelt a gay, exulting, gentle race; and how beneath those three times blessed skies a danaan fruitage makes a shower of moons, and as it falls awakens leafy tunes: and at that singing he was no more wise.
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he mused beside the well of scanavin, he mused upon his mockers: without fail his sudden vengeance were a country tale, now that deep earth has drunk his body in; but one small knot-grass growing by the pool told where, ah, little, all-unneeded voice! old silence bids a lonely folk rejoice, and chaplet their calm brows with leafage cool; and how, when fades the sea-strewn rose of day, a gentle feeling wraps them like a fleece, and all their trouble dies into its peace: the tale drove his fine angry mood away.
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he slept under the hill of lugnagall; and might have known at last unhaunted sleep under that cold and vapour-turbaned steep, now that old earth had taken man and all: were not the worms that spired about his bones a-telling with their low and reedy cry, of how god leans his hands out of the sky, to bless that isle with honey in his tones; that none may feel the power of squall and wave, and no one any leaf-crowned dancer miss until he burn up nature with a kiss: the man has found no comfort in the grave.
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the two trees
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beloved, gaze in thine own heart, the holy tree is growing there; from joy the holy branches start, and all the trembling flowers they bear. the changing colours of its fruit have dowered the stars with merry light; the surety of its hidden root has planted quiet in the night; the shaking of its leafy head has given the waves their melody, and made my lips and music wed, murmuring a wizard song for thee. there, through bewildered branches, go winged loves borne on in gentle strife, tossing and tossing to and fro the flaming circle of our life. when looking on their shaken hair, and dreaming how they dance and dart, thine eyes grow full of tender care: beloved, gaze in thine own heart. gaze no more in the bitter glass the demons, with their subtle guile, lift up before us when they pass, or only gaze a little while; for there a fatal image grows, with broken boughs, and blackened leaves, and roots half hidden under snows driven by a storm that ever grieves. for all things turn to barrenness in the dim glass the demons hold, the glass of outer weariness, made when god slept in times of old. there, through the broken branches, go the ravens of unresting thought; peering and flying to and fro, to see men’s souls bartered and bought. when they are heard upon the wind, and when they shake their wings; alas! thy tender eyes grow all unkind: gaze no more in the bitter glass.
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to ireland in the coming times
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know, that i would accounted be true brother of that company, who sang to sweeten ireland’s wrong, ballad and story, rann and song; nor be i any less of them, because the red-rose-bordered hem of her, whose history began before god made the angelic clan, trails all about the written page; for in the world’s first blossoming age the light fall of her flying feet made ireland’s heart begin to beat; and still the starry candles flare to help her light foot here and there; and still the thoughts of ireland brood upon her holy quietude.
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while still i may, i write for you the love i lived, the dream i knew. from our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye; and we, our singing and our love, the mariners of night above, and all the wizard things that go about my table to and fro, are passing on to where may be, in truth’s consuming ecstasy, no place for love and dream at all; for god goes by with white foot-fall. i cast my heart into my rhymes, that you, in the dim coming times, may know how my heart went with them after the red-rose-bordered hem.
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the wanderings of oisin
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‘give me the world if thou wilt, but grant me an asylum for my affections.’ tulka.
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to edwin j. ellis
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the wanderings of oisin
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you who are bent, and bald, and blind, with a heavy heart and a wandering mind, have known three centuries, poets sing, of dalliance with a demon thing.
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sad to remember, sick with years, the swift innumerable spears, the horsemen with their floating hair, and bowls of barley, honey, and wine, and feet of maidens dancing in tune, and the white body that lay by mine; but the tale, though words be lighter than air, must live to be old like the wandering moon.
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caolte, and conan, and finn were there, when we followed a deer with our baying hounds, with bran, sgeolan, and lomair, and passing the firbolgs’ burial mounds, came to the cairn-heaped grassy hill where passionate maeve is stony still; and found on the dove-gray edge of the sea a pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode on a horse with bridle of findrinny; and like a sunset were her lips, a stormy sunset on doomed ships; a citron colour gloomed in her hair, but down to her feet white vesture flowed, and with the glimmering crimson glowed of many a figured embroidery; and it was bound with a pearl-pale shell that wavered like the summer streams, as her soft bosom rose and fell.
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you are still wrecked among heathen dreams.
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‘why do you wind no horn?’ she said. ‘and every hero droop his head? the hornless deer is not more sad that many a peaceful moment had, more sleek than any granary mouse, in his own leafy forest house among the waving fields of fern: the hunting of heroes should be glad.’
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‘o pleasant maiden,’ answered finn, ‘we think on oscar’s pencilled urn, and on the heroes lying slain, on gavra’s raven-covered plain; but where are your noble kith and kin, and into what country do you ride?’
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‘my father and my mother are aengus and edain, and my name is niamh, and my land where tide and sleep drown sun and moon and star.’
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‘what dream came with you that you came to this dim shore on foam-wet feet? did your companion wander away from where the birds of aengus wing?’
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she said, with laughter tender and sweet: ‘i have not yet, war-weary king, been spoken of with any one; for love of oisin foam-wet feet have borne me where the tempests blind your mortal shores till time is done!’
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‘how comes it, princess, that your mind among undying people has run on this young man, oisin, my son?’
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‘i loved no man, though kings besought and many a man of lofty name, until the danaan poets came, bringing me honeyed, wandering thought of noble oisin and his fame, of battles broken by his hands, of stories builded by his words that are like coloured asian birds at evening in their rainless lands.’
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o patric, by your brazen bell, there was no limb of mine but fell into a desperate gulph of love! ‘you only will i wed,’ i cried, ‘and i will make a thousand songs, and set your name all names above, and captives bound with leathern thongs shall kneel and praise you, one by one, at evening in my western dun.’
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‘o oisin, mount by me and ride to shores by the wash of the tremulous tide, where men have heaped no burial mounds, and the days pass by like a wayward tune, where broken faith has never been known, and the blushes of first love never have flown; and there i will give you a hundred hounds; no mightier creatures bay at the moon; and a hundred robes of murmuring silk, and a hundred calves and a hundred sheep whose long wool whiter than sea froth flows, and a hundred spears and a hundred bows, and oil and wine and honey and milk, and always never-anxious sleep; while a hundred youths, mighty of limb, but knowing nor tumult nor hate nor strife, and a hundred maidens, merry as birds, who when they dance to a fitful measure have a speed like the speed of the salmon herds, shall follow your horn and obey your whim, and you shall know the danaan leisure: and niamh be with you for a wife.’ then she sighed gently, ‘it grows late, music and love and sleep await, where i would be when the white moon climbs, the red sun falls, and the world grows dim.’
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and then i mounted and she bound me with her triumphing arms around me, and whispering to herself enwound me; but when the horse had felt my weight, he shook himself and neighed three times: caolte, conan, and finn came near, and wept, and raised their lamenting hands, and bid me stay, with many a tear; but we rode out from the human lands.
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in what far kingdom do you go, ah, fenians, with the shield and bow? or are you phantoms white as snow, whose lips had life’s most prosperous glow? o you, with whom in sloping valleys, or down the dewy forest alleys, i chased at morn the flying deer, with whom i hurled the hurrying spear, and heard the foemen’s bucklers rattle, and broke the heaving ranks of battle! and bran, sgeolan, and lomair, where are you with your long rough hair? you go not where the red deer feeds, nor tear the foemen from their steeds.
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boast not, nor mourn with drooping head companions long accurst and dead, and hounds for centuries dust and air.
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we galloped over the glossy sea: i know not if days passed or hours, and niamh sang continually danaan songs, and their dewy showers of pensive laughter, unhuman sound, lulled weariness, and softly round my human sorrow her white arms wound.
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on! on! and now a hornless deer passed by us, chased by a phantom hound all pearly white, save one red ear; and now a maiden rode like the wind with an apple of gold in her tossing hand, and with quenchless eyes and fluttering hair a beautiful young man followed behind.
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‘were these two born in the danaan land, or have they breathed the mortal air?’
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but now the moon like a white rose shone in the pale west, and the sun’s rim sank, and clouds arrayed their rank on rank about his fading crimson ball: the floor of emen’s hosting hall was not more level than the sea, as full of loving phantasy, and with low murmurs we rode on, where many a trumpet-twisted shell that in immortal silence sleeps dreaming of her own melting hues, her golds, her ambers, and her blues, pierced with soft light the shallowing deeps. but now a wandering land breeze came and a far sound of feathery quires; it seemed to blow from the dying flame, they seemed to sing in the smouldering fires. the horse towards the music raced, neighing along the lifeless waste; like sooty fingers, many a tree rose ever out of the warm sea; and they were trembling ceaselessly, as though they all were beating time, upon the centre of the sun, to that low laughing woodland rhyme. and, now our wandering hours were done, we cantered to the shore, and knew the reason of the trembling trees: round every branch the song-birds flew, or clung thereon like swarming bees; while round the shore a million stood like drops of frozen rainbow light, and pondered in a soft vain mood, upon their shadows in the tide, and told the purple deeps their pride, and murmured snatches of delight; and on the shores were many boats with bending sterns and bending bows, and carven figures on their prows of bitterns, and fish-eating stoats, and swans with their exultant throats: and where the wood and waters meet we tied the horse in a leafy clump, and niamh blew three merry notes out of a little silver trump; and then an answering whisper flew over the bare and woody land, a whisper of impetuous feet, and ever nearer, nearer grew; and from the woods rushed out a band of men and maidens, hand in hand, and singing, singing altogether; their brows were white as fragrant milk, their cloaks made out of yellow silk, and trimmed with many a crimson feather: and when they saw the cloak i wore was dim with mire of a mortal shore, they fingered it and gazed on me and laughed like murmurs of the sea; but niamh with a swift distress bid them away and hold their peace; and when they heard her voice they ran and knelt them, every maid and man, and kissed, as they would never cease, her pearl-pale hand and the hem of her dress. she bade them bring us to the hall where aengus dreams, from sun to sun, a druid dream of the end of days when the stars are to wane and the world be done.
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they led us by long and shadowy ways where drops of dew in myriads fall, and tangled creepers every hour blossom in some new crimson flower, and once a sudden laughter sprang from all their lips, and once they sang together, while the dark woods rang, and made in all their distant parts, with boom of bees in honey marts, a rumour of delighted hearts. and once a maiden by my side gave me a harp, and bid me sing, and touch the laughing silver string; but when i sang of human joy a sorrow wrapped each merry face, and, patric! by your beard, they wept, until one came, a tearful boy; ‘a sadder creature never stept than this strange human bard,’ he cried; and caught the silver harp away, and, weeping over the white strings, hurled it down in a leaf-hid hollow place that kept dim waters from the sky; and each one said with a long, long sigh, ‘o saddest harp in all the world, sleep there till the moon and the stars die!’
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and now still sad we came to where a beautiful young man dreamed within a house of wattles, clay, and skin; one hand upheld his beardless chin, and one a sceptre flashing out wild flames of red and gold and blue, like to a merry wandering rout of dancers leaping in the air; and men and maidens knelt them there and showed their eyes with teardrops dim, and with low murmurs prayed to him, and kissed the sceptre with red lips, and touched it with their finger-tips.
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‘men’s hearts of old were drops of flame that from the saffron morning came, or drops of silver joy that fell out of the moon’s pale twisted shell; but now hearts cry that hearts are slaves, and toss and turn in narrow caves; but here there is nor law nor rule, nor have hands held a weary tool; and here there is nor change nor death, but only kind and merry breath, for joy is god and god is joy.’ with one long glance on maid and boy and the pale blossom of the moon, he fell into a druid swoon.
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and in a wild and sudden dance we mocked at time and fate and chance, and swept out of the wattled hall and came to where the dewdrops fall among the foamdrops of the sea, and there we hushed the revelry; and, gathering on our brows a frown, bent all our swaying bodies down, and to the waves that glimmer by that slooping green de danaan sod sang, ‘god is joy and joy is god, and things that have grown sad are wicked, and things that fear the dawn of the morrow, or the gray wandering osprey sorrow.’
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we danced to where in the winding thicket the damask roses, bloom on bloom, like crimson meteors hang in the gloom, and bending over them softly said, bending over them in the dance, with a swift and friendly glance from dewy eyes: ‘upon the dead fall the leaves of other roses, on the dead dim earth encloses: but never, never on our graves, heaped beside the glimmering waves, shall fall the leaves of damask roses. for neither death nor change comes near us, and all listless hours fear us, and we fear no dawning morrow, nor the gray wandering osprey sorrow.’
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the dance wound through the windless woods; the ever-summered solitudes; until the tossing arms grew still upon the woody central hill; and, gathered in a panting band, we flung on high each waving hand, and sang unto the starry broods: in our raised eyes there flashed a glow of milky brightness to and fro as thus our song arose: ‘you stars, across your wandering ruby cars shake the loose reins: you slaves of god, he rules you with an iron rod, he holds you with an iron bond, each one woven to the other, each one woven to his brother like bubbles in a frozen pond; but we in a lonely land abide unchainable as the dim tide, with hearts that know nor law nor rule, and hands that hold no wearisome tool; folded in love that fears no morrow, nor the gray wandering osprey sorrow.’
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o patric! for a hundred years i chased upon that woody shore the deer, the badger, and the boar. o patric! for a hundred years at evening on the glimmering sands, beside the piled-up hunting spears, these now outworn and withered hands wrestled among the island bands. o patric! for a hundred years we went a-fishing in long boats with bending sterns and bending bows, and carven figures on their prows of bitterns and fish-eating stoats. o patric! for a hundred years the gentle niamh was my wife; but now two things devour my life; the things that most of all i hate: fasting and prayers.
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yes, yes, for these were ancient oisin’s fate loosed long ago from heaven’s gate, for his last days to lie in wait.
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when one day by the shore i stood, i drew out of the numberless white flowers of the foam a staff of wood from some dead warrior’s broken lance: i turned it in my hands; the stains of war were on it, and i wept, remembering how the fenians stept along the blood-bedabbled plains, equal to good or grievous chance: thereon young niamh softly came and caught my hands, but spake no word save only many times my name, in murmurs, like a frighted bird. we passed by woods, and lawns of clover, and found the horse and bridled him, for we knew well the old was over. i heard one say ‘his eyes grow dim with all the ancient sorrow of men’; and wrapped in dreams rode out again with hoofs of the pale findrinny over the glimmering purple sea: under the golden evening light. the immortals moved among the fountains by rivers and the woods’ old night; some danced like shadows on the mountains, some wandered ever hand in hand, or sat in dreams on the pale strand; each forehead like an obscure star bent down above each hooked knee: and sang, and with a dreamy gaze watched where the sun in a saffron blaze was slumbering half in the sea ways; and, as they sang, the painted birds kept time with their bright wings and feet; like drops of honey came their words, but fainter than a young lamb’s bleat. ‘an old man stirs the fire to a blaze, in the house of a child, of a friend, of a brother; he has over-lingered his welcome; the days, grown desolate, whisper and sigh to each other; he hears the storm in the chimney above, and bends to the fire and shakes with the cold, while his heart still dreams of battle and love, and the cry of the hounds on the hills of old.
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‘but we are apart in the grassy places, where care cannot trouble the least of our days, or the softness of youth be gone from our faces, or love’s first tenderness die in our gaze. the hare grows old as she plays in the sun and gazes around her with eyes of brightness; before the swift things that she dreamed of were done she limps along in an aged whiteness; a storm of birds in the asian trees like tulips in the air a-winging, and the gentle waves of the summer seas, that raise their heads and wander singing, must murmur at last “unjust, unjust”; and “my speed is a weariness,” falters the mouse; and the kingfisher turns to a ball of dust, and the roof falls in of his tunnelled house. but the love-dew dims our eyes till the day when god shall come from the sea with a sigh and bid the stars drop down from the sky, and the moon like a pale rose wither away.’
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the wanderings of oisin
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now, man of croziers, shadows called our names and then away, away, like whirling flames; and now fled by, mist-covered, without sound, the youth and lady and the deer and hound; ‘gaze no more on the phantoms,’ niamh said, and kissed my eyes, and, swaying her bright head and her bright body, sang of faery and man before god was or my old line began; wars shadowy, vast, exultant; faeries of old who wedded men with rings of druid gold; and how those lovers never turn their eyes upon the life that fades and flickers and dies, but love and kiss on dim shores far away rolled round with music of the sighing spray: but sang no more, as when, like a brown bee that has drunk full, she crossed the misty sea with me in her white arms a hundred years before this day; for now the fall of tears troubled her song.
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i do not know if days or hours passed by, yet hold the morning rays shone many times among the glimmering flowers wove in her flower-like hair, before dark towers rose in the darkness, and the white surf gleamed about them; and the horse of faery screamed and shivered, knowing the isle of many fears, nor ceased until white niamh stroked his ears and named him by sweet names.
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a foaming tide whitened afar with surge, fan-formed and wide, burst from a great door marred by many a blow from mace and sword and pole-axe, long ago when gods and giants warred. we rode between the seaweed-covered pillars, and the green and surging phosphorus alone gave light on our dark pathway, till a countless flight of moonlit steps glimmered; and left and right dark statues glimmered over the pale tide upon dark thrones. between the lids of one the imaged meteors had flashed and run and had disported in the stilly jet, and the fixed stars had dawned and shone and set, since god made time and death and sleep: the other stretched his long arm to where, a misty smother, the stream churned, churned, and churned—his lips apart, as though he told his never slumbering heart of every foamdrop on its misty way: tying the horse to his vast foot that lay half in the unvesselled sea, we climbed the stairs and climbed so long, i thought the last steps were hung from the morning star; when these mild words fanned the delighted air like wings of birds: ‘my brothers spring out of their beds at morn, a-murmur like young partridge: with loud horn they chase the noon-tide deer; and when the dew-drowned stars hang in the air look to long fishing-lines, or point and pare a larch-wood hunting spear.
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‘o sigh, o fluttering sigh, be kind to me; flutter along the froth lips of the sea, and shores the froth lips wet: and stay a little while, and bid them weep: ah, touch their blue veined eyelids if they sleep, and shake their coverlet.
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‘when you have told how i weep endlessly, flutter along the froth lips of the sea and home to me again, and in the shadow of my hair lie hid, and tell me how you came to one unbid, the saddest of all men.’
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a maiden with soft eyes like funeral tapers, and face that seemed wrought out of moonlit vapours, and a sad mouth, that fear made tremulous as any ruddy moth, looked down on us; and she with a wave-rusted chain was tied to two old eagles, full of ancient pride, that with dim eyeballs stood on either side. few feathers were on their dishevelled wings, for their dim minds were with the ancient things.
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‘i bring deliverance,’ pearl-pale niamh said.
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‘neither the living, nor the unlabouring dead, nor the high gods who never lived, may fight my enemy and hope; demons for fright jabber and scream about him in the night; for he is strong and crafty as the seas that sprang under the seven hazel trees. and i must needs endure and hate and weep, until the gods and demons drop asleep, hearing aed touch the mournful strings of gold.’
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‘is he so dreadful?’
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‘be not over-bold, but flee while you may flee from him.’
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then i: ‘this demon shall be pierced and drop and die, and his loose bulk be thrown in the loud tide.’
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‘flee from him,’ pearl-pale niamh weeping cried, ‘for all men flee the demons’; but moved not, nor shook my firm and spacious soul one jot; there was no mightier soul of heber’s line; now it is old and mouse-like: for a sign i burst the chain: still earless, nerveless, blind, wrapped in the things of the unhuman mind, in some dim memory or ancient mood still earless, nerveless, blind, the eagles stood.
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and then we climbed the stair to a high door, a hundred horsemen on the basalt floor beneath had paced content: we held our way and stood within: clothed in a misty ray i saw a foam-white seagull drift and float under the roof, and with a straining throat shouted, and hailed him: he hung there a star, for no man’s cry shall ever mount so far; not even your god could have thrown down that hall; stabling his unloosed lightnings in their stall, he had sat down and sighed with cumbered heart, as though his hour were come.
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we sought the part that was most distant from the door; green slime made the way slippery, and time on time showed prints of sea-born scales, while down through it the captives’ journeys to and fro were writ like a small river, and, where feet touched, came a momentary gleam of phosphorus flame. under the deepest shadows of the hall that maiden found a ring hung on the wall, and in the ring a torch, and with its flare making a world about her in the air, passed under a dim doorway, out of sight, and came again, holding a second light burning between her fingers, and in mine laid it and sighed: i held a sword whose shine no centuries could dim: and a word ran thereon in ogham letters, ‘mananan’: that sea-god’s name, who in a deep content sprang dripping, and, with captive demons sent out of the seven-fold seas, built the dark hall rooted in foam and clouds, and cried to all the mightier masters of a mightier race; and at his cry there came no milk-pale face under a crown of thorns and dark with blood, but only exultant faces.
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niamh stood with bowed head, trembling when the white blade shone, but she whose hours of tenderness were gone had neither hope nor fear. i bade them hide under the shadows till the tumults died of the loud crashing and earth-shaking fight, lest they should look upon some dreadful sight; and thrust the torch between the slimy flags. a dome made out of endless carven jags, where shadowy face flowed into shadowy face, looked down on me; and in the self-same place i waited hour by hour, and the high dome windowless, pillarless, multitudinous home of faces, waited; and the leisured gaze was loaded with the memory of days buried and mighty: when through the great door the dawn came in, and glimmered on the floor with a pale light, i journeyed round the hall and found a door deep sunken in the wall, the least of doors; beyond on a dim plain a little runnel made a bubbling strain, and on the runnel’s stony and bare edge a dusky demon dry as a withered sedge swayed, crooning to himself an unknown tongue: in a sad revelry he sang and swung bacchant and mournful, passing to and fro his hand along the runnel’s side, as though the flowers still grew there: far on the sea’s waste; shaking and waving, vapour vapour chased, while high frail cloudlets, fed with a green light, like drifts of leaves, immovable and bright, hung in the passionate dawn. he slowly turned: a demon’s leisure: eyes, first white, now burned like wings of kingfishers; and he arose barking. we trampled up and down with blows of sword and brazen battle-axe, while day gave to high noon and noon to night gave way; but when at withering of the sun he knew the druid sword of mananan, he grew to many shapes; i lunged at the smooth throat of a great eel; it changed, and i but smote a fir-tree roaring in its leafless top; and i but held a corpse, with livid chop and dripping and sunken shape, to face and breast, when i tore down that tree; but when the west surged up in plumy fire, i lunged and drave through heart and spine, and cast him in the wave, lest niamh shudder.
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full of hope and dread those two came carrying wine and meat and bread, and healed my wounds with unguents out of flowers, that feed white moths by some de danaan shrine; then in that hall, lit by the dim sea-shine, we lay on skins of otters, and drank wine, brewed by the sea-gods, from huge cups that lay upon the lips of sea-gods in their day; and then on heaped-up skins of otters slept. but when the sun once more in saffron stept, rolling his flagrant wheel out of the deep, we sang the loves and angers without sleep, and all the exultant labours of the strong:
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but now the lying clerics murder song with barren words and flatteries of the weak. in what land do the powerless turn the beak of ravening sorrow, or the hand of wrath? for all your croziers, they have left the path and wander in the storms and clinging snows, hopeless for ever: ancient oisin knows, for he is weak and poor and blind, and lies on the anvil of the world.
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be still: the skies are choked with thunder, lightning, and fierce wind, for god has heard, and speaks his angry mind; go cast your body on the stones and pray, for he has wrought midnight and dawn and day.
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saint, do you weep? i hear amid the thunder the fenian horses; armour torn asunder; laughter and cries: the armies clash and shock; all is done now; i see the ravens flock; ah, cease, you mournful, laughing fenian horn!
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we feasted for three days. on the fourth morn i found, dropping sea-foam on the wide stair, and hung with slime, and whispering in his hair, that demon dull and unsubduable; and once more to a day-long battle fell, and at the sundown threw him in the surge, to lie until the fourth morn saw emerge his new healed shape: and for a hundred years so warred, so feasted, with nor dreams, nor fears nor languor nor fatigue: an endless feast, an endless war.
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the hundred years had ceased; i stood upon the stair: the surges bore a beech bough to me, and my heart grew sore, remembering how i stood by white-haired finn while the woodpecker made a merry din, the hare leaped in the grass.
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young niamh came holding that horse, and sadly called my name; i mounted, and we passed over the lone and drifting grayness, while this monotone, surly and distant, mixed inseparably into the clangour of the wind and sea:
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‘i hear my soul drop down into decay, and mananan’s dark tower, stone by stone, gather sea-slime and fall the seaward way, and the moon goad the waters night and day, that all be overthrown.
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‘but till the moon has taken all, i wage war on the mightiest men under the skies, and they have fallen or fled, age after age: light is man’s love, and lighter is man’s rage; his purpose drifts and dies.’
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and then lost niamh murmured, ‘love, we go to the island of forgetfulness, for lo! the islands of dancing and of victories are empty of all power.’
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‘and which of these is the island of content?’
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‘none know,’ she said; and on my bosom laid her weeping head.
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the wanderings of oisin
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fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, high as the saddle girth, covering away from our glances the tide; and those that fled, and that followed, from the foam-pale distance broke; the immortal desire of immortals we saw in their faces, and sighed.
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i mused on the chase with the fenians, and bran, sgeolan, lomair, and never a song sang niamh, and over my finger-tips came now the sliding of tears and sweeping of mist-cold air, and now the warmth of sighs, and after the quiver of lips.
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were we days long or hours long in riding, when rolled in a grisly peace, an isle lay level before us, with dripping hazel and oak? and we stood on a sea’s edge we saw not; for whiter than new-washed fleece fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke.
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and we rode on the plains of the sea’s edge; the sea’s edge barren and gray, gray sand on the green of the grasses and over the dripping trees, dripping and doubling landward, as though they would hasten away like an army of old men longing for rest from the moan of the seas.
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but the trees grew taller and closer, immense in their wrinkling bark; dropping; a murmurous dropping; old silence and that one sound; for no live creatures lived there, no weasels moved in the dark: long sighs arose in our spirits, beneath us bubbled the ground.
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and the ears of the horse went sinking away in the hollow night, for, as drift from a sailor slow drowning the gleams of the world and the sun, ceased on our hands and our faces, on hazel and oak leaf, the light, and the stars were blotted above us, and the whole of the world was one.
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till the horse gave a whinny; for, cumbrous with stems of the hazel and oak, a valley flowed down from his hoofs, and there in the long grass lay, under the starlight and shadow, a monstrous slumbering folk, their naked and gleaming bodies poured out and heaped in the way.
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and by them were arrow and war-axe, arrow and shield and blade; and dew-blanched horns, in whose hollow a child of three years old could sleep on a bed of rushes, and all inwrought and inlaid, and more comely than man can make them with bronze and silver and gold.
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and each of the huge white creatures was huger than four-score men; the tops of their ears were feathered, their hands were the claws of birds, and, shaking the plumes of the grasses and the leaves of the mural glen, the breathing came from those bodies, long-warless, grown whiter than curds.
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the wood was so spacious above them, that he who had stars for his flocks could fondle the leaves with his fingers, nor go from his dew-cumbered skies; so long were they sleeping, the owls had builded their nests in their locks, filling the fibrous dimness with long generations of eyes.
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and over the limbs and the valley the slow owls wandered and came, now in a place of star-fire, and now in a shadow place wide; and the chief of the huge white creatures, his knees in the soft star-flame, lay loose in a place of shadow: we drew the reins by his side.
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golden the nails of his bird-claws, flung loosely along the dim ground; in one was a branch soft-shining, with bells more many than sighs, in midst of an old man’s bosom; owls ruffling and pacing around, sidled their bodies against him, filling the shade with their eyes.
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and my gaze was thronged with the sleepers; for nowhere in any clann of the high people of soraca nor in glamour by demons flung, are faces alive with such beauty made known to the salt eye of man, yet weary with passions that faded when the sevenfold seas were young.
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snatching the horn of niamh, i blew a lingering note; came sound from those monstrous sleepers, a sound like the stirring of flies. he, shaking the fold of his lips, and heaving the pillar of his throat, watched me with mournful wonder out of the wells of his eyes.
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i cried, ‘come out of the shadow, king of the nails of gold! and tell of your goodly household and the goodly works of your hands, that we may muse in the starlight and talk of the battles of old; your questioner, oisin, is worthy, he comes from the fenian lands.’
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half open his eyes were, and held me, dull with the smoke of their dreams; his lips moved slowly in answer, no answer out of them came; then he swayed in his fingers the bell-branch, slow dropping a sound in faint streams softer than snow-flakes in april and piercing the marrow like flame.
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wrapt in the wave of that music, with weariness more than of earth, the moil of my centuries filled me; and gone like a sea-covered stone were the memories of the whole of my sorrow and the memories of the whole of my mirth, and a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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in the roots of the grasses, the sorrels, i laid my body as low; and the pearl-pale niamh lay by me, her brow on the midst of my breast; and the horse was gone in the distance, and years after years ’gan flow; square leaves of the ivy moved over us, binding us down to our rest.
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and, man of the many white croziers, a century there i forgot; how the fetlocks drip blood in the battle, when the fallen on fallen lie rolled; how the falconer follows the falcon in the weeds of the heron’s plot, and the names of the demons whose hammers made armour for midhir of old.
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and, man of the many white croziers, a century there i forgot; that the spearshaft is made out of ashwood, the shield out of osier and hide; how the hammers spring on the anvil, on the spear-head’s burning spot; how the slow, blue-eyed oxen of finn low sadly at evening tide.
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but in dreams, mild man of the croziers, driving the dust with their throngs, moved round me, of seamen or landsmen, all who are winter tales; came by me the kings of the red branch, with roaring of laughter and songs, or moved as they moved once, love-making or piercing the tempest with sails.
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came blanid, macnessa, tall fergus who feastward of old time slunk; cook barach, the traitor; and warward, the spittle on his beard never dry, dark balor, as old as a forest, car-borne, his mighty head sunk helpless, men lifting the lids of his weary and death-making eye.
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and by me, in soft red raiment, the fenians moved in loud streams, and grania, walking and smiling, sewed with her needle of bone. so lived i and lived not, so wrought i and wrought not, with creatures of dreams, in a long iron sleep, as a fish in the water goes dumb as a stone.
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at times our slumber was lightened. when the sun was on silver or gold; when brushed with the wings of the owls, in the dimness they love going by; when a glow-worm was green on a grass leaf lured from his lair in the mould; half wakening, we lifted our eyelids, and gazed on the grass with a sigh.
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so watched i when, man of the croziers, at the heel of a century fell, weak, in the midst of the meadow, from his miles in the midst of the air, a starling like them that forgathered ’neath a moon waking white as a shell, when the fenians made foray at morning with bran, sgeolan, lomair.
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o, had you seen beautiful niamh grow white as the waters are white, lord of the croziers, you even had lifted your hands and wept: but, the bird in my fingers, i mounted, remembering alone that delight of twilight and slumber were gone, and that hoofs impatiently stept.
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i cried, ‘o niamh! o white one! if only a twelve-houred day, i must gaze on the beard of finn, and move where the old men and young in the fenians’ dwellings of wattle lean on the chessboards and play, ah, sweet to me now were even bald conan’s slanderous tongue!
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‘like me were some galley forsaken far off in meridian isle, remembering its long-oared companions, sails turning to thread-bare rags; no more to crawl on the seas with long oars mile after mile, but to be amid shooting of flies and flowering of rushes and flags.’
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their motionless eyeballs of spirits grown mild with mysterious thought, watched her those seamless faces from the valley’s glimmering girth; as she murmured, ‘o wandering oisin, the strength of the bell-branch is naught, for there moves alive in your fingers the fluttering sadness of earth.
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‘then go through the lands in the saddle and see what the mortals do, and softly come to your niamh over the tops of the tide; but weep for your niamh, o oisin, weep; for if only your shoe brush lightly as haymouse earth pebbles, you will come no more to my side.
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‘o flaming lion of the world, o when will you turn to your rest?’ i saw from a distant saddle; from the earth she made her moan; ‘i would die like a small withered leaf in the autumn, for breast unto breast we shall mingle no more, nor our gazes empty their sweetness lone
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‘in the isles of the farthest seas where only the spirits come. were the winds less soft than the breath of a pigeon who sleeps on her nest, nor lost in the star-fires and odours the sound of the sea’s vague drum, o flaming lion of the world, o when will you turn to your rest?’
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the wailing grew distant; i rode by the woods of the wrinkling bark, where ever is murmurous dropping, old silence and that one sound; for no live creatures live there, no weasels move in the dark; in a reverie forgetful of all things, over the bubbling ground.
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and i rode by the plains of the sea’s edge, where all is barren and gray, gray sands on the green of the grasses and over the dripping trees, dripping and doubling landward, as though they would hasten away, like an army of old men longing for rest from the moan of the seas.
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and the winds made the sands on the sea’s edge turning and turning go, as my mind made the names of the fenians. far from the hazel and oak i rode away on the surges, where, high as the saddle bow, fled foam underneath me, and round me, a wandering and milky smoke.
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long fled the foam-flakes around me, the winds fled out of the vast, snatching the bird in secret; nor knew i, embosomed apart, when they froze the cloth on my body like armour riveted fast, for remembrance, lifting her leanness, keened in the gates of my heart.
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till fattening the winds of the morning, an odour of new-mown hay came, and my forehead fell low, and my tears like berries fell down; later a sound came, half lost in the sound of a shore far away, from the great grass-barnacle calling, and later the shore-weeds brown.
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if i were as i once was, the strong hoofs crushing the sand and the shells, coming out of the sea as the dawn comes, a chaunt of love on my lips, not coughing, my head on my knees, and praying, and wroth with the bells, i would leave no saint’s head on his body from rachlin to bera of ships.
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making way from the kindling surges, i rode on a bridle-path much wondering to see upon all hands, of wattles and woodwork made, your bell-mounted churches, and guardless the sacred cairn and the rath, and a small and feeble race stooping with mattock and spade.
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or weeding or ploughing with faces a-shining with much-toil wet; while in this place and that place, with bodies unglorious, their chieftains stood, awaiting in patience the straw-death, croziered one, caught in their net: went the laughter of scorn from my mouth like the roaring of wind in a wood.
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and because i went by them so huge and so speedy with eyes so bright, came after the hard gaze of youth, or an old man lifted his head: and i rode and i rode, and i cried out, ‘the fenians hunt wolves in the night, so sleep they by daytime.’ a voice cried, ‘the fenians a long time are dead.’
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a whitebeard stood hushed on the pathway, the flesh of his face as dried grass, and in folds round his eyes and his mouth, he sad as a child without milk; and the dreams of the islands were gone, and i knew how men sorrow and pass, and their hound, and their horse, and their love, and their eyes that glimmer like silk.
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and wrapping my face in my hair, i murmured, ‘in old age they ceased’; and my tears were larger than berries, and i murmured, ‘where white clouds lie spread on crevroe or broad knockfefin, with many of old they feast on the floors of the gods.’ he cried, ‘no, the gods a long time are dead.’
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and lonely and longing for niamh, i shivered and turned me about, the heart in me longing to leap like a grasshopper into her heart; i turned and rode to the westward, and followed the sea’s old shout till i saw where maeve lies sleeping till starlight and midnight part.
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and there at the foot of the mountain, two carried a sack full of sand, they bore it with staggering and sweating, but fell with their burden at length: leaning down from the gem-studded saddle, i flung it five yards with my hand, with a sob for men waxing so weakly, a sob for the fenians’ old strength.
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the rest you have heard of, o croziered one; how, when divided the girth, i fell on the path, and the horse went away like a summer fly; and my years three hundred fell on me, and i rose, and walked on the earth, a creeping old man, full of sleep, with the spittle on his beard never dry.
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how the men of the sand-sack showed me a church with its belfry in air; sorry place, where for swing of the war-axe in my dim eyes the crozier gleams; what place have caolte and conan, and bran, sgeolan, lomair? speak, you too are old with your memories, an old man surrounded with dreams.
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where the flesh of the footsole clingeth on the burning stones is their place; where the demons whip them with wires on the burning stones of wide hell, watching the blessed ones move far off, and the smile on god’s face, between them a gateway of brass, and the howl of the angels who fell.
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put the staff in my hands; for i go to the fenians, o cleric, to chaunt the war-songs that roused them of old; they will rise, making clouds with their breath innumerable, singing, exultant; the clay underneath them shall pant, and demons be broken in pieces, and trampled beneath them in death.
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we will tear out the flaming stones, and batter the gateway of brass and enter, and none sayeth ‘no’ when there enters the strongly armed guest; make clean as a broom cleans, and march on as oxen move over young grass; then feast, making converse of eire, of wars, and of old wounds, and rest.
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on the flaming stones, without refuge, the limbs of the fenians are tost; none war on the masters of hell, who could break up the world in their rage; but kneel and wear out the flags and pray for your soul that is lost through the demon love of its youth and its godless and passionate age.
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ah, me! to be shaken with coughing and broken with old age and pain, without laughter, a show unto children, alone with remembrance and fear, all emptied of purple hours as a beggar’s cloak in the rain, as a grass seed crushed by a pebble, as a wolf sucked under a weir.
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it were sad to gaze on the blessed and no man i loved of old there; i throw down the chain of small stones! when life in my body has ceased, i will go to caolte, and conan, and bran, sgeolan, lomair, and dwell in the house of the fenians, be they in flames or at feast.
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the wind among the reeds.
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when i wrote these poems i had so meditated over the images that came to me in writing ‘ballads and lyrics,’ ‘the rose,’ and ‘the wanderings of oisin,’ and other images from irish folk-lore, that they had become true symbols. i had sometimes when awake, but more often in sleep, moments of vision, a state very unlike dreaming, when these images took upon themselves what seemed an independent life and became a part of a mystic language, which seemed always as if it would bring me some strange revelation. being troubled at what was thought a reckless obscurity, i tried to explain myself in lengthy notes, into which i put all the little learning i had, and more wilful phantasy than i now think admirable, though what is most mystical still seems to me the most true. i quote in what follows the better or the more necessary passages.
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the hosting of the sidhe (page 3).
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the gods of ancient ireland, the tuatha de danaan, or the tribes of the goddess danu, or the sidhe, from aes sidhe, or sluagh sidhe, the people of the faery hills, as these words are usually explained, still ride the country as of old. sidhe is also gaelic for wind, and certainly the sidhe have much to do with the wind. they journey in whirling winds, the winds that were called the dance of the daughters of herodias in the middle ages, herodias doubtless taking the place of some old goddess. when the country people see the leaves whirling on the road they bless themselves, because they believe the sidhe to be passing by. they are almost always said to wear no covering upon their heads, and to let their hair stream out; and the great among them, for they have great and simple, go much upon horseback. if any one becomes too much interested in them, and sees them overmuch, he loses all interest in ordinary things.
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a woman near gort, in galway, says: ‘there is a boy, now, of the clorans; but i wouldn’t for the world let them think i spoke of him; it’s two years since he came from america, and since that time he never went to mass, or to church, or to fairs, or to market, or to stand on the cross roads, or to hurling, or to nothing. and if any one comes into the house, it’s into the room he’ll slip, not to see them; and as to work, he has the garden dug to bits, and the whole place smeared with cow dung; and such a crop as was never seen; and the alders all plaited till they look grand. one day he went as far as the chapel; but as soon as he got to the door he turned straight round again, as if he hadn’t power to pass it. i wonder he wouldn’t get the priest to read a mass for him, or something; but the crop he has is grand, and you may know well he has some to help him.’ one hears many stories of the kind; and a man whose son is believed to go out riding among them at night tells me that he is careless about everything, and lies in bed until it is late in the day. a doctor believes this boy to be mad. those that are at times ‘away,’ as it is called, know all things, but are afraid to speak. a countryman at kiltartan says, ‘there was one of the lydons—john—was away for seven years, lying in his bed, but brought away at nights, and he knew everything; and one, kearney, up in the mountains, a cousin of his own, lost two hoggets, and came and told him, and he knew the very spot where they were, and told him, and he got them back again. but they were vexed at that, and took away the power, so that he never knew anything again, no more than another.’
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knocknarea is in sligo, and the country people say that maeve, still a great queen of the western sidhe, is buried in the cairn of stones upon it. i have written of clooth-na-bare in ‘the celtic twilight.’ she ‘went all over the world, seeking a lake deep enough to drown her faery life, of which she had grown weary, leaping from hill to hill, and setting up a cairn of stones wherever her feet lighted, until, at last, she found the deepest water in the world in little lough ia, on the top of the bird mountain, in sligo.’ i forget, now, where i heard this story, but it may have been from a priest at collooney. clooth-na-bare would mean the old woman of bare, but is evidently a corruption of cailleac bare, the old woman of bare, who, under the names bare, and berah, and beri, and verah, and dera, and dhira, appears in the legends of many places. mr. o’grady found her haunting lough liath high up on the top of a mountain of the fews, the slieve fuadh, or slieve g-cullain of old times, under the name of the cailleac buillia. he describes lough liath as a desolate moon-shaped lake, with made wells and sunken passages upon its borders, and beset by marsh and heather and gray boulders, and closes his ‘flight of the eagle’ with a long rhapsody upon mountain and lake, because of the heroic tales and beautiful old myths that have hung about them always. he identifies the cailleac buillia with that meluchra who persuaded fionn to go to her amid the waters of lough liath, and so changed him with her enchantments, that, though she had to free him because of the threats of the fiana, his hair was ever afterwards as white as snow. to this day the tuatha de danaan that are in the waters beckon to men, and drown them in the waters; and bare, or dhira, or meluchra, or whatever name one likes the best, is, doubtless, the name of a mistress among them. meluchra was daughter of cullain; and cullain mr. o’grady calls, upon i know not what authority, a form of lir, the master of waters. the people of the waters have been in all ages beautiful and changeable and lascivious, or beautiful and wise and lonely, for water is everywhere the signature of the fruitfulness of the body and of the fruitfulness of dreams. the white hair of fionn may be but another of the troubles of those that come to unearthly wisdom and earthly trouble, and the threats and violence of the fiana against her, a different form of the threats and violence the country people use, to make the aes sidhe give up those that are ‘away.’ bare is now often called an ugly old woman, but in the ‘song of bare,’ which lady gregory has given in her ‘saints and wonders,’ she laments her lost beauty after the withering of seven hundred years; and dr. joyce says that one of her old names was aebhin, which means beautiful. aebhin was the goddess of the tribes of northern leinster; and the lover she had made immortal, and who loved her perfectly, left her, and put on mortality, to fight among them against the stranger, and died on the strand of clontarf.
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the rose has been for many centuries a symbol of spiritual love and supreme beauty. the lotus was in some eastern countries imagined blossoming upon the tree of life, as the flower of life, and is thus represented in assyrian bas-reliefs. because the rose, the flower sacred to the virgin mary, and the flower that apuleius’ adventurer ate, when he was changed out of the ass’s shape and received into the fellowship of isis, is the western flower of life, i have imagined it growing upon the tree of life. i once stood beside a man in ireland when he saw it growing there in a vision, that seemed to have rapt him out of his body. he saw the garden of eden walled about, and on the top of a high mountain, as in certain mediæval diagrams, and after passing the tree of knowledge, on which grew fruit full of troubled faces, and through whose branches flowed, he was told, sap that was human souls, he came to a tall, dark tree, with little bitter fruits, and was shown a kind of stair or ladder going up through the tree, and told to go up; and near the top of the tree, a beautiful woman, like the goddess of life, associated with the tree in assyria, gave him a rose that seemed to have been growing upon the tree. one finds the rose in the irish poets, sometimes as a religious symbol, as in the phrase, ‘the rose of friday,’ meaning the rose of austerity, in a gaelic poem in dr. hyde’s ‘religious songs of connacht’; and, i think, as a symbol of woman’s beauty in the gaelic song, ‘roseen dubh’; and a symbol of ireland in mangan’s adaptation of ‘roseen dubh,’ ‘my dark rosaleen,’ and in mr. aubrey de vere’s ‘the little black rose.’ i do not know any evidence to prove whether this symbol came to ireland with mediæval christianity, or whether it has come down from older times. i have read somewhere that a stone engraved with a celtic god, who holds what looks like a rose in one hand, has been found somewhere in england; but i cannot find the reference, though i certainly made a note of it. if the rose was really a symbol of ireland among the gaelic poets, and if ‘roseen dubh’ is really a political poem, as some think, one may feel pretty certain that the ancient celts associated the rose with eire, or fotla, or banba—goddesses who gave their names to ireland—or with some principal god or goddess, for such symbols are not suddenly adopted or invented, but come out of mythology.
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i have made the seven lights, the constellation of the bear, lament for the theft of the rose, and i have made the dragon, the constellation draco, the guardian of the rose, because these constellations move about the pole of the heavens, the ancient tree of life in many countries, and are often associated with the tree of life in mythology. it is this tree of life that i have put into the ‘song of mongan’ under its common irish form of a hazel; and, because it had sometimes the stars for fruit, i have hung upon it ‘the crooked plough’ and the ‘pilot star,’ as gaelic-speaking irishmen sometimes call the bear and the north star. i have made it an axle-tree in ‘aedh hears the cry of the sedge,’ for this was another ancient way of representing it.
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some writers distinguish between the sluagh gaoith, the host of the air, and sluagh sidhe, the host of the sidhe, and describe the host of the air as of a peculiar malignancy. dr. joyce says, ‘of all the different kinds of goblins .... air demons were most dreaded by the people. they lived among clouds, and mists, and rocks, and hated the human race with the utmost malignity.’ a very old aran charm, which contains the words ‘send god, by his strength, between us and the host of the sidhe, between us and the host of the air,’ seems also to distinguish among them. i am inclined, however, to think that the distinction came in with christianity and its belief about the prince of the air, for the host of the sidhe, as i have already explained, are closely associated with the wind.
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they are said to steal brides just after their marriage, and sometimes in a blast of wind. a man in galway says, ‘at aughanish there were two couples came to the shore to be married, and one of the newly married women was in the boat with the priest, and they going back to the island; and a sudden blast of wind came, and the priest said some blessed words that were able to save himself, but the girl was swept.’
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here is a tale that a friend of mine heard in the burren hills, and it is a type of all:—
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‘there was a girl to be married, and she didn’t like the man, and she cried when the day was coming, and said she wouldn’t go along with him. and the mother said, “get into the bed, then, and i’ll say that you’re sick.” and so she did. and when the man came the mother said to him, “you can’t get her, she’s sick in the bed.” and he looked in and said, “that’s not my wife that’s in the bed, it’s some old hag.” and the mother began to cry and roar. and he went out and got two hampers of turf, and made a fire, that they thought he was going to burn the house down. and when the fire was kindled, “come out, now,” says he, “and we’ll see who you are, when i’ll put you on the fire.” and when she heard that, she gave one leap, and was out of the house, and they saw, then, it was an old hag she was. well, the man asked the advice of an old woman, and she bid him go to a faery-bush that was near, and he might get some word of her. so he went there at night, and saw all sorts of grand people, and they in carriages or riding on horses, and among them he could see the girl he came to look for. so he went again to the old woman, and she said, “if you can get the three bits of blackthorn out of her hair, you’ll get her again.” so that night he went again, and that time he only got hold of a bit of her hair. but the old woman told him that was no use, and that he was put back now, and it might be twelve nights before he’d get her. but on the fourth night he got the third bit of blackthorn, and he took her, and she came away with him. he never told the mother he had got her; but one day she saw her at a fair, and, says she, “that’s my daughter; i know her by the smile and by the laugh of her, and she with a shawl about her head.” so the husband said, “you’re right there, and hard i worked to get her.” she spoke often of the grand things she saw underground, and how she used to have wine to drink, and to drive out in a carriage with four horses every night. and she used to be able to see her husband when he came to look for her, and she was greatly afraid he’d get a drop of the wine, for then he would have come underground and never left it again. and she was glad herself to come to earth again, and not to be left there.’
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the old gaelic literature is full of the appeals of the tuatha de danaan to mortals whom they would bring into their country; but the song of midher to the beautiful etain, the wife of the king who was called echaid the ploughman, is the type of all.
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‘o beautiful woman, come with me to the marvellous land where one listens to a sweet music, where one has spring flowers in one’s hair, where the body is like snow from head to foot, where no one is sad or silent, where teeth are white and eyebrows are black ... cheeks red like foxglove in flower.... ireland is beautiful, but not so beautiful as the great plain i call you to. the beer of ireland is heady, but the beer of the great plain is much more heady. how marvellous is the country i am speaking of! youth does not grow old there. streams with warm flood flow there; sometimes mead, sometimes wine. men are charming and without a blot there, and love is not forbidden there. o woman, when you come into my powerful country you will wear a crown of gold upon your head. i will give you the flesh of swine, and you will have beer and milk to drink, o beautiful woman. o beautiful woman, come with me!’
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the tuatha de danaan can take all shapes, and those that are in the waters take often the shape of fish. a woman of burren, in galway, says, ‘there are more of them in the sea than on the land, and they sometimes try to come over the side of the boat in the form of fishes, for they can take their choice shape.’ at other times they are beautiful women; and another galway woman says, ‘surely those things are in the sea as well as on land. my father was out fishing one night off tyrone. and something came beside the boat that had eyes shining like candles. and then a wave came in, and a storm rose all in a minute, and whatever was in the wave, the weight of it had like to sink the boat. and then they saw that it was a woman in the sea that had the shining eyes. so my father went to the priest, and he bid him always to take a drop of holy water and a pinch of salt out in the boat with him, and nothing could harm him.’
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the county galway people use the word ‘clean’ in its old sense of fresh and comely.
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my deer and hound are properly related to the deer and hound that flicker in and out of the various tellings of the arthurian legends, leading different knights upon adventures, and to the hounds and to the hornless deer at the beginning of, i think, all tellings of oisin’s journey to the country of the young. the hound is certainly related to the hounds of annwvyn or of hades, who are white, and have red ears, and were heard, and are, perhaps, still heard by welsh peasants, following some flying thing in the night winds; and is probably related to the hounds that irish country people believe will awake and seize the souls of the dead if you lament them too loudly or too soon. an old woman told a friend and myself that she saw what she thought were white birds, flying over an enchanted place; but found, when she got near, that they had dogs’ heads, and i do not doubt that my hound and these dog-headed birds are of the same family. i got my hound and deer out of a last century gaelic poem about oisin’s journey to the country of the young. after the hunting of the hornless deer, that leads him to the seashore, and while he is riding over the sea with niamh, he sees amid the waters—i have not the gaelic poem by me, and describe it from memory—a young man following a girl who has a golden apple, and afterwards a hound with one red ear following a deer with no horns. this hound and this deer seem plain images of the desire of man ‘which is for the woman,’ and ‘the desire of the woman which is for the desire of the man,’ and of all desires that are as these. i have read them in this way in ‘the wanderings of usheen’ or oisin, and have made my lover sigh because he has seen in their faces ‘the immortal desire of immortals.’
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the man in my poem who has a hazel wand may have been aengus, master of love; and i have made the boar without bristles come out of the west, because the place of sunset was in ireland, as in other countries, a place of symbolic darkness and death.
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i dreamed this story exactly as i have written it, and dreamed another long dream after it, trying to make out its meaning, and whether i was to write it in prose or verse. the first dream was more a vision than a dream, for it was beautiful and coherent, and gave me the sense of illumination and exaltation that one gets from visions, while the second dream was confused and meaningless. the poem has always meant a great deal to me, though, as is the way with symbolic poems, it has not always meant quite the same thing. blake would have said, ‘the authors are in eternity,’ and i am quite sure they can only be questioned in dreams.
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all over ireland there are prophecies of the coming rout of the enemies of ireland, in a certain valley of the black pig, and these prophecies are, no doubt, now, as they were in the fenian days, a political force. i have heard of one man who would not give any money to the land league, because the battle could not be until the close of the century; but, as a rule, periods of trouble bring prophecies of its near coming. a few years before my time, an old man who lived at lisadill, in sligo, used to fall down in a fit and rave out descriptions of the battle; and a man in sligo has told me that it will be so great a battle that the horses shall go up to their fetlocks in blood, and that their girths, when it is over, will rot from their bellies for lack of a hand to unbuckle them. if one reads professor rhys’ “celtic heathendom” by the light of professor frazer’s “golden bough,” and puts together what one finds there about the boar that killed diarmuid, and other old celtic boars and sows, one sees that the battle is mythological, and that the pig it is named from must be a type of cold and winter doing battle with the summer, or of death battling with life. for the purposes of poetry, at any rate, i think it a symbol of the darkness that will destroy the world. the country people say there is no shape for a spirit to take so dangerous as the shape of a pig; and a galway blacksmith—and blacksmiths are thought to be specially protected—says he would be afraid to meet a pig on the road at night; and another galway man tells this story: ‘there was a man coming the road from gort to garryland one night, and he had a drop taken; and before him, on the road, he saw a pig walking; and having a drop in, he gave a shout, and made a kick at it, and bid it get out of that. and by the time he got home, his arm was swelled from the shoulder to be as big as a bag, and he couldn’t use his hand with the pain of it. and his wife brought him, after a few days, to a woman that used to do cures at rahasane. and on the road all she could do would hardly keep him from lying down to sleep on the grass. and when they got to the woman she knew all that happened; “and,” says she, “it’s well for you that your wife didn’t let you fall asleep on the grass, for if you had done that but even for one instant, you’d be a lost man.”’
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professor rhys, who considers the bristleless boar a symbol of darkness and cold, rather than of winter and cold, thinks it was without bristles because the darkness is shorn away by the sun.
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the battle should, i believe, be compared with three other battles; a battle the sidhe are said to fight when a person is being taken away by them; a battle they are said to fight in november for the harvest; the great battle the tuatha de danaan fought, according to the gaelic chroniclers, with the fomor at moy tura, or the towery plain.
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i have heard of the battle over the dying both in county galway and in the isles of aran, an old aran fisherman having told me that it was fought over two of his children, and that he found blood in a box he had for keeping fish, when it was over; and i have written about it, and given examples elsewhere. a faery doctor, on the borders of galway and clare, explained it as a battle between the friends and enemies of the dying, the one party trying to take them, the other trying to save them from being taken. it may once, when the land of the sidhe was the only other world, and when every man who died was carried thither, have always accompanied death. i suggest that the battle between the tuatha de danaan, the powers of light, and warmth, and fruitfulness, and goodness, and the fomor, the powers of darkness, and cold, and barrenness, and badness upon the towery plain, was the establishment of the habitable world, the rout of the ancestral darkness; that the battle among the sidhe for the harvest is the annual battle of summer and winter; that the battle among the sidhe at a man’s death is the battle of life and death; and that the battle of the black pig is the battle between the manifest world and the ancestral darkness at the end of all things; and that all these battles are one, the battle of all things with shadowy decay. once a symbolism has possessed the imagination of large numbers of men, it becomes, as i believe, an embodiment of disembodied powers, and repeats itself in dreams and visions, age after age.
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i find that i have unintentionally changed the old story of conchubar’s death. he did not see the crucifixion in a vision, but was told about it. he had been struck by a ball, made of the dried brain of a dead enemy, and hurled out of a sling; and this ball had been left in his head, and his head had been mended, the ‘book of leinster’ says, with thread of gold because his hair was like gold. keating, a writer of the time of elizabeth, says, ‘in that state did he remain seven years, until the friday on which christ was crucified, according to some historians; and when he saw the unusual changes of the creation and the eclipse of the sun and the moon at its full, he asked of bucrach, a leinster druid, who was along with him, what was it that brought that unusual change upon the planets of heaven and earth. “jesus christ, the son of god,” said the druid, “who is now being crucified by the jews.” “that is a pity,” said conchubar; “were i in his presence i would kill those who were putting him to death.” and with that he brought out his sword, and rushed at a woody grove which was convenient to him, and began to cut and fell it; and what he said was, that if he were among the jews, that was the usage he would give them, and from the excessiveness of his fury which seized upon him, the ball started out of his head, and some of the brain came after it, and in that way he died. the wood of lanshraigh, in feara rois, is the name by which that shrubby wood is called.’
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i have imagined cuchulain meeting fand ‘walking among flaming dew.’ the story of their love is one of the most beautiful of our old tales.
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i have founded the man ‘who drove the gods out of their liss,’ or fort, upon something i have read about caolte after the battle of gabra, when almost all his companions were killed, driving the gods out of their liss, either at osraighe, now ossory, or at eas ruaidh, now asseroe, a waterfall at ballyshannon, where ilbreac, one of the children of the goddess danu, had a liss. but maybe i only read it in mr. standish o’grady, who has a fine imagination, for i find no such story in lady gregory’s book.
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i have founded ‘the proud dreaming king’ upon fergus, the son of roigh, the legendary poet of ‘the quest of the bull of cuailgne,’ as he is in the ancient story of deirdre, and in modern poems by ferguson. he married nessa, and ferguson makes him tell how she took him ‘captive in a single look.’
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‘i am but an empty shade, far from life and passion laid; yet does sweet remembrance thrill all my shadowy being still.’
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presently, because of his great love, he gave up his throne to conchubar, her son by another, and lived out his days feasting, and fighting, and hunting. his promise never to refuse a feast from a certain comrade, and the mischief that came by his promise, and the vengeance he took afterwards, are a principal theme of the poets. i have explained my changing imaginations of him in ‘fergus and the druid,’ and in a little song in the second act of ‘the countess kathleen,’ and in ‘deirdre.’
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i have founded him ‘who sold tillage, and house, and goods,’ upon something in ‘the red pony,’ a folk tale in mr. larminie’s ‘west irish folk tales.’ a young man ‘saw a light before him on the high road. when he came as far, there was an open box on the road, and a light coming up out of it. he took up the box. there was a lock of hair in it. presently he had to go to become the servant of a king for his living. there were eleven boys. when they were going out into the stable at ten o’clock, each of them took a light but he. he took no candle at all with him. each of them went into his own stable. when he went into his stable he opened the box. he left it in a hole in the wall. the light was great. it was twice as much as in the other stables.’ the king hears of it, and makes him show him the box. the king says, ‘you must go and bring me the woman to whom the hair belongs.’ in the end, the young man, and not the king, marries the woman.
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when i first wrote i went here and there for my subjects as my reading led me, and preferred to all other countries arcadia and the india of romance, but presently i convinced myself, for such reasons as those in ‘ireland and the arts,’ that i should never go for the scenery of a poem to any country but my own, and i think that i shall hold to that conviction to the end. i was very young; and, perhaps because i belonged to a young ireland society in dublin, i wished to be as easily understood as the young ireland writers, to write always out of the common thought of the people.
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i have put the poems written while i was influenced by this desire, though with an always lessening force, into those sections which i have called ‘early poems.’ i read certain of them now with no little discontent, for i find, especially in the ballads, some triviality and sentimentality. mangan and davis, at their best, are not sentimental and trivial, but i became so from an imitation that was not natural to me. when i was writing the poems in the second of the three, the section called ‘the rose,’ i found that i was becoming unintelligible to the young men who had been in my thought. we have still the same tradition, but i have been like a traveller who, having when newly arrived in the city noticed nothing but the news of the market-place, the songs of the workmen, the great public buildings, has come after certain months to let his thoughts run upon some little carving in its niche, some ogham on a stone, or the conversation of a countryman who knows more of the ‘boar without bristles’ than of the daily paper.
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when writing i went for nearly all my subjects to irish folklore and legends, much as a young ireland poet would have done, writing ‘down by the salley garden’ by adding a few lines to a couple of lines i heard sung at ballisodare; ‘the meditation of the old fisherman’ from the words of a not very old fisherman at rosses point; ‘the lamentation of the old pensioner’ from words spoken by a man on the two rock mountain to a friend of mine; ‘the ballad of the old foxhunter’ from an incident in one of kickham’s novels; and ‘the ballad of moll magee’ from a sermon preached in a chapel at howth; and ‘the wanderings of oisin’ from a gaelic poem of the eighteenth century and certain middle irish poems in dialogue. it is no longer necessary to say who oisin and cuchulain and fergus and the other bardic persons are, for lady gregory, in her ‘gods and fighting men’ and ‘cuchulain of muirthemne’ has re-told all that is greatest in the ancient literature of ireland in a style that has to my ears an immortal beauty.
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printed by a. h. bullen, at the shakespeare head press, stratford-on-avon.
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only the most obvious punctuation errors repaired. repeated section titles were removed. varied hyphenation was retained.
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page 202, “multudinous” changed to “multitudinous” (pillarless, multitudinous home)
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page 211, stanza break inserted above the line that begins (till the horse gave a whinny)
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the collected works of william butler yeats
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the king’s threshold. on baile’s strand. deirdre. shadowy waters :: being the second volume of the collected works in verse & prose of william butler yeats :: imprinted at the shakespeare head press stratford-on-avon mcmviii
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the friends that have it i do wrong when ever i remake a song, should know what issue is at stake: it is myself that i remake.
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the king’s threshold
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to frank fay
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because of his beautiful speaking in the character of seanchan
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persons in the play
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king guaire seanchan (pronounced shanahan) his pupils the mayor of kinvara two cripples brian (an old servant) the lord high chamberlain a soldier a monk court ladies two princesses fedelm
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the king’s threshold.
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steps before the palace of king guaire at gort. a table in front of steps at one side, with food on it, and a bench by table. seanchan lying on steps. pupils before steps. king on the upper step before a curtained door.
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i welcome you that have the mastery of the two kinds of music: the one kind being like a woman, the other like a man. both you that understand stringed instruments, and how to mingle words and notes together so artfully, that all the art’s but speech delighted with its own music; and you that carry the long twisted horn, and understand the heady notes that, being without words, can hurry beyond time and fate and change. for the high angels that drive the horse of time— the golden one by day, by night the silver— are not more welcome to one that loves the world for some fair woman’s sake. i have called you hither to save the life of your great master, seanchan, for all day long it has flamed up or flickered to the fast cooling hearth.
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when did he sicken? is it a fever that is wasting him?
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no fever or sickness. he has chosen death: refusing to eat or drink, that he may bring disgrace upon me; for there is a custom, an old and foolish custom, that if a man be wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starve upon another’s threshold till he die, the common people, for all time to come, will raise a heavy cry against that threshold, even though it be the king’s.
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my head whirls round; i do not know what i am to think or say. i owe you all obedience, and yet how can i give it, when the man i have loved more than all others, thinks that he is wronged so bitterly, that he will starve and die rather than bear it? is there any man will throw his life away for a light issue?
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it is but fitting that you take his side until you understand how light an issue has put us by the ears. three days ago i yielded to the outcry of my courtiers— bishops, soldiers, and makers of the law— who long had thought it against their dignity for a mere man of words to sit amongst them at my own table. when the meal was spread, i ordered seanchan to a lower table; and when he pleaded for the poets’ right, established at the establishment of the world, i said that i was king, and that all rights had their original fountain in some king, and that it was the men who ruled the world, and not the men who sang to it, who should sit where there was the most honour. my courtiers— bishops, soldiers, and makers of the law— shouted approval; and amid that noise seanchan went out, and from that hour to this, although there is good food and drink beside him, has eaten nothing.
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i can breathe again. you have taken a great burden from my mind, for that old custom’s not worth dying for.
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persuade him to eat or drink. till yesterday i thought that hunger and weakness had been enough; but finding them too trifling and too light to hold his mouth from biting at the grave, i called you hither, and all my hope’s in you, and certain of his neighbours and good friends that i have sent for. while he is lying there perishing, my good name in the world is perishing also. i cannot give way, because i am king. because if i gave way, my nobles would call me a weakling, and it may be the very throne be shaken.
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i will persuade him. your words had been enough persuasion, king; but being lost in sleep or reverie, he cannot hear them.
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make him eat or drink. nor is it all because of my good name i’d have him do it, for he is a man that might well hit the fancy of a king, banished out of his country, or a woman’s, or any other’s that can judge a man for what he is. but i that sit a throne, and take my measure from the needs of the state, call his wild thought that overruns the measure, making words more than deeds, and his proud will that would unsettle all, most mischievous, and he himself a most mischievous man.
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promise a house with grass and tillage land, an annual payment, jewels and silken ware, or anything but that old right of the poets.
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the king did wrong to abrogate our right; but seanchan, who talks of dying for it, talks foolishly. look at us, seanchan; waken out of your dream and look at us, who have ridden under the moon and all the day, until the moon has all but come again, that we might be beside you.
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i was but now in almhuin, in a great high-raftered house, with finn and osgar. odours of roast flesh rose round me, and i saw the roasting-spits; and then the dream was broken, and i saw grania dividing salmon by a stream.
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hunger has made you dream of roasting flesh; and though i all but weep to think of it, the hunger of the crane, that starves himself at the full moon because he is afraid of his own shadow and the glittering water, seems to me little more fantastical than this of yours.
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why, that’s the very truth. it is as though the moon changed everything— myself and all that i can hear and see; for when the heavy body has grown weak, there’s nothing that can tether the wild mind that, being moonstruck and fantastical, goes where it fancies. i had even thought i knew your voice and face, but now the words are so unlikely that i needs must ask who is it that bids me put my hunger by.
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i am your oldest pupil, seanchan; the one that has been with you many years— so many, that you said at candlemas that i had almost done with school, and knew all but all that poets understand.
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my oldest pupil? no, that cannot be, for it is some one of the courtly crowds that have been round about me from sunrise, and i am tricked by dreams; but i’ll refute them. at candlemas i bid that pupil tell me why poetry is honoured, wishing to know if he had any weighty argument for distant countries and strange, churlish kings. what did he answer?
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i said the poets hung images of the life that was in eden about the child-bed of the world, that it, looking upon those images, might bear triumphant children. but why must i stand here, repeating an old lesson, while you starve?
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tell on, for i begin to know the voice. what evil thing will come upon the world if the arts perish?
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if the arts should perish, the world that lacked them would be like a woman, that looking on the cloven lips of a hare, brings forth a hare-lipped child.
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but that’s not all: for when i asked you how a man should guard those images, you had an answer also, if you’re the man that you have claimed to be, comparing them to venerable things god gave to men before he gave them wheat.
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i answered—and the word was half your own— that he should guard them as the men of dea guard their four treasures, as the grail king guards his holy cup, or the pale, righteous horse the jewel that is underneath his horn, pouring out life for it as one pours out sweet heady wine.... but now i understand; you would refute me out of my own mouth; and yet a place at table, near the king, is nothing of great moment, seanchan. how does so light a thing touch poetry?
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at candlemas you called this poetry one of the fragile, mighty things of god, that die at an insult.
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give me some true answer, for on that day we spoke about the court, and said that all that was insulted there the world insulted, for the courtly life, being the first comely child of the world, is the world’s model. how shall i answer him? can you not give me some true argument? i will not tempt him with a lying one.
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o, tell him that the lovers of his music have need of him.
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but i am labouring for some that shall be born in the nick o’ time, and find sweet nurture, that they may have voices, even in anger, like the strings of harps; and how could they be born to majesty if i had never made the golden cradle?
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why did you take me from my father’s fields? if you would leave me now, what shall i love? where shall i go? what shall i set my hand to? and why have you put music in my ears, if you would send me to the clattering houses? i will throw down the trumpet and the harp, for how could i sing verses or make music with none to praise me, and a broken heart?
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what was it that the poets promised you, if it was not their sorrow? do not speak. have i not opened school on these bare steps, and are not you the youngest of my scholars? and i would have all know that when all falls in ruin, poetry calls out in joy, being the scattering hand, the bursting pod, the victim’s joy among the holy flame, god’s laughter at the shattering of the world. and now that joy laughs out, and weeps and burns on these bare steps.
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o master, do not die!
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trouble him with no useless argument. be silent! there is nothing we can do except find out the king and kneel to him, and beg our ancient right. for here are some to say whatever we could say and more, and fare as badly. come, boy, that is no use.
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if it seem well that we beseech the king, lay down your harps and trumpets on the stones in silence, and come with me silently. come with slow footfalls, and bow all your heads, for a bowed head becomes a mourner best.
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‘chief poet,’ ‘ireland,’ ‘townsman,’ ‘grazing land,’ those are the words i have to keep in mind— ‘chief poet,’ ‘ireland,’ ‘townsman,’ ‘grazing land.’ i have the words. they are all upon the ogham. ‘chief poet,’ ‘ireland,’ ‘townsman,’ ‘grazing land.’ but what’s their order?
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the king were rightly served if seanchan drove his good luck away. what’s there about a king, that’s in the world from birth to burial like another man, that he should change old customs, that were in it as long as ever the world has been a world?
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if i were king i would not meddle with him, for there is something queer about a poet. i knew of one that would be making rhyme under a thorn at crossing of three roads. he was as ragged as ourselves, and yet he was no sooner dead than every thorn tree from inchy to kiltartan withered away.
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the king is but a fool!
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i am getting ready.
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a poet has power from beyond the world, that he may set our thoughts upon old times, and lucky queens and little holy fish that rise up every seventh year——
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to cure the crippled.
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i am half ready now.
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there’s not a mischief i’d begrudge the king if it were any other——
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hush! i am ready.
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that died to get it. i have brought out the food, and if my master will not eat of it, i’ll home and get provision for his wake, for that’s no great way off. well, have your say, but don’t be long about it.
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chief poet of ireland, i am the mayor of your own town kinvara, and i am come to tell you that the news of this great trouble with the king of gort has plunged us in deep sorrow—part for you, our honoured townsman, part for our good town.
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but what comes now? something about the king.
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get on! get on! the food is all set out.
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don’t hurry me.
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give us a taste of it. he’ll not begrudge it.
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let them that have their limbs starve if they will. we have to keep in mind the stomach god has left us.
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hush! i have it! the king was said to be most friendly to us, and we have reason, as you’ll recollect, for thinking that he was about to give those grazing lands inland we so much need, being pinched between the water and the stones. our mowers mow with knives between the stones; the sea washes the meadows. you know well we have asked nothing but what’s reasonable.
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reason in plenty. yellowy white hair, a hollow face, and not too many teeth. how comes it he has been so long in the world and not found reason out?
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what good is there in telling him what he has heard all day! i will set food before him.
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master, master, eat this! it’s not king’s food, that’s cooked for everybody and nobody. here’s barley-bread out of your father’s oven, and dulse from duras. here is the dulse, your honour; it’s wholesome, and has the good taste of the sea.
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he has taken it, and there’ll be nothing left!
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nothing at all; he wanted his own sort. what’s honey to a cat, corn to a dog, or a green apple to a ghost in a churchyard?
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eat it yourself, for you have come a journey, and it may be eat nothing on the way.
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how could i eat it, and your honour starving! it is your father sends it, and he cried because the stiffness that is in his bones prevented him from coming, and bid me tell you that he is old, that he has need of you, and that the people will be pointing at him, and he not able to lift up his head, if you should turn the king’s favour away; and he adds to it, that he cared you well, and you in your young age, and that it’s right that you should care him now.
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and is that all? what did my mother say?
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she has sent no message. our mothers know us; they know us to the bone. they knew us before birth, and that is why they know us even better than the sweethearts upon whose breasts we have lain. go quickly! go and tell them that my mother was in the right. there is no answer. go and tell them that. go tell them that she knew me.
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what is he saying? i never understood a poet’s talk more than the baa of a sheep!
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you have not heard, it may be, having been so much away, how many of the cattle died last winter from lacking grass, and that there was much sickness because the poor have nothing but salt fish to live on through the winter?
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get away, and leave the place to me! it’s my turn now, for your sack’s empty!
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is it ‘get away’! is that the way i’m to be spoken to! am i not mayor? amn’t i authority? amn’t i in the king’s place? answer me that!
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then show the people what a king is like: pull down old merings and root custom up, whitewash the dunghills, fatten hogs and geese, hang your gold chain about an ass’s neck, and burn the blessed thorn trees out of the fields, and drive what’s comely away!
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holy saint coleman!
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fine talk! fine talk! what else does the king do? he fattens hogs and drives the poet away!
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he starves the song-maker!
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he fattens geese!
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how dare you take his name into your mouth! how dare you lift your voice against the king! what would we be without him?
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why do you praise him? i will have nobody speak well of him, or any other king that robs my master.
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and had he not the right to? and the right to strike your master’s head off, being the king, or yours or mine? i say, ‘long live the king! because he does not take our heads from us.’ call out, ‘long life to him!’
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call out for him!
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there’s nobody’ll call out for him, but smiths will turn their anvils, the millers turn their wheels, the farmers turn their churns, the witches turn their thumbs, ’till he be broken and splintered into pieces.
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he might, if he’d a mind to it, be digging out our tongues, or dragging out our hair, or bleaching us like calves, or weaning us like lambs, but for the kindness and the softness that is in him.
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i’ll curse him till i drop!
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the curse of the poor be upon him, the curse of the widows upon him, the curse of the children upon him, the curse of the bishops upon him, until he be as rotten as an old mushroom!
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the curse of wrinkles be upon him! wrinkles where his eyes are, wrinkles where his nose is, wrinkles where his mouth is, and a little old devil looking out of every wrinkle!
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and nobody will sing for him, and nobody will hunt for him, and nobody will fish for him, and nobody will pray for him, but ever and always curse him and abuse him.
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what good is in a poet? has he money in a stocking, or cider in the cellar, or flitches in the chimney, or anything anywhere but his own idleness?
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help! help! am i not in authority?
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that’s how i’ll shout for the king!
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help! help! am i not in the king’s place?
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i’ll teach him to be kind to the poor!
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help! help! wait till we are in kinvara!
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i’ll shake the royalty out of his legs!
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i’ll scrumble the ermine out of his skin!
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how dare you make this uproar at the doors, deafening the very greatest in the land, as if the farmyards and the rookeries had all been emptied!
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it is the chamberlain.
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pick up the litter there, and get you gone! be quick about it! have you no respect for this worn stair, this all but sacred door, where suppliants and tributary kings have passed, and the world’s glory knelt in silence? have you no reverence for what all other men hold honourable?
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if i might speak my mind, i’d say the king would have his luck again if he would let my master have his rights.
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pick up your litter! take your noise away! make haste, and get the clapper from the bell!
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what do the great and powerful care for rights that have no armies!
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my lord, i am not to blame. i’m the king’s man, and they attacked me for it.
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we have our prayers, our curses and our prayers, and we can give a great name or a bad one.
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we could not make the poet eat, my lord.
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well, you must be contented, for your work has roused the common sort against the king, and stolen his authority. the state is like some orderly and reverend house, wherein the master, being dead of a sudden, the servants quarrel where they have a mind to, and pilfer here and there.
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how many days will you keep up this quarrel with the king, and the king’s nobles, and myself, and all, who’d gladly be your friends, if you would let them?
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if you would try, you might persuade him, father. i cannot make him answer me, and yet if fitting hands would offer him the food, he might accept it.
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certainly i will not. i’ve made too many homilies, wherein the wanton imagination of the poets has been condemned, to be his flatterer. if pride and disobedience are unpunished who will obey?
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if you would speak to him, you might not find persuasion difficult, with all the devils of hunger helping you.
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i will not interfere, and if he starve for being obstinate and stiff in the neck, ’tis but good riddance.
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one of us must do it. it might be, if you’d reason with him, ladies, he would eat something, for i have a notion that if he brought misfortune on the king, or the king’s house, we’d be as little thought of as summer linen when the winter’s come.
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but it would be the greater compliment if peter’d do it.
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reason with him, peter. persuade him to eat; he’s such a bag of bones!
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i’ll never trust a woman’s word again! there’s nobody that was so loud against him when he was at the table; now the wind’s changed, and you that could not bear his speech or his silence, would have him there in his old place again; i do believe you would, but i won’t help you.
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why will you be so hard upon us, peter? you know we have turned the common sort against us, and he looks miserable.
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we cannot dance, because no harper will pluck a string for us.
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i cannot sleep with thinking of his face.
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and i love dancing more than anything.
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do not be hard on us; but yesterday a woman in the road threw stones at me. you would not have me stoned?
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may i not dance?
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i will do nothing. you have put him out, and now that he is out—well, leave him out.
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do it for my sake, peter.
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and for mine.
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you mean to starve? you will have none of it? i’ll leave it there, where you can sniff the savour. snuff it, old hedgehog, and unroll yourself! but if i were the king, i’d make you do it with wisps of lighted straw.
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you have rightly named me. i lie rolled up under the ragged thorns that are upon the edge of those great waters where all things vanish away, and i have heard murmurs that are the ending of all sound. i am out of life; i am rolled up, and yet, hedgehog although i am, i’ll not unroll for you, king’s dog! go to the king, your master. crouch down and wag your tail, for it may be he has nothing now against you, and i think the stripes of your last beating are all healed.
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put up your sword, sir; put it up, i say! the common sort would tear you into pieces if you but touched him.
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if he’s to be flattered, petted, cajoled, and dandled into humour, we might as well have left him at the table.
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you must need keep your patience yet awhile, for i have some few mouthfuls of sweet air to swallow before i have grown to be as civil as any other dust.
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you wrong us, seanchan. there is none here but holds you in respect; and if you’d only eat out of this dish, the king would show how much he honours you.
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who could imagine you’d so take to heart being put from the high table? i am certain that you, if you will only think it over, will understand that it is men of law, leaders of the king’s armies, and the like, that should sit there.
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somebody has deceived you, or maybe it was your own eyes that lied, in making it appear that i was driven from the king’s table. you have driven away the images of them that weave a dance by the four rivers in the mountain garden.
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you mean we have driven poetry away. but that’s not altogether true, for i, as you should know, have written poetry. and often when the table has been cleared, and candles lighted, the king calls for me, and i repeat it him. my poetry is not to be compared with yours; but still, where i am honoured, poetry is honoured— in some measure.
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if you are a poet, cry out that the king’s money would not buy, nor the high circle consecrate his head, if poets had never christened gold, and even the moon’s poor daughter, that most whey-faced metal, precious; and cry out that none alive would ride among the arrows with high heart, or scatter with an open hand, had not our heady craft commended wasteful virtues. and when that story’s finished, shake your coat where little jewels gleam on it, and say, a herdsman, sitting where the pigs had trampled, made up a song about enchanted kings, who were so finely dressed, one fancied them all fiery, and women by the churn and children by the hearth caught up the song and murmured it, until the tailors heard it.
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if you would but eat something you’d find out that you have had these thoughts from lack of food, for hunger makes us feverish.
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cry aloud, that when we are driven out we come again like a great wind that runs out of the waste to blow the tables flat; and thereupon lie down upon the threshold till the king restore to us the ancient right of the poets.
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you cannot shake him. i will to the king, and offer him consolation in his trouble, for that man there has set his teeth to die. and being one that hates obedience, discipline, and orderliness of life, i cannot mourn him.
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what folly’s this?
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well, if you did not do it, speak to him— use your authority; make him obey you. what harm is there in dancing?
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hush! begone! go to the fields and watch the hurley players, or any other place you have a mind to. this is not woman’s work.
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come! let’s away! we can do nothing here.
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the pride of the poets! dancing, hurling, the country full of noise, and king and church neglected. seanchan, i’ll take my leave, for you are perishing like all that let the wanton imagination carry them where it will, and it’s not likely i’ll look upon your living face again.
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come nearer, nearer!
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have you some last wish?
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stoop down, for i would whisper it in your ear. has that wild god of yours, that was so wild when you’d but lately taken the king’s pay, grown any tamer? he gave you all much trouble.
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let go my habit!
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have you persuaded him to chirp between two dishes when the king sits down to table?
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let go my habit, sir!
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and maybe he has learnt to sing quite softly because loud singing would disturb the king, who is sitting drowsily among his friends after the table has been cleared. not yet!
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you did not think that hands so full of hunger could hold you tightly. they are not civil yet. i’d know if you have taught him to eat bread from the king’s hand, and perch upon his finger. i think he perches on the king’s strong hand. but it may be that he is still too wild. you must not weary in your work; a king is often weary, and he needs a god to be a comfort to him.
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a little god, with comfortable feathers, and bright eyes.
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there will be no more dancing in our time, for nobody will play the harp or the fiddle. let us away, for we cannot amend it, and watch the hurley.
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hush! he is looking at us.
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yes, yes, go to the hurley, go to the hurley, go to the hurley! gather up your skirts— run quickly! you can remember many love songs; i know it by the light that’s in your eyes— but you’ll forget them. you’re fair to look upon. your feet delight in dancing, and your mouths in the slow smiling that awakens love. the mothers that have borne you mated rightly. they’d little ears as thirsty as your ears for many love songs. go to the young men. are not the ruddy flesh and the thin flanks and the broad shoulders worthy of desire? go from me! here is nothing for your eyes. but it is i that am singing you away— singing you to the young men.
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be quiet! look who it is has come out of the house. princesses, we are for the hurling field. will you go there?
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we will go with you, aileen. but we must have some words with seanchan, for we have come to make him eat and drink.
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i will hold out the dish and cup for him while you are speaking to him of his folly, if you desire it, princess.
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they are so gracious; the dear little princesses are so gracious.
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although she is holding out her hand to him, he will not kiss it.
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my father bids us say that, though he cannot have you at his table, you may ask any other thing you like and he will give it you. we carry you with our own hands a dish and cup of wine.
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o, look! he has taken it! he has taken it! the dear princesses! i have always said that nobody could refuse them anything.
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o long, soft fingers and pale finger-tips, well worthy to be laid in a king’s hand! o, you have fair white hands, for it is certain there is uncommon whiteness in these hands. but there is something comes into my mind, princess. a little while before your birth, i saw your mother sitting by the road in a high chair; and when a leper passed, she pointed him the way into the town. he lifted up his hand and blessed her hand— i saw it with my own eyes. hold out your hands; i will find out if they are contaminated, for it has come into my thoughts that maybe the king has sent me food and drink by hands that are contaminated. i would see all your hands. you’ve eyes of dancers; but hold out your hands, for it may be there are none sound among you.
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he has called us lepers.
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he’s out of his mind, and does not know the meaning of what he said.
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there’s no sound hand among you—no sound hand. away with you! away with all of you! you are all lepers! there is leprosy among the plates and dishes that you have carried. and wherefore have you brought me leper’s wine?
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there, there! i have given it to you again. and now begone, or i will give my curse to you. you have the leper’s blessing, but you think maybe the bread will something lack in savour unless you mix my curse into the dough.
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where did i say the leprosy had come from? i said it came out of a leper’s hand,
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and that he walked the highway. but that’s folly, for he was walking up there in the sky. and there he is even now, with his white hand thrust out of the blue air, and blessing them with leprosy.
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he’s pointing at the moon that’s coming out up yonder, and he calls it leprous, because the daylight whitens it.
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he’s holding up his hand above them all— king, noblemen, princesses—blessing all. who could imagine he’d have so much patience?
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come out of this!
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if you don’t need it, sir, may we not carry some of it away?
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who’s speaking? who are you?
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come out of this!
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have pity on us, that must beg our bread from table to table throughout the entire world, and yet be hungry.
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but why were you born crooked? what bad poet did your mothers listen to that you were born so crooked?
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come away! maybe he’s cursed the food, and it might kill us.
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yes, better come away.
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he has great strength and great patience to hold his right hand there, uplifted, and not wavering about. he is much stronger than i am, much stronger.
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say nothing! i will get him out of this before i have said a word of food and drink; for while he is on this threshold and can hear, it may be, the voices that made mock of him, he would not listen. i’d be alone with him.
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can you not hear me, seanchan? it is myself.
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is this your hand, fedelm? i have been looking at another hand that is up yonder.
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i have come for you.
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fedelm, i did not know that you were here.
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and can you not remember that i promised that i would come and take you home with me when i’d the harvest in? and now i’ve come, and you must come away, and come on the instant.
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yes, i will come. but is the harvest in? this air has got a summer taste in it.
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but is not the wild middle of the summer a better time to marry? come with me now!
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who taught you that? for it’s a certainty, although i never knew it till last night, that marriage, because it is the height of life, can only be accomplished to the full in the high days of the year. i lay awake: there had come a frenzy into the light of the stars, and they were coming nearer, and i knew all in a minute they were about to marry clods out upon the ploughlands, to beget a mightier race than any that has been. but some that are within there made a noise, and frighted them away.
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come with me now! we have far to go, and daylight’s running out.
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the stars had come so near me that i caught their singing. it was praise of that great race that would be haughty, mirthful, and white-bodied, with a high head, and open hand, and how, laughing, it would take the mastery of the world.
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but you will tell me all about their songs when we’re at home. you have need of rest and care, and i can give them you when we’re at home. and therefore let us hurry, and get us home.
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come with me now, and i will send for them, for i have a great room that’s full of beds i can make ready; and there is a smooth lawn where they can play at hurley and sing poems under an apple-tree.
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i know that place: an apple-tree, and a smooth level lawn where the young men can sway their hurley sticks.
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the four rivers that run there, through well-mown level ground, have come out of a blessed well that is all bound and wound by the great roots of an apple, and all the fowl of the air have gathered in the wide branches and keep singing there.
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no, there are not four rivers, and those rhymes praise adam’s paradise.
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i can remember now, it’s out of a poem i made long ago about the garden in the east of the world, and how spirits in the images of birds crowd in the branches of old adam’s crabtree. they come before me now, and dig in the fruit with so much gluttony, and are so drunk with that harsh wholesome savour, that their feathers are clinging one to another with the juice. but you would lead me to some friendly place, and i would go there quickly.
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come with me.
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he walks slowly, supported by her, till he comes to table.
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but why am i so weak? have i been ill? sweetheart, why is it that i am so weak?
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i’ll dip this piece of bread into the wine, for that will make you stronger for the journey.
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yes, give me bread and wine; that’s what i want, for it is hunger that is gnawing me.
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but, no; i must not eat it.
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eat, seanchan. for if you do not eat it you will die.
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why did you give me food? why did you come? for had i not enough to fight against without your coming?
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eat this little crust, seanchan, if you have any love for me.
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i must not eat it—but that’s beyond your wit. child! child! i must not eat it, though i die.
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you do not know what love is; for if you loved, you would put every other thought away. but you have never loved me.
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you, a child, who have but seen a man out of the window, tell me that i know nothing about love, and that i do not love you! did i not say there was a frenzy in the light of the stars all through the livelong night, and that the night was full of marriages? but that fight’s over, and all that’s done with, and i have to die.
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i will not be put from you, although i think i had not grudged it you if some great lady, if the king’s daughter, had set out your bed. i will not give you up to death; no, no! and are not these white arms and this soft neck better than the brown earth?
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begone from me! there’s treachery in those arms and in that voice. they’re all against me. why do you linger there? how long must i endure the sight of you?
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o, seanchan! seanchan!
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go where you will, so it be out of sight and out of mind. i cast you from me like an old torn cap, a broken shoe, a glove without a finger, a crooked penny; whatever is most worthless.
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o, do not drive me from you!
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what did i say, my dove of the woods? i was about to curse you. it was a frenzy. i’ll unsay it all. but you must go away.
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let me be near you. i will obey like any married wife. let me but lie before your feet.
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if i had eaten when you bid me, sweetheart, the kiss of multitudes in times to come had been the poorer.
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has he eaten yet?
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no, king, and will not till you have restored the right of the poets.
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seanchan, you have refused low, insolent laughter.
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maria was at her door instantly. across the court, a man could be seen for one moment, seated on serena’s wash-bench; then behind him the door closed with a bang, shutting off the shaft of firelight.
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“what yuh doin’ hyuh?” she asked him.
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“jus’ droppin’ in on a few ole frien’.”
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“come tuh de shop,” she commanded. “i gots tuh hab talk wid yuh.”
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he arose obediently, and followed her.
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maria turned up the lamp and faced about as crown entered the room. he had to bend his head to pass under the lintel, and his shoulders brushed the sides of the opening.
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the big negress stood for a long moment looking at him. her gaze took in the straight legs with their springing thighs straining the fabric of the cotton pants, the slender waist, and the almost unbelievable outward flare of the chest to the high, straight span of the shoulders.
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a look of deep sadness grew in her somber face.
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“wid uh body like dat!” she said at last, “why yuh is goin’ aroun’ huntin’ fuh deat’?”
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crown laughed uneasily, stepped into the room, and sat at a table. he placed his elbows upon it, hunched his shoulders forward with a writhing of muscle beneath the shirt, then dropped his chin in his hands, and regarded the woman.
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“i know dese hyuh niggers,” he replied. “dey is a decent lot. dey wouldn’t gib no nigger away tuh de w’ite folks.”
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“dat de gawd’ trut’. only dey is odder way ob settlin’ up er debt.”
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“serena?” he asked, with a sidelong look, and a laugh. “dat sister gots de fear ob gawd in she heart. i ain’t ’fraid none ob she.”
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after a moment of silence he asked abruptly:
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“bess still libbin’ wid de cripple?”
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“yes; an’ she a happy, decent ’oman. yuh bes’ leabe she alone.”
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“fer gawd’ sake! wut yuh tink i come tuh dis damn town fuh? i ain’t jus’ huntin’ fuh deat’! i atter my ’oman.”
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maria placed her hands on the table opposite the man and bent over to look into his face.
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“’oman is all berry much de same,” she said in a low, persuasive voice. “dey comes an’ dey goes. one sattify a man quick as annuduh. dey is lots ob bettuh lookin’ gal dan bess. she fix fuh life now wid dat boy. i ax yuh go an’ lef she. gib she uh chance.”
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“it tek long time tuh learn one ’oman,” he said slowly. “me an’ bess done fight dat all out dese fibe year gone.”
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“yuh ain’t goin’ leabe she den?” there was an unusual note of pleading in the heavy voice.
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“not till hell freeze.”
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after a moment he arose and turned to her.
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“i gots tuh go out now. i ain’t sho’ wedder i goin’ away tuhnight or wait fuh tuhmorruh night. i goin’ look aroun’ an’ see how de lan’ lay; but i’ll be seein’ yuh agin befo’ i goes.”
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maria regarded him for a long moment; the look of sadness in her face deepened to a heavy melancholy; but she said nothing.
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crown started for the street with his long, swaggering stride. the big woman watched him until he turned to the north at the entrance and passed from view. then she locked the door and, with a deep sigh, walked to her own room.
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porgy was lying on his back. he reached his left hand over the covers and let the fingers touch ever so lightly the sleeping faces of first the baby, then the woman. his right hand slid beneath his pillow, and his strong, slender fingers closed about the handle of a knife.
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at the window the slight, testing noise continued.
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it was certainly after midnight when maria looked from her doorway; for the moon was tottering on the western wall, and while she stood looking, slowly it dropped over and vanished.
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the vague forebodings that she had felt when she talked to crown earlier in the evening had kept sleep from her; with each passing hour her fears increased, and with them a sense of imminence that finally forced her to get up, slip on a wrapper, and prepare to make the rounds of the court.
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but on opening her door, she was at once reassured. the square stood before her like a vast cistern brimmed with misty dark and roofed with a lid of sky. a cur grovelled forward on its belly from a near-by nook, and licked one of her bare feet with its moist, warm tongue.
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above her, in the huge honeycomb of the building, someone was snoring in a slow, steady rhythm.
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the big negress drew a deep sigh of relief and turned back toward her room.
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a sound of cracking wood snapped the silence. then, like a flurry of small bells, came a shiver of broken glass on the stones.
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maria spun around, and tried to locate the sound; but no noise followed. silence flowed back over the court and settled palpably into its recesses. the faint, not unpleasant rhythm of the snoring came insistently forward.
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when her hand closed over the knob all was silent again, except that she could hear a long, slightly shuddering breath.
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then came a sound that caused her flesh to prickle with primal terror. it was so unexpected, there in the chill, silent night. it was porgy’s laugh, but different. out of the stillness it swelled suddenly, deep, aboriginal, lustful. then it stopped short.
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maria heard the baby cry out; then bess’s voice, sleepy and mystified. “fuh gawd’ sake, porgy, what yuh laughin’ ’bout?”
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“dat all right, honey,” came the answer. “don’t yuh be worryin’. yuh gots porgy now, an’ he look atter he ’oman. ain’t i done tells yuh: yuh gots er man now.”
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maria turned the knob, entered the room, and closed the door quickly behind her.
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night trailed westward across the city. in the east, out beyond the ocean’s rim, essential light trembled upward and seemed to absorb rather than quench the morning stars. out of the sliding planes of mist that hung like spent breath above the city, shapes began to emerge and assume their proper values.
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far in the upper air over catfish row a speck appeared. it took a long, descending spiral, and became two, then three. around a wide circle the specks swung, as though hung by wires from a lofty pivot. the light brightened perceptibly. the specks dropped to a lower level, increased in size, and miraculously became a dozen. then some of them dropped in from the circumference of the circle, cutting lines across like the spokes of a wheel, and from time to time flapping indolent wings. dark and menacing when they flew to the westward, they would turn easily toward the east, and the sun, still below the horizon, would gild their bodies with ruddy gold, as they sailed, breast on, toward it.
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down, down they dropped, reaching low, and yet lower levels, until at last they seemed to brush the water-front buildings with their sombre wings. then gradually they narrowed to a small circle that patrolled the air directly over a shape that lay awash in the rising tide, across the street from catfish row.
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a negro who had been sleeping under an overturned bateau awoke and rubbed his eyes; then he sprang up and, seizing an oar, beat the birds away with savage blows.
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he bent over the object for a moment, then turned and raced for the street with eyes showing white.
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“fuh gawd’ sake, folks,” he cried, “come hyuh quick! hyuh crown, an’ he done dead.”
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a group of three white men stood over the body. one was the plain-clothes man with the goatee and stick who had investigated the robbins’ murder. behind him stood a uniformed policeman. the third, a stout, leisurely individual, was stooping over the body, in the act of making an examination.
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“what do you make of it, coroner?” asked the plain-clothes man.
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“knife between fifth and sixth ribs; must have gone straight through the heart.”
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“well, he had it comin’ to him,” the detective observed. “they tell me he is the nigger, crown, who killed robbins last april. that gives us the widow to work on fer a starter, by the way; and hennessy tells me that he used to run with that dope case we had up last august. she’s livin’ in the row, too. let’s go over and have a look.”
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the coroner cast an apprehensive glance at the forbidding structure across the way.
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“well, i’m goin’ to have a look at those two women, anyway,” the plain-clothes man announced. “that place is alive with crooks. i’d like to get something on it that would justify closing it up as a public nuisance, and throwing the whole lot of ’em out in the street. one murder and a happy-dust riot already this summer; and here we are again.”
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then turning to the policeman, he gave his orders.
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“get the wagon and take the body in. then you had better come right back. we might have some arrests. the coroner and i’ll investigate while you’re gone.”
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he turned away toward the row, assuming that he would be followed.
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“all right, cap; what do you say?” he called.
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the coroner shook his ponderous figure down into his clothes, turned with evident reluctance, and joined him.
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“all right,” he agreed. “but all i need is a couple of witnesses to identify the body at the inquest.”
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across the street a small negro boy detached himself from the base of one of the gateposts and darted through the entrance.
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a moment later the white men strode into an absolutely empty square. their heels made a sharp sound on the flags, and the walls threw a clear echo down upon them.
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a cur that had been left napping in the sun woke with a start, looked about in a bewildered fashion, gave a frightened yelp, and bolted through a doorway.
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it was all clearly not to the taste of the coroner, and he cast an uneasy glance about him.
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“where do we go?” he asked.
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“that’s the widow’s room over there, if she hasn’t moved. we’ll give it a look first,” said the detective.
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the door was off the latch, and, without knocking, he kicked it open and walked in.
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the room was small, but immaculately clean. beneath a patched white quilt could be seen the form of a woman. two other women were sitting in utter silence beside the bed.
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the form under the covers moaned.
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“drop that,” the detective commanded. “and answer some questions.”
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the moaning stopped.
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“where were you yesterday and last night?”
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the reply came slowly, as though speaking were great pain.
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“i been sick in dis bed now t’ree day an’ night.”
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“we been settin’ wid she, nursin’ she, all dat time,” one of the women said.
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and the other supplemented, “dat de gawd’ trut’.”
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“you would swear to that?” asked the coroner.
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three voices answered in chorus:
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“yes, boss, we swear tuh dat.”
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“there you are,” said the coroner to the plain-clothes man, “an air-tight alibi.”
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the detective regarded him for a moment with supreme contempt. then he stepped forward and jerked the sheet from serena’s face, which lay upon the pillow as immobile as a model done in brown clay.
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“you know damn well that you were out yesterday!” he snapped. “i have a good mind to get the wagon and carry you in.”
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“what do you say to that?” he demanded.
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but serena had nothing to say, and neither had her handmaidens.
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then he turned a menacing frown upon them, as they sat motionless with lowered eyes.
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they jumped slightly, and their eyes showed white around the iris. suddenly they began to speak, almost in unison.
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“we swear tuh gawd, we done been hyuh wid she t’ree day.”
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“oh, hell!” said the exasperated detective. “what’s the use? you might as well argue with a parrot-cage.”
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“that woman is just as ill at this moment as you are,” he said to his unenthusiastic associate when they were again in the sunlight. “her little burlesque show proves that, if nothing else. but there is her case all prepared. i don’t believe she killed crown; she doesn’t look like that kind. she is either just playing safe, or she has something entirely different on her chest. but there’s her story; and you’ll never break in without witnesses of your own; and you’ll never get ’em.”
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the coroner was not a highly sensitized individual; but as he moved across the empty court, he found it difficult to control his nerves under the scrutiny which he felt leveled upon him from behind a hundred shuttered windows. twice he caught himself looking covertly over his shoulders; and, as he went, he bore hopefully away toward the entrance.
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but the detective was intent upon his task, and presently called him back.
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“this is the cripple’s room,” he said. “he ain’t much of a witness. i tried to break him in the robbins case; but he wouldn’t talk. i want to have a look at the woman, though.”
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he kicked the door open suddenly. porgy and bess were seated by the stove, eating breakfast from tin pans. on the bed in the corner the baby lay.
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the coroner stopped in the doorway, and made a businesslike show of writing in a notebook.
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“what’s your name?” he asked porgy.
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the cripple studied him for a long moment, taking in the ample proportions of the figure and the heavy, but not unsympathetic, face. then he smiled one of his fleeting, ingenuous smiles.
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“jus’ porgy,” he said. “yuh knows me, boss. yuh is done gib me plenty ob penny on king charles street.”
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“of course, you’re the goat-man. i didn’t know you without your wagon,” he said amiably. then, becoming businesslike, he asked:
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“this nigger, crown. you knew him by sight. didn’t you?”
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porgy debated with himself for a moment, looked again into the coroner’s face, was reassured by what he saw there, and replied:
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“yes, boss: i ’member um w’en he usen tuh come hyuh, long ago.”
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“you could identify him, i suppose?”
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porgy looked blank.
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“you’d know him if you saw him again?”
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“yes, boss; i know um.”
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the coroner made a note in his book, closed it with an air of finality, and put it in his pocket.
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during the brief interview, the detective had been making an examination of the room. the floor had been recently scrubbed, and was still damp in the corners. he gave the clean, pine boards a close scrutiny, then paused before the window. the bottom of the lower sash had been broken, and several of the small, square panes were missing.
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“so this is where you killed crown, eh?” he announced.
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the words fell into the silence and were absorbed by it, causing them to seem theatrical and unconvincing. neither porgy nor bess spoke. their faces were blank and noncommittal.
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after a full moment, the woman said:
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“i ain’t onduhstan’, boss. nobody hyuh ain’t kill crown. my husban’ he fall t’rough dat winduh yisterday when he leg gib ’way. he er cripple.”
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“any one see him do it?” enquired the coroner from the door.
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“oh, yes, boss,” replied bess, turning to him. “t’ree or four ob de mens was in de street; dey will tell yuh all ’bout um.”
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“yes, of course; more witnesses,” sneered the detective. then turning to the coroner, he asked with a trace of sarcasm in his tone:
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“that satisfies you fully, i suppose?”
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the coroner’s nerves were becoming edgy.
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“for god’s sake,” he retorted, “do you expect me to believe that a cripple could kill a two-hundred pound buck, then tote him a hundred yards? well, i’ve got what i need now anyway. as far as i’m concerned, i’m through.”
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they were passing the door of maria’s shop when the detective caught sight of something within that held his gaze.
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“you can do as you please,” he told his unwilling companion. “but i’m going to have a look in here. i have never been able to get anything on this woman; but she is a bad influence in the neighborhood. i’d trust her just as far as i could throw her.”
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upon the flooring, directly before the door, and not far from it, was a pool of blood. standing over the pool was a table, and upon it lay the carcass of a shark. maria sat on a bench behind the table. as the men entered she swung an immense cleaver downward. a cross-section of the shark detached itself and fell away on a pile of similar slices. a thin stream of blood dribbled from the table, augmenting the pool upon the floor.
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maria did not raise her eyes from her task. again the cleaver swung up, and whistled downward.
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from the street sounded the clatter of the returning patrol.
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“i’ll wait for you in the wagon,” said the coroner hastily, and stepped back into the sunlight.
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but he was not long alone. the uninterrupted swing of the dripping cleaver was depressing, and the enthusiasm of his associate waned.
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the bell clanged. hoofs struck sparks from the cobbles, and the strong but uncertain arm of the law was withdrawn, to attend to other and more congenial business.
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the sound from the retreating wagon dwindled and ceased.
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for a moment catfish row held its breath; then its windows and doors flew open, and poured its life out into the incomparable autumn weather. the crisis had passed. there had been no arrests.
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serena stepped forth, her arms filled with the morning’s wash.
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“‘ain’t it hahd tuh be er nigger!’” someone sang in a loud, clear voice. and everybody laughed.
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down the street, like an approaching freight train, came the drays, jarring the building and rattling the windows, as the heavy tires rang against the cobbles.
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bess and porgy came out with the others, and seated themselves against the wall in the gracious sunlight. of the life, yet apart from it, sufficient unto each other, they did not join in the loud talk and badinage that was going on about them. like people who had come on a long, dark journey, they were content to sit, and breathe deeply of the sun. the baby was sleeping in bess’s arms, and from time to time she would sing a stave to it in a soft, husky voice.
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into the court strode a group of stevedores. their strong white teeth flashed in the sunshine, and their big, panther-like bodies moved easily among the women and children that crowded about them.
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“wey all de gals?” called one in a loud, resonant voice. “mus’ be dey ain’t know dat dis is pay-day.”
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two women who were sitting near porgy and bess rose and went forward, with their arms twined about each other’s waists. in a few minutes they were out of the crowd again, each looking up with admiring eyes into the face of one of the men.
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“mens an’ ’omans ain’t de same,” said porgy. “one mont’ ago dem gals been libbin’ wid dey own mens. den de storm tek um. now dey is fuhgit um a’ready, an’ gibbin’ dey lub tuh de nex’.”
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“no; dey is diff’rent fuh true,” replied bess. “an’ yuh won’t nebber onduhstan’. all two dem gal gots baby fuh keep alibe.” she heaved a deep sigh; and then added, “dey is jus’ ’oman, an’ nigger at dat. dey is doin’ de bes’ dey kin--dat all.”
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she was looking down at the baby while she spoke, and when she raised her eyes and looked at porgy, he saw that they were full of tears.
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“but you, bess; you is diff’rent f’om dat?” he said, with a gently interrogating note in his voice.
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“dat ’cause gawd ain’t mek but one porgy!” she told him. “any ’oman gots tuh be decent wid you. but i gots fuh tell yuh de trut’, widout porgy i is jus’ like de res’.”
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a shadow drifted across their laps, and they lifted their faces to the sky.
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a solitary buzzard had left the circle that had hung high in the air all morning, and was swinging back and forth over the row, almost brushing the parapet of the roof as it passed. while porgy and bess looked, it suddenly raised the points of its wings, reached tentative legs downward, spread its feet wide, and lit on the edge of the roof directly over their room.
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“my gawd!” exclaimed maria, who was standing near. “crown done sen’ he buzzud back fuh bring trouble. knock um off, porgy. fer gawd’ sake, knock um off befo’ he settle!”
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the cripple reached out and picked up a brick-bat. the happiness had left his face, and his eyes were filled with fear. with a swing of his long, powerful arm, he sent the missile on its errand.
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it struck the parapet directly beneath the bird.
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with a spasmodic flap of wings, the black body lifted itself a few feet from the building, then settled suddenly back. for a moment it hopped awkwardly about, as though the roof were red hot beneath its feet, then folded its wings, drew its nude head in upon its breast, and surveyed the court with its aloof, malevolent eyes.
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“t’row agin,” maria called, handing porgy another brick-bat. but he seemed not to hear. his face quivered, and he hid it in his hands.
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“sonny,” the big negress called to a small boy who was standing near, looking at the bird with his mouth open. “git out on de roof wid uh stick, an’ run dat bird away.”
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but porgy plucked at her skirt, and she looked down.
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“let um be,” he said in a hopeless voice. “it too late now. ain’t yuh see he done settle, an’ he pick my room fuh light ober? it ain’t no use now. yuh knows dat. it ain’t no use.”
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the next morning porgy sat in his accustomed place by archdale’s door. autumn had touched the oaks in the park across the way, and they brushed the hard, bright sky with a slow circling motion, and tossed handfuls of yellow leaves down upon the pedestrians who stepped briskly along.
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king charles street was full of hurrying men on their way to the cotton offices and the big wholesale warehouses that fronted on the wharves. like the artery of a hale old man who has lain long asleep, but who wakens suddenly and springs into a race, the broad thoroughfare seemed to pound and sing with life.
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the town was in a generous mood. again and again the bottom of porgy’s cup gave forth its sharp, grateful click as a coin struck it and settled. but the cripple had not even his slow glance of thanks for his benefactors on that flashing autumn morning. always he kept veiled, apprehensive eyes directed either up or down the street, or lifted frightened glances to the sky, as though fearing what he might see there.
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at noon a white man stopped before him. but he did not drop a coin and pass on.
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the white man reached forward, and handed him a paper.
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“dat fuh me?” asked porgy, in a voice that shook.
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“you needn’t mind takin’ it,” the man assured him with a laugh. “it’s just a summons as witness to the coroner’s inquest. you knew that nigger, crown, didn’t you?”
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he evidently took porgy’s silence for assent, for he went on.
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“well, all you got to do is to view the body in the presence of the coroner, tell him who it is, and he’ll take down all you say.”
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porgy essayed speech, failed, tried again, and finally whispered:
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“i gots tuh go an’ look on crown’ face wid all dem w’ite folks lookin’ at me. dat it?”
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his voice was so piteous that the constable reassured him:
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“oh, cheer up; it’s not so bad. i reckon you’ve seen a dead nigger before this. it will all be over in a few minutes.”
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“dey ain’t goin’ be no nigger in dat room ’cept me?” porgy asked.
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“just you and crown, if you still call him one.”
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after a moment porgy asked:
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“i couldn’t jus’ bring a ’oman wid me? i couldn’t eben carry my--my ’oman?”
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“no,” said the white man positively. “now i’ve got to be gettin’ along, i reckon. just come over to the court house in half an hour, and i’ll meet you and take you in. only be sure to come. if you don’t show up it’s jail for you, you know.”
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for a moment after the man had gone, porgy sat immovable, with his eyes on the pavement. then a sudden change swept over him. he cast one glance up and down the hard, clean street, walled by its uncompromising, many-eyed buildings. then in a panic he clambered into his cart, gave a cruel twist to the tail of his astonished goat, and commenced a spasmodic, shambling race up meeting house road in the direction in which he knew that, miles away, the forests lay.
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to many, the scene which ensued on the upper meeting house road stands out as an exquisitely humorous episode, to be told and retold with touching up of high lights and artistic embellishments. to these, in the eyes of whom the negro is wholly humorous, per se, there was not the omission of a single conventional and readily recognizable stage property.
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for, after all, what could have been funnier than an entirely serious race between a negro in a dilapidated goat-cart, and the municipality’s shining new patrol wagon, fully officered and clanging its bell for the crowds to hear as it came.
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the finish took place in the vicinity of the railway yards and factories, and the street was filled with workmen who smoked against the walls, or ate their lunch, sitting at the pavement’s edge--grand-stand seats, as they were quite accurately described in the telling.
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the street cars ran seldom that far out; and porgy had the thoroughfare almost entirely to himself. his face wore a demented look, and was working pitifully. in his panic, he wrung the tail of his unfortunate beast without mercy. the lunchers along the pavement saw him coming, and called to friends further along; so that as he came, he was greeted with shouts of laughter and witty sallies from the crowd.
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then the wagon appeared, a mere speck in the distance, but sending the sound of its bell before it as an advertisement of its presence. it grew rapidly until it reached the cheering crowds. then it seemed that even the sedate officers of the law were not above a sly humor of their own, for the vehicle slackened its pace perceptibly and prolonged the final moment of capture.
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the big buildings had been left behind, and there lay before porgy only the scattered, cheap bungalows of the labor quarters; and beyond, as elusive and desirable as the white man’s heaven, glimmered the far line of the woods, misty and beautiful in the pink autumn haze.
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porgy fell forward, with his arms thrown out upon the back of the goat, and buried his face between them in the shaggy, evil-smelling hair.
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the workmen upon the sidewalks cheered and shouted with mirth. surely it had been a great day. they would not soon have another laugh to match it.
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when the wagon reached the down-town district, the inquest was over. it had been a simple matter to secure another witness for the identification of the body. the jury had made short work of their task, and had found that crown had come to his death as the result of a chest wound at the hands of person or persons unknown.
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porgy was taken at once to the station house, where the charge of “contempt of court” was formally entered against him on the blotter, and he was locked up to await trial early the following morning.
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under the wheezing gas jet, the recorder looked porgy over with his weary glance, brought the tips of his slender fingers together; gave him “five days,” in his tired drawl, and raised his eyes to the next negro on the morning’s list.
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they hoisted the outfit, goat and all, into the patrol for the trip to the jail, thus again brightening a day for a group of light-hearted nordics upon the pavement.
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a large, red-faced policeman took his seat at the rear of the wagon.
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“you sure beat all!” he confided to porgy, with a puzzled frown. “runnin’ away like the devil was after you, from bein’ a witness; an’ now goin’ to jail with a face like sunday mornin’.”
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in the fresh beauty of an early october morning, porgy returned home. there were few of his friends about, as work was now plentiful, and most of those who could earn a day’s wage were up and out. he drove through the entrance, pulled his goat up short, and looked about him.
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serena was seated on her bench with a baby in her arms.
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porgy gave her a long look, and a question commenced to dawn in his eyes. the child turned in her arms, and his suspicions were confirmed. it was his baby--his and bess’s.
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then serena looked up and saw him. she arose in great confusion, clasped the infant to her ample bosom, and, without a word of greeting, stepped through her doorway. then, as though struck by an afterthought, she turned, thrust her head back through the opening, and called loudly:
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“oh, maria! hyuh porgy come home.”
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then she disappeared and the door slammed shut.
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mystified and filled with alarm, porgy turned his vehicle toward the cook-shop and arrived at the door just as maria stepped over the threshold.
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she seated herself on the sill and brought her face level with his. then she looked into his eyes.
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what porgy saw there caused him to call out sharply:
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“where’s bess? tell me, quick, where’s bess?”
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the big negress did not answer, and after a moment her ponderous face commenced to shake.
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porgy beat the side of his wagon with his fist.
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“where, where--” he began, in a voice that was suddenly shrill.
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but maria placed a steadying hand over his frantic one and held it still.
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“dem dutty dogs got she one day w’en i gone out,” she said in a low, shaken voice. “she been missin’ yuh an’ berry low in she min’ ’cause she can’t fin’ out how long yuh is lock up fuh. dat damn houn’ she knock off de wharf las’ summer fin’ she like dat an’ git she tuh tek er swalluh ob licker. den half a dozen of de mens gang she, an’ mek she drunk.”
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“but wuh she now?” porgy cried. “i ain’t keer ef she wuz drunk. i want she now.”
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maria tried to speak, but her voice refused to do her bidding. she covered her face with her hands, and her throat worked convulsively.
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porgy clutched her wrist. “tell me,” he commanded. “tell me, now.”
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“de mens all carry she away on de ribber boat,” she sobbed. “dey leabe word fuh me dat dey goin’ tek she all de way tuh sawannah, an’ keep she dey. den serena, she tek de chile, an’ say she is goin’ gib um er christian raisin’.”
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deep sobs stopped maria’s voice. for a while she sat there, her face buried in her hands. but porgy had nothing to say. when she finally raised her head and looked at him, she was surprised at what she saw.
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the keen autumn sun flooded boldly through the entrance and bathed the drooping form of the goat, the ridiculous wagon, and the bent figure of the man in hard, satirical radiance. in its revealing light, maria saw that porgy was an old man. the early tension that had characterized him, the mellow mood that he had known for one eventful summer, both had gone; and in their place she saw a face sagged wearily, and the eyes of age lit only by a faint reminiscent glow from suns and moons that had looked into them, and had already dropped down the west.
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she looked until she could bear the sight no longer; then she stumbled into her shop and closed the door, leaving porgy and the goat alone in an irony of morning sunlight.
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the runaway bunny
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books by laura rountree smith
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bear and bunny book, the bunny boy and grizzly bear bunny bright eyes bunny cotton-tail junior candy-shop cotton-tails, the children’s favorite stories circus book, the circus cotton-tails, the cotton-tail first reader, the cotton-tail primer, the cotton-tails in toyland, the drills and plays for patriotic days games and plays hawk-eye, an indian story reader language lessons from every land little bear little eskimo merry little cotton-tails, the mother goose stories primary song book roly-poly book, the runaway bunny, the seventeen little bears snubby nose and tippy toes tale of bunny cotton-tail, the three little cotton-tails
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published by a. flanagan company chicago
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the runaway bunny
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laura rountree smith
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illustrated by dorothy dulin
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1923 a. flanagan company chicago
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copyright, 1923, by a. flanagan company.
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printed in the united states of america
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chapter i time to run away
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the runaway rabbit has formed the habit of running away, i see. oh, runaway rabbit, please form the habit of staying awhile with me.
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the runaway rabbit sat on the doorstep of his own little house, saying, “by my cottontail, it is time for me to run away!”
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he took out his little brown traveling bag and packed it full.
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he was in such a hurry to run away that he did not even stop to clear off his breakfast table. he did not even stop to wind his clock or lock his front door!
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hippety-hop, lippety-lop, he went down the path, carrying his little brown traveling bag.
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“where are you going?” asked the whistling wind.
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“where are you going?” asked the smiling sun.
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to them both, the runaway bunny replied:
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“oho! i’m happy to have such fun; it’s such a pleasure to run and run!”
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he did not tell anyone where he was going. many years ago he had made up his mind that some day he would run away and visit his grandparents.
he__<label>__PRON did__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT tell__<label>__VERB anyone__<label>__PRON where__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB going__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. many__<label>__NUM years__<label>__NOUN ago__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB made__<label>__VERB up__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON mind__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP some__<label>__PRON day__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON would__<label>__PRT run__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON and__<label>__CONJ visit__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON grandparents__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
now wasn’t it funny? at this very minute old mother bun was saying:
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“my old legs get so stiff; it’s funny! i wish i had a little bunny!”
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she wanted a little bunny to travel up and down the cellar stairs for her.
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at this very minute old father bun was saying:
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“i would pay a mint of money if i had a visiting bunny!”
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he wanted a little rabbit to bring in wood and water.
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suddenly, without any warning whatever, old mother bun took out her field glasses. and as she looked out of the window she remarked, “i think i see a little figure away over in the field coming this way very fast!”
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old father bun put his long ears close to the window to listen.
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he had wonderful hearing, and he said, “i think i hear the far-off patter, patter, patter of little feet. some one is coming. he should be here in five minutes.”
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father bun took out his watch and kept looking at it, while he went outdoors to wait. he had not long to wait, for the runaway bunny soon came in sight. he cried:
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“i’m the runaway bunny. i’ve come all the way to say, ‘how do you do?’ and wish you good day.”
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he set down his traveling bag and kissed his grandparents.
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old mother bun said, “you are our own dear grandson.”
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father bun said, “come right inside, my dear.”
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the runaway bunny was glad to sit down by the kitchen stove and eat cookies as fast as old mother bun took them out of the oven.
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now he had heard the old rabbits wishing before he had entered the house. so he went pitter, patter, clitter, clatter, down to the cellar and brought up a great green cabbage. he put it into a chopping bowl and chopped it up for dinner.
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then he went pitter, patter, clitter, clatter, down to the cellar and brought up many other good things.
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old mother bun said:
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“you are such a little treasure, to keep you here will be a pleasure.”
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at this the runaway bunny winked one eye; for he never stayed anywhere very long.
at__<label>__ADP this__<label>__DET the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN winked__<label>__VERB one__<label>__DET eye__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON never__<label>__PRON stayed__<label>__VERB anywhere__<label>__PRON very__<label>__DET long__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
he had formed the habit of running away.
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he next went with a hop and a skip and a bound, and brought in wood and water.
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old father bun was delighted. he said:
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“i swear, by my long and floppy ears, i will keep you here for years and years!”
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the runaway bunny looked cross-eyed; but he had a merry time all day.
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he said, “grandmother bun, what a fine pantry you have!” and “grandfather bun, what a fine garden you have! will you take me riding in your wheelbarrow?”
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when evening came he and his grandparents popped corn. and when it was bedtime the runaway bunny opened his traveling bag and brought out a brand new nightcap for old mother bun and a brand new pipe for old father bun.
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“we love you so, we’ll keep you, honey. please say you’ll live with us, little bunny.”
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the runaway bunny coughed politely and took his little brown traveling bag and went pitter, patter, clitter, clatter, upstairs.
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he put on his little white nightcap and night robe.
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old mother bun tucked him up snug and warm in bed, and old father bun sang:
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“tra, la, la, la! to sing’s a habit. pleasant dreams, dear little rabbit!”
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when the little fellow was asleep, old mother bun said:
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“i hope he will stay a year and a day, i think he forgot about running away.”
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old father bun remarked:
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“if he stays through one night, all will be well, but in rabbit land you never can tell.”
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in the morning the runaway bunny was gone!
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he left his little brown traveling bag, so it looked as though he intended to come back some time. he also left a polite note to thank his grandparents for their kindness.
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now if you really want to know where the runaway bunny will go, just take this book and read and read; you’ll have a lively time, indeed!
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chapter ii the hungry rabbit
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the runaway bunny went hippety-hop; he was hungry as could be. oh, runaway bunny, will you stop and take a bite with me?
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the runaway bunny took out his little toy watch and looked at it. and, though he could not tell time, he said, “my fur and cottontail! it seems to be time for something to eat.”
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he decided to ask the first animal he met for some breakfast.
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he went hopping and skipping along until he met pit-a-pat, the cat. he told her how very hungry he was.
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she said, “come home with me and i’ll give you a saucer of milk.”
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the runaway bunny replied:
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“i don’t drink milk, though you think it funny; i am a peculiar runaway bunny.”
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then he whispered to pit-a-pat that he wished he had stopped for old mother bun’s breakfast, and he went hopping down the path.
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pit-a-pat remarked, “i ought to have asked who mother bun is. i might want to know some day.”
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my, how hungry the runaway bunny was! by and by he met rough coat, the old tramp dog, and asked him for a tiny bite of breakfast.
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rough coat said, “if you come with me i will give you a fine bone i buried last week.”
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the runaway bunny bowed politely and said:
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“i can’t eat bones, though you think it funny; i am a peculiar runaway bunny.”
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“what are you running away for?” asked rough coat.
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but the little fellow was in too much of a hurry to stop to answer him. he could not forget how hungry he was.
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“the runaway bunny is sad, you see, for he is hungry as he can be.”
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a wise old owl in the tree overhead, who said his name was who-who, offered the rabbit a juicy bat.
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but the runaway bunny replied:
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“i can’t eat bats, though you think it funny; i am a peculiar runaway bunny.”
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he went on hippety-hop, hippety-hop, until he met old brother bear, who offered him a taste of honey.
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now old brother bear loved honey. so he was relieved when the runaway bunny replied:
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“i can’t eat honey, though you think it funny; i am a peculiar runaway bunny.”
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he went on his way, singing about old mother bun’s coffee and rolls and doughnuts.
he__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON way__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. singing__<label>__VERB about__<label>__ADP old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN coffee__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ rolls__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ doughnuts__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“oh, the best things to eat for a bunny on the run are the rolls and the doughnuts of our grandmother bun.”
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next he met foxy-lox, that sly old fellow! the runaway bunny fairly shouted:
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“my fur and whiskers! i have to shout, i’m so hungry i don’t know what i’m about.”
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foxy-lox crept up very, very close and whispered in the runaway bunny’s right ear:
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“hungry for carrots and everything nice, i can supply you in just a trice.”
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then foxy-lox, that crafty old fellow, crept up and whispered in the runaway bunny’s left ear:
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“hungry for cabbage and vegetables green, you’re the hungriest bunny i’ve ever seen.”
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no wonder the runaway bunny was hungry. no breakfast, no dinner, no supper!
no__<label>__DET wonder__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB hungry__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__. no__<label>__ADJ breakfast__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. no__<label>__ADJ dinner__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. no__<label>__ADJ supper__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__.
“come with me into my den, my children are little gentlemen.”
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the runaway bunny followed him, muttering:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN followed__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. muttering__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“at the home of good old mother bun, there are plenty of meals for everyone.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN at__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET home__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP good__<label>__ADJ old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. there__<label>__PRON are__<label>__VERB plenty__<label>__DET of__<label>__ADP meals__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP everyone__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
they went along until they came to the den.
they__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB along__<label>__VERB until__<label>__ADP they__<label>__PRON came__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET den__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
there was a table set with carrots and cabbage and tender green spring-flower shoots and everything else, in fact, that a hungry bunny would like to eat.
there__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET table__<label>__NOUN set__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP carrots__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ cabbage__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ tender__<label>__ADJ green__<label>__NOUN spring__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. flower__<label>__NOUN shoots__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ everything__<label>__PRON else__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. in__<label>__DET fact__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. that__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET hungry__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__PRT like__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT eat__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
sure enough, the six little foxy-loxies sat like little gentlemen round the table, waiting their turn to be served.
sure__<label>__ADJ enough__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET six__<label>__NUM little__<label>__ADJ foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. loxies__<label>__NOUN sat__<label>__VERB like__<label>__ADP little__<label>__ADJ gentlemen__<label>__NOUN round__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET table__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. waiting__<label>__VERB their__<label>__PRON turn__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB served__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
old foxy-lox invited the runaway bunny to eat a good square meal.
old__<label>__DET foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__CONJ invited__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT eat__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET good__<label>__ADJ square__<label>__NOUN meal__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
nodding his head in the direction of the visitor, he whispered to his little foxes:
nodding__<label>__CONJ his__<label>__PRON head__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET direction__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET visitor__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON whispered__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT his__<label>__PRON little__<label>__ADJ foxes__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“you will make a meal, ’tis true, then we’ll make a meal of you!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT make__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET meal__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. âĢĻ__<label>__VERB tis__<label>__DET true__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. then__<label>__PRON we__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT make__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET meal__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny had sharp ears. he began to twitch them nervously to and fro.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB sharp__<label>__ADJ ears__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON began__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT twitch__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON nervously__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT and__<label>__CONJ fro__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he could not hear what old foxy-lox was whispering about. but he thought the old fellow was up to some mischief. so he said:
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“i won’t eat cabbage, though you think it funny; i am a peculiar runaway bunny.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON won__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT eat__<label>__VERB cabbage__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. though__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON think__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON funny__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET peculiar__<label>__ADJ runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
then he looked at the carrots and said:
then__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON looked__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET carrots__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ said__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“i won’t eat carrots, though you think it funny; i am a peculiar runaway bunny.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON won__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT eat__<label>__VERB carrots__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. though__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON think__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON funny__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET peculiar__<label>__ADJ runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
then he waved his paw toward the table of tempting things.
then__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON waved__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON paw__<label>__NOUN toward__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET table__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP tempting__<label>__VERB things__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
and he shouted:
and__<label>__CONJ he__<label>__PRON shouted__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i won’t eat at all, though you think it funny; i am a peculiar runaway bunny.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON won__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT eat__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP all__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. though__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON think__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON funny__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET peculiar__<label>__ADJ runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
then he gave one bound and was out of the den before foxy-lox could wink an eyelash.
then__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON gave__<label>__VERB one__<label>__DET bound__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ was__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET den__<label>__NOUN before__<label>__ADP foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__VERB could__<label>__PRT wink__<label>__NOUN an__<label>__ADJ eyelash__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
his talkative little ticking watch made this remark:
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“we don’t care how hard the climb; friend bunny, you got out just in time!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN we__<label>__PRON don__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT care__<label>__VERB how__<label>__DET hard__<label>__ADJ the__<label>__DET climb__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. friend__<label>__NOUN bunny__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON got__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON just__<label>__PRON in__<label>__DET time__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny was thinking hard again, “no breakfast, no dinner, no supper!” he sat down on a log to think.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB thinking__<label>__VERB hard__<label>__ADJ again__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN no__<label>__ADJ breakfast__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. no__<label>__ADJ dinner__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. no__<label>__ADJ supper__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON sat__<label>__VERB down__<label>__PRON on__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET log__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT think__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
pitter, patter, clitter, clatter, came the sound of two little feet. and another bunny stood in the path before him.
pitter__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. patter__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. clitter__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. clatter__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. came__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET sound__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP two__<label>__NUM little__<label>__ADJ feet__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ another__<label>__DET bunny__<label>__NOUN stood__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET path__<label>__NOUN before__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
this new friend now said:
this__<label>__DET new__<label>__ADJ friend__<label>__NOUN now__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i went to the side show and took in money, so you may call me a wee circus bunny.”
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then he stood on his head and did several circus tricks, as cunning as could be. at any other time the runaway bunny would have laughed. but he only said mournfully:
then__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON stood__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON head__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ did__<label>__VERB several__<label>__NUM circus__<label>__ADJ tricks__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP cunning__<label>__VERB as__<label>__ADP could__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP any__<label>__PRON other__<label>__ADJ time__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__PRT have__<label>__VERB laughed__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON only__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB mournfully__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“the world is large, the world is wide, and i am empty quite—inside!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB large__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB wide__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB empty__<label>__ADJ quite__<label>__VERB âĢĶ__<label>__VERB inside__<label>__ADP !âĢĿ__<label>__.
the circus bunny said:
the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“we’re very near a garden plot, we shall find a good meal, like as not.”
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they went hippety-hop until they came to the garden. here they ate the tops of some early spring flowers and some bits of tender lettuce. they had a fine meal before they were through with it. the circus bunny said:
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“let’s live in the garden a night and a day. there’s plenty of lettuce; come, what do you say?”
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chapter iii a load of easter eggs
chapter__<label>__NOUN iii__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET load__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN
as the runaway bunny hopped along, it began to rain very hard.
as__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN hopped__<label>__VERB along__<label>__ADP ,__<label>__. it__<label>__PRON began__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT rain__<label>__VERB very__<label>__DET hard__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
he heard a voice singing:
he__<label>__PRON heard__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET voice__<label>__NOUN singing__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i like the thunderstorm and rain; just why i do i can’t explain.”
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the voice came from a wee house in the woods. the runaway bunny stopped and knocked politely at the door.
the__<label>__DET voice__<label>__NOUN came__<label>__VERB from__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET wee__<label>__NOUN house__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET woods__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN stopped__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ knocked__<label>__VERB politely__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET door__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
his little heart went thump, for he did not know what he should find inside.
his__<label>__PRON little__<label>__ADJ heart__<label>__NOUN went__<label>__VERB thump__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON did__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT know__<label>__VERB what__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON should__<label>__PRT find__<label>__VERB inside__<label>__ADP .__<label>__.
the door opened a little and a very old rabbit peeped out and said:
the__<label>__DET door__<label>__NOUN opened__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ and__<label>__CONJ a__<label>__DET very__<label>__DET old__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN peeped__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON and__<label>__CONJ said__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“i am old mother give-away; and now, sir, what have you to say?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ now__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. sir__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. what__<label>__PRON have__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT say__<label>__VERB ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny hung his head, for he had never been generous enough to give away anything in all his life. but as the rain was falling fast, he wanted to go in and dry his fur and whiskers.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN hung__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON head__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB never__<label>__PRON been__<label>__VERB generous__<label>__ADJ enough__<label>__ADJ to__<label>__PRT give__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON anything__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP all__<label>__PRON his__<label>__PRON life__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP as__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET rain__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB falling__<label>__VERB fast__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT go__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP and__<label>__CONJ dry__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON fur__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ whiskers__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
so he said:
so__<label>__DET he__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“may i do any errands for you today? i like to travel away, away.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN may__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON do__<label>__VERB any__<label>__PRON errands__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON today__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON like__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT travel__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
in answer to this, the door was opened wide and he hopped inside.
in__<label>__DET answer__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT this__<label>__DET ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET door__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB opened__<label>__VERB wide__<label>__ADJ and__<label>__CONJ he__<label>__PRON hopped__<label>__VERB inside__<label>__ADP .__<label>__.
my, what a wonderful sight he saw!
my__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. what__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET wonderful__<label>__ADJ sight__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON saw__<label>__VERB !__<label>__.
there were easter eggs on the table and easter eggs on the floor, easter eggs on the window-sill and easter eggs in baskets! they were painted in gay colors—red, blue, and gold.
there__<label>__PRON were__<label>__VERB easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET table__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET floor__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET window__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. sill__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP baskets__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. they__<label>__PRON were__<label>__VERB painted__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP gay__<label>__ADJ colors__<label>__NOUN âĢĶ__<label>__ADP red__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. blue__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ gold__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
old mother give-away said:
old__<label>__DET mother__<label>__NOUN give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“a messenger i thought i’d borrow; you may help me take the eggs to-morrow.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN a__<label>__DET messenger__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON thought__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB d__<label>__NOUN borrow__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON may__<label>__PRT help__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON take__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET eggs__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. morrow__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
then she told him how she and father give-away had spent many days painting piles and piles of easter eggs.
then__<label>__PRON she__<label>__PRON told__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON how__<label>__DET she__<label>__PRON and__<label>__CONJ father__<label>__PRON give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB spent__<label>__VERB many__<label>__NUM days__<label>__NOUN painting__<label>__VERB piles__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ piles__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
she said she wanted every rabbit in the world to have an easter egg on easter morning. she wanted the eggs well hidden, so it would be fun to hunt for them.
she__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB she__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB every__<label>__DET rabbit__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT have__<label>__VERB an__<label>__PRON easter__<label>__NOUN egg__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP easter__<label>__PRON morning__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET eggs__<label>__NOUN well__<label>__VERB hidden__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. so__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON would__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB fun__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT hunt__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP them__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
she went on painting the eggs, dashing and splashing the colors upon them. the runaway bunny planned where he would hide the easter eggs in every wee house he visited.
she__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP painting__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET eggs__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. dashing__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ splashing__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET colors__<label>__NOUN upon__<label>__ADP them__<label>__PRON .__<label>__. the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN planned__<label>__VERB where__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON would__<label>__PRT hide__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP every__<label>__DET wee__<label>__NOUN house__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON visited__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
he thought he would put them back of books and in vases and back of clocks and in cups and bowls and baskets. there are so many good places to hide wee easter eggs.
he__<label>__PRON thought__<label>__VERB he__<label>__PRON would__<label>__PRT put__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON back__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP books__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ in__<label>__DET vases__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ back__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP clocks__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ in__<label>__DET cups__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ bowls__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ baskets__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. there__<label>__PRON are__<label>__VERB so__<label>__DET many__<label>__NUM good__<label>__ADJ places__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT hide__<label>__VERB wee__<label>__NOUN easter__<label>__NOUN eggs__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“may i start with the easter eggs today? please let me go, mother give-away.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN may__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON start__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN today__<label>__. ?__<label>__. please__<label>__PRT let__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON go__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. mother__<label>__PRON give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
to his surprise old mother give-away answered, as though she were half asleep:
to__<label>__PRT his__<label>__PRON surprise__<label>__NOUN old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN answered__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP though__<label>__ADP she__<label>__PRON were__<label>__VERB half__<label>__NUM asleep__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“speak to the rubbers on the floor; they’ve heard that question asked before.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN speak__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET rubbers__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET floor__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. they__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ve__<label>__PRON heard__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET question__<label>__NOUN asked__<label>__VERB before__<label>__ADP .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny laughed and slipped four little rubbers on his four little feet to keep them dry, this misty, moisty morning.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN laughed__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ slipped__<label>__VERB four__<label>__NUM little__<label>__ADJ rubbers__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON four__<label>__NUM little__<label>__ADJ feet__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT keep__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON dry__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. this__<label>__DET misty__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. moisty__<label>__NOUN morning__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
then he asked again:
then__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON asked__<label>__VERB again__<label>__PRON :__<label>__.
“may i start with the easter eggs to-day? please let me go, mother give-away.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN may__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON start__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET easter__<label>__NOUN eggs__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. day__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. please__<label>__PRT let__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON go__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. mother__<label>__PRON give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
then the rubbers piped up to answer him:
then__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET rubbers__<label>__NOUN piped__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT answer__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON :__<label>__.
“ask the umbrella in the hall; it may not answer you at all.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ask__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET umbrella__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET hall__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. it__<label>__PRON may__<label>__PRT not__<label>__PRT answer__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON at__<label>__ADP all__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the umbrella was in a very good humor and, as the runaway bunny opened it, said:
the__<label>__DET umbrella__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET very__<label>__DET good__<label>__ADJ humor__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN opened__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. said__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“ask the raincoat what he will say about going out on a rainy day!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ask__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET raincoat__<label>__NOUN what__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT say__<label>__VERB about__<label>__ADP going__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON on__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET rainy__<label>__NUM day__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny chuckled as he slipped on the raincoat that hung on a nail.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN chuckled__<label>__VERB as__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON slipped__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET raincoat__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP hung__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET nail__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he asked as before:
he__<label>__PRON asked__<label>__VERB as__<label>__ADP before__<label>__ADP :__<label>__.
“may i start with the easter eggs to-day? please let me go, mother give-away.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN may__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON start__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET easter__<label>__NOUN eggs__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. day__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. please__<label>__PRT let__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON go__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. mother__<label>__PRON give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the raincoat replied:
the__<label>__DET raincoat__<label>__NOUN replied__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“ask the rain cap; perhaps he’ll explain why we’re happy when we hear the rain.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ask__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET rain__<label>__NOUN cap__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. perhaps__<label>__VERB he__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT explain__<label>__VERB why__<label>__PRON we__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB re__<label>__VERB happy__<label>__ADJ when__<label>__ADP we__<label>__PRON hear__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET rain__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny knew they were happy to get out in the rain. but he asked again:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN knew__<label>__VERB they__<label>__PRON were__<label>__VERB happy__<label>__ADJ to__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET rain__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON asked__<label>__VERB again__<label>__PRON :__<label>__.
“may i start with the easter eggs to-day? please let me go, mother give-away.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN may__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON start__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET easter__<label>__NOUN eggs__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. day__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. please__<label>__PRT let__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON go__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. mother__<label>__PRON give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the rain cap replied:
the__<label>__DET rain__<label>__NOUN cap__<label>__NOUN replied__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“ask the wheelbarrow, for he knows the home into which each easter egg goes.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ask__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET wheelbarrow__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON knows__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET home__<label>__NOUN into__<label>__ADP which__<label>__ADP each__<label>__PRON easter__<label>__NOUN egg__<label>__NOUN goes__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
then the runaway bunny ran out into the yard and said to the wheelbarrow:
then__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN ran__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON into__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET yard__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ said__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET wheelbarrow__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“let’s start with the easter eggs to-day; come, mr. wheelbarrow, what do you say?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN let__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN start__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET easter__<label>__NOUN eggs__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. day__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. come__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. mr__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. wheelbarrow__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. what__<label>__PRON do__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON say__<label>__VERB ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
and the wheelbarrow said, “i am ready to start this very minute.”
and__<label>__CONJ the__<label>__DET wheelbarrow__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB ready__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT start__<label>__VERB this__<label>__DET very__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
then mother give-away came out and helped the runaway bunny pile about 246 easter eggs in the wheelbarrow. she covered them well to keep them dry.
then__<label>__PRON mother__<label>__PRON give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN came__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON and__<label>__CONJ helped__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN pile__<label>__NOUN about__<label>__ADP 246__<label>__NUM easter__<label>__NUM eggs__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET wheelbarrow__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. she__<label>__PRON covered__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON well__<label>__ADJ to__<label>__PRT keep__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON dry__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
the runaway bunny remarked:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN remarked__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“now i should call this perfect fun, if i’d had breakfast with grandmother bun.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN now__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON should__<label>__PRT call__<label>__VERB this__<label>__DET perfect__<label>__ADJ fun__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. if__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB d__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB breakfast__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP grandmother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“who is grandmother bun?” asked old mother give-away.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN who__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB grandmother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__. asked__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN give__<label>__VERB -__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
the wind whistled so hard that the runaway bunny did not hear the question. but he went rolling the wheelbarrow merrily along, singing:
the__<label>__DET wind__<label>__NOUN whistled__<label>__VERB so__<label>__DET hard__<label>__ADJ that__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN did__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT hear__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET question__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB rolling__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET wheelbarrow__<label>__NOUN merrily__<label>__NOUN along__<label>__ADP ,__<label>__. singing__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“perhaps you may think it very funny that i should be called an easter bunny.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN perhaps__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON may__<label>__PRT think__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON very__<label>__VERB funny__<label>__ADJ that__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON should__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB called__<label>__VERB an__<label>__ADJ easter__<label>__NOUN bunny__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
he left eggs at every rabbit house he passed, and by and by the wheel-barrow was empty.
he__<label>__PRON left__<label>__VERB eggs__<label>__NOUN at__<label>__ADP every__<label>__DET rabbit__<label>__NOUN house__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON passed__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ by__<label>__ADP and__<label>__CONJ by__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET wheel__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. barrow__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB empty__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
he left it in the road and went hippety-hop along, singing:
he__<label>__PRON left__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET road__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ went__<label>__VERB hippety__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NUM along__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. singing__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i wish you all a glad easter day. i’m running away! i’m running away!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON wish__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON all__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET glad__<label>__ADJ easter__<label>__NOUN day__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
chapter iv mother bun’s visitors
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said mother bun, “you may think it funny, but i miss my little runaway bunny.”
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old father bun thought a long time before speaking.
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then said father bun, “would it be wise, in all the papers to advertise?”
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old father and mother bun talked on about the runaway bunny, saying:
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“in every newspaper in the wood we’ll advertise. it may do good.”
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so old father bun sat down by a table and said:
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“by my stubby tail, i shall have to think how to use paper and pen and ink.”
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he was not used to doing much writing.
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“click, click, click,” went old mother bun’s knitting needles.
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“puff, puff, puff,” went old father bun’s pipe.
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by and by he wrote the following:
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“rabbit lost, rabbit lost! get him back at any cost. he runs away o’er hill and dale, he has long ears and stubby tail.”
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old mother bun said:
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“i would nail that on a tree, where every animal can see.”
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old father bun did not agree with her. he knew it paid to advertise in newspapers. so he put on his old felt hat, took his walking stick, and started out to a real newspaper office. he took his notice to chatterbox, the monkey newspaper man. so all the animals soon read in their newspapers about the runaway bunny.
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when pit-a-pat read the notice, she smacked her lips and said:
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“here is a chance to have some fun, i’ll make a call on old mother bun.”
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so by and by it happened that old father bun said, “i hear the patter, patter of little feet.”
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old mother bun said, “do look out and tell me who is coming.”
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pit-a-pat came to the door and bowed politely, saying:
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“i long for milk. may i have a drink? i can help you find the rabbit, i think.”
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they gladly let pit-a-pat in and gave her a saucer of warm milk in their best blue-rimmed saucer.
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while she was licking her chops, old father bun said:
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“to inquire of you seems rather funny, but did you meet our runaway bunny?”
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old mother bun said:
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“to call him bunny we’ve formed the habit, he is also known as the runaway rabbit.”
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“did he have long ears?” asked pit-a-pat, winking slyly. “did he have a tiny stubby tail?”
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“yes, yes,” shouted father and mother bun eagerly.
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“did he have a habit of running away?” asked pit-a-pat, looking narrowly out of her green eyes.
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“yes, yes,” shouted old father and mother bun again together.
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then the most astonishing thing happened!
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pit-a-pat got up slowly, humped her back, and without another word walked out of the open window!
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old mother bun remarked:
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“no use to cry for spilled milk, i see: pit-a-pat played a trick on me.”
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old father bun said:
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“i think her actions are very funny. she must have met our runaway bunny.”
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“rap-a-tap-tap,” sounded on the door.
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and in walked rough coat, saying politely:
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“i’m a lonesome fellow; i live alone. could you give me as much as a chicken bone?”
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as luck would have it, they had a whole plate full of chicken bones in the house. so rough coat had a wonderful meal.
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old father bun said, “did you meet our runaway bunny?”
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rough coat said, “did he run as though he would never stop?”
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“yes, yes,” cried father bun excitedly.
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“did he sometimes say, ‘my fur and whiskers’?” asked rough coat.
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“yes, yes,” cried father and mother bun together.
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rough coat gave himself a great shake, remarking:
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“i enjoyed my lunch, i do declare; ask your questions of brother bear.”
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whisk! with a bound he was gone!
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father bun said:
father__<label>__PRON bun__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“we’ll have other visitors some fine day, no telling, though, what our guests will say.”
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at this very minute the runaway bunny read in the newspaper about himself.
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he read, “‘bunny lost.’ that must be i.”
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he twitched his long ears to and fro and turned to look back at his little stubby tail.
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he did not want to go back and visit his grandparents yet. so he started on, saying:
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“i won’t stay still for a purse of money, i am such a funny runaway bunny!”
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chapter v the animals’ fourth of july
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“we’ll have fun and frolic by and by, for soon will come the fourth of july.”
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so sang all the wild animals in the woods.
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the runaway bunny ran on and on until he could run no longer. then he set up a shout, for he had been traveling in a circle, and here he was back at his own little house in the woods!
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there was his wee spinning wheel in the corner. there were his dishes on the table as he had left them.
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he hopped into his wee bed and slept a week and a day. then he went down cellar and got a cabbage to eat. he felt very happy. he wanted to work. then he began to spin furiously, singing:
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“i can spin quite well if i only try, i will buy a flag for the fourth of july.”
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“rap-a-tap,” sounded on his door and in walked pit-a-pat, big as life and twice as natural! she told the story about her little kittens who had lost their mittens. the runaway bunny listened earnestly, for he had known what it was to be cold.
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“when i sell the goods i spin,” said bunny, “for mittens i’ll give you a pile of money.”
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pit-a-pat bowed her thanks and the runaway bunny began to spin again in real earnest, saying:
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“i can spin quite well if i only try, “i’ll buy firecrackers for the fourth of july.”
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“bowwow,” sounded outside the window.
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there stood rough coat, growling, “i need a new collar. i want one with my name and address upon it, so if i get lost some one can lead me home.”
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the runaway bunny knew how hard it was to want things. so he whistled, and sang:
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“when i sell the goods i spin to-morrow, i shall have money for all to borrow.”
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rough coat went away happy.
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“whir, whir, whir,” went the cunning little spinning wheel.
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all day long the runaway bunny kept on spinning and telling what he wanted to buy for himself with the money, after his goods were sold.
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all day long the animals came and begged him for money.
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at last he ran to the store and sold the cloth he had spun. when he had given the animals the money they wanted, he said:
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“i’m a runaway bunny and here i sigh, i’ve nothing left for the fourth of july.”
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“no flag, no firecrackers, no fireworks,” called old who-who, the owl.
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the runaway bunny dried his eyes, for he was so disappointed he had shed a few tears. and he said:
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“as long as i can make a rhyme, i’ll run away and have a good time.”
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he was just starting to run away when there was a great noise and pit-a-pat came with a large flag as a present, and rough coat brought firecrackers. soon all the animals gathered together for a surprise party and they set off fireworks and drank red lemonade.
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they all had a happy fourth of july.
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the three little kittens wore their new mittens and rough coat wore a new collar. all the animals hugged and kissed the runaway bunny and begged him to stay with them in the woods.
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suddenly, without any warning whatever, he took his flag and, singing a song to himself, went hippety-hop down the road.
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“the fourth of july is a holiday; and i’m running away, i’m running away!”
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all the animals clapped their paws and cried:
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“please stay with us and forget the habit of running away, dear runaway rabbit!”
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chapter vi the county fair
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the runaway bunny went hopping along, singing:
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“when i am lonesome i’m always singing of a jolly old kite that used to fly at the end of the string i was often swinging, and i said to old earth, ‘good-bye, good-bye!’”
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“good-bye, good-bye,” called a merry voice; and there in the path before the runaway bunny stood the circus bunny.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN good__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. bye__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. good__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. bye__<label>__NOUN ,âĢĿ__<label>__. called__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET merry__<label>__ADJ voice__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ there__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET path__<label>__NOUN before__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN stood__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
the circus bunny said:
the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i’ll run along with you, if you don’t care; i’m off for a trip to the county fair.”
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“to whom were you saying good-bye?” asked the runaway bunny.
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“i will answer that question when you tell me about the wonderful ride you had with the kite,” answered the circus bunny.
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but the runaway bunny had already forgotten about the kite and could think of nothing but the fair. he was delighted to have company on the way; and he remarked:
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“what shall we do when we get to the fair and find all the animals gathered there?”
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the circus bunny replied:
the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN replied__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“your question to me seems rather funny; we shall hire a tent and make some money.”
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what a fine trip they had!
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everyone was going to the fair. some of the animals were going on foot and some were going on horseback. some of them rode in state in cars. some of the animals traveled alone and others took the whole family.
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the runaway bunny said to everyone he passed:
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“i’m off to the fair. good day, good day! i’m running away, i’m running away.”
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the circus bunny kept saying a little rhyme over and over:
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“will you spend a penny and form the habit of calling to see the circus rabbit?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN will__<label>__PRT you__<label>__PRON spend__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET penny__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ form__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET habit__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP calling__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT see__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
they arrived at the fair. but just as they were going to set up a wee tent of their own and make money for themselves, some one picked them up by their long ears and put them in a wire cage.
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the circus bunny whispered:
the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN whispered__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“well, this is a pretty how-do-you-do! i don’t know how to get out. do you?”
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the runaway bunny answered:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN answered__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i really haven’t a word to say, this may cure me of running away!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON really__<label>__VERB haven__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT a__<label>__DET word__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT say__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. this__<label>__DET may__<label>__PRT cure__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON of__<label>__ADP running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
by and by a man came and called out:
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“performing rabbits! step this way! hear what the bunnies have to say; their tricks are funny, and each small bunny is well worth all your admission money.”
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now crowds and crowds gathered around the cage. the circus bunny stood on his head and turned somersaults and said:
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“will you spend a penny and form the habit of calling to see the circus rabbit?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN will__<label>__PRT you__<label>__PRON spend__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET penny__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ form__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET habit__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP calling__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT see__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
all the animals in the crowd cheered and clapped, and cried, “do it again! do it again!”
all__<label>__PRON the__<label>__DET animals__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET crowd__<label>__NOUN cheered__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ clapped__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ cried__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN do__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON again__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. do__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON again__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
by and by the circus bunny grew tired of performing his tricks, and it was the runaway bunny’s turn to entertain the crowd.
by__<label>__DET and__<label>__CONJ by__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET circus__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN grew__<label>__VERB tired__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP performing__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON tricks__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ it__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN turn__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT entertain__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET crowd__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he had never done a trick in all his life and was wondering what to do, when the circus bunny reminded him:
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“you were singing a very comical song, as i was coming along, along.”
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so the runaway bunny sang:
so__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN sang__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“when i am lonesome i’m always singing of a jolly old kite that used to fly at the end of the string i was often swinging, and i said to old earth, ‘good-bye, good-bye!’”
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at this very minute the most surprising thing happened!
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the runaway bunny was so little that he squeezed out through the wires in the cage door! he took hold of the string of a kite that was near, and up, up, up he began to sail, higher and higher, until he soon looked like a speck in the sky.
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“well,” remarked the circus bunny, “it was certainly fortunate that the jolly old kite was waiting for him. that is a new way he has found of running away. i believe i will squeeze out of this cage, too.”
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so while the crowd was watching the runaway bunny, he tried to get out of the cage. but he stuck halfway, until kind-hearted old mother bun pulled him out and tucked him safely in her market basket.
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old father bun said, “what is in your basket?”
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old mother bun said, “i will tell you when we get home.”
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up, up, up sailed the runaway bunny.
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when he had sailed up a week and a day, down, down sailed the kite and he arrived in his own little back yard, at home.
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he said, “i shall have a fine kite story to tell my great-great-grand-children some day. that was a fine ride i had!”
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then he repeated in a singsong way:
then__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON repeated__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET singsong__<label>__VERB way__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“when i am lonesome i’m always singing of a jolly old kite that used to fly at the end of the string i was often swinging, and i said to old earth, ‘good-bye, good-bye!’”
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he made himself a nice little supper and for once was contented to sit in his wee house. but that night he dreamed that he was running away, singing:
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“for a county fair i do not care, i can run away from anywhere, wherever i go this thing i say, ‘i’m running away! i’m running away!’”
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chapter vii the bunny school
chapter__<label>__. vii__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET bunny__<label>__NOUN school__<label>__NOUN
the summer had passed and september had come. all the school bells were ringing.
the__<label>__DET summer__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB passed__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ september__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB come__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. all__<label>__PRON the__<label>__DET school__<label>__NOUN bells__<label>__NOUN were__<label>__VERB ringing__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
the runaway bunny said:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“there is one thing i can remember, school begins in glad september.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN there__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB one__<label>__DET thing__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON can__<label>__PRT remember__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. school__<label>__NOUN begins__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP glad__<label>__ADJ september__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
he packed his neat little dinner pail and went hippety-hop down the path, singing happy little songs like this:
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the runaway bunny, as a rule, likes to run away, the runaway bunny said, “to school i go this september day. “i don’t know the words, i don’t know the tune. i’m the runaway bunny; i’ll get to school soon.”
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET rule__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. likes__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT run__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT school__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON go__<label>__VERB this__<label>__DET september__<label>__NOUN day__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON don__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT know__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET words__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON don__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT know__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET tune__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT school__<label>__NOUN soon__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“don’t be so sure of that,” called pit-a-pat.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN don__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB so__<label>__DET sure__<label>__ADJ of__<label>__ADP that__<label>__DET ,âĢĿ__<label>__PRON called__<label>__VERB pit__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. a__<label>__DET -__<label>__. pat__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“don’t be so sure you’ll get there soon,” said rough coat.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN don__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB so__<label>__DET sure__<label>__ADJ you__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB there__<label>__PRON soon__<label>__PRON ,âĢĿ__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB rough__<label>__ADJ coat__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“you may not get there until afternoon,” growled old brother bear.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON may__<label>__PRT not__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB there__<label>__PRON until__<label>__NOUN afternoon__<label>__NOUN ,âĢĿ__<label>__. growled__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ brother__<label>__NOUN bear__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“i never before have made a rhyme, but i think you’ll not get there on time!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON never__<label>__VERB before__<label>__ADP have__<label>__VERB made__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET rhyme__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON think__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT not__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB there__<label>__PRON on__<label>__ADP time__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
whispered old foxy-lox, peering at the runaway bunny from his hiding place.
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the school bells all sang:
the__<label>__DET school__<label>__NOUN bells__<label>__NOUN all__<label>__VERB sang__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“come to school. ding, dong! don’t be late. run along!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN come__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT school__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. ding__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. dong__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. don__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB late__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__. run__<label>__VERB along__<label>__ADP !âĢĿ__<label>__.
at this very minute the runaway bunny thought of something he had forgotten.
at__<label>__ADP this__<label>__DET very__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN thought__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP something__<label>__VERB he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB forgotten__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
he stopped short in the path, saying:
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“i’ll hide my dinner pail in the wood and get me a pencil as a rabbit should!”
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he put his dinner pail down by a log and went hurrying home to get a lead pencil. soon he came back hippety-hop with his pencil in his overalls pocket.
he__<label>__PRON put__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON dinner__<label>__NOUN pail__<label>__NOUN down__<label>__ADP by__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET log__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ went__<label>__VERB hurrying__<label>__VERB home__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET lead__<label>__VERB pencil__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. soon__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON came__<label>__VERB back__<label>__PRON hippety__<label>__NUM -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON pencil__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON overalls__<label>__NOUN pocket__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he stopped to look for his dinner pail. it was gone!
he__<label>__PRON stopped__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT look__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON dinner__<label>__NOUN pail__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. it__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB gone__<label>__VERB !__<label>__.
he shouted to pit-a-pat, who had gone on ahead:
he__<label>__PRON shouted__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT pit__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. a__<label>__DET -__<label>__. pat__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. who__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB gone__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP ahead__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“to get to school i will not fail, but where, oh where is my dinner pail?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT school__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT not__<label>__PRT fail__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. but__<label>__CONJ where__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. oh__<label>__NOUN where__<label>__ADP is__<label>__VERB my__<label>__PRON dinner__<label>__NOUN pail__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
pit-a-pat said she knew nothing about the lost dinner pail.
pit__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. a__<label>__DET -__<label>__. pat__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB she__<label>__PRON knew__<label>__VERB nothing__<label>__VERB about__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET lost__<label>__VERB dinner__<label>__NOUN pail__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
soon the runaway bunny caught up with rough coat and said:
soon__<label>__PRON the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN caught__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON with__<label>__ADP rough__<label>__ADJ coat__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ said__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“it makes me shake my stubby tail to think i lost my dinner pail.”
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then brother bear came up and whispered softly:
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“ask foxy-lox down in his den, and his little gentlemen!”
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the runaway bunny was very angry to think foxy-lox would take his dinner pail. he wanted to go to foxy-lox’s house and get it back.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB very__<label>__DET angry__<label>__ADJ to__<label>__PRT think__<label>__VERB foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__VERB would__<label>__PRT take__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON dinner__<label>__NOUN pail__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT go__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN house__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ get__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON back__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
but old brother bear said:
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“i’d rather lose a pail or two than have him make a meal of you!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB d__<label>__NOUN rather__<label>__PRT lose__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET pail__<label>__NOUN or__<label>__CONJ two__<label>__NUM than__<label>__NOUN have__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON make__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET meal__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny saw that brother bear was right. it would never do to go to foxy-lox’s house for his dinner pail. besides, that sly fox would never give it back.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN saw__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET brother__<label>__NOUN bear__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB right__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__. it__<label>__PRON would__<label>__PRT never__<label>__PRON do__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT go__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN house__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON dinner__<label>__NOUN pail__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. besides__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. that__<label>__DET sly__<label>__ADJ fox__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__PRT never__<label>__PRON give__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON back__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
so the runaway bunny ran on to school and got there just two minutes late.
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all the bunnies were in their seats, ready for work. the runaway bunny took his seat and began to learn a rhyme the rest were studying.
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he said it over to himself:
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“september’s here to visit us, in gold and russet gown; and we’ve been busy bunnies since september’s come to town.”
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the runaway bunny was a smart little fellow. he liked to learn his abc’s.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET smart__<label>__ADJ little__<label>__ADJ fellow__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON liked__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT learn__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON abc__<label>__ADJ âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he learned to read very well and he went to school sixteen days in september.
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then one bright afternoon he heard the birds singing:
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“good-bye, good-bye! to the south we go; autumn is coming, and winter with snow.”
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he wished he could fly like his feathered friends.
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suddenly he remembered how fast he could run.
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he did not wait for the close of school but went hippety-hop out of the window, singing:
he__<label>__PRON did__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT wait__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET close__<label>__ADJ of__<label>__ADP school__<label>__NOUN but__<label>__ADP went__<label>__VERB hippety__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NUM out__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET window__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. singing__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“long ago i formed the habit of running away. i’m the runaway rabbit.”
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he stayed in the woods all the rest of september.
he__<label>__PRON stayed__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET woods__<label>__NOUN all__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET rest__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP september__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
from old brother bear he learned the names of all the fall fruits and flowers.
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suddenly he decided to go to town; and he left the wild woods, singing:
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“the runaway bunny was made for play, i’m running away! i’m running away! soon comes november, but still i’ll remember the things i have learned in happy september.”
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the runaway bunny was running away toward town.
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chapter viii the tell-the-time rabbit
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the runaway bunny could talk in rhyme, but for years and years he couldn’t tell time.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN could__<label>__PRT talk__<label>__VERB in__<label>__DET rhyme__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP for__<label>__ADP years__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ years__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON couldn__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT tell__<label>__VERB time__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
one day the runaway bunny woke up in his own little house and sang:
one__<label>__DET day__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN woke__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON own__<label>__VERB little__<label>__ADJ house__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ sang__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“it is such a pleasant autumn day, i’m really thinking of running away.”
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he put on his wrist watch for company, though he could not tell time to save his little stubby tail!
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he was going hippety-hop along when he met old brother bear. the bear passed the time of day, but seemed to be in a terrible hurry and growled:
he__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB going__<label>__VERB hippety__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NUM along__<label>__VERB when__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON met__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ brother__<label>__NOUN bear__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. the__<label>__DET bear__<label>__NOUN passed__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET time__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP day__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__CONJ seemed__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET terrible__<label>__ADJ hurry__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ growled__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“what is the real time? i fear i’m late, but i must get there, at any rate!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN what__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET real__<label>__ADJ time__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON fear__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN late__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON must__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB there__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP any__<label>__PRON rate__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“where are you going?” inquired the runaway bunny.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN where__<label>__ADP are__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON going__<label>__VERB ?âĢĿ__<label>__. inquired__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
but old brother bear only hurried on.
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next foxy-lox came along and chattered:
next__<label>__DET foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__NOUN came__<label>__VERB along__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ chattered__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“what is the real time? i cannot wait, but i must get there, at any rate!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN what__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET real__<label>__ADJ time__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON cannot__<label>__PRT wait__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON must__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB there__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP any__<label>__PRON rate__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“where are you going?” asked the runaway bunny.
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but foxy-lox had no time to answer him, and went hurrying down the path without even a backward glance.
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the runaway bunny said to himself:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT himself__<label>__PRON :__<label>__.
“to tell the time’s a convenient habit, for even a funny runaway rabbit.”
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“tick, tick, tick,” went the little wrist watch and it sang:
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“to talk a little is my turn, i’ll teach the time, if you want to learn.”
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the runaway bunny was surprised, you may be sure, and put his ear down close to the little watch to listen.
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the little wrist watch continued:
the__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ wrist__<label>__NOUN watch__<label>__NOUN continued__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“to learn some things is in your power, the short hand tells us all the hour.”
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the runaway bunny skipped this way and that way, and sang:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN skipped__<label>__VERB this__<label>__DET way__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ that__<label>__DET way__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ sang__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“’tis more fun making a simple rhyme, with a little wrist watch to tell the time.”
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the little wrist watch continued:
the__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ wrist__<label>__NOUN watch__<label>__NOUN continued__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“let’s run a race. come, who will win it? my long hand tells you of each minute.”
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then the runaway bunny ran on faster than ever and the tiny hands of the wrist watch ran round its face. before he could believe it, the runaway bunny was learning to tell time.
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“a quarter of eight! i won’t be late; i’ve learned a little, at any rate.”
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he learned half past and a quarter past and a quarter of the hours.
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he sang merrily:
he__<label>__PRON sang__<label>__VERB merrily__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“over this garden fence i’ll climb; i know it is my breakfast time.”
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he sat down and began to eat cabbage leaves. my! how fresh and crisp they were!
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he began to wonder about the animals he had met. he wondered where they could be going. don’t you wonder, too?
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all this time old brother bear was on his way to the home of father and mother bun. when he came in, those two old bunnies were sitting by the fire.
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he took off his cap politely and said:
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“may i come in and warm my paws? its freezing cold until it thaws.”
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seeing that old brother bear was friendly, old father bun allowed him to sit in a rocking chair by the fire. old mother bun gave him a plate of cakes, smoking hot, with honey on them. old mother bun said:
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“i hope, kind sir, that you like honey; it makes me think of our runaway bunny.”
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“did he have long ears and a tiny tail?” asked old brother bear.
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“yes, yes,” shouted old mother bun.
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“did he carry a little wrist watch?” asked old brother bear.
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“yes, yes,” shouted old father bun.
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then old brother bear, who was something of a joker, smacked his lips and said:
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“such fine cakes are worth much money, i also thank you for the honey.”
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so saying, he bowed politely and walked out of the door.
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old mother bun remarked:
old__<label>__DET mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN remarked__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i really think it very funny, he would not talk of the runaway bunny.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON really__<label>__PRON think__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON very__<label>__VERB funny__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON would__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT talk__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
old father bun’s head went nid-nid-nodding.
old__<label>__DET father__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN head__<label>__NOUN went__<label>__VERB nid__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. nid__<label>__NUM -__<label>__. nodding__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
up walked old foxy-lox, tapping on the window pane.
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foxy-lox asked for cookies and honey, but old mother bun would not let him in.
foxy__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. lox__<label>__CONJ asked__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP cookies__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ honey__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT let__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP .__<label>__.
he went off, shouting:
he__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB off__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. shouting__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i saw the runaway rabbit to-day, and as usual he was running away.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON saw__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. day__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ as__<label>__DET usual__<label>__ADJ he__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“call him back! call him back!” called old father bun, who had waked up in time to hear foxy-lox shout.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN call__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON back__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. call__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON back__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__. called__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ father__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. who__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB waked__<label>__VERB up__<label>__ADP in__<label>__DET time__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT hear__<label>__VERB foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__PRT shout__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
mother bun shook her head as she counted her silver spoons, saying:
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“though it may seem to you absurd, he sometimes robs good folk, i’ve heard.”
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old father bun said:
old__<label>__DET father__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“alackaday! what shall i say? will the runaway bunny come back some day?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN alackaday__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. what__<label>__PRON shall__<label>__PRT i__<label>__PRON say__<label>__VERB ?__<label>__. will__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN come__<label>__VERB back__<label>__PRON some__<label>__PRON day__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
while all this was going on, the runaway bunny continued to eat as much cabbage as he wanted.
while__<label>__ADP all__<label>__PRON this__<label>__DET was__<label>__VERB going__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN continued__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT eat__<label>__VERB as__<label>__DET much__<label>__ADJ cabbage__<label>__NOUN as__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
the little wrist watch said to him:
the__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ wrist__<label>__NOUN watch__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT him__<label>__PRON :__<label>__.
“to tell the time is a useful habit; let’s see you do it, you cunning rabbit!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT tell__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET time__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET useful__<label>__ADJ habit__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. let__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN see__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON do__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. you__<label>__PRON cunning__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny had really learned to tell the time. but he wanted to tease, so he said:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB really__<label>__VERB learned__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT tell__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET time__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT tease__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. so__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“it is bedtime, bedtime, o’er all the world in every clime.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN it__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB bedtime__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. bedtime__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. o__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB er__<label>__ADP all__<label>__PRON the__<label>__DET world__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP every__<label>__DET clime__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
all the time, his little wrist watch ticked busily on.
all__<label>__PRON the__<label>__DET time__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. his__<label>__PRON little__<label>__ADJ wrist__<label>__NOUN watch__<label>__VERB ticked__<label>__NOUN busily__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP .__<label>__.
for all who wanted to hear, it sang:
for__<label>__ADP all__<label>__PRON who__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT hear__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. it__<label>__PRON sang__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“for hours and hours i tick away, a-telling time by night and day.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP hours__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ hours__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON tick__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. a__<label>__DET -__<label>__. telling__<label>__VERB time__<label>__NOUN by__<label>__ADP night__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ day__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“my long hand always points the minute; and how much good can you do in it?
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN my__<label>__PRON long__<label>__ADJ hand__<label>__NOUN always__<label>__PRON points__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ how__<label>__DET much__<label>__ADJ good__<label>__ADJ can__<label>__PRT you__<label>__PRON do__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON ?__<label>__.
“my short hand always points the hour; to learn it is within your power.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN my__<label>__PRON short__<label>__ADJ hand__<label>__NOUN always__<label>__PRON points__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET hour__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. to__<label>__PRT learn__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB within__<label>__ADP your__<label>__PRON power__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“for telling time’s an easy trick if you have learned arithmetic.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP telling__<label>__VERB time__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN an__<label>__VERB easy__<label>__ADJ trick__<label>__NOUN if__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON have__<label>__VERB learned__<label>__VERB arithmetic__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
that night the runaway rabbit cried out in his sleep:
that__<label>__DET night__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN cried__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON sleep__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“it is warm in a hollow tree, i declare; it is dream time, dream time everywhere!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN it__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB warm__<label>__ADJ in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET hollow__<label>__NOUN tree__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON declare__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB dream__<label>__NOUN time__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. dream__<label>__NOUN time__<label>__NOUN everywhere__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
chapter ix the thanksgiving dinner
chapter__<label>__. ix__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET thanksgiving__<label>__VERB dinner__<label>__NOUN
one day late in november, the runaway rabbit sang:
one__<label>__DET day__<label>__NOUN late__<label>__. in__<label>__ADP november__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN sang__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“to grandma bun i’ll hurry away, to help her keep thanksgiving day.”
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he had gone hippety-hop only a little way when he sat down on a stone to think.
he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB gone__<label>__VERB hippety__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NUM only__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ way__<label>__NOUN when__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON sat__<label>__VERB down__<label>__PRON on__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET stone__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT think__<label>__VERB .__<label>__.
to his surprise, the market basket he carried cried out:
to__<label>__PRT his__<label>__PRON surprise__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. the__<label>__DET market__<label>__NOUN basket__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON carried__<label>__VERB cried__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON :__<label>__.
“will you buy a turkey while on your way, for old mother bun’s thanksgiving day?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN will__<label>__PRT you__<label>__PRON buy__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET turkey__<label>__NOUN while__<label>__ADP on__<label>__ADP your__<label>__PRON way__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN thanksgiving__<label>__VERB day__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“dear me! my fur and whiskers, i never thought about that!” he cried. “of course i will—now that you suggest it!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN dear__<label>__NOUN me__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. my__<label>__PRON fur__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ whiskers__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON never__<label>__PRON thought__<label>__VERB about__<label>__ADP that__<label>__DET !âĢĿ__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON cried__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP course__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON will__<label>__VERB âĢĶ__<label>__VERB now__<label>__ADP that__<label>__PRON you__<label>__PRON suggest__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
he rattled the pennies in his little bead purse. he rattled the dimes and quarters.
he__<label>__PRON rattled__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET pennies__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON little__<label>__ADJ bead__<label>__NOUN purse__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON rattled__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET dimes__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ quarters__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he went hippety-hop to the market and said:
he__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB hippety__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET market__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ said__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“will you sell me a turkey of eighteen pounds? how very grand that order sounds!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN will__<label>__PRT you__<label>__PRON sell__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON a__<label>__DET turkey__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP eighteen__<label>__NUM pounds__<label>__NOUN ?__<label>__. how__<label>__DET very__<label>__DET grand__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP order__<label>__NOUN sounds__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
to see such a little fellow with so much money surprised the butcher. but he weighed the turkey and it quite filled the market basket.
to__<label>__PRT see__<label>__VERB such__<label>__PRON a__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ fellow__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP so__<label>__DET much__<label>__ADJ money__<label>__NOUN surprised__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET butcher__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON weighed__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET turkey__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ it__<label>__PRON quite__<label>__VERB filled__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET market__<label>__NOUN basket__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
the runaway bunny was starting merrily down the road, when the basket cried:
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB starting__<label>__VERB merrily__<label>__NOUN down__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET road__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. when__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET basket__<label>__NOUN cried__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“each thanksgiving people sigh for rich and spicy pumpkin pie.”
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the runaway bunny saw a nice yellow pumpkin in a field and he managed to tuck it under his arm.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN saw__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET nice__<label>__ADJ yellow__<label>__ADJ pumpkin__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET field__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ he__<label>__PRON managed__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT tuck__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON under__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON arm__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he arrived home and began to make a pumpkin pie. he measured this, weighed that, and cut up and cooked the pumpkin.
he__<label>__PRON arrived__<label>__VERB home__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ began__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT make__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET pumpkin__<label>__ADJ pie__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON measured__<label>__VERB this__<label>__DET ,__<label>__. weighed__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ cut__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON and__<label>__CONJ cooked__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET pumpkin__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
he baked a wonderful pumpkin pie and was about ready to set out again, when the basket cried:
he__<label>__PRON baked__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET wonderful__<label>__ADJ pumpkin__<label>__NOUN pie__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ was__<label>__VERB about__<label>__ADP ready__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT set__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON again__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. when__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET basket__<label>__NOUN cried__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“fine potatoes are a treat on thanksgiving, if they’re sweet.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN fine__<label>__ADJ potatoes__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET treat__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP thanksgiving__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. if__<label>__ADP they__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB re__<label>__VERB sweet__<label>__ADJ .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny threw his little red cap up in the air, shouting, “sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes!”
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN threw__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON little__<label>__ADJ red__<label>__ADJ cap__<label>__NOUN up__<label>__PRON in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET air__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. shouting__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN sweet__<label>__ADJ potatoes__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. sweet__<label>__ADJ potatoes__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
“i’m the runaway bunny; i talk in rhyme; it is lucky i started out on time.”
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the basket spoke again and said:
the__<label>__DET basket__<label>__NOUN spoke__<label>__VERB again__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ said__<label>__NOUN :__<label>__.
“i don’t believe i have heard you say if you’ve cranberries for thanksgiving day.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON don__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT believe__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON have__<label>__VERB heard__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRT say__<label>__VERB if__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ve__<label>__ADJ cranberries__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP thanksgiving__<label>__VERB day__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny ran quickly for cranberries.
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he was back in less than no time, and began to pack his basket to take with him to spend the day with old mother bun.
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at this very minute “rap-a-tap!” was heard on the door; and in walked his old friends, pit-a-pat, rough coat, old brother bear, and foxy-lox.
at__<label>__ADP this__<label>__DET very__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN âĢľ__<label>__NOUN rap__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. a__<label>__DET -__<label>__. tap__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__. was__<label>__VERB heard__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET door__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ in__<label>__ADP walked__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON old__<label>__ADJ friends__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. pit__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. a__<label>__DET -__<label>__. pat__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. rough__<label>__ADJ coat__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. old__<label>__ADJ brother__<label>__NOUN bear__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
said foxy-lox, “shall we be in the way, if we travel with you on thanksgiving day?”
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pit-a-pat began to lick her chops as she smelled the gravy. for the runaway bunny had the dinner all cooked to take with him, of course.
pit__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. a__<label>__DET -__<label>__. pat__<label>__NOUN began__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT lick__<label>__VERB her__<label>__PRON chops__<label>__NOUN as__<label>__ADP she__<label>__PRON smelled__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET gravy__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. for__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET dinner__<label>__NOUN all__<label>__VERB cooked__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT take__<label>__VERB with__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. of__<label>__ADP course__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
rough coat thought of the turkey legs. old brother bear smelled the sweet potatoes.
rough__<label>__ADJ coat__<label>__NOUN thought__<label>__VERB of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET turkey__<label>__NOUN legs__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. old__<label>__ADJ brother__<label>__NOUN bear__<label>__NOUN smelled__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET sweet__<label>__ADJ potatoes__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
old foxy-lox had a long head on him.
old__<label>__DET foxy__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. lox__<label>__NOUN had__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET long__<label>__ADJ head__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP him__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
so he said:
so__<label>__DET he__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“let’s set the table here just to see how fine your thanksgiving dinner will be.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN let__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN set__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET table__<label>__NOUN here__<label>__. just__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT see__<label>__VERB how__<label>__DET fine__<label>__ADJ your__<label>__PRON thanksgiving__<label>__VERB dinner__<label>__NOUN will__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny switched his ears to and fro. but he let the animals help him set the table with turkey, gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberries, and pumpkin pie. and every minute he grew more and more hungry himself.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN switched__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON ears__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT and__<label>__CONJ fro__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON let__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET animals__<label>__NOUN help__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON set__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET table__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP turkey__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. gravy__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. sweet__<label>__ADJ potatoes__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. cranberries__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ pumpkin__<label>__ADJ pie__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ every__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON grew__<label>__VERB more__<label>__ADJ and__<label>__CONJ more__<label>__VERB hungry__<label>__ADJ himself__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
“though we do not intend to be impolite, let’s taste to see if the dinner is right.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN though__<label>__ADP we__<label>__PRON do__<label>__VERB not__<label>__PRT intend__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB impolite__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. let__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN taste__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT see__<label>__VERB if__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET dinner__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB right__<label>__ADJ .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny enjoyed a joke as well as anyone.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN enjoyed__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET joke__<label>__NOUN as__<label>__ADP well__<label>__ADJ as__<label>__ADP anyone__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
so he said:
so__<label>__DET he__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i am really amused at what you say; come, help yourself on thanksgiving day!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB really__<label>__VERB amused__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP what__<label>__PRON you__<label>__PRON say__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__. come__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. help__<label>__VERB yourself__<label>__PRON on__<label>__ADP thanksgiving__<label>__VERB day__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
then they all had a fine feast.
then__<label>__PRON they__<label>__PRON all__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET fine__<label>__ADJ feast__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
the visitors felt a little guilty and whispered among themselves:
the__<label>__DET visitors__<label>__NOUN felt__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ guilty__<label>__ADJ and__<label>__CONJ whispered__<label>__VERB among__<label>__ADP themselves__<label>__PRON :__<label>__.
“we think our conduct is rather shocking, but we will fill his christmas stocking.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN we__<label>__PRON think__<label>__VERB our__<label>__PRON conduct__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB rather__<label>__DET shocking__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP we__<label>__PRON will__<label>__PRT fill__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON christmas__<label>__NOUN stocking__<label>__VERB .âĢĿ__<label>__.
the runaway bunny excused himself, saying he wanted some exercise.
the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN excused__<label>__VERB himself__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. saying__<label>__VERB he__<label>__PRON wanted__<label>__VERB some__<label>__PRON exercise__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
and he sang:
and__<label>__CONJ he__<label>__PRON sang__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i like to travel; i’ve formed the habit; i am well named the runaway rabbit.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON like__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT travel__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ve__<label>__PRON formed__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET habit__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB well__<label>__ADJ named__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ rabbit__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
he ran off through the woods away, away, away! would he never stop?
he__<label>__PRON ran__<label>__VERB off__<label>__PRON through__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET woods__<label>__NOUN away__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. away__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. away__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. would__<label>__PRT he__<label>__PRON never__<label>__PRON stop__<label>__VERB ?__<label>__.
chapter x christmas at mother bun’s
chapter__<label>__NOUN x__<label>__NOUN christmas__<label>__NOUN at__<label>__ADP mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN
old mother bun was very busy making christmas presents and old father bun was very busy wrapping them up and putting the animals’ names upon them.
old__<label>__DET mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB very__<label>__DET busy__<label>__ADJ making__<label>__VERB christmas__<label>__NOUN presents__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ old__<label>__ADJ father__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB very__<label>__DET busy__<label>__ADJ wrapping__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON up__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ putting__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET animals__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB names__<label>__NOUN upon__<label>__ADP them__<label>__PRON .__<label>__.
every once in awhile, old mother bun would say, “did you remember old father chipmunk?”
every__<label>__DET once__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP awhile__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__PRT say__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN did__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON remember__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ father__<label>__NOUN chipmunk__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
then old father bun would say, “did you remember old grandfather weasel?”
then__<label>__PRON old__<label>__ADJ father__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN would__<label>__PRT say__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN did__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON remember__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ grandfather__<label>__NOUN weasel__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“click, click, click,” went old mother bun’s knitting needles, as she knitted scarfs and sweaters and caps for the animals.
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN click__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. click__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. click__<label>__VERB ,âĢĿ__<label>__. went__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN knitting__<label>__VERB needles__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. as__<label>__ADP she__<label>__PRON knitted__<label>__VERB scarfs__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ sweaters__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ caps__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET animals__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
one evening old father bun said:
one__<label>__DET evening__<label>__VERB old__<label>__ADJ father__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN said__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“are the stockings ready to hang? because it is almost time for santa claus.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET stockings__<label>__NOUN ready__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT hang__<label>__VERB ?__<label>__. because__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON is__<label>__VERB almost__<label>__VERB time__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP santa__<label>__ADJ claus__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
old mother bun got out a big stocking, a little stocking, and a middle-sized stocking, saying:
old__<label>__DET mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN got__<label>__VERB out__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET big__<label>__ADJ stocking__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. a__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ stocking__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ a__<label>__DET middle__<label>__ADJ -__<label>__. sized__<label>__NUM stocking__<label>__VERB ,__<label>__. saying__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“we’ll hang up three, though it seems so funny; we’ll put one up for the runaway bunny.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN we__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT hang__<label>__VERB up__<label>__PRON three__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. though__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON seems__<label>__VERB so__<label>__DET funny__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. we__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB ll__<label>__PRT put__<label>__VERB one__<label>__DET up__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
so there were three stockings hanging by the fireplace. and every hour it grew nearer and nearer christmas eve.
so__<label>__DET there__<label>__PRON were__<label>__VERB three__<label>__NUM stockings__<label>__NOUN hanging__<label>__VERB by__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET fireplace__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ every__<label>__DET hour__<label>__NOUN it__<label>__PRON grew__<label>__VERB nearer__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ nearer__<label>__ADJ christmas__<label>__NOUN eve__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
now wasn’t it odd? at this very minute the runaway bunny was saying:
now__<label>__PRON wasn__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT it__<label>__PRON odd__<label>__ADJ ?__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP this__<label>__DET very__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN the__<label>__DET runaway__<label>__ADJ bunny__<label>__NOUN was__<label>__VERB saying__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“by my stubby tail, at least i remember that santa claus comes late in december!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN by__<label>__ADP my__<label>__PRON stubby__<label>__ADJ tail__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. at__<label>__ADP least__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON remember__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET santa__<label>__ADJ claus__<label>__NOUN comes__<label>__VERB late__<label>__. in__<label>__ADP december__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__.
he looked down the path that led to the woods toward old mother bun’s home, singing:
he__<label>__PRON looked__<label>__VERB down__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET path__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP led__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT the__<label>__DET woods__<label>__NOUN toward__<label>__ADP old__<label>__ADJ mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN home__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. singing__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“ha, ha! i must be off to-day. i’m running away! i’m running away!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ha__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. ha__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON must__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB off__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. day__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
he ran on happily.
he__<label>__PRON ran__<label>__VERB on__<label>__ADP happily__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
suddenly he stopped and remembered he had no presents for old mother bun and old father bun. so back he went hippety-hop, hippety-hop, to his little house; and up he went into the attic and looked in an old trunk.
suddenly__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON stopped__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ remembered__<label>__VERB he__<label>__PRON had__<label>__VERB no__<label>__ADJ presents__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP old__<label>__DET mother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ old__<label>__ADJ father__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. so__<label>__DET back__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB hippety__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. hippety__<label>__NOUN -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. to__<label>__PRT his__<label>__PRON little__<label>__ADJ house__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ up__<label>__PRON he__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB into__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET attic__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ looked__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP an__<label>__DET old__<label>__ADJ trunk__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“ha, ha!” he cried. “i call this fun; here is a pipe for grandfather bun.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ha__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. ha__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON cried__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON call__<label>__VERB this__<label>__DET fun__<label>__ADJ ;__<label>__. here__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET pipe__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP grandfather__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
sure enough, there was a brand new pipe in a red velvet case. he looked down deeper in the trunk and found something else.
sure__<label>__ADJ enough__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. there__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET brand__<label>__ADJ new__<label>__ADJ pipe__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET red__<label>__ADJ velvet__<label>__ADJ case__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON looked__<label>__VERB down__<label>__PRON deeper__<label>__ADJ in__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET trunk__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ found__<label>__VERB something__<label>__PRON else__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__.
“ha, ha!” he cried. “presents for everyone! here are spectacles for grandmother bun.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN ha__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. ha__<label>__NOUN !âĢĿ__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON cried__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN presents__<label>__NOUN for__<label>__ADP everyone__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. here__<label>__. are__<label>__VERB spectacles__<label>__VERB for__<label>__ADP grandmother__<label>__NOUN bun__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
he put his presents in a little bag and went off hippety-hop, singing:
he__<label>__PRON put__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON presents__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET little__<label>__ADJ bag__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ went__<label>__VERB off__<label>__PRON hippety__<label>__NUM -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NUM ,__<label>__. singing__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i hope i shall get there by break of day; i’m running away! i’m running away!”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON hope__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON shall__<label>__PRT get__<label>__VERB there__<label>__PRON by__<label>__ADP break__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP day__<label>__NOUN ;__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB m__<label>__NOUN running__<label>__VERB away__<label>__PRON !âĢĿ__<label>__.
sometimes he stopped to rest and cried:
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“my fur and whiskers! it’s cold as ice! i forgot my mittens, so warm and nice.”
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his little sweater did not keep him warm enough.
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his little paws were very cold! his long ears were even colder! he was getting colder every minute as he went hippety-hop across the snow!
his__<label>__PRON little__<label>__ADJ paws__<label>__NOUN were__<label>__VERB very__<label>__DET cold__<label>__ADJ !__<label>__. his__<label>__PRON long__<label>__ADJ ears__<label>__NOUN were__<label>__VERB even__<label>__PRON colder__<label>__ADJ !__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB getting__<label>__VERB colder__<label>__ADJ every__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN as__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON went__<label>__VERB hippety__<label>__PRT -__<label>__. hop__<label>__NOUN across__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET snow__<label>__NOUN !__<label>__.
the next minute he jumped into such a deep snowdrift that only his long ears stuck out. the snow got into his nose and eyes until he could scarcely breathe. he tried to wriggle out, but the drift held him fast.
the__<label>__DET next__<label>__DET minute__<label>__NOUN he__<label>__PRON jumped__<label>__VERB into__<label>__ADP such__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET deep__<label>__ADJ snowdrift__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__ADP only__<label>__PRON his__<label>__PRON long__<label>__ADJ ears__<label>__NOUN stuck__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON .__<label>__. the__<label>__DET snow__<label>__NOUN got__<label>__VERB into__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON nose__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ eyes__<label>__NOUN until__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON could__<label>__PRT scarcely__<label>__PRON breathe__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON tried__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT wriggle__<label>__VERB out__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET drift__<label>__NOUN held__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON fast__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__.
tinkle, tinkle, tinkle went some sleigh bells. and a funny old man, dressed in fur from top to toe and carrying a big pack on his back, came riding along.
tinkle__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. tinkle__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. tinkle__<label>__NOUN went__<label>__VERB some__<label>__PRON sleigh__<label>__ADJ bells__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ a__<label>__DET funny__<label>__ADJ old__<label>__ADJ man__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. dressed__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP fur__<label>__NOUN from__<label>__ADP top__<label>__NOUN to__<label>__PRT toe__<label>__NOUN and__<label>__CONJ carrying__<label>__VERB a__<label>__DET big__<label>__ADJ pack__<label>__NOUN on__<label>__ADP his__<label>__PRON back__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. came__<label>__VERB riding__<label>__VERB along__<label>__ADP .__<label>__.
he was singing:
he__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB singing__<label>__VERB :__<label>__.
“i carry presents, as is my habit, aha! i think i see a rabbit.”
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he got out of his sleigh and waded into the snowdrift from which the bunny’s ears stuck out.
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then he pulled the runaway bunny out by the ears.
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the runaway bunny shook the snow from his fur and looked at the funny old man.
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“why, it’s santa claus!” shouted that surprised bunny. “hurrah!”
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“tut, tut! this is no time of night for little bunnies to be out in the cold!” cried santa claus. “come with me and you shall ride in my pack, where you will be warm and dry.”
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so the runaway bunny jumped into santa’s pack and almost buried himself among the toys. then he rode away, singing:
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“it’s fun to go in santa’s sleigh, i’m riding away! i’m riding away!”
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they slid down many chimneys and climbed over many roofs. then away they rode until by and by they came to the home of father and mother bun. they peeped in at the window. there sat old father and mother bun fast asleep in their armchairs.
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as santa claus crept down the chimney, he whispered to the runaway bunny, “you may help me, little bunny. you may trim the stockings with holly.”
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so he took a bunch of holly from his pack and the runaway bunny fastened sprays of it on the stockings.
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then santa whispered:
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“curl up in a stocking and go to sleep; be still as a mouse, and don’t you peep!”
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so the runaway bunny took off his little sweater, so that he would not be too hot in the warm stocking. then santa tucked him into old mother bun’s stocking. he put her presents on the floor. then he filled old father bun’s stocking from top to toe.
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he left a card on the table. he wrote on the card:
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“santa was here to pay a call; a merry christmas to one and all!”
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did they have a merry christmas? well, i should think they did!
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early christmas morning, old mother bun awoke and cried:
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“i don’t see well, but it seems funny— those look like the ears of the runaway bunny!”
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next old father bun awoke and said:
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“i see very well—i have formed the habit; those look like the ears of the runaway rabbit.”
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then father bun took hold of one ear and mother bun took hold of the other ear, and they pulled the runaway bunny out of the stocking.
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they all cried, “merry christmas!”
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then the runaway bunny gave mother bun her spectacles and father bun his pipe. and they had a merry time with the presents santa claus had brought them.
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old mother bun gave the runaway bunny a new cap and sweater, and old father bun gave him a new sled. then the pair kissed him on both cheeks and begged him to live with them always. he said he would.
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then the runaway bunny put on his new cap and sweater and went coasting downhill on his new sled.
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the very last words that i heard him say were, “with grandpa and grandma bun i’ll stay, and if i live a year and a day, i’m entirely cured of running away!”
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i wonder if he ever ran away after that. i forgot to ask him!
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if i were a bunny, i do declare, i’d hang up a stocking with greatest care; and i’d always be very good because i’d hope for a visit from santa claus. and every winter i’d have the fun of spending christmas with grandma bun.
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who’ll fill our stockings from top to toe? jolly old santa claus! who’ll laugh at the stockings all in a row? jolly old santa claus! and all the children and bunnies cry, “hurrah! hurrah! he is riding by!”
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histology of medicinal plants
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william mansfield, a.m., phar.d.
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professor of histology and pharmacognosy, college of pharmacy of the city of new york columbia university
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total issue, four thousand
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new york john wiley & sons, inc. london: chapman & hall, limited
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copyright, 1916, by william mansfield
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the object of the book is to provide a practical scientific course in vegetable histology for the use of teachers and students in schools and colleges.
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the medicinal plants are studied in great detail because they constitute one of the most important groups of economic plants. the cells found in these plants are typical of the cells occurring in the vegetable kingdom; therefore the book should prove a valuable text-book for all students of histology.
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the book contains much that is new. in part ii, which is devoted largely to the study of cells and cell contents, is a new scientific, yet practical, classification of cells and cell contents. the author believes that his classification of bast fibres and hairs will clear up much of the confusion that students have experienced when studying these structures.
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the book is replete with illustrations, all of which are from original drawings made by the author. as most of these illustrations are diagnostic of the plants in which they occur, they will prove especially valuable as reference plates.
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the material of the book is the outgrowth of the experience of the author in teaching histology at the college of pharmacy of the city of new york, columbia university, and of years of practical experience gained by examining powdered drugs in the laboratory of a large importing and exporting wholesale drug house.
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the author is indebted to ernest leitz and bausch & lomb optical company for the use of cuts of microscopic apparatus used in part i of the book.
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the author also desires to express his appreciation to professor walter s. cameron, who has rendered him much valuable aid.
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columbia university, september, 1916.
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simple and compound microscopes and microscopic technic
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the simple microscopes
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how to use the microscope
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how to mount specimens
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tissues, cells and cell contents
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the epidermis and periderm
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histology of roots, rhizomes, stems, barks, woods, flowers, fruits and seeds
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roots and rhizomes
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arrangement of vascular bundles
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table of illustrations
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simple and compound microscopes and microscopic technic
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the simple microscopes
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the simple microscopes of to-day have a very wide range of application and a corresponding variation in structure and in appearance.
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simple microscopes are used daily in classifying and studying crude drugs, testing linen and other cloth, repairing watches, in reading, and identifying insects. the more complex simple microscopes are used in the dissection and classification of flowers.
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the more complicated simple microscope consists of two or more lenses. the double and triple magnifiers consist of two and three lenses respectively.
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when an object is viewed through three lenses, the magnification is greater than when viewed through one or two lenses, but a smaller part of the object is magnified.
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forms of simple microscopes
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steinheil aplanatic lenses
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the illustration of robert hooke’s microscope (fig. 7) will convey to the mind more eloquently than words the crudeness of the early microscopes, especially when it is compared with the present-day microscopes.
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structure of the compound microscope
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the parts of the compound microscope (fig. 8) may be grouped into--first, the mechanical, and, secondly, into the optical parts.
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the mechanical parts
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the optical parts
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the longer the tube the lower the magnification. for instance, a two-inch ocular magnifies less than an inch and a half, a one-inch less than a three-fourths of an inch, etc.
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the greater the curvature of the lenses of the ocular the higher will be the magnification and the shorter the tube-length.
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forms of compound microscopes
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the following descriptions refer to three different models of compound microscopes: one which is used chiefly as a pharmacognostic microscope, one as a research microscope stand, while the third type represents a research microscope stand of highest order, which is used at the same time for taking microphotographs.
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the research microscope
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special research microscope
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if compared with the regular biological microscope, the polarization microscope is found characteristic of the following points: it is supplied with a polarization arrangement. the latter consists of a polarizer and analyzer. the polarizer is situated in a rotating mount beneath the condensing system. the microscope, of which the diagram is shown, possesses a triple “ahrens” prism of calcite. the entering light is divided into two polarized parts, situated perpendicularly to each other. the so-called “ordinary” rays are reflected to one side by total reflection, which takes place on the inner cemented surface of the triple prism, allowing the so-called “extraordinary” rays to pass through the condenser. if the prism is adjusted to its focal point, it is so situated that the vibration plane of the extra-ordinary rays are in the same position as shown in the diagram of the illustration.
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the analyzer is mounted within the microscope-tube above the objective. situated on a sliding plate, it can be shifted into the optical axis whenever necessary. the analyzer consists of a polarization prism after glan-thompson. the polarization plane of the active extraordinary rays is situated perpendicularly to the plane as shown in the diagram. the polarization prisms are ordinarily crossed. in this position the field of the microscope is darkened as long as no substance of a double refractive index has been introduced between the analyzer and polarizer. in rotating the polarizer up to the mark 90, the polarization prisms are mounted parallel and the field of the microscope is lighted again. immediately above the analyzer and attached to the mounting of the analyzer a lens of a comparatively long focal length has been placed in order to overcome the difference in focus created by the introduction of the analyzer into the optical rays.
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the condensing system is mounted on a slider, and, furthermore, can be raised and lowered along the optical centre by means of a rack-and-pinion adjustment. if lowered sufficiently, the condensing system can be thrown to the side to be removed from the optical rays. the condenser consists of three lenses. the two upper lenses are separately mounted to an arm, which permits them to be tilted to one side in order to be removed from the optical rays. the complete condenser is used only in connection with high-power objectives. as far as low-power objectives are concerned, the lower condensing lens alone is made use of, and the latter is found mounted to the polarizer sleeve. below the polarizer and above the lower condensing lens an iris diaphragm is found.
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the microscope table is graduated on its periphery, and, furthermore, carries a vernier for more exact reading.
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the polarization microscope is not furnished with an objective nose-piece. every objective, however, is supplied with an individual centring head, which permits the objective to be attached to an objective clutch-changer, situated at the lower end of the microscope-tube. the centring head permits the objectives to be perfectly centred and to remain centred even if another objective is introduced into the objective clutch-changer.
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at an angle of 45 degrees to the polarization plane of polarizer and analyzer, a slot has been provided, which serves for the introduction of compensators.
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between analyzer and ocular, another slot is found which permits the amici-bertrand lens to be introduced into the optical axis. the slider for the bertrand lens is supplied with two centring screws whereby this lens can be perfectly and easily centred. the bertrand lens serves the purpose of observing the back focal plane of the microscope objective. in order to allow the bertrand lens to be focused, the tube can be raised and lowered for this purpose. an iris diaphragm is mounted above the bertrand lens.
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if the bertrand lens is shifted out of the optical axis, one can observe the preparation placed upon the microscope stage and, depending on its thickness or its double refraction, the interference color of the specimen. this interference figure is called the orthoscopic image and, accordingly, one speaks of the microscope as being used as an “orthoscope.”
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after the bertrand lens has been introduced into the optical axis, the interference figure is visible in the back focal plane of the objective. each point of this interference figure corresponds to a certain direction of the rays of the preparation itself. this arrangement permits observation of the change of the reflection of light taking place in the preparation, this in accordance with the change of the direction of the rays. this interference figure is called the conoscopic image, and, accordingly, the microscope is used as a “conoscope.”
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many types of polarization microscopes have been constructed; those of a more elaborate form are used for research investigations; others of smaller design for routine investigations.
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in making critical examinations of powdered drugs, it is frequently necessary to measure the elements under observation, particularly in the case of starches and crystals.
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standardization of ocular micrometer with low-power objective
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having placed the ocular micrometer in the eye-piece and the stage micrometer on the centre of the stage, focus until the lines of the stage micrometer are clearly seen. then adjust the scales until the lines of the stage micrometer are parallel with and directly under the lines of the ocular micrometer.
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ascertain the number of lines of the stage micrometer covered by the one hundred lines of the ocular micrometer. then calculate the value of each line of the ocular. this is done in the following manner:
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if the one hundred lines of the ocular cover seventy-five lines of the stage micrometer, then the one hundred lines of the ocular micrometer are equivalent to seventy-five one-hundredths, or three-fourths, of a millimeter. one line of the ocular micrometer will therefore be equivalent to one-hundredth of seventy-five one-hundredths, or .0075 part of a millimeter, and as a micron is the unit for measuring microscopic objects, this being equivalent to one one-thousandth of a millimeter, the value of each line of the ocular will therefore be 7.5 microns.
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with the high-power objective in place, ascertain the value of each line of the ocular. if one hundred lines of the ocular cover only twelve lines of the stage micrometer, then the one hundred lines of the ocular are equivalent to twelve one-hundredths of a millimeter, the value of one line being equivalent to one one-hundredth of twelve one-hundredths, or twelve ten-thousandths of a millimeter, or .0012, or 1.2µ.
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it will therefore be seen that objects as small as a thousandth of a millimeter can be accurately measured by the ocular micrometer.
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in making microscopic measurements it is only necessary to find how many lines of the ocular scale are covered by the object. the number of lines multiplied by the equivalent of each line will be the size of the object in microns, or micromillimeters.
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moving objects by hand is tiresome and unsatisfactory, first, because of the possibility of losing sight of the object under observation, and secondly, because the field cannot be covered so systematically as when a mechanical stage is used for moving slides.
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a great many different types of camera lucidas or drawing apparatus are obtainable, varying from simple-inexpensive to complex-expensive forms. figs. 26, 27, and 28 show simple and complex forms.
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there are obtainable more elaborate microphotographic apparatus than the one figured and described, but for most workers this one will prove highly satisfactory. it is possible, by inclining the tube of the microscope, to make good microphotographs with an ordinary plate camera. this is accomplished by removing the lens of the camera and attaching the bellows to the ocular, focusing, and photographing.
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how to use the microscope
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in beginning work with the compound microscope, place the base of the microscope opposite your right shoulder, if you are right-handed; or opposite your left shoulder, if you are left-handed. incline the body so that the ocular is on a level with your eye, if necessary; but if not, work with the body of the microscope in an erect position. in viewing the specimen, keep both eyes open. use one eye for observation and the other for sketching. in this way it will not be necessary to remove the observation eye from the ocular unless it be to complete the details of a sketch.
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the water or oil should be removed from the objectives and from the slide when not in use.
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after the higher-powered objective has been used, the body should be raised, and the low-power objective placed in position. if the draw-tube has been drawn out during the examination of the object, replace it, but be sure to hold one hand on the nose-piece so as to prevent scratching the objective and abbé condenser by their coming in forceful contact. lastly, clean the mirror with a soft piece of linen. in returning the microscope to its case, or to the shelf, grasp the limb, or the pillar, firmly and carry as nearly vertical as possible in order not to dislodge the eye-piece.
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the illumination for microscopic work may be from natural or artificial sources.
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it has been generally supposed that the best possible illumination for microscopic work is diffused sunlight obtained from a northern direction. no matter from what direction diffused sunlight is obtained, it will be found suitable for microscopic work. in no case should direct sunlight be used, because it will be found blinding in its effects upon the eyes. natural illumination--diffused sunlight--varies so greatly during the different months of the year, and even during different periods of the day, that individual workers are resorting more and more to artificial illumination. the particular advantage of such illumination is due to the fact that its quality and intensity are uniform at all times. there are many ways of securing such artificial illumination, no one of which has any particular advantage over the other. some workers use an ordinary gas or electric light with a color screen placed in the sub-stage below the iris diaphragm. in other cases a globe filled with a weak solution of copper sulphate is placed in such a way between the source of light and the microscope that the light is focused on the mirror. modern mechanical ingenuity has devised, however, a number of more convenient micro lamps (fig. 30). these lamps are a combination of light and screen. in some forms a number of different screens come with each lamp, so that it is possible to obtain white-, blue-, or dark-ground illumination. the type of the screen used will be varied according to the nature of the object studied.
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care of the microscope
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if possible, the microscope should be stored in a room of the same temperature as that in which it is to be used. in any case, avoid storing in a room that is cooler than the place of use, because when it is brought into a warmer room, moisture will condense on the ocular objectives and mirrors.
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before beginning work remove all moisture, dust, etc., from the inner and outer lenses of the ocular, the objectives, the abbé condenser, and the mirror by means of a piece of soft, old linen. when the work is finished the optical parts should be thoroughly cleaned.
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if reagents have been used, be sure that none has got on the objectives or the abbé condenser. if any reagent has got on these parts, wash it off with water, and then dry them thoroughly with soft linen.
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the inner lenses of the eye-pieces and the under lens of the abbé condenser should occasionally be cleaned. the mechanical parts of the stand should be cleaned if dust accumulates, and the movable surfaces should be oiled occasionally. never attempt to make new combinations of the ocular or objective lenses, or transfer the objectives or ocular from one microscope to another, because the lenses of any given microscope form a perfect lens system, and this would not be the case if they were transferred. keep clean cloths in a dust-proof box. under no circumstances touch any of the optical parts with your fingers.
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preparation of specimens for cutting
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most drug plants are supplied to pharmacists in a dried condition. it is necessary, therefore, to boil the drug in water, the time varying from a few minutes, in the case of thin leaves and herbs, up to a half hour if the drug is a thick root or woody stem. if a green (undried) drug is under examination, this first step is not necessary.
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if the specimen to be cut is a leaf, a flower-petal, or other thin, flexible part of a plant, it may be placed between pieces of elder pith or slices of carrot or potato before cutting.
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short paraffin process
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in most cases, however, more perfect sections will be obtained if the specimens are embedded in paraffin, by the quick paraffin process, which is easily carried out.
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after boiling the specimen in water, remove the excess of moisture from the outer surface with filter paper or wait until the water has evaporated. next make a mould of stiff cardboard and pour melted paraffin (melting at 50 or 60 degrees) into the mould to a height of about one-half inch, when the paraffin has solidified. this may be hastened by floating it on cool or iced water instead of allowing it to cool at room temperature.
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the specimens to be cut are now placed on the paraffin, with glue, if necessary, to hold them in position, and melted paraffin poured over the specimens until they are covered to a depth of about one-fourth of an inch. cool on iced water, trim off the outer paraffin to the desired depth, and the specimen will be in a condition suitable for cutting.
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good workable sections may be cut from specimens embedded by this quick paraffin method. after a little practice the entire process can be carried out in less than an hour. this method of preparing specimens for cutting will meet every need of the pharmacognosist.
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long paraffin process
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small fragments of a leaf, stem, or root-tip are placed in chromic-acid solution, acetic alcohol, picric acid, chromacetic acid, alcohol, etc., depending upon the nature of the specimen under observation. the object of placing the living specimen in such solutions is to kill the protoplast suddenly so that the parts of the cell will bear the same relationship to each other that they did in the living plant, and to fix the parts so killed.
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after the fixing process is complete, the specimen is freed of the fixing agent by washing in water. from the water-bath the specimens are transferred successively to 10, 20, 40, 60, 70, 80, 90, and finally 100 per cent alcohol. in this 100 per cent alcohol-bath the last traces of moisture are removed. the length of time required to leave the specimens in the different percentages of alcohols varies from a few minutes to twenty-four hours, depending upon the size and the nature of the specimen.
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after dehydration the specimen is placed in a clearing agent--chloroform or xylol--both of which are suitable when embedding in paraffin. the clearing agents replace the alcohol in the cells, and at the same time render the tissues transparent. from the clearing agent the specimen is placed in a weak solution of paraffin, dissolved xylol, or chloroform. the strength of the paraffin solution is gradually increased until it consists of pure paraffin. the temperature of the paraffin-embedding oven (fig. 31) should not be much higher than the melting-point of the paraffin.
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the specimen is now ready to be embedded. first make a mould of cardboard or a lead-embedding frame (fig. 32), melt the paraffin, and then place the specimen in a manner that will facilitate cutting. remove the excess of paraffin and cut when desired.
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in using the collodion method for embedding fibrous specimens, as wood, bark, roots, etc., the specimen is first fixed with picric acid, washed with water, cleared in ether-alcohol, embedded successively in two, five, and twelve per cent ether-alcohol collodion solution, and finally embedded in a pure collodion bath.
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specimens prepared as described above may be cut with a hand microtome or a machine microtome.
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hold the section cutter (fig. 33) firmly in the hand with the flat surface next to the specimen. while cutting the section, press your arm firmly against your chest, and bend the wrist nearly at right angles to the arm. push the cutting edge of the microtome toward the body and through the specimen in such a way as to secure as thin a section as possible. do not expect to obtain nice, thin sections during the first or second trials, but continued practice will enable one to become quite efficient in cutting sections in this manner.
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when the examination of drugs is a daily occurrence, the above method will be found highly satisfactory.
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when a number of sections are to be prepared from a given specimen, it is desirable to cut the sections on a machine microtome, particularly when the sections are to be prepared for the use of students, in which case they should be as uniform as possible.
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great care should be exercised in cutting sections with a machine microtome--first, in the selection of the type of the microtome; and secondly, in the style of knife used in cutting.
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the thickness of the sections is regulated by mechanical means. after a section has been cut, the block containing the specimen is raised by turning a thumb-screw. in this microtome the knife, as in the rotary type, is fixed, and the block containing the specimen is movable.
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if the specimen has been infiltrated with, and embedded in, paraffin or collodion, the treatment of the sections after cutting should be different.
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in the case of paraffin, the sections are fastened directly to the slide, and the paraffin is dissolved by either chloroform or xylol. the specimen is then placed in 100, 95, and 45 per cent alcohol, and then washed in water. these sections are now stained with water-stains, brought back through alcohol, cleared, and mounted in canada balsam.
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if alcoholic stains are used, it will not be necessary to dehydrate before staining, and the dehydration after staining will also be eliminated.
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sections infiltrated with collodion are either stained directly without removing the collodion or after removal.
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forms of microtomes
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sections thicker than twenty microns may be obtained by turning the knob two or more times. the knife is fixed and is supported by two pillars, the base of which may be moved forward or backward in such a manner that the knife can be arranged with an oblique or right-angled cutting surface.
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care of microtomes
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when not in use, microtomes should be protected from dust, and all parts liable to friction should be oiled.
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microtome knives should be honed as often as is necessary to insure a proper cutting edge. after cutting objects, the knives should be removed, cleaned, and oiled.
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it should be kept clearly in mind that special knives are required for cutting collodion, paraffin, and frozen and woody sections. the cutting edges of the different knives vary considerably, as is shown in the preceding cuts.
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little attention is given in the present work to micro-chemical reactions for the reason that their value has been much overrated in the past. a few reagents will be found useful, however, and these few are given, as well as their special use. they are as follows:
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list of reagents
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in order accurately to measure micro-chemical reagents, it is necessary to have a standard 50 c.c. cylinder (fig. 39) graduated to c.c.’s. such a cylinder should form a part of the reagent set.
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how to mount specimens
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the method of procedure in mounting specimens for study varies according to the nature of the specimen, its preliminary treatment, and the character of the mount to be made. as to duration, mounts are either temporary or permanent.
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in mounting cross-sections, the method of procedure is similar to the above, with the exception that the glycerine jelly is placed at the side of the specimen and not in the centre. while melting the jelly, incline the slide in order to allow the melted glycerine jelly to flow gradually over the specimen, thus replacing the air contained in the cells and intercellular spaces. finish the mounting as directed above, but under no conditions should you stir the glycerine jelly with the section.
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if specimens, after having been embedded in paraffin or collodion, are cut, cleared, stained, and dehydrated, they are usually mounted in canada balsam. a small drop of this substance, which may be obtained in collapsible tubes, is placed at one side of the specimen. while inclining the slide, gently heat until the canada balsam covers the specimen. secure a cover glass by the aid of pliers, pass it through the flame three times, and lower it slowly while holding it in an inclined position. press gently on the cover glass with the needle-handle, and keep in a horizontal position for twenty-four hours, then place directly in a slide box or cabinet, since no sealing is required.
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glycerine is sometimes used to make permanent mounts, but it is unsatisfactory, because the cover glass is easily removed and the specimen spoiled or lost, unless ringed--a procedure which is not easily accomplished. if the specimen is to be mounted in glycerine, it must first be placed in a mixture of alcohol, glycerine, and water, and then transferred to glycerine. lactic acid is another permanent liquid-mounting medium, which is unsatisfactory in the same way as glycerine, but like glycerine, there are certain special cases where it is desirable to use it. when this is used, the slides should be kept in a horizontal position, unless ringed.
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cover glasses are either square or round. of each there are four different thicknesses and two different sizes. the standard thicknesses are: the small size is designated three-fourths and the large size seven-eighths.
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slide and cover-glass forceps
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there are various forms of cover-glass holders, but only two types as far as the method of securing the cover glass is concerned. first, there are the bacteriological and the histological forceps (fig. 45), which are self-closing. the two blades of such forceps must be forced apart by pressure in securing the cover glass. the second type of forceps is that in which the two blades are normally separated (fig. 46), it being necessary to press the blades to either side of the cover glass in order to secure and hold it. there is a modification of this type of forceps which enables one to lock the blades by means of a sliding pin (fig. 47), after the cover glass has been secured. it is well to accustom oneself to one type, for by so doing one may become dexterous in its use.
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powdered arnica flowers no. 80--box a--600.
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preservation of mounted specimens
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tissues cells, and cell contents
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while cells vary greatly in size, form, color, contents, and function, still in certain respects their structure is identical.
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other cell contents characteristic of certain cells are crystals, starch, aleurone, oil, and alkaloids. the detailed discussion of these substances will be deferred until a later chapter.
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indirect cell division (karyokinesis)
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the purpose of cell division is to increase the number of cells of a tissue, an organ, an organism, or to increase the number of organisms, etc. such cell divisions involve, first, an equal division of the protoplast and, secondly, the formation of a wall between the divided protoplasts. the first changes in structure of a cell undergoing division occur in the nucleus.
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changes in a cell undergoing division
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origin of multicellular plants
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all multicellular plants are built up by the repeated cell division of one original cell. if the cells formed are similar in structure and function, they form a tissue. in multicellular plants many different kinds of tissues will be formed as a result of cell division, since there are many different functions to be performed by such an organism. when several of these tissues become associated and their functions are correlated, they form an organ. the association of several organs in one form makes an organism. the oak-tree is an organism. it is made up of organs known as flowers, leaves, stems, roots, etc. each of these organs is in turn made up of several kinds of tissue. in some cases it is difficult to designate a single function to an aggregation of cells (tissue). in fact, a tissue may perform different functions at different periods of its existence or it may perform two functions at one and the same time; as an example, stone cells, whose primary function is mechanical, in many cases function as storage tissue. the cells forming the tissues of the plant, in fact, show great adaptability in regard to the function which they perform. nevertheless there is a predominating function which all tissues perform, and the structure of the cells forming such tissues is so uniform that it is possible to classify them.
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the functional classification of tissues is chosen for the purpose of demonstrating the adaptation of cell structure to cell function. if the cells performing a similar function in the different plants were identical in number, distribution, form, color, size, structure, and cell contents, there would not be a science of histology upon which the art of microscopic pharmacognosy is based. it may be said, however, with certainty, that the cells forming certain of the tissues of any given species of plant will differ in a recognizable degree from cells performing a similar function in other species of plants. often a tissue is present in one plant but absent in another. for example, many aquatic plants are devoid of mechanical fibrous cells. the barks of certain plants have characteristic stone cells, while in many other barks no stone cells occur. many leaves have characteristic trichomes; others are free from trichomes, etc. yet all cells performing a given function will structurally resemble each other. in the present work the nucleus and other parts of the living protoplast will not be considered, for the reason that these parts are not in a condition suitable for study, because most drugs come to market in a dried condition, a condition which eliminates the possibility of studying the protoplast. the general structure of the cells forming the different tissues will first be considered, then their variation, as seen in different plants, and finally their functions.
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the epidermis and periderm
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the epidermis and its modifications, the hypodermis and the periderm, form the dermal or protective outer layer or layers of the plant.
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the epidermis of most leaves, stems of herbs, seeds, fruits, floral organs, and young woody stems consists of a single layer of cells which form an impervious outer covering, with the exception of the stoma.
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in cross-sections of the leaf the character of both the side and end walls is easily studied.
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in surface sections--the view most frequently seen in powders--the side walls are more conspicuous than the end wall (plates 2 and 3). this is so because the light is considerably retarded in passing through the entire length of the side walls, while the light is retarded only slightly in passing through the end wall. the light in this case passes through the width (thickness) of the wall only. the outer walls of epidermal cells are characteristic only when they are striated, rough, pitted, colored, etc. in the majority of leaves the outer wall of the epidermal cells is not diagnostic in powders, or in surface sections.
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the thickness of the end and side walls of epidermal cells differs greatly in different plants.
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as a rule, leaves of aquatic and shade-loving plants, as well as the leaves of most herbs have thinner walled epidermal cells than have the leaves of plants growing in soil under normal conditions, or than have the leaves of shrubs and trees.
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the widest possible range of cell-wall thickness is therefore found in the medicinal leaves, because the medicinal leaves are collected from aquatic plants, herbs, shrubs, trees, etc.
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the outer wall is always thicker than the side walls. even the side walls vary in thickness in some leaves, the wall next to the epidermis being thicker than the lower or innermost portion of the wall. frequently the outermost part of the side walls is unequally thickened. this is the case in the beaded side walls characteristic of the epidermis of the leaves of laurus, myrcia, boldus, and capsicum seed, etc. the thickness of the side walls of the epidermal cells of most leaves varies in the different leaves.
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in most leaves there are five typical forms of arrangement of epidermal cells: first, those over the veins which are elongated in the direction of the length of the leaf; and, secondly, those on other parts of the leaf which are usually several-sided and not elongated in any one direction. if the epidermis of the leaf has stoma, then there is a third type of arrangement of the epidermal cells around the stoma; fourthly, the cells surrounding the base of hairs; and fifthly, outgrowths of the epidermis, non-glandular and glandular hairs, etc.
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it should be borne in mind that in each species of plant the five types of arrangement are characteristic for the species.
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the character of the outer wall of the epidermal cells differs greatly in different plants. in most cases the wall is smooth; senna is an example of such leaves. in certain other leaves the wall is rough, the roughness being in the form of striations. in some cases the striations occur in a regular manner; belladonna leaf is typical of such leaves. in other instances the wall is striated in an irregular manner as shown in chirata epidermis. very often an epidermis is rough, but the roughness is not due to striations. in these cases the epidermis is unevenly thickened, the thin places appearing as slight depressions, the thick places as slight elevations. boldus has a rough, but not a striated surface.
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in certain leaves there are two or three layers of cells beneath the epidermis that are similar in structure to the epidermal cells. these are called hypodermal cells, and they function in the same way as the epidermal cells.
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hypodermal cells are very likely to occur on the margin of the leaf. uva-ursi leaf has a structure typical of leaves with hypodermal marginal cells. uva-ursi, like other leaves with hypodermal cells has a greater number of hypodermal cells at the leaf margin than at any other part of the leaf surface.
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the cutinized walls of epidermal cells are stained red with saffranin.
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in surface view the end walls are thick and wavy in outline; frequently the line of union--middle lamella--of two cells is indicated by a dark or light line, while in others the wall between two cells appears as a single wall. the walls are porous or non-porous, and the color of the wall varies from yellow to brown, to colorless. these cells always occur in masses, composed partially of entire and partially of broken fragments.
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in lobelia seed (plate 4, fig. 2) the line of union of adjacent cell walls appears as a dark line. the walls are wavy in outline, of a yellowish-red color and not porous.
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in henbane seed (plate 4, fig. 3) the line of union between the cells is scarcely visible; the walls are decidedly wavy, more so than in lobelia, and no pits are visible.
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in capsicum seed (plate 4, fig. 1) the cells are very wavy and decidedly porous, the line of union between the cell walls being marked with irregular spaces and lines.
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in belladonna seed (plate 5, fig. 1) the walls between two adjacent cells are non-striated and non-porous, and extremely irregular in outline.
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testa epidermal cells
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in star-anise seed (plate 5, fig. 2) the walls are irregularly thickened and wavy in outline.
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in stramonium seed (plate 5, fig. 3) the walls are very thick, wavy in outline, and striated.
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plant hairs (trichomes)
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in histological work plant hairs are of great importance, as they offer a ready means of distinguishing and differentiating between plants, or parts of plants, when they occur in a broken or finely powdered condition. there is no other element in powdered drugs which is of so great a diagnostic value as the plant hair. the same plant will always have the same type of hair, the only noticeable variation being in the size. in microscopical drug analysis the presence of hairs is always noted, and in many cases the purity of the powder can be ascertained from the hairs. botanists seem to have given little attention to the study of plant hairs. this accounts for the fact that information concerning them is very meagre in botanical literature, and, as far as the author can learn, no one has attempted to classify them. in systematic work, plant hairs could be used to great advantage in separating genera and even species. hairs are, of course, a factor now in systematic work. the lack of hairs is indicated by the term glabrous. their presence is indicated by such terms as hispid, villous, etc. in certain cases the term indicates position of the hair as ciliate when the hair is marginal. when hairs influence the color of the leaf, such terms as cinerous and canescent are used. in all the cases cited no mention is made of the real nature of the hair.
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in systematic work, as in pharmacognosy, we must work with dried material, and it is only those hairs which retain their form under such conditions which are of classification value.
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hairs are the most common outgrowths of the epidermal cells. they are classified as glandular or non-glandular, according to their structure and function. the glandular hairs will be considered under synthetic tissue.
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each group is again subdivided into a number of secondary groups, depending upon the number of cells present, their form, their arrangement, their size, their color, the character of their walls, whether rough or smooth, whether branched or non-branched, whether curved, twisted, straight, or twisted and straight, whether pointed, blunt, or forked.
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forms of hairs
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papillæ occur on the following parts of the plant: flower-petals, stigmas, styles, leaves, stems, seeds, and fruits. papillæ occur on only a few of the medicinal leaves.
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the under surface of both truxillo (plate 6, fig. 3) and huanuca coca have very small papillæ. the outermost wall of these papillæ are much thicker than the side walls. the papillæ of klip buchu (plate 6, fig. 4), an adulterant of true buchu, has large thick-walled papillæ.
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the velvety appearance of most flower-petals (plate 6, figs. 2 and 5) is due to the presence of papillæ. the papillæ of flower-petals are very variable. in calendula flowers (plate 6, fig. 1) they are small, yellowish in color, and the outer wall is marked with parallel striations which appear as small teeth in cross-section. the ray petal papillæ of anthemis consist of rather large, broad, blunt papillæ with slightly striated walls. the papillæ of the ray petals of the white daisy consist of papillæ which have medium sized, cone-shaped papillæ with finely striated walls. the papillæ of the flower stigma vary greatly in different flowers. in some cases two or more types of papillæ occur, but even in these cases the papillæ are characteristic of the species.
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the papillæ differ greatly in the case of the flowers of the compositæ, where two types of flowers are normally present--namely, the ray flowers and the disk flowers.
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in all cases observed the papillæ of the stigma of the ray flowers are always smaller than the papillæ of the stigma of the disk
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“no, i would ride roy. i asked for him just to see what dick would say, and when he didn’t want me to have him, i persisted, simply to tease him. and it has saved my life!” she cried hysterically.
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“not much doubt who stood to benefit by the plot!” muttered one of the men who had stood behind mabel at the gymkhana, but fitz nudged the speaker fiercely.
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“i don’t know what we’re all standing here for--in case our deceased friend’s sorrowing relations like to come back and wipe us out, i suppose. let me mount you, miss north. are you fellows going to stop out all night? had we better bring that along, do you think?”
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this was added in a lower tone, as he pointed to the robber’s corpse. after some demur it was decided to lay it across the saddle of brendon’s pony, which had found its way back to the rest with a pair of broken knees, and they rode back towards the gorge, the last man leading the laden pony, so that it might be kept out of mabel’s sight. as they approached the entrance to the ravine dr tighe came forward hastily to meet them.
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“look here,” he said, “i want some one to ride on to alibad at once. the commissioner has broken his knee-cap and a few other things, and major north’s is the nearest house, but mrs north mustn’t be frightened. milton, your pony’s a good one, i know, so just take it out of him. say nothing about miss north or brendon or anything, but tell mrs north the commissioner has had a nasty fall, and i am bringing him to her house with a fractured patella and a pair of smashed ribs. she can get things ready, and send on to my house for anything she doesn’t happen to have.”
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“surely the ladies had better go back with me, doctor?” asked milton, pausing as he was about to start.
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“tell major north to arrest the syce,” fitz shouted after the messenger as he disappeared in the darkness.
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“off with your coats, you young fellows!” cried dr tighe, as the thud of the pony’s steps upon the sand died away. “the commissioner has to be carried home somehow, and there’s not so much as a stick to make a stretcher of. we must tie the coats together by the sleeves, and manufacture a litter in that way.”
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no one dared to scoff, although no one could understand what the doctor meant to do; but working energetically under his directions, they succeeded in framing a sufficiently practicable litter. six of the party were chosen as bearers, and the others were to relieve them, their duty in the meantime being to lead the riderless horses and keep watch against a surprise. mabel and flora, who had been enjoying the luxury of shedding a few tears together in private, were placed at the head of the procession, and the march began. at first the litter containing the wounded man followed close after the two girls; but presently fitz, who was one of the bearers, felt his arm grasped.
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“let the ladies get ahead of us, please. i--i can’t stand this very well.”
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fitz understood. mr burgrave was suffering acutely in being carried over the rough ground, and he feared lest some sound extorted from him by the pain should acquaint mabel with the fact. the litter and its bearers dropped behind, and if now and then a groan was forced from the commissioner’s lips, his rival, at any rate, felt no contempt for the involuntary weakness. before half of the journey had been accomplished, a relief party, headed by dick, met them, and mr burgrave was transferred to a charpoy carried by natives, after dr tighe had made rough and ready use of the splints and strapping georgia had sent. a little later a detachment of the khemistan horse passed at a smart trot in the direction of the gorge. it was not now the rule, as in the early days of general keeling’s reign, for the regiment to sleep in its boots, but it was still supposed to be ready day and night to trace the perpetrators of any outrage and bring them to justice--rough justice, sometimes, but none the less impressive for that. the sight gave mabel a sense of safety and comfort, and she scouted flora’s proposal that she should come home with her for the night.
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“as if i would leave georgie alone, with all this extra work on her hands!” she said, as they turned in at the gate.
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“oh, mab, is it true about the commissioner?” cried georgia, coming out to meet them on the verandah.
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“yes; i am afraid he’s dreadfully hurt, poor man!”
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“was he riding with you when he fell?”
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“he--he was riding after me,” said mabel cautiously.
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georgia threw up her hands. “oh, if you could only have hurt any other man, or taken him to any house but this!” she cried; and mabel thought it both unkind and unfair, considering the circumstances.
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chapter viii. witness for the prosecution.
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hark! what was that? mabel sprang up in bed, her heart beating furiously, her hands clammy with fear. there was the sound of horses’ feet, the rattling of bridles, on every side. a wild impulse seized her to creep under the dressing-table--to hide herself anywhere, but a moment later she laughed aloud. the very last thing before going to bed, dick had told her for her comfort that not only would the usual sikh sentry keep guard over the commissioner’s slumbers, but the compound would be patrolled all night by the khemistan horse. she crept to the window and peered out between the slats of the venetians. yes; there they were--splendid men with huge turbans, and accoutrements glittering in the moonlight--pacing slowly to and fro upon their stout little horses. but how was it that there were two of them at that far corner of the compound, where she could scarcely distinguish their figures, and why had they paused as though to listen for something? mabel listened too, and presently, above the nearer noises of trampling hoofs and jingling bits, she heard the approach of a galloping horse. was it a scout coming in to give warning of a threatened attack? but no; the two men at the corner sat motionless on their horses, and as the sound came nearer and nearer she saw the flash of their tulwars. they were saluting--whom or what? mabel strained her eyes to see, but could distinguish nothing. then she remembered. it was general keeling to whom they were doing honour, as he rode his periodical rounds, watchful for the safety of his old province. a cold sweat broke out all over her, and in a panic of which she was heartily ashamed even at the moment, she scurried back to bed and gave herself up to more and more violent paroxysms of horror. of what use were sentinels against such a visitant as this? suppose it was his will to come closer, to come up to the house, to enter? what could be more likely? she lifted her head for a moment and listened again. surely that was a horse’s tread upon the drive, approaching the door? in reality, the intruder was only one of the patrols, but in the state of ungovernable terror in which mabel was plunged this did not occur to her, and she buried her head under the bed-clothes and screamed.
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“i’ll sit by you till you are asleep,” she whispered; “but you mustn’t make such a noise. you’ll wake the commissioner, and he has only just dropped off to sleep, poor man!”
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“i know i’m a fearful baby,” confessed mabel, restored to calmness by the eminently practical nature of georgia’s benevolence, “but i was so horribly frightened. is poor mr burgrave very bad?”
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“it was a nasty accident,” replied georgia, with professional caution.
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“what have you done to him?”
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“ugh, cruel creature! ice this cold night? i suppose it’s because you hate him so much?”
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“hate him? what nonsense! how could we hate a man who has got hurt in trying to save you? he’s so brave about it, too.”
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“and he didn’t mind having you for a doctor?”
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“of course i was only helping dr tighe. but even if mr burgrave disliked my being there, he wouldn’t show it. when dr tighe told him he had better stay in this house until the splint is taken off, and not run the risk of jarring the limb, he looked at me, and said, ‘if my presence is not too troublesome to my kind surgeon here.’”
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“and smiled at you like a father. i know,” said mabel, with sleepy sarcasm. “georgie,” she roused herself suddenly, “i want to know--how is----”
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when mabel awoke in the morning she felt oppressed by an intolerable burden. body and mind seemed to be alike tired out, and it was an effort even to open her eyes. georgia and dr tighe were in the room looking at her, and the sight of them reminded her that there was some question she wanted to ask, but she could not remember what it was.
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“well, miss north,” said dr tighe, “nerves a bit jumpy this morning, eh? we’ll allow you a day in bed to settle them a little, but after that you must get up and help mrs north to look after her patient.”
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“oh, i’ll get up to-day,” said mabel faintly.
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“no, no; don’t be in too great a hurry. your brother will come in to ask you a question or two in a few minutes, and afterwards you shall try what a little more sleep and a little more slumber will do for you. it’s quite evident that nature never meant you for a frontierswoman.”
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“oh, doctor,” expostulated georgia, “think what she has gone through since she came here, and only out from home such a short time! besides, nothing so bad as this has ever happened in our neighbourhood before.”
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“at any rate, it’s the sort of thing you want to take to young if you’re to shine in it,” said the doctor. “life in these parts is not exactly pretty, but it has its exciting moments. nothing like what it had once, though. a predecessor of mine under general keeling used to head cavalry charges and take forts in the intervals of his medical duties. i have no pleasant little recreations of that sort for my leisure hours. now, miss north, don’t let me see you dare to smile at the thought of my heading a cavalry charge. there was some object in training in those days, but naturally a man puts on weight when there’s nothing to do but potter about an hospital.”
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“you see you’re not the only person in the world who hankers after thrilling experiences, mab,” said georgia, as she left the room with the doctor, and the words recalled to mabel their conversation of three weeks since. stretching out her hand, she took a mirror from the toilet-table and glanced at herself in it, only to drop the glass in horror. what a hollow-eyed wreck she looked! was it possible that one night could work such a change? she had had her wish and tried experiments in reality, and she recoiled from the result.
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“on the whole, i think i prefer the pleasing fictions of ordinary english life,” she said to herself.
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“good-morning, mab,” said dick’s voice, following a knock at the door. “i’m not going to disturb you long, but i want you to tell tighe and me what you can remember about last night’s business. it’s necessary for me to know, or i wouldn’t bother you.”
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with a shudder mabel let her thoughts return to that homeward ride for a moment, then looked up suddenly. “oh, now i remember!” she said. “my head is so stupid, i couldn’t think of it before. how is mr brendon?”
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both men had expected her to ask after the commissioner, and brendon’s name took them by surprise. “brendon? oh, he’s--he’s as well as he can be,” said dr tighe hastily, recovering himself first.
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“but how can he possibly be well? his arm must have been nearly cut off. he fell down under the horses’ feet. oh, you don’t mean--he can’t be----?”
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the silence was a sufficient answer, and she turned her face to the wall with a moan. brendon dead--for whom her kindliest feeling the evening before had been a more or less good-natured contempt--and he had practically given his life for her!
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“look here, mab,” said dick earnestly; “it won’t do the poor fellow any good to cry about him just now. what we want is evidence to convict the villains who did it.”
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“have you caught them?” came in a muffled voice from the bed.
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“i hope so. winlock, who went out to track them last night, had his own ideas on the subject, and posted part of his detachment in hiding among the rocks round dera gul. a little before dawn three men rode up, coming from nalapur way--not from our direction--but they and their horses were all dead-beat. winlock arrested them, feeling pretty certain they were the men he wanted, and had made a long round to avert suspicion before going home. they were bahram khan’s servants, sure enough, but he said they had been to nalapur for him, and he offered no objection to their being arrested. when you are better we must see if you can identify any of them, but now all i want is to know roughly what happened, on account of the--inquiry, which must take place to-day.”
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thus stimulated, mabel told her tale, helped out by questions from dick, but breaking down more than once. he took down what she said, and the doctor signed it as a witness, and then they left her to georgia’s ministrations. georgia found her patient excited and tearful, and sent rahah at once to the surgery to make up a composing draught.
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“now, mab, lie down and try to be quiet,” she said.
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“i’m afraid not,” said georgia reluctantly. “the fact is, mab, your syce didn’t wait to be caught. he went off while we were at the picnic.”
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“oh, well,” said mabel despairingly, “then i must do it, i suppose. it seems a kind of duty, as poor mr brendon was killed in trying to save me, to have the men who killed him punished. but it’s awful to think that three men will be hanged just because i saw their faces! they will be hanged, won’t they?”
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“i don’t know, really. it is very dreadful, mab, but there is one good thing about the whole affair. it may put things right on the frontier. both dick and i think bahram khan was so confident of mr burgrave’s support that he ventured on this outrage feeling sure that he would see him through. if these three men are proved to be his agents, it must open the commissioner’s eyes. he’s an englishman and an honourable man, though dreadfully mistaken, and he can’t go on backing him up after that. in fact, i’m sure he wouldn’t want to.”
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“no, i don’t think he would. and i suppose there is no question about it really? what do other people think?”
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“none of the men here have a doubt that it was bahram khan’s doing. as for the regiment, they are so indignant over the insult offered to dick in attempting to carry off his sister, that they would like to raze dera gul to the ground forthwith.”
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“oh, that’s the light in which they look at it? they don’t think of my feelings in the matter at all?”
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“i’m afraid not. you and i are merely dick’s chattels in their eyes, you see.”
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“i may be, but you are not. my ayah tara tells me all sorts of wonderful things about you, georgie, which she picks up from the other servants. do you know that when you kiss dick before he starts in the morning, they think you are putting a spell upon him to keep him safe all day, and bring him back to you all right at night?”
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georgia blushed like a girl. “that is really rather sweet,” she said. “rahah despises the people round here too much to tell me anything they say about us.”
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“oh, georgie,” cried mabel, with sudden envy, “i would give anything to care for any one as you do for dick! you look quite different when you talk about him. if only i wasn’t such a cold-hearted wretch! i wish i had cared for poor mr brendon, even; that would be better than caring for no one but myself.”
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she broke into a storm of tearless sobs, and georgia hailed the appearance of rahah with the sleeping-draught, which she was obliged to administer almost by force. it was some time in taking effect, but at last the sobs died away, and she was able to leave the patient in charge of her own ayah, while she went about her other duties. not until the morning of the next day did mabel wake again, very much ashamed of her behaviour, which she was conscious had not been exactly in accordance with the high aspirations she had formerly confided to georgia. resolved to redeem her character, she sprang out of bed at once, and when georgia came into her room on tiptoe, expecting to find her asleep, she was already dressed.
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“let me do something to help you,” she said eagerly. “you must have had a fearful amount of extra work thrown on you yesterday. what can i do?”
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“well, if you are so benevolently inclined, you might sit with the commissioner a little,” said georgia. “he was asking for you all day, and rather suspected us of concealing something dreadful from him.”
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“very well,” said mabel readily. the proposal exactly fell in with her wishes, for she had conceived a magnificent idea while dressing. by her diplomacy she would induce the commissioner to reverse his frontier policy.
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“miss north!” mr burgrave started up from his pillows as mabel entered the sickroom, but becoming suddenly conscious of his injuries, he sank back again stiffly. “excuse my left hand,” he added. “the other is off work just now. and how are you? really not much the worse?”
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“i had no business to be any the worse,” returned mabel. “nothing happened to me, thanks to you and--the others.”
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“ah, but the shock to the nerves must have been exceedingly severe,” said mr burgrave soothingly. “as i remarked to tighe yesterday, mrs north would have got over anything of the kind in an hour or two, but you are much more highly strung.”
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mabel was vaguely aware that the comparison was intended to be in her own favour, but she could not agree that the advantage was on her side, and she changed the subject hastily. “i don’t know how to thank you for what you did. every time i think of that evening i feel more and more how grateful i ought to be. and i am, indeed, but i can’t say what i should like.”
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mr burgrave raised his hand. “please don’t, miss north, or you will make me more miserable than i am already. how can i forget that i did nothing to help you? mr anstruther had that happiness, while i was lying on the ground under my horse.”
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“but you tried--you did all you could--you are so terribly hurt!” protested mabel.
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“yes, and that is my only comfort. i was hurt, and therefore i am here. no, on second thoughts, i don’t even envy anstruther. he did the work, but i have basely annexed the reward. to have rescued you was happiness enough for him. i, who was unsuccessful, am consoled by finding myself under the same roof with you for a fortnight. that is enough for me.”
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“how nice of you to say so!” mabel rose. “then i can leave you alone quite happily, and go and help georgia?”
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“miss north, you are not going already? what have i said to drive you out of the room? do you want me to pine away in melancholy solitude? after all, i did try to rescue you, as you were kind enough to say just now; but it will need your constant society and conversation to keep me from brooding over my failure.”
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“i’m afraid my society won’t be very cheerful,” said mabel, resuming her seat with a sigh. “you see, i can’t help feeling that what happened was a good deal my fault. if i had only told what i knew----”
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“well?” asked mr burgrave anxiously, as she paused.
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“ah, but if i had, you would not have believed it,” was the unexpected response, “any more than you would now.”
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“do you think i should be so rude as to question your word?”
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“you will when i tell you that i know the men who tried to carry me off were agents of bahram khan’s.”
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“you have evidence to support this very serious charge, i presume? are you able to identify the men?”
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“i suppose so; i haven’t tried yet. but, mr burgrave, i’m going to tell you something that only my sister-in-law knows--not even my brother, for i wouldn’t let her say anything to him. bahram khan did want to--to marry me.”
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“what?” cried the commissioner, starting up again. “you don’t mean to say that he has ever ventured to--to suggest such a thing to you?” rage and disgust strove for the mastery in his voice.
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“oh no, he has never said anything to me; but the day i was at dera gul the women talked of nothing else.”
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“oh, the women!” mr burgrave spoke quite calmly again, and with evident relief. “you must remember that bahram khan is a good deal more advanced in his notions than the other sardars of the province, and would like to imitate our ways with regard to ladies--english ladies, i mean. that is just the sort of thing that native women can’t understand. any polite attention he might offer you would be misconstrued by them into a cause for violent jealousy. their mistake made things extremely unpleasant for you at the moment, no doubt; but you need not torment yourself with thinking that he had any such preposterous idea in his head.”
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mr burgrave did not actually say that a lady accustomed to universal admiration was liable to perceive it even where it did not exist, but this was what mabel understood his slightly repressive tone to imply. ignorant of the eye-of-the-begum’s secret mission to georgia, she could not defend herself against the suggestion, and she grew crimson.
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“why don’t you say that i imagined the whole thing?” she demanded. “it’s not an experience i am proud of, i assure you. i told it you purely in the hope that it might open your eyes a little, but since you prefer to regard bahram khan as an interesting martyr----”
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“pray don’t mistake me, miss north. if i believed that bahram khan had really devised this dastardly plot against you, i would hunt him down like a bloodhound until he was delivered up to justice, though that would mean the death of all my hopes for this frontier. in one way, of course, it would simplify matters a good deal. i am not in the habit of bothering ladies with politics, but there can be no harm in saying that it gives me great pain to differ from a man i respect as i do your brother. he has done so much for the frontier that it seems almost presumption in me, a new-comer, to set my opinion above his. however, i have formed that opinion after long and careful study of the khemistan problem, and only the very strongest proof that i had been mistaken could induce me to alter it. but if you should be able to identify bahram khan’s servants as your assailants, it would be conclusive evidence that he is not the man i take him to be.”
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“and then you would see that dick was right, and leave him to manage things in his own way?”
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“my dear miss north, we are now soaring into the domain of improbabilities. if my opinion were once modified, it is possible that your brother’s view might prevail, or again, it might not.”
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“i am certain he would not be sorry if bahram khan was proved to be untrustworthy,” was mabel’s mental comment. “it would show him a way out of his difficulty. and now i shall be able to do it.”
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mabel was particularly cheerful all the rest of the day, as indeed she had a right to be, for was she not about to secure the safety of the frontier? warned by her experience of the morning, she made no further attempt to entrap mr burgrave into a political discussion, but contented herself with showing in numberless little ways her gratitude for the concession he was prepared to make. she even welcomed his offer to introduce her to the beauties of robert browning, a poet whose works she had been wont to regard with the mingled alarm and dislike which, in the case of a modern young lady, can only spring from ignorance of them. he sent a servant back to the bungalow he had occupied to fetch the two portly volumes which, as he told her, always formed a part of his travelling library, and she read aloud to him without a murmur a considerable portion of “paracelsus.” under the combined influence of his favourite poet and the reader’s voice, the commissioner forgot alike his injuries and the difficulties which beset his policy, and the household fairly basked in his smiles. this, at least, was what fitz anstruther said, but he had happened to intrude upon the reading as the bearer of an important message from dick, and was adversely affected by the peaceful scene.
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the next morning, as dick was going to his office, mabel intercepted him in the verandah. “i am ready to identify those men as soon as you like, dick,” she said.
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he looked at her in surprise. “wouldn’t you rather wait until you have recovered a little from the shock?” he asked.
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“oh no, i’m all right now. i should like to get it over, dick.”
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“well, you certainly seem to have picked up wonderfully. i suppose there’s no doubt of your knowing them again?”
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mabel shuddered. “how could i help recognising them? the red light, and those awful faces--it seems as if the whole thing was photographed on my mind. i should know them anywhere.”
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“oh, all right. it would be far worse, you know, to try to identify them and fail than to let the thing go altogether.”
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“you needn’t be afraid. only i should be glad not to have to look forward to it much longer.”
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“very well. no doubt it’s better to do it before the impression has a chance of fading from your mind. it’s a bother about the commissioner, though. he insists on being present, and georgie and tighe say he mustn’t on any account be allowed to move until they have wired his knee. we shall have to carry his bed out on the verandah, i suppose. just like him to think the show can’t go on without him. of course he’s afraid we shall contrive to bring his precious protégé in guilty in some underhand way.”
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mabel smiled as dick went down the steps, for she knew better. mr burgrave’s anxiety was not so much for bahram khan personally as for his own schemes, and not so much for them as for the continuance of his friendship with the north family. this knowledge, and the pleasing conviction that she alone possessed it, sustained her when she was summoned in the afternoon to identify her three surviving assailants.
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“come along,” said dick, entering the drawing-room; “they’re all here, and tighe has superintended the removal of the distinguished patient. they’re in the verandah outside his room. don’t be frightened, mab. georgia shall come too, and support you.”
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in spite of her resolution, mabel trembled a little as she entered the improvised police-court, realising once more what issues hung upon her words. fitz was there, and a hindu clerk, and the commissioner, propped up in bed. before them stood a dozen natives with turbans and clothes of various degrees of picturesque dirt and raggedness, guarded by as many dismounted troopers armed to the teeth.
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“now, mab, pick ’em out,” murmured dick, from behind his sister.
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“but there are too many men here. there were only three left,” objected mabel, in a hasty whisper.
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“well, and you have to tell us which they were. you didn’t think we were going to parade the three prisoners and invite you to swear to them, did you? now don’t waste the time of the court.”
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“this man,” she said, pointing to one, “and that one, and this.”
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“you are certain?” asked mr burgrave.
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“yes; i know their faces quite well.”
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this time an undisguised smile ran momentarily along the line of swarthy countenances, only to disappear before dick’s frown.
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“take them away,” he said to the troopers, and with a clanking of chains here and there, the prisoners and their guard departed.
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“what is the matter?” asked mabel in bewilderment, as she looked from one to the other of the three chagrined faces before her. “what have i done?”
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“oh, only identified as your assailants one of the chaprasis and a sowar in mufti and the gardener’s son, who were all peacefully going about their lawful business at the time of the outrage,” said dick bitterly. “you have made us the laughing-stock of the frontier.”
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“but--but weren’t the real men there at all?”
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“of course they were, but you passed them over.”
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“and what will happen to them now?”
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“they’ll be discharged for lack of evidence, that’s all. bahram khan will testify that they had been to nalapur on an errand for him, and other witnesses will swear that they saw and spoke to them there, and we can say nothing.”
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chapter ix. wounded hero and ministering angel.
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“‘are we not halves of one dissevered world, whom this strange chance unites once more? part? never! till thou, the lover, know; and i, the knower, love--’”
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read mabel, and paused, since it was evident that her auditor had some remark to make.
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“it has always seemed to me,” said mr burgrave, “that in this meeting between paracelsus and aprile, whose characteristics are so essentially feminine, the poet has typified for all time the union of the masculine and feminine elements in human nature. woman--the creature of feeling, man--the creature of reason, neither complete without the other. before perfection can be attained, the lover must learn to know, the knower to love.”
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“all women are not creatures of feeling,” said mabel.
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“but you would scarcely say that any woman was a creature of reason? such a--a person would not be a woman. she would be a monstrosity.”
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“i mean that i don’t think you can divide people by hard and fast lines in that way. it’s perfectly possible for a man to be a creature of feeling, and i know women who are quite as reasonable as any man.”
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“pardon me; you don’t altogether follow my argument. i yield to no one in my admiration of the conclusions at which women arrive. they are often--one might say very often--astonishingly correct, but they are purely the result of a leap in the dark, and not of any process of reasoning. and since this is so, no wise man can feel safe in acting upon them, while where the lady--as is not infrequently the case with her charming sex--is biassed by her personal feelings, they are liable to be dangerously deceptive.”
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mabel closed the book with a bang. “i wonder,” she said angrily, “at your talking in this way, as if i wasn’t horribly humiliated enough already. it was simply a chance that i didn’t identify the right men, and i know just the same that it was bahram khan who employed them.”
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mr burgrave raised his eyebrows slightly. “indeed, my dear miss north, you must pardon my maladroitness. i assure you that i had no intention whatever of alluding to the--let us say the disagreeable incident of yesterday. i was dealing purely with generalities.”
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“but you yourself know perfectly well--though you pretend not to think so--that it was bahram khan,” persisted mabel.
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the commissioner raised himself on his elbow and looked straight at her, and mabel quailed. “and is it possible,” he demanded, “that you believe i am deliberately sheltering from justice, contrary to the dictates of my own conscience, a wretch who has dared to raise his hand against an englishwoman--against a lady for whom i have the highest regard? no, miss north, you must be good enough to withdraw those words. even your brother and his wife are sufficiently just to believe me an honourable man, although we differ on so many points.”
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the stern blue eyes under the lowering brows seemed to pierce mabel through and through. she half rose from her chair, then sat down again, and repressed with difficulty a threatened burst of tears.
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“i--i didn’t mean that,” she faltered. “all i meant was that i didn’t see how you could think anything else when we are all so sure of it.”
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“allow me to say that i credit you with the sincerity you refuse to recognise in me. your brother has a strong prejudice--there is no other word for it--against bahram khan, which he has transmitted to you, and you look at the facts in the light of that prejudice. i was perfectly willing to be convinced of the young man’s guilt by the merest shred of anything that could be called evidence, but none was produced. the case against him broke down completely. would you have me withdraw my countenance from a man whom i conscientiously believe to be innocent, and ruin all his prospects, simply on the score of an unf-- unsupported opinion of yours? no, miss north, i won’t believe it of you. you must perceive that i am right.”
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“but you said our intuitions were wonderfully correct, and that your judgment was incomplete by itself,” urged mabel.
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“to be of any real value, the feminine intuition must be confirmed by the masculine judgment. its use is purely supplementary.”
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“oh, mr burgrave, you can’t really mean that! why, my brother would never dream of doing anything without consulting his wife. he thinks most highly of her judgment.”
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“surely major north is the best judge of his own affairs?” suggested mr burgrave dryly. “if he has confidence in his wife’s judgment, it is only natural he should wish to avail himself of it. such would not be my case, i confess, but then, the confidence would be wanting.”
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“but, according to you, i ought to model my opinions on some one’s,” said mabel--“dick’s, i suppose--and that’s just what you have been scolding me for doing.”
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“dick’s?” said the commissioner reflectively. “no, not dick’s, i think. that was not at all what i had in my mind, miss north. and have i been scolding you, or is that another mistaken intuition? you know how gladly i would have accepted your view of bahram khan’s guilt, if that had been possible?”
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“i know you said so, and i hoped so much----” mabel’s eyes were full of tears.
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“and do you know why that was?”
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“no, indeed, i can’t imagine.” she spoke hastily, scenting danger. the commissioner smiled paternally.
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“no? then will you do me the favour to consider the matter? ask yourself why i was willing, even anxious, to be converted from my own opinion. when you have arrived at the answer, i shall know.”
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he smiled at her again from his pillows, but mabel muttered something incoherent and fled.
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“i don’t know what to do!” she cried, in the seclusion of her own room. “does he think i am a baby, or a little school-girl? if he wants to propose, why can’t he do it straight out, and take his refusal like a man? i know how to manage that sort of thing. but to break the idea to me gradually in this way, as if i was--oh, i don’t know what--a sort of fairy that must be handled gently for fear it should vanish into thin air--it’s insufferable! and the worst of it is, i can’t quite make out how to stop it. i seem somehow to have got myself into his power.”
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to see as little of mr burgrave as possible, and to confine the conversation to safe subjects when she did meet him, was the remedy which naturally suggested itself, and mabel did her best to apply it; but, to her dismay, it did not appear to produce any effect. she had even a distinct feeling that it was just what mr burgrave had expected. moreover, it was extremely difficult to put in practice. now that the operation had been performed on the patient’s knee, and the leg fixed immovably in a splint, he was allowed to be lifted on a couch, and thus to spend his days in the society of his hosts. dick was out as much as ever, and when georgia was busy, it was obviously mabel’s duty to entertain the invalid. it is sad to relate that when escape proved impossible, she was reduced to assuming an intense interest in the study of browning, toiling through “sordello” with astonishing patience. but if any valid excuse offered itself for leaving mr burgrave to his own reflections, she embraced it gladly, and when the arrival in the neighbourhood of one of the nomadic tribes brought georgia a sudden rush of patients, she volunteered at once to help her in dealing with them.
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the surgery in which georgia received her visitors was a building standing by itself in the compound, and approached by a special gate in the wall, so that the ladies might come to see their doctor without fear of encountering any rude masculine gaze. as an additional precaution, when the wives of any of the chief men came to the surgery, they brought a youth with them as attendant, who mounted guard over a motley array of slippers at the door, and completed the security against profane intrusion. inside, georgia dealt with the cases individually in a small room at one end, while in the large room the visitors sat on the floor in rows, looking at the pictures on the walls, or listening casually to the biblewoman, trained by miss jenkins at the bab-us-sahel mission, who sat among them and read or talked. at the other end was another small room, where a patient and her friends were occasionally accommodated when georgia had any special reason for wishing to keep the case under her own eye, and the husband was more than usually indulgent. at other times there stood in this room a spring bedstead, which was never used, but which the women made up parties to inspect, personally conducted by rahah. there was a history attaching to this object of pilgrimage. two years before a lady globe-trotter of exalted rank, in the course of an adventurous flying visit to the frontier, had spent a night at the norths’, and been stirred to enthusiasm by georgia’s quiet but far-reaching work among the women. her grace deplored sympathetically the absence of a proper hospital, and offered to put her london drawing-room at mrs north’s disposal during her next visit home, that she might plead for funds to establish one. georgia pointed out, however, that the smallness of the station, and the uncertain character of the wanderings of the tribes, would probably result in leaving the hospital empty for eleven months out of the year, while if dick should be transferred to another post, its raison d’être would be gone. the duchess was disappointed, but not crushed. would mrs north allow her to send a gift, just one, to the surgery as it stood at present? she could not bear to think of the terrible discomfort the poor sick women must suffer.
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“you are ill, miss north! what is it? you don’t mean to say that another attempt has been made----?”
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“to carry me off? oh no, not quite so near home.” mabel laughed a little, and as she began to see more clearly, noticed how the remorseful anxiety in his face gave place to unfeigned relief. “no, i’m not ill, only silly and faint.”
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“try a whiff of this, then.” he passed her a bottle of salts. “i was allowed to revive myself with it when my doctors had been investigating the inside of my knee a little more closely than was pleasant.”
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“oh, don’t!” cried mabel faintly. “i never want to hear a doctor mentioned again.”
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“why, what has happened? has mrs north turned vivisectionist?”
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“no, of course not. it was only that i was helping her with her patients, and they had such awful things the matter with them that i--well, i ran away.”
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“and very wisely. do i understand that mrs north required you to expose yourself to the sight of these horrors? it is monstrous!”
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“she didn’t ask me to come; i offered to help her.”
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“in the hope of pleasing her, of course. it is all the same. in the abundant strength of mind and body she possesses, she forgets that other people are more delicately organised than herself. i am amazed at her lack of consideration.”
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“i won’t have you say such things about georgia!” cried mabel. “she is the best and dearest woman i know.”
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“i honour your enthusiasm. pray don’t mistake me. i have the highest possible esteem myself for mrs north, but she is a little too strenuous for my taste.”
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“i wouldn’t have her the least bit different. i wish i was like her, instead of being so silly and cowardly.”
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“no, miss north, let me beg of you not to wish that. i would not have you different. your sister-in-law’s training and her past experiences account for many--er--remarkable points in her character, but, believe me, your true friends would rather see in you this womanly shrinking from the sight of suffering than a bold determination to relieve it.”
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“i hope i may consider you one of those true friends?” mabel tried to infuse a note of strong sarcasm into her voice.
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“i hope you may. it is difficult, is it not, to feel confidence in one who differs so totally from mrs north and her husband? but this is a question upon which we will not enter--yet.”
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“could i say that i preferred to enter upon it at once?” mabel demanded angrily of herself when she had made her escape. “somehow he gets such an advantage over me by putting me down in that lofty way, and yet i don’t know how to stop it. the idea of his daring to criticise georgie to me!”
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but mr burgrave was even bolder than mabel imagined. returning the next morning from a ride with fitz anstruther, she was greeted by a laugh from georgia as she mounted the steps.
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“oh, mab, i have been having quite a scolding, and all about you! it’s clear that i am not worthy to have such a sister-in-law.”
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“georgie! you don’t mean that mr burgrave has been so rude as to----”
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“now, mab, you know better than that. it would be impossible to him to be rude. he simply took me to task, very mildly and calmly, about the way i neglect you, though i stand to you in the place of a mother----”
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“nonsense!” exclaimed mabel, her face scarlet.
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“so he says. it seems i am lacking in the tenderness which should be lavished upon you. our rough frontier life ought to be tempered to you by all sorts of sweetness and light which i have made no attempt to supply. i have been inconsiderate in bringing you into contact with the revolting details of my professional work, and a lot more. do forgive me, mab. i really haven’t meant to do all these dreadful things, but you did want to make acquaintance with realities, you know.”
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“that man is getting unbearable!” broke from mabel. “i shall speak to him--no, i shan’t,” she added wearily; “it’s no good. he gets the better of me somehow or other. can’t you put a little cold poison into his medicine, georgie? surely it’s a case in which the end would justify the means.”
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she went indoors with rather a forced laugh, and fitz, who had been looking out over the desert without appearing to notice what was being said, turned round suddenly to georgia.
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“can you honestly expect me to stand all this much longer, mrs north?”
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“all what?” asked georgia, in astonishment.
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“the commissioner’s intolerable assumption. any one would think he was miss north’s guardian, or her father, or even”--with a fierce laugh--“her husband. what right has he to take it upon himself to defend her?--as if she needed any defending against you! it’s nothing but his arrogant impudence.”
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“but still”--georgia spoke with some hesitation--“how does it affect you?”
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“oh, mrs north, you needn’t pretend not to have noticed. you know as well as i do that the commissioner and i are both--er--well, we are both awfully gone on miss north, and he isn’t playing fair. you have seen it, haven’t you?”
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“i have, indeed, but i hoped you hadn’t quite found out what your real feelings were.”
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“surely you must have thought me a hopeless idiot? i found out all about it the day she had that fall from her horse.”
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“so long ago as that? why, you had scarcely known her a fortnight!”
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“but i met her first years ago, before we went to kubbet-ul-haj. besides, what does it signify if i had only known her an hour? it is the kind of feeling one can only have for one woman in one’s life.”
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“but you didn’t say anything?” asked georgia anxiously.
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fitz laughed shamefacedly. “no, i have said nothing even yet. the fact is, it seemed sacrilege even to think of it. she is so lovely, so sweet, so far above me in every way! oh, mrs north, i could rave about her for hours.”
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“and so you shall,” was the cordial but unexpected response, “as often as you like, and i will listen patiently, provided that you still say nothing to her.”
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“no, no; things can’t go on in this way. you see, the commissioner has changed all that. he goes in and fights for his own hand in the most barefaced way, and i must get my innings too. after all, though it sounds horribly low to say it, i did kill the fellow that was carrying her off, and bring her back.”
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“of course you did. if that was all, you certainly deserve to win her.”
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“yes; but then the commissioner scores in having got hurt. he sees her for ever so long every day, and she is so awfully kind, talking to him and reading to him, and letting him prose away to her, that no wonder he thinks he is making splendid running. i only wish i had got hurt too.”
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“do you really?” asked georgia, with meaning in her tone.
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“no, mrs north, you’re right; i don’t. if we had both been hurt there would have been no one with the slightest chance of catching up the rascals. whether she takes him or me in the end, i did save her, at any rate.”
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“good,” said georgia encouragingly. “i like that spirit.”
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“well, now you know how things stand. you see what an advantage the kumpsioner sahib is taking of her gratitude and your kindness, and you can guess how i feel about it. tell me candidly, do you think i have the slightest chance? why did you say that you hoped i had not understood my own feelings?”
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“simply because a waiting game is your only chance. since you ask me, i will speak plainly. you are younger than mabel, you know; it is undeniable, unfortunately”--as fitz made a gesture of impatience--“and dick and i have got into the way of treating you like a son or a brother--a very much younger brother. we haven’t taken you seriously, and i am very much afraid mabel doesn’t either. mr burgrave holds a very high position, and he is a man of great distinction. we on this frontier cherish an unfortunate prejudice against him, of course, but elsewhere he is considered most charming and fascinating. how can she but feel flattered by his homage? and he has undoubtedly acquired a great influence over her; i can’t help seeing that. and yet i can’t make out that she cares for him, and i have watched her closely.”
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“well, that is one grain of comfort, at any rate,” said fitz disconsolately. “but he is not going to carry her off without my having the chance to say a word to her first, i can tell him.”
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georgia looked up anxiously. “don’t throw away your only hope,” she entreated. “what you have to do is to make yourself necessary to her. you have been managing very well hitherto--always ready to do anything she wanted. make yourself so useful to her as a friend that she would rather keep you as a lover than lose you altogether.”
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“oh, i say, mrs north, you don’t flatter a man’s vanity much!”
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“yes, i do. at least, i am showing that i think you capable of a great deal of self-effacement for the sake of winning her.”
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“and if the commissioner carries her off meanwhile?”
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“i don’t think he will, provided you let her alone. but if you worry her to have you, she may accept him just to be rid of your attentions. and then there will be nothing to be done but to bear it like a man.”
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“you don’t disguise the taste of your medicines much, mrs dr north. i’ll chew the bitter pill as i ride, and try to look as if i liked it. i was to meet the major at the old fort at ten o’clock. it’s awfully good of you to have listened so patiently to my symptoms, and prescribed for me so fully.”
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he ran down the steps and rode away, arriving at the fort a little late, to find that dick was already discussing with colonel graham the business on which they had come. a series of small thefts, irritating rather than serious, had occurred on the club premises of late, and the minds of the members were exercised over the question of their prevention in future. as fitz rode up dick and colonel graham were descending to the courtyard after making the round of the walls, and the former signed to him to wait where he was.
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“i never remember such a succession of petty robberies before,” said colonel graham. “the natives must be in a very unsettled state.”
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“i’m not sorry these things have happened,” returned dick. “in fact, i’m glad of it.”
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colonel graham glanced at him. “what have you got in your head?” he asked.
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“simply this. i suppose you believe, as i do, that the thief gets in by climbing over the wall, while the watchman is busy guarding the gateway and never thinks that there is any other means of entering?”
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“that’s my idea. in a climate like this mud-brick is bound to go pretty soon if it isn’t looked after, and for years the rain has washed it down into these rubbish-heaps, till they are as good as so many flights of steps. what with the grass and bushes growing all about, it’s as easy as possible to get in. i could do it myself.”
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“then you agree that it would be as well to make it harder? i propose that we call a club meeting and invite subscriptions for the purpose of putting the walls into proper repair. otherwise we shall soon have the place down on our heads.”
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“but that sort of thing will take a long time to organise.”
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“good! are we to take the young fellows into our confidence?”
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“runcorn may as well know all about it. a sapper will be useful in deciding what it’s possible to do in the time. happily he and the canal people have kept the wall overlooking the water in tolerable repair. as for the other sides, we must clear away the rubbish from the foot of the walls, and build up the parapets where the bricks have weathered away. the bushes must go, naturally, and the ramparts be made a fairly safe promenade--for the ladies, of course. the tower stairs are awfully dangerous, and it will be quite natural to have them seen to, and the floors and loopholes may as well be looked after while we are about it, though we shall never get a satisfactory flanking fire without rebuilding the whole thing. i shall take it upon myself to present the place with a new gate--not obtrusively martial in appearance, but with a certain reserve strength about it. my wife will think me a terrible vandal for spoiling the beautiful ruin her father left behind him, but it’s obvious that the chaukidar will be able to look after the place better when there’s a gate to shut.”
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“i should say there won’t be much ruin left when you have done with it,” said colonel graham. “it’s a mere coincidence that our largest godown turns out to be in the way of the canal extension works, and has been condemned. there would be no harm in storing the corn and a few other little trifles in the vaults under the club-house, and it would give us an excuse for posting a sentry here at night.”
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“good,” said dick, in his turn. “what accomplished deceivers we shall be by the time this is over, if we live to see it!”
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“you think things are in a bad way?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON think__<label>__VERB things__<label>__NOUN are__<label>__VERB in__<label>__ADP a__<label>__DET bad__<label>__ADJ way__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“what do you think yourself?”
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“i? i have no opinion. you have been on this frontier much longer than i have, and you are in political charge. i’ve seen enough to know that there’s something queer going on, that’s all.”
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“i’ll tell you one thing that’s going on. five times in the last fortnight i have received secret information of tribal gatherings which were to be held without my knowledge. of course i made a point of turning up, and behaving just as if i had received an invitation in due form.”
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“well, that was all right, so far.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN well__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. that__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB all__<label>__PRON right__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. so__<label>__DET far__<label>__ADJ .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“yes, but think of the jirgahs that i did not hear of. what went on at them?”
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“i see; it looks bad. what do you propose doing?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN i__<label>__PRON see__<label>__VERB ;__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON looks__<label>__VERB bad__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__. what__<label>__PRON do__<label>__VERB you__<label>__PRON propose__<label>__VERB doing__<label>__VERB ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“what ought to be done is to revive the martial law proclamation, which has been in abeyance for the last four years. but i am not supreme here just now.”
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“surely the commissioner would not interfere with the exercise of your authority?”
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“the commissioner has imbibed so many horrors about the khemistan frontier that he is pleased every morning to find himself alive, and the house not burnt over his head. i believe he regards the improvement as due to his own presence here, and at the same time considers it an additional proof that khemistan may now be governed like all the other provinces. if i had things my own way, my very first move would be to deport burgrave, preferably to simla, where he could both be happy himself and a cause of happiness to others, but as it is, he will probably deport me.”
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“then you believe he has some trick on hand too?”
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“i’m sure of it. he is in constant communication with government. beardmore and his clerks come to him every day”--beardmore was the commissioner’s private secretary, and a man after his chief’s own heart, of the type that considers it has successfully surmounted a crisis when it has drawn up a state-paper on the subject, and has no inconvenient yearnings after energetic action--“and he is busy with them for hours, concocting a report on the state of the frontier, i suppose. when that is finished, we may expect the blow.”
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“what is it that you expect exactly? a friend of mine at headquarters tells me there’s a persistent rumour----”
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“that they intend to withdraw the subsidy, and cut loose from nalapur? just so. and that means the deluge for us. the blessed word non-intervention will bring about the need for intervention, as usual.”
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“our people will rise?”
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“not at first. bahram khan will probably remove his uncle quietly, and in order to still any unpleasant rumours, encourage raids on us, which will serve the further purpose of awakening the appetite for blood and loot. the sardars will be got to believe that we have only drawn back in order to advance better, and that their one chance is to make the first move. they will cross the border, and our people will join them.”
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“and we shall be thankful for the fort? north, in view of all this, what do you say to sending the ladies down to bab-us-sahel for a while?”
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“i don’t know,” answered dick hesitatingly. “i thought of suggesting to my wife that she should go down there and do some shopping.”
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“but you fancied she’d see through it? probably. she was born and bred here, and knows the weather-signs as well as you do. what’s the good of trying to throw dust in her eyes? put it to her plainly that, as things are, you would feel much happier if she was away, and she’ll go like a shot. your sister and my flora will go with her, and they’ll be a pleasant party.”
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“she won’t like going when there’s no sign of danger, and it might precipitate the crisis, too. perhaps when burgrave launches his thunderbolt----”
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“if you could only get him to escort the ladies down at once, we might pull through yet.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN if__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON could__<label>__PRT only__<label>__PRON get__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON to__<label>__PRT escort__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET ladies__<label>__NOUN down__<label>__ADP at__<label>__ADP once__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. we__<label>__PRON might__<label>__PRT pull__<label>__VERB through__<label>__ADP yet__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“no fear,” said dick bitterly, “until he’s done his worst.”
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chapter x. gaining a lover and keeping a friend.
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“no bathing to-day, mab!” laughed georgia, meeting mabel in her riding-habit in the hall.
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“you mean that we can’t ride? why not?”
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“now you look just like the prehistoric lady in the picture! because there’s a dust-storm coming on. i meant to tell you before, but you rushed away from the breakfast-table so quickly. i have been hurrying dick off, that he may get to the office before it begins.”
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“but how do you know there’s going to be a dust-storm at all? i thought that before they came on the sky was copper-coloured, and the air got like an oven?”
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“well, the sky is getting black, as you can see. dust-storms here are not confined to the hot weather, they come all the year round. it’s the merest chance that there hasn’t been one yet since you arrived.”
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“how horrid that it should come just to-day!” said mabel snappishly. “i told mr anstruther i was tired of riding simorgh, and he must really bring laili back. he said he couldn’t be sure she was cured yet, and i told him he might use a leading-rein if he liked, but that i meant to ride her. we weren’t going at all near the frontier, or anywhere in the direction of dera gul.”
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“my beloved mab, dust-storms don’t respect british territory, and if you had once been out in one you wouldn’t wish to repeat the experience, even if you were in a position to do it. go and take your habit off, and when mr anstruther comes, i will tell him to send the horses to the stables, and wait here until the storm is over. then you will have some one to talk to. see that the servants shut all your windows.”
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but when mabel emerged again from her darkened room into the lighted hall, the disappointment caused by the loss of her ride was mingled with a certain amount of ill-humour, due to an even more untoward occurrence. the ayah tara had chosen this particular morning for passing in review all her mistress’s best gowns and hats, with an eye to any little repairs that might be necessary, and having taken the garments from their respective boxes and spread them out all over the room, had sat down to contemplate them for a while before setting to work. she was not accustomed to the peculiarities of the khemistan climate, and the gathering darkness appeared to her only as the precursor of a thunderstorm. hence, when the first gust of raging wind whirled a cloud of gritty dust through the open windows, she was as much astonished as mabel herself, who was entering the room at the moment, and was almost knocked down. both mistress and maid flew at once to shut the windows, but in the wind and darkness this was by no means an easy task, and before it could be accomplished the dust lay thick all over the room and its contents. such a contretemps was enough to provoke a saint, mabel said to herself angrily, when she had left the weeping tara to do what she could to repair the mischief, and it would be idle to deny that she was feeling very cross indeed as she entered the drawing-room with a bundle of letters in her hand.
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the shutters were closed and the lamps lighted as if it were night, and the dust pattered like hail on the verandah whenever the howling of the wind would allow any other sound to be heard. fitz anstruther was sitting near the fireplace, looking through an old magazine, and mabel, rejecting his suggestion of a game of chess, seated herself at the writing-table, saying that she must finish her letters for the mail. she found it difficult to write, however, for although she would not look up, she could not help being conscious that her companion’s eyes were much oftener fixed on her than on the printed page before him. accustomed though she was to such homage from men, this time it made her nervous, and at last she could bear it no longer.
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“wouldn’t you like something to do?” she demanded suddenly, turning round and catching him in the act of looking at her, but he was equal to the occasion.
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“something to do? something for you, do you mean? may i really write your letters for you? i’m sure the major has given me plenty of practice in that sort of thing, and your friends would be so surprised to find you had set up a private secretary.”
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“thanks, but i don’t seem to be in the mood for letter-writing, and certainly not for dictating.”
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“then may i hold a skein of silk for you to wind? that’s the sort of thing they set a mere man down to in books.”
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“i don’t use silk of that sort. is there nothing you would like to do?”
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“yes, awfully. i should like to talk to you.”
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“i think i shall go and read to the commissioner,” severely.
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“it would only be wasting sweetness on the desert air. he’s perfectly happy at this moment, with beardmore plotting treason in a confidential report, and about six clerks writing away for him as hard as they can write, and he wouldn’t appreciate an interruption.”
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“i suppose you are judging mr burgrave by yourself when you say he will be happier if i keep away?”
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“i? oh no; i was judging him by himself. the kumpsioner sahib doesn’t think ladies and affairs of state go well together, you know.”
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“indeed?” mabel was bitterly conscious that she bore a grudge against the commissioner for this very reason, but she had no intention of admitting the fact.
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“why, do you mean that he vouchsafes to talk shop to you alone, out of all the world of women? what an important person you are, miss north! think of having the run of the commissioner’s state secrets! but of course one can see why he does it. how unfairly people are dealt with in this world! why have i no official secrets to confide? supposing i spy round and amass some, may i expound them to you for three or four hours a day?”
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“what nonsense!” said mabel, with some warmth. “mr burgrave is only teaching me to appreciate browning.”
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“and you fly to state secrets for relief in the intervals! miss north, won’t you teach me to appreciate browning? i’ll wire to bombay at once for the whole twenty-nine volumes, if you will.”
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“i really have no time to waste----”
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“oh, how unkind! consider the crushing effect of your words. do you truly think me such an idiot that teaching me would be waste of time?”
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mabel laughed in spite of herself. “you didn’t let me finish my sentence,” she said. “i was going to say that it would be only a waste of your time, too, to try to learn anything from me.”
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“never! say the word, and i enrol myself your pupil for ever.”
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“you must have a very poor opinion of me as a teacher, i’m afraid, if you think it would take a lifetime to turn you out a finished scholar.”
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“how you do twist a man’s words! the fault would be on my side, of course. i was going to say the misfortune, but it would be good fortune for me,” fitz added, in a low voice.
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“not if he has learnt all you can teach him?” demanded fitz, rising and coming towards her. “please understand that there is nothing more for me to learn. i want to teach you.”
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“oh, thanks! but i haven’t offered myself as a pupil,” with a nervous laugh.
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“no, it’s the other way about. i want to teach you to care for me as you have made me care for you. well, not like that, perhaps; i couldn’t expect it. but you do care for me a little, don’t you?”
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“mr anstruther!--i am astonished--” stammered mabel.
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“are you really? what a bad teacher i must be! i know all the other men are wild after you, of course, but i thought it was different, somehow, between you and me, as if--well, almost as if we were made for each other, as people say. i have felt something of the sort from the very first. i love you, mabel, and i think you do like me rather, don’t you? you have been so awfully kind in letting me do things for you, and it has driven all the rest mad with envy. i believe i could make you love me in time, if you would let me try. there’s nothing in the whole world i wouldn’t do for you. if only you won’t shut your heart up against me, i think you’ll have to give in.”
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he was holding her hands tightly as he spoke, and mabel trembled under the rush of his words. was she going to faint, or what was the meaning of that wild throbbing at her heart? clearly she must act decisively and at once, or this tempestuous young man would think he had taken her by storm. she summoned hastily the remnants of her pride.
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“none?” he asked.
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“i mean i never thought it would go as far as this--that you would be so persistent--so much in earnest.”
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“a new light on the matter, evidently.” as she grew more agitated, fitz had become calmer.
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“because it’s impossible, you know.”
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“excuse me, i don’t know anything of the kind.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN excuse__<label>__VERB me__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON don__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT know__<label>__VERB anything__<label>__PRON of__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET kind__<label>__NOUN .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“you are a great deal younger than i am, for one thing.”
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“barely three years, and it’s a fault that will mend.”
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“no, it won’t. as you get older, i shall get old faster, and if there is a thing i detest, it is to see a young man with an elderly wife. i could not endure to feel that i was growing old while you were still in the prime of life. you would hate it yourself, too, and you would leave off caring for me, and we should both be miserable.”
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“try me!” said fitz, with a light in his eyes that she could not meet.
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“and then there’s another thing,” she went on hurriedly. “i know it sounds horrid to say it, but--it’s not only that three years--you are so young for your age. i’m not a reasonable creature like georgia; i simply long to be made to obey, whether i like it or not. i feel that i want a master, but i could make you do what i liked.”
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“could you? but perhaps i could make you do what i liked. just look at me for a moment.”
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but mabel covered her eyes. “no, i won’t. it sounds as if i had been inviting you to master me, which wouldn’t be at all what i meant. please understand, once for all, that i don’t care for you enough to marry you.”
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“very well. but you will one day. if i am young, there’s one good thing about it--i can wait.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN very__<label>__VERB well__<label>__ADJ .__<label>__. but__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON will__<label>__VERB one__<label>__DET day__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. if__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB young__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. there__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN one__<label>__DET good__<label>__ADJ thing__<label>__NOUN about__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON --__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON can__<label>__PRT wait__<label>__VERB .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“it’s no good whatever your thinking that i shall change.”
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“that is my business, please. i presume my thoughts are my own? and i feel that i shall teach you to love me yet.”
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“i shouldn’t have thought,” said mabel indignantly, “that it was like you to persecute a woman who had refused you.”
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“don’t be afraid. i shall not persecute you; i shall simply wait.”
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“and try to make me miserable by looking doleful? i call that persecution, just the same. no, really, if you are going to be so disagreeable, i shall have to speak to my brother, and ask him to get you transferred somewhere else, and that would be very bad for your prospects.”
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mabel thought that this threat sounded extremely telling, but to fitz, who had declined excellent posts in other parts of the province, rather than quit the frontier which grows to have such a strange fascination for every khemistan man, it was less alarming.
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“don’t trouble to get protection from the major, miss north. i assure you it won’t be necessary.”
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“but am i to be kept in perpetual dread of having to discuss this--this unpleasant subject? i think it is very unkind of you,” said mabel, with tears in her eyes, “for i had come to like you so much as a friend, and you were always so useful, and now----”
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“and now i intend to be quite as useful, and just as much your friend, i hope, as before. let us make a bargain. you may feel quite safe. i won’t attempt to approach the unpleasant subject without your leave.”
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mabel looked at him in astonishment. “but i should never give you leave, you know,” she said.
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“as you please. then the subject will never be renewed. i am content to wait.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN as__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON please__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. then__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET subject__<label>__NOUN will__<label>__PRT never__<label>__PRON be__<label>__VERB renewed__<label>__VERB .__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON am__<label>__VERB content__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT wait__<label>__VERB .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“but what is the good of waiting when i have told you----”
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“come, i don’t think you can deny me that consolation, can you, when you have the whole thing in your own hands? is it a bargain?”
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“it doesn’t seem fair to let you go on hoping----”
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“that’s my own lookout,” he said again. “if your friend is always at hand when you want him, surely he may be allowed to nurse his foolish hopes in private--provided that he never exhibits them?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN that__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN my__<label>__PRON own__<label>__ADJ lookout__<label>__NOUN ,âĢĿ__<label>__. he__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB again__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN if__<label>__ADP your__<label>__PRON friend__<label>__NOUN is__<label>__VERB always__<label>__VERB at__<label>__ADP hand__<label>__NOUN when__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON want__<label>__VERB him__<label>__PRON ,__<label>__. surely__<label>__VERB he__<label>__PRON may__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB allowed__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT nurse__<label>__VERB his__<label>__PRON foolish__<label>__ADJ hopes__<label>__NOUN in__<label>__ADP private__<label>__ADJ --__<label>__. provided__<label>__VERB that__<label>__ADP he__<label>__PRON never__<label>__PRON exhibits__<label>__VERB them__<label>__PRON ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“very well, then,” said mabel reluctantly. “but i don’t feel----”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN very__<label>__VERB well__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. then__<label>__PRON ,âĢĿ__<label>__PRON said__<label>__VERB mabel__<label>__DET reluctantly__<label>__NOUN .__<label>__. âĢľ__<label>__NOUN but__<label>__ADP i__<label>__PRON don__<label>__VERB âĢĻ__<label>__VERB t__<label>__PRT feel__<label>__VERB ----âĢĿ__<label>__.
“if i am satisfied, surely you may be?”
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the entrance of a servant to unbar the shutters dispensed with the need of an answer. preoccupied as they had been during the last half-hour, neither fitz nor mabel had noticed that the dust had ceased to patter and the wind to howl. the storm was over, and once again there was daylight, although rain was descending in torrents.
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“mab, the commissioner was asking for you,” said georgia, pausing as she passed the door. “he has finished his morning’s work, and wanted to know if you were ready for some browning.”
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“oh yes, i’ll go at once,” said mabel, anxious only to escape from fitz and the memory of their agitating conversation. it had shaken her a good deal, she felt, and this made her angry with him. what right had he to disturb her so rudely, and make her feel guilty, when she had done nothing? it was with distinct relief that she met mr burgrave’s benignant smile, and returned his morning greeting. he did not appear to notice any perturbation in her manner, and she took up the book, and turned hastily to the page where they had left off, while mr burgrave, pencil in hand, settled himself comfortably among his cushions, ready to call attention to any beauties she might miss in reading the lines. if he was like fitz, in that his eyes were fixed on the fair head bent over the pages of “pippa passes,” he was unlike fitz in that their gaze escaped unnoticed.
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“‘you’ll love me yet!--and i can marry--’” read mabel, totally unconscious of the havoc she was making of the poet’s words, but her auditor almost sprang from his couch.
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“no, no!” he cried. “i beg your pardon, miss north, but the storm has shaken your nerves a little, hasn’t it? allow me,” and he took the book from her hands, and read the poem aloud in a voice so full of feeling that it went to mabel’s heart.
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“‘you’ll love me yet!--and i can tarry your love’s protracted growing; june reared that bunch of flowers you carry from seeds of april’s sowing.
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‘i plant a heartful now; some seed at least is sure to strike--’”
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what malign influence had brought the reading to this point just now? fitz might have used those very words. involuntarily mabel rose and stood at the edge of the verandah, looking out into the rain. her eyes were filled with tears, but she stood with her back to mr burgrave, and he did not see them. he read on--
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“‘and yield--what you’ll not pluck indeed, not love, but, maybe, like.
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‘you’ll look at least on love’s remains, a grave’s one violet; your look?--that pays a thousand pains. what’s death? you’ll love me yet!’”
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was the seed springing already? a tear splashed into the gritty dust that lay on the verandah-rail, and mabel dashed her hand across her eyes in an agony of shame. mr burgrave must have seen; what would he think? but before she could even reach her handkerchief, the book was thrown down, and mr burgrave had seized his crutch, and was at her side.
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“mabel, my dear little girl!” he cried tenderly.
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“oh no, no; not you!” she gasped, horror-stricken.
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“and why not, dearest? forgive me for blundering so brutally. how could i guess that the seed i had dared to plant was blossoming already? i have watched it growing slowly day by day, so slowly that i was often afraid it had not struck at all, and now, when it is actually in full flower, i pass by without seeing it, and bruise it in this heartless way. forgive me, dear.”
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“indeed, indeed you are making a mistake!” cried mabel, in a panic. “it really isn’t what you think, mr burgrave. i don’t care for you in that way at all.”
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“my dear girl must allow me to be the judge of that. i can read your heart better than you can read it for yourself, dearest. do you think i haven’t noticed how naturally you turn to me for refuge against trouble and unkindness? it has touched me inexpressibly. again and again you have sought sympathy from me, with the sweetest confidence.”
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“it’s quite true!” groaned mabel, seeing in a sudden mental vision all the occasions to which mr burgrave alluded.
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“of course it is, dear. you hadn’t realised how completely you trusted me, had you? other people thought--no, i won’t tell you what they said--but i knew better. i was sure of you, you see.”
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“what did other people say?” asked mabel, with faint interest.
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“er--well, it was a lady in the neighbourhood.” mabel’s thoughts flew to mrs hardy with natural apprehension. “she was good enough to warn me that you were--no, i will not say the word--that you were amusing yourself with me. she had noticed, naturally enough, how inevitably we drew together, but she ascribed your sweet trustfulness to such vile motives as could never enter your head. i said to her, ‘madam, to defend miss north against your suspicions would be to insult her. in a short time, when you realise their baselessness, you will suffer as keenly as you deserve for having entertained them.’ i could trust my little girl, you see.”
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“oh, you make me ashamed!” cried mabel, abashed by the perfect confidence with which this stern, self-sufficient man regarded her. “oh, mr burgrave, do please believe i am not good enough for you. it makes me miserable to think how disappointed you will be.”
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“i should like to hear you call me eustace,” said mr burgrave softly, unmoved by her protestations. it occurred to mabel, with a dreadful sense of helplessness, that he regarded them only as deprecating properly the honour he proposed doing her.
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“well--please--eustace--” but mr burgrave kissed her solemnly on the forehead, and she could stand no more.
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“it’s too much! i’ll come back presently,” she gasped, and succeeded in escaping. as she fled through the hall she met georgia.
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“perhaps you’ll be interested to know that i’m engaged to mr burgrave, georgie!” she cried hysterically, rushing into her own room and locking the door.
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“that wretched man!” cried georgia. “after all dr tighe and i have done for his leg!”
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“didn’t know tighe had any grievance against him about this,” grumbled dick. he was sitting on the edge of the dressing-table, ruefully contemplating his boots, with his hands dug deep in his pockets. on ordinary occasions georgia would have requested him, gently but firmly, to move, but now she was too much perturbed in mind to think of the furniture. delayed in starting by the dust-storm, dick had only returned from a hard day’s riding late at night, to find himself confronted on the threshold, so to speak, by the triumphant commissioner, and requested to give him his sister.
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“oh, but he would be on our side, of course,” said georgia. “dick, i do think it is horrid of mr burgrave to have proposed under present circumstances. it’s as if he wanted to rob us of everything--even of mab.”
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“no, he’s doing us an honour. he all but told me so. but he really is absolutely gone on mab. his whole face changes when he speaks of her. fact is, georgie, if the man didn’t come rooting about on our very own frontier, i couldn’t help having a sneaking liking for him. his belief in his own greatness is perfectly sincere, and he cherishes no animosity against us for opposing his plans. he told me that he hoped political differences would make no break in our friendly intercourse--hang it! this thing’s giving way. why in the world don’t you have stronger tables?”
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“sit here,” said georgia, pointing to the wicker sofa. “well, dick?”
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“well? it’s coming, old girl, coming fast, and he’s mercifully trying to soften the blow to us.”
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georgia looked round with a shiver. the shabby bungalow with its makeshift furniture was the outward and visible sign of the life-work which she and her husband had inherited from her father, and it was to be taken from them by the action of the man who hoped that his arbitrary decree would be no obstacle to their continuing to regard him as a friend.
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“and what i think is,” dick went on, “that they had better be married as soon as possible, before burgrave goes down to the river again, and the blow falls.”
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“but, dick,” georgia almost screamed, “you’re giving her no time to repent.”
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“repent? i’m not proposing to kill her. surely it would be better for her to be married from this house than from a bombay hotel? besides, we should have no further anxiety about her----”
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“no further anxiety? dick, if she marries him i shall never know another happy moment. she doesn’t care a straw for him--it’s a kind of fascination, that’s all, a sort of deadly terror. i can’t tell you what it’s been like all day. she couldn’t bear me to leave them alone a moment, and there was he beaming at her, and not seeing it a bit. he thinks it’s all right for her to be shy and tongue-tied, and not dare to meet his eye--the pompous idiot! mab shy--and with a man! she’s miserable--in fear of her life.”
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“no, no, georgie, that’s a little too thick. mab is not a school-girl, to let herself be coerced into an engagement, and it won’t do to stir her up to break it off. you mustn’t go and abuse him to her. be satisfied with relieving your feelings to me.”
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“now, dick, is it likely? am i the person to give her an extra reason for sticking to him? if i abused him she would feel bound to defend him, and might even end by caring for him. i can’t pretend to congratulate her on her choice, but she shall have every facility for seeing as much of him as she can possibly want.”
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“no, that’s not it. i have no patience with her.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN no__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. that__<label>__PRON âĢĻ__<label>__VERB s__<label>__NOUN not__<label>__PRT it__<label>__PRON .__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON have__<label>__VERB no__<label>__ADJ patience__<label>__NOUN with__<label>__ADP her__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“ah, she has proved you a false prophet, hasn’t she? that’s unpardonable.”
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“she has done worse; i’m perfectly convinced that she refused the right man before accepting the wrong one. and though she doesn’t deserve it, i think she ought to have time to get things put right, if she can.”
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“very well. then the deluge will come first, that’s all.”
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“how soon do you expect it?”
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“and then we shall fold our tents like the arabs, and silently steal away?”
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“not quite at once. we must stick on until they send up a man to replace me, and carry out the new policy. the worst of it will be that ashraf ali will know why i am resigning, and unless i can get him to keep quiet, he will think himself free to break the treaty before our side does. if bahram khan once gets to know what’s on hand, it’s all up, for nothing will persuade the sardars that we are not repudiating the treaty as the first step to an invasion and the annexation of nalapur, and he will be there to lead them, if the amir won’t. i hope to goodness that burgrave will have removed the light of his countenance from us before then, but i suppose that’s sure to be all right. he would hardly like to look as if he was hounding his intended brother-in-law out of the province. unfortunately it’s pretty certain that rumours of my impending departure will begin to get about in some mysterious manner as soon as his unfavourable report goes up, for his plans seem doomed to leak out into the bazaar. i’m inclined to think he has a spy about him somewhere. by-the-bye, georgie, who is the sweetseller you’ve allowed to hang about the place lately?”
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“i, dick? he told me you had said he might come.”
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“something fishy there, evidently. but he must have an accomplice inside.”
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“one of the commissioner’s hindu clerks, perhaps.”
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“possibly. well, we’ll deal with him to-morrow.”
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chapter xi. behind the curtain.
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as soon as dick awoke in the morning, his talk with georgia recurred to his mind, and looking out of his dressing-room window, he called to ismail bakhsh, whom he saw in the compound. from his long connection with the family, the old soldier was regarded as the head of the household staff.
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“has that sweetseller turned up yet, ismail bakhsh?”
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“no, sahib, i have not seen him this morning.”
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“well, when he does, you can detain him. i want to ask him a question or two.”
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“the thing is done, sahib. if the protector of the poor would listen to a word from this unworthy one----”
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“yes; what is it?”
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“it was in my mind yesterday, sahib, to examine all the verandahs, lest the storm should have shaken the pillars, and in so doing i found that the work of the rats under the floors has been great and very evil. surely there are many places in which the planks are loose and easy to be moved, but on this side of the house it is the worst. before the kumpsioner sahib’s rooms a man might even squeeze himself in and hide under the verandah floor.”
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“we shall never get rid of the rats until we have proper cement floors--and it’s no good thinking of that now,” added dick, half to himself. “but are you sure there’s nothing worse than rats about, ismail bakhsh? i don’t like the idea of that hole.”
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“i also suspected evil, sahib, but having sent two of the servants’ sons in with lights, i was content when they found nothing.”
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“i hope you nailed the boards firmly into their places?”
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“i put them back, sahib, but why fasten them? there was no man inside, and in case any should seek to enter, the hole should be blocked up from within, not from without. moreover, if the protector of the poor would invite winlock sahib to bring his sporting dog to the house, with your honour’s own dogs we might succeed in killing all the rats before mending the floors.”
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“good idea! ask the memsahib to give you a chit to winlock sahib. no; it had better be to-morrow. i shall be out all to-day.”
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ismail bakhsh salaamed and departed, and dick returned to his dressing, neither of them dreaming that they were separated by nothing but a half-inch plank from a man who had listened to the whole of their colloquy. the bungalow, which had never been intended for a permanent dwelling, had been run up in haste. hence the contrast of its somewhat ramshackle appearance with that of the substantial stone houses in the cantonments, and hence also the perpetual worry caused by the colonies of rats inhabiting the space under the floors, which should have been filled up with concrete. however, since innumerable complaints and remonstrances had brought nothing but vague promises and an occasional snub from those in authority, dick and georgia continued to live on in their unsatisfactory dwelling, and to wage intermittent warfare against the rats. but the rats could not fairly be accused of the worst of the damage of which ismail bakhsh complained, for crouched under the boards lay the sweetseller, who had effected an entrance by sliding out one of the planks from the front of the verandah and pulling another aside, returning them to their places when he had crawled in. his dark face paled when ismail bakhsh suggested bringing the dogs, but when he heard dick postpone the rat-hunt to the next day, he breathed freely again.
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“to-day is all i want,” he said to himself. “when i have once got the paper for jehanara bibi from that accursed half-blood my work is done, and nāth sahib may set his dogs on my track as much as he likes--and his sowars too.”
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he remained crouched in his lair all morning, until the commissioner had dismissed his clerks and hobbled round to the other side of the house to look for mabel. as soon as the sound of his crutch had become inaudible in the distance, there was a hesitating tap on one of the loose boards. it was answered by a bolder knock from below, the board was pushed slightly aside, and a yellow hand, trembling as if with ague, passed a roll of papers through the crack. the sweetseller seized it, and pressed the fingers of the transmitter, which were hurriedly withdrawn. the hidden man secreted the papers carefully in his clothing, and crawled round to the front of the house, whence he could watch through a peep-hole all that went on in this part of the compound. when noon was come, and the servants had all betaken themselves to their own quarters, he removed the sliding plank and slipped out, bringing with him his stock in trade, and replaced the board carefully. having assured himself that dick was nowhere to be seen, he crossed the compound boldly, climbed the wall at a point where various projecting stones and convenient hollows afforded a foothold, and walked with dignified haste to the nearest sandhill. on the farther side of this he buried his tray and his sweets in the sand, and then, girding up his loins, set out resolutely in the direction of dera gul.
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dusk had already fallen when he reached the fortress, where he received a respectful greeting from the ragged guards, who informed him that the chief was in his zenana. as soon as the news was brought that narayan singh had returned, however, bahram khan sent word that he should be admitted immediately--a high honour which was not seldom the reward of the indispensable spy. committing himself to the guidance of one of the slave-boys, narayan singh passed behind the curtain and into the anteroom, to discover bahram khan reclining upon the divan in the easiest possible undress. the pleasant murmur of the hubble-bubble, as he approached, prepared the visitor to find the room full of smoke, and his master seemed at first too much engrossed with his pipe to notice his entrance. cross-legged in the corner sat the eurasian jehanara, shrouded in her veil, her glittering eyes reflecting the faint light which was shed by a brazier of glowing charcoal.
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“peace, narayan singh!” said the prince at last, taking the mouthpiece of the long leathern tube lazily from his lips. “is all well?”
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“all is well, highness. i have here a copy of the report of barkaraf sahib to the sarkar, from the hands of his confidential clerk.”
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jehanara laughed harshly. “thou hadst but little difficulty with antonio d’costa?” she said.
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“what knowest thou of the swine?” asked bahram khan jealously.
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“i have not seen him for many years, highness, but he is my cousin, and i was acquainted with his character as a youth, and heard of his doings as a man. knowing thy desire to learn the intentions of the kumpsioner sahib, and hearing that my cousin was in his employ, it needed only that i should instruct the skilful narayan singh to approach him in the right way.”
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“and i,” said narayan singh, “needed but to hold before his eyes the copies of the bonds i had obtained from certain money-lenders, and threaten to show them to barkaraf sahib, when he fell down on his knees before me, and was ready to do whatever i might desire, for fear of the ruin that threatened him.”
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“it is well,” growled bahram khan. “but what does the report say?”
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narayan singh took out the papers which had been handed to him in his hiding-place, and laid them on the floor before jehanara. she took them up, and leaning forward, scrutinised the contents eagerly by the dim light of the brazier.
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“in this report,” she said, with deep satisfaction, “which the kumpsioner sahib has just finished drawing up, he recommends the immediate withdrawal of the subsidy, and the recall of beltring sahib from nalapur, on the ground that the treaty was merely a temporary arrangement, the necessity for which has passed away.” bahram khan laughed, and she went on. “the amir sahib is to be assured of the continuous friendship and good-will of the sarkar, which with the one hand will take away his rupees, and with the other present him with the liberty to govern his people without interference or guidance.”
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“truly the infidels are delivered into our hands!” cried bahram khan. “and when is the change to be announced?”
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“the kumpsioner sahib desires an order, which may be carried out by the political officer on the spot.”
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“then the fool himself is leaving the border? let him go. i care not to take his life. he has been a useful friend to me, and may be permitted to carry his folly elsewhere. it is nāth sahib that i want, and surely even my uncle will turn against him when he knows that the sarkar has determined to break the treaty.”
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“gently, highness!” entreated jehanara. “the amir sahib is ever faithful to his friends, and not easily turned from his allegiance. such is his friendship for nāth sahib that the only thing that would make him join in the plot would be the hope of benefiting him.”
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“but,” put in narayan singh, who had been wondering uncomfortably whether it would be better to tell his news at once, or to wait until he had managed to secure a moment’s private conversation with jehanara. “i heard tidings yesterday, highness, which seem to show that the kumpsioner sahib is not the friend thou didst reckon him. i could have told them sooner, but i fear they will not be pleasing in thine ears.”
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“let us hear them,” cried bahram khan, while jehanara shot an angry glance at the spy. he ought to have known by this time that it was generally wiser to soften and sweeten agitating news, and not to administer it undiluted.
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“it was said among the servant-people that barkaraf sahib had asked nāth sahib for his sister, highness, and that even now he has betrothed her to him.”
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there was a moment’s incredulous silence, and then bahram khan sprang up from the divan, sending the heavy cut-glass bottle of the water-pipe flying, and almost overturning the brazier. “and this is the fruit of your counsel, both of you!” he shouted. “who was it that held me back when i would have fallen on the whole company of the english as they returned from their fool’s dinner in the desert, and killed them all, except nāth sahib’s sister? who was it again that bade me suffer my servants to be taken prisoners and held captive, and be tried for their lives by a boy, and that told me to rejoice when i received them back unharmed? thou, o woman! thou, dog of an idolater! surely ye were in league with the kumpsioner sahib to steal the girl from me, and he has bribed you to blacken my face in the eyes of all my people.”
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“highness,” said jehanara, with dignity, “thine anger has made thee unjust to thy faithful servants. fear not; i know the ways of the english, and this betrothal need not lead to marriage for many months. nāth sahib’s sister shall yet be thine, and the kumpsioner sahib may wait in vain for his bride.”
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“wait!” cried bahram khan, sinking again upon his cushions, “nay, he shall wait for nothing but death. he shall die by inches, and before my eyes, because he has sought to befool me. if he escapes, the lives of both of you shall pay for it.”
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“as thou wilt, highness. but was it not thy admiration of her beauty which first showed the kumpsioner sahib that the girl was fair? suffer thy servant to consider the matter for a moment, and she will offer thee her counsel.”
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leaving bahram khan to look at affairs in this new light, jehanara established herself again in her corner, gazing fixedly into the hot coals. both her life and that of narayan singh were at stake, and she knew it; and she had no desire to die. six years before she had played a desperate game with bahram khan, conscious that in him she faced an opponent as cunning and as faithless as herself. the conditions were unequal, for she staked far more than he did, and he won, possibly because her sense of the risk she was running had robbed her of the perfect coolness necessary to ensure success. he had not married her, even by mohammedan rites, and nothing short of full legal recognition could have vindicated in the eyes of her own people the course she had pursued. robbed of her anticipated triumph, she made no attempt to escape the consequences, but set herself by every means in her power to obtain that ascendency over the prince’s mind which she had failed to gain over his heart. fresh failures and unspeakable mortifications had awaited her. the women of the household, from the beautiful little ethiopian bride to whom was awarded the position jehanara had intended for herself, to the humblest hill-girl who had been kidnapped to become at once a slave and a muslimeh, saw to it that she ate the bread of bitterness; but in spite of taunts and revilings she kept the one end in view until her persistence was crowned with complete success. bahram khan would listen to no advice but hers, having learnt by experience that his confidence in her was justified. the intrigue by which first the commissioner, and then the viceroy, had been convinced of his wrongs, was of her devising, and had proved so successful as to convince her that had it not been for dick’s opposition, she would already have seen bahram khan established as his uncle’s heir. it followed that her hatred for dick, heightened by his cavalier treatment of herself, was at least as strong as that of the disappointed claimant. as she sat brooding over the charcoal at this moment, there was a cruel light in her eyes while she ran hastily over the points of the scheme which had sprung full-grown into her mind when bahram khan accused her of treachery.
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“highness,” she said at last, and bahram khan propped himself up on his cushions with a muttered growl, while the trembling narayan singh appeared to take fresh interest in life, “this perfidy of the kumpsioner sahib’s provides thee with what was most needed, a means of involving the amir sahib in our plans. nay, through this treachery, with the blessing of heaven, thy servants will yet behold thee seated upon his throne, with the sanction of the sarkar.”
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“wonderful!” cried the prince, with gleaming eyes. “go on.”
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“first of all, then, highness, the kumpsioner sahib must not leave alibad before the treaty is broken--but we will consider presently by what means he may be induced to remain on the border. next, instructions must be sent to the vizier ram singh to represent thy quarrel to his master, the amir sahib, in this wise. thou wilt say that the kumpsioner sahib, with a great show of friendliness, promised to get thee nāth sahib’s sister for a wife, but that he has befooled thee, and demanded the maiden for himself. thine uncle may not altogether believe that barkaraf sahib really offered thee his help in the matter”--the half-caste could not restrain a touch of scorn as she glanced through her eyelashes at the miserable native who had brought himself to believe that an englishman looked favourably on his desire to marry an englishwoman. “still, he has doubtless heard through his sister, thy mother, of thy love for the girl, and he will soon hear also that she is betrothed to the kumpsioner sahib, so that he cannot but believe in the enmity between him and thee. next thou wilt say that by setting spies on this enemy of thine thou hast learnt that he has persuaded the sarkar to withdraw the subsidy. this he does in order to gain honour for himself by annexing the nalapur state, and also that he may overthrow nāth sahib, whom thine uncle loves, and who, as we know through ram singh, has sworn to resign his office rather than forsake his friend. thus, then, thine uncle will be eager to champion nāth sahib’s cause against barkaraf sahib, and thou, forgetting thine old hatred in the new, will show him the way. according to the words of this paper of my cousin’s, the sarkar’s change of policy will be announced at a durbar to be held by nāth sahib in the agency at nalapur, and the amir sahib will do well to see to it that this durbar is not held. if we devise a means for keeping the kumpsioner sahib here, he must needs hold the durbar himself, and while he and nāth sahib, and all the sahibs from alibad, are entangled in the mountains on the way to the city, they must be caught in an ambush of the amir sahib’s troops. the kumpsioner sahib may well be killed in the first onset, to save all further trouble, but nāth sahib and the other friends of thine uncle need only be disarmed and kept prisoners, the writing of the sarkar being taken from them. then the amir sahib may send a peaceful message to the sarkar that, hearing rumours of evil intended against him, he has seized a number of its officers and holds them as hostages, until he shall be assured that his fears are groundless. so then the sarkar, fearing for the lives of its sahibs, will send some great person to reassure his highness, and explain that it was the evil doings of the dead barkaraf sahib alone that caused the mischief, and nāth sahib will be put in his place, and the subsidy continued, and all be well--save, perhaps, the payment of a slight fine for the accidental slaying of the kumpsioner sahib.”
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“but what is the good of all this to me?” bellowed bahram khan. “it would rid me of the kumpsioner sahib, but no more--nay, it makes nāth sahib the head where he is now the tail.”
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“seest thou not, highness, that this is the plot as it must appear in the eyes of thine uncle? now lift the veil, and behold it as it is in thine own mind. who should naturally be chosen to command the force lying in ambush but the sardar abd-ul-nabi, and is he not a close friend of the vizier ram singh, and wholly devoted to thy cause? to him the amir sahib will give orders that he is to slay no one but barkaraf sahib, and that the lives of the rest are to be saved, even at the risk of his own, but from thee he will receive the command to slay all and spare none, not even the youngest.”
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“nay, i will ride with them, and smite them myself from behind!” cried bahram khan.
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“that must not be, highness. thou wilt be far away at the time.”
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“then nāth sahib and barkaraf sahib shall be saved alive and brought to me that i may see them die.”
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“the risk is too great, highness. hast thou forgotten the day when sinjāj kīlin sahib was attacked in a certain nullah and all his escort slain, and how he fought his way out alone and rode back to his camp, and returning, as if upon eagles’ wings, with a fresh body of troops, fell upon the tribesmen when they were stripping the dead, and slew them every one? not a man shall live--be content with that, for there is other work for thee than watching their blood flow.”
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“and what is that, woman?”
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“thou wilt be waiting here, highness, and as soon as a swift messenger brings thee word that the sahibs have been attacked, thou wilt ride with all speed to alibad. knowing that all the sahibs are away except the padri and two or three others who are not warriors, and that there is no place of refuge for them, thou wilt hasten thither to save them and the memsahibs. if they believe in thy professions of friendship, then all is well--they are delivered into our hands. but it is in my mind that they will not trust thee, and that is even better, for then all the evil that follows will spring from their own lack of confidence. the men of the regiment who are left behind will fortify themselves in their lines, but there is no need to attack them just then. the bazaar and the european houses will be fired--by the badmashes of the place, doubtless--and in the turmoil and confusion all the sahibs will be killed, but all men will behold thee rushing hither and thither like one possessed, commanding thy soldiers with curses to save the white men alive.”
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bahram khan chuckled grimly, for the picture appealed to him.
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“and at last,” went on jehanara, “seeing that thou canst do nothing, so few are thy men, thou wilt retire sorrowfully, taking with thee such women and loot as may come in thy way--but only for safe keeping.” bahram khan chuckled again. “the next day, when the amir sahib learns that he has indeed raised his hand against the sarkar, and slain so many sahibs, he will be plunged in despair. he will find it impossible to keep his army in check, and they will come to alibad and complete the work begun by thee, before ravaging the rest of the frontier. all will be the deed of thine uncle, and he it is that will have to answer to the sarkar.”
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“true, o woman. trust me to see that his evil deeds shall blot out mine. but how if nāth sahib’s sister should chance to be slain also?”
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“her safety is thy care, highness. before seeking to save the sahibs, thou wilt have seized nāth sahib’s house, which is on the outskirts of the town, and sent off his wife and sister here, for their better protection, under a sufficient guard.”
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“who will see that nāth sahib’s mem troubles us no more,” laughed bahram khan.
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“not so, highness. the doctor lady must find safety with the moti-ul-nissa.”
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“nay, is she not nāth sahib’s wife?” cried bahram khan, much injured.
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“there must be sanctuary for the doctor lady with thy mother,” repeated jehanara firmly. “what harm can she do thee, highness?”
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“she is sinjāj kīlin’s daughter. that is enough.”
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“true, highness, and for that very reason she must live. the begum must be warned to hide her in the inmost recesses of the zenana, since the amir sahib clamours for her blood, and she herself must clearly understand that thou art protecting her at the risk of thy life. see here, highness, and think not it is any love for thy foes that moves me. her testimony is the very crowning-point of our plan. when thou hast made thyself master in nalapur, and goest forth to meet the armies of the empress with the head of the amir sahib as a peace-offering, there will yet be voices raised against thee. but when it is known that thou didst save the doctor lady, the wife and daughter of thine own and thy father’s enemies, and place her in safety in thine own zenana, who shall judge thee too hardly that thou couldst not save the town? thou hast done all in thy power, and the memsahib will bear witness to thee. and as for sparing her--why, there is nāth sahib’s sister left for thee still.”
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“aha!” laughed bahram khan, “and she is not of sinjāj kīlin’s blood. she will not fight like the doctor lady.”
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“nay, but she is of nāth sahib’s blood,” said jehanara, conscious once more of an inconsistent thrill of perverted pride in her father’s race, as she remembered what other englishwomen had done before in like circumstances; “but all will be well, highness, whatever happens. if she is found married to thee, she cannot, as a pardah woman, be brought into court to testify against thee, and if she is dead by that time, why, she killed herself in her terror, not waiting to learn thy merciful intentions towards her. and women pass, but the throne lasts, highness. the one is better than the other.”
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“truly, thou art a veritable shaitan!” to bahram khan’s mind the epithet conveyed a high compliment. “set the matter in train, then. here is my seal.” he took off his heavy signet and handed it to her. “do thou and narayan singh see that all is in order, so that not one of my enemies may escape. but what of barkaraf sahib? if he leaves the border, i lose half my vengeance.”
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“it may be, highness”--the speaker was narayan singh, who had remained silent in sheer astonishment at the daring and resourcefulness of his co-plotter--“that the hasrat ali begum might help us in the matter. if her highness were to hear that any evil threatened the doctor lady or her husband, she would doubtless send a messenger to warn her. might she not become aware, through some indiscretion” (he looked across at jehanara), “that the kumpsioner sahib was departing from the border to seek his own safety, leaving nāth sahib to carry out a dangerous and disagreeable task? her highness would send the eye-of-the-begum immediately to inform the doctor lady of what she had heard, and does there live a woman upon earth who, having received such tidings, would not at once fling the kumpsioner sahib’s cowardice in his teeth, and taunt him until he was forced for very shame to remain and do his business for himself?”
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“by that saying,” interrupted jehanara, vexed at being selected to perpetrate an indiscretion, “thou betrayest thine ignorance, narayan singh. there is such a woman, and the doctor lady is she. she would tell the news to her husband, and leave him to reproach the kumpsioner sahib if he thought fit, and there would be no taunts, for the english are not wont to speak like the bazaar folk. but there is another woman who would work for us, though ignorantly, and that is the wife of the padri sahib.”
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“the lady of the angry tongue!” cried bahram khan. “but how should we persuade my mother to send a slave to her?”
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“it would not be easy, highness, and therefore the begum shall not be troubled in the matter. i will disguise myself and tell the padri’s mem that her highness, desiring to warn the doctor lady, was too closely watched to allow of her sending her usual messenger. i will say also that i succeeded in slipping away from dera gul, and in crossing the desert with the message, but that i dared not approach nāth sahib’s house, fearing there might be spies among his servants. thus, then, i will tell the news, and before very long the padri’s mem will tell it also--in the ears of the kumpsioner sahib.”
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“it is well thought of,” said bahram khan approvingly.
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chapter xii. honour and duty.
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three or four days later, mrs hardy marched up the steps of the norths’ bungalow with a purposeful mien, and requested an interview with the commissioner. mr burgrave had finished his morning’s work early, and his couch had been placed in the drawing-room verandah. a table was close beside him, with a volume of browning lying upon it, and there was a chair close at hand ready for mabel, but she was out riding with fitz, to whom dick, in utter oblivion of the probable awkwardness of the situation, had hastily turned her over on finding that he himself was needed elsewhere. the commissioner groaned impatiently when mrs hardy was announced. a talk with her was not the pleasure he had in view when he hurried through his work, but he consoled himself with the thought that she would not stay long. no doubt the padri was anxious to get a new harmonium, or to enlarge the church, and they wanted him to head the subscription-list.
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“excuse my getting up,” he said, as he shook hands with her. “my sapient boy has put my crutch just out of reach.”
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if the words were intended to convey a hint, mrs hardy did not choose to take it, for she sat down deliberately between the crutch and its owner. then, without any attempt at leading up to the subject, she said, with great distinctness--
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“i have come to talk to you about your policy, mr burgrave.”
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the commissioner stared at her in undisguised astonishment. “pardon me; but that is a subject i do not discuss with--with outsiders,” he said.
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“i only want to lay a few facts before you,” pursued mrs hardy unmoved.
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“no, no; excuse me. i cannot consent to discuss affairs of state with a lady.”
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“i mean you to listen to what i have to say, mr burgrave, and i shall stay here until you do.”
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“i can’t run away,” said mr burgrave, with the best smile he could muster, and a side glance at the crutch; “and when a lady is kind enough to come and talk to me, it would be rude to stop my ears. perhaps you will be so good as to let me know your views at once, then, that your valuable time may not be wasted?”
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“i should like to ask you, first of all, whether you are aware that your confidential report to the government on the frontier question is common property at dera gul? of course, if you choose to tell your secrets to bahram khan and leave major north in ignorance of them, i have nothing more to say.”
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to her great joy, mrs hardy perceived that she had made an impression. the commissioner looked startled and disturbed. “impossible!” he said. “the report has been seen by no one but my secretary, and the clerks who copied portions of it.”
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“it is for you to find out which is to blame. i can only tell you what is going on, just as it has been told to me. i was in my garden about an hour ago, when a woman peeped out from behind the bushes--a miserable, footsore creature. she told me she was a slave of the hasrat ali begum’s--bahram khan’s mother--who had sent her to warn the norths that you intend to withdraw the nalapur subsidy, and leave major north to face the result. i have no idea how bahram khan obtained the information, but he means to take advantage of it. though she could not tell me what his plan is exactly, she seemed quite sure that it would end in a general rising, involving almost certain death to the europeans in places like this. it was clear that she regarded you as a coward, running away from the consequences of your own acts, and deliberately exposing others to danger. that is not my opinion, i may say”--mrs hardy had seen the commissioner wince--“but i thought you could not have looked at things in this light, and as soon as the poor creature was gone i came to you at once.”
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“confiding in mrs north by the way, no doubt?”
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“no, i came straight to you. now let me ask you, have you realised what will be the result of your action? you know that major north will resign rather than countenance what we all feel would be a gross breach of faith, and yet you place him in a position in which he must do one thing or the other. i don’t know what miss north will think about it, but i know what i----”
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“we will leave miss north’s name out of the conversation, if you please.”
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“excuse me; we can’t. how do you expect her to feel towards you when you have set yourself deliberately to ruin her brother? you think worse of her than i do if you believe she will marry you after such a piece of cruel, unprovoked oppression.”
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“mrs hardy, a lady is privileged----”
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“yes, i have no doubt you think i am taking an outrageous liberty, but i can’t and won’t be silent. all your interest in the frontier centres in a pretty, flighty girl who has no business to be here at all, and simply for the sake of showing your power you come and ride roughshod over us, whose lives are bound up in it. i know you’re a proud man, mr burgrave, and i don’t ask you to reverse your policy publicly, which you would naturally find a hard thing to do. but if this dreadful business has gone too far to be stopped, make major north take a month’s leave, and carry it through yourself. then the people will see that he is not responsible for the breach of faith, and he will come back and be your right hand when you most need him. what good could a stranger do when the tribes are out? absolute ignorance of the country is not always the qualification it was in your case, you know. i know the frontier better than any other place in the world--we used to itinerate in the district for years before we were allowed to settle down--and i am certain there’s trouble coming. i can see it in the looks of the people, and hear it in the way they talk. and here on the spot are the norths, the very people to deal with a crisis, and you have done your best to undermine their influence already. can’t you stop there? what have they done that you should persecute them like this?”
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“i assure you,” said mr burgrave slowly, “that i have the highest possible respect for both major and mrs north personally, but personality is not policy.”
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“up here it very often is. but come, mr burgrave, if you don’t absolutely hate the norths, why not do as i suggest?”
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“i promise you that every suggestion you have made shall receive the fullest consideration,” replied the commissioner, in his best secretarial manner. “i may rely upon your silence as to the matter?”
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mrs hardy thought she detected a relenting in his tone. “of course you may, if you are really going to do something. i am glad to find you open to conviction, if only for miss north’s sake and your own. you will have a very pretty wife, and i trust a happy one. ah, there she is!” as the sound of horses’ feet was heard, and mabel, cantering past, waved her whip gaily to the watchers--“and riding with mr anstruther!”
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“and is there any reason why she should not ride with mr anstruther?”
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“his peace of mind, that’s all. but perhaps you think he deserves no mercy? i may tell you i was glad to hear of your engagement, since it saved that fine young fellow for a more suitable woman.”
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“a more fortunate woman, doubtless,” corrected mr burgrave, with majestic forbearance. “a better there cannot be.”
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mabel was in the highest spirits as she mounted the steps after fitz had ridden away. when he had appeared with the message that dick was detained at the office, and had sent him to ride with her, her first impulse was to refuse to go, but other counsels prevailed. fitz had offered no congratulations on her engagement, and the omission rankled in her mind. she was nourishing a reckless determination to provoke a scene by asking him what he meant by it, but her courage oozed away very soon after starting. she would still have given much to know what he thought of the whole situation, but she durst not venture upon an inquiry. fitz, on his part, made no allusion to the important event which had occurred since their last ride, speaking of the commissioner as coolly as if she had no particular interest in him. before they had been out long, she was content to accept his ruling, and conscious of a kind of horror in looking back upon the resolution with which she had started. she was on good terms with herself once more, and to such an extent did the gloom cast by mr burgrave’s impressive personality seem to be lightened at this distance, that she returned home feeling positively friendly towards him. it was unfortunate that mrs hardy’s disapproving glance, when she encountered her on the steps, should clash with this new mood of cheerfulness, and that another shock should be awaiting her when she looked into the drawing-room verandah on her way to take off her habit.
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“little girl,” said her lover, holding out his hand to draw her nearer him, “would you mind very much if i said i had rather you didn’t take these solitary rides with young anstruther?”
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the angry crimson leaped up into mabel’s forehead.
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“you have no right whatever to make such insinuations!” she cried hotly.
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“now, dearest, you mistake me. i make no insinuations--i should not dream of such a thing. all i say is--doesn’t it seem more suitable to you, yourself, that until i am able to ride with you again you should not go out except with your brother? you will do me the justice to believe that i am not jealous--i would not insult you by such a feeling--but other people will talk. yes, i am jealous--for my little girl, not of her. no one must have the chance even of passing a remark upon her.”
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mabel stood playing with her whip, her face flushed and her lips pressed closely together. “he would like to make life a prison for me, with himself as jailer!” she thought, as she bent the lash to meet the handle, making no attempt to listen to mr burgrave, who went on to speak of the high position his wife would occupy, of the extreme circumspection necessary in such a station, and of the unfortunate love of scandal characterising the higher circles of indian female officialdom. he did not actually say that the future mrs burgrave must be above suspicion, but this was the general idea underlying his remarks.
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“why, you have broken your whip!” the words reached her ears at last. “never mind, you shall have the best in bombay as soon as it can come up here. you see what i mean, little girl, don’t you?”
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“oh yes,” said mabel drearily. “you forbid me ever to ride with any one but you, or to speak to a man under seventy.”
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“mabel!” he cried, deeply hurt, “can you really misjudge me so cruelly?”
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“it’s not that,” she said, kneeling down beside him with a sudden burst of frankness. “i know how fond you are of me, and i can’t tell you how grateful and ashamed it makes me. but you don’t understand things. you want to treat me like a baby, and i have been grown-up a long, long time. think what i have gone through since i came here, even.”
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“i know, i know!” he said hoarsely. “don’t speak of it, my dearest! the thought of that evening in the nullah comes upon me sometimes at night, and turns me into an abject coward. i mean to take you away where you will be safe, and have no anxieties.”
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“then have you never any anxieties? because they will be mine.”
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“no,” he said, with something of sternness, “my anxieties shall never touch my wife. i want to shake off my worries when i leave the office, and come home to find you in a perfect house, with everything round you perfectly in keeping, the very embodiment of rest and peace, sitting there in a perfect gown, long and soft and flowing, for me to feast my eyes upon.”
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he lingered lovingly over the contemplation of this ideal picture, to the details of which mabel listened with a cold shudder. “my dear eustace,” she said brusquely, to hide her dismay, “please tell me how you think the house and the servants are to be kept perfect, if i do nothing but trail round and strike attitudes in a tea-gown?” she caught his wounded look, and went on hastily, “and what did you mean by that invidious glance you cast at my habit? i won’t have my things sniffed at.”
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“it’s so horribly plain,” pleaded the culprit.
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“and why not?” demanded mabel, touched in her tenderest point. “i’m sure it’s most workmanlike.”
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“that’s just it. workmanlike--detestable! why should a woman want to wear workmanlike clothes? all her things ought to be like that gown you wore at the gymkhana, looking as if a touch would spoil them.”
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“i shall remind you of this in future, you absurd man!” laughed mabel, regaining her cheerfulness as she thought she saw a way of establishing her point; “but please remember, once for all, that i shall choose my clothes myself--and they will be suitable for various occasions, for business as well as pleasure. your part will only be to admire, and to pay.” there was a seriousness in her tone which belied the jesting words. surely he would understand, he must understand, that there was a principle at stake.
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“and that part will be punctually performed,” said mr burgrave indulgently, gazing in admiration into her animated face. “i know that you will remember my foolish prejudices, and gratify them to the utmost extent of my desires, if not of my purse. that is all i ask of you--to be always beautiful.”
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in her bitter disappointment mabel could have burst into tears.
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“oh, you won’t understand! you won’t understand!” she cried. “i don’t want piles of clothes; i don’t want everything softened and shaded down for me. i want to be a helpmate to my husband, as georgia is to dick.”
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“dear child, i am sorry you have returned to this subject,” said mr burgrave, taken aback. “i thought we had threshed it out fully long ago.”
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“ah, but we can speak more freely now!” she cried. “don’t you see that i should hate to be stuck up on a pedestal for you to look at, or to be a kind of pet, that you might amuse yourself smilingly with my foolish little interests out of office hours? i want you to tell me things, and let us talk them over together, as dick and georgia do.”
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“i know they do,” said mr burgrave, trying to smile. “the walls here are so thin that i hear them at it every evening. a prolonged growl is your brother soliloquising, and a brief interlude of higher tones is mrs north giving her opinion of affairs. it is a little embarrassing for me, knowing as i do that my doings are almost certainly the subject of the conversation.”
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“well, and if they are?” cried mabel. “it is only because you and dick don’t understand one another that he and georgia criticise you. now think about this very matter of the frontier. if you would only talk to me, and tell me what you thought was the proper thing to be done, i could talk to them, and you might find out that your views were not so much opposed after all. do try, please; oh, do! i would give anything to bring you to an agreement.”
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mr burgrave’s brow was clouded as he looked into her eager eyes.
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“am i to understand,” he said, with dreadful distinctness, “that your brother and mrs north are trying to make use of you to extract information from me? no, i will not suspect your brother. no man would stoop to employ such an expedient--so degrading to my future wife, so affronting to myself. it is mrs north’s doing.”
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mabel, who had listened in horrified silence, sprang to her feet at this point as if stung. “i think it will be as well for me to return you this,” she said, laying upon the table the ring of “finest europe make,” which the commissioner had been fain to purchase from the chief jeweller in the bazaar as a makeshift until the diamond hoop for which he had sent to bombay could arrive. “you have grossly insulted both georgia and me, and--and i never wish to speak to you again.”
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she meant to sweep impressively from the room, but the angry tears that filled her eyes made her blunder against the table, and mr burgrave, raising himself with a wild effort, caught her hand. “mabel, come here,” he said, and furious with herself for yielding, she obeyed. “give me that ring, please.” he restored it solemnly to its place on her finger. “now we are on speaking terms again. dear little girl, forgive me. i was wrong, unpardonably wrong, but i never thought your generous little heart would lead you so far in opposing my expressed wish. i admire the impulse, my darling, but when you come to know me better you will understand how unlikely it is that i should yield to it. come, dear, look sunny again, or must i make a heroic attempt to go down on my knees with one leg in splints?”
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“oh, if you would only understand!” sighed mabel. she was kneeling beside him again, occupying quite undeservedly, as she felt, the position of suppliant. “if only i could make you see----”
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“see what?” he asked, taking her face in his hands and kissing it. “i see that my little girl thinks me an old brute. won’t she believe me if i assure her on my honour that i am trying to do the best i can for her brother, and that i hope i have found a way of putting things right?”
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“have you, really?” her bright smile was a sufficient reward. “oh, eustace, if it’s all settled happily, i shall love you for ever!”
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the assurance did not seem to promise much that was new when the relative position of those concerned was considered, but the unsolicited kiss bestowed upon him was very grateful to mr burgrave, and he smiled kindly as he released mabel and bade her run away and change her habit. she left the room gaily enough, but once outside, a sudden wave of recollection swept over her, and she wrung her hands wildly.
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“i was free--free!” she cried to herself. “just for a moment i was free, and i let him fetch me back. oh, what can i do? i believe i could be quite fond of him if he would let me, but he won’t. and if he wasn’t so good i should delight to break it off in the most insulting way possible, but his virtues are the worst thing about him. i hate them! is this sort of thing to go on for a whole lifetime--beating against a stone wall and bruising my hands, and then being kissed and given a sweet, and told not to cry? mabel louisa north, you are a silly fool, and you deserve just what you have got. i hate and despise you, and with my latest breath i shall say, serve you right!”
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“oh, dick, has it come?” georgia sprang up to meet her husband, as he entered the room with a gloomy face.
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“no, but so far as i can see, it’s close at hand. i can’t quite make things out, but burgrave seems to have altered his plans astonishingly. instead of travelling down to the coast at once, he is going to stay here another week, and hold a durbar at nalapur. i have to send word to beltring at once to get the big shamiana put up in the agency grounds, and to see that all the sardars have notice. what does it mean?”
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“he’s going to see the thing through on his own account,” said georgia, with conviction. “but it will make no difference to us, will it, dick?”
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“rather not! the breach of faith is the same, whether i announce it at first, or merely come in afterwards to carry it out. i wish burgrave hadn’t such a mania for mysteries. ismail bakhsh tells me he has been sending off official telegrams at a tremendous rate all day, and yet when i ventured to hint that some idea of the proposed proceedings at the durbar would be interesting, he turned rusty at once, and said he had not received his instructions. this system of government by thunderbolt doesn’t suit me. it’s enough to make a man chuck things up now, without waiting for the final blow.”
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“oh, but you will stick on as long as you can? it’s some sort of security for peace.”
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“a wretchedly shaky one, then,” said dick, with an angry laugh. “here’s the amir sending his mullah aziz-ud-din to say that he learns on incontestable authority that the subsidy is to be withdrawn, and imploring me to say whether i have any hand in it. the poor old fellow’s faith in me is quite touching, but what could i say except that i knew nothing about it, and repeat the assurance i gave him before?”
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“but what could ashraf ali mean by incontestable authority?”
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“how can i tell? some spy, i suppose. by the way, though, it didn’t strike me. that must be what the commissioner meant!”
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“why, what did he say?”
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“he doesn’t intend to stay on in this house. now that he can be got into a cart, he thinks it better to return to his hired bungalow. i imagine i looked a bit waxy, for he graciously explained that he had reason to believe we have spies among the servants here.”
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“dick! you don’t mean to say that he accused you----?”
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“no, he was so good as to assure me that he had the best possible means of knowing i had nothing to do with it. but when i reminded him that all the servants, except those mab brought with her from bombay, have been with us for years, he intimated that he made no accusations, but official matters had got out, and he didn’t mean to allow that sort of thing to go on. no doubt it was that sweetseller fellow, as we thought.”
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“well, i think that to go is the best thing the commissioner can do. it will give mab a little peace.”
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“yes, i shouldn’t say she looked exactly festive.”
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“how could she? she feels that she has cut herself off from us, for of course we can’t discuss things before her as we used to do, and i don’t think she finds that he makes up for it. i have great hopes.”
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“now, no coming between them!” said dick warningly, and georgia laughed.
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“i trust it won’t be necessary,” she said.
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a week later she happened to be again sitting alone in the drawing-room, busy with the fine white work on which she expended so many hours and such loving care at this time, when dick came in. to her astonishment, he was in uniform, and laid his sword upon the table by the door as he entered.
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“why, dick, you are not going to nalapur with the commissioner after all?” she cried.
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“burgrave can’t go, and i have to hold the durbar instead.”
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“it seems that he had a fearful blow-up with tighe this morning, after taking it for granted all along that he would be allowed to leave off his splints and go. tighe absolutely howled at the idea, told him that in moving from this house to his own he had jarred the knee so badly as to throw himself back for a week, and that the splints must stay on for some time yet. of course he can’t ride in them, and to take him through the mountains in a doolie would be madness.”
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“i wondered at his being allowed to ride so soon,” said georgia, “but i thought dr tighe must have found him better than we expected. of course i haven’t seen the knee for some time lately. but did he tell you what the object of the durbar was?”
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“he did. it is just what we thought it would be, georgie.”
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“nonsense!” cried georgia sharply. “as if you would go to nalapur in that case! are you joking, dick?”
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his set face brought conviction slowly to her mind.
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“you are not joking, and yet you came home, and got ready, just as if you meant to hold the durbar, and never told me!” she cried.
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“i do mean to hold the durbar,” said dick.
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she sat stunned, and he went on: “i thought i wouldn’t tell you till the last moment, because i knew how you would feel about it, and i didn’t want to worry you more than could be helped.”
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“to worry me!” she repeated. “and yet you come here and try to tease me with this absurd, impossible story? you are not going.”
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dick looked her straight in the face. “but i am,” he said.
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“but you said you would resign first.”
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“i must resign afterwards, that’s all. there are some things a man can’t do, georgie, and one is to desert in the face of the enemy.”
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“but it’s wrong--dishonourable!”
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“it’s got to be done, and burgrave has managed to engineer matters so that i have to do it. i talked about resigning, and he said very huffily that he wasn’t the person to receive my resignation, which is quite true. he anticipates danger, i can see, for he tells me he has had information that bahram khan has some sort of plot on hand, and do you expect me to hang back after that?”
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“i never thought you would care what people said. if it’s right to resign, do it, and let them say what they like.”
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“if i wasn’t a soldier i would, but i have no choice.”
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“no choice between right and wrong?”
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“not as a soldier. it isn’t my business to criticise my orders, but to execute them. oh, i know all you are thinking. i see it perfectly well, and from your point of view you are absolutely in the right, and as an individual i agree with you, but i am not my own master.”
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“and your personal honour?”
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“i’m afraid it has got to look after itself. don’t think me a brute, georgie. i want to be on your side, but i can’t.”
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“then i suppose it’s no use my saying anything more?”
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“i really think it would be better not. you see, it would only make us both awfully uncomfortable, and do no good.”
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“oh, don’t!” burst from georgia. “i can’t bear to hear you talk like that. remember your promise to ashraf ali. the poor old man has relied on that, and pledged himself to all the sardars that the government doesn’t intend to forsake them. the whole honour of england is at stake. dick, these people have learnt from you and my father to believe the word of an englishman, and are you going to teach them to distrust it now?”
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“when you have quite finished----” began dick.
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“i can’t! i can’t! oh, dick, our own people, who know us and trust us! have you the heart to forsake them? dick, won’t you listen to me? i have never urged you to do anything against your will before, but when it is a matter of right and conscience--! i know you believe you’re right now, but how will you feel about it afterwards? think of our friends betrayed, our name disgraced, through you!”
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“hang it, georgie!” cried dick, losing his temper, “you make a man feel such a cur. i tell you i have got to go.”
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“i wish i had died when baby died at iskandarbagh, rather than lived to hear you say that.”
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dick turned away without answering, and took up his sword from the table where he had laid it down. it was always georgia’s privilege to buckle the sword-belt for him, and she rose mechanically, rousing herself with an effort from her stupor of dismay. he took the strap roughly out of her hands.
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“no,” he said, “you’d better have nothing to do with it. the blame is all mine at present, and you can keep your own conscience clear.”
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she sank upon a chair again and watched him miserably as he buckled on the sword and went out. on the threshold he looked back, softening a little.
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“graham has changed his mind, and is not coming to the durbar. if there should be any attempt at a rising, you are to take refuge in the old fort. tighe will come and sleep in the house these two nights if you are nervous.”
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“i’m not nervous,” said georgia indignantly.
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“oh, very well. after all, we shall be between you and nalapur.”
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“dick!” she cried faintly, “you are not going--like this?”
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there was no answer, and she moved slowly to the window, supporting herself by the furniture. he was already mounted, and was giving his final directions to ismail bakhsh. the sight gave georgia fresh strength, and stepping out on the verandah, she ran round the corner of the house. there was one place where he always turned and looked back as he rode out. he could not pass it unheeded even now, that spot, close to the gate of the compound, where she had so often waited for his return. as she stood grasping the verandah rail with both hands, the consciousness that for the first time in their married life he was leaving her in anger swept over her like a flood.
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“oh, it will kill me!” she moaned, seizing one of the pillars to support herself, but almost immediately another thought flashed into her mind. “no, he is not angry--my dear old dick! he is only grieved. he durst not be kind to me, lest i should persuade him any more, and he should have to give way. god keep you, my darling!”
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in the rush of happy tears that filled her eyes, the landscape was blotted out, and when she could see distinctly again, dick had passed the gate. she could just distinguish the top of his helmet above the wall as he rode. he had gone by while she was not looking. would it have been any comfort to her to know that he had looked back, and not seeing her, had ridden on faster?
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“i had to behave like a brute, or i should have given in--and she didn’t see it,” he said to himself remorsefully. “of course she was right, bless her! she always is, but i couldn’t do anything else.”
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her pale reproachful face haunted him, and had there been time he would have turned back, but he was obliged to hurry on. as he entered the town, he came upon dr tighe.
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“doctor,” he said, laying a hand on the little man’s shoulder, “look after my wife while i’m away. she’s awfully cut up at my going like this.”
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“all right!” said the doctor cheerfully; “and don’t you be frightened about her. mrs north is a sensible woman, and knows better than to go and make herself ill with fretting.”
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“the memsahib parted from the sahib without kissing him!” said one of the servants wonderingly to the rest.
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“what foolish talk is this?” asked mabel’s bearer scornfully. “my last memsahib never kissed the sahib unless he had gained her favour by a gift of jewels.”
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the tone implied that the subject might be dismissed as beneath contempt, but the man’s actions did not altogether tally with it, for after loftily waving aside the assurance of the first speaker that this sahib and memsahib were not as others, he retired precipitately to his own quarters. here a lanky youth, who was slumbering peacefully in the midst of a miscellaneous collection of goods, some of them mabel’s, and others the bearer’s own, was suddenly roused by a kick.
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“hasten to dera gul with a message of good omen!” said the bearer, impelling his messenger firmly in the desired direction. “nāth sahib and the doctor lady have quarrelled, and until they meet again he is without the protection of her magic.”
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chapter xiii. one night.
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“awake, miss sahib, awake!”
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“miss north! miss north!”
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mabel sat up in bed. her window was being shaken violently, and outside on the verandah were those two persistent voices.
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“see what it is, tara,” she called to her ayah, but the woman was crouching in a corner, her teeth chattering with terror. seeing that she was too frightened to move, mabel threw on a dressing-gown and went to the window. outside stood fitz anstruther, his face pale in the moonlight, and ismail bakhsh, who was armed with his old regimental carbine and tulwar. thus accoutred, he was wont to mount guard over the house and its inmates when dick was absent, patrolling the verandahs at intervals; but he had never hitherto found it necessary to alarm his charges at midnight.
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“what is it?” asked mabel, opening the window.
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“you must get dressed at once, and bring anything that you particularly value,” said fitz hurriedly. “we were attacked on the way to nalapur, and there was no durbar. i’m come instead of the major to fetch you to the old fort, for bahram khan and his cut-throats may be here at any moment. will you speak to mrs north, please? i was afraid of startling her if i knocked at her window or came into the house. winlock is outside with twenty sowars, and he and i will see after the papers in the major’s study.”
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mabel dropped the blind and went towards georgia’s room, twisting up her hair mechanically as she did so. rahah was already on the alert, and met her at the door with gleaming eyes.
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“i know, miss sahib. the evil is at hand at last. awake, o my lady!” she laid a hand gently on georgia’s forehead. “the time has come to take refuge in the fort. the sahib bade me be prepared.”
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“dick has sent mr anstruther to fetch us, georgie,” said mabel, unconsciously altering fitz’s words, as georgia, half awake, looked sleepily from her to rahah. “i think he wants us to be quick.”
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“of course,” said georgia, rousing herself. “now, rahah, you will be happy at last. we’ll come and help you, mab, before tara’s ready. oh, but the papers!--i must see that they are safe.”
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“mr anstruther is looking after them,” said mabel.
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“i wonder whether dick thought of giving him the key of the safe? very likely he forgot it in his hurry. he had better have my duplicate. oh, thanks, mab! there’s a tin despatch-box standing by the safe which will hold all the most important papers.”
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with the key in her hand, mabel hurried down the passage, her slippers making no sound on the matting. there was a light in dick’s den, and fitz and captain winlock were shovelling armfuls of papers and various small articles into a huge camel-trunk which stood open in the middle of the floor. as mabel reached the door, winlock held out something to fitz. “not much good taking this, at any rate,” he said, and a cold hand seemed to grip mabel’s heart as she saw that it was dick’s tobacco-pouch, which georgia, with what his sister considered a reprehensible toleration of her husband’s pleasant vices, had worked for him.
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“no, put it in,” said fitz gruffly. “it may comfort her to have it.”
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a slight sound at the door, half gasp, half groan, made both men jump, and looking round they saw mabel, her eyes wide with terror.
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“mr anstruther, what has happened to dick?”
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the words were barely audible. fitz stood guiltily silent.
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“tell me,” she said.
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“he was wounded,” growled winlock.
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“it’s worse than that, i know. is he taken prisoner?”
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“no,” was the unwilling reply.
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“then he’s killed! oh!----” but before mabel could utter another word, fitz’s hand was upon her mouth.
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“miss north, you mustn’t scream. for heaven’s sake, think of his wife! remember what those two are--have been--to one another, and remember--everything. let us get her safe to the fort, and let mrs hardy break it to her gently. a sudden shock like this might kill her.”
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mabel freed herself from the restraining hand, and stood shivering as if with cold. “oh, dick, dick!” she wailed pitifully, in a tone that went to the men’s hearts, and then she crept back in silence along the passage. once in her own room, she dropped helplessly into a chair and sat rigid, staring straight before her. dick dead! georgia a widow! that perfect comradeship at an end for ever!--and georgia did not know it. mabel wrung her hands feebly. it was the only movement she had strength to make. all power of thought and action seemed to have forsaken her. dick was dead and georgia was left.
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“my beloved mab!” georgia came hurrying in, equipped for driving. “i said i should be ready first, but i didn’t expect to find you quite so far behind. i believe rahah keeps half my things packed, all ready for a night alarm of this kind, but of course your ayah is not accustomed to these little excitements. are you quite overwhelmed by the amount that has to be done?”
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“yes; i don’t know what to pack first,” said mabel, with a forced laugh, keeping her face turned away.
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“well, rahah and i will see to that while you dress. we may be some days in the fort, and you don’t want to go about in an amber dressing-gown the whole time. we’ll begin with your jewel-case. where is it?”
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“oh, i don’t know! what’s the good of taking that sort of thing?”
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“it might be invaluable--to buy food, or bribe the enemy, or ransom a prisoner--or anything. where is it, mab? i thought you kept it in here?”
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“yes, i do.” mabel looked up from the shoe she was tying, as georgia ransacked a drawer in vain. “but no doubt tara has taken it out to the cart already. she has always been instructed to save it first of all if the house was on fire.”
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mabel spoke wearily. the awful irony of georgia’s fussing over a box of trinkets while dick lay dead almost destroyed her self-control. how was it that she did not guess the truth without being told?
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“but why hasn’t she come back to help you to dress? i hope it’s all right, mab, but i doubt if you’ll see that jewel-case again. she has had time to slip away with it and hide somewhere. here, rahah, put all these things in the box. it’s well to take plenty of clothes, mab, for we are not likely to be able to get much washing done.”
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“don’t!” burst from mabel.
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“why not?” asked georgia, in astonishment.
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“why, it sounds as if you thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives in the fort,” said mabel lamely.
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“i don’t see why. surely you would like to save as many of your things as possible, whether we stay there long or not?”
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“oh yes, of course.” mabel turned away to fasten her dress at the glass, conscious that in georgia’s eyes she must be playing a sorry part. georgia thought her dazed with fright, whereas her mind was full of that dreadful revelation which must be made sooner or later.
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“are you nearly ready, mrs north?” asked fitz’s voice in the passage.
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“quite,” replied georgia, stuffing mabel’s dressing-gown ruthlessly into a full trunk. “tell the servants to come and fetch the boxes, please.”
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“well, i’m afraid the servants have stampeded to a certain extent. ismail bakhsh and the rest of the chaprasis and one or two others are left, and that’s all, but of course they’ll make themselves useful.”
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“you see, mab!” said georgia, and mabel understood that she need not expect to see her jewel-case again. they followed fitz out into the verandah, in front of which were ranged all the vehicles belonging to the establishment, drawn by everything that could be found even remotely resembling a horse.
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“i told ismail bakhsh to get them out,” said fitz. “there are the wives and children to bring, and i knew you wouldn’t mind.”
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“of course not,” said georgia. “wait a moment, please; i have forgotten something,” and she ran back into the drawing-room. mabel knew what it was she had suddenly remembered.
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“i hope she won’t be long,” said fitz anxiously. “we’ve been here a quarter of an hour already.”
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only a quarter of an hour! to mabel it seemed hours since she had been awakened by those voices on the verandah. she looked out beyond the line of troopers sitting motionless on their horses, and noticed, without perceiving the significance of the fact, that there were two or three of their number acting as scouts farther off in the moonlight.
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“i daren’t lose any more time,” fitz went on, fidgeting up and down the steps. “i can’t think how it is they have left us so long.”
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ismail bakhsh, stowing mabel’s dressing-bag under the seat of the dog-cart, looked round. “sahib, he rides to-night. they will not cross the border until he has passed.”
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“then whoever or whatever he may be, he has probably saved all our lives,” said fitz, as georgia came out of the house. while he was helping her into the dog-cart, mabel caught once more the sound of the tramp of the galloping horse, which the old trooper’s quick ear had perceived some minutes before. the sowars straightened themselves suddenly in their saddles, and the horses pricked their ears in the direction of the noise.
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“old boy seems somewhat agitated to-night,” muttered winlock to fitz, as the invisible rider pulled up abruptly, then galloped on again.
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“there’s enough to make him so,” returned fitz, who was helping to hoist the last terrified native woman, with her burden of two children and several brass pots, into the last cart. “all right now?” he demanded, looking down the row of vehicles. “we had better be off, then.”
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was it fancy, or did mabel see the sparks struck from the stone on which the unseen horse stumbled as the sound came nearer? she could have screamed for sheer terror; but rahah, who was her companion on the back seat of the dog-cart, laughed aloud as she wrapped the end of her chadar round the great white persian cat she held in her arms.
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“what is there to fear, miss sahib? no man has ever stood against sinjāj kīlin, and he is close at hand. the rule of the sarkar will continue.”
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“now do tell me what has happened,” mabel heard georgia saying to fitz, as he drove out of the gate. “i’m sure i am a model soldier’s wife, for dick suddenly sends me a bare message ordering me to abandon all my household goods and take refuge in the fort, and i do it without asking why! but i must confess i should like to know the reason. did the durbar break up in disorder, or were you attacked on the way back?”
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“there was no durbar at all. the attack came off on the way there. but i say, mrs north,” said fitz desperately, anticipating georgia’s question, “i can’t tell you what happened then, for i wasn’t there. won’t it do if i recount my own experiences, and you ask the other fellows about the rest of it when we get to the fort?” he left her no time to answer, but went on hurriedly:--
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“no, wait!” cried georgia, for hitherto fitz had spoken so fast that she had found it impossible to get in a word. “who were the wounded? you said nothing about them before. was any one killed?”
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“i--i really can’t give you any particulars,” returned fitz, at his wits’ end. “please let me finish my tale. i’m getting to the most exciting part. it was fearfully thrilling when we had to pass under the very walls of dera gul. of course we were all ready for action at a moment’s notice, but the men were told to ride at ease, and talk if they liked, to give the impression that all was well. i know winlock and i exchanged the most appalling inanities at the top of our voices, till the dera gul people must have thought we were drunk. as we expected, pretty soon there came a hail from the walls, asking who we were, and ressaldar badullah khan, who was nearest, called out that we were coming back from nalapur without holding the durbar. ‘but what has happened?’ asked the voice from the wall. ‘what should happen, save that the superintendent sahib won’t hold the durbar?’ said the ressaldar, and we went on. of course they must have been awfully puzzled, for they couldn’t see our wounded in the dark, and the only thing they could do was to send some one off to the pass to find out what had happened. beltring was to look out for that, and if possible to seize the messenger and get his men away at once, before bahram khan could come up and take him in the rear.”
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“and i suppose dick is helping to prepare the fort for defence?” asked georgia. “there must be a dreadful amount to do.”
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“oh, that reminds me, miss north,” cried fitz quickly, turning round to mabel. “the commissioner was most anxious to come and fetch you himself, but we pointed out to him that he could do no good, and being so lame, might hinder us a good deal. excuse me, mrs north, but i think i must give all my attention to driving just here. i don’t know why the whole population should have turned their possessions out into the street, unless it was to make it awkward for us.”
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“we want volunteers to help destroy the buildings round the fort,” he said. “you’ll go, anstruther? what about your servants, mrs north?”
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“there are seven who have come with us, nearly all old soldiers,” said georgia. “if you will speak to ismail bakhsh, who is a host in himself, i will see that their wives and children are safely lodged while they set to work.”
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“awfully sorry to trouble you about this sort of thing just now,” said woodworth awkwardly.
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“trouble? i am delighted they should help, of course. where shall i find my husband?”
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“good heavens! you haven’t heard----?” the adjutant stopped suddenly.
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“you blighted idiot!” muttered fitz under his breath. “fact is, mrs north, the major’s hurt--rather badly--” this reluctantly; “but i didn’t want to frighten you sooner than i could help----”
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“where is he? take me to him at once,” was all she said.
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woodworth stepped forward mechanically to help her out of the cart, but found himself forestalled. the commissioner had come hurrying up, preceded by two huge sikhs, who cleared a passage for him through the throng, and now, supporting himself upon his crutch, he held out his hand to georgia.
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“believe me, mrs north,” he said, “you have the sympathy of every man here at this terrible time. surely it must be some consolation to you that your noble husband fell fighting, as he would have wished, and that the smallness of our losses is entirely owing to his prudence and self-sacrifice?”
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georgia, on the ground now, looked about her like one dazed, finding, wherever she looked, fresh confirmation of the cruel tidings. in mr burgrave’s sympathising face, in woodworth’s pitying eyes, in the sorrowful glances of the stern troopers who had closed up round the group, she read the truth of what she had just heard. her hand went quickly from her heart to her eyes, as though to shut out the sight. then it dropped again.
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“oh, you might have told me at once!” she cried bitterly to fitz. “i could have borne it better from you than from the man who has done it all.”
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“when you are more yourself, mrs north, i know you will regret this injustice,” said mr burgrave, without anger. “allow me to take you to your quarters in the fort.”
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georgia shook from head to foot as he offered her his arm. she was on the point of refusing it, of yielding to the sickening sense of aversion with which his presence inspired her, when the scowling gaze of the mounted troopers arrested her attention, and awakened her to the deadly peril in which the commissioner stood. these men idolised dick, and they had heard her accuse mr burgrave of causing his death. a word from her would mean that his last moment had come. even to turn her back upon him would be taken to show that she left him to their vengeance, which might not follow immediately, but would be certain to fall sooner or later. with a great effort she conquered her repugnance, and laid her hand upon his arm.
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“at a time like this there are no private quarrels,” she said hoarsely, addressing the troopers rather than the commissioner. “we must all stand together for the honour of england.”
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“of course, of course!” agreed mr burgrave, wondering what on earth had called forth such a melodramatic remark, for he had missed the growl of disappointed rage with which the troopers let their ready blades fall back into the scabbards. “most admirable spirit, i’m sure.”
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“upon my word!” muttered woodworth to fitz, “the man would have been cut to pieces before our eyes in another moment, and he never saw it.”
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“oh, ignorance is bliss,” returned fitz shortly. “what’s to happen to the carts?”
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“broken up for firewood, i suppose. we can’t make room for everything.”
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“i fear you will find your quarters somewhat confined,” mr burgrave was saying kindly to georgia, as with the help of his sikhs he piloted her through the gateway, “but we cannot expect palatial accommodation in our present circumstances. our good friends mrs hardy and miss graham are taking pains to make things comfortable for you, i know, and you must be kind enough to excuse the deficiencies due to lack of time and means.”
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georgia gave a short fierce laugh. the commissioner’s tone suggested that if he had been consulted sooner there would have been a perfect hôtel métropole in readiness to receive the fugitives. she broke away from him, and laid her hand lovingly upon one of the new gates, for his presentation of which to a presumably ruined fort all the newspapers of the province had made dick their butt only the week before. the echoes of their homeric laughter were even at this moment resounding in bombay on the one hand and lahore on the other.
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“if your life--any of our lives--are saved, it will all be due to him!” she cried, and the commissioner marvelled at the lack of sequence so characteristic of a woman’s mind. he led georgia through the labyrinth of curiously involved passages and courts at the back of the club-house, in which government stores and stray pieces of private property were lying about pell-mell, until they could be separated and reduced to some sort of order by the overworked officer in charge of the housing arrangements. mabel followed with rahah, and at last they reached a tiny oblong courtyard not far from the rear wall of the fort. here, in the middle of the paved space, was mrs hardy, sorting a confused heap of her possessions with the assistance of an elderly christian native, mr hardy’s bearer.
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“oh, my dear! my poor dear!” she cried, running to georgia, and for a moment the two women held each other locked in a close embrace.
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“this room,” said mr burgrave, who seemed to feel it incumbent upon him to do the honours of the place, “has been allotted to miss graham, as it communicates by a passage with the colonel’s quarters in the next courtyard. the two on the right are mr and mrs hardy’s, the two on the left are intended for you, mrs north, and the one opposite is for you, mabel. i believe the arrangement was suggested to colonel graham by major north himself.”
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mrs hardy raised her head and gave him a fiery glance. “miss north, will you be so kind as to request mr burgrave to go away?” she said viciously.
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“no; wait, please,” said georgia. “which of the officers were with my husband when he--was hurt, mr burgrave?”
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“there were several, i believe, but the only one not seriously wounded was mr beltring, and he will not come in until the shah nawaz contingent gets here--if at all.”
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“if--when he comes, i should like to see him, please,” said georgia, and the commissioner departed.
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“now come in, dear, and lie down,” said mrs hardy. “your rooms are ready, and i see rahah, like a thoughtful girl, has even brought the cat to make it look homelike. anand masih will bring you some tea in a minute, and then i hope you will just go to bed again.”
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“dear mrs hardy, you have given us all your own furniture,” protested georgia, recognising a well-worn writing-table; but mrs hardy shook her head vigorously.
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“nonsense, my dear, nonsense! we had far more brought in than we can possibly use in this little place, and as soon as i have seen you settled, anand masih and i will look after my two rooms. mr hardy is helping dr tighe in the reading-room, which they have turned into a hospital, or i know he would have come to see if he could do anything for you.”
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never silent for a moment, mrs hardy administered tea without milk to mabel and georgia, and then tried vainly again to induce them to go to bed. just as she was departing in despair, flora graham ran in.
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“i am helping to arrange the hospital--i can’t stay,” she panted. “oh, mrs north, mabel darling, i am so sorry! i can’t tell you how much--” she stopped, unable to speak. “i know a little what it is like,” she added, with a sob; “fred and his men are not in yet.”
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she dashed away, and georgia and mabel sat silent, hand in hand, until the sound of a cheer from the hard-worked garrison heralded the arrival of the shah nawaz detachment. presently the clink of spurs on the verandah announced young beltring, who was dick’s most trusted pupil among the military officers desiring political employment, and as a man after his chief’s own heart, had been allowed to earn experience, if not fame, as his assistant at nalapur. he came in slowly and reluctantly, scarcely daring to look at georgia, his torn and bloodstained clothes and bandaged head bearing eloquent testimony to the fighting he had seen that day.
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“sit down, mr beltring,” said georgia, holding out her hand to him. “you got here without further loss, i hope?”
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“yes, the enemy were on both flanks, but they never came near enough to do any harm,” he answered, dropping wearily into a chair.
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“now tell us, please. you were with him--at the end?”
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“i was the nearest, but not with him. he was riding with that treacherous scoundrel abd-ul-nabi, and we had orders to keep a few paces to the rear. we thought he wanted to speak to abd-ul-nabi privately, but now i believe it was because he foresaw what was coming. the rest of us were still in that part of the pass where the walls are too steep for any ambush, while he, on in front with abd-ul-nabi, was rounding the corner where the track goes down suddenly into a wide rocky nullah. he must have seen something that he was not meant to see--the glitter of weapons among the rocks perhaps--for he turned suddenly and shouted, ‘back! back! an ambuscade!’ abd-ul-nabi spurred his horse across the pathway to prevent his getting back to us, but the major came straight at him, and the ruffian pulled out a pistol and fired at him point-blank. i cut the wretch down the next moment, but the major had dropped like a log, and before we could get him up there was a rush round the corner in front, while abd-ul-nabi’s escort, who had been riding last, attacked us in the rear. leyward took command, and the fellows behind were soon disposed of, but in front we had a pretty hard time. at last we drove them back far enough to get at the major’s body. he was lying under a heap of dead. i got him out, and his head fell back on my shoulder. no, there could be no mistake, mrs north. do you think i would ever have left him while there was any breath in his body? i tried to get him on to my horse, and badullah khan helped me. just as we had got him up, there was another rush, and the wretched beast broke away. i was thrown off on my head, and when i came to myself the ressaldar was holding me in front of him on his horse, and we were in full retreat down the pass. we had lost eight killed beside the major, and leyward and the two other fellows were all badly wounded, besides almost every one of the men, and--and they wouldn’t go back.”
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“no, no; it would have been wrong,” murmured georgia. “thank you for telling me this. there could be no message.”
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“no message,” repeated beltring, answering the unasked question.
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“he could not send me any message,” wailed georgia, as the young man went out, “and i parted from him in anger. oh, dick, my darling, my darling--forgive me!”
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“oh, georgie, don’t!” sobbed mabel.
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“i’m sure i can’t,” protested mabel.
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it was not long before she cried herself to sleep, however, but georgia sat where she was until the morning.
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“mab!” mabel awoke from her uneasy slumbers to wonder where she was, and why georgia was sitting there, her face silhouetted against the square of grey light that represented a window. “mab! dick is not dead.”
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“why--oh, georgie!--have you heard anything?”
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“no; but i know it. we always agreed that if either of us died when the other was not there, the one that was dead should come back to say good-bye. and i have waited for him all night, and he has not come.”
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mabel gazed at her in dismay. “oh, but you are not building upon that, georgie? how can it be any proof that he is alive? he might not be allowed to come.”
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“he promised. besides, i know he is alive,” persisted georgia obstinately. “if he was dead, i should feel it.”
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“if he does, i shall know,” murmured georgia, as she lay down. “thanks, mab; i am so tired.”
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mabel waited only until she was asleep, and then, summoning rahah to watch beside her, went in search of dr tighe. it so happened that she met him in the passage which led into the courtyard.
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“bad business this, miss north. we can ill spare your brother. how is his poor wife?”
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“she has borne up wonderfully so far, but--oh, dr tighe, i’m afraid her mind is going. she will persist that dick is not dead.”
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“poor thing! can’t realise it yet,” said the doctor compassionately.
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“no; it is quite a delusion. she says he is still alive, or she would know it. what can we do? i thought perhaps if she could see his body----”
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“no, no. better that the delusion should last for ever than she should see his body after those fiends have had to do with it.”
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“but she must give up hope soon, and it will be such a fearful disappointment----”
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“if the hope keeps her up through the next few days, so much the better. afterwards, please god, she’ll have more effectual comfort than we could give her.”
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“but i can’t help hoping too, and it will make the reality so much worse,” confessed mabel, with an irrepressible sob.
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“woman alive! who cares about you?” cried the doctor furiously. “what do your little bits of feelings matter compared with hers? no, no; i beg your pardon, miss north,” his tone softening. “i’d get a fine wigging if the commissioner heard me, wouldn’t i? but you must remember how much you have got left, and your sister has nothing. for god’s sake, let her please herself with thinking that he’s all right for the present, if that comforts her at all. by-and-by the truth will come to her gradually, but she will have the child to think of, and the worst bitterness will be gone. come, now, you’re brave enough for that, aren’t you? how is she--asleep just now? i’ll look in again later on. now make up your mind to be unselfish about this.”
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“mabel, my poor little girl!” mr burgrave emerged from the passage, and limped towards her as she stood listlessly on the verandah. “you have slept badly, i fear? how is mrs north?”
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“she won’t believe that he is dead.” and with her eyes full of tears, mabel repeated to him georgia’s words.
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“very touching, very touching!” remarked the commissioner, his tone breathing the deepest sympathy. “poor thing! it is unspeakably sad to see so strong a mind overthrown. you must find it very trying, poor child! i hope you are taking care of yourself?” his glance travelled over her, and mabel remembered for the first time that she had slept in her clothes, and that her hair had not been touched since she had twisted it up roughly the night before on the first alarm.
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“oh, i know i’m not fit to be seen!” she cried impatiently. “but what does that signify?”
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“it signifies very much. you must remember the natives in the fort. their endurance--even their loyalty--may hang upon our success in keeping up appearances during the next few days. and we white men, also--surely it is a poor compliment to us to make such a sorry ob--figure--of yourself? then there is your unfortunate sister. is it likely to restore her mental balance to see you in such a dishevelled condition? oblige me by changing your dress and doing something to your hair. it is a public duty at such a time.”
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“i wish you wouldn’t bother!” said mabel, weeping weakly. “i have no black things, and i can’t bear to put on colours.”
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“my dear girl, is it for me to advise you as to your clothes?” the tone, half severe and half humorous, stung mabel with a recollection of their conversation of ten days before. “considering poor mrs north’s delusion, might it not be advisable to humour her, in so far as not to insist upon wearing mourning immediately?”
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“oh, very well,” was the grudging reply, of which mabel repented the next moment, adding contritely, “i’m sorry to have been so cross, eustace. i will try to be brave.”
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“that is what i expect of my little girl. she would never bring discredit upon my choice by showing the white feather. i rely upon her to set an example of cheerfulness to the whole garrison.”
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he bestowed upon her what mabel inwardly stigmatised as a lofty kiss of encouragement before departing, and she obeyed him meekly, going at once to her room to change her dress. she was so angry with herself for having deserved his rebuke that she forgot to be angry with him. after all, it was well for her to have this severe master to please, if she was in danger of bringing reproach upon her country by her faint-heartedness. she was taking herself to task in this strain, when the sound of voices in the outermost of georgia’s two rooms, which was next to her own, interrupted her meditations.
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“oh dear! georgie hasn’t slept long,” she lamented to herself. “who is that talking to her, i wonder? oh, mr anstruther, of course.”
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“i came in to see if there was anything i could do for you,” she heard fitz say. “i’m ashamed to have been so long in coming, but the fact is, i was up all night knocking down houses and setting coolies to cart away the remains, and when we had got the space all round pretty clear and came in, i was so dead tired that i just lay down and went to sleep where i was.”
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“oh, you should have gone on resting while you had the chance,” said georgia. “everybody is only too kind to me, and there’s nothing i want done. then we are really besieged now?”
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“i suppose we might say that we are in a state of siege. at present all the tribes are holding jirgahs to consider the matter. our outer circle of vedettes was driven in soon after we got here last night, but we held the houses facing the fort against a few spasmodic rushes until we had got the zone of fire cleared. the enemy are too close for comfort as it is, but at any rate they have a space to cross before they can get up to the walls.”
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“then they are occupying the town?”
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“decidedly, if that means looting all the houses and firing most of them.”
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“is our house burnt?”
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“and how are things going with us here?”
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“so-so. but you know, mrs north, if it hadn’t been for the major and colonel graham, we might as well have taken refuge in a fowl-house as in this place. long ago they got in all the stores they could without attracting attention, and everything else was ready to be moved at a moment’s notice. they had their plans all cut and dried, too, and every man found his post assigned to him. the walls are good against anything but artillery, and the towers and loopholes and gates have all been put into some sort of repair.”
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“yes,” said georgia, “and that is the best of the situation. now for the worst.”
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“well, you know, it would all have been worst but for the major, and every soul inside the walls is blessing him. the worst is that we have scraped together a preposterous number of non-combatants--some of them the wives and children of the sowars, of course, but a good many of them hindus and bazaar-people of that sort, whom it would have been sheer murder to leave outside, but who will be no good to us whatever. all the old soldiers have been re-enlisted, and the boys are to make themselves useful, but there is a helpless crowd of women and children and elderly people to dispose of somehow. that’s the secret of your close quarters here. we can’t have the poor wretches anywhere near the walls, so they are put away in the central courts, where we can keep an eye upon them, and overawe them if necessary.”
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“poor things! i must go and see after them,” murmured georgia.
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“of course, with all these extra mouths, we are not provisioned for a regular siege, unless we eat the horses, which ought to be saved in case we have to cut our way out at last. but the worst thing is that we have no artillery, not so much as a field-gun, and very little of anything else. the regiment have their carbines, of course, but the commissioner’s sikhs are the only men with rifles--except those of us who go in for big game shooting. however, as a set-off against that, the enemy have no big guns either. and then, it’s about the best season of the year for moving troops on this frontier, so that we ought to be relieved before very long.”
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“but that’s only if the enemy don’t cut the canals.”
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“yes, i’m afraid they’re too sharp not to do that. it looks as if a dust-storm was coming on, which would help them if they set to work at once.”
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“have they made any pretence of offering terms?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN have__<label>__VERB they__<label>__PRON made__<label>__VERB any__<label>__PRON pretence__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP offering__<label>__ADJ terms__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“the amir sent his mullah this morning with a flag of truce. he couldn’t be allowed inside, so the commissioner and colonel graham spoke to him from the walls. but there was no accepting what he offered.”
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“what was it?”
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“poor old ashraf ali was awfully cut up about--what happened yesterday. he explained through the mullah that he arranged the ambuscade entirely for the benefit of the commissioner, whom he really was anxious to have out of the way. it was a pure accident that the very last thing he could have wished happened instead. however, in order that his trouble mightn’t be wasted, he suggested that we should hand him over the commissioner now. he will see that he gives no more trouble on this frontier, and it is open to the rest of us either to stay here unmolested, or to return to civilisation under a safe-conduct, just as we like.”
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“you mean that he actually offers to guarantee the safety of every one else if the commissioner gives himself up?”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN you__<label>__PRON mean__<label>__VERB that__<label>__DET he__<label>__PRON actually__<label>__PRON offers__<label>__VERB to__<label>__PRT guarantee__<label>__VERB the__<label>__DET safety__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP every__<label>__DET one__<label>__DET else__<label>__NOUN if__<label>__ADP the__<label>__DET commissioner__<label>__NOUN gives__<label>__VERB himself__<label>__PRON up__<label>__NOUN ?âĢĿ__<label>__.
“practically that. doesn’t it strike you as a little quaint?”
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“was that the commissioner’s view of it?”
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“i believe so. he remarked what a preposterous demand it was, when he had the responsibility of the fort and the whole community on his shoulders. he doesn’t intend to shirk his duty. the colonel said it was a tremendous relief to hear how sensibly he took it. some men would have insisted on giving themselves up forthwith, but he has too much to think of.”
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a wan smile showed itself on georgia’s face. “well, if he intends to interpret his duty very strictly, we may wish he had gone,” she said.
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“i don’t believe he is even technically in the right, and certainly i think the colonel will have to organise a little mutiny if he insists upon bossing the show. couldn’t you turn on miss north to induce him to moderate his pretensions a bit?” mabel, in the next room, shook her fist unseen at the speaker.
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“very little doubt about that. from what the mullah said, it’s clear that there are two parties in their camp, and i shouldn’t care to say which is the stronger. bahram khan’s following, besides his own men, who did all the looting last night, comprises the more troublesome of the frontier tribes and the chiefs who have grudges against the amir, while ashraf ali has his loyal sardars and the tribes which have always been friendly to us. if only we had the major here!”
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“you mean that he would play them off against one another?”
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“yes, and there’s no one else to do it. beltring and i wanted to try, because there’s just the chance that the tribes would listen to us, as we have been with him so much, but the colonel won’t let us leave the fort.”
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“no, it would be no good. you would only be risking your lives uselessly,” said georgia. “he has more influence over them than any man i ever knew, except my father.”
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“ah, but, mrs north, there’s no time to lose. as soon as we have killed two or three of the lot, they’ll all be against us, and the longer we hold out the worse it will be. even if bahram khan doesn’t succeed in bringing them over to his side at once, he will be intriguing against his uncle in secret.”
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“i know, but what can we do? i dare not make inquiries about dick, for if the amir is keeping him safe somewhere, it might put him into bahram khan’s power. we can only wait.”
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“oh, mrs north, don’t count on that,” pleaded fitz sorrowfully. “it’s no good, believe me. ashraf ali knows he is dead as well as we do.”
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“but i know that he is not dead,” said georgia, and fitz went out hastily. in the verandah he met mabel.
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“oh, miss north, i wanted to speak to you,” he said, but she beckoned him imperiously aside.
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“you seem to think it rather a fine thing to abuse a man who isn’t there to defend himself,” she said.
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“indeed?” he said, in astonishment. “i wasn’t aware of it.”
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“perhaps you didn’t know that i could hear you when you were laughing at mr burgrave?”
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“you hinted that it was wrong and cowardly of him, and that he was saving himself at the expense of every one else here, when you ought to know it was only his strong sense of duty that kept him back. would you have gone?”
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“certainly not, if the burden of the defence rested on me, as the commissioner fancies it does on him.”
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“you see! and you said yourself it would probably have been no good.”
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“so i say still. bahram khan has more on hand than a piece of private revenge. if we trusted to his safe-conduct, we should be in for cawnpore over again.”
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“and after that you still make fun of mr burgrave for not going! it’s a shame! i know he has made mistakes in the past, from our point of view, but i won’t hear him called a coward. he is the most noble, lofty-minded man in the world, and i only wish i was more worthy of him!”
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“you can’t expect me to indorse that, any more than the commissioner himself would,” said fitz. “if anything i have said about him has pained you, miss north, i humbly beg your pardon; but please remember that i should never speak against him intentionally, simply because you think so highly of him.”
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“i only want you to understand that i am not going to ask him to moderate his pretensions, as you call it,” went on mabel, rather confused. “for one thing, he wouldn’t do it, and for another, now that dick is gone, i must be guided by him.”
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“quite so,” said fitz, somewhat dryly. then his tone changed. “i wanted to ask you what you thought about telling poor mrs north something the mullah said this morning. it struck me that perhaps we ought to keep it dark for a bit, as the doctor thinks it a good thing she can’t believe that the worst has happened. the poor old amir wept as if for his own son when he heard that the major was dead, and went himself to look for the body, intending to give it a state funeral. but when they got to the pass, it was gone. the hasrat ali begum, who was in camp near, had broken pardah with her women as soon as the fight was over, and carried off the body and buried it. they were afraid of what bahram khan would do with it, you see, and at present they won’t tell even the amir where the grave is, but he sent word that he meant to build a tomb over it later on. now, ought mrs north to know?”
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“i shouldn’t think so, should you? i have never been much with people in trouble--i don’t know how to deal with them. but i think it will be better not to tell her unless she asks.”
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“but she isn’t likely to ask, is she? oh, miss north, if she might only be right! i don’t believe there’s a man in the fort that wouldn’t gladly die to bring him back.”
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the expected dust-storm did not begin until the afternoon, and in the interval the besieged continued to strengthen their defences, disturbed only by an intermittent rifle-fire. a party of the enemy had taken possession of general keeling’s old house, and lying down behind the low wall which surrounded the roof, were firing at any one they saw on the ramparts. thanks to the efforts of colonel graham and dick, the ruined parapet here had been repaired, but when there were messages to be sent from one point to another, the cry was “heads down!” so skilfully were the enemy posted that no response to their annoying attentions was possible until a party of sikhs, at considerable risk to life and limb, scaled the turrets flanking the gateway, the repair of which had not been completed owing to lack of time, and succeeded in commanding the roof of the old house. they had scarcely cleared it before the storm came on, and they were ordered down again, since it was generally believed that an assault would be attempted under cover of the wind and darkness. nothing of the kind took place, however, and the garrison, who were kept under arms, chafed at their enforced inaction, and tried in vain to pierce the obscurity which surrounded them, while the wind howled and the dust rattled on the roofs. when, last of all, the rain poured down in sheets, and the air cleared sufficiently to allow the buildings beyond the zone of fire to become dimly visible, it was seen that the enemy had taken advantage of the storm for a different purpose. on the roof of general keeling’s house was now a rough stone breastwork, so constructed as to shelter its occupants even against the fire from the towers, and provided with loopholes so arranged as to allow the barrel of a rifle to be pointed through them in any direction.
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“it looks to me as though we should have to rush the general’s house and blow it up,” said the commissioner to colonel graham, as they stood in one of the turrets, peering into the sweeping rain, during the last few minutes of daylight. “that sangar makes our walls untenable.”
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“do you mean to say that in this short time they have prepared a position impregnable to our whole force?” asked mr burgrave incredulously.
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“quite possibly, but that isn’t the question. their numbers are practically unlimited; ours are not. i should be glad if you and i could come to an understanding at once. we are not here to exhibit feats of arms, but to keep the flag flying until we can be relieved, and to protect the unfortunate women and children down below there. nothing would please me better than to lead an assault on the house yonder, but who’s to defend the fort when the butcher’s bill is paid? if we had only ourselves to consider, i might cut my way out with the troops, and make a historic march to rahmat-ullah, but with the non-combatants it would be impossible. you see this?--or perhaps you don’t see it, but i do. well, are we to work together, or not?”
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“you are asking me to subordinate my judgment to yours?”
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“politically, you are supreme here. from a military point of view----”
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“you think you ought to be? considering the office i hold, doesn’t that strike you as rather a large order?”
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“would you propose to occupy an independent and superior position from which to criticise my measures? surely you must see that is out of the question? you may be commissioner for the province, but i am commandant of this fort, and the troops are under my orders. the conclusion is pretty obvious, isn’t it? in such a situation as this, a single head is essential, and there must be no hint of divided counsels. you and i have both got everything we prize in the world at stake here. can we squabble over our relative positions in face of what lies before us?”
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“the question would come more gracefully from me to you, in the circumstances,” said mr burgrave, “but i see your point. let it be understood that the conduct of all military operations is vested in you, then. i reserve, of course, the right of private criticism, and of offering advice.”
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“and of putting the blame on me if things go wrong!” thought colonel graham, but he was too wise to give utterance to the remark. “do you care to make the round of the defences with me?” he asked. “i should like to see how the new brickwork stands this deluge.”
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as they emerged from the shelter of the tower into the rainy dusk, they were met by fitz, who, like the other civilians in the place, had enrolled himself as a volunteer. when he first spoke, his voice was inaudible, owing to a rushing, roaring sound which filled the air.
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“why, what’s this?” shouted the colonel.
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“the canal, sir,” answered fitz, as loudly. “winlock sent me to ask you to come and look at it.”
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“is it in flood? can the reservoir have burst?”
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“we think the enemy have opened the sluices. the dead body of a white man was washed down just now. we saw it, though we couldn’t reach it, and some one said it was western, who was in charge at the canal works.”
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the colonel and mr burgrave hurried along the rampart, sheltered from the enemy’s fire by the gathering darkness, to the rear wall of the fort, the base of which was washed by the canal. the canal itself was part of the great system of irrigation-works by means of which, as the commissioner had once complained, general keeling had made khemistan. a huge reservoir was constructed in the hills to receive the torrents of water which rushed down every ravine after a storm, and which, after carrying ruin and destruction in their path, ran fruitlessly to waste. by means of sluices the outflow was regulated with the minutest care, and the precious water husbanded so jealously that even in the hottest seasons it was possible to supply the canal which, with its many effluents, had converted the immediate surroundings of alibad from a sandy waste into a garden. in view of the possible necessity of coping with an occasional rush of water, the banks were artificially raised, and the one opposite the south-west angle of the fort, where the canal took a sudden bend, had been strengthened to a considerable height with masonry, to protect the cultivated land beyond it from inundation. this change in its course largely increased the force of the current at this point.
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after a storm the placid canal always became a rushing torrent, on account of the accessions it received after leaving the reservoir, but none of those in the fort had ever seen it rise to the height it had reached on the present occasion. colonel graham uttered an exclamation of dismay when he looked out over the turbid stream, which seemed to be flung back from the opposite bank against the fort wall with even increased violence. presently there was a lull in the storm, and by the aid of a lantern, which was lowered from the rampart, he was able to see that the current was actually scouring away the lower courses of the wall. the next moment the lantern was violently swept from the hand of the man who held the cord, as another rush of water came swirling round the tower at the angle of the wall, dashing its spray into the faces of the watchers. every one of them felt the wall shake under the blow, and there was a murmur of uneasiness. colonel graham recovered himself first.
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“turn out all the servants and coolies, winlock,” he said, “and shore up the wall with props and sand-bags as far as possible. we will stay here and watch whether the water rises any higher. it’s clear they hope that this south curtain will go,” he added to mr burgrave, “and that then they will only have to walk in.”
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“they must have a clever head among them,” said the commissioner; “for they are evidently letting the water out a little at a time.”
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“ah, that’s the native engineer, no doubt. they would keep him alive to manage the machinery for them when they murdered poor western. look out, here’s another!”
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again the wall trembled perceptibly, but by this time the courtyard was full of eager workers, piling up earth and stones and beams and bags of sand, and anything else that could be found. presently the colonel called out to them to stop, for there was now the danger that the wall might fall outwards instead of inwards, and they waited in unwilling idleness, while the two men on the rampart watched the current anxiously, and measured the distance of its surface from the parapet. then came a more violent rush of water than any before, and to colonel graham and mr burgrave the wall seemed to rock backwards and forwards under them. when they looked into each other’s faces once more, they could scarcely believe that it was still standing.
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“that’s the last, evidently,” said the colonel, “a final effort. the water’s getting lower already. we’re safe for to-night, but if they had only had the patience to wait till this rain was over, we could never have stood the force of water they could have turned on. and as it is, a child’s popgun might almost account for this bit of wall now.”
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“why, mrs north!” disturbed in his task of supervising the proceedings of a nervous native assistant, whose mind was less occupied with his dispensing than with the bullets which flattened themselves occasionally upon the pavement outside the surgery, dr tighe had turned suddenly to find georgia at his elbow. “can i do anything for you?” he asked kindly, looking with professional disapproval at her pale face and weary eyes.
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“i want you to let me help you in the hospital.”
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“and i thought you were a sensible woman! will you tell me if you call this wise, now?”
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“i think it would help me to have something to do.”
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“but not this. what am i to say to the major when--if--when i see him again, if you overtask your strength?”
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“i see you think i am mad,” she said earnestly, “but i know he is alive. but the suspense is so dreadful, doctor. it’s certain that he is wounded, and i can scarcely doubt he is a prisoner; and what may be happening to him at any moment? it is killing me, and i must live--for both their sakes.” the doctor nodded quickly. “and i thought if i could do something to help those who were suffering as he is, it might--oh, i don’t know--it might make me tired enough to sleep again.”
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“a good idea!” said dr tighe, in his most matter-of-fact tones. “you shall relieve me of half my dressings, by all means, and i’ll turn over to you the out-patient work among these unfortunate women and children. you can leave that dispensing, babu”--the assistant, who had been listening for the thud of the bullets, started violently--“and go round the wards with the memsahib.”
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from his own cases on the opposite side of the improvised wards dr tighe glanced across at georgia several times, remarking with approval that her face and figure were losing their look of utter weariness as she went about her work. she was giving her whole mind to it, that was evident, and for the time her own anxiety was pushed into the background. the number of patients to be treated was considerable, for besides the men who had been wounded at the fight in the akrab pass, there were a good many casualties due to the enemy’s fire since the siege had begun. the work was therefore heavy, but as soon as the dressings were finished dr tighe bustled up to georgia and pointed out a new opening for her energies.
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“the colonel wants sacks made--millions of ’em--for sand-bags,” he said. “he was at his wits’ end about it this morning, tried to get the native women to sew them, and they wouldn’t.”
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“oh, why didn’t he ask us?” cried georgia. “we would have worked our fingers to the bone.”
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“i’m sure you would, and it’s likely he’d ask it of you, isn’t it? but why all the refugees should have board and lodging given them free, i don’t know. why, they wouldn’t even make the sacks for payment! a lot of them said they couldn’t sew, and the rest seemed to think they were being persecuted when they were asked to do it. but you know how to get round them, mrs north. we can’t very well say that if a woman doesn’t sew a sack a day out she goes--sounds a bit brutal--but you’ll manage to set them to work, i’m sure. i’ll tell colonel graham you’ve taken the matter in hand, and he’ll be for ever grateful.”
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unpromising though the task seemed, georgia succeeded in finding six women who consented to sew if the memsahibs would do so too, and a working-party was organised in the little courtyard, from which mr hardy and the men-servants were rigorously banished for the time. since the need of sand-bags--at any rate in such numbers--had not been foreseen, the proper material was lacking, but all the tents in the fort were promptly requisitioned, and their canvas utilised. the regimental tailors cut out the sacks, delivering them into the charge of rahah, and inside the courtyard mrs hardy and georgia superintended the unskilled workers, while flora and mabel took a pride in proving their willingness to blister their fingers for their country. it was fortunate that fine needlework was not required, for the native women’s ideas of sewing were rudimentary in the extreme, but their two instructresses succeeded at last in convincing them, by precept and example, that to sew one side only of a seam was unnecessary as a decoration and not calculated materially to further the usefulness of a sack. when this lesson had been sufficiently impressed upon the pupils, georgia sat down in the doorway of her room to divide the pice which colonel graham had entrusted to her for distribution among them. the sun was setting over the hill beyond the fort, and the women, as they sat cross-legged on the floor, seized the fact that the light was in their eyes as an excuse for turning round to gaze greedily at the money which georgia was apportioning on a chair. suddenly there was a whizz and a noisy clatter. a bullet had grazed georgia’s hand and struck the chair, sending the coins flying, and it was followed by a burst of firing, which caused the terrified workwomen to drop their sacks and exclaim with one voice that they were dead.
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“down! down!” cried georgia, setting the example herself, “and crawl round to the other verandah. they are firing from the hill, but they won’t be able to see us there.”
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dragging with her one woman who was paralysed with fright, she induced the others to follow her, and when they were out of the line of fire, proceeded to examine the terrific wounds from which one and all declared themselves to be suffering. curiously enough, no one was badly hurt. two had scratches, and one a nasty bruise from a ricochet shot, but of severe injuries there were none. georgia dressed the wounds and comforted the sufferers with one or two pice extra, and then sent them back to their own quarters, thus allowing admittance to colonel graham, mr hardy, the commissioner, and fitz, who had been informed by the horrified servants that the enemy were firing into the memsahibs’ courtyard. their anxiety raised to the highest pitch by the shrieks from within, the four gentlemen were held at bay in the passage by the heroic rahah, who informed them that they must pass over her body before they should break the pardah of the women assembled under her mistress’s protection. just as they were at last admitted a cry from behind made them look round, to see an unfortunate water-carrier who had been passing along the rampart falling into the courtyard.
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“we must get up a parados on that side,” said colonel graham, when the wounded man had been sent to the hospital. “they command the inside of the whole east curtain from that hill. your sand-bags will be made useful sooner than we expected, mrs north.”
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“but what is to happen to us?” cried mabel. “are we to stay here to be shot at?”
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“calm yourself, my dear girl,” said mr burgrave, in gently reproving tones. “you are in no danger at the present moment.”
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“you see, miss north,” said the colonel, “i don’t want to have to put you either in the hospital courtyard or among the native refugees, and there is nowhere else. after all, this court is so small that the enemy can’t possibly command more than the east side, and we’ll put that right by hanging curtains along the verandah.”
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“why, what good would that be against bullets?”
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“the curtain wouldn’t stop them, certainly, but our friends up there are very careful of their ammunition, and never waste a shot. not being able to see whether any one is in the verandah, they won’t aim at it. it was the sight of a whole party assembled here that was irresistible.”
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“but is georgia to live in darkness?” demanded georgia’s self-constituted champion.
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“nonsense, mab! there are three other verandahs to sit in. after all, one expects bullets in a siege,” said georgia.
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“that’s the right spirit, mrs north,” said colonel graham heartily. “as soon as it’s dusk we’ll have the matting up from the club-house--messroom, i mean--floor, and nail it along the roof of this verandah and across the corner where the passage is. then you’ll be safe from anything but chance shots, and those, i’m afraid, we can none of us guard against.”
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“but are those fellows up there to pot at the ladies without our ever having a chance to pay them back, sir?” cried fitz.
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“i was coming to that. of course the plan is to clear us off the east rampart so that a force from the town may rush it under cover of the fire from the hill, and therefore the parados must be our first care. still, i think we can spare a few sand-bags for the two western towers, and if we arrange a little sangar on the top of each when it is dark, we can show our chivalrous friends the snipers to-morrow what it feels like to be sniped. tell winlock to set all the servants to work filling bags and baskets, and anything else they can find, with earth at once.”
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“we seem to hold our own fairly well at present,” said mr burgrave, as fitz departed, and the colonel stood looking narrowly at the threatened verandah and the scattered work-materials with which it was strewn.
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“we seem to--yes, but it is simply because we have not been tried as yet. there is far too great a length of wall for us to hold against a well-planned attack--say from two sides at once. why they haven’t put us to the test before i can’t imagine. it’s not like their usual tactics to let things drag on in this way.”
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“i am of opinion that they dislike crossing the cleared space, and intend to remain at a discreet distance and starve us out. if only they stick to that, we ought to be relieved long before matters come to a crisis.”
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“no, it’s not that!” cried the colonel irritably. “there’s something behind that we don’t see. if there was any possibility of their having guns, i should say they were waiting for them. but where are they to get them from unless they have surprised rahmat-ullah, which we have no reason to suppose? they have some dodge on hand, though, i’m certain.”
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“is there any weak point at which they could be aiming?”
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“man, this place is nothing but weak points. if those fellows on the hill knew what they were about, they could enfilade our north and south ramparts as well as cover the eastern one. the south curtain is so weak now that an elephant or a battering-ram--let alone a well-planted shell or two--could knock it over, and the canal on that side is getting lower every day. the water-carriers have to go down a dozen steps now, and it’s only the enemy’s fear for their own precious skins that prevents their picking them off from the opposite bank. we could pepper them from the rampart, they know that, and they haven’t the sense to pour in an oblique fire from the hill. i suppose, too, it hasn’t occurred to you that if they took it into their heads to blow us up, one or two plucky fellows could get close up to the walls under cover of a general attack, and lay a train at their leisure. it’s impossible to fire transversely from the loopholes in the towers without exposing pretty nearly one’s whole body, and as to depressing a rifle and firing point-blank down from the parapet, well----”
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mr burgrave understood the pause to mean that the consequences would probably be very uncomfortable for the holder of the rifle, and said no more. the night passed without further alarm, save that georgia found it would be dangerous to have a light in her rooms unless door and shutters were both closed. the glimmer from the window, even when only seen through the matting curtain, attracted two or three bullets immediately, and it was evident that the choice must be made between air and light. during the hours of darkness the besieged worked hard at their defences, and succeeded in erecting a more or less effectual shelter along the inside of the east rampart, and also a sand-bag parapet at the summit of the two western towers. the gateway turrets on the north-east, which were now exposed to the fire from the hill in the rear as well as to that from general keeling’s house in front, were strengthened in the same way. behind these shelters the best marksmen of the garrison took up their posts, and as soon as the bullets began to fly from the hill, seized the opportunity of pointing out to the enemy that the state of things had altered to some extent in the night. since it was impossible for a man on either side to fire without exposing himself slightly, a return shot was the instant comment on this imprudence, and hence, before the morning was over, both parties were lying low and glaring at their opponents’ sangars, ready to shoot but not caring to be shot. helmets on the one side and turbans on the other, raised cautiously on rifle-barrels above the breastwork, drew a few shots, but the nature of the trick was quickly perceived by both parties, and the sniping continued to languish.
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“their rifles seem to carry as far as ours,” remarked mr burgrave to colonel graham.
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“so they ought,” was the grim reply. “most of them, if not all, are ours. they are stolen and smuggled wholesale into ethiopia, and bahram khan has borrowed them to arm his followers with. that’s how they manage to give us so much trouble. in the matchlock days, when this place was built, we could have laughed at their shooting from the hill.”
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“what is that?” said the commissioner suddenly, putting up his eye-glass; “a pile of cannon-balls? it was not there last night.”
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they were standing in one of the gateway turrets, and the heap to which he pointed was visible upon the cleared space, in front of the entrance to a lane between two of the houses occupied by the enemy. colonel graham laid down his field-glass with an exclamation of disgust.
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“cannon-balls! it’s heads--human heads--heads of our men. those fiends have surprised one of our posts--sultanibagh probably, beyond shah nawaz. i telegraphed to the jemadar in charge to retire upon rahmat-ullah, as there was no chance of their getting here safely, but the wires must have been cut before they got the message, or else the men have been ambushed on their way. well, bahram khan has put himself beyond the pale of mercy this time, even with our government, i should imagine.”
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as the light grew stronger the sickening trophy was perceived from other parts of the fort, and the men of the khemistan horse began to become impatient. it appeared that a deserter had ventured close under the walls in the night, in order to taunt the garrison with some unexplained reverse, the nature of which was now made manifest. they were asked how long sinjāj kīlin’s sowars had been content to hide behind stone walls, instead of coming out to fight on horseback in the open, and a variety of interesting and savoury information was added as to the precise nature of the tortures in store for all, whether officers or men, who fell into bahram khan’s hands. to the men who had so long dominated the frontier, this abuse was intolerably galling, and the troopers were gathering in corners with sullen faces, and asking one another why they were kept back from washing out the disgrace in blood. they had now been in the fort the best part of a week, no attack in force had been made, and yet there had not been the slightest attempt to drive off the enemy or inflict any loss upon him. ressaldar badullah khan voiced this feeling to colonel graham a little later, when the colonel had passed with a judicious lack of apparent notice the scowling groups of men who were discussing the state of affairs.
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“our faces are black, sahib,” said the native officer, in response to the question put to him. “bahram khan and his badmashes laugh at our beards, and we are pent up here like women. we are better men than they--we have proved it in every fight since first sinjāj kīlin sahib raised the regiment--why then (so say the sowars) is it forbidden to us to issue forth with our horses, and sweep the baseborn rabble outside from the face of the earth?”
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“is the regiment complaining of the course i choose to take, ressaldar?”
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“nay, sahib; the sowars say that it is the will of the kumpsioner sahib which is being done.”
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“they are wrong. it is mine. what could the regiment do on horseback in the streets of the town, with the enemy firing from roofs and loopholes? we have not a man too many in the fort now, and yet, ressaldar, i anticipate a sortie in force before long, though not in review order.”
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the ressaldar’s eyes gleamed. “may the news be told to the regiment, sahib?” he asked.
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“could they refrain from shouting it to the next man who taunts them? no, ressaldar; tell them to trust me as they have always done hitherto. there will be work to be done before many days, but i cannot set mutinous men to do it.”
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badullah khan went out, meeting woodworth on the threshold.
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“would you mind coming up to the north-western tower, sir?” asked the adjutant, when he had closed the door. “the enemy seem to be doing something in that direction which i can’t quite make out.”
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“what sort of thing?” asked colonel graham, rising.
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“i would rather not give an opinion until you have seen what there is to see, sir,” was the reply, so unwontedly cautious that the colonel prepared for a heavy blow. woodworth followed him up the narrow winding stairs in silence, and pointed to the stretch of desert on the northern side of the town, across which two long strings of men and animals were slowly passing in a westerly direction. the colonel started, examined the moving objects through his field-glass, and called to his orderly--
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“ask beltring sahib to come here at once.”
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almost before beltring, breathless, had mounted the staircase, he was greeted by a question. “beltring, are there any guns at nalapur?”
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“no, sir. at least, there are two old field-pieces in front of the palace, but that’s all.”
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“are they in working order?”
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“they use them for firing salutes, sir, not for anything else, i believe.”
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“still, that shows they are safe to work, and here they are. where will they mount them, should you say, woodworth?”
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“true, and from the brow there they could knock the place about our ears in a couple of hours. at all costs we must keep them from getting the range to-day. they will have no range-finders, that’s one good thing, and if we can secure a night’s respite, it’ll be a pity if we don’t make good use of it. tell our marksmen to fire at anything they see moving up there. those guns must not be placed in position before sunset. and then tell all the other officers and volunteers to meet me on the south rampart immediately.”
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the council of war which assembled on the rampart, sheltered by the south-western tower, was sufficiently informal to make the hair of any stickler for military etiquette stand on end, but its proceedings were absolutely practical. the colonel, beside whom stood mr burgrave, stated the situation briefly.
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“you have seen the two guns which the enemy intend to mount on the hill there. once they get them into position and find our range, we may as well retire into the vaults and wait until we are smoked out, for there is no possible shelter above ground. with our small force it is hopeless to detach a party to sally out and capture the guns in the open--more especially since the enemy hold the town between us and them. still, they have plenty to do in getting the guns across the canal and dragging them up the hill, and we must make it our business to prevent them from opening fire to-day, and to-night those guns must be taken. i propose to leave the commissioner in charge of the fort, with ten of his own sikhs and fifty sowars under ressaldar ghulam rasul. every civilian who can hold a weapon must also do duty. i shall take a hundred and fifty dismounted sowars and thirty sikhs, with all the enrolled volunteers, and make a dash for the hill under cover of darkness. if we succeed, we shall have averted a great danger; if we fail, the fort will be no worse off than if we had hung about and done nothing. i am confident that the commissioner will fight to the end, and not allow himself to be tempted by any offer of terms.”
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“know the beggars too well,” said mr burgrave laconically.
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“that’s the main scheme; now for details. to reach the hill, the canal must be crossed in any case. the most obvious plan would undoubtedly be for the force to rendezvous silently in the shadow of the west curtain, traverse the irrigated land, and restore the bridge at the foot of the hill sufficiently to cross by it. but the enemy could sweep the whole route from their positions both in the town and on the hill, and they will be very much on the alert to-night. my idea is to cross the canal here from the water-gate, and march the first part of the distance along the bank, so as to come upon the enemy from the side he won’t expect us. he knows we have neither boat nor bridge, and the water is still deep enough along the wall to be impassable to any but good swimmers.”
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“then how do you propose to cross?” asked mr burgrave.
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“there i must invite suggestions. we have no time for building boats or bridges, and the water-gate offers no facilities for it either. a raft, possibly. what do you think, runcorn?”
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“a raft supported on inflated skins, sir?” asked the engineer officer. “that might be practicable, but it would have to be very small, for the passage to the gate is so narrow that all the materials must be taken to the water’s edge separately and put together there. there is no standing-ground of any sort but the wretched shaky steps that the water-carriers use, so that we can’t well lower things from the wall.”
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“and the time spent in ferrying the force over would be interminable, not to mention the risk of discovery by the enemy,” said colonel graham.
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his subordinates looked at one another. various suggestions had been hazarded and rejected, when a hesitating voice made itself heard. the speaker was mr hardy, who had joined the group a few minutes earlier, with a message to the colonel from one of the wounded officers in the hospital.
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“in my oxford days,” he said, “i remember a pleasant walk through the meadows--” his hearers gasped. why should these peaceful recollections be obtruded at such a moment? “there was one point at which the path crossed a considerable stream, and a punt that ran on wires was placed there. i’m afraid i am not very intelligible,” he smiled nervously. “i can’t describe the mechanism in technical language, but the punt was fastened to one wire, and the other was free and moved on pulleys, so that you could pull yourself across, or draw the punt towards you if it happened to be at the opposite bank.”
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“padri,” said colonel graham, “it’s clear that you are an unsuspected mechanical genius. this is the very thing we want, though we must use rope instead of wire.”
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“but we have even got that, sir,” said runcorn eagerly. “timson was boasting that he had saved all the stores of his department--miles of telegraph wire amongst them. now he’ll have to disgorge.”
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“then will you set about the construction of the ferry, runcorn? you can’t begin work on the spot until night, but you can get your materials ready. requisition anything you want, of course.”
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“why, what plot have you on hand?”
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it was winlock who answered. “we thought that it might make all the difference to your success, sir, if a diversion could be arranged to distract the enemy’s attention. we two know every foot of these hills from chikor-shooting, and if we might pick out a dozen or so of the sowars who have constantly gone with us out hunting as beaters, we could make a sham attack. we know of a splendid place on the side of a hill, inaccessible from below, which commands the camp of the hostile tribes, and we thought if we sent up a signal rocket or two, to be answered from the fort, and then poured in as many volleys as there was time for, it might make a good impression. of course, as soon as they try to get round us and rush the hill, we must retire, to keep them from finding out how few we are; but the main force ought to have settled the guns by that time, and we might rendezvous on the hill and march back together.”
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“it sounds feasible,” said the colonel slowly; “but how do you propose to cross the canal?”
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“we don’t mean to cross it in going, sir. anstruther says we can clamber along the base of this wall from the water-gate round the south-western tower, so as to get on to dry land under the west curtain.”
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“i know it’s possible, sir,” said fitz eagerly. “i’ve done it more than once when the canal was low, and it’ll be easier now that the bricks are so much washed away. and of course we shall be very careful in crossing the irrigated land--all of us in khaki, you see, and taking advantage of every bit of cover--and unless we run right into one of the enemy’s outposts, i don’t see how they are to spot us. and think of the benefit it will be to have their attention distracted from your movement!”
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“you realise that you are taking your lives in your hands? you will probably have to swim the canal higher up to join us, and, after all, we may not be able to wait for you. your men will be volunteers, of course? they must understand that it’s a desperate business.”
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“yes, sir; but they’ll come like a shot. they’ve been out with us after markhor, and we’ve been in some tight places in the mountains. may we have what rockets we want?”
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“by all means. good luck go with you! i wish i was coming too!”
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“that’s really handsome of the c.o.,” said fitz, dodging a bullet as he clattered down the stairs into the courtyard with winlock. “grand firework display to-night! what a pity that the ladies and all the refugees can’t have front seats on the ramparts to watch the tamasha!”
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chapter xvi. the darkest hour.
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“sahib, there is a man under the wall on the east side.”
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“how did he come there?” demanded colonel graham angrily. “what are the sentries doing?”
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“the night is so dark, sahib, that he crept up unnoticed. he is the holy mullah aziz-ud-din, and desires speech with your honour.”
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“the amir’s mullah? you are sure of it?”
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“i know his voice, sahib. he is holding his hands on high, to show that he has no weapons.”
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“i suppose we may as well see what he has to say,” said the colonel to mr burgrave, with whom he had been making final arrangements, and the two men climbed the steps to the east rampart. once there, and looking over into the darkness, it was some little time before their eyes could distinguish the dim figure at the foot of the wall.
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“peace!” said colonel graham.
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“it is peace, sahib. i bear the words of the amir ashraf ali khan. he says, ‘it is now out of my power to save the lives of the sahibs, and i will not deceive them, knowing that a warrior’s death amid the ruins of their fortress will please them better than to fall into the hands of my thrice-accursed nephew, who has stolen the hearts of my soldiers from me. but this i can do. the houses next to the canal on this side of the fort are held by my own bodyguard, faithful men who have eaten of my salt for many years, and i have there six swift camels hidden. let the memsahibs be entrusted to me, especially those of the household of my beloved friend nāth sahib, and i will send them at once to nalapur, where they shall be in sanctuary in my own palace, and i will swear--i who kept my covenant with the sarkar until the sarkar broke it--that death shall befall me before any harm touches them.’”
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“why is this message sent to-night?” asked colonel graham.
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“because bahram khan is preparing a great destruction, sahib, and the heart of ashraf ali khan bleeds to think that the houses of his friends sinjāj kīlin sahib and nāth sahib should both be blotted out in one day.”
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“carry my thanks and those of the commissioner sahib to ashraf ali khan, but tell him that the memsahibs will remain with us. their presence would only place him in greater danger, and he would not be able to protect them. but we can. they will not fall into the hands of bahram khan.”
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“it is well, sahib.” the faint blur which represented the messenger melted into the surrounding blackness, and colonel graham turned to his companion.
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“it will be your business to see to that, if the enemy break in. haycraft comes with me. we must leave flora in your charge. don’t let her fall into their hands, any more than miss north.”
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“i promise,” said mr burgrave, and their hands met in the darkness.
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“thanks. i think we have settled everything now. we don’t start for an hour yet, and if you like to explain things to miss north----”
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“i should prefer to say nothing unless the necessity arises.”
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“i never thought of your going into details, but she must know something, surely? flora will learn the state of affairs from haycraft; mrs north will pick it up from the hardys and her ayah, and miss north will probably expect---- but please yourself, of course.”
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“i will go and talk to her for a little while. i have scarcely seen her all day.”
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mr burgrave’s tone was constrained. it seemed to him almost impossible to meet mabel at this crisis, and abstain from any allusion to the terrible duty which had just been laid upon him. he was not an imaginative man, and no forecast of the scene burned itself into his brain, as would have been the case with some people, but the oppression of anticipation was heavy upon him. for him the dull horror in his mind overshadowed everything, and it was with a shock that he found mabel to be in one of her most vivacious and aggressive moods. she was walking up and down the verandah outside her room as if for a wager, turning at each end of the course with a swish of draperies which sounded like an angry breeze, and she hailed his arrival with something like enthusiasm, simply because he was some one to talk to.
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“flora is crying on fred’s--i mean mr haycraft’s--shoulder somewhere,” she said; “and mrs hardy and georgia are having a prayer-meeting with the native christians. they wanted me to come too; but i don’t feel as if i could be quiet, and i shouldn’t understand, either. what is going to happen, really?”
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mabel stamped her foot. “why can’t you tell me the truth, instead of trying to sugar things over?” she demanded. “it would be much more interesting.”
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“you must allow me to decide what is suitable for you to hear,” said mr burgrave, his mind still so full of that final duty of his that he spoke with a serene indifference which mabel found most galling.
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“i don’t allow you to do anything of the sort. i wish you wouldn’t treat me as if i was a baby. it’s like telling me yesterday that all the fresh milk in the place was to be reserved for us women and the wounded, as if i wanted to be pilloried as a lazy, selfish creature, doing nothing and demanding luxuries!”
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“my dear little girl, i am sure there isn’t a man in the garrison who would consent to your missing any comfort that the place can furnish.”
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“that’s just it. i want to feel the pinch--to share the hardships. but of course you don’t understand--you never do.” she stopped and looked at him. “i don’t know how it is, eustace, but you seem somehow to stir up everything that is bad in my nature. i could die happy if i had once shocked you thoroughly.”
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he recoiled from her involuntarily. “do you think it is a time to joke about death when it may be close upon you?” he asked, with some severity.
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“that sounds as if you were a little shocked,” said mabel meditatively. “but you know, eustace, whenever you tell me to do anything--i mean when you express a wish that i should do anything--i feel immediately the strongest possible impulse to do exactly the opposite.”
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“but the impulse has never yet been translated into action?” he asked, with the indulgent smile which was reserved for mabel when she talked extravagantly.
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“i’m ashamed to say it hasn’t.”
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“then i am quite satisfied. i can scarcely aspire to regulate your thoughts just at present, can i? but so long as you respect my wishes----”
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“oh, what a lot of trouble it would save if we were all comfortably killed to-night!” cried mabel, with a sudden change of mood. mr burgrave was shocked, and showed it. “i’m in earnest, eustace.”
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“my dear child, you can hardly expect me to believe that you would welcome the horrors which the storming of this place would entail?”
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“oh no; of course not. you are so horribly literal. can’t you see that my nerves are all on edge? i do wish you understood things. if you won’t talk about what’s going to be done to-night, do go away, and don’t stay here and be mysterious.”
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“dear child, do you think i shall judge you hardly for this feminine weakness? you need not be afraid of hurting or shocking me. say anything you like; i shall put it down to the true cause. if your varying moods have taught me nothing else, at least i have learnt since our engagement to take your words at their proper valuation.”
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“if you pile many more loads of obligation upon me, i shall expire!” said mabel sharply, only to receive a kind smile in return. anything more that she might have said, in the amiable design of shocking him beyond forgiveness, was prevented by the appearance of mrs hardy.
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“is it true that you are going to arm all the civilians in the place, mr burgrave?” she demanded of the commissioner.
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“it is thought well--merely as a precautionary measure.”
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“then i do beg and beseech you to give mr hardy a rifle that won’t go off, or we shall all be shot.”
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“we will get the padri to go round and hand out fresh cartridges, instead of giving him a gun,” said mr burgrave seriously, but mabel burst into a peal of hysterical laughter, which was effectual in putting a stop to further conversation, and he returned to the outer courtyard, where the men chosen for the forlorn hope were mustering in readiness for the start. fitz and winlock and their small party had left already, officers and men alike wearing the native grass sandals instead of boots, as they had been accustomed to do in their hunting expeditions, and it was known that they had scrambled along the wall and round the base of the south-western tower in safety. the ferry had by this time been successfully constructed by runcorn and his assistants, one of whom had undertaken the very unpleasant task of swimming across the ice-cold canal to pass the first wire rope round one of the posts which registered the height of the water on the opposite bank. ball ammunition in extra quantities was served out to the whole force, for although colonel graham hoped to confine himself entirely to cold steel, for the sake of quietness, he was determined to be able to reply to the enemy’s fire, should their attention unfortunately be aroused. the men were marched down in parties to the water-gate, and ferried over as quickly as the confined space would allow, and when all had crossed, the raft was drawn back to the gateway, and the wire disconnected. it had been decided that this was imperative, lest the enemy should take advantage of the ferry to cross the canal while the attention of the garrison was occupied by an attack in front. if the forlorn hope returned victorious, it would be easy to reconstruct the ferry by throwing a rope to them from the rampart, while if they were compelled to retreat, the raft was so small that to employ it under fire would entail a useless sacrifice of life, and the fugitives would do better to swim.
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then began a weary waiting-time for those in the fort. the night was moonless, so that it was impossible to distinguish any movement, whether on the part of friend or of foe. at last a rocket, rising from the cliff which overhung the town on the north-west, and which fitz and winlock had indicated as their goal, showed that they, at least, had so far been successful. the rocket sent up from the fort in reply was answered by another from the cliff, and this was immediately followed by the distant sound of brisk firing, which seemed to cause considerable perturbation in the parts of the town occupied by the enemy. lights moved about hurriedly from place to place, horns were blown, and there was a confused noise of angry shouting. the garrison did their best, by opening fire from the wall and towers, to increase the effect of the surprise, but without much hope of hitting anything, for the moving lights did not afford very satisfactory targets. in reply, a dropping fire broke out from the houses opposite, which was maintained for some time, but with little spirit, and slackened gradually. scarcely had mr burgrave given the order to cease fire, however, when a heavy fusillade was heard on the west of the fort, though not from the hill. the sound appeared to come from the point at which the bridge, now in ruins, had crossed the canal, a point which it had not hitherto been known that the enemy were occupying, and which colonel graham had not intended to approach. his force should have been far to the left of it by this time, and already mounting the hill. the most probable explanation seemed to be that they had missed their way in the darkness, and following the bank of the canal too far, had fallen into an ambuscade posted at the ruins of the bridge to guard against any attempt to cross for the purpose of capturing the guns. the commissioner and his garrison waited and listened in the deepest anxiety, straining their eyes to try and perceive, from the flashes of the rifles, which way the fight was tending. but the firing ceased suddenly, as that on the farther side of the enemy’s position had done some time before. there was nothing to do but wait.
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suddenly, after a long interval, a piteous wailing arose at the rear of the fort, from the opposite bank of the canal. a native stood there, one of the water-carriers who had accompanied the force, abjectly entreating to be fetched over, since the enemy were at his heels. to employ the ferry at such a moment was not to be thought of, but a rope was thrown from the steps of the water-gate, and the miserable wretch, plunging in, caught it, and was drawn across. he told a terrible tale as he stood dripping and shivering in the passage leading to the gate. colonel graham’s force had been attacked, shortly after leaving the canal-bank, by overwhelming numbers of the enemy, who had first poured in a withering fire, and then rushed forward to complete the destruction with their knives and tulwars. the bhisti himself was the only man who had escaped, and the enemy had pursued him to the very edge of the canal. the sharpest-sighted men in the fort, sent to the rampart to test the truth of this statement as far as they could by starlight, were obliged to confirm it. there was undoubtedly a large body of the enemy on the other side of the canal. they were lying down behind the high bank, so as to be sheltered from the fire of the garrison.
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“to cut off fugitives, i suppose,” muttered mr burgrave, half to himself and half to ressaldar ghulam rasul. “that looks as though the massacre were not quite so complete as--hark! i thought i heard a sound from the hill. can our glorious fellows have made a last dash for it after all--some few who escaped?”
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the men on the rampart stood like statues to listen, but failed to distinguish anything that might confirm the commissioner’s surmise. the air seemed full of sound--footfalls, a murmur from the town, a stray shot or two from the same direction, and on the west a kind of shuffling noise. the enemy were taking up their positions for the attack. mr burgrave sent orders to the guard at the water-gate to let the air out of the inflated skins which supported the raft, so as to sink it to the level of the water, and this was at once done. when he had posted a sentry in the passage and another on the rampart above it, he was able to leave that side of the fort to defend itself, since the enemy had no means of crossing to assail it. to occupy the whole range of wall with the absurdly small force at his disposal was obviously impossible, and he therefore placed ten men in each of the larger towers, from which, with the usual amount of trouble and risk, a flanking fire could be obtained, and twelve in the two gateway turrets, retaining the ressaldar and sixteen men as a reserve, ready to make a dash for any point that might be specially threatened. if the garrison should be driven from the walls, those who escaped were to rush for the hospital, where the women and children would take refuge, and the last stand was to be made. having ordered his forces to their stations, the commissioner went the round of the towers to encourage the men. his own sikhs he could deal with well enough, but he felt that it was the irony of fate which obliged him to urge the sowars of the khemistan horse to show themselves worthy of their first commander, general keeling, and it seemed as if the same thought had occurred to the men, for they scowled at him resentfully when they heard the mighty name from his lips.
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the bad news brought by the fugitive spread through the fort with astonishing rapidity. the native women, whom georgia had succeeded in soothing into some sort of calmness before the departure of the forlorn hope, filled the air with their wailings, until ismail bakhsh, who was head of the civilian guard detailed for the defence of the hospital, threatened to fire a volley among them if they were not quiet. flora graham’s ayah was gossiping with a friend among these women when the news arrived, and she rushed with it at once to her mistress’s room. poor flora had shut herself up alone to pray for the safety of her father and lover, and was following in thought every step of their perilous march. she had just reached with them the summit of the hill, and rushed upon the guard round the guns, when the ayah burst in with the news that the worst had happened. the sudden revulsion of feeling was too much for flora. her usual self-control deserted her, and she ran wildly across the courtyard to georgia’s room. georgia was lying down, talking softly in the dark to mabel, who sat beside her, and both sprang up at flora’s entrance.
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“what is it? have they come back?” they demanded, with one voice.
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“no, no; they are killed--all killed! papa and fred both--oh, mrs north, what can i do?” she dropped sobbing on the floor at georgia’s feet, and buried her face in her dress.
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“perhaps it isn’t true,” suggested georgia faintly. she had sunk down again on the bed.
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“there’s no hope--one man has come back, the only survivor. both of them at once! and i was praying for them, and i felt so sure--and even while i was praying they were being killed.”
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“is the whole force cut off?” asked georgia, almost in a whisper.
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“all but this one man.” flora checked her sobs for a moment to answer.
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“fitz anstruther too?” cried mabel sharply.
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“all, i tell you! it doesn’t signify to you, mab; you have your eustace left, but i have lost everything. oh, mrs north, you know how it feels. help me to bear it.”
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rahah, who had been crouched in the corner as usual, sprang up and ran out, returning in a moment with mrs hardy, who fell upon both girls immediately, and drove them out with bitter reproaches.
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“you pair of selfish, thoughtless chatterboxes! i should have thought you had more sense, flora. just be off, both of you. you can have my rooms for the rest of the night; i shall stay here. even if all our poor fellows are killed, is that any reason for killing mrs north too?”
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“oh, please don’t, mrs hardy! i never thought--mrs north is always so kind, and i am so miserable,” sobbed flora.
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“you shouldn’t be miserable unless you’re quite certain it’s necessary. you wouldn’t believe a native who told you he was dead, as they are always doing; so why should you when he says other people are dead?” demanded mrs hardy, with a brilliancy of logic which somehow failed to satisfy. “i haven’t a doubt that the bhisti took to his heels in a panic at the sound of the first shot, and if he hadn’t fortunately been in the rear, the panic might have spread to all the rest. there, go away, do, and don’t cry so. we’ll hope all will go well.”
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“why have you left your post, doctor?” asked mr burgrave, meeting dr tighe crossing the courtyard.
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“the hospital will have to look after itself a good deal to-night, but i have left the padri and my babu in charge there. mrs north is taken ill.”
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“good heavens! it only needed this to make the horror of the situation complete.”
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“from our point of view, it may be the best thing that could happen. it will make the men fight like demons. here, you girl, where are you going?” he had caught the shoulder of a veiled woman who ran up and tried to slip past him into the passage, but she let her chadar fall aside, and disclosed herself as rahah.
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“i have been telling the men of the regiment, sahib, and they have all sworn great oaths that so long as one of them has a spark of life left sinjāj kīlin’s daughter shall not be without a protector in her need, and that the corpses of foes without and friends within shall be piled as high as the ramparts before the enemy shall gain a footing on the wall. i told also those in the hospital”--there was a hint of malice in rahah’s voice--“and every wounded man who can sit up in bed is crying out for a gun. they will serve as hospital guard, they say, and set ismail bakhsh and his men free to fight on the walls.”
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“good idea, that!” said dr tighe, turning to the commissioner. “you see how the men take it. well, i shall keep mrs north in her own quarters if i can, but there is a passage through to the hospital courtyard, and we must carry her over if it’s necessary. but i don’t think it will be, now.”
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mr burgrave nodded, and returned to his station on the west curtain. why the enemy did not advance to the attack was a mystery. in the opinion of ghulam rasul and his most experienced subordinates, they had moved out from their position in the town, and were occupying the irrigated land on both sides of the canal in large numbers, sheltered against any volley from the walls by the rows of trees which marked the lines of the water-courses. they could not be seen, nor could it precisely be said that they were heard, but as the old soldiers in the garrison said, it could be felt that they were there. the situation was eerie in the extreme, and mr burgrave was unable to find comfort in a phenomenon which made his men cheerful in a moment. it was the ressaldar who called his attention to it as they stood straining their ears in the attempt to distinguish some definite sound in the murmuring silence, and at once he himself heard clearly the faint tramp of a galloping horse far away to the north-east.
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“he rides!” breathed ghulam rasul in an ecstasy, and “he rides!” cried the sowar nearest him, catching up the words from his lips. “he rides!” went from man to man, until the defenders of the towers looked at one another with glistening eyes, and even the unsympathetic sikhs, who held themselves loftily aloof from the contemptible local superstitions of their khemi comrades, repeated, with something of enthusiasm, “he rides!” “he rides; all is well,” said ismail bakhsh, puffing out his chest with pride, in his temporary guardroom on the clubhouse verandah. “sinjāj kīlin sahib is watching over his house and over his children. the power of the sarkar stands firm.”
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all unconscious of the moral reinforcement which was doubling the strength of the garrison, mabel and flora sat disconsolately over the charcoal brazier in mrs hardy’s room, listening for the sounds of the attack, which they expected to hear each moment. mrs hardy’s vigorous rebuke had nerved them both to put a brave face on matters, and for some time they vied with one another in discovering reasons for refusing to credit the report of the fugitive, and deciding that all might yet be well. but as time went on, and there was no sign of the triumphant return of colonel graham and his force, their valiant efforts at cheerfulness flagged perceptibly. mrs hardy, running across to say that georgia was doing pretty well, advised them to lie down and try to sleep, but they scouted the idea with indignation, and still sat looking gloomily into the glowing embers and listening to the night wind, which wailed round the crazy old buildings in a peculiarly mournful manner.
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“doesn’t it seem absurdly incongruous,” said mabel at last, in a low voice, “that you and i--two fin de siècle high school girls, who have taken up all the modern fads just like other people--should be sitting here, expecting every moment that a band of savages will break in and kill us--with swords? it feels so unnatural--so horribly out of drawing.”
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“how can you talk such nonsense?” snapped flora, upon whose nerves the strain of suspense was telling severely. “i never heard that a high school career protected people against a violent death. do you think it felt natural to the women in the mutiny to be killed--or the french revolution, or any time like that?”
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“i don’t know. it really seems as if they must have been more accustomed to horrors in those days. just imagine, flora, the little paragraph there will be in the south central magazine: ‘we regret to record the death of miss mabel north, o.s.c., who was murdered in the late rising on the indian frontier. miss flora graham, a distinguished student of st scipio’s college, st margarets, n.b., is believed to have perished on the same sad occasion.’ your school paper will have just the same sort of thing in it, and the two editors will send each other complimentary copies, and acknowledge the courtesy in the next number. it will all be about you and me--and we shall be dead.”
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“of course we shall; you said that before. but i don’t see what good it does to die many times before our deaths.”
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“how horrid of you to call me a coward!” said mabel pensively.
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“i don’t call you anything of the sort. i think you must be fearfully brave to look at things in this detached, artistic kind of way, but what’s the good of it? death must come when it will come, but naturally no one could be expected to look forward with pleasure to the mere fact of dying. unless, of course”--flora’s blue eyes shone as she turned suddenly from the general to the particular--“my dying would save papa or fred. then i should be glad to die.”
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“you really mean that you wouldn’t mind being killed if somehow it would save either of their lives?”
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“of course i do, just as you would gladly die to save your eustace.”
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“but i wouldn’t!” cried mabel involuntarily, then tried to minimise the effect of her admission by turning it into a joke. “i think it’s his privilege to do that for me.”
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“i wish you wouldn’t say that sort of thing!” said flora reproachfully. “happily there’s no one else to hear it, but if i didn’t know you, i should think you were perfectly horrid.”
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“no, flora, really,” cried mabel, in a burst of honesty; “i can’t say confidently that there is one person in the world i would die for. i feel as if i could die to save georgia, but i don’t know whether i could do it when the time came. i used to think that people--english people, at any rate--became heroic just as a matter of course when danger happened, but now i begin to believe that it depends a good deal on what they have been like before.”
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“you always try to make the worst of yourself.”
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“no, i don’t. i’m trying to look at myself as i really am. i have never in all my life done a thing i didn’t like if i could help it. what sort of preparation is that for being heroic? flora,” with a sudden change of subject, “suppose the enemy had stormed the fort before this evening, would you have asked your father or fred to kill you?”
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“no,” was the unexpected reply. “it would have been so awfully hard on them. i keep a revolver in this pocket of my coat. you just put it to your eye--and it’s done.”
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“oh, i wish i was like you! i know i should be wondering and worrying whether it was right, and all that sort of thing, until it was too late to do it.”
âĢľ__<label>__NOUN oh__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON wish__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB like__<label>__ADP you__<label>__PRON !__<label>__. i__<label>__PRON know__<label>__VERB i__<label>__PRON should__<label>__PRT be__<label>__VERB wondering__<label>__VERB and__<label>__CONJ worrying__<label>__VERB whether__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB right__<label>__ADJ ,__<label>__. and__<label>__CONJ all__<label>__PRON that__<label>__DET sort__<label>__NOUN of__<label>__ADP thing__<label>__NOUN ,__<label>__. until__<label>__ADP it__<label>__PRON was__<label>__VERB too__<label>__DET late__<label>__ADJ to__<label>__PRT do__<label>__VERB it__<label>__PRON .âĢĿ__<label>__.
“i don’t care whether it would be right or not,” said flora doggedly. “i should do it. do you think i would make things worse for papa and fred, or let them have the blame of it if it was wrong?”
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“i suppose eustace would do it for me,” drearily. “he would if he thought it was the proper thing. he always does the proper thing.”
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“i wish you wouldn’t talk in such a horrid voice. it makes me feel creepy. and i don’t think it’s fair to say that sort of thing about the commissioner. he’s perfectly devoted to you, and you know it would break his heart to have to--do what we were talking about. i don’t believe you’re half as fond of him as he is of you.”
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“have you found that out now for the first time?”
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“then it’s a shame!” cried flora. “why do you let him think you care for him? he worships you, and you pretend----”
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“i don’t pretend. he took it into his head that i cared for him, and wouldn’t let me say i didn’t. and he doesn’t worship me. he thinks that i shall make a nice adoring sort of worshipper for him when he has got me well in hand.”
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