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"Ay, dad," answered the colonel, as he rose and climbed out of the boat; "'t is me." "Lordy me, if I ever expected ter see yer ag'in, Phil," cried the father, as he threw his arms about him. "This is a surprise ez duz my ole bones a heap of good. Naow say yer've come ter tell me thet I may make yer peace with the state, an' yer'll come back ter Boxely fer good.
General Washington just sent me word that I am only to be treated as a prisoner of war, but even when I am exchanged I must henceforth be an exile, with only my sword to depend upon; so it would have been no life for you." "Oh, Phil, you'll take back Greenwood and Boxely, won't " "Only to have them taken by the state?
The master of Boxely opened the interview by shaking his fist within a few inches of the rubicund countenance of the master of Greenwood, and, suiting his words to the motion, he roared: "May Belza take yer, yer old " and the particular epithet is best omitted, the eighteenth-century vocabulary being more expressive than refined "fer sendin' my boy ter Boston, wheer, belike, he'll never git away alive."
Surely you must understand that, promised now as I am to another, both by my father's word and by my own, your suit cannot fail to distress me?" "Is 't possible that, to please others, thee intends, then, to force thyself to marry this long-legged dragoon?" protested Clowes. "Hast thy father not told thee of thy own loss of Greenwood and of his undoubted loss of Boxely?"
And 't will strip Hennion of his acres as well, I take it. Wilt deliberately marry her to a penniless man?" "Boxely never was his, and I doubt not his scamp of a father will find some way to save it to him. I'll not tarry longer, for 't is ill news ye have just broke to me, and I must carry it to Matilda. It gives us but a black future to which to look forward." Mr.
"If 't is delayed till I am convicted, the state may claim that they were in escheat, but for these few hours I have a good title, and if ever they seek to invalidate the deeds, set up the mortgages on Boxely that you hold, as the consideration." "But " "In God's name, squire, don't lose the opportunity by delay!
Hennion, and now he has topped them all by signing deeds within the hour that gives to the girl both Greenwood and Boxely." Janice looked up at her father. "'T is like him," she said, chokingly. "Oh, General Washington, will you not be merciful to him?" "What is done must depend wholly on General Brereton's report, Miss Janice," answered Washington, gravely. "Oh, not on him!" besought the girl.
The squire took a bundle of papers from an iron box and flourished them under Hennion s nose "There are assignments of every mortgage ye owe, ye old fox, and pay day 's coming." "Let it," sneered the owner of Boxely. "Yer think I did n't know, I s'pose? Waal, thet 's wheer yer aout.
"Then 't is all right, if we but act quick enough to complete it, ere I am sent to the gallows. Find a justice of the peace without delay, and let him draw deeds from me to to Janice, of both Greenwood and Boxely, and bring them to me to sign "Surely, Phil, 't is " protestingly began the squire. "Waste not a moment," importuned Philemon.
So it 's no longer to your interest to pay principal, or your principle to pay interest, eh? No, I won't push ye too far! I'll only turn ye out of Boxely and let ye be farmed on the town as a pauper. If I had the dealing with ye, ye'd be in the provost prison at York awaiting trial as a traitor. And my generosity would run to just six feet of rope."
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