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He saluted and passed to the rear, where friends and strangers gathered round him to inspect his trophy. The first to receive the medal were the Queen's cousin and contemporary, the Duke of Cambridge, Lords Lucan, Cardigan, Major- General Scarlett, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir De Lacy Evans, and Major- General Torrens.
Burgoyne, busily punching pillows. "An', as you say, Viola deserves all I c'n do for her," pursued the invalid. "But remember, every cent of this you git back." "Every cent, just as soon as Lyman is old enough to take a job," agreed Mrs. Burgoyne. "There, how's that? That's the way Colonel Burgoyne liked to be fixed." "You're to make a note of just what it costs," persisted Mrs.
He could not believe that an expedition then preparing at New York, was designed to reinforce General Howe; and insisted that, should the troops then embarked at that place, instead of proceeding to the Delaware, make a sudden movement up the Hudson, it would be in their power, should Albany be left defenceless, to destroy the valuable arsenal which had been there erected, and the military stores captured with Burgoyne, which had been chiefly deposited in that town.
There's a name there and a queer sort of emblem. They are not yours, surely?" "Good heaven, no! My name's Samuel Bridewell and always has been. Red Hamish put that thing there oh, more than five-and-twenty years ago. Him and me was wrecked on a reef in the Indian Ocean when the Belle Burgoyne went down from under us and took all but us down with her.
This was now near Saratoga, a name destined to be ominous in the history of the British army. Further misfortune now crowded upon Burgoyne. The general of that day had two favorite forms of attack.
In 1777 the British attempted to accomplish this object by sending General Burgoyne from Canada to force his way by Lake Champlain to the Hudson. At the same time Sir Henry Clinton moved north from New York with three thousand men, and reached West Point, whence he sent by shipping a part of his force up the river to within forty miles of Albany.
A forty years peace had rusted the machinery of the war department, while the machinery of railway construction was in the highest working order. Sir John Burgoyne, the chief of the engineering staff, testified that it was impossible to overrate the services rendered by the railway, or its effects in shortening the time of the siege, and alleviating the fatigues and sufferings of the troops.
While Burgoyne was thus anxiously looking forward to Clinton's energetic coöperation, that officer supposed he was only making a diversion in Burgoyne's favor, a feint to call off the enemy's attention from him; and thus it happened that in the decisive hour of the war, and after the signal had been given, only one arm was raised to strike, because two British commanders acted without unison; either through misconception of the orders they had received, or of what was expected of them in just such an emergency as the one that now presented itself.
"This was the old house," explained Barry; "they added on the front part. You could do a lot with this room." "Do you still smell spice, and apples, and cider here?" said Mrs. Burgoyne, turning from an investigation of the china-closet, with a radiant face.
Burgoyne, looking through a window that she had opened upon the lovely panorama of river and woods, said suddenly: "This must be my room, it was hers. She was the best friend, in one way, that I ever had Mrs. Holly. How happy I was here!" "Here?" Barry echoed. At his tone she turned, and looked keenly at him, a little smile playing about her lips. Then her face suddenly brightened.
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