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The Maynes used to pet the children and play the piano to them when they were at the inn, and had been very good to Jim also when he was there alone with his father before the family arrived. Their manners were gentle and caressing, and they did their best to win their way into Mrs. Caldwell's good graces, but at first she coldly repulsed them, which hurt Beth very much.
Alas! it might be true, for how could he live in the midst of enemies to whom his high spirit would not bend, wounded, suffering, deprived of the loving care for which he pined? In that sad household Mrs. Caldwell's duties became onerous and multifarious enough to appall one less stout-hearted or less devoted to the cause.
"What you aimin' to do?" he questioned. "I've been thinking it over," said Lawler. "You ain't figgerin' to lay down to the cusses?" Caldwell's voice was low and cold. Lawler looked straight at him, smiling. Caldwell laughed, and the others grinned. "Lawler, we knowed you wouldn't," declared Caldwell; "but a man's got a right to ask. Right here an' now somethin' has got to be done.
Caldwell's neck, and every day he said that if it had not burst of itself he should have been obliged to make a deep incision in it in the form of a cross. Mildred and Beth were always present on these occasions, fighting to be allowed to hold the basin. Mrs. Ellis wanted to turn them out, but Mrs. Caldwell said: "Let them stay, poor little bodies; they like to be with me."
A woman was pretty badly hurt. Ditmar came right down." "He really cares about them," said Janet. She liked Caldwell's praise of Ditmar, yet she spoke a little doubtfully. "Of course he cares. But it's common sense to make 'em as comfortable and happy as possible isn't it? He won't stand for being held up, and he'd be stiff enough if it came to a strike. I don't blame him for that. Do you?"
All this, however, was in perfect good humor. This account is also taken from Captain Caldwell's "History of McGowan's Brigade." Being an active participant, he is well qualified to give a truthful version, and I give in his own language his graphic description of the battle of the "Bloody Angle."
In 1781 he volunteered under Colonel Davie, and was with him at the battle of Hanging Rock. This was Captain Caldwell's last important service. The distinguished physician, Dr.
Adj. Gen., Caldwell's Brigade. The report of General Miles is as follows: Headquarters Sixty-first Regt. New York Vols. Camp near Sharpsburg, Sept. 19, 1862. "I have the honor to transmit the following report: On the 17th inst., about 9 o'clock the Sixty-first and Sixty-fourth N. Y. Vol., under command of Col.
Caldwell's consent to take Beth back with her; but instead of having to go home to spend the day alone waiting for Beth, as she had expected, she was sent out some distance along the cliffs to a high hill, which she climbed by Beth's direction.
"I shall soon have you yourself again now." Captain Caldwell's spirits also went up. In the evening they were all together in the sitting-room. Mrs. Caldwell was playing little songs for Mildred to sing, Baby Bernadine was playing with her bricks upon the floor, and Beth as usual was hanging about her father.
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