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Carleton. April gave place to May. One afternoon, Fleda had taken an hour or two to go and look at some of the old places on the farm that she loved, and that were not too far to reach. A last look she guessed it might be, for it was weeks since she had had a spare afternoon, and another she might not be able to find. It was a doubtful pleasure she sought too, but she must have it.
"Indeed!" laughed Miss Carleton; "my presence here is very easily explained. It is simply the result of one of Mrs. Mainwaring's numerous whims, as she suddenly decided upon an immediate return to England. I think, however, that the surprise was mutual." "Accordingly, I suppose that mutual explanations should follow," he answered, lightly.
In fact, throughout the war, it may be said that the Americans, when fighting on the defensive behind trees and intrenchments, fought stubbornly; but that they were feeble in attack and wholly incapable of standing against British troops in the open. It would now have been easy for Carleton to have sallied out and taken the offensive, but he preferred holding Quebec quietly.
Between Tuesday and Thursday of one week, thirty thousand dollars were contributed. The steamer Greyhound a captured blockade-runner, was chartered. Taking in her hold one-half of the provisions, she left Boston Harbor at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, January 23, 1865. With the committee of relief, Carleton arrived in Savannah in time to ride out and meet the army of Sherman.
Stackpole, "that it remains for the progress of enlightened reason to dispel." "What is the cure for the malady?" said Mr. Carleton, quietly. "Why, Sir, the looking upon death as a necessary step in the course of our existence, which simply introduces us from a lower to a higher sphere from a comparatively narrow to a wider and nobler range of feeling and intellect."
"No I can't, for I have all the time the association of some horrid creature they might have come from, you know; but it will do just as well to humbug people I shall make Cornelia Schenck believe that this came from my dear Mr. Carleton!" "No you won't, Constance," said Fleda gently.
And then Danny spoke out as plain as his breathless eagerness would permit, and told the story of the "pension." "It will be thirty-five dollars a month, Captain Carleton says; he'd have to throw in the five to poor old Nutty for grog and tobacco." "Ah, God save us, God save us!" was all Aunt Winnie could murmur, tearfully.
The subalterns in the Royal Highland Emigrants refused to do duty with Mackinnon, and General Haldimand, who succeeded Carleton in the summer of 1778, would not take the matter seriously enough to grant a Court Martial, that Mackinnon might clear himself. For quite a year and a half the affair dragged on. In the end, at a Court of Enquiry, Mackinnon was acquitted.
She could hear the monotonous chant of the negroes, and feel the swaying motion of the vessel, and soon was fast asleep. She did not know when the schooner was towed out into the channel, nor when the sails were hoisted and they went sailing down the bay. For Captain Carleton had entirely forgotten his little guest.
Joseph P. Nelson was standing there, and he said, without wasting any words it was easy to see how that man managed to get railroads built where nobody else could manage it that he had called to see me on a little matter of business. He took just ten minutes to make it clear to me, and when I saw the whole project I was the happiest woman in Carleton or out of it.
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