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Now, being commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army, he went to New York and organized from the firemen of that city a similar regiment, known as the Eleventh New York. Colonel Ellsworth's Zouaves, on the evening of May 23, were sent with a considerable force to occupy the heights overlooking Washington and Alexandria, on the banks of the Potomac, opposite the national capital.
His profession was that of a teacher of fencing; but he had been an officer in Ellsworth's company, and was familiar with fancy manoeuvres for street parade, and with a special skirmish drill and bayonet exercise.
The slave had feared to speak lest she should say the wrong thing, had hesitated before taking the most insignificant step, knowing that Mrs. Ellsworth's sharp tongue would accuse her of foolishness or worse. But now Annesley wondered at her bondage. If only the man upstairs could escape, never again would she be afraid of this old tyrant.
Ma'am, I heard about a 'face that was the fairest. Him? Was he surprised to see you-all this morning? Was, eh? Well, he didn't seem so almighty surprised, to my way of thinkin', last night when I told him you was comin' up here from El Paso. I don't know how he knowed it, and I ain't sayin' a word." A strange lightening came to Constance Ellsworth's heart.
Haynes, as he joined Don Luis and the young engineers on the porch. Something in the changed atmosphere of the place made Don Luis Montez feel decidedly uneasy. The Americans responded quickly to Mr. Ellsworth's rounding up. Each of them, as he came forward, looked unusually grave. Mr. Haynes waited until he saw all of his associates around him.
To Hazlehurst, the most amusing part of Ellsworth's story was, an allusion to a certain resemblance in character between Mrs. Taylor and 'one whom he had so much admired, one whom he must always admire. "Now, Elinor, do me the justice to say I was never half so bad as that; I never pretended to think Jane like you, in one good quality."
The thought that, after all, she had no change to look forward to, gave the girl a passionate desire to make the most of this one living hour among many that were born dead. "Mrs. Ellsworth's house," she said, "is 22-A, Torrington Square." "Thank you." Only these two words he spoke, but the eager dark eyes seemed to add praise and blessings for her confidence.
"Yes, sir; and we won't return for the present, unless you send for us," Reade replied, going toward the forward end of the car. Superintendent Hawkins was closeted with the general manager until the arrival of the automobile. There was a frown on Mr. Ellsworth's face as they started townward.
"You will oblige me by coming back to the house, won't you, Don Luis?" insisted Mr. Haynes, who seemed, somehow, a changed man within the last minute. "Certainly," agreed the Mexican courteously, and the chauffeur turned the car. As they walked along, Mr. Haynes managed to whisper a few words in Mr. Ellsworth's ear. "I have sent Ellsworth to call all our associates together," explained Mr.
The President, amid all the cares of that busy period, found time to sit many hours beside the body of his friend, and at the burial he appeared as chief mourner. This murder fired the northern imagination to a degree. The picture of Ellsworth's handsome face was everywhere familiar.
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