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After three days of this agony, knowing that the enemy would soon be recovering from his bruises and be about again, he reluctantly wrote a note to Starr: "My dear Miss Endicott: "At the risk of offending you I feel that I must make one more attempt to save you from what I feel cannot but be great misery.
"She is attired," said an Assistant to another, "as if she did divine the thoughts of Endicott. For the sake of her veil she ought to find favor in his eyes." "Yet see how he doth eye her, as if his fiery glances longed to burn up the envious screen.
As soon as the grant was obtained, John Endicott came out with a company of sixty persons, and took up his abode at Naumkeag, which, being an Indian and therefore a pagan name, he changed to Salem, the Hebrew word for "peace."
Endicott seemed interested they turned their steps toward the recitation hall. "I think," said Starr as they walked slowly across the campus together, "that you must be a very brave boy. To think of you saving my life that way when you were just a little fellow!" She looked up, her pretty face full of childish feeling. Michael looked down silently and smiled.
"I shall advise her to leave you in peace for the sake of the Endicott name," said Livingstone politely. Arthur thanked him and departed, while the lawyer spent an hour enjoying his impressions and vainly trying to disentangle the Endicott from the Dillon in this extraordinary man. Arthur set out for the Curran household, where he was awaited with anxiety.
Mistress Endicott was the color of wax, her husband was gripping her wrist with a clutch of steel, trying, through the administration of physical pain, to keep alive her presence of mind. And for the third time came the loud summons: "Open! in the name of His Highness the Lord, Protector of England!"
Endicott rose and paced back and forth. Suddenly he stopped before the girl. "Marry me, Alice, and I'll buy a ranch and we will live out here, and for us Brooklyn and Cincinnati need never exist. I do love it all, but I love you a thousand times more."
I have been awake half the night, thinking about them, and debating the difficult question of my duty in the case. I might make room for one of them " "You!" Mrs. Endicott interrupted her in a voice of unfeigned astonishment. "You! How can you give place a moment to such a thought, broken down in health as you are and with five children of your own clinging to you for support?
Next would have appeared the successive governors, Winthrop, Dudley, Bellingham, and Endicott, who sat in the chair while it was a chair of state. Then its ample seat would have been pressed by the comfortable, rotund corporation of the honest mint-master. Then the half-frenzied shape of Mary Dyer, the persecuted Quaker woman, clad in sackcloth and ashes would have rested in it for a moment.
Tex glanced at her in surprise: "That's so," he said, gravely. "It's the only way I can get it down." She was about to retort when Endicott returned from the creek and placed the water pail beside her. "Winthrop!" she cried, for the first time recognizing him. "Where in the world did you get those clothes, and what is the matter with your face?"
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