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"Who is he? What's his name?" "I don't know. Didn't I say he is a mystery?" "Come, Frank, are you trying to tease me?" "Not at all. I will tell you all I know about this singular man in black." Then, leaning gracefully against one of the iron gateposts, he related his recent adventure with the unpleasant stranger.
"I guess the banner is strong enough to stand the winds that whistle around the tops of the gateposts, isn't it?" Her thoughts reverted to the white signal that floated from the summit of the big mount at whose base they had been cast up from the sea. Hugh, having completed the meal, went to the end of the room, where, stretched along the wall, hung a huge American flag.
I suppose all the children who were born about the time of the Civil War have recollections quite unlike those of the children who are living now. Although I was but four and a half years old when Lincoln died, I distinctly remember the day when I found on our two white gateposts American flags companioned with black.
The motto of his life had been: Be prepared for the unexpected. It may be that the lions on the gateposts shed tears, and it is possible there was weeping in the Seward household but not by Seward. He entered upon a hearty and vigorous campaign in support of Lincoln making a tour through the West and being greeted everywhere with an enthusiasm that rivaled that shown for the candidate.
We walked in silence down a long alley, to a great gate that I had often passed in my strolls. It was a barred iron gate, of a very stately air, with high stone gateposts. I had never been able to find my outward way to this, and there was a view from it of enchanting beauty, blue distant woods and rolling slopes.
"And we'll fetch Davy along, for luck," cried Cowan, catching sight of me beside him. "Sure we'll be wanting a dhrummer b'y," said McCann. And so they enrolled me. "Davy, take care of my Tom," cried Polly Ann. I can see her now, standing among the women by the great hewn gateposts, with little Tom in her arms, holding him out to us as we filed by.
They saw her turn northward on the Bellefontaine Road. Presently the woodland hid from her sight the noble river shining far below, and Virginia pulled Vixen between the gateposts which marked the entrance to her aunt's place, Bellegarde.
Then he passed between the old gateposts where the sentinels had once stood, and disappeared in a turn of the road. There were houses a little beyond that point. Under Doc's direction the scouts worked three boards under Blythe's own balsam couch and carried this to where he lay. They got him onto it and bore it gently into the camping shack, out of the glaring sunlight.
Apparently reassured, they charged through, as hogs will, in a disorderly mob, rubbing their lean flanks against the gateposts, each seeming to protest with squeals against the crush to which he contributed.
'Gethin Owens' was on all the gateposts, and on the saddles and bridles, and once I painted 'G. O. with green paint on the white mare's haunch. There was a squall when that was found out, but it was nothing to the storm that burst upon me when I wrote something in my mother's big Bible.
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