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"It would mean so much to me oh, so very much to me and so very little to you and that's no real kiss. I'd rather remember none of that kind and don't think I was churlish it's only because the little boy I will go after my father now, and God bless you!" He turned away. A few paces on he met Captain Girnway, jaunty, debonair, smiling, handsome in his brass-buttoned uniform of the Carthage Grays.
"Good morning, Miss Prudence, good morning, Mr. Rae, good morning, madam good morning " He looked questioningly at the stranger. Prudence stepped forward. "This is Joel Rae, Captain Girnway." They bowed, somewhat stiffly. Each was dark. Each had a face to attract women.
I forgot that I'd grown up and you might be small. When those fellows got tight up there and let on like it was you that some folks hinted had took a child and kept it out of that muss, I couldn't hardly believe it; and everybody seeming to regard you so highly. And I couldn't believe this big girl was little Prue Girnway that I remembered.
He put his hands on her shoulders and looked down into the face under the bonnet. "Let me make sure I shall lose no look of you, from little tilted chin, and lips of scarlet thread, and little teeth like grains of rice, and eyes into which I used to wander and wonder so far " She looked past him and stepped back. "Captain Girnway is coming for me yonder, away down the street.
I would have gone, too, but I told them I wanted first to see you and and see if you would not come with us at least for awhile, not taking the poor old father and mother through all that wretchedness. They consented to let me stay with your parents on condition that Captain Girnway would protect them and me. He he is very kind and had known us since last winter and had seen me us several times.
Even when a late comer from Nauvoo told him that Prudence Corson had married Captain Girnway of the Carthage Grays, two years after the exodus from Nauvoo, his first feeling was one of blazing anger against the mobocrats rather than regret for his lost love. "They moved down to Jackson County, Missouri, too," concluded his informant, thus adding to the flame.
It did not come to him until that instant this man was Girnway. In the flash of awful comprehension he dropped, a sickened and nerveless heap, beside the dead man, turning his head on the ground, and feeling for any sign of life at his heart.
The girl, who had risen in some confusion, stood blushing and embarrassed before him. The mother rose feebly on her elbow to reassure him. "'Tis Captain Girnway, laddie. Have no alarm he has befriended us. But for him we should have been put out two days ago, without shelter and without care. He let us be housed here until you should come."
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