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Then with an affectionate farewell she went to her room, knelt down and prayed. When she rose she said to herself: "I am thankful now that I have no child." In ten minutes a little company of people, led by Aaron Hulm, started away from Boston, making for a block-house fifteen miles distant, where they were to sleep.
And, Hulm, dear creature, you can aid me better if you do not weep." She then passed down a side staircase and entered the dining-room. A moment afterwards Aaron Hulm came in. "Aaron," she said, as he stood confused before her misery, "know you the way to Quebec?" "Indeed, madame, very well. Madame, I am sorry " "Let us not dwell upon it, Aaron. Can you get a few men together to go there?"
She caught her mistress by the waist, but Jessica recovered instantly. She was very quiet, very pale, yet the plumbless grief of her eyes brought tears to Hulm's face. She stood for a moment in deep thought. "Is your brother Aaron in Boston, Hulm?" she asked presently. "He is below, dear mistress." "Ask him to step to the dining-room. And that done, please go to my father.
"Madame," he said loyally, "I will do anything you ask; I feared only for your safety." An hour afterwards she came into the room where her father still slept. Stooping, she kissed his forehead, and fondled his thin grey hair. Then she spoke to Hulm. "Tell him," she said, "that I will come back soon: that my husband needs me, and that I have gone to him.
Then with an affectionate farewell she went to her room, knelt down and prayed. When she rose she said to herself: "I am thankful now that I have no child." In ten minutes a little company of people, led by Aaron Hulm, started away from Boston, making for a block-house fifteen miles distant, where they were to sleep.
She caught her mistress by the waist, but Jessica recovered instantly. She was very quiet, very pale, yet the plumbless grief of her eyes brought tears to Hulm's face. She stood for a moment in deep thought. "Is your brother Aaron in Boston, Hulm?" she asked presently. "He is below, dear mistress." "Ask him to step to the dining-room. And that done, please go to my father.
Tell him that we will both come back both, Hulm, you understand!" "Dear mistress, I understand." But the poor soul made a gesture of despair. "It is even as I say. We will both come back," was the quiet reply. "Something as truthful as God Himself tells me so. Take care of my dear father I know you will; keep from him the bad news, and comfort him."
Men and boys are stationed at the rear of the thresher to remove the straw, and roughly separate the seed from the shattered hulm, others again being engaged in thrusting the dried crop from the scaffolds, and placing it in suitable position for the feeders.
At last she was about to rise and take him to his room, but hearing noises in the street she stepped to the window. There were men below, and this made her apprehensive. She hurried over, kissed the old man, passed from the room, and met her old servant Hulm in the passage, who stretched out her hand in distress. "What is it, Hulm?" she asked, a chill at her heart.
Tell him that we will both come back both, Hulm, you understand!" "Dear mistress, I understand." But the poor soul made a gesture of despair. "It is even as I say. We will both come back," was the quiet reply. "Something as truthful as God Himself tells me so. Take care of my dear father I know you will; keep from him the bad news, and comfort him."