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In truth, Stead was less anxious about the money than about the other treasure, and when presently Patience proposed that the cave where they used to play should serve for the poultry, so as to save them from the foxes and polecats, he looked very grave and said "No, no, Patty, don't you ever tell anyone of that hole, nor let Rusha see it." "Oh!
When he came into the gulley he heard voices through the bushes, and pressing forward anxiously he saw Blane and Oates before the hovel door, Patience standing there crying, with the baby in her arms, and Rusha holding her apron, and an elderly man whom Stead knew as old Lady Elmwood's steward talking to the other men, who seemed to be persuading him to something.
Steadfast presently came back, having found some of the startled cattle and driven them in, but no Rusha. Patience was sure she could find her, and giving the baby to Steadfast ran out in the rain and smouldering smoke calling her; all in vain. Then she heard voices and feet, and in a fresh fright was about to turn again, when she knew Jephthah's call. He had the child in his arms.
Rusha ran wildly away at sight of the soldiers, but Patience, with the baby in her arms, came up. She did not see her father at first, and only cried aloud to the gentlemen. "O sir, don't let them do it. If they take our cows, the babe will die. He has no mother!" "They shall not, the villains! Brother, can nothing be done?" cried the youth, with a face of grief and horror.
"You told no lie, and Jeph might have taken it all." "O! he would not have been so cruel," cried Patience. "He would not want Rusha and Ben to have nothing." Stead did not feel sure, and when Patience asked him where the hoard was, he shook his head, looked wise, and would not tell her.
You rob me of my five boys, and you 'cuse me of stealin' a barrel-cover! Miss Rusha, de judgments of de Lord will come upon you. Dis is my prayer, ebery day, ebery hour. Ye may whip, ye may kill my prayer is mine own prayer to pray." "Lucy," exclaimed Mrs. Lisle, now able again to speak, "run down to Thornton Hall and tell Mr. Hill to come here at once." Mr. Hill was Mrs. Lisle's overseer.
The servants were in a state of terrified suspense, lest he should bring Miss Rusha as their mistress. They wished their master to marry they would dance for joy but it must be some other young lady than the heiress of Thornton Hall. Delia had been to a Northern school nearly five years; she would soon be eighteen, and was about to graduate.
"You are grown, too," said Patience, almost timidly. "What a man you are, Jeph! Here, Rusha, you mind Jeph, and here is little Benoni." "You have reared that child, then," said Jeph, as the boy clung to his sister's skirts, "and you have kept things together, Stead, as I hardly deemed you would do, when I had the call to the higher service."
"I am to wait here for Serjeant Gaythorn," observed the little damsel somewhat consequentially. "Well! it is a strange little makeshift of a place, but 'tis the fortune of war, and I have been in worse." "It is beautiful!" said Rusha, "now we have got a glass window and a real door and beds " all which recent stages in improvement she enumerated with a gasp of triumph and admiration between each.
None in this life, save the consciousness of having struggled to overcome nature, to render good for evil, and to perform that loving charity which our Saviour commended in the Samaritan, and ever inculcates in His Church. Notwithstanding Althea's patient, persistent efforts, Rusha Lisle, having hardened her heart, died in her sins.
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