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How had they the craft to find them, so securely, so impenetrably were they hidden! Stuart's store of Cherokee enabled him to gather the drift of the excited talk. One of the Indians, with the keen natural senses of the savage, had smelled the freshly turned clay smelled it in that assortment of evil odors congregated in the parade! and had sought to discover what this might be so recently buried.
Stuart's, Friday, and at once sent off a note to Edward Wallace, suggesting that they should go to the theatre together on Thursday evening to see Miss Bretherton, 'for, as you will see, he wrote, 'it will be impossible for me to meet her with a good conscience unless I have done my duty beforehand by going to see her perform. To this the American replied by a counter proposal.
He is thinking, that all things considered, it is just as well this particularly fascinating companionship, ends in a manner to-morrow. To-morrow comes. It is Miss Beatrix Stuart's birthday. The great party is to be to-night. They shake hands and part with Mrs. Rogers on the pier. Charley hails a hack and assists his cousin in, and they are whirled off to the palatial avenue up-town.
I stopped at Mrs. Emerson's, to ask her when and how her children were going. I found a superb George Washington in the dining-room, nearly as large as life, engraved from Stuart's painting. We saw no one of the family, but finally a door opened, and the rich music of Mr. Emerson's voice filled the entry. Julian ran out at the sound, and Ellen and her father came into the room. Mr.
Suddenly, the skirmish line of the enemy appeared in front of the woods, and a quick fire was opened on Stuart's sharp-shooters under Colonel Pate, in the angle of the two roads; Stuart hastened to take the real initiative. He posted two guns on a rising ground in the angle, and opened a heavy fire; and galled by this fire, the enemy suddenly made a determined charge upon the guns.
And he lifted his fierce eyes in triumph to the captive's face for all those weary days of beleaguerment, for every puff of smoke from the shotted guns, for every blaze they belched, for every ball, death freighted, they vomited, for every firelock that spoke from the loop-holes in the midnight attack, would be meted out Captain Stuart's penalty in pangs, with knives, with cords, with hot coals, with flames of fire!
"Ten of the Black Horse! where are the rest of them, I wonder? Oh, ain't they lucky dogs?" "Stuart's men have the sweetest time! just galloping over the country, and making love, and listening to Sweeney's banjo If you want to have a good time If you want to have a good time, Jine the cavalry! What's that road over there the cool-looking one? The road to Ashby's Gap?
Their story made another good article for Stuart's paper, and he spent almost an entire day holding such conversation with them as he could, though their English language had so far degenerated that the boy found it hard to understand. The colony is not far from the little village of Bathsheba, which Stuart had reached by the tramway that crosses the island.
The sober Sandy gave a rollicking Scotch drinking-song that seemed to show the very bead on the liquor, "Hey the browst, and hey the quaigh!". The officers' cook, a quaint old African, seated cross-legged on the ground, on the outskirts of the crowd, piped up at the commandant's bidding, and half sang, half recited, in a wide, deep, musical voice, and an unheard-of language that excited great interest for a time; but interpreting certain manifestations of applause among the soldiers as guying, he took himself and his ear-rings and a gay kerchief, which he wore, to the intense delight of the garrison, as a belt around the waistband of his knee-breeches, to his kitchen, replying with cavalier insubordination, pioneer of the domestic manners of these days, to Captain Stuart's remonstrances by the assertion that he had to wash his kettle.
He did not know that I had recognized him as the person who had tracked me to Dr. Stuart's house! He invited me to drink with him, and I did so. As we raised our glasses I made a move. Looking all about me suspiciously: "Am I right in supposing that you have business in this part of London?" I asked. "Yes," he replied "My affairs bring me here sometimes."
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