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Later, and still in the guise of a prospective purchaser, he met Bladen, who also dealt extensively in land, and apparently if anything could have pleased him more than the region about the Cross Roads it was the country adjacent to Fayetteville. From the first he had assiduously cultivated his acquaintance with the new owners of the Barony.
About two weeks after, and fifteen miles from Bladen, another freedman was burned to death. In the latter part of May, fifteen miles south of Bladen, a freedman was shot outside of the planter's premises and the body dragged into the stable, to make it appear he had shot him in the act of stealing. About the first of June, six miles west of Bladen, a freedman was hung. His body is still hanging.
There were still some traces of the handsome Jim Bolivar with whom pretty, romantic Helen Bladen had eloped, though the intermediate years of sorrow and misfortune had changed that dapper young beau into a careless, hopeless pessimist. What the end might have been but for Peggy is hard to guess, but the past two years had made him think and think hard too.
Crenshaw hurried from the room to return almost immediately with a tall countryman. "Mr. Bladen, this is Bob Yancy. Bob, the gentleman, wants to hear about the woman and the child; that's your story." "Howdy, sir," said Mr. Yancy. He appeared to meditate on the mental effort that was required of him, then he took a long breath. "It was this a-ways " he began with a soft drawl, and then paused.
BLADEN spoke next, as follows: Sir, it is obvious, that when the balance is unequal, it may be reduced to an equilibrium, as well by taking weight out of one scale, as adding it to the other.
I do not send you an account of weddings, births, and burials, as I take it for granted that you know them all from the English printed papers; some of which, I presume, are sent after you. Your old acquaintance, Lord Essex, is to be married this week to Harriet Bladen, who has L20,000 down, besides the reasonable expectation of as much at the death of her father.
You see, there's an order from the Fayetteville co't fo' me to give him up to this man Bladen." "But Uncle Bob says " began Hannibal, who considered his Uncle Bob's remarks on this point worth quoting. "Never mind what yo' Uncle Bob said," interrupted Yancy hastily. "Oh, Mr. Yancy, you are not going to surrender him no matter what the court says!" cried Betty.
It flashed in upon him that Murrell had uncovered the real purpose of his visit to North Carolina; his interest in land had been merely a subterfuge. "Well?" said Murrell. "I'll have to think your proposition over," said Bladen.
Crenshaw nodded his acquiescence to the lawyer's conjecture touching the ultimate fate of the Barony. "I reckon, sir, I'll want to protect myself, but if there are any of his own kin who have a fancy to the place I'll put no obstacle in their way." "Who are the other creditors?" asked Bladen.
The Bladen mansion, now known as McDowell Hall, was repaired and enlarged and, on August 11, 1789, Bishop Carroll was elected president of the Board of Visitors and Governors and Dr. John McDowell accepted the Professorship of Mathematics. After unsuccessful attempts to obtain a principal from England, Dr.
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