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Updated: May 14, 2025
In the man Hawkins, once a game-keeper of Sir Burnham's, I found an instrument ready to my hand.
Stannard's division of the 18th corps with General Burnham's brigade leading, tried an assault against Fort Harrison and captured it with sixteen guns and a good many prisoners. Burnham was killed in the assault. Colonel Stevens who succeeded him was badly wounded; and his successor also fell in the same way.
Nearing the house he saw Phoebe leaning out of one of the second-story windows. She had been gazing westward toward Burnham's swamp, but she caught sight of Droop and nodded brightly to him. Then she drew in her head and pulled down the window.
He was thoroughly convinced that the child was Robert Burnham's son, and all of his hopes and plans and ambitions, during these days, were centred in the effort to have Ralph restored his family, and to his rights as a member of that family. It would be such a fine thing for the boy, he thought. In the first place, he could have an education. Bachelor Billy reverenced an education.
"Why, hello, Roland!" he cried cheerfully, hanging up his hat for perhaps the twentieth time. And, "How de doo, sir?" he greeted the stranger. "Good-morning, sir," said Burnham pleasantly. "Say, Sam," Roland blundered with his usual adroitness, "this gentleman " Burnham's hand fell heavily on his forearm and he checked as if throttled. "What's that, Roland?" Sam turned curiously to them.
"Possibly we shall be able to get in sooner." Goodlaw and Mrs. Burnham sat for a long time in silence, watching the men at their labor. Word had been passed among the workers that the missing boy was Mrs. Burnham's son, and their energetic efforts were put forth now for her sake as well as for the lad's. For both mother and son held warm places in the hearts of these toiling men.
Finally, Burnham's attention was attracted to this proceeding. "Why," he exclaimed, "what are you doing? You have no right to those things; they are mine." "Oh no! they are mine. They shall be given to you some time perhaps; but, for the present, they are mine." "Stop! you shall not have them. Those things are very precious to me. Put them down, I say; put them down!" "Very well.
Under the fire of the rebel batteries, Newton's and Burnham's regiments lay, some in the outskirts of the town, some in the cemetery, until General Sedgwick gave the order for the advance. Then, almost at the same time, both commands moved up the glacis towards the heights.
"Until to-day," he said, "every one who has heard this evidence, and taken interest in this case, has believed, as I do, that this boy is Robert Burnham's son.
There was a vague uneasiness within him that he could not quite define. It was not because he doubted that he was Mrs. Burnham's son; he believed that fact implicitly. It was not so much, either, that he could not go to her at once; he could wait for that if the end would only surely bring it.
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