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So soon as the line was formed, the drums beat the forward, and the head of the column was soon out of sight among the trees, St. Clair's working party cutting the road as they advanced. We were nearing the tangle of underbrush, which I thought marked the course of a stream, when there came suddenly a tremendous burst of firing from the front, followed by a great uproar of yells.
Of course Jamie did not know it, nor did Mercedes; and in fact he was honestly in love with her, to the point of changing his way of life to one of routine and drudgery. St. Clair spent his evenings at the house; and at such times Jamie would wander helplessly about the streets. St. Clair's one idea was to be employed about the bank, to become a banker.
Clair's bravado collapsed before Jamie's directness. "Made what good?" he blustered. "The two hundred dollars ye took," said Jamie. "Two hundred dollars? I took? Old man, you're crazy." "I tell ye I ha' made it guid," said Jamie. "Made it good? I could do that myself, if if" "Perhaps ye'll be having the money about ye now?" said Jamie. "Can ye give it me?" St. Clair abandoned pretense.
'To church again? inquired Betty. 'No, not to church; to Holly Grange. 'It's miles and miles, said Betty dubiously; 'I went in a pony carriage, but if you go by the wood it is shorter. 'Oh, we shall manage it very well, and if you are tired I will carry you. Major St. Clair's tone was quite cheerful, and Betty set off with him, delighted at being chosen as his companion.
He had been present at the defeat of Harmar and the slaughter of St. Clair's army. He had fought against Wayne at Fallen Timbers. In 1797 he had visited the great white father at Philadelphia, President Washington, and had been presented with a brace of elegantly mounted pistols by the Baron Kosciusko.
Clair's force was detached to the South, proceeded northward, under the command of Lincoln, and took post on the Hudson and in the Jerseys, so as to be ready to operate against New York in the spring; and Lafayette, perceiving no probability of active service immediately, obtained leave of absence from the Congress, and returned to France to visit his family.
Harry was compelled to laugh at the sodden figure, from which the rain ran in streams. But he admired St. Clair's spirit. "It was by a hair's breadth, Arthur," he said. "But we won across, just the same, and now I'm going back to that wagon to finish my cure. I fancy that we'll now have a rest of six or eight hours, if General Jackson doesn't think so much time taken from war a mere frivolity."
Clair's manner of ill will; or on the other hand giving a passing thought to the question, how I should dress the next hop night.
"I don't see how you can say that, Harlan," interrupted Dorothy, coolly critical; "I particularly noticed her hands and they're not nice at all. They're red and rough and nearly the size of a policeman's." "Whose hands?" demanded Harlan, in genuine astonishment. "Why, Elaine's Miss St. Clair's. If you're going to do a book about her, you might at least try to make it truthful." Mrs.
In a little time he passed Fort Jefferson, took possession of St. Clair's fatal field, and erected a fort there which he called Fort Recovery. He now learned the truth of the stories about the British. A number of British soldiers had come down from Detroit, and fortified themselves on the Miami of the lakes.
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