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Swift, silent messengers hurried in and out, and Mr. Easterly, deciding the time was ripe, called his henchman to him. "Taylor, we're ready go South." And John Taylor rose, shook hands silently, and went. As he entered Cresswell's plantation store three days later, a colored woman with a little boy turned sadly away from the counter.
To Cresswell a man who had cheated the whole South out of millions by a series of misrepresentations ought to regard this little falsehood as nothing. Meantime Colonel Cresswell's lawyer was on his feet, and he adopted his most irritating and contemptuous manner. "This nigger wench wrote out some illegible stuff and Colonel Cresswell signed it to get rid of her.
She sat in her office looking out across the land. School had closed for the year and Bles with the carryall was just taking Miss Taylor to the train with her trunk and bags. Far up the road she could see dotted here and there the little dirty cabins of Cresswell's tenants the Cresswell domain that lay like a mighty hand around the school, ready at a word to squeeze its life out.
She heard the sound of Harry Cresswell's buggy, and a scurrying at the front door. On came the dressmaker's footsteps then her door was unceremoniously burst open. Helen Cresswell stood there radiant; the dressmaker, too, was wreathed in smiles. She carried a big red-sealed bundle. "Zora!" cried Helen in ecstasy. "It's come!" Zora regarded her coldly, and stood at bay.
I look upon Mr. Cresswell's visit today as almost providential. He came offering an olive branch from the white aristocracy to this work; to bespeak his appreciation and safeguard the future.
"No," he said, "no need to tell you more than that, within these last few days I have found that all you said about Cresswell's present diablerie" he shook his head impatiently at the language he was using to the lady of the feathers "Cresswell's present impulse for evil is less horribly true than the truth. I shall watch him, day by day, from now. And if I can act, I shall do so.
Receiving neither, she walked with dignity up the stairs. From her window she could see Cresswell's straight shoulders, as he rode toward town, and beyond him a black speck in the road. But she could not see the smile on Mr. Cresswell's lips, nor did she hear him remark twice, with seeming irrelevance, "The devil!"
Darling with my consent will not visit you again until you are experienced enough to know right from wrong. You never told me of these visits with her to Cresswell's or I should have forbidden them utterly. It never occurred to me that you would be tempted to go thither or I should have warned you. I do not blame you so much, my wife, as I do those who have so misled you.
I was sitting in Cresswell's court when George rose as soon as the Judge had taken his seat, and asked if a case might be postponed which would be in the next day's list. "Have you an affidavit, Mr. Brown, as to the reason?" "Yes, my lord; but I can hardly put the real ground of my application into the affidavit.
Finally the Judge plucked up courage: "The defendant is ordered to deliver this cotton to Zora Cresswell," he directed. The raging of Colonel Cresswell's anger now turned against John Taylor as well as the Negroes. Wind of the estrangement flew over town quickly. The poor whites saw a chance to win Taylor's influence and the sheriff approached him cautiously. Taylor paid him slight courtesy.
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