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I was fain to dismiss my wonder as to Darthea, and, unable to recur to the question I had asked, I went away to headquarters in the great Chew house in Third street. The town was gone wild with feasting and dinners, and as the general liked his staff to attend him, I had more of these engagements than I cared about.
I heard a cry from Darthea, and saw her reel against my cousin's shoulder. "Help! help! I am ill." Arthur turned, exclaiming, "Darthea! My God!" and thus distracted between her and me, let slack his hold. I tore away and ran around the house, upsetting an old officer, and so through the shrubbery and the servants, whom I hustled one way and another. I heard shouts of "Spy!"
He said his company was selected to be of the assault, adding with a fine colour and very cheerful, that here in a packet were letters he had writ to his father and to my Aunt Gainor, and here, too, another this with a little hesitation for Miss Darthea. I laughed, and said I was a bad person to be his executor, as I meant in some way to contrive to be of the party; how, I did not yet know.
He certainly was not very quick to act on Arthur's cry for help. But Darthea was on his arm, and only let it go when she fell heavily against my cousin. I had a fine story for Jack, and so, thinking with wonder of the whirl of adventure into which I had fallen ever since I left home, I hurried along. It is a singular fact, but true, that certain men never have unusual adventures.
Then I thought to ask to have Delaney in, and to bid him tell that vile and wicked story; but it seemed no place nor time to hurt her who had so helped me, daring to do what few young women had ever dared even to think of. As I hesitated, I was struck with a thought which was like a physical pain. It put myself and the other wretched business quite out of my head. "O Darthea!"
"'That is my business, not his, she broke in. 'What has Hugh Wynne to do with it! Am I a child? "'It had been the kinder and the manlier way, said I. 'Now there is no need; but Hugh will be furious with his aunt. "'I am glad of that. What else is there? You are hiding something. "'There was that scene in the garden, Darthea. "She coloured at this.
Master Arthur is to have the deed if ever it be found, and with your father's and your grandfather's methodical ways, that is pretty sure to happen." "I do not care much, Aunt Gainor, except that " "I know," she cried; "anybody else might have it, but not Arthur." "Yes; unless Darthea " "I understand, sir; and now I see it all. The elder brother will die.
There will be a mad massacre before she is done with you all. Run away, Hugh! run! Make love to Kitty Shippen if you want to get Miss Darthea." I laughed, but I had little mirth in my heart. "Aunt Gainor," I said, "I love that woman, and no other man shall have her if I can help it." "If? if? Stuff! you can't help it. Don't be a fool! The sea is full of fish. This is news indeed."
The good spinster was by no means as vigorous as I could have wished, but ride she would on all clear days whether cold or not, and liked well to have Darthea with us. When ill she was a docile patient, but, once afoot, declared all doctors fools, and would have no more of them "and their filthy doses."
Jack very soon after left us, and Darthea became more and more reserved, and unlike her merry, changeful self. On March 25, '79, I came in late in the afternoon and sat down to read. My father, seated at the table, was tying up or untying bundles of old papers. Looking up, he said abruptly, "Your cousin has been here to-day." It was said so naturally as for a moment to surprise me.
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