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"And you will have to leave me, William!" These words escaped the widow, with a deep sigh, and without reflection. She added in an instant, with assumed cheerfulness: "Yes, of course so I would have you do." A month from this conversation William Dulan was established in his new home, in the family of Mr. Keene, the principal of Bay Grove Academy, near Richmond.
Dulan sat at her little work-table, setting the finishing stitches in a fine linen shirt, the last of a dozen that she had been making for the doctor. The snowstorm that had been raging all day long had subsided, though occasionally the light and drifted snow would be blown up from the ground by a gust of wind against the windows of the house.
One ball in a country neighborhood generally puts people in the humor of the thing, and is frequently followed by many others. It was so in this instance, and William Dulan and Alice Raymond met frequently in scenes of gayety, where neither took an active part in the festivities.
Yes, Dulan, I have known your secret long," said he, smiling good-humoredly, "and sincerely, though silently, commiserated the difficulties of your position; and I assure you, Dulan, that the greatest pleasure I felt in receiving my appointment was in the opportunity it gave me of making you and Alice happy.
"If it were not for this confounded lameness in my feet, I would not stop at this vile hole to-night," said the elder traveler, who was no other than Richard Delany, whom imperative business had called to this part of the country, and who had thus become, very reluctantly, the traveling companion of William Dulan. "Nobody asked you, sir," exclaimed the old man, who did not seek popularity.
"You cannot see him to-day " "Yet he was at the ferry-house last night! Great God! it cannot be!" cried the mother, suddenly growing very pale and faint, "Oh, no! Merciful Providence such sorrow cannot be in store for me? He is not " She could not finish the sentence, but turned a look of agonizing inquiry on John Dulan. He did not speak. "Answer! answer! answer!" almost screamed the mother.
"I shouldn't like to try it, though, sir," said the driver, who entered at this moment. "The gentleman can try it, if he likes," continued the old man, with a grin, "but I do hopes Mr. Dulan won't." "Why, the ice will certainly bear a foot-passenger safely across," smiled William Dulan.
Soon after the martyrdom of the noble Emmet, young Dulan was arrested, tried, condemned, and followed his admired leader to the scaffold, leaving his heart-broken young wife and infant boy in extreme penury and destitution. As soon as she recovered from the first stunning shock of her bereavement, she wrote to her brother-in-law, soliciting protection for herself and child.
Dulan did not immediately reply, but looked at Willie, and seemed to reflect. Jake added: "I hopes you'll come, marm, for massa and Miss Lizzy and Massa John has quite set their heads on having you with them to spend Christmas, and Massa John told me to tell you how he had bagged a fine passel of waterfowl and wild turkeys, and I myself has made a trap for Massa Willie to catch snowbirds."
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