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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Why do you hesitate, dear Frances?" cried Dunwoodie, who was studying her varying countenance. "A few minutes might give me a husband's claim to protect you." Frances grew giddy. She turned an anxious eye to the clock, and the hand seemed to linger over its face, as if with intent to torture her. "Speak, Frances," murmured Dunwoodie; "may I summon my good kinswoman? Determine, for time presses."
"Dear Dunwoodie," said Frances, softening nearly to tears, and again extending her hand to him, as the richness of her color gradually returned, "you know my sentiments this war once ended, and you may take that hand forever but I can never consent to tie myself to you by any closer union than already exists, so long as you are arrayed in arms against my only brother.
Dunwoodie knew his man, and had selected the captain for this service, both because he feared his precipitation in the field, and knew, when needed, his support would never fail to appear. It was only in front of the enemy that Captain Lawton was hasty; at all other times his discernment and self-possession were consummately preserved; but he sometimes forgot them in his eagerness to engage.
"This sudden change in the weather, and perhaps the situation of my brother, have united to make me melancholy, Miss Wharton," said Isabella, in a low tone, and in a voice that trembled as she spoke. "'Tis thought you have little to apprehend for your brother," said Frances, in the same embarrassed manner. "Had you seen him when he was brought in by Major Dunwoodie "
This was the time that Harper had deemed so important, and Frances felt as if a mighty load was at once removed from her heart. Dunwoodie folded her in his arms, saluted the mild aunt again and again, and shook Mr. Wharton and the divine repeatedly by the hands. In the midst of the felicitation, a tap was heard at the door. It was opened, and Mason appeared.
"I believe, dear Henry," said Dunwoodie, "this is a subject that had better not be dwelt upon now." "You forget," returned the prisoner, with a faint smile, "how much I have to do, and how little time is left to do it in."
"Peyton Major Dunwoodie," she said, "can you ever forget the sacred cause in which you are enlisted? Duty both to your God and to your country forbids your doing anything rashly. The latter has need of your services; besides" but her voice became choked, and she was unable to proceed. "Besides what?" echoed the youth, springing to her side, and offering to take her hand in his own.
Dunwoodie was by his side and held his hand, giving frequent and stern injunctions to the men to proceed with care, and, in short, manifesting all the solicitude that the most tender friendship could, on such an occasion, inspire.
"We can depend much on the friendship of Major Dunwoodie, but his sense of honor is so pure, that that notwithstanding his his feelings his desire to serve us he will conceive it to be his duty to apprehend my brother again. Besides, he thinks there will be no danger in so doing, as he relies greatly on your interference." "On mine," said Harper, raising his eyes in surprise. "Yes, on yours.
I will give the matter my attention." "Do," Dunwoodie, with that same look, retorted, "And meanwhile I will apply for letters of administration. Hum! Ha! My compliments to your good lady." He turned in his chair. Attention, indeed! He knew what that meant.
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