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"Nor are all of us sneaks and spies," he added, as, turning, he led away the horse toward the stable. "Yon fellow does n't stickle at calling ye names, Miss Meredith," said Evatt. "He has no right to call me a spy," cried the girl, indignantly. "His words deserve no more heed than what he said t'other night at the tavern of ye." "What said he at the tavern?" demanded Janice.
"'T is certain that he did. Had I but known ye at the time, Miss Janice, he should have been made to swallow his coarse insult. 'T was for that I sought him this morning. Had ye not interrupted us, 't would have fared badly for him." "You were very kind," said Janice, dolefully, beginning, more from his manner than his words, to believe Evatt. "I did n't know there were such bad men in the world.
"Then, sir," said Washington, smiling slightly, "as I wish to keep an eye on you until you have proved yourself, I shall for the present find employment for you in my own family." Thus a twelve-month passed without Philemon Hennion, John Evatt, Charles Fownes, Parson McClave, or any other lover so much as once darkening the doors of Greenwood.
But I should like to know why Charles always stares so at me." In the meantime, Evatt, without so much as an allusion to the bond-servant, had presented a letter from a New Yorker, introducing him to the squire, and by the confidence thus established he proceeded to question Mr.
"Miss Meredith," replied Charles, "the word of a poor devil of a bond-servant can have little value, but I swear to you that that never belonged to me, and that I therefore have no right to it. If it gives you any pleasure, keep it." "That is as good as saying ye stole it," asserted Evatt. Charles smiled contemptuously. "'All are not thieves whom dogs bark at," he retorted.
"If only Tibbie wasn't if we could talk about it," she sighed, as she pinned on her little cap of lace above the hair dressed high a la Pompadour. "Why did she have to be just as so many important things were to happen!" Miss Meredith looked at her double in the mirror, and sighed again. "Mr. Evatt must have been laughing at me," she said, "for she is so much prettier.
Meredith will be back ere nightfall," she assured him, "and will deeply regret having missed thee if thou rides away." "Madam," responded Evatt, "American hospitality is only exceeded by American beauty." It was impossible not to like the stranger, for he was a capital talker, having much of the chat of London, tasty beyond all else to colonial palates, at his tongue's tip.
She was quickly mounted, and they set off, the girl so helpless in her fright that Evatt had to hold her horse's bridle as well as his own. "Burn it!" exclaimed Evatt, presently, "art never going to end thy weeping?" "If you would only have waited till " sobbed Janice. "'T was no time for shilly-shallying," interrupted the man.
Sternly yet eloquently he prayed until the boat had drifted with the tide out of hearing, and the creak of the blocky came across the water, showing that those on board were making sail. Then, as the men on the wharf dispersed, he mounted the horse Evatt had ridden.
Philemon and Evatt were in the saddle by five the next morning and a little more than an hour later held consultation with Bagby. Everything except Phil's intended mission was quickly told him. "Jingo!" he remarked, and then whistled. "Why, 't is stealing? Is n't there to be no law in the land? When do they plot to rob us?"
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