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Rand laughed. "Don't call me 'thir'! Vinie, I'm elected." Vinie set down her pitcher beside a clump of white phlox and wiped her hands on the skirt of her linsey dress. "Are you going away to Richmond?" she asked. "Not until October. When I do I'll go see the little old house you used to live in, Vinie!" "It's torn down," remarked Vinie soberly. "Here's Tom now, and and " "Adam Gaudylock.
The long windows opened upon the terrace, and through them came the moonbeams and the fragrance of the April night music too, for Mr. Pincornet was playing the violin. The young man extinguished the candles, and stepped into the silvery world without the room. Adam Gaudylock had disappeared, and the overseer was gone to bed.
It was the two men now who spoke. Jacqueline, leaning back in her chair, half listened to the talk of the Territory of Orleans, the Perdido, and the road to Mexico, half dreamed of what they might be doing at Fontenoy this snowy night. The knocker sounded. "That is Adam Gaudylock," exclaimed Rand. "Joab, show Mr. Gaudylock in." Jacqueline rose, and Colonel Burr sprang to open the door for her.
"My faith! it's a restless land, the West, and it's a far cry from the Mississippi to the Potomac. The West doesn't like the East anyhow. But it wants a picked man from the East. It will get one too! The wind's blowing hard from the full to the empty, from the parcelled-out to the virgin land!" "Yes," said Rand. "Why shouldn't you be the man?" demanded Gaudylock.
An old, old friend of Lewis Rand's "There's a connection somewhere between the Gaudylocks and the Rands." Cary put out his hand and moved a piece with suddenness. "Granted the connection," he said aloud. His eye gleamed. "That night Rand agreed with Burr. Gaudylock would have been there to give information; probably, seeing that he went West immediately afterwards, to receive instructions.
What he does or does not do will depend on many things, chiefly on whether or not we go to war with Spain. I am not going West with him not yet. I have let him talk. I have brought him and Adam Gaudylock together; I have put a little money in this land purchase of his upon the Washita, and I have given him some advice.
He gave his mellow laugh. "A letter of introduction from Adam Gaudylock is a pretty good letter, whether it's to the captain of an ark, or a Creek sachem, or a Natchitoches settler, or a soldier at Fort Stoddert. Let me help you in, ma'am." He handed her to her seat with the sure lightness and the woodsman's grace which was part of his charm, then gave her order to Gabriel.
Jane Selden looked at him thoughtfully, her hands clasped upon her key-basket. "I'm only an old woman just a camp-follower with an interest in the battle. I wish that you had had a friend of your own age a man, and your equal in power and grasp. Gaudylock and Mocket and such they're well enough, but you're high above them, you're a sort of Emperor to them.
Jefferson is coming home," answered Rand; and "Spain is not so black as she is painted," said the trader. "We hear," quoth the gentleman addressed, "that the Kentuckians make good Spanish subjects." "Then you hear a damned lie," said Gaudylock imperturbably. "The boot's on the other foot. Ten years from now a Kentuckian may rule in New Orleans."
He's not been in Albemarle for a year! When did he come back?" "Just the other day, ma'am." A smile crept over Vinie's face. "He brought me a comb like the Spanish women wear. He's a mighty kind man Mr. Gaudylock." The hunter and Mrs. Selden met at the broken gate. "I am glad to see you back, Adam," she said. "You're a rolling stone, but all the same we're fond of you in Albemarle."
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