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Gilcrest in possession of the Hite estates," he concluded after more reflection. However, all this is Uncle Richard's affair, not mine; but I hope the business can be accomplished without revealing to any one that dark page in Jane Gilcrest's early life. Betsy, at any cost, must be spared the knowledge."
Behind the sled rode Sambo on Betsy's saddle-horse, driving a young cow which was also considered the girl's property. The two negroes, Marthy and Sambo, had belonged to Mrs. Gilcrest, to do with as she pleased, and she sent them as a gift to her daughter. "Treason doth never prosper, ... for, should it prosper, none dare call it treason."
I declar', Mason, I wish you'd do sich wuck in the kitchen or stable. Folks'll think I ain't no sort o' housekeepah." "How's Mrs. Gilcrest?" asked Mrs. Rogers a moment later, as she shook hands with Major Gilcrest and nodded to his boys, Martin Luther and Silas. "Wish she'd come with you, but I reckon she's feared to be out in the night air." "Why didn't Betsy come?" Susan asked.
Gilcrest could not bear the sight of her husband's sufferings, and was hardly ever allowed to enter the room. All that the medical erudition of the time prescribed was done for the patient.
Abner hastened down the walk to meet him; but, instead of accepting the invitation to alight and enter the house, Major Gilcrest with stern dignity replied that he preferred to remain where he was, having called that morning, not to pay a visit, but to atone for an injustice of which he had for a number of years been guilty.
"Out of my sight, you impudent impostor!" cried Gilcrest, choking with rage and shaking his fist at the young man. "You sneaking bastard, with no right to the name you bear!" "You are so led away by passion, old man, that you are scarcely responsible for what you say bastard and impostor, indeed!" he ejaculated, quivering with indignation. "Those epithets are as false as foul, and you know it.
"Oh, Abby had company; Drane and Hart rode out from Lexington to spend the evening. Abby felt that she couldn't entertain two beaux at once, so Betsy stayed to help her." "Don't pull the house down, childurn," Mr. Rogers called cheerily, as his four youngest and the Gilcrest boys were hurrying off to the kitchen for a game of romps.
"Let me see the letter," said Betsy, still unbelieving. Gilcrest crossed the hall to his office, and in a few seconds returned with Abner's letter. "I would have spared you this, my child, if possible," her father said as she eagerly seized the letter. "Oh, what lie is this they have told you, my persecuted, darling Abner?" she exclaimed. "You, my proud, high-minded, noble lover, a bastard!
Whereupon Henry, who up to this time had been a silent but interested listener to the discussion, repeated the passage. "Precisely!" Gilcrest exclaimed. "All Scripture is profitable but to whom? To 'the man of God. To such the elect, the called how are the Scriptures profitable?
The solemnity of death reigned in the chamber, where the watchers restrained their weeping, and waited in awe-struck silence the approach of man's last grim foe. "He may live," Abner said at last as the moments passed and Gilcrest breathed on in quiet slumber. "If he does," responded Bledsoe, "that water will have saved him." Gilcrest slept on.
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