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I said, 'By Jove, Sabre, one would think you hadn't met any one for a month the way you're unbelting the sacred rites of welcome. He laughed and said, 'Well, you see, I'm a bit tied to a post with this leg of mine. "'How's the wife? said I. "'She's fine, said he. 'You'll stay to lunch? I say, Hapgood, you will stay to lunch, won't you?
Madelon cast a desperate glance around at them. "Lot Gordon," she cried out, "tell them tell them I was the one who stabbed you, and set Burr free!" There was a chuckle from Jonas Hapgood in the door. "Likely story," he muttered to Margaret Bean's husband, and the old man nodded wisely. "Tell them!" commanded Madelon.
The solicitous Hapgood, who had happened in every few minutes to see if his employer "wished anything," had been ordered to "go aloft and turn in." The tone in which the order was given made an impression and Hapgood had obeyed. "Oh, Daniel!" she cried. "What do you think? Captain Dan should perhaps have been enthusiastic. If he was, he suppressed his feelings wonderfully.
"Captain Somers, of Pinchbrook!" shouted old Hapgood; and the men joined with him in a roar of intense satisfaction, that made the woods ring. The scene between Captain Somers and his son was very affecting and very exciting; and if the soldiers had all been uncles and first cousins of the parties, they could not have manifested more interest on the joyous occasion.
You can walk if you're strong for that kind of exercise. Mos' folks rides. Goin' out?" "It's rather a long walk," Conniston evaded. And shortly afterward, hearing a clanging bell up the street in the direction of the hotel, he strolled away to his dinner. He found Hapgood scowling into his high-ball glass and dragged him away to the little dining-room. Both the tables were set.
"And papa will appreciate it when I tell him. And," shyly, "if you care to know it, I think that your generous kindness is the finest thing I have ever known." It was the psychological time for a love avowal. But Mr. Hapgood had not played out his other rôle. He rose hastily, looking at his watch. "I stopped in for just a moment," he said, quickly. "I am on my way to the post-office.
A wing had been built out at the side; but even with this modern addition, no one needed to glance up at the date on the chimney sixteen hundred and no- matter-what to assure himself of the great age of the stately old house before him. Up in the Hapgood attic a serious consultation was going on.
"We surrender," replied one of the men; but it was not the one who had spoken before, for he had dropped off his seat upon the bottom of the boat. "Give up your pistols, then," added Hapgood. "You look out for the boat, Tom, and I will take care of these fellows."
"Glory, glory, hallelujah, as we go marching on!" exclaimed old Hapgood, jumping up like a youth of sixteen, and swinging his cap above his head. "Shut up, there!" shouted the hospital steward. "Don't you know any better than to make such a racket in this place?" "I beg pardon, Jameson. I forgot where I was," apologized the veteran. "The news was so good I couldn't help it.
The schooner was put about, and after running with the wind amidships for ten or fifteen minutes, Tom discovered the outline of Mrs. Budd's house, which was directly under the guns of the Union battery. "Stand by the fore halliards, Hapgood," said Tom, as the boat came about again. "Let go!" The foresail came down, and Tom sprang upon the pier, as the schooner came up under its lee.
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