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One night in the depth of winter, the Doctor was called to see a patient who lived six miles down the Conhocton river. Previous, however, to the call, he had accepted an invitation to attend a party at Capt. Helm's, and there he was found. They had music and dancing, while the wine passed around very freely.
Both of us were becoming very drowsy when we started up a loud shout sounded in our ears. "Why, lads, you keep a bad look-out on board your craft," said a voice. We looked up a large ship was passing us. "Don't fear we'll pick you up," said the former speaker. I heard the cry of "helm's alee!" The yards swung round, and the ship was rounded too.
I could think of none, but I determined to go without one, rather than to remain. Just before the time appointed for me to meet Mr. Moore, a slave girl named Milly, came secretly to Bath. She had been one of Capt. Helm's slaves, and he had a while before sold her to a man who lived some distance west of the village. Milly had now taken the matter into her own hands.
Oh! how then were my high hopes fallen, and how much more hateful appeared that slavery which had blighted all my military prospects? Nor was Capt. Helm's heartless and mercenary reply to my humble pleading any antidote to my disappointed feelings and desire for freedom. He said, "you shall not go; I will permit nothing of the kind, so let there be an end to it.
What effect Helm's bold and apparently artless talk had upon Hamilton's mind is not recorded; but the meager historical facts at command show that Vigo was released and permitted to return under promise that he would give no information to the enemy ON HIS WAY to Kaskaskia.
"De Croix," I asked, "know you if the Indians have destroyed the house that stood by the fork of the north river, where the settler Ouilmette lived?" "I marked it through Lieutenant Helm's field-glass yesterday. 'T is partially burned, yet the walls still stand." "Then 't will serve us most excellently to hide in, for there will be naught left within likely to attract marauders.
Colonel Forrest reported that upon examination he found that deep mud and water made an escape by land, between the investing force and the river, impracticable for infantry. Forrest marched out with all the cavalry but Gantt's Tennessee battalion and two companies of Helm's Kentucky cavalry, taking with him the horses of Porter's battery and about two hundred men of various commands.
Helm's health began to decline, but she would pay no attention to it, following her usual course and regular routine of household duties; but all in vain; she was taken down, alarmingly ill, and it became apparent to all, that the "king of terrors" had chosen his victim.
"Silence there, fore and aft every man to his station," cried the first-lieutenant, through his speaking trumpet. "All ready, sir," reported the first-lieutenant to the captain, who had followed him on deck. "Shall we put the helm down?" "If you please, Mr Nourse." "Down with the helm." When the master reported it down, "The helm's a-lee," roared the first-lieutenant.
Evidently, if I was to aid her my quest must be no longer interrupted. With characteristic gallantry, De Croix had at once been attracted toward Lieutenant Helm's young and pretty bride, and they two had already forgotten all sense of existing peril in a most animated discussion of the latest fashionable modes in Montreal.
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