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"'T is the first I've heard of it," averred Mr. Meredith, incredulously yet thoughtfully. "I tell you that Brereton is a sly, sneaky fellow, as needs watching in more than one matter. Nigh ten months ago I showed him how he could nab old Hennion, so that like as not he'd have gone to the gallows, but he did n't stir a finger, durn him! Oh, here 's Si, now. Say, I want you to treat Mr.
"I can do my own talking; and my sympathies is always with the female sex." "He, he!" snickered Hennion. "Ain't we doin' the gallant all of a suddint! An' ain't we foxy? Joe, here," he continued, turning to the ladies, "come ter me jest afore we left Brunswick, with a bill he'd draw'd ter take yer lands, an' he says ter me he wuz a-goin' ter push it through Assembly.
"Yer did, consarn yer," was Hennion's reply; but then a smile succeeded the angry look on the shrewd face. "I did n't pay more 'n a third of what 't is wuth, then." "'T will be a dear buy, that I warn you," retorted Joseph, angrily. "I'll pay you off yet for bidding me out of it." "Yer be keerful what yer do, or I'll do some payin' off myself," warned Hennion.
Without giving his courage time to cool, the young fellow dashed across the hallway to the office where the commissary and squire were sitting, and announced: "News, Mr. Meredith. Leftenant Hennion is alive, for his name was on the rebel lists of prisoners to be exchanged." "Oddsbodikins!" ejaculated the squire. "Here 's an upset, Clowes, to all our talk."
While the family still lingered over the meal one warm September morning, as if loth to make further exertion in the growing heat, the Sound of a knocker was heard, and a moment later the coloured maid returned and announced: "Marse Hennion want see Marse Meredith." "Bring him in here, Peg," said Mr. Meredith. "Like as not the lad 's not breakfasted."
"If 't is wrong for me to drill, is 't not wrong for him to be drilled?" "How?" once more roared the squire. "Dost mean to say that Phil has been drilling along with the other villains?" "Naow, naow, Meredith," spoke up the elder Hennion. "Boys will be boys, yer know, an' " "That's enough," cried the father. "I'll have no man at Greenwood who takes arms against our good king.
Shown by the orderly to the room where Cornwallis was, he found with him his colonel and a man in the uniform of a naval officer. "Ah, here he is," said the British general. "Major Hennion, the three ships which have taken station at the mouth of the river pay no heed to the 'Charon's 'signals, nor are theirs to be read by our book, so 't is feared that they are French ships.
"'T would be better fun to know he was a prince and torture him by pretending you did n't care for him," replied Janice. "Men are so teasable." "There's Philemon Hennion doffing his hat to us, Jan." "The great big gawk!" exclaimed Janice. "Does he want another dish of tea?" A question which set both girls laughing. "Janice! Tabitha!" rebuked Mrs. Meredith. "Don't be flippant on the Sabbath."
"And where are yours, Mr. Hennion, that ye dare speak so to your superior officer?" demanded the lieutenant. There was no mistaking Philemon, changed though he was. He wore a fashionable wig, and his clothes fitted well a figure that, once shambling and loose-jointed, had now all the erectness of the soldier, but the face was unchanged. "I'll not quarrel with you now," swaggered Philemon.
Pray Heaven they don't lay down their arms too soon, for I ambition to be wealthier still. Canst hope better for your daughter than that she be made Lady Clowes, and rich to boot?" "She's promised " began the squire, but once again the suitor cut him off. "She herself told me she is pledged to no one but me." "Nay, I've passed my word to Leftenant Hennion." "Chut!
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