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So vivid was this impression of the glory of the morning that I was possessed by a feeling of irony that such a beginning should herald the inception of so bitter a calamity. Fascinated, I stood gazing at a weathervane on the top of a house across the street. It swayed to and fro like the light branch of a tree in a heavy gale. I was jarred out of my inanition by a terrific shock.
Of far more value is it to note the purpose served by this waiting angel. We heard much of a herald angel of the Lord in the story of the Nativity. We hear nothing of him during the life of Christ. Now again he appears, as the stars, quenched in the noontide, shine again when the sun is out of the sky.
Just then the sound of approaching footsteps was heard. "They come!" announced Jack. "I was merely the herald. Have you made out the menu, Cora dear?" "Do you mean to say we have to feed all you boys?" demanded Bess. "Feed us? No, we can eat with spoons. Just lead us to the eats. Really, it is serious with Dray. He has already gone dead white. Come in, fellows. We are expecting you.
"You, madam, think it best, I'm sure," she said, appealing to Mrs. Worthington, whose heart yearned strangely toward the unprotected stranger, and who answered, promptly: "I do not, I am willing you should remain until your friends are found." Adah offered no further remonstrance, but turning to Hugh, said, hesitatingly: "I may hear from my advertisement. Do you take the Herald?"
It had been arranged, however, that Minnie and her father were not to come to the station, for the journalistic crisis was immoderately pressing; the "Herald" was to appear on the morrow, and the new editor wished to plunge directly, and without the briefest distraction, into the paper's difficulties, now accumulated into a veritable sea of troubles.
A herald blew a trumpet, and the knight who was called the Sparrow-hawk galloped into the field. He rode around it three times, and then went up to the pavilion and said to his lady: "I give you the gold sparrow-hawk again, because no one dares to fight with me for it." Then Sir Geraint rode forward in his rusty armor and said: "I will fight with you."
Every office that pomp could devise for a king's court was to be found in the household of this magnificent prelate, master of the horse and the hounds, chamberlain, treasurer, pursuivant, herald, seneschal, captain of the body-guard, etc., and all emulously sought for and proudly held by gentlemen of the first blood and birth.
"H'm. Did he say anything about my letters in the Herald?" Mrs. Nevill Tyson hesitated. "N-no. Not much." "What did he say!" "Oh I think he only said it was rather a pity you'd mixed yourself up with it." "Damn his impertinence!" He flicked the card with a disdainful fingernail and followed his wife into the drawing-room. She gave him some tea to keep him quiet; he drank it in passionate gulps.
"O, I was well grounded in my youth by an old gentleman, a friend of my family, and I may say my guardian," said I; "but I have forgotten it since. God forbid I should delude you into thinking me a herald, sir! I am only an ungrammatical amateur." "And a little modesty does no harm even in a herald," says my new acquaintance graciously.
1 See Annual Report for 1852, p. 55, and Missionary Herald for 1852, p. 239. Execution of the sentence of banishment was delayed by a protest from Dr. King, in the name of the United States Government, indicating his intention to appeal to that government. The time had now fully come for extending to him the protection due to missionaries in their just rights and privileges.
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