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Two of the figures were very well known to him Bonnet and Herriot. The light of a lantern, which the latter held, fell upon the face of a boy no older than Jeremy, dressed in the finest clothes the young New Englander had ever seen. The lad's face was dark and resolute, his hair black, smoothly brushed back and tied behind with a small ribbon. His blue coat was of velvet, neatly cut.
Though Greystock was so often away at the castle, Herriot did not find the time hang heavily on his hands, and was sorry when his fortnight was over. "I think I shall stay a couple of days longer," Frank said, when Herriot spoke of their return. "The truth is I must see Lizzie again. She is bothered by business, and I have to see her about a letter that came this morning.
"Listen, and you shall be answered," replied Herriot; "for the time has now arrived when you all should know the relation in which we stand to each other; and I know not but I have already delayed the disclosure of this fact too long. Perhaps I should have made it, as I had nearly done, when, at the breaking out of the war, you and Bart visited my hermit cabin in the vicinity of the Connecticut.
"I'm hungry enough to eat anything; not but what I had a first-rate luncheon. What have you done all day?" "Stone and Toddy," said Herriot. "Stick to that. If anything can pull you through, Stone and Toddy will. I lived upon them for two years." "Stone and Toddy, with a little tobacco, have been all my comfort. I began, however, by sleeping for a few hours. Then I went upon the mountains."
"You have acted wisely, Mr. Woodburn," observed Herriot after listening with deep interest to the recital. "Peters may yet recover; but should he not, I do not view the act in so criminal a light as that in which you yourself have placed it.
He gave me a letter to the famous Mayor, M. Herriot, who was a member of the last Briand Cabinet. M. Herriot was also a Senator, and as he was leaving for Paris a few hours after I presented my letter he turned me over to a friend of his wife, Madame Castell, a native of Lyons, the daughter of one silk merchant and the widow of another.
However, as the Royal James had two boats of her own lashed on deck, this was not considered a real loss. When the sun was high enough, Herriot took his bearings, and gave the helmsman orders to keep her headed west, a point north. The sloop made a long beat of it to starboard, thrashing up all night and most of the following day, before she sighted the Virginia Capes.
They scrambled down, and following the ridge, turned south toward the lower bay at about the point where Jeremy had been discovered by Dave Herriot and the pirate Captain. Dodging through the tangle of undergrowth and driftwood, they soon emerged on the loose sand above the beach.
Both sides fire; and again all are enveloped in the cloud of smoke that rolls over them." "Father Herriot Father Herriot," said Vine, musingly. "I have heard a great deal said about one they call Father Herriot, lately; but can he be here fighting?" "Why, who and what is he, that he should not be here?" asked the other.
The others, the two Woodburns, who remained in the city, are as I learn from letters I have recently seen from them or their scarcely less heroic young wives, left to conduct the affairs of their respective homes now in New Jersey, acting under the eye of their beloved Washington, whose confidence in them in their different spheres of action one as the honored colonel of a regiment and the other as the most trusty and adroit manager in the secret service they consider their sufficient reward, and one that was only wanting to crown that which, on the eve of our memorable battle here, they received in their wives, and the wealth obtained through the romantic disclosures of their dying relative, the lamented Father Herriot.
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