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Updated: May 13, 2025
In an evil hour Hesden Le Moyne yielded to the solicitations of those whom he had befriended, and whose rights he honestly believed had been unlawfully subverted, and became a candidate in his county.
After a moment, when she had recovered herself a little, he continued, holding toward her a slip of paper, as he asked: "Did you ever see that signature before?" His mother took the paper, and, having wiped her glasses, adjusted them carefully and glanced at the paper. As she did so a cry burst from her lips, and she said, "Oh, Hesden, Hesden, where did you get it? Oh, dear! oh, dear!"
Hesden will have a hard time alone in this great house with two sick people on his hands." "I shall not go back to Red Wing to-day." "Indeed?" "No, I do not think it would be right to endanger so many by exposure to the disease." "Oh," carelessly; "but I am afraid yon may take it yourself." "I hope not. I am very well and strong. Besides, Hildreth calls for me as soon as I leave him for a moment."
Then, taking him down the busy street that winds around between the sharp hills as though it had crawled up, inch by inch, from the river-bottom below, Hesden procured him some new clothes and a valise, which Berry persisted in calling a "have'em-bag," and took him back to the hotel as his servant. As Hesden started to his room, the rejuvenated fugitive inquired,
I seek for difficulty with no one; but it may as well be understood that Hesden Le Moyne does not turn in his tracks because of any man's anger. I say to you plainly that I shall neither offer personal insult nor submit to it in this canvass." His friends left him with heavy hearts, for they foreboded ill.
When Hesden came to his mother's room that night, his countenance wore an unusually sad and thoughtful expression. His mother had not yet recovered from the shock of the morning's interview. The more she thought of it, the less she could understand either his language or his manner.
"I don't mean ter ax ef yer's jes got nothin' agin' him, but is yer that kind ob a friend ez 'll stan' by him in trouble?" "What do you mean, Nimbus?" asked Hesden in surprise. "Will yer come wid me, Marse Hesden slip on yer clo'es an' come wid me, jist a minnit?" Hesden did not think of denying this request. It was evident that something of grave importance had occurred.
Please forget it. What can that have to do with this horrid matter?" "It has this to do with it, mother," he replied. "The boundaries of that grant, as shown by the record, are identical with the record of the grant under which our grandfather claimed the estate of which this is a part, and which is one of the first entered upon the records of Horsford County." "What do you say, Hesden?
Hesden refuses to be my heir, and you refuse to be my devisee; must I give it to the poor?" The summer bloomed and fruited; the autumn glowed and faded; and peace and happiness dwelt at Red Wing. But when the Christmas came, wreaths of immortelles lay upon a coffin in "Mother's Room," and Hesden and Mollie dropped their tears upon the sweet, pale face within.
The light shone also upon a colored man of powerful frame who sat upon a chair a little way back, his hat upon the floor beside him, his gray head inclined upon his breast, and his whole attitude indicating exhaustion. "Here it is, Hesden," she said quietly, as she stepped into the room.
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