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It was announced in heavy black type that his county would not rest until the body of the last of the Jenisons was found and laid away with the greatest ceremony. David laughed with the others at this laudable but tardy appreciation. As for the story of Frank Jenison's death, it was, according to the newspaper, "so strange that fiction paled by contrast."
The Jenisons and their friends formed one contingent, while the other was made up from that shifting, stealthy element of humanity known as the "under-world." pickpockets, cracksmen and ne'er-do-wells who had been the associates of Dick Cronk in one way or another, off and on, for years.
From to-day I am to be recognized as one of the proprietors of Van Slye's Circus. Do you grasp it?" David, a great lump in his throat, merely nodded. "Considerable of my time henceforth will be spent with the show. I intend to elevate you to better associations. You are of my own class. I'm going to give you the society that you, as a Jenison of the Virginia Jenisons, deserve.
With this small fortune in his possession he resumed the journey, now closely guarded by old Jeff, who always had been a slave to the Jenisons and would be till he died, Abraham Lincoln to the contrary. David's constant prayer was that he might not be too late. He was destined to find many changes in Van Slye's Great and Only Mammoth Shows.
For this tall young man who leaned so gracefully against the mantelpiece was the master of Jenison Hall the last of the Jenisons. And that was saying all that could be said, so far as a Virginian was concerned. Their council was disturbed by the arrival of the belated night coach that came over the mountains from the nearest railway station.
"We are leaving at 5.30 for Chicago...." The weeks passed rapidly for the blissful young Jenisons. The letters from the far West were full of promise. Even the skeptical David was compelled to admit to himself that the silver lining was discernible against the black cloud that Mary Braddock had so deliberately set herself under.
Letters from Joey Noakes and Ruby to the Jenisons set forth the details of a visit to the Tombs on the day following the murder. Both were constrained to remark that, in the view of Dick's confession, it would go very hard with him; they could see no chance of escape for him.
We will take you on faith and we will help you. My boy, I knew in the beginning that you were of gentle birth I saw it in your face, in the way you held yourself. But that you should be one of the Jenisons of Virginia why, Grinaldi, the Jenisons are the bluest But, there, we'll talk of that another time, too. Sam!" She called to a ring attendant who stood near the entrance.
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