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All that the cellars and storehouses of Luckenough contain is at your disposal. You will leave myself and attendants unmolested. I have not trusted in the honor of British soldiers to my own destruction!" "A pretty speech, my dear, and prettily spoken but not half so persuasive as the sweet wench that uttered it," said Thorg, springing toward her.
Then he inquired after the health of the family at Luckenough, commented upon the weather, the state of the crops, etc., and with a valedictory bow withdrew, and followed the retreating crowd. "I think we can also go now," said Mrs. Waugh. "Yes," said Jacquelina, rising. Upon reaching the outside, they found old Oliver, with the sleigh drawn up to receive them.
Old mistress was rich and good, and Luckenough was a quiet, comfortable home, where the old maid was very sure of being lodged, boarded, and clothed almost as well as old mistress herself not that these selfish considerations entered largely into Jenny's mind, for she really loved Mrs. Henrietta.
Finally, after much thought, he determined, without admitting the elf into his full confidence, to entrust the delivery of the note to Jacquelina. He therefore copied it into the smallest space, rolled it up tightly, and took it with him when he went to Luckenough. He spent the whole afternoon at the mansion house, without having an opportunity to slip it into the hands of Jacquelina.
No children blessed his late marriage, and as year after year passed, until himself and his wife were well stricken in years, people, who never lost interest in the great estate, began to wonder to which among his tribe of impoverished relations Nickolas Waugh would bequeath the manor of Luckenough.
Grimshaw, rode over to Luckenough to superintend the labors of the workmen in pulling down and clearing away the ruins of the old mansion and preparing the site for a new building. Six weeks passed and brought the first of August, before Jacquelina was able to sit up, and then the physicians recommended change of air and the waters of Bentley Springs for the re-establishment of her health.
Months passed the war was over peace was proclaimed, and still the young ensign, an invalid, unable to travel, lingered at Luckenough. Regularly he received his pay; twice he received an extension of leave of absence; and all through the instrumentality of Thorg. Yet all this filled Edith with the greatest uneasiness and foreboding ungrateful, incomprehensible, yet impossible to be delivered from.
I left Marian there and set out to return to Luckenough laughing all the time, alas! to think that Dr. Grimshaw had gone to the coast to intercept what he supposed to be my meeting with Thurston! Oh, God, I never thought such jests could be so dangerous!
It was near noon when the news of Marian's fate reached Luckenough, and overwhelmed the family with consternation and grief. But Jacquelina! the effect of the tragic tale on her was nearly fatal. She understood the catastrophe, as no one else could! She knew who struck the fatal blow, and when and why, and under what mistake it was struck!
And then Commodore Waugh, with his wife, servants and caravan returned to Luckenough. The old soldier had been "posted up," he said, relative to all that had transpired in his absence. There were no words, he declared, to express his admiration of Edith's "heroism."
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