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Updated: June 25, 2025
I'll transfix him there, there on that very strand, and call the world to see the man who murdered Ludwell Cary! When that's done, I'll rest, maybe, and think of happiness." Major Churchill sat back in the deep old armchair and rested his head upon his hand.
"Barricade door and window and hold the house against them," said the baronet. "Send for help to Rosemead and to Fitzhugh and Ludwell!" cried the divine. "Five men and three women to hold this house against a hundred Indians and negroes! And no help could come for hours and it is now nearly ten!
By this time anyone less stubborn and arbitrary than Berkeley would have learned his lesson. On June 12, when Bacon was still in the governor's power, Philip Ludwell wrote his brother: "It now looks like general ruin for the country.... The governor seems determined to leave for England.... If he does he leaves a lost country."
Once he rode to church at Saint Anne's that he might see her. She had been at the great race when Major Churchill's Mustapha won over Nonpareil and Buckeye. The third time was a month ago in Charlottesville. She was walking, and Ludwell Cary was with her. When she bowed to Rand, Cary had looked surprised, but his hat was instantly off.
Witnesses from Malplaquet told of Ludwell Cary's setting forth that morning, and Forrest, the blacksmith, vouched for his passing the forge, alone. Men from the mill at the ford swore to his pausing to answer their questions as to the trial of Aaron Burr, and to his riding on by the main road. Here arose the confusion. They were certain that Mr. Cary had taken the main road.
If I thought what, by all the gods, I do think! that he had dared that he had done this deliberately, with intent to keep me here, I Jacqueline! why, Jacqueline!" "I'm I'm not going to swoon," said Jacqueline, with difficulty. "Air, that is all let me sit down a moment on the grass. A duel you and Ludwell Cary." "I and Ludwell Cary." Rand uttered his short laugh.
There was a silence; then, "It does not matter," said Rand slowly. "Whether it is done my way, or whether it is done his way, Fairfax Cary will not care. He is concerned only that it shall be done. You understood the message, Jacqueline?" She answered almost inaudibly. "Yes, I understood." "Seven months and Ludwell Cary lies unavenged. I have been slow.
The entire figure was fantastic, even a little grotesque, though after a pleasant fashion. In a mincing voice and with a strong French accent, M. Achille Pincornet, dancing-master and performer on the violin, intimated that he wished to vote for Mr. Ludwell Cary. Lewis Rand glanced sharply up, then made a sign to a sandy-haired and freckled man who, tally in hand, stood near him.
In answer to which the Proprietors instructed Governor Ludwell to inform them, that they would enquire what does in law qualify an alien born for the enjoyment of the rights and privileges of English subjects, and in due time let them know; that, for their part, they would take no advantages of the present grievous circumstances of the refugees; that their lands should descend to such persons as they thought proper to bequeath them; that the children of such as had been married in the same way were not deemed bastards in England, nor could they be considered as such in Carolina, where such unlimited toleration was allowed to all men by their charter.
Ludwell Cary might not know where all his shafts were striking, but Rand felt the sting. Fair fight in the courtroom, that was one thing, but this paper was wrought of sterner stuff. There was in it even a solemnity of warning. Rand's soul, that was in the grasp of Giant Two-Ways, writhed for a moment, then lay still again.
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