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Updated: June 4, 2025
The revolt of the Boers in the Transvaal against British rule caused great excitement in Holland, and aroused much sympathy. Van Lynden was careful to avoid any steps which might give umbrage to England, and he was successful in his efforts. The Achin trouble was, however, still a cause of much embarrassment.
The boy nodded doubtfully; then: "I had a fine letter from Ailsa. She sent me twenty dollars," he added naively, "but our sutler has got it all." "What did Ailsa say?" asked Berkley casually. "Oh, she enquired about father and me and you, too, I believe. Oh, yes; she wanted me to say to you that she was well -and so is that other girl what's her name?" "Letty Lynden?" "Oh, yes Letty Lynden.
They will not believe that at home because they had warned me, and I was such a fool and perhaps you won't believe me but I didn't know what I was doing; I didn't want to be what I became This is really true, Mr. Berkley. Sometime may I see you again? Yours sincerely, "LETITIA A. LYNDEN." He had replied that he would see her some day, meaning not to do so.
On the day following a site was fixed for the commencement of the infant colony, and the tents, etcetera, were removed to it. The day after being Sunday, it was unanimously agreed to "rest" from labour, and to "keep it holy." It was an interesting and noteworthy occasion, the assembling of the Scotch emigrants on that Sabbath day to worship God for the first time in Glen Lynden.
"To believe those charges that evidence meant the death of her faith in you. . . . As for the unhappy revelation of what Miss Lynden had been the evidence was hopelessly conclusive. Imagine what she thought! Any other woman would have sat aloof and let justice brand the woman who had doubly betrayed her.
The outer door swung wide, letting in a brassy clangour of bugles and a roll of drums, which softened when the door closed with a snap. It opened again abruptly, and a thin, gray-garbed figure came in, hesitated, and Celia turned, staring through her tears: "Miss Lynden!" she exclaimed. "Is Ailsa here?" Berkley sat up and leaned forward, looking at her intently from the mass of bandages.
I speak of the trooper Ormond whose name I believe you know is Philip Berkley and, if you now hear it for the first time, it is proof additional of his deceit and perfidy. "The other is Miss Lynden, known, in a certain immoral resort called the Canterbury, as Letty Lynden, or 'Daisy' Lynden. "She was a dancer in the Canterbury Music Hall.
He swung around and scowled at her, lips compressed, eyes gleaming through his spectacles: "You are not asked to go, Miss Lynden." "I thought " "Do you want to go?" "If Mrs. Paige is going alone " Ailsa looked at her, gratefully surprised, but smiled her thanks. "If Miss Lynden may come, Dr. Benton, I would be very glad. May she?"
And escorted in this amazing manner, cinder-smeared, hot, rumpled, and very tired, Ailsa Paige and Letty Lynden entered the unspeakably dirty streets of the Capital of their country and turned into the magnificent squalor of Pennsylvania Avenue which lay, flanked by ignoble architecture, straight and wide and hazy under its drifting golden dust from the great unfinished dome of the Capitol to the Corinthian colonnade of the Treasury.
"Nae doot Glen Lynden has come off better than ither places, for we've managed to haud oor ain no' that ill, but wae's me for the puir folk o' the low country! We've taken a gude slice o' land frae the thievin' craters, for it's said Sir Benjamin D'Urban has annexed all the country between the Kei and the Keiskamma to the colony.
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