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Miss Metoaca's face was a study. "If they give you any trouble I will send in a guard to assist you," and with this parting threat he walked out of the room and banged the door to behind him. "Don't you lay a finger on me," ordered Miss Metoaca belligerently. "If you do I will box your ears!" "What good would that do you?" asked Miss Watt practically.
Warren. "But you forget, Tom, that Lee has surrendered." "And Joe Johnston has not," dryly. "The war is not over. Once convicted on such a charge Nancy need expect no leniency. I have just left Miss Metoaca " A knock interrupted him. "Come in!" Then as his servant entered, "Well, Hamilton, what is it?" "Doctor Ward would like ter see yo', suh." Warren rose. "Is he in the parlor?" "Yes, suh."
They were roommates and probably, after speaking to Goddard, he rolled over and went to sleep again. "Then there's another thing," pursued Miss Metoaca eagerly, as Warren nodded a silent agreement to her statement. "Symonds declares Lloyd's wallet was stolen. Why should Nancy take the book when all she needed was the one single paper, which Stanton contends concerned her?
It was she who made the original remark about having a 'spinal staircase in the back, and Doctor Boyd told her it was quite the proper place for it." "Is Mrs. Bennett a friend of yours?" "Mrs. Bennett?" echoed Nancy. "She is Mrs. Arnold's shadow. Aunt Metoaca sees more of her than I do. I somehow don't believe Mrs. Bennett cares for me.
"I am willing to stake my immortal soul that Nancy had nothing to do with the captain's mysterious death, nor with the disappearance of that miserable despatch." "My wife and I also believe in Nancy's innocence," declared Warren warmly; "and I give you my solemn word of honor, Miss Metoaca, that I will do everything within my power to assist her." "God forever bless you!"
"Extra!" sounded down the street, and, with a muttered word of apology, he waited on the steps until a newsboy saw his beckoning hand and rushed up with the paper. Miss Metoaca and Mrs. Warren raised his hat reverently. "The end is in sight! Thank God! Thank God!" "Oh, I do thank God! This cruel war!" Miss Metoaca choked, and turned to Mrs. Arnold, who was weeping softly. "Let us go inside."
And before the perturbed spinster could stop her she had tripped gracefully out of the room. "Here is Senator Warren," remarked Mrs. Arnold, catching sight of him through the window as he came up the steps; and Miss Metoaca, all else forgotten, hastened to the front door. As Warren greeted her, the shrill voices of newsboys shouting "Extra!"
Nancy had hoped that her aunt would be present, but Warren had decided to call Miss Metoaca as one of the witnesses for the defence, and therefore she could not attend the hearings. "4 ... A Military Commission is appointed to meet in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, at nine o'clock on Monday, April 10th, 1865, for the trial of Miss Nancy Newton. "Detail for the Commission
I then placed the lamp on it, and went to help the doctor. He told me my presence was no longer needed, and advised me to go home, as Aunt Metoaca would be alarmed by my long absence. Bidding Aunt Polly good night, I slipped out of the side entrance and ran into you at the gate, Mr. President." "Miss Nancy told me then," volunteered Lincoln, slowly, "that she had been with Aunt Polly who was ill.
"I planned to call at your house on my return from the Capitol, but now...." "Aunt Metoaca," Nancy smiled demurely as she extricated her hand from Goddard's eager clasp, "may I present Major Goddard? The major has most kindly offered to escort me to Winchester, as I told you last night." Miss Metoaca Newton inspected Goddard keenly as she returned his low bow. First impressions counted with her.
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