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When the army encamped at Morristown, in the gloomy winter of 1776-1777, his great abilities having been detected by the commander-in-chief, he was placed upon Washington's staff, as aide-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, a great honor for a boy of nineteen.
If the past night, with its wassail and its mirth, its toasts and its loud-voiced bragging, might be called "the great night of Morristown," this, the girl promised herself, should more truly and more fitly be styled "the great day of Ireland." On this day would they begin a work the end of which no man could see, but which, to the close of time, should shed a lustre on the name of McMurrough.
Every one, however, had not lost faith in him, and there was an old gentleman whose name the ancient pamphlet very kindly conceals, calling him by the name of "Compassion" who went bail for him, and he was released; whereupon he and his friends decamped. However, Rogers was again arrested, and this time he confessed the whole of his share in raising the ghosts of Morristown.
We overtook it in the afternoon and occupied the town that evening. As so often happens in war, our movement had hardly begun when the fine weather ended, and we marched from Strawberry Plains in pouring rain, over wretched roads which rapidly became worse. This delayed the troops and only part were at Morristown when darkness fell.
Keep a good look-out towards Newark, Elizabethtown, &c., or those places from whence they can march into Pumpton. Should you be in danger of being interrupted there, throw your party across the river in Pumpton, and defend the bridge, if practicable. If not, make the best retreat you can towards Morristown, &c. But by no means proceed unless necessity urges, derived from the present object.
At all events, the efforts in behalf of the young officer had the effect of delaying the execution; and three months after his fatal lot had been drawn, he was allowed to go to Morristown and remain there a prisoner on parole. Not long after this, another reason arose for the pardon of Captain Asgill, which was used with effect by his friends.
"'Tis a most distressing affair, and there is no one in the American lines who does not desire that General Carleton will give us the real culprit." And with lightened hearts Mr. Owen and the two girls proceeded to Morristown, where they were to pass the night.
And, truly to think of this man, who had not seen Morristown for a score of years, using the experience of a fortnight to give him notice to quit, was laughable. The laugh he had forced became real. "More plain than hospitable, Colonel," he said. "Perhaps, after all, it will be best so, and we shall understand one another." "I am thinking so," Colonel Sullivan answered.
Perhaps in the depths of his heart, he welcomed a change, finding cheer in the thought that the smaller the household at Morristown, the more prominently, and therefore the more fairly, he must stand in Flavia's view. Be that as it might, he saw nothing of her on that day or the following day. But though she shunned him, others did not.
"And going to try her tricks on the general," added Private Hicks. Howbeit both these critics may have been wrong. For as Mistress Thankful thundered down the Morristown road she thought of many things. She thought of her sweetheart Allan, a prisoner, and pining for HER help and HER solicitude; and yet how dared he if he HAD really betrayed or misjudged her!
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