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Dinneford, tenderly. "I cannot bear to think of this. Confide in me, consult with me. I will help you in all possible ways to solve this mystery. But do not again venture alone into that dreadful place. I will go with you if you think any good will come of it." "I must see Mr. Paulding in the morning," said Edith, with calm decision. "Then I will go with you," returned Mr. Dinneford.
He could catch a glimpse of Broadway winding over a hill toward the Stone Bridge at Canal Street, and other roads leading into the country towards the north, where level stretches led past rude farmhouses and quaint inns. The first few years of Paulding in the city, when he was clerk in the United States Loan Office, were years of hard work.
"Ah, yes," sighed Mr. Paulding. "If we had for just a little while the help of our strong men the men of brains and will and money, the men who are used to commanding success, whose business it is to organize forces and set impediments at defiance, the men whose word is a kind of law to the people how quickly, and as if by magic, would all this change!
With his brother William, and his friend James K. Paulding, who afterwards wrote the Dutchman's Fireside, and was one of the recognized American authors of fifty years ago, he issued every fortnight a periodical, which ran for twenty numbers, and stopped in the midst of its success.
Paulding, in the reprint of these "Letters," in 1835, struck out this passage with all others disparaging to slavery and its supporters, does not impair the force of his testimony, however much it may sink the man.
For over an hour Edith and her father remained at the mission waiting for some news of little Andy. At the end of this time Mr. Paulding came back with word that nothing could be learned beyond the fact that a woman with a child answering to the description of Andy had been seen getting into an up-town car on Clayton street about one o'clock.
"The first thing to be done, then, is to find this woman," said the policeman. "That will not be very hard work. But finding the baby, if she thinks you are after it, would not be so easy," returned Mr. Paulding. "She's as cunning as a fox." "We shall see. If the chief of police undertakes to find the baby, it won't be out of sight long.
He brought Andy around this morning to let him enjoy the day, and has come for him, no doubt, and taken him home." "Give me the street and number, if you please, Mr. Paulding," said Mr. Dinneford, with much repressed excitement. "We will go there at once," he added, turning to his daughter. Edith's face had become pale, and her father felt her hand tremble as she laid it on his arm.
Hiram Paulding, of the Navy, for such was the name of this gentlemanly officer, informed me that the vessel, was the U. S. Schooner Dolphin, sent on purpose to rescue us, and commanded by Lieut. Com't. John Percival. After expressing my gratitude as well as I was able, to Heaven, which had furnished the means of my deliverance, I acquainted Mr.
That they were less abandoned than they pretended to be the sequel of their lives shows: among Irving's associates at this time who attained honorable consideration were John and Gouverneur Kemble, Henry Brevoort, Henry Ogden, James K. Paulding, and Peter Irving.
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