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Updated: June 28, 2025
He stood up, casting his bit of wood-coal on the cloth before him. "That, sir," he said to me, "is the plan of campaign, which the rebels know and cannot prevent. That means the invasion of New York, the scouring out of every plague-spot, the capture and destruction of every rebel between Albany and the Jerseys." He turned with a cold smile to Colonel Butler.
It was not difficult to utter heart-stirring words or move the tender breast to pity when the Preacher's theme was death; with all its train of attendant agonies; its partings and farewells; its awful suddenness, as shown in this pestilence, where a young man rejoicing in his health and strength at noontide sees, as the sun slopes westward, the death-tokens on his bosom, and is lying dumb and stark at night-fall; where the joyous maiden is surprised in the midst of her mirth by the apparition of the plague-spot, and in a few hours is lifeless clay.
John Pilgrim had found her somewhere. 'Jane, said Mr. Pilgrim sadly, 'this is Mr. Knight. 'Not the author of The Plague-Spot? asked Jane Map, clasping her jewelled fingers. 'Are you the author of The Plague-Spot? Mr. Pilgrim whispered 'whatever The Plague-Spot is. The next moment Jane Map was shaking hands effusively with Henry. 'I just adore you! she told him.
Geraldine and Henry interrogated Mark Snyder as to the future. 'Shall we be justified in living at the rate of two thousand a year? they asked him. 'Yes, he said, 'and four times that! He had just perused The Plague-Spot in manuscript. 'Let's make it three thousand, then, said Geraldine to Henry. And she had planned the establishment of their home on that scale.
For the remedy proved worse than the disease, and the cutting-out of the original plague-spot left the other marine-stores still infected. The epidemic spread from them till it had overtaken half the shops of the congregation. Some had it in a mild form only one shutter open, or a back door not closed but in many it came out over the whole shop-window.
But till now we had never come across an example. The woman in question belonged to a bad type. Various dregs from large cities drift into the mills around little country towns and are the despair of Mayors, curates, and other local authorities. We genteel folk regarded them as a plague-spot in the midst of us.
Then for the first time in my life did I feel an earnest consciousness of God's presence. My friends had left me God was with me, and I was afraid. Oh, how my poor heart shrank to hide itself; how gladly would I have hid myself from the presence of God, but I could not; the pure light of God's love was shining into my sinful heart, making every plague-spot clearly visible to my spirit's vision.
How am I sounding all the depths! Can a woman walk the dance with evil, and be no worse for it by-and-bye? Yet for a cause, for a cause! What can I do? I can not say, "Monsieur Doltaire, you must not speak with me, or talk with me; you are a plague-spot." No, I must even follow this path, so it but lead at last to Robert and his safety.
But the plague-spot was in himself, knitted forever into the fabric of his being. Though Genslinger should be silenced, though Lyman should be crushed, though even the League should overcome the Railroad, though he should be the acknowledged leader of a resplendent victory, yet the plague-spot would remain. There was no success for him now.
He might turn down her dress, and see on her neck the awful plague-spot, and know that she, too, would die. And very likely by the next day the whole of that family would be dead. Many people must have died of starvation, for all work was stopped, but for the money given by charitable persons. The King himself gave £1,000 a week.
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