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This remarkably active and resolute woman was Miss Catharine Sherrill, who, in a few years after this sudden leap and rescue, became the devoted and heroic wife of the gallant Captain and future Colonel, General, Governor and people's friend, John Sevier. She became the mother of ten children, who could gratefully rise up and call her blessed.
Colonel Townsend, head of the Mississippi River Commission, ten days previously predicted a stage as high as that of 1912, and sent out warnings to all engineers in the valley. It was acting upon his advice that Captain Sherrill began to assemble barges, quarter boats, bags, material and tools to be sent to points between Vicksburg and New Orleans for possible emergencies.
"It is already autumn," she wrote to Ann Sherrill. "The summer has flown by like a bright-winged bird. For days now the forests have been splashed with red and gold. The orchards are heavy with harvest apples, the tassels of the corn are dark and rusty, and the dooryards of the country houses riot gorgeously in scarlet sage and marigold, asters and gladiolas.
For the summer world, sweet with the scent of wild flowers, was very young, with young leaves, young grass and flowering, sun-warm hedges, and beyond the Sherrill place on the wooded hill, the sun flamed yellow through the hemlocks. "Oh, Johnny Jutes! Oh, Johnny Jutes!" sang the girl happily, with the color of the wild rose in her sun-brown cheeks. "It's good it's good to be alive!"
"I may fly with Sherrill this afternoon," he said with marked reluctance. "And at sunset?" "I may walk," said Philip, shrugging. "Permit me," said the Baron gratefully as he rose, "to thank you. The service is ah invaluable." Uncomfortably Philip accepted his release and went lightly up the stairs. "I am a fool," said Philip.
"Excellency," choked Themar, horrified by the Baron's unprecedented display of passion, "there was a blunder I dared not tell." "Who blundered?" thundered his chief. "I. Granberry, I thought, was to go to his cousin's camp," panted Themar quaking. "I heard Sherrill telephone later he told some men " "You took the car " prompted the Baron icily.
Some of it," he added conversationally, "is in my shoe. Lord, I am in a pickle! Are you a guest of hers?" "Yes," said Diane calmly. "I'm staying over yonder on the hill there with Dick Sherrill," offered the young man cordially. "They are opening their place with a party of men, some crack amateur aviators and myself. Do you know the Sherrills?" "Perhaps I do," said Diane discouragingly.
It was into the presence of a Victor Dorn restored in mind as well as in body that Jane Hastings was shown by his sister, Mrs. Sherrill, one afternoon a week or so later. All that time Jane had been searching for an excuse for going to see him. She had haunted the roads and the woods where he and Selma habitually walked. She had seen neither of them.
Many Americans were detained under a sort of arrest in their hotels; among these were Archer Huntington and his wife; Charles H. Sherrill, formerly our minister to the Argentine and many others. Of course, as soon as there was a prospect of war, the Embassy was overrun with Americans. Few Americans had taken the precaution of travelling with passports, and passports had become a necessity.
With a chuckle of enthusiasm Johnny cracked his whip and opined that it was. Now even as the great green van rolled forth upon the country roads, bound for an idyllic spot by the river where Diane had planned to camp a week, two men appeared upon the wide, white-pillared Sherrill porch, smoking and idly admiring the bluish hills and the rolling meadowlands below bright with morning sunlight.
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