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"Has any thing been heard or seen of him whom we seek?" demanded Spikeman of a soldier, as he entered the room wherein he had left Joy. "Nothing, so please you," answered the man; "and Philip here says that our search will be bootless, for that he is not in the house." "A fine soldier thou, and a shrewd," said Spikeman, contemptuously, "to trust what a prisoner may say! Call me Lieutenant Venn."
"What!" cried the young man, with some warmth, "is not the word of Eveline sufficient to outweigh the prevarications of a thousand tricksters like this Spikeman?" "This is no proper language," said Winthrop, a little sternly, "but Amor semper coecus," he added, smiling, "This rule I take to be without exception. Am I to understand that thou hast no further proof?"
"I fear that the principal object of our undertaking is defeated," said Spikeman, with a look, of disappointment. "Yea," said the officer, "the prey hath escaped even as a bird from the snare. What is to be done now, seeing that Sir Christopher is not to be found?"
The speech of Spikeman was evidently acceptable to a majority of the Assistants. It appealed to the fanaticism of some, and to the fears of others; but there were some on whom it produced no such effect. Captain Endicott, fierce zealot as he was, found in it something disagreeable.
Spikeman winced, and perhaps his conscience pricked him at the moment, but he betrayed no confusion as he replied: "I thank thee, sweet duck, and may the Lord recompense thy love a thousand fold. But hasten, now, for it would ill-become the wife of my bosom to lag in attendance on the lecture. Meanwhile, I will meditate on the holy volume, and comfort myself as a Christian man may."
The anxious father noticed these signs with apprehension, and in the hope that new scenes and a change of climate might improve his daughter's health, hastened their departure. Almost immediately on his arrival in the new world he formed an acquaintance with Spikeman, who used every effort to ingratiate himself into his confidence.
But, Prudence, thou knowest that I mean not to chide thee. Far different words arise spontaneously to my lips. But go, now, and I will pay the honors to thy red friend." "He is no more friend of mine than I hope all the world are my friends," answered the girl, glad to get away to acquaint the lovers that Spikeman was in the house.
When Joey returned in the evening, he found Spikeman had been very busy with the soap, and had restored his hands to something like their proper colour; he had also shaved himself, and washed his hair clean and brushed it well.
"Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!" exclaimed the dying man. "Dear husband," said Dame Spikeman, sobbing, and taking his hand, "know you me?" "What woman speaks?" said Spikeman. "It is the voice of Prudence sweet Pru " His wife let the hand fall, and covering her face with her handkerchief, burst into a flood of tears.
And now must I be going back, for I would not abuse the liberty the kind heart of dame Spikeman gives me by loitering too long; so good-bye." "And is this the way you take leave, when perhaps you may not see me again for a month? Not one salute?" "Methinks thou hast been firing salutes enough already to welcome a ship from England.
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