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Tryon Dunham, standing just behind the Judge, was transfixed with amazement. That this delicate girl could bring forth such an entrancing volume of sound from the instrument was a great surprise. That she was so exquisite an artist filled him with a kind of intoxicating elation it was as though she belonged to him.
A coin was changing hands from the older boy to the younger, and as soon as the delivery window was raised little Bud Tryon shuffled in to get the family mail and that of Tom. Also he pushed through the opening a folded paper evidently torn from a notebook. "This here is for you, Phyl," he explained. She pushed it back. "I'm too busy to read it." "It's from Tom," he further volunteered. "Is it?"
Tryon came down a few minutes ago, considerably more than half-seas over, and said he was ready to take his engine and the first section of the east-bound midnight which would have been his regular run. But he went back uptown peaceably when Benson told him he was down and out." Lidgerwood did not extend his round to include Benson's post at the yard office, which was below the coal chutes.
The power of the Royal government was called into requisition to put down this "Regulation" movement. The military spirit of Tryon resolved to appeal to the sword. On the 24th of April, 1771, he left Newbern at the head of three hundred men, a small train of artillery, and with a considerable number of his adherents.
Never had the colonies been so spoiled on such slight pretence. Thus marching onward like a conquering general of the Middle Ages, leaving havoc and ruin in his rear, on the evening of May 14, 1771, Tryon reached the great Alamance River, at the head of a force of a little over one thousand men.
Tell Cornelia that I shall expect congratulations telegraphed to the hotel here inside of two hours." "But, Tryon, what will our friends think? It is most extraordinary! How can you manage about announcements?" "Bother the red tape, Mother! What difference does that make? Put it in the society column if you want to." "But, Tryon, we do not want to be conspicuous!"
On the 25th of April the fleet appeared off the coast of Connecticut, and in the evening the troops were landed without opposition between Fairfield and Norwalk. General Silliman, then casually in that part of the country, immediately dispatched expresses to assemble the militia. In the meantime Tryon proceeded to Danbury which he reached about 2 the next day.
With a muttered curse of concentrated bitterness, Tryon struck the mare a sharp blow with the whip. The sensitive creature, spirited even in her great weariness, resented the lash and started off with the bit in her teeth.
And don't let her stop to make any changes in her dress. Everybody will understand when I tell them she's just arrived didn't you say? from the other side, and we caught her on the wing. There's some one coming now. Do, for pity's sake, hurry, Tryon, for my cook is terribly cross when I hold up a dinner too long. Good-by. Oh, by the way, what did you say was her name?" "Oh ah!"
Tryon sought refuge in his room at the hotel, from which he did not emerge again until morning. His emotions were varied and stormy. At first he could see nothing but the fraud of which he had been made the victim. A negro girl had been foisted upon him for a white woman, and he had almost committed the unpardonable sin against his race of marrying her.
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