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So did he long for a game of shuffle-board. Then he brought himself up, and said as brightly as he could: "Mr. Selwyn begs Polly to stay, and won't have any one else read to him, Miss Vanderburgh, so I don't see as it can be helped. He's been very sick, you know." Fanny Vanderburgh beat the toe of her boot on the deck floor. "It's a perfect shame.
King did not appear to notice anything awry, but fell into step, still keeping Phronsie's hand, and they paced off. "If you know which side your bread is buttered, Mamma," said Fanny Vanderburgh, shrewdly, looking after them as they disappeared, "you'll make up to those dreadful Selwyn people." "Never!" declared her mother, firmly. "Fanny, are you wild?
Such was the fate of Major Henry Vanderburgh, one of the best and worthiest leaders of the American Fur Company, who by his manly bearing and dauntless courage is said to have made himself universally popular among the bold-hearted rovers of the wilderness. Those of the little band who escaped fled in consternation to the camp, and spread direful reports of the force and ferocity of the enemy.
"And their Mother Pepper, or Fisher, or whatever her name is I declare it's just like a novel, the way I heard the story from Mrs. Vanderburgh about it all." "And I wish you'd let me get back to my book, Louisa," exclaimed Mr. Griswold, tartly, at the mention of the word "novel," beginning to look longingly at his deserted steamer chair, "for it's precious little time I get to read on shore.
Vanderburgh, with a savage little laugh, "we might much better have stayed in Paris, for I never should have thought, as you know, Fanny, of coming to this out-of-the-way place, seeing that I don't care for the music, if I hadn't heard them say on the steamer that this was their date here."
Vanderburgh went on, all smiles and eagerness so rapidly in her friendly intentions, that it boded ill for the future peace of Mr. King's party. So Mr. King broke into the torrent of words at once, without any more scruple. "And now, Mrs. Vanderburgh, if you will excuse us, we are quite tired, and are going to our rooms."
Judge Henry Vanderburgh, of the Territorial Court, presided, and toasts were drank to the treaty, Governor Harrison, his secretary, Peter Jones, and the "honest interpreter" Joseph Barron. Of those present on that occasion, some were afterwards officers at Tippecanoe, and one, Thomas Randolph, fell at the side of his chief.
"It's no end fine of the little mother to say 'yes," he kept running over and over to himself, with a satisfied glance at the quiet face under the plain, English bonnet. "It's funny we don't see Fanny Vanderburgh anywhere," said Polly, as they went through the corridor and up the hotel stairs that night. "She and her mother probably came home earlier," said Mrs.
The emigration from the Hill since 1840 of so many persons, notably the younger and more ambitious, is in itself a token of this response. The railroad brought the opportunity; the ambitious accepted it; many whole families have disappeared. Their strong members emigrated; the weaker stock died out. The Merritt, Vanderburgh, Irish, Wing, Sherman, Akin, and other families offer examples.
Vanderburgh, drawing her sea coat around her slight figure and sailing off, her daughter in her wake. "Sir," said little Mr. Selwyn, bringing his sharp black eyes to bear upon old Mr. King, "you've been very good to me, and I've not been always pleasant. But it's my way, sir; it's my way." Mr. King nodded pleasantly, although deep in his heart he agreed with the choleric old gentleman.
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