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Arlington, ignorant of the treasonable designs of Burr, but zealous against Spain and ambitious to share in the conquest of Mexico, had volunteered to make a tour through Kentucky and Tennessee, to Natchez and New Orleans, on business relating to the Wachita lands, which Burr had purchased. The Virginian started on his long journey early in autumn.
I shall not fall into an abyss, or dash myself upon a rock. If we fail to sever the Union, and do not succeed in the conquest of Mexico, I have so masked our designs as to make them appear in the guise of innocent land-speculations on the Wachita river." Early in October Wilkinson's duties required him to visit the town of Genevive, some fifty miles south of St. Louis.
I have just returned from his headquarters in St. Louis, where we were considering a business enterprise the purchase of a large tract on the Wachita river, between the Red and the Sabine." "Do you purpose returning South to remain?"
"Come back with some muscle in these arms of yours and a few more freckles on your nose," he said to Keineth, pinching her cheek affectionately. "Camp Wachita" the girls had nicknamed it Camp Wish-no-more was nestled in the hills with the tiny lake at its front door and a dense woodland at its back.
But at the same moment another figure glided out from the shadow and approached the fatal tree. It was Wachita! He stopped in amazement. But in another instant a flash of intelligence made it clear. He remembered her vague uneasiness and solicitude at his agitation, her sudden disappearance; she had fathomed his perplexity, as she had once before.
I never heard such a swishing of handsaws and banging of hammers; you make more noise than ten navy yards. How you getting along?" "Not so briskly as I could wish; we are under contract to finish fifteen of these large batteaux, besides a sixty-foot keelboat by December." "Sassyfax! Fifteen? What for?" "To carry colonists down the Mississippi to the Wachita lands.
But as she did so the broad, vacant face and the mutely wondering eyes of Wachita rose, like a placid moon, between the branches of a tree where they had been hidden, and shone serenely and impassively after her. A month elapsed. But it was a month filled with more experience to Elijah than his past two years of exaltation. In the first few days following his meeting with Mrs.
He remembered her unconscious and spontaneous admiration of him; he dared to connect it with her forgiving silence. If she had withheld her confidences from her husband, he could hope he knew not exactly what! One afternoon Wachita put into his hand a folded note.
"You perceive, my dear sir," so ran the lines, "that this step will embarrass me in my project of the Wachita settlement, and will deprive me of the pleasure of seeing you at your own house." Graham smiled gravely at the guileless simplicity of the man who had not hesitated to take a stranger into his confidence, unquestioned and unsuspected.
She would understand everything, perhaps; at least she would know that the prisoner's release was to please her, but even if she did not, no harm would be done, a white man's life would be saved, and his real motive would not be suspected. He turned with feverish eagerness to the lodge. Wachita had disappeared probably to join the other women. It was well; she would not suspect him.
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