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It would never do to have the story told in Acredale that you had found friends in the South because you are a Democrat, and Boone was thrust into negro quarters because he is an abolitionist." It was the very thought on Jack's mind, and straightway the carriage was made ready, with ample pillows and what not.
Surely such neighbors as ours could not all take sides against you, if you were in the right in all the feuds that have divided us as a family from the people of Acredale."
If in the morning no telegram came from Acredale, it would be proof that her father was bent, implacably in his purpose to undo Jack, living or dead. When she reached the lodging, Olympia was dressed for the street. "You are just in time. I have matured my plans. First, we must find out at the proper quarter the names of all the wounded brought here from Fort Monroe.
Rosa's own pretty desk was open, and on a sheet of her own paper he wrote, in a scrawling, school-boy hand: "DARLING ROSA: You've often said that you would disown Vincent if he were not true to the South. Think of Vincent in my place dawdling in Acredale or Washington while battles were going on.
She caught Boone's almost whispered words: "I tell you, Jones, you shall be brought about, but you know the danger of seeing any Acredale people. My daughter knows you knows the Perleys. I should think that would be reason enough why you should not be seen by her." "Oh, I don't mind; the sight of a pretty girl is the best medicine I know of. I'd risk all Acredale for that."
She bent over while Barney Moore, one of Jack's Acredale comrades, gallantly loosed the straps. She searched carefully through the divers articles, taking everything out, Jack looking on ruefully while his companions gathered about in vague curiosity. When she had removed and restored everything she arose, saying: "I feel easier now.
"It's a sin for us to laugh and be contented here, when our friends are bearing the burdens of war. I shall be ashamed to show my face in Acredale. Oh, I wish I could carry a musket!" "You might carry a canteen, my dear. I believe the regiments take out vivandières there would be an outlet for your warlike emotions," Mrs. Sprague said, with the purpose of cheering the unhappy spinster.
The village had grown up on private grounds, conceded to the public year by year as the children and dependents of the founders increased. The Spragues were the founders, and they had never been anxious to alienate their patrimony. Acredale is not now the sylvan sanctuary of rural simplicity it was thirty years ago before the war.
As to you and me, mamma, we shall be the proudest women in Acredale, for our Jack's the first " she was going to say "boy," but, catching the coming protest in the warrior's glowing eye, substituted "man" with timely magnanimity "the first man that volunteered from Acredale. And how shamed you would have been we would have been if Jack hadn't kept up the tradition of the family!
It is worth the noting, this trait of Acredale, at a time when riches and success are looked upon as condoning every breach of the decalogue. Just how the intimacy between the two men came about was not known. It, however, was known that when Boone first came to Acredale he had been helped in his affairs by Dick Perley's lavish means. In a few years Boone was the patron and Perley the client.
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