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This is the spot where the first settlers of Ohio landed." "You make me feel quite like a historical character," said Arlington, and thanked his obliging guide. "I don't reckon history is all over yet, Arlington. Good-night, and take keer of yourself. I'm goshamighty sorry your goose is cooked in regards to Evaleen.
My husband suggested to your Virginian friend that he ought to call on the Hales, but the faithless cavalier slighted us. I much doubt his interest in Evaleen." "I am certain he was smitten." "Then he is inconstant, or else belongs to the tribe of faint hearts. How ridiculous the idea of folks falling in love at first sight! Yet they often do.
Winslow could not see the men who gave this warning, but he was relieved. The halloo and answering shouts were heard by Lucrèce and Evaleen. Regardless of advice, and wind, and rain, they returned to deck. The men, unable to steady the barge, lost presence of mind; the captain knew not what orders to give, but finally commanded, "Lower the yawl, we will try to make fast to a tree. Quick! Steady!
He reached Marietta on a fine, bright morning, and having consigned his horse to the care of the ostler of the Travellers' Rest, he presently started out in search of the dwelling-place of Evaleen, trusting, like Shelley's Indian lover, to the Spirit in his feet.
What object had these unknown watermen in conveying their unwilling passengers away from communication with Captain Winslow and Doctor Deville? Evaleen could not hide her dismay. Lucrèce grew desperate. "Will you stop the boat, sir? I beg it as a favor. I must go back to mon père. He will think us drowned. I must find him." "Keep cool, miss.
Halting for a minute, he looked back at Arlington wistfully, and said: "I am an outcast and an outlaw. Farewell." Burr followed the path which he hoped would extricate him from the labyrinth of his troubles, and Arlington left the village of Washington, and was soon on the way to New Orleans, where Evaleen Hale expected him at the house of her uncle.
Soon after their guests left the house Madam Blennerhassett and Evaleen Hale, standing by an open window in a chamber upstairs, looked out toward the wharf. They heard the voices of the watermen and the noise made in shoving out from the gravel beach.
"Lucrèce!" she cried, grasping the French girl by the wrist. "We are lost! We shall drown! The men can do nothing! How the boat creaks and trembles!" Lucrèce was preternaturally calm. She took Evaleen protectingly in her arms. "Have no fear, my sister. Mon père shall not let us perish he has the strong rope. And see! see, is there not somebody who could come to our aid?"
Then the gallant soldier brought me home, carrying the case, and, oh, my Evaleen, how shall I say, he kissed my lips, say 'Forgive, and went away. I have see him no more." As Evaleen listened to these naive sentences, her expression grew more and more troubled. "Kissed you!" Lucrèce nodded. "At Gallipolis? A captain? Do you know his name?" "His name oh, yes, I know his name Warren Danvers."
The wild flowers, too, anemone, puccoon and addertongue, nodding in the light breeze, seemed conscious of the joy of life in spring. The pilgrimage to the Muskingum was one long meditation on Evaleen Hale. Arlington was powerless to break the rosy mesh which entangled him. The bright image of the golden-haired New England girl waylaid him again and again.
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