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My dear old mother, in New Hampshire, to whom I have telegraphed, is eager to see me, and so I shall go on in the morning." "You must be our guest, then, to-night," said Mr. Vosburgh, decisively. "We will take no refusal, and I shall send at once to the hotel for your luggage." "It is small indeed," laughed Blauvelt, flushing with pleasure, "for I came away in very light marching order."
Vosburgh knew it. His great sagacity and the means of information at his command enabled him to penetrate much of the intrigue that was taking place, and to guess at far more. He became haggard and almost sleepless from his labors and anxieties, for he knew that the loyal people of the North were living over a volcano. Marian shared in this solicitude, and was his chief confidante.
As Merwyn and Marian accompanied him to the parlor they heard the heavy booming of cannon off on the east side, and it was repeated again and again. "Those are ominous sounds at this time of night," said Mr. Vosburgh. "That they don't come from the rioters is a comfort," Merwyn replied; "but it proves what I said before, they are becoming more bold and reckless."
When they returned, Mr. Vosburgh went to his library, for he was somewhat owlish in his habits. Marian soon joined him, and said: "You must retire as soon as you have finished that cigar. Even the momentous Mr. Merwyn shall not keep us up a second longer. Indeed, I am so sleepy already that I may ask you to begin your tale to-night, and end with 'to be continued."
"I think I am already aware of the fact. If Miss Vosburgh were of our sex you would soon have another recruit." "I'd soon have a superior officer, you mean." "I fancy you are rather under her thumb already." "It's a difficult position to attain, I assure you." "How so?" "I have observed that, towards a good many, Miss Vosburgh is quite your equal in indifference."
I can only misjudge you in one respect. Perhaps I can best make everything clear to your father as well as yourself by a single question. If I do my duty through these troubles, Mr. Vosburgh being the judge, can you give me some place among those friends who have already, and justly, won your esteem? I know it will require time.
Thomas was not very long in bringing a good physician, who had often attended the family. Marian watched his face as if she were to read there a verdict in regard to her own life, and Mr. Vosburgh evinced scarcely less solicitude. "His pulse certainly shows great exhaustion; but I cannot yet believe that it is a desperate case. We must first tally him, and then I will examine his wound. Mr.
While they gave their reports Mr. Vosburgh made them take a hearty supper, and Marian waited on them with a grace that doubled their incentive to serve their chief. But more than once she sighed, "Merwyn does not come." Then the thought flashed upon her: "Perhaps he cannot come. He may be battered and dying in the muddy streets."
He would have asked your father had he been in town. He was frank about his affairs, and has just received, in his own name, a very large property, which he proposes to double by entering upon business in New York." "What does his mother think of his intentions toward me?" the young girl asked, so quietly, that Mrs. Vosburgh was really encouraged.
Vosburgh adding that if the week passed quietly he could join them on Saturday evening. So they quietly exchanged their good-by kiss on the edge of a volcano already in eruption. An early horseback ride in Central Park had become one of Merwyn's habits of late. At that hour he met comparatively few abroad, and the desire for solitude was growing upon him. Like Mr.
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