Show T E ff IT iff I 1 11 N THE V ELEA ingao A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY IN THE TIME OF SILAS WRIGHT lay by IRVINS L AUTHOR OP V UM BIN HOLDEN HOLDEM tyri AND ana 1 OP OF THE CLE up LIZZIE ET ETC ETC komuda ananos nonoa A CHAPTER XIV continued 14 iso ho handed me ino tills this letter canterbury vt juno julie 1 idear dear sir I 1 am interested tit in tho the boy barton kaynes baynes good words about bilm have been flying ay ing around like pigeons when school Is out I 1 would like to hear from you yon what Is tho record what ile do you think of tho the soul in filin what kind of work Is best for it if you sou will lot let mo me maybo I 1 can help tile tho plans of 0 god goa a little that la is my business and yours thanking you for reading this 1 am as ever gods humble servant KATE FULLERTON why this Is the writing of the lent tit woman I 1 said before I 1 had read the letter halt half through inovia Ilov ln kate roving kate I 1 never know knew her oth or name but I 1 saw her handwriting long ngo ago 11 but look tills Is a nea neatly aly written well worded letter tin an tho the let Is as white and clean its as the new s snow now uncanny woman I 1 they say sit bho a carries the alio power 0 god in her right lion hand so bo to do all the wronged wro liged 1 11 I why kato kate Is asking about me inc I 1 said never mind the reason she Is y your our friend and let us thank god for it think how she came to yer ier help tn in the old bain an say it a thousand prayers my lad ind having come to the first flight of the uplands lie left me luc with many a kind word yord how much they mean to a boy who Is choosing choo clug lily ills way ay witti ath it a growing sense ot of loneliness I 1 I 1 reached the winni waria of our little homo home just in time for dinner they wore were expecting nio me und and it was a regular company dinner chicken plo and strawberry shortcake J ilow how well I 1 remember that hour with tho boora open and tho the sun gun shining brightly on tile the blossoming bloss oming fields and the joy of man and beast in tho the return of summer and tile tho talk about the late into talt of alma jones and mr and airs lincoln I 1 while we i were eating I 1 told them about the letter letteron of old kate Fullert otil 1 aunt deel exclaimed are ye F e sure anro that was vas tho ilia name bart goodness gracious caces alive I 1 she tin and undo uncle peabody gave each other looks of surprised inquiry do you know an anybody body by that name I 1 asked we used urea to sald said aunt deel as she resumed her eating cant be one 0 the sam Full fullerton ertons can it oh ob probity not said uncle peabody back hast east thys more puller fuller tons than ye could shake a stick nt A wjack inter wo io had our raising peabody did not want mint ft a public raisins hut hilt aunt deel had had her way wo we lind had bowed arid mortised morti sed rind and bored the timbers for our now new homo home tito neighbors cattle came with pikes anti and helped to raise anti and stay silly anti and cover them A great of human und ness nesi went into the beams arid and rafters of that home ionic nil and of others lik like it I 1 knew that the tiling thing was still alive in the neighborhood but even that could not paralyze the ilia helpful hands tit of those people indeed what hat was aa sald said of 0 my undo uncle peabody was nothing more or less than a kind of conversa firewood I 1 cannot think that any ady one really believed it wo we had I 1 a cheerful day A barrel of hard elder cider had been set up in the door yard tind and I 1 remember that some drunk drank it too freely tito lie he o liec hee of the men us its they lifted on the pikes and the sound of the hammer and beetle rang in the alio air from morning until night sirs mrs rodney barnes and mrs dorothy came callie to help aunt with the cooking and a great dinner was served on oil an improvised table in the dooryard where the stoye stove was set up the shingles and sh cathea and clapboard were on oa before the lay day ended uncle peabody and I 1 put in tile the floors and stairway and partitions partition moro more than once in fit the lays days we were working together I 1 tried to tell him what sally had told me but my courage failed tito the day came when I 1 to s speak cak out and I 1 took the straight my duty as the needle of at the compass pointed it was wae tho the end of a summer lay day and we had wat clied the thal lust dusk fill thov ho valley rilley and com creeping up the slant sinking thu the nail and thorn tops in its flood ono ly by one A As s wo ive sat looking out at Q lie he open door flint evening I 1 told them what sally lind had told me of the evil report which had traveled graveled raveled rave led through the two towns damn little sou leil barrer con uncle peabody speaking in P I 1 sad tone toile hut but idith deep feeling lin ff this highly promising opinion it was half expressed arid rose hd d went to the water pall and drank As long as were honest we dont care what they say cay he remarked as he returned to his chair if their th ey won wont believe us we ought to row em tho the papers acca ayca suld aunt peet thunder nn an jelin I 1 I 1 ga round the town tryla to prove that I 1 aint li it thief said undo uncle peabody Pc it make no nc dif fernee got to have to play with if I 1 they want to uso use my snipe tor for a benn beau bag lot let em cm ns as long as t they hey do it when I 1 aint loolen I 1 wonder if they got sore hands by tin an by I 1 never heard litin him speak of it again indeed although I 1 knew tile t topic ople was often in our thoughts it was never mentioned in our home but once after that to my knowledge we sat eat for a R long time thinking as the night came on that week a letter crime to mo me from the senator announcing the day of mrs airs wrighta ti arrival in canton and asking me to meet and assist lier her in getting the house to rights I 1 did so she was a pleasant faced amiable we woman nian and a roost most enterprising house cleaner I 1 remember that my first tush tash was mending the wheelbarrow 1 I dont know what silas would do if ho he to get homo home and find ills his wheelbarrow broken said she ehe it Is almost au an inseparable companion of MS his tito tho school mast and ills his family were fishing and upon the river unit so I 1 lived at the senators house with mrs wright and her mother until lie arrived what a wonderful house it was in my view 1 I 1 was awed by its size and splendor its soft carpets and shiny brass and mahogany yet it was very slain le I 1 hood the garden and cleaned its paths and mowed tile the dooryard and did sonic home painting in tho the house the senator return returned to canton that eve evening ming on the ilia watertown stage iio greeted tile mo with a fatherly again I 1 felt that strong appeal to my eye in ills bis broadcloth and fine linen and heaver beaver hat and in tile the splendid dignity and courtesy of tits hh manners had good reports of you bart it end n d im very glad gina to see you ho he said 1 I believe your own marls marks havo have been excellent in tile tho last year I 1 ventured poorer than I 1 could elsh the feather has been very kind to me ho he laughed what have you been studying 21 latin 1 I always mentioned tile tho latin first algebra gram mar geography and history i lie ito ailed about my aunt and uncle und I 1 told him of all that had befallen ur ue save the one thing of which I 1 had spoken only with him and stilly sally 1 I shall go up to see them soon 11 lie ho the people of tho the little village had learned that lie he preferred to be let alone when lie he had just returned over the long wearisome way froni from tile the scene of ills his labors so wo we had the evening to ourselves sirs mrs wright being weary after the days work went to be bed d early and an a a at t tits his request ro auest I 1 sat with tho the senator by I 1 W 2 V VU 0 Z I 1 remember member Hc my first task was mending the wheelbarrow I 1 the fire for no an hour hoar orvo orp I 1 have always thought it a lucky circumstance tot for tio he ailed ask ea me to tell of my plans and gave me advice and encourage ir arent which have lad had a worked marked effect upon roy my career I 1 remember telling him that I 1 wished to be a lawyer and my reasons for it ile he told me that it a lawyer was either cither a post pest or u servant 0 of justice and that his chief aim should be the promotion of pence peace and good will in ills his community ile ho promised to try and arrange for my accommodation in his office in the autumn and mon meanwhile while to lend roe me some looks books to read while I 1 was at home before we go to bed let us have a settlement said the sen senator will you L kindly sit lilt down at the auble there and make up a statement of nil all the time you hayd have given inc ilia I 1 made out the statement very neatly anti anil carefully and put it la in ilia hla hands that la Is well done 11 said lie ho 1 I shall wish you ou to stay until until tho lay day after tomorrow if you will so you will please add another day 11 I 1 amended tile the statement and lie ho paid me ine tho the handsome hand soma sunt sum of seven dollars I 1 remember that after I 1 went to ray my room that night I 1 stitched up tho the opening in my jacket pocket which contained my iny wealth with the noodle needle and thread which aunt doel deel had put in my bundle and slept with the ilia jacket under my mattress CHAPTER XV I 1 use my own compass at a fork in the road swiftly now I 1 move across the herder border into manhood a serious eager it was tho ilia fashion of the young those days f sir air wright weight camo came up for or n days fishing in july my undo uncle and I 1 took him up tho the river while we nto ilia our luncheon lie ho described jackson and spoke of tho the famous cheese which ho he had kept on a table in tho ilia vestibule of the white house alouse for tits his callers lie ile described its hla fellow senators webster clay lives hives calhoun and nd bentoi I 1 remember that webster was in tits his view the least of them although tit nt tits his best the greatest orator we had a delightful day anti and when I 1 drove back to the village ago with ilia that night lie ho told me that I 1 could go into ilia of wright baldwin after harvesting it will do for it start lie ho said A little later inter I 1 shall try to find n better place for or you sly MY life went on with little lu in it worth recording until ilia letter canic came I 1 speak of it as the ilia letter bee abuso 0 of its effect upon my career it was from sally and it said dear bart its all over for a long time perhaps forever that will depend on you I 1 shall bo be true to you if you really love we me even if I 1 have to walt wait many many years mother and father saw and rend read your letter they say any wo we aro arc too young to bo be thinking about rubout love lave and that we have got to stop slop it how can I 1 stop it I 1 guess I 1 would have to stop living but we shall have to depend upon our memories now I 1 hope that yours is ns as good as mine father says no more letters without tits ills permission and lie he his foot so hard that I 1 think he must have mado made a dent in it alio to fl floor talk about slavery ery what do you ili think filk of that hat mother says that wo we must wait that hint it would make father a groat great deal of trouble it if it were known that I 1 allowed you to write I 1 guess tile the soul of old Grini grimshaw shaw Is still following you well wo we must stretch out that lovely day as far as wo we can on tho ilia third of june 1844 we shall both be twenty one and I 1 suppose 0 that we can do as we please then tho the day Is a long way off but I 1 alii agree to meet oct you that day at eleven in tho the morning under tile the old pine on tho ilia river where I 1 met you that day and you told me that you loved roc me if either cither or both should elle dlo our sous will know where to find each other if you will solemnly promise kroml se write these cords words and only aliee e to my nother amour amula vincit but do not sign your name 4 SALLY 1 what h serious matter it seemed to mg me then I 1 I 1 remember thit it gave rime a rather slow toot foot I 1 wrate tho the words very neatly arid plainly on a shoot of paper and walled mailed it to mrs dunkelberg I 1 wondered if sally would stand firm drill and longed to know the secrets of tile the future more than ever I 1 was resolved to bo be tho the principal witness in sonic some great ii lu utter iatter as ply my friend in Assli cry lane had put it I 1 was eight mouths months with wright baldwin when I 1 was offered a clerkship in file office of judge westbrook at Coble cobleskill shill in Scholl arle county tit at two to hundred a year and my board I 1 knew dot cot then just how tho ilia offer had come but anew L new that tho ilia senator roust must liao have recommended me I 1 know now that lie ho wanted a reliable witness of the rent troubles which were growing acute in arle Delawn ro and columbia counties it was a trial to RO go so far from froin home as aunt deel put it bit both my aunt and undo uncle agreed that it was for the best ilow how it wrung my heart when mr purvis and I 1 gra got into tile stage at canton eon to to see my aunt and uncle standing hy by the front wheel looking up at me old and lonely and forlorn they looked I 1 aunt deel had her purse in her hand I 1 remember how she BUO took a dollar out of it 1 I suppose IS 11 was the only dollar she had and looked at it a moment and then handed banded it up to me me you tou better anko it sho she said im frold you wont have enough now how her bauld and lips trembled I 1 I 1 have always kept that dollar I 1 see them as we drove away the judge received roe me kindly and gave burvis a job jb la in tits his garden I 1 was able to take his dictation tit in b und liand hand and tin spent most of my time in taking down contracts and correspond one and drafting them into proper form which I 1 had the knack 0 doing rather neatly I 1 was impressed by the immensity of certain towns in the neighborhood and there were some temptations IQ in my way many people tl tind lid especially the prominent men indulged in ardent spirits we had near us thero there a little section tf of the old world which was trying in a halfhearted half hearted fashion to maintain I 1 itself t in tho the midst of a democracy dt it uns as the manorial life of uio ilia a relic of ancient feudalism which had bad its beginning in M I 1 when the west indies company issued its ita ebar char ter ot at privilege sand exemptions charter offered to any member of tho the company who should within four years bring fifty adults to tho the now Not berlands anil and establish them along tile hudson it liberal grant of land to bo be called a manor of at which the or patroon should be full proprietor and chief magistrate the settlers vere to be exempt from taxation for ten years but under bond to stay tn in ono place and develop it in tho ilia beginning tho ilia patroon built houses bouses and barns ind and furnished cattle seed and tools tho teri tenants ants for themselves thenis eh LS and their liell hairs 3 agreed to pay him a fixed rent forever forc er in stock steel wid produce rind further to grind nt at tile owners will null and nelt lift to hunt bunt nor fish judge westbrook in whose office I 1 worked was counsel and collector for the ons notably tor for the manors of 0 livingston utia and van Retis two to little kingdoms in tho the heart of tho the great republic mr louis latour of jefferson nerson Jc county whom I 1 had met la in tile tho company of mr dunkelberg erff camo came during my last year scar there to study law in tho the of the judge it privilege for which lie ho was waa indebted to tile tho influence of senator wright Wrt elit I 1 understood ile was ft as a guy gay Lot 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