From Kingdom to Colony

eph, that Jack will

she drew about her shoulders the soft shawl that litt

n it at the inn." His voice was very gentl

c arms at two horsemen coming up the wooded way to the house, while Dot lif

ed out John Devereux, laughingly. And at this the l

features and a not over-handsome face. But for all this he had an irresistible magnetism for those who knew him; a

oseph Devereux, rising to extend a friend

kance as she arose and with a demure greeting passed him and w

g on in the porch,-"Jack, tell me, please, that you will not sp

her chin in his fingers and gave her hea

er to that part of the town again without telling

she answer

th this he put an arm around her,

he asked, as they

p with us, as her father is to go t

this very night,"

hen, Mary might have come home with me, as

evasive answer. "You wil

nn. So come within, Jack,-come, both o' ye, and let us talk over certain matters of importance. Hugh will stop with us for the night; and, Dot, do you

ollys mean by his talk to Uncle Joseph just now, of the King's soldiers at Salem?" The child s

erly severe cast as she answered, "Hush, 'Bitha! you sh

me thing, this afternoon, to Dot and Mary Broughton. He said the soldiers were comin

severe, for she still had the old-time reveren

she said with marked disapproval; "and he shall sell no more of his wares to me, if he goes

and took herself off to the charms of the kitchen regions, where old Tyntie was ever r

he rings made by the dancing feet of the Star-sisters, when they came down in a great ball of light from the

ren from getting lost or frightened; that the cry of the whippoorwill was the lament of Munomene-Keesis, the Spirit of the Moon, over dead-and-gone warriors vanquished by the white men; that the wild winds

le the twilight gathered and the stars came out in the vault overhead, and the tw

and her courtly and calm-voiced brother-in-law was the only mortal t

closed for the night, and Dorothy had returned to the por

gs mean? Mary Broughton said we might have a war; and there seems a grea

wish it was all over, and that I might

there is tea in the house, Aunt Lettice! I thought it

lady; and she sighed wistfully. "But Penine said there

ed with positiveness, "for I found a small potf

dear?" Aunt Lettic

I know as well that there is a big canful of tea there, for I caught the lace of my sleeve on the lid las

." Aunt Lettice sighed again, a

e such a pig as to make it for herself when she lets you ha

lady protested, but with only feeble remonstrance. It was ev

ith hard-hearted selfishness, and then next minute she will be reading her good books and trying to look pious. I never want to be her s

ing like glow-worms in the gathering dusk. In it were Nicholson Broughton and Mary; and Do

way to the stables; and then the two girls went directly to the porch, wh

the porch, while his father and Hugh Knollys followed after, the young

r. Heartily welcome!" And Joseph Devereux clasped the other man'

sible rival, watched keenly his blunt, honest face as he took the small hand Mary extended. Bu

u warn Hugh not to speak aught of this afternoon?" But Hugh answered

le reproach, "you should not de

had been struck, and drew herself up t

lied almost aggressively. "'T is only that I wish to

d me. We will get our matters settled as soon as may be, while the girls visit with Aunt Lettice.

the roar of the surf along the shore, as it mingled with the