Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-12-18
CHATTER XVII
CONCLUSION

When the next English ship sailed,
Egbert and Dorothea and the Kings
messenger were on board The Kings
name opened alI-doers and drew back all
bars The Judges, however, before they
left the councils chamber returned YER
diet Of not guilty.. so, that DoGothea was
not troubled with the charge when. she
reached old England.
The village of SagnaueiS grew and
spread farther into, the woods around it.
Witches were found. in other places, but
none. there. After g. few m6nths Hill
lary'ss cabin again had an occupant and
Migrants land was cultivated But OF
either Hillary or Ingram. the villagers
never hoard, Such silence was to, be
expected, but itgave an air. G1 dreami-
ness, to the story which, the Sagnsnek
people told 70. their children OF their
first and for that matters, only WITCH
Some Of the more dreamy Ysung Puri-
tans would sometimes go ont into the
meadow, and, looking over the cloud
specked field and ont into the clouds In
the sky, think OF Dorothea- But the
number of these was few.
In castle in England. a. happy family
dwell The headiof it was Land Oswald,
or the Duke of Clancy which title he ne
ceiEed with his wife's. accession Of for
tune. On state occasions his wife was
~the Duchess, but to her wide circle OF
friends she was Lady Dorothea," for
that less pretentious title suited the New
England girl the better.
With them an old manadWelt-aa man
skilled in Woodcraft-ae man who was
looked up to by his companions because
of his honesty and-his relations. It was
Mark Hillary. After Danohhea had taken
possession OF her title and her lands he
had given up. his Indian life and followed
In the next ship.
He still held to his opinions, but In the
chaplain of Clancy he. met priest who
was at once, learned in book lore and
possessed OF good sense Once he said to
Mark:
@Mark my word, Hillary, the trORble
with you Is that. you never make your
self understood, and you deserve to be
| hung. You, with an honest mans in
stincts, have held what tho Catholic
Church has always held. Had you acted
| with common sense in England you
would never have gone on that Wild
| goose chase OF yoars, and had you been
less obstinate, and told folks just what
| you meant, 1 believe you would not have
been so badly treated in Americn-"
"You do not know them,~ interrupted
| Mark. II believe they would have done
the same had st. Michael and all the
archangels been In my place"
| Possibly, y said the priest. ~Stin. he
continued, II cannot conceive Of intelli-
gent men cOnvicting on the charges they
| did"
"But about the pOem2"
THAT was a work of fantasy. Let the
literature OF the coming age decide where
it shall be placed"
Tho Rev. Henry Granville never fully
| believed that Dorothea was not witch
and to the last day of his life was heard
expressing his opinion that it was strange
his daughter should have recovered or
shat wild, wet night" His former
health. however, recovered when his
child's strange malady left her, and IL
after years he became a prominent cler
gyman Of the colonies. 1t was even sale
that he preached more of mercy and les.
of justice as he grew older.
Long years after the trial In Sagnauck
a White-sailed ship anchored In the BAY
at Boston. 1t bore in it's bosom the
Duke and the Duchess of CLANCY. They
stopped for but night in the city, anC
then travelled on to Sagnauck. They
could not remain in the new world, be
cause greater claims held them to ole
England. But when they returned tx
their castle they left son in the new
world, and from him has descended the
family Of New England Glancys.
THE END.