The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-01-29

from any mere recklessness or adventure
some boldnesA
/ have before me as write the diary
Of Rose Fenwicke, kept at the time and
written In the crAmped hand and stilted
style then in vogue, also the yellow old
letter which she left on her little table
for her mother, and in which she At
tempted to explain and justify her
course.
~ know full well, my dear mother"
% runs part Of the epistle, ''that you
will not attribute to your daughter what
you are aware is not in her naturei nor
will you ever cease to trust her word
who has never broken faith with any ona
have thought and prayed touching my
duty to you, my duty to my country
and my duty to my lover. Never
once have l suffered selfish desires to
hold place in my heart while searching
after the true line Of action have at
last become convinced that Savannah
will never be retahen by the patriot
army. l shall never again see Wayne
Prescott unless go to him, which am
now fully set upon doing, even at the
peril Of my life. II reach him ! shall
wed him at once and follow him whittier.
soever he may 20. It Il hard.
almost unbearable, to leave you thus
to desert you by stealth, but there q .
call over yonder which l dare not close
my ears to, and there is . terror here
which cannot longer endure | feel
that you will be quits safe here The
British commander will protect you and
your estates 90 that you shall not want
for anything. l depart this night with
good old Grampus, who will be able,
think, with Gods help, to lead me forth
from this more than prison into the free
air Of the country, where shall At least
be nd Of my enemies and persecutorS."
l have searched in vain through the
diary, the letter and all the documents
bearing upon the matter to find ont why
she spoke of persecutorA Possibly the
word was used with no directness Of ap-
plication. She may have been antici-
pating a sort Of negative persecution
from Maynard, whose persistent kind
ness must have amounted to something
Of the sort, at least to Q girl Of her tenn
permanent, and situated a. she must have
been had she remained In Savannah.
There may have been, however, other
and deeper reasons, Of which she did not
care to make record, and am inclined
to believe there were. It appears on the
face Of 1t, at least at this distance, 90
improbable that she should have under
taken task 90 hazardous In every way.
90 likely to end In unspeak&ble disaster
and % trying to q young girls nerves, II
she had not been impelled BY some Abso-
lutely irresistible circumstances, that ]
cannot help feeling that she must have
hidden the deeper and real cause Of her
act. At all events some powerful stim-
illus bore her through trial the Ike Of
which rarely comes to q woman, and the
very thought Of which should bO enough
to chill the heart Of even the strongest
and most courageous maiden.
Grampus, the old negro servant, with
that cunning and cleverness oharacteris-
tic Of his race, took his young mistress,
not by the highways, but by the byways
and paths 20 well known to him that he
could follow them quite a. well by night
- by day, and carrying for her . light
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