St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21

lision was so imminent. 1 thank you
for your courtesy"
She bowed and moved quickly through
the door, and, joined by Ursula, tripped
down the steps and along. the dusty
road.
II spects you got no satisfaction.
misses, by de way you runs" said the
maid presently, quite out OF breath.
"Oh, am going TOO fast? ] was WON
dering whereabouts the British mean
to land"
"Bress your preshus heart, missus, 1
'spectS da will come a-marchin' up and
down everywhere in dare bloody red
coats, and de rest Oh dem will circum-
bent de country wild dare ships"
The baby had done more energetic
crying in the hour of its mothers alb
sence on this fluitless errand than ever
before since it first saw the light, and
Edith was too much absorbed the rest
of the afternoon in Quieting and caress-
ing it to nurse her disappointment. She
feared the child was sick, and was
comforted only when it seemed to sleep
as usual The servants had abundant
facilities for making her comfortable.
small and primitive as were the accom-
modatlous, aud Hulda, the old family
cook, placed a delicious supper before
her. These trustworthy negroes had
buried quantity of the Ship
ton silverware, jewels and money
in the earth under and about the hut,
and Edith made some whispered in
quiries concerning the absolute secrecy
with which the work had been con-
Quoted. She laughed little over the
clumsy bed prepared for her, but
was too tired to care much for any thing
but the rest it afforded. She might have
been better entertained by some of her
friends in town: but her husbands
family, the Tremains, had vacated their
house and gone to Albany, and others
were on the wing. Ursule told her
Everybody was gOin' craZy-like and
movin'." She could not for some time
to come return to her parents, because
she knew they would leave the farm
house as soon as Harry reached them,
and it was uncertain to what locality
they would fly. She therefore con-
cluded to content herself until further
developments.
She spent the few following days in
playing with the baby and sleeping. All
was quiet as the Sabbath in this Sc
Guided place. Ursula tramped to the
city one morning with basket of fruit
to sell. Edith was afraid to let her go
without some apparent valid reason,
and she succeeded in talking few mo-
ments with Charlie Shipton, and
brought home letter he had in charge
from Lieut.. Tremain. But the maid
was so Mortified with what she had acct
IDENTIFY seen near the Bowery road that
Edith was long time in getting from
her coherent account of it. She al
most went into fits in telling her mis-
tress. She said thousand men were
being hung all along the roads to scare
the British. Then she modified her
statements under Edith's cross question
ing until the number of victims was re-
duced nine hundred and ninetv-nine.
One man was actually hung, about 10
o'clock in the morning, in the presence
OF not less than 10000 persons. 1t was
one of Gen. Washington's body guard,
an Irishman who had deserted the Brit
ish army; he had been detected and
arrested, then speedily tried by court
martial and found guilty of ''mutiny,
sedition and treachery." 1t was be-
lieyed that he was In the pay of the
British to murder Gen. Washington, land
he was promptly executed.
The Information in the letters to
Edith from her husband and brother
convinced her that she had acted wisely
| in remaining in the woods with her
servants. She learned that the city