The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-01
THE GREAT VERMONT STORY
THE RAN GERS /.
OR,
THE TORY'S DAUGHTER.
BY JUDGE ID, +. THOMPSON.
VOLUME ii.
CHAPTER VIII. Continued. J
BY JUDGE ID. T.. THOMPSON

The speaker had con jectured right
ly. Stark was heard to say to A Hen, -
Mount and ride along against thu
centre there sir, where YOU can best b,
heard. We must have it: for, beside
preparing their minds for what the,
probably must soon meet, it will make
battle cry for your boys and min,
as potent, for aught we can tell, a!
was the name of Joan of Arc among tn,
Freuchmen.
The officers, with Allen, then sprung
into their saddles; and AS the latter
coached his allotted post, and faced
ID to the lines the general com
4 .ded attention. and added, -
SwyMy men, let me introduce you tC
Mr. Allen, the patriotic secretary Of
the Vermont Council of Safety, and
say that | hold myself voucher for the
truth of what he shall tell you. Listen
to his communication.
The secretary now bowling respect,
fully to the attentive and already pre-
posed ranks before him began by say
ing that among the recreant few of
any note in the Green mountains, who
had basely deserted their country aud
joined the enemy. there was one who
had a daughter of whom he was wholly
unworthy. The speaker then proceed
ed to relate Miss Haviand's noble
stand for the American cause, from
which she was not to be allured or
driven by all the inducements and
menaces held out by tory father and
lover, both of whom had received royal
commissions--her absolute refusal to
60 with them on their late departure
{nsf hn PnIt ,rh
recent capture and abducti IN, while
on her way to her friends, by the
probable instigation of the rejected
lover, and with the connivance. per
haps of the father; all of which was
concluded by reading the letter Just
received, it was added, by a trusty
messenger, who had gone in disguise
to the enemy's camp to receive it, and
who had now returned to keep open
the communication.
"Men of New Hampshire !" now
lcried Stark, in a loud, animated voice,
Jas with flashing eyes he glanced over
the throng of upturned and excited
faces before him, is it any wonder
Che Green Mountain Boys are so
gallant and brave in fighting for their
wives and sweethearts when such is a
&pecimen? Will you join them in de-
Fence of their homes and country. and
saelp fulfill this matchless girls expec,
ations when we meet that haunting
Zoe at Bennington, as by Gods favor we
Ivill, so then let it now be told in
gnree cheers for the good cause, and as
sIaany more as you please for the tory's !
Daughter -
81 The next instant as the hidden /
RUNNERS brought their sticks to the |
Sounding parchment of their instru-
Il aents with blows that seemingly |
lspuld have thrown their arms from
Is%eir shoulders, a Thousand men were
'sssn leaping wildly into the air, and
living the patriotic response in a
end of cheers that rent the ringing
ayens above, and shook the startled
slderness for miles around them.
/ Order in the ranks" at length
y )ke in the deep stern, voice of the
neral. as the last cheer was dying
ay. Prepare to march /! ! March ~
nd the excited troops could scarce.
], sas, with the string strains of lively
and rafting drum they went rush
WIZ and pouring along ON their way to
seat of war.