Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-04-27
been surrendered TO Ethan Alfen, noun

been surrendered 70, Ethan Afen, noun
taineerW
Thunder and lightningw cnied his faith
er, fairly jumping from his chair. WAS
there ever such an internal shame? What
was Delaplace thinking of TO give up
fortress costing eight million pounds ster-
ling, and no one venture to say how many
lives? How long did he hold out?"
3"That is the disgraeeful part of it,
father. Not a shot was fired on either
side. Allen simply demanded its surren-
der in the name of the Continental Con-
gross and the great Jehovah, and it was
his.
Amazing! Astounding. Incredible! My
ears almost refuse to believe such thing.
Was ever such method employed beforet
In the name of the great Jehovah! Well.
Well! Who can judge anything of peo-
pie like thesey
He glanced across at his wife with
queer mixture of expression, but she was
sedately occupied in picking the bones
from her fish, and took no apparent inter-
est in the conversation. Later, In the
privacy of her own apartment, they held
a long, earnest talk on the situation, not
of matters in general.
Day after day passed. Outside the
town, over the blue hills to the westward,
the Americans were gathering their
forces and organizing them in what fash
ion they were able. Inside, the British
soldiers and many Of the officers were
chatting under the protracted delays
which, to their way of thinking, prevent
ed a speedy solution of the whole trouble.
Business had come to standstill. Com
merce was paralyzed. Ship after snip
came into port, but many did not even
unload.
! 1t was about this time that an English
| officer wrote home: II wish the Americans
may be brought to sense OF their duty.
One good drubbing which l long to give
| them by way of retaliation might nave
| good effect toward it.
The ''good drubbing" was attempted on
| the seventeenth Of June at Bunker Hill,
and all the world knows whether or not
| it worked as he expected it would.
Among the minor results of this famous
encounter was Mistress Leland's resolve
| to no longer delay her proposed VISIT 10
| her sister-in-law in Lexington. Francis
Leland had by this time openly declared
| himself in favor Of the British. lie was
| therefore able, after some little effort, 10
| obtain permission for his wife TO leaVe
the town in order to convey Desire TO ner
fathers house. A permit to enter the
| American lines was also necessary, ana
this was procured without trouble Dy
| friends of both families. Desire read the
rather formidable document with mucn
curiosity. 1t seemed strange to her that
such minute provisions should be needed
for so simple thing as ride to LeAlng-
| ton.
Zone would imagine us to be arch con-
| spirators, Uncle Francis, rather than SIM
! pie womenfolk," she said, as she folded
| the blue paper and handed it back to him.
| A slight flush rose to Mistress Salome's
face. The girls remark was t1uer than
she expected. An arch conspiracy Tor
openly abducting Timothy Lelands
daughters had been forming in her fertile
| brain for the last few days. 1t was no
| part of her plan to sail away to England
in one of her husbands stout merchant
ships and leave behind her the fair girls OF
whom she was so fond to be married to
some of the country clodhoppers around
their home. Valiant, English-blooded men
they were, to be sure, but no suitable
| remarkable beauty of both person and
| character. So she reasoned. She had
! little doubt of getting their mothers con-
sent to this arrangement, for Esther era
ham had been her own girlhood's most
| intimate friend, and she knew her thor
| oughly. They had come as brides togeth-
er to the strange New World, and she was
we'll assured that she coveted an easier,
more elegant life for her charming daugh-
ters. She felt sure, also, that Delight and
| Desire would willingly accompany her to
| her own stately Devonshire home, to stay,
| at least, until affairs were in a more set
| tied condition in the colonies. It was her
strong wish to take Sylvia with her sis
| tiers, but she was not SO sanguine of per-
suading that outspoken, original young
| person.
! Such had been her secret thoughts and
| schemes Small wonder, then, that her
| cheeks Redeemed when her husband made
| laughing answer to Desire.
! 'This is difficult matter, niece, and one
| far beyond my skill to decipher the out
| come of the meeting of two such danes
| as your mother and your Aunt Salome.
| But what Timothy Leland may say when
| you ask him for permission to take his
| daughters to England and marry them to
| faithful subjects of King George, l fear
| to predict"
Ito be continued}
| Copyright.
Mr. Williams Talents,