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saw her standing by a window.
With Pegs flight 1 was abashed; it
was so sure she wished to dodge me.
Then kind of anger took me in
hand and l started towards her house.
l do not know what was my pre-
else thought in this, or whether
would have gone forward to lift the
great knocker on the panel. AS it fell
forth, however, Peg, on seeing me COM
ing, WHIPPED away from the window;
with that my heart would turn all
to water and 1 faced sadly about.
Being abroad in the streets, I now
went on to walk, and to clear my bos-
ON of that unhappiness which lay so
heavy on it. l walked on and on, with
no clear purpose until the thing to
strike my notice was how here before
me sprawled that vine which, on a
summer day, Peg characterized for its
Wanderings and said it was like her.
Why ! should go seeking this vine
is by no means plain; and yet l must
have owned to some hope of it's sue
cor, since l stood long to consider
it, and cast about with my eyes if,
by any luck of nature, a stout true
tree stood at hand which might be
given it for support There was none;
the poor vine must live and die I'M
welded on the loveless ground.
Somehow it magnitied my sorrow
when l could learn no way to help
Pegs vine. But so it abode; there
it should lie until the end. And the
vine would seem to realize this, too;
for it looked desolate, with leaves FROST
scared and discolOred like persisted
hopes.
1t cannot be said that I was upifted
of my walk, and 1 returned home, if
the fact must out more unhappy than
on SiTna I Ia CT 1nnkpH he
Cumberland. 1t is curious, also, that
this woe of Pegs GOODNESS towards
me should precipitate itself in wrath
upon the General. But thus it did; for
that innocent soldier had but to breathe
Pegs name as we sat with our pipes
that night, and all in a setting of
conversion most commonplace, when l
was upon him like a panther snarling
demands and clawing for replies, as
to how much more time he expected
me to steal from my plantations to
waste upon him and his affairs.
To give credit where credit is due
the General kept himself quite steady
under this unexpected fire, and refill
ed his pipe an confident, mistaken
peace.
my explosive friend" said the Cen
eral, II need make no better answer
than just to turn your question on
yourself. You know full we'll you would
no more leave HE THAI L WOulu leave
you. Those growls you give us arise
from a dyspepsia of the imagination.
You'll be as right as gold after a
nights sleep
1t was upon me a bit later, as 1 sat
trying to do some letters, that one Sc
cret of my gloom reposed in Pegs great
chair, spreading it's empty arms to my
eyes each time l raised them from
the page. 1t was that hooking empty
chair to stare my heart out of counte-
nance and give accent to it's dreary
| emptiness.
On the impulse, 1 swooped as on an
enemy and bore it to another room.
| Then | felt better; and indeed it was
a relief not to be longer tainted of
that chair, which would eXult in be-
ing vacant and find a triumph by fling
ing at me the absence of my Peg.
Now the General while commonly
as frank for talk as cataract, could
be, when he preferred, as inscrutable
as the tomb. 1t pleased him to lock
up his tongue over Notification; and
while I understood his pose, and both
| Peg and Noah had heard him tell his
thought on that pregnant topic of state,
! together with his feeling for Calhoun,
folk for a widest part remained much
in the dark. And it was often put
| and never answered, this query of what
| the Generals course would be when the
| last grapple came to hand. The agi-
| tatorS for Secession were no folk to
! put to sea wanting chart, however
crude, to display the shores and waters
about them. They resolved to arrive
| by some knowledge of the Generals
| temper on this dogma of danger so
near the Calhoun heart.
In quest of such news, a spy or
perhaps he should be called a scout
the title is the more honorable-was
dispatched to find and mark the Gen
erals position. The General and
were given a foreword by Noah of our
gentleman who would be thus upon a
reconnoiter. He came in sight one day.
and fell upon our flank in this fashion
1t was an afternoon, crisp and clear;
altogether a day proper for middle au-
tumn rather than the winter of any
honest year. l had been out with
Noah and was about my return. AS
came up the walk, the Generals ram
rod form-tall hat, dark garb, swinging
his tasseled walking stick-emerged
from the mansions front door.
Turn with me for a short jaunt,"
said he. But first step down to the
stables. ! must have a look to my
horses. That clumsy rascal. Charlie
let them run away, and aside from
strain to the horses and a hands
breadth of hide knocked off the nigh
ones shoulder, he broke the wheel of
the coach-my wife's coach, Major:
wouldn't have had it injured for
world of coaches"
This coach was one of the Generals
treasures. Well l recall how it was
first brought up the Cumberland years
before and rolled ashore at Nashville.
But it's for her." observed the Gen
eral, as 1 suggested the slimness of his
purse in contrast with the cost of the
vehicle; tits for her. She shall have
a proper carriage to ride in
81 am more concerned for the coach"
remarked the General, as we went
about the western corner of the man.
sion on our way towards the stables
then for the horses. If she were here
now, her whole tender thought would
be of the latter"
The injuries to the carriage were not
grievous, and a look of pleased relief
filled the Generals eyes. The horses,
too, had come well through their un-
authorized dash along the road. and a
hostler. skillful of horse-drugs, gave
his word to cure them of every in re-
ceived with a quart of NORWOOD and
vinegar, and a spoonful of tar for the
cuts.
Beauties. eh?" said the General. as
he admired the sleek gray dappled
coats with hand and eye. Beauties,
they are, indeed And descended in
direct line from my great horse, Trux-
ton. You remember Truxton; that
never-beaten King Of the Glover Bot
tom Course7"
Truxton would be recalled easily
enough. The more. since Il was that