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my mind" he replied 81 would never
be parted from you"
Nor shall YOU" I declared; cal
though l should count the absence
of myself no loss to you or any one"
This was not it; what would he be
| about?
We'll, let US put aside DOLE" cried
he, cheering himself with an effort;
now folk would call US two fortunate,
l warrant you, to be looking from a
| White House window upon world all
ours. Come, we will have a brisker
view; I have great news for you, and
news to make you stare. Nor will 1
beat about the BUSH but go to the
heart at once. l am about to dissolve
my cabinet"
What! 1 exclaimed, for here was
thing without precedent.
My cabinet is to dissolve. 1 have
arranged for it. Van Buren, will ten
der his resignation as of his own de-
sire; Eaton and Barry will follow suit.
If Calhoun'S three do not take the hint
and act on so good an example, then
1 will bring them to book with a de-
| mand. l will say that, half of my
| cabinet being gone, l desire to sweep
clean the site and rear up in it's place
| "a new edifice of counsel"
: My thoughts were in a. tumult, and
| 1t was a strange thing, that from the
moment the Generals hand fell upon
my shoulder 1t seemed to hold Peg
| before my eyes. And when he talked
| it was as though he spoke her name
| with every word.
Yes" he went on. ivan Burens
resignation will be in my hands to-
morrow; Eaton's so soon as he returns
| from Baltimore, say in a week; then
| Barry's will come along in the wake
of Eaton's. l shall send Van Buren,
minister to England. He shall be
| Vice President for my second term,
as you and have planned, and Presi-
dent after that
But Peg" cried 1, at last, what
will you do with Peg?"
The General would try to smile at
this, but the effort was as futile as
had been my own. But he did not
| fence at me with any testing reminder
| of how Peg was no part of his cabinet;
he met my thought squarely and would
make allowance for my feeling.
1T is most natural" he returned,
that you should ask of Peg. We
have guarded our little girl too long
you and I-not to own her first in
our concern. Peg, then, shall go to
| Florida and be a queen. l shall give
| Eaton that governorship; we may yet
need a firm hand in st. Augustine.
| Is it not a good thought? Our Peg
| shall rule among those Spaniards; 1t
| will almost be to have a throne and
wear crown. Does not that please
you, when now her station under kinder
| skies is to be so splendid and so nota-
| bly, enhanced?"
], From him 1 turned and paced the
room; then from sadness my anger
began to swell, for 1 am one whose
| grief runs with the end of it into
| wrath.
Tell me one thing" cried I at last,
| pausing before the General. why do
/ you dissolve your cabinet?"
| "Will it not lop off three arms of
| Calhoun's power?" h asked. Does it
not palsy Branch and Ingham and Ber-
| rien?"
but is that the true reason?" 1 de-
| manded.
1T is the one / shall let the world
| believe, at any rate"
| THAT should be no answer" 1 re-
torted, my heart like a furnace with
| the rage that was coming over me.
why do you palter? 1 have the right
| to know. You have made your dozen
| poor jests upon me, and said l was
in love with Peg. Perhaps you would
| mean those jests. / tell you / do not
believe your word when you say it is
| move against Calhoun. That is mere
| glamour and fallacy and meant for
blindness. 1t is no tale to tell me as
| though were some common gull. Give
| me your reason, then-the true one.
Does Eaton know he is to go?"
All this I reeled off, and gave the
! General no opening for an answer,
asking a dozen questions at once. But
| he sat quiet and with a friendly pa
| thence, and his face spoke to me only
| of nearness and sympathy, and never
| shade of hurt for the rudeness 1
visited upon him. What a heart of
gold was his! He, who bore nothing
! from an enemy, would bear all at the
| hands of a friend.
When was run out of queries he be-
| gan to take me up, beginning at the
end.
Eaton knows" said he; "he knew
| before he left for Baltimore. For him
the change will be a relief; his has
been no bed of flowers, and in St.
| Augustine his place and power, and
| last, but not least, his peace, will gain
| promotion"