Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-10-08
the furniture was displaced and much

smile.
The discousolatc expression OF my
face which prompted this query was
a sufficient answer 90 H. do not re-
member having ever before having
been so profoundly miserable as when
we wandered together from room TO
room and along the gloomy corridors
surveying the confusion which every
whore prevailed
Come. don't be so melancholy about /
t." urged my father; lin seven or eight /
weeks at most the Hall viii be tDo-- |
oughiy restored and cleaned. and the |
architect your uncle has engaged as |
snres me that the renovation shall be |
Effected In the most conservative man |
ner possible. the antiquity OF the place
being in no way damaged"
observed that I hoped Il might be
so.
There Is no doubt OF IT." continued
my father Have you seen the
church, MOI IL Is az present without
a roof. and the pulpit has been moved
from the north 20 the south side
I Where the altar was the new orgun
Is TO be. On Sunday Mr.. Fuller Is
90 preach ia Johnsou's barn near the
watermill."
Haven't these changes been made
very quickly
Indeed. they have; but you are not
acquainted with half OF them yet Yes
tcrday a celebrated arborculturist from
Kew was here and went over the es-
tate. marking trees which he considers
too old either for use or ornament,
they are TO come down and more than
two thousand new trees are TO be
planted 1 am told that your uncle
had 70 pay a Zee OF 80 for his ser
vices"
shall we dine nowg - I asked. alb
ruptly changing the subject. though 1
never felt less inclined 90 eat In my
life. What 1 had seen and heard made
me feel sick at heart. and 4 would have
welcomed almost anything 20 divert
my mh.d. pcrplczed as &c was and
weariea with strong and varying emo
tions
"Of course. you have had a long
Journey" said my father looking at
his watch. TT Is not yet seven o'clock.
hut Z wm order something TO De served
at once"
* small room which oFerlookcd the
. garden had not as ycl been lntcrferel
with. aud there We sat down 20 O
hastily improylsed dinner. Ola John
waited at table as usual. but mao,
one OF two awkward blunders. ans
{ semecd so strange in his manners
that 1 took the first opportunity tha
- presented itself Oh remarking upol
I H.
! you see. he is over sixty" urge.
r his employer. land we must not expec
much from him now. The alteration
P going Ola here. and the presence OF 81
many strangers. has SO dis0rganlze.
him that he has been almost besid
b himself Tor the last few days. on Fr.
s day 1 Sould scarcely make anythin
b OF him. When the vorkmen are gon
t we must md the old man q cottag
?. and u small pension. He has live
z here since he was "A boy. and has bee
3 a good and faithful servant"
}. THAT wiz De rather lonely for him
J. wont IT, Fancy old John Adams. bacl
x clcr ana ex-burer. who never had
= thought that went beyond his sid,
IS board or the kitchen. nvlng by himse.
s in a cottager'
5. 1t VIII be as lonely for him as
J has been for me the week shat m
IS boy was in London agreed my goo,
y naJured father. and then reverted
10 the case OF my unfortunate Aunt Al
II ME. 1 listened TO his opinions and col
r. lectures with but feeble interest. MAJ
" ing pretence OF 50 much interest as 81
is cency required. while / debated " ID
II / myself how 1 might best 80 down in
the crypt unobserved by my father
In the servants.
re Very rarely was any body out OF b,
~ at Holdenhurst Han at so late
hour as eleven ID the evening; and
=" therefore determined. IL l could Oh
Y. screw my courage up 10 the necessG
IA pitch. 10 make "A secret visit TO q
by crypt at midnight With this purpo
ID in view l withdrew TO my room
Sc soon as possible. and having unpack
10 my bag wrote 10 Miss Marsh; but
ng was SO unsettled and unneryed that
ue made three rough drafts OF = sh,
&c letter before 1 could express mys'
at TO my satisfaction. That task acco
nk plished. l went into the garden. a
on thence wandered TO the stables to fet
\ lantern which hung behind one
lat the doors there-a ponderous structT
OF Of glass and metal. encasing an
" lamp. the whole depending on a hu
tai ring: such a lantern as the watchm
Isnf tI.., IN, h.. s.F