Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-29

ed harshly and poured forth again the lowering burgesses.
 They came out under the sparse trees, through which gleamed the sky steely blue as sword blades, quietly and in orderly groups, but with brows knit, fingers clinched and smoldering anger in their faces.
 In the groups one might have sern many conditions. There was a sprin- klingFof homespun aud buckskin, men from the shadow of the Blue Ridge and from the great distict of West Au- gusta stretching far to the Mississippi. and with these rich planters from the tidewater and bay counties and the big rivers, clad in foreign fabrics, with am- pie wigs, swords and cooked hats or the conical head covering then coming to vogue in England. But save few on whose faces sat a smirk of Tory snug ness all wore the same deadly look of anger and concern.
 Anne leaned forward aud watched the crowd with tiny cores Of fire in her eyes. Broken bits Of conversation were waited to her.
 "I had looked to see better things of Dunmore, but 'us all of piece. We, | burgesses Of Virginia! Wagged at like so many school children, f faith, and sent home with flea in the cart 'Tis unbearable."
 "'Better things of Dunmorer A plague on him! Cry God save the kingp and give Satan the colonyp'
 Such sullen growlings betokening storm and then snug ones passing, with snuff taking and derisive shrugs of shoulders:
 Henry is mad. You heard what he said at Colonel Samuel Overton's the other day. 'Independence! Our Decla-l ration. Aid from Louis the Sixteenthy { He is as mad as March hare! Treason forsooth? Iris a matter for leecb! As : if we had discipline, ships of war or money. tell you, he will embroil us { all with such chatter The governor { would be perfectly justified in''- So they passed on.
 smile, quizzical, disappearing but wondrous kind, wreathed the corners of the watchers mouth as a tall, splen- did old man with aquiline nose and sharp. gray eyes came down the street leaning on the arm or n~7 .taIa servant. Threescore years and te1i ha had passed-one saw that by the lines in his face-and his frame was big and l wide. He was gaunt, Tawboned and sour faced, and plainly though richly dressed, wearing large jewas
 The girls eyes rested snsM4ngly on the cooked hat, the grizzled wig, the antique coat, with its square cut lapels and shoulders rounded after fashion If twenty years before, and then soft iy and lovingly on the rugged, master full face, every whit patrician.
 All her life she had loved this man the old baron of Greenway Court. He rad carried her at her christening. As she saw him now, coming slowly, but erect, lowing to salutatiofis by the way, she thought again on what he must have looked in his youth before the French war, when he had strayed from { a London world Of fashion, with heart sore by ason of jilting, they said, to bury himself in the shadows g of the Blue Ridge. He bad dreamed If building himself great manor halise with 10000 acres, calling it Greenway Court, and there living solitary But rough hunting lodge on spur of the mountain near Winchester was all that ever came of it.
 The girl watched him as he approach ed, stopping now and again for a word Zach pause made him look more hot and angry, and, seeing, she shook her head as if she enid some naughty child. As he neared her, speaking with one Of the more richly dressed burgesses, his bottled wrath burst out in flood. He raised his thorn stick and shook it 2 at the building, choking with rage.
 Meet at the Raleigh, gadzooks!' he shouted. Whose pelting is this? Pat rick Henry's, aigh? thought as muchl A deer stalkerr' he cried, tattooing with his cane "A good for naught bartend- { CT! Why, he used to bring me my ale when passed Hanover Court House. A coarse, dancing, fddling, wench chuck { ing vagabond, tell you! His father, the justice, is a good, sober country, gentleman, but little the son takes aft CT him. Come day, go day, God send Sunday! He must marry the tavern keepers daughtery'
 My lord!'' Anne's voice rose sweet and clear.
 "And now because he mouths treason as bold as brass and because he wins q dirty damage case against some tup'- penny parsons he sits in the burgesses and rides with gentlemen!'
 Lord Fairfaxv' She was standing upright in the coach.
 Virginia is in pretty case to take up any leather breeched Tom, Dick or Harry, wagging his jaw"
 Lord Fairfax!'
 About the kings business"
 T wait for you to ride with me"
 rEae old man half turned, chQked. shook his cane again in the air; then. seeing the girl, made her as slow sand courtly bow as if he were in an las- sembly. Then he climbed into the ch(ars tot and sat down.
 "Go and wait at the tavern, Joae" Anne said to his servant.
 The baron took Anne's slender, cooH hand in his huge, bony, trembling onal and they rode silently.
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