Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-10-25
NUN Der 43.

something more steady on his legs, but
all the madder of his wits for that,
with IN arm around the waist Cf Il
| buxom lass on either side, and all
| three dancing in time. Then all tie
rest echoed that shout of Down with
the governor" Then ont he burst
again with, Down, down with the to-
bacco, down with the tobacco
But the volley Of that echo was cut
short by five horsemen galloping after
the throng and scattering them TO the
right and left. Then great voice OF
authority, set out with the strangest
oaths which ever an Imagination OF
| evil compassed, called out to them to
be still il they valued their heads and
cursed them all for drunken fools, and
as he spoke lashed with his whip from
side to side, and his face cleaned with
wrath like a demons i'm the full light,
and | saw he was Captain Noel Jaynes,
and well understood how he had made
a name for himself on the high seas.
After him rode the brothers, Nicho-
las and Richard Barry, two great men,
sticking to their saddles like rocks,
with fair locks alike on the head OF
each flung out on the wind, and then
came Ralph Drake, rising in his stir
rups and laughing wildly, and last
Parson Downs. but only last because
the road was blocked, for verify
thought his plunging horse would have
all before him under his feet.
They were all past me in trice like
dream, the May revelcrs scattering
and Fastening forward with shrieks
of terror and shouts of rage and peals
of defiant laughter. and Captain
Jayncs voice. like a trumpet, overbear-
ing everything, and shouts from the
Barry brothers cch0ing him, and now
and then coming the deep rumble OF
expostulations from the parsons great
chest. and Ralph brakes peals of horse
laughter and | was left to consider
what a tinder box this colony of Nir-
ginia was, and how ready TO leap to
fame at a spark even when seeming
ly most at peace, and to regard with
more and more anxiety Mary Caven-
dish's part in this brewing tumult.
After the shouting and hallooing
throng had passed walked along slow
ly, rejecting, as | have said, when |
saw I'm the road before me two advanc-
ing-a woman and man leading a
horse by the bridle-and it was Mary
Cavendish and Sir Humphrey Hyde.
And when / came up with them they
stopped, and Humphrey addressed me
rudely enough, but as one gentleman
might another when he was angered
with him, and not contemptuously, for
that was never the lads way with me.
Master Winglield." he said, standing
before me and holding his chanping
horse hard by the bits, Il pray you
have the grace to explain this matter
of the goods"
| saw that Mistress Mary had been
acGuanting him with what had passed
and her puzzlement over 1t.
There is naught to explain, Sir
Humphrey" said l. "'Tis very sim
pie. Mistress Mary hath the goods
for which she sent to England"
Master Wingtield. you know those
are my Lady Culpeper's goods, and
have no right to them" cried Mary.
But | bowed and said, Madam, the
goods are yours and not Lady Cul-
peper's."
But IL lied when / gave the list
to my grandmother" she cried out,
half sobbing. for she was after all lit
tie more than child tiptoed to wo-
manhood by enthusiasm.
Madam" said |. and bowed again,
you mistake yourself. Mistress Mary
Cavcndish cannot lie, and the goods are
in truth yours
She and Sir Humphrey looked at each
other. Then Humphrey made stride
forward and, forcing back his horse
with one hand, grasped me with the
other. Harry, Harry" he said In
whisper, "tel me, for Gods sake, what
have Won donef'