Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-05-23

the plant rows, where the negroes hoed,
Groam, the overseer, with cowbide un-
der his arm and his old F9ntenoy bell
mouth tower musket strapped on his
back, still walked his horse, with fer
ret eyes under his broad brimmed hat.
But there was little leaf raised, and the
wharfs at the foot OF the lawn were
overgrown with weeds.
Inside the great house there were the
same candle lighted dining room the
high backed chairs, the tall. cumbrous
clock, the portraits. the polished side
board rejecting the slender stemmed
glasses. But the meals were silent.
Anne's trouble hung over the house
hold in shadow that was not light
en- by the presence Of vaster ones near
at hand. She had sorrowed with that
fostering sorrow that is self accusatory.
And to know that never so few, aware
of her part in that Philadelphia scene,
believed her to have done heroic
thing was like an added death to her.
For a time she had fed for refuge TO
her old passion for the cause But the
effort failed.
One day early In the new year, when
the world was busted with delicate
frost like seed pearl, Colonel Tillotson
brought to GLADDEN. Hall the news of
how "the old fox Of Mount Vernon" by
a willy doucle across the Icy Delaware.
had taken the Hessians at Trenton.
Anne heard It alphabetically. To her
despair, victory and defeat spelled the
same
When the door closed upon her. the
colonel looked at his wife silently.
And she still believes in hlm!"
'As she believes in u.s." replied the
lady softly. Colonel" she said Keen
ly, "you have heard news
Aye" he answered after a pause,
Il have. A reply came to Mr.. Henry's
confidential inquiries today. There Is
no doubt that Armand is the same
prisoner who escaped from the Ouch
ess Of Gordon OFF Amboy last August"
THANK Cod" breathed Mrs. Tillot-
son fervently. Il am glad. can't help
IT,"
"Anne had better not know. Twill
do her no possible good"
Colonel" said the lady decisively,
"in this I must have my way. ! am
going to tell her just as fast as can"
She rose. laid aside her knitting. took
up candle and left him standing dubi-
ously before the fire.
The light came back to Anne like the
spring sun. The great sorrow was
gone. and in spite Of the wars gloom
GLADDEN. Hall grew more cheerful again.
She deyoured the columns Of the Ga
zettes and read eagerly letters which
came to Henry from abroad.
These told her how the Reprisal
lodging the British sloops of war, had
landed Benjamin Franklin safely at
Nantes, OF his meeting there with Beau
marchais and of his reception In Paris
al the little hotel In the Rue Vieille du
Temple, where a mercantile sign OF
"Roderique Hortalez & Co." hid pleas
ant conspiracy whose object was the
furnishing of war supplies to the Amer
lean colonists, and whose silent part
ners were prime minister and king.
Somewhere, she thought, there In his
own land perhaps Armand was safe,
not believing in her, but free and I'M
condemned.
The sound OF war came nearer when
Howe's fleet sailed into the Chesapeake
and when Henry, summoned in haste
from Hanover, called out the militia.
She watched them march through Will
liamsburg, sixty-four companies strong,
but the fleet and the army II carried
sailed on to beat back Washington at
Brandywine, to enter Philadelphia and
turn the grave town into an orgy Of
Tory rejoicing.
So the months passed in alternate
hope and despair. Spring unfurled,
summer dropped its blooms. autumn
slnsed glebe and copse, snow fell and
purified the earth stains. And at last
Virginia knew that Burgoyne had been
entrapped in the northern forests; that
Philadelphia had been evacuated; that
the cord which was to encircle the
throat OF the rebellion had snapped;
that France had recognized independ-
ence and mace treaty OF alliance with
the United States.
There followed closer campaign
when Lord Germaine, the kings war
minister, having failed to strange the
monster, attacked its extremeties, when
the redcoats swept into the southern
harbors, when Savannah and Augusta
fell, when Lincolns army was caught
at Charlestown and Gates routed at
Camden, and these were the south's
darkest days.
1t knew there was no hope from the
army in the north-meager, i'll clothed,
half starved, without magazines, ar
senals or credit. Washington lay
watching like hawk Clinton's 10000
men at New York, hoping for an eff