The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-02-04

llOli lhS ohhhon VI tic due Ridge and
from the great district Of West An
gusta stretching far to the Mississippi.
and with these rich planters from the
tidewater and bay counties and the hig
rivers, clad in foreign fabrics, with am
pie wigs, swords and cooked hats or +ha |
conical head covering then coming To
vogue in England. But save few on /
whose faces sat smirk of Tory snug |
ness all wore the same deadly look Of
anger and concern.
Anne leaned forward and watched
the crowd with tiny cores Of ire in her
eyes. Broken bits of conversation were
waited to her.
81 had looked to see better things of
Dunmore, hut tbs all of a piece. We.
burgesses of Virginia Waggcd at like
so many school children, + faith. and
sent home with a flea in the earl Ills
| unbearable.'
"'Better things Of Dunmoreg A
plague on him. Cry God save the kingp
and give Satan the colonyv'
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-
rationv Aid from Louis the SIXTEENTH
He is as mad as March harei Treason
forsooth? 'Tis a matter for leechl AS
If we had discipline, ships of war or
money. tell you. he will embroil us
all with such clatter. The governor
would be perfectly justified in SO
they passed on.
A smile, 9uizzical, disappearing. but
wondrous Lind. wreathed the corners
of the watchers mouth as tall, splen-
did old man with aquiline, nose and
sharp, gray eyes came down the street
leaning ON the arm of a negro body
servant. Threescore years and ten he
had passed-one saw that by the lines
In his face-and his frame was big and
wide. He was gaunt, rawboned and
sour faced, and plainly though richly
. dressed, wearing large jewel.
The girls eyes rested smilingly on
! the cooked hat, the grizzled wig, the
antique coat, with its square cut lapels
and shoulders rounded after fashion
of twenty years before, and then soft
" 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. BE
, had carried her at her christening. AS
she saw him now, coming slowly, but
erect, bowling to salutations by the way,
she thought again on what he must
have looked in his youth before the
y French war, when he had strayed from
London world of fashion, with a
:, heart sore by reason of a jilting, they
:, said, to bury himself in the shadows
: Of the Blue Ridge. He had dreamed
Of building himself great manor house
with 10000 acres calling it Greenway
Court, and there living solitary. But
rough hunting lodge on spur of the
mountain near Winchester was all thai
lever came of 1t.
The girl watched him as he approach
ed, stopping now and again for word
! Each pause made him look more no
and angry, and, seeing, she shook he
I head as if she child some naughty child
| AS he neared her, speaking with on
] of the more richly dressed burgesses
4 his bottled wrath burst out in a flood
| he raised his thorn stick and shook
i at the building, choking with rage.
\ "AIeet ht the Raleigh, gadzooksH h
Y shouted Whose pelting is this? Pat
Il rick Henry's, aigh? | thought as much
\ A deer staikerr he cried, tattooing wit
\ his cane. "a good for naught bartenc
1 erl Why, be used to bring me my al
NJ when l passed Hanover Court House. !
Il coarse, dancing, fiddling. wench chuci
Il ing vagabond, / tell you! His fathe
Y the justice, is a good. sober countr
II | gentleman, but little the son takes ar
NJ er him. Come day, Ago DAY. God sen
" Sunday He must marry the taver
Il keepers daughter
4 ''My lordr' Anne's voice rose swe
"A and clear.
" "And now because he mouths reasc
| as bold as brass and because ne WI
y dirty damage case against some tut
Y penny parsons he sits in the burgess
i and rides with gentlemen
Lord Fairfax she was standiI
4" upright in the coach.
Virginia is in pretty case 10 tal
ng M any leather breeched Tom, DICK
ltn Harry wagging his jaw"
Lord Fairfaxw
III about the kings business.
.oi' Il wait for you to ride with me;
an. The old man half turned choke
shook his cane again in the air. inc
Fry seeing the girl. made her as SLOW a.
yet. courtly a bow as If he were IN an
'us sembly: Then he climbed into the cn'
ihi tot and sat down.
niP "Go and walt at the tavern 'o'
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