Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04
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said Mount
81 must first send my .etter," said l,
and began to reread II:
~ 80 ~ Boston. Oct q, I774
To Mistress Felicity Warren:
Dear, Dear Silver Heels-Being cured OF
my hurts and having done with Johnson
Hall and my dishonorable kinsman, Sir
John Johnson Bart, l now take my pen
IN hand 10 acquaint you that know all
how that, through the mercy, OF Provi-
dence you have been reunited with your
hunored parents, long supposed 10 have
been with God, their name and quality 1
know not nor doubt that 1t is most hon
orable did think to receive letter
FROM. you ere | left the Hail. yet none
came, so ! insulted Sir John and took
Warlock who is mine of a right and |
am come to Boston TO pay my respects
TO your honored parents and to acquaint
them that | mean 10 wed you as l love
you my honored cozZen.
! further acquaint you that my solicitor,
Mr.. Peter Weaver of Albany, hath news
that my uncle, Sir Terence Cardigan.
Bart is at low ebb OF life being close
to his Maker through much wine and ex-
ts-ses and hath sent for me. but would
not stir peg till / have found you dear
Silver Heels TO ask you IL you do Still
love that foolish lad who will sooH be
ever the same Micky TO you, though IL
war comes to US doubt not that my title
and estate will be confiscated In as much
as l shall embrace the cause of the colo
nies and do what harm l may to the SOL
diers of our King.
Ny sweet Silver Heels, this letter 10 to
be delivered to your solicitor Mr.. Thomas
Foxcroft and by him instantly into your
own hands, there being nothing In II not
honorable and proper, l strive in vain to
shake OF the depression which 40 weighs
down my heart that It is heavy with the
dread that all may not be we'll with you,
for do distrust Sir John his word. and
] do despise him heartily and deem 1t
strange that he did conduct you to Bos-
ton under pretense OF a business affair
which he has since refused to discuss
Dear maid, II your honorable parents
will permit shall this day venture to
present myself and formally demand your
hand In that sweet alliance which even
death cannot end but must perforce rem
der immortal for all time Your faithful
and obedient servant and devoted lover,
MICHAEL CARDIGAN.
The writing of this letter comforted
me. / directed Ii to Miss Warren. in
care of Mr.. Thomas Foxcroft TO be
delivered Immediately" and summon
Ing servant charged him to bear ii
instantly to Mr.. FoXcroft.
at is but step to Queen street" |
said to the lank lad, - If by chance
the young lady herself be living there
you shall wait her pleasure and bring
me my answer" And gave him three
bright shillings.
"You will go with me, JackT' ask
ed as the messenger vanished.
Mount, sprawling by the window,
turned his massive head toward me
like somber eyed mastiff.
daylight is no friend o. mine," he
said slowly. I'm Boston here they ped
Gle ballads about me and Cade, land
some pulling quill member has writ a
book about me, the same bearing a
gallows on the cover"
YOU'D best look to your neck, then, "
I said. Remember Bishops buxom
daughter on the Philadelphia coach
last night. Where the kitten runs the
catamount prowls.p We1t
Q Two hours had dragged on toward
! their finish, and already the clocks, in
the tavern were tolling the death, of
another hour, when my lank messen-
ger came breathlesS TO the door with
a. letter for me, and at the first glance
l saw that the writing was the hand
of Silver Heels herself, .,r Id
Mount gaped at me; then one of his
rare and delicate instincts moved him
to withdraw | heard him leave the
room, but did not heed his going, for |
was already deep in the pages OF the
letter: ltr f
Dear Lad, My Old Comrade-Mr. Fox
croft did summon me TO consider your
letter of last evening-how it were best
to inform you of what you should know.
Now comes your letter of this morning
by your messenger and leaves me
a-trembie to breathe It's perfume Of the
love which had days since resigned.
For l did write you constantly to
Johnstown in care Of Sir John. and no an
swer came save one from Sir John say
Ing you cared not to- answer me my
letters. This cruel insult from Six John
could not have been the truth in the light
OF the letter now folded in my bosom
and softly rustling nestled against my
breast.
But IL Is plain ito me. dear heart tina,
change has come TO me. And so. before
/ dare give you the answer which burns
my mouth and thrills this poor body o.
mine which aches for. yop. must. for
honor's sake reveal To- yob what mAprft
OF maid gpy would now feurt apd iite
what desperate conditions Il am come
Know then. my friend. that / am hope
lessy poor in this worlds goods, know
too. that the new name 1 bear is a name
markeul for pityf on contempt by those
/ few who have not long since forgotten IL.
II is the death of my pride to say this.
Yet / say Il.
" My father Is old and broken, His facul-
Ties have failed; he is li<e child who
/ forgets what his tongue utters, even while
voicing his harmless desires. His prop
| serty Is gone he does not know It. He
sees around him the shadows Of the past
he talks with the dead as though they
at at his elbow.
His house is-an empty shell; his lands
have grown intosthicksts: his estate ID
lest to him through taxes long unpaid
Believe me. dear friend. It Ii pitifui and
sSd-sad psst all have ever known.
For me. too, Il II 80 strange. 80 hope
lsn. that even after these lQpg days. II
= still an untrue dream from which
seem TOO weary and stunned to rouse
and drive the gray vision from me.
Dear heart would you take me, even