The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-13

hplantS and thus deprlylnS the klne
bf his revenue under the unjust navi
cation act.
what matters it to poor Cicei :,
whether her own face be fair or not
SO long as it is dear to thee and so long
ms she can see thine she cried as pas
sionately as lad might have done, and
I frowDed. not with jealousy, but With
n curious dislike to such affection from
pne maid to another, which could new
er understand in myself. Had Cicely
Hyde had q lover she would have said
that fond speech to him instead of
Mary Cavendish, but lover she had
none
But all at once the two maids nudged
pne another and turned their faces,
all convulsed with merriment, and l
looked and saw that the poor little
black lass had crept on hands and
knees to where the mirror flashed in
the grass and was looking at her face
therein with such anxiety as might
move one at once to tears and laughter
to see if the dew had washed her
white
But Mary Cavendish ceased all in a
minute her mirth and went up to the
black child and took the mirror from
her and said in the sweetest voice of
pity 1 ever heard, "'Tis not in one
May dew nor two, nor perchance in the
lews Of many years, you can wash
your face white, but some time it will
be-"
Then the black wench burst into
Tears and begged in that thick, slug
gishly sweet tongue of hers to know if
over the May dew would wash her
black away, and Mistress Mary an
swered as seriously as if she were in
the pulpit on the Sabbath day that it
would some time most surely, and she
should see her face in the glass as fair
hs any.
Then the two maids, Mary Cayen-
dish and Cicely Hyde, went into the
house. and left me, as 1 said before,
10 wonder at that spirit of youth which
ban all in n minute disregard care and
hnxiety and risk of death for the play
bf vanity. But, after all, which be
stronger wars and rumors of wars or
Fanity? And which be older. and which
Gathered the other?
After the house door had shut behind
: he maidens. l too went out, but not
! o wash my grim mans face in May
flew, but rather for n stroll in the morn
ing air and the clearing of my wits for
reflection, for much l wondered what
course I should take regarding my dis
tovery of the night before. l went
|lown the road toward jamestown and
IL ,r,tr e s - 10 Hx,
same that we had taken the day before,
nut there were no masts of the Golden
Torn rising :nong the trees with a
surprise of straightness. She had
Weighed anchor and sailed away over
hight, and possibly before.
The more I reflected the more I'M
ferstood that Mistress Mary Caven-
Fish, with her ready wit and supply of
money through her inheritance from
ier mother. might have concocted the
scheme of bringing over ammunition
from England to enable us to make a
stand against the government. but the
plot in the first of it could not have
been hers alone. Assuredly Ralph
Drake was concerned in it. and Sir
humphrey Hyde. and no one knew
Mistress Mary might well have been
he furnishing of the powder and shot.
'or Ralph Drake was poor, and lived,
{ was said. by his good luck at cards.
md as for Sir Humphrey Hyde. his
mother held the reins in those soft
hands of hers. which would have been
'orely bruised had they been with
irawn too roughly.
1 sat me down on glittering ridge
II rock near the river bank and watch
a the blue run of the water and twist
Il the matter this and that way in
ny mind. for 1 was sorely perplexed. |
Never did l feel as then the hamper |
# my position. for man who was |
:eld in such esteem as l by some and /
by others, and while having |
-oice had no authority to maintain il. |
vas neither flesh nor fowl nor slave
Tor master.
Madam Cayendish treated me in all
respects as the equal of herself and |
Ter family-nay. more than that. she 1
deferred TO me in such fashion as I /
iad never seen in her toward any
,ne-but Catherine treated me ever
With iciness of contempt. which l at |
hat time conceived to be but that |
of blame from her own /
self to a scapegoat of wrongdoing /
which IL q resort OF ignoble souls /
they will have others not only suffer /
or their own sin. but even treat them 4
With the sccrn due themselves.
And not one man was there in the |