The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-22
SYNOPSIS OF STORY.

Chapter/1-Harry Wingfield, mar.
-ator of the story, is tutor to Mary
cavendish. a belle of the colony OF
Virginia in 1852. and accompanies her
On a ride to church He discovers
her implication in conspiracy
against the king. She has imported
Arms and ammunition to aid in the
plot
III and III-Wingfield's past life IN
England. Although heir to large es-
tates and well educated, he is now
deported convict in Virginia. Wing
field is devoted to his pupil.
" and V-Sir Humphrey Hyde, in
love with Mary, is with her in the
plot, which is laid for the purpose or
cutting down the young tobacco
plants and thus depriving the king
Of his revenue under the unjust navi
cation act.
VI and vII-Mayday frolics at
Drake Hill. home of Wingfield and
Mary. Catherine Cavendish beseech-
es the tutor to save her sister from
participation in the conspiracy.
vIII-Harry and Catherine conspire
to keep knowledge of the plot from
Madam Cavendish, the girls grand
mother, who is a stanch royalist. TX
MARY is deceived by Wipgfeld into
thinking that Catherine hf< purchased
finery for her, the real bethefactor be-
ing Wingfield, his object being not on
BY to please her, but also to prevent
Madam Cavendish from learning of
the disposition of Mary's own money.
which has been expended for the
arms.
X-Catherine, who knows why
Wingfield is unjustly exiled, upbraids
him for deceiving Mary. Planning to
hid the arms and ammunition.
XI-Madam Cavendish. whose ST.
hence about Winfield's innocence
shields her own granddaughter, Cath
erine, wishes him to wed Mary. Wing
field is guided by a witch to secure
hiding place for the arms. XII-The
grand ball at the governors, with
Mary as belle. She reveals her af.
lection for Wingfield.
XIII and XIV-The development of
the plot to fight the king.
XV-Catherine and Mary both avow
their love for Harry.
XVI and XVII--The conspiracy
comes to a head with the departure of
the governor, and the young tobacco
Iplants are cut down by the conspira- |
TORS.
XVII-A fight with the militia. who
seek to prevent the destruction of
/ the crop. Wingfield is wounded
while saving Mary, Catherine and
|Sir Humphrey Hyde. XIX--A pris
oner I'm the hands of the authorities
for trying to defraud the king Of his
revenue. Wherein the mystery
of wingfelds alleged English crime
lis cleared up. and IL is shown that
| he suffered exile and contumely in
silence to shield Catherine. sister of
bis sweetheart, she being also sus
pected unjustly. XXl-Condemned,
for the tobacco plot. to be mock for
the populacc.
CATHERINE y. when none
|hut woran h6tu. Rlnce Il pertains
both 10 love and authority. brought me
Ito my a~neca, aud I grew both brave
And ahnmed at tho same time. and ye;
after she had gone never was anythlns
like tho atiug or that igpominy which
was prepared for me on the morrow,
Many n time had ! seen men in the
ridicule. for that. IL seemed 10 me. he.
lonced To tho same class of folk rs the
culprits, but with n sort of contempt
which held them as less than men and
below pity even. The thought that
some day |. too. was 10 sit there had
never entered my head. / looked at my
two feet uphoiding the coverlid and pic
tured 10 myself how they would look
protruding from the boards of the
stocks.
/ recalled the faces of all had ever
seen therein and wondered whether /
would look like this or that one. / re-
membered seeing them pelted by mis-
chievous boys. and as the dusk thick
ened il seemed alive with jeering faces
and my ears rang with jibes. 1 said to
myself that now Mary Cavendish was
farther from me than ever before
Some dignity of wretchedness there
might be in the fate of convict con-
demned unjustly, but none in the fate
OF man who sat in the stocks for all
the people TO gaze and laugh at
l said to myself that that cruelest
fate of any-to be made ridiculous in
the eyes of love-was come to me- and
And thinking so. those grinning and
jibbering faces multiplied. and the air
rang with laughter, and / trow l was
in a high fever all night
CHAPTER xxi.