The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-17

sort Of appeal. why 90 sou HOT 90
! OFT into the garden and help to gather
| the rose IeavesT'
Then, before / could answer, as if
| angry with herself at her own folly,
| she called out to Mary's little black
maid Sukey, TO bid her mistress come
in from the garden and spin. But be-
fore the maid started l said low in
Madam Cayendish's ear, Madam.
think you not that the sweet air of the
garden is better for her after the bail
than the hot hall and the labor at the
wheelF" And she gave one look at
me, and called ont to Sukey that she
need not speak to her mistress, and
went inside 10 her owa work and left
me to go my way.
was relieved in my mind that she
did not ask me whittier, since If she
had I should have been driven to one
of those broadsides of falsehood in a
good cause for which / regret the
necessity, but admit it, and If 1t be to
my souls hurt I care not SO long as /
save the other party by it.
was bound for Barry Upper
Branch and rode tEither as fast as I
could, for 1 contemplated asking the
Barry brothers to aid me in the re-
novel of Mistress Mary's contraband
goods and was anxious to lose no more
time about that than I could avoid.
I was set upon Major Robert Bever-
ly's tomb as a most desirable hiding
place for them, and knowing that there
was a meeting of the assembly that
evening at the governors to discuss
some matters in private before he sail
ed for England, Major Beverly being
clerk, I thought that before the moon
was up would be favorable time for
the removal, but 1 could not move the
goods alone, remembering how those
sturdy sailors tu9eed at them and nnt
sleeming it well to get any aid from the
slaves.
So I rode straight to Barry Upper
Branch, and a handsome black wo-
man in a Haunting gown, with a great
display of beads and an orange silk
scarf twisted about her head, came to
parley with me and told me that both
the brothers were away. and added that
she thought 1 should find them at the
tavern.
The tavern was brick building
Astounding in sharp slants of roof and
dimmed in outline by a spreading
cloud of new leaved branches, and
there was one great honey locust which |
was a marvel to be seen, and hummed |
with bees with mighty drone as of |
all the spinning wheels in the country, /
and the sweetness of it blew down up
on one passing under, like a wind of I
breath. And before the tavern were |
tied, stamping and shaking their heads
for the early flies, many fine horses,
and among them Parson Downs and
the Barry brothers, and from within
the tavern came the sound of laughter
in discordant shouts and now and then
a snatch of a song. Then great
hoarse rumble of voice would cap the
rest, telling some loose story, then the
laughter would follow-enough, it
to make the roof shake-and
all the time the hum Of the bees in
he honey locust outside went on.
Before l entered the tavern out burst
Parson Downs and caught hold of me
with a great shout of welcome. Half
trunk he was and yet with marvel
,us steadiness on his legs and a COM
u HIS VOICE. W uICu WOuiu nave
lone him credit in the pulpit. 1t was
aid that this great parson could drink
more fiery liquor and not betray it
han any other man in the colony, and
Sick Barry, who was something of a
vag, said that the parsons wrestlings
With spirits of another sort had rem
Tered him powerful in his encounters
With these also. Be that as 1T may,
hough l doubt not Parson Downs had
trunk more than any man there, no
ign of it was in his appearance ex-
ept that his boisterousness was some
hing enhanced and his hand on my
boulder fevered
Good day, good day, Master Harry
yingfield,' he shouted. How goes !
The Barry brothers
and Captain Jnynes