Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-02-18

winter of 1882, which was not many
months before the final departure OF
the British power from the city.
SO he must have possessed measure
of shrewdness with his obstinacy ana
q spirit not to be crushed by atfliction.
He had a daughter Marjory, who
had inherited her mothers beauty ana
her fathers indomitable courage, per-
haps some of his obstinacy as well, for
when there came at last difference OF
opinion between them she did not
yield even to his iron will.
The cause of this difference was
handsome young officer of the guards,
a soldier of the king, and therefore III
the eyes of Lynde natural enemy
But he was not natural enemy in the
eyes Of Marjory. He was an officer and
a gentleman, doing his duty as his
conscience commanded and his circum'
stances permitted
Marjory was a patriot, but she was
a woman, and it seemed reasonable
enough to her that Captain Asgill
should be a good man, while every
other British soldier was an abhorred
invader and the minion of tyrant.
She was not swayed by personal
preference for Captain Asgill, she as,
sured her father, but simply by he1
sense of justice.
1t was inconceivable to Lynde that
his daughter could love redcoat
She had seen her mother fade and
perish from the mere stress of their
intolerable situation, as much a vic.
tim of the horrors of war as any sol
der slain in battle. Her two brothers
had served in the patriot armies, and
one had died of sickness and the other
of wound.
But Marjory knew or felt that Cap
tain Asgill was not responsible for
these ills, or at least she could not feel
that he was, and she did not relin-
quish his acquaintance despite her ia
theirs wish.
Captain Asgill did not visit her, be.
cause he knew Lynde's sentiments,
which he hoped to overcome, but there
were lWO VI I'LL cG III tiC iittl
row circle of Marjory's social life
where Asgill by the exercise of a
lovers ingenuity could see her now
and then in the company of others.
Upon a certain evening in April he
came hurriedly to her house. Marjory
saw him entering by the gate, and
she knew by his manner and indeed
by his mere presence there that no or
binary errand had brought him.
She met him in the hall, the broad
door being open and the full moon
shining in upon her, and a pretty CIR
in the moonlight was the same hun
Gred years ago or thousand.
A sudden impulse of tenderness
swayed Asgill uncontrollably. He eX
tended both hands and drew Marjory
toward him, and at that momen
Thomas Lynde stumped out into thu
hall.
The scene was very brief, and Mar
jury was banished at the beginning.
The next minute, as it seemed tt
her, Asgill was gone, and she did no
know why he had come or what HI
had meant to say or do.
Il gave him his walking papers,
said Thomas Lynde and added grimly
"Now it remains to be seen what IL
will do to me. That young rascal ha
influence, my girl. He would like m
out of the way perhaps"
One week later Lynde was arrested
and imprisoned by order of the boar(
of royalists, and Marjory was left II
terrifying loneliness, utterly helpless
SO far as any attempt to rescue he
father was concerned, and very scanti
iy informed as to his situation.
Any prisoner was in peril. SO mucl
she knew. And this knowledge wa
presently made doubly sure by tn
ntrociOus murder of Captain Joshu
Hubby, IN American officer who wa
taken from the military prison in NeN
York by party of soldiers under tn
infamous I.ippincott and hanged as a
act of vengeance for the death of on
White, u plundering guerrilla.
Lippincott placarded the body wit
the line, up Goes Huddy For Phil
WHITE" words which were soon o.
every lip and were excellently calcu