The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-24
CHAPTER XIV.
The End and the Beginning.

When Murrell was brought to trial hi:
! lawyers were able to produce a host OF
witnesses whose sworn testimony showed
! that so simple a thing as perjury had
no terrors for them. His fight for lib
erty was waged in and out of court with
incredible bitterness. and, as judge and
! jury were only human, the outlaw es'
capped with the relatively light sentence
of twelve years Imprisonment. He died
however, before the expiration of his
| term.
The Judge. when he returned to
| Raleigh, resumed his own name of Tur-
berviIIe, and he allowed 1t to be known
! that he would not be offended by the
prefix Of general During his absence he
had accumulated a wealth of evidence
of undOubted authenticity, with the re-
suit that his claim against the Fentress
estate was sustained by the courts, and
when The Oaks" with its stock and
slaves, was offered for sale, he, as the
principal creditor, was able to buy II in.
| NOne of his first acts after taking pos
session Of the property was to have
MahafTy reinterred in the grove of oaks
below his bedroom windows, and he
marked the spot with a great square of
granite. The Judge. visibly shaken by
his emotions saw the massive bowler
go into place.
Harsh and rugged like the nature Of
him who lies beneath it-but enduring,
too, as he was" he murmured. He turn
ed to Yancy and Hannibal, and added {:
You will lay me beside him when I
die"
Then when the bitter struggle came
and he was wrenched and tortured by
longings, his strength was in remem-
bering his promise to the dead man, and
1t was his custom to go out under the
oaks and pace to and fro beside Ma
haffys grave until he had gained the
mastery of himself. Only Yancy and
was he waged. yet in the end he won
that best earned of all victories, the
victory over himself.
my salvation has been a costly thing;
il was bought with the blood Of my
friend" he told Yancy.
1t was Hannibars privilege to give
Cavendish out OF the vast Quinard tract
such a farm as the earl had never
leaned of owning even in his most
rvid moments Of imagining; and he
abandoned all idea of going to England
to claim his title. At the judges sug-
gestion he named the place Earl's Court.
He and Polly were entirely satisfied
with their surroundings. and never ceased
to congratulate themselves that they
had left Lincoln County. They felt that
their friends, the Carringtons at Belle
Plain, though untitled people, were still
OF an equal rank with themselves: while
as for the Judge, they doubted IL royal
ty itself laid 1t any over him.
Mr.. Yancy accepted his changed for
tunes with philosophic eomposure. Tech
nicaIly he filled the position of over
seer at THE Oaks" but the judges ac-
tivity was so great that this position
was largely a sinecure. The most ar
duous work he performed was spending
his wages.
Certain trifing peculiarities survived
with the Judge even after he had en-
tered. what he had once been prone to
call the Portal of Hopes for while his
charity was very great and he lived
with the splendid air OF plenty that be-
longed to an older order, II required
tact. patience, and persistence to trans
act business with him; and his creditors,
OF whom there were always Q respect