The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-12-17

! ing restraint between Mr.. Henry IN
my lady, a great Joy to me.
! This action resulted In the master
return to us, a great curse to til
household; for in all matters of col
tention. though Mr.. Henry might b
right, the master had the trick Of Sc,
ting him in the wrong. He still d.
handed money, and, to satisfy hin
the entail IA broken and q grea
piece of land sold; and all the Will
he ceased not to lay siege to the hear
of Mrs. Henry. carrying 1t on so deftl.
that / scarce knew If she was awar
Of it herself. she whom I doubt no
still loved him.
This brings me to the night wheI
he laid the most unbearable of insult.
on Mr.. Henry. II never knew a won
an" said the master, "who did no
prefer me, norI think-who did mo-
continue to prefer me to you" Al
which Mr.. Henry coldly struck him or
the mouth.
"A blow" cried the master. II will
not take a blow from God Almighty ]
must have blood for this! !"
They fought beyond the -shrubbery,
/ bringing the candles for them. From
the first MI. Henry showed himself
the stronger, which so surprised and
confused the master that he tried foul
play, but got only the length Of Mr..
Henry's sword through the body. He
fell. apparently lifeless.
Mr.. Henry shook with sobs. I led
him into the house. and told the old
lord and my lady; but going back to
bring in the body, / found it gone. A
good radiance, i thought, whether dead
or alive, but the nights work threw
Mr., Henry into a fever, and his mind
was never again the same clear mind
as Of old.
The old lord died, and to my lady
and Mr.. Henry, now my lord, was born
a boy. and to that boy my lord became
a slave, which had not been SO with
his first child, Katherine. He would
pass by his wife as though she were a
dog before the hearth to come at the
boy. Without doubt this was In the
of a judgment on my lady, she
who had been so cold so many years
to every mark of his tenderness: but
to me 1t was mOnStrOus, and / was en-
boldened much as l loved him, to say
so; but my saying SO only served to
send my lord sick to bed and to earn
for me from my lord the word that /
was no better than an old maid.
This brings me to that morning In
April 1764, that the master returned
US again, this time with an Indian
servant. With his return my lord. and
lady, / urging them on, took ship for
New York, where my lady had prop
arty through her father. This voyage
/ thought, will at one stroke rio
them Of the master and weave them
loser together.
Twenty days Ii took the master to
earn where they had gone; where
Upon he also sailed for New York, and
on the same ship, praying that she
would go down. even with myself
With her. if II would but take
he master also. l looked forward
With woe to the day he should set foot
n New York but u ship was a slow
ailer, and other ships which sailed
alter arrived before US; so it hap
that my lord had word of the
laster's coming and prepared for him.
here was suspicion of more than one
it seems, to the masters hand
uring the earlier stay he made in
.merica, and SO now he found it q bet
business to leave New York and
unit Gin the wilderness for that treas
re which he had buried so many
ears before.
At this time all the evil the master
ad done seemed borne in q food upon
y lords brain. He became moody
took TO drink. There has been
Tx that he connived with the crew
hich the master had hired for his ex-
bribing the leaders to make a.,
ay with his brother. There is no
'idence Of that, but it is true that the A.,
Indian servant to save his
'e, as he said, did bury him alive,
18th the intent to resurrect and re-
ore him later by the agency of some
cret oriental trick.
My lord and a party. I being of ii, :
llowed the master, and it was when
e East Indian was lifting his body =
PM the grave that we came upon y
1 thought for a moment that
e eyelids fiuttered. Others say that
e lips strove to speak, that his teeth -
owed through his beard. which may 6
We been, for / vas busy elsewhere, >,
at the first disclosure of the dead =,
ms eyes, my lord had fallen to the "
ound. When / raised him he was q
rpse.
buried him there; my lady laid
equal stone to each; and there
lere they died. side by side, they lie
this day.
Upright. 1919 by Post Publishing Co.. l
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