Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-07-16

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This action nesulted In the masters
return to us. a great curse to the
household; for in all matters of con-
tention. though Mr.. Henry might be
right, the master had the trick OF set
ting him in the wrong. He still de-
manded money, and. to satisfy him,
the entail was broken and a great
piece of land sold; and all the while
he ceased not to lay siege to the heart
Of Mrs. Henry, carrying 1t on so deftly
| that l scarce knew II she was aware
of 1t herself. she whom doubt not
still loved him.
This brings me to the night when
he laid the most unbearable Of insults
| on Mr.. Henry. II never knew a wom-
an" said the master, "who did not
prefer me, nor-I think-who did not
continue to prefer me to you" At
which Mr.. Henry coldly struck him on
the mouth.
"a blowi" cried the master. 81 will
not take blow from God Almighty
must have blood for thisr'
They fought beyond the shrubbery.
bringing the candles for them. From
the first Mr.. 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. l found it gone. A
good radiance, 1 thought, whether dead
or alive, but the nights work threw
Mr.. Henry into 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 slave, which had not been so with
F., 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
nature of judgment on my lady, she
|
| to every mark of his tenderness; but
| to me it was monstrous, and was en-
boldened much as 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 l
was no better than an old maid.
This brings me to that morning in
| April 1884, that the master returned
to 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
erty through her father. This voyage,
so thought, will at one stroke rid
them of the master and weave them
closer together.
Twenty days 1t took the master to
learn where they had gone; where
| upon he also sailed for New York, and
I on the same ship. praying that she
would go down, even with myself
with her, if it would but take
| the master also. / looked forward
with woe to the day he should set foot
in New York; but our ship was slow
sailer, and other ships which sailed
later arrived before us; so 1t hap,
pened that my lord had word Of the
masters coming and prepared for him.
There was suspicion Of more than one
murder, it seems to the masters hand
during the earlier stay he made In
America, and so now he found it a bet
ter business to leave New York and
hunt in the wilderness for that treas
ure which he had buried so many
years before.
At this time all the evil the master
had done seemed borne in d flood upon
my lords brain. He became moody
and took to drink. There has been
talk that he connived with the crew
| which the master had hired for his ex-
petition. bribing the leaders to make
way with his brother. There is no
evidence of that. but it is true that the
masters Indian servant to save his
life, as he said. did bury him alive,
with the intent to resurrect and re-
store him later by the agency of some
secret oriental trick.
My lord and a party, / being Of it,
followed the master, and 1t was when
the East Indian was lifting his body
from the grave that we came upon
them. I thought for moment that
the eyelids fluttered. Others say that
the lips strove to speak, that his teeth
showed through his beard, which may
have been, for was busy elsewhere
for at the first disclosure Of the dead
mans eyes, my lord had fallen to the
ground. When raised him he was a
corpse.
buried him there; my lady laid
an equal stone to each; and there
where they died, side by side. they lie
to this day.
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