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CHAPTER XIV Continued
I will give it to him again With
uny own hands I will give it to him
-once more Oh Richard my lover
my husband Now I will hajten to
seo thee
She reached London the next night
-and weary and terrified drove at
once to the small hostlery where
Hyde lay
Katherine he cried and his
-voice was as weak and as tearful as
that of a troubled child
Here come I my dear one
Oh how you love me Kathei e
She took from her bosom tin St
Nicholas ribbon I give it to thee
again At the first time I loved thee
now my husband ten thousand times
more I love thee As I went through
the papers I found it
And between their clasped hands it
lay the bit of orange ribbon that had
handseled all their happiness
It is the promise of everything I
can give thee my loved one whls
perod Kafiierine
It is the luck of Richard Hyde
Dearest wife thou hast given me my
ife back again
CHAPTER XV
Turning Westward
It was a hot August afternoon and
Hyde sat at an open window at Hyde
Manor He was pale and wasted from
his long sickness but there was spec
ulation and purpose in his face and
ho had evidently cast away the mental
apathy of the invalid As he sat thus
a servant entered and said a few
words which made him turn with a
glad expectant manner to the open
door and as he did so a man of near
sixty years of age passed through it
a handsome lordly looking man
who had that striking personal re
semblance to Hyde which affectionate
brothers often have to one another
Faith William you are welcome
home How delighted I am to see
you
Tis twelve years since we met
Dick And Hyde Manor is a miracle
I expected to find it mouldy and
mossy On the contrary it is a place
of perfect beauty
And it is all my Katherines doing
She is my angel I am unworthy of
her goodness and beauty
Why then Dick I may as well tell
you that I have also found a treasure
past belief of the same kisdo Hi ct
Dick I am married and have two
sons
There was a moments profound si
lence and an inexplicable shadow
passed rapidly over Hydes face but
it was fleeting as a thought and ere
the pause became strained and pain
ful he turned to his brother and said
I am glad William With alL my
heart I am glad
I was married very quietly and
have been in Italy ever since I was
told that you had left the army
That is exactly true When I
heard that Lord Percys regiment was
designed for America and against the
Americans I put it out of the kings
power to send me on such a busi
ness
Indeed I think the Americans have
been ill used and I find the town in
a great commotion upon the matter
The people of New York have burned
eiBgies of Lord North and Gov Hutch
inson and the new troops were no
sooner landed than five hundred of
them deserted in a body
Hydes white face was crimson with
excitement and his eyes glowed like
stars as he listened That was like
New York and faith if I had been
there I would have helped them
Why not go there I owe you
much for the hope of which my hap
piness has robbed you I will take
Hyde Manor at its highest price I
will add to it fifty thousand pounds
Indemnity for the loss of the succes
sion You may buy land enough for
a duchy there and found in the New
World a new line of the old family
Dick my dear brother out of real
love and honor I speak these words
Indeed William I am very sensible
of your kindness and I will consider
well your proposition I think in-
deed that my Katherine will be in a
transport of delight to return to her
native land
Almost with the words she entered
clothed in a white India muslin with
carnations at her breast The earl
bowed low and then kissed her cheeks
and led her to a chair which he
placed between Hyde and himself
Katherine was predisposed to emi
gration but yet she dearly loved the
home she had made so beautiful Dur
ing Hydes convalescence also other
plans had become very hopeful and
pleasant and they could not be cast
aside without some reluctance
It was on a cold stormy afternoon
in February when the Urns were
white with snow Hyde sat by the bjg
wood fire re reading a letter from
Joris Van Heemskirk whicb also in
closed a copy of Josiah Qulncys
speech on the Boston Fort JB1H Kath
erine had a piece of worsted work in
her hands
It was at this moment Lettico came
in with a bundle of newspapers They
he brought by Sir Thomas Swaffhams
man sir with Sir Thomas compli
ments there being news he thinks
you would like to read sir
Hyde opened the papers with eager
curiosity and read the news from
America
I must draw my sword again
Katherine he said as his hand im
pulsively went to his left side I
thought I had done with it forever
but by St George Ill draw it In this
quarrel
The American quarrel Richard
No other could so move me Every
good man and true wishes them well
Are you willing
Only to be with youonly to please
you Richard I have no other happi
ness
Then it is settled The earl buys
Hyde as it stands we have nothing
except our personal effects to pack
Write to night to your father Tell
him that we are coming in two weeks
to cast our lot with America
When Joris Van Heemskirk received
this letter he was very much excited
by its contents
He was sitting in the calm evening
with unloosened buckles in a cloud
of fragrant tobacco talking of these
things Then he put on his hat and
walked down his garden He was
standing on the river bank and the
meadows over It were green and fair
to see and the fresh wind blew into
his soul a thought of its own un
trammeled liberty He looked up and
down tlie river and lifted his face to
the clear sky and said aloud Beauti
lul land To be thy children we
should not deserve if one inch of thy
soil we yielded to a tyrant Truly a
vaderland to me and to mine thou
hast been Truly do I love thee
Then with his mind Liade up he
went into the house
In a few minutes Elder Semple came
In He looked exceedingly worried
and although Joris and he avoided
politics by a kind of tacit agreement
he could not keep to kirk and com
mercial matters but constantly re
turned to one subject a vessel lying
at Murrays wharf which had sold
her cargo of molasses and rum to the
Committee of Safety
Joris let the elder drift from one
grievance to another and he was just
in the middle of a sentence contain
ing the opinion of Sears and Willet
when Brams entrance arrested it He
walked straight to the side of Joris
Father we have closed his majes
tys custom house forever
We Who then Bram
The Committee of Safety and the
Sons of Liberty
Semple rose to his feet trembling
with passion Let me tell you then
Bram you are a parcel o rogues and
rebels and if I were his majesty Id
gibbet the last ane o you
Patience elder Sit down Ill
speak
No councillor Ill no sit down un
til I ken what kind o men Im sitting
wi Oot wi your maist secret thoughts
Wha are you for
For the people and for freedom am
I said Joris calmly rising to his
feet Too long have we borne injus
tice Bram my son I am your com
rade in this quarrel He spoke with
fervent but not rapid speech and with
a firm round voice full of magical
sympathies
Ill hear nae mair o such folly
Gie me my bonnet and plaid madam
and Ill be going I hope the morn
will bring you a measure o common
sense He was at the door as he
spoke but ere he passed it he lifted
his bonnet above his head and said
God save the king God save his
gracious majesty George of Eng
land
Joris turned to his son To shut up
the kings customs was an overt act of
treason Bram then had fully com
mitted himself and following out his
own thoughts he asked abruptly
What will come of it Bram
War will come and liberty a
great commonwealth a great coun
try
In the meantime Semple fuming
and ejaculating was making his way
slowly home However before he had
gone very far he was overtaken by
his son Neil now a very staid and
stately gentleman holding under the
government a high legal position in
the investigation of the disputed New
Hampshire grants
He listened respectfully to his fath
ers animadversions on the folly of
the Van Heemskirks but he was
thinking mainly of the first news told
him the early return of Katherine
He was conscious that he still loved
Katherine and that he still hated
Hyde So Neil was somber and silent
His father was uncertain as to his
views and he did not want to force or
hurry a decision
Next morning when the elder
reached the store the clerks and por
ters were all standing together talk
ing He knew quite well what topic
they were discussing with such eager
movements and excited speech But
they dispersed to their work at the
sight of his sour stern face and ho
did not intend to open a fresh dispute
by any question
Apprentices and clerks then showed
a great deal of deference to their mas
ters and Elder Semple demanded the
full measure due to him Something
however in the carriage in the faces
in the very tones of his servants
voices offended him and he soon
discovered that various small duties
had been neglected
Listen to me lads he said angrily
Ill have nae politics mixed up wi
my exports and imports Neither king
nor Congress has aught to do wi my
business and if there is among you
ane o them fools that ca themselves
the Sons o Liberty Ill pay him what
ever I owe him now and he can
gang to Madam Liberty for his future
wage
He waa standing on the step of his
high counting desk as he spoke and
he peered over the little wooden rail
ing at the -men scattered about with
pens or hammers or goods in their
hands There was a moments silence
then a -middle-aged man quietly laid
down the tools with which he was
closing a box and walked up to the
desk The next moment every one
in the place had followed him Sem
ple was amazed and angry but he
made no sign of either emotion He
counted to the most accurate fraction
every ones due and let them go with
out one word of remonstrance
But as soon as he was alone he felt
the full bitterness of their desertion
and he could not keep the tears out of
his eyes as he looked at their empty
places
At this juncture Nell entered the
store Heres a bonnie pass Neil
every man has left the store I may
as weel put up the shutters
There are other men to be hired
They were maistly at auld stand
bys auld married men that ought to
have had malr sense
The married men are the trouble
makers the women have hatched and
nursed this rebellion If they would
only spin their webs and mind their
knitting
But they willna Neil and they
never would If theres a pot o re
bellion brewing between the twa
poles women will be dabbling in it
They have aye been against lawfu
authority The restraints o paradise
was tyranny to them And they get
worse and -worse it isna ane apple
would do them the noo theyd strip
the tree my lad to its vera topmost
branch
You ought to know father I
have small and sad experience with
them
Sae I hope youll stand by my
side We twa can keep the house
thegither If we are a right the gov
ernment will whistle by a womans
talk
Did you not say Katherine was
coming back
I did that See there again Hyde
has dropped his uniform and sold a
that he has and is coming to fight in
a quarrel thats nane o his Heard
you ever such foolishness But it is
Katherines doing theres little doot
o that
Hes turned rebel then
Ay has he Thats what women do
Politics and rebellion Is the same
thing to them
Well father I shall not turn rebel
Oh Neil you take a load off my
heart by thae words
I have nothing against the king
and I could not be Hydes comrade
To be continued
GESTURES IN GENERAL USE
Motions That Are Common to All Na
tions of the Earth
Certain gestures are absolutely
identified with certain feelings To
shake ones fist is to threaten to
hold up ones finger is to warn To In
dicate thought we place the tips of
the fingers on the forehead to show
concentrated attention we apply the
whole hand To rub the hands is
everywhere a sign of joy and to clap
them a sign of enthusiasm It would
be easy to multiply examples Af
firmation negation repulsion are all
indicated by motions that every one
understands
It is the same in quite as great a
degree with nationalities in spite of
the original diversity of the races that
make them up The mimetic cnar
acter results at once from race from
history and from climate
The gesture of the Englishman is
fierce and harsh he speaks briefly
brusquely he is cold positive force
ful His salutation is cold and accen
tuated but his handshake is loyal
The gesture of Germany is heavy
good humored and always ungraceful
Many of the Slav people are unwilling
to look one in the face and they have
a false gesture
The Spaniard and the Portuguese
although dwelling in a Southern land
gesticulate little their language is
rythmic slow solemn they are grave
their salutation is a little theatrical
The Italian is lively mobile intel
ligent gay his language is harmo
nious sonorous warm and luminous
like his countrys sky The salutation
of the Italian is quick and full of
feeling his gestures colored and ex
aggerated
Won the Old Man
Sir he said to her father this
is a practical world The spirit of
commercialism cannot be throttled by
the tender bonds of sentiment Per
haps you have noticed this
I cannot say I have replied the
stern parent but that neednt detain
you
Of course not said the youth with
an affable smile What I was about
to say is that while I am sitting up
courting your daughter I feel that it
would be no more than fair to offer
to pay for the gas I assist in consum
ing
Good said the old man And
how about the coal Do you expect
me to throw that in
Certainly not cried the youth
Ill gladly throw in the coal Sless
you I worked my way through college
tending a furnace
And the old man smiled approv
ingly
The real difference between men t3
energy A strong will a settled pur
pose an invincible determination can
accomplish almost anything and in
this lies the distinction between
great men and little men Fuller
IN LINCOLNS BIRTHPLACE
Woman Living in New EngleLnd Whose Father Was Born in the
Historic Log Gabin Stories of the Early Days
Lincoln has been dead thirty eight
years
Most of those who personally knew
him have also passed on into silence
and like Washington he has become
in the popular mind a sort of mystical
figure associated with a bygone age of
dramatic heroism a patron saint
Although New England loved Lin
coln as much as any other section of
the country did when it came to know
him yet he was always regarded as a
characteristic product of the pioneer
country and although efforts not alto
gether successful have been made to
show that he was of Hingham ances
try never till now has Massachusetts
been conscious of the presence in this
locality of any living connection be
tween the immortal rail splitter and
our own soil
Nevertheless for seventeen years
one of the environs of Boston has har
bored a woman who makes the proud
boast that her father and Abraham
Lincoln were first cousins that both-
their bill of fare the greater part of
the time
JMy grandparents Levi Hall and
Martha Hanks- both died of the milk
sick in Indiana in 1818 about the
same time that Lincolns mother
Nancy Hanks and her uncle and aunt
Sparrow died All were burled to
gether in rude coffins construced by
Thomas Lincoln who was now a wid
ower with two small children After
Lincoln became President someone
erected a monument over his mothers
grave in the Wilderness but Aunt
Roseanne told me that the selection of
the grave for the monument must
have been mere guesswork since none
of the graves had ever been marked
and there was no means of identifying
any one of them
Coming to the subject of the migra
tion of the survivors of the three fami
lies from Indiana to Illinois Mrs
Moore says
Joseph Hanks who taught Thomas
Lincoln Abes t father the carpenters
tell me stories of her early life In the
pioneer days in Illinois
One story was In regard to a fresh
et such as used to come almost yearly
to those who lived along the river bot
toms eighty years or so ago Grandma
went several miles down the rlvor on
a raft ono day to the mill to have
some corn ground leaving the chil
dren in the log house The river had
been threatening to rise for several
days but the children well knew from
former experiences that if the river
invaded the house they were to climb
up on the roof for safety
The river rose while grandma was
away and she toiled laboriously to get
home as soon as she could When she
got nearly home she found ever thing
afloat and as she passed a treo that
was well submerged she thought she
heard a cry from the branches She
paddled to the tree and there found
her baby John Hanks afloat in his
cradle which had been washed through
the door of the cabin and had drifted
were born in the same rude log cabin
in Kentucky but three months apart
in 1809 and that she herself is a
grandniece of Lincolns mother the
famous Nancy Hanks
She is Mrs Nellie M Moore who
was born not many years before the
outbreak of the civil war in the then
exceedingly primitive town of Frank
ford Mo and has been for three
months past a resident of East Pep
perell Mass where her husband
Charles W Moore is engineer in a
mill
Miss Hall for that was Mrs Moores
maiden name spent only the first thir
teen years of her life in Missouri hav
ing been sent to a Kentucky boarding
school at that age She was married
and lived in Louisville for some years
later removed to Cincinnati and after
the death of her husband came East
married Mr Moore a native of Massa
chusetts and they lived for seventeen
years in Atlantic a part of Quincy un
til they removed to Pepperell
When asked to define her relation
ship to the martyred President Mrs
Moore said
My father William S Hall was a
son of Martha Hanks sister of Nancy
Hanks who married Thomas Lincoln
and became the mother of Abraham
Lincoln So you see my father was
first cousin and I was second cousin to
the President
My grandfather who married Mar
tha Hanks was Levi Hall and they
and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were
living together in the little log cabin
in La Rue county Ky in 1809 when
Abraham Lincoln was born there My
father was born three months later in
the same cabin
When questioned as to the antece
dents of the Hanks Lincoln and Hall
families Mrs Moore says it is a tradi
tion of all three families that they
emigrated together from New England
about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania
from there to Virginia and later to
Kentucky as they eventually did to
Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis
souri She has been for some time
engaged in investigating the possible
early connection of the families with
New England and intends to prepare
a genealogy embodying the results of
her labor
Continuing her story of the vicissi
tudes of the Lincoln Hanks and Hall
families Mrs Moore says
My aunt Rosanne Hall -who rode
from her home in Maryland to Ken
tucky behind her husband on his horse
told me that there were Quakers
among my ancestors as there are said
to have been In the Lincoln family
She also said that my great-grandfather
was killed by tho Indians at the
same time that Abraham Lincolns
grandfather was while they were
clearing the ground to plant corn on
their arrival in Kentucky It was she
who told me my father was born in
the Lincoln log cabin
Aunt Rosanne said that Abe Lin
colns mother used to walk five miles
to mill to have her corn ground or to
buy a side of bacon which with corn
meal mush or johnnycake comprised
V
trade just 1C0 years ago was ope of
the first settlers in Illinois having
gone there from Kentucky about 1820
It was his son the famous John
t
Hanks still living in Missouri who in
1830 induced Thomas Lincoln Dennis
Hanks and my father to piill up stakes
and also remove to Illinois where Abe
was destined to achieve that fame that
gained for him the Presidency
Having arrived in Macon county
111 the party which numbered thir
teen settled for a while My father
and Abe Lincoln were in their 21st
year and they with John Hanks Abes
second cousin built the log cabin
which some say was exhibited on Bos
ton Common thirty years or more ago
They also split the famous fence rails
at that time samples of which did
much to arouse the enthusiasm in the
Illinois convention in 1SC0 which se
cured the Presidential nomination for
Lincoln
After serving as major in the Black
Hawk war in which Abe Lincoln was
captain my father became one of the
earliest settlers in Missouri and dur
ing the greater part of his life kept a
tavern first at Hannibal and -later at
Frankford
Frankford used to be visited by In
dians sometimes and if they didnt
find whisky before they arrived they
were harmless and their presence
caused no uneasiness But if they
were drunk the news would quickly
spread and school would be dismissed
for the day
After a while a brick schoolhouse
was built one and one half miles from
town and to get there we had to fight
our way through wild animals and
snakes for Missouri takes the blue
ribbon for snakes At the brick school
we were furnished with a horn and if
wild animals or Indians were seen
prowling about we blew the horn and
the neighboring farmers got their guns
and came to our rescue
When I was a little girl Aunt
Sally Abraham Lincolns stepmother
used to visit us and she frequently
put me to sleep in her arms but I
never thought much about it till I was
grown up and others reminded me of
the distinction I had enjoyed
I often visited around among the
Hankses in my childhood too and my
especial favorite was Grandma Hanks
as we called John Hanks mother wife
lived in what is now known as Quincy
111 I used to hold her skein of yarn
for her when she wound it into a ball
and during the operation she would
about till it found lodgment in the top
of the tree where his mother found it
Another of her stories was about
Guinea niggers I suppose you dont
know what Guinea niggers were do
yqu Well they were hot uncommon
in the days when slaves were brought
from Africa They were very small
in stature and very unprepossessing
in appearance and they were said to be
cannibals
Grandma said that in her youth she
knew a young couple who bought a
pair of Guined niggers One day their
little child disappeared and it was
never seen again They afterward
found that the cannibals had eaten
the child and they were hanged for it
Grandma like most of the Hankses
and Lincolns was an ardent Metho
dist In her old age she always knit
ted just so much on a stocking every
week day One morning she was in
dustriously engaged in the perform
ance of her allotted stint when some
of the younger folks came in with their
best clothes on
Why grandma What are you do
ing somebody asked Only knitting
she replied with some surprise What
knitting on Sunday grandma Is
this Sunday asked grandma in
amazement When convinced that it
was she unraveled every stitch she
had done that morning in order- to
atone as far as possible for her dese
cration of the day
Mrs Moore describes having seen
with some amusement Abraham Lin
coln making a political speech in Mis
souri arrayed in a long and exceeding
ly crumpled linen duster and a tall
hat of ancient pattern She says that
when Lincoln was nominated for Pres
ident his humble relatives among the
Hankses held up their hands with
amazed incredulity and exclaimed with
practical unanimity Abe Lincoln for
President I dont believe it -
There was always something queer
about the Hankses she says for al
though they were among the earliest
settlers In Illinois and had their pick
of 4fte land and plenty of it and soma
of them had large productive farms
yet every one of them turned out as
poor as Jobs cat
My mother owned slaves before the
war but my father never did nor did
any of the Hankses and for that rea
son they were called poor whites by
their neighbors who had slaves AH
tne Hankses were stanch supporters ol
the union during the civil war Bos
ton Globe
