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The day and the hour arrived Sir
Basil was to go with them as far as
Dover and sea them safely on board
They -were all four to start by the mid
day train from Arley to London
Leah had measured her strength that
morning and found it rapidly failing
I could not live through two more
days of it she said Thank heaven
it is -almost over
She was passive -while her maid took
all the pains she could to hide the shrink
ing of the graceful figure the pallor of
the beautiful face She must keep up
appearances -while she was in England
among those who knew her but when
she was across the sea she could give
way she could droop and die as she
would but not here
She bade farewell to the grand old
home where she had been so utterly but
falsely happy She stood for some time
on the terrace where the passion flowers
grew the spot where she lad seen her
lover first and where her heart had gone
out to him She kissed the bare brown
branches They would live again they
would be covered with green leaves and
6tarry flowers when leaves and flowers
should gladden her eyes no more She
stretched out her hands with a great cry
when she took her last look round the
room where she had spent such happy
hours All earth and air seemed burn s
Ing fire Oh for rest for change for
the coldness even of the grave
Those who saw Miss Hattons face
when she left Brentwood never forgot it
It was a strange journey to Dover Sir
Arthur was the only one who talked
Hettie avoided either looking at or speak
ing to Sir Basil and Leah could have
laughed in bitter amusement at the
scene Sir Arthur spoke of his nieces
return of the marriage of Glen of Basil
in Parliament and saw nothing wrong
They stood together on deck at last
a blue sky above them the sun shining on
the white cliffs of Dover and on the sea
which was almost as smooth as a mirror
Sir Arthur took Hettie to the other
side of the vessel
They will have so much to say to each
ther lovers always have We will leave
them alone Hettie
So they stood side by side the deathly
pallor of Leahs face hidden by hex veil
A terrible calm had fallen over her She
loved Sir Basil still with her wliole heart
she could have knelt down there and
have covered his hands with burning
kisses and burning tears She held them
- for a moment in a close grasp while she
looked into his face for the last time The
solemn shadow of eternity lay over her
Then there came a shout from the sail
ors All was in readiness those who
were forshore must leave The moments
were numbered her eyes never left him
her hand still held his
I must go he said Good by Leah
He bent down and kissed her lips He
started to find them so cold Good by
he repeated A pleasant prosperous
journey Leah and a happy return
Good by Basil good by my love she
6aid and the next moment she was look
ing over the waters alone
He was gone She felt that she would
never see him again in this world The
eky the sea the white cliffs were whirl
ing round her She was glad to raise her
veil and let the sea breeze play upon her
face She was free now she need no
longer keep up appearances She had
looked her last upon him The long strain
the long tension was ended The calm
plash of the waves seemed to cool the
fever that had laid waste her life all
earth and air were no longer burning lire
The rest of the journey was like a dream
to her and she never woke from it until
she stood in the salon of the villa at
Mentone and saw the duchess regarding
her with tearful eyes
Great heaven she cried this is not
Leah this is a shadow I thought it was
Hettie who had been ill
So it was I have not been ill said
a voice which the duchess scarcely recog
nized as Leahs I am well but my
journey has tired me
What can be the matter What has
gone wrong in the girls life thought
the kindly woman The only thing that
tshe reminds me of is a flower broken
by a tempest
There was in Mentone a celebrated
English physician Dr Evan Griffiths a
skillful prosperous man very popular
among the invalids and the English at
Mentone He lived with his mother in a
pretty little villa Popular as he was he
had never married It was said that he
bad no time for wooing
One evening as Dr Griffith sat alone
In his study the servant announced a
young lady She had sent no card and
had given no name but looked very ill
At first the doctor felt annoyed He
had no liking for mysterious patients and
felt it hard that he could not have one
cigar in peace
Show the lady in here he said impa
tiently
But his impatience died away when a
tall closely veiled woman came in and
stood silently before him
She did not speak until the servant had
closed the door then she raised her veil
so that he could see her face and he was
startled by its delicacy and wonderful
beauty
I know that I am calling at an un-
usual time she said t thank you
much for seeing me I have a question
to ask you a question of life or death
Will you answer it
If I can said the doctor Docs it
concern yourself
Yes she replied
And then he felt that death and not
-life would be the answer if he could
judge from her face
CHAPTER XIX
Dr Griffiths placed a chair for his
-beautiful young patient and standing
by the table waited until she spoke
Do people she said abruptly ever
die of a broken heart
I have never known a case answer
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ing at him with calm grave eyes I
was as strong as anyone could wish to
be I had splendid health and a perfect
constitution Now I have hardly strength
to live and everyone thinks I am in dan
ger
There must be a reason for it re
marked the doctor quietly
There is a reason which I will tell
you and I want you to judge if it will
kill me I have had within the last two
months a trouble a terrible trouble
one that I have had to bury in the depths
of my heart I could not speak of it or
hint it or place confidence in any living
creature concerning it I have shut my
secret in my heart and it has been prey
ing upon it It has eaten my heart away
The constant repression the desperate ef
forts I have made to seem as usual have
been too much for me and now I feel
sure that I have some affection of the
heart which will soon put an end to my
life
He began to understand something of
the case
Do you want to live he asked brief
ly
No I want to die she answered
Then came a string of questions all of
which she answered candidly enough
The doctor knit his brows and was si
lent for some time then he listened to
the action of the heart and grew graver
still
I think he said that you have al
ways had a great tendency to heart dis
ease and now I am sorry to say it is a
confirmed case
Her face brightened and she murmur
ed a few words to herself which he did
not hear
Tell me doctor she asked how
long do you think I have to live
Not long was the grave reply In
a great measure it lies in your own hands
If you could get rid of this care if you
could prevent yourself from brooding
over it if you could rouse yourself you
might live a little longer
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has been too great and too persistent
Will you tell me what the end will be
like
I wish you would not ask me he
answered looking pitifully at the fair
face
It will be the greatest service you can
render me she said It matters so lit
tle to me If I have some months to
live I shall carry out an intention which
I have formed if not I shall forego it
Tell me doctor v
You will not live for months he said
the greater the pity
The greater the joy she cried Will
it be weeks
Weeks in all probability he replied
And the end she asked again
The end will be sudden and peaceful
he answered It may be at any time
Any sudden sottoav or joy might prove
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your greatest helps Poor child he said
in an outburst of sudden tender pity
poor child Life has been har for
you
Very hard she declared
I wish he said that you would fol
low my advice I could not save your
life but I might prolong it
No she replied I am staying here
at Mentone I shall die here and when I
die they will be sure to send for vou
You will not say that you have seen me
I will not he promised
There followed two quiet poacefnl and
happy weeks of which Hettie liked to
think afterward It struck her at times
that Leah looked weak and ill but she
made so complaint Letters and news
papers came every day from England
giving them all the news of Glen and of
Brentwood above all of the election
Hettie enjoyed talking about it with the
duchess but Leah never uttered a word
She had made up her mind to the great
est sacrifice any woman could n ake she
would die and give no sign
News came from England that Sir
Basil had been returned member for the
ouumy Liie uuKe ana ijucness were
delighted Hettie was pleased and talk
ed more about it than she talked about
anything else Leah said little but she
looked happier
The next day came a letter to say that
the election being over Sir Basil and the
general hoped to run over to Mentone
even if they were able to remain only a
week When Leah read that letter her
face grew white
Leah went to her room the sun shone
bright and warm and the air was full
of the perfume of flowers She was tired
with a peculiar feeling of longing for rest
which was new to her and her senses
had been suddenly sharpened She could
see further she could hear with almost
painful distinctness She had a letter to
write but the feeling of fatigue was
so strong upon her that she was hardly
mciinea to commence ner task I will
do it at once and then it will not trou
ble me she said to herself
She sat for some time with the pen in
her hand It was the one great tempta
tion of her life Should she tell him or
not When sh came to die should she
feel any the happier that she had left
him with this sting in ljis breast this
memory which would always be to him
one of ibittex pain It would be ample
vengeance If he knew that her unhap
piness had killed her hecould never be
nappy agam Me wa honorable and
sensitive the chances were that if he
knew the truth he would never marry
Hettie It was a great temptation Her
heart throbhed with it her whole frame
trembled and then with a supreme ef
fort she conquered it
Swiftly suddenly as had been foretold
death came to her without pain without
bitterness without agony The pen drop
ped from the white fingers her head fell
upon the paper She died with a smile
on her lips There was not even a spasm
of pain no faint murmur or cry The
throbbing laboring broken heart had
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CHAPTER XX
So they found her dead The duchess
was almost frantic She refused to be
lieve that Leah was dead It was ut
terly impossible she declared She call
ed for brandy wine hot water ever
possible restorative She would not sit
the mark of death on the beautiful face
She sent for doctors and one of the first
who came was Dr Evan Griffiths
He recognized her at once This was
the despairing girl who had come to him
longing with her whole heart to die and
the longing had been granted He was
accustomed to many a sad sight gnd
scene to every kind of sickness and jis
tress but he had seen nothing which
touched him more than the dead face o
this hapless girl Tears came into hi
eyes
The duchess would not allow anything
to be touched in the room until the gen
eral and Sir Basil came They had tel
egraphed at once for them East as
steam could take them they went to
Mentone and found the terrible news
true that Leah was dead
All the calm imperial beauty of her
youth came back to her as she lay sleep
ing after her long fever and pain There
was no pain on the beautiful face the
thick dark eyelashes lay like fringe on
the white cheeks there was a strange
beauty on the marble brow and the
proud curves of the perfect lips were set
in a smile The duchess had covered the
couch on which she lay with lovely white
blossoms and so Sir Basil who had part
ed from her on board the steamer saw
her again He kissed the pale lips that
had murmured so many loving words to
him weeping like a child and regretting
that he had not loved her more
Early the next morning he went out
and procured some scarlet passion flow
ers Sir Arthur liked him all the better
because he cried like a child when he
placed them in the dead white hands
One could have fancied that a smile pass
ed over the dead face Her secret was
safe forever now and no one knew why
she had died No suspicion of the truth
came to any one of them
So they mourned her and no sting of
bitter memories increased their pain
Hettie and the general learned to love
each other in the midst of their trouble
more than they would ever have done in
prosperity They mourned long and sin
cerely for Leah The general for a long
time was quite unlike himself he seem
ed unable to recover from the blow and
there were limes when everyone thought
that Hettie must follow her sister
There was a great outburst of sorrow
in England when the papers told that
Leah the beloved niece of Gen Sir Ar
thur Hatton had died suddenly at Men
tone of heart disease
English visitprs go now to see her
grave none leave it without tears They
tell each other how soon she was to have
been married to someone whom she loved
dearly and how she was writing to her
lover when the summons came Leahs
grave is the most beautiful in the ceme
tery A tall white marble cross bears
her name and masses of superb scarlet
passion flowei s creep up it and overhang
the grave
Five years have passed since Leahe
death but her memory lives bright and
beautiful among those who loved hef
best Sir Basil and Hettie have been
three years married and they live en
tirely at Brentwood Sir Arthur implor
ed them to let it be sol He could not
bear to live alone again So they had
consented to make Brentwood their home
leaving it at times to go to Glen when
the general always accompanied them
He loved Hettie and as the years rolled
on he looked to her for all the comfort
and brightness of his life But those
who knew him best said that she had
never occupied the same place in his
heart which Leah had
There is no fear that Leah will be for
gotten at Brentwood The beautif uL pic
ture of her shown at the Royal Academy
and called Tiia rassion Elovvbr hangs
in the drawing room there Every one
who sees it stops and looks with wonder
it the lovely face and dark eyes that
jeem to follow one
Lady Carlton has a fine handsome boy
whom she has named Arthur who inher
its her blue eyes and golden hair She
thinks that there is no boy in England
like him and Sir Basil is of the same
opinion though perhaps in his heart he
loves best the baby girl called Leah
whose dark eyes and lovely face bring so
vividly back to him the one buried for
ever from the sight of men
One morning Lady Carlton at play
with her baby girl caught her in her
arms and held her up in front of the pic
ture of The Passiou Flower
See Basih she cried little Leah
will be the very image of her aunt
Sir Basil crossed over to his wife
She will resemble her he said quiet
ly but I hope babys face will not have
the shadow of melancholy that lies on
this one
I hope not returned Hettie Leah
always had that look even when her face
was most radiant it was there Oh Ba
sil how young and beautiful she was to
die
I often wonder said Sir Basil what
would have happened had she lived Het
tie Fmever like to think that our hap
piness and we are happy sweet wife1
comes from Leahs death
Hettie looked at him thoughtfully
It is not so Basil she said If
Leah had lived you would have married
her but she never would have been hap
py I think she wanted something more
than one finds in this world Her nature
was noble and lofty I do not think any
human love would- have satisfied her Do
you remember the restless longing on her
beauteous face See it is there even in
this picture She would never have been
happy
Perhaps not allowed Sir Basil per
haps not Hettie I think you are right
ho said as they moved slowly away from
the beautiful face
That was how they judged her
The heavy clouds may be raining
But with evening comes the light
Through the dark are low winds com
plaining
Yet the sunrise gilds the height
And love has hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure
And Time gives his fullest measure
To the workers who endure
And the Word that no love has shaken -
Has the future pledge supplied
For we know that when we awaken
We shall be satisfied
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T is impossible at this day to add any
thing of a new character to the ac
count of men and events of a hundred
years and more ago for the field of his
tory in so far as it relates to the Ameri
can revolution and the men who were
representative in its accomplishment has
been well explored and voluminously ex
pounded by hundreds of men equal to the
task Nor is there a school child of 10
years in all this country who has not
Avritten his essay on these same men and
events so that their history is in burned
in the minds of all Americans Yet this
is one of the hopeful signs of the dispo
sition of a great people towards those
who called its nation into existence And
of the leader of all those courageous
men the one who before all 6thers car
ried tr an astonishing and successful
achievement the herculean labors of
bringing victorious a handful of ragged
and untrained soldiers through the dark
ness of a struggle with one of the most
powerful countries on earth certainly
nothing now needs be said
As a young man Washington was prob
ably no less flippant and worldly thai
hundreds of others in the colonies His
manners which have been thought extra
ordinary in their courtliness were prob
ably not the slightest bit more so than
those of the majority of his acquaint- j
ances ie was not uee irom tne tauits i
of men of his time He was accustomed
to methodical exactness from his i
ence on his mothers plantation and to
her he no doubt owed many of the traits
which afterwards stood him in such good
stead From his school teachers Wil
liam Hobby who was also the church
sexton and Thomas Williams he learn
ed to read and to write as well as to un
derstand the art of computation The
latter of the two also gave him the rudi
ments of surveying which served as much
as any other one thing to develop- him in
to the general of the American forces
For it was on account of his knowledge
of this science that he spent three of
his years of early manhood in the wilds
of the forests running lines determin
ing levels fixing boundaries His wages
at this time were sufficient to enable him
to purchase large pieces of that trackless
wilderness bordering on streams which
were afterwards of great value thus de
veloping his insight and shrewdness as a
business man But the lesons that lie
learned from that rugged nature in the
Solitary hours were yriceless and the
constitution that was hardened by his
life in the woods enabled him in after
years to endure untold strains of expos
ure and suffering to rescue Braddock af
ter that generals defeat by the French
to conceive the crossing of the Delaware
on that bleak and cheerless December
night to undergo Valley Forge and to
emerge from them all the modest self
contained reserved gentleman It was
because of his knowledge of the ways of
the forest that he was sent on that
seemingly needless errand to warn the
French off English territory in the win
ter of 1753 54 on which he quitted him
self well and learned his first lessons in
practical warfare The next year he
was chosen to go with Braddock on his
ill fated expedition against the French
Here if was that Washington learned for
the first time that Americans were of
just as good stuff as Englishmen that
they could fight just as bravely as the
seasoned veterans of the mother country
For it was through the efforts of the
bush whacking Virginians that Brad
docks force escaped entire destruction
The colonists knew better than did Brad
dock that the evolutions of the parade
ground were of no avail in the sort of
warfare in which they were at that time
engaged The physical strain undergone
by Washington at this time was extra
ordinary From the ninth to the six
teenth of that July he had little sleep
walking and riding sometimes all night
long through the forest and succeeding
in bringing up some support for Brad
docks retreating army He was then
25 years old In the course of that one
expedition he had seen enough to give
him an unconquerable faith in the valor
and abilities of his fellow colonists This
faith it may have been that so upheld
him through the dark hours of defeat and
intrigue when his army well high per
ished from lack of food and clothing
Washington had no idea even when the
colonies were being greatly roused over
the injustice of their treatment by Eng
land that the end would be war He
dfd not desire war And it was only when
there was no other way to decide the
momentous question of principle that he
set his heart on hostilities The cour
age of the man in accepting the position
of commander-in-chief which was offered
to him by the assembly was sublime
The mother country could send hundreds
of thousands of trained soldiers against
the colonists her ships ruled the seas
On the other hand the colonists were a
few thousands undisciplined in any war
fare except that against the Indians
their resources were comparatively insig
nificant It seems as if there could have
been but one outcome But Washington
modestly undertook the task refusing
first any money remuuneration for the
services he might render And then his
sagacity as a commander began to display
itself Quietly did he collect stores and
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and again
army
on the point of dissolving away There
were many true hearts in the Congress
but there were many also who still lean
ed a little towards England fearing that
the new order of things would never be
successful There was only a half-hearted
support for the commander-in-chief
Jealousy inspired officers to scheme
against him Money was often scarce
and sometimes not to be had His men
were sometimes without food barefoot
ed and half clothed Through all these
trying years Gen Washington had to
rely mainly on himself His volume of
correspondence was enormous Thousands
of letters did he write urging Congress
the governors the influential men of the
colonies to take this or that step to
raise men or money to help on the work
He was the revolution Almost always
he had perfect control of his temper
which was by no means mild and over
his passions and his positive aggressive
spirit But sometimes the overwhelming
injustice of his treatment by Congress
must have been a sore temptation to
him And when he watched the intrepid
Hamilton dash on to victory in the re
doubts at Yorktown he must have felt
the weight of the heavy burden he was
bearing rise from his great heart so that
it beat the faster1 for he knew that
should Cornwallis surrender the war
would probably result victoriously for the
American arms
The same quiet firm far seeing
ter led him through the years of his life
after he had laid down his sword When
he stepped out of the position of commander-in-chief
of the victorious army
asking no reward and quietly returned
to the privacy of his own home he fore
shadowed the character of the nation he
had so largely helped to make It should
be a nation of itself not dependent on
England or any other country under the
globe fop its customs or its policy It
was to embody principles hitherto un
heard of in the annals of history It was
even in the distant future to take upon
itself the yoke of a burdened and op
pressed people to free them from their
oppression and to give them back their
country with no thought of price or ad
vantage And yet this was a man
NEWS TRAVELED SLOWLY
Washington Was in the Tomb Two Days
Before New Xork Knew It
Had George Washington lived and died
at the close of the present century in
stead of the last his death would have
been known at all four corners of the
globe inside two or three hours whereas
it was hot known that he had passed
away for several days afterward Even
in Philadelphia the old capital of the
United States where the Sixth Congress
had just assembled it was not known
that Washington was dead until Dec 10
two days afterward
TVTavire trmrolorl elnulv in thnin
than twenty four hours put a period tq
his life
The New York papers did not get the
news of Washingtons death until Dec
19 and it was four days later when tha
Boston papers published their first iny
formation President Adams issued at
proclamation advising all citizens to weafi
crape on the left arm for thirty days and
setting apart Feb 22 Washingtons
birthday as a day when special services
in honor of Washington should be held
New York paid its tribute to the de
parted President on Dec 31 No carts -carriages
or horseback riders were allow
ed in the streets through which the fun
eral procession passed on the way to StJ
Pauls Church where Gov Morris deliv
ered the funeral oration and Bishop Sam
uel Provost conducted the religious ser
vices
Washingtons Last Words
Although some statements have been
made by early biographers of Washing
ton to the effect that he was bled to death
by his attending physician Dr Craik
there was never any foundation for thet
accusations
Washington was only ill two days
having exposed himself to the inclemency
of the weather on Thursday Dec 32J
He became violently ill on the following
day and expired between 10 and 1U
oclock Saturday night his death beingj
directly due to a cold in his throat and
lungs The room in which Washington
died in his Mount Vernon home is one
of the most interesting portions of the
colonial residence of the first President
Washingtons last words spoken to Dr
Craik were I am just going Have mef
decently buried and do not let my body
be put into the vault in less than three
days after I am dead
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Washington lost eleven days of his life
in 1752 when 30 years of age but he iiv
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of his birthday anniversary of which
there is record occurred in Richmond
Va on Feb 11 1782 old style It was
a feast and soul flow day there and else
where until 1793 when Feb 22 was
adopted according to the new style
WASHINGTONS HEADQUARTERS
New Jersey House
Made
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the Father of His Country
Four miles from Princeton N J
stands one of the historic houses of the
country It is the Berrian farm house
made famous by the fact thnt r ttc
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The Alexandria Times was the first
newspaper to announce Washingtons
death printing on Monday Dec 16 a
single paragraph obituary thus It is
our painful duty first to announce to our
country and to the world the death of
Gen George Washington This mourn
ful event occurred last Saturday evening
about 11 oclock On the previous night
he was attacked with a violent inflamma
tory affliction in his throat which in leas
thof re
gress held its sesinn t t i
here Mrs Washington
entertained the
notables of the land OTne house has it
been overharJed by patriotic wont -
Srrfnt coins may mementos of the
patriot and is visited
annually bv
dreds of persons
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war strength 4600000 Millions more -could
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