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?? Hearts ?~?sr' | I Courageous 1 flif if C*nrigK'' l50i b* THE B0WtN"MEKR,LL COMPANr ;l+v CHAPTER III. mllE Yorktown wharf was a fair , Bight to the passengers of the Two Sisters as the ship swung to her moorings. Beyond the yellow clay hank the shore glowed In ? violet green dazzle of foliage, u Hume of amethyst and pink, and over all the sun hung hazy, like some splendid dream rose, strewing its petals upon a hay of tinted gluss. The bank behind the wharf was a fringe of negroes, their vacant minded happiness shaking out laughter as wind shakes blossoms from a locust tree. | The gay colored turbans bobbed like variegated ? popples on a breezy day. Tlie planking below was sprinkled with town folk, and on the road behind it several chariots were drawn up at some distance. In advance of these and in the rear <of the crowd, with ltetsy Byrd In the i saddle beside it, stood the Tillotson coach, framing in its window a face with a flicker of laughter over it like the wind on a May meadow. Anue was in close green and with her oak yellow hair looked a gold spear rising straight from its sheath. As early as noon one of the Tillotson blacks had ridden to Gladden Ilall with the news that the ship had been sighted down the bay, and Anne had ordered the chariot forthwith. Betsy had a new peacock shawl coming in Master Elvej' care and had made the pilgrimage from Williamsburg every day for a week. "What a pity!" exclaimed Anne, who had been first to arrive. "Mr. Gary? Breckinridge Cary?came on the ship, but she lay in Hampton Bonds last night, and lie there found n packet for Philadelphia. So we shall not see him till the spring." "I'm sorry," Betsy answered. "Frank saw him in London. What a lot there are here! There is Rurnaby Ilolph of Westliam, here for more redemptloners no doubt. He bought a round dozen last ship. Why doesn't he leave that for ids factor, like a gentleman, I won der?" Anne looked at the man she indlcatisl ?of medium height, with a sheep face, long in the tooth and turned away with a little shudder. He stood with thick legs planted firmly, talking with a neighbor, his head turned over his shoulder, and as tiny kioked he raised his sword hilt and struck savagely at a black who jostled him. "Poor serv ants who fall Into Mr. ltolph's hands. I pity them," she said in a k>w voice. "John the Baptist," she called to her mounted servant, "did you go down to Inquire about Miss Betsy's chest, as I told you?" "Ya?'m, yas'm. I>or>e been down dar twic't." "Are you sure?" "Yas'm, on meh honab!" "Honor!" Anne said severely. "What do you know about honor, John the Buptist?" The darky responded with a ragged grin. "I uster hub er heap or honah," he said vaguely, "but I got so 'strav' gant wid It I spec' I ain't got much ler now." "Look yonder, Anne," whispered Bet sy. "Isn't that a genteel looking young man? What a lovely brown his hair is! He's looking this way. Ills coat has a foreign cut. I warrant he came on the ship. There is Master Brooke landing by him now." Anne's eyes showed her a gray coat onslashed. plain liose and shoes with a neat steel buckle?a dress neither rich nor [ioor. There was no lace upon the hut, no paste knee buckles, no sword?none of tlie marks of distinc tion. But the face was open and the nut dark eyes frank and clear. She hud gazed but a moment when a familiar red coat shouldered its way through the press. She bit lier lip and turned her head away, but Betsy was deep in chat with young .Mr. Cnrlyle, kinsman to the Belvoir Fairfaxes, a youth lean as a rake, of a pule disposi tion, nil hair and eyes. The newcomer strode to the steps with assurance and toughed Anne's lingers with his lips. "Still so cold, so far away? Still cherishing a frown for me?" "I looked not to see you, Captnin Jarrat." "1 am but just returned from Lon don." "On tlie Two Sisters?" "Aye," he answered, with a slumber ing tlusli i .i his face. "The moth re turns to the lamp. A pretty conceit, is it not?" She moved her shoulders with a ges ture of Impatience. "Why am I doomed to be ever in your bad graces. Mistress Tlllotson? Oh, 'tis true. I would It were not! 'Twos so In Williamsburg. Had you a smile for me? 'Twas wlieu I went. Well, I return to the frown." "I have naught else for you. I have told you so." "And yet." he said constrainedly, "for another kind of look from you I would forget all else. I would change all, risk all. Can t never win aught from such u love us mine? Will you never tell me how to change myself for you? Shall I go always wanting?" A tierce and unhappy passion was writ ten In his face. She turned from, him coldly. "I beg you will not rvcur to that captain." sue said. "My answer was my an swer. 1 can never give you more." He toucheil Ills lireast, drawing tils hand across ttie gold slashings of ills coat. "Is it this'/ Do you frown upon Ills majesty's uniform? I swear 1 would I were a Whit;!" "A Tory before a turncoat," she an swered him. Jarrat shut his teetli like a trap. Then without reply he bowed to her and strode toward the ship. Betsy. turning her horse. - w only his van ishing figure, Anne's face a flush red gust of anger and her eyes gleaming like blue Ice. "Why," exclaimed she in surprise, " 'twas t'aptain Jarrut!" "1 wish," said Anne, with temper, giving Betsy's horse a slap that made him dance and called forth a curdling scream from Its rider- "I wish Cuptaiii Jarrat was in Guinea!" As Jarrat stepped on to the deck the gangway was thrown down for the herded human cattle that had thronged the lower deck. Sixty odd, they came trooping out to where the factors were gathered, and the ship's agent at once began the bidding by offering a convict smith bound for seven years and al lowed only diet and lodging, who, he declared, made great diversion by sing ing and whistling, besides being rare at iron work. The sale proceeded rapidly, for bond servants were in demand and the lot was above an average one. They stood for inspection eagerly or stolidly, as their faces promised, some sullen eyed, some smirking. The women were of fered last. But few remained when the agent beckoned to the swarthy skinned woman whose babe had died during the voyage, and she came for ward timidly, turning her sloe-black Italian eyes upon the crowd in misun derstanding and cowering dread. Her hair and the red olive of her skin made a curious contrast to the light complex ions of tile other women. Huruuby Itolpti.' who had purchased two laborers, looked her over with sat isfaction. "A likely wench," he gulped. "Twen ty pounds is enough. 1 doubt not, since fdie is foreign. 1 take her. Put that down to my reckoning, Master Clark son." "Poor thing!" said Anne. "I would I were a man. That brute should never have her!" She looked up and felt the . oitng Krencunian's eyes full upon her. ,e had clearly overheard. "You belong to him now," said the gent to the woman, pointing to Bolpli. D'ye understand?" . .in- n /. u 11110 iioipu s nice ana ; :ti! r.ly about tlie circle. Then, iib a siHb'en cry. doubling like an ti.mul. si c dodged between the knots l>. ::ors anil threw herself at Ar ... . la s feet. Koiph's cii'se was lost in a great i.ingh which rose from the factors, and .tine's tace siting red at a coarse re aiark from one of them. M. Armanil tiid not seem nonplused. He stoo]ii'ii and lifted the cringing wo man to her feet us Kolph approached, his lean eyes s inking. "Sly wench seems to have an uncom mon fancy," the latter sneered. "Gall me, why did you not buy her?" "Will you sell her to me?" The latter looked at the secretary's dress and glowered at the merriment of the onlookers. "No," he blurted. Armand smiled with suavity. "Per hups It would pleasure you to game with me for her? In my country, gen tlemen," lie remarked to those around, "we ure overfond of the dice table. As for me, I could never resist to woo the hazard of fortune. Mayhap, however, here you are less adventurous, more cautious, monsieur, or, as those who, liaving little, hesitate to risk." Kolph grunted at this airy thrust and gnawed ids lip. His estate of Ilentcliff was the largest on nil the James, and this, it was said, he had won in the palace in Williamsburg fifteen years before in a wild night of play with Governor Fauquier's gambling crew. "I will lay against her," added Ar mand, "double the amount she cost you. And a toss of a coin shall de cide." The factors gasped and stood looking tlie speaker over. Kolph stared an in stant, then: "Done! I.eave the Inden ture open, Master Clarkson, and bring it here." A wager in Virginia never failed to provoke interest, whether it was for a pair of spurs or a pipe of canary, and now all were listening eagerly. The two girls, from their positions, could see without difficulty over the inter vening heads. "Let us go farther away," said Anne, but Ifctsy was of a different mind. "No, 110," she protested. "They are go ing to toss. I wouldn't miss It now for anything. He is French, Anne. I can tell it by the accent." Kolph cnlled and threw the gold coin he laid drawn from Ills pocket with a flourish. "The king's bead!" rose a soore of voices as it fell. "Mr. Kelph wins." "Oh, dear!" exclaimed Betsy In great vexation. "I really believe," said Anne, with heat, "that you want that man to win." s "Weren't you Just now wishing you were 11 man so Mr. Itolph shouldn't?" retorted Betsy. M. Armand had drawn forth a wallet from his pocket and lifted out the sum. "Fortune beams upon you. monsieur," he smiled. "1 was ever unlucky of a Wednesday. Shall we have one more throw? And double or quits mayhap, monsieur? Unless you deem the stake overhigh"? "High!" said Itolph, with a growl. "Double or quits it is. Eighty pounds against your lost forty and the wench. But. mind you, this one throw ends It D'you hear?" The other tossed. There was a shout iui the coin descended, for It lodged in the brim of a spectator'^ hat and could not be counted. At the next trial it rolled In a spiral and finally stood edge wise In a crack of the wharf flooring. A third time the young Frenchman sent It spinning, it twinkled in the sunlight, fell, bounded sideways, the crowd parting before it, rolled across the open space and toppled over a few feet from Anne. Instinctively she leaned far out of the coach and looked. "It shows the arms!" she cried in spite of herself. The coin had fallen on Its obverse side. "Fortune has turned," the secretary l observed easily. "It appears, monsieur, that the servant is mine. The remain der of tile stake, if you please." " 'Twas but his assurance he wager ed with," snarled Itolph. "It will not hold. What docs this sorry raiment with thus much money, gentlemen? He does not own so much. I dispute the bet!" "And Mr. Itolph calls himself a gen tleman!" Anne said disgustedly. M. Armand looked at his antagonist with undisguised contempt, and mur murs of the assembly, who loved fair play, were so unmistakable that Itolph drew out bills and indenture with a curse and drove off with a black look. Anne watched him go, a curl on her lip. When she turned at Betsy's ex clamation it was first to be aware that all on the wharf were looking her way, that some of them were smiling and then that the young Frenchman, with t tie reaemptloner woman following liini, was approaching her. Before she had recovered from her astonishment he was bowing low. "Mademoiselle," he said, "will pardon the liberty I take in addressing her?" She bowed coldly, half startled. "Fate," he went on, "has made me the owner of this servant, for whom, being no landholder, I have scant use. She speaks a strange tongue and is In a strunge land, and to free her without bond time were small kindness. May I beg the favor, mademoiselle, that you take her in your service, demanding such labor as will requite her support?" The indignant color flooded Anne's brow. "Sir," she said frigidly, drawing herself up, "we have strange surprises in Virginia, but surely the effrontery of our visitors surpasses them all." Armand looked clearly at her out of his dark eyes. "Mademoiselle will par don," he answered, "the error of one of these visitors, who, seeing her face, lias overestimated her graciousness and charity." With this he bowed again till his hat swept the ground, and, followed by the bondwoman, walked down the wharf toward the unlading vessel. The red in Anne's cheeks had grown to firebrands and her anger lent sting to the half concealed smirks of those who stood nearest. "Land of mercy!" said Betsy, with emphasis. "What impudence!" Soon the curious crowd waa thin ning. Betsy's search was ended, and Anne, having left her seat in the coach, watched at nearer view the disgorging of the cargo. Here Brooke came primed with a new sensation. This now nothing less than the tale of a fight which had oc curred during the voyage between the mate of the vessel and a pnssenger. Anne's eyes were very soft as he fin ished. "And who d'ye think," he ended, "was this champion? Why, the young Frenchman yonder that you crushed so mercilessly. Mistress Tillotson." "And the redemptloner woman?" ask ed Anne, with something like dread. " 'Twas the wench he won from Burnaby Rolpb." "Oh!" The cadence was full of liquid self reproach. "Where are you going?" Betsy asked as Anne rose. She did not answer, but walked quickly across the wharf to the spot where Annand stood. He mnde no movement us she came. "Monsieur"? She faltered and stdp ped. Ilis hut was in his hand instantly, and he was gravely deferential. "I wish to take back," she went on, "my words of awhile ugo. I assure you j they were not rudely meant. I"? He stayed her with a gesture. "What am I that mademoiselle shodld speak j thus? I was brusque, unmannerly"? "No, no!" "I forgot where I was?forgot that I had not the joy of knowing her?forgot everything but what I saw In her face as she sat in the chariot. For I am a j great magician, mademoiselle. I know all who are lovely and gracious of heart." "I was wrong," she said proudly, j "And for this 1 ask your pardon. May ?may I have the bond servant?" He smiled gayly now and bowed low to her. "To be treated with such pleas ant surgery all the world would be glad of wounds," he cried. "You recom pense me a thousand times!" He signed to the serving woman who sat stolidly upon a nearby chest and pointed from himself to Anne. She understood, and when Anne put her In charge of John the Baptist to take on ahead u-pllllon she went without ques tion. Betsy watched this transaction open mouthed. "Did yoa ever!" she gasped "1 won der what mother will suy to that!" Armaml had (tapped to ;>oalliou. bat under arm. at the coach door. "Made inoiselle will permit me to assist her?" he uskcd and gave her the tipe of bia lingers. Hla eyes were bright on her 1 face. On the step she stopped, half turned, a delicate flush coining to her cheek a flush that deepened to dnmnak at his look. She hesitated an instant as If alwut to s|>eak, then suddenly entered, sat down, gave the word to the driver and was whirled away. The secretary stood looking after the retreating char lot. "A splendid ereature," purred Brooke, at his elbow, "albeit you found her win try." "Wintry!" exclaimed the young man. "She who is made only of summer, its Incense, its colors, its dreams! Yours Is an enchanted laud, monsieur, and she its goddess!" "Rgao. I'll make a sonnet of that!" exclaimed Brnoke. "Sink inc. but It's coining back!" TUp latter remark was applied to tlie chariot, which had turn ed and was now approaching more slowly the sp >t where they stood. As It drew up ADne leaned from the window. "Monsieur," she called, "I had quite forgot to speak of the in denture." He drew It from his pocket and held it out to her. "Such have to be conveyed, I make sure," she said, looking at it doubtful ly. "Your delicacy, sir, forbade you to set me right. We shall have to sign and witness a deed and what not, I suppose." " 'Tis a plain indenture," said Brooke, peering. She drew it away sharply. "Alas, we women know so little of business. I bethink me my father will wish to re ceipt to you for It." "Mademoiselle"? "Aye, but be will. At any rate, you would not be so ungallunt as to have me blamed, sir? Will you not ride to Gladden Hail with me? 'Tis scarce a half league away." "Mademoiselle!" "Your father is in Williamsburg, mis tress," ventured the exquisite. "I chanced to overhear him say this morn ing he would remain over at Colonel Byrd's until tomorrow." Anne frowned. "I fear you did not hear aright, sir." she returned coldly. v y "Mademoiselle will permit me to assist her t" Then, with an enohanting smile, she opened the coach door and made room for the secretary beside her. "I await you, monsieur," she said, her eyes like fringed gentians. He bowed to her with a new light on his face, entered and closed the door. "Home, ltashleigh!" she cried to the driver, and the heavy coach rolled away. "Wintry," said the fop to himself, with a chuckle. "Methinks report does the lady wrong." Jarrat meanwhile had been sitting in the skipper's dingy cabin, for Mas ter Elves had now transferred responsi bility to the ship's agent, his face prop erly smoothed to good fellowship over a noggin of rum from the locker. He had long ago cultivated n new affabili ty with the master of the Two Sisters. Now he had an errand, though he was somewhat long in coming to the point. "The Marquis de In Trouerie," he said finally and in a purely casual way as he smacked his lips. "It was nigh two months since that he died, if I re member." The mariner took down his log from the shelf and, turning it with a hairy thumb, pushed it across the board. The other looked at it closely and laid the book open before him. Incidentally he filled up the glasses. "Knew you aught of his affairs in this colony?" he que ried. One might have noticed that the eyes opposite narrowed perceptibly. "Not I," answered the skipper. "I hold to my own helm." "A close tongue," vouchsafed Jarrat, "makes a wide purse." The drift of this succinct remark was not lost upon his companion, who dis creetly kept his eyes upon his glass. The speaker continued, dropping his voice and leaning on the table: "The marquis nnd I had somewhat of busi ness together, although we never met. In fact, 1 made this voyage at his own request. Now, to tie frank, ttie news of his death will not nid a mutual ven ture of ours here In Virginia, which, for my part, has gone too far for back ing. Zooks! A mortal pity to publish It!" There were interast and speculation In the narrow eyes if nothing more. Some thing Jingled. It may have boon the visitor's sword knot or a baud In a pocket. The (kipper was not deaf. "The passengers?" ha hazarded. "They are off for tha north today. Boston blab will not hurt ine. 'Tis the gazettes here I care about. As for the faeijra. they are bent on business. Our young Virginia woolsack has gone to ['ennsylrania. I'll risk him." "There's the marquis' secretary." Jarrat snapped his fingers. "He'll be cheap. I know the breed. A leaf lost from a log is no great matter," he con tinued slowly as though to himself. Again the Jingle. The skipper cleared his throat. Jarrat's hand slowly, very slowly, tore out the leaf, folded it and placed It in his |H>eketbook. Yellow disks passed across the table. "I'll be keel hauled if I see your game," said the skipper. The other smiled. "I'll be keel hauled i if I see why you should." said he. Brooke was scarce done twisting his lovelock when Jarrat erossid the wharf from the ship hot from his bar gain with the skipper. lie made in quiries concerning a young gentleman dressed in gray and by good luck hit upon an apprentice lad who told him he had carried the young gentleman's chest to the Swan tavern, at which he had been directed to bespeak supper and lodging. ?v 2 (to be continued ) The Sunshine of Spring. The Salve that cures without a scar is DeWltt's Witch Hazel Salve. Cuts, Burns. Boils. 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