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CILAJRLOTTE DAILY "OBSERVER, - . ill J 4 MM fttESM TOM " ' n- Chi novel Thackeray essayed a task that would hav invited failure in Imi competent hand.- It deal 'with a time too tar past to permit him to um the genius for depicting ' th maner. custom and life of the ; contemporanfbu World which made his "Pendennls," "The Newcomes; V and "Vanity Fair" sueh monumenUl , achievements in modern literature. At - i the same time, the period In which "The Virginians", plays Is too recent. as historical time is measured, to '. lend 'his story the glamour and ro mance of s. burled past that make . "Henry Esmond" so glowing and picturesque. , . .- v.' A man. of lesser power ' probably would have succeeded only In making "The Virginians" one or the 5 many hundreds or thousands of historical novels, to which the story gains al most all of Its interest rrom the his -tory. , William Makepeace Thacker ay has made history gain i toy . bis .story." V - That la the difference between Cn us and others. ' ' There was only one subject in. all the world regarding which Harry Es mond of Virginia, did not agree with . hi. . a .., twin brother George Who, byP fortune of having oeen born halt n hour or" so before the other, was heir to the great estate of his grand father. Henry Esmond. -. That one subject was their young neighbor. Ifajer Oeorge Washington. "He always seemed great to me, wrote Harry Warrington, long after ward (only he did not spell.it so well. Poor Harry never managed the pen as well as he did the gun and the ' bridle). "I never thought of him oth eawl than as a hero. Jf he flred a ishot the bird was sure to come flown. If he Hung a net the largest fish in the river was sure to be la it. To see him siding to hounds was as if to see him aharglng an anmy. His words were always few, but tney were al ways wise; they were not idle as our words are, they were grave, sober and strong and ready on occasion to do their duty. In spite of his antip athy to him. my brother respected and admired the geperal as much as I did that is tp say, more than any other mortal man." .Whence sprang George Warring ton's antipathy to that other George? Not from dissimilarity of tempera ' ment for If he was more quick of speech and passion, he was not less grave or- less thougnirul or less Just than was Mr. Washington; and Harry spoke truly of his brother's admira tion for the gentleman. Perhaps it all sprang from an In cident in their boyhood days, when Mr. Washington, being called on for advice by the lads' mother io mat tar at insubordination, had reluctantly but firmly counseled a thrashing bx, their tutor. Aitnougn n mrasmn t never was 1 ministered, owing to the fact that Harry ana George nearly gave one to the tutor Instead, Oeorge fever forgot the part played by Mr. Washington, a part which seemed all the more aggravating as the one Oeorge was only a few years older than the other. So the two ' proud Virginians, though they could not help being friends, maintained their friendship with, a Judicious reserve quite dif ferent fr6m the eager, brave, head long (Harry. s"v with bll ftils heart. . ' M As time -went on. George looked with growing displeasure on the Intl ' macy with which Mr. Washington - was received at all times by the lady of the estate, their mother, Mra (War rlngtori, who treated him with an evi dent and open respect that was only less than Harry's. Not many persons In the colony of Virginia .not even tne Governor and certainly not his lady could boast of enjoying the deference of Mrs. Warrington, who held that her father's family of Esmond was only a little less than royat. Indeed, she called herself Mme. j mond, choosing to ignore the War rlngtonn of Norfolk, of which family her hosband, Mr. Warrington, had been a younger son. Though she signed herself Esmond Warrington, the 'Warrington'' was generally ab breviated, and in the colony she was known, half in pleasantry and half in . earnest, as Lady Esmond. Quarrels, angry words, perhaps " even a scuffle or two marked her de - mands for precedence at the Govern . " " or'a assemblies in James Town and similar functions. Suit her preten alons wer successful, for all the wocjd knew that her father, Colonel (Es mond, despite Oie simplicity with wglch he bore himself after his re . tlrement t America, nad been the .' rightful Lord ot cast le wood in iig laad, and that he had resigned title and estates out of love f or a kins man, whose mother he-married and . brought to the Virginia property. Everybody knew, too, although he never spoke of. it, that he had torn up a parent of Marquis conferred on v -"his father and himself by King James II., and - thrown it at Rie feet of, that . , monarch's selfish, ungrateful and Ill starred son, the Pretender. As Colonel Esmond he lived In ' America, and died, after having pass ' ; ed his widowed tatter years In peace . fol, humorous submission to his lm--tperlous and loving daughter. -Mme. Esmond nevef forgot the re linquished Marqulsate or the estate of CasUewood. after which Colonel (Es mond had named his Virginia plan tatlons. A" he surveyed the immense territories that were to fall te George ivSs h,eir to his fathers property, as ,iwel! as his grandfather's, ah wished more than once that she could lay -Ithem all and the titles before Harry ' and from Gorg'a infancy ha had become accustomed to hearing her re- ' f er to tha younger In tones of pity as a poor boy who but for. half an hour's accident of birth, might have .. been master of all. . . Honest George never thought of forsaking Harry, but looked on every- . thing as being theirs to share equally, and Harry relied Implicitly on him and Mild IHtle attention to Mme. Esmond' plslnta. . - : , fo came tha year 175t, when h Hrltlih and French settlers met on the -Ohio river and the British colonies became keenly alive to the aggressions of the French lords of Canada and " Joulsiaha. Mr.-Washlngton,-with the militia rank of major, who had al- - ready made a fruitless trip through the wilderness as envoy to tha Trench commanding officer on the Ohio, rais ed a scanty regiment of Virginians and marched them into The wilder- ness. Near where Pittsburg no . stands he conetwicted a small fort. A superior body ofFrench appeared be fore It. but permitted him to retire without molestation. (They took tha fort, and named Duquenae, after the Canadian Governor, - . Oa the heat year Major Washing- ton again volunteered tor wimerracBs service, and led. a small body Of pro viBcUta ta reoel tha Frenchmen, in that expedition was fired tha first ahot In tha French wars or America. , Thus. in savage forest of Penn sylvania, rtL young Vlrflnlan flred a shot and woke up a war wnicn w v last for sixty years, which was to cov- hie own oountrv and-casa over Into Europe, to cost Franca her American colonies, then ta cost iicngiana w American colonies, . to rage over the Old' World when extinguished in the New and of all the myriad engaged in the contest, to leava tha prise of the greatest fame with him who struck the first biowi Major George Washington returned defeated, but with tna nonors ot war, and when General Braduocic ponder ous, Ignorant, brave as a bulldog, prodigal, generous, dull Of wit and gentle In soft moods, aenvea in mi Potomac with rexular troops. Colonel Oeorge Washington was selected as an aid de camp; a ' position wnicn Oeorge Warrington succeeded in ob taining also, much to tha generous envy of Harry. Before ther departed to the wild erness Oeorge Warrington imagined that ha had discovered the true-reason for Mr. Washington's constant at tendance on Mme. Esmond; and ob jecting very much to Mr. Washington as a stepfather, he set himself the task of forcing a quarrel on that gen tleman. . . v Mr. Washington affected not to no tice tha vouna man's words for a long time, but at last, on a day Just before the starting of the troops, George's anger reached a stags where he passed from polite affronts to open Insult. "Confound your impudence, you in fernal young Jackanapes!" suddenly bellowed Colonel Washington, with glaring eyes and every limb quivering with wrath. "For months past 1 have borne with such impudence from you that if I had not loved your mother yes, sir, and your good grandfather and your brother, . I would put yeu across my knee and whip you, you snarling little puppy, that s what I would dol At once both Harry and George started up and demanded reparation. The stout Colonel's heart smote aim. An Immense tenderness and kindness filled him at the thought ,that he should be called on to shed the blood of one of these lads wnom he loved. "I 1 am bewildered," he said. "My words, perhaps, were very hasty. What is ths meaning of this?" An evil spirit was awake and victo rious In young Oeorge Warrington. His black eyes shot out hatred at the simple and guileless gentleman before him. . He replied with fresa Insults. "In heaven's name be It," said Mr. Washington, with a doep grief in his face. The twq champions withdrew to write their letters before the meeting. One of those written by Mr. Wasalng ton was adiressed simply "M. C." Then he stalked into the held where they were to fight. "Oeorge! George Washington!" cried a voice. It was Harry, rushing with both hands out, with love and affection thrilling in his honest voice. He had discovered 'that the Colonel was paying court, not to Mme. (Es mond, but to Mrs. CusUs; and George was coming to apologise humbly. "Thank God, thank God 'for this!" said George Washington, nrlta a fal tering voice. He took Harry fairly into his arms and held him close to his heart. Jio aid not embrace George, but held nis hand out to him gravely, say ing: "George, take a true friend's ad vice ana. try and be less ready to think evil of your friends." The next day Oenerai "Hraddoek. with his riotous soldiery and scarcely jess riotous- officers, who were loath to tear themselves away from the ex cellent liquor of Virginia, departed uu.uijf uii Hi campaign. For a time letters were brought " oy couriers, xnen came ten days of silence. And then a. vast and sudden gloom spread over the prov ince. 7 The army had been surprised. Tha troops bad been cut up V almost to a man. All the officers had fceen taken down by the French and the savages. Tho general had died from wounds and bad been scalped. Harry armed himself and set forth oiutbe northward track. He went from one end to tha other of tha dreadful field that - was no longer haunted by Indians, but waa left in undlsturtwl possession of the birds of prey. He found Ho trace of his be loved George. Hut he learned that one aide-de-camp had escaped. It waa Colonel Washington, lying 111 from fever at a camp formed by tha survivors.. A sharper pang than that of fever shot through him when ha saw poor Har ry. Mr. Washington did not dare to tell Harry all. He had burled one body, stripped and horribly mutilated by the Indians, which ha felt sure waa George's. Mournfully the two Virginians re turned to CasUewood. There iMme. Esmond received Harry with tears and Mr. Washington with dignity. "Tou yourself, sir, have come through tha fatigues and dangers-of the cam paign In the most wonderful manner." said she with a ceremonious courtesy. I u.a- ..n.uiuRiua uiu uwt trouble tha hospitality of Caatlewood any mora, ana Mme. Esmond seemed curiously angry at his coming mar riage, considering that she lost no op portunity for assuring Harry that the Marquis of Esmond's daughter had better opinion of ' herself than to dream of giving her hand to a gentle man who once had actuaily earned his living by surveying! ' . Harry did not feel tha softened grief of a younger brother assuaged by the pleasure of -inheritance. Wherever ha went, whatever ba did. he- thought of how ' much - better Georgs would nave dona In his place. Before hi mind mm forever tha fearful field In the forest, and tha ter rible dead. He thournt of tha bright face, tha daring heart, the lovlnt spirit that had been taken from hint on' that fatal day,' and all the, acres of Virgin t wer worthless to 'hts sim ple loyal aouL . -, " - in imperious iauy or icsmona, locking up her awn grief In her stout heart, and who may saj 7) thankful, perhaps, without daring to confess It to herself, lhat her handsoma Harry had not gone with Brad dock In George's plac. : graciously ordered that ha should f to England to re cover from tha illness that had fol lowed his return. : The anniversary Of his brother's loss found Mm arriv ed and introducing himself to his family. , . -- ,i"-i- . , Met only coldly at first and referred to. secretly as the Cherokee and the Iroquois, his amiable relatives grad ually changed their tune when they heard and began to believe the ato nes that rumor soon ouilt around him. "The Princess Pocahontas" as Madam Esmond had . long been called by ' her English friends, had given him Immense sums; mo the society of London translated the allowance of 150 pounds a year which his mother had made him. Harry, condescend ing to tell nobody his business, did not undeceive the gossips, nor did he descend to correction when they spoke of his principality in Virginia.- Hs listened with silent contempt to the stories, knowing that his slave and body servant Gumbo had started them all; and he did not presume on the standing that the rumors gave him, but acted like a simple, well-bred fel low. Lord Castlewood, the grandson of the man for whom Colonel Esmond had renounced the estate, promptly decided to pluck him. Castlewood s brother, penniless disreputable, cow ardly, resolvedtbe same. Lady Ma ria, Castlewood's elderly but well pre served sister, decided that a provlnee In America was the refuge for which she had been waiting. Of all he found In Caatlewood, there was only one who loved him un selfishly. That was tne old Baroness Bernstoln, the daughter of Colonel Esmond's V-ife by her first husband and therefore Madam Esmond's halt sister. If Harry had ever read the records of his family, which he eould never bring himnelf'to do, he wocld have known that this be-painted, be-wig-ged and he-powdered Old woman was no less than the famous beauty; Be atrix Esmond, in defense of whose honor Colonel Esmond had faced ths Pretender sword !ri hand, ending by breaking that itrora, destroying his patent of Marquis and renouncing al leglanee to the forsworn family for whom his had Bhed their blood. Beatrix, thus protected qurte against her will, had forlflwed the young Prince when he fled to Europe. Her name had never been mentioned again by the Virginia Esmonds. By what tawJr intriguing, humbling stages Beatrix Esmond had been pass ed from royal court to court, finally being married to a ucntleman who waa made bishop for his complaisance and endl ir. on his death, by marry ing a still less- particular person, who waa mads a German baron, only the Baroness herself coulpj, ssy -and her lips were clever ones, that told only what she wished. Old and her influence over kings gone, she returned to England to amuse herself by plaguing Lord Caa tlewood and his family, lashing them With ' her acorn and open disdain. which they bore heroJcalljt-.fo tho said, of Inheriting her wealth. . Sne saw In Harry s face the spirit of Colonel Esmond. "That was tha only man there ever was- m this fam ily," said aha ta the- Castlewoods. 'There never -was one of tha malEa monds that had more brains than a goose, except him.-. He waa hot At for this selfish, wicked old world of ours, and ha was right to go and live out of It. Where would yon have been but for him 7 ' Tha memory of Colonel Esmond was the ana softened thing that stir red In'the wicked old" tiero(ne's heart. Even when she had followed tha Pre tender, she had thaught in her soul that her kinsman chstlenglag the royal race in his wrath, had looked more like a King than the humiliated young Prince. And now aha saw in Harry Warrington some of that same noble light of eyes and simple bravery of bearing. 4 So aha warned him' against Castle wood, suggesting pointedly that it had been long staca he could get. a gen-l tieman to piar wi"-nim, sincnia waa suspected of being too success f al most times and of never paying when, by an unusual chance, be lost She was even more plain about Consln Will, since there was nothing so bad about him that ft was not sajd openly m every club In London, most of which he dared not enter. For a while, too. he escaped Cas tlewood; and Indeed, that bankrupt bespattered conscienceless oniar ment of the nobility kept his hands off in tho beginning, after a talk with gay world that " came thronging to tho Baroness, . But Harry was not so fortunate with the female portion of the plot ting Castlewoods. Else why should Harry one day tall to kissing a with ered vegetable which he carried In f his breast, and which had been a rose when It waa plucked for aim by the fair hands of the Lady Maria? And if his eyea, ..looking through love, could translate the amputated greens into the blooming glory they had been, why -could they not translate the Lady Maria's somewhat yellow neck and her somewhat too bloom ing complexion into what they had been " once, when -' the charmer was twenty Instead of the twenty-eight that aha owned to Harry (and the forty-two that she really was)) . So Harry wrote to her as his angle, and Ladv Maria, whose Uttered and scarred heart still had enough pas sion to feel true 'ove for the hand some, flushed, eager lad. forgave the had spelling for the sentiment. It was lucky for the peace of mind of the iPrincess pocahontaf-that she did not know how well her heir was progressing In the arts or society, which she had laid it on him to learn. The Baroness Bernstein, vastly proud of him. introduced him to a'l the her rooms nono the loss eagerly for losing no opportunity to retail her paBt career. Castlewood Introduced him at court, which was almoat the on'y place in London where he could still appear without too much danger of being cut dead. v In London Harry fell in with the Earl of March and Ruglen, who laid Harry throe bets the moment he met him, a'l of which the Virginian won. He was equally successful at carls. My Lord of March was then the wildest bettor and gamester in En- ' J J ! AKCilDKGE WASHINGTON ANDlADY gland, willing to bet on anything from a fly to the death of his friends. -The Fortunate Touth," they christened him. "Tho Iroquois won 300 hundred poands genteelly last night at White's from my nephew," wrote Sir Horace Walpole about that time in a letter to a friend. "They say he has bled Lond March of thousands Lord March by whom so much blood has peen snen mat ne nas quarreiea wnn everybody." ."The Fortunate Youth," wrote Lord March in a letter to George Selwyn, the famous wit, whose Jokes as wa read them now seem so sadly like. corked wine, "has an estate In Virginia as big as Torkshlre, He has had the devil's luck here, and if yon can 'settle our Epsom account please hand him 15 pounds, which I stilt owe him after pretty well emptying my pocketbook. Lord Chesterfield has dropped alx hundred to him too. H has won our money In a very gentlemanlike manner." Ha fought his battles like a hero, gamester's battles though they Were. Ha waa not flustered by good luck or cast down by bad. By , : Oeorge," said Mr. Selwyn in a rare fit of enthu siasm, "yon dc servo to win! - Tour treat your fortune as a gentleman honidr Now, how did Harry get the capi tal to "begin his gaming?. In his stately letters to the Princess Poca hontas he did not enlarge .on this part of his career, nor suggest to her that ho waa living in a fashion which even tho simple Virginia lady would proelve .as Incompatible with an al lowance of 250 pounds a year. In London there lay wo sums of 1,000 - pounds each, one In Harry's name and the other in - George's. These had been left to them directly. The tatter Harry would not touch. Ho had hot even caused Its transfer to his name. It seemed like a nat ural act of Idva for the depariedJO let Jt aa it was, T , -.But of his own he Dad taken 600 pounds.. He did not mention to the Princess Pocahontas that he had thus began to spend his capital. His look at lansquenet and macco swelled it to thousands. But ha bought - fine clothes, fins horses and made gener ous presents. He was free and-kind with Fortunatos's purse In his pocket The unlucky had bat to ask and he Stood ready to lend or glvt. la abort ha wa for-., time wild, harum-scarum. . . dissipated ' fortunate youth. There wag but one fly in his ointment. It was his engagement to Lady Maria. 'Somehow that dream had faded very soon, and ha could not shut his eyes, though the poor lad-tried' honorably enough, to the fact that It waa paint and not bloom, art and not charm, that had affect ed him so powerfully at first. ' - He did not pine any more to hold her-hand In aome dim corner. He kissed no mora dead roses. No longer did he all but swoon with bliss when she called him her Enrico and swore that she would never, never take from her heart the sachet that held his precious letter In which ha had asked her - to be his. ; Cousin Will had showed him tha record of her age. Other tongues had whispered to him of h.er past career, and the lack of spicy detail was due only to an uncomfortable habit ha had of clapping his hand to his sword and telling officious gentlemen that they would have to answer for any thing they might say. ' His honest mind never entertained any thought of breaking his word. He would not even permit himself to suspect that he had been trapped. Baroness Bernstein pleaded with him in vain. He declared that ho would marry Maria despite the fact that she was as old as his mother. In his sturdy loyalty he even palJ her debts when she got Into trouble over the money he owed. It made another hole In his patrimony, but this did not prevent him from going to White's again and risking the For tunate Touth. He had to take re course again to his patrimony. It melted away In the next nights like the thousands that he had won in his Drier, bright, Jazzllng career. Then my Lord Castlewood. long disgusted with himself, at letting oth ers win what he might win, suggest ed a little game of piquet. When It XcTrtONfc was done, Castlewood was the richer "by a thousand pounds. That evening the Fortunate Touth goes Into White's and sits down with Lord March and others. He is no more fortunate than he has been in preceding nights. He calls for mora counters and more. Then, a little pale and silent but very y and polite, he gets up aad gxies home. He has lost all his winnings and all his pa trimony five thousand pounds gone In three nights! Oh. to think that a Virginian Prince's back should be slapped by a ragged bailiffs follower! That Mme. Esmond's son should be In a spong ing house! Tet to such a pass In the rake'a progress had Harry come quickly enough, . It was, however, rage and annoy ance that Harry felt mora than wor ry. He had friends. So he sent to Lord CantlewooqVteillng him that a little matter of Ave hundred pounds had caused bis detention. And would Lord Castlewood be good enough to make him a loan out of what he had won? . i ' " 'My Lord Castlewood regretted in a polite note that ha had already spent nis winnings ana naa not a penny. ' Well, there was Sir Miles Warring ton, his dead father's 'brother. The baronet's family' had been very eager for the Fortunate Touth. Only a few nights ago his aunt has kissed him and 'loved him like a son. Alas, the messenger brought. back a letter from Aunt .Warrington regretting that her husband was out of town.- ahe Inclos ed a tract and begged Harry to read It- ' ' , f ;: .- : ,. ' ' . O V,; ' ; With a bitter laugh ha sent Oumbo to White's with a note, to Lord March. Oumbo returned with a po lite net of excuses in reply, "Did Lord Maroh say anything I" asked Harry, looking very pal. ' : "He said It waa tha coolest thing h ever knew," said Onmbo-j "And an- otner gernmVi-sua.--tm mi "ut" - : . i Aunt Bernstein, wicked old schemer though she was, proved better - than the rest at least.- 8h sent her law yer with Ove hundred poands and a kind message. But she attached the condition that Harry break his en gagement to Lady Maria. v Thereupon Barry defiantly turned th lawyer out. . - . ' Then he sat dowii dismally, and If ther war tears la hi young y who shall despise him as of feebl courage? .,.,,;, , . But there were friends i.t need, who had turned away from' Harry' in hi glory and his days of Fortunate Touth, and who now cam to . him, without reproach and without blare of trumpets. While ha sat staring into the fire, their names were announced and presently they wer. ushered in. , One was a tall, kind-faced, good humored looking soldier in a very plain and worn uniform. He was General Lambert, an old companion In arms ot Harry's father. Tha other waa very lean and very pale. His hair was red, his nose and cheek-bones were high. Altogether a very homely young, roan, but altogeth er, too, a very striking and ll'n-able young man was this Lieutenant Col onel James Wolfe, of Ktngsley's Regi ment. They had warned Harry against his company, and then retirtd. Now. without any fine speecnes, they ap peared to offer themselves as surety for him. Harrv turned his face away that they should not see his tear. At that moment a vote sounded below. Har ry Warrington answered it wltn a wild cry. "Whose voice was that?" he called, his own trembling with a strange, In credible, heavenly hope. " The door opened and "Come sway, James," said General Lambert. "We are not wanted here any more." For the voice was the vole of George Warrington. The lost was found again. The aead waa alive. The prodigal was on hi brother's breast. How George had been wounded; how he had been saved from the scalping knife by a French officer; how he had lain. ID ana unconscious In a frontier camp, ever threatened by the Indians who demanded htm from his French csptort; how at last h had escaped a agree in to pay those who aided him 1.000 pounds, all this he told Harry that night after he had paid his debts and freed him. The two brothers were a nlne-dax wonder In London. Then society re adjusted itself and the cluba and as semblies were f u'l or polite sneer at Harry for pretending to be overjoyed at his elder's return to life and thus robbing him of the estates. George became the Inheritor of all the adulation that had been wasted on the Fortunate Touth, while he was hardly noticed. Even Aunt Bern stein developed an amazing gift for looking fixedly past him whl' ah talked to George. "It Is a knight of old, it Is a Bay ard, it is the grandfather come to life." cried the delighted old (belle. And indeed, he looked wonderfullly like the portrait of Colonel Esmond in Castlewood. "It Is Bayard," ahe said, when George told her that he would - not come to life again to rob Harry, but would share his all with him .and gladty. But that declaration was not made before the Castlewoods; and Lady Maria, not caring for the por tion of a younger son, who had spent his patrimony to boot, had smother ed her love for Hsrry and had very kindly told htm that the dream waa over. George now set to work to straight fn out his penniless brother's affairs, dipping deep into his own patrimony to do It. Harry, full of remorse, felt shame 'to live upon him. and. If the truth he told, felt humiliated to be the tolerated guetit In the houses of the great, whert he had been the gdmlred one so recently. &n one day Harry sailed westward as aide-de-camp of his friend, James Wolfe, now promoted to be' a general In command of the expedition against Csnada. General Wolfe was very pale and very ill when he sailed. He left be hind him his affianced pride. But he turned no face feaoxward. He wax never to sen England again. One day In England men em braced when they met. The people shouted aloud In the streets. And though James Wolfe had fallen on the Plains of Abraham betyre Quebec and died in that wonderful ennsum matlon of his career, his end was so glorious that men dared hardly de plore that end. The whole nation rose up and felt Itself the stronger for James Wolfe's victory. Should his friends weep because a chariot had come from the skies to fetch' him away? On every soldier who had fought w4th him fell a share of reflected glory; and honest Oeorge Warrington felt happier in the homage that was paid te him now a Harry's brotger than he had ever feu when ne. was flattered as the heir to Virginia. George's heirship to the 'broad es tates in America, to be sure, did not profit him much at this Urn. H had spent almost all his 1.000 pounds partly for Harry, and partly for sup plies that he bad sent to the planta tions at the orders of Mm. Esmond. That lady, deeply grieved at poor Harry's loss of the crown era If thought Oeorge sadly, "sh were sor ry that I came hack") was pinching and scraping to aav enough money to bur her younger son an estate.' She declined to pay the bill Incurred for her, declaring that they were for the betterment of" th property, - which would com to Oeorge any way. And George Warrington wrote nothing of having paid Harry debt in reply, but quietly set to work to find a way to flv. . Very foolishly, he had to fall la love, and with a poor girt Oenerai Lambert' daughter. At th news th princess Pocahontas flamed out In roysl anger and sent so bitter a letter that Oenerai Lambert aadly told George h must forget hi daugh ter. Whereupon George and Then, of course, got married secretly and then obtained th general forgive ness. But they had no cake and ale ta those earjjr years. Th Princes Po-! cabontas cut Oeorge adrift In royal wrath, and Harry never dreamed bot that hi brother had plenty. Mean time that brother waa living by writ-; Ing rrmgaxln articles and piayai ' j It was abort common for him and hi beautfulTtitgx--.horca- through- 'm-frinnyTmany esrs .with pattene and courag and hop. Then on day th King died, and th royal death chang ed George's whol Jife. for Sir Mile Warrington' caught cold at. th fun eral and followed hls monarch. So George Warrington' lawyer cam to him on morning and addressed him ss sir George, and poor George War rington, pnywriter, became .r Oeorge Warrington, with four thou sand of the richest acres la Norfolk. 00 air Oeorga, when ha CU cot need It, cam Madam Esmond' for giveness and. her prayer that, aha might see her son and daughter ere she died. . . - -, .. :-, Many years passed, however, before Sir George Anally went to , Virginia. He found 'a different America than th on h had left Th colonists had begun to confiscate the tea im ported from England rather than pay, the tax. The Lees, 'the Randolphs, ma it (tailing iu wen atrrjr r rington. much to the -wrath of that uncompromising loyalist hi mother, had signed rebellious ' nroclamatlona In th face of her neighbor sho In sisted on flaunting her royalist opin ions and at every ' opportunity - she cried, "God save the King!- till the VAh atls Aa J haa asb.m . Vniisa savis e)vaVSC I1C1 IVWS) ' IIVUSV , i Richmond and drove her to seek ref- . Uge In Castlewood, . where ah ' held , forth aa doughtily as aver. . unreasoning hatred of th colonial side. He saw the mischief that Eng lish politicians, and, chief of ail. tha English King had don. But he thought the colonies wer wrong for all that, and, though he wanted to go back to Norfolk again, ha. felt that duty forced him to stay in hi native land and UDhold Enrland'a cause. ;, , ; One day Harry Warrington - rode north to Join General Washington. Soon came Lexington; and th prov inces, with a thrilj of wrath and fury, heard of the blood drawn there. Th Virginian farmers and country fo'k ; rushed toward ths north; and Georg Warrington Joined th English forces. By the middle or August following '. that famous Fourth of July, when tne colonies Droae away rorever, Georg Washington was with Mr, Washington had com over with al Howe before New Tork. General moat hjs whole army to-fight on -a small Island where vry British of ficer knew the Americans wer to b -beaten, and whence ther was no cninci lor acap. a nunaiwi uni- isn ingaies were in id nirnor. George Washington fought. His hasty artillery was taken. Ths remnants of. his army huddled Into an Intrenched camp after the rout. "They cannot escaae," said th DruiBji geiiwrai. That night a whole army moved under the British eyes In one slngl night to the mainland without th loss of a single man. In the morning -the- whole Continental fore had crossed the East river, ahd England's empire in America had slipped away. Sir Oeorge was "badly wounded la" the battle of Long lalaad. So It hap- ' pened that his next fight was almoat . a year afterward, when Sir Henry Clinton conducted an expedition up : the Hudson river to save Burgoyne. As usual. It was too late. But th! force to which George waa attached took Fort Clinton after a hot firht. . ' American general up th river with a message The American officer who , met him was Harry. Then thsy learn ed that they had been engaged on opposite sides the night before. Th two prayed humbly, thanking. Ood that they had not met; and - that night they slept side by aid aa when thev wer boy. When Sir Oeorge Warrington part ed from his brother it was with th determination to withdraw at onca from, th fratlcldal strife. Harry ; stood on the shore till his figure grow . dim before his misty eyes. "Amongst , our cold Englishmen,'' thought Oeorge. "can I hope to meet with a friend like thee? How brav you are and how modest; how eager to others' merits, how diffident of your own!" ' . ' A few weeks sfterward h returned to England with his wife, and th fleet that bore them took th news of the great disaster at Saratoga. "Too late, always too late I" thought George. "Our supplies and.rln- forcements always too lat! Ouf fleet appear off Torktown too lat. " Just after Cornwall surrenders! Burgoyne has a way of retreat open and resolves on It too later, Our chiefs squabble and abuse each other in their own defease. Sav a very few, very few indeed, th actors In thesa great tragedies do not bear to ba scanned too closely. Th chief ar often no better than ranting quacks; the hero ignoble puppets. Th prta Is not alwsys to th brav.' In this revolution it certainly falls, for one and for a wonder, to th most de, serving; but whe wl'l know hi seal victories? I ' V ' "His great and surprising triumphs are not over the enemy, but over Congress; over hunger and dls: over lukewarm friends or smiling ene mies in his own camp, whom hi great spirit has to meet and master. Hes Is a general who beats u with no shot at times, and no powder and no money, and his courage never cap- , itulate. Through all the doubt and. darkness, th danger and long temp est of th war. I think It I only th American leader's indomitable soul that has remained entirely steady." And W aftay years Sir Georg War rington and General Harry Warring ton and Oenerai Lambart and Parson Blake, who wore a red coat at Mon mouth, met to fight th battle again over their bottia at Warrington, in Norfolk. "Ah. if Jamea Wolf had been Uv for twenty year morel" says Lam- -Ah. str." crle Hal "you should have beard tha general talk about him!" "What genera" asks Oeorge Inno cently, with a chuckle. r "My general!" say Harry, standing va with a full glass. rHla ExeUncy. , General George Washington! "With n my ' heart!" erl Sir Oerg Warrington. ; -. .- . JText Sunday's one-page Hassle will 4 b "The Hexl Kover," by James Fen- ntraor Cwopcr. ": ' ' , Increasing Activity,' Philadelphia Pre, A imMt urr riaT 6rlnrn th new of the starting up of mors furnace and Kills nd th reemployment ot mrrm, mimlMM of workmen. The Pitts burg district seems to be unueuaPy ac- trvo-tn-tbi particular. tmw r highly encouraging conditions, and promise aotinty ty eaxiy uui. Th Same Koger. Xanaa City Times . nr,r Sullivan, chairman rf f ub-committee of th remors,He ra tional committe. 1 in Ienver ranging th conrent?on rr1 ': IS this the same Posr-r Su. i Illinois, whom Mr. Bryan art-- i : ternly ta obli'.sm'et
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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