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"Not ended; I shall remember"

"Well, and if we both remember--to what purpose?"

"To what purpose is friendship, Carus, if not to re ht her troth in secret, I care not for what reasons I know so no honest man should ask of any woman Why do you fear to tell Sir Frederick Haldied me not to"

"Why?" I asked sharply

"He is poor You must surely knohat the rebels have done--how their commissioners of sequestration seized land and house from the Tryon County loyalists Captain Butler desires h his own efforts and by his sword, he has won back his own in the north And I consented Meanwhile," she added airily, "he has a glove ofhim my hand to weep upon And so ait for one another, and pin our faith upon his sword"

"To wait for hiht your troth and wait for hiain?"

"Yes, Carus"

"And then you mean to wed him?"

She was silent The color ebbed in her cheeks

I stood looking at her through the evening light Behind her, gilded by the level rays of the sinking sun, a new headstone stood, and on it I read: IN MEMORY OF Michael Cresap, First Cap't Of the Rifle Battalions, And Son to Col Thomas Cresap, Who Departed this Life, Oct 18, AD 1775

Cresap, the generous young captain, whose dusty column of Maryland rifleh Broadalbin Bush on the way to Boston siege! This was his grave; and a Tory maid in flowered petticoat and chip hat was seated on theof rebels!

"When do you leave us?" I asked grione to see Sir Henry to ask for a packet We sail as soon as o with you?" I demanded, startled

"Why, yes--I and my two maids, and Captain Butler Sir Frederick Haldimand knows"

"Yes, but he does not know that Captain Butler has presumed--has dared to press a clandestine suit with you!" I retorted angrily "It does not please o under such doubtful escort, Elsin"