Argosy, Vol. 85, No. 3 — page 139: what you’re looking at

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oly 3 $ eens ? Se. A A ., ) y s Ne aes aes: Jose 7 the f\\a Nn h Ivers Lawrence SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS ALREADY PRINTED. | D ae TREVES returns to his home in New York after seven years devoted to his education in England. The period is 1775 and he is strongly Tory in his sympathies, so that when Dale Kirby declines to drink a toast to King George, there is trouble at once and a duel. But David discharges his pistol into the ground and thereby placates the friends of his cousin, Godfrey, with whom and the latter’s wife, Caroline, he has taken up his residence. But on the arrival of a courier with news of the outburst of the Liberty men at Lexington there is such excitement in the New York colony that David decides to betake himself to the home of Nathaniel Winnington, a well-known Tory, whose daughter Jessica he has recently met and for whose safety he is troubled. Things quiet down after a bit, and he returns to the Wall Street house, which however, in the course of the next year reverts to his cousin Godfrey when David declines to subscribe to the patriot’s pledge put up to him by General Lee. He is proscribed, and goes out into the suburbs to live with the Murrays at Incleberg, whither, after a skirmish, his patriot friend, Adrian Ingold, betakes himself for refuge. David insists on seeing the wounded man back to the Continental lines, and in doing so gets a safe-conduct pass from the British commander, Sir Henry Clinton. he is captured by the Americans. This, however, works to his undoing when next day CHAPTER XIV. WANTED—A MIRACLE, T Adrian Ingold’s suggestion the scouting party conducted David to the American headquarters on Har- lem Heights. The two horses of the fallen British troopers were caught, and Ingold mounted one and rode away down the valley to look for his own command. The other horse was given to the pris- oner, and as the battle on the heights was growing in violence and spreading toward the valley, the party headed for the oppo- site heights at a good pace. On top of the rocky elevation north of the valley, known as Point of Rocks, David saw a group of mounted officers, one of them being particularly conspicuous by his superior height and by the milky vhiteness of his charger. ‘General Washington, I believe,” said David casually, to the captain, who rode at his side. ‘Ask me no questions, sir,’ was the answer, ‘‘an’ Ill not have to offend you with ungracious replies.” . David nodded understandingly, and kept silent for the rest of the ride. But he viewed with interest the hastily thrown This story began in the March Argosy 9 ARGOosY 481 TOO C©