CONCLUSION
Let me pass briefly over the next six months. It is now midsummer and
the city is at peace. Already the Red Band is a thing of the past and
well-nigh forgotten. Jacques’ return with a message to the invaders was
effective. We heard no more of the French fleet. The men of the Red
Band, bereft of their leader, were incapable of a stand and were, for
the most part, allowed to go free. Sir Evelin Marmaduke slowly grew
strong and resumed his position in the affairs of the city. And Annetje
Dorn became willing to pass the Kissing Bridge arm in arm with my little
friend Pierre.
For Miriam and me, however, there was much of sorrow. She had greatly
misjudged me, and the recollection of it stung her to the heart. But I
had still greater sins upon my soul. I had done much wrong, albeit I had
intended to do right. Through craft and deceit I had driven the patroon
to bay, and I took upon myself the blame for his last great crimes. My
remorse was a heavy burden and I prayed through many a weary night to be
forgiven. At last, after many resolutions and much perusal of my Bible,
this, too, passed away, and I knew myself a better and a worthier man.
So, with the midsummer brightness came joyful times at last. We were all
together one afternoon in the assembly hall at the fort. It was a room
filled with memories to me. There the Earl had tasted salt when I
visited him on my first day in New York; there I had seen the patroon
baited to his fall, which he had withstood with quiet dignity; I had
seen it full of light and of the sound of merry music on the night when
I brought the dreadful news of Sir Evelin’s escape and of the danger
which threatened to fall upon the city from the sea. But now all was
changed and well in keeping with the brightness of the day without.
Sir Evelin and I were in one corner of the room listening with
considerable amusement to a debate which was going on in the center by
the great carved table. Lady Marmaduke and the Earl were striving with
as much heat as good nature would allow; and Miriam, the cause of their
dispute, stood beside them.
“I tell you,” cried Lady Marmaduke hotly, “I tell you it is all
nonsense. She shall be married at Marmaduke Hall.”
Miriam looked at me and smiled as the Earl replied: “Nay, nay, I have a
greater claim. She shall be married in the fort, with all the pomp of
martial music, and my guard drawn up in line, and all that.”
“Bah, what is your claim?” cried Lady Marmaduke, stamping her foot upon
the floor. “I will not have it. She shall be married in my house or I’ll
never stir from this spot. What claim have you that she should be
married here?”
“If it comes to that,” replied the Earl, with a smile, “I shall make a
claim straightway.”
With that he took from the table a legal looking document and handed it
to Miriam.
“Unfold, my child, and read what has been set down therein.”
“What, what is this?” cried Miriam, as she cast her eye down the
ponderous instrument. “This is the title to the estate of Hanging Rock.
What have I to do with that? You told me that my father had resigned it
into your hands as an act of justice.”
“So he did. Read on, my dear.”
Suddenly the bright spots came out upon her cheeks.
“Can I believe my eyes? It is new engrossed and in my name. Do you mean
that the manor-house and park belong to me?”
“Ay; to you and to your heirs forever.”
“Oh, Sir Richard! How can I thank you!”
“Now does the King’s fort deserve the honor of your wedding?”
“Miriam, you will choose Marmaduke Hall.”
“Choose the fort,” said the Earl.
“Let me speak to Vincent.”
She came across the room and whispered to me for a moment. But her mind
was already made up, and she soon returned.
“I thank you both,” she said. “I thank you kindly. But since I hold this
title in my hand, I think—yes, I am sure that Vincent and I shall be
married in my own manor at the Hanging Rock.”
And so our trials ended. Many years have gone by since then and the Red
Band is forgotten. My noble patron has weathered safely the storm that
Captain Kidd’s treachery brought down upon his head; he has long since
been gathered to his fathers, honored and lamented by all in the whole
province of New York. My stern mistress and her husband are dead, too,
after a ripe old age, their estate going at last to enrich the poor of
the city.
This ends my story, and all words are said save one. My wife and I have
spent many happy years since that turbulent fall of 1699—and she has
remained a Catholic, and I still cling to the faith of my Huguenot
parents. Yet I see the old quarrel in a new light now, and our life
together has proved that if the people of our faiths would but cherish
the good that is in them instead of quarreling over the bad; if they
would recognize, as I did once long ago, that the cross at least is
common to us both—if they would do this, peace would come unto the
world, as it has come into Miriam’s life and into mine.
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spectacle.
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY. By Grace Miller White. Illust. by
Howard Chandler Christy.
A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell University
student, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives of
those about her. The dramatic version is one of the sensations of the
season.
YOUNG WALLINGFORD. By George Randolph Chester. Illust. by F. R.
Gruger and Henry Raleigh.
A series of clever swindles conducted by a cheerful young man, each of
which is just on the safe side of a State’s prison offence. As
“Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,” it is probably the most amusing expose of
money manipulation ever seen on the stage.
THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY. By P. G. Wodehouse. Illustrations by
Will Grefe.
Social and club life in London and New York, an amateur burglary
adventure and a love story. Dramatized under the title of “A
Gentleman of Leisure,” it furnishes hours of laughter to the
play-goers.
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Full of the real atmosphere of American home life.
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==THE HAND-MADE GENTLEMAN.== With a double-page frontispiece.
The son of a wash-woman begins re-making himself socially and
imparts his system to his numerous friends. A story of rural New
York with an appreciation of American types only possible from the
pen of a humor loving American.
==DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES==. With illustrations by Arthur I.
Keller.
A tale of the North Country. In Darrel, the clock tinker, wit,
philosopher and man of mystery, is portrayed a force held in fetters
and covered with obscurity, yet strong to make its way, and widely
felt.
==D’RI AND I==: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the
British. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn.
“D’ri” was a mighty hunter, quaint, rugged, wise, truthful. He
fights magnificently on the Lawrence, and is a striking figure in
this enthusiastic romance of early America.
==EBEN HOLDEN==: A Tale of the North Country.
A story of the hardy wood-choppers of Vermont, who founded their
homes in the Adirondack wilderness. “Eben,” the hero, is a bachelor
with an imagination that is a very wilderness of oddities.
==SILAS STRONG==: Emperor of the Woods.
A simple account of one summer life, as it was lived in a part of
the Adirondacks. Silas Strong is a woodland philosopher, and his
camp is the scene of an impressive little love story.
==VERGILIUS==: A Tale of the Coming of Christ.
A thrilling and beautiful story of two young Roman Patricians whose
great and perilous love in the reign of Augustus leads them through
the momentous, exciting events that marked the year just preceding
the birth of Christ.
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Transcriber’s Note
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected,
and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the
original. Corrections in the unpaginated advertising section are
noted with a prefix ‘a’.
5.23 scarce fifteen years of age[,/.] Replaced.
16.20 who have been here to[-]night. Inserted.
17.27 its preparation for mil[i]tary defense Inserted.
27.24 set out together along the q[iu/ui]et Transposed.
104.29 small ivory min[i]ature Inserted.
123.19 and you can wear it safely[”]. Added.
134.15 but Van Volkenberg’s d[raw/war]f Transposed.
165.7 With this end in view[./,] Replaced.
242.12 before he leaves the house.[”] Added.
a3.12 now a beautif[n/u]l young woman Inverted.
a8.40 [“]A novel tale concerning itself Removed.
a9.30 a sturdy young farmer[,/.] Replaced.
End of Project Gutenberg's Patroon van Volkenberg, by Henry Thew Stephenson