The recollection of this novel and curious happiness upon which she had stumbled only a few moments before took on now the character of self-reproach. The burning headache had returned, and with it came a pained consciousness that it had been little less than criminal in her to weakly dally4 in Horace’s office when such urgent responsibility rested upon her outside. If the burden of this responsibility appeared too great for her to bear, now that her strength seemed to be so strangely leaving her, there was all the more reason for her to set her teeth together, and press forward, even if she staggered as she went.
Only—where to find Reuben Tracy! The search had been made cruelly hopeless by that shameful5 delay; and she blamed herself with fierceness for it, as she racked her brain for some new plan, wondering whether she ought to have asked Horace or gone into some of the other offices.
There were groups of men standing6 here and there on the comers—a little away from the full light of the street-lamps, as if unwilling7 to court observation. These knots of workmen had a sinister8 significance to her feverish9 mind. She had the clew to the terrible mischief10 which some of them intended—which no doubt even now they were canvassing11 in furtive12 whispers—and only Tracy could stop it, and she was powerless to find him!
There came slouching along the sidewalk, as she grappled with this anguish13 of irresolution14, a slight and shabby figure which somehow arrested her attention. It was a familiar enough figure—that of old “Cal” Gedney; and there was nothing unusual or worthy15 of comment in the fact that he was walking unsteadily by himself, with his gaze fixed16 intently on the sidewalk. He had passed again out of the range of her cursory17 glance before she suddenly remembered that he was a lawyer, and even some kind of a judge.
She turned swiftly and almost ran after him, clutching his sleeve as she came up to him, and breathing so hard with weakness and excitement that for the moment she could not speak.
The ’squire looked up, and angrily shook his arm out of her grasp. “Leave me alone, you hussy,” he snarled18, “or I’ll lock you up!”
His misconstruction of her purpose cleared her mind. “Don’t be foolish,” she said, hurriedly. “It’s a question of perhaps life and death! Do you know where Reuben Tracy is? Or can you tell me where I can find out?”
“He don’t want to be bothered with you, wherever he is,” was the surly response. “Be off with you!”
“I told you it was a matter of life and death,” she insisted, earnestly. “He’ll never forgive you—you’ll never forgive yourself—if you know and won’t tell me.”
The sincerity19 of the girl’s tone impressed the old man. It was not easy for him to stand erect20 and unaided without swaying, but his mind was evidently clear enough.
“What do you want with him?” he asked, in a less unfriendly voice. Then he added, in a reflective undertone: “Cur’ous’t I sh’d want see Tracy, too.”
“Then you do know where he is?”
“He’s drove out to ’s mother’s farm. Seems word come old woman’s sick. You’re one of that Lawton tribe, aren’t you?”
“If I get a cutter, will you drive out there with me?” She asked the question with swift directness. She added in explanation, as he stared vacantly at her: “I ask that because you said you wanted to see him, that’s all. I shall go alone if you won’t come. He’s got to be back here this evening, or God only knows what’ll happen! I mean what I say!”
“Do you know the road?” the ’squire asked, catching21 something of her own eager spirit.
“Every inch of it! I was bom half a mile from where his mother lives.”
“But you won’t tell me what your business is?”
“I’ll tell you this much,” she whispered, hastily. “There is going to be a mob at the Minster house to-night. A girl who knows one of the men told—”
The old ’squire cut short the revelation by grasping her arm with fierce energy.
“Come on—come on!” he said, hoarsely22. “Don’t waste a minute. By God! We’ll gallop23 the horses both ways.” He muttered to himself with excitement as he dragged her along.
Jessica waited outside the livery stable for what seemed an interminable period, while old “Cal” was getting the horses—walking up and down the path in a state of mental torment25 which precluded26 all sense of bodily suffering. When she conjured27 up before her frightened mind the terrible consequences which delay might entail28, every minute became an intolerable hour of torture. There was even the evil chance that the old man had been refused the horses because he had been drinking.
Finally, however, there came the welcome sound of mailed hoofs29 on the plank30 roadway inside, and the reverberating31 jingle32 of bells; and then the ’squire, with a spacious33 double-seated sleigh containing plenty of robes, drew up in front of a cutting in the snow.
She took the front seat without hesitation34, and gathered the lines into her own hands. “Let me drive,” she said, clucking the horses into a rapid trot35. “I should be home in bed. I’m too ill to sit up, unless I’m doing something that keeps me from giving up.”
Reuben Tracy felt the evening in the sitting-room36 of the old farmhouse37 to be the most trying ordeal38 of his adult life.
Ordinarily he rather enjoyed than otherwise the company of his brother Ezra—a large, powerfully built, heavily bearded man, who sat now beside him in a rocking-chair in front of the wood stove, his stockinged feet on the hearth39, and a last week’s agricultural paper on his knee. Ezra was a worthy and hard-working citizen, with an original way of looking at things, and considerable powers of expression. As a rule, the lawyer liked to talk with him, and felt that he profited in ideas and suggestions from the talk.
But to-night he found his brother insufferably dull, and the task of keeping down the “fidgets” one of incredible difficulty. His mother—on whose account he had been summoned—was so much better that Ezra’s wife had felt warranted in herself going off to bed, to get some much-needed rest. Ezra had argued for a while, rather perversely40, about the tariff41 duty on wool, and now was nodding in his chair, although the dim-faced old wooden clock showed it to be barely eight o’clock. The kerosene42 lamp on the table gave forth43 only a feeble, reddened light through its smoky chimney, but diffused44 a most powerful odor upon the stuffy45 air of the over-heated room. A ragged24 and strong-smelling old farm dog groaned46 offensively from time to time in his sleep behind the stove. Even the draught47 which roared through the lower apertures48 in front of the stove and up the pipe toward the chimney was irritating by the very futility49 of its vehemence50, for the place was too hot already.
Reuben mused51 in silence upon the chances which had led him so far away from this drowsy52, unfruitful life, and smiled as he found himself wondering if it would be in the least possible for him to return to it. No—no one ever did return. The bright boys, the restless boys, the boys of energy, of ambition, of yearning53 for culture or conquest or the mere54 sensation of living where it was really life—all went away, leaving none but the Ezras behind. Some succeeded; some failed; but none of them ever came back. And the Ezras who remained on the farms—they seemed to shut and bolt the doors of their minds against all idea of making their own lot less sterile55 and barren and uninviting.
The mere mental necessity for a great contrast brought up suddenly in Reuben’s thoughts a picture of the drawing-room in the home of the Minsters. It seemed as if the whole vast swing of the mind’s pendulum56 separated that luxurious57 abode58 of cultured wealth from this dingy59 and barren farmhouse room. And he, who had been born and reared in this latter, now found himself at a loss how to spend so much as a single evening in its environment, so completely had familiarity with the other remoulded and changed his habits, his point of view, his very character. Curious slaves of habit—creatures of their surroundings—men were!
A loud, peremptory60 knocking at the door aroused Reuben abruptly61 from his revery, and Ezra, too, opened his eyes with a start, and sitting upright rubbed them confusedly.
“Now I think of it, I heard a sleigh stop,” said Reuben, rising. “It can’t be the doctor this time of night, can it?”
“It ’ud be jest like him,” commented Ezra, captiously62. “He’s a great hand to keep dropping in, sort of casual-like, when there’s sickness in the house. It all goes down in his bill.”
The farmer brother had also risen, and now, lamp in hand, walked heavily in his stocking feet to the door, and opened it half way. Some indistinct words passed, and then, shading the flickering63 flame with his huge hairy hand, Ezra turned his head.
“Somebody to see you, Rube,” he said. On second thought he added to the visitor in a tone of formal politeness: “Won’t you step in, ma’am?”
Jessica Lawton almost pushed her host aside in her impulsive64 response to his invitation. But when she had crossed the threshold the sudden change into a heated atmosphere seemed to go to her brain like chloroform. She stood silent, staring at Reuben, with parted lips and hands nervously65 twitching66. Even as he, in his complete surprise, recognized his visitor, she trembled violently from head to foot, made a forward step, tottered67, and fell inertly68 into Ezra’s big, protecting arm.
“I guessed she was going to do it,” said the farmer, not dissembling his pride at the alert way in which the strange woman had been caught, and holding up the lamp with his other hand in triumph. “Hannah keeled over in that same identical way when Suky run her finger through the cogs of the wringing-machine, and I ketched her, too!”
Reuben had hurriedly come to his brother’s assistance. The two men placed the fainting girl in the rocking-chair, and the lawyer began with anxious fumbling69 to loosen the neck of her cloak and draw off her gloves. Her fingers were like ice, and her brow, though it felt now almost equally cold, was covered with perspiration70. Reuben rubbed her hands between his broad palms in a crudely informed belief that it was the right thing to do, while Ezra rummaged71 in the adjoining pantry for the household bottle of brandy.
Jessica came out of her swoon with the first touch of the pungent72 spirit upon her whitened lips. She looked with weak blankness at the unfamiliar73 scene about her, until her gaze fell upon the face of the lawyer. Then she smiled faintly and closed her eyes again.
“She is an old friend of mine,” whispered Reuben to his brother, as he pressed the brandy once more upon her. “She’ll come to in a minute. It must be something serious that brought her out here.”
The girl languidly opened her eyes. “‘Cal’ Ged-ney’s asleep in the sleigh,” she murmured. “You’d better bring him in. He’ll tell you.”
It was with an obvious effort that she said this much; and now, while Ezra hastily pulled on his boots, her eyes closed again, and her head sank with utter weariness sideways upon the high back of the old-fashioned chair.
Reuben stood looking at her in pained anxiety—once or twice holding the lamp close to her pale face, in dread74 of he knew not what—until his brother returned. Ezra had brought the horses up into the yard, and remained outside now to blanket them, while the old ’squire, benumbed and drowsy, found his way into the house. It was evident enough to the young lawyer’s first glance that Gedney had been drinking heavily.
“Well, what does this all mean?” he demanded, with vexed75 asperity76.
“You’ve got to get on your things and race back with us, helly-to-hoot!” said the ’squire. “Quick—there ain’t a minute to lose!” The old man almost gasped77 in his eagerness.
“In Heaven’s name, what’s up? Have you been to Cadmus?”
“Yes, and got my pocket full of affidavits78. We can send all three of them to prison fast enough. But that’ll do to-morrow; for to-night there’s a mob up at the Minster place. Look there!”
The old man had gone to the window and swept the stiff curtain aside. He held it now with a trembling hand, so that Reuben could look out.
The whole southern sky overhanging Thessaly was crimson79 with the reflection of a fire.
“Great God! it’s the rolling mill,” ejaculated Reuben, breathlessly.
“Quite as likely it’s the Minster house; it’s the same direction, only farther off, and fires are deceptive,” said Gedney, his excitement rising under the stimulus80 of the spectacle.
Reuben had kicked off his slippers81, and was now dragging on his shoes. “Tell me about it,” he said, working furiously at the laces.
’Squire Gedney helped himself generously to the brandy on the table as he unfolded, in somewhat incoherent fashion, his narrative82. The Lawton girl had somehow found out that a hostile demonstration83 against the Minsters was intended for the evening, and had started out to find Tracy. By accident she had met him (Gedney), and they had come off in the sleigh together. She had insisted upon driving, and as his long journey from Cadmus had greatly fatigued84 him, he had got over into the back seat and gone to sleep under the buffalo85 robes. He knew nothing more until Ezra had roused him from his slumber86 in the sled, now at a standstill on the road outside, and he had awakened87 to discover Jessica gone, the horses wet and shivering in a cloud of steam, and the sky behind them all ablaze88.
“Jee-Whitaker! Looks as if the whole town was burning,” said Ezra, coming in as this recital89 was concluded. “Them horses would a-got their death out there in another ten minutes. Guess I’d better put ’em in the barn, eh?”
“No, no! Just turn them around. I’ve got to drive them back faster than they came,” said Reuben, who had on his overcoat and hat. “Hurry, and get me some thick gloves to drive in. I’ll leave my things here. We won’t wake mother up. I’ll get you to run in to-morrow, if you will, and let me know how she is. Tell her I had to go.”
When Ezra had found the gloves and brought them, the two men for the first time bent90 an instinctive91 joint92 glance at the recumbent figure of the girl in the rocking-chair.
“I’ll get Hannah up,” said the farmer, “and she can have your room. I guess she’s too sick to try to go back with you. If she’s well enough, I’ll bring her in in the morning. I was going to take in some apples, anyway.”
To their surprise Jessica opened her eyes and even lifted her head at these words.
“No,” she said; “I feel better now—much better. I must go back with Mr. Tracy. I really must.” She rose to her feet as she spoke93, and, though she was conscious of great dizziness and languor94, succeeded by her smile in imposing95 upon her unskilled companions. Perhaps if Hannah had been “got up” she would have seen through the weak pretence96 of strength, and insisted on having matters ordered otherwise. But the men offered no dissent97. Jessica was persuaded to drink another glass of brandy, and ’Squire Gedney took one without being specially98 urged; and then Reuben impatiently led the way out to the sleigh, which Ezra had turned around.
“No; I’d rather be in front with you,” the girl said, when Reuben had spread the robes for her to sit in the back seat. “Let the Judge sit there; he wants to sleep. I’m not tired now, and I want to keep awake.”
Thus it was arranged, and Reuben, with a strong hand on the tight reins99, started the horses on their homeward rush toward the flaming horizon.
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mischief
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canvassing
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