In the kitchen garden, the apple trees and the row of beehives beneath them had by chance been spared. Yet to see the apple trees blooming alone in a black and desert waste, to watch the bees flying about in bewilderment, looking for flowers that had once yielded such generous honey, was worse, almost, than to have had all perish together. Clotilde had need, through these days, of all her courage and of all Stephen’s shrewdly comforting sayings, to keep up even a show of cheerfulness.
Two great events, however, the Spring brought, which were of equal and joyful5 importance to the people of Hopewell. One was the abrupt6 departure from Boston of General Howe and all his soldiers, British and German. Early in March they had embarked7 upon their war vessels9, had hoisted10 sail and cleared the port of Boston with loudly expressed hopes that they would never be so unlucky as to see it again. Many of those wise prophets who are always ready to tell any one who will listen, just what things are going to happen, protested loudly that the war was over and began to criticise11 General Washington for not sending his soldier boys home. But, strange to say, this eagerly offered advice seemed to fall unheeded upon the Commander’s ears and the Continental12 forces still remained under arms waiting for the next move.
The other event was the rebuilding of Master Stephen Sheffield’s house. By an odd chance of war that brings about so many unexpected happenings, the same hands that had burned it down were busied in building it up again. Many of the Hessian prisoners taken the same night of the burning had been quartered all winter in the Hopewell jail, much to their own discomfort13 and that of every one else. The village place of imprisonment14, very little used of late, was now fairly bursting with the captives of war. The officers had been exchanged, but the German privates remained, a sore responsibility, although it must be owned that they were patient, tractable15 and showed no eagerness to escape. Those who had them under guard were glad to put their charges to work, while the prisoners themselves were delighted to labour in the open air at a trade in which many of them were skilled. Mustered16 into the army of some small German ruler, enrolled17 against their will, bewildered but yet obedient, they had been hired out to fight an enemy of which few of them had ever heard. After fighting that foe18 conscientiously19, thoroughly20 and to the best of their ability, they were quite as willing, when so ordered, to labour for their captors with the same silent, heavy industry.
Stephen, during his stay in England, had learned to speak German, a language used about the court as much as English. When he went among the toiling21 workmen and spoke22 to them in their own tongue, it was pleasant to see the stolid23 faces light up, to see the men’s eyes grow brighter and their hands become more nimble in their enthusiasm to labour for the “gn?dige Herr.”
In July, when the bells in the town pealed24 out the thrilling tidings that Congress, in the face of reverses and threatened defeat, had dared to declare the Colonies, “free and independent,” amid the cheers of Hopewell there went up many a sturdy German voice. Once it was explained to them what the great news meant, there was no cap tossed higher than theirs and no cheer more earnest than their deep, resounding25 “Hoch!”
“For,” as one of them explained to Stephen, “it is the first time we have dwelt in a country where men dared speak out what they feel, therefore why should we, though we be prisoners, fail to cry our joy with the rest of you?”
And Stephen had smiled and cordially shaken the German’s great rough hand.
There was no lack of material for the new dwelling26, since that was amply supplied by the ships sent out to raid upon the English commerce. Among them was the Mistress Margeret, built by public subscription27 and bearing the famous mainmast made from King James’ Tree. These raiders had brought in more than one brick-laden vessel8, carrying its cargo28 to some Tory planter of Georgia or Carolina, who had planned a new dwelling with no thought of a long-lasting war. The loads of bricks, of tall, white, fluted29 pillars, carved mantels and door-lintels were sold at auction30 in the seaport31 towns of New England and many of them bought by Stephen’s agents. Some wealthy Loyalist of the South, no doubt, looked long and anxiously out to sea that year, wondering why the duly ordered material for his new house never came to port and little guessing that, far off in New England, there was rising upon the site of Master Simon’s rough little cottage and Roger Bardwell’s big white-painted house, a mansion32 such as had never been seen in that neighbourhood before.
Had this rebuilding meant the outpouring of money needed for other things, Stephen would have lived to the end of the war, and longer, in Samuel Skerry’s little cottage. But material, as has been said, was abundant, and many a poor man, beside the Hessians, stood sorely in need of work. Mother Jeanne frowned often over Stephen’s threadbare coat and rusty34 hat, but she could persuade him to spend no single penny upon himself, when all of New England was in want.
“Monsieur pays those idle workmen twice too much,” she would storm, for she had become a privileged character in the household and was suffered to speak her mind with blunt directness when her feelings became too much for her. “He is of such a poverty himself as to his clothes, that, were it not for his gold-headed cane36, no one could tell which was master and which was man!”
“Our coats are of a like shabbiness, I own,” Stephen would return, untroubled, “but there is one further difference; the man needs the money at this moment and the master does not.”
Day by day, therefore, the house went up. The big white stone steps were the same that Roger Bardwell had had put in place, and the wide chimney was that one that Master Simon had built for his first dwelling, but beyond these all was to be new, the walls this time being built of clear-hued mellow37 brick instead of wood.
“When the house is done,” Stephen said to Clotilde, “and all this tramping to and fro is at an end, we will turn our labour to the garden and see what we can make of that,” but at this she only shook her head sadly.
“It will never be the same,” she sighed. “There are no ship-loads of shrubs38 and flowers coming from England and those that Master Simon planted have perished forever.”
“Be not too sure of that,” Stephen answered with a smile, but Clotilde refused to look at the matter hopefully.
By autumn the dwelling was ready for occupation and a splendid half-new, half-familiar place it seemed. Stephen had bought only such material as the ship-owners had to sell and had spent only such money, in the building, as would help his fellow townsmen. Therefore the house was only half finished, with carving39 and panelling in one apartment and bare rafters in another, with rough wooden shutters40 where windows should have been and walls of unsmoothed boards in many of the bedrooms. The big drawing-room was completed, however, with its white cupboards and panelling and long casement41 windows opening to the east. In the hall a great carved staircase with a white balustrade and mahogany handrail wound up to the second floor. The round window on the landing encircled, like a frame, a far view of rocky capes42, scattered43 islands and broad, blue sea. Here Clotilde loved to kneel upon the cushioned seat and watch for hours the whirling gulls44, the blue October sky and the sunlight on white, swiftly-moving sails.
When the word went forth45 that Master Sheffield’s house was at last completed, the doors of Hopewell opened and out came, in long and straggling procession, those household treasures that the friendly souls of the town had risked their lives in rescuing. There were framed pictures, from the huge, heavy portraits down to the little sampler over which Margeret Radpath had pricked46 her fingers on the very day that first she laid eyes upon Roger Bardwell. There were the old bits of pewter that had belonged to Mistress Radpath when she was a bride, there was the bowl that was Samuel Skerry’s unwilling47 marriage gift, there was the wonderful silver service given to Stephen when on his mission to England. There were rolls of homespun linen48 sheets, Stephen’s own armchair, and Clotilde’s little polished spinning-wheel. Much, of course, had perished in the flames, but so much had been saved that Stephen, Clotilde and Mother Jeanne could only wonder, rejoice and forget what was gone beyond recall. Last of all there stumped49 up to the door—where the silver knocker set by Paul Revere50 once more shone resplendent—that same old man who had told Stephen the tale of the burning. Fumbling51 in his pocket, he brought forth a velvet52 case which he put into Clotilde’s hand.
“Since I am so old and awkward, there was little I could save,” he said, “but I spied a cupboard standing53 open and this within, so I carried it home to be kept safe for you and Master Sheffield. This whole long winter, when there was little fire on my hearth54 and starvation waiting, seemingly, only just around the corner, I used to get out this treasure and warm myself at the glow of the jewels. And it is proud I am to have something to bring to you when all the others are carrying their offerings hither!”
Clotilde snapped open the cover and found within the diamond star that had been given by the King of France to Stephen and by him to her. She had often thought of it, but always as lost beyond hope of recovery, so she gave, now, a glad cry of surprise and ran to show Master Sheffield that her greatest treasure had come back to her. The man would accept no thanks, nor consider it any merit that, in the midst of such dire35 poverty, his honesty had never been tempted55 by the shining stones.
“There would have been a curse on me, and a well deserved one,” he said, “had I even thought of keeping for myself that which belongs to you who have been so good to me.”
A great feast took place in Stephen’s house, a housewarming where all of Hopewell was made welcome. The occasion, although it should have been one of rejoicing, for was not Master Sheffield safe and sound in his own house again, was tinged56 with gloom, since the British had taken possession of New York and General Washington’s army was in retreat through New Jersey57. Louder and louder were growing the criticisms of Washington, while many wiseacres were saying openly that he had not the ability for a Commander-in-Chief, and that Benedict Arnold should have been the man. Others, too, there were who said just as loudly that the war was over and the victory with the English, the same prophets who, six months ago, had wished to disband the army, since America was safe.
At the end of the evening, when the feasting was over and the guests were ready to go, Stephen Sheffield, standing upon the stairway above the heads of all the people, made a speech that many of those who heard forgot not to their dying day. He spoke first of the thanks that he owed them all, and, though his words were few, they were so simple and earnest that every one who had done him a service felt more than worthily58 repaid.
“But with my thanks,” he said, “is coupled a request, for I must ask you for a service greater than any you have yet done me. I beg that you speak no further ill of that heavy-hearted man who leads our armies, who with troops deserting, money lacking, food and clothing scarce and with winter close upon him, never admits defeat, and will still lead his men to victory. Not because he is merely a friend of mine do I ask you to abstain60 from evil-speaking of him in my house, but because he is the friend of all of you, fighting for you—and you—and you,” here certain of the guests hung their heads for, with unerring finger Stephen had pointed61 to the worst offenders62, “and will you, by your idle words make his task heavier?”
It was a sober company that said good night and filed out through the great doorway63. A dozen, at least, of the men present had been in Washington’s army, but, having enlisted64 for only a few months, had come home at the end of that time, vowing65 that they would risk their lives no longer in a hopeless cause. Among this number was David Thurston, although he had better excuse than the others, since his feeble old mother, who dwelt in Hopewell, was in sore need of his support and aid.
Early the next morning, before it was yet light, there was a tapping at the silver knocker and Clotilde, slipping down with a candle in her hand, opened the door and found David Thurston on the steps. It was a raw, cold November dawn with gusts66 of rain and a sharp, merciless wind. Yet there stood David and, on the driveway below, mounted on shivering horses, were twelve village lads, muffled67 in their high-collared homespun coats and fur caps.
“Tell the master when he awakes,” said David hurriedly, “that we are off to the wars again, to fight for General Washington, since his need is so great. Say that when we heard Master Sheffield’s words and saw him grown old and broken in this struggle for Liberty, we were ashamed to sit warm and comfortable at home and let others win our battles for us. And, Mistress Clotilde,” he added, his voice breaking, “will you look to my poor old mother now and again? I doubt that she will be here when I return, for we are not coming back until every redcoat has been swept from America.”
He pressed her hand in a rough, trembling clasp of farewell, strode down the steps, mounted his horse and, followed by the others, rode away into the face of the whistling, sleety68 wind. Among the group that pressed forward with bent69 shoulders and bowed heads, Clotilde recognised the broad backs of three of the German prisoners, who had given up their chance of exchange and return to their own homes, and were now to fight, for the first time in their lives perhaps, on a side of their own choosing.
November passed, and December, with still the depressing news of retreat and ever retreat before the overwhelming numbers of the British. Clotilde long remembered that dreary70 Christmas night when the wind shrieked71 down Master Simon’s chimney and banged and shook at the heavy wooden shutters, while she, Stephen and Mother Jeanne huddled72 about the fire and tried to smile at Stephen’s merry stories and cheerful talk. All three of their hearts were so heavy with thoughts of the struggling army, of freezing soldiers crouching73 over camp fires, of the desperate struggle against almost hopeless odds74, that it was Stephen alone who managed to speak confidently and to see in the blazing fire pictures of hope, victory and peace at last.
On New Year’s day came the tidings of that marvellous crossing of the Delaware and the capture of Trenton. People brightened then and began to speak more cheerily. Strange to say, it was only Stephen who shook his head over the news.
“A General who must take such fearful risks as that,” he said, “is plainly in such dire necessity that he must win, or lose all. May Heaven help him!”
On an afternoon in April came a messenger, covered to his eyes with splashings of mud, clay and gravel75, and bearing a letter from General Washington to Stephen.
“Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England have combined to decorate them,” he said, displaying his great jack76 boots, “but there was naught77 of bad roads or hidden enemies could stay me on an errand that, so His Excellency said, was desperate in its need for haste. Things have come to a fearful pass with the army!”
Stephen, however, although he read the letter carefully, seemed in no hurry with his reply.
“See that the man is well cared for,” he directed Clotilde. “It is too late for him to set forth again to-day, so let him lodge78 here and receive my answer in the morning.”
There was something in his voice, as he spoke, that made Clotilde start and turn, a note of dull, despairing weariness such as she had never before heard from him. She ran to him and put her hand on his arm.
“What is it, oh, what is it, Master Sheffield?” she cried.
“You may read the letter, child,” he said, handing it to her, although with fingers that trembled. “And do my bidding, see that the messenger is fed and rested and treated well. As for me, I must be alone a little; the letter calls for an answer in haste, but I know not—I know not what to say!”
Quickly Clotilde ran to do as Stephen directed and to see that the travel-worn rider was comfortably bestowed79 in the chimney corner with a hot meal before him. Not until then did she creep to her own room and open the letter. It was short and in General Washington’s own hand.
“For the love of God and of our Country,” it ran, “send me help if you are able. My army is dwindling80 daily, and, without new recruits—not a mere59 handful, nor a few hundreds, but thousands—the cause of Liberty is lost. Many have left whose terms of enlistment81 were up, hundreds more have deserted82 on account of the lack of food, of clothing and of the pay that Congress does not send. That I should call upon you, who are already spent with doing so much, is only the proof of my desperate need. If there is aid in the world, it lies with you alone.”
Clotilde stood staring blankly out of the window, the letter clutched in her hand. General Washington confessing that he was at the end of his resources, Master Sheffield finally giving way to despair and owning that he knew not what to do! Could there be fuller proof that all was at an end? So the war was lost then: the sacrifice of Master Simon’s garden, all the suffering, all the bloodshed, all had been in vain! What a black, black world it was.
She slipped on her blue cloak, drew up its hood33 and ran downstairs and out-of-doors. As she passed the study, she saw Stephen sitting in his armchair, his face bowed in his hands; she heard something like a groan83 sound through the hall as she softly closed the outer door. Once she had been accustomed to look for help and comfort in the garden, but now it was only a dreary waste that made her even more sick at heart, as she hurried across it and out through the white gate. Beyond the village, among the tall, silent trees of the forest, perhaps she could find a little peace and soothe84 her whirling wits into forming some plan to help her dear Master Sheffield.
She trudged85 down the rough country lane, the high Spring wind ruffling86 her hair and finally blowing back the hood of her cloak. The way was muddy and full of little rippling87 pools, where she could see reflected the blue sky and sailing white clouds. The hedges were budding and the grass on the sunny banks growing green, and a meadow lark88, perched upon a gate post swelled89 his yellow breast and sang a song that was all for her. In spite of herself, she began to be a little comforted and to feel some of the gladness of the growing world, although heavy trouble still lay like lead upon her heart.
Leaving the lane, where it skirted the wood, she plunged90 into the forest itself. The dead leaves and old, withered91 brambles were almost knee deep and were soaking wet, sharp twigs reached out and caught her hair and hood with crooked92 fingers. But the wind still blew gaily93 among the treetops and swaying anemones94 and blue-eyed hepaticas smiled up cheerfully at her as she passed along.
Only by chance was it that her eye caught a distant glimpse of flaunting95 yellow, so bright that it drew her attention even from those absorbing thoughts of Stephen, General Washington and Miles. The little clearing that she was about to pass showed, there at her right, such a gleam of brilliant colour as no wild Spring flowers ever could display. In spite of her preoccupation, she was obliged to turn aside and see what it could be. Bending back the bushes, she peeped into a little glade96, and caught her breath with delight and wonder at what she saw.
At the foot of a high, dark, granite97 boulder98, and all down the slope of woodland grass that dipped toward her, grew a mass of yellow daffodils. How could they have come there, by what means had they escaped from civilisation99 and bloomed here in such joyous100, reckless profusion101? Their yellow heads rocked and curtseyed in the wind, their eager faces were turned to the sunshine that, at the very moment of her coming, looked out from behind a cloud and transformed the yellow petals102 into gleaming gold. Suddenly Clotilde dropped upon her knees and flung her arms about the nearest clump103.
“You darlings,” she cried, “you darlings, you are from Master Simon’s garden!”
There could, indeed, be no other explanation for the flowers. She knew well that Master Simon, when he had more plants than he and his neighbours needed, often set them out by wayside springs or in nooks and corners of the wood where they were seen through the years only by the peering Indians or the wild wood animals. But surely it must have been a hundred years ago that he, with spade and basket full of nodding yellow flowers or tight-jacketed brown bulbs, had come to set out this little garden that was to grow and spread and fill the glade with sunshine long after he was dead. Wars had raged past them, three generations had come and gone, Indians and wild things had disappeared, forever, from these forest hills, but still the flowers bloomed and faded and bloomed again, silent proof that the work of such hands and hearts as Master Simon’s never died. Clotilde, with a joyous laugh, began quickly to gather great sheafs of the daffodils and to pile them high in her apron104.
Meanwhile Stephen had sat long in motionless silence but at last raised his head from his hands and looked hopelessly about him. Slowly he reached to take up his pen, dipped it in the ink and then sat staring at the blank white paper before him.
“To His Excellency, General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Armies,” he wrote at last, and then paused long again.
“Can I tell him,” he finally said aloud, “can I say that the struggle is over and America can do no more? Two years have we fought bravely, but can a handful of scattered Colonies hope longer to resist a mighty105 Empire? Ah, God knows, God knows!”
With a long, dreary sigh he dipped his pen in the ink again and began to write.
Suddenly a far door flew open with a bang, feet came running down the hall, his study door burst open and in came Clotilde. Her apron and her arms were full of golden flowers that spilled from her hands, dropped over table and floor, were tumbled upon Stephen’s knees and, so it seemed, filled the whole room with yellow sunshine.
“See, Master Sheffield,” she cried, “they are for you—from Master Simon!”
Stephen passed a trembling hand across his forehead.
“From Master Simon?” he repeated, bewildered. “My child, what can you mean?”
With much incoherence and several beginnings at the wrong end, Clotilde managed to explain how she had been walking in the wood, lonely, sorrowful and in utter despair, how she had come upon the flowers and how she had felt as though a friendly hand had been stretched out across the hundred years to cheer and comfort her. Stephen listened wondering.
“Master Simon!” he said at last in a shaking voice. “To think that in this dark hour I had forgot Master Simon and his roofs of gold!”
As he still sat, looking silently at the yellow blossoms, Clotilde stooped to lift a paper from the floor.
“Oh, dear,” she said ruefully, “here is your letter that I swept down with the flowers and see, it is all blotted106 and wet through my carelessness!”
“Never mind,” returned Stephen, sitting bolt upright, and taking his pen again, “bring me another sheet for I have a different message to write now. Send that man of General Washington’s to me for I will despatch107 him to-day after all. And do you, my child, and Mother Jeanne, pack my clothes and bid Jason and Michael to make ready for a journey.”
“A journey,” faltered108 Clotilde, “a journey in this wild, wet Spring weather?”
“Yes, a journey,” he repeated firmly. “I am going forth to gather men for General Washington’s army.”
“Oh, no, no!” cried the girl in alarm, but she went to do his bidding, nevertheless.
A few minutes later, Mother Jeanne, with her gravest face and most severe manner came bustling109 in.
“What is this of Monsieur’s journey?” she said. “It must have been that I did not hear aright. It will cost Monsieur his life, and that is a life we cannot spare.”
“Woman,” replied Stephen with a sternness so new that Mère Jeanne was utterly110 taken aback and stood staring at him open-mouthed. “So far America has given to this war but what she could spare, now we must all give more than that. Go I must, and I will look to you and to Clotilde to take care of the poor of Hopewell until I shall come back.”
Mother Jeanne hesitated a moment, then dropped a curtsey as her brown face wrinkled into a proud smile.
“Monsieur may rely on us to do our duty,” she said.
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