In nettles29, stereobate deep, stands Fox Tor Farm, and the plant—sure and faithful follower30 of man—is significant upon this sequestered31 fastness; for hither it came with those who toiled32 to reclaim33 the region in time past, and no other nettles shall be found for miles. Other evidences of human activity appear around the perishing dwelling-house, where broken walls, decaying outbuildings, and tracts34 of cleared land publish their testimony35 to a struggle with the Moor3. Great apparent age marks these remains36, and the weathered and shattered entrances, the lichened37 drip-stones, the empty joist-holes, point to a respectable antiquity38. Yet one hundred years ago this habitation did not exist. Its entire life—its erection and desertion, its prosperity and downfall—are crowded within the duration of a century. In 1800 no stone stood upon another; long ago the brief days of Fox Tor Farm were numbered, and already for fifty years it has written human hope, ambition, failure upon the wilderness39.
One fragment of wrought40 granite remains, and the everlasting41 nettles beneath shall be found heraldically depicted42 upon a shattered doorway43. There, where the ghost of a coat-of-arms may still be deciphered, Time gnaws44 at the badge of the Malherbs: Or, chev. gules inter45 three nettle-leaves vert.
Upon the summit of Cater's Beam, some ninety years ago, a member of that ancient and noble clan46 sat mounted, gazed into the far-spreading valley beneath him and saw that it was good and green. Thereupon he held his quest accomplished47, and determined48 here to build himself a sure abode49, that his cadet branch of the Malherb race might win foothold on the earth, and achieve as many generations of prosperity in the future as history recorded of his ancestors in the past. Seen a mile distant, sharp eyes upon that August day had marked a spot creep like a fly along the crest50 of Cater's Beam, crawl here and there, sink down to Fox Tor, and remain stationary51 upon its stony52 side for a full hour. Observed closely, one had watched a man at the crossroads of life—a man who struggled to mould his own fate and weave the skein of his days to his own pattern. Here he sat on a great bay horse and pursued the path of his future, as oblivious53 to its inevitable54 changes and chances as he was to a black cloud-ridge that now lifted dark fringes against the northern sky and came frowning over the Moor against the course of the wind.
Maurice Malherb was close on fifty, and he had chosen to plough the earth for his partage in the world's work. A younger son of his house, he had turned from the junior's usual portion, and, by some accident of character, refused a commission and sought the peaceful occupations of agriculture. He had already wasted some portion of his patrimony55 upon land near Exeter; and he was seeking new outlet56 for his energies when arose a wide-spread ardour for cultivation57 of Dartmoor. The age of enterprise dawned there; "newtake" tenements58 sprang up like mushrooms upon this waste; and a region that had mostly slept since Elizabethan miners furrowed59 its breast and streamed its rivers for tin, awoke. As a grim crown to the Moor, Prince Town and its gigantic War Prison was created; while round about young woods budded, homesteads appeared, and wide tracts of the Royal Forest were rented to the speculative60 and the sanguine61.
Maurice Malherb was among those first attracted by the prospect62. A famous Dartmoor hero had influenced him in this decision, and he was now spending a week with Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, at Tor Royal, and examining the knight's operations in husbandry. He saw Dartmoor for the first time, and the frank, stern face of it challenged him. For three days he rode forth63 alone; and then he wandered to Cater's Beam and discovered the dewy cup where rivers rise beneath it. To the right and left he looked and smiled. His dark eyes drank up the possibilities of the land. Already he pictured dykes64 for draining of the marshes; already he saw crops ripening65 and slow oxen drawing the ploughshare in the valley. Of the eternal facts, hard as granite and stern as nature, that lurked66 here under the dancing summer air, he knew nothing. The man was fifteen hundred feet above the sea, in the playground of the west wind. The inveterate67 peat encompassed68 him—the hungry, limeless peat, that eats bone like a dog and fattens69 upon the life-blood of those who try to tame it. He gazed upon a wilderness where long winters bury the land in snow or freeze it to the granite core for months—save where warm springs twinkle in the mosses and shine like wet eyes out of a white face. Here the wise had observed and passed upon their way; but Maurice Malherb was not wise. August ruled the hour; the ling bloomed under the heat; a million insects murmured and made a pleasant melody. Dartmoor for a moment smiled, and weary of the tame monotony of green meads, hedges elm-clad, and fields of ruddy earth, Malherb caught hope from this crystal air and enormous scene outspread, fell to picturing a notable future, and found his pulses leap to the great plans that thronged70 his mind.
He was of a square and sturdy habit of body. A clean-shorn countenance71, deep-set black eyes beneath black brows, a large mouth underhung, and a nose very broad but finely moulded, were the distinguishing attributes of his face. Restlessness was alike the characteristic of his expression and of his nature. Generosity72 and pride dominated him in turn. His failures were the work of other people; his successes he claimed himself. His wife, his son, his daughter, the blood in his veins73, the wine in his cellar, were all the best in the world. His demonian temper alone he deplored74; yet in that, also, he found matter for occasional satisfaction; since, by a freak of atavism, he resembled at every physical and mental point an ancestor from the spacious75 times, whose deeds on deep and unknown seas had won him the admiration76 and friendship of Drake.
Malherb already saw a homestead spring upwards77 upon the green hill beneath Fox Tor. There would he lift his eyrie; there should successive generations look back and honour their founder79; there—thunder broke suddenly upon his dreams and the bay horse shifted his fore-feet nervously80 beneath him. Whereupon he lifted his eyes, and found that a great storm was at hand. Unperceived it had crept out of the north while he stood wrapped in meditation81; and now a ghastly glamour82 extended beneath it, for the Moor began to look like a sick thing, huddled83 here all bathed with weak yellow light from a fainting sun. Solitary blots84 and wisps of cloud darkened the sky and heralded85 the solid and purple van of the thunderstorm. All insect music ceased, and a hush86, unbroken by one whisper, fell upon the hills. Cater's Beam suggested some prodigious87, couchant creature, watchful88 yet fearless. Thus it awaited the familiar onset89 of the lightning, whose daggers90 had broken in its granite bosom a thousand times and left no scar.
The wanderer spurred his horse, and regained91 firm foothold on the crest of the land; then, bending to a torrent92 of rain, he galloped93 westward94 where the gaunt wards78 and barracks of Prince Town towered above the desolation. But the tempest broke long before Malherb reached safety; darkness swallowed him and he struggled storm-foundered among the unfamiliar95 hills. Then fortune sent another traveller, and a young man, riding bare-backed upon a pony96, came into view. Sudden lightning showed the youth, and, waiting for a tremendous volley of thunder that followed upon it, Malherb shouted aloud. His voice, though deep and sonorous97, sounded thin as the pipe of a bird thus lifted immediately after the peal98.
"Hold there! Where am I, boy? Which is the way to Tor Royal?"
"You be going right, sir," shouted the lad; "but 'tis a long road this weather. Best to follow me, if I may make so bold, an I'll bring 'e to shelter in five minutes."
The offer was good, and Mr. Malherb accepted with a nod.
"Go as fast as you can; I'll keep behind you."
Both horses were moorland bred, for the visitor rode a stout99 hackney lent by his host. Yet Malherb had to shake up his steed to keep the native in sight. Presently the youth dismounted, and his companion became aware of a low cabin rising like a beehive before him. It stood at the foot of a gentle hill, within a rough enclosure of stone. Some few acres of land had been reclaimed100 about it, and not far distant, through the murk of the rain, its granite gleaming azure101 under the glare of the lightning, stood an ancient and famous stone.
"Now I know where I stand," said the stranger. "I came this way three hours since. There rises Siward's Cross—is it not so?"
"Ess, your worship, 'tis so. An' this cot do belong to my gran'mother. 'Tis a poor hole for quality, but stormtight. You please to go in that door an' I'll take your hoss after 'e. Us do all live under the same thatch—folks an' beastes."
The boy took both bridles102, then kicked open the door of the hut, and shouted to his grandmother.
"Here's a gentleman almost drownded. Put on a handful of sticks an' make a blaze so as he can catch heat, for he be so wet as a frog!"
A loud, clear voice answered from the inner gloom. "Sticks! Sticks! Be I made o' money to burn sticks at your bidding? If peat keeps the warmth in my carcase, 'twill do the like for him—king or tinker."
Maurice Malherb entered the cabin, then started back with an oath as an old woman rose and confronted him. She, too, exhibited the liveliest astonishment103.
"Lovey Lee!"
"Ess fay, Lovey Lee it is," she answered slowly; "an' you'm Maurice Malherb or the living daps of him. To think! Ten years! An' all your curses haven't come home to roost neither by the looks of you."
"No," he replied. "They've hit the mark rather—or you are playing miser104 still and saving your crusts and tatters and living as you loved to live."
"I be an old, abused creature," she said. "I starve here wi' scarce a penny in the world, an' your faither's paltry105 legacy106 growing smaller day by day. I'll outlast107 it an' die wanting food, an' laugh at churchyard worms, since there'll be nought108 of me for 'em to breed in."
She rose and proclaimed herself a woman of extraordinary stature—a female colossus of bones. She stood six feet three inches, and, but for her wild and long grey hair, looked like a man masquerading.
Lovey Lee was a widow, and had spent most of her life in the service of the Malherbs. At twenty years of age she married a gamekeeper, and, twelve months later, her husband lost his life in a poaching affray. Then Lovey had returned to service. A posthumous109 girl was born to her, and the son of that daughter, now a lad of sixteen, dwelt with his grandmother upon the Moor. Mrs. Lee was clad in rags, and barely wore enough of them for decency110. Her great gnarled feet were naked; her huge hands protruded111 from tattered112 sleeves; and the round ulnar condyles at her wrists were as big as pigeon's eggs. Lean, wiry, and as hard as adamant113, the miser lived in this fastness with her cattle and her daughter's son. Mystery shrouded114 her doings in the past, she seldom spoke115, and seldom appeared among the moorland haunts of men. Therefore humble116 folks feared her for a witch, and avoided her by day or night. In reality, the passion of her life and the mainspring of every action was greed; and she exceeded the vulgar miser in this—that intrinsic worth, not alone the rude glitter of money, commanded her worship. Value was the criterion; she rose superior to the chink of gold; she loved a diamond as well as the coins that represented it; or a piece of land; or a milch cow. Her education in the house of the Malherbs lifted her to some breadth of mind; and when the head of the family had passed away, ten years before the beginning of these events, a black cloud hung over this woman's behaviour, and turned her old master's children against her.
Now the man of all others most involved by this dame's doubtful conduct stood before her eyes and asked an abrupt117 question.
"What did you do with the Malherb amphora, Lovey Lee?"
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legacy
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