her feeling was different. He was a man to be liked for
himself, and he loved and was to marry Unity. He adopted his brother's
quarrel: he and Lewis barely spoke, and that despite the fact that Lewis
had for him a strange half-grim, half-vexed admiration; he came no more
than the elder Cary to the house on Shockoe; but when they met abroad,
Jacqueline was sure of some greeting, half gay, half stiff, some talk of
Fontenoy, some exchange of sentiment upon one topic dear to each, some
chivalrous compliment to herself. He made a gallant and devoted lover,
and Jacqueline could not but applaud Unity's choice and feel for him an
almost unmixed kindness.

Because of the trial, which drew friends, kindred, and acquaintances to
Richmond, the marriage, which was to have been celebrated in August, had
been postponed to September. Unity came to town for a month and stayed
with her cousin. Her lover would not enter Lewis Rand's house, nor did
she ask him to do so. Her kindred in Richmond were numerous, and they
might and did meet in a score of Federalist mansions, at various places
of entertainment, and, as now, at church.

He answered Jacqueline's welcome and Miss Dandridge's bright blush and
brief "How d'ye do?" with the not-too-profound bow, the subdued and
deprecatory smile, and the comparative absence of compliment that church
demanded, then, seating himself, leaned forward with his arm upon the
back of their pew and entered into low-toned conversation.

"They were early."--"Yes: too early!"--"So much the better, for now they
could see all the famous folk enter. Army, Navy, Law, and Letters are
all coming to church. To-morrow is the indictment."

"Ah!" murmured Jacqueline; and Unity, "They say he held a levee at the
Penitentiary yesterday. Personally, I prefer a surly traitor to one who
is so affable, smiling, and witty."

"I also," agreed her lover. "But Colonel Burr is no Grand Seigneur of a
traitor out of the dismal romances that you read! He meant no harm--not
he! His ideas of _meum_ and _tuum_ may be vague, but when all's said,
he's the most courteous gentleman and a boon companion! I think that we
are well-nigh the only Federalists in town who have not forgotten that
this man slew Hamilton, and who keep the fact in mind that, defend him
as they please, his counsel cannot say, He loved his country and wished
no other empire!' After the indictment to-morrow, Hay will speak and the
Government begin to call its witnesses.