Dorothy declares that Mistress Washington is the
very image of that Mary Cary who used him so ill years ago,--but this
may be only a woman's leaning toward romance.

Indeed, we have a romance in our own home,--a bright-eyed girl of
twenty, who, I fear, is soon to leave us, if a certain pert young blade
who lives across the river has his way. It will be I who give her away
at the altar, for her father lies dead beside the Monongahela,--brave,
gentle-hearted Spiltdorph. My eyes grow dim even now when I think of
you, yet I trust that I have done as you would have had me do. For I
found the girl at Hampton, after a weary search,--perhaps some day I
shall tell the story.

It is in the old seat by the river's edge I write these words, and as I
lay down the pen, my hand falls on those carved letters, T and D, with a
little heart around them,--very faint, now, and worn with frequent
kisses,--and as I lift my head, I see coming to me across the grass the
woman who carved them there and whom I love.

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