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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1891.
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WRITTEN FOU T1IK DISPATCH
BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN,
Author of "The Leavenworth Case," "Behind Closed Doors,"
Forsaken Inn," Etc., Etc.
SYNOPSIS or PKIXKDIXG NUMBERS.
A wandering rider flnds a deserted stone lionso in New York State. The building is in
jtooil repair aud completed all except the railings on the staircase. An innkeeper 'JO rears
oldglres him the wr.tten hi-tory of the houe and of the events of 5a years before Three
yminc men. P'lilo Adams, Orrin Pay and Lemuel Phillips were in love with a yonn" lady
named Joliet, who accepted the hand of Colonel Sc'iujlcr, the wealthiest man of the com
munity, on the condition that he should build hera house to be her own. Orrin Day when
lie find" that Juliet has accepted Colonel Schuj ler, becomes excited and jealous anil' Juliet
asks Philo Adams to keep company with Orrin so that ho and her fiancee shall not meet
The Mono house i commenced by Colonel Schuyler and On in watches its progress from
laj to day. On a moonlight evening Orrin and Philo visit the graveyard "and while
there witness a scene between Colonel Schuyler and Juliet. Colonel Schuyler
has to go auav on business and entreats Juliet to swear that sho will marry no
one c!sc but him. She finally swears to bo no one's wife but his, and to wed
Mm when tl!e house is completed. Colonel Schuvler departs and Orrin disappears.
Vhilo. in the Colonel's absence, discovers that Juliet loes Orrin. Colonel cchuvler re
turns and storms because his house has not progressed rapidly during his absence He
employ- more men and bids them hasten the work. Philo tlnds Orrin alter a search in a
house which ho is building and which has been nearly completed, and suspects that lie is
building it foi Juliet and that it will be a race between the two men for her hand Colonel
Pchu ler discovers that Juliet is prepaied to flr with someone else, aud accuses Philo of
bcinu the one Mho is at the bottom of the trouble Philo says lie is not the man and
Colonel ehuvlcr asks the name of bis rival. Philo refuses to" tell it, suggesting that the
Colonel ask Juliet. Colonel Schuyler says he has asked her. and that she refuses to
aaser. .lie men roaimnm i-mio 10 mvo mm rne name. Just at this moment Orrin
sweeps by on horseback. Philo calls attention to tho rider, and Colonel Schuyler guesses
from Phtlo's words that Orrin is tho man. Tho next day Omn calls on Philo and nsks him
to help him and Juliet to get away. Philo goes to Juliet's house and while there Orrin
nrri cs and Juliet flies to his arms in tho presence of her fathor and affianced. Orrin tries
to persuade Juliet to marry him at once, out Colonel Schuyler tells them to wnit a month
and they can have his stone house. Juliet decides to wait. and Orrin grows impatient at
the delay, threatening to ride away with licr whether sho is willing or not.
Continued from last Saticrday.
"Xo man, you should say," quoth Orrin
latterly, lashing his horse till it shot far
ahead of me, so that some few minutes
pasted before we were near enough together
for him to speak again. Then he said:
"She loads me with promises and swears
licit she loves me more than all the world.
If half of this is true she ought to be happy
with me in a hovel, while I have a dainty
cottage for her dwelling, where the vines
will soon grow and the birds sing. You have
not seen it since it was finished. You shall
ec1 it to-night.
I choked as I tried to answer, and won
dered if he had any idea of what I had to
contend with in these rides I seemed forced
to take without any benefit to myself. If
lie had, he was merciless, for once launched
into talk he kept on till I was almost wild
with hateful sympathy and jealous chagrin.
Suddenly he paused.
Tlie forest we had been threading had for
the last few minutes been growing thinner,
and as the quick cessation in his speech
caused me to look up, I saw, or thought I
saw. a faint glow shining through the
branches before me, w hich could not have
come from the reflection made by the set
ting sun, as that had long ago sunk into
darkness.
Orrin who. as he had ceased speaking,
had suddenly reined in his panting horse,
now gave a shout and shot forward, and I,
Jiardy knowing what to fear or expect, fol
lowed him as ?ast as my evidently weary
animal would carry me, and thus bounding
along with but a few paces b-twecu us, we
cleared the woods and came out into the
open fields beyond. As we did so a cry
went up from Orrin, faintly echoed by my
own lips. It was a fire that we saw, aud the
flames, which had now got furious headway,
rose up like pillars to the sky, illuminating
all the country round, aud showing me, both
by their position and the glare ot the
ifieam beneath them, that it Mas Orrin's
house which was burning, and Orrin's hopes
which were being destroyed before our eyes.
The cry he gave as he fully reali7ed this I
shall never forget, nor the gesture with
which he drove his spurs into his horse and
flashed down that long valley into the ever
increasing glare that lighted first his flow
ing hair and the wet flanks of the animal he
bestrode, and finally seemed to envelope
him altogether, till he looked like seme
avenging demon rushing through his own
dement of fury ami fire.
I was far behind him but I made what
time 1 could, feeling to the core, as I poised,
the wvirdness of the solitude before me,
with just this element ot horror naming up
in its midst. Not a sound save our pound
ing hoofs interrupted that crackling sound
of burning wood, and when the roof fell in,
as it did refore I could leach his bide, I
could hear distinctly the echo which fol
lowed it. Orrin may have heard it, too, for
lie gac a groan and drew in his horse, and
when I reached him 1 saw him sitting there
liefore the smoldering ashes of his home,
silent and inert, without a word to say or
cm car to hear the instinctive words of
iBympathv 1 could not now keep back.
Who had done it" Who had started the
Maze which hid in one half hour un
done the work and hope of mouths?
TXa.1 was the question which first
roused me and caused me to search
the silence and darluic-s of the night for
some trace of a human presence, if only so
much as the mark of a human foot. And I
ivtuml it. There, in the wet margin of the
eJream, I came njxin a token which may
aiean nothing and which may mean -.
But I cannot wmeeeu here of the doubts it
brought me; 1 will only tell how on our
elow anil wearisome passage home through
the soinbrc woods, Orrin suddenly let his
bridle fall. nd, flinging up his arms aboe
his head, cn-d bitterly:
"O that I did not love her so well! O
tliatlhad never seen her who would makeof
we a slave when I would be a man!"
The gossips at the corners nod kuou ingly
this morning, and Orrin, whose brow is
moodier than the Colonel's, walks fiercely
amongst thcin without word and without
look. He is on his way to Juliet's house,
and if their is enchantment left in smiles, I
hid her use it, for her fate is trembling in
the balance, aud may tip in a direction of
which she little recks.
Orrin has come back. Striding impetu
ously into tiie room where I sat at work, he
drew himself up until his figure showed
it&elfin all its full and graceful propor
tions. "Am I a man"" he asked, "or," with a
Jiill in his voice brimmed with feeling, "am
I a fool? She met me w ith such an unsus
picious look, I'hilo, and bore herself with
such an innocent air, that I not only could
not say what I meant to say, but hae
S remised lo do what I have snorn never to
o accept the Colonel's unwelcome gift,
and make her mistir-ss of the new stone
house. '
"You are a man," I answered. For
what are men hut fools where women of
vneh enchantment vc concerned?
lie groaned, perhaps at the secret rar
casra hidden in mv tone, and sat down uu
udden at Use table where I was writing.
Yu did not s.e her," he cried. "You
! rot know with what charms she works,
un she wishes to comfort and allure."
Ah! did I not. "And Philo," he went on.
alni'st humbly for him, "jou are mistaken
if y-u think she had anyhand in the ruiu
which lias come upon me. She had not.
How I know it I cannot say, but I am le.idy
to swear n, and you must forget any foolish
fears I s;.ay have shown or any fooliH words
1 nifty have tittered in the first confusion of
Jay iossand disappointment."
"I will forget,' said I.
"11.- fact is I do not understand her," he
eagerly cxplaincl. "There was innocence
inheruir, but tiiere was mockery, too, and
she laughed as I talked of my grief and rage,
a3 thauph she thought I was' playing a part.
It was iar-rry laughter, and there was no
ring of "dsehoofl in it. lint why shoald she
.jiarnaiasi.'
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This was a question I could not answer; j
"The
who could? Juliet is bevond the compre
hension of us all.
"But what is the use of plaguing myself
with riddles?" he now asked, starting up as
suddenly as he had sat down. "We are to
be married in a month, and the Colonel I
have seen the Colonel has promised to
dance at our wedding. "Will it be in the
new stone house? It would be a fitting
end to this comedy if he were to dance in
that."
I thought as Orrin did about this, but
with more seriousness perhaps; and it was
not till after he had left me that I remem
bered I had not asked whom he suspected of
firing his house, now that lie was assured of
the innocence of her who was most likely
to profit by its burning.
"Xow I understand Juliet!" was the ere
with which Orrin burst into my prcs
late this afternoon. "Men are saying ffc
women whispering that I destroyed m own
house, in order to save myself the shame of
accepting the Colonel's offer while I had a
roof of my own " Aud, burning with
rage, he stamped his foot upou the ground,
and shook his hand so threateningly in the
direction of his fancied enemies tliat I felt
some reflection of anger in my own breast,
and said or tried to say that they could not
know him as I did or they would never ac
cuse him of so mean a deed, whatever else
they might bring against him.
"It makes me wild, it makes me mad, it
makes me feel line leaving the town for
ever!" was his hoarse complaint as I fin
ished my feeble attempt at consolation.
"If Juliet were half the woman she ought
to be she would come and live
with me in a log cabin in the woods
belore she would accept the Colonel's house
now. And to think that she, she should be
affected by the opinions of the rest, and
think me so destitute of pride that I irould
stoop to sacrifice my own home for the
sake of steppiug into that of a rival's. Oh
woman, woman, what are you made of? Not
of the same stuff as we men, surely."
I strove to calm him, for he was striding
ncrcciy and impatiently about the room.
But at mv first word he burst forth with:
"And her father, who should control her,
aids and encouragC3 her follies. He is a
slave to the Colonel, who is the slave of his
own will "
"In this case," I quietly observed, "his
will seems to be most kindly.
"That is the wost of iL' chafed Orrin.
"If only he offered me opposition I could
struggle w ith him. But it is his generosity
I hate, and the humiliating position into
which it thrusts me. And that is not all,"
he angrily added, while still striding
feverishly about the room. "The Colonel
seems to think us his property ever since
we decided to accept his, aud as
a miser watches over his gold so does he
watch over us, till I scarcely have the op
portunity now of speaking to Juliet alone.
If I go to her house, there he is sitting like
a black statue at the fireplace, aud when I
would protest, and lead her into another
room or into the garden, he rises and over
whelms me with such courtesies and subtle
disquisitions that I am tripped up in my
endeavors, and do not know how to leave or
how to stay. I wisli he would fall sick, or
ins house tumble about his head!
"Orrin, Orrin!" I cried. But he inter
rupted my remonstrance with the words:
"It is not decent. I am her atfianced
husband now, aud he should leave us alone.
Does he think I can ever forget that he
used to court her once himself, and that the
favors Fhe now shows me were once given
as frceh , if not as honestly, to him? He
knows I cannot forget, and he delights "
"There, -Orrin," 1 broke in, "vou do him
wrong. The Colonel is aboe your compre
hension as he is above mine; but there is
nothing malevolent in him."
"I don't know about that," rejoined his
angiy rival. "If he wanted to 'steal back
mv bride he could take no surer course for
doing it. Juliet, who is fickle as the wind,
already looks from his face to mine as if she
were "contrasting us. And lie is so
handsome and suave and self-forgetting!"
"And you," I could not help but say,
"are so fierce and sullen even in vourlove."
"I know it," was his halt-mutter ed retort,
"but w hat can rou expect? Do vou think
I will see him steel her heart away from be
fore my eyes?"
"It would be but a natural return on his
part for your former courtesies," I could
not forbear saying, in my own secret chagrin
aud soreness of heart.
"But he shall not do it," exclaimed Orrin,
with a backward toss of his head, and a sud
den thump of his strong hand on the table
before me. "I won her once against all
odds, and I will keep her if I have to dan
the devil's smiles myself. He shall never
again see her eyes rest longer on his face
than mine. I will hold her by the power of
my love till he finds himself forgotten, and
for very shame steals away, ieaiing me
with the bride he has himsell bestowed upon
me. He shall never have Juliet back."
"I doubt if he wishes to," I quietly re
marked, as Orrin, weary with passion, ran
lrom my presence.
I do not know whether Orrin succeeded
or not in his attempts to shame the Colonel
from intruding upon his interviews with
Juliet. I am only sure that Orrin's counte
nance smoother itself after this day, and I
heard no more complaints of Juliet's waver
ing fidelity. I myself do not believe she
has ever wavereil. Simply because she
ought from every standpoint of good judg
ment and taste to have perfcrrcd the
Colonel and clung to him, she will continue
to cleave to Orrin and make him the idol
of her wayward heart. But it is all a mys
tery to me aud one that does not make me
very happy.
I went up by myself to the new stone
house to-day, and found that it only needs
the finishing touches. Twenty workmen or
more were there, and the great front door
had just been brought and was leaning
against the walls preparatory to being hung.
Being curious to see how they were pro
gressint; w ithin. I climbed up to one of the
windows and looked in. and not satisfied
I with what I could thu see, made my wr.y
into the house and up the main staircase,
which I was surprised to gee was nearly
completed.
The sound of the hammer and saw was all
about me, and the calling of orders from
above and below interfered much with any
sentimental feelings I might have had. But
I was not there to indulge in sentiment, so
I roamed on liom room to room till I sud
denly came upon a sight that drove every
consideration of time and place from my
mind, and made me for a moment forgetful
of every other sentiment than admiration.
This was nothing less than the glimpse
which I obtained in passing one of the win
dows, of the Colonel himself down on his
knees on the scaffolding aiding the work
men. So, so, he is not content with hurry
ing the work forward by his means and in
fluence, but is lending "the force of his ex
ample, and actually handling the plane and
saw in his anxiety not to disappoint Juliet
in regard to the 'day she ha3 fixed for her
marriage.
A week ago I sould have told Orrin what
I had s,ecn, but I had no desire to behold
the old frowns come back to his face, so I
determined to hold my silence with him.
But Juliet ought to know with what manner
of heart she has been so recklessly playing,
so after stealing down the stairs I ielt I
should never have mounted, I crept from
the house and made my way as best I could
through the huge forest trees that so thick
ly clustered at its back, till I came upon the
high road which leads to the village. "Walk
ing straight to Juliet's house I asked to see
her, and shall never forget the blooming
beauty of her presence as she stepped into
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the room and gave me her soft white hand
to kies.
As she is no longer the object of my wor
ship and hardly the friend of my heart, I
think I can speak of her loveliness now
without being misunderstood. So I will let
my pen trace for once a record of her
clfarms, which in that hour were surely
great enough to excuse the rivalry of which
they had been the subject, and perhaps to
account for the disinterestedness of the man
who had once given her his heart.
She is of medium height, this Juliet, and
her form has that sway in it which you see
in a lily nodding on its stem. But she is no
lily in her most enchanting movements, but
rather an ardent passion flower burning and
palpitating in the suu. He bkin, which is
milk white, has strange flushes in it. aud
her eyes, which never look at you twice
with "the same meaning, are blue, or gray,
or black, as her feeling varies and her soul
informing them is in a state of joy or
trouble. Her most bewitching feature is
her mouth, which has two dangerous dim
ples near it that "go and come, sometimes
withont her volition and sometimes' I fear,
with her full accord and desire. Her hair
is brown, and falls in such a mass of ringlets
that no cap has ever yet been found which
can confine it and keep it from weaving a
golden net in which to entangled the hearts
of men. When she smiles you feel like
rushing forward; when she frowns you ques
tion yourself humbly what you have done
to merit a look so out of keeping with the
plavful cast of her countenance and the
arch bearing of her spirited young form. She
was dressed, as she always is, simply, but
there was infinite coquetry in the tie
of the blue ribbon on her shoulder, and if a
close cap of daitty lace could make a face
look more entrancing I should like the
privilege of seeing it. She was in an
amiable mood aud smiled upon my homage
like a fairy queea. ,
"I havecoiiie to pay my final respects to
Juliet 1'layfair," I announced; "for by the
tokens up yonder she will soon be classed
among our matrons."
My tone was forma1 and she looked sur
prised at it, but my news was welcome, and
so she made me a demure little courtsv be-
foie saying iovously:
"Yes, the house is nearly done, and to
morrow Orrin and I are going up there to
gether to see it. The Colonel has asked us
to do this that we might say whether all is
to our liking and convenience."
"The Colonel is a man in a thousand," I
began, but, seeing her frown in her old
pettish way, I perceicd that she partook
enough ot Orrin's spirit to dislike any
allusion to one whose generosity threw her
own selfishness into startling relief.
So I said no more on this topic, but let
my courtesy expend itself in good wishes,
and came away at last with a bewildering
remembrance of her beauty, which I am
doing my best to blot out by faithfully re
counting to myself the story of those infin
ite caprices ot hers which have come so near
wrecking more than one honorable heart.
I do not expect to visit her again until I
pay my respects to her as Orrin's wife.
It is the day when Orrin and Juliet are to
visit the new house. If I had not known
this from her own lips I should have known
it from the fact that the workmen all left at
noon, in order, as one of them said, to leave
the little lady more at her case. I saw- them
coming down the road, aud had the curiosity
to watch for the appearance of Orrin anil
the Colonel at Juliet's gate, but they did
not come, and assured by this that "they
meditated a later visit than I had antici
pated, I went about my work. This took
me up tlte road, and as it chanced, led me
within a few rods of the wood within which
lies the new stone house. I had not meant to
go there, fori have haunted the place enough,
but this time there was leason for it, and
satisfied with the fact I endeavored to fix
my mind on other matters and forgot who
was likely at any moment to enter the
iorest behind me.
But when one makes an effort to lorget he
is sure to remember all the more keenly,
and 1 was just picturing to my mind Juliet's
face and Juliet's pretty air of mingled pride
and disdain as the first sight of the broad
stone front burst upon her, when I heard
through the stillness of the woods the faint
sound of a saw, which coming from the
direction of the house seemed to say that
some one was still at work there, As'l laj
understood that all the men had been given
a half holiday, I felt somewhat surprised at
this, and unconsciously to myself moved a
few steps nearer tbq opening where the
house stood, when suddenly all was still
aud I could not for a moment determine
whether I had really heard the sound of a
saw or not. Annoyed at myself. nd
ashamed of an interest that made
every
trivial incident connected with this affair of
such moment to me, I turned back to my
work, and in a few moments had finished
it and left the wood, when what was my
astonishment to see Orrin coming from the
same place, with his face turned toward the
village, and a hardy, determined expression
upon it which made me first wonder and
then ask myself if I really comprehended
this man or icuow what he cherished in his
heart of hearu.
Going straight up to him I said:
"Weli, Orrin, what's this? Coming
away from the house instead of going to it?
I understand that you and Juliet were ex
pecting to visit it together this afternoon."
He paused, startled and his eyes fell as I
looked him straight in the face.
""We are going to visit it," he admitted,
"but I thought it would be wiser for me to
inspect the place first and Eee if all was
right. An unfinished building has so many
traps in it, rou know." And he laughed
loudly and long, but his mirth was forced,
and I turned and looked after him as he
strode away, with a vague but uneasy feel
ing I did not myself understand.
"Will the Colonel go with you?" I called
out.
He wheeled about as if stung. "Yes "
he shouted, "the Colonel will go with us.
Did you suppose he would allow us the
satisfaction of going alone? I tell you,
Philo," and he strode back to my side, "the
Colonel considers us his property. Is not
that pleasant? His property! And so we
are," he fiercely added, "while we are his
debtors. But we shall not be his debtors
long. When we are married if we are
married I will take Juliet from this place
if I have to carry her away by force. She
shall never be the mistress of this house."
"Orrin! Orrin!" I protested.
"I have said it," was his fierce rejoinder,
and, he left me for the second time and
passed hurriedly down the street.
I was therefore somewhat taken aback
when a little while later he reappeared with
Juliet and the Colonel, in such a mood of
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forced gayetv that more than one turned to
look after them as they passed merrily
down the road. Will Juliet never be the
mistress of that house? I think she will,
my Orrin. That dimpled smile of hers has
more force in it than that dominating will
of yours. If she chooses to hold her own
she will hold it, and neither you nor the
Colonel can sav her nay.
AVhat did Orrin tell ine? That she would
never be mistress of that house? Orrin was
right, she never will; but who could have
thought of a tragedy like this? Xot I, not
I; and if Orrin did and planned it But
let me tell the whole jnst as it happened,
keeping down my horror till the last word
is written and I have plainly before me the
awful occurrences of this fearful day.
They went, the three, to that fatal house
together, and no man, saving myself per
haps, thought much more about the matter
till we began to see Juliet's father peering
anxiously from over his gate in the direc
tion of the wood. Then we realized that the
afternoon had long passed, and that it was
getting dark; and going up to the old man,
I asked whom he was looking for. The
answ er was as we expected.
"I am looking for Juliet. The Colonel
took her and Orrin up to their new house,
but they do not come back. I had a dreadful
dream last night, and it frightens me. Why
don't they come? It must be dark enough
in the wood.
"They will soon come," I assured him,
and moved off, for I do not like Juliet's
father.
But when I passed by there again a half
hour later and found the old man still stand
ing bareheaded and with craning neck at
his post, I became very uneasy myself, and
proposed to two or three neighbors, whom
I found standing about, that we should go
towaid the woods and see if all were well.
They agreed, being affected, doubtless, like
myself, by the old man's fears, and as we
proceeded down the street, others joined us
till we amounted in number to a half-dozen
or more. Yet, though the occasion seemed
a strange one, we weie not really alarmed
till we found ourselves at the "woods and
realized how dark they were and how still.
Then I began to feel an oppression at-heart,
and trod with careful and hesitating steps
till we came into the open space in which
the house stands. Here it was lighter, but
oh! how still. I shall never forget how
still; when suddenly a shrill cry broke
from one amongst us, and I saw Bulph Ur
phistone pointing with finger frozen in
horror at something which lay in ghastlv
outlinc upon the broad stone which leads
up to the gap of the great front door.
w nat was it.' e dared not approach to
see, yet we dared not linger quiescent. One
by oiie we started forward till finally we all
stood in a horrified circle about the thing
that looked like a shadow, and yet was not
a shadow, but some horrible nightmare that
made us gasp and shudder tnl the moon
came suddenly out, and we saw that what
we feared and shrank from were the bodies
ot Juliet and Orrin, he lying with face up
turned and arms thrown out, and she with
her head pillowed on his breast as it cast
there in her last faint moment of conscious
ness. They were both dead, having fallen
through the planks of the scaffolding, as
was shown by the fatal gap open to the
moonlight above our heads. Dead! dead!
and though no man there knew how, the
terror of their doom and the retribution it
seemed to bespeak went home to our hearts,
aud we bowed our heads with a simultane
ous cry of terror, which in that first mo
ment was too overw helming even for grief.
The Colonel is nowhere to be seen, and
after the first few minutes of benumbing
horror, we tried to call aloud his name. But
the cries died in our throat, and presently
one amongst us withdrew into the house to
search, and then another and another, till I
was left alone in awful attendance upou the
dead. Then I began to realize my own an
guish, and with some last fragment of secret
jealousy or was it from some other less
definite but equally imperative feeling?
was about to stoop forward and lift her
head from a pillow that I somehow felt de
filed it, when a quick hand drew me aside,
and looking up, I sawltalph standing at my
back. He did not speak, and his figure
looked ghostly in the moonlight, but his
hand was pointing toward the house, and
when I moved to follow him, he led the
wav into the hollow entrance and up the
stairway till we came to the upper story
u here he stopped, and motioned me to
ward a door opening into one of the rooms.
There were several of our number already
standing there, so I did not hesitate to ap
proach, and as I went the darkness in which
I had hitherto moved disappeared before
the broad band of moonlight shining into
the room before us, and I saw, darkly sil
houetted against a shining background, the
crouchiu? figure of tho Colonel, staring
with hollow eyes and maddened mien out of
the unfinished window through which in all
probability the devoted couple had stepped
to their destruction.
2b Be Concluded Next Saturday.
EUROPE Tho Special Cable Letters to
Till; DIPATCII iKingalltho news of Great
Britain and the Continent.
GUY FA WKES LEADER.
The Ancient Home of tJie Man Who
Was at the Head of the Famous
LONDON GUNPOWDER CONSPIRACY.
Asliby
St. Ledgers, Its Description, Its
long, Eventful History.
A LETTER IX THE WAKEMAN SECIES
fCORRFSrOXDEXCE OP Till". DIRrATCir.1
Asnev St. Ledgers, England, Sept.
21. One feels quite a prideful thrill of
original discovery if he can hit an objector
place in all Europe where the great Ameri
can globe trotter has not already come; took
a hasty glance; photographed everybody
and everything with a snap camera or upon
his majestic memory; chipped off a piece of
the object or shrine for his collection; made
half a dozen notes with a stylographic pen
for future reference; cut his name and the
date of his visit upon any available wood
work about the spot, or otherwise left his
mark; and then with a "biff!" and "zip!"
projected himself mcteorically through
space to the next pleasing or hideous object
of interest.
I have found one spot in Great Britain
where these is at least no local record of the
species. The fact is a noteworthy one and
the place itself posseses extraordinary in
terest. It is called Ashby St. Ledgers. To
be very definite regarding a locality so dis
tinctive for its so far quite unknown bean
ties and interest, it is but a tiny "village
four miles north from Daventry, 16 from
Northampton, in the middivision of the
county of Northampton, hundred of Taws
ley, petty sessional division, union and
county court district of Daventry, rural
deanery of Daventry, archdeaconry of
Northampton and diocese of Peterborough."
ITS ONE CLAIM TO CELr.BP.ITr.
Tho taxgatherers of the crown have thus
minutely located the village and parish and
to make it perfectly accessible to those who
"do" Ireland, Scotland and England iu one
one week or less it should be added that
Ashby St. Ledgers is but 13 minutes' walk
westward from Wilton station, on the main
line of the London and Northwestern Bail
way from London to the noted school town
of Bugby, and that the most noted conspir
acy in English history, popularly known
as "Guy Fawkcs' Gunpowder Plot," was
concocted within the sunny, slumberous
precincts of its now crumbling and ivy-covered
walls.
Stripped of their usual bigoted verbiage,
it was a plan originated by Sir Itobert
Catcsby, lord of this very manor, and other
malcontents, including Thomas Percy,
Christophar and John "Wright, Thomas and
Itobert winter, one Bates, and their brave
tool, Guido (or Guy) Faux (or Fawkes),
representing the enemies of James I., to
remove an obnoxious government at a single
explosion o' gunpowder, instead of by a
great and protracted waste of gunpowder
through prolonged cruel civil war.
TIIK DETAILS Or THE PLOT.
They rented a fine cellar immediately un
der Parliament House and succeeded in
concealing within it 30 barrels and 4 hogs
heads of gunpowder, "covered witli billets
and faggots of wood, great iron bars,
stones," eta. besides young and ambitious
Mr. Fawkcs, "wrapped in a cloak and
oooteti anu spurred, aim provided witn, "a
dark lanthorn and a tinder boxe with which
to set olF the touchwood," which, com
municating with the 30 barrels and 4 hogs
heads of gunpowder, at the instant of the
King's convening Parliament, November 5,
100.1, was expected to give immediate relief
to the political situation.
However, by means of an anonymous let
ter to Lord Monteagle, whom some one of
the conspirators desired to save, the plot
was discovered, young Mr. Fawkes, whom
the pictures represent as having for some
time neglected iiis hair and beard, was dog
ged out of his mysterious surroundings,
spread upon a convenient rack, inducing a
confession, and shorly after hanged; while
1'ercy Catesby, "Winter and the two "Wrights
werechased from this place through "War
wickshire to Holbeach, in Staffordshire,
where they were all slain, fighting to the
death, except "Winter. He was captured
alive, to die on the gallows; and a sufficient
number of others, directly or supposititi-
ously connected witli tins mad ellort.
win:nr thk conspiracy 'was born.
The manor of St. Ledgers, the former
home of the arch conspirator, Sir Robert
Catesby, is one of the most ancient in
Britain. It possesses an eventful history.
I am indebted for its romantic narrative to
my host, Major II. 1. Scnhouse, its pres
ent proprietor and lord of the manor.
Aside from its peculiar interest, in view of
St. Ledger's individual historic associa
tions, it is most curious and fascinatiug as
illustrative of the extraordinarily recorded,
not traditional, age of innumerable English
estates, tlieir frequent strange vicissitudes,
aud the almost purely historic olumes
which might be written upon nearly any
single piece of entailed manorial property
in England.
The manor was granted by William the
Conquerer to Hugh de Grentmaisnil over
800 years ago. At the time "Domesday
Book," the first tax book of England, was
prepared (1080-0), this Hugh de Grent
maisnil held four "hides" of land in .Ashby.
There were eight acies of meadow, and tfie
whole was then valued at GO shillings. This
Hugh accompanied the Conquerer on his
expedition to England and was rewarded for
his services with upwaid of 100 manors in
dillereut counties, 20 of which lay in North
amptonshire. THE HElnSIIIP'S SUCCESSION.
He was associated with Odo, Bishop of
Bayeaux, aud "William Fitz-Osborn in exe
cuting the high office of justiciary of Eng
land two years after the conquest," and died
in 1091, six days after he had assumed a re
ligious hauit. t
He was succeeded by his son Itobert, from
whom the estate descended in 1122 to Ivo
de Grentmaisnil, his oldest surviving
brother and heir. This Ivo joined the con
federacy in support of lobert,Duke of Nor
inandy,"in the reign of Henry I., but the en
terprise failing, and being heavily fined for
his delinquency, he applied for protection
to Kobert.Earl of Melient,one of the King's
chief counselors, at whose suggestion he un
dertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
For this purpose the Earl loaned him 500
marks, or about 333, for which lie mort
gaged to him all his possessions in England,
by" way of security, for 15 years, on condi
tion that it should be returned to his son
Ivo, whom the Earl engaged on oath should
be married to his own niece, the daughter of
jlie Earl of "Warwick. The King ratified
his agreement, but Ivo, the father, dying
on his pilgrimage, the son was deprived of
both his wife and his inheritance.
Another Hugh de Grentmaisnil, successor
of he young Ivo, appears to have subse
quently recovered his patrimony, which de
scended to his daughter, Pctronilla, who,
marrying Bobert Blanchmaines, Earl of
Leicester, the grandson of Itobert, Earl of
Mellent, his possessions were all transferred
into that family.
UNDER THE LANCASTER KEOIME.
In the rcigh of Henry II., Ashby con
tained four "hides" of the fee of the Earl of
Leicester, and subsequently became parcel
of the duchy of Lancaster. From the reign
of King John to the latter part of the reign
of Edward III., this lordship was in the
hand of the family De Crawford, when
Emma, daughter of Itobert de Crawford car
ried it in marriage to John de Catesby, of
Ladbroke, in "Warwickshire.
S'r "William Catesby, a grandson of John,
was one of the three favorites who ruled
England under Bichard III., the others be
ing Sir Bichard BadclifTe and Viscount
Lovell, giving rise to the memorable
distich:
Tlie rat, the cat and Lovell our dog,
Kulo all Kngland under tlie hos
tile "hog" bcitig an illusion to King Rich
ard having adopted a boaV as one of the
heraldic supporters upon his regal escut
cheon. For this poetical libel Collingbourne,
its author, was expeditiously, "hanged,
headed and quartered" on Tower Hill, Lon
don. Sir "William Catesby obtained grants of
various forfeited manors and lucrative
wardships; and attending King Bichard in
his last expedition against the Earl of Rich
mond he ,was taken prisoner on Bosworth
Field.
LOST HIS HEAD AND HIS LAND.
Three days after he was beheaded at Lei
cester. His lands were escheated to the
Crown and granted to Sir James Blount,
but were restored by act of Parliament to
his son George in 1100. George Catesby,
Esq., was succeeded by his son "William, a
minor, who, dving without issue, the es
tates descended to his younger brother,
Bichard, who was member from "Warwick
shire in the famous Parliament which
proved so destructive to the English mon
asteries. Sir "William Catesby, grandson and suc
cessor to Bichard, was cited with others be
fore the infamous court of star chamber in
1581, charged with harboring Jesuits and
and being present at a secret celebration of
the mass, ot which offenses they were con
victed. Sir Bobert Catesby, liis son and
successor, who originated the gunpowder
plot on these grounds, lived until pursued
and shot to deatli at Holbeach, Stafford
shire, in 1005, in this picturesque old manor
house.
Catesby's estates having been confiscated
by the Crown, the lordship and advowson of
tne manor were granted, in loll, to air
AVilliam Irving in fee. They were subse
quently sold by Irving to Brian I'anson and
Ann, his wife, with whose descendants they
continued until 1703.
INHERITED BY A WOMAN HATER.
Theyweie purchased by Joseph Ashby,
Esq.. and from him they descended to the
late Lady Senhouse. who, dying in 1850,
left the property to her only surving child.
Captain William Senhouse, a bachelor and
confirmed woman hater. On his decease,
in 1884, Major Humphrey Pockington Scn
kouse was called from his estates in Cum
berland to act as executor, and found to his
surprise that the splendid old property had
been devised to him. This is a long "search"
or "abstract of title," as the real estate law
yers would call it. But what a grand his
toric sweep it has!
Approaching the place along tho highway
from the southwest, you suddenly como
upon the daintiest and most flower spangled
village in England. It is a tiny collection
of dependencies upon the manor; but there
can nowhere else ba found such flower em
bowered homes. Just at the northern edge
of this, the whole forming a striking back
ground to the side broidery of one of the
finest wide, iiigh overarclnngs of ancient
ash trees I have ever seen, first appears a
huge wall, high, thick, ivy-hung and mossy.
Surmounting this is a wonderfnlly pictur
esque old gatehouse with two stories of
chambers and an attic the veritable meet
ing room of the conspirators.
THE SURROUNDING STKUCTUKES.
Behind this are other venerable outbuild
ings, half a thousand years old and in per
fect maze. To the right and higher, shows
a grim, square Norman tower and the mossy
roof of the parish church, whose "living''
is within the gift of the lord of the manor.
Behind and above all are the many massive
gables of this most splendidly fantastic
manor house within the English midland
shires.
The church itself is a study in ancient
English ecclesiastical architecture, is extra
ordinarily rich in monuments and brasses,
and possesses many evidences of having
been largely restorcdand beautified by John
de Catesby about 1412. Its age, however,
dates from many hundred years before that
time. Many monuments of the Catesbys
are found in the chancel wuicn escaped de
struction, from the place being so sequest
ered a one, at the time of the terrible pub
lic outburst against the fatal treason of
Kobert Catesby.
But a portion of its floor is covered with
flags, a suggestion of extraordinary an
tiquity, as well of the beautiful village
"rushbearing" processions, which were cer
tain to have annually been seen within it.
Its traditional south porch is as quaint a
study as that of ancient Grasmere Church
in Westmoreland. A private way leads to
the hall of the lord of the manor.
ST. LEDGER'S HISTORIC TULIP TREE.
At Ashby St. Ledgers it passes through
the ancient courtyard wall and winds across
a noble terraced lawn and garden. At the
rear of these, marking the boundary of the
highway, is a majestic line of ash trees.
Half waV between the Manor House and
these stands the historic tulip tree of St.
Ledgers, indeed, if not of England. Its
girth at 4 feet from the gronnd is 10 feet and
2 inches. Its greatest spread of branch is 8S
feet from north to south, 70 leet from east
to west, and its height is 77 feet.
The manor house is believed to be nearly
700 years old. The fronts retain their origi
nal chaiacter, and are finished with gables
and an open parapet. The east front is
modernized. In the hall of the most an
cient portion every oak panel bears a now
almost indistinguishable painting of a head
or an armorial device. The entire interior
is a labyrinth of wainscoting, curious sunken
and secret depositories, dark old hallways,
wondroitsly carved chimney pieces and ian
tastic stairways, balustrades and landings.
It is believed "that the cellars coutain walled
up secret passages to distant places of exit,
and in one I found a huge stone altar,
where formerly Christian England com
pelled the pious to worship for fear of the
gallows of Tower Hill.
Edgai: L. Wakeman.
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