From Kingdom to Colony
soon lost to sight amongst the barrels and casks piled about the wharf.
A few hours later, Dorothy stood with her husband's arm about her,
watching through gathering tears the land draw away,--watching it grow
dim and shadowy, to fade at last from sight, while all about them lay
the purple sea, sparkling under the rays of the late afternoon sun.
Her eyes lingered longest upon the spot in the hazy distance near where
she knew lay the beloved old home.
"How far--how far away it is now," she murmured.
"What, little one?" her husband asked softly.
"I was thinking of my old home," she answered, surprised to have spoken
her thought aloud. "And," looking about with a shiver, "it seems so
far--so lonely all about us here."
"Are you frightened or unhappy?" he asked, drawing her still closer to
him.
She looked up with brave, loyal eyes, and answered, as had her
ancestress, Anne Devereux, when she and her young husband were about to
seek a new home in a strange, far-off land,--
"No--not so long as we be together."
Hugh Knollys fell--a Major in the Massachusetts line--during one of the
closing engagements of the war, and his mother did not long survive him.
John Devereux passed through the conflict unharmed, and returned to the
farm, where he and Mary lived long and happily, with their children
growing up about them.
They had each summer as their guests an Englishman and his wife--a
little, girl-like woman, whom every one adored--who crossed the sea to
pay them long visits. Sometimes the pleasant days found this
Englishman seated in the Sachem's Cave, his eyes wandering off over the
sea; and with him often would be Mary Broughton's eldest son, and
first-born--Jack, who had his Aunt Dorothy's curling locks and dark
eyes.
The favorite story at such times, and one never tired of by either the
man or child, was that telling how in the great war his mother had
frightened a young English soldier so that he fell over the rocks, and
how, soon after this, a certain brave little maid had hurled the
burning lanterns from these same rocks, to save her brother and his
companions from danger.
The youngster had first heard of all this from Johnnie Strings,--to the
day of his death a crippled pensioner on the Devereux farm--who never
seemed to realize that the war was over, and who had expressed marked
disapproval when 'Bitha, now tall and stately, had, following her
Cousin Dorothy's example, and quite regardless of her own long-ago
avowals, given her heart and hand to the nephew of this same British
soldier.
With this must end my story of the old town. But there is another
story,--that of its fisher and sailor soldiers, and it is told in the
deeds they have wrought.
These form a goodly part of the foundation upon which rests the mighty
fabric of our nation. Their story is one of true, brave hearts; and it
is told in a voice that will be heard until the earth itself shall have
passed away.
It was the men of Marblehead who stepped forward that bitter winter's
night on the banks of the Delaware, when Washington and his little army
looked with dismayed eyes upon the powerful current sweeping before
them, and which must be crossed, despite the great masses of ice that
threatened destruction to whosoever should venture upon its roaring
flood. They were the men who responded to his demand when he turned
from the menacing dangers of the river and asked, "Who of you will lead
on, and put us upon the other side?"
The monument that commemorates the success at Trenton is no less a
tribute to the unflinching courage and sturdiness of the fishermen of
Marblehead, who made that victory possible.
And, as there, so stands their record during all the days of the
Revolutionary struggle. Wherever they were--on land or water--in the
attack they led, in the retreat they covered; and through all their
deeds shone the ardent patriotism, the calm bravery, the unflinching
devotion, that made them ever faithful in the performance of duty.
"When anything is done,
People see not the patient doing of it,
Nor think how great would be the loss to man
If it had not been done. As in a building
Stone rests on stone, and, wanting a foundation,
All would be wanting; so in human life,
Each action rests on the foregone event
That made it possible, but is forgotten,
And buried in the earth."
When the dawn of peace came, nowhere was it hailed with more exultant
joy than in Marblehead.
Nowhere in all the land had there been such sacrifices made as by the
people of this little town by the sea. Many of those who had been
wealthy were now reduced to poverty,--their commerce was ruined, their
blood had been poured out like water.
But for all this there was no complaining by those who were left, no
upbraiding sorrow for those who would never return. There was only joy
that the struggle was ended, and independence achieved for themselves
and the nation they had helped to create. And down the long vista of
years between their day and our own, the hallowed memory of their
loyalty shines out as do the lights of the old town over the night sea,
whose waves sing for its heroes a fitting requiem.
THE END
UP AND DOWN THE SANDS OF GOLD
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