"
"God bless you," he continued, to Miss Heywood, when the
man had departed. "We shall, perhaps, elicit from him,
something that will throw light upon the obscure part of
this matter. Margaret, do not leave the dear girl alone,
but cheer up her spirits, and make her hope for the best."
So saying, he shook her hand affectionately, pushed back
his chair from the table, and resuming his cap and sword,
left the friends together, promising to return as soon
as the examination of the man should be concluded.
CHAPTER IX.
Mr. Heywood's history may be told in a few words. He was
the son of an officer who had served in one of the American
partizan corps, during the Revolution, and had been killed
at the attack made by General Green upon the stronghold
of Ninety-Six, in the South. At that time he was a mere
youth, and found himself a few years after, and at the
age of eighteen, without fortune, and wholly dependent
upon his own resources. The war being soon ended, his
naturally enterprising disposition, added to great
physical strength, induced him to unite himself with one
of the many bands of adventurers that poured into the
then, wilds of Kentucky, where, within five years, and
by dint of mere exertion and industry, he amassed money
enough to enable him to repair to Charleston, in South
Carolina, and espouse a lady of considerable landed
property, with whom he had formed a partial engagement,
prior to his entering on that adventurous life.
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