 commands of the Judge were received, induced a prompt
compliance.
    When they were gone, and the rock was left to the parties most interested in
an explanation, Marmaduke, pointing to the aged Major Effingham, said to his
grandson -
    »Had we not better remove thy parent from this open place, until my carriage
can arrive?«
    »Pardon me, sir, the air does him good, and he has taken it whenever there
was no dread of a discovery. I know not how to act, Judge Temple; ought I, can
I, suffer Major Effingham to become an inmate of your family?«
    »Thou shalt be thyself the judge,« said Marmaduke. »Thy father was my early
friend. He intrusted his fortune to my care. When we separated, he had such
confidence in me, that he wished no security, no evidence of the trust, even had
there been time or convenience for exacting it. - This thou hast heard?«
    »Most truly, sir,« said Edwards, or rather Effingham, as we must now call
him.
    »We differed in politics. If the cause of this country was successful, the
trust was sacred with me, for none knew of thy father's interest. If the crown
still held its sway, it would be easy to restore the property of so loyal a
subject as Col. Effingham. - Is not this plain?«
    »The premises are good, sir,« continued the youth, with the same incredulous
look as before.
    »Listen - listen, poy,« said the German. »Dere is not a hair as of ter rogue
in ter het of ter Tchooge.«
    »We all know the issue of the struggle,« continued Marmaduke, disregarding
both; »Thy grandfather was left in Connecticut, regularly supplied by thy father
with the means of such a subsistence as suited his wants. This I well knew,
though I never had intercourse with him, even in our happiest days. Thy father
retired with the troops to prosecute his claims on England. At all events, his
losses must be great, for his real estates were sold, and I became the lawful
purchaser. It was not unnatural to wish that he might have no bar to its just
recovery?«
    »There was none, but the difficulty of providing for so many claimants.«
    »But there would have been one, and an insuperable one, had I announced to
the world that I held these estates, multiplied, by the times and my industry, a
hundred fold in value, only as his
