of Mr. EITingham's personal property; all, or nearly all, of 
which was put into the possession of Temple, who was the 
only ostensible proprietor in the concern, while, in secret, 
the other was entitled to an equal participation in the profits. 
This connexion was thus kept private for two reasons ; one 
of which, in the freedom of their intercourse, was frankly 
avowed toMarmaduke, while the other continued profoundly 
hid in the bosom of his friend. The last was nothing more 
than pride. To the descendant of a line of soldiers, com- 
merce, even in that indirect manner, seemed a degrading 
pursuit; and every sentiment of young Effingham was op- 
posed to the acknowledgment of an arrangement which he 
only reconciled to his private feelings by a knowledge of his 
own motives  but an insuperable obstacle to the disclosure 
existed in ihe prejudices of his father. 

We have already said that Major Effingham had served as 
a soldier with reputation. On one occasion, while in com- 
mand on the western frontier of Pennsylvania, against a 
league of the French and Indians, not only his glory, but 
the safety of himself and his troops were jeoparded, by the 
peaceful policy of that colony. To the soldier, this was an 
unpardonable offence. He was fighting in their defence 
only--he knew that the mild principles of this little nation 
of practical Christians would be disregarded by their subtle 
and malignant enemies ; and he felt the injury the more 
deeply because he saw that the avowed object of the colonists, 
in withholding their succours, would only have a tendency 
to expose his command, without preserving the peace. The 
gallant soldier succeeded, after a desperate conflict, in ex- 
tricating himself with a handful of his men, from their mar- 
derous enemy : but he never forgave the people who had 
exposed him to a danger, which they left him to combat 
alone. It was in vain to tell him that they had no agency 
In his being placed on their frontier at all ; it was evidently 
for their benefit that he had been so placed, and it was their 



 religious duty," so the Major always expressed U ; "it 
was their religious duty to have supported him/' 

At DO time was the old soldier an admirer of the peaceful 
disciples of Fox. Their disciplined habits, both of mind 
and body, had endowed them with great physical perfection ; 
and the eye of the veteran was apt to scan the fair propor- 
tions and athletic frames of the colonists, with a look that 
seemed to atter volames of content for their moral imbecility. 
He was also a little addicted to the expression of a belief 
that, where there was so great an observance of the exter- 
nals of religion, there could not be much of the substance.-* 
It is not our task to explain what is, or ought to be, the sub- 
stance of Christianity, but merely to record in this place the 
opinions of Major Effingham. 

Knowing the sentiments of the father, in relation to this 
people, it was no wonder that the son hesitated to avow his 
connexion with, nay, even his dependence on the integrity 
of, a quaker. 

It has been seen that Marmaduke deduced his origin from 
the contemporaries and friends of .Penn. His father had 
married without the pale of the church to which he belonged, 
and had, in this manner, forfeited some of the privileges of 
bis offspring. Still, as young Marmaduke was educated in 
a colony and society where even the ordinary intercourse 
between friends was tinctured with the aspect of this mild 
religion, his habits and language were somewhat marked by 
its peculiarities. His own marriage at a future day with a 
lady without, not only the pale, but the influence of this 
sect of religionists, had a tendency, it is true, to weaken his 
early impressions ; still he retained them, in some degree, to 
the hour of his death, and was observed uniformly, when 
much interested or agitated, to speak in the language of his 
youth  ^but this is anticipating our tale. 

When Marmaduke first became ,the partner of young 
Effingham, be was (quite the quaker in externals ; and it 
was too dangerous an experiment for the son to think of 
encountering the prejudices of the father on this subject. 
The connexion, therefore, remained a profound secret to all 
but those who were interested in it. 

For a few years, Marmaduke directed the commer- 
cial operations of his house with a prudence and sagacity 
that afforded rich returns fot the labour and hazard in- 
curred. He married the lady we have mentioned, who 
was the mother of Elizabeth, and the visits of his friend were 
becoming more freouent; and there was a speedy prospect 



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of renioviiiii; the veil from their iDtercourae, as its advaa- 
taj^es became each hour more apparent to Mr. Effingham 
when the troubles that preceded the war of the revolution 
extended themselves to an alarming degree. 

Educated in the most dependant loyally by his fa^ 
ther, Mr. Effingham had, from the commencement of the 
disputes between the colonists and the crown, warmly 
maintained what he believed to be the just preogatives 
of his prince ; while, on the other hand, the clear head 
and independant mind of Temple had induced him io 
espouse the cause of the people. Both might have been 
influenced by early impressions; for, if the son of the 
loyal and gallant soldier bowed in implicit obedience to 
the will of his sovereign, the descendant of the persecuted 
follower of Penn looked back, with a little bitterness, to 
the unmerited wrongs that had been heaped upon his 
ancestors. "  . 

This difference in opinion had long been a subject of ' 
amicable dispute between them, but, latterly, the contest ] 
was getting to be too important to admit of trivial discus- - 
sloas on the part ofMarmaduke, whose acute discernment^ 
was already catching faint glimmerings of the important 
events that were in embryo. The sparks of dissension soon 
kindled into a blaze; and the colonies, or rather, as they 
quickly declared themselves, the states, became a scend 
of strife and bloodshed for years. 

A short time before the battle of Lexington, Mr. Effing- 
ham, already a widower, transmitted to Marmaduke, ror 
safe-keeping, all his valuable effects and papers ; and left 
the colony without his father. The war had, however, 
ioarcely commenced in earnest, when he re-appeared la 
New-York, wearing the livery of his king and in a short 
time he took the field at the bead of a provincial corps'. 
In the meantime, Marmaduke had completely committed 
himself in the cause, as it was then called, of the rebellion: 
of course, all intercourse between the friends ceased on 
the part Gol. Effingham it was unsought, and on that 
of Marmaduke there was a cautious reserve. It soon 
became necessary for the latter to abandon the capital of 
Philadelphia ; but he had taken the precaution to rettiov^ 
to the interior the whole of his effects beyond the reach 
of the royal forces, including the papers of his frietid also. 
There he continued serving his country during the struggle^ 
in various civil capacities, and always with dignity and 
usefulness. While however, he discharged his fiinctiona 
with credit and fidelity, .Marmaduke never seemed to lose 



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sight of his own interests ; for, when the estates of the ad 
herents of the orown fell under the hammer, by the acts 
of confiscation, he appeared in New- York, and became the 
purchaser of extensive possessions at, comparatively, very 
low prices. 

It is trae that Marmadake, by thus purchasing {estates 
that had been wrested by violence from others, rendered 
himself obnoxious to the censures of that sect which, at 
the same time that it discards its children from a full par- 
ticipation in the fainily union, seems ever unwilling to 
abandon them entirely to the world. But either his suc- 
cess, or the frequency of the transgression in others, scon 
wiped oft* this slight stain from his character; and although 
there were a few who dissatisfied with their own fortunes, 
or conscious of their own demerits, would make dark hints 
concerning the sudden prosperity of the unportioned 
quaker, yet his services, and possibly his wealth, soon drove 
the recollection of those vague conjectures from men's 
minds. 

When the war had ended, and the independence of the 
states acknowledged, Mr. Temple turned his attention 
from the pursuit of commerce, which was then fluctuating 
and uncertain, to the settlement of those tracts of land 
which he had purchased. Aided by a good deal of money, 
and directed by the suggestions of a strong and practical 
reason, his enterprises throve to a degree that the climate 
and rugged face of the country which ne selected would 
seem to forbid. His property increased in a tenfold ratio, 
and he was already to be ranked among the most wealthy 
and important of his countrymen. To inherit this wealth 
he had but one child  the daughter whom we have intro- 
duced to the reader, and whom he was now conveying from 
school, to preside over a household that had too long wan. 
ted a mistress. 

When the district in which his estates lay had become 
sufiiciently populous to be set off as a county, Mr. Temple 
had, according to the custom of the new settlements, been 
selected to fill itj highest judicial station. This might make 
a Templar smile, but in addition to the apology of necessity, 
there is ever a dignity in talents and experience that is 
commonly sufiicient, in any station, for the protection of its 
possessor; and Marmaduke, more fortunate in his native 
islcarness of mind than the judge of King Charles, not only 
decided right, but was generally able to give a very good 
reason for it. At all events, such was the universal practice 
bJT the country and the times ; and Judge Temple, so far 



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from ranking; among the lowest of his jadioial oontemp^farioi 
in the courts of the new counties, felt himself, and was uaa 
nimously acknowledged to be, among the first. 

We shall here close this brief explanation of the bistofy 
and character of some of our personages, leaving|tliem in 
fature to speak and act for themselves. 



CHAPTER III. 

All that thoa see'at is nature's bandf-work. 
Those rocks that apward throw their mossjr browsy 
liike castled pinnacles of the elder times ! 
Tbeiie fenerable stems, that slowlj rock 
Their tow'rinz branches in the wintrj gale ! 
That field of frost, which glitters in the sun. 
Mocking the whiteness of a marble breast !  
Yet man can mar such works with his rade taste. 
Like some sad spoiler of a virgin's fame. 

nOO; 

Some little while elapsed, after the horses had resumed their 
journey, ere Marmaduke Temple was sufficiently recovered 
from his agitation to scan the person of his new companion. 
He now observed that he was a youth of some two or three- 
and-twcnty years of age; and rather above the middle 
height. Further observation was prevented by the rough 
overcoat which was belted close to his form by a worsted 
sash, much like the one worn by the old hunter. The eyes 
of the Judge, after resting a moment on the figure of the 
stranger, were raised to a scrutiny of his countenance. 
There had been a contraction of the brows, and a look of 
care, visible in the features of the youth, when lie first en- 
tered the sleigh, that had not only attracted the notice of 
Elizabeth, but which she had been much puzzled to inter* 
pret. The passion seemed the strongest when he was en- 
joining his old companion to secresy ; and when he had de- 
cided, and was, rather passively, suffering himself to be oon- 
veycd to the village, the expression of the young man's eyes 
by no means indicated any great degree of self-satisfaction 
at the step. But the lines of an uncommonly prepossessing 
countenance were gradually becoming composed ; and he 
now sat in silent, and apparently abstracted, musing. The 
ludge gazed at hitn for some time with earnestness, and 
then, smiling as if at his o\vn forge tfulness, he spoke  
*I believe my young friend, that terror has dru'^n yo^x 



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name irom iny recoJlectioii  your face is very familiar to me, 
ana yet, for tine honour of a score of buck's tails in my cap, 
I could not tell your name." 

^* I oame into the country but three weeks since, sir," re- 
turned the youth coldly, *' and I understand you have been 
absent more than that time/ 

*< It will be five to-morrow. Yet your face is one that'I 
haTC seen ; though it would not be strange, such has been 
my affright, should I see thee in thy winding-sheet walking 
by my bed-side, to-night. What say'st thou