She heard his retreating footsteps growing fainter.
“Oh, if he had only said, ‘I love you,’” the whisper on her lips.
“I could die for her; no, I’ll live for her,” he said to himself, as he walked towards the Brandon home.
XV.
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE.
Abel Shrimpton, loyal to the king, hated Samuel Adams and John Hancock and the Sons of Liberty, holding them responsible for the troubles that had come to the people. In Mr. Shrimpton’s attractive home, made beautiful by the presence of his daughter, Tom Brandon had been a welcome visitor, but the relations between Mr. Shrimpton and Tom were changing.
“The Regulation Act,” said Tom, “which in fact makes the king the government, deprives the people of their liberties.”
“People who abuse their liberties ought to be deprived of them,” Mr. Shrimpton replied.