“Capt. Washington, who gave it to me, said that it lay over your heart, and that but for it, Tarleton’s pistol-shot would have killed you. Oh! Albert, I sometimes thought, after I gave it to you, that I had done wrong, knowing that my parents would not approve of the act; but when I heard that it had saved your life, I saw in it the hand of Providence.”
“Yes! for it not only preserved me from death, but was the means of interesting Washington in our favor, and thus bringing about this happy re-union,” said Albert, after a pause.
We have no more to tell. On recovering from his wound, our hero rejoined his corps, with which he continued until the expulsion of the British from the Carolinas.
After that happy event he was married to Ellen, and with her spent a long life of felicity.
Their descendants still preserve the battered miniature as an heir-loom.
WILD-BIRDS OF AMERICA.
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BY PROFESSOR FROST.
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