Since then he had been slowly working his way homeward, stopping a few months wherever employment or hospitality offered. The close of the war had found him serving under General Greene in South Carolina, and on the disbandment of the troops he had been left without means of support. Poverty, in fact, had been the chief reason that had prevented Captain Hamlin from returning home before. The lack of any other baggage to speak of, as well as the frayed and stained condition of his uniform, indicated that however rich the rider might be in glory, he was tolerably destitute of more palpable forms of wealth. He wore the buff and blue uniform of a captain in the late Continental army, and strapped to the saddle was a steel hilted sword which had apparently experienced a good many hard knocks. The day following the conversation in the barroom of Stockbridge tavern, recorded in the last chapter, about an hour after noon a traveler on horseback approached the village of Great Barrington, on the road from Sheffield. The Tavern Jail at Barrington Peleg’s information, although of a hearsay character, was correct. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to com where you can read more than a million books for free.
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