But after a while, in the gray stillness, he lost the face, and suddenly thought, instead, of the stone that was to cover his father's grave.

The ship that was to bring the great, dark, carven slab should be in by now; the day after his return to Williamsburgh the stone must be put in place, covering in the green sod and that which lay below.

_Here, lieth in the hope of a joyful resurrection_-- His mind left the grave in the churchyard at Williamsburgh, and visited the great plantation of which he was now sole master.

There was the house, foursquare, high-roofed, many-windowed, built of dark red brick that glowed behind the veil of the walnuts and the oaks.

There, too, were the quarters,--the home quarter, that at the creek, that on the ridge.