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The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story

CHAPTER XXII
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Since what is done," she sobbed, falling on her knees in an attitude of supplication, with her head bowed and face covered with her hands, "was done by my means, I am most guilty; let me bear the punishment, let me be hanged, but let my husband be pardoned." The angry governor gazed on her for a moment with eyes which danced in fury; then he cried: "Away with you!" adding a brutal remark at which manhood might well blush.

Mrs.Cheeseman fainted, and her husband was carried away to the gallows.

[Footnote: Authorities differ as to the death of Cheeseman.
Some say he was hanged, others that he died in prison.] So fearful, at first, was the cruel old baron that some of his intended victims might escape through a verdict of acquittal by a jury, that men were taken from the tribunal of a court-martial directly to the gallows, without the forms of civil law.
For a time after Berkeley was established at York, Ingram still made a show of resistance, but accepted the first terms offered and surrendered.

Only two prominent leaders remained uncaptured.

These were Lawrence and Drummond.


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