This made it
easier for the young Lieutenant to accept from Clark the
assignment to duty with a party detailed for the purpose of
escorting Hamilton, Farnsworth and several other British officers
to Williamsburg, Virginia. It also gave him a most powerful
assistance in persuading Alice to marry him at once, so as to go
with him on what proved to be a delightful wedding journey through
the great wilderness to the Old Dominion. Spring's verdure burst
abroad on the sunny hills as they slowly went their way; the
mating birds sang in every blooming brake and grove by which they
passed, and in their joyous hearts they heard the bubbling of
love's eternal fountain.
CHAPTER XXIII
AND SO IT ENDED
Our story must end here, because at this point its current flows
away forever from old Vincennes; and it was only of the post on
the Wabash that we set out to make a record. What befell Alice and
Beverley after they went to Virginia we could go on to tell; but
that would be another story. Suffice it to say, they lived happily
ever after, or at least somewhat beyond three score and ten, and
left behind them a good name and numerous descendants.
How Alice found out her family in Virginia, we are not informed;
but after a lapse of some years from the date of her marriage,
there appears in one of her letters a reference to an estate
inherited from her Tarleton ancestors, and her name appears in old
records signed in full, Alice Tarleton Beverley.
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