Part 13 (2/2)

She raised her dark eyes to his, herself silent, mournful

”What did he say?” demanded Burr

”Said he was under orders--said you should go to Mr Jefferson with your plan--said Mr Jefferson alone could stop him Failed? Yes, I failed!”

”You failed,” said Burr, ”because you did not use the right argument with hiuments!”

Theodosia stoodat her father, then passed back into the house

”Listen, ht that she never had known before ”You _ him back into our camp! We need him Without him I cannot handle Merry, and without Merry I cannot handle Yrujo Without them my plan is doomed If it fails, your husband has lost fifty thousand dollars and all the ed beyond that You and I will be bankrupt--penniless upon the streets, do you hear?--unless you bring that oes well, it ed for ed by Spain, success and future honor and power for you and o beyond the Mississippi You ask er to return to us and opportunity _Ask him to come back to Theodosia Burr and happiness_--do you understand?”

”Sir,” said his daughter, ”I think--I think I do not understand!”

He seemed not to hear her--or to toss her answer aside

”You ht weapons--the old ones, my dear--the old weapons of a woman!”

CHAPTER IX

MR THOMAS JEFFERSON

Not in fifty years, said Thoht hiood-by to the man to whose hands he had entrusted the dearest enterprise of all his life, he turned back to his desk in the little office-rooht spent wholly without sleep, he reed in his usual labors, which were the heavier in his secretary's absence

He was an old iant in industry as well He sat at his desk absorbed, sleepless, with that steady application which made possible the enor in a fine, delicate hand--legible to this day--certain of those thousands of letters and papers which have been given to us as the record of his career

In what labor was the President of the United States engaged on this particularly eventful day? It seems he found more to do with householdcareful accounts of his French cook, his Irish coach at his country house in Virginia

All his life Thomas Jefferson kept itemized in absolute faithfulness a list of all his personal expenses--even to the gratuities he expended in traveling and entertaino into the service of Mr Jefferson at twelve dollars a month and twopence for drink, two suits of clothes and a pair of boots” It sees; and the cost of countless other household items is as carefully set down

We may learn from records of this date that in the past year Mr

Jefferson had expended in charity 1,58560 He tells us that in the first three months of his presidency his expenses were 56584--and he rong ten cents in his addition of the total! In his own hand he sets down ”A View of the Consumption of Butchers' Meat from September 6, 1801, to June 12, 1802” He knew perfectly well, indeed, what all his household expenses were, also what it cost hi himself, and at the end of each year was able to tell precisely where his funds had gone

We may note one such annual statement, that of the year ended five months previous to the time when Captain Lewis set forth into the West:

Provisions 4,05998 Wines 1,29663 Groceries 1,62476 Fuel 55368 Secretary 60000 Servants 2,01489 Miscellaneous 43330 Stable 39906 Dress 24605 Charities 1,58560 Pres House 22659 Books 49741 Household expenses 39300 Monticello--plantation 2,22645 ” --family 1,02879 Loans 27400 Debts 52961 Asquisitions--lands bought 2,15686 ” --buildings 3,56792 ” --carriages 36375 ”--furniture 66410

Total 24,68245

Mr Jefferson says in rather shamefaced fashi+on to his diary: