, until the restoration of peace allowed them to be
transported to the Dove Cote.

There, also, in a happier day, Arthur Butler and Mildred took up their
abode; and notwithstanding the fatal presentiment in regard to the
fortunes of his house which had thrown so dark a color upon the life of
Philip Lindsay, lived long enough after the revolution to see grow up
around them a prosperous and estimable family.

Mary Musgrove, too, attended Mildred, and attained an advanced, and I
hope a happy old age, at the Dove Cote.

Wat Adair, I have heard it said in Carolina, died a year after the
battle of King's mountain, of a horrible distemper, supposed to have
been produced by the bite of a rabid wolf. I would fain believe, for the
sake of poetical justice, that this was true.

Another item of intelligence, to be found in the history of the war, may
have some reference to our tale. I find that, in the summer of 1781,
Colonel Butler was engaged in the pursuit of Cornwallis in his retreat
from Albemarle towards Williamsburgh: my inquiries do not enable me to
say, with precision, whether it was our friend Arthur Butler who had met
this promotion. His sufferings in the cause certainly deserved such a
reward.

[Footnote 1: This stricture, true in 1835, the date of the first edition
of these volumes has, I am happy to notice, lost much of its point in
the lapse of sixteen years.]

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