Conferences Et Discours (1889)

Fifteen year old Sarah Fielding, a young aristocrat fell in love with a man wanted for treason. Charged with taking part in the war of rebellion, he had escaped from prison and ended up in Devonshire. Disguised as a young adventurer, he became enamored with the daughter of Richard Fielding a kinsman of the Earl. Forbidden to see each other they planned to run away to the colonies to become indentured servants. Her father hated her lover and had promised her in marriage to forty year old Squire Plumlee who Sarah despised. The day they planned to run away her father was hiding at the place where they agreed to meet. The meeting turned deadly when her father shot and wounded her lover and locked her in an upper room for months. The authorities arrested Robert and transported him to Plymouth to either hang or be deported to an isolated French Island. He escaped and was smuggled by sympathizer to Liverpool where he arranged with a ship’s captain to be sold to a planter as an indentured servant. Hearing he had escaped and eluded capture, Sarah determined to escape from the upper room and join him in Maryland. Sarah had to choose between a loveless secure marriage or endure the hardship and unknown dangers in a dangerous wild uncivilized country to be with her true love as indentured servants.