![]() ![]() The colonel comes upon them and takes her to his house to get her clothes dried. After seeing a baptism, Lloyd steals some sheets from the colonel's bed and baptizes her young black friend. Colonel Lloyd then apologizes, and Lloyd calls him "grandfather." Meanwhile, Swazey, who encouraged Jack in his quest for gold, shoots some gold from a rifle into a rock and then convinces Jack to buy the land on which the rock sits. ![]() The colonel chases her, and she hides behind Mom Beck, who tells him that she is Lloyd Sherman. ![]() She then gets angry and throws mud on his white suit. As Lloyd makes mud pies with two black children on the colonel's property, he pokes her with his stick. After she sees her mother crying, Lloyd learns about the past from the cook, Mom Beck, who points out that all the Lloyds are stubborn. Colonel Lloyd, upon learning that he has a new neighbor, brings flowers as a welcoming gift, but when he sees that the neighbor is his daughter, he throws the flowers down and leaves without a word. Jack goes off to prospect for gold, while Elizabeth, with Lloyd, returns to the cottage her mother left her in Lloydsburg. At a frontier outpost, their daughter Lloyd is declared an honorary colonel. The couple elopes, and after six years of life in Philadelphia, they come West to seek their fortune. When he fails to dissuade her, he warns that should she leave, she will never be welcome in his house. In Lloydsburg, Kentucky, in the 1870's, Colonel Lloyd tries to stop his granddaughter Elizabeth from eloping with Jack Sherman, who fought for the North. ![]()
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