Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-10-06

| moran was amongst the party who sailed
out in quest of their steeds, but it was
merely to see his friends mounted he ac-
companled them, as he had been prevailed
upon by his host to remain with him all
night, in order to join him in hunting
party which had been made up for an ear
" hour the following morning. This was
altogether an unexpected circumstance on
the part of Kilmoran, who had originally
| intended to return homo that night
On the party reaching the stable, it was
found that Norman M'Dougal's horse was
dead lame in two Of his legs, and, conse-
quently unable to walk single step. How
this had happened could not be at the mo-
mcnt ascertained; some slnews strained it
was supposed, or some injury sustained in
| the feet. But, whatever might be wrong
| with the animal, or in whatever way he
might have come by his injuries, it was
clear that he was quite unable 10 carry his
master home that night. Seeing this, Kill
moran, in the same spirit in which he had
made up to M'Dougal on his first arrival at
Soonart, pressed HIM 10 take the use Of
his horse; adding, good-humoredIy, that if
ne did not think he could presume to take
horse OF his TO his fathers house, seeing
! the ancient enmity that was between them
| he might ride him to kilmoran, leave him
there, and walk home, a distance of only
| half mile.
M'Dougal would have refused 10 accent
the profiered kindness; but, besides his own
wish to deceive Kilmoran in regard to his
feelings towards him, there were too ma
IfCnc r., l. r T..
in exhibiting any, the slightest, symptom
of the dislike he bore that person; and his
rejection Of the proflcred civility on the
present occasion, he feared might be looked
| upon in that light, and be remembered af-
forwards if any thing should happen to
Kilmoran. Reasoning thus, and reasoning
as quick as thought, M'Dougal with many
expressions Of thanks, accepted the offer
| of kilmoran's horse, mounted him, and
| rode off. Fifteen minutes smart riding
| brought him to the margin Of the lake for
merly alluded to; few minutes more saw
him enter and proceed along the road that
skirted it.
Unconscious Of peril, M'Dougal rode on
| and had attained somewhere about half the
length Of the lake, when the sharp report
| of a rifle rung in the copse, and in the
| same instant Norman M'Dougal fell from
| his horse a dead mana riGe-ball having
passed right through his head. Deceived
| by tho horse he rode, his brother had d-
rccted towards him that shot which he in
tended for Kimoran
Unaware of the dreadful mistake he had
committed, M'Dougal fastened home, and
unperceived by any one, entered the house
and retire d to bed. Morning came, and
with it much surprise to the midnight as
sassin that his brother had not returned
Leaving his couch on which he had spent
but restless night, he approached the
window Of the bed chamber, to look abroad
on the morning. He had not done so for
many seconds, when he saw crowd OF
people slowly apprhaching the house, and
bearing along what appeared to be hea-
Wy burden. In a few minutes he made
out that it was a human body they were
carrying, and, not doubling that it was the
corpse of kilmoran, he summoned his ut
most resolution to meet the report Of that
gentleman's murder with as unmoved and
unconscious manner as possible. But
why bring the body of the murdered man
to his house? Why not take it to Kllmo-
ran! The proceeding COMPOUNDED him, and
filled his guilty bosom with thousand in
definable terrors. In the mean time the
the persons bearing the corpse approached
they passed beneath the window at which
M'Dougal was standing, and in the livid
and ghas,ly upturned lace Of the murdered
man, he recognised the features of his bro
| Of ha f,l
flashed across his mind, and he sank into
a chair, powerless and all but insensible,
In few minutes one Of the men who
had brought the body home entered his
apartment, and with sorrowlul counten-
ance-and not aware that nc had seen the
body pass-informed him that his brother
had been killed.
"How?" said M'Dougal, in sephul-
chral voice.
"Shot through the head" replied the
man.
Where was the body found" again
asked M'Dougal, with white, parched and
quivering lip.
"By the side of tho loch, near the
Clachanmore," answered the man.
All that day M'Dougal kept his apart
ment, and would neither himself come forth
nor would he allow any one to enter
When the morning came, he was missing
he had disappeared through the night, and
none could then, or ever after, tell where
he had gone. 1t was supposed by some
that he had thrown himself into the lake;
by others, that he had left the country and
gone abroad, this last rumor being follow
| cd by report, some years after, that he