New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-13

leIy, or anything belonging TO him, father, hnynt
| you Z" m
well no, child, not exactly. He will come again
! next week. and then | viii decide. / don't like
| what have seen Of him. though, and think thai
4 the old wornan's maxim that children should BIZ
seen aud not heard will stick to him all his life. Ho
don't know anything, rs | can make out, or II he
does, he's bound not to let anybody find it ont
| However, thee needn't look so down ahout ii, Han.
nah 1t seems as if girl of thy sense wouldn't fail
inloye with q simpleton, and III try to discover
what thee has found to love about him before
finally declare my opinion"
The days passed weafily away which brought
next week around; and then, on Saturday after
noon John Yslery, in his usual brown study, trot,
ted through the open gate leading TO Simeon Don
AIDS mansion Klamath, more anxious than ever
TO have the young student make good impression
on her father, introduced many topics Of CONVERSE
ton which she knew would crafty the old gentle
man TO discuss, and then left them alone, that
nothing might Interfere with their talking. The
following morning, when Farirot was led up to the
house to take the family to meeting, Mr., Valory,
struck with his beauty, praised him very justly and
apprecatngly, which sent him up several degrees
in the thermometer OF the old mans opinion.
speeding her until the next morning, which weuld
pc Monday and her father always tetin little bet
ter humor Monday morning than any other in the
week. According to the fashion OF the times, Han.
nah aud John were left on Sunday evening, each
IN undistnrhed possession Of corner in the old
Dutch fireplace, to do their "conrting'' unmoest-
ed. twas late when they retired, and Hannah
sought her pillow with heartull of hope that the
! fpfa Lao
affairs the desired turn Not with John Valery :
he was restless, sleepless and troubled. be re-
membered, after going to his room, that he had
| faithfully promised 10 be back iii - at q very
early hour on Monday mornings and, In Hannah's
| bewitGhng presence, he had forgotten oil about
it. AS Offset for one promise he had made
another, 10 the effect hat on the morrow he wonld
ask consent of Simeon Donald TO marry his daagh.
ter. But he could write TO simepn he would
rather trust his pen Than his tongue ON such an oc-
casion any way, and his PROMISE Us 10 the other
matter n1nst he kept, and he had many long mile
to goi order to fulfil it. ...-..m
I So, John Vaery rose, dressed himself expcdi-
tionsy, softly down stairs and out o the house
to the pasture, where, after some difficulty which
/ surprised him much he succeeded In catching bia
| black mare, and saddug and bfdling her ~
| quickly as he could 10 the dark rode off at d John
Gilpin rate for home. He couldn't Imagine what
allied his old horse but at the two taverns whrry
he stopped to bait her his way he found nothing
wrong about the bride, and assured himself that
the saddle didn't hurt her back After satisfying
himself these two points, be decided to follow
the injunction of the stable boy. who watched him
Iuount-viz, to let her went''-rather glad than
otherwise that this freak Of his old mare would
enable him all the more surely to keep his appoint.
ment Ia -.
Strange ahat Mr.. Valery doesn't come down.
said Mrs. Donald, casting a troubled glance at her
Johnny cake, which had been ready for breakfast
more than half an hour.
=" Mr.. vaery!" echoed Simeon, his face show
ing more anger than Hannah had ever seen it, as
he came in from the fields this morning. You
may well say Mr.. Valery. This comes of sending
girls off to boarding school, TO make chance ac-
quantanees with anybody or everybody. Dir.
Valery isn't in his room---lve been there to see
and my horse Farirot, isn't in his pasture. I've
been there to see. His old, starved crow OF a
black mare is there, though and putting this and
| that together, what does it pr0ve-eh, Hannah
girl? Why, just What told thee--thy John is an
ekceptop-=a base exception 10 all decent JOHNS
he is u Disgrace 70 the meanest John that ever
wore yarn seckS-he'sa horse thiei dost heart
o horse thefl9
g Oh, tather!' Hannah burst forth, " it NEST be
q mistake-oue Of John's awful mistakes! Don't
believe HIM guilty of such abuse ri your hospital,
ity. Wait, and kuow all viii be expanel.s
" Probably Is sneertd Simeon. ''when lie is safe
ont Of The country ilh his booty. Nay Hannah
FIN sorry for Thy modification, but Tie sheriff must
ia al hl. I'M oil hos
4 fool that he can't tell black mare with her
skeleton sthfFsa in her skin from fat. Sleek
thoroughbred two.tor,y black horse, who you
would I'm think had bonn in his body, if you didn't
know he had. l ctu't afford To trade Eartr0t for
such animal as that lett in my pasture without
Considerable boot. Well see what thy John has
to say for himself when he comes before me next
| time. Well see."
Father, thy wrath Is just ventured Mrs.
Donald; " but remember thou art minister Of the
gospel
" Hum! and almost had son-inaw to disgrace
the professlon!"
John Valery was very much astoundpd next day,
to meet at every corner hinge handbilla, mlnutely
describing his perSon, AID also that Of u black
horse, which, it was alleged he had stolen on the
night OF the 18Th Of May, from its owner Simeon
|
dered and doubted, hand fell upon his shoulder
and a voice in his ear SAID: You are my prs.
onefln
This is all mistake John Vatery cried
unhand me at D."
% II it ia q mistake ynu no Doubt can prove it,
sir, but ynn must 60 back in nay custody"
Mortified beyond description, john went down
to his stahle, AMI uban sX4mlnaQon, ackuowl-
edged What he had not dreamed IF before that in
the dark he had caught Fartr,t by stake and
rode him away, believing himself mounted on his
own black mare.
Its u wonder he dhl'at break your neck sir
the Sheriff sad; "he'7 the m1'-t vicious horse in
HI world, to them as he dnsn't know"
John almost wished he had, but he determined tc
be taken at once to MI, D1nald. hoping an homes
explanation would appease his wrath, and the les
toration OF the horse gam his forgiveness.
Simeon cauld not but he impressed with ths
young MANS sincerity, and he never had hea,t
him talk SO well or so long before as now when hi
strove to prove his innocence. The return of Far
trot, too, in good order and entirely uniniurpd
went far toward softeniug hi4 Indignation. Hi
legal intentions in the matter he gave up, caet
the affair amieahly adjusted, but assured Mr.